Many of us come to yoga seeking relief.

Perhaps we're overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, chronic patterns, or simply the feeling that something in life is not quite aligned. Yoga can be profoundly therapeutic, helping us calm the mind, strengthen the body, regulate the nervous system, and reconnect with ourselves.

But what if healing is only the beginning?

In this episode, Brooke reflects on a powerful teaching from her late teacher, Rolf Sovik, exploring the four reasons people come to yoga: healing, joyful living, self-enfoldment, and self-realization. Together, we examine why healing and enlightenment are not separate paths, and how our suffering may actually become the doorway to greater wisdom, purpose, and wholeness.

Brooke also explores the wisdom of Wild Oats through the lens of flower essences, Yoga Sutra I.17, and the concept of ālambana—the resting ground of the mind. Discover how plants, flower essences, mantra, and meditation can support us in being present with life's challenges while awakening the deeper intelligence of the soul.

If you've ever wondered why your healing journey feels intertwined with your spiritual path, this conversation offers a compassionate and empowering perspective on what it means to live in alignment with your dharma.

Topics Include:
• Yoga therapy and nervous system healing
• Healing vs. enlightenment
• Dharma and self-enfoldment
• Yoga Sutra I.17 and stages of samadhi
• Flower essences and subtle herbalism
• Wild Oats as a guide for purpose and direction
• Prāṇa, awareness, and transformation
• Finding wholeness through practice
• The teachings of Rolf Sovik
• Tantra Yoga and conscious living

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We begin June 28th with a live zoom meeting to launch the course. Order your kits by 6/20/26

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Each letter we send is a love offering—woven with insights from our Tantric Yoga teachings, designed to nourish your heart, align your rhythms, and awaken your inner Sage.

Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School

What happens when the deep, (often hidden) desire for safety becomes the organizing force of our lives?

In this timely episode of The Wild Temple Podcast, Brooke Sullivan is joined by clinical therapist and school counselor Kristin Keliher for a deeply honest conversation about nervous systems, overperformance, community care, and what it means to become an empowered human in a world organized around fear, productivity, and survival.

Drawing from polyvagal theory, psychoeducation, trauma work, and lived experience, they explore how the unconscious drive for safety can secretly shape identity, relationships, spirituality, and activism, narrowing our capacity for rest, authenticity, connection, and collective care. Together, they unpack cognitive dissonance, burnout culture, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and the ways many women have been conditioned to abandon their true selves in order to belong.

The conversation moves between the deeply personal and the profoundly collective: from childhood self-expression and school systems to mutual aid, white saviorism, patriarchy, and the crumbling structures of modern society. Rather than offering bypassing or easy answers, this episode asks a more vital question: 

What helps us feel safe enough to live with empowered reciprocity and wider circles of care?

Through reflections on embodiment and micro acts of resistance, Brooke and Kristin illuminate a path from contraction toward connection, from hypervigilance toward relational belonging, from self-protection toward collective love.

This conversation is reminder that healing is not only personal. It is communal, relational, and deeply political. Sometimes the revolution begins with nervous system repair. Sometimes, by casting wider nets. We feel it definitely begins with the freedom to don your Batsuit.

Become a certified Flower Essence Practitioner

Unlock the healing power of plants and revolutionize your life.

8 weeks of exquisite mentorship exploring the transformative power of Nature, Tantra and Vedic psychology for mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. YACEP credits available- Yoga Therapy for Yoga Teachers

Visit www.thewildtemple.com/plants 

We begin June 28th with a live zoom meeting to launch the course. Order your kits by 6/20/26

When you sign up for our newsletter at www.thewildtemple.com you will receive seasonal recipes, herbal inspiration, and first access to our upcoming events, retreats, and special teachings.

Each letter we send is a love offering—woven with insights from our Tantric Yoga teachings, designed to nourish your heart, align your rhythms, and awaken your inner Sage.

Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School

In this episode, Brooke talks about the power of Bealtaine, Kundalini and the Fire. Stay to the end for a delicious poem written by Brooke, that weaves this liminal time of Bealtaine with the power, healing, fertility and sensuality of Kundalini awakening. 

Become a certified Flower Essence Practitioner

Unlock the healing power of plants and revolutionize your life.

8 weeks of exquisite mentorship exploring the transformative power of Nature, Tantra and Vedic psychology for mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. YACEP credits available- Yoga Therapy for Yoga Teachers

Visit www.thewildtemple.com/plants 

We begin June 28th with a live zoom meeting to launch the course. Order your kits by 6/20/26

When you sign up for our newsletter at www.thewildtemple.com you will receive seasonal recipes, herbal inspiration, and first access to our upcoming events, retreats, and special teachings.

Each letter we send is a love offering—woven with insights from our Tantric Yoga teachings, designed to nourish your heart, align your rhythms, and awaken your inner Sage.

Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School

Discover how Tantra Yoga Therapy, Vedic star wisdom, and the Honey Doctrine meet in a single healing arc. After exploring Ashwini, the celestial physicians, the celestial “honey” of Madhu Vidya, and the paradox of deceleration, Brooke offers a guided 75-breaths relaxation practice to help you slow down, reset, and receive.

Become a certified Flower Essence Practitioner

Unlock the healing power of plants and revolutionize your life.

8 weeks of exquisite mentorship exploring the transformative power of Nature, Tantra and Vedic psychology for mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. YACEP credits available- Yoga Therapy for Yoga Teachers

Visit www.thewildtemple.com/plants 

We begin June 28th with a live zoom meeting to launch the course. Order your kits by 6/20/26

When you sign up for our newsletter at www.thewildtemple.com you will receive seasonal recipes, herbal inspiration, and first access to our upcoming events, retreats, and special teachings.

Each letter we send is a love offering—woven with insights from our Tantric Yoga teachings, designed to nourish your heart, align your rhythms, and awaken your inner Sage.

Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School

Happy Spring! 

In this episode of The Wild Temple Podcast, host Brooke Shannon Sullivan explores how Tantra, Yoga Therapy, Prana Vidya, Ayurveda, herbalism, and Kundalini come together as a holistic science to support desire as a generative force, dharmic living, and self‑mastery. Recorded on a Full Moon in Hasta Nakshatra, Brooke weaves in the symbolism of the hands (Anjali, food measurement, relationship with nourishment) as she turns toward a more practical, embodied question: How do we actually start the day in a way that aligns us with life force instead of resistance?

Brooke speaks candidly about the “first battle of resistance” in the morning—waking up and not doing the things we know would help us feel good. 

From there, Brooke opens the lens to Tantra as the overarching science that helped her integrate years of work in yoga, midwifery, and herbalism. 

A major theme is the integration of many passions into a coherent, prana‑led life. Speaking to listeners who feel “too multi‑passionate” or scattered, Brooke describes how working with prana helps highlight which callings are most alive and shows how they are meant to be woven together into a personal wheelhouse or niche. 

She underscores the need for proper nervous system preparation, incremental doses of energy work, and safe containers, and explains how Tantra Yoga Therapy uses mantra, specific pranayamas, sequencing (vinyasa krama), and a trauma‑aware lens to guide, channel, and assimilate big energies like Kundalini awakenings, strong pranayama, birth, accidents, and even entheogenic journeys.

Finally, Brooke introduces the two certification tracks within the Sage Apprenticeship:

1. Tantra Yoga & Dharmic Living – for personal mastery, health, mental calm, and empowered, spiritually aligned living (ideal for seekers and professionals who want to bring depth and integrity into their existing fields).
2. Tantra Yoga Therapy Teacher – a 500hr Yoga Alliance–registered path for those who want the skills and credentials to safely teach, guide, and hold others through prana‑centered, trauma‑aware yoga and Tantra.

