

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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Apr 1, 2021 • 1h 3min
How to cultivate creativity, remote viewing, and non-local consciousness and the anthropology of religions with Stephan A Schwartz
Today’s episode may likely blow your mind. In this episode, I talk to Stephan A Schwartz on how to cultivate creativity, remote viewing, and non-local consciousness and the anthropology of religions. For 40 years Stephan A. Schwartz has been studying the nature of consciousness, particularly that aspect independent of space and time. Schwartz is part of the small group that founded modern Remote Viewing research, and is the principal researcher studying the use of Remote Viewing in archaeology.
Stephan is the OG in the world of consciousness. He is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction, columnist for the medical and consciousness research journal Explore, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net in which he covers trends that are affecting the future.
He has also been an editorial staff member of National Geographic, Editor of Sea Power, and staff reporter and feature writer for The Daily Press and The Times Herald.
We talk about:
✅ What remote viewing is and how it works
✅ The 2050 experiment which was conducted in the 1970’s and what he and his team learned about the future from this experiment
✅ Key takeaways from studying the most creative minds and what it takes to be “creative”.
✅ The power of intention and how does intention impact events
✅ Key takeaways from Non-local consciousness and the anthropology of religions research
You can learn more about Stephan Scwartz and the Schwartz report here:
https://www.schwartzreport.net/
www.stephanaschwartz.com
https://www.facebook.com/schwartzreport/
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Mar 25, 2021 • 59min
Energy medicine and how to use your body to achieve optimum health and wellness
Today’s episode is about energy medicine and how to use your body’s health to achieve optimum health and wellness, with Donna Eden.
Donna is among the world's most joyous, and most authoritative spokespersons for Energy Medicine. She has been able to clairvoyantly "see" the body's energies all her life, and her abilities as a healer are legendary. Her best-selling book, Energy Medicine, which I have in front of me and read years ago - is the textbook in hundreds of healing classes.
She and her husband’s most recent book, The Energies of Love, achieved best-seller status on the NY Times Relationship List.
David and Donna were honored by the Infinity Foundation as the first couple to receive its annual “Spirit Award” for their contribution to “the evolution of consciousness” and its “impact on society.”
We talk about:
1. What energy medicine is in her terms.
2. What the chakras and the meridians are.
3. What an auric field is.
4. Her work of tapping and acupressure and how it’s helped people.
5. Her book “The Energies of Love” and the different sensory styles in relationships like The Visual, The Kinesthetic, and the Digital Style?
6. Why partners often attract different styles.
To learn more about Donna Eden, you can find more information here: www.LearnEnergyMedicine.com
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Mar 18, 2021 • 48min
How to meditate. A 30 minute grounding and energy clearing meditation
Today’s episode is a little different as it's a mix of conversation and an experience.
On this episode, we’ll be featuring our guest, Shirin Hedayat, and we discuss how to meditate before we dive into a 30-minute meditation so please DO NOT listen to this episode while driving.
Shirin was actually my Teaching Assistant at the Academy of Intuition Medicine, and I thought it would be special to have her on the show since so many people have been told - “Just meditate”, without really understanding how to meditate. I confess that I myself also had difficulty meditating for a very long time because until I was trained, I found it very difficult. And that's especially so if you live in a very analytical world which I’m sure many of you do.
Shirin has different modalities, but as the practice of meditation began to profoundly transform her life, she decided to devote her time to leading groups and individuals in mindfulness practices. Shirin also holds an M.S. in Finance/Investments and worked as a Financial Advisor and a Registered Principal for 15 years with a focus on managing assets of small to medium size companies.
In 2014, she received a Master Certifications from the Academy of Intuition Medicine in Sausalito where she continues to be a TA and Tutor for new students.
