The Spiritual Forum

Internationally renowned yoga, Ayurveda, and emotional healing teacher Reema Datta shares how the events of 9/11 inspired her to leave her prestigious UN career and embark upon a soul-led journey to help people to find peace within themselves. Raised in a family of yogis and inspired by her grandmother’s quiet wisdom, Reema has committed over 20 years of her life to restoring yoga in the west to its original spiritual roots beyond body positions. In this episode she introduces us to her 12-week transformative program, which includes establishing a supportive community, examining our stories, and exploring how kleshas—delusion, attachment, jealousy and more—block our true nature and hinder our fulfillment. She also shares a breathing technique that calms the mind and heals the body and what it was like to lead yoga sessions with Sting and Paul Simon. In a world filled with distractions and dumbing-down technology, now is the time to reclaim our souls and live with presence, power, and peace.  🔗 Connect with Reema Datta at : www.ReemaDatta.com ✍ Amazon Link to buy Reema's book : https://www.amazon.in/Yogis-Way-Transform-Health-Reality/dp/1608689409 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum/id1357984858 📍 Join our upcoming retreat at Unity Village: https://thespiritualforum.org/retreat ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/ Reema Datta is an internationally celebrated teacher of yoga, Ayurveda, and emotional healing. Her new book, The Yogi’s Way: Transform Your Mind, Health, and Reality, offers a powerful path to transform the mind and heal from within. Reema has been immersed in Vedic wisdom from birth. Her grandmother, an Ayurvedic practitioner, embodied resilience in the face of adversity, while her grandfather, a Vedic scholar, introduced her to yoga philosophy and pranayama (breathing techniques). As a woman in this field, she brings a much-needed and often missing female perspective, guiding students toward freedom and their unique purpose. Since 2002, Reema has led yoga and Ayurveda retreats in over 20 countries Reema has led yoga and Ayurveda retreats in over 20 countries, working with luminaries such as Sting, Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Sujatha Baliga, and Zainab Salbi, as well as health professionals and students worldwide. She holds degrees from Vassar College and the London School of Economics and worked for the United Nations. She also holds trainings in Ashtanga Yoga, Tibetan Heart Yoga, and is an Ayurvedic therapist. #YogaJourney #AyurvedaHealing #EmotionalHealing #InnerPeace #MindfulnessPractice #CommunityBuilding #SoulConnection #MeditationJourney #HolisticWellness #TransformYourLife #ConsciousLiving #SelfDiscovery #NatureConnection #YogaInspiration #MindBodySpirit #GrandmotherWisdom  #TheYogisWay #PersonalGrowth #KleshasAwareness #DiaphragmaticBreathing #NasalBreathingBenefits #EmpowermentPractices #ConnectionToNature  

Tanzanian-born healer Euphrasia “Efu” Nyaki shares her incredible journey from ancestral rituals and herbal medicines to joining the Maryknoll sisters and founding a women’s healing center in Brazil. She discusses the healing modalities of Somatic Experiencing and Family Constellation Therapy and how they can help people quickly release trauma stored in the body. Through powerful real-life cases, Efu reveals how inherited trauma from ancestors can silently shape our lives and how honoring the "Orders of Love"—hierarchy, belonging, and balance—restores peace. She also explains how excluding miscarried or aborted babies can lead to depression in surviving siblings, and why honoring the life given to us by our parents, regardless of their faults, reconnects us to the natural flow of life. Are you feeling blocked, disconnected or stuck? Efu’s message is clear: healing is simple, natural, and your birthright.  🔗 Connect with Euphrasia at : https://linktr.ee/efunyaki 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum/id1357984858 📍 Join our upcoming retreat at Unity Village: https://thespiritualforum.org/retreat ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/ Bio - Euphrasia (Efu) Nyaki was born and raised in Tanzania where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree, trained as a science teacher, and later was trained as a healer using holistic methods. Efu is a Faculty Member of Somatic Experiencing®, and a Professor of Family Constellation System Therapy by Hellinger Institute. In the last 30 years Efu has been living in Brazil facilitating trainings and therapy for trauma healing using Somatic Experiencing® and Family Constellation System Therapy (Generational trauma healing). While living in Brazil, Efu has also been travelling in different countries such as India, Egypt, South Korea, China, Bolivia, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, Tanzania, Philippines, and Hong Kong, USA, Polland, Kenya and Sweden facilitating trainings and workshops on different kinds of trauma healing. After the pandemic situation, Efu has been giving international trainings, workshops, summits, webinars, podcasts, conferences, and individual therapy sessions and case consults online; all about trauma healing using Somatic Experiencing®, and Family Constellation System Therapy. Efu is a co- founder of AFYA: Holistic Healing Center located in the northeast of Brazil. Afya supports many people from the local community as well as national and international individuals that approaches the center to receive support in healing, using different types of natural and holistic healing methodologies. Efu is a writer of the book titled Trauma healing using Family Constellation System Therapy and Somatic Experiencing®. This is the link for the book https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B0BYXYGQ1V #TraumaHealing #SomaticExperiencing #FamilyConstellations #HealingJourney #HolisticHealing #EmotionalWellness #AncestralWisdom #HopeAndInspiration #MindBodyConnection #Wellbeing #SelfDiscovery #TraumaRecovery #WomenEmpowerment #RitualsForHealing #PersonalGrowth #EnergyHealing #SpiritualAwakening #ConsciousLiving #InnerPeace #HerbalMedicine #CulturalHealing #IntegrativeTherapy #DepressionRecovery #LifeCoaching #SelfCareStrategies  

