Hello friends!

Today I’m sharing a conversation with my beloved teacher, Nacho Arimany, a master ethnic percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and composer whose music career began at age six as a classical piano student and singer with the Spanish National Choir and Orchestra. He possesses a highly unique blend of talents and diverse capabilities as a producer, performer, and musician for the brain.

Nacho is the creator of The Arimany Method, a vocal, movement, and breath technique that promotes peak performance of the brain by releasing the authentic voice of the individual, creating a new electromagnetic field and a clear and focused and energized empowered mind.

In this conversation, we discuss my personal process learning the Arimany Method, Nacho’s professional background and ancestral history that led him to support the liberation of women’s voices, and so much more including:

* How trauma numbs your body and judgement pulls you into your mind…both result in shutting down the voice.

* Why your identity and ego are not bad, they are simply responses developed to make you feel safe, but they are also not your authentic voice.

* How our authentic voice is connected to peak performance and our true purpose.

* There is no mystery to mastery. Mastery is the consistency, love, devotion and courage to persist.

* Consciousness is to have perspective. Perspective loosens attachment. Ancient culture cosmologies offer these perspectives.

* How The Arimany Method hacks anxiety and entrains the brain with a rhythm of five establishes the golden ration and a harmonic path of balance and evolution.

* Consistency in any spiritual practice creates trust and safety, and that is the foundation to empowerment.

Get in touch with Nacho

Nacho offers 1:1 sessions in person in Topanga Canyon, and online. The best way to book session is by e-mailing [email protected]. You can follow Nacho on Instagram here.

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Prepare to enter deep feminine consciousness in this womb healing meditation!

The womb is a radical voice of authenticity that cuts through b******t, people-pleasing, and shame and leads us back to our creativity, freedom, and innocence.

The womb is the center of deep feminine consciousness. Every human on earth has a womb memory. Even if you’ve had a hysterectomy, the intelligence of this energy remains.

Male bodies also have this center of knowing. It’s called hara, a Japanese word that refers to the physical and spiritual center of the body, located in the lower abdomen. Hara is the ultimate center of chi, your life force, the energy that flows through you and through everything. This is the power of your womb.

Womb healing is liberation

⁣Most of us spend our lives hiding our true power, radiance, and vitality. We get a taste of it and it scares us, so we turn away and shrink into the limiting beliefs that are constricting but ultimately, comfortable and familiar.⁣⁣⁣⁣No matter how hard we try, we cannot think our way to awakening.⁣ ⁣You have to feel it. We can not think our way into new ways of being because we can not heal what we can not feel. This is the path of embodied wisdom.

If we want to have a direct experience of our vibrancy, our aliveness, our divinity, we have to descend into the womb; the seat of our soul, where our power and magic come alive, where we return home to ourselves.⁣⁣

The womb is also where we store our grief and hurt and all the wounds that keep us fragmented. It can function like an emotional junk-drawer, filled with energetic imprints of past relationships, lovers, emotional memories, and trauma. We can feel deep grief and shame that somehow we allowed this to happen to us, or were powerless to stop it. Imprints can stay buried in our subconscious, creating energetic blocks in our womb space, which we can experience as inauthenticity and self-doubt. ⁣⁣

These deep feminine wounds need great tenderness and gentleness, not judgement. We can learn to hold our younger self, who may have lacked discernment, often rooted in the loss of feminine initiations in our culture and the lack of teachings about self-love.

“Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.”

-Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Brilliant ideas, awareness, and meaningfulness can flow in through our wounds.

Our erotic wounds are creative clues. They can lead us to our deepest shadows and bring them to the light.

Womb healing can heal ancestral patterning as every egg in your ovaries were present when you were in your mother’s womb, and the egg of you was present in your grandmother’s womb.

Self-healing is remembering. We can safely and gently clear our womb when we create the intention to connect with ourselves and our knowing. From here, we can plant a creative seed in the fertile black velvet void of our womb and experience co-create our reality. This is the magic of life.

