Christian Van Camp is the co-founder of Bioculture and Maestro Valley, and lives and breathes what he preaches. He's all about primal living - integrating as much of your life as possible around nature - and this episode is packed with the kind of practical, grounded wisdom that makes you want to immediately go outside, eat a raw egg and throw your LED bulbs in the bin.

We get into what primal living actually means and how to integrate it even if you live in a city, why Christian prefers the word bioharmonizing over biohacking and what that distinction actually means, the power of the words we speak and how they're literally casting spells on our lives, circadian rhythm and why your LED lights might be quietly wrecking your nervous system, the connection between creativity and sexual life force energy, why shifting from consumption to creation might be the most important thing you can do right now, and what spirituality actually means through a primal lens - spoiler, it's a lot more grounded and a lot less airy fairy than you might think.

Christian also shares the story of how Bioculture and Maestro Valley came to be, what kind of people come to their retreats, and the beautiful love story of how he met his partner Luana through it all.

This one is warm, wild, funny and genuinely full of gold. 

Find Christian on Instagram and at Maestro Valley.

Sedona is a yoga teacher, retreat facilitator and now a brand new mama - and her story is one of the most beautifully layered I've heard. From flatlining in second grade, to a decade in the fitness world chasing the Gymshark dream, to selling everything, packing a suitcase and moving to Mexico with her dog and zero plans - she has lived a lot of lives to get to this one.

We get into what it actually means to come out of your masculine and back into your feminine, why allowing yourself to feel is the most powerful compass you have, the spectrum of pain and love and why one expands the other, what it was like to give birth at home with no doctors and no medical intervention - treating the entire nine months as one long ceremony - and why childbirth might be the most profound spiritual experience a woman can have even if she doesn't have the language for it yet.

We also talk about intuition and how to actually access it, following the invisible thread even when it makes zero sense, the guilt that comes with new motherhood and a new identity, and why the things that don't make sense almost always make the most sense looking back.
This one is warm, raw, deeply feminine and genuinely medicine.

Find Sedona on Instagram @soulful.sedona and at Maestro Valley Retreat.

This episode touches on natural unmedicated birth and personal health decisions. Always consult with qualified medical professionals for guidance around pregnancy, birth and postpartum care.

This episode is a wild ride and I genuinely learned so much. I've been naturally leaning into so many of these practices over the past while - warm drinks, steamed veggies, no more cold smoothies - without any real education behind it. So getting to sit down with Key, an expert in both Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, felt like such a divine download of validation and knowledge all at once.

Key's own path here is wild. A 14 foot fall during his time in the military that he fully accepted death through, years of numbing out through drugs, a sobriety journey that led him to feel everything he'd suppressed his whole life, and an ayahuasca ceremony where he pulled an oracle card that said "healer" and knew instantly that was his path.

We get into the fundamentals of yin and yang, the five element theory, why Chinese medicine treats the whole person rather than the disease, what your tongue and your eyes can reveal about your organs, moxibustion and why it's considered equal to acupuncture in China, the Chinese medicine organ clock, why eating late at night is wrecking your sleep and your liver, glucose spikes and why dessert should come after your meal not before, spleen qi deficiency (more common than you'd think), Ayurvedic self-massage and sensory rituals, and why going inward - through stillness, dark rooms, or simply sitting with discomfort - might be the most powerful medicine there is.

This one is packed with practical, simple shifts you can start making today, alongside some genuinely profound wisdom on healing, emotions and finding out who you actually are underneath all the conditioning.

Find and connect with Key here on IG:
https://www.instagram.com/holisticuniversity/?hl=en 

So good. So full. Enjoy this one. 🌿

Recorded live from the deck at Maestro Valley Retreat - so if you hear nature sounds, the odd firework, or someone wandering past, that's just part of the magic of this one.

I met Ava here on retreat and the moment she started talking about what she does, I knew I had to get her on the podcast immediately. Eva is a holistic detox coach who blends mineral balancing, nervous system work, somatics and detoxification - and honestly, this conversation answered questions I didn't even know I had.

Eva's own story starts in childhood - food intolerances, chronic CMV, years of being bedridden, gut issues that never seemed to stop. Like so many of us, she tried every diet, every supplement, before finally discovering detoxification and mineral balancing changed everything for her.

