Wisdom Rising
Shamanism, Reiki, Spirituality, Personal Development, and More. It’s time to re-member your Divine purpose and limitless potential. Welcome to Wisdom Rising, the official podcast of Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. Join Shamanic Reiki practitioners Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa as they guide you on a journey of radical self-discovery and spiritual guidance. Each week we dance through the realms of shamanism, mysticism, energy healing, and personal development to illuminate your path to true healing and self-sourced wisdom. Through weekly inspired conversations and interviews with leading spiritual and shamanic practitioners, we’re here to help you acknowledge, reconcile, and balance your energy so that you can awaken to the whispers of wisdom rising within. You can follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube at MoonRisingInstitute, or visit our website, moonrisinginstitute.com, to learn more about our mission and find future opportunities to connect with our community of Shamanic mystics.
Episodes
As Fall season arrives, it is time to lean into Bear Medicine—hibernation, nourishment, and quiet, embodied power—to map a practical path for this liminal time between fall and winter. From soup and soft pajamas to breathwork and silent integration, we explore why slowing down isn’t avoidance; it’s intelligent design. Rest becomes the ritual that metabolizes emotion, integrates spiritual upgrades, and prepares you...
Join us for a interview by Shantel to discuss what it truly means to walk the shamanic path with the global awakening and shifts in consciousness happening today, and how to honor our own spiritual journeys with patience and authenticity. Our guest shares messages from ancestral and spirit guides, offering insight on how ancient teachings can guide us toward meaning, connection, and balance in the modern world.
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Pleasure feels different when it’s allowed to rise from root to crown. We take you inside sacred sexuality through a clear, no-dogma tour of the seven chakras and show how breath, sound, and movement unlock whole-body arousal, deeper consent, and a more creative, connected sex life. Christine Renee and Jim Macdonald share personal stories from years of Reiki, chakra facilitation, and tantra training, then map sacr...
What if six simple breaths could flip your system from scattered to centered and prime your body for real energetic change? Christine Renee explores how intentional breathing supports Shamanic Reiki—from using the exhale to help clients release stagnant energy to a full microcosmic orbit practice that “power washes” your chakras with focus and care.
She then maps the microcosmic orbit: inhale up the back, exhale d...
Imagine opening a conversation about sex that begins with safety, truth, and reverence. We invited our community into a live, guided experience of sacred space and the three keys of Tantra—breath, sound, and movement—to show how everyday intimacy can become a powerful energy practice. No jargon, no shock value, just clear tools you can try right away to feel more alive, connected, and grounded.
In this episode, we ...
What if spiritual practice didn’t pull you out of your body—but brought you deeper into it? After a month of eclipses, team changes, and heartfelt goodbyes, Christine turned to Tantra not as dogma, but as a grounded, embodied way to meet life. With guest (and her beloved) Jim Macdonald, they unpack what Tantra means to them: a practice of self-love that integrates sexual energy with spirit through the simple, pote...
A clean ending can be the most powerful kind of beginning. In this deeply moving episode, the Moon Rising team gathers in ceremony to honor Isabel’s transition from her leadership role—celebrating the gratitude, the transformation, and the golden curiosity for what’s next. This is an intimate glimpse into how a spiritual community navigates real change with honesty, ritual, and reverence.
Together, Christine, Shant...
Sometimes a quiet nudge changes everything. In this heartfelt episode, Isabel shares her decision to step away from her leadership role at Moon Rising and follow the intuitive call toward a new vision — Gateway House of Healing.
Joined by Shantel, we open an honest conversation about what it means to trust your intuition, honor change before things “get bad,” and move through transitions with grace and alignment.
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✨ What if your hardest relationships are actually teachers, and your recurring triggers are maps guiding you toward healing? In this episode, we explore how Soul Contracts and Spiritual Archetypes form a living framework for meaning, growth, and purpose.
