Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett eagerly welcome intuitive coach Katie Rose to the show to talk about what Human Design has to say about an upcoming paradigm shift called The Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix.

In this episode, they discuss:

• Thoughts on how cultural evolution is supplanting genetic evolution in humans for emotional and physical growth
• Everyone is needed in the fight
• This is the time for allies to be showing up, everywhere
• Pulling oracle cards for the energy of the next two weeks
• Recalling Katie's last interview
• The new paradigm arriving in 2027, according to Human Design
• The previous paradigm allowed for setting up infrastructure and rigidity
• The new paradigm (The Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix) allows for gray area, complexity
• The new paradigm grounds in authenticity and community
• Not neglecting yourself in the caring of each other
• How energy healing helps to tell all the parts of yourself when you've changed and grown
• The importance of dealing with both emotional and intellectual understanding in your healing
• Brett forgets that podcasts are an auditory medium
• The advantages of energy work when compared to traditional therapy
• The hope that traditional therapy will also get a software update
• Building compassion for yourself allows you to build it for others
• It's normal to not heal in a "straight line"
• It is detrimental when we are dogmatic about the supremacy of any single system/philosophy/idea
• How the human brain views familiarity as safety, even when it is not actually safe
• But the brain can be re-educated
• What happened for Katie when a long-healed pattern cropped up again unexpectedly
• Approaching our own "negative" reactions with curiosity instead of judgement
• How curiosity can be enough while you are still learning to apply self-compassion
• Being triggered doesn't mean you're not growing
• How healing can be like turning on the light in a chaotic room
• And more!

Plus...

• Natasha is starting a small-group psychic skills mentorship. Learn more at natashalevinger.com
• Learn more about about Pattern Shifting, Natasha's new two-session mini-mentorship
• Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
• Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
• Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
• Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

Katie Rose's info:

• Katie's workshop on June 20: Summer SOULstice. Learn more or register here.
• Katie's website: https://www.katierosecoaching.com
• Katie's Instagram: @helloimkatierose
• The Trauma to Transformation Podcast

Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett talk with Amy Blackthorn, author of Sacred Plant Magic.

In this episode:

• Nataha loooooved Gracie Allen
• Our oldest graduated high school!
• Healing = timeline collapsing
• Breck is a terrible name for a shampoo
• Brett has some healing around conflict
• Reprogramming trauma through scents
• How to customize your own therapeutic scents
• Working with the spirit of plants, even if you don't have the plants
• Learning to communicate with plants
• Scent has a totally separate pathway from speech in your brain from other senses.
• And music has a separate pathway from speech
• The importance of working with plants even if you can't afford a bunch of essential oils
• A (not so) brief distraction by Amy's pitbull, Millie.
• Connecting with plants from other epochs
• Amy's efforts to bring some economic justice to her work
• And more!

Plus...

• There are openings for Natasha's small-group psychic mentorship. Apply or learn more here!
• Listen to Natasha's current podcast, Crystal Ballers, with co-host Britten LaRue.
• Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
• Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
• Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

Getting to Know Woo is a podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful. Episodes are released as available during breaks from Natasha's main podcast, Crystal Ballers (https://www.crystalballerspod.com)

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett talk about the messages coming from their guides about connecting to community and to the land you live on.

In this episode:

• Getting involved in supporting causes you care about
• Find a way to use your specific skills to support a cause
• Brett's use of aura work to support his activism
• Setting up two versions of your aura
• Aura work is accessible but powerful
• Dragons have become a regular part of Natasha's life
• Yes, dragons.
• The grounding energy of dragons
• "Crazy times call for grounded dragons"
• And more!

Plus...

• Sign up for Grounding in the Chaos, an upcoming workshop from Crystal Ballers.
• There are openings for Natasha's small-group psychic mentorship. Apply or learn more here!
• Listen to Natasha's current podcast, Crystal Ballers, with co-host Britten LaRue.
• Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
• Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
• Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

Mentioned in this episode:

• GTKW Episode 43 - Getting to Know Auras & More with Eliza Swann

Getting to Know Woo is a podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful. Episodes are released as available during breaks from Natasha's main podcast, Crystal Ballers (https://www.crystalballerspod.com)

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett talk about the messages coming from their guides about connecting to community and to the land you live on.

In this episode:

• Check your auras, kids!
• A closed aura does not mean a shut down aura
• Is Brett shutting down or getting his shit together?
• The importance of community and not waiting for a savior
• Some tools for coping with fear and anxiety
• Choosing to view yourself as completely alone or connected to everything
• Find the things that nourish and lift you up
• Connecting to people locally
• Connecting to the land you live on and its spirits
• Adding some regular energetic hygiene to your routine
• Continuing our new segment, Blisses & Misses!
• Difference between an oracle deck and a tarot deck
• Trusting and knowing your own magic
• And more!

Plus...

• Spots are open for Awakening, Natasha's one-on-one mentor program.
• Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
• Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
• Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
• Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

Mentioned in this episode:

• Erin in the Morning (www.erininthemorning.com)
• Stained Glass Woman from Doc Impossible (stainedglasswoman.substack.com)
• Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff (831stories.com/products/big-fan)

Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett are thrilled and honored to welcome back Judika Illes, author of the new book Witches: A Compendium, the latest in her vast contributions to the woo non-fiction library.

