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Wisdom Rising

Wisdom Rising

By: Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa
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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 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, and YouTube 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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  • From Loss to Purpose: Grief, Ritual, And Renewal
    Feb 23 2026

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    Grief can freeze a life—or forge it. We open a raw, grounded conversation about death, loss, and the quiet rebirth that follows, guided by Shantel’s story of losing her 16‑year‑old son and the years of healing that turned pain into purpose. Together we explore what conscious grieving looks like in real time: feeling everything without drowning, setting gentle containers for emotion, and choosing tiny acts of life that keep you moving when the weight says stay in bed.

    In this episode, we’ll explore:

    🌕 Turning grief from paralysis into practice

    🌖 Cultural timelines for funerals and energy movement

    🌗 Grief beyond death: identity, relationship, opportunity

    🌘 Ongoing bonds, signs, and frequency of connection

    🌑 Service as integration and post‑traumatic growth

    🌒 Using archetypes and soul contracts to map meaning

    🌓 Community spaces for being witnessed and supported

    Whether you relate to mysticism or prefer a psychological frame, the core insight holds: grief needs motion, breath, and witness. You’ll hear practical tools like thought catching to stop mental spirals, timeboxing to honor waves without losing the day, and body‑based practices that move grief through the chakras so healing is felt, not just analyzed.

    If you’re early in grief, take what helps and leave what doesn’t. When you’re ready for more structure, we share two pathways: our Conscious Grievers group, which blends coaching, energy work, and community, and our Soul Contracts and Archetypes masterclass starting March 23rd to map meaning and reclaim agency. And Join the Mystic Moon Collective, our monthly membership with weekly classes! Subscribe, share with someone who needs it, and leave a review to help others find this space. Your presence lifts the collective—one honest breath at a time.

    #spiritualpodcast #consciousgrieving #spiritualhealing #griefjourney #rebirth


    Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links:
    Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/
    Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute
    Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute
    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute
    Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide

    Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive

    Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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    46 mins
  • Finding Safety In Sacred Spaces
    Feb 17 2026

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    What actually makes a group feel safe enough to transform? We open with a vulnerable debrief from a tantric couples retreat—where the intention was beautiful but the container felt thin—and use it to map the anatomy of true space holding. From feeling “muted” to identifying the missing check-ins, we explore how safety, consent, and integration are built through small, deliberate choices rather than rushed practices.

    In this episode, we’ll explore:

    🌕 Naming desire and boundaries as core skills

    🌖 Why context-rich introductions build empathy

    🌗 Five-minute integration transitions are valued over more practices

    🌘 Simple somatic resets to integrate

    🌑 Reaffirming the sacred container each day

    🌒 How to design meals for processing

    🌓 Upcoming women’s tantra circles and trainings

    We get practical fast. You’ll hear simple tools that change the room in minutes: one-word emotion rounds, quick chakra check-ins, collective sighs, shaking and brushing off energy, and five-minute integration windows between practices. We talk through context-rich introductions that include desires, fears, and boundaries so participants can empathize and calibrate. We also share a favorite design move for tight schedules: intentional meal tables—quiet journaling, open processing, Q&A with assistants, and light social a—so connection keeps breathing even when the agenda is full.

    Real mastery of facilitation meets people at the gate—honoring sovereignty, reaffirming the sacred container each day, and inviting voice without forcing performance. If you facilitate spiritual retreats, circles, or trainings this is a blueprint for building nervous-system-safe spaces where people can risk, reveal, and integrate.

    We also share upcoming offerings: ​She Who Speaks​, our women’s tantra integration circle; ​Mystic Moon Collective​ with a guided shamanic journey; ​Intro to Tantra​; and a Valentine’s Day self-love package designed to activate daily rituals and clear limiting beliefs. Find our complete calendar of events​ here! ​ If this conversation resonates, share it with a friend, subscribe for more, and leave a review telling us one practice that makes you feel safe to share. Your insight might be the exact tool another listener needs.

    #SpiritualPodcast
    #consciousconversations
    #TantraWisdom
    #SomaticIntegration
    #TraumaInformedFacilitati

    Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links:
    Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/
    Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute
    Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute
    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute
    Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide

    Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive

    Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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    49 mins
  • Return To The Self; Somatic, Mindful, Shamanic
    Feb 9 2026

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    Ever feel your life is too loud to hear yourself think? We dive into a grounded path back to center using somatic awareness, mindfulness, shamanic journeying, and tantra-informed movement. Christine Rene and Chantel Ochoa unpack how external inputs—news feeds, cluttered rooms, and other people’s needs—can hijack our nervous systems, then walk through practical ways to reclaim agency and come home to the body.

    In this episode, we’ll explore:

    🌕 Returning to the self as a practical path

    🌖 Reducing external inputs and reclaiming agency

    🌗 Somatic curiosity: color, shape, movement of tension

    🌘 Full guided drop-in and mini heart practice

    🌑 Movement, breathwork, and tantra-informed tools

    🌒 Archetypes for patterns, boundaries, and balance

    🌓 Shamanic release, cord cutting, and soul retrieval


    You’ll be guided through two practices you can repeat anytime: a fuller somatic drop-in that helps you identify where tension lives, what it looks like, and how it wants to move; and a fast “mind-to-heart” reset that quiets analysis so a wiser answer can surface. We talk about the witch’s wound and the courage to feel safe sharing spiritual gifts, why dance and breath unstick old emotions, and how small, consistent rituals build trust with yourself. If you’ve ever asked why the same patterns keep returning, we explore a powerful metaphor: setting down the backpack of the past. Through shamanic tools like symbolic release and soul retrieval, those cords thin with practice, and the body becomes your early warning system when you try to pick the weight back up.

    We also show how archetypes and soul contracts illuminate patterns in relationships and leadership, improving boundaries and communication. From sunrise prayers to altar time, from quantum light breath to gentle stretching, this conversation invites you to design rituals that match your life so you can move from constriction to expansion. For deeper study and community, we share details on Soul Rising, Archetypes and Soul Contracts, Intro to Tantra with Jim McDonald, Facilitator Training for ceremonial space, and our weekly Mystic Moon Collective.

    If this conversation helps you breathe easier, share it with a friend who needs a reset, subscribe so you don’t miss new episodes, and leave a review with your favorite practice you’ll try this week.

    #spiritualenergy #shadow

    Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links:
    Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/
    Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute
    Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute
    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute
    Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide

    Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive

    Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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    53 mins
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