Throughout the episode, Brooke emphasizes integrity, safety, and devotion to nature’s intelligence. She invites listeners who feel called—especially multi‑passionate, heart‑led seekers and wellness professionals—to explore the Sage Apprenticeship, stay connected via thewildtemple.com and on Instagram @thewildtemple, and to begin, even today, by claiming a pleasure‑filled, pranic anchor practice that lets them become “a little sun,” radiating their unique light into the world.

Become a certified Flower Essence Practitioner

Unlock the healing power of plants and revolutionize your life.

8 weeks of exquisite mentorship exploring the transformative power of Nature, Tantra and Vedic psychology for mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. YACEP credits available- Yoga Therapy for Yoga Teachers

Visit www.thewildtemple.com/plants 

We begin June 28th with a live zoom meeting to launch the course. Order your kits by 6/20/26

When you sign up for our newsletter at www.thewildtemple.com you will receive seasonal recipes, herbal inspiration, and first access to our upcoming events, retreats, and special teachings.

Each letter we send is a love offering—woven with insights from our Tantric Yoga teachings, designed to nourish your heart, align your rhythms, and awaken your inner Sage.

Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School

This week’s episode of the Wild Temple Podcast opens with Brooke feeding the crows and reflecting on the strange landscape of the modern world. A recent encounter on social media—someone spell binding  through their Instagram reel—felt both jarring and strangely revealing. It sparked a deeper contemplation about the subtle ways we influence one another every day, often without realizing it. Not through grand gestures, but through the power of our thoughts, reactions, and the stories we carry in our minds.

From this reflection arises a deeper inquiry: how do we begin to look more honestly at our own minds? How do we notice the ways we react to people, the ways we project, the ways our emotions can surge like storms within us—and begin refining them so that we become steadier, clearer, and more compassionate human beings? In this episode, Brooke reflects on the importance of taking responsibility for our inner landscape, recognizing that the work we do with our own minds has real impact on the world around us.

Because this season of desire also invites us into pleasure, the conversation gently turns toward how we might orient our lives toward what truly nourishes us. What happens when we allow pleasure—not indulgence, but deep nourishment for the body and senses—to guide us back into harmony with ourselves and the rhythms of nature?

This conversation opens the doorway into the upcoming Chaitra Navaratri & Devi Sādhana Cleanse, a seasonal practice Brooke has facilitated for seven years alongside Ayurvedic physician Michael Van Sciver. Unlike conventional cleanses that focus on restriction or deprivation, this experience centers on deep nourishment and seasonal alignment. Rooted in Ayurvedic wisdom yet approached in a unique and refreshing way, the cleanse helps participants gently shift their habits so that the mind becomes more positive and compassionate, the body begins to release unhealthy cravings, and the senses rediscover the beauty of truly nutritive food.

The practices are intentionally simple—often as easy as one-pot meals and uncomplicated daily rhythms—making it possible to participate even within the fullness of everyday life. Rather than adding stress or complexity, the cleanse becomes a sweet and supportive window of time to realign with the season through food, sensory awareness, and nourishing practices.

Listeners who feel called can learn more about this year’s cleanse by visiting https://www.thewildtemple.com/Navratri-Regenerative-Cleanse

And for those ready to go deeper, the Sage Apprenticeship at The Wild Temple School is right around the corner. This beloved Navaratri cleanse is included as part of the apprenticeship journey, offering students a powerful seasonal initiation into the deeper practices of Tantra Yoga, Ayurveda, and Dharmic living. https://www.thewildtemple.com/sage-apprenticeship

Sometimes the most meaningful shifts begin with very small refinements—such as how we observe the mind, nourish the body, and how we choose to show up in the world with care.

Become a certified Flower Essence Practitioner

Unlock the healing power of plants and revolutionize your life.

