Getting to Know Woo

Episode 31 - Getting to Know Shamanism with David Shi

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, welcome David Shi shaman in training and author of Spirit Voices: The Mysteries and Magic of North Asian Shamanism. 
In this episode, they talk about:
Help is readily available from the ethereal realm
Learning to lean into this support
A meditation for connecting to your higher self on the daily
The vastness of Source
The damaging and growth-inhibiting constraints of organized religion
Stop and think before you act
The north Asian Tungusic roots of the word "shaman" and its definition
The widespread misuse of the word
Being chosen by ancestral spirits to be a shaman
David's unusual journey to shamanic initiation
Some rituals anyone can use in their own practice
And more!
Plus...
Natasha's newsletter is now on substack!  All posts are free for everyone, with discounts and free webinars available to paid subscribers.  Sign up or learn more here!
Get Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child in paperback or audiobook today.
Individual readings are available again!  Learn more or book one here
Learn about about Natasha's 3-month mentorship offering, Awakening at highestlighthealing.com
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Send questions or show topic suggestions to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com
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.

Episode 30 - Getting to Know Grief, Grace & Healing with Tanya Carroll Richardson

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are so excited to have prolific author and gifted intuitive, Tanya Carroll Richardson back on the show.  
Plus, one lucky listener can win a free copy of her latest oracle deck, Grief, Grace & Healing.  Just email us at gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com to enter and we'll draw the lucky winner on the next episode!
In this episode, they cover:
Natasha & Brett's new recording space
Giving away Tanya's oracle deck (email us!)
How environment is crucial to your state of being
How we manipulate ourselves to fit our environment
What you can do to survive an inhospitable environment
Tanya's decision to make this oracle deck have suits
What nudges from your intuition look
How grief, grace, and healing connect and interact
Grace as an energy and a mechanism
Being a vector for grace in the world
The "cool thing" about grief
The unique tools each person acquires through grief
And more!
Plus...
Sign up for Natasha's newsletter, you'll get three free guided audio meditations, including one on clearing your chakras!
The audiobook of Natasha's Healing Your Inner Child is now available anywhere you get your audiobooks!
Individual readings are available again!  Learn more or book one here
Learn about about Natasha's 3-month mentorship offering, Awakening at highestlighthealing.com
Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
Send questions or show topic suggestions to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com
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.

Episode 29 - Getting to Know Eclipse Energy with Verena Borell

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are so excited to talk with evolutionary astrologer Verena Borell, Evolutionary Astrologer.  Be sure to check out Verena's upcoming class on astrological transits.  GTKW listeners will get an extra €50 discount (on top of the Early Bird Price available through October 12).   She also offers a free Venus Guide to our listeners.
In this episode, they discuss:
How we are all connected in an evolutionary dance
Astrology is not cause and effect, rather energetic interaction
How astrology can help bring clarity without being fatalistic
Avoiding feeling like a "victim" of your astrology
The importance of not bypassing our emotions, feelings and fears
The moon as a representative of the subconscious and personality.
The magnifying effect of the moon being in the 8th house
How eclipses can be difficult but useful for the ego and our self-identity
Eclipses as catalyst for transformation
Having a birds eye view of the changes eclipses can bring
Holding space for our animal bodies during times of change
Finding people, animals, nature to co-regulate with
Leaning on the wisdom already in your "soul self"
The interconnectedness of healing
What to expect with the Aries/Libra eclipse
How the divine source expresses itself through you
The effect of Venus on this eclipse as the ruling planet of Libra
And more!
Plus...
Sign up for Natasha's newsletter, you'll get three free guided audio meditations, including one on clearing your chakras!
The audiobook of Natasha's Healing Your Inner Child is now available anywhere you get your audiobooks!
Individual readings are available again!  Learn more or book one here
Learn about about Natasha's 3-month mentorship offering, Awakening at highestlighthealing.com
Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
Send questions or show topic suggestions to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com
 
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.

Episode 28 - Getting to Know Working with Current Energy

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, discuss working with the energy currently available from the universe to speed up manifesting change.
In this episode, they talk about:
Send your relationship questions to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com
Normalizing all your emotions
Muffling a cats butt
How inner child parts can be disguised as self
Why your emotional reactions can feel disproportionate at times.
We are all time traveling without realizing it
The importance of checking in regularly with inner child parts
Energy for manifesting is speeding up
How to remain positive without spiritual bypassing
Getting a boost from the universe toward your highest truth
Connecting to your body can be an anchor to the truth
Being in the present to stop wrestling with the past
Staying in the present even if the emotions are uncomfortable.
Card pull for this week: own your mastery
And more!
 
Plus...
The audiobook of Natasha's Healing Your Inner Child is now available anywhere you get your audiobooks!
Individual readings are available again!  Learn more or book one here
Learn about about Natasha's 3-month mentorship offering, Awakening at highestlighthealing.com
Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
Also, if you sign up for Natasha's newsletter, you'll get three free guided audio meditations, including one on clearing your chakras!
Send questions or show topic suggestions to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com
 
Mentioned in This Episode:
Johanna Peet's one-on-one business coaching
Tess Whitehurst's new oracle deck, The Queen Mab
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.

Episode 27 - Getting to Know Past Lives

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are back to discuss past lives and their impact on present time.
In this episode, they talk about:
The fun of riding bikes
Ideas formed in childhood
The beauty of this ice cream sandwich
An energetic boost for healing happening now
How to access your own information/intuition
How to de-energize past life patterns
And more!
Plus...
The audiobook of Natasha's Healing Your Inner Child is now available anywhere you get your audiobooks!
Individual readings are available again for now.  Learn more or book one here
Learn about about Natasha's 3-month mentorship offering, Awakening at highestlighthealing.com
Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
Also, if you sign up for Natasha's newsletter, you'll get three free guided audio meditations, including one on clearing your chakras!
Send questions or show topic suggestions to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com
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.

