This week I sit down with the founders of Maui Rebirth Retreats Kelly Christmas and Crystal Bichalski. Kelly is certified holistic coach, author, and owner of The Rock Box Life, a spiritual boutique and healing arts center. Crystal as an author, astrologist, astro therapist and past-life regression practitioner. Kelly and Crystal are reimagining the retreat experience by creating an intimate, immersive, and interactive encounter with the self that is transformative and healing. Kelly and Crystal discuss their shared experiences of spiritual growth and healing, and how this inspired them to create a sacred space for people to become their own healer. To find out more about Kelly, follow her on Instagram @therockboxlife. To find out more about Crystal, follow her on Instagram @crystalbastrology.    Sign up for the Maui Rebirth Retreat Here   Podcast Production:

• Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara
• Produced by LightCasting
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie
• Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with the co-author of "THE POWER OF AWE: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose—In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day" Jake Eagle. Jake Eagle co-wrote this book with Michael Amster.  The A.W.E. Method is a five-to fifteen second, three step process that transports you into a heightened state of consciousness and wonderment that creates changes to the mind and body, while improving health and wellness.   Jake and I discuss the research studies that were built around this methodology and how it changed the participants who were frontline health care workers during one of the hardest moments in recent history--the Covid-19 pandemic. Jakes also shares with the audience, how using the A.W.E. method can reduce a persons' experience of loneliness, burnout, and shift consciousness. We also discuss the benefits of healing using the A.W.E method to help our nervous system feel safe, so long term healing and integration can occur.    Jake is a psychotherapist, mindfulness instructor and cofounder of Live Conscious.    Michael is a physician and faulty member at the Touro School of Medicine.      Podcast Production:

• Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara
• Produced by LightCasting
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie
• Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with Rachael Jayne Groover Founder and CEO of Awakened School, which is geared towards helping people find inner peace and their outer purpose. Rachael Jayne is also the creator of The Art of Feminine Presence and has trained over 13,000 women to this modality. Rachael Jayne shares with the listening audience her definition of the feminine--how it's not a word, it's a physical and energetic quality that runs through your body and energy field. We discuss the power of vulnerability and creating internal safety that allows us to connect more deeply with the world around us. Rachael Jayne ends with how to become unshakeable and trilogy of inner peace. To find out more about Rachael Jayne, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @rachaeljaynegroover   Unwavering Stillness Online Retreat by Rachael Jayne   Podcast Production:

• Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara
• Produced by LightCasting
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie
• Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with world-renowned Vedic teacher from India, Acharya Shunya. She was recognized at the early age of nine as the future spiritual leader of a 2,000-year-old Vedic lineage in north India, which she was fortunate to be born into as the granddaughter of the lineages patriarch.  In our interview we discuss her many books, her wisdom school and her teachings on enlightened vulnerability. She also talks about Alchemy & Ayurveda. To find out more about Acharya Shunya head over to website and follow her on Instagram @acharyashunya

Podcast Production:

• Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara
• Produced by LightCasting
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie
• Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with Author and Fertility Hypnotherapist Lynsi Eastburn to discuss her work helping people bring children into the world through the modality of HypnoFertility. Lynsi opens up about being a young girl and feeling heartache for women who could not conceive their own children and learning of something called a "test tube" baby that changed her life. Lynsi shares how hypnosis helps to unblock our unconscious and the importance of trusting our own intuition of being called to be a parent. Lynsi also discusses her third book, "Waiting in the Wings: Introducing the Pink Starlights"and how this generation of babies are arriving to imbue our society with unconditional love, kindness, and compassion. To learn more about Lynsi and the works she does, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @lynsieastburn   Podcast Production:

• Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara
• Produced by LightCasting
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie
• Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with author David Guy, to discuss his spiritual fiction novel called "Hank Heals: A Novel of  Miracles."  The book is about Hank Wilder, a divorced loner, unsuccessfully trying to establish a new Zen center when he accidentally cures an ex-girlfriend’s recurring cancer with his touch and discovers that he has healing powers. David and I break down the themes in the book about what faith is, being receptive to healing, what energy is, and finding interconnectedness and self-acceptance. To find out more about David and purchase his novel, head over to his website by clicking here.    Podcast Production:

• Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara
• Produced by LightCasting
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie
• Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with Beebe Bahrami who is an award-winning travel writer and anthropologist. Beebe wrote a beautiful book called "The Way of Goose: Three Pilgrimages Following Geese, Stars, and Hunches on the Camino de Santiago." We discuss her book that is a travel narrative, adventure story, and a spiritual pilgrimage. Beebe opens up about the power of the Camino and its ley lines that she described as "imbued by the human imagination." She shares the transformational power of the Camino--how everyone walking it becomes an explorer and an alchemist.   Through her own camino's she found that the goose was very likely an ancient Eurasian earth-centered mother goddess who took many forms but the goose was among her most prominent forms. This ties into goose vision, which Beebe's states "is burning off base influences of the ego to bring up and reveal the luminous, gold of your spirit."  To learn more about Beebe head over to website and pick up her book here. You can also pick up her travel companion guidebook "Moon Camino de Santiago--Sacred Sites, Historic Villages, Local Food & Wine" here.    Podcast Production:

• Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara
• Produced by LightCasting
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie
• Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down to talk to transpersonal psychotherapist and non-dual teacher Bonnie Greenwell. Bonnie is a successful author who’s work focuses on spiritual awakening, Kundalini, and the inward journey. Bonnie walks us through her spiritual history and we discuss the many types of spiritual awakenings. She defines for the audience Kundalini and non-duality and how they are two sides of the same coin. We conclude with Bonnie sharing wisdom and advice for anyone who is on the path of awakening.

Bonnie's book "When Spirit Leaps: Navigating the Spiritual Awakening Process" is core curriculum for anyone on the spiritual path. To find out more about Bonnie head over to her website.

Podcast Production:

• Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara
• Produced by LightCasting
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie
• Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit with spiritual psychologist and forgiveness coach, Debbie Roth. Debbie and I discuss why she decided to set her focus on this area, what it has taught her and what she hopes to teach others. She also discusses a life changing moment, that tested her to "walk her talk." To find out more about Debbie Roth, head over to www.forgivingconnects.com 

Podcast Production:

• Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara
• Produced by LightCasting
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie
• Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with author Mary Firestone to discuss her book "Trusting the Dawn" , a personal account of post-traumatic growth, healing, self-love and self-discovery. Mary shares how  although our inclination is to turn away from our trauma and pain, it still finds a way out; she gives the reader and listening audience the courage to face the hardness of our wounds, head on. She talks about staying integrated throughout the healing process and changing the internal narratives we tell ourselves about who we are when something bad happens to us. She leaves the audience with the healing tools of curiosity, compassion, self-trust, and deep self-love. To find out more about Mary head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @firestonesisters @trustingthedawn2022   Podcast Production:

• Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara
• Produced by LightCasting
• Original Music by Mr. Pixie
• Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast