

Gateways to Awakening
Yasmeen Turayhi
Gateways to Awakening with host Yasmeern Turayhi is a thought-provoking podcast that explores the intersection of consciousness, spirituality, intuition, personal development, neuroscience, and mysticism.
Gateways to Awakening is a Gateway and invitation for your journey. Each episode is with world-renowned thought leaders, academics, research directors, scientists, medical doctors, mystics and healers. who all share their wisdom to help us awaken into our greatest self.
Gateways to Awakening is a Gateway and invitation for your journey. Each episode is with world-renowned thought leaders, academics, research directors, scientists, medical doctors, mystics and healers. who all share their wisdom to help us awaken into our greatest self.
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Nov 2, 2023 • 49min
The Path to Spiritual Investment and How to Retire Early with Elizabeth Ralph
On today’s episode, I speak with Elizabeth Ralph - a thought leader in the financial and money energetics space, Elizabeth helps her students become savvy, aligned investors by changing their stories and relationship with money and creating sustainable wealth strategies of their own.
Her journey began several years as a financial trader. In her successful high-stress dream career, she realized most people have not lived in the way they want because they've been under the spell that freedom is something you're given, not something you define.
We talk about the following and so much more:
✅ What money means to her
✅ How she started working in this field of money
✅ Why do some people have difficulty making or managing money?
✅ How she defines wealth and how does one build wealth?
✅ The biggest surprise she has had in this work
✅ Something people can do today to become wiser energetically about money
✅ How she coaches people to change their relationship to money
✅What her definition is of a life lived well
This episode is sponsored by BloodMoonBox.com
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Oct 26, 2023 • 1h
How to find and keep love with Arielle Ford
On today’s episode, I speak with Arielle Ford - a love and relationship expert and a leading personality in the personal growth and contemporary spirituality movement. For the past 25 years she has been living, teaching, and promoting consciousness through all forms of media.
Her mission is to help people find love, keep love and most importantly, be love. Arielle is a gifted writer and the author of 11 books including the international bestseller, THE SOULMATE SECRET: Manifest The Love of Your Life With The Law of Attraction. She is also the author of Turn Your Mate Into Your Soulmate devoted to exploring a simple, fun and effective way to attain groundbreaking shifts in perception so that you can embrace and find the beauty and perfection in yourself and your mate.
She has been called "The Cupid of Consciousness" and "The Fairy Godmother of Love." She lives in La Jolla, CA with her husband/soulmate, Brian Hilliard and their feline friends. Join her newsletter at www.soulmatesecret.com
We talk about the following and so much more:
✅ What are the major themes for finding love?
✅ And how do we keep love?
✅ Your work is focused on helping people to manifest their desires and live more fulfilling lives. Can you share some tips or strategies for people who are just starting out on this journey?
✅ Why is visualization so important?
✅ Why is understanding our energy and how qi moves through our space so important?
✅ What are some stories of people who have found love using your tips?
✅ The Love Thief is hernew book, and we dive into what its about
This episode is sponsored by BloodMoonBox.com
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Oct 19, 2023 • 56min
How to connect with your soul through silence with Thomas Moore
In today’s episode, I speak with Thomas Moore, the author of The Eloquence of Silence and 24 other books about bringing soul to our personal lives and culture, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul.
He has been a Catholic monk and university professor and is also a psychotherapist influenced mainly by C. G. Jung and James Hillman. His work brings together spirituality, mythology, depth psychology, and the arts, emphasizing the importance of images and imagination.
For more information visit http://www.ThomasMooreSoul.com
Here’s a link to the book on Amazon: https://a.co/d/aSAjIwH
We talk about the following and so much more
✅ His definition of the soul, and how he suggests people go about cultivating this connection in their everyday lives
✅What he would say to someone who doesnt even know or understand what a soul is
✅ What practices or approaches he recommend for individuals and society to address this imbalance
✅ The role of mythology in our lives and how he sees mythology as relevant to modern society today, and how can we use mythology in our own lives
✅In his latest book, The Eloquence of SIlence - what his process was for selecting both ancient and modern stories
This episode is sponsored by BloodMoonBox.com
If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up here: https://www.yasmeenturayhi.com/gateways-to-awakening/
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Oct 12, 2023 • 58min
Conscious music consumption and why your voice matters with Madame Gandhi
On today’s episode, I’ll be speaking with Madame Gandhi, who began producing music in 2015, after her story running the London Marathon free-bleeding to combat menstrual stigma went viral around the world. She has been listed as Forbes 30 Under 30 in Music, and her 2020 TED Talk about conscious music consumption has been viewed over a million times.
