Learn & Heal with Sophia Wise One
Sophia Wise One is the host of three internationally top-ranking podcasts: Vagina Talks, Medicine Caller, and Temple Erotica: Stories of Sacred Sexuality. Dive into the vlog series 50 Things That Help Me Heal, read the Spider Queen Reports, or browse below for more posts on the topics of pelvic floor work, healing collective trauma, inner child healing, intuition, shame, a range of spiritual concepts, trust and authenticity in relationships and communication, healing sexual and ancestral trauma, and Soul Unification.
All Fear is the Fear of Death – #34 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2lUQkR1bnM All Fear is the Fear of death. 50 Things That Help Me Heal is a collection of 50 bite-sized, short vlogs to help you find healing in, and from, anything. Learn skills that can help get you back on track to heal...
How Anger Helps Us Live our Purpose, Together – Guest Post by Leigh Seeleman
The raised or clipped voice of anger gets our attention and screams at us to listen up. It says, “AARRGH! Something is not right! Something needs my attention! Part of my life is out of balance, there’s something I need to say, heal, shift, do, remember and / or...
There is a Thing as “Good Enough” – #33 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPpbtnB36Io&noredirect=1 There is a thing as "Good Enough." Short and sweet wise words from my mama: "Sophia, there is a thing as 'good enough.'" 50 Things That Help Me Heal is a collection of 50 bite-sized, short vlogs...
The Joys of Befriending your Rage
I am happy to share with you that I am co-leading the weekend workshop "Lions and Dragons: The Transformative Power and Pleasure of Rage" with the beautiful Leigh Seeleman. I invite you to listen in here to clips of our recent discussion on "the joys of befriending...
Who My Teacher Is Determines What They Teach – #32 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swc1vvRAud4 Who do I want to be? I pick teachers that embody who I want to be and who will help me get there. I say shop around, I live in a city, so I can. If you have limited teachers, work with who you can, and remember to keep the...
Morning Message by the Atlantic Ocean
The water front is that of the edge of a cliff, or an edge of some other great feat. To come to the edge and dance and sing praises is wise and a joyful thing. It strengthens courage, awakens the heart, sharpens the vision, and tunes the soul. The ocean is both life...
Screenplay Healing
How revealing is healing: Childhood friend, Alexandra MacArthur, writer, filmmaker, and photographer, wrote this post about the heart of healing that she discovered writing her first screenplay. I am so grateful for her eloquent words, vulnerability, and articulation....
“You are only as sick as your secrets” – #19 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRX3Mfgov_s You are only as sick as your secrets. The heart of my work has shown me that a lot of peacemaking work is having the courage to own secrets. The secrets of our family lines, our own lives, and of our dreams and fantasies of...
Dare to Ask Direct Questions – #30 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHRybfRIBrw Dare to Ask Direct Questions: It's not safe to assume you will just find out what you want to know about someone by talking to them a lot. The only way you can be sure to find out is just to ask directly. And always be...
Premenstrual Syndrome and Premenstrual Wisdom – #29 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2ip4sO6dU Premenstrual Syndrome -- PMS -- is a time in a woman's cycle when she is simply more sensitive to her own needs and values. When you might have an irrational or intense reaction to something, look for the kernel of wisdom...
The Benefits of a Safe Space – #28 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr4Q_7_UuPc A safe space lets you open to your healing knowing you won't get hurt in the process of opening. Lots of specifics in the video on how to make your healing space safe! 50 Things That Help Me Heal is a collection...
Continuing on the Thread of Prayer – #26 of 50 Things That Helped Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU7G88ur2Yo Try prayer before you're sure it'll work... and when in doubt, there's always gratitude! 50 Things That Help Me Heal is a collection of 50 bite-sized, short vlogs to help you find healing in, and from, anything....
Healing Practices Are Redundant – #27 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV7q9z8L2pQ Yoga, meditation, massage, healing practices are redundant, and they are supposed to be. Practice practice practice. 50 Things That Help Me Heal is a collection of 50 bite-sized, short vlogs to help you find...
How I Pray – #25 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7bNeLb2v8U You can call it a wish, intention, dream that you're sending out to the universe, or manifesting. The root to its power is in its honesty. Get real, get honest, being vulnerable increases the frequency that you are sending...
How to Work Pressure Points – #24 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL3kOvHhWTk I give you step by step instructions on HOW to work acupressure, a.k.a. pressure points, that are used for common ailments. Here is how to press those points for optimal movement: Find the pressure point by massaging the...
