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On today’s show, I speak with Estella Bingham, who has been described as ‘The Heart Whisperer’. She has been supporting others to find more Love, Purpose & Connection in their lives for over 20 years. Fourth generation psychic and a meditator since the age of 6 years old, having learned ™ (Transcendental Meditation) the journey of the Soul has been an integral part of her life since the very beginning. She is committed to helping others Heal, express Truth, and embrace and embody their true Joy and Potential. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to “live in your heart”? ✅ Some of the ways Estelle helps people reconnect with their hearts and inner wisdom ✅ What it means to be an intuitive and how she evaluates and heals people ✅ What it means to have radical self-acceptance and self-love? ✅ Why we are here on this earth? Is there such a thing as karma? 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s episode is with the prolific Gary Malkin, an Emmy award-winning composer, performer, & public speaker whose work redefines the role of music as a transformational resource to catalyze greater awareness, compassion & empathy. Gary’s passion is to create transformative ways to musically enhance spoken messages from the visionaries of our time to help us embrace life’s transitions with greater gratitude and Grace. The globally acclaimed listening resource, Graceful Passages, co-produced with healers Michael and Doris Stillwater, is considered the most effective work of its kind and includes beautiful stories with Desmond Tutu and Thich Nat Han. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ How does music have the power to heal? ✅ How we can harness the power of music to alleviate grief and or support the end of life process for loved ones finding it difficult to accept, show up, and allow the process to organically unfold? ✅Some of the ways he is using music to help with other things like childbirth, bonding, and other major life events? ✅ Working with Desmond Tutu and Thich Nat Han and the alchemical wisdom from the work created ✅ How we can learn to integrate the power of the heart in all the things we do and say In Fall 2022, he’ll be launching the second season of his popular Gaia TV contemplative film series, “Islands of Inner Peace”, streaming to 130 countries. A contributing author for the best-selling book, “Womb to Thrive”, revealing conscious birthing innovations, Gary and his collaborator, Lisa Rafel, are currently finishing an original musical theatre project entitled “Can You Hear Me Baby?” about the power of birth, bonding, and the miracle of life. WisdomoftheWorld.com 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s episode is about developing intimacy and stronger connections with Lisa Kalfus,  a heart-led Human Connection Facilitator, Experience Designer and Coach, and the founder and Chief Connector of Firestart Connections.  She is deeply passionate about helping people create strong, authentic relationships by quickly elevating conversations from small talk to real talk to ignite a more connected life and workplace culture.     As the creator of Connection Hour™, a powerful experience that ignites meaningful conversations to deepen relationships, she is on a mission to help professionals and teams have better conversations to connect better with anyone.  Lisa is a Certified Facilitator of the Xchange Method, which centers around choreographing conversations that drive exponential outcomes, and specializes in leading conversations that empower you to maximize any interaction by guiding ways to powerfully connect below the surface with ease and confidence to overcome fear, discomfort and feeling misunderstood to feel more seen, fulfilled and deeply connected.    You can learn more about Lisa’s work here: https://xchangeapproach.com/xchange-guide/lisa-kalfus/   We talk about the following and so much more:  ✅ Some of the biggest misconceptions people have about connection and developing intimacy ✅ Why we have so much breakdown in feeling understood and also trying to understand others ✅ Some practical tips for people who want to develop stronger intimacy with others ✅  What kind of questions should we be asking others to feel seen and heard, and how do you connect with others who have very little self-awareness or might seem vastly different from a cultural context?  ✅ Some of the ways she coaches corporate teams.  ✅ The Connection Hour    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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's show, I speak with Dominick Quartuccio, the founder of The Great Man Within, a community of masterminds for men working on personal leadership, cultivating depth, and finding purpose.    The Great Man Within is also a podcast with over 300 episodes on high-performance habits, redefining masculinity, and intentional lifestyle design. Dominick is the author of two books: 1) Design Your Future: 3 Simple Steps to Stop Drifting and Start Living and 2) On Purpose Leadership: Master the Art of Leading Yourself to Inspire and Impact Others. His work has been featured in the NY Times, NPR, and the TEDx stage.    