Ancestral Alchemy Podcast Journey

Ancestral Alchemy Podcast Journey

A Hero's Journey from Dysfunction to Harmony

Welcome to the Ancestral Alchemy Podcast where we discuss generational trauma and the path from Dysfunction To Harmony.  
Each episode features an inspiring interview with a practitioner, coach, or medicine woman who shares their journey and the tools they use to feel stronger, wiser, and more connected. 

1. Understanding Your Nervous System with breath master, Chris Wurden
2. Understanding Your Inner Kosmos with transformational sexuality coach, Matt Sturm
3. Understanding Systemic Family Constellations with a psychotherapist, Lisa Kurytnik 
4. Understanding Collective Trauma with the Evolving Sisters Wisdom Circle, Lori Creevay, Nimisha Ataraxia, Sandi Melland

Let the journey begin...

Episode 1: Understanding Your Nervous System 

Interview with an expert in Breathwork, Chris Wurden
Released August 5th. 2024. This Episode is now LIVE

BIO: Chris Wurden is a Human Energy Systems Specialist, Breath Worker & Wellness Advocate.
Chris holds certifications in the Wim Hof Method, Language of Breath, Advanced Oxygen Advantage, Buteyko, Advanced Yoga Practices and Yoga Nidra.
Chris guides people towards optimized nervous systems, stress relief, peak performance, & overcoming challenges like anxiety, asthma, & allergies through breathwork. 
Learn more at https://essentialbreathworks.com/ 

Practice: 

• Measure your Control Pause time
• Practice Balanced Box Breathing for 2+ minutes

Timestamps (Soundcloud Audio):

• [02:48 ] How trauma affects our nervous system
• [6:50] Breathwork as a philosophy 
• [8:00] Sympathetic & Parasympathetic nervous systems 
• [11:00] Why breathwork is important for generational healing 
• [16:00] Nervous system flexibility: How to use breath to bring your body into safety 
• [18:00] What is Functional Breathing
• [20:45 - 28:00] Measuring your Functional Breath: The Control Pause test ** ← Homework Practice
• [28:40] About different breath modalities 
• [33:08] How to structure your breathing practice 
• [37:30] Breath as a way to build relationship with your body 
• [39:30] How to create your breathing practice
• [42:14] Box breathing exercise, feminine/masculine approach 
• [1:00:00 - 1:13:00] Balanced Box Breathing ** ← Guided Breathwork Homework Practice 
• [1:15:00] Warning around the pattern of avoiding

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Episode 2: Understanding Your Inner Kosmos 

Interview with a Masculine Sexuality Coach, Matt Sturm
Worldviews & The Sensitivity Cycle
Released, August 12, 2024. This Episode is now LIVE

BIO: Matt Sturm is a guide for transformational experiences. Matt runs the Living Kosmos integral mystery school, focusing on the evolution of consciousness at the intersection of science and spirituality. Matt is the author of The Organic Masculine, which is a workbook to connect with the life-affirming masculinity available to us all.
Learn more at https://livingkosmos.com/ 

Soul Homework: 

This week, Matt and I invite you to practice the Hakomi Sensitivity Cycle and reflect on the barriers you encounter. 

• Insight Barrier:
  Feeling lost, unclear what action to take.
  - “I just don’t know what I want”

• Response Barrier:
  Knowing what to do but struggling to take action, procrastinating, busy doing the wrong things)
  - “I’m clear about what I need to do, but I’m not taking the appropriate action”

• Nourishment Barrier:
  Taking action but not feeling the reward or satisfaction (never feeling satisfied, keep eating even when already full, not being able to receive)
  - “I take the action, but don't feel like it matters”

• Completion Barrier:
  Struggling to finish tasks or feeling incomplete even after they’re done.
  - “I have many unfinished projects, I’m not able to feel complete”
   

Keep reflecting on these barriers and how they’ve shown up in your life.

Timestamps:

• [2:30 - 13:00] The Evolution Of Worldviews by Ken Wilber
• [4:30] Archaic & Magical Tribal Level Worldviews 
• [6:10] Mythic Traditional Worldview
• [7:30] Mental Modern Paradigm 
• [9:20] Plural Postmodern Worldview
• [10:50] Integral Worldview
• [13:30] Guilt, Shame & The Worldviews
• [15:50] Drama Triangle
• [19:30 - 25:00] Hakomi Sensitivity Cycle
• [22:33] Insight Barrier
• [23:00] Response Barrier
• [23:33] Nurishment Barrier
• [24:44] Completion Barrier
• [25:55] How To Harmonize Your Life** ← Soul Homework
• [29:20] Practicing the Sensitivity Cycle
• [35:00] The pattern of exclusion (exiles) & the path towards elaboration
• [38:00] The pattern of not receiving & the practice of allowing
• [40:00] The Expanded & Contracted States 
• [42:42] The Organic Masculine & Feminine Rising

👉 BONUS:  REPLAY of LIVE Q&A with Matt Sturm

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Episode 3: Understanding Systemic Family Constellations 

Interview with a Psychotherapist & Wilderness Coach, Lisa Kyritnik
Released August 19th. 2024. This Episode is now LIVE

BIO: Lisa Kurytnik (Ker - IT - nik) is a psychotherapist with private practice in Canada. Lisa is trained in Somatic Experiencing, attachment-based EMDR, Hakomi Experiential Psychotherapy, and hypnotherapy. Lisa is also proficient in hiking endurance training and she has hiked from Mexico to Canada. Lisa offers  wilderness therapy for women involving backpacking and systemic constellations taking clients on a journey to greater freedom, alignment, and expansion.

Soul Work: 

• Listen to a guided meditation "Inner Journey with the Parents​"​​​​​​ (16 min)

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