Embarking on a journey of inner discovery, Sasha Lipskaia, an intuitive mind coach, joins us to illuminate the oft-misunderstood paths of sacred sexuality and leadership. Sasha generously unfolds her personal evolution, sharing how pivotal experiences propelled her into becoming a guiding light for those seeking to marry self-love with divine service. This episode is your gateway to grasping the embodiment of love, not as a concept, but as an intuitive commitment that goes beyond the self and into the world around us.
As we navigate this conversation, we probe the intricate interplay of our inner feminine and masculine energies, and the way they shape our desires to merge, create, and live vibrantly. Sasha's insights into polarity, intuitive discernment, and the delicate dance of energies offer a new perspective on manifesting our deepest desires. We further probe the shadowy corners of our psyche, where Sasha points out the transformative potential of integrating these unseen aspects, painting a picture of growth that embraces both light and dark within us.
In a world that often disconnects the mind from the body, this episode is an invitation to bridge the two through the wisdom of the heart and womb. Sasha guides us through grounding exercises, breathwork, and a two-part heart dialogue practice that promises to open up channels of creativity and courage. By the end of our time together, you'll be equipped with embodiment practices to keep your daily existence in tune with the profound guidance of your heart, ensuring a life of authenticity and alignment.
Sasha Lipskaia doesn't just offer techniques; she offers a transformative experience that aligns the body with the intuition and wisdom it naturally possesses.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello everyone, welcome to our Spiritual
Spotlight series.
Today I am joined by SashaLipskaya.
She is an embodied, self-loadedteacher, intuitive mind coach,
spiritual guide and sacredsexuality and leadership mentor
to high-achieving andsoul-driven people who want to
go deeper into their true natureof who they are and their life
purpose.
Sasha, thank you so much forbringing us to the Spiritual
(00:24):
Spotlight series.
I'm so happy you're here.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Thank you, garret.
Oh my God, rachel, I almostcalled you, garret, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You called me Garret.
That's fine.
I actually love that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I know I'm like it's where it says right Before us no
, so thank you, rachel Garret.
Thank you, rachel, for havingme.
I'm really happy to be here.
Well, you said we're going tobe adult about this, which is
how this actually works in myhead, like it's going to be even
more fun.
Like it's going to be more fun.
Yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
To tee this off.
We were having a lot of funbefore we got started, because
we want to have this to be a funpeppy interview today.
So, sasha, your journey hastaken you through various roles
and experiences.
Now this may be moments ofpivotal moments, but can you
maybe just tell us what was onepivotal moment, when you decided
(01:10):
to become an embodied self-loveteacher and spiritual guide?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
One pivotal moment.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I know it's like a stack of 50.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, yeah, yeah, and also the question clearly came
to you, for you, so that I cananswer it because there's
something to share that'simportant for people to hear.
Otherwise you wouldn't haveasked.
So I know that there is amoment that I need to speak to
right now and that actually youknow.
So I've been doing this work,for I want to save my whole life
, without officially calling itright what I call it now, and
(01:46):
then when I chose to surrender,you know, and really start
understanding how much of thiswork this work being coaching,
guidance, teaching right.
Any kind of position that I putmyself in, where someone comes
to me and I then create a spacefor them to essentially heal
right.
Not because I'm healing them,but because I'm creating a space
(02:08):
where that becomes possible forthem right.
Whatever.
So, whatever modality I neededto learn that called me in the
moment.
It could have been, you know,akashic Records reading.
It could have been developing,learning more about the science
behind intuition and how itworks, so that I could really
claim it as one of my not justsuperpowers, but one of the
things that I use primarily inmy coaching coaching skills,
(02:30):
coaching tools, psychology,right, like all of the shadow
work and tantra.
All of that has led me toembody more and more and more of
the confidence that I have nowto say that I really do know
that, right now especially, I amin the space where I can say I
(02:51):
had a moment that now I see moreand more, and that was, you
know, with a client of mine.
Actually, we were, well, wewere in a session, we were
speaking, and she has reallybeen instrumental in offering me
a space to see how my workworks, you know, and every
client that I've had had, youknow, obviously had that effect
(03:13):
on me.
But with her, specifically, itwas really interesting because
she, you know, did not have thespecific goal, right, that I
need to get there, which is whatyou would think in coaching,
you know like, or in healing Iwant to heal this, right or it
was very for her, it was veryspecific and it was extremely
ambiguous and it was exactlywhat you said I did in the
(03:33):
beginning, which is, you know,she came to me because she
wanted to understand experienceand really, really live and
breathe the practice ofself-love, right.
So not just practice, as in youknow, meditate, take care of
your body, actually, no, that'sthe challenge.
Sometimes that's not somethingthat you know how to do, well,
(03:53):
or you don't want to do, or sothe concept here is that the
practice of self-love embodiedself-love, and what I realized
with her and there was a momentwhere I recognize that for me as
well, as I came to this work itwas about that, right.
It was about, you know, to lovemyself in all of the ways that
I show up in the world, in mybody, my relationships and my
(04:15):
work had always been a big partof my life.
I'd always been verypurpose-driven, and we can say
that's my masculine, but it'sactually my feminine.
So, you know, but it's like theexpression of me, right, I want
to create, I want to expect.
Right, and it was, it had beenactually driven by self-love or
lack thereof, right?
So I'm going to prove myself inthe world.
Therefore, I will create this,but it's coming from a lack of
(04:36):
self-love versus I need toexpress this.
It makes no sense.
Oh my God, I don't know whatthey're going to say.
They're going to judge mecraziness.
I want to do it, I'm doing it.
That's self-love, right?
So, because they want to,because my heart's saying yes,
I'm saying yes to my heart,that's self-love.