8 weeks of exquisite mentorship exploring the transformative power of Nature, Tantra and Vedic psychology for mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. YACEP credits available- Yoga Therapy for Yoga Teachers

Visit www.thewildtemple.com/plants 

We begin June 28th with a live zoom meeting to launch the course. Order your kits by 6/20/26

When you sign up for our newsletter at www.thewildtemple.com you will receive seasonal recipes, herbal inspiration, and first access to our upcoming events, retreats, and special teachings.

Each letter we send is a love offering—woven with insights from our Tantric Yoga teachings, designed to nourish your heart, align your rhythms, and awaken your inner Sage.

Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School

Streaming from a Himalayan Institute campus in India, this intimate “Kitchen Talk” episode of The Wild Temple Podcast unfolds in the midst of a rare six-month Himalayan practice known as Maha Sri Yaga, a devotional immersion of daily mantra, meditation, and fire ceremonies devoted to tending the subtle forces of nature and refining what is nonessential- for a 6 month period of time.

From this sacred container of retreat and rhythm, Brooke gathers around the "kitchen table" with fellow practitioners including ER physician Dr. Adwaita from Guyana/Toronto, animator Hannah from Florida/LA, and yoga teacher Kia Miller for an unscripted, heart-led conversation on living tantra in real time.

Together they explore what it means to bring spiritual knowledge out of philosophy and into lived experience. Themes of ahimsa, humility, surrender, ego, and discernment weave through reflections on relationship, healing, and the courage to feel deeply. Strong emotions like anger are reframed as shakti, or intelligent life force, while trauma is approached not as identity, but as something to meet with elemental gentleness and embodied awareness.

This episode is both grounded and mystical and a reminder that awakening happens not only in ceremony, but in kitchens, conversations, and the daily pauses where we soften, listen, and let ourselves be reshaped.

The temple is not elsewhere. It is here in practice, in presence, in the pulse of being alive.

Become a certified Flower Essence Practitioner

Unlock the healing power of plants and revolutionize your life.

8 weeks of exquisite mentorship exploring the transformative power of Nature, Tantra and Vedic psychology for mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. YACEP credits available- Yoga Therapy for Yoga Teachers

Visit www.thewildtemple.com/plants 

We begin June 28th with a live zoom meeting to launch the course. Order your kits by 6/20/26

When you sign up for our newsletter at www.thewildtemple.com you will receive seasonal recipes, herbal inspiration, and first access to our upcoming events, retreats, and special teachings.

Each letter we send is a love offering—woven with insights from our Tantric Yoga teachings, designed to nourish your heart, align your rhythms, and awaken your inner Sage.

Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School

What if desire is not something to discipline or deny, but a living force asking to be felt?

In this intimate conversation with Somatic Sexologist, Nadine Hamilton, we explore desire as Shakti, the sacred current of life moving through body, creativity, longing, and love. Rather than something shameful or indulgent, desire reveals itself as an intelligent guide, pointing us toward wholeness, truth, and deeper embodiment.

Listen in as we unravel the cultural conditioning that has cast desire, especially feminine desire, into shadow. We look at how shame fragments us, how suppression distorts our vitality, and how reclaiming desire becomes a path of healing. Through breath, movement, reflection, and embodied practice, desire shifts from something we grasp at to something we listen to, a teacher, a threshold, a return to self.

This is an invitation to stop negotiating with your longing and begin honoring it. To let desire move through you without apology. To remember that the ache you feel may not be a problem to solve, but a sacred signal guiding you home.

Desire is not the obstacle. It is the doorway.

Connect with Nadine Hamilton:

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/iamnadinehamilton/ 

Website: https://www.bloomwithnadine.com/ 

Become a certified Flower Essence Practitioner

Unlock the healing power of plants and revolutionize your life.

