Wisdom of Wyse Women Podcast
By Kristi Derkacy
Wisdom of Wyse Women PodcastJul 19, 2021
Five Minutes of Encouragement
What is Mercury Retrograde?
Ahh, Mercury Retrograde, that often mentioned astrological phenomenon. This occurrence gets tossed around a lot, often with the joking question of "Is Mercury in retrograde?" attached to it. But what does it really mean? I am answering this question from a symbolic and energetic focus, offering language around what the significance is when a sky body appears to move backwards. Hint, all bodies in motion affect other bodies, including our earth mother body, and our own human bodies. Mercury as a symbol represents the mind, communication, and intellectual processes. We use these processes to create relational energy and experiences. When mercury is retrograde, we are given the time to retreat, review, reimagine, and remember what we have been creating, with a deeper intensity. When used with intention, it is a fruitful time to close loops, and revisit past happenings to let them go once and for all. With the sacred numerology of 3 as a support during a retrograde, we are in a position to retreat and allow the life/death/rebirth cycle to come full circle. This is a very potent process, and it often asks us to be committed to our own rest and retread in order to allow it to fully land and integrate something that is asking for our embodiment. Where in our lives do we feel this call? And how are feeling this lately? What themes in our lives are recurring, coming up again, or having another go? Let the retrograde motion be your teacher and your guide to greater purpose, freedom and liberation from past experience, old choices, and outdated programming. Blessed to have you here. So much love to you. Retrograde blessings, Kristi
Show Notes: Check out the Embodied Astrology Podcast with Renee Sills for a deeper dive into this season's astrology
A Moment with Your Grief, with Kathryn C. Robinson
This week, I am joined by my friend and very wise woman, Kathryn C. Robinson. Kathryn is a beautiful, mellifluous being, who (you will hear!) expresses her unique essence and earthbound medicine through use of her voice. She is a movement and body-based practitioner who focuses her expressions on helping others unearth and release trauma often experienced (or expressed) by grief in its many forms. She uses various therapies, such as yoga, kirtan, and meditation, and her musical background and talent employs her into a wider range of modalities, including sound and vocal expression to help regulate and discharge emotional material from an individual essence. During our conversation, she takes us on a bodily journey; one that brings us to moments of hallelujah in the body. Though we can experience great pain, she urges us to understand that anytime we access and move emotion from within, it is deep cause for praise and celebration, as the result is a piece of the Self being returned, renewed and restored. From our own grief stories, to the empowered agency we can create from the physiological awareness generated by body based practices, you will find yourself having more than just a moment with your own grief. Our time together in conversation is one of reckoning, recognition, and true release, leading to wider understanding of our own expression and power.
In our conversation, we discuss:
- yoga as a practice of self-inquiry
- resistance and blocks to meditation and what may actually be behind them
- latent, compounded and unprocessed grief
- how our culture discourages evolution by encouraging bypassing
- invitations to the internal
- deep intimate self-relationship
- moving energy in order to truly move into relaxation
- using romantic relationships to perpetuate first family dynamics (first family feedback/trauma loops)
- using a body-based practice to move through flight/fight/freeze nervous system patterns
- storing experiences on a cellular level
- liberating and freeing the voice
- expressing the ineffable through sound
- what it can mean to live cleanly
- power in the act of witnessing
If you are ready to explore these themes and more in a loving conversation, please join us. We love to have you hear.
Show Notes:
Find Kathryn on her website at http://www.kathryncorinne.com ; Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health; Quote by Tara Brach; Quote by Mister Rogers; Musician who taught the class we met in is Peia;, Also mentioned were David Kessler, Grief Expert and author; Paul Denniston, Grief Yoga Practitioner,
When the Energy is Heavy
Change is a’ Comin’, Look for the Signs
How is Your Heart? Where is Your Mind?
