Body Wisdom Rising
Body Wisdom Rising is a podcast for people navigating deep change — awakenings, identity shifts, healing, and the sense that the old ways of living no longer work.
We’re living in a time of collective disillusionment and awakening. Many are being asked to slow down, feel more, and re-orient their lives — often without support from systems that were never designed for this kind of transformation.
This podcast offers a grounded way to make sense of these experiences by reconnecting to the body as teacher, the Earth as stabilizer, ancestral wisdom as context, and spiritual support rooted in lived experience.
I’m Alyssa Stefanson, Somatic and Ancestral Healing Guide, and host of Body Wisdom Rising. Each episode weaves together somatic healing, nervous system regulation, ancestral remembrance, and earth-based wisdom to support personal and collective healing.
We speak honestly about initiation, death-and-rebirth cycles, trauma, addiction, disconnection, and what becomes possible when familiar identities fall away and something deeper begins to emerge.
If you’re navigating change and looking for a grounded, embodied way to understand what’s happening — you’re in the right place.
Body Wisdom Rising — where remembering becomes medicine.
IG: @wildfemininerise
Episodes
71 episodes
The Three Spiritual Tests You Must Pass Right Before You Uplevel
Right before things finally open, life can feel like it is doing the exact opposite of what you asked for. That is not “bad luck” or the universe punishing you, it can be your psyche applying pressure to expose what still needs to be integrated...
A New 7 Year Cycle Has Begun— Uranus Enters Gemini
The pace is speeding up, and you can feel it in your mind, your body, and the collective field. Uranus has entered Gemini, kicking off a long, intense cycle of accelerated communication, rapid technological change, and truth moving faster than ...
The Threshold: Jung, Spiritual Emergency, and the Rising Feminine
We’re moving through a collective threshold where old identities fall away fast, and what looks like loss can be the start of real alignment. We name the cycles behind this moment and ground it in nervous system regulation, shadow work, and the...
Relationship Realignment: The Truth About Twin Flames, Soulmates, Karmics & Spiritual Illusions
We question the soulmate and twin flame labels that keep people stuck in longing, fantasy, and unhealthy attachment. We bring the focus back to nervous system wisdom, conscious partnership, and practical rituals that help us choose safety, self...
The Recalibration Phase: Why Your Life Reorganizes Itself Right Before A Major Upgrade
We feel a collective shift where more light brings more clarity and more shadow to integrate, and that can make life feel chaotic before it feels calm. I share what helps me move from forcing to trusting, especially when relationships, work, an...
The Prophecies of Our Time: Why 2025-2027 Is a Turning Point for Humanity
In this episode of Body Wisdom Rising, Alyssa Stefanson explores the deeper shifts happening both personally and collectively as humanity moves through a period many traditions describe as a turning point.Drawing from...
Walking the Eclipse Portal: 5 Ways to Work With the Shift
A Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse in Aquarius.A Virgo Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse.Neptune and Saturn meeting at 0° Aries.The Lunar New Year ushering in the Fire Horse.This is not random intensity. It is structural...
How A Near-Death Spiral Became A Spiritual Awakening And A Path To Service
Alyssa shares her story of recovery, healing, and coming back into the body — from early addiction and violence, through sobriety, somatic repair, and spiritual integration.She speaks openly about a teenage descent into substa...
Neptune in Aries: The Birth of a New Dream & the Call to the Spiritual Warrior
We explore Neptune’s move into Aries and why it marks a long shift from dreamy surrender to embodied action. We outline the light and shadow of the spiritual warrior, who feels this most, and how to act with courage without feeding chaos.
Spiritual Awakening Vs. Soul Initiation
The stories we tell about awakening often skip the hard parts. We’re sold fireworks and constant signs, then left alone when the ground drops out. This conversation offers a grounded map: why the first opening can feel destabilizing, how to mov...
Spiritual Discernment in a Time of Awakening & Great Change
Awakening doesn’t always feel expansive.Often, it feels disorienting — like heightened sensitivity without a clear center.In this episode, we explore spiritual discernment during times of awakening and transition. How t...
