Wild River

Welcome back to the Wild River Podcast!  After a four month hiatus, I am so excited to be back creating podcast episodes.

 

This is the first episode in a human design series I am co-creating with my dear friend Nadia Last.  Both Nadia and I are passionate about human design and wanted to create some content that was both accessible and in-depth.  This series will kick off with this introductory episode, followed by an episode on each energy type in Human Design, a foundational part of this system.

 

In this episode, Nadia and I discuss:

• What Human Design is and how it came to be 
• The four ancient wisdom systems Human Design draws from (Western Astrology, The Hindu Chakra system, the Chinese I Ching, and the Kaballah Tree of Life)
• The basics of our individual charts - I am a 4/1 emotional manifesting generator and Nadia is a 4/6 splenic projector
• Why we love human design
• What we’ve learned about ourselves through experimenting with Human Design
• Our path to learning about and embracing the system
• An introduction to the 5 energy types: Projector, Manifestor, Generator, Manifesting Generator, Reflector 
• How Human Design can help re-align you to your purpose

 

We are so excited to be sharing this information with you!

 

Want to learn more about Soul Group, an 8-week group program designed to connect deeply with yourself and your life path?  Check out the website here: https://www.nadialast.com/soulgroup 

 

Curious if we are hosting any upcoming workshops?  https://www.wildriver.live/workshops 

 

Nadia’s Instagram: @nadialast_

 

Nadia’s website: www.nadialast.com

 

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Website: wildriver.live

 

Instagram: @wildriver

 

Questions? Comments? Want to work together?  Send an email to [email protected].

Join me for a conversation with Rachel Pfotenhauer of Vast Earth.  Rachel is an earth channel, a powerful psychic and healer, and a counsel.  She is also my aunt!!  In addition to always being a loving and fun aunt, Rachel has also been an important, instructive, and empowering spiritual teacher for me over the last three years.  I am honored to be sharing this important conversation with all of you.  

 

In this episode, we explore connecting with earth and we explore the energetic realm.  We discuss the importance of connecting, for both our well-being as individuals and for the planet, the personal benefits, and how to do it.  

 

We also discuss:

• Our energetic bodies and how unprocessed emotions and trauma create density 
• Rachel’s childhood experiences connecting with spirit energies outside this physical realm 
• How to expand your intuition and ability to sense energy 
• Astral travel and timeline hopping
• Humanity’s shared purpose for incarnating, which is to connect with Earth & experience the spectrum of emotion 
• Summoning the courage to live your truth 
• The current destabilization of Earth’s energetic grid caused by the global consciousness of fear, hatred and violence
• The consequences we may face if more people do not start connecting to Earth and participate in healing the Earth energetically (and of course, in the physical, material plane)

 

This is a must listen if you are curious about intuition and psychic abilities or if you feel connected to earth and would like to expand that connection.  

 

Connect with Rachel: 

IG: @vast_earth

Website: https://vast-earth.com 

Earth Channel E-Book “The Words Beneath Our Feet”: https://vast-earth.com/product/earth-speaks-a-channeled-text-of-earths-words-the-entire-book/ 

Wednesday Night Group Sessions (Sliding Scale of $25-50): https://vast-earth.com/group-healing/ 

 

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My Website: wildriver.live

 

My Instagram: @wildriver

 

Questions? Comments? Want to work together?  Send an email to [email protected].

I interview my dear friend Liz Bowden, an intuitive coach, yoga teacher, and micro-dosing mentor.   In this episode, we explore our path to connecting with our inner wild and developing our spirituality.  

 

Liz and I discuss:

• What re-wilding means to us and Liz’s path (and a little of my own) towards re-wilding.
• A critical time in Liz’s journey where she lived on a permaculture farm in Costa Rica called Punta Mona.
• Unlearning certain social constructions during Liz’s time at Punta Mona, including beauty standards and the role of intimacy, and experiencing the power of connecting intimately with Earth.
• Untangling self-worth from productivity and the need for balance of masculine and feminine work.
• Microdosing mushrooms, and the opportunity to develop an intimate and supportive relationship with plant medicines. 
• Practical tips to begin a re-wilding journey and develop greater connection in your life.

 

Liz Bowden can be found on Instagram at @lizbwildin or www.rewildspirit.com.  

 

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Punta Mona: https://www.puntamona.org 
• James Fadiman (mentioned for his macrodosing protocol): https://www.jamesfadiman.com 
• Laura Dawn: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-psychedelic-leadership-podcast/id1540526695 
• Paul Stamets (best known for his advocacy for functional mushrooms): https://fungi.com 

 

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My Website: wildriver.live

 

My Instagram: @wildriver

 

Questions? Comments? Want to work together?  Send an email to [email protected].

Sam and Nadia, host of the Current (@nadialast), share a personal conversation about navigating post-pandemic life.

 

After more than a year of COVID-19 related restrictions in the United States, the country is beginning to re-open. With that comes opportunities to travel and gather, a faster pace of life, and a host of emotions, including anxiety, fear, excitement, optimism, and confusion.  Nadia and Sam share about their experiences navigating this energy and how they have stayed grounded during this time.

