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Somatic Alchemy & The Priestess Path with Kashi

• Christine Renee, Isabel Wells, and Shantel Ochoa • Season 2 • Episode 19

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In today's episode, Christine Renee sits down with her mentor Kashi, the founder of Kundalini Rose, for a soul-stirring exploration of erotic shamanism and feminine power reclamation that will transform how you view your spiritual journey.

Kashi brings decades of experience in tantric arts, shamanic practices, and sacred sexuality to this conversation, sharing wisdom gained from over 800 ayahuasca ceremonies and her work creating transformative experiences that merge spiritual and sensual realms. Together, they dive into the often misunderstood world where spirituality meets sensuality, revealing how somatic (fully embodied) practices can heal deep wounds and awaken dormant power.

Ready to explore your own divine feminine wisdom and reclaim your sovereignty? This episode will inspire you to honor your body as sacred, balance your inner masculine and feminine energies, and remember the power that has always been within you.

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Speaker 1:

It's time to remember your divine purpose and limitless potential. Welcome to Wisdom Rising, the official podcast of Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. Join shamanic Reiki practitioners Christine Rene, isabel Wells and Chantel Ochoa as we guide you on a journey of radical self-discovery and spiritual guidance. Each week, we'll 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 are here to help you acknowledge, reconcile and balance your energy so that you can awaken to the whispers of wisdom rising from within. Hello, hello and welcome back to another amazing episode here on the Wisdom Rising podcast. In today's special bonus episode of the show, you'll hear Christine interview her most recent mentor in the realm of erotic shamanism, kashi. Kashi is on the show today to illuminate the somatic healing journey that you can use to claim your sovereignty. In today's show, you'll hear Christine and Kashi discuss the divine, feminine and sacred masculine forces within each of us, and this episode will be particularly inspiring for all of our female identifying listeners, as we'll be talking about how to use somatic or fully sensory experiences to heal the womb, your portal of power. They'll also discuss how the connection to Mother Gaia can nourish our yonis and cultivate our passion and purpose. Along with understanding the priestess archetype as a powerful figure for women. Along the way, they'll also talk about our connection to earth. Sensuality and authentic expression ensure practical ways to strengthen and release societal conditioning, while setting healthy boundaries and being open to compassion. This is truly a powerhouse episode and a fantastic opportunity to learn more about Christine's personal practice that she's been engaging in as she continues to walk her shamanic path. So if you're interested in learning more about the divine feminine and sacred masculine energies, healing your personal power, especially as a woman, and somatic alchemy while walking the priestess path, then this episode is for you. This is also a fantastic opportunity, like I said, to see Christine in her element and in the depth of her shamanic practice, which you'll also get to see highlighted in her upcoming masterclass on intrusive entities and psychic protection. So if you're ready to strengthen your spiritual sovereignty and protect your energy from unseen forces, then you can join Christine for an in-depth three-week online masterclass that will empower you with the tools and knowledge that you need to understand and manage intrusive entities and other supernatural forces. Classes start next Thursday.

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In addition, if you love the archetype aspect of today's podcast episode, you will love Chantel's upcoming masterclass on archetypes. Chantel's archetype masterclass starts later this April and we'll meet on Sundays. It's the perfect opportunity to learn more about the spiritual archetypes, what they mean, how they show up in our practices and how we can alchemize them to really stand in our power and understand our path forward from a spiritual perspective. We'll have more podcasts and information about Chantel's upcoming archetype masterclass coming out very soon. So be sure to stay tuned, or you can check out the link in the show notes to learn more.

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Speaker 2:

Welcome to Wisdom Rising. I'm your host, christine Rene, and I'm super excited about our guest today because not only is she one of my mentors, she is an amazing woman. Let me, let me read you a little bit of her bio, because I can't even I can't even like she's got all of this juiciness coming in from so many different directions. I have to, I have to read it off to you. So Kashi is the founder of Kundalini Rose, a Costa Rica based platform for tantric arts coaching and a modern approach to temple culture and sacred sexuality. Can you tell why I already love her? Okay, today she drives upon a range of devotional ceremonial practices and healing modalities to inspire workshops, in-person immersions, online trainings and pilgrimage for women and men, and I love that. She is also the co-founder of Tantra Waska and revolutionary immersion, combining Tantra and Ayahuasca as a pathway to healing, awakening and self-realization, which I attended back in October and it was amazing. And she just left that ceremonial container, what, like three or four days ago, like it just ended this last round. So that's all like on the forefront. She's also an international facilitator.

Speaker 2:

Kashi is a certified Kundalini yoga teacher, reiki practitioner and graduate of the International School of Temple Arts and Energy of Breath School and she's also a passionate student of the mysteries, including the Egyptian mysteries and those of the Rose lineage. So this is my newest and most fave mentor because basically I remember the first time I was on the phone with you. I don't know if you remember that call, but I got on a call with you before the Tantra Waska and I was like I don't know if I want to do this. I'm not really interested in Ayahuasca, like I'm more interested on the Tantra side of things, and you are so good at navigating that call. So welcome, kashi, for joining with me on Wisdom Rising. It's so good to have you here.