We talk about:
1. How to meditate, for those new to meditation
2. Best practices for meditating and how to be inspired to meditate
3. Transformational stories from those who meditate
4. If you are an expert meditator, and you want to dive into the meditation, it starts @minute 19:26
You can learn more about Shirin here: https://www.journeyoftheself.net/
She offers complimentary live meditations every morning in California on Telegram: https://t.me/Essencement
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Mar 11, 2021 • 45min
The power of breathwork to transform your life, remove toxins, and promote vitality with Francesca Sipma
Today’s episode is about the power of breathwork to transform your life, remove toxins, and promote vitality.
On this episode, I chat with Francesca Sipma, a former New Yorker, who after 10 years of chasing an insatiable lifestyle, experienced a radical awakening and went on a quest to find higher purpose. She found herself on a deep self-exploration journey exploring modalities and retreats all over the world, and became fascinated by the power of breath and subconscious mind as a catalyst into self-awareness to deconstruct childhood conditioning and social programming.
Francesca is now a growth and breathwork coach also certified in hypnotherapy, based in Santa Monica, CA. She is dedicated to helping others come into alignment with their highest selves and live more meaningful lives of purpose and impact.
After our interview, I was so intrigued by her development of hypnosis, intention and breathwork, that I joined her 12 week breathwork program.
We talk about:
1. What exactly is breathwork? What are some of the various names of breathwork?
2. How breathwork is different than meditation
3. How does meditation work, and the different types of breathwork
4. Why intention is so important before a breathwork session
5. Where this practice comes from
6. How breathwork can transform one’s life
You can find Francesca on Instagram.
And you can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most!

Mar 4, 2021 • 56min
Feng-Shui for abundance and prosperity with Marie Diamond
On this episode, we’ll be featuring our guest, Marie Diamond, one of the world’s top transformational leaders, speakers, and bestselling authors.
She is the only European star featured in the worldwide phenomenon The Secret. She merges her intuitive knowledge of the Law of Attraction, with her studies of Quantum Physics, Meditation, Feng Shui, and Dowsing to transform the success of individuals, and corporations. Her clients include billionaires, A-list celebrities, writers, speakers, CEOs, Fortune 500 Companies, governments and more than 300,000 students online..
What Feng Shui means
1. How Feng Shui is important for abundance and love
2. Key principles or tips of Feng Shui that everyone can start thinking about today to cultivate abundance and wellness
3. Where the study of Feng Shui comes from
4. Some Feng Shui no-no’s. What you should get rid of immediately.
5. What do you do when you are on vacation or traveling if you feel your room has “bad Feng Shui”
You can learn more about Marie Diamond here:
FACEBOOK: @mariediamondfans
INSTAGRAM: @MarieDiamond8
TWITTER: @mariediamond888
YOUTUBE: MarieDiamond
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Feb 25, 2021 • 48min
Healing the body through intuitive energy medicine and abundance with Dr. Francesca McCartney
On this episode, we’ll be featuring our guest, Dr. Francesca McCartney.
Francesca McCartney holds a PhD in Energy Medicine and Intuition Medicine®, a school I graduated from two years ago.
Since 1976 Dr. McCartney has worked in the holistic health field as a medical intuitive in an integrative medicine clinic, spiritual counselor, educator and author. In 1984 Francesca founded the Academy of Intuition Medicine® which offers vocational career training for Medical Intuitives in the art and science of Intuition Medicine®.
We talk about the following:
❇️ What energy medicine and intuition means
❇️ How people can cultivate the ability to heal themselves and others
❇️ Other senses beyond the main 5 senses
❇️ The difference between our energetic body and our physical body
❇️ Some of the ways that people can raise their energy and vibration
❇️ Ways people can cultivate abundance and a prosperous life
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Feb 18, 2021 • 54min
Mastering energetic alchemy and creating energetic boundaries, with Jim Self
Today’s episode is about mastering alchemy, creating energetic boundaries, and how to access higher consciousness with Jim Self, an international speaker, author and leader in the field of spiritual development. He has been leading seminars on personal energy management and the Tools of Mastering Alchemy for over 30 years.
Jim is the co-author of the interactive book, A Course in Mastering Alchemy: Tools to Shift, Transform and Ascend and Spirit Matters: Down to Earth Tools for a Spirited Life.
