Medicine Wheel Podcast

In this episode Jessica and guest Dr. Drew Varcellino talk about what is the Sacred Masculine energy and the importance of redefining  and healing our masculine energy.In ancient knowledge, indigenous  cultures talk about the masculine energy that lives in men and women equally as something sacred, the symbology of what the masculine energy represents is very much respected and embraced. The Sacred Masculine represents action, direction, movement, responsibility, strength, focus, fatherhood, the sun, generosity, courage, material abundance, clarity, intellect, transformation and growth.

In this episode Jessica talks about the battle within. The Warrior's path as mentioned in ancient knowledge by many initiatic cultures, is the path where you call in your inner warrior and confront the worst enemy of all which is yourself. The warrior  wakes up when he is before the enemy. The Warrior is prohibited from engaging in an external battle because the only enemy that can stop him is inside. Where does that enemy appear? In my words, when I say that I will do something and I don't respect my own words, it is in my actions, in the signs and in my dreams.

In this episode Jessica shares valuable suggestions to integrate Kambo Medicine, if you have recently participated, or in the past, or are planning to sit with Kambo. These suggestions can be helpful to take full advantage of the wonderful benefits the spirit of the Kambo has to offer.

In this episode Jessica shares 3 lessons that she has learned from the journey she initiated alongside sacred plan medicine and shamanic energy practices.

Kambo is the powerful medicine, is a potent secretion of the green giant monkey tree frog, known as Phyllomedusa Bicolor, which lives in the upper areas of the Amazon Rainforest. On an emotional, energetic and Spiritual level, Kambo has an extremely mystical intelligence to it and is a very strong Spirit. It knows what you need and enters the field of the person when they decide to work with Kambo, an initiation within itself, way before they even get to the ceremony. In this episode guest Alexis Fawx, shares with us her experience with Kambo medicine and the wonderful gifts she received from the spirit of the frog.

Establishing a relationship with nature can be one the first steps into our healing and self understanding journey. As we have mentioned before, everything is alive and constantly speaking to us, what a better time than now to start flourishing our connection with nature and deeply understand the positive impact it can have on our daily lives.

Dreams are the activity we engage in every night, we can have highly significant spiritual meanings if we pay attention to what they tell us. In this view, the past, present and future all exist — and are equally real. It often seems as though where we are "today" is present, and "yesterday" is past, and "tomorrow" is future.There can be some universal dream symbols that frequently might have a similar underlying spiritual meaning of dreams for many people.

In this episode we will share with you an audio from a class with the School of Shamanic Initiation. Shaba shares valuable tips and recommendations to integrate a sacred plant medicine experience into your day to day.

Health can be measured in many ways and is often broken down into a variety of numbers and diagnoses that don't often provide the best picture of what a truly healthy body and mind looks like.While modern-day western medicine has brought many wonderful and life saving advancements, one of the downfalls of western medicine is the often isolated approach to health, which looks at the body in sections of individual symptoms and pieces rather than the whole system it really is.This is why a natural, alternative, complementary, or holistic approach is so important, because to truly achieve optimal wellness in the physical, mental, and spiritual sense we have to be viewing and supporting the body as the incredible system it is.

When we are kids we have natural curiosity and creativity and as we get older we absorb ideas from society, our families, friends about how art or staying curious is a waste of time. There are plenty of people who discredit creativity because they don't believe it's a real or valuable skill. This is simply false. Creativity takes talent, creativity is helpful to problem solve. Even if you are performing surgery or defending a person in court, creativity will always help to overcome obstacles.

In today's episode we talk about the value of reciprocity. In the andean comovision, the value of Ayni speaks about the importance of giving in order to receive. We are in constant co-creation with the universe and our surroundings, Ayni will bring the perfect balanced communication of gratitude.

Guest Alexander Williams, creator of Aura Rainwater, shares with us the inspiration of Dr. Masaru Emoto and his work with Water as a Living Consciousness in the the scientific world. The energy of water is capable of more than we ever imagined. The power human thoughts, sounds and intentions has to strengthen and disempower is one of the greatest discoveries of our time.

Everything that happens in the universe begins with intention. An intention is a directed impulse of consciousness that contains the seed form of that which we aim to create. In this episode guest Jennifer Brennan and Jessica talk about what an intention is and how we can understand how to sustain it in order to achieve our objective.

Today our guest is Drew Barretto who is a Traditional Chinese Medicine Student, and a retreat facilitator with The School of Shamanic Initiation. He shares with us ways to have a smooth integration process after a healing experience with sacred plant medicine.

