Woman Awake - The Soul-led Journey of Awakening

In this deeply nourishing and expansive conversation, I sit down with Amy Landry, author of The Ocean of Yoga, to explore the heart of yoga beyond the postures — as a living, breathing path of devotion, inquiry and embodiment.

Amy shares her personal journey with yoga, from its beginnings as a physical and mental support into a profound spiritual anchor that has carried her through life’s many transitions. She speaks to yoga as a steady presence, like the sun — always there to return to.

We explore the moment yoga shifts from something we do into something that begins to shape how we live, parent, move and relate to the world. Amy opens up about the deeper calling that led her to teaching, studying Ayurveda, and ultimately writing The Ocean of Yoga — a response to what she was witnessing in the modern yoga landscape.

Together, we speak honestly about the commercialisation of yoga, the dilution of its deeper teachings, and the gaps that can exist in modern teacher trainings. Amy shares her intention to make traditional yogic wisdom more accessible and integrated, honouring lineage while meeting the modern practitioner.

We also dive into the richness of yoga beyond the physical — prana, the koshas, the energetic body — and the importance of stillness, silence and self-inquiry. This conversation gently challenges the idea of yoga as purely movement, and instead invites you into its vast, oceanic depth.

As women and mothers, we reflect on how yoga evolves through different seasons of life, moving away from performance and into presence, truth and devotion.

This is a conversation for anyone feeling the call to return to the essence of yoga — not as something to achieve, but as a path of remembering.

In this episode, we explore:

• Amy’s personal journey and love for yoga

• When yoga becomes a way of living

• The inspiration behind The Ocean of Yoga

• The meaning of the “ocean” as a metaphor for the yogic path

• What is often missing in modern yoga practice

• The subtle body, prana and the koshas

• Living yoga through motherhood and everyday life

• Honouring tradition while meeting the modern practitioner

Show Notes + Connect with Amy Landry

Amy is a yoga teacher, mother, and author devoted to sharing the depth and integrity of traditional yogic teachings in a way that is accessible and grounded for modern life.

Book: https://amyelandry.com/oceanofyoga/

Pre-order bonus: https://amyelandry.com/oceanofyoga-preorder/

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

Explore Claire’s offerings

Shakti KA — A 21 Day Portal to Awaken Your Life Force

A guided 21-day journey to awaken your feminine life force through daily practices and group Kundalini Activations.

https://www.claireobeid.com/shakti-ka

The Qadisha Initiation

A transformational journey into embodiment, sovereignty and inner leadership.

https://www.claireobeid.com/the-qadisha-initiation

Alchemy & Awakening Women’s Retreat — Byron Bay

An intimate in-person retreat devoted to restoration, embodiment and renewal.

https://www.claireobeid.com/retreat

In this episode of Woman Awake, Claire reflects on the intensity many people are feeling in the world right now and explores how we can remain grounded, conscious and connected to ourselves during times of uncertainty.

With constant news cycles, global change and more information moving through our lives than ever before, many nervous systems are carrying a quiet background tension. For sensitive and intuitive people especially, this can create a sense of overwhelm, exhaustion or disconnection.

Claire speaks about the importance of tending to the nervous system in the modern world and explores the role of life force energy, sometimes known as kundalini or shakti, in restoring vitality, clarity and inner steadiness.

Alongside the chaos many people are noticing globally, Claire reflects on the deeper awakening that is also unfolding and why practices that reconnect us with the body, our energy and our inner presence are becoming increasingly important.

This episode is an invitation to bring more light into the body, awaken your life force and remain centred in the midst of a rapidly changing world.

Show Notes

Thank you for listening to Woman Awake.

If this episode resonated with you and you feel called to explore these themes more deeply, you are warmly invited to connect with the spaces and practices Claire offers.