8 weeks of exquisite mentorship exploring the transformative power of Nature, Tantra and Vedic psychology for mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. YACEP credits available- Yoga Therapy for Yoga Teachers

Visit www.thewildtemple.com/plants 

We begin June 28th with a live zoom meeting to launch the course. Order your kits by 6/20/26

When you sign up for our newsletter at www.thewildtemple.com you will receive seasonal recipes, herbal inspiration, and first access to our upcoming events, retreats, and special teachings.

Each letter we send is a love offering—woven with insights from our Tantric Yoga teachings, designed to nourish your heart, align your rhythms, and awaken your inner Sage.

Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School

What if desire is not a temptation to overcome, but a sacred current guiding us back to the divine?

In this luminous conversation, Brooke Sullivan sits down with Ekabhumi to talk about the mystery of desire as an ancient, erotic intelligence that moves through all of life. Together, they explore desire not as a flaw of the human condition, but as a holy force, one that animates creation, fuels awakening, and invites us into deeper intimacy with reality itself.

Woven through reflections on sacred art, spiritual traditions, and the living wisdom of nature, this episode reveals desire as a threshold: a place where matter and spirit meet. Sexuality becomes only one expression of a far older cosmic eros, the pulse that moves through trees, breath, imagination, and the ache to know and be known. Sacred art emerges as a devotional practice, a way of remembering our orientation in the world and making contact with the unseen.

Through beauty, symbol, and imagination, we touch a deeper order of meaning, one that invites reverence, creativity, and surrender to the mystery of being alive. This is a conversation for those who sense that enlightenment does not arrive through denial, but through devotion - to the body, to beauty, to desire itself. An invitation to step into the erotic, sacred unfolding of reality and rest in the delight of awareness.

Desire brought you here—let it guide you further. Subscribe and stay in the current.

Become a certified Flower Essence Practitioner

Unlock the healing power of plants and revolutionize your life.

8 weeks of exquisite mentorship exploring the transformative power of Nature, Tantra and Vedic psychology for mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. YACEP credits available- Yoga Therapy for Yoga Teachers

Visit www.thewildtemple.com/plants 

We begin June 28th with a live zoom meeting to launch the course. Order your kits by 6/20/26

When you sign up for our newsletter at www.thewildtemple.com you will receive seasonal recipes, herbal inspiration, and first access to our upcoming events, retreats, and special teachings.

Each letter we send is a love offering—woven with insights from our Tantric Yoga teachings, designed to nourish your heart, align your rhythms, and awaken your inner Sage.

Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School

Welcome. Today’s exploration is about spiritual freedom, storytelling, and finding truth within oneself. The journey of understanding one's own spirituality can be both challenging and empowering, as we unravel what religiosity means and the boundaries that it sometimes crosses. 

Religiosity often brings with it the imposition of belief systems. What boundaries are crossed when one insists their spiritual path is the only way? Empowered choice is our birthright, but others' belief impositions cloud our heart’s deity. Herein lies the essence of volition, or the power of using our will, in spiritual journeys.

When trusted figures, such as a therapist, bypass personal agency, it reflects a broader sickness of spiritual colonization. This is important to name and challenge respectfully.

Comments and open dialogue from this tender place are welcome. May this invocation bring you peace, nurtured by the divine force residing within each of our hearts. Much love to all. 

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Become a certified Flower Essence Practitioner

Unlock the healing power of plants and revolutionize your life.

8 weeks of exquisite mentorship exploring the transformative power of Nature, Tantra and Vedic psychology for mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. YACEP credits available- Yoga Therapy for Yoga Teachers

Visit www.thewildtemple.com/plants 

We begin June 28th with a live zoom meeting to launch the course. Order your kits by 6/20/26

When you sign up for our newsletter at www.thewildtemple.com you will receive seasonal recipes, herbal inspiration, and first access to our upcoming events, retreats, and special teachings.

Each letter we send is a love offering—woven with insights from our Tantric Yoga teachings, designed to nourish your heart, align your rhythms, and awaken your inner Sage.

Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School