Gateways to Awakening

Today’s show is about how we can harness our happiness even amidst difficult times with Marci Shimoff - one of the world’s international experts on happiness, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and featured in the movie The Secret. We dive into the following topics: 1. How we can be happy all the time 2. What the phrase “Happy for No Reason” means 3. If we are born happy or if’s something we can work on 4. The most exciting thing Marci learned from her research on happiness 5. How people can raise their happiness set-point 6. What the law of attraction means and the connection between happiness and law of attraction https://www.instagram.com/youryearofmiracles/ www.happyfornoreason.com Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening On Instagram 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!

Today’s episode is about the healing art of shiatsu and why it’s important. I chat with Peter Skrivanic. Peter has been a practitioner of Shiatsu and Reiki for over 20 years. As the former director of the Shiatsu School of Canada, he is now a Doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, whose research focuses on the production and transformation of embodied knowledge in globalizing East Asian medical practices. He lives in Kyoto, Japan with his family, where in addition to lecturing in universities, he maintains a private clinical practice. He is also a teacher of Komyo Reiki-do, a Japanese Reiki tradition, who runs classes both in Japan and globally. He brings to his Reiki teaching a wealth of clinical experience and an informed understanding of Japanese traditional medical and spiritual healing traditions. We discuss the following: 1. What shiatsu is, and the different schools of thought 2. How shiatsu has been used as a healing practice in the east and made its way over to the west 3. Why the topic is important 4. The difference between shiatsu verses Reiki Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening On Instagram 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!

Today’s episode is with an intuitive osteopath, who will teach us about cultivating our attention in order to heal ourselves. On this show, we’ll be featuring our guest, Michelle Veneziano, DO, who is an osteopathic family physician and clinical professor of osteopathic medicine at Touro University in Northern California. She teaches students, patients & doctors how to harvest the wisdom of nature in the body, be our own doctors and heal with ease and pleasure. Her approach to non-surgical orthopedics is rooted in Cranial Osteopathy, a hands-on healing and consciousness practice through which body, mind and spirit return to balance and wellbeing. We discuss: 1- What is an intuitive osteopath 2- How to cultivate resilience in difficult times 3- The difference between a particle and a wave and how to become more connected a greater intelligence 4- How to create your own healing by changing the physiology of the body 5- Stories of transformation from patients Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening On Instagram 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! Social media handle: https://www.michellevenezianodo.net Linkedin: michelle-veneziano-do Facebook & Instagram: michellevenezianodo

In today’s episode, I sit down with Marisa Peer, Britain’s leading hypnotherapist, and Mindvalley teacher, where we dive into how to remove obstacles and reprogram your mind for confidence and success and wellness Marisa Peer is the creator of the multi-award-winning Rapid Transformational Therapy®, international best-selling author, motivational speaker, personal development expert and leading celebrity therapist. In this episode we talk about: 1. How hypnotherapy works and why it’s so effective 2. Why the words that you tell yourself matters more than you think 3. Ways that you can generate abundance and prosperity and remove obstacles or limiting beliefs 4. Stories of transformation from love to career to depression and more by removing self limiting beliefs 5. What the #iamenough movement is and why it’s so important Marisa was such an inspiration to talk to, and I literally felt myself feeling lighter and more expansive during this talk. Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening On Instagram 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!

Have you ever wondered whether sound can change your mood, or change your nervous system? In this episode, I interview Elizabeth Krasnoff, a master in the world of sound healing and binaural beats. We will learn the following: 1. The science of sound and sound healing 2. How sound healing and binaural beats can affect the nervous system 3. How can we transform our brain waves into the desired brain waves for optimal health and performance 4. The types of healing that can occur with the use of sound and binaural beats 5. How can people access binaural beats Elizabeth is currently working towards her doctorate in Transformative Studies with a focus in Consciousness Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Her inquiry is into the influence of sound on the brain and nervous system, specifically as it regards to binaural beats. She has been a singer/songwriter and is half deaf from childhood, resulting in years of personal study of sound, hearing, and the human voice. She also presents on sound and consciousness at venues such as the Yale Divinity School, CIIS, CIHS, the Academy of Intuition, the Globe Sound Healing Conference, and many others. In 2015, she became a certified Energy Healer through the Academy of Intuition Medicine® Master Certification program (MIM), and received her Sound Healing and Therapy Certificate from the Globe Institute.

