The Greatest Hits of a Nectarous, Divine Science✨

Happy Spring! 

In this episode of The Wild Temple Podcast, host Brooke Shannon Sullivan explores how Tantra, Yoga Therapy, Prana Vidya, Ayurveda, herbalism, and Kundalini come together as a holistic science to support desire as a generative force, dharmic living, and self‑mastery. Recorded on a Full Moon in Hasta Nakshatra, Brooke weaves in the symbolism of the hands (Anjali, food measurement, relationship with nourishment) as she turns toward a more practical, embodied question: How do we actually start the day in a way that aligns us with life force instead of resistance?

Brooke speaks candidly about the “first battle of resistance” in the morning—waking up and not doing the things we know would help us feel good. 

From there, Brooke opens the lens to Tantra as the overarching science that helped her integrate years of work in yoga, midwifery, and herbalism. 

A major theme is the integration of many passions into a coherent, prana‑led life. Speaking to listeners who feel “too multi‑passionate” or scattered, Brooke describes how working with prana helps highlight which callings are most alive and shows how they are meant to be woven together into a personal wheelhouse or niche. 

She underscores the need for proper nervous system preparation, incremental doses of energy work, and safe containers, and explains how Tantra Yoga Therapy uses mantra, specific pranayamas, sequencing (vinyasa krama), and a trauma‑aware lens to guide, channel, and assimilate big energies like Kundalini awakenings, strong pranayama, birth, accidents, and even entheogenic journeys.

Finally, Brooke introduces the two certification tracks within the Sage Apprenticeship:

1. Tantra Yoga & Dharmic Living – for personal mastery, health, mental calm, and empowered, spiritually aligned living (ideal for seekers and professionals who want to bring depth and integrity into their existing fields).
2. Tantra Yoga Therapy Teacher – a 500hr Yoga Alliance–registered path for those who want the skills and credentials to safely teach, guide, and hold others through prana‑centered, trauma‑aware yoga and Tantra.

Throughout the episode, Brooke emphasizes integrity, safety, and devotion to nature’s intelligence. She invites listeners who feel called—especially multi‑passionate, heart‑led seekers and wellness professionals—to explore the Sage Apprenticeship, stay connected via thewildtemple.com and on Instagram @thewildtemple, and to begin, even today, by claiming a pleasure‑filled, pranic anchor practice that lets them become “a little sun,” radiating their unique light into the world.

Get certified as a Tantra Yoga & Dharmic Living Mentor or Tantra Yoga Therapy Teacher (500hr RYT) through Yoga Alliance. Pranavidyā is our main subject this spring, and the key to yogic depth and self mastery. Join us *Now* for a deep dive study of prana, yoga, and tantra that bring you into the wisdom of Tantra Yoga Therapy. In this season we include Yoga Psychology, the Spirit of Nature and more! Visit www.thewildtemple.com/sage-apprenticeship  We begin April 9, 2026 ✨

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Transcript

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Alright, here's where we're going to get down and dirty. To put it bluntly, tantra yugotherapy, prana vidya, and holistic science is what I want to wrap it all up in. If you are a person who is really inspired by many things, you have many different talents or hobbies, and you just want to pull it all together, what I have found is people like you really benefit from understanding pranavidya, from understanding prana, which is life force energy, as a tool to weave and connect all of these inspirations and the things that you love together in a way that creates a holistic you. A wheelhouse of your own niche that if you were to ride that wheelhouse, that this is like you become a little sun, and your rays of light are shining light on everyone.