Avoidance, Bypassing, Ghost Culture
Conscious Grief Heals
This week on the show, I am taking us into the lessons of grief: what it means to grieve, what we are actually doing and creating when we grieve, and how we are reckoning and retrieving pieces of ourselves and our power through the cycles of grief. Grief is a practice that takes us further through the doorway of our own medicine. The essence of it as a practice brings us to the understanding that we must grieve, and grieve fully in order to move through soul loss--that sensation of stickiness in despair and hopelessness that can grow if we don't move through it--and into the deeper work of reckoning, reclamation, retrieval and remembering. It can be a long journey, seemingly endless as we may find ourselves cycling through older energies that were not grieved fully at the time of their happening. Sometimes, we can carry grief for just a moment, which helps us redirect our presence and intention to a higher frequency of clarity. Often, when we are choosing to meet our grief consciously, we are blessed beyond our personal experience. Our grief has the power to write a new future for our children and creations because we are healing ancestral karma patterns that have swallowed grief and emotion and kept them held within the cells, as well as intergenerational pattern inheritance that showed us how to stifle our pain and instead let it blow wonkily out the side in some form of anger, addiction, abuse, or obsession or distortion of another kind. This lesson today about the awareness that grief brings us to, and the medicine that we find within our grief. The human experience can be a steeping process that sets us further into the medicinal essences we are here to embody and bring forth. Grief is a doorway into the medicine. And our sacred responsibility as we move towards our medicine is to walk through the doorway, and all doorways beyond the initial one. Because our healing requires it. Our legacy requires it. Our future selves require it. A'ho
Show Notes:
Mentorship opportunities for healing through grief are available on my website at www.resonancerestorative.com/mentorship
Have an insight or experience about the show that you wish to share with me? I am honored! email me at resonancerestorative@gmail.com
Seeing through Eyes of the Divine
This week on the show, we are recognizing the true essence of the nature of all things: divinity. That soul residing in an earthbound body that looks out into the world from our human eyes. Are we using our eyes to truly see the divine nature of all beings? Maybe. Only if we are willing to meet and greet our discomfort and say, "I don't know how I am going to move through this, and I am going to do it anyway." To give middle world illustration and anecdote of this, I am offering three very personal narratives of times when I saw the divine in beings that I would've not looked at previously. Yes, it is much easier to recognize divine qualities in people we love and appreciate and see already. Our sacred responsibility as embodied, empowered beings, though, is to love all. To See you soon, truly deeply see through the eyes of the divine and recognize and honor the godself of another. Can we see the god or goddess that we are? Have a returned to that true essence of our medicinal nature? If so, then we must turn our eyes to the beings around us, and acknowledge what is beyond the earthbound circumstance of another embodied soul. We must see past the outer vehicle, and look into the eyes of the divine. If we truly wish to lead a spiritual life, full of our own medicinal essences, and resonating with the higher frequencies of love and healing and embodied truth, we must go beyond. To look where we previously have looked away. To meet what we have thought to be unmeetable, or unworthy to be met. We have to go where we think we will never find spirit. And we must see the full divinity there. In ALL beings. In ALL life. And overlook nothing. We are all teachers for each other, we are all students on a sacred journey. We are all part of the same soul university. And we must recognize this now. More than ever the time is now. See through the eyes of the divine. And watch your life, your relationships, your medicine, transform in transcendental ways. A'ho
Show Notes:
Renee Sills is the co-creator of Embodied Astrology Podcast and project
Carrie Gane is a soul astrology and can be found at Sound Healing Houston
The Underworld, Myth and Beauty: Individuation
Continuing on our journey from last week, we are diving further into Ancient Greek myth to understand our own process of individuation and actualization. Referencing the story of Demeter, Persephone and Hades, I retell the myth and uncover its symbology to land the wisdom of the individuation process that actualizes our unique essences for you. Individuation takes place when we, out of rebellion or in answer to our soul's calling, deliberately and intentionally move away from the bonds of our first family and the history we have previously been rooted in in order to create the life we desire. This comes with a choice to move towards initiation (represented by the flower) and will move us towards confronting our demons (Hades) as they rise up into our consciousness. It is then that we move into the Underworld to undertake the process of individuation at a deep psyche level, and when we emerge, we are more of ourselves, standing taller as individuals with unique essences and medicine to offer. I offer the many polarities that we can access from the symbols that, when integrated, bring us into a wholeness that is required to recognize our divinity. If you are on a journey of realization what it is your want for yourself and your life, and are seeking ways to move away from essences that are keeping you from that path, this episode will help you understand the process of individuation in a larger, macro way, as well as the smaller micro lens situations that help push us out of the parameters of our first families and past histories and into the individuated seat of the soul. Be blessed in this journey and know that you are not alone. Love and blessings, Kristi
Explore mentorship containers on offer: www.resonancerestorative.com/mentorship
The Underworld, Myth and Beauty: The Fires of Hel
This week on the show, we are referencing ancient myth and goddess culture to recognize and understand the Beauty of our Underworld journeys and experiences on the path of our soul's evolution I am taking us through the energy of the ancient birthing/destroyer goddess, Hel, who brings us through the fires of our initiation, and into the cavernous seclusion of our shadowy unconscious. We begin our descent with a crossover of the River Styx, the entangled, toxic emotions (water) that we need to face in order to reclaim our shadow. We get on a boat for the crossing, a symbol of the divine direction of the soul, and we pay the ferryman (the goddess as our guide) with something precious to us in order to make the crossing (our comfort / what we know / sacrifice of old ways of being). On our journey through the underworld, we recognize the beauty of transformation being offered to us as we confront the fiery essence of purification. What was is no longer, and we are using our time in the underworld for retrieval, reckoning and remembrance of our own divinity, and of the Medicine we carry and embody. If you are looking to understand the ways that the underworld can work in your life consciously, this episode will bring you on a journey of clarity and recognition. Ultimately, our time in the underworld sets us free, liberates the shadow to transmute into I AM qualities, and brings us further into standing deep and tall in our Original Medicine. Blessed Be. Much love to you all, Kristi
Explore the mentorship containers on offer: www.resonancerestorative.com/mentorship
Lighting Your Sacred Fire
Our Sacred Fire, how do we light it? One way to begin is to follow the trail to knowing what intimidates us, or what we admire in others that we think we do not have within ourselves. Often, these are the qualities that we feel are out of reach for us, and yet, if we pivot towards discomfort and go beyond the veil, we can retrieve these qualities and integrate them into our wholeness. On the other side of discomfort is a deeper knowing of our Medicine, is an actualization of our our sacred fire. Our ability to become the sun, the solar force, of our own lives and legacies is actualized through the awareness of what excites and arouses our passionate nature. What do we love to do, and can we allow ourselves to dream into the feeling of what it would be like to have more of it? And then, can we surrender the vision to the feeling and take the necessary action to keep stoking that inner fire until it becomes sustainably ablaze? Yes, we can. And it starts with making different choices. Lighting that fire does not come from choosing sameness. It comes from consciously choosing the thing that we don't usually choose to do. Making time for our art, our music, our creations, our voice, whatever that may look like, that is a tangible way to begin. We cannot have a life lit by passion and fueled by our highest essence if we do not make the time for that sacred passionate and fiery feeling to come in and live within the realm of our embodied awareness. In this episode, I am encouraging you and affirming you on the trail back to your own sacred internal fire. How to light it will be your choice, and I hope to provide a guided pathway of beginning and remembering the soul-ar truth that is you and your original medicine, your sacred flame. Blessings for the journey of discovery and may much love and joy be found along the way. Amen. ~Kristi
Pot is Plant Medicine
What is plant medicine? Plant Medicine goes beyond the realm of what we may think it is; it includes more than an Ayahuasca ceremony, it goes beyond the "spiritual" retreats we take ourselves on to experience these plant allies. Plant medicine is present for us daily. In fact, some of us are entangled in unconscious codependent habits with plants, and in these ways of relationship, have forgotten their medicinal and sacred essences, and instead sacrificing them to consumerism, recreation, and extraction.