Today our guest Jacqueline Elizabeth shares with us what are mantras and how they can be applicable in our day to day. Jacqueline is a spokesperson for empowerment! As an international speaker, life coach and founder of Jacqueline International, Inc, the author's career path came from her prior experience as lead coach and speaker in Tony Robbins' famous life coaching organization. She has also been part of sacred medicine circles and healing experiences with The School of Shamanic Initiation.

In this episode, along with guest Victor Collazo, we discuss the FATHER as an institution: how people refugee in the Paradigms (science, religion, economy and Government).

The “Ofrenda” is a metaphysical construction that is built with an intention of a desired outcome. Also, It is a powerful symbolic ally we can use to set our intention during ceremonies. When we understand that everything is alive and that the universe is listening we can use this form of communication as a form of prayer, an expression of gratitude, and reciprocity.

In South american culture and tradition, Icaros are represented visually through intricate geometric patterns that can be found depicted on their community's buildings, clothes, and all throughout their artwork. They believe that singing these songs of nature can bring balance and harmony to our planet. When these songs are sung to people during a healing ceremony, the goal is to restore the balance of the geometric energy pattern, or song of the person that is experiencing inner work. The songs, as well as the strong will of the person singing it, are used to bring about this balance.

For centuries, ceremony has been important for human beings to celebrate the rites of passage of their lives. It is a deeply vital and very defining force at the core of the human experience. With ceremony, we are invited and guided to play an active role in making a successful journey through the thresholds of life: birth, anniversaries, graduation, adulthood, marriage, new jobs, new careers, parenthood, eldership, retirement, just to name a few… all significant beginnings and endings. Even the greatest journey of them all; death.Active involvement in a ceremony supports us in stepping beyond our own individual emotions and awareness of self.

When we accomplish something in life and when we succeed in doing something that we said we will do, we grow at this point, and in front of this situation our ego will throw many weapons our way so that we stop moving forward. In episode 28 we talk about these 4 different stages of growth, from an initiation point of view, that will help us know ourselves better in front of these automatic responses.

As the year is coming to an end is good to reflect on how it was for us, I know that for many it was a year of struggle, death, disease, fear, insecurity, but for many others it was a year of opportunity, new beginnings, different perspectives, eye opening, and definitely confrontational and let die what it doesn't serve our purpose and receive the new.Gratitude can be a good start to appreciate whatever happened to us this year and embrace the opportunity to see beauty where we believe there is nothing we can appreciate. In this episode we talk about the Andean ethical value, Allin Kawsay (good living) and explore the meaning of introducing that practice into our daily lives.

Many times we have heard about the power of our words, of our voice, of expressing ourselves; every thought, every word, feeling and action. ⁠But at the same time we have forgotten our power, and that we are co creators of our reality. We have disconnected from our divinity, looking for it outside of us. ⁠Energetically, our fifth chakra, our throat, has a communication function as a link between the spiritual and matter. When communication becomes harmonious we can elevate the spirit and content and transcend physical limitations of time and space. And in the Universe of Creation in general, all initiatic Cultures agree that that The Word has creative Power because ...:⁠"The Essence of the Universe ... Is Sound" !!!⁠⁠⁠We invited Joel Cross to join us in this episode to share with us the power of his voice and the magic that coherence brings into his journey. Joel Cross grew up in Cleburne, Texas, at the age of twelve he fell in love with the guitar. He was self-taught, finding inspiration in gospel, soul, classical and r&b. He is a Grammy nominated songwriter and singer. Joel currently divides his time touring with India Arie, and working on his own project connecting with nature, the essence and wisdom of his ancestors to create powerful music. I met Joel exactly 3 years ago during a healing experience retreat, and I remember how peaceful it felt to be around him and the beautiful shine he carries everywhere he goes. For this topic it was important to me to have someone who uses the power of his voice to create art, which makes him a true alchemist and one of the most beautiful voices I've had the pleasure to hear live. ⁠⁠⁠

Many of us express gratitude by saying “thank you” to someone who has helped us or given us a gift. However, gratitude is not just an action: it is also a positive emotion that serves a biological purpose.Being grateful is more than saying thank you. When you express gratitude, it can actually lead to a stronger sense of well-being. We learned how to ask for things and demand but not to live in a state of gratitude for what we have and for what will come.

The cacao rebirth ceremony is a beautiful combination and very powerful form of ritual that allows us to work in cycles of 9 months. Once you have established a connection with the cacao the ritual to enter the mother sacred womb will begin. This ritual will help you to meditate about the 9 months that you were connected to your mother.Cacao gives us clarity. It also has a powerful capacity to connect us with the creative field and it opens our voice to express ourselves with honesty. A great opportunity to die while we are still alive and to give life to a new story, the one that we initiate to rewrite.

