Gateways to Awakening (Hakawati | حكواتي)

In this conversation, I talk to Laura Day -- a NY Times bestselling author and world-renowned “Psychic to the Stars” and Intuitionist, who has spent three decades teaching others how to tap into their intuition and effectively harness their instincts to create profound changes in their paths to success. Her work centers on helping us understand intuition and its uses in the fields of business, science, medicine and personal growth. She’s also written six books including Practical Intuition and How to Rule the World from Your Couch, which both topped the New York Times Bestseller list. Her loyal clientele includes top organizations, executives representing Fortune 500 companies and A-list celebrities like Demi Moore, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, and Sarah, Duchess of York – and many more. We talk about: ✅ How she defines intuition, and what it means to “use our intuition”, and how it is different than instinct. ✅ Some practices we can do to strengthen our intuition, and the seven steps to cultivating intuition ✅ What it means to heal through intuition or through psychic means ✅ What it even means to be psychic ✅ How she has seen people use intuition in their daily lives and how she’s helped people strengthen their intuition ✅ How she consulted Demi Moore in the movie Ghost, and how she works with some celebrities and in the medical field and business You can learn more about Laura Day here: https://lauraday.com/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Why is movement such a powerful healer? What does it mean to move your body? On today’s episode, we’ll be featuring our guest, Beth Riley, who is a global leader in somatic movement education and therapy. She’s a seasoned somatic movement activist, with over 40 years of experience, facilitating workshops in movement, yoga and meditation. A founding member of Mt Madonna Center, she has also been an invited presenter at Esalen, The Open Center in NYC and the Skyros Institute in Greece. Her website is: www.themovingwell.com. We talk about: ✅ What movement means to her, in her words ✅ Why movement is so important? ✅ How she discovered movement as a healing modality in her life ✅ The movement work of Continuum that she has been involved in ✅ How movement is a way to become embodied ✅ How her life changed with movement, and how she’s been able to transform the life of others ✅ How we (the audience) can establish a home practice of movement centered meditation in our daily lives Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about the enneagram as a tool to understand personality. We’ll be featuring our guest, Christopher L. Heuertz, who was first introduced to the Enneagram in the slums of Cambodia. Since then he has trained under some of the great living Enneagram masters, and now teaches the Enneagram in workshops around the world as an International Enneagram Association Accredited Professional. He is the bestselling author of “Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth”, and and The Enneagram of Belonging. Chris is the host of Enneagram Mapmakers podcast. You can follow his work at gravitycenter.com. If anyone is curious, I’m an enneagram 8 with a 7 wing and so is Chris. We talk about: ✅ What the enneagram is exactly and how it works ✅ The 9 enneagram types, and what each means ✅ The triads and the wings ✅ How people can learn which enneagram type they are ✅ The difference between dignity and identity ✅ How the enneagram can help you grow and understand yourself and your relationships Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode will blow your mind. We dive into the history of psychedelics and the biggest kept secret in history with Brian Muraresku, author of THE IMMORTALITY KEY: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name. THE IMMORTALITY KEY is a revolutionary book that is equal parts deep history and cutting-edge science with new evidence that suggests the ritual use of psychedelics across the Greco-Roman world and its later influence on the Christian Eucharist. Yes, you heard me correctly. We dive into Brian’s 10 year investigation through Greece, Germany, France and Italy and his research in the Vatican Secret Archives to learn more about how psychedelics influenced the Abrahamic religions today. Brian has been practicing law for 15 years. In 2016, he became the founding executive director of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation. We talk about the following and more: ✅ What St Paul meant by this "If you die before you die, you won't die when you die". ✅ His 10-year investigation through Greece, Germany, Spain, France and Italy and in the unprecedented access he had with the Vatican Secret Archives. ✅ How the earliest Eucharist consisted of a psychedelic brew? ✅ Why the gatekeepers of Eleusis were women ✅ How we went from honoring women to burning women at the stake ✅ The role of psychedelics with other religions in the Abrahamic faiths This is an episode not to miss! Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about hormone imbalance, fertility, and getting pregnant with Dr. Aimee, the "Egg Whisperer" . Dr. Aimee is a full-time practicing fertility doctor and is beloved by patients and the media alike. Her focus is on finding the sweet spot of where science and patient care meet, and empowering people to better understand their fertility. She launched Egg Freezing Party in 2014 to help educate people about their fertility preservation options. Since then, she's launched The Egg Whisperer Show, to further the reach of how she educates people. It's broadcast to YouTube, IGTV, Facebook, Twitter, and as a podcast of the same name. In addition, Dr. Aimee has simplified how people understand fertility by introducing the TUSHY Method, BALLS Method, and the Egg Whisperer DIET, as mnemonics to remind people about the basics of fertility diagnosis and care. We talk about the following and more: ✅ Common reasons why so many people have hormonal imbalance today ✅ Why women today are so disconnected from their health and well-being ✅ Why they often find out about health issues so late ✅ Her perspective on birth control ✅ The Egg Whisperer Diet if you’re trying to get pregnant ✅ Endometriosis and why there are so many new cases ✅ Some of the reasons why women are having a hard time giving birth today Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, please DM me.

Today’s episode is about the transformative body healing and sacred anatomy with Desda Zuckerman. Desda Zuckerman is a modern day visionary, author, spiritual healer, speaker and teacher. Born an intuitive with extraordinary clairvoyant abilities, Desda has made an in-depth study of the subtle energies. A true spiritual pioneer, she has learned to describe, understand and speak about the subtle parts of human capacity, and wrote a profound book called “Your Sacred Anatomy” which you can find on Amazon. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What sacred anatomy actually means ✅ The “subtle energy body” ✅ The 7 Anatomical Systems of the Human Energy Structure and why are they important ✅ How we can strengthen the Human Electromagnetic Field ✅ Some principles she has noticed when it comes to the energy body. ✅ The 13 Chakras and how do they work? ✅ The greater mind exercise and where our genius lies ✅ The 4 aspects of the authentic self Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. We'd like to thank our sponsors, Nowatch for this episode. Nowatch is a smart jewelry awearable that measures and predicts stress one hour in advance, helping you restore balance, and improve relaxation and sleep. With a collection of 9 interchangeable gemstones to suit your daily mood and style. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, please DM me.

On today’s episode, we’ll be featuring our guest, Mitch Schultz, the director of the film “DMT, The Spirit Molecule”. F​​rom an early age, Mitch’s curiosity of the unknown universe forged his path in storytelling. With 20 years of creative experience as a transmedia producer, experience designer, and educator, Schultz’s work explores the inherent connections among consciousness, nature, culture, and the evolving human mythology. In 2009, Schultz decided to focus exclusively on his personal creative vision. As a result, Mitch’s first documentary, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, premiered two years later and became an instant cult classic. He is now working on a new film about DMT which will be released in a couple of years. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What exactly is DMT and where it can be found ✅ How DMT affects us when taken in large doses, for those who’ve never taken it ✅ What attracted him to this space and his journey ✅ How he met Dr. Rick Strassman, who was instrumental to the film ✅ How psychedelics and in particular DMT have been used in mental health ✅ What has changed drastically in the last 10 years since he started working in this space ✅ The spiritual component of psychedelics Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. We'd like to thank our sponsors, Nowatch for this episode. Nowatch is a smart jewelry awearable that measures and predicts stress one hour in advance, helping you restore balance, and improve relaxation and sleep. With a collection of 9 interchangeable gemstones to suit your daily mood and style. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, please DM me.

On today’s episode, I speak with Phil Stutz, co-author of the book The Tools: Transform your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity and Coming Alive. As a 17-year-old college sophomore, Phil found himself as the sounding board for two guys who were fighting over a girl. Without doing much more than listening, Phil watched the trouble resolve itself in front of his eyes. As the guys walked away laughing with each other, Phil knew life had spoken to him and he had found his calling. Phil received his MD from New York University. After working as a prison psychiatrist on Rikers Island and then in private practice in New York, he moved to sunny Los Angeles where he has been practicing since 1982. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What the 5 tools are and how people can use them to live a better life ✅ How many times does it take for the tools to really stick and work ✅ Why so many of us are interested in staying in our comfort zones, rather than moving through the pain? ✅ The maze, the spiral and how to get unstuck Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. We'd like to thank our sponsors, Nowatch for this episode. Nowatch is a smart jewelry awearable that measures and predicts stress one hour in advance, helping you restore balance, and improve relaxation and sleep. With a collection of 9 interchangeable gemstones to suit your daily mood and style. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, please DM me.

Have you ever wondered how lucid dreaming can help you in your waking life? Today’s episode on Gateways is about lucid dreaming and how we can learn from it with Charlie Morley, a bestselling author and teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow integration and Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep. He has been lucid dreaming for over 20 years and was “authorized to teach” within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism by Lama Yeshe Rinpoche in 2008. He has written four books which have been translated into 15 languages, and he has spoken at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Ministry of Defence Mindfulness Symposium, The Houses of Parliament to name a few. In 2018 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship grant to research PTSD treatment in Military Veterans and continues to teach people with trauma affected sleep a set of practices called Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep. I first learned about lucid dreaming from the Mindvalley community, as Charlie is a teacher on the Mindvalley platform. We talk about the following and so much more! ✅ What it means to lucid dream ✅ How sleeping works and the stages of sleep ✅ What it means to dream and what happens when we go to bed at night ✅ How we learn and understand what our dreams really mean ✅ Why we have nightmares and what they mean? ✅ Why our dreams are so intense and feel real when we experience them, and yet are so easily forgotten? ✅ What it means to create a dream plan Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. We'd like to thank our sponsors, Nowatch for this episode. Nowatch is a smart jewelry awearable that measures and predicts stress one hour in advance, helping you restore balance, and improve relaxation and sleep. With a collection of 9 interchangeable gemstones to suit your daily mood and style. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, please DM me.

Jeffrey Mishlove is the New Thinking Allowed host, author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "Parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university which was at the University of California, Berkeley, 1980. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series, and is also past-president of the Intuition Network. This man is a legend in the world of consciousness and when I interviewed a few of my previous guests on Gateways, a number of them mentioned his name time and time again. When I went down the New Thinking Allowed rabbit hole, I was surprised to see who he had interviewed (from Ram Dass, and Terrance McKenna to name a few) and also the way he interviewed his audience, often diving into a diverse set of topics in a deep and thoughtful way. We talk about the following and much more: ✅ Some major themes that have emerged over the years in the world of psychic phenomenon ✅ Why he says there are many “flowers of consciousness”, but not enough written about the roots of consciousness ✅ What role do indigenous cultures play in the modern world today ✅ What the Egyptian healing temples are ✅ What his perspective is on the future of humanity and consciousness ✅ The “PK man” and some of his research and discoveries This man is truly a legend. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, please DM me.

Today’s episode is about past lives, reincarnation, and the art of channeling with global channeler Kevin Ryerson. I first learned about Kevin at a workshop led by Walter Simkew who has worked in the field of past lives for a number of decades. Kevin is an acclaimed author, award winning consultant, expert intuitive and trance channel in the tradition of Edgar Cayce. He has been lecturing and teaching in the field of parapsychology and spirituality for over 40 years. He has been a guest on national television shows including Oprah Winfrey and Good Morning America. He is the author of the landmark book Spirit Communication: The Soul’s Path. Shirley MacLaine features his intuitive abilities in her best selling books. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ He defines channeling, and in particular trance channeling ✅ The difference between mediumship and channeling ✅ Who Edgar Cayce is for those who don’t know about him and his work ✅ Some of his predictions that he made that were documented and came true ✅ Who Kevin channels and his relationship with Shirley McClain ✅ The bond between our spirit and our physical body ✅ What time means to him This episode was mind-blowing. You can learn more about Kevin Ryerson here. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, please DM me.

