Daughter of Creation

I am back on the Daughter of Creation Podcast with an episode called, Ignititng Your Sovereignty!

In this episode I share some personal updates as well as introducing a new community that has come together powerfully during this COVID time called Temple of the Heart.

This Podcast is part of a series that's all about knowing your sovereign soul frequency and having the courage to be your truth and act in the world from your true soul power. An incredible topic that is extremely relevant right now.

I speak with fellow co-creator Christine Pensa at Temple of the Heart about Sovereignty. The conversation is meant to get your juices flowing about your own sovereignty, what it is to you, and might even help you take a look at some places where you may be giving your power away. It's incredibly juicy and enlightening :) and was a lot of fun!

We follow the conversation with two beautiful guided meditations from Sharon Josef and Lisa Pradillo, two other co-creators in the Temple. These will help you create and know the heartspace of your own inner temple, as well as how to connect with the unconditional love for yourself by remembering the innocence of yourself as a child.

Each of these sisters is a beautiful creator, and I am so excited for you to experience your own Temple of the Heart through their wise guidance.

Gathering the Community Live...

Our Live ZOOM gathering for the Ignite Your Sovereignty series starts tomorrow, this podcast is a great warm-up for getting you into your own Temple of the Heart space before we gather together on Friday.

There have been a few books this year that have left a remarkable imprint on me and The Gaia Codex is one that has stuck
deep in my heart. I was thrilled to speak with Sarah Drew, the author
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The Gaia Codex is a mythic novel with the feeling of a sacred text. The story follows the life of one girl whose life is unfolding as a Priestess. She’s learning to read the hidden codes in Creation that contain our true history. It is a fascinating story, so rich with metaphor and spiritual depth.

This interview is itself an activation of the larger web of wisdom that we are weaving together on the planet.

When I reached out to see if Sarah Drew would be willing to join me for a conversation I was thrilled that she responded with such open-hearted interest. We shared an intention to create a prayer for the world together.

We talk about how women are coming together from a more empowered place, and learning to create with the multi-generational weight of our lineages and the universal call to gather and uplift the wisdom of Mother Gaia.   This conversation was a blessing to me, and
I'm sharing it for all of the priestesses who go by different names.

You can purchase The Gaia Codex through Sarah’s website here
(highly recommend!)
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This podcast episode is a  delightful conversation I had with a Celtic Druid named Matthew McRoberts here in Boulder, Colorado.

About Matthew...

Matthew comes from Ireland and is ordained as both a Celtic Pagan and Celtic Christian priest, as well as in the Grail Bloodline tradition. He is a treasure trove of knowledge and wisdom about Celtic spirituality. We shared a lovely recorded conversation together in his flat and then we met up with my partner for a tea ceremony downtown Boulder.

It’s my first recorded conversation live from the road, something I’ve been planning to do since we started our RV trip. I’m looking forward to bringing you more of these conversations from incredible people I meet along the path.

An Experience of Celtic Spirituality...

Matthew shares some of the tenets of Celtic Spirituality and how closely they are related to Hindu and American Indian pantheons.

He illuminates a few Celtic legends and Bible stories, like the Prodigal Son, interpreting them from a Sophionic (feminine/wisdom) perspective rather than the traditional Soteriological perspective (salvation based). He also shares some of own incredible story being born in Northern Ireland as part of the warrior culture there.

The Legend of the Morigan...

I initially called Matthew because I’d been having visions of The Morigan, the dark priestess of Celtic Spirituality who is often depicted with a crow. I reached out to him because he runs a Celtic Christian and Pagan ministry here in Boulder and he mentioned the Morigan in his opening description.  In the podcast he shares the origin story of the Morigan sisters and the significance her archetype can have for our journey into the darkness within.

For Access to the Ancestral Healing offer, or to check out Matthew's ministry page: 

In Part 2 Andrea guides us through a powerful process that she has created through thousands of hours of teaching meditation, yoga, and in her private practice as an emotional healer. Her process blends features of somatic work, guided meditation, self-expression, and creating a safe space within yourself for your authenticity arise. 

Then taking action to reconcile your inner and your outer life.

I share my own story of using this process to break-off my engagement in my late twenties. It was one of the most powerful and self-defining experiences of my life. I took a stand for myself in an incredibly powerful way using this process. It changed my whole life trajectory and vastly shifted the narrative I was carrying about my life and who I needed to be.

I recommend listening to Part I first, to get some context for this practice and so that you develop your own report with Andrea, but it is not necessary.