Much has been said about parenting, what type of parents we want to be and the methods that exist to educate our children. The reality is that beyond learning to be parents, it is important to first be conscious of our own conditioning precisely to evolve and not transmit these habits, behaviors, emotions, ideas to our children.Children are very perceptive and learn a lot from example, they know and realize when there is no coherence between what we say and do as adults.From where we are being parents and towards where to generate a harmonious relationship with oneself in order to be a good guide for my children. We talk about parenting , with guest Lacey Melguizo, and the importance of connecting with our intuition in order to guide our kids to trust their inner wisdom. ⁠She is a mindful mother of two. She has over 20 years experience in health care as a registered dental hygienist. The last ten years of her career she has focused on education on the brain, stress response and inflammation in relation to healing. In 2016, she became a Mindfulness based Meditation Teacher. In 2017, a Kids Life Mastery Coach as well as a Kidding Around Yoga Teacher. She created the Mindful Teacher Training program and The Mindful Words Challenge®. Currently partnering with public schools and implementing mindfulness practices and leadership training school-wide.⁠⁠

Many people hold an idea of ​​romantic love based on myths, great love stories in history, love songs, Disney movies, television series, or romantic movies. It is common for this idea of ​​romantic love to be extrapolated to one's own relationships. However, the reality of healthy relationships is very different from the reality of a relationship based relationship projected from the myths of romantic love.The word Munay is the name of the third Andean code that represents a state of consciousness. The Munay code is considered the Code of magic and alchemy since it allows us to transform everything by modifying things at an energetic level.Love is a state that allows us to expand or amplify what is known, what we have.The more love I put into what I do, the more it expands and amplifies.This code allows us to love, wish and desire and have the ability to execute. Only what I accept and love can change.

In this episode, we talk about a common denominator in society today which is the disconnection we have with the father figure.The paternal wound may be the most generalized, most important, and least recognized problem facing men and women in society today.Many of us believe that the past is the past and cannot be changed. But, the truth is that the past is always present in our lives and the paternal wound is waiting for us to heal it when we are ready.

In this episode we start the conversation about death with Leanna Muenich, she provides end of life care. We explore the idea that death is a topic that we should talk about in order to normalize and embrace it without fear, pain, or terror. To understand the nature of death is to understand the deepest essence of life, nothing is permanent or constant.

In this episode, certified herbalist and therapist, Camisha Freeborn shares with us valuable information on a 4 weeks course course that she will be teaching at The School of Shamanic Initiation. This course is for anyone who is seeking to gain greater insight into the root causes of dis-ease and also to provide that individual with very practical methods for making changes that will promote health. Welive in a culture that has normalized poor health and suffering.

Jessica Arroyo shares in this episode about how photography can be used as a way to build a symbolic and emotional communication dialogue with each individual. Photography gives everyone a chance for growth using creativity as a vital tool to gain self-knowledge.

Today we release a special episode with transformational facilitator and healer Amit West. ⁠She will be offering a 7 weeks course on Conscious Breathing at The School of Shamanic Initiation.⁠On this episode she shared with us the importance of being present using our breath as a tool, what this course entails, and wonderful knowledge you can add to your medicine bag and to your self-healing path.

The purpose of art is to create a space for conscious experimentation that serves to awaken the interior artist that we all have inside and train our attention and sensitivity.Art facilitates this process, modifying the perception and vision of things. Its symbols help us to have more perspective on things and to connect to our inner vision, allowing us to trust our intuition and have a different point of view. Now you are no longer what happens to you, but an observer of those events represented in the artistic work. In this episode tattoo artist Daniel Santiesteban shares with us his artistic healing path.The path to self discovery and self healing requires a lot of creativity to find new solutions to old problems, living behind habits, patterns, ideas, beliefs that don't serve us anymore in the journey to write our own story.

The Four Agreements is a book by Don Miguel Ruiz. In this episode our guest Victor Collazo and I had the opportunity to have a conversation on the impact this book has had in our journey to self discovery.Overall this book talks about the respect we must have for ourselves, and our relationships. These codes of conduct from the Toltec esoteric knowledge are very simple to understand but not too simple to implement.