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Welcome. I'm Brooke Shannon Sullivan, founder of the global school, the Wild Temple School of Yoga and Herbal Wisdom, and the host of this Wild Temple podcast. Through shared inquiry with myself and guests, we explore embodied wisdom in the subtle realms with a focus this season on desire as a generative force, Shaktian motion, and its role in Dharmic living and conscious evolution. This space is for practical mystics, heart-led seekers, and wellness professionals drawn to the Vedic and Panthic sciences and in cultivating a deeper relationship with Mother Nature. New episodes arrive every new and full moon as we follow the wheel of time. And in the spirit of reciprocity, you're invited to follow this podcast, to leave a comment on the platform you're listening on, and to share with others. Thank you so much for being here at the Wild Temple and to stay connected. Please visit the WildTemple.com or we're on Instagram at the Wild Temple. Good morning, Wild Temple listeners. Thank you so much for being here. Happy Purnama, happy full moon in Hasta Nakshatra. This is the symbol of the hand in Jyotesh, and we can think of this as our anjali, our hands together in prayer, symbolizing the inner flame, the hands as measurement for our food, which when I first learned that from Bri Maya Tawari, thank you, Katie. I just love that you just posted this. Katie's Bhakti Rose over on Instagram. This was a game changer for me in my relationship with food. Our stomach is only as big as our palms of a cupped hand. That's the size of our tummies. Try not to eat more than that in any meal time, and you can notice drastic change. But anyway, that's not what I wanted to talk about. Happy Hasta Nakshatra, happy uh Purnima, this full moon time. And I wanted to start with how sometimes the first battle of resistance is actually the most easy to uh remedy. And this is when we wake up in the morning and we don't do the things that will actually set us up for a good day. And I just want to share with you that as a yoga practitioner now for more than 26 years, I have continuously found the that resistance to be the battle that I have to face. And I'm just like, it's not that I'm done with it. I'm just so laughingly aware of it, of in in kind of a snarky way of, oh, go mind. You still are lazy, you still don't want to do that thing that you know feels so good and would just change your life drastically. And that's first thing in the morning, hydrate and then move your body. And so what I'm finding right now is the ways that I want to move my body are heightenedly intelligent because I do know Vinyasakrama, this is the terminology for a wise progression of sequencing that actually help you towards self-mastery and self-realization. So instead of just kind of coming to the mat and having this idea of, or even coming to the mat, hey, let's just take that away, having this framework of I have to do it in this certain way, or it's not yoga needs to be unlearned. I think instead, is what will fill me with so much damn pleasure that it's a non-negotiable. And so now it's spring here in Asheville, North Carolina. I'm waking up, it's still dark, I hear bird song, I'm working with my senses, and my body is often stiff. I'm 50, my goodness. It's stiff, it's sluggish, my brain is a little slow, right, rightfully so. I'm still the shape of my bed. That's my continuous joke, is like I feel like whenever I get up off the furniture, whether it's a bed or a chair here at this age, I just like I'm in that same shape. So I had to slough off that density, like we all do, right? Or human. And if you have maybe the previous day, you've done a lot of maybe gardening, uh, a lot of efforting in either the mind or the body, then your sleep is deep, and then you're taking on the shape of your bed or your cushions or your pillows. So you when you wake up, it's this how am I gonna slough that off? It's tamas, right? How am I gonna shake off the tamas to start to feel more vital, more vibrant? And this is where I think the kundalini style of yoga is just has such a grab because you don't even have to think about it and you can start to go into these spinal twists and these kind of arching of the spines, and you're doing this breath work and you're just sloughing off the funk. But if you don't have that go-to, what can you create as a non-negotiable that still is leading you in through pleasure, that is helping to toss out the pre frameworks that can often feel very rigid, rigid and dogmatic and not helpful because we are constantly adapting. We are adapting to the day, our mood, the season, and to pleasure. I love to orient to pleasure. Okay, so with that said, let me just expound on something just a moment. This whole series is about, or this season is about desire. And I want to be clear that I don't mean the pleasure that will pull you out of your center. I mean the pleasure that actually becomes the home within the inner sanctum of your own well-being and vitality, the practices, the thought processes, the use of your senses, or the drawing in of your senses and not engaging in the world in a manner that fills you with so much goodness that you again are relaxed, carefree, you feel vital, energized, calm, peaceful, um, not hooked by others' dramas or