Speaker 3:

Oh, thank you. It's so good to be here and I totally remember that call. I actually had Wi-Fi issues and had to run to the other end of my garden like hook into my neighbor's Wi-Fi to take that call. But I was feeling you and I was like I am going to get on the phone with this woman and yeah, yeah, I remember it super well Because you had a lot of kind of questions and concerns that would have been similar to what I was asking. So I felt like I resonated with you straight away.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, for sure. And it was like this I just remember like you met me where he was at and not like and it wasn't like a sales call, and I love that. That. It's like this has to be a resonance of is this experience meant for you? And I've always felt that with you. So here I am, I'm on the phone with you, I jump on a plane to like head down to Costa Rica, like maybe a month or two later and I've never been to Costa Rica. I normally don't travel alone and here I am going into the jungle after I swore off Costa Rica from the first experience and I'm like, oh, look at how solid they're creating this sacred container. Oh, I'm good.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, no, totally yeah. And you were bold, you know, you really went there. You were like I think you probably drank more medicine that retreat than anybody else. I seem to remember. Yeah, you were like because once you realized like the container was solid, you were like this is an opportunity for me to go deep and I can in space. And so you did, and it was powerful and beautiful and all the things but, I, resonated with you like testing, even on that phone call.

Speaker 3:

You know like how, how, how is this container held? You know, because obviously you hold containers yourself and so I have a similar thing. It's kind of like I notice if the container is loose or if it feels shaky or unsafe and you know, I think, yeah, when you're diving into plant medicine that you'd never experienced before for the first time was like very reasonable questions. But then once you were there you were just like soaring.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, Well, and I think that's that's it, and I think it's a good reminder for our listeners. Like if you are going into new sacred spaces, like this is why you vet your facilitators. Like I have a really high standard for facilitators. Like if you and Millie had only done, let's say, 20 ayahuasca ceremonies, I'd be like I'd be like hell. No, this isn't it. Like I need more experience Right and Millie's done like over a thousand and you've assisted in hundreds, right like it's, it's a little less than that.

Speaker 3:

I like she's done over probably between eight and nine hundred now either, or playing music, yeah, and so my my uh number is is definitely lower than hers. But I dived into ayahuasca in my 20s. Um, like pretty, like I'm quite an all or nothing person. So once I discovered that medicine I was really like I can do similar to you, like I can do work in this space with this medicine that otherwise I can't do, like I can go so deep and I trust her so much. So I really dived in.

Speaker 3:

I did a lot of ceremonies in my 20s and then I had a hiatus of 10 years where I didn't drink anything. And then I moved to the jungle and I started to feel her and like she. Honestly, I always felt her. She never like left me, even in those 10 years, you know I could feel her spirit with me. And then I ended up coming back to her because Millie and I reconnected and Tantra Wesker was like born. So I ended up, after the 10 year hiatus, coming back to Ayahuasca, but in a facilitator role, which I never expected, you know.

Speaker 3:

But it was like Millie and I have known each other for 20 years. We both met. We were, we were both already studying Tantra when we were 20 and we met in a kind of um, yeah, in like a sort of tantric context and then basically it you just never know the weave of life. You know it's like now we're both so much in our dharma. You know she had her own journey with ayahuasca and her initiation into serving that medicine. I had my own journey like deep into the shamanic tantric realms and the deepest like parts of my initiation. I wasn like deep into the shamanic tantric realms and the deepest like parts of my initiation. I wasn't even drinking the medicine at all.

Speaker 3:

And then once I'll just share this little story because it was so wild the only reason we saw each other again after 13 years because we were still very good friends but we'd been estranged was because I got I'd forgotten to get a return ticket flying into Costa Rica and they sent me straight back on the plane to Madrid. And then I got stuck in England for a while this was during the pandemic and then Millie and I reconnected. So when I was getting sent back on that aeroplane, you know it was like why is this happening? This is a disaster. But then what came out of it was reconnecting with Millie after 13 years and then realizing that our paths were, you know, we we'd been on very similar journeys. And then, you know, we went for a walk in the forest and she said tantra wasca, because it had been a vision of her and her beloved who passed away during covid. And as soon as she said that word, I felt like it had come from me and it was just like.

Speaker 3:

From that moment we started to co-create it and we just finished the fifth tantantra Wesker for women.

Speaker 2:

I think that's amazing.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and we're very excited because next year we're going to do Tantra Wesker for couples and we're going to do Tantra Wesker level two for women who've done Tantra Wesker level one.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I can't wait. And I think what really hit me the most out of that was all of the Tantric work. I had been interested in studying tantric work for years and years, like it's been on my radar, but nothing I really dove into and I love that word that you use like erotic shamanism, because I'm very much, obviously, love the shamanic arts. But once I started understanding it from the shamanic perspective or the energy work perspective, I was like, oh, this is the most powerful thing ever. Like I remember being there in ceremony and it wasn't under ayahuasca, but we had what like 10 women all having full body orgasms without any kind of physical touch.

Speaker 2:

And I'm like this is mind blowing. Like every woman needs to have this type of experience to fully feel into her own body and claim her power. Like there's nothing wrong with us, we all have this innate ability and it just sparks such a huge movement in my life. Going, I remember leaving. I'm like Kashi, you're my mentor. Like whatever you do, like I'm going to take it. So you just let me know what that is.

Speaker 3:

That was beautiful and I just got goosebumps when you, when you were saying that, because it is such a profound like reclamation that happens in that container and in many, many things that I do, it's like one of my biggest passions and a big part of my dharma is leading women through that remembrance and reclamation of, like, their womanhood. You know of the power that we actually hold as women, which people are just often so disconnected from. And so then it takes sometimes these kind of containers and processes and practices to get a somatic experience of that power and of that divinity that we are. You know, otherwise it's just like words thrown around, you know, it's just trends and like, oh, you're such a goddess or whatever. And it's like when you have these kind of like embodied, somatic experiences where you experience the divine in every cell of your being, you know, and you experience that like voltage of energy moving through you and you start to like unleash your ability to allow life force, energy, to move you and move through you, you walk through life in a different way. After that, you know, you walk through life aware of that power that you hold as a woman and that power you have to co-create. You know, and then you become the change. You realize that none of it is outside you. You know so. Then you become the change. You realize that none of it is outside you, you know so.

