The Michaela Boehm Podcast

In this episode, Michaela Boehm discusses women's unique challenges with setting personal boundaries, making the ordinary sacred, and stories of her early training in Kashmir Shaivism. Topics include: • Competition and people pleasing among women • Expressing strong emotions with an open heart • How to set boundaries without destroying the relationship • Why women struggle to set boundaries • Setting boundaries with friends • Setting boundaries in sexually predatory situations • The open heart and your sixth sense • The power of full feeling awareness • The history of female cooperation and competition • The doormat with teeth • Michaela’s journey as a teacher • Apprenticing to a herb witch as a teenager • Details about her early tantric training • The personality and teaching style of Michaela’s Indian teacher • How Michaela endured her teacher’s initial training requirements • Learning tracking, silent movement, and navigating in nature • The overlaps between Jungian psychology and Kashmir Shaivism • Early struggles when arriving in LA and the birth of the Wild Woman’s Way® • Who qualifies for lineage instruction • The death of Michaela’s teacher and receiving the lineage • Reorienting towards finding a successor and transmitting the lineage • The philosophy of the Wild Woman’s Way® • Empowering women without reinforcing limiting stereotypes • Fostering the individual’s talents • Making sacred practice out of the drudgery of women’s lives ... 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, Steve James interviews Michaela Boehm for a special episode about facing adversity. (This episode was first featured on Steve's 'Guru Viking Interview Series') Steve's Intro: Michaela's house was destroyed in the Thomas fire, the largest wildfire in California state history. We discuss the story of what happened, how Michaela used her extensive training and lifetime of practice to face this crisis and the surprisingly inspiring themes of determination and community. Disasters of any kind are something we all hope to avoid but that can happen to any of us at any time. There are many useful lessons and takeaways in Michaela's story for facing adversity and for supporting others who are in times of crisis. Topics include: • Michaela’s house destroyed by Thomas Fire, the largest wildfire in California State history • 50ft firewalls sweeping across the landscape at the speed of an acre a minute • The race from Europe to California and entering a disaster zone • How different people coped with the shock and trauma • Fight, flight, and freeze responses • Michaela’s game plan and personal shock-prevention strategies • How to use the fight or flight response without being overwhelmed by it • Working with trauma after the initial event • Working productively in a stressful situation • Body movement as the key to unlocking freeze and trauma • Why Michaela prioritizes beautifying her environment and the positive effects of ordering your environment • The practice of Vastu and the practical tips on organizing your surroundings • Stepping down from daily activity to nighttime rest • Using water to de-stress and cleanse • Michaela’s favorite meditation approach to relax and open the body • Journaling and Jungian dream work as tools of psychological integration • Self-care in times of adversity • Epigenetics and archetypal work around loss and fire • Unusual conversations with the insurance adjuster • The inspiring resilience of human beings in the face of adversity • How to effectively support others in a crisis (and not make things worse) • Unexpected acts of kindness • The strength of community in a crisis • Final thoughts ... 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/ For more interviews, audio, and articles check out: www.guruviking.com Find out more about The Non-Linear Movement Method at: www.thenonlinearmovementmethod.com

In this episode, Michaela Boehm and Steve James offer a wide-ranging Q&A covering in-depth explorations of shadow tantra, Jungian archetypes, relational dynamics, and Michaela and Steve's personal secrets for optimal performance in the face of adversity. Topics include: • Individuation and polarization • The unformed noodle of chaotic drama • What makes a good man • Female empowerment and male power trips • Pitfalls of embodiment • The natural state of human beings • The birthright of embodiment • Examples of embodiment into old age • Steve analyses Michaela • What makes Michaela so prolific • How to build large capacity • Developing concentration power • Strategies for managing the nervous system under chronic stress • Michaela’s big picture motivation • Michaela on Steve’s traits • Michaela on tantra • Sacred ordinariness • Tantric shadow work • Jungian shadow work • Common misinterpretations of shadow work • Working with Kali • Jungian mythical archetypes • Individuation and childhood development • Early imprints of love • Strategies for working with strong relational patterns ... 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 hosts a Q&A at her Wild Woman's Way Retreat at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Topics include: •Women’s practice and the unique energetics of a woman’s body •The effects of the demands of modern life on a woman’s body•Pleasure as a woman’s birthright •How to deal with an awakening of your sexual energy •Keys to unlocking embodiment •What to do with excess sexual energy •How to infuse a house or a business with living energy •Channeling energy into creativity •Combining with nature to recycle your energy •Using your energy to call in your future partner •Defining your ideal man and clarifying your desire for a future partner •Don’t date potential •How to actually use lists to call in a partner •Non-negotiables in selecting a partner •Michaela’s advice for men •Don’t go to the supermarket hungry •Advice for casual sex •The unprecedented choice that modern women enjoy •The oxytocin high and the power of hormones •Female vs male experiences of oxytocin •Hooking a man with sex •How to bond a man to you •The number one factor for a successful long term relationship •How to kill a relationship •How to tell if your movement expression is authentic or a copycat?•Discipline vs spontaneity •How women learn •The world of women in tribal culture •High agreeableness and the urge to be accepted •The juxtaposition of the tribal sisterhood and modern competition•Edge pushing is not conducive to integration •Effective learning strategies that stick •How to give your man feedback with generosity •The double bind of unreasonable female expectation ... 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 Q&A from a recent live 5-Day co-ed intensive. Topics include: • When should I leave a difficult relationship and when should I persevere? • Masochistic relationship patterns • Why are you in relationship? • Using relationships for personal growth • Various motivations for personal growth • Choosing a difficult partner • How childhood patterns influence relationship • The cost of difficult relationships on the nervous system • Tension as the cap of depth • What does it mean to accept someone as they really are? • Why you can’t date potential • Changing a habit in relationships • Michaela on the idea of opposites attract • The foundations of a successful long term relationship • What do I do if I don’t like a particular flavor? • What quality can a man provide that will cause most women to overlook all her complaints? • The local neighborhood stud • Resentments, nagging, and sex • Strategies to unravel negative childhood patterns that affect today’s relationships • How cognitive patterns of conditioning operate • Somatic release vs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy • Michaela’s advice on practicing as a single 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/

