🎙 Episode 19 of "In Presence We Trust" is here!
I invite you to join me and Aaron Kleinerman not only for this inspiring conversation, but also the follow-up where we swapped roles and Aaron interviewed me for his podcast (link in comments).
Aaron is one of the world’s leading Men’s Embodiment Coaches, he is a Tantric Practitioner, and the best-selling author of The Embodied Man.
With a master’s degree in spiritual psychology and decades of experience learning from transformational leaders in the fields of sexuality and psychology, Aaron has developed a unique, trauma-informed approach to his work.
In this episode, we explore the many facets of Aaron’s journey—from navigating ships as a licensed captain to navigating human souls as a transformational leader.
We dive into his teachings on embodied leadership, integrity as a facilitator, and the vital role of slowing down for integration.
We also touch on the power of attunement, navigating projections in group spaces, and the unique challenges of leading work that involves sacred sexuality.
This conversation is full of wisdom, vulnerability, and insights into what it means to hold transformational spaces with authenticity and care.
So, take a deep breath, settle in, and join us for a rich and meaningful conversation with the amazing Aaron Kleinerman.
🎙 Episode 19 of "In Presence We Trust" is here!
I invite you to join me and Aaron Kleinerman not only for this inspiring conversation, but also the follow-up where we swapped roles and Aaron interviewed me for his podcast (link in comments).
Aaron is one of the world’s leading Men’s Embodiment Coaches, he is a Tantric Practitioner, and the best-selling author of The Embodied Man.
With a master’s degree in spiritual psychology and decades of experience learning from transformational leaders in the fields of sexuality and psychology, Aaron has developed a unique, trauma-informed approach to his work.
In this episode, we explore the many facets of Aaron’s journey—from navigating ships as a licensed captain to navigating human souls as a transformational leader.
We dive into his teachings on embodied leadership, integrity as a facilitator, and the vital role of slowing down for integration.
We also touch on the power of attunement, navigating projections in group spaces, and the unique challenges of leading work that involves sacred sexuality.
This conversation is full of wisdom, vulnerability, and insights into what it means to hold transformational spaces with authenticity and care.
So, take a deep breath, settle in, and join us for a rich and meaningful conversation with the amazing Aaron Kleinerman.
Sacred Fire: Being met is the key to healing
I'm really moved (and maybe also a little shy) to share this moment with you - a raw excerpt from my recent podcast conversation with Alma Omega Maegan Melissa -
As we discuss SACRED FIRE: Awakening Primal Power ໑ BERLIN ໑ (beginning in ONE WEEK!), I open up about my own healing journey that changed my relationship with my personal power.
What I discovered was revolutionary: the healing doesn't come from emotional release alone. While many practices focus on expression “and getting it out," I found that true integration happens when I am genuinely met in my power - whether that shows up as anger, rage, passion, or expansiveness.
This is why Sacred Fire is different. We create a container where you're not left alone with "too much." Instead, you're fully seen and supported as you step into your authentic power. It's in this relational space where deep healing begins.
We live in a world that conditions us to shrink, to suppress our anger, to make ourselves smaller. This suppression leads to collapse, numbness, or toxic patterns. But when we dare to be witnessed in our fullness - that's where transformation happens.
Ready to be met in your power? Ready to transform anger and rage into passion and purpose?
Now is as good of a time as I can ever remember to take this space, and use it.
Really excited to go there alongside Ilan Stephani & Alma Omega!!
Come burn with us. 🔥
In Presence We Trust: DJ Alma Omega
Holy Shift!
🎙 Episode 17 of “In Presence We Trust” is here with special Guest, DJ Alma Omega aka Meagan.
Alma Omega Maegan Melissa and I are getting ready to enter into our first collaboration in just over 1 week outside of Berlin - SACRED FIRE: Awakening Primal Power
So, as you can imagine we had a lot to speak into around our shared resonance for this work and our commitment to opening and holding this space together.
If you don’t already know her, DJ Alma ∞ Omega, is an embodied artist, DJ, and holistic coach who has spent over two decades weaving together the worlds of dance, music, embodiment, and community. She beautifully integrates her roles as an Open Floor Embodied-Dance Teacher, Ritualist, Grief Tender, and Mid-wife for the Soul to create transformative spaces that foster joy, connection, and purpose.
In this conversation, we dive into Maegan's journey as a facilitator and artist, exploring the powerful role of music, dance, and ritual in her life.
We discuss the pivotal moments that led Maegan to use music as a channel for healing and how her multicultural influences have shaped her vision of collective empowerment.
Together, we also reflect on the significance of embodiment practices in today’s world, the role of rage and grief as catalysts for personal and collective transformation, and the importance of vulnerability in the journey of self-discovery.
I think I said it several time in our conversation but I so want to say it again— I really honor and value this woman, her mission and everything she stands for as a embodied being not afraid to go to the places and spaces that matter to create the HOLY SHIFT we are so longing to see today.
