Turn Up Your Light with Joya Sosnowski: Sound Medicine & Women's Spiritual Awakening

That Mystic, Rev. Dr. Joya
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Every week, sound medicine woman and Doctor of Sacred Music Joya Sosnowski shares transmissions for the woman who knows — at some cellular level — that she is more than she has been living. This is a podcast about women's spiritual awakening through the body. Not around it. Not despite it. Through it. Joya teaches that your whole life — the loss, the collapse, the beautiful wreckage of becoming — is not an obstacle to your spiritual path. It is your spiritual path. And your body, from earth to crown, from Hara to Soul Star, is the sacred instrument that proves it. Each episode is designed as transmission medicine — somatic, soulful, and grounded in 30 years of sound healing, mindfulness, and sacred feminine wisdom. You won't just think differently after listening. You'll feel differently.  Because the goal isn't information. It's restoration. Restoration of what? Your access to your own knowing. Your intuition. Your expanded perception. The inner signal you've always received but were taught to doubt, override, and explain away.  This podcast exists so you can hear it clearly again — and trust what comes through. Joya received her deepest teachings through the loss of her son Weston. She is a bridge between worlds, a frequency translator, and a woman who walks the path she teaches. For the woman in spiritual transition — after loss, divorce, an identity that no longer fits. The one at 2am who cannot think her way out of what she's in and needs something to shift in her bones before the episode ends. Stop seeking. Start being. Your life is the way. Turn Up Your Light. New transmissions every Wednesday.  Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you receive your medicine.

Episodes

  1. Identity Rebirth After Loss: How Grief Rewires Who You Become

    2h ago

    Identity Rebirth After Loss: How Grief Rewires Who You Become

    Send us Fan Mail Your identity can feel solid until life interrupts the script. When reality changes fast, through death, heartbreak, illness, or even the quiet realization that you don’t want what you used to want, your brain’s predictions get scrambled and your sense of self goes with it. I talk about what “identity rebirth” actually means, why so many people are feeling an identity crisis right now, and how disruption can become a doorway instead of a dead end. We dig into the neuroscience idea of the predictive brain and how repeated thoughts shape your wiring, your nervous system, and the life you build next. I share why grief is more than death, it’s the loss of anything meaningful, and how the mind can accidentally get stuck rehearsing the worst day. From there, I offer a grounded path for grieving awake: staying in the present moment, practicing radical acceptance, and treating yourself with real kindness when the ego is panicking and everything feels messy. You’ll also hear the core practice I lean on to rebuild from the inside out: choosing a truth that lights you up, holding faith in your heart, and building trust through action in your gut and nervous system. We zoom out to purpose and collective consciousness too, including the reminder that purpose doesn’t have to be big or public. Sometimes it’s as simple as dancing in your garden and meeting each moment without masks, steady in who you are and flexible in how you respond. If this resonates, subscribe, share it with someone walking through change, and leave a review with the one truth that lights you up right now. joyasosnowski.com Join The Sisterhood Follow me on IG Email me

    18 min
  2. Grieving Awake - Soul-Centered Aliveness After Loss And Identity Shifts

    6d ago

    Grieving Awake - Soul-Centered Aliveness After Loss And Identity Shifts

    Send us Fan Mail Grief can feel like everything is breaking, but what if it’s also your identity being rewired and your real self trying to come back online? I’m sharing a personal milestone I’ve been holding close: finishing my book, Grieving Awake, and the heart of what it’s really about. This is not an “escape the world” spirituality. It’s a grounded, embodied path I call soul-centered aliveness, where you learn to live in your skin as a soul wrapped in skin, even when loss dismantles who you thought you were. We talk about grief as more than bereavement: it’s the emotional process that follows any meaningful loss, including relationships, roles, and the old version of you. I unpack how qualities of aliveness differ from personality labels and why your deepest qualities aren’t something you earn or invent. They’ve been there the whole time. We also go into how wounds and ego masks hijack those gifts, why plant medicine without integration can leave your nervous system mid-rewire, and what it means to ask, “What is happening inside of me?” before you chase another breakthrough. Then we map the transformation through four movements you can practice: truth that lights you up, faith as your active imagination, trust as your nervous system’s default, and surrender as the moment repetition finally becomes embodied change. I close with a simple grounding practice you can do anywhere when everything feels like it’s going haywire. If this resonates, subscribe, share this with someone going through an identity shift, and leave a review so more people can find this work. joyasosnowski.com Join The Sisterhood Follow me on IG Email me

    24 min
  3. Let This Full Moon Sound Journey Hold You

    Jun 3

    Let This Full Moon Sound Journey Hold You

    Send us Fan Mail I'm under a tight book deadline this week, so I'm gifting you this sound journey. Your nervous system knows when it’s time to stop pushing. This week, we’re sharing a full moon sound journey that’s meant to be felt, not analyzed a deep guided meditation you can put on with headphones, exhale into, and let your mind sink into a calmer brainwave state. Quick safety note from us up front: don’t listen while driving. Choose a quiet space where you can truly let go.  As the journey unfolds, we invite you to “run into yourself” with tenderness and honesty. We lean into gratitude for what’s already aligning for your soul’s next expansion, and we make a clear request for growth that comes with ease and grace. This is mindfulness as restoration, a full moon ritual that helps with stress relief, emotional processing, and coming back to center when life feels loud.  Toward the end, we move into intention setting in a way that’s embodied and simple. You’ll bring forward your intentions, prayers, and what you’re most deeply desiring, then imagine it blooming like a rose inside your heart until it becomes your North Star. We also make room for the whole truth of being human your grief, your pain, your joy, your pleasure and remind you that all of it is welcome here.  If you’ve been craving a deep meditation, a sound bath style reset, or a gentle way to reconnect with yourself under the full moon, press play and come back to it whenever you need. Subscribe to Turn Up Your Light, share this with a friend who needs a soft landing, and leave a review so more listeners can find these practices. joyasosnowski.com Join The Sisterhood Follow me on IG Email me