The Healing Power of Sound Frequencies and Sacred Landscapes with Gabriel Logan Braun
Sound you can feel changes how you heal. Alyssa sat down with sound healer and world musician Gabriel Logan Braun to explore Sonic Womb, a fully improvised journey that blends voice, handpan, Ngoni, didgeridoo, harmonium, crystal bowls, and liv...
Why the Winter Solstice Is the Most Powerful Manifestation Portal and How to Work with the 13 Sacred Nights
Darkness isn’t a void to outrun; it’s the womb of everything new. As the winter solstice brings the longest night, we explore how this pause in nature invites a profound reset of body, mind, and spirit. We trace the roots of solstice traditions...
Timeline Jumping: Collapse Old Timelines and Open Portals to New Ones
Transformation rarely fails for lack of effort; it stalls when our internal baseline stays the same. Alyssa takes you inside the real mechanics of a timeline shift—how identity, nervous system patterns, and ancestral loyalties quietly script yo...
The Death—Rebirth Portal And 2026: What This New Era Is Awakening
The ground just shifted beneath our feet, and for many of us 2025 made sure we felt it. We break down why the Snake Year felt like a ruthless audit—identity shedding, relationship endings, and long-buried lineage patterns rising—and how that cl...
The Serpent Year: Why 2025 Felt Like Death & What 2026 is Awakening
The year didn’t just test our limits—it stripped what no longer fit. Alyssa unpacks why 2025 felt like a relentless shedding and how those contractions signal a larger collective turn toward embodied, heart-led living. Through a raw story of co...
Spirit Speaks: Messages, Mediumship, and Ancestral Guidance —with Monique Gagnon
We share grounded tools to reconnect with intuition and ancestry through breath, nature, and simple ritual. Monique offers clear methods for protection, energy clearing, and discerning guidance from fear, plus how to work with symbols and the f...
Reclaiming Birth as Sacred Ceremony With Demi Betschart
Demi, founder of Somatic Rebirthing, shares her journey as a midwife and guide who helps people reconnect with the stories their bodies hold, while discussing her own conscious pregnancy journey in Costa Rica. She illuminates how birth is not m...
Trusting the Void: Illness, Identity Collapse & Awakening With Alana Joy Newton
Alana Joy Newton shares her transformational journey from physical disconnection to soul remembrance, revealing how a rare genetic diagnosis became the catalyst for her spiritual awakening. Through deeply personal stories, she illuminates the p...
Healing at the Root: Transforming Patterns into Purpose with Jakob Gricar
Jakob guides business leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to overcome burnout and find alignment by working at the root cause of unhealthy patterns through ontological coaching, somatics, and various modalities.• Jakob’s healing jou...
The New Human Approach: Dr. Kevin Preston on Heart-Centered Healing and Transformative Events
Dr. Kevin Preston shares his heart-centered approach to healing that recognizes we are complex beings with physical, spiritual, emotional, and energetic dimensions. His New Human events create powerful community spaces where people experience p...
You Are The Medicine: Catalyzing Your Awakening With Dr. Jesse Hanson
Transformative healing unfolds through authentic experiences and profound self-discovery. This conversation with Dr. Jesse Hanson demonstrates the power within all of us to awaken our true selves. - Introduction to Dr. Jesse Hanson...
From Anxiety to Empowerment: Casey Riley's Breathwork Path
After losing her job, Casey Riley, a dedicated somatic breathwork practitioner from Phoenix, Arizona, found herself unexpectedly pulled into a world that would transform her life. Casey's journey into breathwork began with uncertainty but quick...
Rituals and the Power of Ancestral Connection
Unlock the secrets of ancestral healing and transform your life by understanding how intergenerational trauma shapes our present challenges. What if over half of your struggles are rooted in the experiences of your ancestors? Today, we delve in...
The Healer’s Circle Series: Energy Healing, Cord Cutting and Spiritual Awakenings With Sarah Irwin
Sarah Irwin is a gifted medical intuitive, blending a lifetime of deep intuitive insight with over a decade of nursing experience. This unique combination of skills enhances her ability to perceive and address underlying health issues, guiding ...