Ceremony Circle

It is a true honor and pleasure to have you voyaging with us today with Kaitlyn Kaerhart. She is a returning guest and also a renowned numerologist, author, and musician. She first studied numerology with an esteemed Indian mystic before spending the following years studying with shamans and healers to help her understand the full power of the numbers in our lives, including numerology's relationship with astrology, tarot, and other healing practices. Kaitlyn is the author of the book, “You Are Cosmic Code: Essential Numerology.”

When you're done with this episode, if it's really speaking to you, check out her online numerology course. Use code ALYSON at checkout to get 10% off!

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. A deep dive into 2023 numerology—what is the number for this year and its signature traits
2. What that number has to do with Bruce Lee
3. Why Kaitlyn says this is our year to initiate, surrender and do the deep inner work
4. The themes that each month for this year hold, such as April being all about partnership and balance, or July being about freedom and change etc.
5. My personal numbers for this year, the big predictions around pregnancy and more

Find more from me on IG at @IAMALYSONCHARLES or alysoncharles.com.

For more information about Kaitlyn and her numerology course, visit her website (and don't forget to use code ALYSON at checkout for your soul fam discount). Get her book “You Are Cosmic Code: Essential Numerology” wherever books are sold. You can also follow her on instagram: @kaerhart

For you regular listeners, you know, I've been diving into deep learnings around different forms of sacred sensuality, dharmic sexuality, and more, so it goes without saying, it is a true honor to be joined by tantric visionary innovator in bio energetic tantra fusion, and the founder of the Chandra Bindu Tantra Institute: Dawn Cartwright through Dawn's ab. Through Dawn's unique ability to reveal the sacred within oneself and to experience intimacy within all things, she has been led to teaching neo tantra internationally for almost 30 years, inspiring couples and singles alike to reach their full, ecstatic potential and have the best sex of their lives.

But that's not all. Dawn has a degree in psychology from the University of California Davis, along with extensive trainings in neotantra, tantra yoga, bioenergetics, meditation, and yoga. She studied many schools of tantra, including Sri Vidya tantra, neotantra, Kriya Yoga and others, and she's had the honor of receiving these transmissions from some of the most acclaimed tantric masters of modern times.

Also, this should probably go without saying, but this is indeed mature subject matter, so listeners over 18 only for this episode please.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. The incredible story of Dawn being unexpectedly led into the world of sex magic and tantra 
2. What the differences are between Tantra and Neotantra 
3. What a couple's neotantric retreat looks like, and the surprising rules and some of the places of exploration that happened there—like new ways to express the love you feel during love making and new ways to light up your bodies with pleasure and intimacy etc.
4. Why Dawn says we are the ecstasy we've been longing for all of our lives
5. Why Tantrics believe enlightenment is possible within one lifetime while the practitioner is still alive

We also discuss why she and tantric teachings share the importance of “the guru is the teacher who is also the deity and the student as well,” along with how to surrender to bliss, examples of full body ecstasy practices and much more! 

Make sure to join us in our closing Ceremony Circle practice: Dawn leads us in an epically powerful five senses journey called Your Body Temple.

Find more from me on IG at @IAMALYSONCHARLES or alysoncharles.com.

To learn more about Dawn and her Neotantric Couples Retreat: “The Fire That Pierces the Heart,” happening March 30 - April 02 visit here or connect with her on Facebook.

This episode was made possible by the bestselling Animal Power Book and Card Deck. Order from my website to get a free guided shamanic journey where you can meet your power animal!

Today's voyage will take you on a global and other-worldly ride with the incredible Julie Piatt. She's a mystic mother, musician, artist, chef, author, and healer who has lived her life immersed in devotion and expansive creativity. She's a wayshower of finding the divine in all life experiences, and Julie shares her wisdom from a multitude of life events that she's experienced as processes of alchemical transformation.

In her experience, her life has shown her that it is the ability to hold the divine perspective in all that life brings before you. That allows for the deepest access to the meanings of life that are waiting to reveal to us. She's also a powerful living example of how to love ourselves more so that we can live our unique design and full expansive self-expression.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. The exploration into the number 13, its unique encoding and what it especially holds for this now time 
2. Pilgrimages to ancient sights in India and the wild tales of the fires, adventures, miracles and mysteries that living in devotion has brought to Julie
3. Her time at a spiritual anchor point and school called Damanhur
4. A deeper understanding of why, despite there being many incredible gifted, integrity filled powerful women who are spiritual teachers on Earth, why men still seem to get the vast majority of the big platforms in the limelight
5. Why Julie says neutral, loving compassion is the way

Make sure to join us in our closing Ceremony Circle practice: Julie guides you to be able to experience in real time what the path of divine devotion is, and you're able to receive a clear understanding of what your next most alive step is to take.

Find more from me on IG at @IAMALYSONCHARLES or alysoncharles.com.

Follow Julie on IG or her subscription-based service @srimudolife. Find out more about her Water Tiger community, her global pilgrimages you can be a part of, and more on her website juliepiatt.com.

This episode was made possible by the bestselling Animal Power Book and Card Deck. Order from my website to get a free guided shamanic journey where you can meet your power animal!

