Ceremony Circle

This episode originally aired on the"Cosmic Body" podcast. We'll be back with a brand new season of fresh Ceremony Circle episodes this fall!

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New podcast alert! Episode 21 is a fun one! Journey with me as I interview Shaman and Author, Alyson Charles, as we talk about all things Animal Power (her new book!)

On this podcast we talk about:

-Shamanism and how she get into it in this lifetime

-Her new book, Animal Power, and how it will help the unity and oneness of all beings

-The meaning of Bees as they always come around (story on the show!)

-How to connect with your power animal 

-What we can learn from them

-An impromptu reading from her on my current power animal (it’s a fun one!!) 

-Organizations to support the animals 

-AND her story on how the animals helped connect her with her current fiancé Luke Storey!

And So much more!

Can’t wait for you to listen and share!

Show notes:

https://www.alysoncharles.com/about

ANIMAL POWER Book - https://www.alysoncharles.com/animalpower

*To preorder her book and get the shamanic guided journey go to the link above 

This episode originally aired on the podcast "Sacred Sons" . We'll be back with a brand new season of fresh Ceremony Circle episodes this fall!

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Alyson Charles is an internationally renowned Shaman, best-selling author (Animal Power) and host of the Ceremony Circle Podcast. Her ability to share ancient wisdom and divine energy and be a powerful catalyst for change has ignited a global phenomenon.

On this Episode:

Alyson Charles | @iamalysoncharles 

Adam Jackson | @adam___jackson  

This episode originally aired on "The Great Unlearn" podcast. We'll be back with a brand new season of fresh Ceremony Circle episodes this fall!

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From TV and Hip Hop radio hosting to shamanism and a spiritual awakening that saved her life, Alyson Charles joins us this week to discuss learning how to live an embodied life, and anchoring into peace and trust. She recently launched her book, Animal Power: 100 Animals to Energize Your Life and Awaken Your Soul, so we explore some of the medicine within these animals that she called in for this guide — let me just tell you, it’s potent medicine y’all.

Alyson and I dive into…

→ Holding the line for our gifts and talents to come through exactly as they are

→ Learning how to live from a place of divine guidance

→ Embodying clear and strong discernment

→ Her profound experience during leech therapy — shifting from fear to unconditional love and reverence

→ Honoring the journey that it takes to birth our ideas to life

→ And more!

Resources:

• Alyson's Leech Therapy vlog

Connect with Alyson:

• Website

• Instagram

• Animal Power

• Ceremony Circle Podcast

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• Instagram

• Facebook

• YouTube

• Website

• Subscribe to the newsletter

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

In my first ever returning guest episode, Danielle Paige graces the Soul Fam with her presence this week!

Danielle has now been featured in Goop, Vogue, astrology.com and more, and spends her time hosting the lovely Cosmic Body Podcast.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. her answers to some super random and fun questions that I came up with
2. what is brewing astrologically that would be good for us to be consciously aware of 
3. what’s going on the dates of July 31st 
4. some magic happening in October
5. another huge passageway that actually takes us into January. 

Grab a pen and paper, and let us gather now around the fire!

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

Follow Danielle on Instagram: @IamDaniellePaige and listen to her podcast Cosmic Body. 

This episode was made possible by my best-selling book, Animal Power—available now! You can find out more at my website, alysoncharles.com/animalpower

As you'll hear in today's episode, I had the good fortune of spending some in-person quality time with today’s guest at a hot springs here in Texas when he was visiting. Right away, I could sense that he is the perfect kind of guest that I love to have on! 

Today we have the privilege of sitting with Todd Savvas, international spiritual teacher and sage. He combines ancient wisdom with modern savvy to deliver simple, yet powerful mystical tools for the modern world.

Todd is a TV regular with appearances on Extra TV, KTLA, Good Day LA, The Morning Show in Australia, and Young Hollywood. 

