Wisdom Rising

Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa
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Shamanism, Reiki, Spirituality, Personal Development, and More. It’s time to re-member your Divine purpose and limitless potential. Welcome to Wisdom Rising, the official podcast of Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. Join Shamanic Reiki practitioners Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa as they guide you on a journey of radical self-discovery and spiritual guidance. Each week we dance through the realms of shamanism, mysticism, energy healing, and personal development to illuminate your path to true healing and self-sourced wisdom. Through weekly inspired conversations and interviews with leading spiritual and shamanic practitioners, we’re here to help you acknowledge, reconcile, and balance your energy so that you can awaken to the whispers of wisdom rising within. You can follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube at MoonRisingInstitute, or visit our website, moonrisinginstitute.com, to learn more about our mission and find future opportunities to connect with our community of Shamanic mystics.

  1. 15h ago

    Marketing For Healers Who Refuse To Fake It with Guest Kimra Luna

    Send Us a Message! The internet is louder than ever, and a lot of “experts” look convincing right up until you pay them. I sit down with my long-time business coach, Kimra Luna, creator of Be True Brand You, to talk about what actually holds up over time: a clear message, real results, and relationships you can feel. We go back to her early days of Googling how to start a blog, learning from podcasts, and building community from the ground up, then trace how that same resourceful approach becomes a repeatable marketing strategy for online entrepreneurs. In this episode we'll explore:  🌕 Kimra’s path from learning basic tech to building a thriving online brand 🌖 Community building through genuine connection and support 🌗 Why oversaturation and viral culture can create fake expertise 🌘 Relationship-first marketing as a trust reset 🌑 Meeting ideal clients where they already consume content 🌒 Serving students well through Q&A and real access 🌓 Selling tangible outcomes instead of vague spiritual buzzwords 🌔 Long-form content strategy with smart repurposing into short clips 🌕 Details on the Be True Brand You program starting September 17th For our Reiki practitioners, shamanic healers, and spiritual entrepreneurs, Kimra shares practical guidance you can apply today: niche down, sell a tangible outcome, and write copy that sounds like a real human speaking your client’s language. We also unpack the downside of letting AI write your messaging for you, and why long-form content still converts when you want deeper clients who are ready to do the work. If you’re curious about Kimra’s next Be True Brand You round starting September 17th, we share what’s inside and why it’s designed to be customized to you. Subscribe, share this with a friend building a heart-led business, and leave a review so more people can find the show. Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

  2. Aug 24

    Presence Turns Breath, Sound, And Movement Into Intimacy

    Send Us a Message! Christine Renee and Jim Macdonald share a grounded, beginner-friendly approach to sacred tantra that puts presence first, not technique, performance, or perfection. We talk about tantra as an experiential path of expanding aliveness by combining conscious awareness with energy flow, then moving that energy through three keys you can practice anytime: breath, sound, and movement. We also clear up a common misconception: tantra isn’t only for couples and Shiva and Shakti aren’t gender labels. They’re inner principles that live in every person. When we learn to sense what’s happening inside us, we get more honest about what we want, what we fear, and where our boundaries are. That self-awareness makes it easier to communicate without collapsing into people-pleasing, defensiveness, or shame. From there, intimacy becomes what it’s meant to be: seeing and being seen, knowing and being known. You’ll get a simple guided practice to help you land in your feet, track sensation, add sound, invite the spine into movement, and notice what changes when you slow down and stay present. We also talk about the real skill of the work: returning when you lose presence, and using that moment as a pathway back to connection. We close with ways to go deeper through upcoming offerings, including: 🌹 She Who Rises, the Inner Temple online women's only training beginning September 28th 🌹Intro to Sacred Tantra training in Austin, Texas January 15-18th, 2027 If this resonates, subscribe, share it with someone you want more presence with, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What’s one moment where you most want to stay present: during touch, during conflict, or during a hard conversation? Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

