The Wild Within
Welcome to the Wild Within, a podcast exploring personal and collective transformation and how to live a fully awakened life while activating your purpose, potential, and greatest expression in the world.
Through conversations on mindset and mysticism, holistic psychology, shamanic healing, and the nature of consciousness and reality, we will explore what it means to "wake up" in a world that's quickly shifting around us, and how to navigate your own evolving Self in these times.
I’m your host Kristen Yates, and I believe we’re moving through a consciousness shift on the planet that’s calling upon us all to wake up our inner power and reconnect to our truth and true nature within.
My intention with this podcast is to share ideas and energy from fellow healers and thought leaders in the consciousness movement, and plant seeds of inspiration to co-create the new Earth we all know deep down is possible.
Episodes
33 episodes
Walking the Path of Yoga and Soulpreneurship with Hilary Atalina
Ep. 12: Today, I am sitting down with yoga teacher and teacher trainer Hilary Atalina for an illuminating and expansive conversation on the true path of yoga. Yoga has been a cornerstone personally for me on my spiritual path, the f...
5 Pathways to Clarity When You’re Stuck at a Crossroads
Ep. 11: In this solo show, I'm sharing with you a somatic and soul-led approach to gaining clarity when it's most needed. We explore:The nature of life's crossroads (hint: moments of feeling stuck are actual...
Using Human Design to Understand Your Energy Blueprint w/ Astrid Heystee
Episode 10: Today, we are exploring Human Design - a system of self-understanding and energetic mastery that, if you are a fellow deep diver into personal development and self-actualization, you absolutely MUST include in your toolkit! F...
An Embodied Reflection & Visioning Process for 2026 - Year of the Fire Horse 🔥
Ep 9: As the New Year approaches, many of us are contemplating what intentions we're holding and what we're ready to release from the year past. Personally, I am a BIG fan of reflection and visioning, and would love to share with you about the ...
What I Learned About Horse Spirit Medicine from a Month in Baja Sur, Mexico
Ep 8: Today, I'm sharing with you a bit of a personal story about a month I recently spent living on a rescue ranch in Baja Sur, Mexico immersing with horses, donkeys, the magical Baja desert, and more lessons than I expected to receive....
Shedding Skins in the Year of the Snake: Soul Tools for Release and Completion
Ep 7: I am recording this episode as a soul-stream from the desert of Baja, reflecting on the endings, completions, and releases that I've been experiencing this year and that so many of us are moving through right now. As we step into the stil...
Self-Expression is our Medicine: Liberating Yourself Through Creativity w/ Kaleigh Smith
Ep 6: Today, I am joined by my dear friend and sister Kaleigh Smith for a rich conversation on creative liberation, retreats (...journeys!), and the healing power of our authentic expression - especially as women on a journey to reclaim our sov...
Unravel Your Purpose & Discover Your Dharma
Ep. 5: Today we'll be exploring one of my favorite topics and one that has many facets (of which we will cover a few): our Purpose and Dharma. A few themes we explore in this episode:Why is purpose disc...
A Personal Update + My 5 Greatest Lessons and Teachers From Peru
Ep. 4: Today, I'm returning from the podcast void (!!) with a personal update from Peru, along with some of the top lessons life has been delivering here - and some of my greatest teachers in my five years living in the Sacred Valley. ...
Soul Initiation & Remembering our Innate Power w/ Maitreya Wolf
Ep. 2: In this episode, I share a rich conversation with Maitreya Wolf, a soul evolution mentor, tarot reader, and musician whose life and work are devoted to the spiritual power of Beauty, living the path of soul, and the wild earth. <...
The Art of Shadow Integration
Shadow Integration is a vital tool for integrating all aspects of ourselves in order to live with more vitality, wholeness, and self-awareness. In this solo show, we will explore:What shadow work is, and how our shadow ...
The Wild Within - Season 2 Intro
Welcome back to the podcast! It's been a 3-year evolutionary hiatus for The Wild Within, but it feels amazing to be back, ready to explore what is emerging at this point in time, sharing tools for elevating our consciousness and diving deeply i...
Deconstructing Your Personality to Discover The Real You
Ep . 25: In this solo episode, we explore the idea of our ego and personality as a "construct" that we have the power to shift in any given moment, and I share some tools for making real changes in your life.We explore:
Integration, Intuition, and (Beating) Imposter Syndrome
Ep. 24: In this solo episode, I dive into "3 I's" that have been on my mind lately: integration, intuition, and (beating) imposter syndrome. What integration is, and why it's so important to build into our lives after i...
How Radical Self-Honesty Can Change Your Life
Ep. 23: In this episode, we explore how facing ourselves fully with radical-self honesty can be the key to changing our habits, fulfilling our potential, and creating lasting change in our lives. We get into: ...
What It Means to Walk Your Unique Spiritual Path
Ep. 22: What does it mean to walk a spiritual path? What does this mean for you? And how can spiritual practices help you move closer to your most authentic self and true nature? This episode dives into basically my favorite topic ever ...
Personal Update: Navigating "Dark Nights", The Energy of Places, and the Art of the Pivot
Ep. 21: I wanted to share a bit of a personal update, as my past few months have been chock full of challenges, lessons, magic, darkness... and everything in between. On this solo episode, I dive into my own personal "dark night" (...
The Power of Embodiment and Sensuality w/ Nadia Munla
Ep. 20 - Today I'm sitting down with Nadia Munla, women's embodiment and intimacy coach, to discuss all things embodiment, sensuality, surrender, and feminine spirituality. We all know the importance of "slowing down" – but in a society designe...
Six Tools to Uncover Your True Self
Ep. 18: In this solo show, I share some of the powerful tools I use with my clients and in my programs to help uncover and activate your True Self – and all of the purpose, power, and potential within you. In this episode we dive i...
Discovering Your Personality Type Through the MBTI w/ Heidi Priebe
Ep. 17: Today's episode is all about unpacking your personality through the lens of the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI.) Heidi is a personality psychologist, coach, and writer who helps people leverage personality psychology as a tool for s...
Who is Our True Self? Behind the Scenes of My Journey
Ep. 16: In this solo jam session, I'm coming to you from my childhood bedroom (literally!) to dive into some of the questions we can ask to understand more about our True Selves. We'll get into: Looking at the subc...
Courageously Questing for Ease in Turbulent Times w/ Krystal Brandt
Ep. 15: Today's episode is all about reframing our notion that "hustle and struggle equals success" – and opening up to allow the ease and abundance that is our birthright. I sit down with Krystal Brandt an Ease Mentor and Int...
Shamanic Tantra as a Path to Inner Liberation (Our ISTA Experience) w/ Kacper Postawski
Ep. 13: Today's episode is a peek behind the scenes at my experience with ISTA – the International School of Temple Arts – immersing in a weeklong Shamanic Tantra and Sacred Sexuality training. I recorded this with Kacper, a soul brother I met ...