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Current Offerings

Shakti KA – A 21 Day Portal to Awaken Your Life Force

Shakti KA is a guided 21-day journey designed to awaken your feminine life force energy through daily practices and group Kundalini Activations. Through breath, movement, meditation and energetic transmission, this experience supports the awakening of Shakti and the expansion of your energetic body.

Learn more:

https://www.claireobeid.com/shakti-ka

Monthly Kundalini Activations

Claire hosts regular online Kundalini Activation sessions where participants are guided into a deep energetic experience that supports the awakening of life force energy within the body.

These activations often include music, energetic transmission and space for the body’s natural intelligence to begin releasing, opening and awakening.

Details and upcoming sessions:

https://www.claireobeid.com/events-1/integrated-kundalini-activation-march

The Qadisha Initiation

The Qadisha Initiation is a transformational group journey for women who feel called to deepen their healing, embodiment and leadership.

This path supports participants in developing energetic awareness, nervous system resilience and the capacity to hold space for themselves and others with presence and integrity.

Learn more:

https://www.claireobeid.com/events-1/integrated-kundalini-activation-march

In this episode of Woman Awake, Claire explores why so many women who hold others — mothers, practitioners, teachers, healers and leaders — often find themselves quietly depleted, despite years of personal growth and healing work.

This conversation moves beyond traditional ideas of healing and into something deeper: capacity.

Claire speaks about the invisible emotional and energetic labour many women carry, why insight alone does not create lasting change, and how sensitivity is not a flaw but a form of intelligence that requires the right support and energetic foundations.

Drawing on her work with energy hygiene, somatic practice and initiatory spaces, she explores why healing work does not fully land unless our energetic capacity expands alongside it, and why learning to self-regulate, self-heal and hold life from a grounded place allows women to support others without depletion.

This episode is an invitation to reconsider what true support looks like, and why spaces of initiation and deep holding are not luxuries, but essential for women navigating modern life, leadership and care.

Claire also shares the deeper intention behind The Qadisha Initiation, a transformational journey designed to help women move from healing into embodiment, sovereignty and sustainable capacity.

A reflective and grounding episode for anyone who feels called to hold others — and is ready to be held too.

SHOW NOTES:

🌹 Energy Medicine Masterclass: Returning to your field.

A deeper introduction to energetic hygiene, self-regulation and working with your own energy in a grounded, practical way. Learn simple practices to support emotional balance, energetic clarity and sustainable capacity.

→ Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/5lIPN2BQRkqiJoUQVRZEHQ

🌹 The Qadisha Initiation

Claire’s signature transformational journey supporting women to move beyond healing into embodiment, sovereignty and expanded capacity. A deeply held space for personal evolution, integration and inner leadership.

→ Explore Qadisha: https://www.claireobeid.com/the-qadisha-initiation

🌹Alchemy and Awakening Women’s Retreat — Byron Bay

An intimate in-person retreat experience devoted to restoration, embodiment and renewal through ceremony, somatic practice and sacred space.

→ View retreat details: https://www.claireobeid.com/retreat

Connect with Claire

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In this episode of Woman Awake, Claire Obeid dives into a conversation that every person on a healing, spiritual, or embodied awakening path needs to hear: the foundations of energy hygiene.

Energy hygiene is the quiet, powerful pillar beneath every transformation — emotional, energetic, and spiritual. It’s the piece most people skip, not realising that coherence, clarity, intuition, boundaries, and energetic resilience all depend on the way you tend to your field.

Claire breaks down what energy hygiene actually is, why it matters now more than ever, how your nervous system and aura interact with the world around you, and how simple, everyday practices can radically shift the way you feel, respond, and move through life.

This is a grounded, accessible, deeply supportive conversation for anyone wanting to return to themselves, stabilise their energy, and move through the world with more presence, power, and ease.

