Living Your Design

Living Your Design

The LYD podcast is a free, audio-only release of the standard foundational Human Design curriculum as taught by IHDS Certified LYD Guide, Kelsey Rose Tortorice. This transmission of Human Design fundamentals clarifies the basics, including core principles and mechanics, centers, aura type, strategy, authority, and profile. Kelsey demystifies these concepts so that listeners can understand how every piece is rooted in a clear, cosmic, mechanical system, as well as how they’re all synthesized together for practical, differentiated, embodied application. Kelsey (5/2 emotional manifestor) is a lover of nuance, a challenger of the binary, an agent for upheaval, and a natural at finding ways to make the complex systems of Astrology & Human Design intuitive, organic, and accessible. People from all points on the novice to seasoned spectrum are drawn to Kelsey's teachings and transmissions on these languages of cosmos and consciousness - less because of what they already know or don’t know and more because they feel a resonance with Kelsey's voice and the potential for impact that their spirit craves. The LYD podcast is a great place to begin your Human Design studies. It's also a fitting place to fill in the holes from self-study, to challenge the superficial understandings that are especially susceptible to mental distortion, or to revisit these foundations with the intent to integrate them in a more rooted, intuitive, personal, and radically honest way.

Episodes

October 30, 2025 46 mins

In this episode, we begin our two part exploration on the Reflector, which the rarest of all Human Design types, representing about 1–1.5% of the population. Reflectors are completely open beings with no defined centers, designed to sample, measure, and mirror the health of their environments and communities.

Kelsey unpacks the mechanics of the Reflector aura and explores what it means to be a lunar being in a solar world. This conv...

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In this episode, we continue our 2 part exploration of the Projector through diving into the experience of recognition, success, bitterness, and guidance. Projectors are designed to master the art of seeing and knowing the other, but this wisdom can only emerge through correct invitations, self-recognition, and deep deconditioning.

Kelsey explores the energetic challenges of being a non-energy type in a Generator world, the sacred r...

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October 23, 2025 67 mins

In this episode we begin our 2 part exploration of the Projector aura type in Human Design. Projectors make up about 20% of the population who's auric function is not designed to work like Generators or initiate like Manifestors, but rather to see, absorb, and guide the energy of others.

Kelsey unpacks the mechanics that define a Projector and explores how their focused, penetrating aura is designed for one-on-one connection and dee...

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October 21, 2025 52 mins

In this episode, we continue our exploration of the Manifestor, including the relational and energetic dynamics of what it means to be a Manifestor (i.e., Informing, anger, peace, and impact). As a Manifestor herself, Kelsey dives into the misconceptions of informing so you can see your Strategy not as a way to control you, but as a practical tool for reducing resistance and honoring the Manifestor’s inherent independence.

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October 16, 2025 59 mins

In this episode, we begin our exploration of the Manifestor type, which is the only type designed to initiate in Human Design. Making up roughly 9% of the population, Manifestors are here to bring new impulses into form, to start movements, and to catalyze energetic change in the world.

Kelsey dives into the mechanics that define a Manifestor and the experience of carrying a closed, repelling aura that is designed to move independen...

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October 14, 2025 39 mins

In this episode, we continue our two part conversation on the Generator type by exploring the difference between Generators and Manifesting Generators and how both are here to transform life through work that they love. Kelsey also dives into how the Sacral response serves as the body’s innate guidance system and how Generators are designed to know themselves through what they respond to and create.

This conversation invites Gener...

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October 7, 2025 34 mins

In this 2 part episode, we begin our exploration of Type, with the Generator. These Sacral beings make up around 70% of the population. Generators are the life force of the planet, designed to respond to life rather than initiate it. Through the mechanics of their defined Sacral Center and open, enveloping aura, Generators produce energy when they engage with what truly satisfies them.

Kelsey also unpacks the deeper meaning of “wor...

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October 7, 2025 34 mins

In this episode, we begin our exploration of Aura Type, which is the foundational synthesis of the Human Design system. Type takes the infinite complexity of the Bodygraph and makes it universally accessible, offering a practical entry point into the deconditioning process.

Kelsey dives into how Type weaves together definition, openness, strategy, and themes, and why awareness of your Type alone can be transformative. By aligning wi...

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September 30, 2025 29 mins

In this episode, Kelsey dives into the final center lecture with the G-center, which plays a unique and special role. The G-Center is the home of the Magnetic Monopole, which is moves us along our unique trajectory in life and operates based on resonance. Our mind is designed to be a passenger in the vehicle (our body) and the G-center acts as the driver of that vehicle.

