Feral Intercourse: Conversations with Wild Women

Born with river blood, magic bones, and a moonlit heart, Lola Venado is a botanical bruja, word forager, gatherer of Moon circles and dinner parties. She believes comida es medicina and there’s nothing good food and drink can’t help heal. An ally to the salty and the sacred, she honors ancestral ritual, folk medicine, and story magik in her own way. When she's not traveling in her van to pray at the altars of forest, river, and ocean, Lola is cultivating everyday magic in the river city of Sacramento.? ? In this episode, Lola and Rachael Alaia discuss... ? ? Remembering that not everyone in our people, liberation from needing to be "all the things,” and appreciating the mightiness within the small ? Illness and crisis as a catalyst for rebirth and transformation ? The lifelong evolution of self, accepting our multidimensionality, and owning who we are while also putting old versions of ourselves to rest ? Finding tenderness and creating space for the evolution of others around us ? The difference between putting on a front and embodying different aspects of self ? Grieving and honoring the death of our past selves and recognizing how a burial ritual can affect decomposition, transformation, and integration ? Unpacking the bypass potential of always jumping into "releasing what no longer serves us" ? Learning to take on what's nurturing and not take on what's harming ? Shadow work as dialoguing with darker aspects of self ? Cultural orphancy, white supremacy, cultural appropriation, and colonization ? The deleterious effects of living in a grief illiterate culture ? Reclaiming the grief practices and death rituals of our ancestors ? Approaching ancestral work from a multicultural, multiracial perspective ? The desire to be a good ancestor as a motivating factor for the expression of and commitment to a whole-self reclamation ? Denial of one's own culture as an act of self preservation in the face of racism ? Access the show notes to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Ariana Felix is a Boricua born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Lancaster, PA. As an astrologer at Saltwater Stars, she helps humans navigate the relationship between self-awareness and the astral world. Ariana co-facilitates healing justice spaces such as Red Tent (a sacred space for local women) and Let’s Talk (a local support space for people of color). You can also find her writing unapologetically about healing justice, decolonization & community at Latinx Lancaster. Her work is deeply invested into integrating intuitive strategies for decolonization and the accessibility of radical politic. ?? ? In this episode, Ariana and Rachael Alaia discuss...? ? ? The power of ritual and an alternative perspective to the traditional heteronormative take on marriage ? Centering relationships as a practice of decolonization ? Unsustainable hyper individualized grieving versus communal grief as an agent for healing ? Intimacy, accountability, and collaborative alignment ? The harm that can come from premature reconciliation ? Creating organic brave spaces for healing justice work ? The relief in recognizing that we’re not all required to be a channel for building bridges ? Honesty as a source of sustainability in relationships ? Establishing shared values, connecting on shared vision, and building the container for healthy group work ? How we use self-examination, critical analysis, and astrology as tools for healing and justice ? How capitalism can show up in a romantic relationship ? Prioritizing authenticity and remembering the inseparability of it all ? Responsibility, restorative justice, and ancestor work ? Acknowledging that there will always be the unspeakable and the unknowable ? Access the show notes to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Marybeth's bio reads... ? "... I believe we are here now to resist. All the programming. All the dogma. But also to trust. Right where we are. And let go. It is a back and forth. A fight and a release. A contraction and an expansion. We cannot do one without the other. The way we know what to do, is to learn to become good artists, good ancestors, good humans. To become the wisdom we never received. ? To use your voice. To write. To create. To rest. To be part of each other. To be in community. This is power. This is change. ? My vision is to create new ways forged with love + compassion, we can feel our grief to new depths, and we can shed our skin and birth a new world into being. Together. ? As a writer, writing coach, intuitive, midwife, and folk/root worker - I am eternally grateful for all the teachers I have had in my life, especially my mother, my grandmother, and all the women behind me. ? *i am deeply grateful to the land that allows me to live- currently I live on Multnomah territory that was a tribe of the Chinookam people. I am well aware that I do not own the land I live on and every day I give thanks for the grace of the moss, ferns, trees, dirt, and water that sustains me." ? In this episode, Marybeth and Rachael Alaia speak on... ? ? Creating art as a sacred practice versus it being a job or what you do for money ? The modern experience of being an artist, acknowledging the influence of capitalism on the creative process, and maintaining integrity as creative entrepreneurs ? Is it actually possible to create a “soul aligned” business? ? Biomimicry, faith, and