Sacred Sundays

Ross Tayler

Sacred Sundays is a weekly audio experience to nourish the spirit and invite a slower, more sacred rhythm of being. This space is for those longing for a deeper connection with themselves, the Earth, and the unseen. Whether you are walking through the woods, washing dishes, or pausing with a mug in hand, Sacred Sundays invites you to listen with an open heart. Hosted by Ross Tayler. New episodes shared weekly.

  1. 3h ago

    Nina Fields | Tuning In, Not Tuning Out | Sacred Sundays

    What if the anxiety, the pain, and the restlessness are not problems to be solved but invitations to come home? In this conversation with Nina Fields, registered therapeutic counsellor, intuitive healer, and lifelong Buddhist practitioner, we explore what it means to hold space for another person's healing without trying to do it for them. Nina shares how her own path through difficult transitions, a challenging childhood, divorce, and single parenthood shaped her into a practitioner of deep resilience and quiet presence. We talk about somatic therapy, why the body holds truths the mind keeps trying to talk over, and how slowing down is not a loss of productivity but the very gateway to wisdom. Our conversation moves through Buddhist philosophy, the practice of staying here, improv as a tool for presence, and the intuitive gifts Nina has learned to trust in her work with clients. She speaks to the craving beneath all suffering, the difference between checking in and checking out, and why anxiety is not an enemy but a dinner bell calling you back to yourself. We also explore what it means to build a healing space rooted in nature, community, and the quiet conviction that people already carry everything they need. Slow down. Take a breath. Let whatever arises, arise. In this moment, you are already okay. Guest Name: Nina Fields https://www.theheartfulhealer.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/theheartfulhealer/https://www.instagram.com/thehealingspacebritanniabeach/ Check out Ross Tayler's work at https://www.rosstayler.com/

    46 min
  2. Jun 7

    Barry Samson | Soma Knows | Sacred Sundays

    What if the part of you that has always known the answer has simply been waiting for you to stop drowning it out? In this returning conversation with Barry Samson, we go deeper into the heart of his writing project and the concept he calls Soma, the ancient wisdom that lives in the body and speaks to us in the simplest possible language. Yum and yuck. Move toward or move away. Barry makes the case that our emotional apparatus is not a chaotic weather system to be managed but a navigational architecture so precise that if we follow it, flourishing is not just possible but inevitable. We talk about the nervous breakdown that finally made him stop and listen, and why he now considers Soma not just a guide but a tyrant he trusts completely. Our conversation moves into relational projects, feedback, and why connection can only deepen through honesty rather than niceness. Barry speaks to the power of pods as a space where multiple nervous systems reflect the truth back to one person at once, and why that geometry makes the saboteur nearly impossible to hide behind. We also explore how clean relationships are the single highest leverage point for anyone in distress, and what it means to be a relational agent rather than a relational victim. This is a conversation about the architecture already inside you, waiting to be followed home. She whispers before she shouts. Follow her instructions and you flourish. Defy them and you suffer. That is the whole menu. Guest Name: Barry Samson www.emotionalwind.org Check out Ross Tayler's work at https://www.rosstayler.com/

    42 min
  3. May 24

    Alanna Brennan | Whose Peace Are You Keeping? | Sacred Sundays

    What if the voice you lost wasn't taken from you all at once, but quietly silenced one unspoken no at a time? In this conversation with Alanna Brennan, sound healer, voice coach, and founder of Womb Reclamation, we explore the profound connection between the voice and the body's two centers of creation. Alanna shares how the sacral and the throat are not separate systems but one, and why everything we have been unable to say eventually shows up in the body as pain, tension, or breakdown. We talk about the body as a keeper of truth, why the fascia holds memory, and what becomes possible when we stop asking the mind to lead and start listening to what the body has known all along. Our conversation moves through boundaries, anger, sound as medicine, and the long journey from people pleasing to authentic power. Alanna speaks to her own experience of physical crisis as the moment her body finally forced the no she couldn't yet choose, and what happened to her voice once she started setting boundaries. We explore why humming, toning, and chanting are not just spiritual tools but physiological ones, how sound can alchemize a scream into something sovereign, and why the path back to yourself runs straight through the places you have been most afraid to go. You are the divine. Sound is you as the creator, creating. Come back into the body. It has been waiting. Guest Name: Alanna Brennan http://www.wombreclamation.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/wombreclamation/ Check out Ross Tayler's work at https://www.rosstayler.com/