So in the moment with her, shearticulated to me that through
our work, she had been able tonot only cultivate this capacity
(04:59):
of, first of all, trusting herintuition, following it,
therefore feeling more self-loveon all of the things that she's
experiencing, and that she hadconnected to the most important
thing in her life, which is acapacity to live a life that is
really in alignment with beingin service to the divine.
It's not to the divine and thatto me.
(05:21):
Again, I call it God right, andthat's not gender specific, but
it is that we can call it that.
What, if we want to?
I do, and she does as well.
The way in which everybody Iwork with doesn't feel triggered
by that word.
And I'll say the divine, youknow.
So that people, again, it's notreligion, it's not any concept,
right, the divine, the sacred.
I want to serve that and I knowthat that is actually how I
(05:45):
develop my capacity to lovemyself, because I am then the
vessel, I am then the instrument, I am then actually the one who
gets to hear and feel andexperience the divine Right, and
that is self-love.
And in that moment it's almostlike I realized wait, what I do
is actually I hold.
I hold a space as a spiritualguide, more than anything else,
(06:08):
so that someone could reallyhonor love and, in a way, trust
that their desire to feel thedivine is not only valid, but
it's actually, by definition,self-love, self-worth, purpose,
all of the things we're lookingfor, and that's what it comes
down to.
This is it.
(06:30):
And then I realized, rachel,that oh my God and this has been
very recent I'm like, wait, mywhole life has been about
looking for the divine.
Like I literally have neverthought of it that way, but I
had been looking for God mywhole life.
I just didn't call it that, butthat's what it is.
And like, oh, but that's whatpeople call it.
Oh, now we're speaking the same.
I'm like, oh right, it's likewow, I didn't get tripped up by
(06:53):
the word because it never was athing, but that's also why I
didn't realize that's what I wasdoing.
And now, speaking to my clients,like, oh, you come to me with a
clear desire to feel self-loveand I'm looking for God and I
want to serve God, and Iactually now viscerally know
what you're talking about,because that's what I do.
But now I realize that a lot ofpeople don't call it that and
(07:13):
people don't understand whatthat is and they actually feel a
little bit like oh, that's thewoo-hoo stuff.
I'm here for spiritual growth.
It's like well, spiritualgrowth, like what is that about?
What does that mean?
Why Right?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So true.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So, so there is.
There is the moment.
It's when she told me I hadbeen able to feel it.
God, and that's what we'redoing, that's amazing.
That's, oh okay, that's whatwe're doing.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So thank you for, of course.
So sacred sexuality andleadership mentoring is a very
unique combination?
Yes, so I think there's.
This is a dual question, onefor somebody that's not familiar
with sacred sexuality.
What is that?
And then, how do combiningthese two aspects intersect in
your work, and what benefitsmight they bring your clients?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yes, so you just brought it to this.
What I just said is literallythat so sacred sexuality in the
way that I teach and learn itI'm foremost a student of it and
in the way that we connect tothat concept in tantric
tradition, which is what Ibelieve they practice more and
more now, which includes everyother tradition, but because
(08:24):
that's, tantra is everything.
So, that said, sacred sexualityis your capacity as a human
being to experience your bodyright, your sexual energy right.
So the energy with, literallywithin within your body, that
creates like desire, right, thatallows you to feel that arousal
(08:46):
of I am alive, I'm feelingpleasure, I'm here with and this
is to your other questionactually that place in you that
can lead that desire, lead thatintuitive insight of I'm called
to do this, I'm excited, I'mturned on, right.
I want to make love to theworld.
Literally, that's what sacredsexuality is.
(09:08):
Understanding that, again, theconcept of sex is like.
It's a representation of whatwe want to create in the world.
We want to merge, we want to bein union with, again, finding
the divine, finding God.
We want to feel ourselves as ofservice so that our whole being
is activated right, so thatwe're alive.
(09:29):
I'm activated alive, I'm inservice, I'm not wasting one
ounce of my being Right.
All of me is being heard, seen,felt.
That's one part of me Right,and that part needs another part
of me, which is where polaritycomes in right, and sacred
sexuality is about playing withpolarity so that you can then
take that part that's turned onand excited, and we can call it
(09:50):
the feminine energy.
I feel sexual energy.
Oh my god, I feel creativity.
I can call it creativity, right, creativity right, if I can
call it.
Ooh, that part of me that thengoes into my heart and my heart
wants love, right, like, oh,okay, so that is the feminine
energy, everything is energy.
Well, what is going to actuallyallow for that energy to then
(10:11):
be directly manifested, held,led, led to fruition, in service
to what it is that is actuallycoming from you, as a response
to very clearly something that'sneeded right you need to write
a book, start a podcast, have afamily.
That's actually needed.
The world needs that from you.
For some reason, you don'tthink about it.
(10:31):
It's coming from your heart.
It is needed Once you againstart training your intuition,
understand how it works, and bytraining I mean it trains you.
Right, right, right, right.
Oh, this is in service.
I want to marry this person.
I want to start a business.
I want to move over here.
I want to take care of my body,like this Great Energy.
Ah, how are you going to act onit?
(10:53):
What is going to happen?
That's the masculine.
How are you going to thenactualize it?
You know, and the actualizingis energy, but also, is it a
flaw, right?
Or is it a river that flows onits banks?
And that's what I love.
Again, the question ofpsychosexuality, because it
comes down to you making love toyourself right In your
(11:13):
polarities, being able to leadyourself really well, being able
to then evoke that in others Ifyou're in partnership, knowing
how to play that in arelationship.
And that's where sacredsexuality is really juicy and
everybody thinks oh, it's aboutyou know, relationships and sex
in the bedroom.
