Awakening doesn’t always feel expansive.

Often, it feels disorienting — like heightened sensitivity without a clear center.

In this episode, we explore spiritual discernment during times of awakening and transition. How to tell the difference between intuition and overwhelm, truth and projection, expansion and avoidance.

We look at why the last years have felt foggy for so many people, and what’s changing as we move into a new cycle that asks for less abstraction and more embodiment — spirituality that can actually be lived, not just understood.

You’ll hear a grounded, plain-language exploration of Neptune moving from Pisces into Aries, and what this shift asks of us: clarity, responsibility, and action that the nervous system can truly hold.

We also draw on Rudolf Steiner’s insights around balance — noticing when we drift into spiritual inflation on one side, or rigid control on the other — and how the body often knows the correction before the mind does.

This episode connects discernment to attachment patterns and boundaries, helping you sense when you’re leaving yourself, outsourcing authority, or armouring — and how to come back gently, without shame.

You’ll leave with:

• body cues for clarity

• simple questions for grounding

• practical ways to stay centered during awakening

• a steadier relationship with your own sensitivity

This is an invitation into mature spirituality — rooted, honest, and embodied.

If this supports you, consider following the show, sharing it with someone deep in their process, or leaving a review so these conversations can reach the people who need them.

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Sound you can feel changes how you heal. Alyssa sat down with sound healer and world musician Gabriel Logan Braun to explore Sonic Womb, a fully improvised journey that blends voice, handpan, Ngoni, didgeridoo, harmonium, crystal bowls, and live looping to regulate the nervous system and restore a felt sense of safety. Gabriel shares his path from a teenage dark night to bhakti-inspired practice, mentorship, and a decade of offering trauma-sensitive sound therapy in recovery centres, retreat spaces, and beyond.

Together, they map the science and the soul: how slower rhythms and low frequencies support a shift from sympathetic arousal into parasympathetic ease; why alpha and theta brainwaves invite calm focus and liminal rest; and how vagus nerve activation, mindful breath, and gentle vibration reshape our stress response. We also dig into somatic release—those twitches, shivers, and waves of emotion that signal the body is completing what it once had to hold—and the role of safe containers in allowing that process to unfold.

We pair heat with rest through Primal Fire, Gabriel’s movement framework that stokes Agni with Qigong, dynamic breath work, primal locomotion, and freeform dance, then lands in Sonic Womb for integration. And we travel to Sedona’s red rock country, where ancient iron-rich formations and year-round creeks offer a natural amplifier for presence and ritual. If you’re curious to experience Gabriel’s work, start with the Sonic Womb album, the Wildfire EP, or his new hip-hop track Breaking Through the Static—and, if you feel called, explore our intimate April retreat in Sedona, where Gabriel will co-facilitate with live sound journeys.

If this conversation resonated, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs nervous system support, and leave a five-star review so more people can find these tools. Ready to join us in Sedona or want to know if it’s a fit? Book a call through the show notes and let’s connect.

Gabriel's IG: @gabrielloganbraun

Gabriel's Music:

https://gabrielloganbraun.bandcamp.com

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCkeQ0YJnXpBXmljVL-6Nh1g

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0KQuIR2Js4Nx9vTM7NBU7J?si=UESxxAfCTO6BzJkE6h4W8g

Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise

Work With Alyssa:

Book a 1:1 Mentorship Session With Alyssa $165 USD

Book a 2 Hour Ancestral Healing & Reconnection Session With Alyssa $222 USD

Ancestral Alchemy—12 Week Immersive Journey Starting January 2026

Discount code to save $100 — BWR_100

Sedona Retreat 2026

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Darkness isn’t a void to outrun; it’s the womb of everything new. As the winter solstice brings the longest night, we explore how this pause in nature invites a profound reset of body, mind, and spirit. We trace the roots of solstice traditions across cultures, why rituals like Yule fires and evergreens endure, and how later institutions rewired us to fear stillness. Through a grounded, nervous system lens, we transform vague “manifestation” into something practical: building capacity so what we call in can actually be held and sustained.

We spend time in the magic dark, that threshold where old identities soften and new forms gather strength before they’re visible. The 13 sacred nights become a gentle rhythm for integration rather than a productivity sprint. You’ll learn why fatigue and heightened emotion at year’s end are signals, not flaws; how intuitive whispers get drowned by overstimulation; and why practices like singing, crafting, and baking regulate the system and return scattered energy to the body. We also reclaim the quiet power of thirteen—aligned with lunar cycles, water, and tides—as a compass for cyclical living.

To make this real, I share a step-by-step solstice ritual you can begin right away: prepare from December 21 to 24, use a single beeswax candle after sundown, journal what your body reveals, track dreams and synchronicities, and tend a living altar with cedar, dried orange, and cinnamon. At the close of the 13 nights, simmer your herbs and offer the steam, the scent, and the water to your home or the earth as a way of marking completion and welcoming what’s next. If you’re ready to pause, integrate, and let the year ahead emerge from presence—not pressure—this conversation will meet you where you are.

If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who needs permission to rest, and leave a five-star review so more listeners can find these grounded tools. Join me on Instagram at Wild Feminine Rise to follow along as we move through the sacred nights together.

Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise

Work With Alyssa:

Book a 1:1 Mentorship Session With Alyssa $165 USD

Book a 2 Hour Ancestral Healing & Reconnection Session With Alyssa $222 USD

Ancestral Alchemy—12 Week Immersive Journey Starting January 2026

Discount code to save $100 — BWR_100

Sedona Retreat 2026

You can also email Alyssa with any inquiries at alyssastefanson@gmail.com