In today’s episode, I speak with the prolific Martha Beck, PhD, who spent a decade at Harvard before becoming a world-renowned life coach and NYT bestselling author. She has published nine non-fiction books, one novel, and more than 200 magazine articles. Her passion and only real interest is the elimination of human suffering, by any means available. Some of her books include: “The Way of Integrity” and “Finding your North Star”. I’ve read both books, which had a profound impact on my career journey. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to be a being of integrity ✅ Why Martha says that “Integrity is the cure for unhappiness, Period”. ✅ The ways that she has stayed true to herself and how we all can ✅ Why Dante’s The Divine Comedy was the book that was so integral to her understanding of self Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. We'd like to thank our sponsors, Glow Botanica for this episode. Glow Botanica is a company whose mission is to increase hormonal wellness awareness through education, and create natural effective products for every phase of a woman’s life. In partnership with Hormone University, Glow Botanica is committed to educating women so that they can advocate and take charge of their own hormonal health. Head to glowbotanica.com to check out our hero product Tummy Butter. You can take advantage of a special offer for Gateway to Awakening with the promo code: Gateway10.

On today’s episode, I speak with Betsy Burroughs, the president of FocusCatalyst in San Francisco, California. Atlantic Magazine called her “A Silicon Valley branding executive turned neuroscience researcher." Betsy consults with organizations on business innovation--and with individuals on how to easily stop bad habits. Even though her first book is for businesses, surprisingly she used every technique in it to make it easy, effortless, and fun for her to change one bad habit after another--all the way up to and including easily losing 90 pounds. Her book Focus: The catalyst for innovation is available on Amazon. Her second book is ”Do You Have A Scaredy-Cat Brain? 52 Ways to Soothe A Scaredy-Cat Brain. Based on the Neuroscience of Cortisol and Dopamine.” It will be available in 2022. We dive into the following and much more: ✅ We define what dopamine is and why is it such an important neurotransmitter ✅ What the Focus Catalyst process exactly is and how it works ✅ How she uses her neuroscience hacks to help people overcome triggers ✅ We break down my own session and how you can create new neural pathways when you are triggered in your own life You can follow her @TheDopamineDiva. You can reach her at: www.FocusCatalyst.com Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with ​​Katherine Woodward Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Calling in “The One”: 7 Weeks to Attracting the Love of Your Life, and Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After . She is an award-winning marriage and family psychotherapist. Over the past two decades, Katherine has had the honor of teaching hundreds of thousands of people from all corners of the globe to create conscious, loving relationships and to realize the higher potentials all their connections hold for health and happiness. We dive into relationships, finding the “one”, and conscious uncoupling, and much more: ✅ What it means to “call in the one” ✅ How her book forces you to inquire all the ways we are really disconnected from ourselves ✅ The meaning of a “spiritual partnership” which she defines as: “Spiritual partnership implies a goal of encouraging and supporting the unfolding of each other’s soul’s reasons for being here in the first place”. ✅ Why she wrote this book as a series of 7 prompts, and over a period of 7 weeks ✅ What Conscious Uncoupling is, and why she started this movement after her relationship ended ✅ How her POV on relationships have changed in the last decade Katherine also trains and certifies people to become Certified Calling in “The One” Coaches , and/or Conscious Uncoupling Coaches and provides ongoing supervision and development to a vibrant community of her coaches from around the world. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode, I speak with Brenda Dunn, who was Laboratory Manager of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory from its inception in 1979 until its closing in 2007. She now serves as President and Treasurer of ICRL, International Consciousness Research Laboratories www.icrl.org. With Robert G. Jahn, she is coauthor of Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World, Consciousness and the Source of Reality: The PEAR Odyssey, Quirks of the Quantum Mind, and Molecular Memories. She also served as coeditor of Filters and Reflections: Perspectives on Reality and Being and Biology: Is Consciousness the Life-Force. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ Her experience and observation of how intuition works ✅ Her book, “Margins of Reality”, and what she means by “sensors and filters” ✅ What the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) “PEAR” is, why it was created, and her role in the program ✅ Some of the major experiments that were conducted at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Lab in remote viewing, and human intention ✅ Her book, “Quirks of the Quantum Mind” and what they are ✅ The International Consciousness Research Lab Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, we’ll be speaking with Parker Palmer, a writer, speaker, activist, and founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal. He has reached millions worldwide via his ten books, including the best-selling Healing the Heart of Democracy, Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, and A Hidden Wholeness. His latest bestseller is On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old (2018). Palmer holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, and 13 honorary doctorates. In 1998, the Leadership Project, a national survey of 10,000 educators, named him one of the 30 “most influential senior leaders” in higher education and one of the 10 key “agenda-setters” of the past decade. I first learned about Parker Palmer through Krista Tippet, as I was a part of the On-Being weekend at 1440 Multiversity many years ago, and was moved by his books. -------- We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ His book, “Let your life speak” and what he means by the phrase: "living the life that wants to live in me." ✅ How he made the decision to create his own path as a teacher and a leader ✅ How he knew that he was not going to go down the conventional road ✅ “Age itself,” he says, “is no excuse to wade in the shallows. It's a reason to dive deep and take creative risks.” ✅ How he decided to take creative risks ✅ In his book, Let Your Life Speak, he talks about how leaders can cast both shadow and light, and a few shadows are: insecurity about identity and worth, and the belief that the universe is a hostile battleground. ✅ His time with the Quakers and how it shaped him ✅ How his journey through the depths of depression shapes his life You can learn more about Parker Palmer here: https://couragerenewal.org/wpccr/parker/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode, I interview Patricia Albere, the founder of the Evolutionary Collective, internationally known contemporary spiritual teacher, visionary, bestselling author of Evolutionary Relationships: Unleashing the Transformative Power of Mutual Awakening and recognized leader in the emerging field of post-personal development. Her unique experience of a sustained dual awakening over 20 years ago led to the discovery of the essential components that create an awakened ‘we space’ that is transforming our understanding of what is possible in the space between us. Patricia has a free, self-paced Introduction to Mutual Awakening e-Course available at www.evolutionarycollective.come/intro-course-yt We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ The new evolutionary dimension of embodiment and what it means to be in an evolutionary relationship ✅ Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how she applies it to the world of relationships ✅ How the need for connection has changed in the last ten years and especially in the last year of the pandemic ✅ The Mutual Awakening Practice and why its important Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with both Dr. Christopher Germer and Dr. Kristin Neff. Christopher Germer, PhD is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program with Kristin Neff in 2010 and they wrote two books, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program. MSC has been taught to over 200,000 people worldwide. Kristin Neff is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, conducting the first empirical studies on self-compassion nearly twenty years ago. She is author of the bestselling book Self-Compassion, and her newest book is Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ What self-compassion is in their words ✅ How self-compassion is different from self-esteem ✅ The steps to connect with yourself through the lens of self-compassion ✅ Why the idea of a “shared or common humanity” is so important in the work of self-compassion ✅ How they teach people this process Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

I am so excited about today’s conversation! Today’s episode is about exploring the magical world of mushrooms and fungi with Giuliana Furci. Giuliana is foundress and executive director of the Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy, Co-Chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee, and author of several titles including a series of field guides to Chilean fungi and chapters in publications such as Fantastic Fungi. Giuliana has worked in the non-profit sector for the last 17 years and has held consulting positions in U.S. philanthropic foundations as well as full-time positions in international marine conservation NGOs, and Chilean environmental NGOs. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ How her path from childhood to undergrad to adulthood brought her to the world of fungi ✅ What mushrooms are and why they are called fungi ✅ The dominant types of mushrooms ✅ Why mushrooms are so important to our ecosystem ✅ Why mushrooms, which have so many benefits, have been so understudied and why there is such a renewed interest in mushrooms today ✅ How mushrooms affect us from a health perspective ✅ Her experience with other types of mushrooms that have gained popularity and some of her discoveries in this space It was a pure delight to connect with Guliana and I think you’ll enjoy this conversation tremendously. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is with Deepak Chopra, founder of The Chopra Foundation, and Chopra Global, a modern-day health company at the intersection of science and spirituality, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Deepak made a major impact on my life when I was in my 20’s in NYC and started listening to many of his recordings, which transformed my life. He is the author of over 90 books translated into over forty-three languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. For the last thirty years, Chopra has been at the forefront of the meditation revolution and has written over 92 books on success, fulfillment, wholeness, and plenty, offering practical advice on how to cultivate a sense of abundance in times of fear and insecurity. TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” www.deepakchopra.com We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to be a human and what it means to be pure consciousness? ✅ What the words “pure potentiality” mean. ✅ What it mean to be “aware” ✅ Why he thinks we are here ✅ How he deals with conflict or suffering ✅ The nature of reality ✅ What our biology has to do with our spirituality and how they function together ✅ The meaning of “naive realism” Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with Brett Fleisher, a life long pursuer of the expressive arts and authentic expression. Brett has traveled down many paths; as an actor, writer, musician, filmmaker, youth educator, somatic and reiki practitioner. After many years of feeling out of balance physically, emotionally and mentally, Brett discovered the power of somatic release and began to heal through old traumas that were causing him lifelong pain and discomfort. He instantly resonated with this approach to integrating the mind, body and belief systems and began studying the Point Holding Process and Somatic Release Technique with his beloved teachers Catalina Ureta and Judith Johnson. Brett founded The Yummy Heart in the fall of 2018 and loves working one on one with people to help guide them back into their bodies, as well as educating people on understanding the function of trauma through workshops and community gatherings. In addition to his work with The Yummy Heart, Brett is a long standing facilitator with Sacred Sons and is currently a lead mentor of the Sacred Sonz Youth Program. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to play as an adult ✅ What somatic embodiment work is , and why he decided to invest in this methodology in his practice ✅ What the Yummy Heart organization, why did you create it, and why did you choose that name? ✅ What Sacred Suns is , and why he decided to join this organization -- and how he’s become a mentor for youth ✅ What it means to show up as a conscious and embodied male in your words ✅ Some of the trends he has seen when working with young men You can find Brett at https://www.theyummyheart.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thephoenixassembly/ https://www.sacredsons.com/ https://beheadedforgreatness.com/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

It seems like disconnection is the disease of our time, and especially disconnection from self. Many people are feeling stuck and living a life on auto-pilot or simply responding to their life as opposed to creating it. 

But what if there was more to our existence than what meets the five senses or what we were programmed to believe? 

In one on one conversations with leading experts in wellness, well-being, consciousness and spirituality, Gateways to Awakening is a platform where leaders share best practices and offer a gateway to help those who are interested expand their awareness and consciousness. 

I’m your host Yasmeen Turayhi, and I’ve spent the last decade exploring the different modalities from the western traditions to the eastern traditions. I believe we need a bridge, and a place for people to access leading voices in the space of cutting edge ideas on wellness, neuroscience, intuition, quantum physics and , near-death experiences, consciousness. 

In this podcast, I interview a spectrum of guests from leading psychotherapists, Academics in Quantum Physics, Neuroscience, Neuroanatomy, and experts in Emotional Awareness, Binaural beats, Intuition, and more. 

I’m the founder of Inner-Knowing School (InnerKnowingSchool.com), a school that trains executives and creatives how to train their intuition for higher awareness, and how to manage their energy instead of their time. 

We ask these questions and more: 

1. How can I understand myself and bring greater awareness into my life? 
2. How can I connect with my own voice and intuition and be on the highest life path possible? 
3. Is there a greater intelligence, a primordial, intuitive intelligence?

Today’s episode is about how we can connect with our innate healing potential through energy medicine. We’ll be featuring our guest, Dr. Jaqueline Chan. Dr. Chan is a Board Certified in Integrative Holistic Medicine and practices in California. She is a Professor at Energy Medicine University as well as Part Time Faculty Member at the Academy of Intuition Medicine. She has been practicing medicine for 22 years and uses tools such as herbal medicine, nutrition, heavy metal detox, osteopathic manipulation, nutrition, bio-identical hormone balancing and functional lab analysis.