It is also, and it's extremelyimportant, but it starts with a
new how in harmony am I with myfeminine and my math as a
(11:36):
feminine being?
Essentially, how do I work withmy masculine?
I just taught a master class onthis yesterday and I trip
myself up in a way, because togo for hours, be like the
concepts and the words, andwords will fail us.
Sacred sexuality and leadershipfit into one another and this
is how sacred sexuality is yourcapacity to feel your fullest
potential Now, in this moment,which you never felt before,
(11:59):
because this moment in the game,right so now, is this, is it?
This is what's possible.
What are you doing?
And the what's possible comesfrom.
What do I desire?
What wants to come through me?
What do I want to create?
How do I want to express mybeing, my instrument in this
moment?
What's being called from me?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The song is this world asking me to sing in this
moment?
And okay, well, what am I goingto do about it?
Right, how am I going to singthis song?
Where?
How long is the song going tobe?
And also, what does it matter?
That's the masculine.
See how my voice drop.
Why does it matter?
It's calm, it's present, it'sdeep.
Let's just let's see what'shappening, let's see how you can
(12:36):
do that in service to everyone.
We have time.
That's the masculine.
We think the masculine is aboutpushing.
No, that's the distortedmasculine.
The true masculine is I'm goingto hold you and I'm going to
lead you.
I'm going to help you createwhat you need Perfect timing, no
rush.
Stay with me, right, and so hotdance.
That's sacred sexuality.
(12:57):
How are you leading yourself tocreate that which your soul
calls you to offer this world?
Right, that is that union ofthe yin yang within you.
And then that transforms,obviously, how you show up in a
relationship.
You can play with that sacredintimacy, partnerships, and in
your work, right, you have abusiness.
How are you leading yourbusiness?
(13:17):
That's your masculine.
How are you creating in yourbusiness?
That's your feminine.
How are you showing up for yourclients?
Right, if you're holding spacewith, like, how are you
expressing your true voice inthat moment?
And if it doesn't go to plantall of that, that's the dance of
the.
Again.
You can call it feminine,masculine.
It's really helpful.
We don't have to, we can justsay energy and consciousness and
(13:40):
that creates the polarity andthe, or the cosmic orgasm, as I
call it.
Something's being created andit's actually a service, like
this conversation.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So yeah, so mindset retraining and showerwork are
essential components of yourpractice.
What advice would you give tosomeone who wants to start
exploring their own shadows andtransforming their mindset?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yeah.
So shadowwork has been a bigpart of my growth within this
world and it's a big part ofsome Tantric traditions.
It's not part of Tantranecessarily, but people bring it
in Right Because it helps yousee the unseen right, see what
you want to see.
And then for me, it's becomeactually more and more about and
yes, like resistance oranything else, you see it great,
(14:24):
we're aware of it how we startretraining our mind to not
follow the shadow right.
For example, I have a shadowthat is, you know, a wounded
little child that thinks she'sgoing to be rejected yeah, it's
a right.
She's going to come up andshe's going to try to sabotage,
like, no, you're not going to dothis.
No, you can't do this and youdon't need to do this, this,
right.
So all of that, it's again nothelpful to what I want to do.
(14:48):
And the shadow work comes inwhen you see it, you make it
visible, real, understand thatit's.
It's not real, right, but howit manifests in your life is
very real.
So then, in Tantra, what wewill look at in I love this is
it isn't so much a shadow, it'syes, it feels like, oh, I don't
want to see it.
(15:09):
Therefore, it's a shadow, yes,but it's also, it's a, it's an
energetic, it's almost like animprint right.
It could be something thathappened to you.
Again, we don't need to knowthe story, but there is a reason
and it could be from a pastlife, it could be from your
mother, it could be Jeanette,who knows?
It's here, right, this thing,and it's an imprint in literally
your like.
It's your physiology right.
(15:29):
Your physiology holds your mind.
Is your body right?
So, yes, it is in you.
It's not a thought that you'relike oh, I'm not going to think
it anymore, I'm going to think adifferent thought.
It is a thing like an actualmoving energy field in your body
that will then literally closedown your heart, for example,
block the energy flow, make younot right, respond to something
(15:53):
in a way that you want to,because rival mode, because
you're being triggered, as wesay sometimes, or because you're
reacting Now you are notreacting, that part of you is,
but because you're not aware ofit.
It's running the show.
So the way that I work then,with shadow work and this is to
answer your question andretraining the mind, is seeing
every shadow.
This again, this imprint, thephysiological imprint, the
(16:15):
psychological imprint, thespiritual imprint, energy
holding, basically holding youback in the sense, constricting
you.
It's closing down your heart.
There's something, it's like anactual physical response in
your body.
You're closing down yourpotential.
You're not there.
Yes, yeah, something right that.
If you see that as a signpostof there is so much light behind
(16:40):
me, that's a gift that I'm hereto give you, right, so you
immediately see it.
Oh, there is something Now.
Oh, I see it now.
Oh, I know it, I know what itis now, and the retraining
starts.
It starts with compassion,curiosity and a desire to
integrate the gift, right.
(17:01):
So it's gift I have.
This is what I just shared.
It actually has a gift.
She's traumatized little girl.
Okay, she has a story.
She's dramatic, whatever,whatever she needs to believe to
do what she's doing, which,which, again, that part of me
believes she's doing me a favor.
Right, so it's not like I dosomething bad.
Okay, so compassion andcuriosity.
I wonder I'm resisting this.
(17:23):
I wonder what the gift is.
And as soon as I do that, myphysiology changes.
I then step into my full rightself.
It's my heart.
So I'm like, ooh, there is thiselement in me.
She's doing this.
I wonder, hmm, open, I receive.
What's the gift?
I choose to believe there is agift.
