The Grace Space

In this final episode of Season 4, I share with you a synchronistic -- and recent -- story about two very special crystals of mine that broke on the same day, and the flood of teachings that poured forth from them.

One was repaired with no loss of integrity.

The other had come to the end of its journey and gave up the ghost.

One taught me about wholeness and eternity. The other taught me about breaking from the past and dying into the future.

Both shared their wisdom about breaking open and making even more space to be filled with more energy and light than I thought I could handle.

They showed me I could be cracked and even broken and still be whole and complete.

They reminded me not to wait to dream, and to take the steps I could take NOW to realize the biggest Vision of my life.

They inspired me to open wide the doors to my home, my heart, and my Being to receive infinite grace and blessings pouring to me, through me, out into the world, and to surrender to the natural law of expansion before I was ready.

Listen, and understand.

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The last year has been such a challenge for me. 

Up against my deepest fears and most entrenched limiting beliefs -- by conscious choice -- I've been living where the rubber meets the road.

But this is where we really encounter the Point of Power within ourselves, because we have to.

Today I tell you the story of being brought back against my will to the property I thought we had sold after the deal fell through at the last minute,

Seemingly unable to move forward, find closure, or put something new into motion -- not to mention the absurdity of moving every stick of furniture and box back in the direction from whence it came -- I was initially frustrated, but mostly afraid of the big 'I can't' that welled up in me.

I wanted to run away. From memories, from pain, from responsibilities.

Then I saw that the house was me, and the situation was a metaphor, a mirror teaching me to let go, to open, to dissolve the primal fear of insufficiency from the place of Wholeness within myself.

To stay. Not run away. To trust the Self within the self, and my innate ability to merge with It.

And to discover that the Sacred Intimacy of Wholeness was what I had always longed for... and what we all long for.

It was teaching me to come Home to the Self within myself to know the Wholeness that heals all ills and provides all solutions.

You can do it too. It's our destiny.

Many years ago, galvanized by a powerfully liberating dream during nap time, I spontaneously started an artisanal natural perfumery.

I was an actor. I had never made perfume in my life, or even thought about it.

But within a very short time, a line of seven natural perfumes was birthed, fully formed.

Something was initiated, something was awakened, something began to flower in me that I couldn't comprehend, but I had the sense of destiny about it.

It was all part of some greater unfolding that I couldn't see, but I could feel.

This is the story of an early spiritual initiation, an intuitive journey into the alchemy of subtle essences that prepared me for my own alchemical journey.

As we cannot connect the dots going forward, only looking back, it wasn't until years later that I could appreciate where it was leading me.

It was a gentle teaching about coming into the full flowering of Self, which is always a totally unique expression of our gifts, blossoming to infinity from a point of power within.

And it has served as a gentle reminder that the Source of all beauty, creativity, and sustenance is within.

A reminder that has sustained me as I learn to break myself of dependency on anything but my divine connection to Source, and to trust It completely.

And, no surprise, the story starts, and comes full circle... in France.

Who would you be if you totally trusted Life?

What would you create? 

How would you go about your day, stand, walk and talk?

If you felt autonomous, provided for, and had everything you needed within you, how would that change your outlook?

Our conversation about the ancient practice of Shivambu -- otherwise known as urine therapy -- continues with guests Megan Macdonald and Charlotte Gowdy. 

Today we dive deeper into the vibrational effects of this practice on the subtle aspect of our nature.

The spiritual benefits of taking in your own essence.

Which translates to deeper self-love, self-acceptance, trust, and confidence. 

I don’t know how to account for it – though undoubtedly some day we will be able to – but Shivambu does something wonderful in your energy field.

It makes you fearless.

There’s something woo-woo in there. 

Not to mention all the thousands of known elements that balance your body, mind and emotions from moment to moment.

Didja know Big Pharma and the cosmetics industry know all about your quantum elixir?

And that they’d prefer you NOT to know?

You already ARE everything you’re seeking.

Once you get this, no one will be able to sell you anything.

No one will be able to frighten you into compliance.

Once you really, truly know that everything is within, and FEEL it… you’re remembering the Truth.

Megan Macdonald brings together self-healing methods and a background in the academic study of ritual and belief. She has seen the most profound changes in her own health through two methods in particular: the Self-Healing Dalian Method and Shivambhu or Urine Therapy. She has a PhD in the ‘Performance of Belief’ from Queen Mary, University of London and is a published author. She deals in taboo, exploring the unconscious and teaching the tools that lead to deep health in every aspect of life. In between yoga and knitting, she can be found swimming in the waters off the east coast of Canada.