We get into the backpack of rocks analogy (you're going to want to write this one down), terrain theory and why your body isn't broken - it's adapting, what your hair can actually reveal about your mineral levels that blood tests can't, the connection between copper, estrogen dominance and anxiety, why taking iron supplements often makes iron deficiency worse, the truth about polyester, perfume and the microplastics already in your brain and placenta, why certain heavy metal detox trends going around social media can actually be dangerous, and why chronic viral outbreaks like herpes are far more common - and far less scary - than you've been led to believe.

This episode is packed with knowledge bombs from start to finish. If you've ever felt like you're doing everything right and still not feeling your best, this one's for you. 

Find Eva on Instagram @eva.hooft 

If you're curious about exploring detoxification and hair mineral analysis - use this link to start a conversation with Eva and her team: https://app.iclosed.io/e/realignmentmethod/realignment-call-new-elly-miles

This episode is for educational and informational purposes only and isn't a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider before making changes to your diet, supplements, or detox practices, or before stopping any prescribed treatment.

Fair warning - this episode is as fun as it is deep. Patrick Guiney is one of those people that makes you laugh without even trying, and somehow also says things that stop you in your tracks. He's been one of my favourite humans in Santa Teresa since the moment I met him outside a coffee shop, and I'm so glad we finally sat down to record this.

Patrick grew up in Dublin, built a career in corporate tech, got married, ticked all the boxes - and still felt like something was deeply off. It wasn't until his ten year marriage ended and he made the terrifying decision to leave his nine to five that things started to shift. And then somehow, a one way ticket to Costa Rica later, he accidentally built one of the most beautiful community platforms I've seen - Nomads - which now has 500 members and 50 events across Santa Teresa.

We talk about what it actually feels like to live in the middle - that limbo phase where you've got everything on paper but nothing feels right - and what it took for Patrick to finally start listening to himself. We get into people pleasing, therapy, journaling, the law of attraction, how the universe literally played the theme song of his podcast through a speaker at the beach to let him know he was on the right path, and why he named his podcast Saturdays - because Saturday was the one day the real Patrick was allowed to show up.

This one's warm, funny, honest and full of those little nuggets that land when you need them most. 

Go find Patrick and Saturdays.

https://www.instagram.com/patrickguiney1?igsh=b3lpczA0M2RzbDRj

https://open.spotify.com/show/4Pn7YeLBdmYlXVAGTmPrTL?si=b41a8092b6b34df7

This is the self-worth episode. And I'm not talking about affirmations in the mirror or surface level confidence tips - I'm talking about the real stuff. The patterns you can't unsee once you see them. The clues your life has been giving you all along.

This is a solo episode and it's one I've been sitting with for a while. We're talking about self-worth in the most honest, unfiltered way I know how - by looking at my own story and what my external reality was reflecting back to me for years before I could actually see it.

I share the patterns I couldn't see for years - the situationships, the f*** boys, the binge drinking, the dr*gs, the money I wasted, the way I treated my body, the fake boobs, the $80,000 in debt - and how all of it was just my external reality mirroring back to me exactly where my self-worth was at.

I also walk you through how things actually changed. The checkpoints. The first ayahuasca retreat. The NLP training I signed up for with $9,000 in my bank account and $80k in debt because I got a divine sign I couldn't ignore. The coaches I've invested in. The devotional practices I now live by. And why investing energy - time, money and presence - back into yourself is the thing that changes everything.

This episode is an invitation to get curious. To look at your own life and ask honestly - what is my reality reflecting back to me right now? Because the answers are already there.

Martin is a breathwork instructor, coach, and one of those people who's genuinely lived it. Grew up in a village of 150 people in the Norwegian woods, dropped out of school at 17, ended up in Africa after a weekend trip to Sweden, and somewhere in between discovered that the breath is the most powerful tool we have access to - and it costs absolutely nothing.

But before any of that, Martin hit rock bottom. A heartbreak that almost ended his life. A year of isolation, barely eating, and getting more and more suicidal - until one intense breathwork session alone in his room changed everything. He describes going from the depths of depression to feeling like himself times ten. That was the moment that set everything in motion.

