What if the discipline you've been searching for isn't another routine, another list, or another way to push yourself harder?

What if it's learning to listen to your body?

In this special Wild Temple teaching, Brooke Shannon Sullivan shares The Embodied Woman, an exploration of Ayurveda, yoga, Tantra, and the ancient wisdom of living in rhythm with your own body and with Mother Nature.

The body is not an obstacle on the path to spiritual awakening. It is the vessel, the altar, and the doorway.

Brooke explores how tending to the physical body creates the foundation for deeper work in the subtle body, allowing us to reclaim vitality, strengthen our boundaries, gather our energy, awaken dormant capacities, and ultimately become more fully ourselves.

Drawing from the Gheranda Samhita, tantric teachings, Ayurvedic principles, and the seasonal rhythms of the Dharmic Revolution, Brooke challenges the modern obsession with productivity, perfectionism, and rigid discipline. She offers another possibility: that true discipline can emerge from attunement.

When we align with the rhythms of our bodies, the seasons, the moon, the sun, and the natural world, something begins to shift. We stop leaking our energy. We create refuge within ourselves. We build capacity. And from that capacity, our deeper power can emerge.

In this episode:
✨ The body as medicine and sacred altar
✨ Ayurveda, yoga, and Tantra as a progressive path to embodiment
✨ How to stop leaking your energy into other people's needs and beliefs
✨ Durga, Lakshmi, and Matangi as archetypes of boundary, vitality, and expression
✨ The Gheranda Samhita and the body as a pathway to spiritual evolution
✨ Why nature may hold the key to a new understanding of discipline
✨ Embodiment, Kundalini, prana, and the subtle body
✨ The three aims of yoga: know yourself, awaken your inner powers, serve the world
✨ Reclaiming spaciousness, vitality, pleasure, and time
✨ The Dharmic Revolution and living in alignment with the cycles of nature

The invitation is simple, but profound:

Stop dragging your body along for the ride.

Listen to it. Tend to it. Trust it. Inhabit it.

Because the more fully you inhabit yourself, the more capacity you have for the life, work, love, creativity, and spiritual evolution that are calling you forward.

This fall, we enter our 20th year of The Sage Apprenticeship. This is Tantra Yoga and Dharmic Living in practice—and the professional certification you receive, with training registered with Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour level.

The Wild Temple is a school of sacred technologies, rooted in tantric lineage. Visit www.thewildtemple.com/sage-apprenticeship

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What if your ancestors aren’t only the people whose blood runs through your veins? What if the river, the mountain, the trees, the food, and the living land beneath your feet are also part of your lineage?

In this episode of The Wild Temple Podcast, Brooke Shannon Sullivan enters the ancestral season of Pitru Paksha, a sacred window for honoring what has come before us and discerning what we carry forward. She explores the blessings and burdens woven into our inheritance, from family beliefs and survival patterns to colonization, disconnection, and our relationship with the land itself.

Drawing from her own relationship with the Appalachian Mountains, Brooke invites us to listen differently to the places we live. To notice the animals. Cook the foods of our ancestors. Learn the history of the land. Sit beside a river. Ask what the old trees might teach us. Because awareness creates choice. And choice creates the possibility of repair.

This episode is an invitation to slow down, listen, and remember that you belong to something much older than yourself. The land has been speaking all along and this is the season to learn how to listen.

In this episode:

• Entering the ancestral season of Pitru Paksha
• The blessings and burdens we inherit
• Why Mother Nature can become a teacher, guide, and ancestor
• Reconnecting with land, lineage, food, plants, animals, and place
• Moving beyond inherited patterns of scarcity, separation, and domination
• Simple practices for honoring ancestors through food, nature, observation, and offerings
• What it means to burn karma, serve dharma, and live in greater reciprocity with the Earth

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This fall, we enter our 20th year of The Sage Apprenticeship. This is Tantra Yoga and Dharmic Living in practice—and the professional certification you receive, with training registered with Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour level.

The Wild Temple is a school of sacred technologies, rooted in tantric lineage. Visit www.thewildtemple.com/sage-apprenticeship

Discover Your Elemental Archetype Within the Wheel of Tantric Time

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In this episode of Wild Temple, Brooke Shannon Sullivan and Katie Rose explore the messy, mystical, deeply human work of becoming your own authority. They talk about gurus, beauty, motherhood, menopause, intuition, productivity, and the many ways women are taught to override what they actually know.

From Dolly Parton to the “god of productivity” to Brooke’s mythical Lady of the Lake, this conversation asks what becomes possible when we stop performing empowerment and start living it.

Inside the conversation:

• What it really means to stop outsourcing your power
• Why discernment may be more important than certainty
• The difference between agency and believing you have to do everything yourself
• What Ayurveda reveals about the changing seasons of a woman’s life
• Why midlife may be an invitation to do less, not become more
• How beauty, spirituality, motherhood, and even our bodies can become places where we give our authority away
• Learning to hear your intuition beneath everyone else’s expectations

Maybe the path back to yourself isn’t another practice, protocol, achievement, or answer. Maybe it begins by getting quiet enough to hear your own yes.

