What if your dreams weren’t random… but rehearsal for awakening?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, Emily sits down with lucid dreaming teacher Mia Lux for a rich and provocative conversation about dream yoga, shadow integration, trauma healing, and preparing for death.

Mia shares how her fear of death led her into lucid dreaming and how the practice became one of the most powerful tools for integrating trauma, working with PTSD, and accessing deeper layers of consciousness.

Rather than dismissing dreams as meaningless, Mia invites us to see them as an accelerated path of self-inquiry. A way to work directly with the subconscious. A laboratory for transformation that requires no substances and no intermediary.

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If you’re curious about consciousness, healing, or what becomes possible when you stop dismissing your dreams, this episode offers both inspiration and practical insight.

For Those Feeling the Call to Go Deeper

The integration Mia speaks about — nervous system capacity, shadow work, sustained awareness — is the foundation of Ziva Level 3.

Ziva Level 3 is for practitioners ready to embody what they practice. To move beyond peak states and into stabilized integration.

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ABOUT MIA LUX

Mia Lux is a lucid dreaming teacher who integrates Tibetan dream yoga, modern psychology, and trauma-informed shadow work. What began as a personal journey to heal her fear of death evolved into a powerful methodology for psychological integration and spiritual awakening through conscious dreaming.

Through her work, Mia teaches that dreaming is not escapism. It is direct access to the subconscious mind — a laboratory for healing, self-transcendence, and preparing for death while fully alive.

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What if awakening wasn’t something you reached for, but something you softened into?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, Emily sits down with Ma Ananda Sarita, a world-renowned Tantra master, for a quiet, deeply embodied conversation about devotion, presence, and awakening with and as the body.

Rather than approaching Tantra as philosophy, technique, or sexuality, Sarita shares it as a lived path of devotion to life itself. A way of being in relationship with breath, sensation, emotion, eros, grief, and the simple truth of what is present. Awakening, she reflects, is not about transcendence or ascent, but about arriving fully into this moment.

Together, Emily and Sarita explore what it means to slow down enough to actually feel, to allow life to move you rather than trying to control or optimize your experience, and to trust the body as a source of intelligence and love. They speak about tenderness, surrender, and the feminine way of awakening that unfolds through receptivity, listening, and intimacy with what is real.

This episode is an invitation to soften your grip, deepen your presence, and remember that the sacred is not elsewhere.

Key Moments

00:00:00 — Opening the space: presence, reverence, and intention
00:05:40 — Devotion as lived relationship, not belief or hierarchy
00:10:30 — Awakening with and as the body
00:16:15 — Slowing down enough to truly feel
00:22:45 — Staying present with grief and tenderness
00:29:10 — The feminine path of remembering
00:35:20 — Allowing life to move you
00:41:00 — Trust, surrender, and embodied listening
00:47:30 — When practice becomes how you live
00:53:10 — Integration and closing reflections

For Those Feeling the Call to Go Deeper

The themes in this episode — embodiment, nervous system capacity, devotion, and lived integration — are the foundation of Ziva Level 3.

Level 3 is for practitioners who feel ready to move beyond peak experiences and into sustained, embodied leadership.

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About Sarita

Ma Ananda Sarita is a world-renowned Tantra master, author, and teacher with more than five decades of lived experience on the Tantric path. Initiated in the Osho lineage, her work emphasizes awakening through embodiment, intimacy, and devotion to life itself.

She teaches Tantra not as technique or performance, but as a path of surrender and presence, where the body becomes a doorway to truth, love, and realization.

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What if growth isn’t about pushing harder, but about letting go more skillfully?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, Emily sits down with coach and author Suzy Ashworth for a grounded, activating conversation about identity shifts, pivots, and what it actually takes to receive more in life and business.

Together, they explore why true transformation doesn’t come from strategy alone, but from who you’re willing to become in your body, your nervous system, and your sense of self. Suzy shares how the most powerful pivots in her life and work didn’t come from forcing outcomes, but from releasing attachment to timelines, outcomes, and the need to prove.