I choose to believe that thiswouldn't be happening if there
(17:44):
wasn't something here for meright now.
It's important that I receiveit right now.
Yeah, because it's reallybothering me right now.
Right, and oh, it's actually thefact that she is not nourished,
she's starving, right, and onmany levels.
Right, doesn't have to bespecific to everything.
She's not playing, she's notbeing fed.
Well, she's not given attention, she being this specific part.
(18:05):
But I can say me right, my bodydoesn't, okay.
So let me get even more curious.
Where, where in my life, am Ibypassing my needs?
Right?
Where am I selecting what Idesire, what I want?
Right, oh, okay, I need to.
I need to sit down to eat.
I need to take a walk.
I need to see.
No to this.
I need.
Oh, wouldn't it be interestingif, whatever you know like I'm
(18:28):
not going to do this.
She's coming up.
She's like, no, don't do this,you're not ready, you're ashamed
.
Okay, okay, valid.
I hear you what, if, what, if Itake the lead?
Again, I take the lead.
I promise you you're going tobe okay.
And I hear you, what you need,I will give you.
(18:50):
I will give you what you need.
You need to be nourishing, tobe held.
I hear you, I will give youthat and thank you.
Right, so that conversation, itdoesn't have to happen right In
this like big, dramatic way,but that actually is the
practice.
The practice is any shadowimprint, anything in you that's
coming up.
It's not a service, so to speak, to you is actually urgently
(19:14):
yelling that there is some work,embodied work, that you need to
do within yourself to realizewhere you're blocking the flow
of life body, in your mind, inyour psyche, that's triggering
this response of survival rightOf fear.
Essentially, that's what it'sfear to be here, to be here now
and to do what you want to do,so that you can then not just
(19:35):
make it go away, you can learnwhat is on offer for you,
because I bet that whatever youreceive will enhance whatever
you want to do.
I want to step up and be on thewebinar and she's what?
Or interview.
She's like, okay, you needsomething Great, I'm going to
give it to you.
Can I show up and do this thing?
I trust, I trust it's going tobe great.
(19:55):
I can feel her presence, yes,an element of me saying okay,
and she can then become part ofthe experience.
She can then say something andshare something that will
enhance what I can offer,because she's okay, she's not
just a shadow, she is an imprintfrom something that clearly
impacted me, right?
(20:15):
So, whatever that is, I can useit in service when she's an
ally, when she's not somethingthat I'm calling a shadow, that
I need to fix and get rid of theego.
Right, it's like, no, actuallywe can't get rid of it and
there's no need to, and alsoit's actually not advisable.
We can't even try, because theego is part of how you
(20:35):
experience life.
So what are you doing?
I don't want to be in this life.
Well then, whole otherconversation about spiritual
work, and if you all want to bein this life, it's a very
different work we're going to do.
You're going to go to theinlayers and live in a cave and
just bliss out and check out.
That's fine.
That's fine, right, but it'snot the work I'm doing, that's
not the work you're in, and I'mnot here to do that work, right?
(20:58):
Yeah, so shadow, great, what'son offer?
How can I help?
How can we actually worktogether?
Because I know, I know itwouldn't be here if I didn't
choose consciously, in some way,that this would serve me
somewhere, consciously, I meanon a soul level, right?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Now, I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
But yes, my nervous system knows.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, that was such.
You have so many gold nuggetsof wisdom in that answer.
I would recommend thateverybody goes back and listens
to that specific answer.
There's like so many likepockets of wisdom.
I love it.
So your podcast being bravewith Sasha Lipskaya what does
bravery mean?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You go ahead.
I need to ask you.
Let me record my intro, sasha.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I love her name.
Okay, guys, like I love hername, I will say it all day long
.
You have no idea.
So what does bravery mean toyou in the context of personal
and spiritual growth?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh, thank you for the question.
Bravery again.
Brave courage, right,Courageous.
The word courage and I say thisa lot because it's so like wow
it comes from the word heart inFrench.
So being courageous, AKA beingbrave, means living with an open
heart, right, and that's backto sacred sexuality, retraining
(22:17):
your nervous system, integratingyour shadows right.
Not being afraid doesn't meanyou're not here, right?
I don't feel that like my fearis worth my closing my heart,
but I very much feel fear allthe time, right, so I choose to
right.
I choose to know that this ismore important.
My open heart is what I'm herefor.
(22:38):
So open, broken heart, it hasto be because it's feeling so
much and it has to grow, whichmeans it has to be open and keep
breaking right so that it couldgrow, Not because it's broken
and we have to fix it.
No, it's broken because it'spart of how your heart owes its
capacity to love back, to loveyourself.
That's what you do Now.
(22:59):
Bravery for me has been thelike I would say it's the one
thing courage, bravery, the onething that has led me through
life Like I've doubted myself,like I said that I've created
different roles, I've playeddifferent roles.
I've tried to achieve.
I've come from a place ofthinking I knew and wanted this
(23:20):
and it wasn't that a lot of,again, shadow, right, a lot of
Right.
Yeah, I'm passing the truth ofmy intuition, although I was
very intuitive always.
What got me through it?
What's through it?
I don't mean get over it.
I really went through it tounderstand how to work with my
gifts and my intuition and notlet them actually become my
handicaps, which they could havebeen.
(23:42):
That's what happens to us whenwe don't work with our guests,
right.
So it's being courageous, it'sbeing brave.
I had to say I don't know, andI did this my whole.
I don't know, I don't know, Idon't know.
Something does I trust, I trustand I know that in that trust
it's not oh cool, I trust, thisis great.
No, no, I trust.
It requires that I am reallybrave, because I don't know
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what's gonna come, but I knowI'm brave, I know I am brave, I
just knew that and I keptclaiming that word because and
that actually came up, like lastweek with my parents, I left a
partnership and business and she, my mom was like you're really
brave and I was like I am, thatI am, although I don't have the
stakes around that.
