Inscape Quest Podcast with Trudi Howley

Join Trudi with Norma J. Burton and Nisha Burton as they explore lucid dreaming—what lucidity is, how to train it, decoding dream symbols and working with nightmares, and integrating psychedelics within a system based in both contemporary and ancient healing practices.

This fascinating Inscape Quest episode offers practical techniques to use with your dreams, including working with a beautiful oracle deck designed by my guests. Learn more about accessible resources for beginners and experienced dreamers who want to explore and bring lucidity into both sleep and waking life. Welcome to the Dreamtime. 

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Norma J. Burton is a pioneering expert in complex trauma healing with over 40 years of counseling experience. She did M.A. and Ph.D. work at Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, and M.Div. at Pacific School of Religion with specializations in Hospice Chaplaincy and Psychology. Her distinguished career began with a decade of leadership in domestic violence advocacy, where she served at the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence headquarters. Norma Burton served as Director of Thich Nhat Hanh's Buddhist Peace Fellowship, bringing contemplative practice into direct service of peace and social engagement. Norma founded and directed The Circle of Trust Healing Center in 2014, a state-certified addiction recovery and mental health facility. Having apprenticed with Indigenous elders for over 30 years, she founded the Journey to Completion™ methodology, praised by professionals from Harvard, MIT, and Columbia Law School. She co-created curriculum for Amsterdam's Synthesis Institute and served on Oregon's Psilocybin Therapy Rules Advisory Committee.

Nisha Burton is a lucid dreaming practitioner, award-winning filmmaker, and emerging technologies consultant. Raised in a shamanic lineage, she grew up traveling the world as a child to study directly with wisdom keepers.  She carries ancestral knowledge of altered states and soul work passed through her Afro-Indigenous lineage and is a certified practitioner in the Journey to Completion™. From an early age, she was steeped in the disciplined art of navigating one's own psyche with skill - above all through staying impeccable by doing the deep, ongoing work of shadow integration. This foundation shapes how she guides others through altered states today. Along with linage based knowing she has also extensively studied Tibetan Dream Yoga, Jungian Dream Analysis, and dream researchers such as Stephen LaBerge. As co-founder of Lucid Living Inc., she delivers Lucid Dreaming workshops globally. Nisha has co-authored three books on consciousness exploration: Navigating Liminal Realms (Findhorn), Lucid Dreaming Lucid Living (Red Wheel/Wieser), and The Psychonaut's Oracle (Schiffer). She speaks internationally on consciousness navigation and AI innovation.

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Welcome to a 12-minute guided imagery that invites you to settle, breathe, and stand on an open threshold of sky. Imagine the ancient ground beneath you and the Four Winds—east, south, west, and north—moving through your mind, heart, and bones.

The practice softens boundaries between you and the world, turning wind into breath and revealing a still point of inner calm. Return to this gentle guidance whenever you need to remember: I am open, I am moving, I am free.

Welcome to Letting Go, a guided meditation that invites you to create a safe, gentle space for yourself through breath, body awareness, and imagery. You’ll be led through slow breathing, a mindful body scan, and a visualization of a field and river where you can set down old burdens and soften into ease.

This practice emphasizes compassionate witnessing over fixing, offering simple tools to begin an ongoing practice of release and renewal. When you’re ready, you’ll be guided back to the room, carrying the calm and openness you cultivated.

Trudi Howley Somatic Psychotherapist

Settle into this guided Yoga Nidra that invites you to set a gentle intention, discover your heartfelt desire, and build an inner refuge. Through body awareness, breath, emotion exploration, and imagery, this short practice leads you into deep relaxation and open presence.

Trudi Howley, Licensed Professional Counselor and trauma specialist is your guide.

Return to your intention and carry the quiet ease and restored awareness with you as you slowly reawaken and move back into your day or sleep. 

Welcome to your brief walking meditation practice. I am here. I have arrived. This moment is enough.

In 7 minutes, explore some ideas to develop your own mindful walking practice, including use of some mantras.

Give yourself the gift of mindful walking meditation.

Trudi Howley Somatic Psychotherapy

Welcome to Threshold, a guided imagery practice that helps you settle into your body, ground into the earth, and release burdens into a gentle river.

This short meditation invites you to place your hand on a warm, glowing door, welcome difficult feelings as teachers, breathe into what arises, and step toward change with openness and courageous surrender.

It can be helpful for beginning medicine journeys.

Painting Credit: Bonnie Bostrom

Trudi Howley Somatic Psychotherapist

Welcome to a short guided loving-kindness visualization designed to open the heart and cultivate compassion. Through gentle breathwork and simple imagery, you are invited to offer kindness to a loved one, a familiar stranger, yourself, and someone who is struggling.

This practice guides you to silently repeat wishes for safety, happiness, health, and ease, helping you return to a warm, connected place and carry that calm onward into your day.

Trudi Howley Somatic Psychotherapy

Welcome to this Progressive Muscle Relaxation. This practice guides you through gently tensing and releasing each muscle group to reduce stress, ease discomfort, and calm anxiety.

Follow the breath, notice the difference between tension and relaxation, and return to this brief exercise anytime you need to restore calm and comfort.

Trudi Howley Somatic Psychotherapist

Welcome, I am so glad you are here.

You've carved out this time for yourself-and that matters. Whatever you day has held, whatever thoughts are still buzzing at the edges of your mind, you can set them down for now. They'll be there if you need them later. But right now, the moment belongs entirely to you.

All I ask you is to receive this gift from

Trudi Howley Somatic Psychotherapist

In this episode  host Trudi Howley talks with Dr. Nicole Roth, a foot and ankle specialist, about the unique foot and ankle risks faced by equestrian athletes. They cover common acute injuries from falls, chronic overuse problems from repetitive riding motions, boot fit and orthotic considerations, recovery strategies, and when to seek immediate medical attention.

Dr. Roth emphasizes prevention, early evaluation, tailored rehabilitation, and balancing medical best practices with riders’ training goals. Practical tips on boot break-in and working with physical therapists are discussed, plus a reminder to address unusual skin findings like melanoma.

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