In this space, I am taking us into a conversation that opens our awareness around what it means to be in Right Relationship with plant allies and their original medicine. During our time, I will cover:
- what it means to respect plants as allies in healing
- habit use versus ritual or ceremony usage
- honoring the web of all life and our sacred connection within it
- the practice of asking permission and the role it plays in creating synergy with plant allies and other spirit beings
- plant medicine tradition versus numb out "recreational" culture
- how our lack of intention furthers extraction when it comes to plant allies and earth's sacred resources
I hope you feel intrigued and encouraged to go deeper into your connection with the plant allies in your life, take on the curiosity to learn of plants and their medicinal essences, and are willing to make a conscious attempt to choose the path of the earth keeper through honoring intention when working with plant allies. Thank you deeply for joining and sharing this space with me. I am blessed to share with you. Love, Kristi
Embodying the Crone
Divine Feminine Rising, with Malyssa Harelson
The divine Feminine is rising and creating, expanding us into a new realm of what is possible for our lives in this reality. I am joined by Malyssa Harelson, kundalini guide, artist, and divine feminine priestess, who free riffs with me on the experiences we have had recently that point to the shift in energy that brings us further into embodying the divine feminine paradigm. We are noticing the changes in the ways we create, the energy that we allow ourselves to create from, and how we approach the sacredness of creating. We get into what it means to create sustainably, rather than out of scarcity or pressure narratives. We talk about ancient feminine practices that are becoming more and more a part of the channeled reality that many of us continue to work towards establishing in our lives, families and communities. Malyssa goes deep into the need to tend ourselves, as space holders and facilitators, to help us replenish and nourish ourselves. The focus on community and connection in this episode is palpable, and we dance and weave together in a way that honors deep love and connection. Overall, we reflect on the question of what it is that we intend to do as we make our way back into the world as embodiments of a new dream. What is the feminine rising in your life? And how does that look and feel? What does it mean to have fun while also honoring your unique essence and your soul's medicine? Join us to spark a deeper conversation on these topics, and be invited to share your own thoughts and musings with me or with other sacred space holders in your life. Be blessed as you join us for the journey of the exchange. A'ho
Show Notes:
Find Malyssa on IG: @Akasha.kaur and on her website (in progress) . https://akasha-kaur.com/
The teacher she mentions is called Jai Dev Singh
Find more about me and what I do at www.resonancerestorative.com
Creating Art from the Feminine, with Param Akasha Kaur
This week's episode is a sacred co-creation with a beautiful embodied essence that I value and cherish deeply. Her name is Param Akasha Kaur, wisdom holder of the Rose lineage, Divine Feminine priestess, artist and photographer, and guide for kundalini experiences. She joins me to talk openly about the vulnerability of capturing a soul's essence through visual art, and what it has meant to her to open herself fully to the experience of being both in front of the lens as the subject, as well as the artist behind the lens. We get into the wounded feminine that carries through a first family lineage, and what it means to move through those challenges in a soul-led, truthful and honoring way. She brings us into her creative process, and what it means to be in a feminine vibration when creating for a masculine dominant society. Together, we honor the change we wish to see in the world, and how to invite the feminine voice and inner artist forward in order to create a higher order, and work with a healing set of processes that feel like deep truth. She walks us through the virtues of kundalini yoga and opens our minds to the experience that kundalini can create through our own embodied awareness and intention. She guides us gently, strongly, and with so much love as she walks us through her wisdom journey. We hear of a soul-led legacy that honors the divine mind-heart and leaves us with a gentle imprint of what it means to be Spirit in matter. A'ho Join us next week for a second conversation about the Divine Feminine Rising.
Show Notes:
Find Akasha Kaur on IG @Akasha.kaur
Website (in progress)
The teacher she mentions is called Jai Dev Singh
Find Kristi on her website at www.resonancerestorative.com and on IG @resonance_restorative
What is the New Dream?