the beyond human realm ? Living into the idea of not knowing, of giving up ? Nature as an intelligent self-regulating being ? Being shit humans versus being trash humans, growing together via the fertility of organic decomposition versus canceling and throwing people away ? Living the movement and dealing with interpersonal collective trauma loops ? Unlearning and inviting a recognition of greater nuance in social spaces ? Trauma and resiliency interacting with intuition ? Epigenetics, generational trauma, and telling ancestral stories ? Our relationship with the body and building a capacity to be with the truth of our direct felt experience ? The human body as a fractal of the Earth body ? Decomposition as "wise material we share with Earth” ? Physical Embodiment, Animism, and Earth Wisdom as inseparable ? Working within an embodied and animistic relationship with our bodies and the Earth ? Tending to the land in all the ways—the ground that’s holding you up and together, the soil that's feeding you, the humus that’s made of our ancestors ? Access the show notes to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Layla Saad is a writer and speaker, whose work focuses on centering the stories, art and magic of people of colour. As the founder of Wild Mystic Woman, Layla's work explores the intersecting themes of spirituality, social justice, creativity, feminism, business and leadership. As an East African, Arab, British, Muslim, feminist, soul seeker, living in the Middle East (Qatar), and sharing her work with the global community, Layla stands at a diverse intersection of identities, from which she is able to draw rich and intriguing perspectives. Layla’s own personal journey as a black Muslim woman, her work with her clients and her writings often confront the oppressive cultures of patriarchy and white supremacy. ? In this episode, Layla and Rachael Alaia speak on... ? ? The spiritual journey of our work going viral ? Allowing our business to transform alongside us ? The importance of checking in with ourselves and our truth as we’re offered attractive opportunities ? Creating boundaries and hiring gatekeepers as an act of self care and sustainability ? Art as spiritual nourishment and poetry as between-the-lines liberation ? How success is measured being a model minority and the gold standard of whiteness ? “Black Panther” and the power of the mainstream changing and challenging cultural norms and narratives of blackness ? Anger as the destructive force needed to disrupt the old story and love as the creative imaginal force of forming a new mythos ? The discomfort, grief, fear, and disillusionment in awakening to and disentangling from whiteness and business-as-usual ? Ancestral healing and accessing the unspoken narrative ? The paradox of having a mixed cultural heritage and being both the oppressor and the oppressed ? Attending to internalized oppression and racism ? Access the show notes to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Andréa Ranae Johnson is a vision-led facilitator and coach who believes that together, we rise. She is deeply committed to doing her part in cultivating a world that works for everyone and does so by placing her work at the intersections of personal growth, social justice and conscious business. As the creator of Coaching as Activism, she supports people doing transformative work to deepen their impact by taking a critical look at how their work and lives are connected to social change. As the co-founder of Whole / Self Liberation, she offers and uplifts practical tools, resources and wisdom for those who want to make change happen in their lives and communities. As a coach and consultant, she works with entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations that want to be more inclusive and impactful do so through their approach to leadership, their marketing and their company culture. She's a huge fan of #blackgirlmagic, sunsets and veggie burritos. ? In this episode, Andréa and Rachael Alaia speak on... ? ? Finding sanctuary and cultivating resilience through the Earth body and the physical body ? Freedom and justice as a felt somatic experience ? Cultivating self-acceptance for the parts of ourselves that shape shift, domesticate, and diminish our wildness in order to survive ? Healing trauma by making space for complexity ? Distinguishing between violence and destruction ? Creative messiness, living in the questions, and letting go of consistency ? The illusion of being "self-made" and finding support from the more-than-human world ? Riding the shifting tides of relating and belonging ? Shifting the aperture of our self-concept when feeling disconnected ? Access the show notes to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Lydia Violet Harutoonian began her journey with the fiddle at age three when her father took her to their local instrument shop in Pasadena, California and asked her to pick her favorite instrument. From that moment on, Lydia entered into a profound love affair with the timbre and scope of the violin. At age 24 she ventured out from her classical roots and discovered her natural skill for improvisation as well as her unique sound stemming from her Persian heritage and love of music that spans many genres. A musical chameleon, Lydia is able to jump in with a wide range of artists including most recently producers in transformational festival communities. Lydia's debut album, "Already Free,” is a 12-song exploration of music that is inspired by protest traditions, a profound care for community and the Earth, blues, and international folk music. She has collaborated in the last year with Rising Appalachia, Climbing Poetree, and MaMuse, Ayla Nereo. Lydia is eternally grateful for the people and communities she meets as she weaves together her passions for social justice, environmental justice, and music. In addition to her craft she offers workshops entitled, "Music As Medicine in Our Planet-Time." These workshops stem from her eight-year study with  scholar of deep ecology and Buddhism Joanna Macy, who explores how to foster greater internal resiliency and strength in the face of a world in crisis.  