Kazane, Sound of the Wind

Nathalie is a fellow Reiki teacher and martial artist based in NYC. In this episode, she shares how she discovered Reiki many years ago, how her Iaido practice (Japanese sword-drawing) has enhanced her spiritual journey and vice versa.

Says Nathalie: "[Now] I can actually feel my body, so I have more of a kinetic feel, and if you have a kinetic feel, you can actually feel more emotions, more range of emotions. So when I am in Reiki, I can be in my body, and I can process more emotions, I can access more of myself inside my body.”

She has written two books on Reiki, which are both available on Amazon, and co-runs a group on Facebook for Reiki and martial arts practitioners called Shin Shin Kaizen.

When I shared with Nathalie some of my own frustration with my new martial arts practice, she had these encouraging words to say: “If you’re not frustrated, that means you are not practicing.” I feel this is true of Reiki as well as it is with martial arts!

For my first guest under the new podcast name Kazane, Sound of the Wind, or KSW, I am thrilled to have Frans Stiene, author of several Reiki books including the Japanese Art of Reiki and co-founder of the International House of Reiki (www.ihreiki.com).

Frans shares his amazing journey from Amdsterdam party animal to authority figure in the Reiki community. His contributions to the practice and the return to traditional forms as transmitted by Reiki founder Mikao Usui are invaluable. To top it off, Frans is a super approachable, fun guy, and I had a blast talking to him!

One of my highlights was Frans’s definition of Reiki in one sentence: “The system of Reiki is a Japanese spiritual practice that promotes to lay bare my true nature.” So simple, beautiful and true.

Listen to the full episode to gain insights on meditation and why some find it impossible, as well as practical tips for reiki practitioners to develop a routine.

Frans is actively teaching online and you can connect with him via his website mentioned above.

After three beautiful seasons and one happy anniversary celebration, Zarah Windy the podcast will now be known as Kazane, Sound of the Wind.

Allow me to explain this process.

First of all when I started my podcast journey in September 2020, it was more of a challenge to myself and an exploration – like most of what I do, really!

This little experiment resulted in 30 episodes with amazing guests and listeners from all around the world.

Some of you might have heard me speak about the power of words, and names especially hold a specific vibration. Windy was the name given to me by my mother at birth. I was born in a mountain city in the north of the Philippines, during a windy night. Growing up, I hated my name as I often got teased about it and also called Wendy. Only recently did I realize that it had a powerful connection to the Air element, which is overwhelmingly present in my astrological chart as well as one of my qualities in terms of martial arts (Air=Wind).

That same year, which was pivotal for many, I dropped my family name which is comprised of three Chinese names, and inserted my Christian name, which appears on my baptismal certificate but not on my passport.

Story has it that the priest did not accept Windy as my name and so my mom took Zarah from the bible. Consequently, that name, which I thought was easier to remember than my Chinese surname, had that energy of coercion attached to it, thought etymologically, some of its meanings are “princess” and “radiance,” which I find beautiful, and one of the reasons I named my own daughter Sara.

When in October 2021 I wanted to order a bokken or wooden training sword with my name engraved in Japanese, my sensei, Zen Takai, decided it was time for me to receive a Samurai name. Perhaps he sensed the depth of my practice went beyond the form and was truly a quest for inner knowledge and deepening of my Japanese spiritual practice – Reiki. Mikao Usui himself, the founder of Reiki, was both a Samurai and a monk.

All this to say, I hope you enjoy the new episodes of Kazane, Sound of the Wind, starting with the author of the Japanese Art of Reiki and many other books, Frans Stiene.

The focus of the podcast is still on healing and spirituality, plant medicine and relationships, with an added dimension of martial arts and Japanese culture. Arigato!

Ending Season 3 with Cath Prema, a Shamanic Reiki teacher based in Cebu. Cath was my first Reiki client at my wellness studio in Cebu, Philippines, back in 2017 (prior to that I practiced from home), which makes her a very special person! She revealed how she somewhat found me off-putting and intimidating at first.

After completing her three levels of Reiki at the Gassho Center for Healing Arts (the name of my center) alongside other courses, Cath went on to found Gaia Center with two other Gassho graduates. She now teaches and holds sessions mostly online.

Interestingly, Cath received her Sanskrit name, Prema, at the same time I received my Samurai name, Kazane (early November 2021). It seems her story and mine have evolved alongside, diverging and reconnecting through time and space.

You can connect with Cath through Gaia connection on Facebook and Instagram, or through her personal page @premacath.

In this episode I speak to Zen Takai, with whom I have been studying for the past month, learning Bushido - the Way of the Samurai.

The classes are more than physical martial arts, as we discuss Japanese culture, history and philosophy. 

