Gateways to Awakening

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.