No Fixing – #23 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7501nSsuAo I create spaces that are conducive for healing. I am not making or doing the healing! :-) As a massage therapist, Reiki Master, shamanic practitioner, group facilitator, cooperative play teacher, and team building leader, I...
Paulo Freire’s Praxis: Combining Action and Reflection – #22 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUviPYwlYg Praxis is putting theory into action. But for Paulo Freire, praxis is really about how you put theory into action, and that is what blew my mind! I have found a lot of my healing in politically charged works. Paulo Freire's...
Self-ful, selfless, selfish – #21 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK9A43GydSM I consider this a matter of maturity. Yet again, our culture does not teach us THAT well, and teaches us falsely. Are you accepting full responsibility for yourself? Do you also consider and participate in a world where other...
Your Mind Will Use Reality to Prove Itself Right – #20 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-svjiZlFnY Your mind will use reality to prove itself right My life changed when I realized that my mind will prove itself right, over and over again. I will be right about the things I believe. Your mind will take the evidence in your...
Blood + Spiritual Lineage – #18 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G07mk4aDpM Blood and Spiritual Lineage -- We have both!!!! I break it down in here! We are a product of all that came before (and in a trippy way, cause there's not time/space continuum, we are a product of everything that comes after...
Being Self-Centered – #17 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccQ1l19S7NE If you are not self-centered, then where are you centered? Somewhere else? Is that a good place to be centered? I think not. When I own that I am the center of my own Universe I am reminded that everyone else is also the...
The Art of Touché – #16 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huPAZHCmBnY It can be really hard to admit we are not as right as we thought we were. This is a playful way of saying, actually, “you are right.” Which can go a long way in making peace. Sometimes we find ourselves in an argument and we...
I Also Want To Be Perfect – #15 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOmopYJ1kV8 Continuing with the theme of permission . . . Much to my surprise, I discovered one day that, “I just wish I was perfect!” I had never thought of myself as a perfectionist. The empathic intuitive creative that I am is pretty...
Permission to Feel – #14 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuY4uoMzbwo Allowing myself to feel WHATEVER it is that I am feeling is REALLY HELPFUL. Key even. By resisting or trying to change my feelings instead of experiencing them, only drags it out longer and often pushes them deeper in the...
Permission To Experience Healing – #13 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=109iPZ5kg_g Permission to experience healing -- YOU grant that permission to you! Any time I go to receive my own healing or get some restoration, I say, “I give myself permission to experience healing.” In the face of change we all get...
Healing Our Shame and Our Organs (video)
This was so much fun!!! Thanks for everyone who came along! It felt so random and all over the place and fun! Kim Fleisher of The Reiki School + Clinic talks about how she experiences Reiki, we jive on Qi-gong and lineage, and we wander through some confessions...
Jesus Christ is a Unicorn (archetypically speaking)
The power of archetypes is tangible, visible, and versatile. The common ones thrown around are Warrior (not be confused with soldier), Healer, Crone, and Fool. What makes an archetype is as complex as the simplicity that it embodies. We have an innate understanding of...
Lifting the blanket of Shame — #13 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9YkG4FR4iw “Shame cannot be processed, it can only be lifted, and it is lifted by community” ~ ShuNasii Rose, In Sacred Balance Shame and secrets are a huge part of everyone’s healing path. Community can be human, plant, animal, or...
Dr. Brené Brown is brilliant – #12 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqwlistZlgI Blows my mind and heart every time! Laugh out loud Brilliant! Blam! Thank you Dr. Brené Brown! This talk articulates what Empaths intuitively know, uncovering that when we've been told we’re “too sensitive” and “over...
My Favorite Prayer is a 4-Letter Word – #11 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DrpsjEMGA0 My favorite prayer is a 4-letter word. My favorite prayer is h-e-l-p. No great ritual, no great ceremony, no great incantation. Just the honest and raw surrender to receive help. The thing that most often gets in the way of...
Pacific Northwest Respite From a Friend
A friend wrote me from the Pacific Northwest where she is studying plants. After years of bringing art and education into the Philadelphia Prisons, she journeyed to find her needed respite. She wrote and shared so simply and briefly and yet it touched me so deeply. I...