Plant a seed of a creative desire 

The patterns of creative flow that arise from the womb are the most powerful energy rhythms for building and sustaining a woman’s creative life and dreams.⁣⁣ Though we may listen to her in regard to birthing babies, we ought to be listening in terms of our whole creative lives.

Consider how you are presently using your feminine energy to create or sustain aspects of your life. Is this how you want to be using your creative essence? 

Is there anything else that calls to you?

Are you nourishing yourself as part of your creative process?

When we clear our womb space, the fire of our soul begins to burn un-interrupted, and we are then able to live from our unique essence, effortlessly creating from a place of power.⁣ 

Suggestions for getting the most out of this meditation experience: 

* Use headphones.

* Find a quiet space and remove any distractions so you can totally drop in.

* Sit comfortably or lay down on your back.

* Be cozy and wear socks. Warm feet = warm womb.

* Journal and drink a glass of water when you finish. 🕊

Want more womb wisdom?

This meditation is a gift and invitation for you to begin this work of embodied self-liberation and healing. If you want support and are curious about going deeper, connect with me.

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With so much love, 

Christina

 Calm your mind, deepen your breath, and open your heart in this live virtual 30 minute guided meditation class. 

I offer a bespoke high-touch 1:1 coaching containers for ambitious, heart-led women to translate their innate feminine power into actionable results.

Women I have worked with have aligned with their purpose, up-leveled their businesses, gotten promotions and raises, reclaimed their inner artist, deepened their spirituality, healed from burnout, attracted an ideal partner, prepared for motherhood, cultivated fierce self-love and so much more. 

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“Working with Christina has equipped me with practical tools that continue to increase my awareness in my moment to moment life. By connecting more deeply to my own physical body as an instrument of wisdom, I have been able to tell myself the truth, identify and live into my values, and reach personal and career goals. I’ll forever be grateful for the awakening received in session with Christina!”

- Kaylee Plaut, VP Machine Metrics

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Dear one,

I’m wishing winter solstice blessings of stillness, endings and beginnings, rest and rebirth, and an honoring of both the light and the dark to each of you.

In this meditation practice I’m sharing a blessing by the late John O’donohue. May this meditation and invitation to rest meet you wherever you are today.

For one who is exhausted

When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic,Time takes on the strain until it breaks;Then all the unattended stress falls inOn the mind like an endless, increasing weight.

The light in the mind becomes dim.Things you could take in your stride beforeNow become laborsome events of will.

Weariness invades your spirit.Gravity begins falling inside you,Dragging down every bone.

The tide you never valued has gone out.And you are marooned on unsure ground.Something within you has closed down;And you cannot push yourself back to life.

You have been forced to enter empty time.The desire that drove you has relinquished.There is nothing else to do now but restAnd patiently learn to receive the selfYou have forsaken in the race of days.

At first your thinking will darkenAnd sadness take over like listless weather.The flow of unwept tears will frighten you.

You have traveled too fast over false ground;Now your soul has come to take you back.

Take refuge in your senses, open upTo all the small miracles you rushed through.

Become inclined to watch the way of rainWhen it falls slow and free.

Imitate the habit of twilight,Taking time to open the well of colorThat fostered the brightness of day.

Draw alongside the silence of stoneUntil its calmness can claim you.Be excessively gentle with yourself.

Stay clear of those vexed in spirit.Learn to linger around someone of easeWho feels they have all the time in the world.

Gradually, you will return to yourself,Having learned a new respect for your heartAnd the joy that dwells far within slow time.

“For One Who Is Exhausted, a Blessing” is an excerpt from To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by the late John O’Donohue.

Thank you, dear one, for listening and reading. If you enjoyed this meditation, I would so appreciate if you would share it.

Thank you for supporting me and my work.

With so much love, 

Christina

I offer a bespoke high-touch 1:1 coaching containers for ambitious, heart-led women to translate their innate feminine power into actionable results.

