Inner Spark Radio

Listen in as Melissa shares some specific information and tips around overcoming food cravings and food addiction, such as:

How cravings can get created * How she overcame her own inner barriers * How to differentiate between a head craving and a heart craving * Questions to ask yourself when you suffer from a head or heart craving * The best exercise to help you overcome food cravings, and more!

Melissa Kathrynis a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Weight Loss & Lifestyle Expert and Speaker.  As the Owner & Founder of Melissa Kathryn LLC, a holistic weight loss & lifestyle practice, Melissa has coached hundreds of women around the world, helping them transform their bodies and lives through the power of healthy living, unique nutrition styling, and inspired fitness infused with positive thinking. Melissa has been a featured TEDx speaker, an expert guest on New York Live, and a writer for publications such as Real Simple and Shape Magazine.  You can learn more about Melissa and her work at: www.melissakathryn.com

For almost 20 years Sarah Byrden has been a visionary teacher and guide, praised for her intuition, insight and trustworthy ability to guide her students into sacred territory with wisdom and grace. She is known for her domain-changing work in sexuality, cross-cultural, wilderness and experiential education. She has been working in the fields of empowerment education, international cross-cultural development, and body-based healing since 2000. As a pioneering leader in the field of sex-education, Sarah's work, mentorship and consultation is sought after by educational institutions, teachers, parents, birth-workers, and students of all ages, genders and orientations. She is a certified MogaDao Sacred Daoist Sexuality Teacher, holds over 2500 hours of formal training in western and non-western body-based healing modalities and a BA in Anthropology. . Her most recent project, THE BODY OF SEX is a radical paradigm-shifting approach to sex education and empowerment on college campuses. She speaks to this work in her TEDx talk, Sex on Campus: How we're missing the mark. Sarah offers Sacred Sexuality programs, wilderness trips and creative writing workshops and lectures. To learn more, say hello and join a workshop, visit her at www.theelementalself.com

Here is the link to the full NPR episode Amy reference's if you are interested, it is fascinating!

Listen in as Amy shares questions we explore to uncover and challenge our expectations, how to recruit the body to change patterns, Safety vs. Security and more!

No matter the form of her offering, whether she is playing the role of yoga teacher, strategic entrepreneurial consultant, life coach, writer, public speaker, vlogger, or wellness counselor, Amy Lombardo’s intention has always remained the same; create a space for people to connect to their own inherent wisdom, and magic will happen.   Also a dedicated Karma Yogi, deeply committed to the yoga of service, Amy co-founded of Karma Krew, a yoga-based non-profit that sustains a nationwide grassroots network of socially conscious yoga studios and practitioners in over 50 cities, and 4 countries.  In her latest venture, her vlog, Confessions of a Warrior Woman, Amy hones in on her passion for women’s empowerment, providing her audience with real life examples and heart-felt, practical advice on how to embrace their vulnerabilities as some of their greatest strengths. Her weekly videos are watched regularly by followers in over 12 countries. To learn more about Amy and her various offerings, please see www.truenaturewellness.com or www.confessionsofawarriorwoman.com.

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Listen in as Liana shares why and how we can uplevel our lives and be more authentic through all our choices, including wardrobe ~ and how this has a ripple effect on ourselves and the world.

Over the past two decades, Liana Chaouli has developed the theory and practice of Image Therapy®, an educational and therapeutic process today taught worldwide. She is the President and Founder of Image Therapists International Inc. and a globally recognized thought leader, style expert and educator.

Ms. Chaouli, provides transformation through the empowerment of wardrobe. She has spent two decades consulting CEOs, celebrities, and political figures on matters of self-image. As the developer of Image Therapy™, she works closely with her clients on their personal and professional presence using analysis, physical appearance, and education to adjust attitudes affecting self-esteem and overall sense of worth. Her clients include Bob Mackie, The Canfield Training Group, IBM, Nordstrom's, Coldwell Banker University, Chico's, and many more.

Ms.Chaouli is a go-to expert for numerous new sources as an image and personal stylist and appears on major TV and radio shows.  She authors articles in international, national and regional magazines, and addresses corporate groups, associations and trade conventions on the impact of appearance on individual and corporate performance.

 Go to http://www.imagetherapists.com for more information about Ms.Chaouli and Image Therapists International

(Re-broadcast from August 2014)

Discover how and why Sacred Sites of Consciousness around the globe can enhance the path of Self-Realization!


Freddy Silva is one of the world's leading researchers on sacred sites, ancient systems of knowledge and the interaction between temples and consciousness.  He is the best selling author of "The Templar Nation" and "The Divine Blueprint".  His first book "Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles", is a critically acclaimed work, published in four languages, providing the only thorough appraisal of this much misunderstood phenomenon. 


He has also directed several documentaries, including Stairways To Heaven: The Practical Magic Of Sacred Space; Templemaking; and In The Footsteps Of Isis.  He has lectured worldwide for over a decade, with keynote appearances at the International Science of Consciousness Conference, the International Society for The Study of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine, and the Association for Research and Enlightenment, in addition to appearances on Discovery Channel, BBC, and radio shows such as Coast to Coast.


