Ceremony Circle

Karena Dawn is a warrior. 

In the public realm, she’s a globally renowned (rebel) fitness superstar, co-founder of Tone it Up, an empowering fitness collective helping women look and feel their best. Beyond business, she’s a champion for mental health awareness: a truly embodied light force who radiates love, resilience, and empathy. Her powerful story is one I wanted to share today as an ally for her profound mission here on the planet. 

Karena courageously shares her life backstory and experience growing up with a mom suffering from schizophrenia, as well as the impact of the diagnosis on her own mental wellbeing as a teenager and family dynamic. After numbing her pain with drugs and partying through to her early 20s, Karena found soul redemption through fitness, working her body, healing her mind, and eventually building a business platform where she could help thousands of women do the same. We discuss her convoluted pain-to-purpose journey and how her upbringing has shaped her business goals moving forward. 

This conversation is a testament to both the spirited 7-year-old girl who would make $300 at a yard sale and the bold, inspirational business owner who stands before me today. I have so much love and respect for both souls. 

The Ceremonial Offering

Karena offers us a moment to check in with ourselves through a special poetry reading, before asking us to sit and ask four profound life questions: “Who am I? What do I want? What is my purpose? What am I grateful for?”

Resources:

• Alyson on IG: @iamalysoncharles
• Instagram: @karenadawn
• Website: karenadawn.com & toneitup.com

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Today’s guest, Santiago Roa Duque (aka ‘Santy’), transports us to the cloud forests of the Sierra Nevada: a sacred land located on the northern coast of Colombia. He extracts some of the wisdom he learned during his pilgrimages with the Mamos: the spiritual leaders of the Kogi, Wiwa, Arhuaco, and Kankuamo tribes.

He explains the ancestral ethics and mission of the different tribes to protect the natural world, from the long and laborious time it takes to become a Mamo and the indigenous adornments they use to how they’ve evolved to interact with modern civilization through trusted connections. These include himself and the incredible message he received during a life-changing encounter in the depths of the jungle which took two years to decode and relay to the rest of the world. 

As we weave together our individual stories and interactions with the Mamos, Santiago also shares his current mission to bring the earth back to ecological homeostasis through planting trees, cultivating specialty coffee and cacao, and documentary film-making.

One key takeaway from this episode is that everyone can connect to Mother Earth with intentionality and heightened awareness. He brings this idea full circle at the end when he gives everyone spiritual homework to honor the divine transaction between humanity and this glorious planet. 

The Ceremonial Offering

Santy gives us the task, in alignment with Mamos traditions & sacred ways, of finding a moment to immerse in nature so that we can visualize our heart as gold and give spiritual payment of the gold energy to the ancient beings and Mother Earth. 

Resources:

• Alyson on IG: @iamalysoncharles
• Instagram: @jaguarsiembra
• Website: jaguarsiembra.com
• Support Santy’s to empower Colombian indigenous farmers 

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Katie Hess, lifelong flower friend and founder of LOTUSWEI: a flower remedy brand that has helped thousands worldwide (including myself) nourish their mindset and come into full bloom, whether in relationships, work, or simply navigating the day-to-day with an elevated sense of grace and gratitude. 

Her mission is to bottle this natural medicine and help people access the wilderness, even from the confines of a concrete jungle. These elixirs do not blot out “the-dark-times” but instead support you as you cut through the weeds of everyday life. 

Katie educates the community about the benefits of botanicals and the potent lessons she has received through communing with plants and flowers all over the world while on her wild hunts. In addition, she shares her encyclopedic knowledge of specific flowers, their remedies, and the profound shifts she has personally experienced during her ever-evolving relationship with Mother Earth. 

Katie has built a remarkably successful business from the earth up, and her flower revolution shows no signs of wilting anytime soon. She talks about how she stayed true to her conscious business vision and the ways you can fertilize your dreams into existence. 

The Ceremonial Offering

This offering will invite softness, flow, and ease into your being, helping you become aware of the air that circulates through your body and space. Allow Katie’s mantra to reverberate through your body as you ground yourself in Mother Nature and absorb the lifeforce. 

