The Wild Within

Kristen Yates
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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. 

  1. 29/12/2025

    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 process I like to use - and some key principles of why it works.  In this episode, I share why most New Year's Resolutions don't work - and what we can do instead to ensure we manifest our desires and start moving towards our biggest visions and new versions of ourselves in an actionable and sustainable way.  In this episode, we'll explore: Why most New Years resolutions don't work - (hint: most people don't understand what creates real change!) Why real and lasting shift must be embodied (not just in your mind) How to get your body and nervous system on board with your intentionsSetting intentions at the level of IDENTITY, not behaviorReflection on the past year as a process of metabolizing your experiencesA few potent practices I love to use as part of my reflection & integrationHow we create from the level of our subconscious mind (and why it's so important to take this perspective when setting intentions) Key questions to ask as you process the year past and clear space for the newHow to start excavating the belief systems holding you back from your biggest visions and dreamsHow to decide who you are becoming in the New YearKey questions to ask to determine your new operating system and way of being3 areas to focus on when setting goals and visions for 2026 As part of this community, I'd love to share with you the Embodied Refleciton & Visioning workbook I've created for 2026: Envision & Align 2026 - A Reflection & Visioning Workbook (PDF) Wishing you a blessed New Year, and all that is to come!!

    38 min

  2. 23/12/2025

    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. I went down with no real plan, said yes to the unknown, and found myself slowed way down… tending animals, stewarding land, and remembering parts of myself I didn’t realize had been waiting to come back online. This is a reflection on horse medicine, donkey wisdom, nervous system regulation, leadership, presence, and the kind of healing that happens out on the land, in stillness, rhythm and relationship - rather than in a therapy room. (also: I personally find most healing and transformation to happen out in life and the world!)  In this episode, I share: How periods of transition and uncertainty can become powerful portals for growthThe role of land, rhythm, and simplicity in nervous system regulationMy journey spending a month on a ranch, disconnected from the "default world" and returning to a deeper remembrance withinWhat horses teach us about leadership, presence, and our own energy statesPerspectives on purpose and stewardship in our livesWhat working with horses taught me about pressure and release (and where we apply too much pressure in our own lives)How working with horses mirrors our patterns in relationships and decision-makingHorses as a powerful model for trust, attunement, and relational consentThe gentle, grounding wisdom of donkeys (and why they might be some of the most underrated healers!!)How returning to ranch life became a form of my own inner child and soul retrievalWhy healing doesn’t have to be heavy - it can be joyful, playful, and alive!The importance of community, creativity, and finding environments that support who we’re becoming I share this episode from my heart as part story/reflection, and part love letter to the land, the animals here and their medicine, and the ways life is always available to reshape us when we listen to the inner call forth to the unknown. I hope you find resonance and that this sparks a curiosity or

    41 min

  3. 02/12/2025

    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 stillness of winter and prepare to close out 2025, we'll explore what it is to be in the tender liminal space as old identities and ways of being are shed away, how to navigate the process of release, and six tools to move through times of completion with grace, creating potent space for the next chapter to arise. If you’ve been feeling the old falling away in your life this year, you are definitely not alone - trust that it is paving the way for a personal and collective new beginning!  In this episode we explore: The collective theme of release and completion as we close out 2025Why so many of us are shedding old identities, roles, and masks right nowHow the Year of the Snake relates to shedding skin and returning to the earthMy personal season of endings, loss, and integration this yearHow trying to “build” in a year meant for integration creates struggle and burnoutMoving from our default linear, productivity culture back into nature’s cyclical wisdomWinter as a powerful portal for stillness, rest, and energetic restSix practices for moving through release and completion with more graceLetting go by just “5%” and taking one stone out of your metaphorical backpackInviting more silence, stillness, and polarity between movement and restEmotional processing tools like breathwork, shaking, sound, and somatic practicesFinding a healthy balance between solitude and chosen community that supports your becomingUsing writing, creativity, and non-verbal expression as soul work in the liminal spaceThe power of ritual, ceremony, and nature as teachers of death, composting, and rebirthRewilding as a return to innate nature, instinct, and authenticity beneath the programmingA look ahead at the shift from a “9 year” of endings to a “1 year” and the Fire Horse energy of new beginnings