the news. And it leads you into a sense of expansion. And this expansion is the nature of prana. So prana is life force energy, it is cosmic intelligence, it is divinity that is within you and all around you. And I do feel that this episode is going to be talking a little bit about prana, a little bit about tantra yoga therapy, and a little bit about kundalini, because these subjects are so crucial in the work that we're doing here at the Wild Temple, that it is important to me that I kind of lift a veil and give you some tools. So, very practically, then, going back to how do you begin your day, how can you move the resistance in a manner that aligns you into having a beautiful day, a fulfilling day. And then what you'll notice is that the more of these beautifully fulfilling days in sequence stack up, the more your life changes. You are no longer aging in kind of this crusty way, but you are gracefully aging. You're you're moving through the world in a graceful way that is pronic, that is aligned with the cosmic intelligence and life force. And you actually feel yourself getting younger, feeling more vibrant, feeling clearer. And one of the things that I know is that we can't necessarily stop the stressors of the world, they will still come. And this is why we have to make such a good case for how you start your day. And if you insert an anchor practice, that's what I want to get back to. If you insert an anchor that is something that you love, and perhaps that changes with the seasons, then that anchor, it being of a spiritual nature, of a potent nature of something that is sloughing off the couch body, the bed body, or something that is aligning you to, again, this cosmic intelligence where you become this vibrant force of nature, that creates a buffer for the stressors. That creates almost like a bubble, inner and outer bubble, where the padding between you and the world, or the padding of love and pleasure within you as you greet and meet the world, actually is of pleasure and peace, stability and wholeness. And this is what a spiritual practice does. This is what tantra yoga therapy is all about. And I do use these words tantra yoga therapy because it does feel therapeutic. We are coming into this world often a little bit under the weather, a little bit broken, a little bit with missing the pieces, we are not as vital, we have digestive issues, nervous system issues, sleep issues. We are designed to be working in fields that are spirit-led and devoted to wellness because we are needing to attenuate these issues. So if we are starting our day with the wellness in mind, with pleasure in mind, with the knowledge that these stressors will happen inevitably, then we can start to frame our how we start the day, our yoga to begin the day, our spiritual practice to begin the day. I mean, my goodness, give it your own name, your own little window that feels so cool. And let that be an anchor that moves you into the pleasure, that non-negotiable pleasure, that then you are dedicated, and that then moves through that resistance. So if you love mats, yoga mats, and that's the Pavlovian response of like, oh, when I put out my mat, it's like, oh, I just sigh out and I know this is me time, then please keep that mat. But I know for other people, just the smell of that plastic, just that kind of, I don't know, the non-natural feeling under your skin, it makes you feel like Patabi Joyce is right there with his whip and he's gonna say, you have to have an hour and a half of Ashtanga Yoga primary series right now. You have to do it to its completion and in this certain way, or it is not yoga that you're doing. That kind of rigid strictness can make a lot of people curl inside and their breath shorten and their contracting mind grip that pleasure right out of the scenario. So for you, you I would invite maybe it's a sheepy, you know, sheepskin rug, maybe it's just a rug, maybe it's just um sitting on the for some, it's sitting on the end of your bed or on pillows because you're so exhausted and you just need love and cushion all around you. For others, it's getting outside, grass under the feet, sitting by a tree, a little mossy area in the woods. Right. So this is what I mean, reframing, reframing the environment that will set you up for success. I know that's like a that's probably like a marketing language or some kind of mindset coaching language, but it's true, right? We want to set ourselves up for success. And if the resistance is our own mind, which it often is, what can we do to shift the little game that we're playing to make the morning experience really hold us? So my shift has been to lead with pleasure. And I do feel that this is just it is so delectable. I know that when I'm first moving my body, and I start with ca Himalayan cave exercises usually, but sometimes I actually want to move really slow. And I know that if I do just a step into a downward-facing dog and I'm moving from table to downward dog, that does a slothing. That actually inverts the guts so that the lymphatic system moves, and all of a sudden my my I can feel the backs of my legs, I can feel my arms grow strong coming in and out of table into downward dog. It's just doing this kind of peeling off of the skin of the old of yesterday, and it feels so good. So I think about that