Resources:

• Alyson on IG: @iamalysoncharles
• Instagram: @lotuswei & @iamkatiehess
• Website: lotuswei.com

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This week’s guest, Melissa Ruiz, opens the cosmic floodgates to high-frequency money energetics and the currency behind currency. As a spiritual business mentor and divine money coach, she’s a spokesperson for an abundant mindset and lifestyle that’s ripe in rewards. 

From tapping into innate happiness and peace, quadrupling the numbers in her bank account, and growing an actual money tree called Maria, Melissa has broken out of her lineage of “not-enoughness” and is now helping her clients do the same. 

This rich and juicy conversation unlocks her money path, from a high-flying career in TV to her spiritual and financial awakening while building an empire that empowers her soul and serves her community. She shares the secrets to her riches and the concrete ways she applies herself to tuning into the Divine frequency of money. 

The Ceremonial Offering

Sitting tall, upright with your feet connected to the earth, allow yourself to swim in Melissa’s money mantras and connect to your personal prosperity code. Visualize your life 3 years from now. What is your soul ready for you to experience in this Earthly realm and what do you see? 

Resources:

• Alyson on IG: @iamalysoncharles
• Website: iammelissaruiz.com
• Instagram:@iammelissaruiz

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This powerful conversation with fellow shaman, Harry the Healer, about what it means to be a shaman in today’s world was such a cathartic and joyful journey for me. 

In this episode, we delve into his spiritual gifts and connection to the universe, which were first ignited during his childhood spent in New Mexico and a sacred Native American reservation, but truly came knocking while he was filming a TV series in Yugoslavia little over 30 years ago. 

Like myself, he fully surrendered and devoted to the calling and has been using his gifts to help his clients connect to their untapped potential through his dynamic array of healing modalities. From meditation and breathwork to the extraterrestrial land of psilocybin, all of his teachings bring us back to a place of love and give us a chance to get clean, clear, and connected with ourselves and Source. 

The Ceremonial Offering

Get comfortable and sit with your spine erect for this golden ray energy activation. This meditative check-in with yourself will help you become aware of your breathing and where you’re tensing. Then, feel guided by Harry’s soothing words as you relax, surrender, and let go. 

Resources:

• Alyson on IG: @iamalysoncharles
• Website: harrythehealer.net
• Instagram: @harrypaul

Thanks to Lotus Wei for sponsoring this episode. This beautiful brand works with the healing power of plants, flower essences, and elixirs to transform our bodies and mindset. I’ve experienced tremendous emotional support when I’ve used their infusions daily and am honored to share them with this community. Head to lotuswei.com and use the code “MYSTIC” at checkout for 15% off your purchase. 

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Don’t be afraid of the witch! My recent spellcasting session with this week’s guest, rune witch and psychic medium, Chloe Elgar, fired up my Instagram with burning questions and curious comments, so I can’t wait for you to learn more about Chloe’s powerful medicine and the ways you can harness your own spellcasting powers. 

In this episode, I’ll be reflecting on the profound takeaways from our sacred witching hour and connecting to her embodied, magical soul. Chloe reveals the exhausting – and often painful – process of integrating her gifts, which would haunt her at night growing up. Feeling overwhelmed, she sought to control the energy around her in other destructive ways before surrendering to her powers, healing the witch wound, and stepping into her role as a rune witch, physic medium, seer and truth seeker. 

Stay tuned until the very end, where Chloe will do a collective rune reading, answer some of the questions you sent in over Instagram and conduct a spellbinding nature-led ceremony.

The Ceremonial Offering

This intentional meditation begins with a singing introduction to connect to the different chakras and get into the body. Once you’ve dropped in, Chloe will guide a potent visualization ceremony where you’ll connect to the energy of an oak tree, traveling into the plant and its roots, as you connect with your own ancestors.  

Resources:

• Alyson on IG: @iamalysoncharles
• Website: channeledbychloe.com
• Instagram: @channeledbychloe

Thanks to Lotus Wei for sponsoring this episode. This beautiful brand works with the healing power of plants, flower essences, and elixirs to transform our bodies and mindset. I’ve experienced tremendous emotional support when I’ve used their infusions daily and am honored to share them with this community. Head to lotuswei.com and use the code “MYSTIC” at the checkout for 15% off your purchase. 

Ceremony Circle is a production of Crate Media

Actress, artist, and co-founder of Modern Nirvana, Kat Graham, shares sacred space with my fiancé Luke Storey and I for a roundtable discussion about expressing spiritual and personal truths in public and living in your authentic power. 

