Ceremony Circle

You are in for a deeply reverent and honoring treat today! We are all blessed to share potent ancient wisdom space today with Manari Ushigua, the spiritual leader of the Sápara nation and Ecuadorian Amazon. I've been connected with Menotti for a while—I've even taken part in his Dream World online program.

With less than 600 of the Sápara nation peoples left on the planet and Manari being their leader to them, it felt so imperatively vital to have him on the podcast so we can help keep their ancient Amazonian wisdom traditions alive.

In addition, on today’s voyage we are also being joined by the amazing Jessica Scheer. She is the bridge and translator and making today's Ceremony Circle voyage possible. 

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. why learning to work with your dreams is so important and how to do so
2. more about Makihaunu—the path to the spirit world
3. Working with Grandmother Medicine, Ayahuasca, in his tradition
4. the Sápara Nation’s view on women
5. some samples of the power of the ancient Kichwa language

I also took listener questions from my Instagram followers at @IAMALYSONCHARLES—if you want to ask a question of a future guest or to connect with me, follow me there or go to alysoncharles.com

Most importantly, if you'd like to enter the world of dreams with Manari yourself, you can enroll right now in his Dream World program dreamworldprogram.com. If you use code ROCKSTAR10 at checkout,  you will automatically be making a donation to the Sápara peoples and their sacred traditions and land. 

And as Manari is also the founder of Naku, a healing retreat center in Ecuador, I also wanted to receive his wisdom teachings on working with Ayahuasca, and his views on how to best do so with honor and reverence. 

Make sure to join us in our closing practice: Manari shared a song from the Amazonian jungles that calls in everyone's spirit and heart medicine.

You can sign up for Manari’s Dream World online program, learn more about Naku, or follow him on TikTok and Instagram. Connect with him directly for a one-to-one dream interpretation, virtual healing, or private ceremony at manariushigua.com.

Today's sacred voyage takes us into the world of sound! Imagine fusing elements of global bass electronic middle Eastern music, hip hop, and ambient soundscapes. There’s nobody better to embody this fusion than Iranian-American producer, DJ and sound healer, Shivarasa (who has the best name ever!).

I was lucky enough to meet Shivarasa when we were both a part of the Modern Nirvana conference. She was on the turntables while Luke and I gave a talk on sacred unions for our brand. She had a dynamic energy and I loved to see a strong female in a typically male dominated field (something I can for sure relate to). She's garnered respect from and played for some of the biggest names in both the music and spiritual worlds. And today she and I go with you on a fully live journey of our own. I was instructed by Divine to not have any questions. prepared in advance, so we just flow—to some great and unexpected places!

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. what is behind the medicine name “Shivarasa” and what does the name mean?
2. what it’s like creating music with a spiritual vibe
3. how she takes folks on a fully immersive sonic journey
4. what does she do to overcome stage fright and how does she get over a performance that didn’t go as planned?
5. the power of breath work

Make sure to join us in our closing practice: a full length breath work track produced by none other than Shivarasa herself.

Disclaimer: if you're new to breath work, be mindful—go into it with an extra layer of awareness and take it easy—because breath work can be incredibly potent.

Stay tuned as we also dive into how you can unlock your inner rockstar, make music and unleash your creativity—and why you should never be ashamed to do so.

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

Follow Shivarasa on Instagram or Spotify.

This episode was made possible by my best-selling book, Animal Power. You can find out more at http://alysoncharles.com/animalpower.

After meeting Arash Jacob through a healing and liberating gathering with mutual friends, I wanted to sit with him again, to learn more, but also to share his wisdom with you all. 

Arash is a mystical seer, magical knower and master healer. Today we talk about the spiritual gift of seer ship. While I am truly grateful for it, since this gift is also one of my main gifts I can attest that this gift comes with a lot of responsibility. He works in a practice in Beverly Hills and  Los Angeles, seeing individuals and businesses, both in-person and virtually helping them connect to and open their hearts inside their own magical healing journeys. So you can reach out to him for a healing session of your own. 

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. how Arash knows when to present the information he sees
2. The mystical lands of Iraq and Iran
3. what mysticism is
4. how and when his gifts began to present
5. why Arash left behind his career as a doctor

Stay tuned for his message about how “if you can let pain speak, then beauty can speak even more powerfully in your life.” If Arash’s energy and his transmissions resonate with you, I want you to know that he helps those who are drawn to him. Reach out to him and work with him toward your own magical growth and interchange if you are so called.

Make sure to join us in our closing practice: a unique multidimensional heart healing ritual (one of my favorites of all time!).

