The Amoraea Podcast

What if the patterns you keep repeating in relationships aren’t problems to fix — but invitations to wake up?

In this live in-person episode, Matt sits down with Mandy, a master alchemist, tantra expert, and transformational guide, for a wide-ranging conversation on the unconscious forces that shape how we love, connect, and create.

Mandy brings a rare blend of practical wisdom and esoteric depth — from the Karpman Drama Triangle to tantric philosophy, from shadow work to the esoteric Enneagram — and makes it all surprisingly accessible (and entertaining).

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• The Drama Triangle vs. The Empowerment Triangle — how most people unconsciously play victim, villain, or hero, and how to step into creator, challenger, and coach instead
• What tantra actually is (hint: it’s not what you think) — presence, curiosity, and radical honesty as a path to deeper connection
• Why shadow work isn’t about your dark side — it’s about what you adamantly claim you’d never do
• The difference between caretaking and caregiving, and why confusing the two quietly destroys relationships
• Shame language: how “bad,” “broken,” “wrong,” “not enough,” and “too much” keep you in a victim loop
• The meaninglessness crisis — why humans are losing their myths and how that’s affecting love and intimacy
• Dopamine addiction and how tantra expands your capacity for pleasure instead of narrowing it
• The esoteric Enneagram: a map of the nine stages of creation — and the “Mi-Fa interval” where most people get stuck
• “I have to” vs. “I want to” — the subtle language shift that reclaims your identity as a creator
• If you spot it, you got it — how the narcissist you keep dating might be pointing back at you

Whether you’re deep in your healing journey or just starting to question the stories you’ve inherited, this episode will have you seeing your patterns — and your possibilities — in a whole new light.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Find Mandy here: https://www.mandywitters.com/ 
• Mandy's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mandywitters/ 
• 📖 The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (referenced in discussion of inherited stories)

In this episode of the Amoraea Podcast, Matt sits down with Kadosh — meditation guide, energetic healer, and founder of Kadosh Meditations — for a deep conversation about learning to hear yourself clearly, the power of shadow work, and why most people have been taught to look for answers everywhere except inside themselves.

Kadosh shares his approach to meditation — not as a practice of emptying the mind, but as a tool for getting real, applicable answers from your inner voice. He explains the difference between what you hear from your heart versus your mind, how to distinguish intuition from emotion, and why the thoughts that keep coming up during meditation are usually the exact things you need to deal with — not push away.

The conversation goes wide. Matt and Kadosh explore chakras as a map for emotional healing, what shadow work actually looks like in a session (and why it might be the most powerful inner work available), how trauma shapes and sometimes unlocks gifts, and why the education system was built to pull people outside of themselves rather than toward their own knowing.

They also get personal — Kadosh shares how his own shadow work revealed an unconscious savior pattern that was driving who he attracted in relationships, and Matt reflects on how his Buddhist meditation practice shaped the way he thinks about presence and equanimity.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• How to know if you’re hearing your intuition versus your mind — and a practical technique to test it
• Why the thoughts you can’t get out of your head during meditation are the ones most worth dealing with
• What chakras actually are and how they map to physical, emotional, and relational challenges
• Shadow work: what it is, what it feels like in a session, and why integrating the shadow produces instant, visible transformation
• How unhealed shadows attract the wrong partners — and what to do about it
• Why Kadosh says “being humble doesn’t work as well as being aware”
• The Dragon Ball Z and Avatar analogies that actually explain different paths to enlightenment
• Why real change happens naturally — and why forcing it usually makes things harder
• How the school system was designed to disconnect people from their inner knowing

Whether you’re deep into your spiritual practice or just starting to question what you’ve been taught — this one goes places most conversations don’t.

Connect with Kadosh:
TikTok / Instagram / Threads: @KadoshMeditations
Website: Search “Kadosh Meditations” to find his full platform

Learn more about Amoraea:
Website: www.amoraea.com
Instagram: @amoraeadating

What does sexual compatibility actually come down to? In this episode, Matt of the Amoraea Podcast sits down with Liv, an Austin-based intimacy and sexuality coach, to talk about why communication matters more than matching kinks, how to bring up desires without scaring your partner, and where to turn when your partner can't or won't go there with you.