This week's episode will tell you which emotions often hide in which organs and how to remove stuck emotions in the body that can be weighing you down. In this Episode, I talk to Danny Geren, L.Ac, DAOM, Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, acupuncturist, herbalist and Intuition Medicine® practitioner specializing in, among other things, emotional and spiritual healing. He is also passionate about education, having taught doctoral students for over 6 years at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, as well as at the Academy of Intuition Medicine in Sausalito, CA. His capstone for his doctoral work focused on the exploration and research of various acupuncture treatments for working with the emotions and the spirit. In this conversation, we talk about the following: 1- What is energy medicine? 2- How we store emotions in the body and in which organs (did you know anger is stored in the liver for example?) 3- How we can remove these painful emotions from the body 4- What it means to have a spirit in Chinese medicine 5- Why Chinese medicine and acupuncture is an important practice

Ever wondered how psychedelics can change your life? Or are you just curious to learn more about how psychedelics can be a gateway into expanded consciousness, healing, and more? In this week's episode, I interview my friend and guest, Dina Burkitbayeva who is a serial entrepreneur and investor in the mental health space. Her fund’s (Forward Vision Fund) investments include ATAI Life Sciences, COMPASS Pathways, The Third Wave among others. Dina is very passionate about supporting companies and institutions building alternative solutions to mental health and helping promote the message that there are more ways to treat mental health than just medication and talk therapy. Dina runs an investment syndicate on Angelist focused on pre-seed and seed companies in the alternative mental health and higher consciousness companies. She also runs a newsletter focused on latest news and trends in the investment and business aspects of the psychedelics therapeutic space. In this conversation, we cover the following: 1. What are psychedelics? 2. The most widely used psychedelics like Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, ibogaine and Ketamine 3. Why have they become so popular and which companies to look out for in this space 4. How can they be used to heal mental health and specifically anxiety and depression 5. How you can invest in this space 6. Stories of healing from people who have used them when nothing else worked Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening On Instagram 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!

Step Sinatra’s miraculous healing story was featured in the documentary, Heal For Free. A near-death-experience followed by a 40-day hospital stay changed the course of his life forever. In the early 2000’s, he was a successful Wall Street trader that traded his health for money. Spending a million dollars and traveling the globe for answers led to one simple discovery…that the most powerful therapy is right beneath our feet - and is free! Step is now a writer-speaker-teacher in the realm of natural healing, spiritual awakening and prosperity consciousness. While he has many other ventures, now his main focus Grounded.com which he co-founded with his father Dr. Stephen Sinatra in 2009, it is now one of the world’s leading Earthing & Grounding websites. We talk about: - What grounding is, benefits, and techniques - The many ways you can ground - even if you’re indoors - What happens to your body when you’re grounded and connected to the earth - Stories of healing and reducing inflammation with grounding - Step’s journey from sickness to health using this methodology Grounding is when humans make an electrical connection to the earth. In my conversation with Step, we learn that connecting to the earth has a number of health benefits like regulating sleep, reducing stress, increasing immunity and energy and more. Learn more: https://grounded.com/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groundingproducts Grounded Instagram https://www.instagram.com/grounded.com_official/ Step’s individual account - https://www.instagram.com/freespiritwine/

I first learned about Anslie Macleod on Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations series and immediately ordered all of his books and read them promptly. Whether you believe in past lives, karma or not (as I was even skeptical myself years ago), this is worth listening to, as it teaches us that we all do have a soul purpose and mission. In this episode, I interview Ainslie MacLeod, an internationally acclaimed past-life psychic, spiritual teacher, and award-winning author of The Instruction, The Transformation, and most recently, The Old Soul’s Guidebook. Ainslie specializes in exploring past lives to reveal your life’s purpose, and has been a featured guest on Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations Series. My conversation with Ainslie was exciting and profound - and I hope you all enjoy it! We talk about: - What it means to be an “old soul” - The difference between a young soul and an understanding of our soul level - How to learn more about your soulmates or soul families - What dominant personality types and themes are dominant for each soul - How you can learn more about your life mission - Typical past life fears - Karma and how it affects our lives You can learn more about Ainslie on his website, learn more about your soul type, and level, and order his books: https://ainsliemacleod.com/ shorturl.at/svEW6

Please note, *Do not listen to this while driving as there is a 5 minute guided meditation In this episode, I interview Constance (Connie) Prodromos, who has been practicing Energy Medicine and Acupuncture for over 20 years in CA. After combating a personal illness that no one in the western medical community could solve, she went back to Chinese Medicine / Acupuncture school at the age of 43 while raising two sons. After obtaining a Master’s in Traditional Chinese Medicine and passing the CA State Board exam, she began practicing in January 2000. In 2011 she received a Master’s Certification in Intuition Medicine from the Academy of Intuition Medicine. Connie has some miraculous stories of healing which she shares in this episode. Check out her story and why acupuncture and Chinese medicine are so important to the overall well-being of the human body. In this conversation, we talk about the following topics: - Energy medicine, what it means, how it works - Why Chinese medicine and acupuncture are so important - Explanation of Neuromodulation Technique, BIOSet, and EFT - Our bodies innate ability to heal itself - A BONUS, 5 minute guided meditation to help you become more embodied and grounded You can learn more about Connie and her work at https://marinhealthempowerment.com/ https://intuitionmedicine.org/