We talk about the following:
❇️ What it means to “master alchemy”
❇️ How people can cultivate the ability to heal themselves
❇️ The seven living words, and how can they change one’s life
❇️ How you can remove other people’s energy from your space
❇️ How to you activate your higher dimensional chakra or energy systems
❇️ Some of the ways that people can raise their energy and vibration
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Feb 10, 2021 • 1h 4min
The Alchemy of voice, and and the transformative power of Princess Diana’s voice of change with her voice coach, Stewart Pearce
Today’s episode is about the alchemy of voice and the transformative power of Princess Diana’s voice of change with her voice coach, Stewart Pearce
STEWART PEARCE is a legendary Master of Voice, Radiance Mentor & Angelic Emissary who has worked with Royalty, Actors, CEO’s, change-makers and celebrities for forty years. Stewart was the Head of Voice at the Webber Douglas Academy London and helped pioneer Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre as Master of Voice between 1997-2010.
He has coached incredible luminaries such as Margaret Thatcher, Mo Mowlem, Benazir Bhutto, Anita Roddick, Diana Princess of Wales, and Marianne Williamson to name a few.
Stewart has published “The Alchemy of Voice", “The Hearts Note”, and most recently - DIANA THE VOICE OF CHANGE – which expresses new revelations about Diana’s life principles, and how she ignited personal radiance and became a Global Icon.
We talk about the following and much more:
✅ What the alchemy of voice is, and how someone can find their true note
✅ The difference between speaking from the head versus the heart?
✅ How Stewart met Princess Diana and why he chose to write about Princess Diana now
✅ Why people are still transfixed on Princess Dianca today
✅ Whether THE CROWN Netflix Series is an accurate portrayal of Princess Diana
✅ The book Stewart wrote “DIANA THE VOICE OF CHANGE” and why it’s so important for women today
✅ The spiritual significance of THE DIANA HEART PATH
✅ Why the Women of the World seem to be raising their voices
www.dianathevoiceofchange.com
www.stewartpearce.com
www.theangelsofatlantis.com
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Feb 4, 2021 • 1h 1min
How to microdose with psychedelics for spiritual growth, creativity and business
In this episode, I sit down with Paul Austin, founder of two companies in the emerging psychedelic space, Third Wave and Synthesis.
Currently, Third Wave offers long-form psychedelic guides, online micro-dosing programs, and an industry-best network of clinics and retreat providers.
In 2018, Paul co-founded Synthesis and led several high-dose psilocybin truffle retreats over the span of one year. Paul is a pioneer in this space, and has been featured in the BBC, Forbes, and Rolling Stone.
We talk about the following and so much more:
✅ What psychedelics are including ayahuasca, and psilocybin
✅ How psychedelics have been used in mental health
✅ The spiritual component of psychedelics
✅ The “perennial philosophy” and how this shaped Paul’s perspective
✅ What micro-dosing is and how it works
✅ Why set and setting are so important
✅ If you were a beginner in psychedelics, where you could start
✅ How to integrate after a ceremony.
✅ How psychedelics can help you in the business world
https://www.paulaustin.co/
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Jan 28, 2021 • 1h 5min
Quantum healing, the importance of play, and how to get back into alignment
In this week’s episode, I talk to Jen Healy about quantum healing, the importance of play, transformation and how to get into alignment and become embodied. We dive into how healing happens and ‘what the body is calling for’ when an imbalance/illness/injury of some sort shows up in our lives.
Jen Healy is a leader in "Quantum Energetics." She combines her Master's in Electrical Engineering and Physics with numerous transformational tools from Eastern and Western philosophies. She has focused her mastery on bridging the gap between science, spirituality, and the healing arts.
We talk about:
1. The word “quantum” - where it comes from and what it means in the context of healing
2. How to clear their energy and dissonant energy from their field
3. Pillar of light meditation exercise
4. Her workshops on transformation and embodiment
5. The importance of play and alignment in one’s life
http://www.jenhealy.org
http://www.quantumhealyng.com
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