Episode 26 - Getting to Know Divine Timing

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are back to discuss friendship, divine timing, and more.
In this episode, they talk about:
A unexpectedly deep dive into the meaning of friendship
The energy of divine timing
Learning to trust where you are
Finding comfort in your smallness in the universe
Being okay with impermanence of your own beliefs
Pulling a card for the week: The Seer
And more!
Plus...
The audiobook of Natasha's Healing Your Inner Child is available for pre-order!  Learn how you could get it free at audiobooks.com
Individual readings are available again for now.  Learn more or book one here
Learn about about Natasha's 3-month mentorship offering, Awakening at highestlighthealing.com
Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
Also, if you sign up for Natasha's newsletter, you'll get three free guided audio meditations, including one on clearing your chakras!
Send questions or show topic suggestions to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com
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.

Episode 25 - Getting to Know Moving

Aaaaaand we're back!  After three and a half stressful months host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett Christensen, are here to talk about their cross-country move, its effects, the tools they are each using to manage, and more.
In this episode they talk about:
Ranking the most stressful times in their lives
Experiencing the "both...and" of life
Shoutouts to Brett's family for all their help during the move
Confidence despite reasons not to be confident
Venus in retrograde = relationships
Surrendering to what is happening now
Grounding into the present
This week's Energy Report: Receive the Joy!
Brett & Natasha's separate relationships to Pizza Night
Working with hypervigilant parts
And more!
 
Plus:
Individual readings are available again for now.  Learn more or book one here
Natasha's Awakening mentorship is booking now for new clients to start in September.  Learn more here.
 
Check Yourself Before You Rec Yourself:
Deuxmoi
Queer As Fact - A queer history podcast
The Barbie Movie
Heartstopper
Arrested Development
Barry

Episode 24 - Getting to Know Grounding

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are back to talk about grounding and it's importance in your self-healing work.
In this episode, they talk about:
Their unpredictable publishing schedule
The difficulties of moving on a tight timeline
Feeling a pull (or push?) toward minimalism?
The pandemic clearing out friendships
How energy healing has given Natasha the gift of knowing herself
How grounding helps you distinguish your information from others
The "sexier" parts of energy healing
The myriad ways people dismiss "woo" stuff
How are auras like math?
Our minds are powerful
This week's energy report
And more!
Plus...
Podcast listeners get a 10% discount on Natasha's new class, Grounding is Your Secret Weapon.  Just use code WOOZINATORS at checkout! 
Natasha's new book, Healing Your Inner Child is out now, wherever you get your books!
You can learn about about Natasha's 3-month mentorship offering, Awakening at highestlighthealing.com
Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
Also, if you sign up for Natasha's newsletter, you'll get three free guided audio meditations, including one on clearing your chakras!
Send questions or show topic suggestions to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com
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.

Episode 23 - Getting to Know Indigenous Wisdom with Asha Frost

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are so excited to talk with indigenous medicine woman Asha Frost, author of You Are the Medicine.
In this episode, they discuss:
Asha's viral blog post "Dear White Woman Who Wants to Be Like Me"
The experience of appropriation and disrespect for indigenous lived experience
The overwhelming experience of receiving hostility
Taking up space as an indigenous voice to shift the narrative around the use of indigenous practices
Working through putting yourself out there as an introvert
Humility is not equal to smallness
Honoring the individual gifts everyone has
Seeing ourselves as equal to--not above--other living things
Growth & life going in cycles
The anti-hustle message of bear medicine
Asha's diagnosis with lupus at age 17
Exerting your sacred no
Practices for healing ancestral trauma
How "resilience" can bypass healing
Normalizing things not being easy
Too much talk about wordle
Natasha's on meth now...well dexmethylphenidate
Time confusion during pandemic
And more!
Plus...
Get a free class on inner validation when you pre-order Natasha's new book, Healing Your Inner Child. Details at highestlighthealing.com.
You can learn about about Natasha's 3-month mentorship offering, Awakening at highestlighthealing.com
Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
Also, if you sign up for Natasha's newsletter, you'll get three free guided audio meditations, including one on clearing your chakras!
Send questions or show topic suggestions to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com
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.
 
Mentioned in this episode:
Asha's website
Asha's latest book, You Are the Medicine
Asha's instagram
Asha's oracle deck, The Sacred Medicine Oracle
 

Episode 22 - Getting to Know Creativity Magic with Lisa Quigley

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are thrilled to talk about creativity magic with Lisa Quigley, the Creativity Witch.
In this episode, they discuss:
Taking time for creativity where you can get it
Shifts in relationship to her creativity after becoming a parent
Ritualizing the start of a new project
The crisis after her first published book came out
Re-wilding creativity
The toxic effect of capitalism and patriarchy on creativity
Still looking for a name for our listeners
Todd the Senior Foster Cat is at it again
So Help Me Todd is a drama??
Brett & Natasha sift through (but don't quite unpack) their baggage around bragging & self-love
Recommendations for LGBTQ+ friendly states?
This week's energy report: power struggles, slip 'n' slides, and acceptance
Does Natasha sound drunk?
And more!
Plus...
Get a free class on inner validation when you pre-order Natasha's new book, Healing Your Inner Child. Details at highestlighthealing.com.
You can learn about about Natasha's 3-month mentorship offering, Awakening at highestlighthealing.com
Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
Also, if you sign up for Natasha's newsletter, you'll get three free guided audio meditations, including one on clearing your chakras!
Send questions or show topic suggestions to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com
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.
 
Mentioned in this episode:
Lisa's website
Lisa's instagram
Lisa's substack