The breakdown of the process she shares:

• Create the intention of holding a safe space
  
• Mind dump, allow yourself to verbalize or journal all that your mind wants to express
  
• Allow yourself to feel empty enough to let your authenticity arise
  
• Body Scan, move through your body and hold your hands on your body in the places where there are constrictions or spots that are calling for your attention
  
• Listen for the story that is coming up
  
• Take a reconciling action if it comes to you
  
• When we know what we feel we can decide what to do with the story, to give it a death, to release it and move on or feel the aliveness that exists within the story
  

Andrea and I have a beautiful conversation about listening deeply so that we can be in the midst of the great transitions and transformations of our lives with more gentleness, tenderness, and joy. Listening to her is like a meditation in itself.

We talk about letting go of perfectionism and control and surrendering into the tenderness and aliveness of truly living.

I feel privileged to get to share Andrea’s perspective with you because she was the first healer I ever knew, and she helped lay the foundations for some of the most radical transformations and blessings of my life.

I also share the story of my own healing journey through my debilitating anxiety during graduate school. How I found yoga and emotional healing to help me start releasing the trauma I was carrying in my body.  I had been to about every kind of therapist there is to help with my anxiety and I was on a high dose of medication when Andrea introduced me to Eastern somatic practices and the mind, body, spirit connection through Kundalini yoga. This practice ended up being crucial in accessing the trauma I was holding in my body that was causing the anxiety.

Andrea is a teacher, meditation guide, and energy healer. She is also a spiritual sherpa, helping light the path for the journeyers who are sometimes only a few steps behind her. Andrea has dedicated her life serving people on the journey to live with the full strength of their soul.

We also speak about how to blend western ideas of loving your neighbor and creating community, with eastern somatic and meditation practices to create truly whole sense of being.

More About Andrea Ciafardini in her own words.... 

"I am a Peace Ambassador for transformation of inner-landscapes of both women and men. I pair ancient practices with modern day experience.

Mystic, Innovator, and Founder of Shakti Rising, a feminine social change movement. Shannon Thompson reflects on what leadership looks in an emerging-paradigm organization. She shares some of the profound wisdom that she's gained through the 20 year experiment of Shakti Rising, and reflects on her changing role as a leader on the organization’s 20 year anniversary. Her message encourages us to have faith, work together, and persist in the voice of our soul.  

Together we speak about: 

• The path of devotional service 
• Connecting to the heart and soul of the world 
• The role of faith in true social change 
• Systemic trauma, social inequity, and its effect on addiction and the recovery movement 
• Wilderness rites of passage for being an awake soul in the world -What it means to start with a dream 

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” - Joel A. Barker 

In today’s episode we track the transformational events that caused us to question the religion of our childhood. Three perspectives from three very different women about broadening their faith. Out of a sense of injustice toward greater inclusion and more distinctly feminine expressions of faith.

Aelah Skye -  From the Evangelical church back to the Episcopal church of her youth, Aelah has found that the presences of Christ’s loving energy has endured with her, even outside of Christianity. She explores her journey serving as a minister in an inter-faith context, as well as moving beyond the religious paradigm into yoga and emotional healing. 

Toni Gripper - The daughter of sharecroppers in South Carolina, Toni got angry and curious about the unfairness of how women were being treated and taken advantage of in her Baptist church. She went on her own exploration of faith across the country and through many religious traditions to find a faith community that felt like LOVE to her.

Rev. Kate Roger -  From an Irish Catholic family in the South, Kate learned early on that despite being called to the ministry, she wouldn’t be allowed to serve as a priest in the church of her youth. Her journey led her in and out of churches and faith expressions, finally becoming an ordained Reverend through the Agape fellowship, and initiating a community based on the wisdom of the feminine.

In today’s episode we have an authentically feminine theological conversation.

I speak with Rev. Rachel Bush, a dear old friend of mine. We’ve travelled very similar paths through becoming ordained in the christian church, and exploring alternative ways of leading outside the church by creating healing spaces in our communities. We look at what it has been like to be a woman, mother, feminist, and minister, and how we are being asked to contribute our authentic voices and experiences to the theological conversation right now.

We ask... how is form, flow, and the actual structure of how we gather in communities essentially creating our belief systems?  Can we bring the feminine soul into the old masculine forms? 

We explore the beauty of the third way of integration. We ask what authentically feminine expressions might look like? For instance connection between people, with the body, and with nature. 