This episode is about Reiki, the ancient Japanese healing art which has transformed the lives of many. We'll explore where Reiki originated, how it's used, and where you can go to learn more. We’ll be featuring our guest, Dr. Justin Stein. Justin Stein is an instructor of Asian Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia, Canada. His doctoral thesis was about the historical production of the healing practice called Reiki out of a series of mixtures of American and Japanese spiritual healing practices. He is a regular participant in the Circle of Scholars webinar on Reiki Home and has been practicing Reiki since 2001. You can find more information about him at https://justinstein.academia.edu/ or Justin B. Stein - Reiki Research on Facebook

In this episode, we’ll be featuring our guest, Samira Naba Willson, a Registered Dental Hygienist. She was licensed as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and has completed training in Oral Myofunctional Therapy, and courses in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She was the honored recipient of the John Smith Fellowship award and the American Dental Hygiene Association award for Clinical Excellence. Samira treats individuals and families in a holistic dental office in Mill Valley, CA where she is a licensed dental hygienist, and specializes in phobic, highly sensitive patients. She is also a medical Dental Intuitive and Reiki Master. We’ll dive into the following and more: 1. The type of trauma in the mouth and how to recognize it 2. The specific emotional and physical meridians for each tooth 3. How can patients clear trauma in the mouth 4. The stages and ages of tooth development and eruption and what that means 5. Explanation of holistic dentistry You can reach Samira at www.thepolishedsmile.com.

Today’s episode is about holistic psychotherapy and healing our past in order to heal our future In this episode, I interview Heather Monroe. Heather Monroe, LCSW. Heather is an integrative psychotherapist who specializes in the healing of relational trauma. Through her extensive training and work in clinical and experiential modalities Heather guides clients through a holistic and transformative process. Heather’s approach to helping people is creative, open and flexible as she understands that just as the context of trauma is individual so is the process of healing. Heather is a certified Kundalini yoga teacher as well as a student of Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing training both of which have given her a deep understanding of the body and how trauma is held in and released through it. We talk about: - How healing our past can heal our present - The power of boundaries - What to do when you’ve hit rock bottom - Tools to move you out of a fight or flight moment - The power of gratitude as a practice - Less than, greater than and the differences in attachment styles https://www.monroewellness.com/ @monroewellness on Instagram

Please note, *Do not listen to this while driving as there is a 5 minute guided meditation In this episode, I interview Constance (Connie) Prodromos, who has been practicing Energy Medicine and Acupuncture for over 20 years in CA. After combating a personal illness that no one in the western medical community could solve, she went back to Chinese Medicine / Acupuncture school at the age of 43 while raising two sons. After obtaining a Master’s in Traditional Chinese Medicine and passing the CA State Board exam, she began practicing in January 2000. In 2011 she received a Master’s Certification in Intuition Medicine from the Academy of Intuition Medicine. Connie has some miraculous stories of healing which she shares in this episode. Check out her story and why acupuncture and Chinese medicine are so important to the overall well-being of the human body. In this conversation, we talk about the following topics: - Energy medicine, what it means, how it works - Why Chinese medicine and acupuncture are so important - Explanation of Neuromodulation Technique, BIOSet, and EFT - Our bodies innate ability to heal itself - A BONUS, 5 minute guided meditation to help you become more embodied and grounded You can learn more about Connie and her work at https://marinhealthempowerment.com/ https://intuitionmedicine.org/

I first learned about Anslie Macleod on Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations series and immediately ordered all of his books and read them promptly. Whether you believe in past lives, karma or not (as I was even skeptical myself years ago), this is worth listening to, as it teaches us that we all do have a soul purpose and mission. In this episode, I interview Ainslie MacLeod, an internationally acclaimed past-life psychic, spiritual teacher, and award-winning author of The Instruction, The Transformation, and most recently, The Old Soul’s Guidebook. Ainslie specializes in exploring past lives to reveal your life’s purpose, and has been a featured guest on Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations Series. My conversation with Ainslie was exciting and profound - and I hope you all enjoy it! We talk about: - What it means to be an “old soul” - The difference between a young soul and an understanding of our soul level - How to learn more about your soulmates or soul families - What dominant personality types and themes are dominant for each soul - How you can learn more about your life mission - Typical past life fears - Karma and how it affects our lives You can learn more about Ainslie on his website, learn more about your soul type, and level, and order his books: https://ainsliemacleod.com/ shorturl.at/svEW6

Step Sinatra’s miraculous healing story was featured in the documentary, Heal For Free. A near-death-experience followed by a 40-day hospital stay changed the course of his life forever. In the early 2000’s, he was a successful Wall Street trader that traded his health for money. Spending a million dollars and traveling the globe for answers led to one simple discovery…that the most powerful therapy is right beneath our feet - and is free! Step is now a writer-speaker-teacher in the realm of natural healing, spiritual awakening and prosperity consciousness. While he has many other ventures, now his main focus Grounded.com which he co-founded with his father Dr. Stephen Sinatra in 2009, it is now one of the world’s leading Earthing & Grounding websites. We talk about: - What grounding is, benefits, and techniques - The many ways you can ground - even if you’re indoors - What happens to your body when you’re grounded and connected to the earth - Stories of healing and reducing inflammation with grounding - Step’s journey from sickness to health using this methodology Grounding is when humans make an electrical connection to the earth. In my conversation with Step, we learn that connecting to the earth has a number of health benefits like regulating sleep, reducing stress, increasing immunity and energy and more. Learn more: https://grounded.com/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groundingproducts Grounded Instagram https://www.instagram.com/grounded.com_official/ Step’s individual account - https://www.instagram.com/freespiritwine/

Ever wondered how psychedelics can change your life? Or are you just curious to learn more about how psychedelics can be a gateway into expanded consciousness, healing, and more? In this week's episode, I interview my friend and guest, Dina Burkitbayeva who is a serial entrepreneur and investor in the mental health space. Her fund’s (Forward Vision Fund) investments include ATAI Life Sciences, COMPASS Pathways, The Third Wave among others. Dina is very passionate about supporting companies and institutions building alternative solutions to mental health and helping promote the message that there are more ways to treat mental health than just medication and talk therapy. Dina runs an investment syndicate on Angelist focused on pre-seed and seed companies in the alternative mental health and higher consciousness companies. She also runs a newsletter focused on latest news and trends in the investment and business aspects of the psychedelics therapeutic space. In this conversation, we cover the following: 1. What are psychedelics? 2. The most widely used psychedelics like Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, ibogaine and Ketamine 3. Why have they become so popular and which companies to look out for in this space 4. How can they be used to heal mental health and specifically anxiety and depression 5. How you can invest in this space 6. Stories of healing from people who have used them when nothing else worked Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening On Instagram if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

This week's episode will tell you which emotions often hide in which organs and how to remove stuck emotions in the body that can be weighing you down. In this Episode, I talk to Danny Geren, L.Ac, DAOM, Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, acupuncturist, herbalist and Intuition Medicine® practitioner specializing in, among other things, emotional and spiritual healing. He is also passionate about education, having taught doctoral students for over 6 years at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, as well as at the Academy of Intuition Medicine in Sausalito, CA. His capstone for his doctoral work focused on the exploration and research of various acupuncture treatments for working with the emotions and the spirit. In this conversation, we talk about the following: 1- What is energy medicine? 2- How we store emotions in the body and in which organs (did you know anger is stored in the liver for example?) 3- How we can remove these painful emotions from the body 4- What it means to have a spirit in Chinese medicine 5- Why Chinese medicine and acupuncture is an important practice

Have you ever wondered whether sound can change your mood, or change your nervous system? In this episode, I interview Elizabeth Krasnoff, a master in the world of sound healing and binaural beats. We will learn the following: 1. The science of sound and sound healing 2. How sound healing and binaural beats can affect the nervous system 3. How can we transform our brain waves into the desired brain waves for optimal health and performance 4. The types of healing that can occur with the use of sound and binaural beats 5. How can people access binaural beats Elizabeth is currently working towards her doctorate in Transformative Studies with a focus in Consciousness Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Her inquiry is into the influence of sound on the brain and nervous system, specifically as it regards to binaural beats. She has been a singer/songwriter and is half deaf from childhood, resulting in years of personal study of sound, hearing, and the human voice. She also presents on sound and consciousness at venues such as the Yale Divinity School, CIIS, CIHS, the Academy of Intuition, the Globe Sound Healing Conference, and many others. In 2015, she became a certified Energy Healer through the Academy of Intuition Medicine® Master Certification program (MIM), and received her Sound Healing and Therapy Certificate from the Globe Institute.

In today’s episode, I sit down with Marisa Peer, Britain’s leading hypnotherapist, and Mindvalley teacher, where we dive into how to remove obstacles and reprogram your mind for confidence and success and wellness Marisa Peer is the creator of the multi-award-winning Rapid Transformational Therapy®, international best-selling author, motivational speaker, personal development expert and leading celebrity therapist. In this episode we talk about: 1. How hypnotherapy works and why it’s so effective 2. Why the words that you tell yourself matters more than you think 3. Ways that you can generate abundance and prosperity and remove obstacles or limiting beliefs 4. Stories of transformation from love to career to depression and more by removing self limiting beliefs 5. What the #iamenough movement is and why it’s so important Marisa was such an inspiration to talk to, and I literally felt myself feeling lighter and more expansive during this talk. Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening On Instagram if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

Today’s episode is with an intuitive osteopath, who will teach us about cultivating our attention in order to heal ourselves. On this show, we’ll be featuring our guest, Michelle Veneziano, DO, who is an osteopathic family physician and clinical professor of osteopathic medicine at Touro University in Northern California. She teaches students, patients & doctors how to harvest the wisdom of nature in the body, be our own doctors and heal with ease and pleasure. Her approach to non-surgical orthopedics is rooted in Cranial Osteopathy, a hands-on healing and consciousness practice through which body, mind and spirit return to balance and wellbeing. We discuss: 1- What is an intuitive osteopath 2- How to cultivate resilience in difficult times 3- The difference between a particle and a wave and how to become more connected a greater intelligence 4- How to create your own healing by changing the physiology of the body 5- Stories of transformation from patients Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening On Instagram if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most! Social media handle: https://www.michellevenezianodo.net Linkedin: michelle-veneziano-do Facebook & Instagram: michellevenezianodo

Today’s episode is about the healing art of shiatsu and why it’s important. I chat with Peter Skrivanic. Peter has been a practitioner of Shiatsu and Reiki for over 20 years. As the former director of the Shiatsu School of Canada, he is now a Doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, whose research focuses on the production and transformation of embodied knowledge in globalizing East Asian medical practices. He lives in Kyoto, Japan with his family, where in addition to lecturing in universities, he maintains a private clinical practice. He is also a teacher of Komyo Reiki-do, a Japanese Reiki tradition, who runs classes both in Japan and globally. He brings to his Reiki teaching a wealth of clinical experience and an informed understanding of Japanese traditional medical and spiritual healing traditions. We discuss the following: 1. What shiatsu is, and the different schools of thought 2. How shiatsu has been used as a healing practice in the east and made its way over to the west 3. Why the topic is important 4. The difference between shiatsu verses Reiki Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening On Instagram if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

Today’s show is about how we can harness our happiness even amidst difficult times with Marci Shimoff - one of the world’s international experts on happiness, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and featured in the movie The Secret. We dive into the following topics: 1. How we can be happy all the time 2. What the phrase “Happy for No Reason” means 3. If we are born happy or if’s something we can work on 4. The most exciting thing Marci learned from her research on happiness 5. How people can raise their happiness set-point 6. What the law of attraction means and the connection between happiness and law of attraction https://www.instagram.com/youryearofmiracles/ www.happyfornoreason.com Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening On Instagram if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

Today’s episode is about a new approach to mental health with holistic psychiatrist, Dr. Ellen Vora, an MD graduate from Columbia University medical school. Dr. Vora is a board-certified psychiatrist, medical acupuncturist, and yoga teacher. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health–-considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root, rather than reflexively prescribing medication. In addition to her private practice, Dr. Vora is also a writer, speaker, and a consultant for healthcare startups. In this episode we talk about: 1. Holistic psychiatry, why considering the whole person in healing, and not just one part is needed 2. Tips for insomnia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, and other emotional ailments 3. Why the mind-body connection is so important 4. Dominant themes on health and wellness in the last decade 5. How to stay emotionally balanced Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening On Instagram if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