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

Connect with Arash at arashjacob.com or at @arashjacob1

This episode was made possible by my best-selling book, Animal Power. You can find out more at http://alysoncharles.com/animalpower.

In my circle, not many people are without at least one crystal in their home—I have had many wild activations, out of body and healing experiences with them myself. Today I wanted to sit with straigh a true crystal expert to dive into it all, and I knew exactly who to go to.

Mariah K. Lyons, is an internationally renowned crystal educator, Reiki master, intuitive, Western herbalist, and healing artist.

She is also the founder and CEO of ASTARA, a sustainable luxury crystalline grounding footwear company.

Mariah is also the author of a book I love called “Crystal Healing for Women: A Modern Guide to the Power of Crystals for Renewed Energy, Strength, and Wellness”.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. how exactly do crystals work?

2. we talk about what are a few main crystals we should be working with for this year and why

3. what are some proper crystal cleansing techniques?

4. where the idea for ASTARA came from

5. how she has managed to integrate ancient healing practices with sustainable design

After that, a treat—we answer some listener questions from my Instagram @IAMALYSONCHARLES (I often ask you what questions you’d like to ask my guests!). We selected many of your crystal inquiries, including “where can I find ethically sourced crystals?”

Make sure to join us in our closing practice: an incredible three crystal activation meditation that I personally deeply needed and felt!

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

Connect with Mariah on Instagram at @mariahklyons, check out ASTARA footwear and her beautiful book “Crystal Healing for Women: A Modern Guide to the Power of Crystals for Renewed Energy, Strength, and Wellness.”

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

So much in the world of spirituality may feel overly heavy or serious, but Jason Nemer believes there’s other ways. 

A student of gymnastics and acrobatics (and a former Olympian), Jason Nemer is the co-founder of AcroYoga, a form of partner yoga with some of the playfulness you get in other acrobatics.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. how he grew up being trained by top Russian and Bulgarian acrobatic masters,
2. how the download for acro yoga came in
3. we explore this quote from his new book: “AcroYoga not only has the power to change the body you're in, it also has the power to change the direction your life is going”
4. keeping the integrity of acro yoga in-check, even as it has spread to the world
5. some honest, vulnerable shares of his experiences in spiritual entrepreneurship

He also discusses the restoring ceremonial power of tea (and we talk about comparing tea cabinets!).

Make sure to join us in our closing practice: a special breath and mantra sequence passed onto Jason from a master teacher of his.

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

Visit jasonnemer.com to learn more, and make sure to pick up his new book Move, Connect, Play: The Art and Science of AcroYoga (available wherever books are sold). 

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

Today we sit with a friend of mine who has covered a lot of ground in his short time here on earth: Frank Elaridi.

He's already been an Emmy award-winning journalist with over 40 million YouTube views, covering everything from Syrian refugee camps to the Academy Awards. He's been seen on Good Morning, America and ABC digital platforms. Most notably giving viewers a backstage look into the show Dancing with the Stars. He’s a mental health consultant and co-founder of Modern Nirvana,

However, in today's show, Frank reveals perhaps the biggest news of his life right here—with me and with all of you in Ceremony Circle. I want to let the medicine of the surprise news happen for you during the interview, so I won't spoil it!

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. why out of all of the infinite healing practices, he landed on being a practitioner working with people's emotions
2. the big medicine around liberating yourself into your true soul's calling
3. how to leave your old world behind with honor and trust the new paradigm that is birthing.
4. a (very exciting!) live, impromptu healing session
5. what reveals during that session around kidney stones and pregnancy

We also talk about what sitting in a number of sacred plant medicine ceremonies taught Frank (and how his last one humbled him so much that he is now taking an indefinite break).

Make sure to join us in this episode’s closing ceremony circle practice: a guided journey to release trauma

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

Learn more about Frank, and find his YouTube channel at his website frankelaridi.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!

On today’s show we’re diving into a topic that I've definitely had plenty of firsthand experience with. And a topic that when provided with solutions, I feel is an incredibly important one for humanity at this time: anxiety.

In order to help us do that, we’ve invited an expert—Dr. Ellen Vora, author of the new book “The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response”. I'm super excited for you to connect with her.

As Ellen attended Columbia University for medical school, she also received her BA in English from Yale. She's a board certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist and yoga teacher. One of my favorite parts of her work is she takes a functional medicine approach to mental health: she considers the whole person and addresses the root of the problem rather than just reflexively prescribing medications to suppress symptoms.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. my personal paths with anxiety disorders and anxiety attacks
2. why you might have been feeling unexpected waves of depression or anxiety
3. top sneaky ways anxiety comes through (and many of these you would never guess— they were certainly surprises for me!)
4. how Dr. Vora has no fear to share her spiritual & “witchy” beliefs
5. and what that means for her and her practice and how she can best serve us!

