This conversation delves into the transformative power of Ayahuasca within the context of Buddhist wisdom, exploring the feminine expression of liberation, spiritual awakening, and Earth connection through Tara—the goddess of compassion, wisdom, and protection... basically, The Infinite herself ♡

Spring Washam is a visionary leader and healer who seamlessly integrates Buddhist teachings with indigenous wisdom to foster both personal and collective liberation. I first met her at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, where she taught Metta (a practice that dissolves barriers of judgment and fear, fostering joy, kindness, and compassion). In 2015, I followed her to Peru, having participated in just one previous ceremony in Santa Rosa, California. Little did I know, I was in for a profound surprise—a deep spiritual immersion and a powerful meeting with my Deep Self. I was so glad to connect with Spring 10 years later on this episode for some integration and connection.

Natalie is a wisdom seeker, storyteller, movement and meditation teacher. She offers workshops and courses on ritual, earth based wisdom and embodied practice. 

Her lifelong love of natural rhythms has led to an intimate relationship with bodily movement and the exploration of our environmental influences. 

The dance of seasonal reverence, yogic practice, ancestral wisdom, home herbalism and personal ritual are all embodied within her approach to guiding and mentoring.

Enjoy ♡

Michelle Coutinho is a healer, songstress, and empowerment coach who helps spiritually conscious women and men attune to a deeper resonance with their voice, presence, and own their personal power. She is the creator of Vocal Alchemy + Embodiment, a process that rewires the energetic nervous system using the voice as a gateway to the subtle body to create a sense of lightness and expansion that releases stored trauma from the mental and emotional body and heals the psyche on a multi-dimensional level.

Dive into this episode hosted by my new associate at Wise Body Counselling, Carmen Davies!

Kate Leiper's body of work is anchored in actively exploring feminine depth, self-intimacy and devotion, catalysed by motherhood and sustained by embodied experiences of returning home to self, earth and spirit.

Through meeting and honouring grief and loss stored in the body, Kate guides mothers and nurturers into deeper relationship with personal expressions of sensuality and creativity; increasing capacity for building and sustaining wildly prosperous and pleasure-filled lives.

Bridging the realms of psychology and spirituality through the artful practice of feminine embodiment, Kate’s ‘unsMothered’ principles and Diamond Mother Archetype framework are underpinned by a Graduate Degree in Drama & Education, a Master of Counselling & Psychotherapy, internationally recognised Feminine Embodiment Coaching Certification and current teachings around somatics and trauma healing.

Holding great reverence for the fumbling, messy process of personal unravelling within a larger committment to dismantling internalised patriarchal indoctrination, Kate is committed to life-long inquiry and reclamation of bodily safety, consent, self-sovereignty, and social justice for those identifying as women, specifically in the domains of sex, birth and mothering.

Born in India and living in England, Jonita D’souza is a Feminine Lifestylist and Creatress of Exploring Femininity Ltd., assisting modern day busy women who struggle with burn-out, overwhelm and body love to reconnect with their feminine and sensual energy using the ancient Taoist and Tantric arts, so that they can create a lifestyle that is fulfilling, nurturing and pleasurable. 

Jonita believes that it is the responsibility of the 21st century women to explore their femininity, so that they can create a sustainable life for themselves, for their loved ones and for generations to come.

In this episode, we discuss:

~ What is traditional Tantra? It's not just crazy sex positions and multiple orgasms.

~ 3 golden elixirs - sound, breath and movement.

~ doing the inner work to feel beautiful.

~ I ask how she feels about me using the term Shakti as a woman of Western European decent.

Lena Dolter is an Initiatory Guide to the Feminine Mysteries, and Embodiment Expert. She specializes in guiding women to truly know who they are, to love, honor, and respect themselves, through understanding their body and the energy of their menstrual cycle. Through her work, women learn what it means to embody their inner feminine (intuitive) energy and heal the overly expressed wounded masculine (doing) energy so they know who they really are and feel empowered to express their uniqueness in the world, with deep self trust and intuitive guidance.

In this episode, we discuss:

~ Energy management vs. time management

~ Using your cycle to make empowered decisions

~ Discover what you need and when during the 4 phases of your cycle, what they represent, and how they can support you.

After a lifetime of devotion to the ways of Mystery, Earth, Soul and Eros, her extraordinary path of Feminine Initiation has brought her to the edge of the long lost mysteries of the wild.

In this episode, we discuss:

~Where is our Holy Yes: How every desire is ushering ourselves closer to ourselves.

~Coming into relationship from a place of deep fulfillment.

~Feeding and tending the transpersonal in relationship.

Trixie is a Registered Therapist and SoulStrong Intuitive Coach and mentor. Trixie is well respected in the field of eating disorders and known for her work with grief. She has received post Masters training in Neurosequential Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Emotion Focused Family Therapy and her clinical training has been focused on evidence-based attachment and interpersonal neurobiology techniques. Trixie is also a certified End-of-Life Doula. 

She brings huge passion and leadership to SoulStrong and is lit up by helping others turn their soul’s mission into a movement that leads them directly to the best versions of themselves. ❤️ 

In this episode, we talk about how grieving gives us the opportunity to slow down in order to release any shame we have held in the past about our pain and to heal through holding ourselves, and each other, tenderly.

Jessica Austin is a powerful woman and doula, living with metastatic cancer and mothering her 1-year-old. She is a carrier of so much community medicine and she is basically a magical unicorn. 

If you love the authenticity in her sharing here, you might also listen to her podcast "If I'm Not Here To Tell You" which she has created so her kid can always hear her stories in her voice. She explains in this conversation how she decided to share it with the world to promote the idea of community learning as we can all learn through listening to a real human share their truth, even (and especially) when it holds the pain and the beauty of life and death.

In this episode, we discuss women as storytellers and explore the importance of sharing around birth and birthing. 

She shares in this Shakti conversation around how:

~ Birth is a wild mammal having a completely spontaneous process (5 mins)

~ Birth is traditionally a community experience - until it got put behind closed doors and how we started viewing the body and the baby as an object (8 mins)

~ We're glorified "scientific knowledge" and kicked community learning to the side (10 mins)

~ If we don't share our stories, they die with us... sometimes social media can be a way to share our true stories and document our personal legacy (20 mins)

~ Your Story Matters! (40 mins)

Chameli Ardagh is a yogini and women’s wisdom keeper. Her love of decoding and experimenting with ancient wisdom teachings through her own practice in yogini circles all over the world has crystallized maps of spiritual awakening and leadership that are accessible, practical and honoring of women today. Rooted in earth honoring, devotional women’s spirituality and goddess centered tantric yoga, she is especially appreciated for her love of mythology and storytelling as a key to spiritual awakening and embodiment. 

What she shares: 

~ Where therapy work meets spiritual wisdoms. 

~ Looking from the attachment lens to bridge psychology and Goddess wisdom 

~ How we all have attachment disorders with our environments and earth. 

~ Women’s circle's & physical body as portal to ancient feminine wisdom. 

~ How to toss everything up in the air so all can reclaim freedom if we don’t fit into the boxes our society has focused on. 

~ And, for those who identify as women to celebrate so not to have more erasure of the feminine! She says how the focus on women wouldn’t be relevant to have women’s spirituality unless it’s been repressed it has! 

~ Therapist as Priestess beating the drum while you enter the unknown like the Goddess Inanna.