Enjoy this sweet, gentle conversation with some fiery flames of activation and if you really enjoy it consider joining us Nov 20-24 just outside of Berlin for the embodied version of this dialogue.
Find out more and get your ticket at www.becomingthemedicine.org.
I am honored to be part of Becoming The Medicine, a virtual summit happening from Nov 7-10, where I’ll be speaking alongside an extraordinary group of over 30 visionaries, healers, change-makers, and creatives.
Together, we are committed to sharing the depth of our personal journeys—our stories, our wisdom, and our medicine—for the purpose of inspiring you to find and embody yours.
Becoming The Medicine is a 100% non-profit event, with all proceeds going to support injured and displaced children and families in Palestine. This is an opportunity to connect with a variety of teachings and simultaneously be part of global goodness.
If you’re ready to find out what’s possible when we allow ourselves to rise from the mud and ashes of life’s hardships, I invite you to join us live or access the recordings to move through the content at your own pace.
I’ll be speaking on Nov 7th and sharing my workshop, “Motherhood as an Initiation into our Medicine.”
I can’t wait to explore this topic alongside Phoenix Waters and with you.
Links to register can be found in the images below.
🩵💛💙 #becomingthemedicine
Sacred Fire 🔥 Awakening Primal Power
“Once and for all unlearning the game of trying to be pretty, unlearning the game of trying to be right, unlearning the game of trying to be somebody. Even wanting to be somebody is sabotage.”
- Ilan Stephani
In one month Ilan Stephani and I will open the space for “Sacred Fire” 🔥 together we are inviting you to join us for this multi-day retreat, a ceremonial unfolding where we will be offering the unique opportunity to shed layer after layer, descending deeper into the core of our hearts roar, open to what’s waiting underneath all the layers of suppressed rage, passion, power, and pure firy energy.
We will offer an opportunity to experience this as a titrated build-up, beginning slowly and leading to the full activating embodiment of pure, unfiltered, life force.
If you are ready to walk the path of burning for truth, to unleash your hearts yearning for primal love, and to embody the divine essence that is your true nature, then SACRED FIRE: Awakening Primal Power calls to you.
Come burn with us 🔥
The Facilitation Podcast with Shawn Roop
“I went from teaching people how to kill, to teaching people how to love.”
So excited to share another episode of “In Presence We Trust” with you!
In this special episode I speak with Shawn Roop, of Tantra Quest.
Shawn has such a delightful energy— he’s like warm honey, or a delicious milkshake, or even the sunshine.
Shawn has a very natural ability to be totally down-to-earth and this relatability is a thread throughout his work where he is able to make ancient tantric teachings accessible for everyday life.
In this episode we speak about Shawn’s journey from Military service to becoming a Tantric facilitator and guide. (This is a fascinating story and journey!)
I love how much we share so much in common about continuing to teach from our own embodied evolution— where the things we teach or facilitate are a direct reflection of our own journey and deepening.
Also in this episode I feel to name how generously open Shawn is about his learnings as a group facilitator. There is an exquisite vulnerability and candid honesty that I respect and honor so much.
I hope you enjoy yet another beautiful journey with me and Shawn in episode 12 of The Facilitation Podcast!
The Field Facilitator Training
I am so proud of The Field Facilitator Training and the way it continues to evolve, through deep listening and organic expression. This training has taken on a life of its own, expanding in ways I could never have predicted.
Today, I feel especially touched witnessing the courage, vulnerability, and heartfelt passion pouring out of those who have chosen this path of becoming field facilitators.
Tomorrow, we will announce The Field Winter Gathering—an event led by our current year-long cohort. The invitation will be open to all who feel called to join us this December in Glastonbury, UK, for an immersive journey of connection, embodiment, and play.
On Saturday, we kick off our first-ever weeklong edition of The Field Facilitator Training with a vibrant and diverse group of participants. This is a momentous milestone, as we welcome more male participants than ever before—a beautiful shift in balance, given that previous trainings have been predominantly female-bodied.
Excitingly, our first-ever one-day MasterClass in Field Facilitation in Brussels, announced just last month, is already nearly sold out!
And just this week, Catherine Hale and I revealed another pioneering initiative: our first-ever six-month Online Trauma-Informed Facilitation Certification, launching February to July 2025.
There is so much more to come in 2025, but for now, I want to savor the richness of this moment and extend an open-hearted invitation to anyone ready to join us on this powerful, pioneering exploration of what it truly means to be a field facilitator.
Links below
The Field and Self-led Transformation
At the heart of everything I do is a commitment to self-led transformation.
This is the opposite of handing over authority to a teacher or guru and following someone else’s ideas and guidance in way that would lead to disempowerment.
One of the most exciting opportunities and challenges here for me, is all the elements that go into creating the space, curating the people, the right conditions, and the environment where you can tap into your own inner wisdom and allow your own natural transformation to blossom and become.
