Wisdom Rising
Shamanism, Reiki, Spirituality, Personal Development, and More. It’s time to re-member your Divine purpose and limitless potential. Welcome to Wisdom Rising, the official podcast of Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. Join Shamanic Reiki practitioners Christine Renee, Isabel Wells, and Shantel Ochoa as they guide you on a journey of radical self-discovery and spiritual guidance. Each week we dance through the realms of shamanism, mysticism, energy healing, and personal development to illuminate your path to true healing and self-sourced wisdom. Through weekly inspired conversations and interviews with leading spiritual and shamanic practitioners, we’re here to help you acknowledge, reconcile, and balance your energy so that you can awaken to the whispers of wisdom rising within. You can follow us on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok at MoonRisingInstitute, or visit our website, moonrisinginstitute.com, to learn more about our mission and find future opportunities to connect with our community of Shamanic mystics.
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304 episodes
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Let's Talk Tantra: A Practice Of Self‑Love, Energy, And Sacred Partnership
What if spiritual practice didn’t pull you out of your body—but brought you deeper into it? After a month of eclipses, team changes, and heartfelt goodbyes, Christine turned to Tantra not as dogma, but as a grounded, embodied way to meet life. ...
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Episode 5
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Closing the Circle: Celebrating Our Time with Isabel!
A clean ending can be the most powerful kind of beginning. In this deeply moving episode, the Moon Rising team gathers in ceremony to honor Isabel’s transition from her leadership role—celebrating the gratitude, the transformation, and the gold...
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Episode 4
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Trusting Your Intuition: Isabel's Transition from Moon Rising
Sometimes a quiet nudge changes everything. In this heartfelt episode, Isabel shares her decision to step away from her leadership role at Moon Rising and follow the intuitive call toward a new vision — Gateway House of Healing.
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Episode 3
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Archetypes + Soul Agreements: A Map to Self-Healing and Purpose
✨ What if your hardest relationships are actually teachers, and your recurring triggers are maps guiding you toward healing? In this episode, we explore how Soul Contracts and Spiritual Archetypes form a living framework for meani...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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Shamanic Journey Through the Lower Four Chakras!
Your lower four chakras — Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, and Heart — form the energetic foundation of your life, shaping your sense of safety, creativity, confidence, and connection. When these chakras are out of balance, it can...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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Shadow Work Explained: How to Heal and Integrate Your Hidden Self
What if the parts of yourself you’ve been hiding aren’t broken—but the very key to your healing? In this transformative episode on shadow work and self-healing, Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa reveal why shadow work isn’t about battlin...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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48:11
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Inner Child Healing: From Wounded to Witnessed
What if your inner child healing journey could be filled with joy, creativity, and magic—rather than only revisiting trauma? 🌿 In this powerful episode, shamanic Reiki practitioners Christine Rene and Isabel Wells share a groundbr...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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How to Reclaim Your Power: Breaking Free from Past Trauma
What if the stories you tell yourself are the very chains keeping you stuck? In this powerful episode, Christine and Isabel explore how past trauma shapes your identity, limits your potential, and disconnects you from your intuition — and how y...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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Rewire Your Subconscious: 3 Steps to Heal Limiting Beliefs
What if the beliefs holding you back aren’t “you” at all—but subconscious programs written before you turned 10? In this powerful episode, Isabel Wells unpacks how limiting beliefs shape your reality, block your intuition, and keep you repeatin...