It was curiosity about her own chronic pain as a teenager that led Megan to investigate over 20 healing modalities. Shivambhu and the Dalian Method are the two most powerful methods she’s found to improve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. These have also led to the biggest shifts in her clients. 

Megan offers her Personal Alchemy course throughout the year – guiding people through Shivambhu practices, daily habits for health, including fasting and cleansing. Since 2014 she has been working with individuals and groups, both in-person and online, to promote well-being, health, and raising consciousness. Megan is passionate about teaching Shivambhu with humour and fun!

To connect with Megan:

Instagram: @expansionhealing

Facebook

Charlotte Gowdy has trained extensively in the realms of sexuality and spirituality, through the lenses of Tantra, Taoism and Kundalini yoga. She is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor and an international teacher of clowning, improvisation and playfulness. She is a published poet, campfire fiddler, cold-water swimmer and a wild-woman who is living her dream life. She splits her time between the French Alps and a sea-side cottage on the East coast of Canada.

Coming out of a wonderful 25-year career as a theatre actor and director, including seasons at Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, and Canadian Stage, Charlotte has had the good fortune of teaching and coaching at colleges and universities across the globe, including in North America, Europe and South America.

As a personal trainer in physical embodiment and spiritual evolution, Charlotte is passionate about helping people connect with their innate power through the conscious activation, cultivation and upward channelling of their creative, life-force energy. Life is a gift. Tout est possible!

To Connect with Charlotte:

Find her on Facebook: @CharlotteGowdy 

Email: [email protected]

*MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: The information provided on the site is for educational purposes only and does not substitute for professional medical advice. Consult a medical professional or healthcare provider if you seek medical advice, diagnoses, or treatment. Claire Lautier, Megan Macdonald, and Charlotte Gowdy are not liable for risks or issues associated with using or acting upon the information in this podcast.*

Imagine that you had access to your own inner pharmacy.

A place that makes everything you need to heal and balance every level of your being -- body, mind, emotions and spirit.

All healing comes from the re-establishment of Divine Order inside your body. We were all created perfect, whole and complete, with a built-in self-healing mechanism available free of charge.

But this goes way beyond the body. 

This healing modality is full-spectrum, quantum and alchemical. It's God-given.

Today in The Grace Space I'm joined by Megan Macdonald, an expert in this form of personal alchemy, as well as Charlotte Gowdy, whom listeners will know from previous episodes, both dedicated practitioners of Shivambu. 

I might add that I, too, am a dedicated practitioner and enthusiast of all things Shivambu, and I can't wait to share Part 1 of this episode with all of you.

Join me in a boundary-pushing, fascinating, and often hilarious conversation where we open the vault of the untold secrets of your own miraculous medicine, how all of us are using it, and how you can too.

Megan Macdonald brings together self-healing methods and a background in the academic study of ritual and belief. She has seen the most profound changes in her own health through two methods in particular: the Self-Healing Dalian Method and Shivambhu or Urine Therapy. She has a PhD in the ‘Performance of Belief’ from Queen Mary, University of London and is a published author. She deals in taboo, exploring the unconscious and teaching the tools that lead to deep health in every aspect of life. In between yoga and knitting, she can be found swimming in the waters off the east coast of Canada.

It was curiosity about her own chronic pain as a teenager that led Megan to investigate over 20 healing modalities. Shivambhu and the Dalian Method are the two most powerful methods she’s found to improve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. These have also led to the biggest shifts in her clients. 

Megan offers her Personal Alchemy course throughout the year – guiding people through Shivambhu practices, daily habits for health, including fasting and cleansing. Since 2014 she has been working with individuals and groups, both in-person and online, to promote well-being, health, and raising consciousness. Megan is passionate about teaching Shivambhu with humour and fun!

Instagram: @expansionhealing

Facebook

*MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: The information provided on the site is for educational purposes only and does not substitute for professional medical advice. Consult a medical professional or healthcare provider if you seek medical advice, diagnoses, or treatment. Claire Lautier, Megan MacDonald, and Charlotte Gowdy are not liable for risks or issues associated with using or acting upon the information in this podcast.*

I remember high school sex ed class.

