Awaken and Align

Lisa worked in fashion for 10+ years and was feeling very burnt out. Before then Lisa was born and raised in a small coastal city Northeast of Beijing. While her single mom worked full time she used to have tea time with her grandma often as a child. Wanting to go back to a time and place where nourishing oneself's wellbeing was simple and wonderful just like tea time with grandma Lisa went on a transformational trip to Shangri-la, Yunnan - the birthplace of tea. There she discovered the Roses that the locals enjoy as a flower tea and delicacy in pastry. The sensory experience was so special and transformational that she made it her mission to empower others to feel more joy, beauty, and nourishment on a daily basis through a cup of flower tea ritual.    In This Episode:

• Lisa's origins story and her tea rituals with her grandma.
• How her experience with her mom during a rose tea ceremony was the catalyst in starting her company, The Qi (pronounced: chee) 
• How Lisa was able to start The Qi while working in fashion.
• When did she know it was time to quit her corporate job.
• How Lisa was able to get press and exposure in publications like Vogue, New York Times, and Forbes. 
• Why Flowers? 
• The energy of flowers and why they are healing. 
• What is Qi Gong?
• Where they source the flowers and their stories. 
• Lisa's experience as an immigrant in the United States. How Qi Gong has helped her in her forgiveness journey. 
• Coffee versus tea culture. 
• Lisa's mission for The Qi. 

 Full Show Notes:

• The Qi Instagram
• The Qi Website use code: Awaken15 for 15% off
• Lisa Li's Instagram
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Try The Class For One Month Free
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
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Jennifer Patterson is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, and words to explore survivorhood, body(ies) and healing. A queer and trans affirming and centering, trauma-experienced herbalist and breathwork facilitator, Jennifer offers sliding scale care as a practitioner through her private practice Corpus Ritual and is a member of The Breathe Network. She has facilitated workshops at healing centers, LGBTQ centers, a needle exchange and harm reduction clinic, online with the Transformative Language Arts Network, sexual violence resource centers, at colleges and universities, veterans hospitals, the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do? and a Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish healing center. She is also a teacher in training programs with The Breathe Network and Breath Liberation Society. She is the author of The Power of Breathwork: Simple Practices to Promote Wellbeing (Quarto). Editor of the anthology Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement (2016), Jennifer speaks across the country, and has had writing published in places like VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, 580 Split, OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts, Nat. Brut, The Establishment, HandJob, and The Feminist Wire. She was also the creative nonfiction editor of Hematopoiesis Press. A graduate of Goddard College’s MA program, Jennifer is finishing a book project focused on translating embodied traumatic experience through somatic practices and critical and creative nonfiction. You can find more at corpusritual.com.   In This Episode: 

• Jennifer shares her origins story and how she came into trauma and sexual violence counseling and healing. 
• What prompted Jennifer to start studying herbalism, healing from mainstream spaces, and psychedelics.  
• How she started creating safe spaces for survivors and centering queer, trans, and non-binary people. 
• What led Jennifer to leave New York City and move to Northern New Mexico. 
• Her thoughts on how trauma has now become a mainstream word. 
• Jennifer's approach to healing to mitigate trauma and harm reduction. 
• How plant medicines helped Jennifer to understand the trauma in her body. 
• Rewriting the narrative around dissociation and the protective tools that we use as children and adults that are not necessarily negative. 
• How Jennifer incorporates writing and breathwork into her healing practice. 
• Jennifer's experiences in unwellness spaces and navigating these spaces. 
• Jennifer's current favorite plants. 

 Full Show Notes:

• Corpus Ritual Website
• Corpus Ritual Instagram
• Virtual Breathwork Groups
• Breathwork Book
• Queering Sexual Violence Anthology
• "Wellness WIthout Community Care Won't Make Us Truly Well" by Sara Weinreb for Well + Good 
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Try The Class For One Month Free
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
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• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

In this episode, I talk about the energies around the Spring Equinox, the Aries ingress, and my 40th time around the sun! My intention is to bring more love and light onto the collective consciousness right now. My mercury in Pisces goes off on tangents as always and I share personal stories and reflections on this milestone birthday. Thank you all for your love and support. I hope you enjoy this episode.