pleasure, right? And I move into that pleasure as I'm doing that. Other times it might just be sliding the hands down the backs of my legs as I'm standing in my kitchen, and I come down into this forward fold, and then I slide my hands back up and I do that in and out, or then I come down into a squat. And sometimes, again, I need to meet my slow with slow. This is how we often enter, even designing of a yoga practice. You want to meet yourself where you're at and then grow from there. So if I know I'm a little sluggish, I'm a little heavy, that is tamasic, that is a little more kappa, then I meet it with slow and heavy. This is part of yoga therapeutics. This is part of really working with your mind. And tantra is a practice to help expand and move you beyond the limitations and the restrictions of the mind to move you into the next best place, right? I also love power and dynamic movement. It feels so good. So I might just move into squats and I might do that while brushing my teeth, or I may do that in the kitchen again when I'm uh heating up my water for hydration, or it's when I get into my little studio, into my little yoga studio, which I finally have now. It's called the Twilight Studio, it's part of my house, and I just move in and out of squats. And what I'll do is maybe I'll just make myself do 20 of them as I listen to the birds and I'm feeling and I'm listening and I'm working with my senses, and I'm not even thinking about the effort that it's taking me to do these squats, and it just sloths things off even more quickly. My mind starts to feel more vital, my body feels more vital, I feel more energized. The next thing I know I'm stepping back into a triangle flow sequence, and boy, does that feel good because I love stretching my side body. I have a very short waist. So many of you listening maybe have very short waists, and when you do so, that um kind of stagnation builds up around the rib cage and the intercostal muscles, which are muscles in between the rib cage, get sticky, and so it can restrict your breathing, it can restrict prana and life force. This we don't want, we don't want that at all. We want life force to be very vibrant around our midsection because this is what's called samana vayu, and it governs our metabolization, and this also governs our vibrancy and our ability to release the dormant potentials from within us. So there's all of this science that goes about and supports what it is that we're doing, whether it's the squatting, whether it's the side stretching, whether it's the twisting. This is what we focus on in tantra yoga therapy. And as you can tell, it's not just yoga postures for aligning your posture, for example, musculoskeletally, it's the physiology, it's the energetics. And the energetics are what lead us to a better mindset, better emotional well-being, not feeling um shameful or just in this kind of lethargic woe because you know you gotta do this thing and you just not you're not doing that thing because you have all these other things to do, and so you kind of put yourself last like you're the good dessert, right? And you're just putting yourself way into the back end, and you know, that doesn't serve. So be be the be the one, be the dessert that you're eating before the meal and move the body and do it intelligently, and then you do it intelligently, then you can realize, oh my gosh, it's um it's accelerated. I didn't have to do this whole long thing. We call it the greatest hits. I just did this, you know, three-minute experience of a little tiny string of sequences that were so nectarous that, oh my gosh, my body feels alive, my mind feels good, now I can get some work done. And you know what? I'm gonna set the timer and I'm gonna pause an hour into my work or an hour and a half into my work, and I'm gonna do a little bit more. So your day then becomes this experience like a mala bead, right? We're just gonna bring these little beads together, these experiences, and then you wind up having this full mala of a beautiful experience. If that's how you need to unlearn your idea of yoga and having this hour and a half of being on the mat, instead, you're inserting these little moments of, oh, this feels so good. I'm just gonna throw myself in warrior and dip my knee down, and then rise up and dip it back down. And what does that do? It's firing up my quadricep, it's firing up my glutes because I've been sitting for an hour, and now I feel like, mm-hmm, delectable body. And you know what's gonna be good? Sex tonight, because I have woken up my whole pelvic floor, I have woken up my whole lower region of the body. So there are so many ways that we can just again slough off the resistance, move through pleasure to move us into moments within our day that set us up for success, but ultimately are tapping us into the life force intelligence within us that expand us into more pleasure and more health and eventually do lead us to self-realization. This is the goal of Tantra Yoga, Tantra Yoga Therapy and Dharmic Living. In my experience, Tantra as a science was the answer to everything. I had already been a practitioner of yoga, a student of herbs, also a student of midwifery. In our midwifery school, we often focused on life force energy. It makes sense with the power of birth, but this is the world behind