It consisted of some anatomical drawings of male and female parts and how they fit together to propagate the human species.

It was dry and scientific, served with a side dish of fear – warnings about the diseases we could catch and how we could ruin our lives if we engaged in this thing they were teaching us about.

There was no mention of the sacred.

Funny how close those words are – sacred, and scared. You’re just a typo away from a whole different paradigm.

Could there be a reason we’re taught to be scared instead of sacred when it comes to sexual energy?

Actually, that's just a rhetorical question. We KNOW there's a reason! 

They don't want you to know your own power.

In this second part of my conversation with Wild Woman Charlotte Gowdy, we get into what they never taught us in school: the connection between sexuality, spirituality, and empowerment.

Reawakening sexual energy can be one of those Sacred Intimacy practices that puts us back together and makes us whole again.

Today we exchange on how flowing with your own life force creative energy brings a higher order into your daily existence -- and how to connect with that flow.

Do you want to heal yourself, your lineage, and your surroundings?

Do you want to empower deep, authentic relationships?

Do you long for an experience of Oneness through the alchemy of sexual union (with yourself or a partner)?

Are you ready to free yourself from the limitations and painful personal consequences of widespread suppression and perversion of sexual energy?

Then you'll love this episode!

View the full video version of this interview

Charlotte Gowdy has trained extensively in the realms of sexuality and spirituality, through the lenses of Tantra, Taoism and Kundalini yoga. She works as a creative consultant and a sex genius mentor for the sexual savant courses led by holistic sex & relationship coach: Kim Anami. She is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor and an international teacher of clowning, improvisation and playfulness. She is a published poet, campfire fiddler, cold-water swimmer and a wild-woman who is living her dream life. She splits her time between the French Alps and a sea-side cottage on the East coast of Canada.

Coming out of a wonderful 25-year career as a theatre actor and director, including seasons at Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, and Canadian Stage, Charlotte has had the good fortune of teaching and coaching at colleges and universities across the globe, including in North America, Europe and South America.

As a personal trainer in physical embodiment and spiritual evolution, Charlotte is passionate about helping people connect with their innate power through the conscious activation, cultivation and upward channelling of their creative, life-force energy. Life is a gift. Tout est possible!

Curious? Want More?

To get started with a Yoni Egg Practice...

The ultimate: Yoni Egg Kit + Salonette

This is the yoni egg kit and online course that Claire and Charlotte both used to kick-start their sexual reclamation. You’ll receive a beautiful high-quality, genuine nephrite jade egg, with a selenite charging disc, silk thread, quartz crystals and a satin pouch for lifting. You’ll also get access to a series of instructional videos and guided visualizations to get you started on your yoni egg journey!

To Connect with Charlotte:

Follow her on Instagram: @Libido_Liberator 

Find her on Facebook: @CharlotteGowdy 

Email: [email protected]

Let's get into it! Literally :-)

Get ready to unlock the massive power and potential of the very energy that creates life -- your own sexual energy.

Whether you're partnered or single, heterosexual or homosexual, developing and cultivating a rich relationship with your sexual energy gives you access to unlimited amounts of creativity, pleasure, abundance, and spiritual activation.

And if you’re blessed with a Yoni (your own or a partner’s!), this episode is for you.

This frank, intimate, humorous, and provocative discussion delves into the Yoniverse of jade eggs, self-pleasuring, vaginal orgasms, and healing trauma, limiting programs, and societal and cultural conditioning through awakening the consciousness of the yoni. And more! 

You'll learn how awakening your sexual energy is an integral part of empowerment, increases your ability to constructively manifest your reality, and supports the experience of Sacred Intimacy -- the embodied experience of your own Wholeness.

Charlotte Gowdy has trained extensively in the realms of sexuality and spirituality, through the lenses of Tantra, Taoism and Kundalini yoga. She works as a creative consultant and a sex genius mentor for the sexual savant courses led by holistic sex & relationship coach: Kim Anami. She is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor and an international teacher of clowning, improvisation and playfulness. She is a published poet, campfire fiddler, cold-water swimmer and a wild-woman who is living her dream life. She splits her time between the French Alps and a sea-side cottage on the East coast of Canada.

Coming out of a wonderful 25-year career as a theatre actor and director, including seasons at Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, and Canadian Stage, Charlotte has had the good fortune of teaching and coaching at colleges and universities across the globe, including in North America, Europe and South America.

