What does it mean to walk the path of the medicine woman, not as a performative identity but as a devotional path?

How do we remember what colonization has eradicated from our ancestral memory and body's intelligence?

How do we restore the sacred technologies of our ancestors and reclaim right relationship with the Earth, our bodies, and the unseen worlds?

In this soul-stirring conversation, I’m joined by Marilu Shinn, evolutionary healer, guide, and long-time student of the Q’ero lineage of the Peruvian Andes.

Together we explore the cosmovision of the Q’ero, the path of the Chakaruna (bridge between worlds), and the embodied reality of walking as a medicine woman in a time of collective unraveling and sacred return.

We journey through the Chakana, the Andean medicine wheel, as a living soul map. We begin in the South with the serpent’s path of soul retrieval, then move through each direction toward personal and collective prophecy.

This episode is an invocation for remembrance, a mirror for healing, and a sacred dialogue on the role of the feminine in anchoring the ancient future.

In this episode, we explore:

• What it means to decolonize the mind, body, and spiritual path.
• The South as the direction where we heal fragmentation, recover lost parts, and return to embodied wholeness.
• The Directions of West, North, and East as living energies to support us in reclaiming power, ancestry, and our role in the web of life in times of prophecy.
• The medicine woman not as martyr or fixer, but as an embodied catalyst.
• The Q’ero as timekeepers, carriers of prophecy, shamanic healers, and stewards of Earth’s energy field.
• Why healing is a spiral, not a straight line, and how to become the living altar for your own medicine

This is for the men and women remembering the soul gifts woven into their flesh and bone. For those who carry ancient codes, whispering to be lived, expressed, and embodied in service to a more whole humanity.

For those who came to walk with beauty, with raw devotion, and with truth.

Marilu Shinn: Kawak Peruvian Energy Medicine Website

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In this multidimensional conversation, founders of Light Meets Dark, Tara Tao and Maurice Harvey Hall return to the podcast for an impromptu, deep exploration of the often hidden patterns of dissociation, spiritual bypass, avoidance, and addictive patterns.

Together, they unpack how trauma lives in the body, how protector parts form to help us survive, and how these parts can create resistance to the very love, intimacy, truth, expression, creative life force we long to embody.

They explore how dissociation often emerges as an inherited response passed down through generations- shaped by un-transmuted ancestral memory, a colonial paradigm, multidimensional forces, and cultural conditioning.

Through the lens of Internal Family Systems, parts work, somatic-based healing, and transgenerational healing, this episode offers a grounded inquiry into what it truly means to feel safe enough to heal.

At its core, this is a conversation about how compassion, especially self-compassion, is the vehicle for transformation and the path that brings us back to ourselves.

Because healing is not just personal.

It is ancestral.

It is relational.

And it is deeply collective.

Light Meets Dark: Bali (August 24-31): www.lightmeetsdark.com

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What happens when your soul asks you to evolve a marriage into something entirely new?

In this deeply vulnerable episode of The Center of Destiny podcast, Tara Tao is joined by temple keeper, mother, and New Earth architect, Saige Esmaili of The Rosewater Temple—sharing her story publicly for the very first time.

Together, they explore:

• The sacred process of conscious uncoupling from an 11-year partnership
• The unexpected emergence of divine union with a mirror soul
• How to re-template family, motherhood, and community from a place of God-led truth
• The grief, courage, and devotion required to move beyond conditioning, false safety, and inherited virtue
• What it means to create a life of alignment—even when it asks everything of you

This episode is an offering to those standing at the edge of transition, where the familiar no longer fits and the future requires a deeper form of listening.

If you are navigating love, identity, family, or sacred thresholds, this transmission invites you into emotional maturity, spiritual integrity, and radical compassion as the foundation of a new paradigm of relating.

Connect with Saige on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saigeesmaili/

Saige's offerings & website: www.therosewatertemple.com

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