You can book your own classes with Zen Sensei, or simply watch the amazing movements through his Instagram page at: @zen_takai_samurai

or through his website at www.zenkaras.com

Arigato! 

I spoke to Princess Manzon, the creator of Maya Cacao, one of my favorite ceremonial cacao providers in the Philippines. Philippine cacao is not very well known internationally, but things are changing and Princess is at the forefront with her delicious cacao, selected with the utmost care.

We talked about growing cacao in the Philippines, as well as Princess's own journey and how she came to build her business.

You can order her cacao on Instagram through the following accounts:

@mayacacaomagic

@metawellnessph

@soltiboutique

Vietnam-based meditation teacher Ojas Oneness talks about his 42-day blindfolded and 21-day fasting experiment:

“Hunger is so deep. Once we cross seven days, ten days, the hunger increases. It’s like a big monster we need to face. Monster in the sense of so much difficulty. So for that, I need to stabilize myself. I need to take deep breaths. I need to say to myself, “I can do it. This body is temporary. The mind is temporary. Mental need is temporary. Physical need is temporary. 

I want to witness who I am.

I am doing research on me, to know who I am. I’m speaking like this. Is it me? When I am doing a challenge, a different me comes up. Is it me? I want to dig inside.”

Learn more about Ojas' work, combining Art and Meditation, through: https://diviners.in/

Check out his short film "the Purpose" here: https://youtu.be/rZ8v4J0aAlM

“Jail is something that liberated me from the prison that was my head, and the heart that was locked up."

"The irony of it, when I was in jail, that was when I set myself free.”

Most people in my community know Lorna Bondoc as a coach, teacher, mentor and business woman. What not everyone knows is that Lorna was wrongfully incarcerated in Manila, Philippines, back in 2016, for a total of five harrowing months.

In this episode, she shares her story of forgiveness and inner strength. 

This week our podcast is in French! I talked to my friend Stephanie, who lives in Marseille, which is where we met in 2011, when we were both doing our culinary studies. Stephanie went on to open to open a café in Marseille, as I did in the Philippines. Now, ten years later, both she and I are working with energy to help people in a therapeutic setting. She also works with sound healing, a well-established form of healing therapy.

Cette semaine, je parle à mon amie Stephanie de Morant, qui est basée à Marseille, où nous avons complète notre CAP de cuisine ensemble en 2011. Suite à nos études, Stephanie a ouvert un café sur Marseille, et moi, aux Philippines. Dix ans plus tard, nous travaillons toutes les deux avec les énergies du corps, dans un but thérapeutique. Stephanie travaille aussi avec les bols sonores, dont les bienfaits sont bien reconnus.

Pour contacter Stephanie vous pourrez la trouver sur Facebook et Instagram sous le Chant des Sirenes.

Explorer of Consciousness Paulette Waltz has been based in Peru for 6 years.  Of Philippine and American descent, she has delved deeply into learning and sharing many spiritual tools and modalities such as: plant medicine including Ayahuasca, a Course in Miracles, ThetaHealing, Arcturian healing, Munay-ki, yoga, and many more.

In our conversation, she talks about the messages she received during lockdown in the US, as well as during her trip to Bhutan just before the world shut down. We also discuss mushrooms, microdosing, and how the quarantine affected her relationship, with her being in the US while her husband was in Peru.

After taking my first level of reiki in Thailand in 2015, I went onto my second level of Reiki with Sarah Salcedo Rubin in Manila that very same year. She has been an angelic presence in my life ever since, and was able to visit my wellness studio to teach Seraphim Blueprint, another energy healing modality, back in 2018.

In this talk, Sarah answers the question everyone is asking: what is Reiki?

She talks about the Chakra energy system and guides us in a lovely and relaxing meditation.

You can learn more about her work at: www.sarahsalcedo.com 

Diving into the magical waters of the Gene Keys has been an amazing experience for me. As with everything I am moved by, I want to share it with others, but don’t always find the right words.

It was such an honor to have Mark Bentley shed some light on this system, or transmission, as creator Richard Rudd calls the Gene Keys. As a Gene Key Ambassador, Mark is here to guide people through its intricacies. He referred to the Gene Keys as the “Programming language of our DNA,” and together we talked about Human Design, the Law of Time, and Epigenetics, among other topics.

To learn more about the Gene Keys, you can go straight to their website to create your own hologenetic profile: www. Genekeys.com

Nicola d’Alonzo is a Men’s Coach, helping men connect to their King consciousness and go further in life than they could have ever imagined. She shares how she came into this line of work with this particular audience – a rarity in a male-dominated field- and how her personal struggles with men shaped her into the person and guide she is today.

We start out the new season with my daughter interviewing me!

