Streaming from a Himalayan Institute campus in India, this intimate “Kitchen Talk” episode of The Wild Temple Podcast unfolds in the midst of a rare six-month Himalayan practice known as Maha Riga, a devotional immersion of daily mantra, meditation, and fire ceremonies devoted to tending the subtle forces of nature and refining what is nonessential.

From this sacred container of retreat and rhythm, Brooke gathers around the "kitchen table" with fellow practitioners including ER physician Dr. Adwaita from Guyana/Toronto, animator Hannah from Florida/LA, and yoga teacher Kia Miller for an unscripted, heart-led conversation on living tantra in real time.

Together they explore what it means to bring spiritual knowledge out of philosophy and into lived experience. Themes of ahimsa, humility, surrender, ego, and discernment weave through reflections on relationship, healing, and the courage to feel deeply. Strong emotions like anger are reframed as shakti, or intelligent life force, while trauma is approached not as identity, but as something to meet with elemental gentleness and embodied awareness.

This episode is both grounded and mystical and a reminder that awakening happens not only in ceremony, but in kitchens, conversations, and the quiet daily pauses where we soften, listen, and let ourselves be reshaped.

The temple is not elsewhere. It is here in practice, in presence, in the pulse of being alive.

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What if desire is not something to discipline or deny, but a living force asking to be felt?

In this intimate conversation with Somatic Sexologist, Nadine Hamilton, we explore desire as Shakti, the sacred current of life moving through body, creativity, longing, and love. Rather than something shameful or indulgent, desire reveals itself as an intelligent guide, pointing us toward wholeness, truth, and deeper embodiment.

Listen in as we unravel the cultural conditioning that has cast desire, especially feminine desire, into shadow. We look at how shame fragments us, how suppression distorts our vitality, and how reclaiming desire becomes a path of healing. Through breath, movement, reflection, and embodied practice, desire shifts from something we grasp at to something we listen to, a teacher, a threshold, a return to self.

This is an invitation to stop negotiating with your longing and begin honoring it. To let desire move through you without apology. To remember that the ache you feel may not be a problem to solve, but a sacred signal guiding you home.

Desire is not the obstacle. It is the doorway.

Connect with Nadine Hamilton:

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/iamnadinehamilton/

Website: https://www.bloomwithnadine.com/

Sage Apprenticeship early tuition is now open. Step into Tantra Yoga as your North Star—an embodied path of self-mastery, clarity, and lived wisdom beyond the mat. www.thewildtemple.com

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What if desire is not a temptation to overcome, but a sacred current guiding us back to the divine?

In this luminous conversation, Brooke Sullivan sits down with Ekabhumi to talk about the mystery of desire as an ancient, erotic intelligence that moves through all of life. Together, they explore desire not as a flaw of the human condition, but as a holy force, one that animates creation, fuels awakening, and invites us into deeper intimacy with reality itself.

Woven through reflections on sacred art, spiritual traditions, and the living wisdom of nature, this episode reveals desire as a threshold: a place where matter and spirit meet. Sexuality becomes only one expression of a far older cosmic eros, the pulse that moves through trees, breath, imagination, and the ache to know and be known. Sacred art emerges as a devotional practice, a way of remembering our orientation in the world and making contact with the unseen.

Through beauty, symbol, and imagination, we touch a deeper order of meaning, one that invites reverence, creativity, and surrender to the mystery of being alive. This is a conversation for those who sense that enlightenment does not arrive through denial, but through devotion - to the body, to beauty, to desire itself. An invitation to step into the erotic, sacred unfolding of reality and rest in the delight of awareness.

Desire brought you here—let it guide you further. Subscribe and stay in the current.

Sage Apprenticeship early tuition is now open. Step into Tantra Yoga as your North Star—an embodied path of self-mastery, clarity, and lived wisdom beyond the mat. www.thewildtemple.com

When you sign up for our newsletter at www.thewildtemple.com you will receive seasonal recipes, herbal inspiration, and first access to our upcoming events, retreats, and special teachings.

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Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School