Today’s episode is with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) where we’ll learn about health & healing, energy medicine, and finding your noetic signature. Helané Wahbeh is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American non-profit parapsychological research institute. It was co-founded in 1973 by former US astronaut Edgar Mitchell. Dr. Wahbeh is clinically trained as a naturopathic physician and research trained with a Master of Clinical Research and two post-doctoral research fellowships. She has published on and spoken internationally about her studies on complementary and alternative medicine, mind-body medicine, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder and their relationships to physiology, health and healing. We discuss the following: 1. What the Institute of Noetic Sciences is, and the astronaut who landed on the moon who founded it and more 2. Research on consciousness and how it affects the physical world and healing 3. Why Helané decided to work at IONS. 4. The study of energy medicine and channeling 5. What a noetic signature is and how to find your own noetic signature 6. We dive into Helané's book “Free to be Me” about her journey from the Middle East to the Bay Area, California Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening On Instagram if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

David Harshada Wagner is a creative mindset consultant, spiritual teacher, author, artist, and proud father who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life to the path of selfless service, spiritual awakening, and radical self-transformation. He has been helping people from all walks of life all over the world live magnificent lives for more than 25 years. He is the author of the bestselling men's book Backbone and is working on his new book based on the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. We talk about so many topics from soulful parenting, self-care, men’s spirituality, and tantra. 1. The quote on David’s website and what it means: "You deserve the best of life and life deserves the best of you". 2. What “soulful parenting” is and why self-care such an important principle that so many parents forget. 3. How we can focus on ourselves throughout a busy day. 4. How to cultivate the sacredness in everyday life. 5. What he learned from his experience with a Tuk Tuk driver in India. 6. A new vision for men’s spirituality and what is “The Men’s Work”. 7. What "Tantric Shaivism" and "tantra" means and much much more! You can learn more about David Wagner here: http://davidhwagner.com/ Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

In today’s episode, we learn about the transformative power of Reiki and Kundalini Energy with our guest Rei Chou. Rei's purpose is to create experiences that help people realize they’re part of something greater. A leader, facilitator and healer, she draws on 12+ years of experience in convening, experience design, and purpose-based innovation with organizations ranging from NASA to Stanford. She founded The Feast, which brings together a global community of innovators and creatives to support each other in living their fullest lives, purpose and potential with over 600 dinners hosted around the world to date. We talk about the following: 1. What is Kundalini Energy and KAP (Kundalini Activation Process), a new energy healing modality 2. What the process of healing is like and why it’s important 3. How the process can become a gateway for spiritual growth and the deepening of consciousness 4. Some interesting stories from people who have experienced Kundalini Activation process 5. The importance of community and Feast for Good Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisisreichou/?view_public_for=371818986791446 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisreichou/ Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

An international teacher, mystic and poet, Richard Rudd attended Edinburgh University where he gained a Master’s degree in literature and metaphysics. All his studies became synthesized in 2002 when he began to write and receive the Gene Keys - a vast synthesis exploring the miraculous possibilities inherent in human DNA. It took 7 years to write the book and understand its teachings and applications. Today Richard continues to extend and embody the wisdom he receives, sharing it with an ever-growing audience around the world. His work has been translated into many languages, and in 2019, Richard was named on the Watkins list of The 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. We talk about the following: 1. What the Gene Keys are and why they are important 2. How people can look up and understand their Gene Keys 3. The shadows, the gift and the siddhi for each Gene Key 4. Particular gene keys we should pay attention to 5. How Gene Keys is different from Human Design 6. What the Pearl and the Venus Sequence is and how to navigate these journeys 7. Why it takes 7 years to really understand the depth of the book The Gene Keys. Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

In today’s episode, we talk about Qi-gong, the Dao, consciousness and pathfinding with Thomas Droge -- a classically trained acupuncturist, herbalist, teacher and author. Thomas is incredible -- he is literally an embodiment of the “Dao”, and has dedicated his life to studying and teaching the healing practices of energy cultivation, conscious movement, internal alchemy and the Daoist path to peace. He is the founder of the Pathfinder Institute and “Spirit Destiny Qi Gong”. 1. Thomas’s focus on the intersection of the Dao, acupuncture, Qi-gong, consciousness, and spiritual transformation 2. We talk about Qi-Gong is, what this practice means and how you can practice this to improve clarity, flexibility and more 3. We talk about the Dao, or the “Tao”, often referred to as the “Tao-Te-Ching” and what this philosophy means in his life 4. We talk about “Pathfinding” and what it means to be on your life path Thomas is currently offering qi gong online and as well as individual Pathfinder mentor sessions, and in person healing sessions in NY. You can find him @: www.thomasdroge.com Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most! And if anyone is struggling in your life, please share an episode that you think might help.

My next guest Beth Greer is the best-selling author of Super Natural Mom, which chronicles her journey of research and experimentation from eliminating a tumor in her chest by detoxing her home and body. Beth Greer is the former President of The Learning Annex -- one of the world’s largest producers of seminars, lectures, online classes, and workshops throughout North America. Her work has been endorsed by Deepak Chopra and Dr. Joseph Mercola. You can find latest news, info and programs at bethgreer.com We talk about the following: 1. What exactly is a toxic home? 2. What we can do to ensure our home is cleaned with sustainable products and that we are living a toxic free life? 3. We talk about everything from food, to products like cleaning supplies, toothpaste, deodorant and more. 4. How Beth healed herself of a tumor in her chest 19 years ago. 5. Her main takeaways on creating a toxic-free life. Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most! And if anyone is struggling in your life, please share an episode that you think might help.

In this week’s episode, I talk to Jen Healy about quantum healing, the importance of play, transformation and how to get into alignment and become embodied. We dive into how healing happens and ‘what the body is calling for’ when an imbalance/illness/injury of some sort shows up in our lives. Jen Healy is a leader in "Quantum Energetics." She combines her Master's in Electrical Engineering and Physics with numerous transformational tools from Eastern and Western philosophies. She has focused her mastery on bridging the gap between science, spirituality, and the healing arts. We talk about: 1. The word “quantum” - where it comes from and what it means in the context of healing 2. How to clear their energy and dissonant energy from their field 3. Pillar of light meditation exercise 4. Her workshops on transformation and embodiment 5. The importance of play and alignment in one’s life http://www.jenhealy.org http://www.quantumhealyng.com Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

In this episode, I sit down with Paul Austin, founder of two companies in the emerging psychedelic space, Third Wave and Synthesis. Currently, Third Wave offers long-form psychedelic guides, online micro-dosing programs, and an industry-best network of clinics and retreat providers. In 2018, Paul co-founded Synthesis and led several high-dose psilocybin truffle retreats over the span of one year. Paul is a pioneer in this space, and has been featured in the BBC, Forbes, and Rolling Stone. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What psychedelics are including ayahuasca, and psilocybin ✅ How psychedelics have been used in mental health ✅ The spiritual component of psychedelics ✅ The “perennial philosophy” and how this shaped Paul’s perspective ✅ What micro-dosing is and how it works ✅ Why set and setting are so important ✅ If you were a beginner in psychedelics, where you could start ✅ How to integrate after a ceremony. ✅ How psychedelics can help you in the business world https://www.paulaustin.co/ Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

Today’s episode is about the alchemy of voice and the transformative power of Princess Diana’s voice of change with her voice coach, Stewart Pearce STEWART PEARCE is a legendary Master of Voice, Radiance Mentor & Angelic Emissary who has worked with Royalty, Actors, CEO’s, change-makers and celebrities for forty years. Stewart was the Head of Voice at the Webber Douglas Academy London and helped pioneer Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre as Master of Voice between 1997-2010. He has coached incredible luminaries such as Margaret Thatcher, Mo Mowlem, Benazir Bhutto, Anita Roddick, Diana Princess of Wales, and Marianne Williamson to name a few. Stewart has published “The Alchemy of Voice", “The Hearts Note”, and most recently - DIANA THE VOICE OF CHANGE – which expresses new revelations about Diana’s life principles, and how she ignited personal radiance and became a Global Icon. We talk about the following and much more: ✅ What the alchemy of voice is, and how someone can find their true note ✅ The difference between speaking from the head versus the heart? ✅ How Stewart met Princess Diana and why he chose to write about Princess Diana now ✅ Why people are still transfixed on Princess Dianca today ✅ Whether THE CROWN Netflix Series is an accurate portrayal of Princess Diana ✅ The book Stewart wrote “DIANA THE VOICE OF CHANGE” and why it’s so important for women today ✅ The spiritual significance of THE DIANA HEART PATH ✅ Why the Women of the World seem to be raising their voices www.dianathevoiceofchange.com www.stewartpearce.com www.theangelsofatlantis.com Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

Today’s episode is about mastering alchemy, creating energetic boundaries, and how to access higher consciousness with Jim Self, an international speaker, author and leader in the field of spiritual development. He has been leading seminars on personal energy management and the Tools of Mastering Alchemy for over 30 years. Jim is the co-author of the interactive book, A Course in Mastering Alchemy: Tools to Shift, Transform and Ascend and Spirit Matters: Down to Earth Tools for a Spirited Life. We talk about the following: ❇️ What it means to “master alchemy” ❇️ How people can cultivate the ability to heal themselves ❇️ The seven living words, and how can they change one’s life ❇️ How you can remove other people’s energy from your space ❇️ How to you activate your higher dimensional chakra or energy systems ❇️ Some of the ways that people can raise their energy and vibration Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

On this episode, we’ll be featuring our guest, Dr. Francesca McCartney. Francesca McCartney holds a PhD in Energy Medicine and Intuition Medicine®, a school I graduated from two years ago. Since 1976 Dr. McCartney has worked in the holistic health field as a medical intuitive in an integrative medicine clinic, spiritual counselor, educator and author. In 1984 Francesca founded the Academy of Intuition Medicine® which offers vocational career training for Medical Intuitives in the art and science of Intuition Medicine®. We talk about the following: ❇️ What energy medicine and intuition means ❇️ How people can cultivate the ability to heal themselves and others ❇️ Other senses beyond the main 5 senses ❇️ The difference between our energetic body and our physical body ❇️ Some of the ways that people can raise their energy and vibration ❇️ Ways people can cultivate abundance and a prosperous life Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

On this episode, we’ll be featuring our guest, Marie Diamond, one of the world’s top transformational leaders, speakers, and bestselling authors. She is the only European star featured in the worldwide phenomenon The Secret. She merges her intuitive knowledge of the Law of Attraction, with her studies of Quantum Physics, Meditation, Feng Shui, and Dowsing to transform the success of individuals, and corporations. Her clients include billionaires, A-list celebrities, writers, speakers, CEOs, Fortune 500 Companies, governments and more than 300,000 students online.. What Feng Shui means 1. How Feng Shui is important for abundance and love 2. Key principles or tips of Feng Shui that everyone can start thinking about today to cultivate abundance and wellness 3. Where the study of Feng Shui comes from 4. Some Feng Shui no-no’s. What you should get rid of immediately. 5. What do you do when you are on vacation or traveling if you feel your room has “bad Feng Shui” You can learn more about Marie Diamond here: FACEBOOK: @mariediamondfans INSTAGRAM: @MarieDiamond8 TWITTER: @mariediamond888 YOUTUBE: MarieDiamond Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

Today’s episode is about the power of breathwork to transform your life, remove toxins, and promote vitality. On this episode, I chat with Francesca Sipma, a former New Yorker, who after 10 years of chasing an insatiable lifestyle, experienced a radical awakening and went on a quest to find higher purpose. She found herself on a deep self-exploration journey exploring modalities and retreats all over the world, and became fascinated by the power of breath and subconscious mind as a catalyst into self-awareness to deconstruct childhood conditioning and social programming. Francesca is now a growth and breathwork coach also certified in hypnotherapy, based in Santa Monica, CA. She is dedicated to helping others come into alignment with their highest selves and live more meaningful lives of purpose and impact. After our interview, I was so intrigued by her development of hypnosis, intention and breathwork, that I joined her 12 week breathwork program. We talk about: 1. What exactly is breathwork? What are some of the various names of breathwork? 2. How breathwork is different than meditation 3. How does meditation work, and the different types of breathwork 4. Why intention is so important before a breathwork session 5. Where this practice comes from 6. How breathwork can transform one’s life You can find Francesca on Instagram. And you can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