During this episode, we talk about energy healing, shamanic reiki and plant medicine. 

For the last episode of season one, I invited Hieros Gamos and Business Alchemy mentor Juliet Tang to join me. Juliet’s amazing medicine has been changing people’s lives all over the world. She shares her personal journey, from Communist China to rural Pennsylvania via the Big Apple.

Like me, Juliet has a background in energy healing and plant medicine, but went on the mentoring women to grow their businesses with power and grace.

In this conversation, we talk about God, Magic Mushrooms, the Father wound, Inner Sacred marriage, religious trauma, the importance of integration and much more.

Juliet also shares a Holy Trinity practice to help highly ambitious women heal their relationship to the Masculine, so you will want to listen all the way to the end!

To learn more about Juliet, follow her on Facebook and Instagram @juliettangz

If you're interested in working with me, just reach out to zarahwindy@gmail.com so we can connect!
Also facebook and instagram @zarahwindy 

In this episode, I get to interview my good friend and amazing soulpreneur Kymberly Maitland-Smith over a cup of ceremonial cacao. I met Kym in Cebu City, Philippines, where she and I moved to after spending several years overseas.

When we met, I still had my wellness studio, the Gassho Center for Healing Arts. Kym and I got close spending a lot of time in that space, with lots of tears, laughs and sweat! Kym eventually opened her very own healing space (and I closed mine), which is a magical place in the mountain, just thirty-five minutes from the city center.

There, she hosts events such as sound healing, yoga, kirtan, cacao ceremony, to name a few. She also lives there, and creates all the products for her lifestyle business, Solti. The Tala dress, which is featured in this season’s podcast art, is her creation. It’s already an iconic piece in the Philippines, for women who are both feminine and empowered. I am convinced that it is only a matter of time till the Tala dress takes over the world!

Discover Kym's wolrd here: www.soltiboutique.com  

Want to work with me? Book a free discovery call at zarahwindy@gmail.com

David Miller is a masculine/feminine polarity teacher. I first met him through Zac Roedde, who was my very first guest on this podcast. I was intrigued by David’s description of the feminine heart as being Yang and projecting outwards, and the masculine heart being Yin or receptive. I actually spent a few days reflecting on this, as well as how David mentioned “the rape of a man’s heart”, in very illustrative words.

In this episode, David shares about how he had to go through years of inner work to release and heal his co-dependency, abandonment and attachment wounds.

One of the main influences for him has been the work of Mark Binet, author of Truth Cock.

The work of Mark, David and Zak has generated a lot of controversy over time, as well as polarizing opinions. Here you get a chance to learn more about what all the noise is about!

You can find David on Facebook, and join one of his groups with Zak Roedde. 

In this episode, relationship coach Morgan Goldberg and I share an intimate conversation about how she went from Judaism to Jesus, via Ayahuasca. Morgan and I met in a mastermind group, where part of the work focused on healing our relationship to the Divine Masculine. She tells the story of how Christ appeared during the ceremony, which turned sour, as plant ceremonies sometimes do!

In a surprising turn of events, Jesus now features prominently in Morgan’s work. 

You can follow her on Facebook and Instagram at @iammorgangoldberg

Interested in working with me? Email me at zarahwindy@gmail.com to book your free discovery call.

Semen retention, anyone?

Can you orgasm without ejaculating? These are some of the questions we tackle in this week’s episode.

Colbert Saint Laurent, aka the Alchemist, is a spiritual teacher and guide based in Long Island, NY. He talks about his personal journey from nightclub promoter to Spiritual teacher and mentor. In the second half of the show, we go deep into Sacred Sexuality, Tantra and Semen Retention. You don’t want to miss this!

Mayda Poc, a business and success coach based in NYC. We met in a mastermind, where we discovered similarities in our respective journeys, having both lived in Paris and NYC. Mayda talks about her first days as a woman on the trading floors in Wall street, and how she now helps women step into their power and truth in the workplace.

You can connect with her through Linkedin here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maydapoc/

To catch my interview with her where I share my own struggles as an entrepreneur and how I came into the wellness industry, you can go to her Youtube channel here:

https://youtu.be/ue5vxyEpNhI

As usual feel free to connect with me through my website www.zarahwindy.com or through email at zarahwindy@gmail.com

Welcome to my podcast! You are in the right place if you are interested in self-development, personal growth, energy healing and alternative medicine. 

Originally from the Philippines, I lived in France, the United States, Spain, Hong Kong and Switzerland before moving back to Asia in 2013. In 2015 I learned energy healing and my life has never been the same since.

Join me in learning from teachers, healers, mentors and coaches as we talk about ways to find peace, alignment, intimacy and more love in our lives.