 Full Show Notes:

• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Try The Class For One Month Free
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

In this episode, I share an incident that I had with someone who I was interviewing for this podcast. I decided not to air the episode, and you will hear the reasons why. Instead, I share some reflections about the interaction. I share this because I don't want to perpetuate cancel culture and the cycle of harm. When we don't communicate with each other, nobody learns and grows. I feel very strongly that having uncomfortable conversations is the only way we're going to move forward. I also want to be very clear in my values and my intentions. Thank you to Niza Disla for helping me to articulate my thoughts and feelings in writing. I hope you enjoy this episode.    Full Show Notes:

• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Try The Class For One Month Free
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Inspired by her own lived experiences with a sibling suffering from drug addiction, Ashley Rucker founded TherapArt during her own journey, shaped by dance as her form of healing.As a trained yoga instructor, meditation and movement educator, Rucker has found freedom through free form movement as a way to heal the body, mind and soul, With TherapArt, Ashley facilitates meditation, movement and art therapy workshops and ceremonies in New York, Miami, and Mexico, as well as virtually. Ashley is a New York native and studied fashion at Buffalo State. She has called New York City home since 2011.   In this Episode: 

• Ashley shares her origins story that began in her hometown of Buffalo, New York and her brother's addiction. 
• The book that was the catalyst to her movement practice. 
• How she follows signs and synchronisities to co-create and manifest her dreams. 
• Ashley talks about Therapart and how it came to be. 
• How she used the time during the pandemic. 
• The Body Keeps the Score - why movement is so important in healing trauma.
• Shame, addiction, and healing with your family. 
• Ashley shares ways in which we can be more embodied and cultivate practices that help us to create enriching lives. 

 Full Show Notes:

• Therapart
• Young New Yorkers
  
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Try The Class For One Month Free
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• Reiki 1 + 2
  
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign

Spencer Michaud is a professional astrologer with an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating both modern and traditional chart-reading techniques, as well as other divinatory methods such as tarot, the I-Ching, and archetypal storytelling.    Spencer has over fifteen years' experience studying ancient wisdom traditions and symbolic languages and is a certified graduate of Acyuta-Bhava Dasa's Nightlight Hellenistic Astrology Courses. In addition to his studies with Acyuta, Michaud is inspired by the traditional work pioneered by Robert Schmidt, Demetra George, Austin Coppock, and Chris Brennan as well as modern mythological based practitioners such as Bernadette Brady and Liz Greene.    In This Episode: 

• Spencer shares his origins story from his upbringing in Michigan to finding Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey and how he was led to astrology.
• What led him to leave music and commit to astrology.
• How he decided to leave music versus sticking to it. 
• As a cishet White man, his experience in working with his feminine energy and being open to astrology.
• How Spencer learned about tarot and the other forms of divination that he practices.
• Spencer goes through an example, using my chart, on how he infuses astrology, decans, tarot, and Sephirot.
• His beliefs around fate versus destiny based on his studies on ancient wisdom.
• How understanding astrology and our natal chart can help us understand ourselves. 
• His observations on Americans versus his audience from all over the world. 
• Spencer shares his experience in raising his Capricorn daughter, debt, and knowing yourself. 
• How archetypical stories and myths can help us towards self-actualization.
• Spencer shares his experience of being a white-bodied man who creates safe spaces. 
• How myth and archetypical storytelling can help us in our journey towards self-actualization.

Full Show Notes:

• Spencer Michaud's Website
• Register for The Decans of Pisces Webinar / Winter Bundle {Use Code: PISCES20 for 20% off until 3/1!}
• Buy Spencer a Coffee
• Spencer Michaud's Paypal
• Spencer Michaud's Instagram
• Spencer Michaud's Podcast
• Spencer Michaud's Facebook
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura's Offerings
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Try The Class For One Month Free
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• Reiki 1 + 2
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz is an author, indigenous foods activist, natural foods chef, and curandera (Mexican traditional healer) educating and supporting others in reclaiming the kitchen healer approach to health with Indigenous wisdom and whole food cooking. Her holistic wellness background spans over 25 years in which she has had the opportunity to work with grassroots activists, tribal leaders, top wellness resorts, and professional athletes–helping people (re)connect to their ancestral foods, earth medicines, and health practices.

Felicia’s work has been featured in Spirituality & Health, Food & Wine, Bon Appétit, and many other media platforms including The Original Americans episode on Padma Lakshmi’s Taste The Nation (Hulu). Felicia presents frequently around the country on Native American healing practices, holistic wellness, and Native American food sustainability at community events, universities, and museums–including the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

  In This Episode: 

• Felicia’s origins story growing up in Phoenix, AZ and how connecting to the land led her towards her Curandera path. 
• What is a Curandera? 
• How I found Felicia and the magic of your words and intention. 
• Felicia shares how she manifested being on a television docu-series. 
• Being on the show Taste the Nation and what it meant to her. 
• How Felicia has worked through resentment and her healing process. 
• Felicia’s journey towards understanding that food is medicine.
• How Felicia works with her clients. The process includes listening to her intuition and connecting people to the food from their lineage. 
• How food from our ancestral lineage is a pathway for healing and grounding.
• Felicia talks about her book and the genesis of how it came to be. 
• Felicia talks about aging, her skin, her grey hair and being seen in a youth-obsessed culture. 

