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.

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...