Sage Conversations

Picking up right where we left off in the last episode, we look into more situations that provide us with opportunities to realize what kind of life we really want to create for ourselves. These are situations that all of us may have experienced, or are currently experiencing. From validation to hinging on expectations, we dissect how we can turn these situations around so they can help us step into our power. 

Join us this episode in an all new season. Catch us live weekly on Wednesdays at 7pm GMT+8 on Facebook and Kumu app, and stay tuned to weekly episodes, wherever you listen to your podcasts.

@sageconversationspodcast with hosts: @roannamedina @movementsandmyriads

It's only natural for us to want to grow and expand. But how do we identify opportunities that allow us to do so, especially when they're right in front of us. And, how do we fight our fears and step into our own power towards our own breakthroughs and growth? 

Join us this episode in an all new season. Catch us live weekly on Wednesdays at 7pm GMT+8 on Facebook and Kumu app, and stay tuned to weekly episodes, wherever you listen to your podcasts. 

@sageconversationspodcast with hosts: @roannamedina @movementsandmyriads

We created this podcast to inspire and empower you to rise above whatever challenge life throws at you. After all, challenges and problems are proof of life, and as long as we use the right mindset, and the tools that resonate and align with how uniquely beautiful we all are, we can overcome anything.

We say that with confidence, especially since we’ve learned so much these past 3 seasons, and we just can’t wait to learn more!

We’re only taking a break but, we’ll be back with the same intention, and with new topics and guests as we launch our 4th season on November 9, 2021.

Ria Tirazona of Bigger Body Yoga uses movement and mindfulness based psychotherapy to co-create nourishing spaces that empower others in discovering their personal path to wellness. Join our conversation as we expand the role of community and connection in empowering people to continually show up for themselves and each other, claim their own space and power, breakthrough trauma, and claim their right to feel happy and well.

Tonette Asprer is a Sound Healer, Reiki Master-Teacher, Certified Yoga and Meditation Teacher, and is currently a Mindfulness College Instructor in Lyceum of the Philippines. She graduated from the UP College of Music majoring in percussion and married her passion for music and mindfulness to pioneer novel forms of therapeutic music and co-founded V432Wellness, an online group dedicated to bring empowerment through mindfulness practices.

Michiko shares positive programs she has gained throughout her pregnancy, which she shares to anyone who may want to receive them as well.

We continue the discussion with Michiko Soriano who shares her pregnancy story with us thus far on her 30th week. She shares how this has been an epic “hero’s journey”* - a transformation to motherhood - that has been relatively easy and smooth. On her 26th week, she found that she had developed gestational diabetes after taking her second Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT). Fortunately she simply has to monitor her blood sugar after meals (no insulin needed), she has learned a lot about listening more to her body and what it needs at a given time. Join us in this episode as we talk through pregnancy “cravings” and what it really means when we have them!

* - from Spiritual Pregnancy by Shawn A. Tassone, M.D. and Kathryn M. Landherr, M.D.

Sage Conversations Co-Founder Michiko Soriano rejoins Roanna and Mara for the first time this third season from her hiatus for a two-part episode to share her pregnancy journey and the beliefs and programs she has acquired or released to manifest this (and a smooth one!) in her life. Recognizing that “womanhood” is a common recurring theme in her life - with her passion for women empowerment with her various involvements, there have also been physical and spiritual struggles that she goes through with her being a woman (i.e. intense dysmenorrhea, PCOS, etc). She recalls how she had previously carried fear of not being a mother (which she wanted to be) and also shares the more recent work on herself about having to release the thinking that “life is a struggle.” Wearing her ThetaHealing® practitioner hat, in this episode she also gives positive downloads for those who may want to receive them.

A year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, we are honored to have RJ and Yummy Jalijali, husband and wife and parents to two children who bravely share about their first-hand experience of the said virus (and in the context of the Philippines) as cases continue to rise. Despite being extra precautionary, and with almost their whole household being vaccinated, they were 32 weeks pregnant with their second child when they contracted COVID and Yummy had to go through an emergency C-section. We found their story to be very relevant at a time when there have been doubts and uncertainty about the efficacy of the vaccines, especially also for pregnant and lactating women. With this episode, we keep an honest intention to help others make a decision about this matter and to still stay safe and not be complacent thereafter even with it. 

RJ and Yummy are most grateful for the medical workers who helped them get through this ordeal and for the prayers (and food!) that friends and family have offered them.