We also dive into your listener questions submitted by those of you who are a part of the soul fam over on my Instagram @IAMALYSONCHARLES

Make sure to join us in our closing ceremony: an amazing shamanic shaking practice that would be beneficial any time, but especially when you need to clear off some stress.

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

Check out Ellen’s new book “The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response”

This episode was made possible by my new book Animal Power, now available! Go to alysoncharles.com/animalpower to learn more and get your own copy.

I wanted to do something extra special today—so we’re rebroadcasting two back-to-back episodes from my guest appearance on “Better Together with Maria Menounos.”

While you probably know who Maria is, in case you don't, she has been the host for shows like Access Hollywood, Extra, E! News, The Today Show, and NBC Nightly News. She is an actor as well as a New York Times bestselling author.

But her whole life changed when she got the call that her mom was diagnosed with a brain tumor. In a surprise twist, months later, Maria herself was also diagnosed with a brain tumor. She ended up having brain surgery on her birthday, which she saw as a rebirth.

She decided to make some big changes in her life, thus her podcast “Better Together with Maria Menounos” was born!

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. I share in unique ways about my own spiritual awakening and journey to shamanism and how you can discover that path for yourself,
2. how I wrote my book Animal Power
3. how we can all tap into our animal guides and call to them in times of confusion or when we are need of extra love and support
4. I do a live reading for Maria—and share which animals came in for her + what they reveal for her
5. important things to honor when walking the Shamanic path

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

Pick up your own copy of my best-selling book, ANIMAL POWER, anywhere books are sold or from my website where you’ll also receive a free guided Shamanic journey to meet your current power animal.

Check out “Better Together with Maria Menunous”, anywhere you get your podcasts! You can also visit Maria on Instagram.

As a former UFC fighter, Kyle Kingsbury knew how to deal some heavy blows. But when life dealt him some blows of its own, nearly losing his life, he had some eye-opening experiences with dosing which changed everything.  

Kyle is the former Director of Human Optimization at Onnit, and is currently the host of his own show, “Kyle Kingsbury Podcast”

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. he shares his darkest moment in life that nearly took them from this earth plane,
2. how he's the quantum shifter in his family line
3. how he healed wounds from his childhood (and the brave steps his dad even took to mend the relationship), 
4. why humility is such a beautiful key in walking the path
5. what taking “hero dosing” amounts in various plant medicine & sacred ceremonies taught him

We’ll explore Kyle's openly shared experiences of ceremonies he was called into and his interactions with the spirits of the plants and fungi.

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

Visit Kyle’s website to find more about him and his podcast. 

This episode was made possible by Dharma Coaching Institute where you can become a double certified soul purpose & dharma life coach. Be sure to use code ALYSON in the coupon area when you register - this is the only way you will also receive a FREE copy of my best-selling book, ANIMAL POWER, along with a free video guided shamanic journey to meet the power animal who wants to support your career. Head to https://dharmacoachinginstitute.com/ref/136/ to enroll and use code ALYSON at checkout. Doors for enrollment are only open now - April 03

From the other side of the world, Emma Dunwoody, a master coach and a human design expert, joined me for a gorgeous conversation.  

I have actually had my own human design session with Emma a couple of times—so I can attest that it can be a greatly empowering experience and one that I highly recommended.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn from This Episode:

1. what human design is all about
2. how to align with your sovereignty, becoming your own guru and learning how to tap into the wisdom that you already hold within yourself 
3. we discuss her Australian upbringing, how that helped forge her unique spiritual path
4. her journey from the corporate world into aligning with her calling in the spiritual world and helping to guide others on the spiritual path
5. Emma also takes us on a vulnerable journey of her first experiences meditating, conquering her fears & transcending past panic attacks in order to finally get the benefits of meditating

The Closing Ceremony Circle Practice: 

Make sure to join us in this incredible Aura magic guided meditation where you can tune into your own aura and peer into your body's strong intelligence to learn how your body wants to inform you

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

Visit Emma online at emmadunwoody.com or on IG at @the_human_design_coach

This episode was made possible by Dharma Coaching Institute where you can become a double certified soul purpose & dharma life coach. Be sure to use code ALYSON in the coupon area when you register - this is the only way you will also receive a FREE copy of my best-selling book, ANIMAL POWER, along with a free video guided shamanic journey to meet the power animal who wants to support your career. 

Head to https://dharmacoachinginstitute.com/ref/136/ to enroll and use code ALYSON at checkout. Doors for enrollment are only open now - April 03