The raw and intimate journey of a man who has lived through incredible suffering to follow the light of his soul. Coming out as transgender in his twenties and immediately being called into the path as a Shamanic practitioner, and later a sound healer and channel, Caleb Armstrong is one of the most heart-centered humans I’ve ever met.

From Christianity to Shamanism, his gender transition has shown him that it is possible for us to feel at home in our bodies, and to celebrate both our masculine and feminine essence, as well as our androgyny, and see it as a great gift to the world. 

Lotus Sky is a Musical Channel & Shamanic Guide, she creates music and soul sounds to open us to the power of our self-expression and our unique voice. In this episode, we have a cosmic conversation about how our unique sound signature has the power to heal and harmonize us within ourselves and with the world around us. Ultimately, finding & speaking our authentic voice opens the door for us to be who we really are.

Lotus Sky shares her personal journey through coming out as a queer, immigrant woman from the Philippines - which for her meant estrangement from her conservative Catholic family, getting married and divorced in her early twenties, and leaving a lucrative job as a technologist. At one point, she had it all in terms of worldly success, and decided to follow her soul into the path of being true to herself. She now creates channelled music for healing, bringing forward her “canta ultima” - her heart’s true song and serving others in doing the same. Along the path she learned that the world isn’t a cold, hard place, she’s found a home within herself, and the support of her soul tribe. 

Towards the end of our conversation, Lotus Sky shares a beautiful and special sound channeling just for this community. The channeling is to reconnect you with mother earth, to awaken to the beauty that you are, and to usher in the new world by releasing negative projections and seeing the good. 

You are a creator whether you think you are or not. We all are, it is our birthright and our soul purpose. I invite you to sit with this meditation to connect with the energy of what you are creating right now, whether this creative project your career, a side hobby, a decorative project, or relationship, this meditation will help you bring it through with full soul force. 

This  Atunement brings forth a lot of fruits such as ...

• Clarity and deep knowing
• Next steps
• Re-framing your Vision
• Helps you stay in your heart as you “work”

If you’re deep into a project or venture already, this  meditation will support you in staying tuned in to the essence and the heart of what you are creating (the only place you want to be). It is a great meditation to sit with at the start of your day before you start creating. 

The power of our voice is the power to add our energy to everything around us. It is the power to create.  When we withhold our truth we can feel blocked in a lot of other aspects of our lives. 

Vanessa Smith is a Pragmatic Psychic and Alignment Coach. As a psychic, her area of expertise is her ability to see the human potential within people, and help them draw it out. She is able to see and hear energetic information about the reason we might feel stuck and ways to turn it around.

In this episode Vanessa shares her process of Emotional Alchemy, turning blocked energy into golden threads of truth. It is a powerful way to move emotions in your body out through your voice.  

I loved learning about how to use the voice as an emotional healing tool. Expressing my truth is a core value for me. I walked away with a deeper awareness of how to access the places in myself where I feel stuck. "See it, say it, claim it", she says! 

Maria Carbonell is a bridge-builder with the plant world. She uses the ancient system of Ayurveda in combination with plant wisdom to create healing relationships with plants that heal our emotional body.  

About Maria

Maria has been a leader in the field of Ayurveda and holistic health for 13 years. She is the author of the several books,  Art of Retreat: coming home to yourself through silence and solitude, Heal and Transform Trauma, and The Ultimate Mind Body Detox.

In this heart-centered conversation we share about how to find your plant allies and work with your Dosha, or mind-body type, based on the elements of earth, fire, air, and water, to heal and soothe your emotions.  

This conversation opened up an awareness in me about the healing vibration of plants, and I even found one of my own plant allies - the bougainvillea!

I so enjoy Maria's presence, it is a healing in itself. 

Maria’s Free Offering

On today’s episode of This Emotional Planet I speak with Dr. Erich Hunter about how to use pendulums to detect emotions that are ready to be healed and cleared. Erich is a true wizard, and we have a mind-expanding discussion on this simple tool that can create enormous outcomes for people and the planet. 

Erich is an expert in the field of Pendulum Healing. With 3 books out on the subject, he leads a community of pendulum healers doing work worldwide. We speak about how pendulums work as healers, and how you can find the root cause of any emotional issue that is ready to be cleared with a pendulum.  His emotional healing protocol is a basic introduction to pendulums and a crucial starting point for any kind of healing work. 

He's offering two free courses that will quickly teach you how start pendulum healing: 

This week on This Emotional Planet we look at how hormones and gut health affect our emotions.  Making sure that your bodily systems are in balance, and most importantly that you’re learning how to communicate with your body, is vital to sustained emotional wellness. 