In this episode, we explore:

What energy hygiene is and why it’s the foundation of all spiritual and healing work

The three pillars of energetic maintenance: grounding, clearing, protection

Why so many women feel drained, porous, overwhelmed, or disconnected

How to reclaim your field and return to energetic sovereignty

The link between energy hygiene and nervous system regulation

Simple daily practices to stay clear, centred, and attuned

How energy hygiene supports Kundalini awakening, quantum healing, and somatic transformation

This episode is for you if:

You feel easily overwhelmed, drained, or impacted by others

You’ve done a lot of healing work but still feel “off”

You’re craving clarity, presence, and emotional steadiness

You’re walking a path of awakening and want sustainable energetic foundations

You want to feel less porous and more powerfully centred in your own field

Show Notes & Next Steps

If this episode resonated, here are the next portals opening to you:

Join the Qadisha Initiation Waitlist

A 5-month advanced mentorship weaving womb work, priestess lineage teachings, multidimensional healing, and leadership at the level of the soul. Get on the waitlist: https://www.claireobeid.com/the-qadisha-waitlist

Join the Shakti KA Waitlist

A devotional 21-day journey into morning practice, life force awakening, energy alignment, and embodied rhythm — returning again soon. Get on the waitlist : https://www.claireobeid.com/shakti-ka-waitlist

Energy Hygiene Masterclass Coming Soon

A live, potent teaching + guided transmission on the mechanics of your energy body, daily practices for coherence, and the foundational tools every woman needs for awakening and emotional stability. Sign up to be notified via claireobeid.com

In this episode of Woman Awake, Claire sits down with Allura Halliwell — a transformational guide, creator of the Consciousness Method™, and mentor devoted to helping others move from fragmentation into energetic sovereignty.

Allura’s story begins with a radical spontaneous Kundalini awakening in 2018 — an experience that upended her life and became the catalyst for her path of deep integration, healing, and service. Through this conversation, Allura shares how she not only survived that awakening but transformed it into the foundation of her work in the world.

Together, we explore:

Allura’s origin story and the 2018 Kundalini awakening that changed everything

What she means by energetic sovereignty and how her Consciousness Method™ supports multidimensional healing

The three core wounds most of us carry — Unloved, Unworthy, Unknown — and how to recognise which one is running your life

Why so many of us “treat the symptoms” of our pain and how to finally work with the root cause

What it means to shift into quantum reality and process internally to access new timelines

The role of pain as a portal into awakening and transformation

Practical steps for listeners who are ready to move from survival into wholeness

✨ This is a deeply grounding and expansive conversation that will speak to anyone navigating their own awakening, grappling with old wounds, or yearning to live from a place of sovereignty, wholeness, and freedom.

Allura Halliwell Bio

Allura Halliwell is a consciousness mentor and transformational guide whose radical awakening in 2018 catapulted her into a lifelong mission: helping others reconnect with the truth of who they are. Once a stay-at-home mother of three, her life changed forever after a spontaneous out-of-body experience at a meditation retreat revealed the energetic fabric of reality. That moment dissolved her old identity and birthed a new purpose—to guide others into profound reconnection through her signature modality, The Consciousness Method™.

She now supports spiritual seekers who feel “stuck” despite years of personal growth, teaching at the pivotal space between inner healing and outer creation—what she calls the interface. Through this work, clients learn to align with wide-spectrum consciousness to access sovereignty, clarity, and meaningful transformation.

Her offerings include transformational masterclasses like The Relationship Rewire and her forthcoming book Unloved, Unworthy, Unknown. As host of The Consciousness Method Podcast, Allura shares teachings and student stories that illuminate how her modality reshapes lives from the inside out.

Connect with Allura:

Website https://www.allurahalliwell.com

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

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/allurahalliwellcorewound?_rdc=1&_rdr

Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@allura_halliwell

To be reborn, we must first let go. Shedding is not loss, but sacred preparation — every death a doorway, every release a renewal.

In this episode, Claire reflects on the Magdalene way of surrender: Mary Magdalene’s path through exile, loss, and despair into the Radiance of Resurrection. September, a threshold month, invites us to let old skins fall, cleanse with compassion, and prepare the soul for renewal.