They unpack the difference between desire and striving, why pleasure and joy create magnetism, and how detachment becomes a superpower when it comes to manifestation and receiving. This conversation reframes success as an internal orientation first, and an external result second.

This episode is for anyone standing at the edge of a change, sensing that the next level requires less effort and more trust, and learning how to open themselves to receive what’s already available.

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About Suzy Ashworth

Suzy Ashworth is a coach, speaker, and bestselling author of Infinite Receiving. She is the founder of the Quantum Leap Your Life & Business certification and works with leaders and entrepreneurs who are ready to shift identity, expand capacity, and build success that is both profitable and sustainable.

Suzy’s work focuses on embodiment, nervous system alignment, and redefining success as something that is lived, not chased.

Learn more about Suzy and explore her work:
https://suzyashworth.com

Follow Suzy on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/suzy_ashworth

For Those Ready to Hold More

The themes in this episode, alignment, capacity, faith plus action, and leadership without burnout, are exactly what Level 3 is designed to support.

It’s where the work stops being something you do in moments of stress and becomes the way you lead, decide, and steward what you’re responsible for.

By working at the level of the nervous system, state of consciousness, and capacity to hold more, Level 3 supports the kind of embodied leadership Suzy speaks to in this episode, abundance that lasts without exhaustion.

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What if spiritual growth isn’t about belief, manifestation, or bypassing reality — but about understanding how reality actually works?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, Emily sits down with Sarah Elkhaldy, mystic, teacher, and host of Mystery Teachings on Gaia, for a clear, rigorous conversation about free will, karma, destiny, and spiritual evolution.

Sarah explains how ancient mystery teachings were designed to initiate real changes in consciousness, not to comfort or inspire. Together, they explore how free will operates between fate and karma, what sovereignty truly requires, and why responsibility is central to spiritual growth. This conversation bridges mysticism and natural law, offering a grounded framework for understanding evolution beyond spiritual aesthetics.

They also discuss the concept of homo luminous, the next stage of human evolution, and why presence in the simplest moments can become a profound initiation when awareness is fully engaged. Throughout the episode, Emily and Sarah examine discernment, embodiment, and why not all spiritual paths lead to the same outcomes.

This episode is for anyone who feels called to move beyond inspiration and into a deeper understanding of how consciousness evolves through choice, presence, and responsibility.

Key Moments

00:00:00 — Free will, fate, and karma explained through natural law

Where This Work Continues

If this conversation resonated, especially around sovereignty, discernment, and embodied awareness, this is the kind of inquiry explored inside Ziva Level 3.

Level 3 is an advanced mastermind focused on integration, responsibility, and living these teachings in real life, with immersive experiences and pilgrimage work in Greece.

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About Sarah Elkhaldy

Sarah Elkhaldy is a mystic, teacher, and host of Mystery Teachings on Gaia. Her work explores esoteric wisdom, spiritual initiation, free will, and the mechanics of consciousness through the lens of natural law. She is known for her precise, no-nonsense approach to mysticism and her ability to translate ancient teachings into lived understanding.

Learn more about Sarah and explore her work:
https://www.sarahelkhaldy.com

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What does it actually mean to work with the divine feminine as a lived force?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, Emily sits down with Alana Fairchild, spiritual teacher and oracle creator, for a grounded, illuminating conversation about Isis, feminine power, truth, and rebirth.

Together, they explore the divine feminine as a source of creative intelligence, spiritual authority, and radical honesty. Not something symbolic or abstract, but something that requires courage, embodiment, and responsibility. Alana shares how archetypes like Isis and Kuan Yin carry distinct medicines for our time, and why real transformation asks us to love what is being revealed rather than bypass it.

The conversation moves through sacred sexuality, shadow, initiation, and the difference between power that dominates and power that restores. Midway through the episode, Emily and Alana open a shared prayer and oracle transmission, inviting listeners into a direct experience of reflection and remembrance.

This episode offers a deeper understanding of how feminine wisdom works, both personally and collectively, and how to stay rooted in love as truth surfaces.

If you are navigating change, revelation, or a sense that something ancient is returning, this conversation will help you meet it with clarity and steadiness.