    42 min
  4. The Future of Channeling is Direct Knowing - It's All ONE Thing.

    May 28

    The Future of Channeling is Direct Knowing - It's All ONE Thing.

    Send us Fan Mail Channeling. Grief. Light upgrades. The Divine Mother. If those words pull something open in your chest, you’re in the right place. We’re sharing a deeply personal thread that starts with a simple question: what if “channeling” isn’t a separate being speaking at all, but direct knowing from wholeness landing in the body as truth? I talk about clear cognizance, felt experience, and the way guidance can arrive so plainly that the mind immediately tries to doubt it.  From there, we move into loss and love. I share how much I miss Weston’s physical presence, and the message that came through with unmistakable tenderness: “I haven’t gone anywhere. I’m right here.” That moment becomes a bridge into a bigger spiritual teaching: “it’s all one thing.” We explore the Divine Mother frequency and the Magdalene frequency as energies within a unified field, and I offer a bubble-wand metaphor for Source, creation, and why separation can feel real while still being an illusion. If you’ve been seeking spiritual awakening that stays embodied and honest, this will meet you there.  We also get practical about what happens after spiritual expansion. I describe the “pullback” that can follow a mystical opening, how the conditioned self can fight to survive through fear, habits, or sudden waves of grief, and why repeatedly asking “why is this happening” can lock the nervous system into the same painful loop. Then we do something you can feel immediately: the Mother’s Breath, a simple breathwork meditation that brings golden-white light into the high heart and releases pain into the arms of the Divine Mother.  If this supports you, subscribe for more practices, share this with someone who’s grieving or waking up, and leave a review so more people can find the work. What part of your life is asking to be held in love right now? joyasosnowski.com Join The Sisterhood Follow me on IG Email me

    26 min
  5. The Imperceptible Process of Becoming: Why You're Not Stuck, You're Reorganizing

    May 20

    The Imperceptible Process of Becoming: Why You're Not Stuck, You're Reorganizing

    Send us Fan Mail Nothing feels like it’s moving, and that might be the most honest sign that something real is happening. We talk about the “messy middle” of becoming the stretch of time where you feel stuck, late, unclear, or unrecognizable to yourself, and why that experience can actually be a sacred, intelligent phase of reorganization rather than failure.  We connect the inner upheaval of grief with what happens when your identity story starts to loosen. When the default mode network gets disrupted, the narrative of “who I am” can fall apart, and the nervous system often panics and scrambles for familiar ground. We share why rushing to rebuild the old self can keep you trapped, and how choosing to stay present with discomfort can slowly teach your body that it’s safe to live differently now.  You’ll hear metaphors that make this terrain easier to trust: grass growing that you can’t see day to day, a forest regenerating under ash after a fire, and “compost” as the way an old life becomes fuel for new aliveness. We also share a vivid “bubbles” visualization of source, breath, and oneness, then guide you through a short embodied practice to notice where you’re holding your breath and release tension through shaking, breath, and sound.  If you’re walking through change you didn’t choose, let this be your reminder: it can look like nothing, while everything is transforming beneath the surface. Subscribe for more, share this with a friend who feels stuck, and leave a review with the line that hit you hardest. joyasosnowski.com Join The Sisterhood Follow me on IG Email me

    14 min
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Every week, sound medicine woman and Doctor of Sacred Music Joya Sosnowski shares transmissions for the woman who knows — at some cellular level — that she is more than she has been living. This is a podcast about women's spiritual awakening through the body. Not around it. Not despite it. Through it. Joya teaches that your whole life — the loss, the collapse, the beautiful wreckage of becoming — is not an obstacle to your spiritual path. It is your spiritual path. And your body, from earth to crown, from Hara to Soul Star, is the sacred instrument that proves it. Each episode is designed as transmission medicine — somatic, soulful, and grounded in 30 years of sound healing, mindfulness, and sacred feminine wisdom. You won't just think differently after listening. You'll feel differently.  Because the goal isn't information. It's restoration. Restoration of what? Your access to your own knowing. Your intuition. Your expanded perception. The inner signal you've always received but were taught to doubt, override, and explain away.  This podcast exists so you can hear it clearly again — and trust what comes through. Joya received her deepest teachings through the loss of her son Weston. She is a bridge between worlds, a frequency translator, and a woman who walks the path she teaches. For the woman in spiritual transition — after loss, divorce, an identity that no longer fits. The one at 2am who cannot think her way out of what she's in and needs something to shift in her bones before the episode ends. Stop seeking. Start being. Your life is the way. Turn Up Your Light. New transmissions every Wednesday.  Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you receive your medicine.

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