Speaker 3:

The women who and I'm sure you remember, like when women are emerging from Tantra Waska, they are I use this phrase in the last sharing. I think it's like lit by their own power. There's this radiance that comes, like oozes out of them because they have like really deeply touched the power that they hold and then they're like on fire with this, like passion for whatever is their thing, you know, but like to bring that into the world. And then it's like we feel every time like the ripples moving through the collective, and it's profound and it's so fulfilling to me because there is just nothing like it. It's yeah, and it really for me. It's yeah and it's it really for me.

Speaker 3:

It's like reconnecting women with their birthright. You know that they've been kind of robbed off because of the way society is set up and because of the conditioning and because of the shame and the fear and the whatever trauma, and like every woman has her story and every story is so powerful. But it's like when you reclaim that birthright and you really like step into. Yeah, it's like on one level it's just your womanhood and on another level it's like you embodying the divine feminine with your unique way of doing that, your unique blueprint. You know, sometimes I feel like we're polishing diamonds. You know, like all the practices that we lead in the medicine, it's just kind of like cleaning up these diamonds, because the women Tantra Westco attracts are like total diamonds. You know, everybody's diamond in one sense. But then it's like they emerge just like shining, like they've never shone, because they've touched that power and that source of love within them and they're just unstoppable forces in the world.

Speaker 2:

Yes, absolutely, and that transformation is so potent and you can like you really do feel it. Like I I've definitely been to a handful of retreats, like plenty of retreats and not I've never left feeling that empowered from an experience before and I can't just say it was the ayahuasca or it was the Tantra. It was definitely the way it was facilitated and all of the practices that you brought forward and how they weave together in such a beautiful, harmonious way, and really what I walked away with is just watching you and Millie honoring each woman's process. Like I think that's also very feminine.

Speaker 2:

I didn't want to do ayahuasca the way they do it back home, the way they do it here in Montana. I was like never, I was never interested. Like I'm like no, I don't want to do this in the middle of the night. I don't want to do this where you know I'm having. I'm basically given this cup and I'm like you have to drink whatever I give you, Like I didn't. I loved the way it was so yen, everything about how you guys embodied the priestess, like I really felt like you were. You were the priestess, you were honoring all of the women in that container through these sacred acts, whatever acts they were, whether it was with the medicine or not, and to be honored in that way helps people remember, helps these women remember that the divinity from within already is there. Right, you're being able to mirror that for them.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it's true. And then there's a lot of sovereignty in the way that we work. You know, with the ayahuasca and outside, it's like everything is an invitation. You drink as much as you want to drink, like you're guiding your experience ultimately and we're going to, yeah, be those mirrors for you. But but that's also what's beautiful about working with only women is that, like, for example, millie and I both had this, but I'll speak for myself.

Speaker 3:

It's like my early experiences with ayahuasca like they were very erotic, you know, if they were very sensual, it wasn't all like pleasurable, eroticotic even. You know, sometimes it was like the way my body wanted to move and the way energy was moving through me in a process that was painful, you know, I was like clearing something or deeply emotional expression, because it was like there were men in the space and it wasn't really acceptable to like fully go where the medicine was potentially taking me, and so that was kind of where, you know, tantra wasca for women was so exciting, because initially it was visioned as a thing for couples, because Millie was in in this experience with her beloved, where they were, they were having this very like tantric relationship with a lot of ayahuasca. But then it was like, oh, with women there's this permission slip, you know, and this like welcoming of whatever is moving through you, so that can be like heartrending grief or that can be like ecstatic bliss, and if you want you can take off your clothes, and if you want to dance around, you can dance around, and obviously we have boundaries and safety is like the paramount thing. But there's a lot of freedom to express and because there's no masculine gaze, then women do really express in a way that is more uncensored and therefore more raw and more powerful. And this is where the tantra is such a sort of perfect marriage with the ayahuasca in so many ways, because also these women are learning practices and releasing their voices and learning how to breathe properly and doing a lot of like with their yonis. So it's like all of their body gets very activated even prior to receiving the medicine, and so then the medicine can work deeper with them or they can work deeper with her, and it's just like it's more embodied. And so we feel like a little bit like it's this missing piece in the feminine empowerment movement, because there is.

Speaker 3:

You know, it's a huge topic, but like there has been so much wounding on both sides of the gender war, you know, and there has been so much perpetuation of that war, because it keeps people from their power in many ways and it keeps the collective kind of trapped in certain dynamics. And when you're in those ceremonies and you're in those processes and you're able to like really, really, not only, just just, it's a level of healing where you can't run from the medicine, so you can't, you can't really avoid the self-responsibility and the mirror that she holds up to you, where, no matter what the trauma is, no matter what abuse you've experienced, she helps you to reclaim your power and realize that it's all right there for you, like the power that you thought was taken or lost, and that you're the one that can reclaim it like moment by moment. And so you have all these tools also to be able to like guide you through that reclamation, you know. So it all becomes less abstract and less of a kind of like, you know, conceptual thing of like how can we redress the balance and how can women be treated equally, and it just becomes this inner healing of the masculine and feminine within you. And so that's the way I believe that we're going to create like sustainable change and healing in the world, and that's a big part of the Tantra that I do as well.