Show Notes:
Join my upcoming classes hosted by Original Medicine Healing School www.resonancerestorative.com/original-medicine-healing-school
Be a part of a growing community www.resonancerestorative.com
Working with Spirit of Place
On a solo jam this week, I am taking us deep into our connection with the Earth, and the palpable shifts many of us are feeling through the Earth energy we are gifted with and experiencing this season. Working with Spirit of Place is a deeply shamanic concept, and it is one that can apply to all beings. It is certainly honored by other life of the natural world. For humans, working with Spirit of Place roots into the lifestyle and sacred commitment of the Earthkeeper. An Earthkeeper is an embodied Spirit (human) who takes and renews the sacred commitment daily to hold a vision and take action towards a life of purity that harmonizes and honors the Earth as a sovereign, abundant, blessed being and giver of All Life. When we connect with the Spirit of Place that we find ourselves living within, we honor our own Earth essences and relationship to the Great Mother in a deeper, more guided and connected way. I am using my own sabbatical to the desert of the southwest to speak of connection and catalyzation that can come from working with the sacredness of Spirit of Place. So many of us are sitting on the edge of big, glorious change. A ledge that is asking us "What is the dream? And can you feel it for yourself?" This episode is hopefully here to help you move with these questions and get the downloads and guidance you need in order to fulfill yourself as a sacred medicinal essence who is here to bring something beautiful to manifest. There is deep in the bones stuff resonating and taking place right now. Let this fill you up with affirmation and touch you into your body and your own roots for a sacred fulfilled life. How we are living counts now more than ever. What we are orienting ourselves towards and committing to stretch into is arriving for us to fill up with. Let the old drain away. Let the new take root, and let us consciously begin to lay the foundations for honoring the rest of our lives. Be guided to connect with Spirit of Place for your own Earth medicine to be actualized. Our sacred sojourn through the Earth plane is now. May we honor it as Earthkeepers who carry the blessing of Spirit of Place. A'ho. Thank you for being here with me. With love and many Blessings, Kristi
Show Notes:
Embodied Astrology Podcast, by Renee Sills IG: @embodiedastrology
Find out more about me by visiting www.resonancerestorative.com
Honoring Your Sacred Space (Boundaries as Medicine)
I am excited to bring you this week's episode because I have wanted to create a discussion for so long, but it just wasn't the right time. And now it is! So this week, we are getting into honoring your sacred space. This is often called boundary work, and I am offering the practice of boundaries as medicine. Instead of using this common term, I am seeking to frame this practice as a way to honor your sacred space as well as yourself as sacred. This is a process of unlayering and retrieving the values with which we desire to align ourselves, and it can start with the question "what do I hold as deeply valuable, nourishing, sustaining, sustainable, and medicinal?" From there, we go on a deeper journey into the spirit of who we are and what we want to stand in as a being of truth. When we learn to assert the honoring of our sacred space, we are saying "this is how I reveal my sacredness to the world, and this is how I wish to be honored as I reveal myself." In short, this practice is a medicinal and healing way to teach others the ways we wish to be treated. This is a really wisdom-wealthy episode, so I would encourage you to join me here and listen with fresh ears, and see these ideas with fresh eyes, and an open heart, while also paying attention to the body response. I hope you will come away with some impactful aha moments, and some new knowledge to take into your practice of honoring yourself, others, and your sacred space within and externally. So glad you are here. Love, Kristi
Show Notes:
Join a kindred spirit learning container at Original Medicine Healing School www.resonancerestorative.com/original-medicine-healing-school
Upcoming classes: The Phases of the Moon + You: The Lunar Blueprint of your Natural Phases + Cycles ; Sacred Symbols + Archetypes in Children's Media: A Course for Spiritually Minded Parents + Caregivers
Experience transformation through the support and guidance of shamanic mentorship www.resonancerestorative.com/mentorship
Follow me on IG @resonance_restorative
When the Soul Lands, with Katie Buemann
With this episode, I have had a dream come true! My guest this month is a woman I have admired, tuned into, and have received guidance from through her voice. Her name is Katie B., she is the host of the Real Rebel Podcast, and she is joining me for this week's sacred wisdom jam. This episode is a beautiful snapshot of the human experience, covering all things from growing up as an outsider, being ridiculed for being "different", and the subsequent difficulties of individuation later in life. We cover feeling unheard (even when there is a huge audience listening!) and the low self-worth that can slip in some poisonous narratives when it comes to using our voice. Katie tells us her story. From having a deeply broken heart in Bali, to capturing her voice in new ways in order to create the podcast she always dreamed of doing, her stories of survival, overcoming and becoming are ones that resonate deeply. She is a beacon of light, a ray of sunshine, a true human, allowing her soul to land in her body where it can run the show. And we hear and witness all of that on this episode of the show. To end, we do a card pull and reading for each other, and what comes through resonates! The experience was genuine, and I was blessed to be joined by her, and I would encourage you to spend the next hour or so joining us, as well. You will be so glad you did. And maybe, just maybe, between all the words, resonance, stories, and authenticity of two humans coming together to weave wisdom and experiences, you will feel your soul land. May it be so. A'ho. Love, Kristi