Today on Ceremony Circle, we’re hanging with a dear friend of mine, Dr. Neeta Bhushan, who just happens to also be releasing one of my favorite books in a while, with the amazing title “That Sucked. Now What?”

Dr. Neeta is a world renowned emotional health advocate and expert in the areas of grit and resilience. She's been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, NBC, ABC, CBS and more. Dr. Neeta sold her large million dollar cosmetic dentistry practice to step forward on her own journey to becoming a leader in her field and a voice for immigrant women and women of color. She traveled across 45 countries researching human behavior, ancient eastern philosophy, and therapeutic psychology. She pooled that learning along with other life experiences, which included being orphaned at 19, surviving an abusive marriage and extensive loss. This all contributed to the powerful message of resilience and grit that we are so blessed to dive into today.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode

1. How she was able to stay out of competing in the “trauma Olympics” and escape getting caught in victim mentality
2. Her unique and powerful definitions of not just resilience, but also what it means to be audaciously resilient
3. The power of embracing our humanness and why it's actually vital to go out and suck at something
4. What her signature “fly forward” method is, and how it can transform your suckiest life moments into spiritually awakening ones
5. How to locate the magic or medicine in the mess, or even the joy and the chaos

Make sure to stick around for our closing Ceremony Circle practice: Neeta helps you to self-regulate and find your center and power within just a few minutes when you're in the midst of something challenging.

Find more from me on IG at @IAMALYSONCHARLES or alysoncharles.com.

Get “That Sucked. Now What?”, along with other offerings, at thatsuckednowwhat.com. Learn more about Neeta at neetabhushan.com.

There exists within all of us a deep call to nature. It can help us heal our wounds, inspire us to share our gifts, and truly enrich our lives with its magic. That magic is the root of Deborah Hanekamp’s teachings.

Deborah Hanekamp, AKA Mama Medicine, is a best-selling author of Ritual Baths and the founder of Space by Mama Medicine. Deborah is a powerful advocate of being a self-healer and passionate in empowering people to trust their own intuition and reclaim their power. She has been on a life-long journey to deepen her connection with nature and brings her own unique perspective on how to cultivate an honoring relationship with it that includes humility and understanding. Deborah also guides retreats, workshops and lectures, globally.

In this episode of Ceremony Circle, Deborah also shares some of the things that she has learned, such as physical reactions to being in alignment with one's true Divine power. Deborah also talks about her own experience of pregnancy and how she felt connected to her daughter's spirit even before she was born.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. How to work with our bodies as a divination tool
2. Some of the surprising aspects of ourselves as humans you might not know (like our natural bioluminescence)
3. what healing fragmentation is
4. The most “witchy” thing about Deborah (and the answer will probably surprise you!)
5. What the witch wound is and what owning any type of wounds can provide for us

Find more from me on IG at @IAMALYSONCHARLES or alysoncharles.com

Follow Deborah Hanekamp (Mama Medicine) on Instagram or visit mamamedicine.com.

This episode was made possible by the bestselling Animal Power Book and Card Deck. Order from my website to get a free guided shamanic journey where you can meet your power animal.

Taking responsibility and devoting to healing ourselves needs to become a priority in our lives—and there are many ways to do it. Diego Perez knows this, and is making it easier for that healing to happen for many others.

Diego (who you may know as Yung Pueblo), is a meditator, New York Times bestselling author of two books, including his most recent work, "Lighter.” He has dedicated his life to understanding the human condition, self-healing, and healthy relationships. Diego has also co-founded a venture capital company, Wisdom Ventures, which invests in companies that are designing their products in a compassionate manner. He is passionate about connecting with his community and helping people to reach a level of true self-love.

In this episode of Ceremony Circle, we explore the world of personal transformation with Yung Pueblo. He shares his story of overcoming poverty, his rock bottom moment, and how he eventually found the courage to trust himself. He also talks about the specific meditation practice he devotes to, and how it has helped him to purify his mind and increase his creativity. 

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. How striving for perfection is not possible on earth - and why we should instead strive to understand and love ourselves
2. Some of the ways that self-awareness and self-love can be developed through personal transformation
3. Why trusting oneself is essential in order to create different energy and reach one's goals
4. How the magic of meditation can help purify the mind and increase creativity
5. Using his own experiences, Yung Pueblo tells us how courage and bravery are required to walk the path of personal transformation

Find more from me on IG at @IAMALYSONCHARLES or alysoncharles.com

Follow Yung Pueblo on Instagram or visit yungpueblo.com.

In today’s world, it’s more important than ever to put our trust in our own hearts and souls and the Divine. Seeing this need, and experiencing some personal hardships, inspired Ananta Ripa Ajmera to take action.

Ananta Ripa Ajmera is an award-winning author, spiritual teacher, and co-founder and CEO of The Ancient Way. After moving cross-country to the East Coast and having to let go of relationships and her home twice, Ananta was inspired to write her new book, The Way of the Goddess. Through her own spiritual journey and initiations, Ananta was able to transform her life and gain the courage to face her fears and inner demons.