We talk about the following and so much more:
✅ The key to creating an authentic voice
✅ What inspired her to become a musician, and how her background in activism and feminism influenced her art
✅ How she approaches blending different sounds and influences to create a unique sonic signature
✅ What is conscious music consumption – why is this important?
✅ Why she ran the London Marathon free-bleeding
✅ Her recent work on self-love and empowerment.
✅ How the creative process works for her
This episode is sponsored by www.BloodMoonBox.com
If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up here: https://www.yasmeenturayhi.com/gateways-to-awakening/
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Oct 5, 2023 • 51min
The Chakras, Creativity and the Energy Body and “She Rises” with Anodea Judith
On today’s episode, I speak with Anodea Judith Ph.D. who is a bestselling author and thought leader on the topics of chakras, psychology, yoga, and social change. She is director of the teaching organization Sacred Centers, and holds a doctoral degree in Human Health, a Master’s in Clinical Psychology, and advanced yoga teacher certifications.
Dr. Judith is the author of 9 definitive works on the chakras, best known for the classics Wheels of Life and Eastern Body-Western Mind and her acclaimed book, Charge and The Energy Body, takes you into the psychology of your life force. Her most recent work is focused on women’s leadership, called She Rises.
Anodea is a globally recognized teacher whose courses have reached 163 countries, with books in 28 languages. She has been called a “prophet for our time.”
She can be found at www.anodeajudith.com
We talk about the following and so much more:
✅ What is the energy body?
✅ What are the chakras?
✅ The seven major chakras, and how they relate to different aspects of our physical, emotional, and spiritual health
✅ What is an important chakra that most people have issues with
✅ How can we work with our chakras and balance the energy in them?
✅ Some common blockages or imbalances that people experience in their chakras, and how can we work to overcome these
✅ How can we use various practices such as yoga, meditation, or energy healing to support the health and vitality of our chakras
✅ How the chakras relate to other systems of energy in the body, such as the meridians or nadis
This episode is sponsored by BloodMoonBox.com
If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up here: https://www.yasmeenturayhi.com/gateways-to-awakening/
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Sep 28, 2023 • 53min
Your Mind on Art with Ivy Ross, VP of Design for Google Hardware
Today’s episode is about your brain on art with Ivy Ross, the Vice President of Design for the Hardware organization at Google.
Ivy Ross is the Vice President of Design for the Hardware organization at Google. Over the past six years, she and her team have launched 50+ products winning over 240 global design awards. This collection of hardware established a new Google design aesthetic that is tactile, colorful, and bold.
A winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Ivy’s innovative metalwork in jewelry is in the permanent collections of 12 international museums.
Ninth on Fast Company’s list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business 2019, Ivy believes the intersection of arts and science is where the most engaging and creative ideas are found.
Her latest book, Your Mind on Art is available wherever books are sold.
We talk about the following and much more:
✅ Why she says that art is the language of humanity
✅ How art affects our emotions and mental state
✅ Why is art so transformative and valuable in our culture
✅ What does art have to do with mental health or well-being
✅ Some simple ways we can incorporate more art into our lives
✅ What role creativity plays in the human mind
✅ How can art help us to process and express our feelings
✅ How art reflects and shapes cultural values and norms
This episode is sponsored by BloodMoonBox.com
If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up here: https://www.yasmeenturayhi.com/gateways-to-awakening/
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Sep 21, 2023 • 1h 1min
Neville Goddard and the art of manifestation with Jerry Emeka
Today’s episode is about the works of Neville Goddard and how to manifest with Jerry Emeka. Jerry has experienced playing small, feeling misunderstood, struggling in love and business, and saying hard goodbyes. By utilizing the teachings of Neville Goddard and the law assumption, he has coached clients to create breakthroughs in career advancement, highly stressful circumstances, overcoming self-doubt, and traumatic events. Jerry has worked with top-level executives, multi-millionaires, and even stay-at-home mothers.
However, if you were to ask him what he is really about, he enjoys spending time with family and friends on the farm or beach reading spiritual classics from eras past.
Jerry's mission is to help faithful visionaries discover their burning desires, release old stories, neutralize self-doubt and frustration, and recognize ever-present fulfillment.
We talk about the following and so much more:
✅ How our thoughts, beliefs and values impact our lives?
✅ Some of the tools and frameworks he uses to help people with manifestation
✅ What are Neville Goddard's teachings?