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1.  what it was like to have one of his readings with a celebrity go super viral 
2. his universal speaks oracle card deck—what makes this deck so unique and the types of readings that you can have with it
3. we actually go over some of my reading (and give some personal insights to you all)
4. what intention casting is
5. different types of rituals that Todd facilitates including curse banishing

Stay tuned for a high level discussion on curse banishing, why Todd has been called the “restaurant whisperer,” and a few insights on how you can learn to even more deeply trust yourself with your own spiritual gifts.

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

Find out more about Todd (and maybe even work with him) on his website at toddsavvas.com

This episode was made possible by my best-selling book, Animal Power—available now! You can find out more at my website, alysoncharles.com/animalpower

I’ve done thousands of interviews in my time, and I can honestly say, I cannot recall the last time I was this excited for an interview. Something about this feels so important and I am thrilled to be able to share it with you.

For more than 10 years, Rina has traveled the world in pursuit of a deep understanding and practice of Eastern spirituality, immersing herself in tantric, erotic and spiritual expressions.

Beginning with her 20 year long experience as an extreme athlete, skydiver base jumper, shark diver, and free diver. She's now a full time dominatrix, death doula, and sexological body worker, & vulnerability guide helping hundreds of men and women get in touch with their deeper selves through deep practices of surrender and vulnerability.

Stay tuned for how Rina went from being a data analyst with a master's degree, working in an office to a dominatrix, working in the darkest Dungeons of New York City. You also won’t want to miss her discussion on the ancient art of Shibari—what is Shibari? And why is it her current favorite part of what she offers?

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. how erotic humiliation can be healthy 
2. what power exchange explorations are 
3. how we can get to the subconscious roots of our fantasies and release shame from them
4. details of what Yoni massages are and how she does them 
5. some of the many tales and benefits (and potential dark side)  of Shibari, Kink, BDSM and more! 

Please note that we immerse in today’s topic with total reverence, but this can obviously be sensitive territory for some—so listener discretion is advised. 

Make sure to join us in our closing Ceremony Circle practice: a potent meditation focused on vulnerability and surrender.

Here we go—a course in sacred sexual practices!

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

Reach out to Rina on instagram @Rina_Trevi or at https://www.vulnerabilitycoaching.com

or https://underline.world for her courses!

This episode was made possible by my best-selling book, Animal Power—available now! You can find out more at my website, alysoncharles.com/animalpower

I am so happy to welcome you into today's mega powerful episode. We have the great pleasure of sitting with not one, but two amazing guests. 

Lena Franklin is a modern medicine, woman, transpersonal psychotherapist, and transformational speaker. She offers the ancient practices of meditation, energy medicine, and psycho-spiritual healing in an accessible way. 

Her partner, Jeff Glattstein is a dedicated healing professional, teacher, and spiritual guide with decades of study and practice in the arts of shamanic healing, energy medicine, Tai Chi and more. He has been initiated into many different shamanic traditions, and if that wasn’t enough, he's also an accomplished entrepreneur, writer, teacher, and guides groups on spiritual adventure retreats with his partner Lena. 

Lena and Jeff are also both the founders of the East Institute, a global organization that exists to support the healing and awakening of humanity and the planet through ancient embodied practices, plant medicines, and cutting edge science.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. each of their individual healing paths that got them both individually in a place of readiness for twin flame reunion or sacred partnership
2. the WILD story of how they met
3. how “initiations” became a theme for them throughout their time together and separately
4. some of most spiritually pivotal experiences in their lives
5. Publicly sharing for the first time about their deeply life-changing and clearing away scenarios encountered once they grew into a couple, where greatest fears and challenges were faced 

There is so much medicine in their storytelling, so kick back, light a candle, set an honoring space, and enjoy.

Make sure to join us in our closing practice: a guided shamanic journey (from both Lena and Jeff) that can allow you to get more fully connected with your soul and what you're really here to be. 

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

Find out more about The East Institute at eastinstitute.com, and connect with Lena at lenafranklin.com or on social media @iamlenafranklin. Connect with Jeff on Instagram at @energymedicineman

This episode was made possible by my new book, Animal Power—available now! You can find out more at my website, alysoncharles.com/animalpower.