Speaker 3:

You know, even with without the ayahuasca, it's like when we go on that journey of union within and bringing our masculine and feminine together and harmonizing and healing that dynamic within us and maturing both those energies within us, then we become this healing and this change that we want to see, rather than, you know, petitioning or protesting or blaming each other or the government or whatever it is, it's like we take the reins, each individually, and we do that inner work. And so I really believe, if enough people are doing this like this is the renaissance, this is the revolution, you know, it's revolution through evolution and it's radical self-responsibility, but that takes courage.

Speaker 2:

You know it does absolutely yeah.

Speaker 2:

Well, and I feel like I think one of my biggest things I walked away from from this experience was really understanding that maybe your masculine is just immature, Maybe your feminine is just immature, and like, how do we mature those areas within ourselves? Because I feel like I definitely was in my transition from my marriage where I was fully in my masculine, like 95% of my energy was in my masculine and going. I don't want to do that anymore. That's why I left my marriage and then I'm just have this immature masculine who's just willing to give my that power away and delegate it to some other man in my life. So I can try to be in my feminine, but it's not harmonized, it's not balanced from within.

Speaker 2:

And by stepping from Tantra Waska and then into your power of portal program, I was like, oh, I was just like, oh, I see what I'm doing here, Like I see what's going on within myself of going there's not only this imbalance but this immaturity that needs to take place so I can fully step into my power, fully step into my strength and say this is what I'm available for and this is what I'm not available for. And that really comes from the mature masculine from within. And then, once that is happening, once you have that full masculine power, that warrior energy within you, it's so much easier to recognize when a male figure in your life is actually in their divine masculinity, their sacred masculinity, so that you're like, oh, we don't actually, there's not a negotiation here, it's just so nice, it's so refreshing.

Speaker 3:

Well, it's been really beautiful to witness your journey from, like witnessing you all the way through Tantra Waska and then you being in Portal of Power and your relationship journey during that time, and then know you transitioned into another course that I have erotic alchemy and you also transitioned relationships literally like like the timing was really accurate in that way between the courses and the relationships and it just feels like now you're in this like deeply nourishing dynamic.

Speaker 3:

That is what you actually want and the process that you went through on a personal level. Yes, there were like external people involved, but it was really you at the center of your storm and and you realizing that like it was all on you and you got to decide and then, very quickly, you manifested like a relationship that really was what you wanted, as opposed to one that was full of like questions and and you know, like yeah, it was just so it was so dysregulating and so like constantly trying to figure out the game, you know, like it felt like we're moving pawn pieces and not actually communicating, and it just felt very, ultimately felt very manipulative, right, and then to be like I'm not, I'm not doing this anymore, I'm just done.

Speaker 2:

And then, in that process of like getting done, like feeling done, going, this is actually what I really want. I want these things, I want the beloved, I want the person who's going to show up and say you know, I love the work that you do. How can I support it? How can we do this together, you know? And so then to. Then, you know, like it felt swiftly, like I went through, I took a pause. I did take a pause, like once I was out of one relationship, I was like I need 21 days of healing, I really need to clear all of this energy out, and did that very intentionally to all right, I'm ready for this next blessing of having all that I desire and having it really be so easy, Like, and the fact that I don't have to like I don't have to explain myself in the same way, like I don't have to try to prove myself, because he's also a tantric practitioner.

Speaker 2:

He's also an energy practitioner. Like these things are already in our language and like we can see where we want to co collaborate on offerings. Like it's just so, it's so, it's so easy. Like it's so easy. Like it feels like home, like it should be.

Speaker 3:

But this is where it's such a beautiful example of that inner work and how you know, when you do this work and you commit to these practices and you, you did, you know you 21 days of healing and you were using practices from Tantra Waska and, like you know, that's what I always tell women, because I'll introduce them to say, like the yoni egg practice, and then it's up to them if they're actually going to commit and do it.

Speaker 3:

Like every woman can do that practice once and be like, okay, that's powerful, you know, but then it takes that level of commitment and devotion to that inner game and that inner transformation and that you know, self-healing, and then it gets reflected so powerfully in the world.

Speaker 3:

And I think that's why, like you know, with tantra it's like there's a lot of relational tantra and people focusing on like neo-tantric practices and very, like you know, interactive, and then there's a lot of movement for, like, releasing shame and getting back into the animal body, because there has been a lot of suppression and there has been a lot of shaming and and that's all really valid and really valuable. But for me, like I've just seen this so many times that if you don't have a foundation like a strong foundation of inner intimacy and really knowing yourself, knowing who you are and knowing your boundaries, and obviously that is always changing as well. But if you don't take the time and you don't have the devotion and commitment to cultivate that inner intimacy and cultivate yourself from within and fill yourself up from within and through your connection to the divine, rather than always grasping or looking for someone on the outside, like the horizontal you know, connections and interactions to fill you up and fulfill you, then Tantra can be very troublesome, even dangerous, you know.