We talk about the following and so much more:  ✅ Some of the biggest misconceptions women have about men  ✅ What it means to be an embodied male ✅ How he coaches men to find their purpose  ✅ How men can show up as their best selves in their relationships  ✅ What it means to show up authentically in relationships ✅ What it means to be a great leader, and how you coach men on showing up as leaders ✅ What some of the major misconceptions men have about women    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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s episode is about inner voice v mind-chatter with Adriana Reid. Her area of expertise focuses on public and human relations through human development.   Her mission is to walk people through the wonder of new possibilities, by helping them discover and solve their inner fears by becoming responsible for their actions and deeds despite any circumstance -their background, nationality, and/ or invisible wounds. Her experience working with unaccompanied immigrant children, veterans of war, and victims of crime and domestic violence, through guiding them to overcome symptoms of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), as well as in the field of education working with children and adolescents of school age in emotional health issues, behavior, prevention, and rehabilitation of addictions make her sensitive to the processes of adaptation, social rehabilitation, and acculturation processes. You can learn more about her and her work here: https://be2be-coaching.com/   We talk about the following and so much more:  ✅ What is mind chatter and how is that different from the inner voice?  ✅ How are our feeling-level decisions stored in our subconscious?  ✅ How do we go about working with our child, adolescent, parent, or ego.  ✅ How do we cultivate a healthy dialogue with ourselves?  ✅ What is the “emergency meeting”?  ✅ What the spiral model technique is and how it works    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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s episode is about Sound healing and how to build a template inside yourself with Nacho Arimany. Nacho is Neuro-composer (musician for the brain) multi-instrumentalist and international speaker.    Nacho Arimany is a master ethnic percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer whose music career began at age six as a classical piano student and singer with the Spanish National Choir and Orchestra. He possesses a highly unique blend of talents and diverse capabilities as a producer, performer, and musician for the brain.   Creator of the Arimany Method, an innovative voice and movement technique that promotes peak performance and brain coherence through body and brain waves entrainment with natural harmonic patterns, and Co-producer and composer of “ InTime”,  a fully orchestrated rhythmic based sound therapeutic listening program designed for brain health and brain performance co-produced with Sheila Allen and Alex Doman for Advanced Brain Technologies distributed in 35 countries for the treatment of Autism, Brain damage,  ADD, ADHD, Alzheimer’s and depression.    I have personally worked with Nacho, and first learned about him through Summit. He is a profound healer, and I highly recommend him and his sound healing philosophy.    You can listen to the entire episode here:    We talk about the following and so much more:  ✅ What sound means to Nacho ✅ How sound impacts us on a physical, spiritual, and emotional level  ✅ The most important sounds and why  ✅ What the Arimany method is and how it works?  ✅ What the golden ratio is, and why is this important?  ✅ How do we create our reality? How does sound play into this?  ✅ What are some of the musical instruments he enjoys playing and why?    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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s episode is about how to own your thoughts and create your reality with Althea Montgomery, the owner of Creative Clearings. She's a Quantum Energy Healer and Intuitive Business Strategist   She simplifies the subject of energy healing making it practical, fun to maximize positive results in people's personal and professional lives! I have personally worked with Althea and she is an incredible healer who has helped me a lot.    Her website is: www.creativeclearings.com   We talk about the following and so much more:  ✅ What it means to create your life and your own reality ✅ What energy and vibration mean.   ✅ How do our thoughts create our reality?  ✅ How can we change our thoughts?  ✅ What is quantum healing? What does it mean and how does it works?    