the worlds. We call this the great intelligence of nature, or in yogic terminology, prana. And when I found Tantra, it was the overarching science that contained it all. And as I continued to study tantra, it unpacked the even deeper techniques and technologies of mantra. So mantra sadhana is working with sound, vibration, meditation, which there are many different ways of meditating. In tantra, you actually work with prana and the breath as a guide to lead you into the space between thoughts where you drop your mantra in. So it's a whole nother subject. Understanding the Mahavidyas, the Devis, that's another branch of Tantric science, kundalini, kundalini alchemy, kundalini awakening, another branch that is also in this whole tantric holistic science. And even the study of herbalism, where in Tantra it's called Oshadhi. And not just herbalism, but herbal energetics. And it's here in this study of this holistic science that I was able to really have this methodical language that made everything make sense. A huge puzzle was pulled together, all of the pieces formed. I could see it clearly, I could feel it, I could embody it. I lived it. I live it. It's always a growing experience, as you can hear from my recent share. So let's just go back to what I just shared with you. I want to land this and place this into context for you as to why I was sharing. So right now we're in spring. In spring, I find that my resistance is the movement of my body. In spring, we have an excess of water and earth, which in Doshic terminology is called kappa. So, in a in, you know, as is true for this time of year, my body is reflecting here in the northern hemisphere the bogged down heaviness of the accumulation of winter into this springtime season. And so me sharing with you what that looks like for me in everyday average householder life is that of resistance to moving my body first thing in the morning, even though I know that's what my body needs, so that I can get into life force. Because it's all truly about life force. And what is life force? What is life force energy? This is prana. And there are many ways that we look at prana in tantra yoga and tantra yoga therapy. Prana is also divinity. Prana is nature's intelligence. Prana is the gift of life. It's the essence, the subtle essence of our breath. It's that which animates us. And so the practices of tantra are actually to work with prana. This is where pranayama comes in. It's an expansion of this pranic field, or to be able to control or direct life force energy, inner and outer, working with nature's forces, becoming a natural force yourself for freedom and fulfillment in life, for self-realization, assimilation of experiences into what one would say is self-mastery. But we need techniques, we need practices that attune us to and aid in the expansion and the direction of life force energy, prana. And this is a science called prana vidya, which is also the heart of tantra. It is one of the aspects of what we study in the holistic science of tantra. And so to just go back to what I shared with you, I wanted to give you just a real-time moment. It's spring. I don't have the same resistances in spring as I do in the fall, as I do in the summer, as I do in the winter. So in the summer, I'm actually not as tamosic, not as copic. I'm way more pittic. I wake up and I don't have the struggle of moving my body. I'm already ready to move. Nature is like, move it, girl, shake your booty, shake your booty, do a little run, go for a swim, dance some Zumba, do the Himling Cave exercises. I don't have the resistance. The resistance more for me at that time are things that are uh, you know, getting out of my head a little bit and settling down more into stillness to sit to meditate. So right now, I just want to get up, sit, and meditate. But I know that I have to move the energy first, or my meditation will not be successful. And this is a tip in Tantra: you have to open the central channel, Shasumna, for you to actually drop in. When the central channel opens, then the mind quiets. Then you're in that force field of prana, where if you work with mantra, you can drop the mantra in. Or if you're just focusing on breath or the space between thoughts, the pleasurable sensations or feelings, you're working in inwardly to the different stages of consciousness in any kind of modality that you're choosing, if you're not preparing first by opening up that central channel, you will have a really challenging time. And I would say it won't be successful. Most of the time, it's just not successful. So, my anchor practice, and this is where inviting you to think what is your anchor practice? What is your non-negotiable throughout the year, all the seasons? Again, mine is meditation, it's mantra, chapa, meditation. But in order for me to get there in the springtime, I have to do body movement. I have to still hydrate. I have to do my body movement that starts to shake off the lethargy that attunes me to prana. And then I actually sit and I'll do pranayama. Other times of the year, my body is so open and lubricated and divine and just feels so yummy. I wake up out of bed, I am not the shape of my couch or my bed or my chair, you know. And I just do pranayama to then move me into that central channel, to then lead me towards the deeper