Through teaching, a guided breath practice, and journaling prompts, you’ll be reminded that wholeness is found in surrender — and that letting go is the holy art that makes way for the soul’s light to descend.

Connect with Claire here: https://www.claireobeid.com

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

In this heart-opening conversation, I’m joined by the radiant Kris Franken — award-winning author, intuitive guide, wild mystic, and facilitator of transformational gatherings — for a multidimensional exploration of the heart as a sacred portal, a living vortex of consciousness, and a direct access point to Soul, Source, and Oneness.

Kris shares her own journey into understanding the heart’s true nature — as both a physical and energetic centre — and how ancient traditions, modern science, and mystical experience converge in its wisdom. We explore how modern life has elevated the mind above the heart, and what becomes possible when we reverse that hierarchy: letting the heart lead and the mind serve.

Her insights touch on:

The heart as a resting place, mystical mirror, and somatic bridge to unseen realms

The scientific mystery of the heart as more than a pump — inspired by Thomas Cowan’s work on the heart as a vortex

Ancient and indigenous teachings that revere the heart as the seat of the Soul

The importance of harmonising heart and mind for deeper clarity, healing, and creativity

How Kris first came to see the heart as a portal to the Soul and stars

What it truly feels like to embody the “meeting place of heaven on earth”

How our lives transform when we let the heart — not the mind — lead

The Sanskrit concept of hrdayam and the deeper meanings it reveals

Simple, gentle ways to open a guarded heart

A heartfelt blessing for all who are ready to walk this path

Throughout the episode, Kris offers practices, reflections, and a final blessing that invite you into deep presence, self-trust, and cosmic intimacy — one breath, one heartbeat at a time.

Whether you’re seeking to reconnect with your truth, dissolve fear through love, or explore the heart’s role as a gateway to Oneness, this conversation is a beautiful invitation to return to the centre of your being.

Kris Franken Bio:

Kris Franken is an award-winning author, intuitive guide, wild mystic, certified herbalist, and facilitator of healing and empowering gatherings. She’s a psychology-trained mentor, Reiki-certified healer, qualified meditation teacher, and holistically-trained writer.

Kris is the author of Wildhearted Purpose: Embrace Your Unique Calling & the Unmapped Path of Authenticity (winner and finalist at the International Book Awards), and The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight, plus seven sets of oracle cards, including Soul Purpose, Spirit Animal, and Lightworker.

Kris hosts healing circles and retreats, mentors those looking for a deeper purpose, and lives a wild, conscious life with her beloved community. She is originally from Toronto, Canada, and lives on Bundjalung Country, Byron Bay, Australia, where she is gratefully rewilding her body, mind and spirit.

Connect with Kris: https://www.krisfranken.com/

Show Notes:Thomas Cowan’s book ‘Human Heart, Cosmic Heart’

https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/human-heart-cosmic-heart/

Claire’s upcoming event - The Sacred Current

https://www.claireobeid.com/events-1/the-sacred-current

Episode 142 with Kris Franken - Wild Hearted Purpose

https://www.claireobeid.com/podcast/place-yourself-in-the-field-of-practice-as-a-student-of-life-j2krw-nam5b-l28y2-7gy3g-nppk3-w8mh3-8lpk6-ccrmy-ewlby-lpczc-2d8ds-9yae9-78ssc

In this illuminating conversation, I’m joined by Maureen McGonegle — a multidimensional guide and founder of Earth Sky Activation. Maureen weaves together Quantum Hypnosis, intuitive guidance, light language, and energy healing with grounded Earth-based wisdom, including ancestral traditions and shamanic influences. Her work holds a powerful space for remembering—of who we truly are, of our soul’s mission, and of our innate connection to both Earth and the cosmos.

Together, we explore Maureen’s journey into this multidimensional path—how she came to offer Beyond Quantum Healing Hypnosis, and how this modality differs from other forms like QHHT. She shares what typically unfolds during a session, how to prepare, and the profound ripple effects this work can have on someone’s life and purpose.