  Full Show Notes:

• Kitchen Curandera Website
• Felicia's Instagram
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura's Offerings
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Try The Class For One Month Free
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• Reiki 1 + 2
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Tiff Lin is a BaZi Chinese astrology and BTB Feng shui practitioner, facilitator of healing, performance artist, community organizer based in Oakland California. As a 3-3-5 Yang Earth Dragon, their healing path is all about finding aliveness and helping people discover and remember their inner true nature.   In This Episode:

• This episode was recorded on 2/2/22. We talk about the numerology of the #2.
• Tiff shares their origins story and healing journey. Specifically, how being born in Taipei and their Chinese ancestry shaped their identity. 
• How they separated from filial piety.
• Tiff's journey in sacred sexuality and why they were called to that kind of work.
• How doing that kind of embodiment work has helped Tiff to come into their body.
• 2022 is the year of the Yang Water Tiger and the energies around this year. Tiff suggests how to move through this year.
• Understanding their BaZi chart (Chinese astrology) was a pathway towards self-acceptance.
• Does Tiff see any similarities between Western and Chinese astrology?
• There are 4 pillars in the BaZi chart in Chinese Astrology. They share what each pillar means.

Full Show Notes:

• Tiffany Lin's Website
• Tiffany Lin's Instagram
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura's Offerings
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Try The Class For One Month Free
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• Reiki 1 + 2
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Anjie Cho is a creator of holistic spaces, specifically focused on designing interiors and teaching feng shui and meditation. She's guided thousands of people to harmonize their living spaces through the ancient practice of feng shui. Anjie is the feng shui expert at The Spruce and has been featured in dozens of publications including: the New York Times, MindBodyGreen and BuzzFeed. Anjie is co-founder of the Mindful Design Feng Shui School, co-host of the Holistic Spaces podcast, and owner of Anjie Cho Architect PLLC.   In This Episode:

• Anjie shares her origins story as a Korean American and how her experience in both cultures shaped how her career unfolded.
• How Anjie communicates not with words but through energy, forms, space, and design.
• How her Saturn return, a trip to Thailand and Cambodia, and a Reiki session changed the course of her life.
• Anjie's journey towards finding feng shui.
• What is feng shui?
• The shame around hoarding.
• We talk about our relationship to our physical home and the metaphor of a home. What it means on a spiritual and energetic level.
• If Anjie had her feng shui hat on, what energies does she tune into? What does she look for on a mundane level?
• Anjie's feng shui consultation process.
• How Anjie is making her programs more accessible for people of color.
• The Western world is becoming more and more interested in Asian practices like mindfulness and flowing with life.
• The benefits of silence, being quiet and being in the yin.
• Our observations of our American experience versus our Korean one. We are both at the intersection of these two cultures.
• Anjie gives me tips on how to manifest my soulmate through feng shui tips.
• How the size of your bed can energetically be repelling or attracting your soulmate or partner.

Full Show Notes:

• Anjie Cho's Website
• Anjie Cho's Instagram
• Holistic Space website
• Laura Chung Instagram
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Try The Class For One Month Free
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura's Offerings
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Hello beautiful soul family! I am back for this special episode on my intentions for 2022, January transits, Capricorn season, the Full Moon in Cancer, and Jupiter in Pisces. My natal mercury in Pisces communicates through films, myths, and symbolism so I hope you enjoy this wild ride. This is a longer episode so make yourself some cacao, get comfortable, write in your journal and I invite you to contemplate deeper after our time together. 

In This Episode: 

• My life update. What I've been doing during my "break" and the lessons I've learned from 2020 and 2021.
• My intention for 2022. What's the one word or energy you are stepping into?
• Preparing for your manifestations. 
• Healing the shadow side of Capricorn: Capitalism, rest, and being in the yin energy. 
• Jupiter in Pisces, the number 12 in numerology and its significance with the New Moons from 2021-2022.
• The numerology of 27 and the full moons of 2021-2022. 
• 2022 is the 6 year in numerology. 
• The significance of the 3, 6, 9 in numerology. 
• The year of the Tiger.
• Understanding the Capricorn and Cancer axis. 
• The Full Moon in Cancer on January 17, 2022.
• Releasing and letting go and understanding your why. 
• Mercury retrogrades of 2022. 
• The North node in Taurus and the South node in Scorpio. 
• I pull a oracle card for our collective intention and self-care guidance. 

FULL SHOW NOTES

• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Try The Class For One Month Free
• Rooted Reiki Circle 1/23/22
• YouTube Channel
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura's Offerings
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• The Werk Podcast Website
• The Werk Podcast Instagram
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
  
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
  
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
  
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.