Waterworld screenwriter Peter Rader shares his journey from Hollywood’s chaos to the world of conscious cinema. After meeting his wife, Oscar and Emmy-nominated filmmaker and TV producer Paola di Florio, his path was transformed, leading to soul-stirring films like Awake: The Life of Yogananda and My Father, the Healer, which unveils the secret life of a gifted Qigong Master healer who grew up under the harsh restrictions of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and healed generational trauma. Peter shares his insights on the toxic patterns of Hollywood cinema and why he now champions storytelling that awakens and heals. You will learn about the 3-step creative process—Creation, Manifestation, Transmission— that he and Paola teach in their Source to Screen workshops, and their plans to reboot Waterworld as a mystical eco-feminist tale tied to ocean activism. This episode is a deep call to artists, seekers, and visionaries ready to co-create a more awakened world.   NOTE: Master Li, the subject of My Father, the Healer, was a guest along with his wife and son on The Spiritual Forum podcast three years ago. Link to this episode on Spotify is https://open.spotify.com/episode/4GJD1VajS1N4Ex023783jO?si=a9049b6ddccd4992.   🔗 Peter Rader's website : https://www.peterrader.com/ Source to Screen workshop this August: https://sourcetoscreen.com/ 🎬 Peter's latest film features Master Li, a podcast guest that featured on The Spiritual Forum podcast show three years ago. Link to that podcast is: https://youtu.be/AzAv3iShhRc?si=iL9DFDHu5IYal0A0 👉 Link to the trailer for My Father, The Healer: https://vimeo.com/1080309772 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum/id1357984858 📍 Join our upcoming retreat at Unity Village: https://thespiritualforum.org/retreat ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/ Bio - Peter Rader has worked as a film and television writer for 20 years. His first script, Waterworld, was produced by Universal in 1995. He has developed numerous projects for other studios, and industry leaders such as Steven Spielberg, Dino De Laurentiis and John Davis. He has worked as a cinematographer, editor  and producer on a number of award-winning documentary projects, including AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda, which THE GUARDIAN dubbed the Indie sleeper hit of 2014, following its extensive worldwide theatrical run. Rader's first book, Mike Wallace: A Life (St. Martin’s Press, 2013), was a critically acclaimed biography of the legendary CBS journalist. His second book, Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse and the Rivalry that Changed Acting Forever (Simon & Schuster, 2018), is a riveting story of the rivalry between the two most renowned actresses of the nineteenth century. Rader attended Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He is accomplished in a broad range of fields, including music and photography.  He has taught classes and workshops in writing and filmmaking at Harvard, Los Angeles Film School, and Cal State Fullerton. Rader has also volunteered to teach writing to homeless people at Step Up on Second.    #ConsciousCinema #Awakening #HopeAndInspiration #MyFatherTheHealer #SpiritualJourney #Meditation #Yoga #DocumentaryFilm #CreativeProcess #IndependentFilmmaking #ConsciousCreativity #SourceToScreen #HealingJourneys #CulturalAwakening #SpiritualLeadership #MindfulMedia #StoriesThatMatter #TransformativeCinema #Waterworld #filmmaking #storytelling #spiritualhealing #herosjourney #healwithlight 