The workshops can be adapted in length, and have ranged from 2-hours presentations to 3-day retreats. Lydia first conducted these retreats in collaboration with internationally recognized permaculture teacher Penny Livingston at the Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, California. They have also been offered in collaboration with artists such as Rising Appalachia, Ma Muse, and Ayla Nereo. This work offers inner tools for the cultivation of courage, resiliency and taking heart in our current planetary moment.   ? In this episode, Lydia and Rachael Alaia speak on... ? ? Music as medicine ? Reconnecting with the music of our ancestors ? Cultural genocide and singing over the bones ? Resiliency and The Work that Reconnects ? The balance of self-doubt, confidence, and critical thinking ? Boddhicitta, compassion, and the impulse to attend to the pain of the world ? Uncertainty, the power of choice, and the resource of our imaginations ? Finding strength through the ecosystem of our communities ? Access the show notes to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Abigail Rose Clarke is a somatic educator focusing on anti-oppression education and strategic methods to create lasting change, rippling out from individual to systemic levels. By helping people truly inhabit their own skin and blood and guts and bones she offers a way to re-enter into true relationship with the world. As the developer of the Embodied Life Method, Abigail teaches radical embodiment as a practice and a responsibility. As the world shakes and burns and floods, as white supremacy takes its death gasps, we are tasked with the enormous responsibility of remaining present to the world as it is, which requires we remain present to ourselves as we are. From here, there way forward becomes possible. Her work is enormously influenced by her study and practice of Embodyoga®, of which she is a senior teacher, as well as her background as a trained scientist.  ? In this episode, Abigail and Rachael Alaia speak on... ? ? Failure, shame, and the fallacious quest to being a “good person" ? Curiosity and the lost skill of critical thinking ? Internalized oppression and the vagus nerve ? The festering wound of the kyriarchy ? Intolerable behaviors and mythological demons ? Anatomy as philosophy ? Somatics, pain, and privilege ? The limits to our empathy ? "Good" intentionality and the Savior complex ? Access the show notes to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Rachael Maddox is a trauma resolution educator, coach and guide who’s helped hundreds of women and men resolve their sexual trauma and reclaim their pleasure, power and wholeness. In her first book, SECRET BAD GIRL, Rachael tells the story of her return to wildness, sensuality, health and embodied safety after a decade living under the trauma spell. Her next book, SEX AFTER TRAUMA, publishes September 2018, and is written to help people navigate life between the sheets after they’ve been through the worst of it. On a fierce mission to help as many women as possible who’ve experienced trauma, Rachael offers one-on-one support, groups, articles and courses for women who are ready to dance hard with life. ? In this episode, Rachael and Rachael discuss... ? ? Drawing healthy boundaries  ? Trauma, triggers, and embodied emergency responses ? Interpersonal reactivity and creating spaciousness in our bodies ? Immediacy culture, premature reconciliation, and bypassing ? Forgiveness and restorative justice ? The order of operations of holistic healing ? Animal medicine and self-guided trauma resolution ? The nervous system and nature’s way of releasing trauma ? Writing an SOS safety resource list ? The power of choice and sovereignty in healing ? Access the resources to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Luna Love is a Woman of Devotion, a Leadership Mentor and the host of the Ladies Who Lead Podcast. She assists women ready to share their gifts in the world, to achieve clear vision by providing supportive, life-promoting experiences, practical tools and spiritual wisdom by aligning one’s divine essence, authentic expression and life-purpose. She supports embodied transformation through the power of self-awareness and aligned action. Luna is devoted to social justice advocacy through council work and the dissolution of separation amongst people and environments, as well as the restoration of Sacred Union within all relations. In devotion Luna is here to walk a path of beauty. ? In this episode, Luna and Rachael Alaia discuss...? ? ? Emotional intelligence and allowing ourselves the capacity to feel deeply ? Learning to "be with" the self as a chance to create sustainable relationships with others ? Embodying our teachings as healers and teachers ? Intimacy and deep listening, social justice and holy rage ? Joy and ecstasy as medicine ? Communicating boundaries in a loving way ? Guilt, shame, and transparency in "centering" ? Expanding our capacity to hold more of what it means to be human ? Resistance, centering, resilience, and co-dependence ? Diversity, collective greatness, and connecting through differences ? Mothering, emotional development, and codependent relationships ? Evolving leadership to empowering the greatness in others, not in oneself ? Patriarchy, white privilege, the responsibility of safety, and a vision of shared liberation ? The role of emotional mastery in dismantling oppressive systems of power ? Vulnerability, connection, and fragility ? The messiness of conflict resolution ? The goddess movement and its lack of grime ? Listen to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Lindsay Mack, founder of Wild Soul Healing and Soul Tarot School, is an intuitive healer, holistic counselor and tarot reader based in Brooklyn, NY. She offers and facilitates Soul Tarot Readings, Intuitive and Spiritual Coaching, Mentorship, and Tarot Trainings for those who desire to heal, evolve and live fully on their true soul path. ? In this episode, Lindsay and Rachael Alaia speak on... ? ? What it means to embody our witchy-ness, including the cellular memories of feeling misunderstood and rejected ? Bringing our human complexities into friendships with people we hold space for ? The protection of our inner lives ? Cultivating a fierce commitment to one's own inner compass as an act of instinctual mothering ? How the act of mothering brings our relationship with our child self to the forefront ? The consequences of modern culture and the loss of the village on mothering ? Using both divination and motherhood as a practice in justice ? The responsibility of shadow work in holding space for others ? Access the resources for this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Ashly Rose Wolf, International Women’s Yoga Teacher & Sensuality Coach and the founder of Femme Rising®, helps women revolutionize their relationship with their bodies so they can unlock their full feminine potential. ? In this episode, Ashly and Rachael Alaia speak on...? ? ? The vaginal/brain connection, orgasm, and the nervous system ? Vagina and pleasure as a portal to soul ? Bodily trauma and recalibration of our energetic patterns ? Experiencing shameless pleasure ? Stress and the instinctual nature of Wild Woman ? Unraveling the shame of mental "illness" ? The role of pharmaceuticals and de-stigmatizing the use of medication as a tool for wellness ? Developing a holistic arsenal of tools to help us attend to our well-being ? The invaluable role of humility and integrity in the nature of a teacher-student relationship ? Access the resources to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Joanne Ameya is shifting the current paradigms in Women's Health and Feminine Leadership. Through her background as a Certified Flower Essence Therapist, Plant Spirit Medicine Practitioner, Women’s Wisdom Guide, and Shamanic Practitioner, Ameya supports women to Remember their truth, beauty, heart, and power. She is most passionate about helping women to let go of past pains and hurts in order to reclaim their Wild Feminine Hearts. Anchoring this in wisdom traditions, women are invited to coax out their radiance and are set off on a path of Remembrance. Joanne Ameya founded the Woman Rising School for Flower Essences and Shamanic Studies, she co-facilitates an online Women’s Mystery School called Priestesses of the Moon, and co-hosts Wild Sacred Women Retreats. In this episode, Joanne Ameya and I share on... ? Wild Woman as revolutionary ? Risking it all and releasing that which you love for the purposes of remaining in integrity with ourselves ? The journey of conscious pregnancy and stepping the embodiment of motherhood ? Navigating the realm of entrepreneurship and feminine leadership as a mother ? Reconciling the Priestess and the Great Mother archetypes ? Pioneering a modern story within new, unknown dynamics of intersecting archetypal energies Access the resources to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Erin Telford believes your light is just as informative and valuable as your shadow and holds space for both. Her mission is to help people heal their relationships with themselves. She pulls from a toolbox of therapeutic conversation, lifestyle and spiritual counseling, essential oils, crystals, mantra and other healing tools. She is a healer, acupuncturist, herbalist and Reiki Master and leads individual and group Breathwork sessions.  Erin was recently featured in Refinery 29 as one of “6 Women Who Are Redefining Wellness in New York City.”  She is also a regular contributor to The Numinous online magazine.  Erin’s private practice is located in Chelsea in New York City. In this episode, Erin and I exchange on the reclamation and redefinition of the healer, examining what’s in our Pandora’s box, the role of shadow work as self love and as a personal responsibility, using our emotions as a kind of guidance system, seeing everyone (including ourselves) as teachers, intentionality and becoming conscious of the light and dark of everything in life, and learning to consciously curate our environments. Access this and all episode's resources at wild-soul.net/get-feral.