  3. Aug 17

    Somatic Healing Tools For Safety And Connection with Wilder Akasha

    Send Us a Message! Your body is not being dramatic. It is being honest. Christine Renee sits down with Wilder Akasha, a somatic coach and embodied leadership guide, to talk about what happens when trauma, stress, and long-held survival strategies get stored in the soma and start running the show. Drawing from more than three decades across education, leadership, somatics, mindfulness, energy work, and embodied personal development, Wilder explores the intersection of self-trust, relationship, sexuality, and human transformation. We explore a simple shift that can change everything: treating emotions like signals you can welcome, not threats you have to suppress. Along the way, Wilder shares how curiosity and connection are not soft skills, they are biological design, and how the nervous system is always scanning for one thing: safety. In this episode we'll explore: 🌕 Welcoming feelings as signals that want acknowledgment 🌖 Being born wired for connection and curiosity 🌗 Recognizing fight flight freeze appease patterns in the soma 🌘 Practicing radical responsibility without self-abandonment 🌑 Noticing how suppressed truth can become physical symptoms 🌒 Tools to find your “home within yourself” 🌓 Calling in spiritual support to expand capacity in hard moments 🌔 Repurposing vigilance from scanning for danger to scanning for good 🌕 Mapping comfort stretch panic zones and taking body snapshots 🌖 Defining tantra as moving energy to support healthy relationships The conversation opens into matriarch embodiment and the weight many women carry through patriarchy, leadership, and the second shift, plus tools for finding “home within yourself” anywhere. Wilder also offers a grounded, trauma-informed definition of tantra as learning to generate and move energy through the body so you feel supported by the earth, connected to source, and capable of healthier relationships. Her vision is a world in which people have the self-trust and embodied awareness to make choices that are truly their own, the relational skills to create honest and nourishing connection, and the courage to build lives that reflect who they are becoming. If this resonates, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find this work. Wilder lives and works in Hawai‘i and California and is developing her writing, speaking, retreats, and teaching through Cultivating Aliveness and the Hawaii School of Tantra. Links to connect with Wilder: cultivatingaliveness.io hawaiischooloftantra.com wilderakashagrace.com Book referenced on this episode: The 5 Personality Patterns by Steven Kessler Moon Rising Shamanic Institute is sponsoring the Intro to Sacred Tantra, a 4-day tantra training in Austin, Texas January 15-18th, 2027 where Wilder Akasha and Jim Macdonald will be facilitating. Christine Renee, host of the Wisdom Rising podcast, will be there assisting as well. Learn more and register here: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/intro-to-sacred-tantra/ #somatichealing #connection #spiritualpodcast #tantra #traumahealing  Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

  4. Aug 11

    Plant Allies And Real-World Magic With Angela Devani

    Send Us a Message! A plant can be medicine, but it can also be a relationship, and that changes everything. We’re joined by Angela Devani, a Montana-based transformation guide and spiritual herbalist, to talk about what happens when you stop treating nature like a resource and start treating it like a conversation. From herbal walks to hands-on apothecary skills, we explore how plant allies, elemental magic, and energy healing can live inside ordinary life without floating away from reality.  🌕Angela’s path from holistic nutrition to herbal apprenticeships and intuitive healing work 🌖Plant allies as relationship, not just remedies 🌗Using a Peruvian-influenced medicine wheel to link elements, directions, and organ systems 🌘Breath, lungs, and grief as a doorway into embodied healing 🌑Flower essences and how people discover the plants that “call” to them 🌒Asking permission to harvest and what changes when we slow down 🌓Offerings to the land and the practice of leaving a place whole 🌔Upcoming workshops, Gathering of the Mystics, and Angela’s work with the witch wound We also get honest about ethics: asking permission before harvesting, giving offerings like tobacco or cornmeal, filling in the earth, and paying attention when a plant clearly does not want to be taken. Angela tells a powerful story about balsamroot and consent, plus why daily grounding practices like barefoot time on the earth can steady your nervous system. We even nerd out on comfrey, permaculture uses, and what it means to reclaim the “witch” as a historical herbal healer while addressing the witch wound.  If you love plant medicine, shamanic Reiki, flower essences, ethical wildcrafting, and practical mysticism, hit play, then subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find this work. What’s one plant you feel drawn to right now? Learn more about Angela and her offerings here: www.elementalmagick.net Join the mystical fun in Bozeman, MT at the Gathering of the Mystics September 11-13th, 2026! Learn more and register here: www.gatheringofmystics.com Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