In this episode, they discuss:

• Blisses & Misses: a new segment to celebrate and encourage our growth
• Natasha can just will herself to do things; Brett not so much
• Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies
• Fun is a core value for Natasha
• Brett's an "Obliger" and he doesn't like it
• How trusting yourself can help you to trust the universe
• Judika loves witches!
• Art witches and creativity for spellcasting
• Rosalind Norton, Lenora Carrington, Valley Meyers, and other art witches
• A prayer is a request; a spell is a demand
• How having no other options can empower your witchcraft
• The semantics of "intention" and its role in spellcasting
• You start to need a spell when you have a dilemma
• Do you have to believe a spell will work?
• Sometimes the spells that don't work tell us more than the ones that do
• Judika explains the most dangerous part of any spell
• The importance of being honest with yourself when working with magic
• Low level entities that feed on fear
• Clearly defining what you want with spellcasting
• The risks of using spells to cast revenge
• Alternatives to revenge spells
• Her book is a celebration of witches
• People using Judika's book to do bibliomancy
• Even Judika pronounces her last name "wrong"
• The Energy Report is back!
• And more!

Plus...

• There's still time to sign up for Natasha's small-group psychic skills mentorship. Learn more at natashalevinger.com
• Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
• Spots are open for Awakening, Natasha's one-on-one mentor program.
• Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
• Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
• Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

Judika Illes's info:

• Judika's website: https://www.judikailles.com
• Judika's Instagram: @judikailles

Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

To help people and animals affected by the flooding in Asheville and the larger Western North Carolina region, please consider giving to Sister Kitten (sisterkitten.org) and/or Beloved Asheville (belovedashville.com)

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett eagerly welcome intuitive coach Katie Rose to the show to talk about Gene Keys.

In this episode, they discuss:

• Definitely learning the lessons that Michelle Obama intended us for learn
• Our hearts go out to those affected by Hurricane Helene
• A tool to help you cope when you are absorbing energy from collective trauma
• The Earth only knows how to be present
• Releasing feelings of responsibility for others allows you to better help others
• Brett perpetuates slanderous lies about goldfish
• Welcome to the prom afterparty!
• What gene keys are and how they relate to human design
• Gene keys help us identify not only our gifts, but also our shadow parts and learn to love them
• Listen as we butcher a beautiful Leonard Cohen quote about being broken
• The importance of doing shadow work
• Looking at Brett's & Natasha's gene keys
• Learning to sit with yoru feelings by holding space for yourself
• The interplay between what is innate and what happens after we're born
• Two tenets of Gene Keys are knowing ourselves and evolving humanity
• How healing yourself helps heal other people
• The societal gaslighting of individuality/disconnectedness
• Grappling with the implications of believing we choose our lives before we're born
• Exploring the empowerment available from believing we choose our lives before we're born
• Allowing yourself to take or leave what you want from any system
• And more!

Plus...

• Natasha is starting a small-group psychic skills mentorship. Learn more at natashalevinger.com
• Learn more about about Pattern Shifting, Natasha's new two-session mini-mentorship
• Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
• Spots are open for Awakening, Natasha's one-on-one mentor program. Learn more at natashalevinger.com
• Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
• Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
• Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

Katie Rose's info:

• Katie's website: https://www.katierosecoaching.com
• Katie's Instagram: @helloimkatierose
• The Trauma to Transformation Podcast

Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

Don't miss Natasha's new workshop called It's Giving High Priestess this Thursday Sep 26 @ 6p PT. It's all about creating the foundation of your inner environment. Learn more or sign up at natashalevinger.com

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett are so excited to talk to friend of the show, artist Nicole Piar (aka Ghost Kitten) about how she uses channeling to fuel her creativity.

In this episode, they discuss:

• We're all feeling the effects pisces eclipse
• Super low energy and strong waves of emotion
• Nicole's intense relationship to dreams
• Needing to do something physical to shake off a dream
• Normalizing dreams as another way to learn, hear, and heal
• Differentiating when someone in your dream is a symbol or a visitation
• Using channeling to honor your creativity by respecting when you feel a "no"
• Channeling to combat choice paralysis
• Connecting to nature and everything in the physical realm
• Starting out with channeling
• How channeling can lead you in directions you couldn't predict
• The Flow State is often a channeling state
• Channeling as a co-creative effort instead of just receiving someone else's ideas
• The kind of channeling Nicole learned, coning
• The benefit of the broader perspective given by the beings Nicole channels with
• How channeling helps with procrastination
• Inner child work can help clear the path for exploration
• Guides never feel urgent, frantic, or judgemental
• The pliability and flexibility of time
• And more!

Plus...

• Sign up for or learn more about Natasha's new workshop, It's Giving High Priestess
• Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
• Spots are open for Awakening, Natasha's one-on-one mentor program. Learn more at natashalevinger.com
• Individual readings are available. Learn more or book one here
• Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
• Send questions, show topic suggestions, or to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

Nicole's info:

• Nicole's website: https://www.nicolepiar.com
• Nicole's instagram: @ghostkittenart
• Wander Kittens: two travel-sized mini-oracle decks and other travel accessories

Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.