Tulasi Adeva Perrin is a soul centered, body-centric mentor committed to living and cultivating authenticity, embodied connection, and vibrant aliveness. Her vision is an soulful revolution where each of us trust ourselves at the deepest level, creating and contributing to life, guided by our own deep, intuitive, body wisdom. Tulasi holds a Masters Degree in Somatic Psychology, an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Holistic Health, and is a certified Yoga Instructor with over 500 hours of in depth study with renowned teachers. In addition she has trained extensively in Touch for Health, Embodied Leadership, Elemental Spirituality, and Expressive Arts. She brings all these resources to life through one on one Therapeutic Mentorship & Embodiment Coaching, nature based retreats, soul centered play-shops, and enriching yoga practices in beautiful places world wide.  In this episode, Tulasi and I exchange on being the change and not just advocating for it, learning to trust that deeper wild intuitive voice that leads us through the noise of self doubt and naysayers, somatic responsibility, deep presence, and the magical power found in vulnerability, approaching the body as a conversation, learning the language of sensation, and the great turning involved in coming back to the body’s wisdom. Access the resources for this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral...

Erin Schroeder is a highly trained psychic teacher and healer. She is passionate about helping people develop their very human spiritual abilities, understand the unique language of their body and their spirit and helping her students create whole healthy relationships in their lives. She loves teaching online and in private, on the concepts she created called #psychicnutrition and #relationshipwitchery. She also runs a class called Psychic Witch Bitch, becoming a psychic coach, which is all about helping the next generation of teachers and healers develop their own teaching abilities and providing real tools to take into their practices so they can be confident in their ability to change lives. Erin is excited by conscious human evolution on every level. She pulls from her variety of trainings in her 17 plus years in the healing industry, to provide her students with the most comprehensive learning experience.  In this episode, Erin and I exchange on the practice of grounding and coming back down to a practical magic, relationship witchery, becoming our own soulmate, and forming a sacred union between the masculine and feminine within ourselves, creating the conditions that allowed us to Tinder our way to true love and the unique, wild, and deeply individuated process of unconditional love. Access the resources to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral.

An internationally recognized movement guide and an advocate of the Earth, Laura Anne (formerly known as Shakti Sunfire) blends her deep love of conscious dance, mythology, ecology, and the study of many nature-based traditions into powerful, embodied explorations of Soul. All designed to coax the whole human experience back from cultural exile, and to catalyze deep, systemic shift in the lives of all who dare dream of flowering. In this episode, Laura Anne and I exchange on the freaky awkwardness and uncomfortable lack of grace on the wild path, repositioning ourselves within the crack in the holy armor and the liberation of the gift within the sacred wound of wildness, becoming conscious of the stories we hold as storytellers and story creators, meeting the moment with deep wholeness, interdependent sovereignty, and a curious “what-if?” innocence, surrendering our knowledge, removing our “human-centric hubris,” and choosing to venture down the experimental way of no-path, the importance of risk and edge walking to staying wild and conscious, holding life and death close, allowing that to color our compassionate and passionate choice to be here now, a certain intimacy in learning to “be with” all of the human experience, and an urgency in living the dream of the Earth seeking to be known through each of us. Access the resources to this and all episodes at wild-soul.net/get-feral

Becca Tarnas is a writer, artist, and practicing archetypal astrologer, as well as a doctoral student in the Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is writing her Ph.D. dissertation on the synchronicity between the Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien. Becca also received her M.A. from CIIS in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program, and her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in Environmental Studies and Theater Arts. She writes on archetypal astrology and is an editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. Her research interests include ecology, imagination, philosophy, and depth psychology. Becca posts regularly on her website BeccaTarnas.com, which houses her current writings, paintings, and lectures. In this episode, Becca and I exchange on pragmatic mysticism, ecopsychology, and “The Great Turning,” looking at our relationship to the astrological wild forces of the cosmos through the lens of myth and archetype, the creative power of the imagination, the importance of empty spaces, the being aspect of human-being, and pain as a compassionate call to action. Visit wild-soul.net/get-feral to access this and all episodes resources.