When we surround ourselves with the right people, in a safe and supportive setting, healing and growth become a natural response — it’s what the body wants to do.
I find that true transformation isn’t something we force; it’s something we allow.
Our greatest challenge is often getting out of our own way — quieting the thinking mind and allowing ourselves to sink into the deeper, embodied knowing that’s already there. When we can do that, the changes that come are not only sustainable but also fully integrateable into our everyday lives.
This is why I’m so passionate about the style of group facilitation that I teach in The Field Facilitator Training . It’s all about creating the conditions for people to lead their own process while being held in a container that supports real, lasting transformation.
It’s the most alive, authentic, and powerful way I’ve found to work, and I could dedicate my entire life to its success.
This work feels like what we’re all truly longing for — to come home to ourselves, supported by a beloved humans, in a way that’s both profound and deeply human.
One week countdown to the first-ever weeklong Field Facilitator Training in the Netherlands!
What I’ve come to love about Field Facilitation is how it’s always a unique immersion into the raw, living pulse of human connection—where each moment weaves us deeper into the fabric of each other’s lives. 🕸️
Each of us brings our own thread of truth, and together, we create something far greater than the sum of our parts.
The bonds formed—especially among the facilitation team—are unlike anything else. They aren’t just friendships or even family; they’re a new kind of relationship, built on showing up fully, confronting what’s real, and celebrating the shared purpose that comes from touching collective truth. Together.
These connections become woven into the very fabric of my life.
Next week, I have the honor of co-weaving with Christian Pankhurst and Maanee Chrystal Lyn Joy in a way we never have before. We’ve all played together, created our own bodies of work, and grown communities, but this time we’re combining our strengths in a way that feels uniquely special.
Our skill sets complement each other beautifully, and what we’re offering isn’t just a facilitator training—it’s a transmission of leadership, entrepreneurship, and community building that taps into something much deeper.
What makes this training so special is that it’s a one-of-a-kind constellation—a moment in time that may never be replicated in quite the same way.
Like threads in a tapestry, this group will come together to create something uniquely beautiful, and then we’ll let it go, trusting its impact will ripple out in ways we may never fully see. That’s the magic of this work—its impermanence makes it precious.
We have five spaces left in The Field Facilitator Training 2024 ໑ The Netherlands, and if you feel called, I’d love to have you with us.
This isn’t just about tools and skills—it’s about stepping into a community of practice, real,
In Presence We Trust: Ilan Stephani
Imagine having the intention to live life being as completely, utterly naked as possible — what would it give you? Who could you be?
My guest on episode 11 of “In Presence we Trust” lives her life with exactly this devotion.
I can promise you don’t want to miss this breathtaking introduction to Ilan Stephani- a modern mystic, renowned author, cultural researcher and group facilitator who is easily unlike anyone you have ever met.
*I must admit* It starts to get a little bit ridiculous now how I could call every single episode of this facilitation podcast my favorite- but they all are! and this one, in all its own rights, is phenomenal.
I experience Ilan as a walking quote generator. Everything she says is profound, every word is rich and complex and meaningful.
I am so excited and truly humbled to be able to collaborate with her on our upcoming retreat “SACRED FIRE: Awakening Primal Power ”🔥
I find Ilan’s perspectives and values both fascinating, alluring and so resonant to my own.
In her own unique poetic way she describes her drive and passion behind holding groups in this clip:
“How do we create spaces where being human isn’t boring? Where we live up to the potential of the situation- where there is enough safety, enough consciousness and enough risk… enough intensity, enough daring, and enough failure.”
The best way to describe how I felt after this conversation was: TURNED ON ❤️🔥
It’s just sooo good! Check it out and let me know all the ways you are impacted by the force that is this incredible woman and soul.
The Facilitation Podcast “In Presence We trust”
“I want to be like Laurie when I grow up!”
I can imagine countless people saying this. Laurie Handlers, the guest on episode 10 of “In Presence We Trust,” is simply magnetic.
Laurie is the embodiment of wisdom, playfulness, and unapologetic self-expression. Our conversation was a dance through the enchanted waters of relationships and intimacy.
We explored what she and her beloved call “the 4 R’s”—a transformative framework for navigating “Resentment, Resistance, Revenge, and Righteousness.” This is gold for anyone seeking more authentic, loving connections.
Additionally, we shared our own journeys of love, the messy, beautiful lessons learned, and the alchemy of true communication.
Laurie also opened up about maintaining desirability, embracing aging as a sacred journey of growth, and reclaiming joy and self-care at any stage of life.
So, pour yourself a warm cup of tea, and dive into this rich, heartfelt conversation. It’s an episode that’s sure to touch your heart, bring a smile to your face, and maybe even inspire a few tears of laughter.
Minimally you are bound to walk away with new insights on love and intimacy— but you might also get a newfound respect for the art of being unapologetically yourself.