Women I have worked with have aligned with their purpose, up-leveled their businesses, gotten promotions and raises, reclaimed their inner artist, deepened their spirituality, healed from burnout, attracted an ideal partner, prepared for motherhood, cultivated fierce self-love and so much more. 

My clients include founders, TEDx speakers, business professionals, and creatives, who believe in a world where all women are honored. Apply for a free intro call.

What clients are saying:

Christina is a well-educated and powerful practitioner of feminine healing. Her mastery in the workings of the mind, body and spirit undoubtedly connected me to life in new and exciting ways. Christina's natural wisdom and ability to guide one to rise into their own frequency is a divine gift and inspirational to be around. I drew so much inspiration from integrating not only the well-studied teachings and sacred feminine practices into my life, but in witnessing my own evolution spring from this container. My work with Christina led me into self-discovery, navigating dis-ease in my body, and healing heartache. The outcome was that I learned how I was already a healer within my inherent nature as a woman.

- Amna Haider, Los Angeles

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Hello beauty ~

I am so excited to share my conversation with the lovely and brilliant educator and healer, Mikaela de la Myco. Mikaela is a leader in defining the ethics of sexual healing with psychedelics. She’s facilitated healing for nearly a decade, teaching holistic womb care and championing orgasmic living.

This conversation explores sexual healing arts, the ethics of facilitation, feminine leadership and the wisdom of the circle, healing sexual trauma with psychedelics, and how plant medicine can completely change a person’s life. 

Listen to the whole thing, it just gets better and better! Below is a recap with some topic timestamps.

*Trigger warning: Sexual abuse and related trauma is discussed.

Topic timestamps:

[2:00] Mikaela’s herstory - Navigating a complex intersection of childhood sexual trauma, religious indoctrination, discovering Western tantra, and apprenticing a white “spiritual guru.”

[17:50] The ethics of facilitation, power dynamics, and the grey areas of sexual and psychedelic healing work.

[20:00] Spiritual and energetic clearing with Ayahuasca, getting off hormonal birth control, honoring cyclical living, and harmonizing sexual energy with earth medicine and holistic womb care.

[27:38] What is a safe space to work somatically with sexual trauma and psychedelics?

[34:30] Body sovereignty and why the sacred ho is a virgin.

[35:40] How sexual trauma can impact orgasm; the connection between sexual energy, creativity, currency, and the deities governing the sacred waters of Gaia.

[39:33] How menstrual blood and the waters of the body are a telltale sign of the health of a person.

[42:05] Healing is igniting creativity and building the neural pathways that respond to pleasure and beauty.

[46:33] The connection between the yoni and the throat.

[51:25] Mothers of the earth - soil, pleasure, and the dark feminine to bring back balance. Hathor is w***e - the great water buffalo of the river - and the programming to be turned against the nature of the most sacred.

[56:00] Orgasmic living as practice for orgasmic dying.

[57:35] Addressing womb imbalance; the womb knows how to release and how hormonal birth control shuts off the cycle.

[1:02] Orgasm and honoring menstruation as a sacred act to consciously release impressions we pick up.

[1:06] Nature as an orgasmic world and beckoning balanced peaceful water.

[1:07] Mikaela shares about her offerings 🔥 sign up on www.mysticjasper.com

[1:13] Feminine leadership is collaborative, sitting in circle, and how visibility ensures care in healing circles.

[1:17] Matriarchal care in psychedelic healing.

[1:19] Beautifying and tending to the earth is sacred worship, the work of mothers, minorities, and mushrooms.

Meet Mikaela de la Myco

Mikaela de la Myco comes from a multi-cultural, first-generation Italian, Afro-Caribbean, and indigenous Mexican family who lived in the Los Angeles - unceded Tongva territory.

Her education path has led her down the ways of sacred intimacy work and the temple arts, indigenous Mexican ceremony, womb healing facilitation in the ma'at tradition, all under the care of a colorful variety of teachers and guides.

She now lives in San Diego - occupied Cahuilla and Kumeyaay territory with her family and friends.  In her journey as a mushroom mother, she was called to create virtual and in-person spaces for psychedelic families and birthing people.  