And devotion. It all comes back to devotion.

Connect with Our Guest:

• Katie's Website: https://www.devotionrose.com.au/
• Free Ayurvedic Mini Course: www.devotionrose.com.au/wellness
• Webinar: Trust Yourself to Birth: 5 Tips for Grace and Ease in Labour: https://www.devotionrose.com.au/birth-magic-webinar-funnel

About Katie Rose

Katie Rose is a yoga teachers, childbirth educator, experienced doula, and mother of five. With over 25 years supporting women through pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood, she brings a grounded, heart-centred approach to birth education.

Katie’s work weaves together traditional wisdom, yoga, Ayurveda, and practical, evidence-based tools to support women to trust themselves and reclaim birth as a sacred, sovereign experience.

She is the founder of Bhakti Rose and the creator of beloved programs including Yoga of Birth, Birth Magic, and her online membership Gathered. Katie’s approach is warm, empowering, and anchored in lived experience; helping women remember their innate power, both on the yoga mat and in the birth room.

Discover why embodiment is essential to healing, spiritual practice, and living your dharma without leaving your body behind. Join The Embodied Woman, a free webinar exploring Tantra Yoga, Ayurveda, Devī Sādhana, ancestral healing, and seasonal cleansing.

You’ll also learn about The Sage Apprenticeship, Bone Deep, and the Navaratri Regeneration Cleanse at The Wild Temple.

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In this episode of The Wild Temple, Brooke sits down with Ayurvedic practitioner, clinical herbalist, and wisdom teacher Michael Van Skiver to explore nourishment as a deeply relational experience. Together, they look beyond food and into the ways presence, connection, nature, pleasure, and reciprocity nourish us on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels.

Through the Ayurvedic concepts of Agni, Rasa, Pushti, and the Dhatus, Brooke and Michael explore how what we take in becomes part of who we are, why our relationships can either nourish or deplete us, and how our attention shapes what we are able to truly digest.

They also explore the practice of meeting the world with greater reverence, from tending a garden and washing the dishes to sharing food, dancing tango, and simply allowing ourselves to be seen. Because nourishment isn't just about consuming more. It's about cultivating deeper relationship with ourselves, each other, and the living world around us.

Discover why embodiment is essential to healing, spiritual practice, and living your dharma without leaving your body behind. Join The Embodied Woman, a free webinar exploring Tantra Yoga, Ayurveda, Devī Sādhana, ancestral healing, and seasonal cleansing.

You’ll also learn about The Sage Apprenticeship, Bone Deep, and the Navaratri Regeneration Cleanse at The Wild Temple.

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In this episode, Brooke reflects on our multifaceted nature as humans, and how, at any point in time, we can turn inward and discover something about who we are right now. How are you showing up—or not showing up? What becomes visible when you take an honest assessment of where you are in your life?

This turning inward is especially potent during the energies of the New Moon and solar eclipse. Brooke begins with a few questions for reflection: What are your goals at this time? What skills have you been sleeping on that wish to wake up? What are you imagining, avoiding, longing for, or ready to see more clearly?

The episode centers around two areas of introspection. The first is the Seven of Cups, the Tarot card Brooke pulled before recording. This card speaks to where we are in our own storyline and to the many possibilities before us—possibilities that can sometimes feel conflicting when we aren't clear about who we are or what we truly want. It invites us to look honestly at the stories, desires, dreams, and illusions filling our inner world, and to discern what is actually asking for our attention.

This is a perfect card pull for the heart of the episode: one of Brooke’s favorite teachings from Ayurveda and Yoga, and one she believes is a missing ingredient in many modern yoga practitioners’ repertoire. It brings us into the hidden power of yoga—the intelligence of prāṇa, and how understanding its five movements, the prāṇa vāyus, can aid us in designing practices that support the deeper inner changes we seek—the ones that can often feel difficult to access or shift on our own.

Through Prāṇavidyā—the study of prāṇa, or the life-force energy moving through us and all of nature—we begin to understand yoga practice in a different way.

Brooke introduces the five prāṇa vāyus of Ayurveda and Yoga and explores how, when they become the centerpiece of a wisely designed practice, they can function like five pranic “arrows.” Each vāyu becomes a direct force we can work with to support the change we are seeking and help move us toward a particular goal.

And these goals aren't only physical. While each vāyu describes a particular way energy moves through the body and supports our physiology, these movements of prāṇa also influence our emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and patterns.

The five arrows therefore give us a surprisingly simple map for self-inquiry: Where is our energy stuck? Where are we holding on? Where are we scattered or depleted? Where are we having difficulty expressing ourselves, receiving what we need, or moving forward?

And because the same life force that moves through us also moves through nature, Brooke introduces another layer to this exploration: the Yoga of Flowers.