In this episode we get into his journey from that rock bottom to coaching thousands of people, what breathwork actually does to your nervous system and why it's not one-size-fits-all, the law of attraction and how life is constantly giving us feedback, nature as a genuine healer, why talking to yourself like your best friend might be the most underrated mental health tool out there, and what it actually takes to let go of the life - and the people - that no longer fit who you're becoming.

Find Martin here on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breathewithmartin?igsh=bDYwbHk4bGpzcXdh

This is an episode I've been sitting with for a long time - and I'm so glad it's  here.

What if you didn't need an intense plant medicine ceremony or a big life altering event to experience profound growth? What if life itself - every trigger, every pattern, every person you attract - is already doing that work for you, if you know how to look?

That's what this episode is about. The idea that life is a ceremony. And once you start seeing it that way, everything changes.

I take you through how this way of living came into my awareness - through ayahuasca, through a two-and-a-half-year situationship with someone who couldn't commit, and eventually through a music festival in the mud where a total stranger helped me break through one of my biggest edges. I talk about what it actually means to use life as your teacher - how to notice what you're attracting, why you're attracting it, what your triggers are trying to tell you, and how to get curious instead of reactive.

I also walk you through the life as a game analogy that I come back to again and again - the levels, the clues, the controller you didn't know you were holding - and how to start actually playing with intention instead of flailing around with a blindfold on, trying to figure things out. 

This is how I do the inner work. This is how things started materialising faster than I ever thought possible. And this is how you can start too.

If you've been around here for a while, you know I don't do surface-level conversations. And this one with Graham? Absolutely no exception.

Graham is genuinely one of my favourite humans in Santa Teresa - the vibiest man I know, and somehow always the best dressed person in the room. But beyond the pink linen and pearls is someone who has done serious work on himself, and this conversation is a beautiful reflection of that.

Graham opens up about his journey with addiction - from smoking weed at 12 to fit in, through years of hard drugs, all the way to an intervention at 33 and three and a half years of sobriety. He talks about what it actually felt like to wake up in rehab and think this is exactly what I needed, how substances were quietly keeping him disconnected from himself and everyone around him, and what the word self-loathing really means when you're too happy-go-lucky to even realise it's happening.

We also get into the spiritual side of sobriety, the five realms of health, what it means to stay neutral rather than just chasing happiness, and the core wound that came up for Graham during an NLP and ECT session we did together - I'm good enough - and what's shifted for him since.

This one isn't just for people in recovery. It's for anyone who's ever used something - a drink, a relationship, a scroll through their phone - to avoid feeling what's actually there. It's a gentle, honest, and genuinely beautiful conversation about coming home to yourself.

Find Graham on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/la.pantera.rosa.real?igsh=MzJrMm9uenR1OHN1

I met Anna on a sweaty beach club dance floor in Santa Teresa, and I knew immediately she was my kind of person. We bumped into each other again at the gym, grabbed a smoothie, and honestly - the rest is history. Our convos are always deep, always real, and this one is no different.

Anna had it all on paper. A thriving wedding photography business with international clients, a marriage, a dream apartment, a life that looked incredible from the outside. And yet, something was off. That little niggle beneath the surface that whispered there's more - she kept trying to bury it. Until she couldn't anymore.

In this episode, Anna shares the raw, honest story of walking away from her marriage, her business, and the life everyone expected her to live - and jumping into full-time solo travel with no plan, no end date, and a whole lot of faith. What followed was one of the most profound journeys of self-discovery, healing, and learning to actually be with herself.

We get into: the moment she hit rock bottom, the self-destructive patterns she used to cope, how a random Brazilian man in a foreign country accidentally cracked her open, healing her eating disorder through solo travel, the power of sisterhood, and why being alone might be the greatest gift you ever give yourself.

We also talk about how to read the clues your life is giving you, how your triggers and patterns are always trying to tell you something, and what it actually looks like to lean into fear instead of running from it.
This one's for anyone who's living a life that looks great on paper but feels a little hollow on the inside. The invisible thread is real, sis - and it's always leading you somewhere worth going. 

Find Anna on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/goingannawhere/