With a six million-strong Instagram following, dozens of magazine covers, television and movie roles, and that viral Vogue video, Kat Graham has had to carve a protective and honoring sphere around her energy to stay grounded to her mission across multi-media platforms. Along the way, she chose to shift perspectives on validation and found mastery in filling her inner cup and not being swayed by outside opinions or noise. We discuss the conscious steps we have taken to stay in our honoring worth and Divine birthright and what motivates us to serve our communities and share our gifts without falling back on ego or “role” playing. 

This heart-opening and VERY raw and real episode, which I had the joy to share with my sacred partner, Luke, ends with a special gratitude meditation guided by Kat. During it, we turn inward to celebrate the richness we have inside of us and our natural world.

We can’t wait to join Kat Graham and an incredible lineup of speakers, including Dave Asprey and Deepak Chopra, on August 14th in Austin, TX, for the second annual Modern Nivana conference. Luke and I will be speaking about conscious relationships and you can join all of us at this unique and fun spiritual wellness experience by heading to: modernnirvana.com/conference for tickets.

The Ceremonial Offering

Take the opportunity to call in everything you’re grateful for into your being. This short and powerful journey within allows your heart to expand, and to connect and pay reverence to the natural world, your health, and the special people in your lives.  

Resources:

• Alyson on IG: @iamalysoncharles
• Instagram: @katgraham & @Modern.Nirvana

Thanks to Lotus Wei for sponsoring this episode. This beautiful brand works with the healing power of plants, flower essences, and elixirs to transform our bodies and mindset. I’ve experienced tremendous emotional support when I’ve used their infusions daily and am honored to share them with this community. Head to lotuswei.com and use the code “MYSTIC” at checkout for 15% off your purchase. 

Thanks to Organifi for sponsoring this episode! Organifi’s rich, potent superfood powders support a healthy immune response and are filled with healing ingredients to help you show up as your vibrant, best self. I love Organifi Gold, their turmeric, ginger, lemon balm tea blend, which I drink as a nighttime treat. Go to organifi.com/ccp  and use the code “CCP” for 15% off their entire range. 

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Brandilyn Bee Clay’s initiation into the spiritual realm was a literal out-of-body reaction she felt when she was only six years old and had her first orgasm by herself. At that precise moment of release, she became aware that her Yoni was a divine portal to Source. 

In this episode, she walks us through her sacred, sensual, and soulful journey: from her childhood awakening and dramatic departure from the Mormon church to her re-learning process of reclaiming pleasure as her divine birthright after traumatic sexual assault in her twenties. 

Throughout each shedding, Brandilyn slowly began to reconnect with energetic gifts and feminine intuition she had stifled through adolescence, integrating her inner intelligence with the external field of psychology, neuroscience, and energy medicines. Brandilyn has a Master’s Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology, a Master’s Certification in Intuition Medicine, is a sound healer who plays the harp, singing bowls and much more. 

I was also honored to experience an intuitive energy healing session with her, which released heavy emotional baggage I had been carrying subconsciously from birthing my new book. I can’t wait for you all to sample her soothing, grounding sound bath medicine at the end of our conversation. 

The Ceremonial Offering

Brandilyn invites you to lay down or sit in a lotus position to calm your nervous system and drop into your body. Draw in the support from the universe as you breathe deep, surrender to the force of gravity, and plug yourself into the roots of the earth. Remember, you do not need to hold it all.  

Resources:

• Alyson on IG: @iamalysoncharles
• Website: brandilynbee.com
• Instagram: @brandilynbee

Thanks to Star Animal Sundays for sponsoring this episode! This conscious jewelry brand is a powerful and fun way to tune into the shamanic teachings of the animal world. Head to staranimalsundays.com to find the animal that speaks to you the most and use the code STARPOWER for 10% off your next purchase. Using this code also donates 25% of sales to The Boa Foundation’s mission to preserve indigenous and ancient wisdom traditions, a cause that’s very close to my heart.

Thanks to Let’s Get Checked for sponsoring this episode. Measure vital nutrient levels and identify critical imbalances with at-home health testing. Select your test, send it by mail, and get the results sent online. Head to trylgc.com/ccp and use the code “CCP20” for a special discount at checkout. 