Liv shares what she learned at an academic conference on BDSM, including the idea that some kinks point to parts of ourselves that are still unresolved. She also explains "safe porting" (giving your partner a heads-up before an edgy conversation), the difference between intimacy coaches, dominatrixes, and tantric practitioners, and why "What do you want?" is a better first step than any technique. Matt and Liv also get into safety and gut instinct, and Austin's conscious-community scene as a place to start exploring.

Amoraea is a matchmaking app that matches people on attachment style and values. Everyone completes a 30-minute interview, so the community is made up of people with relationship skills. Learn more at amoraea.com.

Timestamps

• 00:37 Meet Liv, and why she calls herself an intimacy coach
• 03:35 How compatibility is measured, and why communication wins
• 04:50 The Erotic Blueprint
• 07:21 What BDSM research says about kink
• 12:30 Safe porting: how to start the conversation
• 18:38 When your partner says no: practitioners and what they offer
• 23:40 Breaking out of sexual repression: start with "What do you want?"
• 29:55 Is it safe? Radical responsibility and trusting your gut
• 34:28 Where to find Liv

Mentioned in this episode / Links

• Liv: oliviapavlov.com | Instagram: @livlovetantra
• Amoraea: amoraea.com
• The Erotic Blueprint (framework for how people enter sexual connection)
• Academic conference on BDSM research, Vancouver
• Conscious Intimacy Games
• Austin Conscious Community (Facebook group)

In this episode of the Amoraea Podcast, Matt sits down with Samantha — energetic medium, channeler, and founder of Wake Up Just Be — for a wide-ranging conversation that spans consciousness, authenticity, purpose, and the deeper energetics behind how we show up in dating and relationships.

Samantha shares her unique work as an energetic medium — not channeling beings, but life force energy and nondual states of awareness — and how this transmission helps people reconnect with their true nature and expand consciousness beyond the ordinary human experience. She breaks down the difference between healing and awakening, why enlightenment isn't a destination, and what "embodied awakening" actually means in everyday life.

The conversation gets practical fast. Matt and Samantha explore what it looks like to tell the microscopic truth in your interactions, how to balance strategy and authenticity when meeting someone new, and why the people you attract in dating are often a mirror of your own internal alignment. They also get honest about the different challenges men and women face in dating — from rejection and initiation to energetic openness and the courage to say a direct no.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• What an energetic medium actually does — and how it differs from Reiki or traditional mediumship
• Embodied awakening vs. enlightenment: why the destination model is a trap
• How to reconnect with your authentic self without a medium or plant medicine
• The difference between being kind and being nice — and why directness is actually the more compassionate choice
• Why the people you keep attracting in dating reflect something inside you — and what to do about it
• How to balance authenticity with strategy when you're interested in someone
• The energetics of receiving as a woman — and why clarity and discernment matter more than openness alone
• Values upgrading: how your values don't change, they get refined through experience

Whether you're on a spiritual path, navigating dating, or trying to figure out what you actually want from life — this conversation has something in it for you.

Connect with Samantha:
Instagram: @wakeupjustbe
Website: www.wakeupjustbe.com

Learn more about Amoraea:
Website: www.amoraea.com
Instagram: @amoraeadating

In this episode of the Amoraea Podcast, I sit down with Adi Miral — herbalist, community leader, and someone who has genuinely been through it. Adi's story is one of the most intense I've heard on this show: a devastating 2020 car accident that left him with a traumatic brain injury and titanium plates rebuilding his face, a divorce, homelessness, a violent and dangerous relationship, false allegations that led to his arrest and a potential 40-year sentence — and how he came out the other side of all of it.

