What if creativity, mindfulness, and intuition are all different ways of paying attention?

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Born I (Ofosu Jones-Quartey), a musician, author, meditation teacher, and host of the Lyrical Dharma podcast, shares how contemplative practices and hip-hop have shaped his life and work. Known as a prominent voice on the Balance meditation app, he blends meditation, music, and storytelling to invite people into greater presence, awareness, and connection through his writing, performances, and live experiences, combining hip-hop, meditation, and sound baths.

He reflects on how meditation transformed his relationship to his thoughts, why paying attention changes the way we experience the world, and how his work brings contemplative practice into places where people may least expect it. Along the way, he explores creativity, mindfulness, awareness, the senses, intuition, authenticity, self-awareness, and how we learn to live without being at odds with ourselves

What if healing begins when you realize you can choose your relationship with pain?

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Eboni is joined by Bamzi, host of The Art of Being podcast. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Bamzi shares how years of pain, disconnection, and healing transformed the way she understands consciousness, embodiment, and what it means to live from the inside out.

Together, we explore why the primary world is internal, how living from our inner world shapes the way we experience everything around us, and why remembering who we are is often less about becoming someone new and more about coming home to ourselves. We also discuss moving beyond survival, allowing pain to move through without attaching to it, and the role embodiment plays in lasting transformation.

Bamzi also reflects on how her own journey inspired the work she now does, helping others cultivate greater inner harmony, coherence, and a deeper connection with themselves.

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Maya Maat, a womb wellness practitioner, author, and founder of The Joyous Womb, which provides postpartum support for Black birthing people and somatic healing for survivors of sexual trauma. Drawing from her background in Reiki, yoga therapy, meditation, breathwork, and postpartum doula care, Maya shares how growing up in a spiritually grounded family shaped her early relationship with intuition, energy, dreams, ancestors, and African traditional religions.

She shares the story of manifesting Beyoncé announcing her pregnancy during the Renaissance World Tour, a powerful example of what can happen when intention, belief, action, and co-creation come together. 

Together, we explore the womb as a center of creation, the relationship between the visible and invisible aspects of life, manifestation, aphantasia (the inability to create mental images), dreams, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and how trauma can interrupt our access to ourselves. Through this conversation, we're reminded that there are many ways we understand and experience the world around us.

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Sarah Lynn Thomas shares the unexpected path that led her from a successful career in finance and Bitcoin trading to co-leading Behold Retreats in Costa Rica. Along the way, she began questioning whether the life she had built was truly aligned with who she was, leading her to explore intuition, Dharma, and the deeper relationship between healing and self-awareness.

Together, we explore Sarah's understanding of Dharma and karma, how plant medicine helped her recognize patterns she couldn't previously see, and why she believes intuition begins with learning to hear ourselves again. She shares the ceremony that transformed her relationship with alcohol, the subconscious fear that shaped her life without her realizing it, and how moving from fear toward love changed the decisions she made.

We also discuss integration, conscious living, the relationship between intuition and the subconscious mind, and why true transformation isn't about plant medicine itself, but about the willingness to follow where your inner knowing leads. If you'd like to listen to another conversation about plant medicine that focuses on integration, check out Episode 12, Ayahuasca Is a Nervous System Regulated Medicine with Taheera. 

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, we explore a question many people quietly struggle with: What do you do when negative influence feels stronger than positive influence? Jiulio Consiglio is a spiritual author and teacher based in Southern Ontario, Canada. He shares the personal experiences that transformed the way he understands himself and the world around him. After years of living with anxiety, depression, personal loss, and emotional suffering, he reached a point where everything he had relied on no longer provided relief. What followed was a profound spiritual awakening that completely changed the way he experienced life.

Together, we explore how Jiulio's relationship with himself evolved during that journey, the everyday practices that continue to shape his life, and how he learned to recognize when fear, old patterns, and past experiences influenced his decisions. He reflects on choosing presence over reaction, creating more positive influence in his daily life, and discovering a deeper sense of peace through the challenges he once believed would define him.

This conversation is a personal reflection on what it means to move through suffering, rediscover yourself, and experience life from a different perspective.

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Tonya Schroka, a wife, mother of five, lifelong space-holder, Certified Reiki Master, and Certified Master Intuitive. After years of personal healing and spiritual awakening, Tonya now supports highly sensitive individuals as they navigate transformation, life transitions, and soul remembering.

She shares painful experiences that shaped her path, including sudden loss of her first husband caused by a heart attack, the clairaudient (clear hearing) message that transformed her understanding of surrender, and an eight-year journey with chronic pain instigated by being pushed by a personal trainer that she understands as a metaphor for not listening to herself and her body. Together, we highlight different kinds of pain, grief, embodiment, self-compassion, and the ways our bodies reveal truths we may not yet be ready to acknowledge.