    51 min
  4. May 17

    Darrell Greenwood | Playing in the Destiny | Sacred Sundays

    What if the chaos you survived was never the obstacle to your gifts, but the very thing that forged them? In this conversation with Darrell Greenwood, author of the multidimensional storybook Lantern on the Longship, we explore what it means to be a highly sensitive person moving through a world that rarely makes room for that. Darrell shares his journey from a childhood wired for feeling everything, through years of unconscious coping, into a committed healing path anchored in breathwork, nature, and the courage to go into the darkness and come back with something to offer. We talk about the body as a library, the stories stored in our chest long before we have words for them, and what becomes available when we finally stop running from what we feel. Our conversation moves into quantum physics, multidimensionality, emotional regulation, and the quiet revolution of choosing love over victimhood when the pressure is at its highest. Darrell speaks to the clean slate that greets us every morning, the medicine of bare feet in the grass, and why discipline reframed through imagination becomes something we want rather than something we endure. He also reflects on what it means to do your inner work not just for yourself but for the entire lineage behind you and the collective ahead. Sit down. Close your eyes. Let the breath find its way into the belly and the heart. That is the key. It has always been with you. Guest Name: Darrell Greenwood https://www.rootedwithlove.net/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/rootedwithlove_workshops/ Check out Ross Tayler's work at https://www.rosstayler.com/

    50 min
  5. May 10

    Onyx Rose | Shine Your Light | Sacred Sundays

    What if the gifts you've been holding back are not just yours to keep, but medicine the world is waiting for? In this conversation with Onyx Rose, performing artist of mixed Irish and Native heritage, we explore what it means to live from your inner compass and let that alignment become the creative force that moves through everything you do. Onyx shares the story behind her debut song Shine Bright, how it was born in the middle of the night in three separate waves, and why she chose to anchor herself in the energy of the song's intention rather than the fear of the recording booth. We talk about the lower chakras, the shadow work that lives beneath the light, and why true radiance has nothing to do with performance and everything to do with permission. Our conversation moves through ancestral wisdom, embodiment, the rhythm that lives in all of us long before we find a practice to name it, and the quiet sovereignty that comes from sourcing yourself from within. Onyx speaks to her prayer for ease and grace, her decision to move her family to Costa Rica in six weeks, and the way she has learned to let joy be the compass rather than the destination. Whether you are sitting with a creative longing, a healing path, or simply the question of what you would do if nothing stood in the way, this conversation holds a generous space for all of it. Breath. Heartbeat. A stone in your pocket. The sacred is never far. It is already in you. Guest Name: Onyx Rose https://www.onyxrosemusic.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/onyxrosemusic/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCATZlCYF8jUicrkNOJ3YcdQ Shine Your Light Guide: https://www.onyxrosemusic.com/syl Chinese Astrology & Feng Shui readings: https://www.goldensight.net/ Check out Ross Tayler's work at https://www.rosstayler.com/

    42 min
  6. May 3

     Barry Samson | The River of Distress | Sacred Sundays

    What if everything you've been calling depression is actually a signal, and the system designed to guide you home has been inside you all along? In this conversation with Barry Samson, social entrepreneur, writer, and founder of the Depression Confessions, we explore what happens when we stop being afraid of emotional pain and start getting curious about it. Barry shares his own journey from a suicidal teenager to someone who has spent decades building relational containers where nothing is too hot to handle. We talk about the river of distress, why conventional therapeutic responses so often miss the mark, and what becomes possible when a group of people simply refuse to be frightened of what someone is carrying. Our conversation moves into the nervous system as our most sophisticated navigational tool, and why the check engine light we keep taping over is the very thing trying to lead us back to ourselves. Barry speaks to the power of pods, small groups of people committed to honest presence with one another, and why dysregulation resolves not through years of individual therapy but through the simple, ancient medicine of being truly witnessed. We also explore the emotional life we were designed to live, and why the path out of the river isn't complicated once we stop treating our own depths as something to manage and start treating them as something to follow. Your emotional pain is not the enemy.It is trying to tell you something important.Get curious. Let it lead you home. Guest Name: Barry Samson barryjsamson@gmail.com Check out Ross Tayler's work at https://www.rosstayler.com/

    53 min

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Sacred Sundays is a weekly audio experience to nourish the spirit and invite a slower, more sacred rhythm of being. This space is for those longing for a deeper connection with themselves, the Earth, and the unseen. Whether you are walking through the woods, washing dishes, or pausing with a mug in hand, Sacred Sundays invites you to listen with an open heart. Hosted by Ross Tayler. New episodes shared weekly.