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You know, it's like this huge,yeah, it's like every day I'm
being called up.
Okay, how much more courage doyou have?
How much more bravery do youhave?
Because let's go deeper, let'sgo more.
And the reason this is soimportant bravery specifically
again, open heart is bravery.
That's why being open hearttakes courage Every day, doesn't
you?
Don't go with callus it.
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No, that you know.
Playing your heart as aninstrument means it's raw, it's
real.
You have to work with it.
You have to know how to have acapacity to actually be with the
open heart.
Right, all of that.
That's what I do, so thatyou're not overwhelmed, so you
know, nervous system doesn'tblow itself out.
So, yes, so that you don'tsabotage yourself, Right, so you
don't regress over a thing thatyou're doing it wrong.
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No, that's also courage.
I'm going to be courageous toask for help.
I'm going to be courageous tosay I don't know Right, but
somewhere I'm going to becourageous to keep looking for
the right answer.
I'm going to be courageous toknow this isn't right for me, I
don't need to do this, eventhough everything else or
everyone else is telling me itis.
I know it's not going to bebrave and trust my heart because
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it trusts me.
And I'm going to be brave tokeep exploring, yes.
And I'm going to be brave intrusting again, trusting that
whatever it is that I come from,that bravery too, like whatever
I create from, that bravery hasto be in alignment with my
heart.
It has to be because it's notcoming from I want to get
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something, I want to get awayfrom something or I'm trying.
No, bravery means my heart isopen.
I'm here to love.
I want to do this fully right.
Like as a sacred warrior, rightLike spiritual warrior.
It's not an archetype, it's away of being in the world.
Absolutely, that's what it is.
Yeah, I totally agree with you.
I dare to love.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I dare to love.
I'm like you're mentioning somany books.
I sorry, I was like, oh, I havethat book, I have that book, OK
, yes, yes, ma'am preach.
So let me ask you this Beforewe ask you the last question me
and my archetypes, you and allof your parts, me and all of my
(26:29):
parts, what is the best placefor somebody that is looking to
learn more about you, get incontact with you?
What is the best place for themto go to?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Sure.
So I feel like my podcast beingbrave yes, with Sasha Lipsky
it's one sentence and my website, sashalipskycom, as well as my
YouTube channel actually, and myInstagram, like you mentioned.
Pretty good, yes, and myYouTube channel and, I would say
, my website are probably thebest places to see all my
(27:00):
offerings in terms of freemasterclasses I'm offering and
however else we can engage, andalso just to learn more about my
weird, quirky, brave self.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I love your weird, quirky brave self.
So in your bio, you mentioneddaily practices for healing and
spiritual growth.
Can you maybe share some ofthese practices that our
listeners can incorporate intotheir daily lives?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yes.
So I will share two right nowfor everyone, because we spoke
about sacred sexuality, we spokewe're training your mindset,
and we spoke about bravery,courage.
So it starts and ends with onething having the capacity to
feel your heart, really feelyour heart, not just know that
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your heart's there.
And I was like, yes, I hear it.
No, like really hear your heart, which is how you train your
body to then respond to yourintuition and not mind, right,
and not your again, any shadowor imprint you have.
And back to the practices, itdoesn't just come with.
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Let me hear my heart.
For a lot of us, the reason wedon't, I feel, especially for
women, is we are also extremelydisconnected from our lower body
, our wounds.
So for me, when I say speakingto the heart, listening to the
heart, I mean listening to thewomb heart.
So it's the hope into the gut,into the womb.
(28:26):
Even if you're a man, you havean energetic womb right.
There's space inside of youthat holds this creative sexual
energy.
That's now, for women, veryreal.
We're like, oh yeah, that'swhere babies are formed in our
bodies, right?
So like, oh yeah.
So that heart that I speakabout its root goes right in and
through the womb into the earthand then it opens, opens like a
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flower right, and it connectsto the sky and it connects to
the whole universe In howeverway.
You are called to experiencethat, and so your heart is your
whole being right.
But physically being able to bewith your heart in your chest,
first and foremost starts withtwo practices.
So I will offer this insequence so you start your day
(29:10):
with, especially if you feel alittle bit disconnected from
your intuition or and the truthof what you want to do.
That's what it is feeling yourwomb first, right.
So feeling, just feeling yourpelvic floor, feeling that space
between your hips, right, justunderstanding that there is this
very potent wisdom center thatwe often don't talk about.
(29:32):
And if this center is not heard, if not, if you don't know how
to feel it, it's not that youcan't right, you might never
practice, you just haven'tpracticed.
So this is what you do, youstart practicing and you can
squeeze your lower abs, squeezeyour lower body muscles, your
kegel muscles, really feelingthat sexual center and
(29:53):
understanding that, again,that's where that sexual energy
lives.
It will rise, create.
But for you to open your heartand to live with the brave, open
heart, you need energy, youneed stamina and you get a
connection to that gutturalknowing of I am safe in the
snowing, the knowing that I'msafe in the knowing right.
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I am safe into know the truth.
I am safe in my body.
My body knows and I feelconnected to the part of me that
wants to express this truth.
And that's where, again, thewomb healing work comes in, as
you don't have to do anything,just feel first your womb.
Take three deep breaths intoyour womb through the nose.
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We can do it right now.
You don't have to do anything,just breathe into your womb
space.
If you don't feel it, don'tworry about it, you will
eventually keep practicing.
Squeeze those lower muscles,lower body muscles, lower keg
muscles, that's what you wannacall them, the lower muscles.
Just to help yourself locatethat area and just feel that
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place, you can put one of yourhands on your tummy, you know.