 

Sam begins this episode with a grounding meditation to connect with Earth, learned from Rachel Pfotenhauer at Vast Earth (https://vast-earth.com).   Then Nadia and Sam discuss the experiences they each had over this year, the emotions that have come up in navigating change, and tools that have helped them move through their emotions and stay grounded.

 

Join Sam and Nadia for a Grounding New Moon Ceremony and Sharing Circle on Monday, July 12 at 5 pm PT // 8 pm ET.  Sign up here: https://www.wildriver.live/workshops. 

 

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Website: wildriver.live

 

Instagram: @wildriver

 

Questions? Comments? Want to work together?  Send an email to [email protected].

In this short and sweet episode, Sam shares about her recent move to Vermont from NYC.  She also discusses the power of play!  Play is a wonderful thing - not only because its fun, but it brings us life force energy that is energizing and exciting.  This is a spontaneous episode recorded not long after the inspiration came into Sam's head :)

Also, Sam mentions that her partner is going to Vermont Law School.  She mispoke - he is studying at the University of Vermont (and he is not a lawyer).  

Episode 3 

 

Another biggie!  In the second of a two-part series, Sam (host of the Wild River podcast) shares a story that taught her about the importance of allowing yourself to feel emotions, especially ones that you feel ashamed or undeserving of.  Sam shares about a series of sexually disempowering experiences she had in college, nearly a decade ago, and the lasting impact these “normal” experiences had on her expression.

 

Sam shares about a subtle but persistent feeling of being unsafe and unable to trust sexually, even within an amazing and supportive relationship, and her belief that there was just something wrong with her.  She speaks about finally sharing memories of prior non-consensual sexual experiences she had been reluctant to revisit because she didn’t think they were “bad enough” to warrant negative emotions. 

 

Sam discusses the difficulty in accepting emotions for experiences that have been normalized by society and explores the toxic culture of consent and drinking present across college campuses.  She also shares about the power in reclaiming expression and pleasure, and her refusal to feel ashamed about these experiences or how she feels about them.  

 

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Mentioned on the show:

Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer https://mamagenas.com/books/

True Love & Wild Sex Podcast with Dr. Wednesday Martin and Whitney Miller https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-sex-wild-love/id1472061802 

 

Website: www.wildriver.live

 

Instagram: @wildriver

 

Once a month, Sam will select a person who left a review during the previous month for a free in-depth human design reading.  To enter, send a screenshot of your review to Sam’s instagram @wildriver or to [email protected].  The winner can gift their reading to whoever they choose as well.  (On the first few episodes, Sam mentions a different email - [email protected].  That email works too.)

 

Questions? Comments? Want to work together?  Send an email to [email protected].

This is a big one!  In the first of a two-part series, Sam shares a story that taught her about the importance of feeling your emotions and letting others see and support you.  Specifically, Sam talks about a formative experience - a physical assault she experienced in college - and the perspective she has gained from processing this experience. 

 

Sam shares the story around the assault and her inability to process her emotions around it for several years.

 

She describes the way these unprocessed and deeply suppressed feelings of fear, grief, and shame manifested in intense anxiety, and her refusal to see the connection. 

 

Her moment of clarity at a crystal energy and sound bath healing (she randomly found herself at) where she suddenly understood her need to feel her emotions around this assault and to share this experience with others.

 

She describes the fear she experienced before sharing this story - the fear of disbelief, of judgment, of blame, of dismissal - and the intense support and love she was met with instead.

 

Sam describes one of the most profound lessons she has learned in her life: when you let others have the opportunity to see you - really see you in your full expression of who you are - you have the opportunity to receive their support in ways you couldn’t know before.  And that support can provide liberation. 

 

By sharing her story, Sam hopes that you can find ways to give yourself grace for whatever your story is and however you may feel about it.  Each of us have stories that have brought us pain, and maybe even fear and shame.  Whatever you are feeling - your feelings are valid and you have nothing to be ashamed of. 

 

The more we can look at and accept the parts of ourselves we struggle to reconcile, the more we can show up in our lives as our true and unique selves.  And that is where the magic happens!

 

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Mentioned on the show: Bryanna Dee’s podcast Shadow Light http://bryannadee.com 

 

Website: www.wildriver.live

 

Instagram: @wildriver

 

Once a month, Sam will select a person who left a review during the previous month for a free in-depth human design reading.  To enter, send a screenshot of your review to Sam’s instagram @wildriver or to [email protected].  The winner can gift their reading to whoever they choose as well.  (On the first two episodes, Sam mentions a different email - [email protected].  That works too.)

 

Questions? Comments? Want to work together?  Send an email to [email protected].

Welcome to the Wild River Podcast!  We are so glad that you are here.  

 

In this mini-episode - the first episode of the Wild River podcast (!) - Sam, the host of this podcast, briefly introduces herself and the podcast.

 

She explains that the purpose of this podcast is to celebrate self-expression and those who put themselves out into the world, as well as explore the things that fracture our self-expression.  

 

Sam describes her intentions for the show and the anticipated format and timing of new episodes.

 

All of this is fluid! It’ll be fun to see where this show goes and how it evolves.  

 

Website: www.wildriver.live

 

Instagram: @wildriver

 

Questions? Comments? Want to work together?  Send an email to [email protected].