Body Wisdom Rising

Alyssa Stefanson
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  • Spirituality
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Body Wisdom Rising is a podcast for people navigating deep change — awakenings, identity shifts, healing, and the sense that the old ways of living no longer work. We’re living in a time of collective disillusionment and awakening. Many are being asked to slow down, feel more, and re-orient their lives — often without support from systems that were never designed for this kind of transformation. This podcast offers a grounded way to make sense of these experiences by reconnecting to the body as teacher, the Earth as stabilizer, ancestral wisdom as context, and spiritual support rooted in lived experience. I’m Alyssa Stefanson, Somatic and Ancestral Healing Guide, and host of Body Wisdom Rising. Each episode weaves together somatic healing, nervous system regulation, ancestral remembrance, and earth-based wisdom to support personal and collective healing. We speak honestly about initiation, death-and-rebirth cycles, trauma, addiction, disconnection, and what becomes possible when familiar identities fall away and something deeper begins to emerge. If you’re navigating change and looking for a grounded, embodied way to understand what’s happening — you’re in the right place. Body Wisdom Rising — where remembering becomes medicine. IG: @wildfemininerise

  1. Jul 21

    The Rare Planetary Alignment Everyone's Talking About: What It Means For Your Awakening

    Send us Fan Mail A rare planetary alignment is peaking, timelines feel like they’re shifting, and a lot of people are wondering whether we’re heading for another 2020-style crisis or something entirely different. I slow the noise down and walk through what’s actually being discussed, including the work of French astrologer André Barbault and why long-term planetary cycles often line up with major collective turning points. For me, the headline isn’t fear. It’s a collective choice point, a moment where conditions may be getting more supportive for growth, innovation, and conscious evolution, depending on how we respond. From there, I bring it back to the part we can actually influence: the conditions inside our own lives. Awakening is a natural unfolding, but we can create an environment that supports it. I share the practices that helped me integrate healing in a grounded way, especially somatic healing and nervous system regulation, plus the role of ceremony as a container for grief, endings, and rites of passage. When we stop overriding the body, we get clearer about what’s true, what’s conditioning, and what needs to change. We also explore evolutionary astrology as a practical tool for separating your soul blueprint from the endless “shoulds” pushed by culture. I share an example from my own chart, and then reframe manifestation as conscious co-creation with God or the divine: not forcing outcomes from ego, but becoming so aligned that your life starts reflecting your integrity. If you’ve been feeling the pull to step into your next chapter, I also share why I created my nine-month container, The Calling, and what it looks like to be supported through deep transformation. If this lands, subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next, share it with someone who’s in a transition, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What choice are you being asked to make right now? Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

  2. Jul 3

    Making Sense Of Spiritual Awakening: Maps for the Journey Within

    Send us Fan Mail Alyssa shares the three frameworks that gave her language for  her spiritual awakening and helped her stay grounded through uncertainty, intensity, and real-life responsibilities. She keeps returning to one test of the path: does our spirituality make us more embodied, humble, and accountable.  • why language and frameworks reduce fear and isolation during awakening  • awakening as an ongoing relationship shaped by daily choices and integration  • Stan Grof’s spiritual emergency lens and the role of discernment  • somatic work and nervous system support as the bridge from insight to change  • common forms of spiritual emergency, from kundalini symptoms to peak experiences  • psychic opening and intuition, including how urgency can signal fear or trauma  • past life material and the question of healing over certainty  • channeling and guidance measured by responsibility, not spectacle  • near-death experiences and the challenge of returning to ordinary life  • Carl Jung on persona, shadow work, projection, and individuation  • Rudolf Steiner on the middle path between fantasy and reductionism  • spiritual inflation and why humility is non-negotiable on this path  And before we begin, if you're someone who listens regularly to this podcast and you have not had a chance to leave a rating or a review yet, would you please take just a minute to do that?  So if you've been feeling called toward this work, you can find all the details through the link in the show notes.  Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