Speaker 3:

So I think, like my approach with Tantra is really, really, really, to empower each one in understanding their own energy, like understanding their masculine and feminine, learning how to love themselves, like truly you know. And then from that place, when you, when you meet other and when you meet all of creation, and when you meet colleagues and friends, and and like the challenges and blessings of life, you're coming from this strong foundation, You're coming from a place of self-love, You're coming from a life. You're coming from this strong foundation, You're coming from a place of self-love. You're coming from a place where you're committed to self, because how can you commit to a job or a partnership or anything if you can't even commit to your own healing or your own well-being? So I feel like that's the really foundational piece and that's what like Tantra, Waska, Portal of Power, Erotic Alchemy like all of them are really like from this angle piece. And that's what like Tantra, Waska, Portal of Power, Erotic Alchemy like all of them are really like from this angle.

Speaker 3:

I had a new client asking me yesterday. She's just like I was worried because I saw something in it that was like talking about you know your relationship and I really need to focus on me. And I was like, don't worry, that is exactly like how I work. It's from within, and that was your journey as well. It's like you were doing that work inside yourself and then like what you were attracting, what you were receiving, everything shifted in a really short amount of time, Absolutely.

Speaker 2:

It went it things unspiraled and really to a completion point and then really opened up and I and I feel like I think one of the reasons why I resonate with your energy so much is because of that foundational work. That is like a prerequisite, and I feel I do the same thing in our soul rising and shamanic Reiki course is like we need to focus on root, sacral and solar plexus first. We're not even looking at relationships yet. Let's work on finding our own foundational source of wisdom and I think this is why I fell in love with Shakti's. What am I calling it?

Speaker 2:

The spiral with the Yoni yoga. What am I? What am I? Why am I? You mean the Sufi grind? Yes, the Sufi grind, thank you. I'm like, why is it not coming to my head?

Speaker 2:

Because it was like energetic drilling into the core of the earth, where you're meeting mother Gaia to like let her feed you, release all of your shit and let it be composted and then receive and that's a this two way energetic flow with the earth. And I think so often in spirituality and spiritual work from from mainstream, the energy is the emphasis is so up on the upper chakras and like let's meet the divine and they're disassociating and they're not actually doing the embodiment work. And here we are, like stripping away all of all of what no longer serves us, really getting to the shadow self and going. I'm worthy of this work and it's not a scary like there's nothing that to be afraid of, that's within you, to really able to pull that mirror up.

Speaker 2:

I think this is why I love portal of power so much is because there was such a mirror with all of these different deities, so we were looking at the shadow side of ISIS or the shadow side of Inanna or whatever it was, and it was like I can see that there is such this duality and the divine feminine and that there I think that's where I get really I don't know like it just doesn't feel like it resonates when I get into the Buddhist culture of Reiki where it's just like. Get into the Buddhist culture of Reiki where it's just like it's so non-dualistic and I'm like, but that's not human, like I want to enter my senses and my sensory and my sensuality to understand the divinity, not pull away from it. Like that just seems ridiculous.

Speaker 3:

And it happens through contrast. You know, it's like the masculine and feminine, the dark and the light, the polarity. You know, even in sexuality and sensuality it's like the masculine and feminine, the dark and the light, the polarity. You know, even in sexuality and sensuality it's like the contrast, is like awakening to the senses. You know, if it's all very like monotone and same same, then it's like it doesn't stimulate you in the same way, right? So it's kind of like the mother can hold it all. And I think there's this, there's this relief and this reconnection that happens when we do this work. And exactly that practice is so important when women realize there is this like energetic umbilical cord between their yoni and the heart of the planet, and when that activates cause that never went away, but it's like when you activate it, it's like most women need to activate their yonis. Even if they're're sexually active, they haven't activated the full power of their portals, you know. And so when that happens, it's like this, this, it's almost like falling into the great mother's arms and realizing that she can hold us as we are, with all our darkness, all our pain, all our fears, like everything is included and it is safe for us to descend first of all into the body, because many people get stuck in like disassociation and and and avoiding their incarnate like form somehow, and also into our pain, into our shadows, into our unconscious and subconscious, where it's like there's all sorts going on and so it's just just like this again, the permission and this is why I love Tantra, because it's like there's holiness in all of it, it's all divine, it's all included.

Speaker 3:

You know, the beauty of Tantra and it's also a danger is like you don't have to banish your desires, you lean in, you get curious, you find safe ways to explore them or express them, right the same with your pain, and so it's very welcoming, it's very inclusive.

Speaker 3:

And that can also be risky because you know people can misinterpret that and you know people can also just get like then completely trapped in their desires, right? So everything is about the balance and being able to like temper. You know the darkness with the light and the masculine with the feminine, and finding this kind of like homeostasis in all the areas, but with this deep remembrance and understanding that like none of it is separate, none of us are separate and none of it is separate. And when you go into those descents you know, like whether it's an emotional descent or deep into the body, and the trauma that you find in the body or you know whatever is the shadow element like you emerge stronger and more integrated and these are the people that are more easeful to be around. You know, when you're around people who are running so hard from their own darkness, they're quite exhausting because they're actually exhausted from running.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely.

Speaker 3:

Those are the people where you're like why do I feel so tired after hanging out with this person? Can love their shadow and meet themselves in the dark and in the light and in all the colors in between. They're a more grounded, more wholesome energy, just like naturally, because we are all of it, and so it comes back to just integration. It's like the Jungian concept, you know. It's just like it's just returning to wholeness and integrating all of all of what we are integrating all of all of what we are.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yeah, absolutely. Will you share with us a little bit about what it means to you to do this in a priestess perspective?

Speaker 3:

yeah, uh, it's funny because someone also asked me yesterday about, about the priestess archetype. They were like can we talk about that? Like what's that about?