Today’s episode is a little different as it's a mix of conversation and an experience. On this episode, we’ll be featuring our guest, Shirin Hedayat, and we discuss how to meditate before we dive into a 30-minute meditation so please DO NOT listen to this episode while driving. Shirin was actually my Teaching Assistant at the Academy of Intuition Medicine, and I thought it would be special to have her on the show since so many people have been told - “Just meditate”, without really understanding how to meditate. I confess that I myself also had difficulty meditating for a very long time because until I was trained, I found it very difficult. And that's especially so if you live in a very analytical world which I’m sure many of you do. Shirin has different modalities, but as the practice of meditation began to profoundly transform her life, she decided to devote her time to leading groups and individuals in mindfulness practices. Shirin also holds an M.S. in Finance/Investments and worked as a Financial Advisor and a Registered Principal for 15 years with a focus on managing assets of small to medium size companies. In 2014, she received a Master Certifications from the Academy of Intuition Medicine in Sausalito where she continues to be a TA and Tutor for new students. We talk about: 1. How to meditate, for those new to meditation 2. Best practices for meditating and how to be inspired to meditate 3. Transformational stories from those who meditate 4. If you are an expert meditator, and you want to dive into the meditation, it starts @minute 19:26 You can learn more about Shirin here: https://www.journeyoftheself.net/ She offers complimentary live meditations every morning in California on Telegram: https://t.me/Essencement You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

Today’s episode is about energy medicine and how to use your body’s health to achieve optimum health and wellness, with Donna Eden. Donna is among the world's most joyous, and most authoritative spokespersons for Energy Medicine. She has been able to clairvoyantly "see" the body's energies all her life, and her abilities as a healer are legendary. Her best-selling book, Energy Medicine, which I have in front of me and read years ago - is the textbook in hundreds of healing classes. She and her husband’s most recent book, The Energies of Love, achieved best-seller status on the NY Times Relationship List. David and Donna were honored by the Infinity Foundation as the first couple to receive its annual “Spirit Award” for their contribution to “the evolution of consciousness” and its “impact on society.” We talk about: 1. What energy medicine is in her terms. 2. What the chakras and the meridians are. 3. What an auric field is. 4. Her work of tapping and acupressure and how it’s helped people. 5. Her book “The Energies of Love” and the different sensory styles in relationships like The Visual, The Kinesthetic, and the Digital Style? 6. Why partners often attract different styles. To learn more about Donna Eden, you can find more information here: www.LearnEnergyMedicine.com You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

Today’s episode may likely blow your mind. In this episode, I talk to Stephan A Schwartz on how to cultivate creativity, remote viewing, and non-local consciousness and the anthropology of religions. For 40 years Stephan A. Schwartz has been studying the nature of consciousness, particularly that aspect independent of space and time. Schwartz is part of the small group that founded modern Remote Viewing research, and is the principal researcher studying the use of Remote Viewing in archaeology. Stephan is the OG in the world of consciousness. He is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction, columnist for the medical and consciousness research journal Explore, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net in which he covers trends that are affecting the future. He has also been an editorial staff member of National Geographic, Editor of Sea Power, and staff reporter and feature writer for The Daily Press and The Times Herald. We talk about: ✅ What remote viewing is and how it works ✅ The 2050 experiment which was conducted in the 1970’s and what he and his team learned about the future from this experiment ✅ Key takeaways from studying the most creative minds and what it takes to be “creative”. ✅ The power of intention and how does intention impact events ✅ Key takeaways from Non-local consciousness and the anthropology of religions research You can learn more about Stephan Scwartz and the Schwartz report here: https://www.schwartzreport.net/ www.stephanaschwartz.com https://www.facebook.com/schwartzreport/ You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

Today’s episode is about water and how we can be healed and hydrated by water, with Gina Bria, an anthropologist and founder of the Hydration Foundation, recognized as a leading resource for hydration science and education. She has been named a Real World Scholar and has just been included in the 2020 team of innovators for the Buckminster Fuller Design Science Decade. She is co- author with Dr. Dana Cohen, MD of QUENCH: Your five day plan to Optimal Hydration recommended by the New York Times, Oprah’s O Magazine, NPR and many other media sources who recognize how she is changing the conversation on hydration, making it easier for us all. We talk about the following: ❇️ How Gina’s path as an anthropologist and studying the desert led her to study water ❇️ What exactly is water and what it does in our bodies ❇️ The 3 things we can do to be healed by water ❇️ The difference between structured water and non structured water ❇️ How to tell when someone is dehydrated ❇️ Tips that people can start to think about in order to become more hydrated You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

I'm so excited to share this episode with you all. I interview Brad Laughlin, the author of Living With Enlightenment—A Journey of Love. I was first introduced to Brad and CoreLight from a previous guest, Helane Wahbe, from the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), who mentioned how impactful CoreLight was to her spiritual journey in her book. Brad is the Executive Director of the international non-profit organization, CoreLight.org which he runs with his life-partner, Leslie Temple-Thurston. As a spiritual teacher for over two decades, Brad’s life dedication is to the transformation of consciousness. He’s based these on the principles of non-duality, and all of his messages focus on the dissolution of our limiting ego structures and include transmissions of love, joy and healing energy. We talk about the following, and much more: ❇️ How to live as an enlightened being in today’s world? ❇️ What Spiritual Training exactly is ❇️ Why so many people have trouble with detachment ❇️ How to work through polarity and moving towards oneness, and become a “witness”, or an “observer” of our lives. ❇️ What the 8 Keys are and how they can help you live a life if integration and wellness ❇️ The Triangles and Squares process that can help you move through your triggers, so you don't have to keep re-experiencing them You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

In this episode, we talk about living in the joy of possibilities rather than judgment with Simone Milasas, BD Manager of Access Consciousness. Simone is an entrepreneur and creator, creative business coach, author and Business Development Manager of Access Consciousness®. She is the founder of Joy of Business, mentoring entrepreneurs around the globe to create greater wealth and happiness, and has been at the forefront of cutting-edge creation and development for over a decade. Simone’s written a few books including “Relationship: Do you really want one?”, “The Joy of Business”, and the best-selling book “Getting Out of Debt Joyfully”. You can learn more about her at http://www.simonemilasas.com We talk about the following: ✅ What it means to live in possibility rather than judgment ✅ What Access Consciousness is and why is the program is so different than other personal development and wellness programs. ✅ What it means to live in the question, and what it means to live by the idea of “choice creates”? ✅ The clearing statement ✅ Her books: Joy of Business and the best-selling book Getting Out of Debt Joyfully Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

I recently asked my community who was the best astrologer and Rebecca’s name kept coming up over and over again. Rebecca M. Farrar, M.A., is known as the Wild Witch of the West. She’s a true master at her craft -- an archetypal astrologer and wild woman living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been featured in Elle, Reader’s Digest, Bustle, Astrology.com, and Elite Daily. Rebecca has offered astrology readings focused on asteroids, dwarf planets, soul-care, feminine archetypes, depth psychology, relationships, and life purpose. And she has quite the background -- In 2013, she completed her M.A. in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness and her thesis titled “Stargazing: Re-enchantment Through Language” that combined linguistics, the evolution of consciousness, and the human relationship to the cosmos. I recently had a reading with Rebecca and in particular focused on astro-mapping, since I wanted to know which cities were lit up in my own chart, and it was quite the adventure diving in. I learned more about my chart than ever before. We talk about: ✅ Her essay “ Intimacy with the Self” and how we can all become more intimate with ourselves ✅ Why astrology is so important, and often so misunderstood ✅ How she shares an astrology reading and also an astro-mapping. ✅ What astrology means collectively and what it means individually and how we should be thinking about our natal chart ✅ The archetypal qualities of planets and what their location mean ✅ What dwarf planets are and the meaning behind an eclipses ✅ The intersection of multiple modalities like astrology, and etymology and mythology and how these all fit together Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Let’s admit it, most of us carry triggers and traumas from our parents and ancestors. Have you ever experienced family constellation therapy? In this episode, I connect with Dan Cohen, PhD, -- an internationally known psychologist, trainer, author and facilitator of Family and Systemic Constellations. He specializes in healing the effects of inherited trauma and helping clients fulfill their desires for having more love and deeper impact in their lives. He uses his knowledge of world history, mythology and culture with his intuitive abilities, and creates profound and transformative healing experiences that expand understanding and restore peace of mind. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What is family constellations therapy? ✅ The three essential aspects of our being 1) Our creative sexual energy, 2) Our heart’s perception of the consciousness that surrounds us, 3)Our crown chakra that connects the light of our soul to the light of the universe ✅ Dominant themes seen after working with individuals and groups on family constellations ✅ Some of the benefits of family constellation therapy like coming to terms with your shadow and aligning with your heart’s desire and soul’s purpose Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. You can learn more about Dan and his work and workshops here: https://seeingwithyourheart.com/about/

Most of us are addicted to technology. For some of us, we are so addicted that we walk from room to room with our phones, as if it’s a part of our body. What would it be like to create a commitment to unplug from technology one day a week? In this episode, I talk to Tiffany Shlain about transforming your relationships and health by unplugging one day a week. Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and author of the national bestselling book 24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection, winner of the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award. She lectures and performs worldwide on the relationship between technology and humanity. There’s so much more I can say about this remarkable woman who sits in between a number of worlds. She’s received over 80 awards and distinctions for her films and work. For information on her work, visit tiffanyshlain.com We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Her philosophy of 24/6 and how to create a ritual to unplug 1 day a week ✅ How this practice has transformed the relationships in her own life ✅ How this practice has transformed the relationships in her own life ✅ The many benefits she’s seen from unplugging when it comes to business and productivity ✅ Why eye contact is an important part of connection? ✅ Transition time, and how to create that space gracefully, as many of us have felt like we’ve unplugged from a time machine every time we get off an online meeting Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Tapping into our creativity often reminds us that we are connected to something greater than just ourselves. In this episode, I sit down with author, psychologist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel to talk about the 12 keys to creativity and how to live a creative life. Eric Maisel is a retired family therapist and active creativity coach and the author of 50+ books. His 2020 books include Unleashing the Artist Within, The Creativity Workbook for Coaches and Creatives, Lighting the Way, and The Power of Daily Practice. In 2021, his new book Transformational Journaling for Coaches, Therapists and Clients and Redesign Your Mind is available. You can visit Dr. Maisel at www.ericmaisel.com. We talk about the following: ✅ What it means to live a creative life in your words ✅ What the word “creative” even means. ✅ The 12 Keys to Creativity, which Eric wrote about in one of his books ✅ How to become unstuck in the creative process. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about the science behind spherical abundance and rapid change with Xponential Intelligence with my guest Mas Sajady. I’m excited about this episode as I’ve been meditating with Mas for the last year, as he talks about some of the most cutting-edge themes in the world of consciousness. I’ve certainly felt a shift in my own consciousness and perspective since following his work. Mas Sajady is a world renowned consciousness programmer who, through his unique techniques and meditations, shifts people’s lives to an evolved and advanced frequency level that enables them to achieve success, fulfillment, and happiness from a natural and balanced state. As the founder of Xponential Intelligence, Mas facilitates rapid changes through quantum reprogramming, which eliminate old dynamic energy partners. During sessions with Mas, regardless of whether you share your problems with him or not, he will discover and eliminate what has obstructed your life in the past. Mas has counseled tens of thousands of people around the world and has worked with business leaders, influencers, professional athletes, celebrities, royal families, and Fortune 500 executives from companies such as Capital Records, Starbucks, Facebook, Fox, Microsoft, FedEx, and many more. As a philanthropist, Mas donates his time to assist schools, hospitals, special needs organizations, and low income communities. We talk about the following: ✅ What it means to be a high consciousness being ✅ What Xponential Intelligence “XI” means ✅ Major themes like abundance, and other high states of consciousness like forgiveness and joy ✅ What “spherical abundance” means ✅ Where he learned his philosophy from ✅ Some of the biggest areas of pain that people are dealing with, and how he works with people Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about the power of the breath and cold showers, with Laura and Isabelle Hof, Wim Hof’s daughters. Laura & Isabelle Hof are Wim Hof Instructors and have been involved with the company Innerfire, behind the Wim Hof Method, from the beginning. They both have founded the Icewomen Community, a Non profit community that promotes cold water and mature dipping amongst women. We talk about: ✅ Why breath is so important ✅ Their father -- Wim Hof, his breath work method, and his journey ✅ What breath work actually is and how it works ✅ What cold showers are and how they help your immunity ✅ Why BOTH breath work and cold showers are so important together ✅ How to deal with resistance to this method ✅ Isabelle and Laura’s own journey and how they decided to become breathwork instructors You can learn more about them here Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Why is there so much misunderstanding between men and women? In this podcast, I interview Alison Armstrong, a behavioral philosopher and one of the top subject matter experts on relationships between men and women. Her exploration of human behavior began in 1991, with her decision to study men, “To find out how she was bringing out the worst in them. And hopefully, how to bring out the best.” Her success in understanding men naturally led to studying women’s behavior and making vital connections between the two. Alison is an author of many books and courses on the subject of understanding both men and women, and she’s a highly referenced and sought after speaker. You can check out her work at: understandmen.com We talk about: ✅ Ending the “war between the sexes” ✅ How women sometimes bring out the worst in men ✅ Major misconceptions women have about men today ✅ Major misconceptions men have about women ✅ How relationships have changed since the start of the pandemic And much more. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard trained and published neuroanatomist. In 1996 she experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain causing her to have a stroke, and lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write or recall any of her life. Her memoir, My Stroke of Insight, which I’ve read, documents her experience with stroke and eight-year recovery. The book spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, and is still routinely the #1 book about stroke on Amazon. In 2008 she gave the first TED talk that ever went viral on the Internet, which now has well over 27 million views. Also in 2008, Dr. Taylor was chosen as one of TIME Magazine's “100 Most Influential People in the World”. On this episode, we’ll be diving into her new book “Whole Brain Living The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life”. We talk about: ✅ Her new book “Whole Brain Living”, and what it means ✅ What the “four characters” are and why is getting to know them is important ✅ What the “Brain Huddle” is and how you can train our four characters to work with each other ✅ How the four characters map to the hero’s journey ✅ How incredible Jill’s opportunity to study a stroke from the inside out was in her position as a neuroanatomist ✅ How it takes less than 90 seconds for the chemistry of that emotion to flood through us how to deal with an emotional response ✅ Her quote “Please take responsibility for the energy you bring” and what that means ✅ Her rehabilitation in the book “My Stroke of Insight” You can follow her here: www.drjilltaylor.com Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

