Documentaries/Movies:

Aloha! I decided to make a separate post about films that I think might interest some of you on various topics about consciousness.

1. The Way of the Psychonaut: About Stan Grof’s life as a psychiatrist. He explored psychedelics and their impact on patient’s psyches and the ways they helped to transform their lives.

2. E-Motion: Documentary about emotions and how they impact our lives physically, mentally, and spiritually more than we think. Very good and transformational!

3. Yogic Paths: This series goes through the different limbs of yoga. Exploring more fully yoga’s roots and its healing qualities. I watched this on Gaia. Gaia is a great channel for more films, documentaries, and series on these types of topics.

4. Sensitive: The Untold Story: This is all about a personality trait people have which makes them HSP (highly sensitive people). This effects about 20% of the population; including me! After watching this documentary, I wanted to cry. It suddenly all made sense. If you (or someone you know or love) may think you are a HSP, than I recommend watching this. For more information on HSP check out their website: https://hsperson.com

5. Heal: I highly recommend this documentary to those that are looking to heal themselves; not just physically, but including the mind, emotional, and spiritual bodies as well. We get inside information from various healers across multiple disciplines on how our belief systems really do affect the way we heal and if we heal! Very cool!

Podcasts I Love:

At the beginning of my spiritual journey I found myself listening to A LOT of podcasts that dove into the many realms of consciousness such as astrology, angels, the awakening process, meditation, yoga, mysticism, holistic health, etc. They really helped me on my path as they still do now.

When I first started the awakening process, the life I knew before suddenly felt very strange to me. It was almost as though I had been awakened from a dream. Thus, spiritual awakening! I didn’t know who to talk to about what I was feeling inside, what was happening to me, and what I should do about it. I thought I was legit going crazy, as do others whom I’ve talked to while on this path.

Listening to others through podcasts talk about their own experiences, how they dealt/deal with it, as well as well as how they incorporate it into their everyday lives helped me realize I wasn’t alone, wasn’t going crazy, and what to do about the path I was now traveling on. Here is a list of some of my favorite podcasts, if you have any you would like to share, please feel free to comment. Most can be found on iTunes and Spotify. Enjoy!!

1. The Highest Self- Sahara Rose: Aryuveda, dharma, interviews, past lives, literally everything you need to dive into spirituality

2. The Woke Mystix: Mysticism, astrology, intuition, self-care

3. Sattva Himalayan Wisdom-Anand Mehrotra: Consciousness and inner wisdom

4. Cosmic Body-Danielle Paige: She has a great awakening story & amazing astrologer

5. Yogaland-Andrea Ferretti: This one dives deeper into yoga teaching and practices

6. Unlocking Us-Brene Brown: Brene is a shame expert and if you haven’t watch her TedTalk, read or listened to one of her books I strongly encourage you to. She is awesome:)

7. On Being- Krista Tippett:She interviews a variety of people on the big questions of meaning.

8. Magic Lessons-Elizabeth Gilbert: She is author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love. I’ve only just started listening to her podcast. So far I am learning a lot!

9. Armchair Expert-Dax Shepard: I’ll admit I was hesitant about this one. My sister told me about it so I took a chance and I thoroughly enjoy it. Dax is very honest and real about big issues in his life and so are the guests on his show.

10. Mysterious Universe-Aaron Wright and Benjamin Grundy: Just started listening to this podcast and I absolutely love it! Both Wright and Grundy have a lot of wit and humor as they talk about various topics such as shamanism, ancestral healing, lucid dreaming and more! Highly recommend.

11. Storytelling Magic & Medicine-Shannon Kelly and Tara McDermott: I found this podcast recently, and boy do I love it! Kelly and McDermott bring in various women on the show who tell their stories. This podcast is full of wisdom and love.

12. Radical Remembrance-Conversations on Being Human with Luna Love: I have been listening to this podcast a lot recently. All about women in leadership postistions. Navigating their own businesses and leading in a feminine way!

13. Manifestation Babe-Sooooo good!! I seriously resonate with her so deeply. This podcast is all about how to manifest your dream life, challenge your beliefs, and live a life aligned with your highest and true self.

14. The Life Coach School Podcast-This podcast has given me some serious wisdom on how to up-level my life, make changes that serve me, as well as tools to help my coaching clients. Highly recommend for anyone, but especially coaches.

15. The HEAL podcast-A wonderful podcast for-you guessed it-all things healing. In this podcast we learn how we all have the ability to hear ourselves with our choices and mindsets. Anything on our healing journey is possible. Based off of the HEAL documentary on Gaia.

16. The Sovereign Project-If you are interested in Human Design and astrology I recommend listening to this podcast by Heather Mann. She goes deep into the mechanics of evolutionary astrology, breaks down human design, and teaches us how we fit into the new paradigm.

Books!