  3. Jun 12

    Meeting Wetiko: Projection, Possession, and Consciousness

    Send us Fan Mail We explore Wetiko as a collective mind virus and how it hides in projection, separation, and the parts of us we refuse to see. We connect Jungian shadow work, addiction as spiritual hunger, and the way awareness and embodiment help us reclaim life force and choose a different path.  • defining wetiko through Paul Levy’s lens as a collective psycho-spiritual blindness  • noticing transmission through projection, othering, scapegoating, and moral certainty  • linking addiction and compulsive behaviour to disconnection and spiritual hunger  • reclaiming creative energy by bringing shadow material into awareness  • distinguishing judgement from discernment and staying protected through being  • naming spiritual superiority, victim-perpetrator dynamics, and groupthink traps  • understanding awakening as descent, not bypassing, with will and somatic healing  • using triggers as information, including envy, resentment, fear, and reactivity  • unpacking polarization, ideological possession, and consumer culture as wetiko fuel  • practising the antidote through humility, curiosity, community, and conscious choice  Reach out to me on Instagram. Let me know what you want to hear more of.  And if you haven't already, please take a quick moment to leave a review as really helps this podcast grow and reach more people.  Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

  4. May 24

    The Trickster Archetype , Disillusionment and The Second Awakening

    Send us Fan Mail Certainty is intoxicating, especially after a big awakening. Then the rug pulls out: a trusted teacher gets exposed, a “destined” relationship reveals its shadow, or a movement you thought was truth starts acting like the very system it resisted. I’m Alyssa, and I’m naming the force behind that pattern: the trickster archetype, the boundary crosser known as Hermes, Loki, and Ichtomi, who shows up wherever we’ve become unconscious, inflated, or rigid. I walk through Carl Jung’s framing of the trickster as the psyche’s self-correcting mechanism and why it’s rising so loudly right now in spiritual communities, wellness and ascension spaces, conspiracy frameworks, and even UFO disclosure narratives. We talk about how counterculture can quietly become groupthink, how pedestals get built and then pulled apart, and why that collapse can feel like betrayal even when it’s also a call back to humility and truth. From there, we get practical: what to do when your nervous system wants to grab a new ideology, why “switching sides” doesn’t solve the deeper pattern, and how holding paradox becomes the doorway to the second awakening. We explore shadow work, projection, attachment, and somatic healing as essential tools for real discernment, not paranoia. If you’re ready to stop outsourcing authority and start living from embodied clarity, press play, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

  5. May 9

    The Three Spiritual Tests You Must Pass Right Before You Uplevel

    Send us Fan Mail Right before things finally open, life can feel like it is doing the exact opposite of what you asked for. That is not “bad luck” or the universe punishing you, it can be your psyche applying pressure to expose what still needs to be integrated so you can actually hold the upgrade you say you want. We explore three major tests that often arrive before a breakthrough on the spiritual awakening and individuation path, inspired by Jungian psychology and grounded in embodiment. We start with shadow confrontation and the golden shadow, how triggers, projections, envy, and even the inability to receive compliments can reveal the parts of you that were exiled for safety. From there we move into the tension of opposites, where you cannot stay identified with only one pole like strong or good or spiritual, and you learn to sustain the tension long enough for something new and more whole to emerge. Then we get honest about synchronicity. Real meaningful coincidence tends to be weighted and humbling, and it asks something of you. False synchronicity inflates the ego and feeds specialness, confirmation bias, and spiritual narcissism. I share practical tools that bring it all into daily life: a shadow inventory practice, somatic integration in the body, active imagination, and simple dreamwork that builds a real relationship with the unconscious over time. If you are ready for depth, not fluff, press play, share this with a friend on the path, and leave a review so more people can find Body Wisdom Rising. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

  6. Apr 25

    A New 7 Year Cycle Has Begun— Uranus Enters Gemini

    Send us Fan Mail The pace is speeding up, and you can feel it in your mind, your body, and the collective field. Uranus has entered Gemini, kicking off a long, intense cycle of accelerated communication, rapid technological change, and truth moving faster than many of us can integrate. I share why this transit matters, how it differs from the slower friction of Uranus in Taurus, and why “lightning meeting lightning” can feel exhilarating one moment and unsettling the next. I also unpack the difference between predictive astrology and evolutionary astrology. Rather than treating transits like fixed fate, we explore them as invitations for soul evolution and free will. The same disruption can crack you open or overwhelm you, depending on your resourcing, your inner work, and your ability to stay grounded. With Uranus in Gemini, discernment becomes non-negotiable, especially as AI and algorithms make it easier than ever to sound credible without being embodied or true. From there, we get practical. I talk about the nervous system as the ultimate technology for this era and how dysregulation can drive reactivity, avoidance, people pleasing, freeze, collapse, and the expand-then-crash cycle. You’ll get journal prompts to help you slow down, return to your body, and set an intention for the next seven years as a living ceremony. If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who feels the acceleration, and leave a review so more people can find Body Wisdom Rising. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