On this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Dr. Tequilla Hill, a licensed psychotherapist, mindful wellness leader, educator, and healer whose work bridges mental health, somatic healing, expressive arts, and spiritual wisdom. With over 20 years of experience, she weaves together systemic and somatic therapeutic approaches, expressive arts, and wellbeing practices to nurture whole-person wellness.

Dr. Hill shares how growing up in New Orleans and within a family of healers shaped her understanding of intuition, spiritual gifts, and what it means to live in alignment with one's true nature. Drawing from African spiritual traditions, she discusses the concept of Ori, the inner self that guides us toward our most authentic path, and how life becomes increasingly difficult when we ignore our gifts and make decisions disconnected from who we are.

Together, we explore authenticity, performance, embodiment, suffering, intuition, clairvoyance, and the ways our bodies reveal when something in our lives is misaligned. Dr. Hill also reflects on how eczema, hair loss, and other physical symptoms mirrored periods of inauthentic living, why suffering is often the result of choices that no longer serve us, and how small daily decisions can reconnect us to ourselves.

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Tamela Julia Gordon, author of Hood Wellness, a memoir that blends personal storytelling, communal care, spirituality, wellness practices, and collective healing. She is also a freelance writer, editor, tarot reader, and communal care advocate.

Introduced to Santería through her father's Cuban lineage, Tamela was immersed in spiritual practices from an early age. By age four, she was creating altars, and as a teenager, she was giving spiritual readings, following in the footsteps of her paternal grandmother, who also gave readings. Tamela shares how ancestral altar practices, intuitive experiences, and spiritual traditions shaped her understanding of healing, belonging, and community. She also reflects on receiving intuitive information from a young age, discovering tarot during the pandemic, and why she believes everyone has the capacity to deepen their own spiritual practice.

We also discuss the creation of Casa de Tammy, a self-care home and community-funded retreat space for Black activists and community organizers seeking rest, healing, and renewal. Her book emerged from those experiences, and, specifically, seven years of studying care. Together, we also explore the challenges of vulnerability in writing and of maintaining authenticity through the publishing process. 

Paul Gerard is a chef with a lifetime of experience cooking for discerning clients across New York, in Los Angeles, and internationally. A native of South Brooklyn, Chef Paul Gerard honed his craft in the intense, fast-paced kitchens of 1980s New York, where he began cooking at just 13 years old. His culinary journey led him to New Orleans, where he spent over a decade in some of the city’s most celebrated kitchens, including Restaurant August, Peristyle, Lilette, and Gautreau’s. He later led acclaimed culinary programs as Executive Chef at Soho Grand Hotel, Soho House, and China Grill Management. 

On this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, chef Paul shares a deeply personal conversation about food, grief, addiction, spirituality, healing, and the intelligence of the body. What begins as a discussion about cooking with intention, food as support for grief and fear, and the relationship between taste, smell, and memory evolves into a profound exploration of trauma, recovery, meditation, and spiritual awakening.
He reflects on a life of addiction that began at age 11 and shares the pivotal moment that transformed his relationship with drugs and alcohol when, despite taking them, he could no longer get high. Paul describes the experience as evidence that there was something greater than himself, which led him more deeply into meditation, prayer, energy work, and spiritual study. We also discuss emotional sensitivity, intuition through the body, silence, grief, conversations with Radhanath Swami, mythology, India, and learning how to surrender, heal, and reconnect with both the body and the soul. This conversation is a rich reflection on what it means to truly feel, transform, and allow life to open you spiritually.

Karen Allen is an international keynote speaker, growth mindset coach, and author with nearly a decade of experience empowering leaders and teams. Specializing in growth mindset, mindfulness, and human leadership skills, Karen uses her Stop & Shift methodology to drive positive change. She has collaborated with organizations such as Genentech, Google, and Thomson Reuters to enhance leadership and team dynamics, resulting in more productive and resilient work environments.

On this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Karen shares how the murder of her husband before the age of 30 transformed her relationship with grief, intuition, healing, and self-trust. She reflects on how her body processed the experience before her brain could fully understand it, and how that darkness ultimately became a space of transformation and purpose. Together, we explore post-traumatic growth, subconscious processing, visualization, dreams, clairvoyance (clear vision), clairsentience (clear feeling), and the intelligence of the body. Karen also shares how learning to trust herself, follow intuitive guidance, and connect more deeply with her inner world helped shift the trajectory of her life and work. This conversation is a powerful reflection on how even the darkest experiences can crack us open, deepen our connection to ourselves, and lead us toward greater healing, alignment, and purpose.