Speaker 2:

and I love it, like, I feel like I'm definitely stepping into cloaking myself in that archetype often and it just feels really good. But I, like, I'm also new to this path and I I feel like, as women, when we start to explore our own divine, feminine, which archetypes are, we are gravitating towards right In that, in that process, and I love the, the showering of information and portal of power, where we really are looking at all these different archetypes and energies and those who have come before us and their own deities. Right, and I'm like, and how do we live it? How do you embody it, express it, show it, feel into it? Right?

Speaker 3:

Well, the way that I like to introduce women to the priestess is in this remembrance, or reintroduction, or recognition that each woman is the priestess of her sacred temple, you know that being her yoni in her womb and this portal of power. That's why portal of power is named portal of power, like this portal of power, portal of creation that she is responsible for, you know, and that the sacredness of that which is why I love the word yoni, because it means sacred temple, you know, it's like that for me really has a frequency, that that feels aligned, and so it's like that's where each woman can begin by taking that responsibility that she is the priestess of her sacred temple. That means she decides who comes in. She has to guard and protect that temple and make sure that the energy that's permeating it is in integrity and coming with love. And also, equally, what's coming out of it, like what is she birthing, you know? What is she gestating, what is she cultivating, not just in terms of new life or a baby, but like what are the projects, you know? What are the manifestations, what are the dreams that she's holding, you know, and that that she's birthing into the world. So that's, I feel, like a place where, like, every woman can start to relate. You know, things like practices like burying your menstrual blood you know, this is another big one where I've had women who have been like, okay, not necessarily so resonant with the priestess archetype, but then, you know, I invite them into that practice and they go and do that and that's something like clicks, because it's such a simple thing and but it's also so deep and and and sort of awakens sometimes these like memories or even this collective archetype you know, of like wow, what that actually is and how that feels energetically. You know, and that's why all these practices, it's like, you know, you bringing it into your somatic experience of yourself, where you feel like a priestess in that moment it's not just like an idea anymore, you know. And so I think, starting with the, with the yoni and womb, and then also like understanding, like, yeah, the power of your blood is a very like important foundational piece For me.

Speaker 3:

The priestess archetype has been really really strong in my life and I had quite a radical path in many ways. You know, I went through a lot of tantric and shamanic initiations that were not kind of like your typical like oh, I'm going to go and do like level one or level two or some training or that. I was a much more unusual path and my version really like what really was my priestess initiation that feels most deep and most that was hardest actually was truly giving up my life to the divine, Like truly surrendering my desires, surrendering my ideas, surrendering like where I wanted to live, like surrendering everything and and and going with the guidance as it was given to me. And that was a process that wasn't like an overnight thing or like a one ceremony thing. That was a process. But I think that with the priestess archetype, it's like she is this bridge between heaven and earth, she is this bridge between the divine and the human and so she's this archetype where it's like she listens, you know, and she attunes to the divine and then brings it to earth in whatever she's manifesting or doing. So it's like the priestess doesn't have to like live in an obvious temple and and always wear a crown or be doing like you know, seemingly priestess things. It's like know every woman has this archetype running through her and at different moments. You know, also in sexuality it's like being the priestess of your sexual energy, you know. It's like knowing how sacred that energy is and therefore, like the way that you channel it, the way you bestow it, the way that you share it. You know that archetype can be very present in that as well.

Speaker 3:

And I think, for, yeah, for me it's about that, like it was a very brutal process because my ego hated it, but really so, yeah, to offer my life back to the divine, because at a certain point, you know, as you dive deeper and deeper into the realms of who you are, it's like how could I not give my life back to God or source or whatever you know, or the mother, because that's where it came from, it's not even mine anyway, you know.

Speaker 3:

And in that communion and union with the divine, actually your life becomes much greater than your little human mind could dream, you know, because my dreams when I was younger were much more sort of selfish and it was like through that, that surrendering, and through like walking the path of the priestess, it became much more about service and through that it became much more about us as a collective, as a human collective.

Speaker 3:

You know, it's like the priestess is in service, you know, and back in the days before the patriarchy, it's like the goddess temples and the priestesses in those temples. It's like they were in service to the community, to the health and wealth of the community, like, literally, their sexuality, their power was in service to that, you know, and channeled in ritual in accordance with, like, the land and the people prospering and keeping that balance between the divine, or the gods and the goddesses, or whatever it was, and the people. You know they were a bridge. So I think every woman can actually relate to that archetype, you know, each in her own way. Like, also, some women are really artists, you know, for me it's like when I dance, it's like I'm very in that channel, and for other people it's when they paint, you know. For other women it might be like when they cook, you know, but it's like when you are really in that channel where you're bridging, bridging the divine and the human, somehow, or the spiritual and the physical.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yeah, I love that.

Speaker 2:

You know, I and I'm when I teach my Reiki masters training that's what I say all the time it's like you have one foot in the earthly realm and one foot in the spiritual realm and it's learning how to live in that balance.

Speaker 2:

And I I mean I've been doing Reiki now for over nearly, nearly, almost 25 years, right, so it's like I've always been on this very deep spiritual path and and I do remember having this, you know, pivotal moment in my own journey of like, surrendering, giving my power over, trusting the next steps, being divine, just letting go of everything, like and it was a huge ego death and coming into the fullness of my life is of service. Bring me the clients If you want me to have clients. Bring me the right support people If you want me to bring this online, like it's always been, yes, and how can like? Bring me the support. Show me that we're working as a team and it's always been this beautiful unfolding. And when my ego gets in the way of what I think quote, unquote think I should be doing, that's when things get messed up, right, it's when the ego comes back in and be like oh well, maybe we should do it this way or maybe like right.