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About Alana Fairchild

Alana Fairchild is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, writer, and creator of over 20 oracle decks, including the Isis Oracle, Kuan Yin Oracle, and Sacred Rebels Oracle. Her work bridges mysticism, psychology, and embodied spirituality, offering pathways of healing, empowerment, and remembrance rooted in the divine feminine.

Discover Alana’s oracle decks and teachings:
https://www.alanafairchild.com

Follow her work on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/alanafairchild

Where This Work Continues

The themes in this episode: embodiment, devotion, feminine power, and living initiation, are central to Ziva Level 3, an advanced container for integration and embodied leadership that includes initiatory experiences and pilgrimage work in Greece.

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What if your purpose isn’t something you need to find, but something you remember by letting go of who you thought you were supposed to be?

In This Episode, We Explore:

About Sadhvi Bhagawati:

Where This Work Continues

What if the missing ingredient in healing isn’t effort, insight, or intensity — but safety?

Dr. Dave explains why the body must feel safe before real transformation can occur, how vulnerability is not a weakness but a biological gateway to healing, and why many modern approaches to growth fail because they bypass the nervous system entirely. Together, they explore the science behind touch, oxytocin, the vagus nerve, and the body’s innate pharmacy — and why regulation, not catharsis, is what allows change to last.

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About Dr. Dave Rabin

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What if stepping back wasn’t failure, but strategy?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, I sit down with Neha Ruch, founder of Mother Untitled and author of The Power Pause, for one of the most validating conversations I’ve had about ambition, identity, and motherhood.

Neha names something so many women feel but rarely have language for: the tension between wanting a meaningful career and wanting to be deeply present with our children, without burning ourselves out or betraying ourselves in the process. She reframes the idea of a “career pause” as an empowered, intentional choice, not a step backward, but a recalibration.

We talk about why motherhood has been intellectually and culturally diminished, how internalized capitalism keeps women stuck in guilt loops, and why the most ambitious thing you can sometimes do is choose what matters most right now. This conversation is honest, nuanced, and deeply relieving, especially if you’ve ever felt like you were failing at something when you were actually just listening to your intuition.

If you’ve ever felt pulled between ambition and presence… this episode is for you.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why motherhood has been “dumbed down” culturally

About Neha Ruch

Neha Ruch is the founder of Mother Untitled, a leading platform for ambitious women navigating parenthood, and the author of The Power Pause. Her work is reshaping how society understands stay-at-home motherhood, ambition, and identity. Neha has been featured on Oprah, USA Today, and beyond.

Where This Work Continues

This episode touches on questions we explore more deeply inside Level 3 — how to redefine success, work with seasons instead of against them, and make choices that actually support the life you’re living now.

Level 3 focuses on the inner practices that help those choices feel steady and sustainable.

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What if healing didn’t have to be solitary?
What if family — messy, imperfect, deeply conditioned family — could actually be part of the medicine?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, I sit down with Lauren Tauss, psychedelic facilitator, teacher, and one of the clearest communicators I know in this space. Lauren has a rare ability to bring humor, rigor, compassion, and responsibility into conversations that are often either sensationalized or sanitized.

We talk about why “life itself is psychedelic,” how healing is inherently relational, and what becomes possible when we stop treating transformation as something that happens in isolation.

Lauren shares her own deeply personal journey — from anorexia and control to surrender, embodiment, and trust — and how psychedelic-assisted therapy helped rewire her relationship with her body, her family, and life itself.

This conversation isn’t about glorifying substances or breaking taboos for shock value. It’s about maturity. Integration. And learning how to say hello to yourself — instead of checking out.

If you’ve ever been curious, cautious, skeptical, or quietly fascinated by psychedelic healing… this episode will meet you with intelligence and heart.

In this episode, we explore:

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Where This Work Continues

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Level 3 is where we focus on building the inner stability, nervous system resilience, and daily practices that allow deep experiences (psychedelic or otherwise) to actually change how you live.

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In this episode, we explore:

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About Robert Edward Grant

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