Feel your breath, likeliterally between your skin and
your hand.
Just feel your breath movingand as you do that, then feel
that energy energetically.
Just feel rise, that energy isrising right, so you can feel
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the energy rise.
If you're intending to, you willinto your heart.
If your intention is to feelyour heart, you will feel your
heart receive this energy.
It's like roots from a flowergetting this water.
Okay, okay, it's safe.
It's safe to be in my body.
It's safe to feel my heart.
It's safe to know the truth.
I'm held right back to sacredsexuality.
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My inner wisdom, my feminine,is being held by something that
is protecting it, guiding it,clarifying it, holding it.
That's the masculine, that'sconsciousness.
Right, so you're being aware ofyour wisdom.
Sacred sexuality 101.
That we're done, that's it.
I'm aware of the heart's wisdomand they're coming together so
that I can do something about it.
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So, feeling your room, threebreaths.
Bring it into your heart, andthis is part two of the practice
.
Bring it into your heart, heart, feel your heart.
Put your hand on your heart.
Put one of your hands on yourroom or your tummy or your gut,
put one of your hands on yourheart and you feel that
connection.
Take three deep breaths into theheart and ask what do you need
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me to know?
What do you need me to know?
What do you need me to know?
And whatever you're sittingwith in your life, your business
, your relationship, your health, you don't have to ask that
specific question.
The what you need me to knowwill evoke the answer to what
you need to know, and that willinclude everything, because it
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has to.
Your heart knows this is wherewe need to go right now.
This is what you need.
This is the shadow you need tolook at.
This is where you're sabotaging, resisting.
This is what you wanna do.
Whatever you need to know inthat moment will then lead to
the next right.
So every moment informs the next, but this one right here what
is the truth of my heart?
Really know it's your heart,really feel it's safe to feel
your heart and then actually bewith that for I would say five
(33:07):
minutes, set a timer, breathe,breathe, womb heart connect.
And then the last thing I'llsay is, if you wanna really
complete it one of the practicesthat I love doing then you
stand up once you get the answer, feel the answer still, don't
dismiss, really be with it andthen move your body right, so
not like a linear.
I'm gonna do some stretches.
(33:28):
No, move your body fluidly.
How does it wanna move?
Do you wanna shake right?
Do you wanna, ah, voice,breathe so many things that we
wanna include in embodimentpractice, but specifically for
this, breathing into the womb,the heart, standing up and then
letting your body simplyintegrate whatever knowing you
received into your physiology,so that that knowing isn't just
(33:49):
a thought.
Right, I know this is what Ineed to know and I'm gonna let
my body actually integrate it sothat my whole day then is
informed by this.
Knowing my integrity with myheart.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
That's a beautiful answer.
Well, sasha, I wanna thank youso much for coming to the
Spetula Spotlight Series.
This truly has been amazing,thank you.
Thank you, rachel.
Thank you, I appreciate you.
Hello everyone, welcome to our Spiritual
Spotlight series.
Today I am joined by SashaLipskaya.
She is an embodied, self-loadedteacher, intuitive mind coach,
spiritual guide and sacredsexuality and leadership mentor
to high-achieving andsoul-driven people who want to
go deeper into their true natureof who they are and their life
purpose.
Sasha, thank you so much forbringing us to the Spiritual
(00:24):
Spotlight series.
I'm so happy you're here.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Thank you, garret.
Oh my God, rachel, I almostcalled you, garret, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You called me Garret.
That's fine.
I actually love that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I know I'm like it's where it says right Before us no
, so thank you, rachel Garret.
Thank you, rachel, for havingme.
I'm really happy to be here.
Well, you said we're going tobe adult about this, which is
how this actually works in myhead, like it's going to be even
more fun.
Like it's going to be more fun.
Yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
To tee this off.
We were having a lot of funbefore we got started, because
we want to have this to be a funpeppy interview today.
So, sasha, your journey hastaken you through various roles
and experiences.
Now this may be moments ofpivotal moments, but can you
maybe just tell us what was onepivotal moment, when you decided
(01:10):
to become an embodied self-loveteacher and spiritual guide?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
One pivotal moment.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I know it's like a stack of 50.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, yeah, yeah, and also the question clearly came
to you, for you, so that I cananswer it because there's
something to share that'simportant for people to hear.
Otherwise you wouldn't haveasked.
So I know that there is amoment that I need to speak to
right now and that actually youknow.
So I've been doing this work,for I want to save my whole life
, without officially calling itright what I call it now, and
(01:46):
then when I chose to surrender,you know, and really start
understanding how much of thiswork this work being coaching,
guidance, teaching right.
Any kind of position that I putmyself in, where someone comes
to me and I then create a spacefor them to essentially heal
right.
Not because I'm healing them,but because I'm creating a space
(02:08):
where that becomes possible forthem right.
Whatever.
So, whatever modality I neededto learn that called me in the
moment.
It could have been, you know,akashic Records reading.
It could have been developing,learning more about the science
behind intuition and how itworks, so that I could really
claim it as one of my not justsuperpowers, but one of the
things that I use primarily inmy coaching coaching skills,
(02:30):
coaching tools, psychology,right, like all of the shadow
work and tantra.
All of that has led me toembody more and more and more of
the confidence that I have nowto say that I really do know
that, right now especially, I amin the space where I can say I
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had a moment that now I see moreand more, and that was, you
know, with a client of mine.
Actually, we were, well, wewere in a session, we were
speaking, and she has reallybeen instrumental in offering me
a space to see how my workworks, you know, and every
client that I've had had, youknow, obviously had that effect
(03:13):
on me.