Show Notes:
Find Katie's beautiful podcast anywhere podcasts are available, or via her website at www.realrebelpodcast.com
Follow her on IG @real_rebel_podcast
She mentions podcast host Tim Ferris
Find me on IG @resonance_restorative
Learn more about the work I do to help you live your medicinal essence on my website www.resonancerestorative.com
Q+A with Kristi, Three Recurring Questions
This week, I am bringing in some recurring questions that have come up in my work with students, in conversation with friends, and have just been on replay in my own awareness. How can we talk about spirituality in a mainstream way? How do I know when it's fear or when it's intuition speaking? How can I know if a boundary is being used for manipulation and when its actually asserted out of self-honoring? We are going deep to retrieve the answers to all three of these this week. I am using stories and examples from my own life to help land the wisdom I am offering on these, because they are not easy to answer! And yet, they are so important for our evolutionary understanding. They all have one very strong theme when it comes to answering them. Want to know what that is? Then I will see you here with me in this sacred jam. So blessed to have you. Love, Kristi
Show Notes:
Follow me on IG @resonance_restorative or FB @resonancerestorative
Check out the classes offered by Original Medicine Healing School www.resonancerestorative.com/original-medicine-healing-school
Want to work on the journey from aha moments to full embodiment? Check out my class called Sounds Like Hallelujah and add your name to the list! www.resonancerestorative.com/sounds-like-hallelujah
How We Nourish + Create with Light + Shadow (the Mother Archetype)
This episode is about the ways we embody the deeply divine feminine aspects of nourishment and creation. Have you ever wondered why you love to create beautiful things and share them with others? Or maybe why it lights you up so much to craft a beautiful meal and share it with people you love? Why is it so rewarding to bring people together and nourish them in an uplifting environment? These are all energies of the mother archetype that naturally can express through us, no matter how we identify in gender. The mother archetype is part of the creative force that we use to bring forth our most passionate and light filled creations into the world. These can be our work and our art, physical children, or ways we nourish others and use ourselves as a life giving force to serve others. Manifesting in its shadow aspect, the qualities of the mother archetype can lead us to burnout. They can lead us to over giving, blending our experience to create total enmeshment with others, and forgetting the sacred boundaries that honor our medicinal essence. Whether we are working with this energy consciously or subconsciously (or both!), we are still in the act of creator creating, and what and how we are creating is for us to examine and get clear on. Harnessing the brightest qualities of the mother archetype allows us to flourish, and encourages all life around us to flourish in kind. Join me this week for a solo jam to learn about the creative and nourishing essence of the mother archetypal energy, and let it be revealed to you where you walking in light with this energy, and where you might turn your attention to the realm of shadow to free this energy from entanglements that do not serve. So much love and blessings to you. Thank you for being here. ~Kristi
Show Notes:
Send me a voice message! https://anchor.fm/resonancerestorative/message
Get visually stimulated while you work with the Mother Archetype www.resonancerestorative.com/words
Follow me in IG @resonance_restorative Find me on Facebook @resonancerestorative
Work with me: www.resonancerestorative.com/about
To Be Reborn Anew
What is rebirth, actually? What does it mean to be a fully grown human and be reborn? How does that look and feel on different parts of the human journey? If these are questions you like to ponder, or are curious about them, you are (hopefully) going to feel some downloads come through during this episode! If you are feeling a more subtle set of energies in your own body, and in your heart, and within external exchanges and are wondering what this means, you will be very affirmed when you tune into this episode. If you are someone who has identified with big, overt and extremely palpable energies and are now experiencing or looking to experience more subtlety, you will be at home here. This week, I am offering guidance on how to tune into the subtler energies of being born anew. So often, we think that our rebirth has to conclude a series of huge changes, massive transformation, and intensive transmutation. And often, this is the case. This week, though, we are going into the power of what subtle energy brings to the rebirth process. In fact, subtle energy rebirths us anytime we take the intention to tap into it by just allowing ourselves to be. No pressure, no to-do list running in the back of our minds, no story that we have to do more. Just ourselves and our essence, vibrating fully in the present. The ability to hear our souls, meet our divinity, and resonate our highest medicinal frequencies come from the ability to tune in to the subtle messages that connect us to our great and beautiful power and to love. I am offering this week's jam with the intention to guide you into a subtler version of yourself and your life, and to encourage you to give yourself permission to just BE. And tune in. And feel that heartbeat that is yours as it syncs up with the greater heartbeat of all life. I hope its a beautiful experience to be here, both overtly and subtly.