Are you struggling to get along with your adult daughter, or even with your own mom? Are you tired of being dismissed or dissed at even the most benign comments? Do you wish you could find a way to bridge the gap between the two of you? The Mother-Daughter dynamic requires a special kind of healing, and guest Dr. Debra Mandel is here to help. As a psychologist and author of Sassy and Rude - Her New Attitude, Debra offers tips on how to navigate restoring this crucial relationship. The conversation dives into roles of guilt and shame, the trap of wanting to be nice, the necessity of setting boundaries, the shadow our childhood casts on our mothering, the importance of taking responsibility for our part, and much more. Whether you're a mom, daughter, or are connected in some way to a mother-daughter family dynamic, this lively episode is rich with wisdom, humor, and hope to support you in generating love and connection again. 🔗 Dr. Debra Mandel's website : https://drdebraonline.com/ ✍ Amazon Link to buy Dr. Debra's book : https://www.amazon.com/Sassy-Rude-Debra-Mandel/dp/1953027245 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum/id1357984858 📍 Join our upcoming retreat at Unity Village: https://thespiritualforum.org/retreat ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/ Bio - Dr. Debra, author of five books, including her new release Sassy & Rude: Her New Attitude, has been featured on multiple national television and radio shows as a relationship expert, and has co-hosted her own podcast achieving over a million listeners. Whether in print, on-air, or in her office, Dr. Debra delivers her message that it’s never too late to over- come adversity and learn to thrive. #HealingRelationships #MomAndDaughter #SassyAndRude #PersonalGrowth #SpiritualAwakening #RelationshipAdvice #ParentingTips #OvercomingAdversity #ThrivingNotSurviving #EmotionalHealing #ActiveListening #SelfLoveJourney #MindfulnessPractice #FamilyDynamics #VictimToThriver #ConnectionAndHealing #InspirationalStories #PracticalSpirituality #motherdaughter #adultdaughter #restoreconnection

Discover the inspiring journey of Helen Ye Plehn, founder of Helen Creates Beauty and creator of the Aura Color Wheel. Born in China and educated in the US, Helen experienced great success educationally and professionally in her data analytics career. But her success bred depression, not joy, which launched her on a spiritual journey of intense awakening. Through her daily meditation practice and Kundalini awakening, Helen discovered the Aura Color Wheel, a comprehensive system that reveals a person’s life purpose and soul gifts, wounds, and lessons through 36 aura colors and nine archetypes. In this episode she shares how discovering your life purpose opens you to universal flow, how you can use color to support your life, how to balance your aura layers, and how to manifest personal healing. Step into this dynamic journey of self-discovery, soul evolution, and living your life on purpose! 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum/id1357984858 📍 Join our upcoming retreat at Unity Village: https://thespiritualforum.org/retreat ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/ Bio - Helen Ye Plehn is the founder of Helen Creates Beauty and the Creator of the Aura Color Wheel. Her new book The Aura Color Wheel: What Your Soul Aura Reveals Your Soul Gifts, Wounds, and Lessons, is available now from Hay House Publishing.  She is an aura reader, intuitive painter, certified crystal healer, angel channeler, third-generation Feng Shui master, certified Yoga and meditation instructor, and spiritual teacher. She is also an Ayurveda practitioner, Vedic astrologer, Theta healer, and passionate Flamenco dancer. Her mission is to help one million souls to find and live their souls’ purposes with joy and fulfillment. Take the Free quiz to discover your Soul aura color at www.helencreatesbeauty.com Book link: https://www.amazon.com/Aura-Color-Wheel-Reveals-Lessons/dp/1401995438 #SoulPurpose #AuraColorWheel #SpiritualAwakening #ConsciousLiving #Mindfulness #MeditationJourney #HealingJourney #EnergyHealing #IntuitivePainting #CrystalHealing #FengShui #Ayurveda #VedicAstrology #KundaliniAwakening #PersonalGrowth #SpiritualGuidance #SelfDiscovery #DivineFeminine #Manifestation #AbundanceMindset #HolisticHealth #SoulGifts #LifeLessons #PositiveVibes #Empowerment #CommunityOfLight 

Open your mind and explore Natural Law and “do no harm but take no shit” with voluntaryists Paul & Lauren Bell, who join Rev. Carol to discuss how the Golden Rule and sovereignty shape true freedom. We discuss conscious parenting, the joy of living in right livelihood, why organic food matters, and what the law of attraction needs to make it work. We also examine how many of our accepted societal structures enslave rather than free us, and what we can do about it. Learn how small actions, shared community, and idea-sharing gatherings spark awakening to a new world of self-actualization and empowered living. 🔗 Paul and Lauren Bell's website : https://truthloveandfreedom.com/ 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum/id1357984858 📍 Join our upcoming retreat at Unity Village: https://thespiritualforum.org/retreat ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/   Bio - Paul and Lauren Bell are devoted to right-livelihood, conscious parenting and intentionally building community grounded in the fundamental knowledge of Natural Law. Paul is a carpenter, chef, entrepreneur, and yoga teacher. Lauren is a nature philosopher and certified teacher of permaculture design. Together they founded Truth Love and Freedom (a platform for activism, teaching Natural Law, morality, and voluntaryism) and Blue Hill Farm Organics, both of which operate from their certified organic permaculture farm in Southern California.    #NaturalLaw #ConsciousLiving #SpiritualAwakening #Anarchy #DoNoHarm #HolisticParenting #CommunityBuilding #Permaculture #OrganicLiving #Mindfulness #FreedomCells #HealingThroughNature #Empowerment #SustainableLiving #SpiritualGrowth #Ahimsa #IntentionSetting #CollectiveConsciousness #SacredMasculine #NonViolentCommunication