Speaker 3:

And also there's a very important piece that's worth mentioning because it's like some people like we were talking about this earlier like you with all your water, it's like they can channel things very easily, you know, and they have that ability to kind of like receive messages or guidance. For other people, it's not like that right. So also there is a process within that surrendering and saying, okay, show me. It's like some people might say, well, I don't get shown in that way, like, how do you receive the guidance? And so the really important piece in the process and it's very important in Tantra as well before you bring in the practices and the erotic energy and the power, basically, that some of these rituals can bring and evoke, you have to go through a purification process, and this is what the Yoni yoga that I teach is about, for example, it's like for you to reclaim your sacred temple and your Yoni womb in her integrity, in a way where you can plug into Gaia and you can receive full nutrients from the earth and you can channel the level of life force that you're designed to. There's often a cleanup process. There's often all sorts of imprints and traumas and stuck energy and stuck emotions, and so it's like that is also part of that spiritual path. And the path of initiation is like you become responsible for cleaning your vessel. You know it's like there is reasons why that people do fasts and cleanses and like you know there are these kind of like rites of passage and initiation, because the more clear your channel is, the more you can discern what is real guidance and what is your fantasy. Yeah, you know, and like what is what is truly a calling and what is just mental masturbation? Right, like that takes a clearer channel, clearer channel, so that takes.

Speaker 3:

Coming back to that self-devotion, you know of going like no, I take time away from the group or away from you know the world and I tend to my temple. You know and I do my feminine practices and I tend to myself because you know each one of us. We are our greatest asset and investment and so you know, when we take care of ourselves and we really honor you know it's like it's kind of a mutual thing. It's like the goddess in you is going to reveal herself the more you honor her. It's the same in relationship, you know.

Speaker 3:

The more you as a woman, the more you evoke the God in him, you know the more he's going to show up like that in his divine masculine, the more you dismiss him and you nag at him and you, you know, you, you tell him how he needs to change. Then the harder it is, in a way, for him to show up. But the more you really like see the God in him, the more you evoke that in him and invoke that in him. So it's yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's a it's a symbiotic process also within yourself to like, treat yourself like a goddess and then you grow into that goddess naturally but a lot of people have to start there, like there's a piece of that, like I feel like it's so.

Speaker 2:

You know, I have all of these students and I'm like, take five minutes. And they're like, oh my God, five minutes. I'm like, take 20 minutes, take an hour, take two hours, take a day, you know, and all of these things are like really pushing them outside their comfort zone. I'm like, but this is where it starts. You, if you want to claim radical responsibility for your energy, you, you have to be willing and committed to do the practice Right. So don't don't come to me after a month in and be like, oh, it's not working.

Speaker 2:

I'm like, well, did you do things? Did you do all of the things? Because, like, if we want spiritual development, it it comes with how do we clear our own channels Right, and that we do carry a ton of a huge amount of childhood wounds and sexual wounds and all of the, all of this baggage. And it's when we can bring it to the table and lay it on the table and be like I'm willing to look at this and honor it and learn the lessons and sift through it and going. This is who made me who I am today and this is the type of woman I want to step into with all of my fullest, with all of my power. Then, in that energy, wow, you can do some really amazing work in the world. But it's like you got to get down and dirty and do it.

Speaker 3:

Exactly, and the process is not avoiding the pain. The process is going through the pain, alchemizing the pain, and the pain becomes your power. Absolutely. This is the goal. This is literally alchemy. You know, you think it's the stuff that's not valuable or that you wish wasn't there, but actually, when you go into it and you have that courage and you can meet it with love and you can alchemize, it becomes your power. Yeah and yeah, in the end it's always you and you. You know everything that you're experiencing in life. It's like when you can come back to that radical responsibility. If there's something you don't like, you get to change it. You know, and it's all a mirror of you, which is intimidating in a way, but also extremely empowering.

Speaker 2:

Well, I think that's it Like. Once you realize, oh, if I'm working, if I'm deeply truly working on myself, everything else is going to start shifting, like the energy of the world rearranges itself to meet your energy of where you're at Right. And I think that's what happened to my own experience. I was in this low vibrational relationship that really he didn't want me to be the fullness of who I am. He quite literally told me to tone it down, right. And I'm like it down Right and I'm like you can fucking choke.

Speaker 2:

I want to get to that point of like, if I'm too much, go find something else, right, because I am in the process of being more of me. I want to be not just the fullness of me, I want to be absolutely the most expansive version of me possible. So I'm not fucking toning it down. And when I'm in that energy, who do I attract? A man who can also witness me in the fullness of who I am and and honor it Like. There is no Tony down. He actually is like that was great Right, like bring it, because he's also for a lot of women I'm sure would think he's a lot right Cause he's in his fullness, right. So we got two people who are coming together and their fullness of like, not just erotic energy, but in our spiritual energy and our you know, our energy of our co-creative selves.

Speaker 3:

Right.

Speaker 2:

And when we get together it's like, oh damn, watch out, because here's the power couple coming in. Like it's so funny when we're in group spaces together and cacao ceremonies, I'm like, yeah, we're gonna. We're gonna kind of dominate just a little bit, because that's our energy and it's not. People gravitate towards that. They want, want to know how we are doing it, whether individually or as a couple, you know, and it's even though that it's still new and fresh in a way, it has so much powerful potential and magic to support others.

Speaker 3:

Totally.