I often hear men say that they don’t have an emotional outlet, or that their partner is the only person who they can emotionally connect with. Today’s episode is about how to be a conscious male in today’s world with Mike Sagun, a men's coach and an EVRYMAN facilitator. He has a somatic approach to coaching clients and focuses on helping men develop emotional awareness. Mike guides men out of their heads and into their bodies. He is a SF Bay Area Native now living full time in San Miguel de Allende, MX with his husband, Jerry, and his pitbull rescue, Bert. I had the great pleasure of spending time with Mike in San Miguel and felt it was important that we share his work on the show. We talk about: ✅ How Mike has been a leader in the men’s work movement for a long time, and what brought him to this work ✅ Themes he has seen over the years in coaching men ✅ Why men are so misunderstood in society today ✅ Some of the most life-changing questions he’s been asked ✅ How the group Evryman works ✅ Some of the biggest breakthroughs he has seen as a lead facilitator in Evryman You can learn more about Mike here: https://www.mikesagun.com/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

I first learned about Dr. Shauna Shapiro through her Ted talk “Good Morning I love You” and through our mutual friend Nicole Patrice! Shout out to Nicole! Dr. Shauna Shapiro is a professor at Santa Clara University, best-selling author, and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and compassion. She has been an invited speaker for the King of Thailand, the Danish Government, Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Summit, the Canadian Government, and the World Council for Psychotherapy, as well as for Fortune 100 Companies including Google, Cisco Systems, Proctor & Gamble, and LinkedIn. Dr. Shapiro has published over 150 journal articles and co-authored three critically acclaimed book, and her most recent book “Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire the Brain for Calm Clarity and Joy” is available on Amazon and Audible. We talk about the following and much more: ✅ What mindfulness is and it's so important ✅ The difference between mindfulness and meditation ✅ Why people are so disconnected from their mindful nature? ✅ What it means to have compassion, kindness and altruism ✅ The self-kindness morning meditation that she practices every day Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode, we’ll be featuring Neale Donald Walsch. He has written 39 books on contemporary spirituality and its practical application in everyday life. Seven of the nine books in his Conversations with God series have made the New York Times Bestseller list, with Book One remaining on that list for 134 weeks. His latest book is The God Solution, was published in Dec. 2020. He can be reached at NealeDonaldWalsch.com. I first learned about Neale from the Mindvalley community, and read all of the CWG series, and found them to be fascinating. We talk about the following and much more: ✅ What it means to live as an enlightened being in today’s world ✅ What he means by “the God dilemma” ✅ The topic that has been most transformative for his readers and why ✅ The difference between knowledge and wisdom Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Betty Kay is a New York, fine art, street artist who came from the hills of Napa Valley, CA, and is referred to as "street art royalty" in the spiritual circles that tend to mark her path. She is many things all in one: she focuses on magical realism and fierce freedom. Each of her series is guided by the story of the future pouring through her paintbrush. Her pieces sell swiftly and she adores connecting deeply to the souls of who she creates for. We talk about: ✅ What it means to live a life filled with magic ✅ What creativity means to her ✅ How to create as an artist ✅ How she connects spirituality and art ✅ How the audience can cultivate their creativity ✅ How to bring softness in Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about the cosmos and investigating our place in the universe. My next guest almost requires no introduction. We’ll be featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and author of more than a dozen books—like Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. He is the host of StarTalk, a podcast, and Cosmos, televised by Fox and National Geographic. He has received 21 honorary doctorates as well as NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal. We talk about the following and more: ✅ What is our place in the universe and if we are alone ✅ The mysteries of the cosmos and how life began ✅ How the planets are classified today ✅ The most surprising thing that he has learned in the last 6 months ✅ The building blocks of astrophysics for a mainstream audience that may not have access to a lot of concepts in physics, and astrology ✅ How human beings are made up of the “stars” ✅ Something that is important for every human on earth to understand when it comes to the cosmos ✅ How Neil’s approach to science is evolving A special thanks goes to our sponsors for this episode, the Hydration Foundation, a non-profit organization, focused on better hydration for people, plants, animals and soil. As the leading authority on hydration, the foundation is dedicated to solving our health on this planet through creating better systems and conversations when it comes to water, and how it moves through our bodies, irrigation and food systems. You can learn more about the Hydration Foundation by navigating to www.hydrationfoundation.org. Donate to the Hydration Foundation’s program to restore soil through water. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Dr. BJ Miller is a hospice and palliative medicine physician and educator. He currently sees patients and families through Mettle Health, a company he co-founded with the aim to provide personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability. BJ has given over 100 talks nationally, and internationally, on the topics of death, dying, palliative care, and the intersection of healthcare with design. His 2015 TED Talk: “Not Whether But How” (aka “What Matters Most at the End of Life”), has been viewed over 11 million times and he has been on Oprah Winfrey, PBS, The New York Times. His book, A Beginner’s Guide to the End, was published in 2019. I found this book to be a must-read, and we discuss why on the show. For those of you who have lost a loved one, or want to prepare your families for your own transition or another’s, this episode is for you. We talk about: ✅ What it means to die well ✅ Why most people find it so difficult to talk about both death and disability in the West ✅ Some of the biggest regrets he has seen family members share as their loved ones approach death ✅ The preparation that goes into the end of life: paperwork, conversations and more You can learn more about BJ Miller here: https://www.mettlehealth.com/who-we-are Special thanks go to our sponsors for this episode, the Hydration Foundation, a non-profit organization, focused on better hydration for people, plants, animals and soil. As the leading authority on hydration, the foundation is dedicated to solving our health on this planet through creating better systems and conversations when it comes to water, and how it moves through our bodies, irrigation and food systems. You can learn more about the Hydration Foundation by navigating to www.hydrationfoundation.org. Donate to the Hydration Foundation’s program to restore soil through water. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

I’ve been really interested in speaking with Deepa for a number of reasons 1st - because she is the author of the book, Chup: Breaking The Silence About India's Women, and the creator and host of What’s a Man? Masculinity in India Podcast. She also has a TED talk called “The 7 Bad Habits Women Must Unlearn”, and in her TED talk, she shares the results of her research on what it means to be a good girl and a good man, and it was profound. Deepa was also the former Senior Adviser at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. and has written 17 books and was named one of the 100 most influential global thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine in the USA and as one of India's 35 Great Thinkers by India Today. Deepa Narayan’s website can be found at www.deepanarayan.com We talk about: ✅ Her research that led to the talk, 7 bad habits women must unlearn and the beliefs used to silence women ✅ The bad habits that women must unlearn ✅ Why she has been so passionate about these topics and empowering women ✅ Where she learned her philosophy from ✅ Why she started the podcast “What’s a Man” Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about how to search inside yourself in order to change the world with Rich Fernandez, the CEO of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute “known as SIYLI”, a non-profit organization developed at Google that now offers Google’s mindfulness and emotional intelligence programs to communities and organizations around the world. Rich previously founded Wisdom Labs and received his PhD in Psychology from Columbia University and is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. I want to personally thank my dear friend Tyler Peterson who used to work with Richard for the introduction! We talk about: ✅ What it means to Search Inside Yourself ✅ The talk he gave at the United Nations about the topic of mindfulness and emotional awareness at work today ✅ What neuroscience has to do with mindfulness ✅ The kinds of company/organization that usually hires Search Inside Yourself and the results he has seen with the work ✅ Why he decided to become the Search Inside Yourself CEO after working at Google and founding Wisdom Labs https://siyli.org/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

What do our dreams really mean? How should we deal with nightmares? Why do so many dreams feel so real? In this episode I talk to psychologist Joe Griffith about why we dream and what our dreams mean. Joe Griffin is a psychologist, author and Co-Founder of the Human Givens approach with many years of experience both in psychotherapeutic practice and in training psychotherapists. He has written a number of books including: Why We Dream: The definitive answer, and other books on treating anxiety and depression. We talk about: ✅ Why is it important to understand our dream state ✅ What it means to dream at night ✅ How we learn and understand what our dreams really mean ✅ How daydreaming, hypnosis, creativity, dreaming and lucid dreaming all relate to each other ✅ Why our dreams are so intense and feel real when we experience them, and yet are so easily forgotten ✅ If everyone dreams and why some people remember their dreams while others do not Over the last two decades, as co-developer of the human givens approach to psychology and behaviour, thousands of health professionals have benefited from his workshops on therapy for treating anxiety related disorders, depression, trauma and addiction. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today, we dive into how to redirect negative chatter and achieve a zen life with Dr. Srikumar Rao. Dr. Rao works with executives worldwide to achieve a quantum breakthrough in their personal and professional lives. Dr. Rao has been among the highest rated and most popular professors at many of the world’s top business schools. His work has been featured in major media worldwide and his TED talk has been viewed by millions on different sites. Dr. Rao’s lifework is to help persons effect this transformation in their lives. He is an elite coach for persons seeking spiritual growth who also want to leave an outsize impact on the world. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Why he is so interested in the work of happiness and zen living ✅ What is his definition of success today in our business world ✅ Why he believes so many people feel disengaged today ✅ For those of us who have negative chatter, some of his tips and strategies for dealing with that chatter ✅ Some of the ways we block our happiness and ways we can get energized in our work Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

What does it mean to live a sacred life? Today, I speak with the prolific Queen Afua who has over 40 years experience as a holistic health practitioner and wellness coach. A pioneer in the green foods’ movement, Queen Afua is the author of 6 books, the creator of the Heal Thyself product line, and CEO of the Queen Afua Wellness Institute. Queen Afua has devoted her life to fighting the overwhelmingly high rates of hysterectomies, fibroids, hypertension, and other diseases by teaching people how to understand and utilize the power of food, self-care, and holistic healthy choices as an empowering lifestyle. She is the founder of Sacred Woman, a rigorous rites of passage program for adult women that is taught internationally. I recently read her bestselling book Sacred Woman and was so blown away by the level of detailed information in the book about health and wellness, and wanted to share her 50 year+ wisdom with our audience. We talk about the following and more: ✅ What it means to be a “Sacred Woman” ✅ Why women are often so disconnected from their femininity, and specifically their womb ✅ How to purify your life inside out ✅ What to eat, and the “sacred foods altar work”. ✅ The 9 Rites of Passage in becoming a woman You can learn more about Queen Afua here: https://www.queenafua.com/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, please DM me.

