The Michaela Boehm Podcast

In this episode, Michaela Boehm meets with a group of women at The Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. They discuss topics ranging from Michaela's personal practices to nervous system damage from tantra to the "bad boy complex." Other topics include: •The first practice Michaela gives students •The value of a daily movement practice •Michaela’s personal movement practice •Fidgeting and the energy system •Lyme’s disease •Organizing and smoothing out the nervous system •Working with an overactive nervous system •Energy leaks •Optimal energy output •Shaking and fight or flight •Nervous system damage from tantra •Balancing the adrenals •Leaving or staying in a relationship •Attachment theory and shadow work •What we’re attracted to •Do soulmates exist? •Twin flame theory •Imago Therapy •Harville Hendriks •Arranged marriages vs romance •Pitfalls of marrying a nice guy •Why don’t I find good men attractive? •The bad boy complex •The number 1 relationship cure •Breaking relationship deadlock •Generosity vs martyrdom •Don’t reward bad behavior •Having children changes things •Be the adult •Facing challenging circumstances •How to resource yourself in times of crisis •Childhood sexual abuse •Re-establishing boundary function ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

In this episode, Michaela Boehm sits down for a Q&A sessoin with a group of ladies from her Dakini Days workshop in Amsterdam. Learn more about emotional triggers, energy and pleasure, PTSD in men and more! Topics include: •What to do when triggered. •Detecting an emotional trigger before it’s too late. •Dealing with a trigger without suppressing your emotion. •Definition of an emotional trigger. •Michaela’s approach to pleasure practice. •How to release blocks to feeling. •Energy follows attention. •Widening your capacity for pleasure. •When pleasure isn’t useful. •What is kundalini energy? •Moving energy around the body. •Opening energy channels in the body. •The pros and cons of erotic fantasies. •Working with fantasy. •Mudras and energy channels. •Where to start when working with channels. •Awakening the lower body. •The effect of practice on the energetic body. •Activating pleasure with the mind. •Some of Michaela’s personal energy explorations. •Aggressive practice can damage the nervous system. •Healing nervous system damage. •Can men do pleasure practice? •Unique considerations when working with men. •Can men be finely feeling? •Empowering men vs disempowering men •Abuse is mislabelled as a spiritual practice. •‘Take her storm’ or treat her like an adult. •PTSD in men’s bodies from tantra. •Prioritizing basic human decency. •The principle of the Dakini. ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

In this episode, Michaela Boehm answers questions in a group of women from her Dakini Days workshop in Amsterdam. The group explores devotion, intuition and emotional 'dos and don'ts'. Topics include: •Finding the sacred in the mundane •Living a life of devotion •The disposition of devotion •How to develop your intuition •Intuition training and widening your perception •Distinguishing between paranoia and intuition •Piecing together events with intuition •How to wash out stuck emotion •Current upset or past stuff? •Communication and boundary setting in a relationship •When is showing emotion useful? •Michaela’s current practice discipline •Productive compromise or selling out? •Relationship problems vs spark problems •2 kinds of devotion in a relationship •High standards as an expression of love •When meditation and movement practice cancel each other out •Michaela’s personal approach to meditation •Steve’s 3 strikes rule for meditation •How to grow capacity without burnout •Personal sovereignty in your spiritual life ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

In this episode, Michaela Boehm explores questions that came up for the women in her most recent Wild Woman's Way weekend. Topics Include: •Competency and learning to let it go •Losing yourself in devotional sex •Reconnecting with your sensual wildness •Different routes to sublime connection •How to know if a method is a fit for you •When to abandon a method •The mechanics of bodily learning •Devotional physical connection •How to prevent fuzzing out •Using positive memories to aid learning •The problem of anger •The dogma around expressing anger in relationships •Healthy ways to express anger •The effect of anger on the nervous system •The two kinds of anger •Dealing with primary and secondary anger •The three ways to clear old anger and resentment •How to effectively enforce a boundary •The role of emotion in business •Why forgiveness is never the first impulse •How to achieve reconciliation •How to be a woman in business •How to be powerful in the workplace without losing your bodily connection •You can never lose your feminine disposition •The rules of business •The perks of a good divorce settlement •Michaela on ‘the universe provides’ •Michaela’s worst anger story •Why do women dumb themselves down and hide their expression •How to meet people where they’re at •Weaponized truth as a developmental stage •Personal boundaries and energy management •Finding your kindred spirit for life and love ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

In this episode, Michaela Boehm dives into burning questions that range from men that commit to the biological clock and more from the women at her latest Wild Woman's Way retreat in Ojai, California. Topics include: •How to get an exceptional man •How does a capable woman find a man worth surrendering to? •Why do I intimidate men? •Why would a successful man commit to one woman? •What’s the point of monogamy? •How to find a man as a very successful woman •Being with a man without sacrificing your professional expertise •Don’t overextend yourself to please a man •Ree Drummond and radical life change for a man •Why women compromise for love •The mechanics of the opening of the heart •How to know when to open your heart •Trusting your spontaneous heart response •Trauma response or correct intuition? •Strategies to cultivate the blooming of the heart •The ache of the heart •Why Michaela doesn’t have children •The cost of freedom in a woman’s life •The consequences of going off the reservation •Should I have children? Important considerations. •Sexual market value and the biological clock •Realistic expectations when looking for a man •Michaela’s experience with women who waited too long to settle down •Different rules for a divorced women with alimony •Look before you leap, what is the evidence that a man is capable of a long term relationship? •How to be the sort of woman a man can commit to •Michaela points out a participant’s valuable and desirable traits •Why do women leave a marriage •How to get a man to change for you •Discipline and practice •The benefits and challenges of taking on a daily practice •Michaela’s tips for writing a book •How a lifetime of practice contributed to Michaela’s book •Michaela’s daily 18hr writing schedule •‘The War of Art’ •Meeting the world’s foremost highlighter of the I-Ching •Why do people keep sending vibrators to Michaela •The grand vibrator bonfire ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