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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s episode is about living a creative life and the wisdom of the tarot card deck with the prolific Kim Krans, a visionary artist, author, and creator of the New York Times bestseller The Wild Unknown Tarot. Kim is a visionary artist, author, and creator of the New York Times bestseller The Wild Unknown Tarot. A prolific creative influenced by a range of mystical traditions, Kim has published three oracle decks and guidebooks, one memoir, an interactive journal, notebooks and a notecard set, and five children's books. Kim is also known for her work as a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and musician. Kim is widely known as the Queen of Tarot, and is completing her New York Times bestselling deck collection with The Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck, which debuts in June. I absolutely love her decks, and it’s been so fascinating to learn more about her and her creative process. You can listen to the entire conversation here: We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to live a creative life ✅ What does it even mean to be “creative”? I think this term is loosely defined ✅ What the tarot is and why Alchemy is important? ✅ What inspired her to create each deck ✅ What is different about the newest deck, The Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck? 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today’s episode, I speak with Terri Cole, a licensed psychotherapist, global relationship and empowerment expert, and the author of Boundary Boss-The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free.   For over two decades, Terri has worked with a diverse group of clients that includes everyone from stay-at-home moms to celebrities and Fortune 500 CEOs. She has a gift for making complex psychological concepts accessible and actionable so that clients and students achieve sustainable change. She inspires over 450,000 people weekly through her blog, social media platform, signature courses, and her popular podcast, The Terri Cole Show.    We talk about the following and so much more:  ✅ What are boundaries and how we can establish clear boundaries ✅ What enmeshment is and how does it start?  ✅ What is repetition compulsion  ✅ What is the resentment container? Why is this an important part of the work? ✅ What does it mean to be codependent? Why does this occur?  ✅ What is narcissism, and how does it occur?  ✅ How you can tell when someone is a narcissist? ✅ Some of the ways we can relate to each other in healthy ways in a relationship ✅ The most effective ways to deal with conflict in a relationship    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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode, I’ll be speaking with Maureen St. Germain, who has over 25 years of experience in the area of mystical and sacred traditions. Known as the Practical Mystic, Maureen is a prolific teacher and facilitator of spiritual knowledge for contemporary life. As an Internationally acclaimed Ascension teacher has been granted access to a dimension that has been closed to most of humanity for eons and is a direct channel to Source.    Her latest book Mastering your 5D Self follows on the heels of the award winning, best-selling Book Waking Up in 5D and Beyond the Flower of Life. Maureen has taught in person in 24 countries, as well as the American Centers Kripalu and Omega Institute.    We talk about the following and so much more:    ✅ What it means to master our energy  ✅ How you can remove other people’s energy from your space  ✅ What it means to be a higher dimensional being  ✅ What does 3D v. 5D mean?  ✅ Some of the ways that people can raise their energy and vibration  ✅ The Akashic Records, and how can we open them (and she gives me an Akashic Records reading live)   ✅ How we can learn to trust our Higher Self ✅ How we are creating our own reality - and how to change it    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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Beth McDougall, MD who has been in medical practice since 1998 and is founder and medical director of the Integrative Medical Clinic, CLEAR Center of Health, serving the San Francisco, Bay area since 2002. Dr. McDougall is the co-founder and medical director of the cutting edge, bio-optimization Lab, Jyzen Labs opening May 2022.   Dr. McDougall is currently architecting a new medical paradigm at the intersection of medicine and contemporary physics. Her new book, Your Pristine Blueprint, explores her life journey and professional experience that led to her current understanding about the energetic basis of health and disease rooted in our degree of resonance with the Unified field.     I was introduced to Beth through Dr. Francesca McCartney from the Academy of Intuition Medicine.    We talk about the following and so much more:    ✅ What she means by “the field that connects us all”.  ✅ How matter emerges out of the Unified Field? ✅ How to determine our pristine blueprint   ✅ How sound impacts our lives ✅ How to heal dissonant signatures in our energy field ✅ The “human biofield”, and how other people’s energy or stuck energy show up  ✅ How thinking affects our physiology and Dr. Pert’s work on emotions.  ✅ What she measn when she says we must “know” ourselves  ✅ She talks about relationships and what the essential factors that allow a relationship to become a vessel for profound transformation   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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.