✅ What is the Law of Assumption, according to Neville Goddard?
✅ What is the importance of feeling and emotion?
✅What are some of the ways these tools changed your life? How has it changed the lives of others?
✅ How can we use Neville Goddard's techniques to manifest our desires? Is there a tool that we can implement today?
✅ What is the role of imagination in our daily lives?
This episode is sponsored by BloodMoonBox.com
If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up here: https://www.yasmeenturayhi.com/gateways-to-awakening/
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Sep 14, 2023 • 1h 21min
How to shift your layer of reality with Reality Transurfing and Renee Garcia
On today’s episode, I’ll be speaking with Renee Garcia, a Certified Reality Transurfing instructor, and an Alternatives Space adventurer.
Having ventured deeply into the metaphysical world of Reality Creation she has transformed personal failure into success, poverty into abundance, sickness into healing, and a bleak worldview into one brimming with joy and magic.
Renée has employed RT to discover fulfillment, true purpose in life and connect with the highest version of herself. With a self built practical methodology and magical wand in hand, she is now empowering others around the world to do so the same.
Her motto is “knowledge without application is merely entertainment”. With a rapidly growing following of supporting “Transurfers” at her side, Renée brings to light the works of Vadim Zeland at home and worldwide.
She has developed the only English language Reality Transurfing instructional program which serves as the backbone for The International Transurfing Institute, which she founded in 2015.
You can check out a link on her online courses here:
We talk about the following and so much more:
✅Her overall perspective on being able to create our own reality
✅Does everyone have agency over their own life?
✅What is Reality Transurfing (RT)? And specifically, what is a Transrufer?
✅How did you shift your layer of reality with this work.
✅Why making someone or something important dangerous?
✅What is excess potential? Why do people create their own misery?
This episode is sponsored by BloodMoonBox.com
If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up here: https://www.yasmeenturayhi.com/gateways-to-awakening/
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Sep 7, 2023 • 49min
The benefits of Kundalini yoga and the ancient technology of mantra, breath and movement with Mandev
In today’s episode, I speak with Mandev Khalsa - an award-winning filmmaker and creator of My Moon Map TM, an IOS mobile app to track your moods and behavior pattern using the ancient yogic science of the Moon Centers. For years, Mandev has deeply researched esoteric energetic structures in yogic teachings to discover energy and power.
Mandev teaches at RA MA Institute. Her classes feature deep breathing, mantra, meditation, and gong relaxation. She seamlessly guides the class through a mandala of yogic postures, pranayam, and meditation with an emphasis on conscious breathing, proper posture, applying precise techniques to open an infinite flow of energy in you.
Mandev provides invaluable insight into how to apply yogic teachings in a practical, modern way. She teaches how love, happiness and prosperity are frequencies you can subscribe to.
We talk about the following and so much more:
✅ What exactly is Kundalini yoga?
✅ What is a Kriya?
✅ What is mantra and why is mantra important?
✅ What are some mantras and kriyas that you think are particularly important - especially for these times?
✅ Why is breathe so important - and why does Kundalini yoga combine movement, breathe and mantra?
✅ What is a sadhana - why is this practice important/
✅ What makes Kundalini yoga different from other types of yoga?
✅ Where did Kundalini yoga come from?
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Aug 31, 2023 • 51min
How to thrive in conflict and create a happy relationship with the Davon Method and Alicia Davon
Today’s episode on Gateways to Awakening is about How to thrive in conflict and create a happy relationship with the Davon Method with Alicia Davon. Along with her husband Erwan, has become the go-to expert for those seeking a higher level of relationship support since 1995. They are among the most experienced relationship coaches in the world and have taught throughout the United States and abroad.
Both have advanced degrees in Psychology and have developed a method that covers everything from sex to the mind to lifestyle design to how to get into and thrive throughout the stages of relationship from a feminine and a masculine perspective. Based in the SF Bay Area, Alicia provides a high-end boutique service that gives her clients an effective way to enhance their relationships. She and Erwan offer all of their coaching and classes in both online and in-person formats and support students all over the world.
We talk about the following and so much more:
✅ The right way to date in a new relationship?
✅ What it takes to create a healthy relationship?
✅ Some common themes of conflict in relationship, and how we can deal with conflict
✅ What is resolvable and unresolvable?
✅ What is tantra? Why is understanding tantra important?
✅ How can you supercharge chemistry in a long term relationship?
✅ Some dating myths to unlearn?
Today’s episode is brought to you by www.BloodMoonBox.com
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