Love and blessings, Kristi
Show Notes:
Original Medicine Healing School Courses on Offer: The 5 Key Areas of Your Astrology Chart: A 'Know Thy Self' Blueprint with Astrologer Carrie Gane ; Your Meditative Mind: a 4 Week Course for Meditation Mastery, with Daniel Domoleczny
www.resonancerestorative.com/original-medicine-healing-school
Medicine for Struggle and Surrender
Welcome to the show! I am on a solo jam today, talking about what it can mean to experience struggle and surrender, and where we can find the medicine in both. I am doing things a little differently today: I am taking a three parted intention to first discuss a challenge, then tell stories about how this challenge can look and feel using personal narrative, and then I am offering medicine to help move through the challenge. Today, I am presenting the challenge of the struggle--those times when we feel so myopically focused on something that we get a sort of tunnel vision that blocks the rest of life. I use the word "obsessed" to mean that energy that completely sucks all of our cognitive, emotional, physical and spiritual energy into one desire. We have been so trained to hustle hard and focus on our dreams that we forget to take the pedal off of the metaphorical vehicle we are driving so intensely towards whatever it is that we want. I give several examples of times in my life where I repeat the pattern of myopically focusing and struggling to get the desired outcome. The medicine, I offer, is that we must learn to step away for a moment. Learn to play and find joy in other things in life. Bring a freshness and a more wide angle lens to life again. And many of us may be finding ourselves in this position right now, I know I certainly feel this very much calling me right now. Maybe it is time to stop hustling and starting trusting. To walk away to go play and let the desire and dream have its alone time. When we are ready, that surrender energy will sweep us right into the flow of our desired result, and we will be pleasantly surprised at how quickly, beautifully and readily it takes its form. A'ho. Blessings to you as you move through struggle and into surrender. Much love, Kristi
Show Notes:
Leave me a voice message and let me know how you are finding the show and what is resonating! https://anchor.fm/resonancerestorative/message
Follow me on IG @resonance_restorative or FB @resonancerestorative
Hang with me at home on my website www.resonancerestorative.com
The Intersections of Life, with Dr. Daniel Domoleczny
This week on the show, we are getting a little silly and bringing a bit of humor to the conversation! This is much needed for me, as sometimes it almost feels like I have forgotten how to have fun! So my deep hope is that you will be able to laugh along with me and our guest for this week, Dr. Daniel Domoloczny. Daniel is an acupuncturist, a Chinese Medicine practitioner, a breathwork and meditation coach, and a teacher of Shamanism. In our talk, Daniel takes us on his personal journey of the discovery of the practices that have led to his own awakening and transformation. He shares the wisdom he has learned by continuing to show up as a teacher and student, and what the long-term outcomes of devotion and acceptance can be. And, he brings it all together by noting the intersections of life as the transitional gateways to who we become.
As always, the hope for these guest episodes is that you feel like you are sitting in the room with us, engaging in our conversation and feeling stimulated by what is being shared. We are so pleased and joyful to have you!
Show Notes:
Daniel's podcast is called Gin + Tantra and can be found anywhere podcasts are available
Find the Meditation Course that Daniel is teaching through Original Medicine Healing School at www.resonancerestorative.com/original-medicine-healing-school
Find Daniel's practice at www.pointzerowellness.com
Daniel mentions The Tales of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda, Mary Kay Ryan who is a shamanic practitioner and herbalist, and gives credit to a quote by Terrence McKenna
Find this show on IG @resonance_restorative or visit me at home on my healing collective's website www.resonancerestorative.com
The Volcanoes of Life
Hello and welcome! This week, I am riffing on the archetypal energy of the Destroyer and how this energy mirrors the creative and destructive power of the Earth and all life on Earth. The destroyer archetype comes up when life becomes severe in some or many ways. I am using the analogies of three different natural disasters (Earth's destructive forces), and tying them to the ways that we, as humans, also use the forces of destruction in our lives. I talk about how space is created from endings, how best to prepare for filling that space after an ending, I offer ways to work with the shadow and the subconscious to reduce the amount of times we hit emotional overload that leads to a deep under-the-surface rupture. I also get into how to harness the power of destruction in a conscious way so that we can break apart containers, agreements, and patterning that are no longer of service to our growth or life path. I am also introducing some ways that the destroyer can be housed in the shadowy places of our subconscious to sabotage life-force and opportunity that is healthy for us. Join me for an empowering jam on integrating endings, transitions, changes, and transformations. I hope it is vivid, helpful, and resonating for your journey with change energy. A'ho!
Show Notes:
Learn more about ways to be involved in this healing tribe www.resonancerestorative.com
See what is new and on offer at Original Medicine Healing School www.resonancerestorative.com/original-medicine-healing-school
You Are a Wide and Spacious Canyon
Welcome to a solo jam where I am using metaphorical imagery to bring us into awareness of our spacious spirit nature! Imagine yourself on the rim of a canyon looking down. What do you feel? What do you see? In this episode, I am guiding you through the canyon of your life and essence to introduce you into the descent into the underworld of self. We are journeying into the canyon as a metaphor for the wide and spacious beings we are, stopping to reckon with and re-member parts of ourselves along the way. At the bottom, we reach the river of our life force, and we are confronted with what that river looks like--is it flowing freely and clearly? Are there boulders blocking its path? Is there poison in the water? How do we wish to allow our life force to flow into the future? And once we have established a relationship with our unique essence of life-force, or our soul intentions and plans, are we ready to be tested on it and our embodiment of what we say we are and can do as we make our ascent back up the canyon? The universe will always send us tests to make sure we are ready for what we say we want, and that is the journey we take when we have made changes and integrations and are ready to call forth something new. I am so happy and honored to be your guide on this riff, and I deeply appreciate you making this journey with me. I hope it is helpful, resonating and deeply nourishing. A'ho
Show Notes:
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Dark Nights + Planetary Lights, with Astrologer Carrie Gane
Welcome to the second half of my beautiful conversation with astrologer Carrie Gane! In this episode, we are diving into her origin story and the path that led her to where she is now. She takes us through her personal account of struggle, and eventually finding the light of right relationship on her path. We weave many different motifs and bits of the human experience within our dialogue as we navigate the shared human experience of the dark night of the soul. There is plenty of room for discussion on topics like patriarchy, the collective transition and restructure we are riding through right now, and the ways we can show up to make the most of our time here on Earth. Carrie does a beautiful job of weaving her astrological wisdom throughout our exchange, and she lets us know that we are supported, now and always, by other bodies, other containers of energy, that come into our field to dance with ours.