Ananta is passionate about helping others create their own “fertile soil” and “vision” to help them survive and stay strong. She also emphasizes the importance of honoring the divine directives and cycles and seasons, even when we feel fear or resistance. Through her story, she hopes to inspire others to take a leap of faith, stand their ground and trust the process.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. How the daily rituals in Ananta’s book, The Way of the Goddess, can help awaken your inner warrior and discover your true self
2. How writing the book was an arduous process which required a lot of letting go and pushing out of her comfort zone
3. The way Ananta was able to confront and transcend ancestral scripts and patterns of emotional eating that she had deeply struggled with
4. Why trusting, believing and having faith in yourself is important for overcoming challenges and creating a vision that supports you
5. How using the barometer of assessing the effectiveness of what you want to say can help in the healing process

Make sure to join us in our closing Ceremony Circle practice: a releasing and renewing ceremony facilitated by Ananata, using the Gayatri Mantra.

Find more from me on IG at @IAMALYSONCHARLES or alysoncharles.com

Follow Ananta on Instagram or visit theancientway.co.

Connecting with your own mind, body, spirit and heart is absolutely vital. Doing so will help you understand yourself on a deeper level and —Dr. Nicole LePera has made it her mission to help others do just that.

Dr. LePera is a New York Times best selling author, clinical psychologist and spiritual teacher. She is passionate about helping people reconnect with their inner self and experience transformation on their journey to spiritual enlightenment. 

Nicole was in her late twenties when she began to experience physical symptoms and realized she had been living a disconnected life, compromising her own needs to fit society’s beliefs. After a period of learning about the power of the body and its intelligence, she wrote her first book, “How to Do the Work,” to make the concept of self-awareness and spiritual awakening accessible to many and her new book, “How to Meet Yourself” is also now available.

Nicole is an advocate for self-care and encourages people to draw a line and hold a space for both themselves and those around them. She believes that understanding triggers and habits can bring compassion and grace, and invites others to join her on her journey.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. The importance of meeting oneself and the journey to enlightenment
2. Becoming aware of one's body and nervous system and how to bring oneself into a state of calm presence
3. Taking responsibility for one's own actions and setting boundaries with narcissistic family members 
4. The influence of environment and relationships on the development of the brain and nervous system
5. Recognizing triggers, habits, and patterns in order to experience compassion, grace and healing evolution

Make sure to join us in our closing Ceremony Circle practice: Dr. LePera guides us in a powerful journey for self-discovery

Find more from me on IG at @IAMALYSONCHARLES or alysoncharles.com

Follow Dr. Nicole LePera on Instagram or on theholisticpsychologist.com

This episode was made possible by Lotus Wei. Make sure to use the code MYSTIC at checkout for your Soul Fam discount.

Recording for the first time from our healing sanctuary of a home in Austin, I bring to you a very special episode of Ceremony Circle, featuring an intimate conversation with me and my husband Luke Storey.

This being the first episode of 2023, we look both at the things that have happened to us and the exciting things coming our way this year and beyond.

We share experiences of addiction, self-acceptance, spiritual perfectionism, and some ways we have drawn closer together. Join us as we discuss our journey further into true intimacy, setting boundaries, and creating a world with more fairness, love, and truth.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. how setting boundaries can be crucial for protecting yourself from abuse, toxic behaviors, codependency etc.
2. why having authentic and honest relationships is key for growth 
3. our thoughts on homemaking, and how homemakers should be celebrated for their important role, not just for the family unit, but for the entire world
4. ways that meditation and spending time in nature can help connect with the divine 
5. shifting from fear to love and focusing on solutions can help create an age of enlightenment

Make sure to join us in our closing Ceremony Circle practice: Luke gives me a card reading, from my very own Animal Power Card Deck, for the very first time.

Find more from me on IG at @IAMALYSONCHARLES or alysoncharles.com

Visit Luke’s Instagram, listen to his podcast, The Life Stylist or check out the top health, metaphysical & wellness products he most recommends here.

Marysia Miernowska is a green witch, herbalist and author who is dedicated to supporting a deepening of the love and regenerative relationship between Earth and people. 

Marysia is also the formulator and cofounder of Ritual Beauty, an all-organic regenerative anti aging skincare line. In this episode of the Ceremony Circle podcast, Marysia discusses how she connects with, speaks with and works with plants and nature. She talks about her book, the Witch's Herbal Apothecary, and her School of the Sacred Wild. 

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1.  The role of plants in supporting human resiliency and health
2.  The importance of honoring and protecting the wild places on Earth
3. The power of embracing emotions and expression in a way that doesn't cause harm
4. Marysia’s international and travel-filled upbringing
5. how she learned different ways of tending to the Earth and sharing regenerative grassroots Earth medicine. 

Make sure to join us in our closing practice: a guided drumming journey that allows us to connect with nature in unique and profound ways

Find more from me on IG at @IAMALYSONCHARLES or alysoncharles.com

Connect with Marysia on her website at schoolofthesacredwild.com

This episode was made possible by Lotus Wei. Make sure to use the code MYSTIC at checkout for your Soul Fam discount!