From the four universal shadow archetypes—the victim, saboteur, prostitute, and child—to their light expressions as warrior, magician, lover, and sovereign child, ...
Your lower four chakras — Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, and Heart — form the energetic foundation of your life, shaping your sense of safety, creativity, confidence, and connection.
When these chakras are out of balance, it can show up as fear, self-doubt, blocked creativity, or disconnection from your personal power.
In today's episode, Shantel and Isabel will guide you through:
🌿 Understanding the ener...
What if the parts of yourself you’ve been hiding aren’t broken—but the very key to your healing? In this transformative episode on shadow work and self-healing, Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa reveal why shadow work isn’t about battling your “dark side,” but instead learning to love, accept, and integrate the hidden aspects of yourself.
Christine shares a vulnerable story about her own shadow activation around bo...
What if your inner child healing journey could be filled with joy, creativity, and magic—rather than only revisiting trauma? 🌿 In this powerful episode, shamanic Reiki practitioners Christine Rene and Isabel Wells share a groundbreaking approach to inner child work that blends deep emotional healing with wonder, play, and soul connection.
You’ll discover:
✨ The difference between your wounded inner child...
What if the stories you tell yourself are the very chains keeping you stuck? In this powerful episode, Christine and Isabel explore how past trauma shapes your identity, limits your potential, and disconnects you from your intuition — and how you can finally break free.
From a Shamanic perspective, your life is created by the stories you carry. When those stories are rooted in wounds, they act like invisible “hooks...
What if the beliefs holding you back aren’t “you” at all—but subconscious programs written before you turned 10? In this powerful episode, Isabel Wells unpacks how limiting beliefs shape your reality, block your intuition, and keep you repeating the same patterns no matter how hard you try to change.
✨ This episode is a replay of our live Soul Rising webinar on limiting beliefs—a powerful class that had participant...
We’ve all heard the mantras: “Raise your vibration.” “Think positive.” “Manifest your dream life.” But what if these well-meaning ideas are keeping you stuck?
In this raw and transformative episode, Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa take you beyond surface-level spirituality and deep into shadow work—where real healing, embodiment, and manifestation begin.
Together, they unravel how the mainstream Law of Attraction ...
Psychedelics and plant medicine have become increasingly intertwined with modern spiritual practices, but are these substances truly necessary for profound spiritual experiences? This question sits at the heart of our candid conversation about the relationship between Shamanism, plant medicine, and psychedelics.
The conversation delves into the long-term integration process of psychedelic experiences, con...
What if your spiritual path was never meant to follow someone else’s map?
In this illuminating episode, Christine Renee, Isabel Wells, and Chantelle Ochoa explore how shamanism provides a powerful foundation for authentic spiritual growth—precisely because it's rooted in direct experience, not dogma.
Together, they challenge spiritual hierarchies and the belief that healing means fixing what’s broken. Instead, ...
Feeling disconnected from your spiritual path, or wondering if there’s a right way to be spiritual—or if you’re doing it “wrong”? You’re not alone.
In this soul-stirring episode, Christine and Shantel dive into what it really means to walk an authentic spiritual path—one that honors you as a whole person, not a fragmented version trying to fit into someone else's mold.
We'll talk about how to stop outsourc...
Sandra Ingerman, world-renowned shamanic teacher and author, joins us for a powerful conversation about how to break free from illusion, heal soul fragmentation, and walk through darkness to reclaim joy. Drawing on over 40 years of shamanic practice, Sandra shares how the cycles of suffering we face today are echoes of the past—and how reclaiming our soul energy is the key to breaking those patterns.
In a world whe...
Sacred ground has a way of speaking directly to our souls and opening us up to magical experiences. In this episode, Christine, Isabel, and Shantel all gather together to reflect on the magic that was created in the first Moon Rising Shamanic Reiki Retreat.
Our first Shamanic Reiki retreat together revealed profound truths about ceremonial living, feminine connection, and the power of intentional containe...
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