But with her, specifically, itwas really interesting because
she, you know, did not have thespecific goal, right, that I
need to get there, which is whatyou would think in coaching,
you know like, or in healing Iwant to heal this, right or it
was very for her, it was veryspecific and it was extremely
ambiguous and it was exactlywhat you said I did in the
(03:33):
beginning, which is, you know,she came to me because she
wanted to understand experienceand really, really live and
breathe the practice ofself-love, right.
So not just practice, as in youknow, meditate, take care of
your body, actually, no, that'sthe challenge.
Sometimes that's not somethingthat you know how to do, well,
(03:53):
or you don't want to do, or sothe concept here is that the
practice of self-love embodiedself-love, and what I realized
with her and there was a momentwhere I recognize that for me as
well, as I came to this work itwas about that, right.
It was about, you know, to lovemyself in all of the ways that
I show up in the world, in mybody, my relationships and my
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work had always been a big partof my life.
I'd always been verypurpose-driven, and we can say
that's my masculine, but it'sactually my feminine.
So, you know, but it's like theexpression of me, right, I want
to create, I want to expect.
Right, and it was, it had beenactually driven by self-love or
lack thereof, right?
So I'm going to prove myself inthe world.
Therefore, I will create this,but it's coming from a lack of
(04:36):
self-love versus I need toexpress this.
It makes no sense.
Oh my God, I don't know whatthey're going to say.
They're going to judge mecraziness.
I want to do it, I'm doing it.
That's self-love, right?
So, because they want to,because my heart's saying yes,
I'm saying yes to my heart,that's self-love.
So in the moment with her, shearticulated to me that through
our work, she had been able tonot only cultivate this capacity
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of, first of all, trusting herintuition, following it,
therefore feeling more self-loveon all of the things that she's
experiencing, and that she hadconnected to the most important
thing in her life, which is acapacity to live a life that is
really in alignment with beingin service to the divine.
It's not to the divine and thatto me.
(05:21):
Again, I call it God right, andthat's not gender specific, but
it is that we can call it that.
What, if we want to?
I do, and she does as well.
The way in which everybody Iwork with doesn't feel triggered
by that word.
And I'll say the divine, youknow.
So that people, again, it's notreligion, it's not any concept,
right, the divine, the sacred.
I want to serve that and I knowthat that is actually how I
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develop my capacity to lovemyself, because I am then the
vessel, I am then the instrument, I am then actually the one who
gets to hear and feel andexperience the divine Right, and
that is self-love.
And in that moment it's almostlike I realized wait, what I do
is actually I hold.
I hold a space as a spiritualguide, more than anything else,
(06:08):
so that someone could reallyhonor love and, in a way, trust
that their desire to feel thedivine is not only valid, but
it's actually, by definition,self-love, self-worth, purpose,
all of the things we're lookingfor, and that's what it comes
down to.
This is it.
(06:30):
And then I realized, rachel,that oh my God and this has been
very recent I'm like, wait, mywhole life has been about
looking for the divine.
Like I literally have neverthought of it that way, but I
had been looking for God mywhole life.
I just didn't call it that, butthat's what it is.
And like, oh, but that's whatpeople call it.
Oh, now we're speaking the same.
I'm like, oh right, it's likewow, I didn't get tripped up by
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the word because it never was athing, but that's also why I
didn't realize that's what I wasdoing.
And now, speaking to my clients,like, oh, you come to me with a
clear desire to feel self-loveand I'm looking for God and I
want to serve God, and Iactually now viscerally know
what you're talking about,because that's what I do.
But now I realize that a lot ofpeople don't call it that and
(07:13):
people don't understand whatthat is and they actually feel a
little bit like oh, that's thewoo-hoo stuff.
I'm here for spiritual growth.
It's like well, spiritualgrowth, like what is that about?
What does that mean?
Why Right?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So true.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So, so there is.
There is the moment.
It's when she told me I hadbeen able to feel it.
God, and that's what we'redoing, that's amazing.
That's, oh okay, that's whatwe're doing.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So thank you for, of course.
So sacred sexuality andleadership mentoring is a very
unique combination?
Yes, so I think there's.
This is a dual question, onefor somebody that's not familiar
with sacred sexuality.
What is that?
And then, how do combiningthese two aspects intersect in
your work, and what benefitsmight they bring your clients?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yes, so you just brought it to this.
What I just said is literallythat so sacred sexuality in the
way that I teach and learn itI'm foremost a student of it and
in the way that we connect tothat concept in tantric
tradition, which is what Ibelieve they practice more and
more now, which includes everyother tradition, but because
(08:24):
that's, tantra is everything.
So, that said, sacred sexualityis your capacity as a human
being to experience your bodyright, your sexual energy right.
So the energy with, literallywithin within your body, that
creates like desire, right, thatallows you to feel that arousal
(08:46):
of I am alive, I'm feelingpleasure, I'm here with and this
is to your other questionactually that place in you that
can lead that desire, lead thatintuitive insight of I'm called
to do this, I'm excited, I'mturned on, right.
I want to make love to theworld.
Literally, that's what sacredsexuality is.
(09:08):
Understanding that, again, theconcept of sex is like.
It's a representation of whatwe want to create in the world.
We want to merge, we want to bein union with, again, finding
the divine, finding God.
We want to feel ourselves as ofservice so that our whole being
is activated right, so thatwe're alive.
(09:29):
I'm activated alive, I'm inservice, I'm not wasting one
ounce of my being Right.
All of me is being heard, seen,felt.
That's one part of me Right,and that part needs another part
of me, which is where polaritycomes in right, and sacred
sexuality is about playing withpolarity so that you can then
take that part that's turned onand excited, and we can call it
(09:50):
the feminine energy.
I feel sexual energy.
Oh my god, I feel creativity.
