Gateways to Awakening

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.

On today’s episode, I speak with Thornton Streeter, the founder of the Center of Biofield Sciences, now based in Panaji in his own research center after 18 years at the UNESCO, MIT, World Peace Center. He focuses on investigating the anatomy and physiology of the human biofield. In addition, he has also founded the Energy Medicine Exchange and he is a collaborator on the subtle energy imaging system, the Biofield Viewer. Dr. Streeter has spent over twenty-five years specializing in research of the Human Biofield and encourages research worldwide that is designed to integrate modern medicine with the traditional understanding from Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ The different ways that we can look at matter, and some of the misconceptions people have about the human body ✅ What energy medicine is and why it is so important ✅ How the heart and other major organs continue to the importance of the energy field ✅ Our hormonal glands and their importance to understanding energy medicine ✅ What the biofield is and why understanding the biofield is so important ✅ How we can change our own biofield and chakras if they are out of balance ✅ What “wave state medicine”, and what “frequencies” are 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. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

In today’s episode, I speak with Eden Amadora, a speaker, coach, mentor and spiritual guide. She is a featured author in The New Feminine Evolutionary, Sacred Body Wisdom and Divine Reunion. She is an ordained 13 Moon priestess, a divine feminine mystery school teacher, an archetypal channel, a mystic and a muse. Full disclosure, I am actually several months in her 13 month priestess training and it has been one of the greatest blessings that has entered my life. I’ve learned about the divine feminine archetypes and so much more. I decided to join right after our interview a few months ago, as I was so moved by our conversation. Eden serves the great awakening on Earth by holding a clear compassionate mirror for all, uplifting, inspiring and supporting us to return to the center of our essence beauty to fully embrace ourselves as nothing less than unique. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Why understanding the divine feminine is important ✅ Why the feminine has been suppressed for so long ✅ How we connect with our feminine when so much of the working world rewards masculine charachteristics? ✅ What she means by “feeding the feminine first”? ✅ How we can balance both our masculine and feminine sides? ✅ What archetypes and why they are important to understanding how to embody the divine feminine ✅ What tantra is, and specifically the difference between white tantra and red tantra? 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 show is incredible and frankly, I can’t wait for you all to listen. On today’s episode, I speak with Ulisse Di Corpo who holds degrees in experimental psychology and a PhD in statistics and social research. He works in the field of social research and provides methodological support and software tools to researchers. In 1977 he developed the vital needs theory, which was the subject of his theses in psychology and statistics and stems from the conflict between syntropy and entropy. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What syntropy and entropy means ✅ What it means to “diverge” vs. “converge” ✅ What it means exactly to have brain and heart coherence ✅ The results of some of the experiments he worked on ✅ How we can get into the state of brain and heart coherence and how it relates to our intuition 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.

Today’s episode on Gateways is with Judith Newman, a globally known spiritual guide. She spent her early childhood in Sri Lanka and migrated to Australia. For as long as she can remember, she’d ask the questions: Who Am I ? and ... Why Am I here? She was drawn to meditation & yoga briefly in her 20's, and in 2004, she had a Profound heart opening and kundalini awakening. She went on a himalayan trekking with Sages & Guru's. She says that Post realization comes with its own challenges, but also wonderful grace & blessings. From her own experience, she would say a guide is vital on this path, and that's what she now offers to those who are ready for their "True Self" , the simple recognition of who they are. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to be a self-realized being? ✅ What it means to be a human and what does it mean to be consciousness? ✅ What our true nature is at our core. ✅ Why we are here ✅ What it means to be an “effortless being”? ✅ How to deal with conflict or suffering 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. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

Today’s episode on Gateways to Awakening is about Lucid Dreaming with Robert Waggoner. Robert has had more than 1,000 lucid dreams. His two books, Lucid Dreaming - Gateway to the Inner Self and Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple (with co-author Caroline McCready) have been translated into French, German, Chinese, Korean and other languages. Robert teaches lucid dreaming internationally and online at www.lucid-dreaming-advice.com to help people access creativity, heal wounds and discover their larger self. We talk about the following and much more: ✅ Why its important to understand our dream state ✅ What it means to lucid dream and the five stages of lucid dreaming ✅ How lucid dreaming is a way to get in touch with the inner self, or the inner observer. ✅ Why he uses a counter-intuitive technique to ignore the dream figures and objects ✅ How we learn and understand what our dreams really mean ✅ How we can use lucid dreaming as a tool for personal growth and transformation 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. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

You won’t want to miss today’s conversation. On today’s episode, I speak with the incredible Connie Zweig Ph.D., a retired therapist and writer. Known as the Shadow Expert, she is co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality. Her new bestselling book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won both the 2021 American Book Fest Award and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul. We talk about the following and much more: ✅ What the shadow is, and why the shadow is something we often don’t talk about ✅ Why she started the book Romancing the Shadow with the story of the Portrait of Dorian Gray ✅ How our family dynamics, and societal dynamics contribute to the development and later the suppression of our shadows ✅ What the family shadow, the family soul and the sibling shadow are and how they play out ✅ Why she says there is “gold in the shadow”. ✅ What usually happens when people start to romance their shadows. 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. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

Today, we are talking about Jiddu Krishnamurti and his teachings. For those of you who dont know of him or his work, Krishnamurti was a great philosopher of the 20th century. Khalil Gibran considered him the manifestation of “the God of Love”. George Bernard Shaw said, “He is the most beautiful person I have ever met.” Today’s episode is with Michael Korhnen, who was born in Germany at the end of World War 2. Growing up in post-war Germany disillusioned him in regard to social, collective efforts. He studied world religions, like Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and more. In 1975, through the recommendation of some friends from Ojai, he assumed the position of chef at the school there - the newly founded Oak Grove School, even though he had never cooked before. Part of his duty as school cook turned out to be preparing luncheons for JK and his guests during the three-month period that JK stayed in Ojai, California. Thus, he got to know JK in a personal, casual setting, and they became good friends. After JK's passing in February 1986, he started composing a memoir, based on his times with the philosopher. It was a labor of love and was published in 1995 under the title "The Kitchen Chronicles - 1,001 Lunches with J. Krishnamurti". Michael has continued working for the KFA (Krishnamurti Foundation of America) in various capacities. For the past twenty years he has been the Librarian at the Krishnamurti Library in Ojai, which is where we met. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Who Krishnamurti is and why his work is important ✅ What Theosophy is and how Madame Lavasky’s work influence the journey of Krishnamurti’s life ✅ What brought JD to Ojai, and what he thinks his greatest legacy has been on humanity ✅ How he came to meet Krishnamurti and what his experience was like after spending so much time with him ✅ Why JD urges listeners not to accept what he tells people at face value and why he was so different than other philosophers and mystics 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. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.