Join Michaela and Steve in this wide-ranging Q&A from a recent live event. Topics include: • Escaping the Taliban of Tantra • Flavors of men • How to develop your range of sexual flavors • How to integrate new flavors to keep the relationship fresh • How to get your partner out of her head and into her body • How to prepare yourself for relationship when you’re not in the mood • Shortcuts to embodiment • How to get feedback in a relationship • Learning how to say an open hearted 'no' • Boredom as a portal • How to work with boredom in practice • How to practice when traveling or sick • Michaela’s commitment to practice • Michaela’s 3 motivations for practice • The shadow defined • How your shadow limits your life • The pros and cons of yoga • How to effectively develop your body • Learning how to set proper boundaries • Why so many women struggle to set boundaries • How to end a relationship with an open heart • Yogic strategies for working with nausea • Energetic circulation practices • Michaela’s opinion on kegels and pelvic floor weakness • Michaela’s #1 pelvic floor exercise for women • Practical hacks to opening your heart • Working with numbness • Sex and the shadow • Freeing shadow energy for creativity and sex ... 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 Q&A from their Lineage and Liberation Workshop. Topics include: • Body-based trauma approaches • Summary of the emergent field of somatic trauma research • The subtleties and pitfalls of releasing trauma in the body • The Grinberg Method • The pitfalls of cathartic release approaches • The Non-Linear Movement Method® as a trauma release approach • How to unlock sensitivity • The paradigm of pain • Working with the stress response • Sensitivity and overwhelm • The importance of learning distinctions • How to improve psycho-sexual reaction time • How to radically increase bodily pleasure • Psychedelics and trauma release • Catharsis and retraumatization • The psychology of addiction • How Michaela teaches people to work with anxiety • The mechanics of a panic attack • Detecting unconscious energy leaks • Escaping energy vampires • Childhood patterns that create vulnerability to exploitation • The different lines of Kashmiri Shaivism and establishing authenticity • Steve on The Tantric Wedding Singer • The root text of Michaela’s lineage • The role of discipline in tantric training • Michaela’s advice to younger women ... 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 women's Q&A, recorded live at a Wild Woman's Way workshop. Topics include: •Strategies for unraveling patterns of sexual shame •Should I quit my job to become more feminine? •Is my career killing my sex-life? •Michaela’s pre-work morning ritual to stimulate creativity and productivity •Strategies for accessing feminine pleasure amidst a stressful working life •Training and conditioning the body for both work and pleasure •Michaela’s strategies for keeping pleasure on tap throughout the work day •What are men are attracted to? •The role of youthful beauty in attracting men •Secrets of how to attract a man when you are no longer physically young •How to cultivate powerful radiance as you age •Superficial radiance and superficial men •Attracting a deep man •Angela Farmer as an example of a woman with a radiant love body in her late 70s •True radiance vs fake radiance •Why typical tantric dogma disempowers women •The magnetism of radiance •How to manage unwanted attention as a radiant woman •How to awaken and enliven the pelvic floor •Learning the different layers of the pelvic floor and vagina •Men’s arousal cycles and how they learn about sex •The links between early sexual trauma and the availability of hardcore pornography •Michaela’s controversial advice about ensuring heart connection in sex with a new partner •Practical advice on healing heartbreak •Why it’s so important to address sexual trauma as soon as possible •How unhealed sexual trauma reappear to haunt you in later 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 offers an in-depth look at her powerful body of work for women: The Wild Woman's Way®. Recorded live at a workshop in Europe, this episode lays out deep principles of sacred feminine consideration as well as a biographical account of Michaela's history in women's work, her early tantric training, and stories of her original teacher. Topics include: •Michaela’s background in women’s practice •The story of Michaela’s first teacher •What tantra really has to offer the modern woman •The death and lineage transmission of Michaela’s first teacher •Considerations for women in high stress lifestyles •The Origins of the Wild Woman's Way •Women’s unique energetic systems •The importance of embodiment for women •The principles of energetic training •Misconceptions about femininity •Embodiment and feeling •Strategies to avoid feeling •Retraumatization in tantra workshops •Effective strategies to release old pain •Living from the heart •How do you get more pleasure? •The Non-Linear Movement Method® •Widening your repertoire of energetic flavors •Finding and bringing out your own unique flavor and gifts •How to recover from having opened too far in aggressive tantra workshops •The vagus nerve in women •Can I be feminine and still kick ass? •How do I attract a man when I feel shut down? ... 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 share an excerpt from a wide-spanning lecture on the five elements as found in tantric sexual practice, shamanism, and more. Topics include: •Why the five elements are at the core of most esoteric practices •Different ways to think about the elements as a modern person •Michaela’s early training in the five elements •Stories of the herb witch of Michaela’s childhood village •Comparing the use of the five elements in the world’s shamanic tradition •The influence of the shamanistic religion on Bon on Tibetan Buddhism •Lessons to learn from the absorption of Tibetan folk religion into Buddhism •Catholic-Celtic crossovers and Rudolf Steiner in Austria •Tantric terms for the elements •The senses and the elements •The properties of ether •The elements in God sex and advanced tantric practice •The light and dark sides of each element •The elements as a typology system of personality •Further explanation of application of the earth element •Earth and pleasure and sexual practice ... 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/