In this episode, Michaela Boehm offers a glimpse into a live Q&A from her recent 5-Day Couples Intensive 'Embodied Ecstasy, Erotic Mystery' in Ojai, California. Topics include: • Michaela counsels a new couple who is planning to move in together • How to keep the spark alive when cohabiting • How to run a household as a couple • Lessons from the courtship phase for established couples • Michaela’s tips for living together • How Michaela runs her household • Unravelling a couple’s patterns around intimacy and insecurity • Key strategies for synchronizing different intimacy styles • How to work with difficult patterns within a relationship • Why Michaela loves Gary Larson’s ‘The Far Side’ cartoons • Pros and cons of living separately • Last ditch attempts to save a relationship • How to call in a partner through movement practice • ‘Why do I keep attracting weak men?’ • How to navigate polarity dynamics in the workplace • Neutralizing polarity and creating resonance in professional life • The dangers of indulging polarity in professional settings • The research director of the Kinsey Institute on relationship statistics • The dysfunctional coaches who launched a power couple course the day of their marriage and divorced one year later • Why relationship advice often doesn’t work in real life • Dating potential in a man • Working with a fear of commitment • How to integrate past commitment injuries • Clarifying the purpose of a relationship • The power of praise • Taking the occasion somewhere ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

In this episode, Michaela Boehm works directly with women in a live Q&A excerpt from her recent Wild Woman's Way® Intensive in Ojai California. Topics include: • Strategies for freeing frozen expression • Liberating the voice • The psychological and physical muscle of expression • The geographical and historical factors in expressiveness • Principles of skill development • Technique vs artistry • Specific advice on voice and face training • Singing as yogic training • The power of the haka and Chinese opera • When should you leave a relationship and when should you dig in? • Michaela asks question about a new relationship in which the sex isn’t working • Advice for dating in your 40s and 50s • Strategies for interrupting relationship patterns • Why do I always pick psychologically unstable men? • Working with patterns of religious guilt and shame around sex • A woman has a history of her partners having psychotic breaks • Patterns of inadequacy and how to undo habits of invalidation • A woman struggling with her partner's body temperature • The phases of sexual attraction in long term marriage • A mantra for healing relationships • Why it’s so important to give love before it’s too late ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

In this episode, Michaela Boehm offers a live Q&A excerpt from her recent Wild Woman's Way® Intensive in Ojai California. Topics include: • My partner doesn’t satisfy me sexually • Growing together and apart in a relationship • How to elicit darkness in your partner • How to give a strong bodily ‘yes’ • When your karma runs over your dogma • Bodily invitation and conditional surrender • Active vs passive invitation • Expansion and snapback • Being led by a man into new areas of pleasure • The absolute foundations of women’s practice • Using your full bodily capacity • Feeling and embodied processing • Decoding your body’s wisdom • Fine distinctions as a gateway to intuition • How to personalize your practice • A menu of practices and results • Consent and embodiment • Crazy Wisdom Mastery • What it takes to achieve mastery • Hard work vs burnout • The challenging truth of being a woman • The limitations of tantric ideology • The bubble of the tantric guru • What makes a good relationship • The mechanics of erotic friction • The poison of resentment • Strategies to uproot resentment • Sexless relationships • The power of female sexuality • Removing guilt and accessing pleasure • Devotion and the erotic • Sexual energy and vitality ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

In this episode, Michaela Boehm fields a wide range of questions from women at her recent Wild Woman's Way live event in London. Topics include: • Tea vs. sex • The pros and cons of sex for a woman • Solo practices for sexual health and aliveness • How to bring life to your partner’s body • The resonance effect and re-polarizing your relationship • The mechanism of erotic friction • Sexual preferences and variety • Factors that affect sexual preference • How to retrain the pathological masculine • How to develop power as a woman • Strategies for counteracting the strain of stress and work • Michaela’s pre-work rituals and productivity tips for women • Ritual as a training device for the body • Why a personal pleasure practice is essential • Using female sexual energy as a creative force • Practical steps to reawaken the senses and establish a personal pleasure practice • Working with neediness towards men and poor relationship choices • Why Michaela is ‘meh’ about jade eggs • Michaela’s funny jade egg story • Pelvic floor health advice • The yoni mapper who channeled aliens • Releasing trauma and the freeze response • The links between Celtic shamanic and Indian tantric practices • The Great Marriage in various traditions • Modern trauma research and ancient shamanic techniques • Should you have children? • The sacrifice of motherhood, is it worth it? • Why Michaela decided not to have children. • Retaining wildness as a mother and as you age • Why men don’t like female wildness • How to negotiate parental roles with a man ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

In this episode, Michaela Boehm and Steve James offer a live Q&A excerpt from a recent Man Unbound™ Weekend Intensive in Ojai California. Topics include: • Specific and counter-intuitive strategies to reignite the spark in a relationship • A case study of corresponding trauma patterns in a relationship • The process of learning a high-level sexual skill • Unraveling limiting patterns in the body • The difference between effortless mastery and the amateur’s glass ceiling • Developmental cul-de-sacs • Poor skill instruction in tantra and the banjo • Metabolizing information through the body • Integrating ground-level change in the nervous system • Cultivating interest over efficiency • Balancing enjoyment with results • High-performance sex vs a good sex life • How do I grow in sexual practice if my partner is uninterested? • Are there practices helping me be with my partner’s anger and abuse? • Why do men accept abuse in a relationship • How to deal with a partner who persistently gets triggered and aggressive • The limitations of meditation in dealing with trauma • Recommendations for dealing with accumulated trauma ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/