As a personal trainer in physical embodiment and spiritual evolution, Charlotte is passionate about helping people connect with their innate power through the conscious activation, cultivation and upward channelling of their creative, life-force energy. Life is a gift. Tout est possible!

Curious? Want More?

To get started with a Yoni Egg Practice...

The ultimate: Yoni Egg Kit + Salonette

This is the yoni egg kit and online course that Claire and Charlotte both used to kick-start their sexual reclamation. You’ll receive a beautiful high-quality, genuine nephrite jade egg, with a selenite charging disc, silk thread, quartz crystals and a satin pouch for lifting. You’ll also get access to a series of instructional videos and guided visualizations to get you started on your yoni egg journey!

To Connect with Charlotte:

Follow her on Instagram: @Libido_Liberator 

Find her on Facebook: @CharlotteGowdy 

Email: [email protected]

We have no idea the power we possess right in our very own bodies. 

For thousands of years, systematic repression and control of women's bodies and natural rhythms have divorced women -- and men -- from the true depths of power, pleasure, creativity, spiritual wisdom, and the expansion of consciousness that come from a rich and rewarding relationship with the yoni.

The yoni -- or 'sacred space' -- is a sanskrit word for the vagina and extends to the consciousness of the creative, reproductive center that is the second chakra. 

The second chakra is the locus of everything that has to do with sexuality, creativity, money, flow, pleasure, and our one-to-one relationships with other people. 

Healing the wounds of this center by letting go of the samskaras or unprocessed traumas our body is holding onto liberates a tremendous amount of creative energy.

In today's episode, I share with you how an accumulation of micro traumas as an adolescent -- not to mention macro traumas in later life -- contributed to a serious life-force leakage and distortions in my second chakra.

If your sexuality is not fully, healthily, joyfully expressed (whether you're partnered or single) you're functioning at a deficit and depriving yourself and the world of the most liberated, grounded, creative, spontaneous, empowered version of you.

Not to mention missing out on some pretty spectacular life-changing orgasms.

Oh yes.

All this and more today and in the weeks to come, in The Grace Space.

The whole point of mind control is that you don’t even realize you’re being subjected to it until you wake up.

We can no longer afford to simply accept official narratives about the events we're witnessing in our world; we need to question everything, especially when questioning itself is made the enemy.

Open your eyes. Open your mind. 

But especially, especially, open your heart.

We need everyone who is awake and waking up to vibrate in harmony with Truth. 

And how do we do that in the midst of intense pressure and chaos? 

Sadhana.

Sadhana is a Sanskrit word for spiritual practice. 

A spiritual practice is whatever helps you remember that you are a sovereign spiritual being.

It’s a way of focusing your consciousness on what’s Real and True, rather than on what isn’t. 

Sadhana makes you the Master of your space.

YOU. Not someone else, or something else. YOU.

Join me today as we discuss the simplest way to move to the eye of the storm, where the weather is always beautiful.

It's the place in you where you experience Sacred Intimacy, the cozy knowingness that no matter what storms are raging out there, the sun forever shines in here.

Sacred Intimacy is the naturalness of simply being as you are, and that’s anchored in your wildness.

The loss of wildness translates to a loss of trust in Nature, in Life and the implicit order of the Universe.

When there’s an agenda afoot to turn us into complacent, compliant automatons for whom our true nature as Source Energy Beings is but a distant memory, we need more than ever to come back to nature and reconnect with our wildness.

Our wildness is intimately connected to our Oneness, to Mother Nature, to our planet, to our intuitive self, to our body, and our Divine birthright of joy, aliveness, and freedom.

Feeling our wildness plugs us back into what it is to be fully human beings of spiritual origin: fully human and fully Divine.

When did you lose your wildness? 

Are you ready to reawaken your wildness, return to sanity, and live as the natural, carefree, spontaneous and joyful True You?

True freedom is knowing that your Being is a closed system that is perfectly designed and continuously fed by Divine energy.

It follows the expanding spiral of universal abundance, naturally heals itself when given the chance, and lives in harmony with Nature. 

In today's episode, I share with you how I lost touch with wildness growing up in the suburbs of the United States capitol -- and, how I'm getting it back again.

You can too. If you feel the nostalgic pull for a simpler way of life, for a return to authenticity and true healing, this episode is for you.