Discover how to transform motherhood from sacrifice into self-realization and cosmic creation! Dr. Gertrude Lyons, author of Rewrite the Mother Code: From Sacrifice to Stardust, challenges the hidden cultural, generational, and religious codes shaping motherhood today, and shares new spiritually-focused codes that can restore our self-confidence, inner wisdom, and active participation in the miraculous. Learn how pain becomes a sacred portal to creativity, mothering yourself is a divine act, and why it is important to heal our own mother relationship. Together with host Rev. Carol Saunders, explore how the medicalization of the birth process disempowers women, and how ancient myths like Eve’s punishment still echo today. Whether we birth children, ideas, or businesses, we all participate in the act of mothering and can empower ourselves to write our own mother code. Say yes to your unique creative call and help dismantle the structures that hold us all (women and men) back.   🔗 Dr. Gertrude Lyons' website : https://drgertrudelyons.com ✍ Buy Dr. Gertrude Lyons' new book called "Rewrite the Mother Code" at : https://www.drgertrudelyons.com/book-rewrite-the-mother-code 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum/id1357984858 📍 Join our upcoming retreat at Unity Village: https://thespiritualforum.org/retreat ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/   Bio - Dr. Gertrude Lyons stands at the forefront of coaching and education in holistic women’s development, parenting, self-love, and relationship fulfillment. As the visionary behind Rewrite The Mother Code, LLC, she inspires women to embark on their unique paths of personal transformation, drawing on her over 20+ years of experience in empowering individuals, couples, parents, and families towards fulfilled lives. Her doctoral research and diverse certifications and training enable Dr. Gertrude to offer a tailored, integrative approach that caters to the specific needs of individuals, couples, or families. She holds a steadfast belief that we all embody the essence of mother. Through shared creative energy, Dr. Gertrude advocates for mutual support and collaboration, guiding her clients to become and live more fully as themselves.   #HolisticParenting #SelfLove #WomenEmpowerment #CosmicMotherhood #PersonalTransformation #DivineFeminine #SacredMothering #ChildbirthAwareness #MindfulMotherhood #SpiritualGrowth #ConsciousParenting #EmotionalHealing #WomenSupportingWomen #EmpoweredWomen #Motherhood #RewriteTheMotherCode #SelfRealization #MotherWoundHealing #Patriarchy #PainIsAPortal #Stardust #AncestralHealing #RadicalSelfCare #UniversalLove #Intuition #SpiritualAwakening #TransformationalMotherhood #FemininePower #BirthWithoutFear #BreakingCulturalCodes #SacredFeminine

In this episode, lifelong intuitive and QHHT Level 3 practitioner, Christi Clemons Hoffman, unpacks the angelic realm: what angels are, how they guide us, and why they never violate free will.  She shares real-life miracle stories ranging from mysterious strangers or voices who suddenly appear to render aid/instruction to the extraordinary visions of children during the 1986 Cokeville Elementary school bombing. We discuss why many of us have blocks to experiencing this dimension and what we can do to clear them and connect with our own angelic team. The big takeaway is that you are never alone, and life, when seen through a spiritual lens, is full of everyday miracles.   🔗 Buy Christi's book "Real-Life Angel Encounters" at : https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/o-books/our-books/real-life-angel-encounters 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum/id1357984858 📍 Join our upcoming retreat at Unity Village: https://thespiritualforum.org/retreat ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/   Bio - Christi Clemons Hoffman, MA, BCHt, is the host of Real-Life Angel Encounters and the Radiate Wellness Podcast, bringing authors, thought leaders, and other inspirational guests to an international audience. She is also the author of Real-Life Angel Encounters and co-author of the bestselling book The Gap: Simple Steps to Reclaim Your Health and Reverse Most Chronic Disease. As a Level 3 QHHT practitioner and lifelong intuitive, channel, teacher, coach, and consultant, Christi's passion is assisting others to see who and what they truly are. She loves all things history, languages, art, and culture and is located in the Kansas City metropolitan area.   #RealLifeAngelEncounters #QuantumHealingHypnosis #IntuitiveLiving #Mindfulness #AngelicGuidance #SpiritualAwakening  #HolisticHealth #EnergyHealing #MetaphysicalJourney #Synchronicity #PersonalGrowth #DivineIntervention #EmpathyAndCompassion #HiddenGemsInKansasCity #ArtCommunity #VibrantCulture #EverydayMiracles #ConnectWithAngels #HigherSelf #PrayerAndMeditation #ChildhoodIntuition #AscendedMasters #Archangels #stillsmallvoice #angelsamongus #angelsontv