Show Notes:
Learn more about Carrie's astrology class through Original Medicine Healing School www.resonancerestorative.com/original-medicine-healing-school
She mentions Linda Goodman, author and astrologer; Dr. Brian Weiss, author and hypnotist
Learn more about the men's/embodied masculine mentorship program www.resonancerestorative.com/becoming-the-phoenix
Celestial Wisdom, with Astrologer Carrie Gane
This week on the show, we are honored by the voice and wisdom of Carrie Gane, astrologer, sound healer, spiritual counselor, and deeply wise woman. I am deeply joyful to have her here in this space with me, as she has been so deeply influential on my own healing journey. This is one of two parts in our conversation. In this part of the conversation, Carrie is introducing her latest work with astrology. She is teaching a class that is being offered within the recently opened Original Medicine Healing School. She takes us through the foundations of five areas in a natal chart that she will go deeper into during the program, and previews the astrological blueprint being offered through these five important areas when we are seeking to understand the planetary influence on our embodied human experience. She introduces us to these areas as being the Sun, Moon, North and South Nodes, the Ascendant and Chiron. She also free riffs on the astrological forecast for the day we recorded, February 12, 2021. She goes into the celestial wisdom for the day the show is being released on February 22, 2021 as well. As you listen, be encouraged to explore thoughts, feelings and body sensations that may arise as you tune into the astrological weather for these days. Carrie will join us next week to share her origin story and a conversation about the human experience through an astrological lens.
Show Notes:
Carrie is the founder of Sound Healing Houston www.soundhealinghouston.com
Learn more about Original Medicine Healing School and the upcoming Astrology course Carrie will teach www.resonancerestorative.com/original-medicine-healing-school
Be encouraged to sign up for the newsletter and stay informed about other OMH-School programs coming up!
Your Power Is Your Promised Land
Show Notes:
Visit www.resonancerestorative.com to see more of my work
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If you need some support, have questions, or just want to chat and have a container for your experience, please be encouraged to book a free call with me. This can be done through the Home or About page of the Collective. Follow the link above.
Your Mission is Blessed by Spirit
Show Notes:
Find out more about my portfolio of work by visiting www.resonancerestorative.com
If you are interested in working through the Self-Study Program, find out more about it at www.resonancerestorative.com/self-study
I mention the Singer, Storyteller, Sound Circle and that can be found at www.resonancerestorative.com/singer-storyteller-sound-circle
I talk about Brene Brown and her work on shame. Find her work at www.brenebrown.com
The Celtic Light Festival of Imbolic
Show Notes:
Unity: 10+ Weeks of Mentorship for Relationship www.resonancerestorative.com/unity-relationship
Join us for Goddess Chats where we embody the energy of Joy and work with a Goddess and Her wisdom every Wednesday Eve at 7PM CST www.resonancerestorative.com/goddess-chats
Sign up for the newsletter and/or book a free (no obligations whatsoever!) call with me www.resonancerestorative.com
View the Imbolic blog podcast by teacher Katherine Bell katherinebell.org/magick-of-imbolc-2021/
True Belonging + Validation on a Shamanic Path
Show Notes:
Becoming the Phoenix: 5 + weeks of Mentorship for Men www.resonancerestorative.com/becoming-the-phoenix
Book a free call with me to chat more, or sign up for love, resonance + wisdom delivered to your inbox! www.resonancerestorative.com
Book mentioned is Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
Quote about belonging is paraphrased from Brene's interview with actress Viola Davis (included in Braving the Wilderness)
Re-Membering Our Sovereignty, with Rebecca Anne
Show Notes:
Quote referenced was said by Diane Whelan
Book mentioned is Mysteries of the Dark Moon, by Demetra George
Find Rebecca on Instagram @rebecca_kleo or on her website www.rebeccalanne.com For more information about the research visit
www.forschungskolleg-replir.de
Visit the Healing Collective website at www.resonancerestorative.com
2020, Wrapped
Out of My Own Light, with Louise Bichan
Show Notes:
Find out more about Louise and her beautiful work by visiting louisebichan.co.uk , outofmyownlight.com, fiddlecam.com
Support artists and share the love by using Patreon! You can support Louise by donating at Patreon.com/fiddlecam
If you are curious about me and my work, please visit www.resonancerestorative.com and sign up to get love and resonance to your inbox, or book a free wise woman call with me.
Coming in 2021, Singer, Storyteller, Sound Circle: a space for all voices to be heard and shared through song, spoken word, music and laughter within a beautiful, supportive and encouraging community. Find out more here www.resonancerestorative.com/singer-storyteller-sound-cirlce
The Shaman's Death
Show Notes:
Link to Shiva Shack Yogi Playground + Daniel's Breathwork Worhshop www.shivashackchicago.com
Link to Blog Post about the Breathwork I experienced on the Solstice of 2019 and the article about the Shaman's Death can be found here www.resonancerestorative.com/words
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Co-create space for yourself in the 1:1 mentorship Container, Your Unique Voice www.resonancerestorative.com/your-unique-voice
Permission to Rest
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Weaving Beauty + Re-Birth into Being, with Kylie McBeath
Show Notes:
Find Kylie on Instagram @beingisbeautiful or on her website www.kyliemcbeath.com. Find our about her holistic health organization, Zura Health, on Instagram @zurahealth and at www.zurahealth.com
Find out more about me by visiting www.resonancerestorative.com ; book a free, flowing wise woman one on one to connect with the wise woman within www.resonancerestorative.com/book-online ; attend the Breakup Recovery Healing Circle and find out more by visiting www.resonancerestorative.com/events
Kylie mentions the poet, David White, in the show.