Her primary focus in medicine work is to hold community and small group spaces where people can journey through the dark amenta to uncover their ancestor codes, explore and enjoy the body and heal sexual trauma wounds with mushroom medicine while keeping barriers for entry low.

Connect with Mikaela

* Study with Mikaela: Womb’s of the Empire; Psychedelics & Womb Care Course; Entheomama- 5 week live online course

* Read Mikaela’s article, How I Got Pimped Out by a Spiritual Guru: Identifying Red Flags in the Healing Space

* Follow Mikaela on TikTok and Instagram

* Visit Mikaela’s website

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Dear one,

Welcome to this meditation practice.

Today I’m sharing a poem by Rumi, the great poet and mystic, and a spiritual ancestor of my Persian heritage. May this meet you wherever you are today.

It’s a profound truth we are all related, spiritually, including humans that have come before us and walked on this earth. Sometimes we feel a strong pull to certain people that have come before us, maybe people that walked the lands of our origins or maybe the lands we live now. Just as we have genetic ancestors, we also have spiritual ancestors. As we continue our spiritual evolution, we may come to know these spiritual ancestors as guides and a strong and beneficial relationship can develop.

I learned this past weekend that Rumi’s beloved spiritual teacher, Shams Tabrizi, died and is buried in the small town my father was born, Khoy, in Western Azerbaijan province of Iran.

I’ll read this poem couple of times through so you have a moment to not only open your ears, but open your heart to this wisdom.

The Guest House

by Rumi

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes

as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,

who violently sweep your house

empty of its furniture,

still, treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out

for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

meet them at the door laughing,

and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.

***

Thank you to Rumi, for your way with words, and for your legacy of love and wisdom.

And thank you, dear one, for listening and reading. If you enjoyed this meditation, I would so appreciate if you would share it.

Thank you for supporting me and my work.

With so much love, 

Christina

I offer a bespoke high-touch 1:1 coaching containers for ambitious, heart-led women to translate their innate feminine power into actionable results.

Women I have worked with have aligned with their purpose, up-leveled their businesses, gotten promotions and raises, reclaimed their inner artist, deepened their spirituality, healed from burnout, attracted an ideal partner, prepared for motherhood, cultivated fierce self-love and so much more. 

My clients include founders, TEDx speakers, business professionals, and creatives, who believe in a world where all women are honored. Apply for a free intro call.

What clients are saying:

Christina is a well-educated and powerful practitioner of feminine healing. Her mastery in the workings of the mind, body and spirit undoubtedly connected me to life in new and exciting ways. Christina's natural wisdom and ability to guide one to rise into their own frequency is a divine gift and inspirational to be around. I drew so much inspiration from integrating not only the well-studied teachings and sacred feminine practices into my life, but in witnessing my own evolution spring from this container. My work with Christina led me into self-discovery, navigating dis-ease in my body, and healing heartache. The outcome was that I learned how I was already a healer within my inherent nature as a woman.

- Amna Haider, Los Angeles

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Dear Rebel

Dear Rebel is a piece I wrote about the sacred work of being a woman in the world today. Your gifts are needed, your work is sacred, your path is blessed. Thank you, deeply, for doing your part, dear rebel.

May everyday be women’s day!

With so much love, 

Christina

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Calm your mind, deepen your breath, and open your heart in this live virtual 30 minute guided meditation class. 

Join our next virtual women’s circle. This is a heart opening, stress-reducing experience for women centered on self-care, self-love, and mindfulness. 

I offer a bespoke high-touch 1:1 coaching containers for ambitious, heart-led women to translate their innate feminine power into actionable results.

Women I have worked with have aligned with their purpose, up-leveled their businesses, gotten promotions and raises, reclaimed their inner artist, deepened their spirituality, healed from burnout, attracted an ideal partner, prepared for motherhood, cultivated fierce self-love and so much more. 

My clients include founders, business professionals, and creatives, who believe in a world where all women are empowered and honored.