Guest John Sanbonmatsu, philosophy professor and author of The Omnivore’s Deception, brings a frank discussion on the human-animal interface and the consequences of our reductionist/supremacist worldview. He shares many of the common deceptions that people use to justify exploiting billions of animals annually, including the myths of humane meat.  We explore how society, political parties (both sides), and even spirituality reinforce this domination and we discuss the illusion of animal consent and the parallels between animal agriculture and slavery.  But there’s hope! Inspired by Martin Buber’s book I and Thou, Professor Sanbonmatsu shares a new possibility and paradigm shift. What if we were to approach animals as living beings and behold their value without a human agenda?  Now is the time to redefine what it means to be human and embrace a nonviolent, “homo ahimsa” future. If you care about animals, ethics, people, and/or the future of our planet, this episode will inspire you to see with a fresh perspective.   🔗 Connect with John Sanbonmatsu at : https://www.johnsanbonmatsu.com/ 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum/id1357984858 📍 Join our upcoming retreat at Unity Village: https://thespiritualforum.org/retreat ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/ Bio - John Sanbonmatsu is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is author of the book, "The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and the Nature of Moral Life" (NYU Press, 2025), and of "The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject." A critic of cellular or "cultivated" meat technology, he is also creator and curator of the website, www.CleanMeat-Hoax.com. John's opinion writing has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Detroit Free Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Huffington Post, among other places.  #AnimalAdvocacy #OmnivoresDeception #Veganism #CompassionateLiving #ConsciousEating #EthicalEating #PlantBasedDiet #SpiritualAwakening #IThouRelationship #MartinBuber #SustainableLiving #EcoConsciousness #NonViolentCommunication #HomoAhimsaRising #AnimalRights #PhilosophyOfAnimals #MindfulLiving #ahimsa #beyondsupremacy #humanemeatmyth #egalitariansociety 

Experience the incredible journey of Bettina Tammaro — adventurer, two-time cancer survivor, and spiritual guide—who went from being a wild child in Denmark to competing on Survivor and Wipe Out, all while raising a family and following her mantra: “Don’t chase your pension, chase your passion.” In this episode, Bettina shares how embracing her authentic voice shaped her from an outsider in childhood to a fearless parent creating unforgettable adventures for her kids. She reveals the life-changing lessons from reality TV -  the intense social challenges she faced and pressure of the media spotlight - as well as how cancer pushed her to heal from within, transforming her from “machine” to fully alive, soulful human. Be inspired to seek adventure, shine your light and heal yourself. 🔗 Connect with Bettina Tammaro at : https://www.bettinatammaro.com/ 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum/id1357984858 📍 Join our upcoming retreat at Unity Village: https://thespiritualforum.org/retreat ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/ Bio - Bettina Tammaro is a certified teacher, herbalist, clairvoyant, medium and spiritual communicator whose life bridges the raw and the radiant. A two time cancer survivor, she jumped in the ocean of natural therapies and healed naturally the second time. Bettina competed twice on the reality TV show Survivor,  first in 2013, 33 days on an island in Malaysia and again in 2017, 28 days on the island of Caramoan in the Philippines. She was also a contender on "Wipe out" in Argentina.  Bettina traveled the globe with her three children, volunteering with wild lions, elephants, dolphins,  sleeping in trees in Thailand and in the bush with Masaii cheif in Africa. Today she serves as a healer, blending deep nature wisdoms with multidimensional insight. Her upcoming book STARGATE is a fearless, soulcharged book that shares how to, listen deeply, and remember who you really are. #SpiritualAwakening #AuthenticLiving #LifeLessons #SelfDiscovery #Consciousness #Mindfulness #EnergyHealing #Clairvoyance #SurvivorStories #AdventureAwaits #PersonalGrowth #EmotionalHealing #InnerPeace #NatureConnection #MentalWellness #PassionOverPension #TransformativeJourney #InspirationDaily #LaughterIsTheBestMedicine #CosmicConnection #survivorTVshow #overcomingsocialpressure