  5. Aug 5

    Embodied Presence: Qigong And Dance To Live In The Now with Peter A. Petersen

    Send Us a Message! Your body already knows how to come home, but most of us were taught to live in our heads. We sit down with Peter A. Petersen, a longtime Qigong practitioner and instructor (24 years), meditation teacher, and dance facilitator, to get practical about what embodiment actually is and how to build it through movement, breath, music, and real-time choice. Peter tells the story of his first Qigong workshop and the surprising “trance-like” clarity it sparked: relaxed, present, and suddenly able to feel energy moving through everything. From there we unpack how Qigong, Reiki, yoga, and tantra all point to the same core skill: shifting from past and future into the now so your nervous system can regulate, your intuition can speak, and your creativity can come online. We also talk about why the mind is a helpful first mate but a terrible captain, and how agency grows when your yes and no come from the body instead of fear or people-pleasing. We zoom in on community spaces that support sober connection, including the Austin's Embodiment Festival (Sept 18 to 20). Peter shares how he curates a welcoming, spacious container with an ebb and flow of modalities, plus standout practices like Latihan (blindfolded movement meditation that trains intuition and consent) and a five elements dance journey that moves from grounded to expansive. We close with a grounded reframe of tantra: not a technique checklist, but the ongoing practice of removing what blocks aliveness, intimacy, and authentic connection. Subscribe for more conversations on embodiment, energy healing, Qigong, tantra, and nervous system care, then share this with a friend who needs more presence and less pressure. If it resonates, leave a review and tell us what helps you drop into your body fastest. Here's your quick links to events discussed in today's podcast: Creating a Sacred Sex Life: Connection through Presence Live Webinar August 10th with Jim Macdonald & Christine Renee https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9AnGFdU-TzmVhQWRAabJdQ Intro to Tantra: Awakening to an Ecstatic Life5 Week Online Masterclass starting August 17th with Jim Macdonald & Christine Renee https://moonrisinginstitute.circle.so/c/intro-to-tantra Embodiment Festival, Austin TX Join us September 18-20th for a weekend of embodied exploration, authentic connection, movement, dance, touch, and transformation! Use coupon code Christine10 for a discount! https://www.everydaytantra.com/event-details-registration/austin-embodiment-festival Introduction to Sacred Tantra: Where Spirit & Body Meet in Austin, TexasJoin us January 15–18th, 2027 for a four-day immersive training designed to help you reconnect with yourself through breath, movement, sound, embodied awareness, sacred communication, and energy practices. https://moonrisinginstitute.com/intro-to-sacred-tantra/ Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

  6. Jul 20

    The No-Tissues Rule And Other Retreat Plot Twists

    Send Us a Message! Something changes when women stop performing and start telling the truth in a room that can hold it. We’re back for a “Whispers of Wisdom” catch-up to share what our summer retreats taught us about real community, real healing, and the kind of sacred space that actually follows you home. If you’ve been craving deeper connection, women’s circle energy, or a retreat that feels grounded instead of chaotic, this conversation is for you. We talk about why women gathering in ceremony can feel like a lost art and why it’s returning now. We get into the practical ingredients: clear group agreements, confidentiality, self-responsibility, and the powerful shift from rescuing to witnessing. We also share a retreat detail we love, the no-tissues agreement, because it gently trains agency and nervous system safety without shutting emotions down.  You’ll hear behind-the-scenes stories from our own women’s retreats, including a four-elements arrival flow, cacao, sound bath, mirror work, journaling, pendulum basics, DIY oils, and the importance of pacing. Christine also shares a somatic emotional release ritual from Austin, followed by long integration rest and Reiki to help the body process what it just moved. We wrap with what we’re building next, including potential retreats in Hemet, California, Austin in the spring, and an MLK weekend Sacred Tantra retreat where integration is the heart of the work. Subscribe for more shamanic Reiki, energy healing, women’s retreat wisdom, and sacred space practices, then share this with a friend who needs a softer place to land. Will you leave us a review and tell us what kind of retreat you’re craving most? Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