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Episode 15
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Beyond 'High Vibe': Shadow Work and Toxic Positivity
We’ve all heard the mantras: “Raise your vibration.” “Think positive.” “Manifest your dream life.” But what if these well-meaning ideas are keeping you stuck?In this raw and transformative episode, Christine Renee and Shantel Oc...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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Integration or Intensity: Shamanism Beyond Psychedelics
Psychedelics and plant medicine have become increasingly intertwined with modern spiritual practices, but are these substances truly necessary for profound spiritual experiences? This question sits at the heart of our candid conversation about ...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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Embracing Your Truth: Shamanism, Authenticity, and the Spiral of Healing
What if your spiritual path was never meant to follow someone else’s map?In this illuminating episode, Christine Renee, Isabel Wells, and Chantelle Ochoa explore how shamanism provides a powerful foundation for authentic spiritual...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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There's No "Right" Way: Embracing Your Unique Spiritual Path
Feeling disconnected from your spiritual path, or wondering if there’s a right way to be spiritual—or if you’re doing it “wrong”? You’re not alone.In this soul-stirring episode, Christine and Shantel dive in...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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Sandra Ingerman On Breaking Free From Illusion, Reclaiming Joy, and Shamanic Soul Healing
Sandra Ingerman, world-renowned shamanic teacher and author, joins us for a powerful conversation about how to break free from illusion, heal soul fragmentation, and walk through darkness to reclaim joy. Drawing on over 40 years of shama...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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Mountain Magic: Reflections from Our Shamanic Reiki Retreat
Sacred ground has a way of speaking directly to our souls and opening us up to magical experiences. In this episode, Christine, Isabel, and Shantel all gather together to reflect on the magic that was created in the first Moon Rising Shamanic R...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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Living Wild: Reclaiming Sacred Living and Personal Power
What would happen if we broke the rules, reconnected with our true selves, and lived life on our own magical, divine terms? This is the question Christine and Isabel explore in this soul-stirring conversation about reclaiming our wildness and l...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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Reclaiming Our Right to Sacred Self-Expression
The sacred isn't about perfection or following spiritual rules – it's about stripping away societal conditioning to reconnect with our authentic essence. In this soul-stirring conversation, Christine and Isabel dive deep into what it truly mean...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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Healing Burnout: Nervous System Regulation and Sacred Self-Connection
You've felt it—that moment when you realize you've been pouring from an empty cup for so long that your body is screaming for rest. In this deeply personal episode, Isabel opens up about hitting her breaking point after months of overwork, shar...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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A Summer Solstice Check-in!
As the summer solstice illuminates our longest days, Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa share an intimate, unscripted conversation about finding light during challenging times. The pair explore the revolutionary power of joy as a response to glo...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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Where Reiki Meets Sexuality: Finding Your Inner Lover
What happens when sacred energy meets sexuality? In today's episode, Christine shares about one of her passion topics as she unpacks the ethical boundaries of Reiki practice while exploring its untapped potential for sexual healing and pleasure...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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Reiki Fusion: Dancing Between Structure and Flow in Our Practice
Dive into the profound world of Reiki Fusion with Christine and Shantel as they explore the balance between Masculine and Feminine energies in our Reiki practice. The conversation illuminates how Reiki itself embodies both energies—its essence ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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45:50
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Finding Reiki's Mystical Flow on Mount Kurama
The sacred tree has fallen, but the wellspring flows on. Could this be nature's message about the future of Reiki?When Christine returned to Mount Kurama in Japan for her second pilgrimage, she wasn't expecting to witness a profound met...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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Beyond Healing: Reiki as a Spiritual Threshold
What if everything you thought you knew about Reiki was just scratching the surface? In this eye-opening conversation, Isabel and Shantel explore the profound spiritual threshold that Reiki represents—far beyond its common reputation as simply ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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You Are Not Broken: Shifting from Healing to Aligning
What if the way we talk about our spiritual journey is keeping us stuck? For years, we've embraced the concept of healing—diligently working to release trauma, overcome limiting beliefs, and fix what's supposedly broken within us. But there's a...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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55:19
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Using Crystals for Psychic Protection with Nicholas Pearson
What if the most powerful psychic protection doesn't come from the crystals we carry, but from how they help us transform our own energy?Nicholas Pearson returns to Wisdom Rising with profound insights on psychic self-defense that bridg...
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Episode 25
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