Today’s episode is about creating business and health success with intention and purpose with Eric Edmeades. Widely recognized as one of the most powerful, engaging and entertaining speakers in the world today, Eric Edmeades has shared the stage with leading experts like Sir Richard Branson, Jack Canfield, John Gray, Robin Sharma, and President Bill Clinton. Eric has logged over 10,000 hours on stage and spoken in over 20 countries around the world. Eric routinely speaks at business, marketing and technology conferences, film festivals, corporate engagements and does pro-bono talks and consulting for not-for-profit organizations and schools. I first heard about Eric through the Mindvalley community and recently took his class on the Mindvalley app about creating an intentional business and thought it was incredible. We talk about the following and more: ✅ What it means to create an “intentional business” ✅ The different types of entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial paths ✅ Why so many businesses fail and how to deal with adversity and change ✅ How much of his spiritual world is aligned with his business world ✅ What Freedom Fridays are and why it is so necessary to disconnect Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. We'd like to thank our sponsors, Nowatch for this episode. Nowatch is a smart jewelry awearable that measures and predicts stress one hour in advance, helping you restore balance, and improve relaxation and sleep. With a collection of 9 interchangeable gemstones to suit your daily mood and style. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, please DM me.

In today’s episode, I speak with ​​Karla Mclaren, M.Ed. an award-winning author, educator, social science researcher, empathy expert, and workplace consultant. Her work revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. Her applied work, Dynamic Emotional Integration®, is a groundbreaking process that reveals the genius and healing power within the emotional realm. She is the author of many books, including The Power of Emotions at Work, Embracing Anxiety, and The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You, and she’s the developer of the online learning site EmpathyAcademy.org. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ Why understanding our emotions is so important ✅ Why so many people do not understand their emotions ✅ Why “Restoring the intellect to it’s rightful position” ✅ In her book “The Language of Emotions”, we talk about the need for a balanced psyche, and incorporating the elements of air, earth, water and fire. ✅ Some of the dominant emotions she speaks about in her work, specifically, anger, guilt & shame, fear and then boredom - and how to move through them. ✅ What happens when someone represses their anger? And why she says that dealing with your emotions (like anger) should be a restorative act. It was a pure delight to connect with Karla and I think you’ll enjoy this conversation tremendously. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Enmeshment and healthy boundaries are a topic of interest for many of us, as our family dynamics often contribute to our inability to show up in our romantic relationships. In today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Kenneth M. Adams who began his professional career in 1981 treating children, adolescents, and their families. Dr. Adams created and facilitates the Enmeshment Workshops: From Guilt and Ambivalence to Passion and Purpose to help those struggling to break free from enmeshment. In 1985 he began a private practice with the Children of Alcoholic Parents program, an outpatient program for the treatment of adults who had grown up in alcoholic families. It was there that he began to notice that many of these clients had addictions and enmeshment issues, two of his primary specialties today. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What is enmeshment? ✅ Why does it happen, and how often does it happen? ✅ When does it start? ✅ How enmeshment is different between parents and children v romantic partners ✅ The difference between enmeshment and codependency ✅ Some ranges of healthy enmeshment v unhealthy enmeshment ✅ How he works with people who need to create boundaries and step out of their enmeshment patterns ✅ Guidance for parents as well as children who are in enmeshed relationships Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with Barbara Huson (previously known as Barbara Stanny), who is the leading authority on women, wealth and power. As a bestselling author, financial therapist, teacher & wealth coach, Barbara has helped millions take charge of their finances and their lives. Barbara's background in business, her years as a journalist, her Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, her extensive research, and her personal experience with money give her a unique perspective and makes her the foremost expert on empowering women to live up to their financial and personal potential. Barbara is the author of 7 books including, Prince Charming Isn’t Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money, Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to up Your Earnings and Change Your Life, Overcoming Underearning: A Five-Step Plan to a Richer Life, Finding a Financial Advisor You Can Trust: A Guide for Investors and Those Who Want To Be, We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Why is wealth a topic so many women do not talk about? ✅ What does it mean to be “wealthy”? ✅ Why so many women have so much difficulty making or managing money ✅ The three levels of financial development ✅ Why she said “problems with money are never about money”. ✅ Why so many women are underearners Barbara Huson has been featured on Good Morning America, The View, Extra, The O'Reilly Report, and many times on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, PBS and NPR, as well as the New York Times, and USA Today. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I sit down with Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., a psychologist, writer, speaker, and Jungian analyst who has published 19 books including, The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance and Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path. She hosts the popular podcast ENEMIES: From War to Wisdom that provides a fresh look at human hostilities and what to do about them. She is a lifelong Buddhist practitioner and a Mindfulness teacher. I learned about Polly through a past guest, Katherine Woodward Thomas, who spoke so highly of her work, and I’m excited to dive in. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What does ”love between equals” mean? ✅ What is projective identification and why does it feel like such a terrible offense? ✅ Why does it recreate the conditions that we so often want to escape? ✅ Why we often get stuck in loops in our relationships - it seems like we often get to the same impasse. Why does this happen? ✅ Why we are so unprepared to be in equal relationships? And what she has seen in her workshops on how we can become equipped to become equal. ✅ What the self-esteem trap is ✅ How we free ourselves of self-importance? Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is with David Bingham, a leading voice in the world of consciousness. His interview on Consciousness TV was a major inspiration for Rhonda Byrne’s creation of The Secret, which she publicly talks about, and is how I first heard about David. After interviewing David, I felt a wave of peace wash over me, as he has a profound way of speaking about our true nature in a way that changed my entire perspective on reality. David was a spiritual seeker for nearly thirty years, before realizing his True nature in 2005, while listening to a podcast of the American non-duality teacher, John Wheeler. Gradually, following Realization, he started speaking one to one with people seeking to realize their True nature. Effortless Being is the core aspect of his approach. He has assisted over two thousand people to become Self realized. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to “wake up” and what the experience was like for David ✅ What it means to be a human and what it mean to be consciousness ✅ What it means to be “awareness” ✅ The difference between self-realization and consciousness ✅ How he defines the concept of “self realized” ✅ How he deals with conflict and suffering ✅ The role that love plays in our reality ✅ How we can change our self-concept Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is with Ethan Kross, one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he is the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. Ethan has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed about his research on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to have an inner critic ✅ Why we have an inner critic, and how you would guide people to deal with their inner critic ✅ How he came up with this concept of dealing with the inner critic ✅ What he has learned about self-control ✅ Why some people benefit from turning inwards to understand their feelings, while others are apt to fall apart when they engage in precisely the same behavior? ✅ Why some people have louder inner critics than others? https://www.ethankross.com/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Have you ever wondered what happens after we die? Today’s episode is with James Van Praagh, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of over a dozen international best-sellers, including his debut, Talking to Heaven and his latest, most transformative book, The Power of Love: Connecting to the Oneness. He is considered one of the most widely-recognized and accurate spiritual mediums working today. A “survival evidence medium," Van Praagh provides evidential proof of life after death via highly detailed messages from the spiritual realm. He is hailed throughout the world as a pioneer of the mediumship movement. For over three decades, his messages have brought comfort and peace to millions grieving lost loved ones or fearing death and the unknown. Throughout his career, James Van Praagh has appeared on countless national radio and television shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, Dr. Phil, 48 Hours, The View, The Joy Behar Show, Chelsea Lately, Coast to Coast AM and many more. We talk about the following and more: ✅ When he was able to connect with the other side ✅ What it means to have spirit guides, and what kind of spirit guides exist ✅ Where spirit guides reside and specifically what the astral dimension, the etheric dimension, the spiritual dimension, and the celestial dimension are. ✅ What it means to connect with the other side, what it feels like ✅ Some of the greatest lessons he has learned from this work Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about how frequency, vibration and perception can change your life with respected clairvoyant empath, visionary, author, and popular lecturer - Penney Peirce. For many years, Penney has taught and counseled thousands of people internationally, in all walks of life. She is one of the early pioneers in the intuition development movement, specializing in expanded perception, inner energy dynamics, dreamwork, and transformation. She helps leaders, professionals, artists, and those on a spiritual path discover the hidden dynamics of what makes for true success. Penney’s website is www.penneypeirce.com She is the author of ten books, including, Transparency: Seeing Through to Our Expanded Human Capacity. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ How she defines intuition ✅ What the terms frequency, vibration and energy mean to her ✅ In the book Frequency, she talks about finding your “home frequency”, and what she means by that ✅ The different brain wave states and why are they important to understanding vibration and awareness ✅ The importance of the heart when exploring our personal vibration and intuition ✅ How much of our reality we actually have control over ✅ Why attention skills are so important in this practice Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is with Payal Kadakia, the founder and executive chairman of ClassPass, a monthly membership program that provides people of all fitness levels access to the best boutique fitness classes, gyms, and wellness experiences across the US and abroad. Since its launch in 2013, ClassPass has facilitated almost 100 million reservations across 22,000 partner studios in over 20 countries. Payal is also the founder and artistic director of The Sa Dance Company, founded in 2009 with the mission to increase awareness of Indian Dance in the mainstream. Payal has been listed as one of FAST COMPANY’s 100 Most Creative People, and was named to FORTUNE’s 40 under 40 list. Her book LIFEPASS: Drop Your Limits, Rise to Your Potential - A Groundbreaking Approach to Goal Setting debuted on February 15th, 2022. We talk about the following and more: ✅ Why she created Classpass and how the company transformed her ✅ How her experience of growing up Indian American influenced her journey ✅ How she deals with fear on her journey ✅ What it takes to set goals and commit to them ✅ In her book, she talks about “finding your gift and giving it away” ✅ The importance of setting clear boundaries as an entrepreneur ✅ How she deals with adversity and change as an entrepreneur Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

Today, we are talking about Jiddu Krishnamurti and his teachings. For those of you who dont know of him or his work, Krishnamurti was a great philosopher of the 20th century. Khalil Gibran considered him the manifestation of “the God of Love”. George Bernard Shaw said, “He is the most beautiful person I have ever met.” Today’s episode is with Michael Korhnen, who was born in Germany at the end of World War 2. Growing up in post-war Germany disillusioned him in regard to social, collective efforts. He studied world religions, like Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and more. In 1975, through the recommendation of some friends from Ojai, he assumed the position of chef at the school there - the newly founded Oak Grove School, even though he had never cooked before. Part of his duty as school cook turned out to be preparing luncheons for JK and his guests during the three-month period that JK stayed in Ojai, California. Thus, he got to know JK in a personal, casual setting, and they became good friends. After JK's passing in February 1986, he started composing a memoir, based on his times with the philosopher. It was a labor of love and was published in 1995 under the title "The Kitchen Chronicles - 1,001 Lunches with J. Krishnamurti". Michael has continued working for the KFA (Krishnamurti Foundation of America) in various capacities. For the past twenty years he has been the Librarian at the Krishnamurti Library in Ojai, which is where we met. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Who Krishnamurti is and why his work is important ✅ What Theosophy is and how Madame Lavasky’s work influence the journey of Krishnamurti’s life ✅ What brought JD to Ojai, and what he thinks his greatest legacy has been on humanity ✅ How he came to meet Krishnamurti and what his experience was like after spending so much time with him ✅ Why JD urges listeners not to accept what he tells people at face value and why he was so different than other philosophers and mystics Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