Brooke is the creator of the popular blogs, Barefoot Five and Holy Flow Parenting. And in her words: I am... I am a dirt worshiping, sun-gazing, barefoot walking, chocolate eating, book lovin' kitchen witch. I am a guardian to three wild babies, a passionate lover, a gardener, a writer and a loyal friend. I am prone to wandering, dreaming too much and getting myself into all kinds of good trouble. I am… In this episode, Brooke and I exchange on how to meet criticism and how to learn from our greatest critics, seeing beyond black or white, right or wrong, good or bad, cultivating wild bravery and authenticity, the power of inquiry, deep listening, and open communication, and how to raise free thinking souls. Access the resources of this podcast at wild-soul.net/get-feral

Jennifer Martineau is a Haitian-American artist, Nutritional Therapist, and student of nutritious movement. She is currently seeking her Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts with an emphasis on the body as the Site and Method of Decolonization. She is a wild woman from way back and loves to caress the earth and make out with trees and hike every mountain. She just claimed freedom from a 30 year eating disorder and feeling mighty mighty about it. In this episode, Jennifer and I exchange on the systematic colonization of our wildness and the healing power of reclaiming our sovereignty, the importance of connecting with the wild and free child spirit, the value of diversity and activity in the health of an ecosystem and the forced colonization of the female body and the development of eating disorders as a way of diminishing diversity and creating passive life forms, the discomfort associated with wildness and sovereignty, throwing our power away at others, leaving the tribe that’s lost touch with the earth, and remembering the wild ways of sovereignty that will allow us to survive as a species, living in a sick tribe and collective mental illness as a wake up call for survival, the impact of environment on human wellness, shadow masculinity, and the rise of mass violence in the tribe. Access this episode's resources at wild-soul.net/get-feral

Nicki Doane has been studying yoga in India for years and has been teaching since 1992. Nicki strives to teach each student that yoga is about being fully present in the moment and discovering that we are truly all One: One Love, One People, One Heart, One Destination—Our Higher Self. She cites Pattabhi Jois, along with Eddie Modestini, Gabriella Giubilaro, and Tim Miller among her most influential teachers. Although rooted in Ashtanga, Nicki's teaching goes beyond the traditional. Her Vinyasa classes combine asana, pranayama, philosophy, and poetry. Nicki’s emphasis is on awareness: creating integrity within each pose that can be carried beyond the mat into daily life. Nicki teaches at yoga studios and conferences across the globe. She is featured in two Ashtanga Yoga DVD’s from Gaiam Inc. and recently produced her own series of Maya Yoga DVD’s in collaboration with Eddie Modestini. Nicki lives in Maui, HI, where she runs the Maya Yoga Studio. In this episode, Nicki and I exchange on teaching and practicing yoga as a way of life, spiritual bypassing, authenticity, and being real human beings on the spiritual path, respecting and honoring world cultures that are not of our own heritage, wisely integrating knowledge according to our own unique individual needs, the Kali Yuga and the death cycles of our lives, using the sanctuary of our spiritual toolkit to traverse transitions, upheavals, and challenges on the path, practicing courage, trusting ourselves, and developing intuition through the process of honoring our hearts, and not distracting ourselves from the present moment so as to take action towards removing dis-ease from our lives.