The Wild Path
Show Notes:
Read the original literary piece at www.resonancerestorative.com/post/the-wild-path
If you are experiencing the loss of romantic partnership, going through an ending or a breakup, be so welcome to join the upcoming Breakup Recovery Circle. www.resonancerestorative.com/events
Read the article I wrote about my experience to be held by others in a sacred circle during my breakup recovery process at www.resonancerestorative.com/post/breakup-recovery
I am so joyful to offer a Holiday Special for sharing Love + Service: Book a service for yourself, and receive a second one to gift to a Beloved Other! www.resonancerestorative.com/bookonline
Ready to experience the power of a mentorship container as you work towards uncovering your Truth? Enroll in the Your Unique Voice 5+ week mentorship program. Info about that at www.resonancerestorative.com/your-unique-voice
Free flowing wise woman one on one call with me to dive in to love and resonance www.resonancerestorative.com/about (scroll down)
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Self-Nourishment - Meditation Episode
Be so blessed and welcome to come back to this meditation as many times as you like and need. Stay with the feelings for as long as you can, and welcome them home to be lived within the body. Amen.
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Unraveling Entanglements
Some of the areas I will share are:
Codependency
Fulfillment and sense of purpose
Belonging, tribe and root energy
Matrilineal Healing
Reclaiming Truth and my voice
The non linear processes of the healing journey
Join a healing circle that will take you Home to love and to yourSelf. Find place and space for All of You at www.resonancerestorative.com/events
Work with me in a 5+ week container of 1:1 mentorship to uncover Your Unique Voice www.resonancerestorative.com/your-unique-voice
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Shadow Work in the Season of Shadows, with Rev. Katherine Bell, PhD, DD
Show Notes:
Find Katherine’s work, the oracle deck (The Faces of WomanSpirit: A Celtic Oracle of Avalon) as well as her Samhaim ritual by visiting her website www.katherinebell.org She mentions the Hallmark movie, The Christmas Card
If you love the show, subscribe to the Resonance Restorative newsletter here www.resonancerestorative.com; book a free, flowing Wise Woman One on One session to get to know me and how we can work together as Wise Women www.resonancerestorative.com/book-online
If this work resonates, and you appreciate it, I appreciate YOU as well, and would love to hear your thoughts as shared in a review on apple podcasts.
When the Veil is Lifted
Show Notes:
Sign up for the biweekly newsletter of love and resonance on the Resonance Restorative Women's Collective website
Spend time with me, and get to know the potential of working with me as a sacred guide and mentor at a Free Flowing Wise Woman 1:1 Discovery Call
Learn more about my new healing offering, Reiki + Breathwork (Pranayama)
Come back next week for a guest episode with my teacher and mentor, Rev. Katherine Bell, PhD, DD
Courage, Bravery + Resilience
Finding Balance, in Relationship
Our meditation will take us into an intention setting practice where we will be called to witness ourselves within the energetic exchanges we create, and will guide us back to our center point.
It's a sacred jam for anyone who is navigating any kind of relationship in their lives right now, including the one to Self. So join me! It's a sacred space, and you are so welcome and encouraged to share it with me. Grateful and blessed to have you. A'ho.
Get into your Flow. Join me for a Free, Flowing Wyse Woman One on One Call
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Finding Balance, in Flow
Love that you are here. Welcome to All of You. Sending you Love and Blessings always.
Your host, Kristi Derkacy (Original Medicine Healer, Co-Creator of Resonance Restorative Women's Collective)
Show Notes: Still Movement, p 29. The Faces of WomanSpirit: A Celtic Oracle of Avalon, by Rev. Katherine Bell, Phd
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Letting the Masks Fall, with Mona Luna
Other topics we riff on this week are:
Money Stories and scarcity narratives
avoiding the word "should"
awakening to our wisdom instead of silencing it
reclaiming our power to Know
codependency, self betrayal, avoidance patterns
shifting into a level "hierarchy" on which every voice matters and has something unique to express
Mentioned in the show: Kino MacGregor, Ashtanga yoga practitioner; "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer,
Join us for this sacred jam! Found out more about Mona by visiting her website www.monalunalove.com or on Instagram @monalunalove. Join her Facebook group, The Wild Soul Collective.
Find out more about Kristi by visiting the home of her collective at www.resonancerestorative.com, stay plugged in to affirmation and wisdom by subscribing to the bi-weekly newsletter. Meet Kristi face to face in a free flowing Wise Woman One on One discovery meeting
Resting + Water Energy
Join me for the two part meditation to honor and connect with water energy and ground our energy in the polarity of water, earth energy. We return to steady breath as we float in a healing visualization.
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Go Where You’re Guided
Be invited to work with me if my voice is resonating with you by signing up for a free, flowing Wise Woman One on One call! Join my email list by dropping your info in the sign up box at the footer of my website, or by using the lightbox on the podcast page of my website!
Show Notes: The Four Fold Path is a book written by Angeles Arrien, PhD. Previous episodes with Katherine Bell were mentioned in the intro. To book a call with me and sign up for my newsletter, visit www.resonancerestorative.com/about