    43 min

  4. 07/08/2025

    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 sovereignty and embodied power.   Kaleigh is an expressive arts therapist in training, and together we will be co-hosting the Vibrant Heârt Creative Liberation & Expressive Arts Retreat for women this coming November 2-8 in beautiful Costa Rica.  Together we explore: Expression as a soulful, embodied practice, not just an artistic oneThe universal human impulse to create - and how expression is actually our medicineUsing expression to give voice to our inner parts - from trauma to leadershipThe necessity of slowness and softness in nurturing feminine creative energyThe contrast between cerebral living and somatic, soul-led creationDifferent modalities of expression - cognitive, kinesthetic, sensory, symbolic - and how each can unlock deeper self-awareness.Kaleigh's journey of finding Expressive Arts Therapy as a soulful modality for her service in the world Kristen’s journey of “rewilding” through plant medicine, psychedelics, and life in PeruCreativity beyond art: in relationships, rituals, home, and daily choicesThe role of environment, nature, and cultural influence on creativity and embodimentHow overstimulation and digital overwhelm in our modern age hinder authentic expression - and what we can do about it   🌴🎨🌊 Costa Rica Creative Women's Retreat - Nov 2-8, 2025 (Apply below!) Vibrant Heart - Creative Liberation Retreat for Women Costa Rica Retreat Application Learn more about my work and offerings here: www.wildsoulmedicine.com

    1 h

  5. 07/08/2025

    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 discovery and inquiry so important? What is meant by "Dharma" in the yogic traditionThe 3 components of Dharma, and how we can start to uncover our ownWhy it's important to understand our true naturePrompts and questions to start unraveling your personal dharmaWhy finding our purpose often involves letting go the idea of purposeHidden places your purpose/dharma may be hidingThe Ikigai framework for discovering our reason for beingTim Kelley's True Purpose model Resources from this Episode: Purpose Discovery Reflections (PDF) True Purpose - Tim Kelley   🌴🎨🌊 Costa Rica Creative Women's Retreat - Nov 2-8, 2025 www.wildsoulmedicine.com/costa-rica-retreat Learn more about my work and offerings here: www.wildsoulmedicine.com Connect with me on Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram. If you'd like to get in touch with me directly, you can send me an email at kyates8@gmail.com

    55 min

  6. 09/07/2025

    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.  I am so grateful for those of you along with me here on this podcasting journey, and am excited for the new evolutions in the vision and mission of The Wild Within. I'll be publishing weekly episodes and would love to have you along for the explorations!  A few themes we explore in this episode: Highlights from my personal journey over the past yearLearning to embrace grief and paradoxWorking with sacred plant medicines in a mindful and balanced wayLife and relationships as a mirror for our shadows and unmet partsThe power of communityMy greatest teachers here in Peru..... and more stream-of-consciousness thoughts from yours truly :)  Learn more about my work and offerings here: www.wildsoulmedicine.com   Costa Rica Retreat - Nov 2-8, 2025 www.wildsoulmedicine.com/costa-rica-retreat Connect with me on Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram. If you'd like to get in touch with me directly, you can send me an email at kyates8@gmail.com

    53 min

  7. 27/04/2024

    Unlocking Your Creative Essence

    The Wild Within

    41 min

  8. 19/04/2024

    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.  We explore:  The qualities and stages of a soul initiation processRecognizing the link between our personal and collective evolution; becoming coherent and generative beings not only for ourselves, but for the greater field of consciousnessAccessing our unique purpose during these timesThe intertwined journey of personal and collective evolutionLiving at the choice point in our lives, learning how to orient within the arc of our trajectory and soul’s compassWorking with our core wounds and challenges in a generative, life-giving way as part of our evolutionary processThe relationship between trauma and initiation, and reframing trauma as a deepening into our soul pathLearning to recognize and clear the distortions to our own inner beautyReturning to the remembrance of our innate connection to all of lifeWidening ourselves and our perspectives to the fullness of existence, so we can make truly conscious choices in our livesBecoming coherent for life to pour through us in full awarenessRe-establishing our innate connection to nature and the wildHow being in relationship with nature is linked with our personal empowermentBecoming in tune with the rhythms and cycles of nature and sourcing our power thereinAwakening from “stranded amnesia" to reclaim our sovereignty and remember who we truly areRemembering the symbiosis of all things and how this applies to our livesChoosing to “stay and be with what is” rather than run away, as a generative actThe questions to ask ourselves to be in true service to our world today and discover what we are here to give.How to connect to your “Exalted Self”Accessing your creative power and becoming the creative force of lifeChanging our relationship to life (at a personal and collective level)Returning to a state of wonder and reverence for life, and to the magnificence of our beingTransmuting and integrating all parts of ourselves so we may become more whole Resources from this episode: You can get in touch with Maitreya at her website: soulpowermentoring.com You can book a free soul power activation call with her here,  Connect with her on Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram. Get in Touch: If you'd like to get in touch with me directly, you can send me an email at kyates8@gmail.com Find me on IG: @soulrise.medicine Or contact me through my website at www.soulrisemedicine.com

    1 h 22 min
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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. 

Ficha técnica

  • Creado por
    Kristen Yates
  • Años en activo
    2019 - 2025
  • Episodios
    30
  • Clasificación
    Explícito
  • Derechos de autor
    © 2026 The Wild Within
  • Sitio web del podcast
    The Wild Within