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Christina is an incredible source of wisdom, calm, and strength. She listens beyond just your words to what’s in your heart and tailors each session to your specific needs at that point in time. Through counseling, breath-work, and meditation, Christina helped me tap into confidence and trust in myself that I didn’t know I had.

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Dear friends,

Happy love day, in all forms. Today I’m sharing Metta meditation practice. Metta is generally translated as “loving-kindness.” It’s a technique for evoking a boundless warm-hearted feeling and our innate human qualities of loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity... what the Buddha called the four heavenly abodes, or your “best home.”

Expressing these qualities can make you feel more at home in yourself.

Everyone has these qualities. You don’t need to learn them, you just just need to remember them, and dust them off regularly to stay in touch with your intrinsic goodness.

If you enjoyed this practice and wish to spread the essence of loving-kindness... share this meditation and be a healing force in this world.

With so much love, 

Christina

The Antidote offers donation-based virtual community events to support healing, self-reflection, and connection. Our classes and workshops bring women together to spread feminine wisdom and well-being.

Calm your mind, deepen your breath, and open your heart in this live virtual 30 minute guided meditation class. 

Join our next virtual women’s circle. This is a heart opening, stress-reducing experience for women centered on self-care, self-love, and mindfulness. 

I offer a bespoke high-touch 1:1 coaching containers for ambitious, heart-led women to translate their innate feminine power into actionable results.

Women I have worked with have aligned with their purpose, up-leveled their businesses, gotten promotions and raises, reclaimed their inner artist, deepened their spirituality, healed from burnout, attracted an ideal partner, prepared for motherhood, cultivated fierce self-love and so much more. 

My clients include founders, business professionals, and creatives, who believe in a world where all women are empowered and honored.

What clients are saying:

“Sessions with Christina opened up possibilities I never knew existed. I feel like the woman I was always meant to be, not the woman I thought I was. I'd recommend anyone wanting to gain a deeper understanding of themselves, or to prepare for change, or suddenly having to face change, good or bad, to see Christina."

- Summer Kellogg, Photographer and new mother

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Dear friends,

In this audio recording I share the powerful prayer-poem by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, “How to Silence a Woman, Retrieving Her Voice.”

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes is known around the world for her incredible work as an American poet, psychoanalyst, post-trauma specialist, a lifelong activist in service of the voiceless, and a journalist covering stories of human suffering and hope.

This prayer-poem has been put forth at the United Nations, and presented during a tribal women’s coalition in South Africa, as well as carried into session at the parliament in the Netherlands, and given before U.S. Congressional hearings on welfare reform in the 1990s.

Please enjoy and share this blessing of straight vision and strength with the women in your life.

With so much love, 

Christina

The Antidote offers donation-based virtual community events to support healing, self-reflection, and connection. Our classes and workshops bring women together to spread feminine wisdom and well-being.

Calm your mind, deepen your breath, and open your heart in this live virtual 30 minute guided meditation class. 

Join our next virtual women’s circle. This is a heart opening, stress-reducing experience for women centered on self-care, self-love, and mindfulness. 

I offer a bespoke high-touch 1:1 coaching containers for ambitious, heart-led women to translate their innate feminine power into actionable results.

Women I have worked with have aligned with their purpose, up-leveled their businesses, gotten promotions and raises, reclaimed their inner artist, deepened their spirituality, healed from burnout, attracted an ideal partner, prepared for motherhood, cultivated fierce self-love and so much more. 

My clients include founders, business professionals, and creatives, who believe in a world where all women are empowered and honored.

What clients are saying:

“During my 6 months with Christina, I increased my income by 45%, formed an LLC, moved into a new, spacious apartment, came to peace with a personal health issue, found a new sense of style and confidence, and met a man I really enjoy being around after almost 4 years of shallow off and on dating. Most significantly for me, I became more adept at conflict, decision making, and practicing emotional containment and expression.”

- Emily Marquis, Communication Strategist & Entrepreneur

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