Stop Pretending To Do It Alone – #10 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nAnVuC_jpg This is about letting go of the notion that you are separate! You are not separate. You don’t breathe without air or eat and digest without food, and you didn't come into this life without a womb. Your relationships that are...
The Joys of Wearing a Costume in Everyday Life! – #9 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuueXL9lRU Another gem from Live Action Role Playing Here’s the basic deal -- I have embraced all of my outfits as costumes. Jeans and t-shirt = casual costume. Flowing skirt and soft shirt = my beauty femme hippie costume. Suit = get...
Life Is A Game: LARPing – #8 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w28A6mX-SY Live from a faery glen! It’s time you all know -- I am a Live Action Role Player, a.k.a. a LARPer. The healing of benefits of moving toward awesome fun with LARPing are limitless. I have spent two decades teaching, staffing,...
I am not actually crazy – #7 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0d54WARVwA WHO KNEW! I’m not the crazy one. Turns out I’m an empath and sensitive and deeply sane. Popular U.S. culture and a lot of the globalized world functions in a homicidal, suicidal way, destroying our resources faster than we...
This friday: The East Coast Intensive for Jai Guru – Eep!
I am doing 2 weekend intensives bi-costal!!! Woot woot! (THIS week) May 31-June 1 in Philly, and June 28-30 in Portland Oregan. Each weekend is limited to 12 people so they will be small and intimate. I follow up each with an 8 week telecourse. Because I personally...
What Is Healing? Vibration And Health – #6 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au8UnFr6izU What is healing? Vibration, health, and vibrancy. Here are some concepts from this video that make up my understanding of healing: Truth vs. Reality Reality: Observable existence. Sun rises. I have a body and a heart rate and...
If You Want Real And Honest Feedback About Your Life: Look At Your Life! – #5 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://youtu.be/tkseERAIJP8 If you consider nothing else -- consider this. If you want to know who you are, want you do, what’s working or not working in you life -- look at your life. If you want to know about who you are showing up as on this planet in this life --...
We Only Have One Relationship, And That Is Our Relationship With Ourself – #4 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-KmcPrE-ZA We only we have one relationship. All other relationships are reflections or echoes of the relationship you have with yourself. So if you want to change the way you relate to anyone or anything, you need to change the way you...
May’s: Feel Free Teleseminar Series
[audio http://redtentphilly.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/mayffts.m4a] This month's teleseminar turned into a lecture and meditation - things went unexpectedly so instead of doing nothing I rolled with it and made a podcast! Check it out. There two stories and some...
There Is No Mind Body Split. It’s All Perspective! #3 – 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://youtu.be/6Oz88xLG8JE There is no mind body split. Because our mind is our body. Our body is our spirit in form. There is no mind over body. They are all different expressions or perspectives of just one thing: your BEING! They are the way you see aspects of...
How I do Anything is How I do Everything – #2 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://youtu.be/J1rktmP9_vw You happen to be You no matter what you are doing. I think of that as the good news and the bad news . You can literally look at anything you go through and see how you do things -- how you cook a meal, the way you write a paper, how you...
Take What Serves You And Leave The Rest – #1 of 50 Things That Help Me Heal (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikkBMiOZF4s When someone offers you something that will bring you towards your highest values, take that in, integrate, digest, and make it your own. You may be searching to learn how to create more peace, communicate more effectively,...
40 Day Water Puja: Week #8 Prayer
We are on day 33 of our Water Puja! This is the Prayer for this week which is our 8th! This week its a chant and I am using my blog to post the clip and tune for the chant. A call a day keeps the drillers away -spiritual practice into civil action for 40 days. The...
April’s: Feel Free Teleseminar Series
Hi! Last night was an adventure for me. I feel so deeply grateful for the people who called. It was such a sweet space to share - Thank You! Afterwords I found out some people had trouble getting in. I am looking into different ways to do the series. So if you want to...
real, raw, love, tears, freedom. you know, the good stuff…
There is a fine distinction between catharsis and healing in my eyes. Catharsis is an outpouring of what was contained. If we go back to same old same old we have not healed from the release. For healing to happen we must change from that point forward. Healing is the...
Bloom Report 3/21/13
As I walked down the West Philly streets today, every time a I saw a crocuses my heart would just break a little bit! I couldn't help but squeal and shake my head in wonder. Playfully I said to my friend and the crocuses, "Look at your dark purple, the color of the...
Brené Brown: Listening to shame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psN1DORYYV0