  7. Apr 10

    The Threshold: Jung, Spiritual Emergency, and the Rising Feminine

    Send us Fan Mail We’re moving through a collective threshold where old identities fall away fast, and what looks like loss can be the start of real alignment. We name the cycles behind this moment and ground it in nervous system regulation, shadow work, and the full-spectrum feminine that knows how to dismantle what’s dead and build what’s true.  • cyclical time across traditions and why transitions feel like fire  • Kali Yuga, Fourth Turning, and the sense of collective acceleration  • nervous system capacity as the limiter on visibility, love, leadership, and change  • somatic healing and attachment patterns shaping what feels safe to receive  • Jung’s individuation and shadow work speeding up in collective crisis  • becoming a container who can hold uncertainty without collapsing  • Grof’s spiritual emergency and why support beats suppression  • regulation as what makes sustained awakening possible  • reclaiming the feminine as creation and sacred destruction  • three integration anchors: name what is dying, tend your nervous system, find your people  • reflection questions to deepen grief, power, and community  I have a very small favor to ask you if you are enjoying these episodes, if you are receiving value from them, if you could just take a quick moment to leave a review as it really helps the podcast grow and reach more people.  If something in you said yes while you were listening today, if you felt recognized somewhere in this conversation, come to the masterclass on May 20th, because this is the work that we are going to be doing together, not just intellectually, but in your body where change actually lives. So you can find the link in the show notes, and hopefully I will see you there.  Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

  8. Mar 31

    Relationship Realignment: The Truth About Twin Flames, Soulmates, Karmics & Spiritual Illusions

    Send us Fan Mail We question the soulmate and twin flame labels that keep people stuck in longing, fantasy, and unhealthy attachment. We bring the focus back to nervous system wisdom, conscious partnership, and practical rituals that help us choose safety, self trust, and aligned love.  • relationship realignment during spiritual awakening and times of change  • how soulmate and twin flame language gets distorted online  • discernment when a connection becomes an energy leak  • why intensity and synchronicity do not guarantee alignment  • attachment patterns as nervous system responses and ancestral inheritance  • what divine union looks like in practice: safety, truth, reciprocity  • somatic check in prompts for self abandonment and overgiving  • a simple full moon ritual to pull energy back to self  • healing attachment wounds through friendships, family, and solitude  • grief, anger, and ritual after karmic or abusive relationships  • letting go of the victim story and choosing co-creation going forward  If it resonated with you, please let me know. You can reach out to me on Instagram. And if you aren't already, make sure that you get on my email list. Alyssa's IG: @wildfemininerise Work With Alyssa: The Calling —A 9 Month Initiation Into Your Soul's Assignment In Service— 1:1 Soul-Led Leadership Mentorship The Awaken Experience— 7 Day Retreat In Costa Rica with Alyssa & Dr. Jesse Free Meditation —Positive Timeline Activation Watch Alyssa's episode on Lead With Heart

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Body Wisdom Rising is a podcast for people navigating deep change — awakenings, identity shifts, healing, and the sense that the old ways of living no longer work. We’re living in a time of collective disillusionment and awakening. Many are being asked to slow down, feel more, and re-orient their lives — often without support from systems that were never designed for this kind of transformation. This podcast offers a grounded way to make sense of these experiences by reconnecting to the body as teacher, the Earth as stabilizer, ancestral wisdom as context, and spiritual support rooted in lived experience. I’m Alyssa Stefanson, Somatic and Ancestral Healing Guide, and host of Body Wisdom Rising. Each episode weaves together somatic healing, nervous system regulation, ancestral remembrance, and earth-based wisdom to support personal and collective healing. We speak honestly about initiation, death-and-rebirth cycles, trauma, addiction, disconnection, and what becomes possible when familiar identities fall away and something deeper begins to emerge. If you’re navigating change and looking for a grounded, embodied way to understand what’s happening — you’re in the right place. Body Wisdom Rising — where remembering becomes medicine. IG: @wildfemininerise

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  • Creator
    Alyssa Stefanson
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    75
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Body Wisdom Rising
  • Show Website
    Body Wisdom Rising