We’ll look at how the G-center operates when defined versus u...

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September 30, 2025 30 mins

In this episode, Kelsey dives into the Ajna Center, which is our mental awareness center in Human Design. Rooted in logic and reasoning, the Ajna is always seeking answers through formulating and conceptualizing thoughts, opinions, beliefs and ideas. However, what is externalized through the Ajna is not intended for personal use but rather for others. It's here to be an outer authority for others, not as your own inner authority.

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September 23, 2025 34 mins

In this episode, Kelsey dives into the Splenic Center, which is the oldest awareness center in the Bodygraph. Rooted in instinct, survival, health, and well-being, the Spleen communicates through spontaneous, moment-to-moment hits of intuition that tell us what is and isn't safe and supportive for life.

We’ll look at how the Spleen operates when defined versus undefined, how conditioning shapes our relationship with fear and intuit...

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September 23, 2025 22 mins

In this episode, Kelsey introduces the three awareness centers in the Human Design Bodygraph: the Spleen, Ajna, and Solar Plexus. These centers provide us with perception, recognition, and knowing. Each center has a different focus and time orientation. Together, they chart an evolutionary trajectory of awareness from instinct, to mental strategy, to emotional depth.

We’ll explore how awareness operates both differently when origina...

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September 16, 2025 33 mins

In this episode, Kelsey dives into the Emotional Solar Plexus, which serves two functions as an awareness hub and a motor. This is the seat of emotional awareness, experiential knowing, and the energy to emote, which makes it one of the most powerful and complex centers in the Human Design system.

We’ll look at how emotional authority functions, the role of the wave in decision making, and the difference between defined and undefine...

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September 16, 2025 26 mins

In this episode, we turn to the Ego Center (also known as the Heart Center), which is the smallest and most inconsistent of the four motor centers in Human Design. Despite being one of the smallest centers in the Bodygraph, containing only 4 gates, it is the fuel for willpower, commitment, competition, and material reality. This center also holds deep themes of self-worth, value, and self-esteem.

Kelsey explores how the Ego functio...

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September 9, 2025 41 mins

In this episode, we're diving into the Sacral Center, which is the most powerful motor in the Human Design Bodygraph, fueling life force, vitality, creativity, and sexual energy. The Sacral is what defines the Generator and Manifesting Generator Type by providing consistent and renewable energy to be used in ways that feel satisfying.

Kelsey explores how this major motor operates when defined versus undefined, the role of satisfacti...

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September 9, 2025 21 mins

In this episode, Kelsey introduces the four motor centers in the Human Design Bodygraph. The motor centers act as energy hubs that fuel movement, action, and sustainability in the Bodygraph. These centers determine how we generate, direct, and utilize energy, and play a defining role in the mechanics of Type.

We’ll look at the unique functions of the Sacral, Root, Solar Plexus, and Ego centers, as well as how their definitions shape...

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September 2, 2025 39 mins

In this episode, we're diving into the Throat Center, which is also known as the manifestation hub of the Human Design Bodygraph. The Throat is the place where pressure from the Head and Root is released, and where energy becomes expression, communication, action and impact.

Kelsey explore's how the Throat Center operates when defined versus undefined, how conditioning distorts authentic expression, and why this center is often tied...

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September 2, 2025 28 mins

In this episode, we turn our attention to the Head Center, which is the mental pressure center in Human Design. The Head is the source of inspiration, doubt, mystery, and confusion, providing the spark that begins the process of thought and conceptualization.

Kelsey explores how this pressure operates when the Head is defined versus undefined, what it means to be influenced by others’ questions and ideas, and how to navigate the not...

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August 26, 2025 35 mins

In this episode, we continue our exploration of the nine centers by taking a deeper look at the Root Center, which is the source of pressure, stress, and adrenaline in the Human Design Bodygraph. As both a pressure center and a motor center, the Root provides the ignition that gets energy moving in the body, shaping how we experience urgency, timing, and stress.

Kelsey goes into depth on how the Root functions differently when defin...

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August 26, 2025 16 mins

In this episode, we begin our deep dive into the nine centers in the Human Design Bodygraph by exploring the Pressure Centers (Root and Head) as the starting point for how energy moves through our system. All of the energy in the 9 centers is trying to make its way to the Throat Center to be expressed. Kelsey explains how pressure is both inevitable and essential, and how our attempts to avoid, escape, or compulsively relieve it of...

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