This is where nature-loving yoginis can begin to understand the relationship between prāṇa, plants, and the power of the subtle. Drawing from more than 25 years of experience with yoga and plant wisdom, Brooke distills these teachings into an episode about learning to see ourselves more clearly—and then using the intelligence of yoga and nature to help move our lives in the direction we wish to go.

Discover why embodiment is essential to healing, spiritual practice, and living your dharma without leaving your body behind. Join The Embodied Woman, a free webinar exploring Tantra Yoga, Ayurveda, Devī Sādhana, ancestral healing, and seasonal cleansing.

You’ll also learn about The Sage Apprenticeship, Bone Deep, and the Navaratri Regeneration Cleanse at The Wild Temple.

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Discover Your Elemental Archetype Within the Wheel of Tantric Time

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A sacred ritual is returning.

After centuries of suppression under colonial rule, the Irish Keen is being reclaimed. Once an essential communal ritual of grief, praise, remembrance, and devotion, this powerful vocal tradition was systematically severed from the Irish people, leaving generations disconnected from one of their deepest ancestral practices. Today, that lineage is being remembered and brought back to life.

In this extraordinary episode of the Wild Temple Podcast, Brooke Sullivan is joined by Dr. Mary McLaughlin, one of the world's foremost scholars and practitioners of the Irish Keen, to explore the history, mystery, and living revival of this profound tradition. More than a lament, the Keen was a sacred ritual that helped communities move through death, honor the dead, celebrate life, and maintain an unbroken relationship with the unseen world.

Together, they explore how colonialism interrupted this ancient lineage and why reclaiming the Keen is about far more than preserving folklore. It is about restoring a way of grieving, remembering, and belonging that modern culture has largely forgotten.

This episode is an invitation to remember what has been hidden. To reclaim a tradition that refused to disappear. To discover how the wild Irish cry still echoes through the land, the body, and the ancestral heart, waiting for us to listen once again.

Whether you come with Irish ancestry or simply a longing to reconnect with ritual, voice, and community, this conversation offers a powerful reminder that what has been severed can be restored, and that some of our oldest medicines are also the ones our world most needs today.

Connect with our guest:

MaryMcLaughlin's website: https://www.marymclaughlin.com/

Workshops with Mary: https://www.marymclaughlin.com/workshops/workshops.html

Discover why embodiment is essential to healing, spiritual practice, and living your dharma without leaving your body behind. Join The Embodied Woman, a free webinar exploring Tantra Yoga, Ayurveda, Devī Sādhana, ancestral healing, and seasonal cleansing.

You’ll also learn about The Sage Apprenticeship, Bone Deep, and the Navaratri Regeneration Cleanse at The Wild Temple.

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In this episode, Brooke shares stories that help us navigate the terrain of magical versus practical thinking, and key flower essences that can aid us in both.

Please excuse the second half of the recording's audio. Due to a natural event, wifi came down and this section was recorded on the road.

More on this episode coming soon...

Discover why embodiment is essential to healing, spiritual practice, and living your dharma without leaving your body behind. Join The Embodied Woman, a free webinar exploring Tantra Yoga, Ayurveda, Devī Sādhana, ancestral healing, and seasonal cleansing.

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Most people underestimate the profound power of flowers, prana, and subtle energy—yet these ancient tools hold the key to transforming your life from the inside out. In this episode, Reverend Rebecca Medvin and Brooke Sullivan explore the sacred intersection of yoga, flower essences, and prana vidya, revealing how nature’s wisdom guides us toward healing, empowerment, and self-trust.

Discover how flower essences act as energetic seeds that unlock your unlimited potential—whether you're dealing with perfectionism, overwhelm, or emotional sensitivity. Becca shares her journey from intense resistance to daily practice, illustrating how simple, playful connections with nature can shift your energy and deepen your self-awareness. You'll learn specific flower remedies like Sunflower, Pink Yarrow, and Olive that support grounding, confidence, and rest—practical tools to navigate modern chaos with grace and ease.

Reverend Becca Medvin is a mentor and educator specializing in meditation, yoga, and the transformative power of flowers. Based in Miami, she is a distinguished alumni and senior teacher of the Wild Temple School and certified practitioner from our Flower Essence Therapy Program, Plants Drop Wisdom.

As a devoted practitioner of Meditation and the Himalayan Tradition, Becca brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her teachings, inspiring others to explore the profound connections between nature and self-awareness.

Discover why embodiment is essential to healing, spiritual practice, and living your dharma without leaving your body behind. Join The Embodied Woman, a free webinar exploring Tantra Yoga, Ayurveda, Devī Sādhana, ancestral healing, and seasonal cleansing.

You’ll also learn about The Sage Apprenticeship, Bone Deep, and the Navaratri Regeneration Cleanse at The Wild Temple.

www.thewildtemple.com

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Discover Your Elemental Archetype Within the Wheel of Tantric Time

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