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Ep. 111 The Role of Spirituality in Healing Trauma and the Nervous System

Spirit Sessions Podcast Guest

This episode features special guest Cristal Mortensen, a trauma and nervous system specialist and somatic neuroplasticity expert. Katie and Cristal discuss the physiological responses of the nervous system and increasing our felt sense of safety and protection in the body.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~ Trauma and states of safety within the body

~  Integration of the physical and emotional bodies

~ Role of the vagus and cranial nerves

~ The matrix of safety and support

~ Attunement of the brain and body

~ The science of safety

~ Stability as connection to the Divine

~ Click here for the Spirit and Safety course on November 7th

~ Click here to join Spirit Sessions, The Shakti School Subscription

~ Find Cristal Mortensen online at awarealignedawake.com

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Ep. 96 Becoming Receivers: A Taste of Shakti School

After the season of giving, can we talk about receiving? In this episode Katie talks about The Art of Receiving, nurturing your inner healer, getting out of the trauma vortex and learning how to receive with grace. This audio is from a recent Shakti School webinar and offers an immersive experience with practices.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~ We are here to experience something: a shift in yourself to become more awakened to your divine self.

~ Laya Yoga: learning to dissolve old patterns, to embody a fuller version of who we are

~ Feminine form spirituality: when we don’t take time for this, our system stays in survival mode and we are unable to receive it

~ Using your body to retrain your lineage patterns

~ The path of the least selfish

~ Finding safely outside of the current/popular power structures

~ Codependency : the way we used to get love

~ What is your relationship with the matrix? Who is giving to you? The divine dwells within the heart.

~ Intimacy with divinity will be the ultimate giver.

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Ep. 89 Holding Dark and Light with Dr. Scott Blossom

Join Katie and Scott where they will go deep and wide into how we can hold both our anger/fear/grief as well as great love and transformation at this time. Dr. Blossom is a Traditional Chinese Medical practitioner, Shadow Yoga teacher & Ayurvedic Consultant. He has been studying yoga since 1990 and teaching since 1997. His primary teachers are Zhander Remete, founder of Shadow Yoga and Dr. Robert Svoboda, Ayurvedic physician and scholar.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~Working with grief, fear and anger in these trying times

~Bowing to Corona Devi

~The virus as a goddess with healing potential

~The Devi Mahatmya prayer

~The importance of Bhakti - love and devotion to something bigger than self

~There’s no more going back to normal—and why that’s a blessing

~The time of trauma release

~How the patriarchal + colonial mindset has influenced modes of yoga and our bodies

~The Buddha is the sangha - how our healing will come from the community

~Poets, seers and the healing role of the senses

~Katie’s favorite gospel guru: Tasha Cobbs Leonard - listen to You Know My Name

~Find Scott Online: https://www.doctorblossom.com/

"Our anxiety comes from the desire to have things be different. There's going to be the day after the election. And the day after that. We need to be present to what is regardless of the outcome you want. My ancestors had to prepare themselves over and over again for moving toward a freedom that was nowhere in sight. We prepare for life as it unfolds, not our ideal image of it. That is literally the only path forward." — Rev. angel Kyodo williams

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I’ve been thinking about this phrase we toss aro I’ve been thinking about this phrase we toss around facetiously: “Thanks for nothing.” 

We lace our voice with resentment and the subtle (or not so subtle) middle finger to whatever didn’t go our way. 

But lately, I’ve been reclaiming it. Sanctifying it. 

Turning it into a quiet little prayer: Thank you. I am here. I am grateful for no reason. 

Science keeps confirming what the mystics have whispered for millennia: gratitude literally changes us.

Studies from UCLA and Harvard show that consistent gratitude practices calm the amygdala, boost dopamine and serotonin, expand heart-rate variability and even strengthen immune function. 

In other words: saying “thank you” rewires the nervous system and ushers the whole body into a different frequency. 

But here’s where it gets counter-intuitive: 

Most of us only practice gratitude for the shiny things - the wins at work, blessings in our bank account, the relationships feeling good… 

But what about the heartbreaks? 
The long nights in the dark? 
The relationships that stretched us, cracked us and forced us to grow? 
The strange, sacred mandala of our lives — the shadowy petals included? 

This is where “Thanks for nothing” becomes a holy prayer. 

Because sometimes the “nothings” (the thing that didn’t happen, the door that didn’t open, the expectation that didn’t get met) is the quiet architecture of our becoming something GREATER. 

More heartful. More real. 

Sometimes what appears as an absence is actually a deep cosmic protection. The chaos is the curriculum. 

So today, I’m practicing a new kind of gratitude: 

Thanks for the heartbreak that humbled me. 
Thanks for the silence that made me listen deeper. 
Thanks for the plans that fell apart, so I could fall into myself. 
Thanks for the nothing that was actually everything. 

This isn’t spiritual bypass. It’s radical spiritual bravery. 

It’s choosing to bow to the full freaking thing. The yummy parts and the ones with biting teeth. 

It’s remembering that we don’t need perfect circumstances to cultivate a loving, grounded physiology. 

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Thanks for nothing. 
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