states of consciousness that move me toward the different stages of samadhi. So essentially what I was sharing with you was my practical resistances and giving you little tastes of what it is that I do so you can start to see that there's a holistic approach to knowing and applying what it is that you're wanting and needing for health or for mental calm, or again for the more ambitious self-realization and self-mastery. That is attainable, right? And it is attainable in this lifetime. All right, here's where we're gonna get down and dirty. To put it bluntly, tantra yugotherapy, prana vidya, and holistic science is what I want to wrap it all up in. If you are a person who is really inspired by many things, you have many different talents or hobbies, and you just want to pull it all together, what I have found is people like you really benefit from understanding pranavidya, from understanding prana, which is again life force energy, as a tool to weave and connect all of these inspirations and the things that you love together in a way that creates a holistic you, a wheelhouse of your own niche, that if you were to ride that wheelhouse, you will be so joyful, happy, fulfilled, and the world will benefit from this because you are just stepping fully, wholeheartedly into you, that this is like you become a little sun, and your rays of light are shining light on everyone. And so having these passions, having so many passions, even distractedly having passions. And I know some of us women can really beat ourselves up with wish I could just stick to one thing, you know. My invitation is to do a practice to actually get into the prana and let that prana, that life force, start to guide you into which ones are most alive for you, and then how they connect to another one. So, for example, if you are a dancer and if you are also a healthcare practitioner like a nurse, you may find that by you dancing and making sure you do you dance three times a week and you're doing your your tantra yoga, so you're getting pranic, that this then starts to pour energy into your wellness practice, where you start to understand that the prana of the whole pelvic region is where her own abode is, the goddess's energy is. And by you unleashing her forces, you become more tuned to all of the things that lead you towards wellness, whether it's herbs, whether it's particular practices, whether it's doing kegels or mulabandha pulses. And these activities then, which are inspired by your dance, fueled by prana, pour over into your wellness practice in a manner that gives your wellness practice so much more depth, so much more capacity for you to be able to do your work with grace, efficiency, and not leaking your energy. So that's one example. There are thousands, more than thousands of examples. And this is what I do when I work with people in the Sage Apprenticeship. We all come with unique callings, we all come with very different desires. And when we practice tantra yoga in a manner that works for you, which means what do you want to pull out of the treasure chest? Are you a mantrini? You like mantra? Are you a pranini? You like working with practices that are more like breathwork and prana. Are you uh a yogi and you want to do asana and meditation? You know, there are all of these different techniques that you can pull out of that treasure chest. The goal of everyone is clear clarity of mind, more vitality in the body, and to help you with your own self-mastery. You do the practices meant for you, and then this then pours the prana into your hobbies and professions, that then the next stages, this deeper, deeper, the layer under the layer of the prana starts to weave it all together. You get the insights, the ahas of how to knit the fabric of your own carpet or tapestry, that then that magic ride occurs and you are living your niche, your wheelhouse, your mastery. So that's you know, the secret sauce in words of what I do with you in the sage apprenticeship at the Wild Temple School. And it may be hard to understand just by listening. You have to experience it. So I know for many of you, you have already studied with me in herbalism, say with Shakti school, or have taken yoga classes with me, little drop-ins, or maybe you're just here on the podcast, and you know there's something here, but you're like, oh, I do want to invite, I do want to get a little bit more. I do invite you into the Sage Apprenticeship. So it is a year-long experience where you work within the seasons to gather the tools that work for you to weave together your niche for your own self-mastery to live a life of freedom and fulfillment. And I know that that sounds like a big goal, but it's actually really possible. And it's stepping stones. And we do need guidance. We can't do these things alone when it comes to prana, when it comes to the power of uh the natural forces through the practices of tantra and yoga. It's actually unwise to not have a guide. And I'll just close by saying this: I did a few Instagram posts and had a few conversations. I keep having more and more people coming to me that are going to yoga classes and doing breath work practices. It's usually breathwork that leads to this, that were not held in a good container. The guides were not seasoned in actually proper pranayama and didn't formulate