What does it look like when mega-celebrity spiritual teachers misuse their power and authority? And, when do these teachers' blindspots recapitulate the student's trauma - especially when the teacher doesn't understand the student's trauma response and instead blames the student for not doing the practices "right"?

This conversation with Nicola Amadora brings light to the reality that students of spiritual teachers can slip into being the recipient of dominating power dynamics of power-over with their teacher. This can cause the student to lose faith in their own inner authority and self-authoring trust.

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How many of us learned that our value is crystallized only after we have achieved the esteemed social status, the perfect job, the perfect family, perfect body, or the perfect healthy lifestyle?

These pressures whisk us away on a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows — one day we feel accomplished, successful, and worthy, and a day later, we collapse into depression, unworthiness and feelings of self-doubt and failure.

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As evolutionary leaders, we traverse through five phases of development. In this episode, Anne-Marie talks about these phases and the shift from phase 3 of creative/authentic leadership to phase 4 integral leadership. What are the key hallmarks of integral leadership and what can we do to become one? Listen to learn more!

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In this second episode of our two-part series, Rixt shares with us how she co-designed an integral leadership program for an executive based upon his desire to become a more integral leader — through embracing more of his shadows.

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This conversation with Rixt Kuiper and Rob Sinclair is about integral leadership and shadow work. How do we as leaders, consultants, healers, therapists and change-makers lead and love through exploring our personal projections and exiled parts of self?

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What does it mean to reclaim our erotic power?

This conversation with Darshana Avila, Erotic Wholeness Coach, is about healing and expanding our concepts of what it means to be an erotic and whole being.

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What happens when stoicism and the learned behavior of compartmentalizing one's emotions and vulnerability stifle the individual who embodies them?

This phenomenon is called toxic masculinity — an exalted archetype of what it means “to be a man”, which is reinforced through socialization and conditioning.

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Hualani from Canada and Marie from South Africa and I focus on what it’s been like to feel both exiled and exalted in confusing and painful ways since childhood.

We explored how we’ve each navigated through the process of shifting from being an isolated exile to a Holy one.

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Listen to qigong master, Damaris Jarboux, as she describes the framework for foreign energy and how it impacts our mental body (thoughts), emotional body, physical body and eventually our spiritual connection.

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How does the Vagal Nerve serve as one of our greatest inner allies, helping us to recover from activated states of threat, anxiety, fear, and helplessness? Patricia shares about this inner Jedi along with simple practices we can do to wield this power, and calm our triggers while driving or in the middle of a business meeting.

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Many of us are taught we have to find the one core purpose for our expression in the world and if we can’t do that then somehow it means we’ve failed. That is NOT true. You’ll hear Sajit debunk this outdated paradigm and offer a new way to explore soul purpose.

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Mark shares about his relationship with the natural world as his teacher, beloved, ally, and sacred mirror. He is devoted to serving as a meditation teacher who guides others to engage directly with the natural world as a form of spiritual practice and remembering.

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Jen candidly shares with us about the vulnerability and liberation of living a life through radical self-honesty. She shares about her book and women’s program on Midlife Emergence, which she describes as "the process of coming into view or being exposed after previously being concealed."

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Hualani, Marie, and I cover a number of topics on Sacred Sisterhood and the need to heal the collective shadows of feminine power out of balance and the power of when it’s balanced and serving healing for the whole.

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Holadia speaks about the art of pausing. Of taking time to turn inward and listen, clarify and ask for guidance, which is counter-intuitive to the mind’s need to race, fix, solve and go until exhaustion.

She guides others to break out of boxes through offering customized personal retreats at her home in Boulder, Colorado.

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