In the journey to self discovery, in writing your own story, creating your reality obstacles will always appear. In achieving the result that we want we must remain focused on our objective and from where we are moving from to where we are going. As any action is opposed by a reaction, there is something that will try to prevent us from getting to our objective in order to restore balance: the obstacles will appear or the "The Sphinx". Therefore, in order for us not to stop before “that” we must understand the logic. It is not the thing that stops us, but it is the person who stops before that thing.Today, we would like to focus on the 3 obstacles that conform to the same trap and that most of us won't recognize when it comes to achieving what we want. In our current situation with a pandemic is our biggest obstacle in obtaining the result we are looking for and we stop in front of the thing that we want and that should be non negotiable.

In our urban junlge, Kambo is a medicine used for a wide variety of ailments and can increase vitality in both body, mind and spirit. It can be used by anyone looking for a shift in life and a deep healing. People with depression, addictions, emotional blockages, chronic pain, can deeply benefit from it. We recored this episode after a Kambo Ceremony and our special guest Sean Nannery, shares with us his experience with Kambo, pain, and how important this medicine has been is his healing path.

How many times in our lives we have been perceived ourselves as victims in front of situations? How many times do we judge ourselves or the actions of others? How many times have we wanted to save the world, our neighbor or a family member? We go through life bumping from one of these 3 archetypes to the next. Without even noticing, any of these 3 will separate from our true self. In today's episode we talked about how these archetypes play such an important role in our lives.

The warrior's path initiates when we become responsible of who we are. A path that entails becoming aware that we create our own reality and that in the victim's cage we always blame external factors for our experiences. In this episode, Matthew McDaniel shares his journey of becoming responsible of his existence and what that has meant in his self-knowledge path.

I feel it is a responsibility to explain what initiation means. What I have been learning is that it's a method that integrates concepts uniting Shamanic, Cabalistic, Buddhist, Hinduism concepts and a long etcetera of many other hermetic and spiritual currents, with disciplines more familiar to us such as psychoanalysis, logic, neuro-linguistics and linguistics.

As women, and I would say nowadays for men too, trying to achieve a beauty standard has become very common and we spend so much time and energy on this that we forget about what really matters, we forget about all great things that we can achieve if we understand that food is not the enemy and if we accept ourselves as we are and see our flaws as an opportunity to grow and not punish ourselves. When we compare ourselves to others we deform ourselves and lose our power.

Today we will address love and explore what happens when we choose to question our personal concept of love. Where and where was our first reference of love? Was it from our divorced parents, our single friends, our failed relationships, movies, books? Once we discover that we can choose what and who to love we can bring love, desire, and power into our lives to shine and expand our universe.

Only you can know what is the result you want once you initiate this journey, for me it has been to resolve the enigma of my life. Once I stopped betraying myself the universe started to be on my side. Perhaps your ways of being have become automatic, the invitation today is to take action, acknowledge your infinite power of creating a life that is meaningful to you.

Sacred plants are considered an essential part of shamanism and of many of the ancient religions. Since ancient times they have been used as "technology of the sacred", they are considered "sacred medicines," for the body, soul, and spirit. The ceremonial use of these plants allows both self-knowledge and the integration of the individual with the environment.

Many times, we find a point in our lives where not everything goes positive and we have a hard time finding something that inspires us to get up every morning with a smile, but we find a kind of emptiness in the center of our bodies, that deprives us of joy, and motivation. From the perspective of alternative medicine, the metaphysical origin of diseases has an emotional connotation, since it is based on the fact that our body, mind and soul are closely related, so to cure any physical problem healing our emotions is crucial. Depression is one the largest conditions in the world, which makes it the real pandemic. If we understand that depression can be caused by loss of identity and hopelessness combined with suppressed anger. Our interior is in crisis and our body acts in the contrary. Inner irritation is reflected in inactivity, sadness and melancholy.

We all have things that we have been carrying with us on many different levels. Things we experienced as children, and then as adults. Breakups, deaths of loved ones, divorces, abuse, rape, bullying, failures, dissapointments, humilliation. It varies so much because we all are so different and we somatize experiences so different, but I feel that an important aspect is to not compare and not minimize. For this episode, we invited Tana Thomton to share her perspective on living with an emotional wound and her healing journey.

The awakening of consciousness is not a concept that can be understood intellectually, it is rather an experimental journey towards the essence of your Being, which allows you to discover who and what you really are.

Accepting ourselves is a fundamental step in the transformation process, because it will allow us to focus on what we love about ourselves and at the same time be aware of what we don't like and begin to change it.The self-healing path starts when we take action into changing those patterns of pain, anger, violence, but the key is to know where they come from so that we can find the medicine inside of us.

There is a point in life where human beings ask oneself: who am I? What do I want? Where am I going? Who is the one talking? And from where am I operating?We live based on what we learn, without questioning we do things according to society, our family, religion. We operate based on the expectations we have to fill.