it to meet the people's needs who actually showed up. So we are not wired to all of a sudden have this huge influx of energy and then to go on our day, especially not when our days are under so much stress because of the news, because of climate change and just, you know, responsibilities. We have to have a method, a methodology to follow. We have to have our nervous systems prepared, and we have to actually bring this energy in in incremental doses. So what's happening is that people are getting huge movements of energy through their body, and it's creating, not for everyone, but for a good amount of people who come to me, feelings of madness, feelings of crazy, or the energy is just too much and they don't know what to do with it. And it can be off-putting, it can also be very disruptive, and on one end, uh very scary. On another end, it can be like mad rushes of pleasure, orgasmic pleasure, and rushes of energy that feel so good, but still it's just uncontained, it's too wild that it's hard to manage life. So there are practices that again we work with in Tantra. There is mantra, there is uh particular breath training again, there are ways to assimilate these energies and make sure that they're flowing in their proper channels. And this is also what we talk about in the Sage Apprenticeship. I teach you how to manage these kinds of energies, how to understand the nervous system, to properly prepare for bigger energies coming in, and to also, in your own practice, bring more energy in. So, my additional practice this morning that I didn't share is that I actually do a lot of pumping of the lower pelvic floor region in my squats, and that's really important to me because as we age, and especially if you've had a child, physically, you want to make sure there's never any prolapse down there. We can have three prolapses down there as women: pelvic, bladder, and uterus. And it's more common than you think. But energetically, when you already have a healthy pelvic floor, I have a very healthy pelvic floor. Energetically, we're stimulating the energy that helps to ensure that that lethargic, dormant kundalini is not asleep, but instead that aliveness of pranashakti is awake, is fluid, is moving within you. This is another level of working with life force energy. But you need to again be guided to get to this place where you could then work with those energies. And that is what we do. That's what we I educate people in. I bring in wonderful wisdom teachers. We educate all of the students in our Sage Apprenticeship to not only be able to master these techniques for themselves and to bring them into their life so that they can be these holistic weavers of a masterful life, but to also become educators, to be certified as teachers in Tantra Yoga Therapy and Dharmic Living. Well, okay, so I hope that you got a lot of nuggets out of this. I wanted to give a window into really the past few weeks and people reaching out to me from all areas of working with tantra, working with herbs, working with yoga, mantra meditation, and experiences of kundalini awakening. And I know the whole connective piece is prana. And I also know that the, I got my kidding in the background, the missing piece not taught in a lot of yoga trainings. And I do feel on one level, it's because there's a need to be able to be sensitive enough to tap into energy and feel energy, but on a very bigger level, and a realistic level, there are so many people already just coming into the world with an orientation towards energy that they just need a language for. And this is what prana vidya is about. So prana vidya is this missing teaching, it's the missing link of it all. It's what ties in nature into our yoga practices, into our vitality, into our masterful living. Understanding prana is where we can start to feel energy moving through our body or where it's stagnant, and start to understand when we're educated, and especially through the practices of yoga and meditation, how when big energies come through, like giving birth, being in a car accident, having a very strong pranayama experience, or even uh an ayahuasca experience, or some kind of entheogen, that we can feel this big energy moving through us and it takes on a life of its own. And so when you're educated, you can understand what to do with the nervous system when that happens, or to help someone else, how to minimize and integrate the energies so that it's not all consuming, which on one level can be really scary. On another level, it's very pleasurable, but still it's big energy, and it's kind of hard to go through your day when you're just having orgasms, or your body wants to be thrown into these positions, or you're just shaking spontaneously. And I want to name this because this is actually very normal. It's very normal, y'all. And these are the things that we were put away into institutions and you know, women were locked up called hysteric, hysteria, because of these big energies. And so when we have the education behind it, which is what Tantra Yoga Therapy is all about here at the Wild Temple within the Sage Apprenticeship, we're working with the tools of Tantra, Yoga, Ayurveda, and herbalism to give you the tools and techniques that you need for, again, safety and efficacy when these uh energies are either moving through