Described by the CEO of Univesral Light Expo as "perhaps the best metaphysical speaker in the world right now."  He leads tours in Britain, France, Malta, Peru and Egypt.  You can learn more about his work at:  http://www.invisibletemple.com

Listen in as Polina shares her own story about how she has worked with depression and challenges in her own life to create a life where she aligned with her values and heart, and how you can start to unravel what is in your way..   

Polina Smith is a Coach, Artist, Performer, Holistic Health Counselor and Entrepreneur.  She created Dreamcatcher Coaching to help guide and support people to live the life of their dreams. She has gone through over a decade of exploration in personal growth, spirituality, community services, art and alternative medicine.  

She is currently involved in the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, produces the Holistic Health Saloon, runs Whole Body Transformations (a Holistic Health Coaching and Training practice), has co-hosted and co-created Literary Foolery (a bi-monthly comedy and circus show) and recently directed In My Mothers Name, an original theater production that won The Best of Fringe award at the 2014 San Francisco Fringe Festival. You can learn about Polina's Dream Catcher Coaching services at:  www.dreamcatchercoaching.org

Re-broadcast from June 2014

Join Chevalisa and Lena for an illuminating conversation on attachment styles, neuroplasticity, and the "ten commandments" that can help you revive and thrive in your romantic relationships! 

By understanding how our wiring shapes the way we bond, we create the possibility for growth. Literally. Brains are plastic. By developing a new awareness, moment by moment, and by learning to adopt new attitudes and practices, we can literally rewire ourselves, help rewire our partners and most importantly, begin to create a "securely-functioning" relationship that can help you experience much more safety, trust and freedom, and experience your relationship in a whole new way.

Chevalisa Bruzzone, MA MFT, attended CIIS (California Institute of Integral Studies) and has a psychotherapy practice in the South Bay and Santa Cruz. She has extensive training in the mindfulness-based Hakomi method and currently studies with Stan Tatkin (author of Wired for Love, Your Brain on Love, and Love and War in Intimate Relationships), who just won the Teacher of the Year award at the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, California Division.  In addition to seeing clients and teaching couples how to create securely-functioning relationships, she works at Stanford teaching emerging business leaders how to cultivate their emotional intelligence. 

http://www.relationshipecologyinstitute.com/#intro  And to contact Chevalisa directly http://www.facebook.com/ChevalisaBruzzonePsychotherapy

(Re-broadcast from August 2014)

Join us in this rich conversation as Surja will explain ways in which we can work with and transform subconscious beliefs and patterns that no longer serve us.

Surja Jessup has had a thriving private practice in the Berkeley, California for over 25 years where she provides Body/Mind Transformation counseling which combines Hypnotherapy, Counseling, Acupressure and healing body work to help clients release pain, stress and trauma, and experience the natural joy and aliveness of the authentic self. Surja has an M.S. in Health Education from Northeastern Univeristy, and also studied at JFK University's School of Consciousness Studies.  She has completed certifications in Alchemical Hypnotherapy, Guided Imagery, Ericksonian Hyponotherapy, Heart Centered Hypnotherapy and DeHypnotherapy (Living Essence).  She is also certified in Acupressure, and for several years she taught certificate programs in Hypnotherapy and Bodywork at holistic schools for Mind-Body Wellness in several states.

Surja also offers an integrated process she calls Holistic Counseling into her Body/Mind practice, which combines Spiritual Inquiry with Mindfulness Meditation facilitation and Hypnotherapy.   She periodically teaches workshops called Awakening to Presence.  You can learn more about Surja's work at:  http://www.surja.com

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Listen in to get helpful tools and perspectives to support a shift in your relationship to money, goals and intentions. Learn how specificity can magnify your results and help connect you to your dreams & values, how to work with uncovering money beliefs, her 50/50 rule for taking action on desires, and more!

Joetta Marie Johnson is the Priestess of Finance. She empowers individuals, couples & entrepreneurs to master their mind and their money so they can create a financial future filled with success and fulfillment. Joetta helps clients actualize their dreams and map the ins and outs of money to be aligned with their intentions and values. The Priestess of Finance supports people in accessing a deeper, inherent wisdom to make clear, confident & courageous decisions with money.  She has extensive education and experience in personal and entrepreneurial finance as an auditor, controller and financial analyst and is known as the Queen of Budgeting. She primarily works one-on-one with clients, but on occasion offers specialized money programs.

Website:  http://www.priestessoffinance.com

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Listen in to the conversation with Lori Swick as we discuss her book:  Dreaming - The Sacred Art Incubating, Navigating & Interpreting Sacred Dreams for Spiritual & Personal Growth and discover how to "awaken to the wonders of your Dreamself, and energize your Spiritual potential for self-understanding and self-healing."

Lori Joan Swick holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Women's Spirituality from California Institute of Integral Studies.  

She has earned a Master's Degree in Theology from the University of Notre Dame with distinctive honors and a Bachelor's Degree in Religion and Writing from St. Edward's University with valedictory honors.

She is author of two books; Comfort and Mirth and Dreaming ~ The Sacred Art.  Aside from writing and instructing retreats and  seminars, she is  an adjunct professor in Religion and Mythology at St. Edward's  University in Austin.   She is also a published  poet and an award-winning essayist.

You can learn more about Lori Joan Swick, Ph.D at:  http://loriswick.com