I love reading. It is something I have always done as a child and will most likely do until the day I leave this body. Thankfully most of us humans have the tools to be able to read and write with our hands, eyes, and minds! I am grateful for all of these books for helping me dive deeper into my consciousness and the workings of my inner self.

I would like to add that knowledge can be power. But always use this power with good intentions. Sometimes I find myself reading just because I want more knowledge, which can be another ego trap. (I’ll get into that in another post). I always try to remind myself as to why I am reading what I’m reading, what do I feel about the content, and how can I implement it within my life if it resonates with me. Taking time to rest, reflect, and digest can do wonders for the soul.

Now then, here is a list I have cultivated. Feel free to add any more you feel align in the comments below! Most can probably be found on Amazon, or perhaps used bookstores (shopping local is a good idea).

1. The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho: Purpose/Dharma/Personal Legend

2. Siddhartha-Hermann Hesse: Enlightenment

3. Mother Earth Spirituality-Ed McGaa: Native American Spirituality

4. Rainbow Tribe-Ed McGaa: How non-natives can practice/incorporate Native American Spirituality

5. Dancing the dream-Jamie Sams: Paths to the inner self, Native American Spirituality

6. The Book of Awakening-Mark Nepo: Poetry and everyday examples and stories

7. A New Earth- Eckhart Tolle: Becoming aware, calming the mind and emotions

8. The Power of Now- Eckhart Tolle: Focusing awareness on present moments

9. The Untethered Soul-Michael A. Singer: Releasing attachments

10. How to Change Your Mind- Michael Pollan: History and uses of psychedelics

11. The Way of Zen-Alan Watts: How to live according to the way of Zen perspectives

12. The Wisdom of Insecurity-Alan Watts: One of my favorite books, I’ve read it many times, and learn something new every time.

13. The Yamas & Niyamas-Deborah Adele- Goes through the first two limbs of yoga. Five ways to practice restraint, and five ways to embrace on and off the mat. Highly recommend, even if you don’t practice yoga!

14. The Bhagavad Gita-This one has a lot to say about consciousness, the mind, and emotions, a lot of layers, a lot of profound wisdom.

15. Healing Wise-Susun Weed-A different way of healing the body, mind, and spirit! Not necessarily western, not alternative, but a mix/third approach. I really enjoyed this one as well, especially as a woman who experiences monthly cycles.

16. Ayurveda-Sahara Rose-Bringing the traditional ways of the sister science of yoga (Ayurveda) to the western audience in more simplistic terms. Great for anyone interested in healing themselves with Ayurvedic techniques.

17. On the Road- Jack Kerouac-Isn’t considered as spiritual. But I really love this book and what it had to say about living life in the moment and enjoying the ride.

18. Daring Greatly- Brene Brown-This book is what the title says. Let going of our fears that keep us from living a loving life with an open heart. Its all about daring greatly and diving into the uncomfortable by living a vulnerable life. I’ve read this book twice and will most likely read it many more times.

19. The Four Agreements-Don Miguel Ruiz-Living your life by the four agreements as described by Ruiz: 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.

20. Break The Norms-Chandresh Bhardwaj- He talks about myths that are associated with spirituality/society and how we can break them as well as decide for ourselves what works best.

21. Ishmael-Daniel Quinn-My bf really wanted me to read this and I am glad that I did. It is about a gorilla criticizing modern society and how it is harming us all.

22. Awakening Intuition-Frances Vaughn-This is a good book if you want to become more acquainted with your intuition. Vaughn gives many different practices you can engage in and also talks about roadblocks on the road to intuition.

23. Ecological Intelligence-Ian McCallum-Wonderful book about our connection to the natural world and what we can do to become more connected to ourselves, nature, as well as what we can do to help the environment. Also includes a lot of poetry, whoo!!

24. You Are A Badass: How To Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living An Awesome Life-Jen Sincero-A friend recommended this book to me (thanks Bri!!) and I think I read it in like two days. Life-Changing. If you are ready to leave your doubts and fears behind, to take control of your life, and make some much-needed changes, then pick this book up! It fucking rules.

25. How To Do The Work: Dr. Nicole LaPera: Beautiful book written by psychologist Nicole LaPera. She takes a holistic approach to our healing and offers us things we can do along the way back to our journey of health and wholeness. It isn’t an easy journey but it is definitely worth it. Just like reading this book!

26. Braiding Sweetgrass: Robin Wall Kimmerer: A very enlightening book on our lost connection to our plant siblings and how we can re-establish this connection through indigenous wisdom and spending time communing in the natural world. A truly beautiful story.

27. If Women Rose Rooted: A life-changing journey to authenticity and belonging: Sharon Blackie: Wow. I think this is one of my absolute favorite books. Blackie talks about her own journey towards reclaiming her authentic self as a woman through myths and personal stories. Highly recommend.

28. Walking Softly: Thomas D. Peacock: A story about the path of an Ojibwe man’s life to becoming an elder and what it means to be in alignment with ourselves and the world around us. I really loved this story.