Speaker 3:

And you know, sometimes you need to like swing the pendulum into what's not working for you, just like sometimes you need to have your boundary crossed in order to understand where your boundary is.

Speaker 3:

Oh, yeah, for you to say fuck, no, and this is, and then to manifest what you do want. And again, from that perspective, it's like life is always happening for you, even when it's a shitty thing, like when I got sent back on the airplane and I was like why? And then it was like, wow, now I have this beautiful project and who knows if it would have come together and manifested if that hadn't happened. So it's like there is always and this is where it's like, yeah, trust and welcoming when it's shitty and welcoming when it's beautiful and welcoming. All of it allows you to really like ride the tides and integrate, continue to integrate more and more and more of who you are, because being you is a massive project to tend to all your archetypes and your, your masculine, your feminine, your inner child, like all the levels and layers of you. It's like dive into that relationship with complete love and devotion and everything else comes from that, absolutely.

Speaker 2:

I, I love that. I feel like that's a really good place to like say that. That's a really good Indian statement right there. But before we hop off, I would love, Kashi, if you have upcoming things, if people want to get a hold of you, if they want to work with you, what's their steps?

Speaker 3:

So I have an upcoming portal of power. So that's a seven week online course for women, which you've done. I have an upcoming portal of power, so that's a seven week online course for women which you've done I have.

Speaker 2:

So juicy highly recommend.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and it's transformational, as you experienced, and it's tantric and shamanic practices. There's six modules, so you receive a lot of prerecorded content. I filmed half of it here in my jungle temple and half of it in my teacher's temple right opposite the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. So it's kind of made in Costa Rica and Egypt and we go into a lot of mythology, we go into Inanna, a lot of the rose lineage, also the Egyptian goddesses, so it's a deep dive. It's very, you know, it's marrying the sexual and the soulful in many ways and it's definitely a path to revealing and discovering more of your own medicine and your own blueprint and walking that path of your dharma and also working a lot with your sexuality and your sexual energy and different archetypes. And it's a deep, deep feminine work and journey. And we have calls every week on Zoom, so there's integration calls with the group, which are also really powerful and beautiful, and so that's coming up on the 22nd of April. We start. That's the first week through to the 10th of June, the week of the 10th of June. So if anybody's interested in that, they're welcome to reach out to me. Good way to do that is Instagram. I am kundalinirose and I also have a website, kundaliniroseco, so you can also contact me through the website. I think those are the main things.

Speaker 3:

I'm leading a pilgrimage to Egypt with Millie Millie Moonstone, who I do Tantra Huesca with, and that is going to be September the 8th to the 18th. We finalized dates now, so that's going to be the Sacred Way pilgrimage, which is also very much. We're going to be exploring the temples, we're going to be cruising down the Nile, we're going to work a lot with sound Millie's an incredible musician, yeah and also really working with this theme of, like the sacred way being your unique way in the world, because that's how your Dharma and your real purpose unfolds. It's an unfolding from within and it doesn't always make, it's not always a logical thing. So we also diving deep into that process for each one, while also connecting with these power portals all around Egypt and in the temples. So that's coming up.

Speaker 3:

We have more Tantra Huesca coming in October and also next year we'll have Tantra Huesca for couples and also level two for women. So that's very much in the front of my mind after this round. And what else in the front of my mind after this round and what else I also have Erotic Alchemy, which is a beautiful course for women online also. If you feel like you're disconnected from your yoni, if you feel like you've got sexual trauma, like there's a lot of healing to do, and also that you're in your masculine energy more than you wanna be and you wanna like connect more to your feminine energy and get more into that that feminine radiance and also feminine leadership then erotic alchemy is also a really great course that I run quite regularly online and if anyone wants to come and do a retreat with me here in Costa Rica in the jungle, I do private retreats as well.

Speaker 2:

And we might have to. We might have to figure that out sometime in the future for our moon rising community.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and it's really fun because we co-create it, you know, and I also work with a light and sound therapy here called AOI, which is really powerful healing technology that again gets in there on a cellular level through working with light and full spectrum color to clean and help release the past. And, you know, people come out of here after like one week completely reborn. So, yeah, really working with deep alchemical transformation in lots of different ways, online and offline. So, yeah, if you're curious and you want to know more, please reach out. It's such a pleasure to share your journey and to like be here and talk about it. And, having witnessed you, you know, christine, and all these these phases since only October, it feels like it's been much longer.

Speaker 2:

I know like there's so much that has happened since then. You know like, and it's been amazing, it's been amazing to be in this energy with you this whole time, and I also recognize like that relationship that I was in in the fall, like I would not have met you and Millie without it. You know like he was my, my introduction Right, and so it's's like maybe that was the whole point of it because I needed to find my next mentor in the end it's like it always, like, like down the road things make sense, even though at the time, right for sure, for sure.

Speaker 2:

So thank you for all of the witnessing and support and honoring that you have done. In my life I have just been so loving all of the immersion and all of the courses that you offer and the experiences that you offer, and I I do hope, like I'm like knock on wood, that I'll be joining the Egyptian trip as well. Like that, for a pilgrimage sounds super juicy to me. I cannot wait. So we'll put all of those links, all of those offerings, in the show notes. So if you're like where, where's the link, look in the show notes, we'll have them all there for you. And then, yeah, definitely reach out to Kashi over on Instagram, because she's quick, quick to respond over there. And until next time, may you awaken to the whispers of wisdom rising from within. We'll see you all next time. Thanks everyone.

Speaker 1:

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