You won’t want to miss today’s conversation. On today’s episode, I speak with the incredible Connie Zweig Ph.D., a retired therapist and writer. Known as the Shadow Expert, she is co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality. Her new bestselling book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won both the 2021 American Book Fest Award and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul. We talk about the following and much more: ✅ What the shadow is, and why the shadow is something we often don’t talk about ✅ Why she started the book Romancing the Shadow with the story of the Portrait of Dorian Gray ✅ How our family dynamics, and societal dynamics contribute to the development and later the suppression of our shadows ✅ What the family shadow, the family soul and the sibling shadow are and how they play out ✅ Why she says there is “gold in the shadow”. ✅ What usually happens when people start to romance their shadows. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

Today’s episode on Gateways to Awakening is about Lucid Dreaming with Robert Waggoner. Robert has had more than 1,000 lucid dreams. His two books, Lucid Dreaming - Gateway to the Inner Self and Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple (with co-author Caroline McCready) have been translated into French, German, Chinese, Korean and other languages. Robert teaches lucid dreaming internationally and online at www.lucid-dreaming-advice.com to help people access creativity, heal wounds and discover their larger self. We talk about the following and much more: ✅ Why its important to understand our dream state ✅ What it means to lucid dream and the five stages of lucid dreaming ✅ How lucid dreaming is a way to get in touch with the inner self, or the inner observer. ✅ Why he uses a counter-intuitive technique to ignore the dream figures and objects ✅ How we learn and understand what our dreams really mean ✅ How we can use lucid dreaming as a tool for personal growth and transformation Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

Today’s episode on Gateways is with Judith Newman, a globally known spiritual guide. She spent her early childhood in Sri Lanka and migrated to Australia. For as long as she can remember, she’d ask the questions: Who Am I ? and ... Why Am I here? She was drawn to meditation & yoga briefly in her 20's, and in 2004, she had a Profound heart opening and kundalini awakening. She went on a himalayan trekking with Sages & Guru's. She says that Post realization comes with its own challenges, but also wonderful grace & blessings. From her own experience, she would say a guide is vital on this path, and that's what she now offers to those who are ready for their "True Self" , the simple recognition of who they are. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to be a self-realized being? ✅ What it means to be a human and what does it mean to be consciousness? ✅ What our true nature is at our core. ✅ Why we are here ✅ What it means to be an “effortless being”? ✅ How to deal with conflict or suffering I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

Today’s show is incredible and frankly, I can’t wait for you all to listen. On today’s episode, I speak with Ulisse Di Corpo who holds degrees in experimental psychology and a PhD in statistics and social research. He works in the field of social research and provides methodological support and software tools to researchers. In 1977 he developed the vital needs theory, which was the subject of his theses in psychology and statistics and stems from the conflict between syntropy and entropy. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What syntropy and entropy means ✅ What it means to “diverge” vs. “converge” ✅ What it means exactly to have brain and heart coherence ✅ The results of some of the experiments he worked on ✅ How we can get into the state of brain and heart coherence and how it relates to our intuition I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen.

In today’s episode, I speak with Eden Amadora, a speaker, coach, mentor and spiritual guide. She is a featured author in The New Feminine Evolutionary, Sacred Body Wisdom and Divine Reunion. She is an ordained 13 Moon priestess, a divine feminine mystery school teacher, an archetypal channel, a mystic and a muse. Full disclosure, I am actually several months in her 13 month priestess training and it has been one of the greatest blessings that has entered my life. I’ve learned about the divine feminine archetypes and so much more. I decided to join right after our interview a few months ago, as I was so moved by our conversation. Eden serves the great awakening on Earth by holding a clear compassionate mirror for all, uplifting, inspiring and supporting us to return to the center of our essence beauty to fully embrace ourselves as nothing less than unique. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Why understanding the divine feminine is important ✅ Why the feminine has been suppressed for so long ✅ How we connect with our feminine when so much of the working world rewards masculine charachteristics? ✅ What she means by “feeding the feminine first”? ✅ How we can balance both our masculine and feminine sides? ✅ What archetypes and why they are important to understanding how to embody the divine feminine ✅ What tantra is, and specifically the difference between white tantra and red tantra? I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode, I speak with Thornton Streeter, the founder of the Center of Biofield Sciences, now based in Panaji in his own research center after 18 years at the UNESCO, MIT, World Peace Center. He focuses on investigating the anatomy and physiology of the human biofield. In addition, he has also founded the Energy Medicine Exchange and he is a collaborator on the subtle energy imaging system, the Biofield Viewer. Dr. Streeter has spent over twenty-five years specializing in research of the Human Biofield and encourages research worldwide that is designed to integrate modern medicine with the traditional understanding from Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ The different ways that we can look at matter, and some of the misconceptions people have about the human body ✅ What energy medicine is and why it is so important ✅ How the heart and other major organs continue to the importance of the energy field ✅ Our hormonal glands and their importance to understanding energy medicine ✅ What the biofield is and why understanding the biofield is so important ✅ How we can change our own biofield and chakras if they are out of balance ✅ What “wave state medicine”, and what “frequencies” are I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

Today’s episode is about how to heal through seasonal herbs and listening to the body wisdom with Marysia Miernowska, an herbalist, teacher, author, Earth activist, gardener, and green witch rooted in the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Marysia and some of her students, and she is an incredible teacher and healer. She teaches herbal medicine, regenerative farming practices, Earth magick and holistic healing and is the creator of The School of The Sacred Wild. Her work and devotional practices are centered around the mission of supporting a deepening of the love and regenerative relationship between Earth and People, for the mutual healing of both human and plant communities Marysia makes herbal medicine, runs a yearly apprenticeship program, consults on regenerative land care, designs gardens, formulates for natural healing companies, curates educational events, writes, speaks and teaches internationally. She has authored the book, “The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary: Rituals & Recipes for a Year of Earth Magick and Sacred Medicine Making”. You can follow Marysia on instagram @Marysia_Miernowska. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ What the seasons have to teach us for our own wellness ✅ What it means to live with the seasons ✅ What it means to eat with the seasons ✅ What some of her favorite rituals are ✅ Some of her daily go-to herbs and why ✅ Some of the herbs we should be eating or drinking per season and why ✅ What it means to be a “Wise Woman”? I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I’ll be speaking with Peggy Fitzsimmons who holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and has worked in the fields of counseling and healing for over 25 years. She also lived and worked at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in New York and was a consulting producer on Oprah Winfrey's Emmy-winning TV series Super Soul Sunday. Peggy has utilized her expertise to help many people “get their houses in order” through intensive decluttering. In her book Release: Create a Clutter Free and Soul Driven Life, she shares spiritual and practical insights with readers who want to free themselves from clutter and live in alignment with their true soul nature. We talk about the following and more: ✅ The types of clutter do we often carry in our life ✅ How she works with people to help them declutter ✅ The process she walks people through when it comes to decluttering ✅ Mental clutter, emotional clutter, energetic clutter, relationship clutter, physical clutter, and more. ✅ How some of the people she’s worked with changed their lives by decluttering I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with best-selling author, artist, and creativity leader SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy. SARK began by creating her iconic How To Be An Artist poster in her Magic Cottage in San Francisco, and has now operated her highly successful creative business for over 30 years. SARK is both a verb and a noun and everything in between – you won’t want to miss this episode! I left the conversation feeling energized and inspired. Her books has sold over three million copies. Her art, programs, products and services have sold around the world. She is an acclaimed teacher and mentor, and her wisdom has touched and transformed the lives of millions. She has a new book called Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing with your wild self. It’s the 25th anniversary edition. We talk about the following and more: ✅ How we develop succulent wild love and the six habits ✅ What the creative process means to her ✅ What it means to tend to and transform your feelings ✅ What “succulent wild communication” is and how we can tap into it ✅ Succulent wild relationships and how we can have them I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I’ll be speaking with Nicole Marie, the pedagogista at Evergreen Community School, a progressive social constructivist preschool in Santa Monica that’s been educating children, teachers, and conducting teacher research for over forty years. She was a founding member and a mentor teacher for the PilaGlobal, which has been a hub for discourse in early childhood, and currently builds and supports educational spaces for young children displaced by poverty world wide. An educator and writer, she was the lead writer for Patagonia’s award nominated book Family Business: Innovative On- Site Child Care Since 1983. Her work training and consulting with schools has taken her into educational spaces all over the country and world. A long time Buddhist meditator and practitioner of Soulmaking Dharma, there is a strong connection between her understandings of human consciousness and imagination and what it means to serve young children and their families. In 2022, Nicole and Evergreen Community School will be publishing “The Pencil is Me: a Collection of Poetry by Young Children,” which is a selection of poems collected from over a decade’s poetry written by two to five-year-olds. We talk about the following and more: ✅ Why understanding children is so important? And how have we misunderstood them? ✅ How the view people have of children and childhood impact and structure children's live ✅ Where most people get stuck or misunderstand young children ✅ What the value of children and childhoodmeans in the wider culture ✅What children have to teach us about the role of imagination in a well lived life ✅ What happens to schools and our perspective on what education is, when we shift the question from what makes a "good education" to what do young people need to learn live a fulfilled human life? I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with Pierre Tham, a celebrated chef, restaurateur, author, entrepreneur and environmental activist. His TED talk “A forgotten ancient grain that could help Africa prosper” moved me, and I felt his story was so powerful that we had to have him on the show. Big thanks to our mutual friend Nicole Patrice who put us in touch. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ How his journey bringing West African and Senegalese cooking and food started ✅ What the food industry means to him ✅ What people misunderstand about this food ✅ Which African food is under-appreciated in the western world ✅ The experience in bringing Sengalese food to NYC and what the reaction is so far ✅ How Pierre’s journey impacted the people of Africa I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode, I speak with Mona Sobhani, a cognitive neuroscientist, researcher, and author with over 15 years of experience. You can purchase her book, Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist’s Discovery of the Mysteries of the Universe here: https://tinyurl.com/4axcpbnt We speak about the following and so much more: ✅ In her book, she says, the “old me” would have hated the “new me”, and what she means by that ✅ Why she decided to study neuroscience ✅ In her book she says that “the brain is a storyteller” and it's not always based in truth, because of the left brain interpreter. She talks about the “split brain experiment”. ✅ How our fears impact our perception and how do our current beliefs impact our perception ✅ How the work of Laura Lynn Jackson and Brian Weiss’s Many Lives, Many Masters influenced her ✅ At what point she started to move away from the idea of a random meaningless universe to one that perhaps had some order, and purpose? ✅ How science and spirituality coexist I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about thriving through uncertainty, and creating the work you love, with Tama Kieves. Tama is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School who left her law practice to write and help others create their most extraordinary lives. She is the bestselling author of: This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love, Inspired & Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in your Life’s Work!, and A Year without Fear: 365 Days of Magnificence. Her most recent book is Thriving through Uncertainty. Featured in USA TODAY, Forbes, Oprah Radio, and more she is a sought-after speaker and visionary career/success coach, who has helped thousands world-wide to discover, launch, and thrive in the life, calling and businesses of their dreams. www.TamaKieves.com We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ How we deal with and hold uncertainty and why its a superpower ✅Why finding faith and taking a vow is critical. ✅How we cultivate our own authentic life path, and how we stay true to ourselves ✅Why she says that we shouldnt take advice, or that we should think twice before we do ✅How we become fully alive in our lives. How can we become wildly successful in our work I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about how to heal your body through ayurvedic wisdom. Dr. Vatsala Sperling, MS, PhD, PDHom, CCH, RSHom, was the Chief of Clinical Microbiology services at a children’s hospital in Chennai, India, when she published extensively and conducted research with WHO, Denmark. On moving to the USA to start a family, Vatsala pursued an education in Homeopathy with Misha Norland’s school. She is an author of ten books including her latest is The Ayurvedic Reset Diet. She can be reached via her website: www.Rochesterhomeopathy.com We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What the word Ayuverdic means? And what is the “Ayuverdic perspective”? ✅ What it means to live and eat with the seasons ✅ Some of the major principles of the ayurvedic reset diet ✅ What the doshas are and why they are important to understand ✅ If we can start immediately and lean into ayurvedic principles ✅ Some of the challenges we might have when starting an ayurvedic diet ✅ Some of her daily go-to herbs I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.