It takes work and commitment to recondition ourselves from the paradigm of thinking our choices to feeling our choices and to live alive that feels reaaly really good. In this episode you will learn:

• How to awaken aliveness in your body
• Why it is important to awaken it for your life and for the collective
• What is the new way of living on this New Earth we are creating

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A short transmission from Maria about how to love yourself and the perfection that you are as you are. And a glimpse into Maria's process of personal awakening and surrender into the pain to experience divinity and aliveness.

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More and more people are realizing that the individualistic paradigm is not something we, humans, are made for. There is a wider spread of population deciding to live in communities and develop personal networks for interdependent support. Join Maria in this episode as she shares her own journey in healing the wound of rugged individualism and leaning into communal support. 

In this episode you will learn:

• How our internalized notions of meritocracy and individualism work against our biology and psychology
• Why it is important to look at and change social, governmental, and other structures in order to have a thriving human population
• What makes us mature based on our biology and physiology is not what you think it is
• Why we were never meant to do this life alone and examples of living interdependently

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In this episode we discuss assumptions, unspoken agreements, and conditioning that we have about intimacy and relationships and how being unaware of them leads to dissatisfaction. 

In this episode you will learn:

• How your conditioning may be preventing you from experiencing intimacy
• Why you want to uncouple your conditioning from your needs and create fulfillment in your relationships 
• What to do to actually create intimacy in your relationships 

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For centuries we have been robbed of the relationship and the experience of our creative life force - our sexual energy. Join Maria as she explores the history of oppression of sexuality through time and navigates the way in which we have been conditioned to leave our life force behind. 

In this episode you will learn:

• How older pre-patriarchal societies worshiped the feminine and the aspects of her sexuality 
• How sexual life force is connected to power and the experience of God in your body
• Why shame is preventing you from your authentic self-expression
• What to do to reclaim your creative life force and why is important

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Your body is your temple. We have all heard this yet most of us do not really treat our bodies in this sacred way. In the patriarchal paradigm we are living in, the body is viewed as a thing to be controlled. This relationship to the body is causing and related to a lot of problems we face today including mental and physical illness, social injustices, and environmental crisis. 

Join Maria as she explores the path to return into our bodies. 

In this episode you will learn:

• The history behind the current relationship to our bodies
• What this relationship is costing us
• What you will gain by reconnecting back to your body
• Why reconnecting to our bodies is crucial to healing your life and the planet

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The Feminine energetic is in the process of re-awakening. This means the uplifting of not only the women but the feminine frequency within us all. Join Maria in this episode as she discusses her awakening journey. The difficult childhood, numbing with substances, dancing in a strip club, corporate career, the path of inner work to finding herself through embodiment and feminine spirituality. 

Maria Tolstykh is the founder, coach, and a priestess at the Pleasure Temple where she helps women reconnect to the wisdom of their bodies, embody their sexual life-force, and claim their PLEASURE.

Before starting her quest in helping women heal the relationship with their bodies and sexuality, she was supporting corporate leaders in creating healthy and inspiring work environments. Maria holds a BA and MS in psychology, and has 15 years of experience studying and teaching different spiritual traditions, somatic practices, yoga, meditation, and dance. 

Maria’s vision is a world where women stand in their feminine power, live in freedom and joy, and work together to create a new world where the feminine is honored and thrives. 

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