We talk about how Adi's Ayurvedic roots (his grandfather practiced in India) pulled him toward functional herbs and mushrooms — think lion's mane, Gotu Kola, and Ginkgo Biloba — as he worked to rebuild his brain and body after his accident, and how that knowledge turned into teaching, then into a full community. What started as five people in a small room has grown into a 100+ person herbalism community doing plant walks, tincture workshops, compost sifting, and DIY body care classes (yes, we get into what's actually in a good toothpaste).

We also get into his four-stage framework for personal growth — animal, warrior, explorer, navigator — the psilocybin journey that revealed it to him, and how he's turning hardship into a mission of building community and helping others find their way forward.

Along the way, we talk about what Amoraea is really trying to do differently in the dating world, and why real, in-person connection matters more than another swipe.

About Amoraea:
Amoraea is a psychology-forward matchmaking app for people who've done the work — matching based on attachment style, values, conflict style, and compatibility, with a required interview before you're in.

Links & Resources mentioned:

• Amoraea: amoraea.com
• Adi Miral (herbalism community, workshops & events): Instagram @herb_myguy
• The Healing Temple & Healing Vortex (Austin) — where Adi's community events are hosted

In this episode of the Amoraea Podcast, I sit down with Amaya Shiva — sex educator, relationship coach, tantrika, and host of Your Sexual Revolution — for one of the most honest conversations I've had on this show.

We get into why pleasure-based sex matters more than performance-based sex, and why the real key to a great sexual connection isn't the orgasm — it's nervous system calm and presence. Amaya walks through her "containment" practice for dropping into your body before intimacy, how to explore kinks and new experiences without overwhelming yourself or your partner, and why crystal-clear communication about boundaries is one of the sexiest things you can bring to a relationship.

We also dig into some bigger questions I get asked constantly as the founder of a matchmaking app: How should attachment styles factor into who you date? Should anxiously attached people wait to have sex? Is casual sex ever healthy? What's actually going on with polyamory in Austin's conscious community? And why are so many people in "conscious" spaces chronically single?

Amaya doesn't hold back — on nervous system science, on dating multiple people at once, on why "checklists" keep good partners off your radar, and on what it really means to advocate for yourself (as a man or a woman) without losing your confidence or your feminine/masculine polarity in the process.

This one's candid, funny, and genuinely useful if you're navigating dating, attachment wounds, or just want better sex and better relationships.

About Amoraea:
Amoraea is a psychology-forward matchmaking app that matches people based on attachment style, values, and compatibility — grounded in research from the Gottman Institute and others. It's exclusive to people who've done the work, with a required interview before you can join.

Links mentioned:

• Amoraea: amoraea.com
• Amaya Shiva (work with her / book a consult): amayashiva.com
• Amaya Shiva on Instagram & Facebook: @AmayaShiva

On this episode of the Amoraea Podcast, Matt sits down with Dawei, founder of FuKrew, to talk about Push Hands (Tui Shou) — an ancient partner practice rooted in Tai Chi that blends martial sensitivity training with modern energetic and quantum healing concepts.

Dawei breaks down what Push Hands actually looks like in practice, why softness and balance beat brute force, and how the practice retrains the nervous system to respond to pressure — physical, mental, or emotional — instead of tensing up and reacting on autopilot. He and Matt dig into:

• What Push Hands is and the different styles/approaches within it
• How posture, alignment, and body awareness shape everything from how we walk to how we handle stress
• Why Push Hands can surface emotional releases, not just physical ones
• The role of consensual touch and safe, vetted community spaces — especially for women
• How this kind of embodied practice connects to compatibility and attraction beyond a checklist of "wants"
• Dawei's new layer on top of traditional Push Hands: group energetic/quantum healing concepts
• How FuKrew is building an accessible, drop-in style community across Austin

Whether you're curious about somatic practices, nervous system regulation, martial arts, or just want a new way to connect with people in real life, this conversation offers a grounded (and pretty fun) entry point.

Find FuKrew:
Website: FuKrew.com
Classes currently meet Tuesdays at 5PM and Thursdays at 8:15AM at Casa de Luz in Austin, TX, with more locations coming soon.