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Divine mother and co-creatress of Sacred Sisters Circle, Davana May, brings forth potent maternal medicine with her ethereal wild birth story, which, not only birthed her beautiful son, Nature, but was also a cosmic climax to her healing journey with past fears and anxiety. 

We explore the layers of the feminine experience and share our personal encounters with highly dysfunctional / abusive relationships which birthed our spiritual awakenings. Davana recalls how she learned to love, and trust herself again, through the power of plants and sacred circles with her spiritual support network. 

Davana spent years on a powerful, personal journey, but it would be her second pregnancy, which couldn’t have been more different than her first birth, that would propel her to confront the last residual fears about life, death, and motherhood. She explains how her freebirth and peaceful postpartum process, outside the confines of traditional medicine and fear-based dialogue, was the ultimate reclamation of power and sacred connection to her body and great Mother Earth. She also courageously shares in sacred space, for the first time publicly, about the Closing of the Bones Postpartum Ceremony that drastically changed her life.

The Ceremonial Offering

This peaceful yet wildly potent womb meditation will connect your core of creation and creativity, so you can ask yourself: “what is there for me to know in this now?” Feel and worship your physical body, filling up your pelvic bowl with light, bringing anything that needs to be “birthed” and released to the surface. 

Resources:

• Alyson on IG: @iamalysoncharles
• Instagram:@divinedavana
• Website: sacredsisterscircle.co

Thanks to Let’s Get Checked for sponsoring this episode. Measure vital nutrient levels and identify critical imbalances with at-home health testing. Select your test, send it by mail, and get the results sent online. Head to trylgc.com/ccp and use the code “CCP20” for a special discount at checkout. 

Thanks to Organifi for sponsoring this episode! Organifi’s rich, potent superfood powders support a healthy immune response and are filled with healing ingredients to help you show up as your vibrant, best self. I love Organifi Gold, their turmeric, ginger, lemon balm tea blend, which I drink as a nighttime treat. Go to organifi.com/ccp  and use the code “CCP” for 15% off their entire range. 

Ceremony Circle is a production of Crate Media

Welcome to my most personal and intimate interview yet, with my sacred partner and fiancé, Luke Storey. Many of you out there will know him as a rebel biohacker who broke away from drug and alcohol addiction to step into the spirituality and wellness space. 

I am so honored to witness all the layers of Luke.  A man who has made it his mission to detox his physical being with the help of cutting-edge gadgets and supplements, and investigate shadow and ego shell to become an embodied, devoted partner who holds so much space for me to express myself to the fullest. He generously opens up about his healing trajectory and the steps he took to arrive where he is today: a loving and liberated being free from the shackles of shame, ego, and commitment fears. 

This episode celebrates two whole beings, continuously evolving as individuals, showing up as their highest selves to co-create a sacred bond informed by Source and anchored by love. 

The Ceremonial Offering

This potent micro-meditation gifts you a slice of stillness to find clarity and contemplate the living, breathing you that has a purpose in this wild and wonderful earth school. 

Resources:

• Alyson on IG: @iamalysoncharles
• Website: lukestorey.com
• Instagram:@lukestorey
• Our Instagram: @higherpowercouple

Thanks to Star Animal Sundays for sponsoring this episode! This conscious jewelry brand is a powerful and fun way to tune into the shamanic teachings of the animal world. Head to staranimalsundays.com to find the animal that speaks to you the most, and use the code STARPOWER for 10% off your next purchase. Using this code also donates 25% of sales to The Boa Foundation’s mission to preserve indigenous and ancient wisdom traditions, a cause that’s very close to my heart.

Thanks to Let’s Get Checked for sponsoring this episode. Measure vital nutrient levels and identify critical imbalances with at-home health testing. Select your test, send it by mail, and get the results sent online. Head to trylgc.com/ccp and use the code “CCP20” for a special discount at checkout. 

Thanks to Organifi for sponsoring this episode! Organifi’s rich, potent superfood powders support a healthy immune response and are filled with healing ingredients to help you show up as your vibrant, best self. I love Organifi Gold, their turmeric, ginger, lemon balm blend, which I drink as a nighttime treat. Go to organifi.com/ccp  and use the code “CCP” for 15% off their entire range. 

Ceremony Circle is a production of Crate Media