Turn Up Your Light with Joya Sosnowski: Sound Medicine & Women's Spiritual Awakening
Every week, sound medicine woman and Doctor of Sacred Music Joya Sosnowski shares transmissions for the woman who knows — at some cellular level — that she is more than she has been living.
This is a podcast about women's spiritual awakening through the body. Not around it. Not despite it. Through it.
Joya teaches that your whole life — the loss, the collapse, the beautiful wreckage of becoming — is not an obstacle to your spiritual path. It is your spiritual path. And your body, from earth to crown, from Hara to Soul Star, is the sacred instrument that proves it.
Each episode is designed as transmission medicine — somatic, soulful, and grounded in 30 years of sound healing, mindfulness, and sacred feminine wisdom. You won't just think differently after listening. You'll feel differently.
Because the goal isn't information. It's restoration.
Restoration of what? Your access to your own knowing. Your intuition. Your expanded perception. The inner signal you've always received but were taught to doubt, override, and explain away.
This podcast exists so you can hear it clearly again — and trust what comes through.
Joya received her deepest teachings through the loss of her son Weston. She is a bridge between worlds, a frequency translator, and a woman who walks the path she teaches.
For the woman in spiritual transition — after loss, divorce, an identity that no longer fits. The one at 2am who cannot think her way out of what she's in and needs something to shift in her bones before the episode ends.
Stop seeking. Start being. Your life is the way. Turn Up Your Light.
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Turn Up Your Light with Joya Sosnowski: Sound Medicine & Women's Spiritual Awakening
The Future of Channeling is Direct Knowing - It's All ONE Thing.
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Channeling. Grief. Light upgrades. The Divine Mother. If those words pull something open in your chest, you’re in the right place. We’re sharing a deeply personal thread that starts with a simple question: what if “channeling” isn’t a separate being speaking at all, but direct knowing from wholeness landing in the body as truth? I talk about clear cognizance, felt experience, and the way guidance can arrive so plainly that the mind immediately tries to doubt it.
From there, we move into loss and love. I share how much I miss Weston’s physical presence, and the message that came through with unmistakable tenderness: “I haven’t gone anywhere. I’m right here.” That moment becomes a bridge into a bigger spiritual teaching: “it’s all one thing.” We explore the Divine Mother frequency and the Magdalene frequency as energies within a unified field, and I offer a bubble-wand metaphor for Source, creation, and why separation can feel real while still being an illusion. If you’ve been seeking spiritual awakening that stays embodied and honest, this will meet you there.
We also get practical about what happens after spiritual expansion. I describe the “pullback” that can follow a mystical opening, how the conditioned self can fight to survive through fear, habits, or sudden waves of grief, and why repeatedly asking “why is this happening” can lock the nervous system into the same painful loop. Then we do something you can feel immediately: the Mother’s Breath, a simple breathwork meditation that brings golden-white light into the high heart and releases pain into the arms of the Divine Mother.
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How Direct Knowing Arrives
SPEAKER_00Hello, beautiful lights and souls. I am Reverend Joya, and I am committed and devoted to the soul's light, to the soul stepping back into its wholeness and remembering its wholeness. I just listened to a podcast or YouTube channel that my friend sent me, and she said, You have to listen to this because you're gonna lose your mind. Because it was a conversation she and I just had. Because I have never called myself a channeler. I've never felt comfortable saying that because I don't have the experience of a separate being communicating to me and saying, I am so and so, and this is the message for you to share. But rather I just receive information. It lands on me directly, and it comes in two ways. The first is clear cognizance, where I just know something, I receive a packet of knowing. And then the second is that it lands on me as an experience, a felt experience. I will either get a felt experience of it or a metaphor of what it actually means. And so these are how I've always received channelings. And so I was talking to my friend about it, and I said, I don't consider myself a channeler, and I've never called myself a channeler.
When “Channeling” Becomes Wholeness
SPEAKER_00So lo and behold, she sent me this video from Alexander Quinn with a message from the Arcturians, and it said that channeling abilities are going to cease among humans, and rather they're going to reabsorb all these fractalizations back into the wholeness and receive direct channeling, direct information from wholeness, from source. And as I listened to this, I began to cry because once again, this is this is where I've always lived my life and have always felt so uncertain of myself. I doubted myself, I doubted my abilities because I doubted who I am. And so last week I shared a message on my Instagram because I was sitting outside and I was just feeling how much I missed Weston, his physical presence.