us naturally or when we want to learn how to wake up these energies. So it's waking up the dormancy so that we have more courage, more capacity for life, more capacity for patience, which I know many of us need right now. And this is kundalini. This is kundalini alchemy, kundalini awakening. When it's awakened, it's called prana. So really the heart of it all is prana. And in the sage apprenticeship, I offer two certification tracks. One is for the person that just wants to master the teachings of yoga for their own personal use, whatever it might be. Maybe it's for self-realization, maybe it's for health and well-being and a calm and stable mind, maybe it's just to feel so damn empowered that you're like living a glowing life and successful in the world as equally as successful in your spiritual evolution. That would be the path of Tantra Yoga and Dharmic living. And that is what this training, this apprenticeship is for. If you need a guide, if you're looking for a teacher who has walked this path before you, who has a lot of skills and tools, who is ethical and of integrity, this is me, honestly. I hate to just like stroke my ego. I hope I'm not, but to give you it bluntly, this has been the work that I do. This is the work that I've done for 18 years, and I've refined it, and I have a lot of checks and balances and teachers and colleagues to ensure that I'm of integrity, because that's really important to me. And these practices are also, you know, they're big and they're beautiful and they're powerful. And so it's important that even I know when I can work with someone and when I cannot. And so I make sure I say no and I pass you to someone who can actually be a better fit, right? So that's what I mean by integrity. So the two paths are the one for just Tantra Yoga and Dharmic living, living in accordance with nature, living in alignment with nature. You get to learn all these therapeutics, you get to learn the techniques and the methodologies that are really what you want to bring into your life, whether it's for you or to share with your family, and you don't necessarily want to be a yoga teacher. Maybe you are already a coach, a wellness practitioner, a lawyer. You want to be bigger, better, uh, with more integrity, with more love out in the field. You you've been running in this world of masculinity, and you are super um aware that your femininity has been shoved under the rug and you are ready for her to come forward. I got you, boo. This is one of the things that we do. Or what evolves, it's balance, right? And it's divine feminine energy. The other track is actually as a Tantra Yoga Therapy teacher certified through the National Registry of Yoga Alliance. Now, not everyone wants this path, but so many people do, and I am so fullheartedly grateful when I get people that really want to know the nuts and bolts so that you can either teach in yoga studios, teach in your yoga communities, maybe it's even just working with women's shelters, working with clients one-on-one, creating your own retreats, and you want the credentials and the skill sets that a lot of the yoga, and I don't again mean this to stroke my own ego at all, it's what I've noticed and what a lot of people are noticing and often cannot name. Many of the yoga practitioners and teachers, instructors, and people who even claim to be gurus out there are not trained in the science of prana. They're not trained in or are not utilizing the right techniques at the right time for the right person to ensure their safety, specifically in regard to nervous system and trauma. Many people even claim, I have a someone I was talking with yesterday at the Ashwalioga studio, and this was um actually uh, you know, uh an employee there, and she was saying that so many people that even claim to be trauma informed are not. You know, and I don't want to create worry and anxiety. I'm trying to shine a light on where there is still ignorance and we need education, and so this is why that other track is so important to me. We do. Need educators in this field that have these missing pieces, that have the understanding of what's called vinyasakrama, the wise progression of sequencing that ensures safety. Tantra means to expand beyond your limits, protected. That is in baked in the root words of tan and tra. So if you're interested in studying with me, or if you just want to stay connected, please continue to listen to this podcast. If you want to join me and or you want to share this with someone who you know is a yoga teacher and they've been looking for depth, they've been looking for ways to really live their yoga in a masterful way and just need more or the right education that's fitting for them and to be held accountable as a practitioner, to let their practice teach them. Prana as teacher is truly the goal. And this is what you receive in this age apprenticeship. Your prana, prana as divinity, as mother nature as divine guidance. This is the divine science, becomes the teacher. And this is what we do at the Sage Apprenticeship. So you can go visit thewildemple.com. We have spring and fall enrollments. So we are now in the spring enrollment. And I would love to have you. If you have any questions, reach out and we can talk about it. Thanks so much for listening. So much love to you. Enjoy today.