Getting to Know Woo

Episode 34 - Getting to Know the Enneagram with Vrin Rao

Happy 2024, y'all.  Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are excited to welcome Vrin Rao, Enneagram Coach & Meditation Teacher.
In this episode, they talk about:
Soft launching Brett's energy reading abilities
What is The Enneagram?
How the Enneagram focuses on motivation rather than behavior
The struggle to meet our needs and avoid our fears
The importance of the wing in your enneagram type
How the Enneagram can help dealing with reactivity in yourself and others
How to start the journey to discover your own type
Holding your assumptions loosely
The nine enneagram types and their motivations & fears
How levels of awareness affect how your type is expressed
Don't judge a type by its cover
How the Enneagram relates to introversion and extroversion
The Enneagram and parenting
The instagram version vs the true depth of the Enneagram
You cannot be both self-aware and rigid at the same time
A deeper dive into Brett & Nataha's types
How Brett's Capricorn moon looks in the Enneagram
Now what do I do with this information?
Vrin's upcoming workshop
And more!
Plus...
Natasha's much-requested meditations to begin/end your day are now available!  Currently only $15.20 (24% off) for the new year!
Paid subscribers to Natasha's substack newsletter get those meditations (and other great bonuses) for free.
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 natashalevinger.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 33 - Getting to Know End of the Year Energy

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, bring you a short episode with a look at the energy of the end of the year.
In this episode, they talk about:
Another name for our listeners!
A brief (and poorly formed) etymology of the word lunatic
Mercury retrograde as a time of miscommunication and revisiting
Shifting perspective to get through difficult communication
"I intend to go higher."
And more!
Plus...
Join Natasha's newsletter on substack!  Paid subscribers get free bonuses like access to webinars, meditations, and more!
Natasha's book Healing Your Inner Child is currently 5% off at amazon
Learn about about Natasha's 3-month mentorship offering, Awakening at natashalevinger.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 32 - Getting to Know Ritual & Astrology with Erin Kelley

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are excited to welcome Erin Kelley, astrologer and practitioner of the mystic arts.
In this episode, they talk about:
Energy healing & ritual as aids in grounding
Neptune's effect on Mercury
How the planets influence each other
Being airy and grounded simultaneously
Adding ritual to your astrology practice
Using ritual to put time and attention to what is important to you
A definition of ritual
The role of belief in ritual and manifesting
Our relationships with planets go in both directions
Doing charity on behalf of planets
Building your relationships with planets
Malefic, benefic, and neutral planets
Mercury as a psychopomp
Entreating the planets to help you through ritual
Ritual can be as formal or casual as you need it to be
The power of repetition in ritual
And more!
Plus...
Natasha's teaching a webinar, Set Intentions With Your Spirit Guides, on Dec 12 @ 8pm ET.  Normally $22, webinars are free for paid subscribers to Natasha's weekly newsletter on substack.
Join Natasha and astrologer Sarah Lincoln for a live class in Fort Collins, CO called Befriending Mercury Retrograde.  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
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 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
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 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.
 
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