Grief, Presence, And Weston’s Message
SPEAKER_00When I received the message, I could feel his energy sidle up to me. And I received the message. I haven't gone anywhere. I'm right here. It's all one thing. And then as I was laying there looking at the palm trees and watching the light and the birds, and I felt this question arise in me because I've been feeling the energy lately of the Divine Mother frequency rather than the Magdalene frequency, which is much more fiery. Her energy is much more fiery, much more common sense, much more direct, very down to earth, very in the body, versus the divine mother's energy was very compassionate, very all-encompassing. She's very quiet. She just holds you and lets you have your experience. And so I said, I wonder why I'm feeling more of the divine mother's love and not so much of the Magdalene frequency anymore. And again, the message dropped in.
Divine Mother Vs Magdalene Frequency
SPEAKER_00It's all one thing. And then I got a metaphor for it. And it was this imagine, I wish I had some now. Imagine that you're holding a can of bubbles, a little can of bubbles. And you take the wand, you dip it in, you pull the wand out, and you've just dipped the wand now into source. You pull the wand out, and you're holding the source now. And the source requires now an aspect of itself to bring itself to life. So it is both the principle of the idea of the thought, but it now it needs an animating consciousness, an animating breath to bring it to life. And this is the feminine energy, the birthing energy of creation. And so you breathe into the bubble wand. And as you blow, the bubbles all appear out of the wand and they all float and they all scatter and they all appear to be as individual, separate entities. But and it's all one thing. I totally understood it through that metaphor. I got it. I was like, oh my gosh, it's all one thing. And now lately in my meditations, I've been flooded with this feeling of inner unity of it being, of everything being all one thing. It's all source, it's all interconnected. There is no such thing as separation, and that is the biggest illusion that humans live under, because we are in this separate bubble called us that thinks it's real, separate individual and not a part of a whole. And yet we are.
Holding Love While The World Sleeps
SPEAKER_00Learn to hold the frequency of love. For as you have learned, the higher planes are held in very coherent frequencies of light. There is no absence of the light in the higher realms. And so, beloved, you have been doing so much work on behalf of the collective, as many of us have. As you have overcome death and step into a frequency that is divine light, that frequency radiates from your field and into the field on behalf of the whole. For many are still asleep to the soul game and are only awake to the body game of survival, the survival of the richest. And this adds nothing to the growth of the soul. I know you feel you are behind or you are frustrated by all of the false light influencers. But my love, it's one thing to say a thing, and it's quite another to live it in your daily life, to let your light lead you through your very conscience, your inner guide. This is what is connected to the soul that when you live a moral and devotional life, you activate more life within you. Sweet soul, you have been given a complete system to do just this. And what is a system? It's a way, a methodology one adopts as a disciplined way to operate to achieve certain results. I want you now, beloved one, to be very honest about what you desire, what you would like, what would light you up beyond what the ego thinks that worldly success looks like. This is the frequency of light, of pure unconditional love, that which has so much compassion for sleeping souls on planet Earth that wants to awaken, arise, and live the soul's light and grow the capacity of the soul. For the end of the journey is not death. As Weston told you, death is really a beginning. The recycling of the soul in samsara must end. Awaken. That's only the beginning. What do you do after that? Live your light. How beautiful is that message. And I'm gonna be sharing these now because I used to call them Magdalene messages, but then I wasn't comfortable with that because it's a frequency, but I'm not hearing her. You know what I mean? And so I've always been like, well, what if it's just coming from my imagination? Or what if it's just coming from my unconscious as I go into automatic writing to do this process or sometimes speaking it? But I just want to share this message today because this is what's coming and this is what's happening. And so for a lot of us who are light workers who are direct source channels, direct source transmitters, that we don't transmit anything beyond the frequency of who we ourselves are, that as we do the inner work of turning up our light, we're turning up the light in the world. And so when I heard Alexander's message, that was just so confirming to me, so confirming, and I'm so grateful for that message.
Light Upgrades And The Pullback Cycle
SPEAKER_00When I was in Sedona last week, I experienced a tremendous light upgrade. I don't need to share the experience of it with you. It was very mystical, very powerful, very beautiful. And then I experienced the pullback. There's an expansion that happens, and I'm seeing that and seeing in my mind's eye a balloon. So imagine that there's this expansion that you blow up a balloon and the balloon is holding this capacity. But until the balloon is stabilized and tied off, that it hold that it is that volume that it's holding that capacity, it just exhales and it goes back to its original shape, except it's not quite its original shape, because now it's been stretched and it knows, it knows there's more capacity there. But your ego, your conditioned self will not want you to grow to that next level because that means that another part of you that thinks you're separate, that thinks that this identity is all there is, that this self that fears dying, this self that fears annihilation, this self will fight to cling. And it does it through all kinds of ways. All kinds of ways. And so for mine, mine this week, of course, it conjured up grief, massive grief, deep grief, almost like the beginning of my grief. It was that heavy. So much so I even had a meltdown at the grocery store when a song came on. And I was like, wow, here I am crying in the bean aisle. All these people are running from me. Boy, if you want to clear out a grocery store aisle, just start crying. People don't know how to handle grief. It's our grief phobic society, you know? And that's okay. I was able to pull myself together. But know that these pullback experiences happen. It's a retract. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's like breathing, right? We have everything in a rhythm. And so we need to know that as we're doing this expansive work to turn up our light in the world, that what is not our light inside of us is going to fight to stay alive. And it does it through causing us pain, through thoughts, through habits, through addictions, through feelings, through all kinds, through making you sick. It will do so many ways to make you stay right where you are. And so the way to go through that is just to go through it without a story. Allow yourself to feel the feelings as they arise without the story. I was gifted this morning a really profound and powerful practice for helping to release the fear, release the trauma, release the conditioned self, release the illusion of separation and have it dissolved in the oneness of the vast light of which we are truly a part of.
The Mother’s Breath Guided Practice
SPEAKER_00And so I'm going to teach you that practice right now. And I invite you to place your feet on the ground and just feel inside of your body. And notice your sit bones holding you up. Take a breath in. Bringing your awareness and your attention into your breath. Feel your lungs expand, your diaphragm expand.
SPEAKER_01And exhale, just a relaxed exhale.
SPEAKER_00And just continue breathing like this. But bring your awareness now into your high heart, into your thymus, into this beautiful area, and visualize a star in this space. Or a rose. And as you continue to breathe, feel and visualize golden white light all around you, going into the center as you breathe. And on the exhale, breathe out the conditioned self. You don't need to know what it is, you don't need to know the story, you don't need to know the why. Simply breathe in the light. And let that light on the inhale infuse every cell in your body. Feel the infusing happening to you inside of you. And exhale, and as you exhale now, exhale while simultaneously relaxing into the arms of the Divine Mother, who simply takes away all your pain, all your sorrow, all your suffering. She is the universal bodhisattva, the compassionate being with infinite love for humanity. So inhale and breathe in light. Let's just do a few rounds like that in silence together now. With what is called the mother's breath. And you inhale for seven, hold for one, exhale for seven, hold for one, inhale for seven, hold for one, exhale for seven, hold for one. And on each inhalation, you're breathing in the beautiful golden white light. On the hold at the top, you're feeling it infuse into every cell of your body. On the exhale, you are relaxing and releasing and surrendering all of your pain into the arms of the Divine Mother and her infinite love for you. And at the bottom, you just feel that love. You feel how held you are. And then you breathe again. I'm gonna set my timer, and let's do this for around three minutes.
SPEAKER_01Breathe in.
SPEAKER_02Breathe out.
unknownInhale.
SPEAKER_02Exhale.
SPEAKER_01Breathe in the light. Exhale into the mother's arms. Inhale the light. Exhale the surrender. Inhale the light. Exhale the surrender. Last round. Inhale. Exhale the surrender. Allow yourself to resume your normal breathing rhythm.
Stop Asking Why And Surrender
SPEAKER_00And just notice how you feel inside of yourself after that short, simple practice. That was three minutes of doing the mother's breath. It's all one thing. That's where all of this work leads to is to this unity with source, within us. We are not separate from it. And when we realize, when we feel, when we have this revelation that we are not separate from it, the illusion of separation begins to dissolve. And the last thing I want to say is that when you feel these experiences of pain, of grief, of suffering that arise within you, and this is our nervous system's capacity that it wants to create these the pain and the suffering. Because that's what it holds on to as its reality. And the more that we let go of that as the truth of our reality and we start to embrace the other, the truth of our reality, there is no other truth, the truth of our reality. It's important not to ask why you're going through what you're going through. Because then the mind, the body, and the ego will start manifesting and creating more experiences that are exactly the same so that you can have the experience of why. Why is this happening to me? Creates the experience happening to you so you can create the wonder of why it's happening to you. Does that make sense? Versus just this is happening. I witness my growth. I can love myself through it, and I can give up the illusion of it and surrender it to the arms of the loving mother, the feminine force of the divine source that takes all things and makes goodness out of all things in time, and can make good as goodness out of all things right now in an instant when we let go.
Sisterhood Invitation And Closing Blessing
SPEAKER_00If you want to dive into these concepts really deeply with practices, I invite you to join the Sisterhood. You can find the link at my website at joyasasnowski.com as well as booking a one-on-one healing session with me to activate your own inner remembrance of your wholeness. And I look forward to seeing you next week. Be blessed, be blessed, be light, and remember that you are the light of the world. See you next week. Bye. I appreciate it if you like and share and comment and send this to somebody who you think will benefit from this conversation. Thank you so, so, so much.