Today’s episode is a colorful, expressive journey. When I learned about our guest today, and her openness around addiction, as well as her life as a therapist, I knew I had to invite her to join us. That’s why we’re chatting to this outspoken friend of mine, Vasavi Kumar.

Vasavi is host of the Say it Out Loud podcast, the upcoming author of the  Say It Out Loud book (coming in spring 2023) self-expression coach and actor.

As a first-generation Indian immigrant, Vasavi got her second Masters’ degree in social work. Now, through her Say It out Loud group experience, mentorships and communication trainings, she helps her clients to be more comfortable, confident, and in control during interpersonal communications, media interviews, and life.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. why saying things out loud is so important
2. why does it matter (so much so  that she's written a book on it) 
3. some incredibly potent wisdom gems on checking yourself before you hit publish on social media
4. what it was like seeing the same therapist for 16 years, and what that taught her
5. her Indian background and upbringing and recently evolved relationship with her parents.

Make sure to join us in our closing Ceremony Circle practice: a Sanskrit chant to Hanuman, the Hindu monkey God, for success and blessings. You can follow along with this translation. 

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

Find more about Vasavi on her website or Instagram @mynameisvasavi.

This episode was made possible by Lotus Wei. Use code MYSTIC at checkout for your Soul Fam discount!

Being in alignment with my intuition has been perhaps the greatest gift that's given me strength—when I need to hold the line for what I know needs to happen in my life. Whether that pertains to projects, relationships, books, or many other things, it's been so vital to my path. For that reason, I am very excited for you all to hear from our guest today—Liz Roberta.

Liz Roberta is a Hay House author and award-winning spiritual coach who was named the ”Emerging Voice of 2020” by Kindred Spirit Magazine, One of the five most influential female coaches of 2021 and one of the 50 under 50 for 2022 by the New York City Journal. 

Her spiritual success podcast is one of the top 5% podcasts worldwide. And her book “Living in Tune” is one of the industry leading books on intuition. 

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. key ways to know what your intuition is trying to tell you 
2. what your main earth mission is this lifetime
3. the “clair-” gifts—clairsentience, clairvoycance, etc
4. which of those “clair-” gifts are active for you
5. How specific journaling techniques can open your deepest intelligence & wisdom, allowing you to “live in tune”

Make sure to join us in our closing Ceremony Circle practice: an incredible solar plexus practice to help you reclaim your power.

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

Visit Liz’s website, lizroberta.com, or follow her on IG @iamLizRoberta. You can listen to her podcast here.

This episode was made possible by my new book, Animal Power—available now! You can find out more at my website, alysoncharles.com/animalpower.

Today you're going to get to meet a longtime friend of mine. We actually go all the way back to my time living in New York City, and she is going to bring some super unique essences, teachings and energies to the Ceremony Circle space—healer, stand up comedian and tarot reader, Kate Wolff. 

As I mentioned, Kate and I go way back—she even had me as a guest on her show Invasion of Privacy, and we definitely relive that hilarious time on today's episode.

In addition to a healer and tarot reader, Kate Wolff is a standup comedian who you might've seen on truTV, Elite Daily, FOX’s Red Eye and Nickelodeon's NickMom Night Out. She's also performed in the New York Comedy Festival and many others. 

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. what it's like bringing the world of spirituality and healing to the unexpected world of comedy
2. the deep, deep, inner work she has done on herself
3. how she's able to so brilliantly combine her edgy humor with her spiritual beliefs.
4. her tips on how we can express our unique energies and frequencies on this earthly realm 
5. how to have fun and break free from the illusions that keep us feeling stuck

BONUSES:

I simply could not resist asking her to provide all of us a tarot reading today, so she does, and I think you’re going to love it!

Make sure to stick around for our closing ceremony practice—a healing fire & water guided meditation led by Kate herself.

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

Connect with Kate Wolff for healing sessions and tarot readings at [email protected] or her website thekatewolff.com

This episode was made possible by Lotus Wei. Check them out at lotuswei.com —and make sure to use code MYSTIC to get your Soul Fam discount!