We also dive into my personal session with Maureen, unpacking some of the rich imagery and lifetimes that arose, and how she interprets these threads to support clients in integrating the healing and messages received. (You might even hear clips from my session woven throughout!)

Maureen also speaks to her group-guided sessions, the power of collective healing, and how light language and intuitive transmission enhance the experience. We round out our conversation with a heart-led reflection on what it means to be a woman awake in this time, and how Maureen continues to walk her path of service.

In this episode, we explore:

✨ Maureen’s origin story and initiation into this healing work

✨ What Quantum Hypnosis is, and how it supports soul alignment

✨ What happens in a session (and why no two are the same)

✨ The magic and healing of past-life regression

✨ Claire’s personal session experience and interpretations

✨ Group journeys and collective healing spaces

✨ Light language, multidimensional remembrance & Earth-Cosmic bridging

✨ Being a woman awake — and living your truth

✨ How to connect with Maureen and explore her offerings

This is a deeply expansive episode for anyone curious about soul remembrance, multidimensional healing, and returning to the truth of who you are.

Connect with Maureen:

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

Upcoming offerings: https://linktr.ee/earthskyactivation

SHOW NOTES:

Join my upcoming event: The Sacred Current

Virtual Kundalini Activation event for Lion’s Gate: Awaken Your Radiance - https://www.claireobeid.com/events-1/integrated-kundalini-activation

Work with me - Pleiadean Lightwork: Quantum Energy Reading and Healing - https://www.claireobeid.com/events-1/the-sacred-current

Come listen, breathe, and open. Your energy knows the way.

In this episode, I share a personal update on what’s been unfolding in my world — from guiding The Qadisha Initiation to completing my Kundalini Activation Facilitator Training and birthing new offerings into the world.

I then take you on a deep dive into the sacred modality of Kundalini Activation — what it is, how it works, and why it’s unlike anything else. This episode is a blend of insight, transmission, and permission — especially for those who are ready to meet their own inner life force with reverence, curiosity, and trust.

Here’s what we explore:

What Kundalini Activation truly is (and what it isn’t)

The difference between force-based “will” practices and this surrender-based path

Why this energy work is safe, intelligent, and led by your own higher self

What to expect in a session — including the wide range of sensations, movements, visions, and transformations that can unfold

How the energy moves through your system and why every experience is beautifully unique

Why this practice is not about “doing,” but about receiving what already is

SHOW NOTES:

Join my upcoming event: The Sacred Current

https://www.claireobeid.com/events-1/the-sacred-current

Work with me - Pleiadean Lightwork: Quantum Energy Reading and Healing

https://www.claireobeid.com/private-mentoring-healing-1

Come listen, breathe, and open. Your energy knows the way.

With love,Claire x

In this soulful episode, Claire shares the intimate behind-the-scenes journey of birthing The Qadisha Initiation — her long-awaited 5-month sacred mentorship and training program for emerging healers, facilitators, and space holders.

Speaking from Bali, where she is supporting retreat work and receiving powerful transmissions herself, Claire opens up about the divine orchestration and inner alignment that brought this program to life — from navigating health challenges to receiving spiritual guidance (including signs from her late father), to the profound trust and surrender required to create something truly sacred.

Rooted in the ancient Aramaic word Qadisha — meaning holy woman or sacred one — this initiation is designed as a pilgrimage of remembrance. Participants will be guided through three transformational phases: the alchemical healing of the self, modality mastery, and embodied sacred service.

Claire also shares her decision to undertake a Kundalini activation training, and how it all aligned perfectly with divine timing, reminding listeners that when you follow the deeper call, support always arrives.

If you feel the stirrings of the healer within and are seeking mentorship on your sacred path, The Qadisha Initiation may be for you. Early access and a special 10% waitlist discount are available now.

🌀 Join the waitlist at claireobeid.com