Dr. Nancy Crowell is a Doctor of Chinese Medicine who blends both Functional Medicine from the western world with Oriental Medicine and the 5 elements from the east. She looks at how emotions, gut health, stealth infection, and hormones work together to create imbalances in the body, and how we can work with our emotions to rebalance the body. 

“We cannot heal in a contraction, as soon as you soften around your condition, that is when the healing is allowed to happen.” - Dr. Nancy Crowell 

The great wisdom of Chinese Medicine is that it looks at patterns and resonance in healing, and how we can work with our body shift our conditions. This episode will help shed particular light on conditions like...

• Skin conditions such as acne, psoriasis, eczema
• Hypothyroidism and Thyroid disorders
• Immune System Disregulation
• Hormonal Imbalances

The intensity of many conditions she’s seeing come from the toxicity on our planet today. Finding greater diversity in what we eat and learning how our systems work together are the starting place for rebuilding our health. 

Lissa McGraw is a Colon Hydrotherapist who holds incredible presence as she supports people in literally releasing the crap that is stuck inside.  It was not soon after she started her Colon Hydrotherapy practice that she got to see how interlaced our gut health is with our emotional health. She has innovated new ways of brining vibrational and sound healing into the colonic experience, with amazing results for clearing parasites, liver and gall stones, and very old waste that is stuck in our intestines.  

Join me as we speak about the ways that your gut health can accelerate your emotional healing process. How this practice can help you live more deeply embodied by claiming the "unknown" parts of yourself that may reside in your guts, give you the strength to embrace what you still might need to let go of, and be in deeper connection with your body. 

I so enjoyed connecting with her, she has a beautiful spirit that shines through her work! 

I love this topic! So many of us our communicating with our pets intuitively and emotionally all the time, but would like more tools to know what is actually going on with them. 

Beth Osmer is a shaman and energy healer for pets. In our conversation we speak about some easy ways to stay in touch with our pets and help them heal when they need our support.  We also talk about…. 

• Clearing and healing emotions in pets and how it can change “bad” behaviors
• End of life transitions with pets, and how she communicates with them
• Cats and stress, what their behavior shows you about your environment
• Dogs in service to us, how they are prone to take on our emotions, and what we can do to help
• The role of being a caretaker or guardian for your pet, what you can do to be in right relationship

… and a bonus shamanic journey she did with me and my puppy at the end!

Acurda Melchizedek is a DNA Architect who has studied spiritual systems for over 20 years, including 7 years in shamanic and indigenous communities, a Peruvian Ayahuasca community, as well as yogic studies in the Himalayas, and other paths that led her to the understanding of the DNA double helix (snake) as a recurring theme through these many lineages. She has combined this intelligence into a system for using sacred geometry, intuition, and light to re-code the human genome. 

 Acurda and I talk about: 

• How to access, clear, and re-write the stories that no longer serve us. 
• What they call “junk DNA” is actually human genetic memories and archetypes. 
• Sacred geometry as a healing structures of light. 
• How in this parasitic culture, where people are grabbing for energy and attention, we can become the source of our own energy  
• What kind of genetic memories do we want to leave behind for future generations? 
• How the frequencies we chose either create dissonance from past trauma or resonance with our wholeness 

How we empower people to be their own healer  This is groundbreaking work and I’m happy to be one of the people on the planet talking about it right now. Creating exposure for this combination of science and spirituality, filling in the gaps of physics and esoteric spirituality to create a more complete understanding of who we are. As energy, as human beings, and our potential to create from our own source of light within ourselves. 

 I hope you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as we enjoyed having it! 

In this Episode You'll hear a little bit more about why I'm doing a podcast, who I am, and what you'll get from listening. (Sneak peak: my goal is that this podcast will bring you more peace :) 

After about minute 9 it turns into Q&A with some listeners were we speak about:

• What the name Daughter of Creation means
• My own emotional clearing process 
• Emotional boundaries with family, the stages of development with holding those boundaries

Enjoy! I'm always open to feedback at connect@daughterofcreation.com. 

Aaron and I speak about how the heart center is the central source of our power. 

• That the energy we access here is our creative intelligence. 
• The difference between creating and manifesting, and how science is proving this. 
• How emotions, art, love, and science are all One.  
• Why we feel vulnerability hangovers sometimes. 
• The antidote to hiding, instead finding your community and creating real boundaries.  
• The power of connection to overcome depression and non-expression.

How to connect with Aaron: