This episode is a reshare of my conversation with Rachael Spyker from her podcast Deconstruction titled Conscious Festivalling: Healing in the Psychedelic Playground. We explore these vibrant gatherings where music, movement, ceremony, and community weave together to create powerful containers for transformation. These aren’t just parties; they’re modern-day rituals that reconnect us with our inner truth, the Earth, and each other. From ecstatic dance to sacred sound, conscious festivals offer a unique space to explore expanded states of awareness, deepen spiritual practice, and remember what it means to live in alignment with the soul. Let’s explore why these gatherings are so much more than events — they’re medicine. Rachael is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in Kelowna, BC, Canada, with a passion for holistic healing and trauma-informed therapeutic modalities, including psychedelic somatic therapy, IFS and EMDR. She is committed to harnessing the therapeutic potential of medicines such as ketamine, cannabis, psilocybin, and MDMA to facilitate profound transformation and healing. As a facilitator, she leads women's retreats, group ceremonies, workshops, and events, providing nurturing spaces for individuals to explore and heal. She is also the host of the Deconstruction Podcast, where she engages in meaningful conversations around personal growth, spirituality, and the journey towards wholeness. Learn more: Alchemy Counselling and Rachael ++++++++ marisaradhaweppner.com Join my Patreon IG @marisaradhaweppner *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes and Spotify. It helps me to get the guests you want to hear.

This episode is a reshare of my conversation with Rachael Spyker from her podcast Deconstruction titled The Commodification of the Sacred: Psychedelics, Activism and Feminine Reclamation. We recorded this in mid-March 2025. It was powerful and deeply insightful for me to share this time with Rachael and I hope you will enjoy as well! Rachael is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in Kelowna, BC, Canada, with a passion for holistic healing and trauma-informed therapeutic modalities, including psychedelic somatic therapy, IFS and EMDR. She is committed to harnessing the therapeutic potential of medicines such as ketamine, cannabis, psilocybin, and MDMA to facilitate profound transformation and healing. As a facilitator, she leads women's retreats, group ceremonies, workshops, and events, providing nurturing spaces for individuals to explore and heal. She is also the host of the Deconstruction Podcast, where she engages in meaningful conversations around personal growth, spirituality, and the journey towards wholeness.   Episode Commentary: The Architecture of Programming MeidasTouch Podcast Learn more: Alchemy Counselling and Rachael   ++++++++ marisaradhaweppner.com Guidance Meditation Album IG @marisaradhaweppner *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes and Spotify. It helps me to get the guests you want to hear.

Strengthen Your Light to Sustain the Fight! As we actively resist what is happening in the US government right now, it is more important than ever to engage in practices that help you reconnect to your center and the powerful light with in. Through this stabilizing and enhancing of your inner light are you able to more clearly discern truth from lies, hold strong in the face of tyranny and intimidation and have the courage to not back down while protecting the vulnerable.   marisaradhaweppner.com Guidance Meditation Album IG @marisaradhaweppner *****Please rate and follow Love Service Wisdom on iTunes and Spotify. It helps me to get the guests you want to hear.

Shelby Hartman is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Double-Blind, a media company at the forefront of the psychedelic movement. She worked in broadcast news production for CBS News, covering presidential elections, protests, natural disasters, and other breaking news. Spurred by a passion for print, she transitioned to magazine writing, working as an editor and receiving her master’s degree in long-form journalism from Columbia University. She has extensively covered traumatic stress disorder in the veteran community, the cannabis industry, the psychedelic research boom, and the popularization of ayahuasca.   Double Blind Mag IG: @shelbyannehart Twitter: @shelbyannehart ++++++++ MarisaRadha.com Guidance Meditation Album IG @marisaradhaweppner *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes and Spotify. It helps me to get the guests you want to hear.

Bruce Tallman has been in private practice as a full-time spiritual director for the past twenty years (since 2002). He works mainly with clergy from every Christian denomination. He also works with laity and with people who are agnostic, atheist or “spiritual but not religious.” He has published two books for professional spiritual directors: Archetypes for Spiritual Direction: Discovering the Heroes Within (Paulist Press, 2005) and Finding Seekers: How to Develop a spiritual Direction Practice from Beginning to Full-Time Employment which is a bestseller in the field of spiritual direction. He has also published two books for the general public: A Thousand Spiritual Lessons: Wisdom and Peace for the Over-Busy, Over-Informed, Over-Worked and Over-Whelmed (an ebook from Kindle Direct Publishing 2021) and God’s Ecstatic Love: Transform Your Life with a Spiritual Masterpiece (Apocryphile Press, 2021). God’s Ecstatic Love is a 21st century commentary on St. Francis de Sales’ 1616 spiritual classic Treatise on the Love of God. The goal of the book is to teach people the most important life-skill of all: how to love God/be a contemplative mystic. From 1988 to 2002 Bruce was the director of two adult religious education centers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of London, Ontario, Canada. As part of that ministry, he helped couples prepare for marriage and continues to do so. Since 1988 to the present, he has facilitated marriage preparation courses with almost 4000 couples. Bruce has a Doctor of Ministry degree in Spiritual Direction from the Graduate Theological Foundation and hundreds of his articles on spirituality, theology, ethics and religion have been published. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Haden Institute for Spiritual Directors Training and is on the board of “Christian Spiritual Directors” (formerly known as the “Canadian Fellowship of Christian Spiritual Directors”). He and his wife Grace, a crisis mental health counselor, live in London, Ontario, Canada and have three adult children: Hailey (art therapist), Brandon (landscaper) and Alana (lab scientist).  www.brucetallman.com/books www.brucetallman.blog ++++++++ MarisaRadha.com Guidance Meditation Album IG @marisaradhaweppner *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear.   

Jeff is an Emmy Award-winning actor currently recurring on the shows Big Sky and NCIS: LA and General Hospital. Other acting work includes Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace, Sully, directed by Clint Eastwood, and many credits over his years in the business. Jeff has been a teacher of Vedic Meditation since 2007, working from his home in Studio City and elsewhere around the globe. He has recently published his book, Embracing Bliss (availableat fine online bookstores everywhere), as well as a companion to the book, Embracing Bliss Podcast with Jeff Kober. In his spare time, Jeff makes tintype photographs using the 19 th Century wet plate collodion process.   jeff-kober.com EMBRACING BLISS: 108 Daily Meditations Embracing Bliss podcast Instagram/linktree IG @jeffkobermeditation   ++++++++ MarisaRadha.com Guidance Meditation Album IG @marisaradhaweppner *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear. 

In his new book, The Synchronicity of Love, John shares his extraordinary stories of what happened when while at rock bottom, he threw himself into Unconditional Love with sincerity and earnestness. His stories about his journey inspire, uplift, heal, shock, awaken and transform. They contain the seeds of potential to change habits, beliefs and one’s deepest assumptions about what is possible and have the power to radically transform anyone’s life. Today, John David Latta is a mystic, author, teacher, and former founder and CEO of a multimillion-dollar consumer products company. He shares intimate and personal stories and teaches workshops on leadership, healing, transformation, awakening, love, synchronicity, and wisdom that unite and expand human experience. He lives with his wife, Wendy, in Redmond, Washington.  johndavidlatta.com IG: @johndavidlatta ++++++++ MarisaRadha.com Guidance Meditation Album IG @marisaradhaweppner *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear. 

Meditation can be easier than you realize. In my latest episode of Love, Service, Wisdom I share with you my tips, tricks and understandings that can help make the art of concentration accessible to you too 😌.⁠Despite your mind's busy chatter, which we *all* have, let me assure you that you are not 'bad' at meditation. It just takes practice, like when you are building any muscle. Returning again and again to the object of your focus, whether your breath, sensations, a mantra, an image or activity *is* meditation. And the more you do it the easier it becomes, slowly over time. A few minutes is more than zero and the skill will builds with consistency.⁠⁠And guess what?! Meditation doesn't have to be sitting quietly in a cave with your eyes closed. It can be dance, cooking, surfing, running, yoga, art, playing, reading, listening - literally anything that creates a singular point of focus for your attention. It can be what you most enjoy 🧩💏 🏄‍♀️⛷️🎮⁠   MarisaRadha.com Guidance Meditation Album IG @marisaradhaweppner *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear.   https://marisaradhaweppner.hearnow.com/

Divneet Kaur Lall is an author, speaker, and consciousness expert. She is the discoverer of the Law of Unification which empowers people to create new creations for the world and conscious life of purpose. She is an integrative thinker who forgathered diverse components of research using her visionary perspective to devise the formula of creation to unlock our highest potential. Divneet helps individuals to master innovation, mental clarity, and self-knowledge for personal & social transformations. She inspires them to think in creative, innovative, and radical ways to develop new solutions. She is dedicated to supporting individuals and leaders in accelerating their journey to fulfillment.   divneetkaurlall.com Mastering the Law of Unification book  IG: divneetkaurlall ++++++++ MarisaRadha.com Guidance Meditation Album IG @marisaradhaweppner *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear. 

Millana Snow is a leading voice in wellness, in the US and abroad. She is a trusted source for wellness expertise and resources to a diverse global community of clients, followers, brands, celebrities, corporate companies and even members of the royal family. As a woman of color with Afro-Latina/Panamanian, mid-western and British roots she speaks to an audience as diverse as her background. As a former model, turned wellness entrepreneur and healer she has carved out a unique and modern path for her mission of deep healing and connection for everyone, everywhere. Millana has spoken at NYU, Syracuse University, Summit LA, PopSugar PlayGround, BlogHer Heath, Soho House (NY, LA, London, Barcelona) just to name a few. She has had brand partnerships and campaigns with Nike, Lululemon, YSL, Covergirl, and Toyota. Based in LA, Millana is also the model winner of Project Runway and the winner of the “Best Travel + Adventure Show” Webby Award. MillanaSnow.com Wellness Official https://wellnessofficial.com/ IG @MillanaSnow ++++++++ MarisaRadha.com Guidance Meditation Album IG @marisaradhaweppner *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear.   

We are never shy about exploring all the things...trauma, learning, healing, touring, dogs, performing, nervousness, conundrums, transformation, and more!  Listen for an uncensored conversation between two heady but loving partners. East Forest always helps me gain a little perspective!     MarisaRadha.com Guidance Meditation Album IG: @marisaradhaweppner *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear.  ++++++++ Stay in the East Forest flow: Mothership:  http://eastforest.org/ IG:  https://www.instagram.com/eastforest/ FB:  https://www.facebook.com/EastForestMusic/

Melanie “Mel” Salvatore-August is a former comedy writer, veteran yoga/meditation teacher trainer, Reiki Master, mama of three and author of Fierce Kindness, Be a Positive Force For Change; Kitchen Yoga: Simple HomePractices to Transform Mind, Body & Life and the 2021 release Yoga to Support Immunity: A Mind Body Breathing Guide to Whole Health (Mango Publishing) Born in Pittsburgh PA of an Italian-American family. Her voice is warm, inclusive, practical and filled with joy for life. With her early years as a classically trained actor, comedy/theatre writer-producer and teacher, she creates offerings that cultivate joy, personal growth and freedom elevating everyday challenges, humor and spirit into one. She is the founder of the Fierce Kindness Organization, MelWell Classroom and can join Mel daily on the acclaimed YogaWorks-at-Home platform. learn more at melaniesalvatoreaugust.com. www.melaniesalvatoreaugust.com Yoga to Support Immunity ++++++++ MarisaRadha.com *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear. 

Rainbow Eric returns to LSW to share his latest batch of insights for the healing the we need most *right now*. It's been a doozy since March 2020 and no one can escape the pervasive experience of highly charged polarization. It's everywhere, in some for or another it seems like you either are____ or aren't____.  What are the dangers of othering and how can we shift from a perspective of separation through calming the nervous system and healing through the body?   Join Rainbow Eric and Marcy Midnight for their weekend immersion 'Yoga and Social Sensemaking' Sept 17 -19 to dive deeper!  RainbowEric.com ++++ MarisaRadha.com   *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear. 

East Forest gets into the granular about his new album ‘Possible.’ The philosophy, inspiration, techniques, behind the scenes, and trials and tribulations are discussed.   New Music from East Forest! -"Possible" - the latest album  from East Forest - LISTEN ON YOUR FAVORITE STREAMING PLATFORM: Spotify / Apple Order the album on vinyl - limited edition + check out the new Possible clothing: http://eastforest.org   MarisaRadha.com   *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear. 

Mary, a therapist herself, shares her story of healing personal trauma and finding self-love through Ketamine-Assisted Therapy. In this podcast we do talk about sexual abuse and trauma, which some listeners might find distressing. If you or someone you know is in need of immediate support here are some free 24/7 resources: National Sexual Assault Hotline: 800-656-HOPE Crisis Textline: Text CONNECT to 741741  KETAMINE THERAPY   MarisaRadha.com   *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear. 

Sitaram Dass spent several years serving his beloved teacher Ram Dass on Maui, where he was shown the path of Bhakti, the yoga of service and devotion to God. Through writings, music, teachings, workshops, and one-on-one counseling, he works to strengthen our sense of the Timeless Sacred in today’s modern and fast-paced world. His new book, From and for God, is available now at all online retailers.  The author donates 100% of his profits to Hanuman Maui, a 501(c)3 nonprofit continuing Ram Dass’s presence on Maui. Hanuman Maui upholds his teachings of love, service and devotion through the Loving Awareness Sanctuary, and they are in the process of building a new Hanuman Mandir.  Half of those proceeds are specifically designated for Kripa’s service projects through the Sacred Community Project, a program under the direct fiscal sponsorship of Hanuman Maui. Kripa works to lower the barriers of access to contemplative and devotional practices through affordable, free, and donation-based offerings, spiritual support, and prison outreach.    https://sitaramdass.com https://kripa.guru https://www.hanumanmaui.org/ www.fromandforgod.com   MarisaRadha.com   *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear. 

Radha + Krishna share with you their experiences from teaching and participating at the Entheowheel: The Ceremony and Science of  Psilocybin at the Esalen Institute.      IG: @marisaradhaweppner marisaradha.com *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear.    Stay in the East Forest flow: Mothership:  http://eastforest.org/ IG:  https://www.instagram.com/eastforest/ FB:  https://www.facebook.com/EastForestMusic/ TW:  https://twitter.com/eastforestmusic PATREON: http://patreon.com/eastforest

Dr. Chantelle Thomas is a researcher in MDMA and psilocybin trials as well as The Manor’s Executive Clinical Director and a Clinical Psychologist specializing in addiction treatment, trauma and health psychology. With her experience in trauma work, Dr. Thomas guides the clinical team in the comprehensive assessment and treatment of each guest. Dr. Thomas is also a certified biofeedback practitioner, providing clients at The Manor with an added dimension of insight and discovery helping them better regulate and understand the psychological impact of stress and chronic trauma. Dr. Thomas began her career as the Program Director for a dual-diagnosis addiction and trauma treatment center in Malibu, California. After receiving her PhD in Clinical Psychology, she completed her internship and post-doctoral fellowship in Health and Rehabilitation Psychology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Mental Health. While there, she gained specialized expertise in medical-surgical consultation, trauma- informed therapy and chronic pain treatment. Through the University of Wisconsin’s School of Family Medicine, Dr. Thomas then joined Access Community Health Center as a Behavioral Health Consultant to primary care physicians where she innovated the development of a substance use disorder consultation clinic embedded within primary care. Her background in research-supported treatment modalities directly informs her ability to ensure the most effective interventions are incorporated into The Manor’s holistic program.

As a psychotherapist & life coach, Rena Beyer, MSW, LCSW, brings compassion, understanding, warmth, and loving honesty to her clients to help them reach their goals -- and she has an eclectic approach to doing it -- all sprinkled with a few curse words here and there for emphasis.   Rena is a mom, wife, and self-employed psychotherapist & life coach living in New Jersey. She owns and operates Fostering Greatness, her psychotherapy private practice, and Remedies With Rena, her coaching business.    As a therapist Rena addresses various therapeutic needs including trauma, childhood behavioral concerns, grief and loss, relationship concerns, fertility, as well as concerns related to depression, anxiety, anger, and stress. She was one of the first, if not the first, therapist to offer Ketamine-Assisted-Psychotherapy sessions to her clients struggling with depression, anxiety, and/or trauma in the state of New Jersey.   As a life coach Rena works alongside overwhelmed working mothers guiding them to effortlessly manage all of the demands placed on them, especially during this pandemic, so that they achieve a balance between working, maintaining their household, being a mother, being a partner, and having the coveted "me time." Her coaching program is currently in it's beta phase, so her services are offered at a steep discount - you WILL want to jump on that if you're a mama looking for some balance.     Psychotherapy: www.FosteringGreatness.com Coaching: Instagram.com/RemediesWithRena   MarisaRadha.com   *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear. 

Avi Gordon is a social philosopher and author of the spiritual novel "A Light in the Tunnel." He currently serves as the Director of the Integral Yoga Teachers Association at Yogaville, Virginia -  a global organization of over 10k teachers, with centers worldwide. He is also the host of the Integral Yoga Podcast. Avi has taught students of all ages in Taiwan, Israel, South Korea, and the US. https://alightinthetunnel.com/ https://iyta.org/podcast/ IG and Clubhouse: @alightinthetunnel   MarisaRadha.com   *****Please rate Love Service Wisdom on iTunes.  It helps me to get the guests you want to hear.