About Amoraea:
Amoraea is a psychology-forward dating app that matches people based on attachment style and values — exclusively for people who've done the work. A 30-minute interview is required to join.

Is your Enneagram type connected to your soul?

In Part 2, the conversation moves from psychology into spirituality — exploring the “Soul Child,” ego formation, attachment styles, and whether love can ever be engineered by an algorithm.

Stephanie explains the deeper spiritual dimension of the Enneagram, including integration lines, sacred geometry, and why growth involves reclaiming your lost essence — not becoming a different type.

I then bridge the theory into practice:
 Can Human Design composite charts predict attraction?
 Should secure attachment styles date anxious partners?
 Can a dating app measure compatibility without killing chemistry?

This episode explores the tension between fate and data — between spiritual growth and statistical matching.

Topics include:

• The Enneagram “Soul Child” explained
• Integration vs disintegration lines
• Sacred geometry of the Enneagram
• Reincarnation and personality continuity (theoretical discussion)
• Attachment styles vs Enneagram health
• Secure vs anxious dynamics in dating
• Human Design composite charts and compatibility
• Instinct stacking (self-preservation, social, sexual)
• The limits of algorithms in predicting love

If you’re interested in conscious relationships, personal growth, and the future of typology-based matchmaking, this is where philosophy meets technology.

Amoraea – Typology-Based Dating App
 👉 https://www.amoraea.com

Stephanie Davis – Omics Framework
 👉 https://omics.com

Contact Stephanie
 📩 [email protected]

Can the Enneagram actually predict relationship success?

In Part 1 of this deep-dive conversation, I sit down with Stephanie Davis, an Enneagram teacher with over 36 years of experience, to explore what the Enneagram really reveals about compatibility, attraction, and long-term growth.

Is there a “best type” for you to marry?
 Are some Enneagram pairings doomed?
 Does trauma create your type — or are you born with it?

Stephanie explains why the Enneagram is not just a personality system — but a psychospiritual map of ego development. They unpack why health level matters more than type, how misunderstanding your partner creates unnecessary conflict, and why awareness is the real compatibility advantage.

If you're building a conscious relationship — or designing a dating app based on typology — this episode lays the psychological foundation.

Topics include:

• Enneagram compatibility myths
• Levels of health vs personality type
• Trauma vs destiny in type formation
• Object relations (attachment, frustration, rejection types)
• Why awareness reduces relationship conflict
• Growth relationships vs “easy” relationships

This conversation reframes the Enneagram as a tool for transformation — not labeling.

🔗 Links Mentioned

Amoraea (Typology-Based Dating App)
 👉 https://www.amoraea.com

Stephanie Davis – Omics Framework
 👉 https://omics.com

Contact Stephanie
 📩 [email protected]

In this episode of the Amoraea Podcast, I sit down with women’s dating coach and somatic facilitator Lauren Salon to explore the real truth about masculine and feminine energy in modern relationships.

Why are so many successful women struggling in dating?

Is the “boss babe” mentality empowering… or sabotaging polarity?

Are men becoming too feminine — and women too masculine?

Lauren breaks down how hyper-independence, trauma, hustle culture, and subconscious programming affect attraction, emotional safety, and long-term partnership.

You’ll learn:

• The psychology behind hyper-independence
 • How masculine and feminine energy actually work
 • Why success narrows your dating pool
 • What high-value women truly seek in men
 • The difference between feminine leadership and masculine leadership
 • Why acknowledgment fuels masculine drive
 • How entitlement and OnlyFans culture impact dating dynamics
 • Simple practices to reconnect to your body and feminine presence

This episode goes beyond surface-level dating advice and dives into polarity, nervous system healing, emotional safety, and personal responsibility in modern relationships.

If you’re building your career, navigating dating as a successful woman, or trying to understand masculine-feminine dynamics more deeply — this conversation will challenge and clarify a lot.

🔗 Connect with Lauren Salon
 Instagram & TikTok: @laurensalaun
 Website: laurensalaun.com
 Podcast: Amplify with Lauren

For a typology based dating app, visit www.amoraea.com