  7. Jul 6

    Addiction in a Spiritual World of Plant Medicine And Real Alternatives

    Send Us a Message! Plant medicine is everywhere right now and so is the quiet confusion that follows it: Was that healing, or was it just a peak experience I’m chasing again? We sit down with clinical hypnotherapist Derek Ivey to talk honestly about addiction, recovery, and why “spiritual” substance use still carries real risks when the integration piece is missing. Derek shares his own journey through alcoholism, relapse, and the moment he knew he wouldn’t survive if he kept going. From 12-step recovery to Buddhism, Reiki, and deeper consciousness work, we track how shame and suppression can drive the need to alter our state just to feel confident, playful, or connected. We also talk about the cultural normalization of uppers and downers, coffee to push through the day and alcohol to shut off at night, and what changes when we stop forcing our bodies into a schedule that doesn’t fit. We go deep on psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine, including the neuroplasticity window and why it can either support new habits or amplify the inner critic if you return to old patterns. Derek offers a grounded alternative through transpersonal journey work and hypnotherapy: not “renting the view,” but building the window, learning how to access non-ordinary reality and nervous system regulation without needing a chemical shortcut. If you’ve been curious about psychedelics, navigating sobriety, or trying to heal without bypassing your real life, this conversation gives you language, nuance, and practical next steps. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review to help more people find Wisdom Rising. Connect with Derrick at https://www.dgtwellness.com/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/share/1BaDU1qnVB/?mibextid=wwXIfr Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

  8. Jul 3

    Meet Bozeman Energy Healers At A Summer Solstice SpiritFest

    Send Us a Message! A live summer solstice gathering turns into a rapid-fire tour of the Bozeman, Montana holistic wellness scene. We’re at SpiritFest with quick, honest mini interviews that let you feel the heart of a local spiritual community: people showing up to heal, learn, and connect with practitioners who do more than a one-time session. We start with Lauren, the host behind Tree of Life SpiritFest, sharing why she created a platform for retreats, courses, and ongoing support. From there we meet Erin, a mobile massage therapist blending Swedish relaxation with trigger point and treatment work, plus Allie from Lighthouse Bozeman, who brings sound healing into the spotlight with coherent field work and a powerful Sun Gong experience. If you’ve been curious about vibration therapy, gong baths, or sound as medicine, you’ll hear why the “felt” experience matters as much as the explanation. We also talk intuitive tools that help people navigate transition seasons. Sharon Nicole offers astrology readings and oracle readings, tying self-expression and creativity to chart placements, while Monique breaks down mediumship, Reiki, theta healing, and QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique). She explains the theta brainwave state, exploring past-life or ancestral roots of patterns, shifting beliefs that no longer serve, and inviting deeper physical, mental, and emotional healing. The thread running through it all is simple: release what doesn’t fit anymore, trust your intuition, and listen to your body. If you’re looking for energy healing, sound healing, astrology, QHHT, Reiki, or spiritual events in Bozeman, this is a great place to start. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a reset, and leave us a review with the modality you want to try next. CONNECT WITH LAUREN https://www.etherictide.com CONNECT WITH ERYN: https://www.massagebook.com/therapists/sky-to-earth-massage/deals?ncf_source=friendly_url&src=massagebook CONNECT WITH ALLY: https://www.lighthousebzn.love CONNECT WITH SHARON NICHOLE: https://www.sharonnicoleofficial.com CONNECT WITH MONIQUE: https://www.moniqueengland.com/ Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt

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Shamanism, Reiki, Spirituality, Personal Development, and More. It’s time to re-member your Divine purpose and limitless potential. Welcome to Wisdom Rising, the official podcast of Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. Join Shamanic Reiki practitioners Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa as they guide you on a journey of radical self-discovery and spiritual guidance. Each week we dance through the realms of shamanism, mysticism, energy healing, and personal development to illuminate your path to true healing and self-sourced wisdom. Through weekly inspired conversations and interviews with leading spiritual and shamanic practitioners, we’re here to help you acknowledge, reconcile, and balance your energy so that you can awaken to the whispers of wisdom rising within. You can follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube at MoonRisingInstitute, or visit our website, moonrisinginstitute.com, to learn more about our mission and find future opportunities to connect with our community of Shamanic mystics.

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  • Creator
    Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    346
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Wisdom Rising
  • Show Website
    Wisdom Rising

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