

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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Aug 24, 2023 • 1h 19min
What is the feral femme and why we need to pay attention to cultural changes with Dr. Maytha Alhassen
On today’s episode, I’ll be speaking with Maytha Alhassen, PhD, - a Co-Executive Producer for Golden Globe and Peabody-winning Hulu series Ramy and serves as an Executive Producer for the upcoming docuseries American Muslims: A History Revealed. She is a Harvard Religion and Public Life Fellow in Media and Entertainment, a USC Civic Media Fellow, and an Open Society Fellow focused on cultivating a TV show model that incubates more just stories.
Alhassen primarily sees her labor as that of a freedom doula and an engaged wit/h/ness reviving the traditions of the feral femme. She is a historian, TV writer + producer, journalist, arts-based social justice organizer, and mending practitioner.
As a scholar, Alhassen holds a Ph.D. in American studies and Ethnicity from University of Southern California, MA in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Columbia University.
Maytha is a dear friend and we dive deep into the world of the feminine - and what it means to be a feral femme.
We talk about the following and so much more:
✅ Her overall perspective on being able to create our own reality
✅ What is the feral femme, and why understanding the divine feminine is important
✅ Why the feminine been suppressed for so long
✅ Why she thinks men should help lower a womens’ cortisol levels
✅ How we can connect with our feminine when so much of the western working world rewards masculine traits
✅ How we can balance both our masculine and feminine sides
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Aug 17, 2023 • 54min
Why happiness is found by "living it" and how to shift your perception with Dr. Valerie Sheppard
Today’s episode is about living happy to be YOU with Dr. Valerie René Sheppard, a Certified Master Trainer, self-mastery expert, and CEO of The Heartly Center for Mindfulness and Self-Mastery™,.
Dr. Valerie René Sheppard helps people live with more courage, confidence, inner peace and happiness. The wisdom in her multi-award-winning, #1 international best-seller, “Living Happy to Be ME!©” is the centerpiece of her transformational work.
Dr. Valerie received her PhD in Consciousness and Human Potential in 2021, is on the Board of the Evolutionary Business Council™, is a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success, and a recipient of its Excellence in Service Award.
She is the first-ever recipient of Gateway University’s Barbara Marx Hubbard Outstanding Evolutionary Leader Award, and is frequently interviewed as an expert on leadership, fulfillment and success. https://heartlycenter.com
We talk about the following and so much more:
❇️ Are most people happy on average? And why do so many chase happiness in the future?
❇️ What are the four key foundational principles and spiritual wisdom to living happy?
❇️ Why is spirituality important when it comes to happiness?
❇️ What does it mean to bypass our integration and what are some of the signs of this?
❇️ What is a poem or a quote that inspires you and why?
❇️ What do you do when you wake up unhappy – what’s the first thing you would tell someone who is experiencing this?
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Aug 10, 2023 • 1h 4min
How to understand the power of empathy and modern day mysticism with David Passiak
On today’s episode, I’ll be speaking with David Passiak - founder and CEO of Flow Coach.
At Flow Coach, David is pioneering a new approach to flow called Subconscious Fitness, which is based on his Ph.D. research at Princeton on comparative mysticism, four books, and nearly 30 years of personal practice experience.
David is passionate about the balance between exponential innovation and traditional conceptions of community and wisdom. He spent most of the last 12 years traveling internationally and giving talks and workshops across over 50 countries.
David believes that exponential innovation and AI will be a catalyst for a Great Awakening and massive transformation of consciousness within our lifetimes. He is excited to be at the forefront of this change with his latest work on Subconscious Fitness.
We talk about the following and so much more:
❇️What is the importance of our subconscious mind?
❇️What is the subconscious fitness system?
❇️What is empathy? Why is it important to understand empathy?
❇️What he’s discovered about the modern day work environment and empathy
❇️What is comparative mysticism. and some of the research he’s done on this space, and what themes have emerged as most important?
❇️What he thinks we need to pay attention to in both personal and professional worlds in response to the rise of artificial intelligence?
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Aug 3, 2023 • 1h 9min
The life of Ken Wilber and Grace and Grit with Sebastian Siegel
Today’s episode is with Sebastian Siegel who is a British-American director, producer, screenwriter and author. His modes of storytelling range from filmmaking to contemporary art and psychology.
Sebastian adapted, directed, and produced the feature film GRACE AND GRIT based on Ken Wilber’s acclaimed book, anticipated for release in 2020 (teaser here).
Sebastian discusses production of the film with Julia Ormond (at the 2020 IEC), with Allyson & Alex Grey at CoSM and in a Director’s Statement at Shambhala. John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods, calls the film “brilliant”.
“Sebastian Siegel is a dexterous and original director, his movie is transcendent storytelling at its best.”
- Alex Grey
"Like the book it’s adapted from, this film is brilliant. Grace and Grit will shake you, and maybe even awaken you in some way. This movie is a must-see, especially for anyone interested in love or consciousness.”
- John Mackey
We talk about the following and so much more:
What it means to create your life and your own reality?
The film Grace and Grit and what it meant to the film and why he felt moved to make it
His relationship with Ken Wilbur - and why he thinks his work is important
How he counsels people who may have some difficulties in relating, especially in a romantic partnership
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