I can call it creativity, right, creativity right, if I can
call it.
Ooh, that part of me that thengoes into my heart and my heart
wants love, right, like, oh,okay, so that is the feminine
energy, everything is energy.
Well, what is going to actuallyallow for that energy to then
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be directly manifested, held,led, led to fruition, in service
to what it is that is actuallycoming from you, as a response
to very clearly something that'sneeded right you need to write
a book, start a podcast, have afamily.
That's actually needed.
The world needs that from you.
For some reason, you don'tthink about it.
(10:31):
It's coming from your heart.
It is needed Once you againstart training your intuition,
understand how it works, and bytraining I mean it trains you.
Right, right, right, right.
Oh, this is in service.
I want to marry this person.
I want to start a business.
I want to move over here.
I want to take care of my body,like this Great Energy.
Ah, how are you going to act onit?
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What is going to happen?
That's the masculine.
How are you going to thenactualize it?
You know, and the actualizingis energy, but also, is it a
flaw, right?
Or is it a river that flows onits banks?
And that's what I love.
Again, the question ofpsychosexuality, because it
comes down to you making love toyourself right In your
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polarities, being able to leadyourself really well, being able
to then evoke that in others Ifyou're in partnership, knowing
how to play that in arelationship.
And that's where sacredsexuality is really juicy and
everybody thinks oh, it's aboutyou know, relationships and sex
in the bedroom.
It is also, and it's extremelyimportant, but it starts with a
new how in harmony am I with myfeminine and my math as a
(11:36):
feminine being?
Essentially, how do I work withmy masculine?
I just taught a master class onthis yesterday and I trip
myself up in a way, because togo for hours, be like the
concepts and the words, andwords will fail us.
Sacred sexuality and leadershipfit into one another and this
is how sacred sexuality is yourcapacity to feel your fullest
potential Now, in this moment,which you never felt before,
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because this moment in the game,right so now, is this, is it?
This is what's possible.
What are you doing?
And the what's possible comesfrom.
What do I desire?
What wants to come through me?
What do I want to create?
How do I want to express mybeing, my instrument in this
moment?
What's being called from me?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The song is this world asking me to sing in this
moment?
And okay, well, what am I goingto do about it?
Right, how am I going to singthis song?
Where?
How long is the song going tobe?
And also, what does it matter?
That's the masculine.
See how my voice drop.
Why does it matter?
It's calm, it's present, it'sdeep.
Let's just let's see what'shappening, let's see how you can
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do that in service to everyone.
We have time.
That's the masculine.
We think the masculine is aboutpushing.
No, that's the distortedmasculine.
The true masculine is I'm goingto hold you and I'm going to
lead you.
I'm going to help you createwhat you need Perfect timing, no
rush.
Stay with me, right, and so hotdance.
That's sacred sexuality.
(12:57):
How are you leading yourself tocreate that which your soul
calls you to offer this world?
Right, that is that union ofthe yin yang within you.
And then that transforms,obviously, how you show up in a
relationship.
You can play with that sacredintimacy, partnerships, and in
your work, right, you have abusiness.
How are you leading yourbusiness?
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That's your masculine.
How are you creating in yourbusiness?
That's your feminine.
How are you showing up for yourclients?
Right, if you're holding spacewith, like, how are you
expressing your true voice inthat moment?
And if it doesn't go to plantall of that, that's the dance of
the.
Again.
You can call it feminine,masculine.
It's really helpful.
We don't have to, we can justsay energy and consciousness and
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that creates the polarity andthe, or the cosmic orgasm, as I
call it.
Something's being created andit's actually a service, like
this conversation.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So yeah, so mindset retraining and showerwork are
essential components of yourpractice.
What advice would you give tosomeone who wants to start
exploring their own shadows andtransforming their mindset?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yeah.
So shadowwork has been a bigpart of my growth within this
world and it's a big part ofsome Tantric traditions.
It's not part of Tantranecessarily, but people bring it
in Right Because it helps yousee the unseen right, see what
you want to see.
And then for me, it's becomeactually more and more about and
yes, like resistance oranything else, you see it great,
(14:24):
we're aware of it how we startretraining our mind to not
follow the shadow right.
For example, I have a shadowthat is, you know, a wounded
little child that thinks she'sgoing to be rejected yeah, it's
a right.
She's going to come up andshe's going to try to sabotage,
like, no, you're not going to dothis.
No, you can't do this and youdon't need to do this, this,
right.
So all of that, it's again nothelpful to what I want to do.
(14:48):
And the shadow work comes inwhen you see it, you make it
visible, real, understand thatit's.
It's not real, right, but howit manifests in your life is
very real.
So then, in Tantra, what wewill look at in I love this is
it isn't so much a shadow, it'syes, it feels like, oh, I don't
want to see it.
(15:09):
Therefore, it's a shadow, yes,but it's also, it's a, it's an
energetic, it's almost like animprint right.
It could be something thathappened to you.
Again, we don't need to knowthe story, but there is a reason
and it could be from a pastlife, it could be from your
mother, it could be Jeanette,who knows?
It's here, right, this thing,and it's an imprint in literally
your like.
It's your physiology right.
(15:29):
Your physiology holds your mind.
Is your body right?
So, yes, it is in you.
It's not a thought that you'relike oh, I'm not going to think
it anymore, I'm going to think adifferent thought.
It is a thing like an actualmoving energy field in your body
that will then literally closedown your heart, for example,
block the energy flow, make younot right, respond to something
(15:53):
in a way that you want to,because rival mode, because
you're being triggered, as wesay sometimes, or because you're
reacting Now you are notreacting, that part of you is,
but because you're not aware ofit.
It's running the show.
So the way that I work then,with shadow work and this is to
answer your question andretraining the mind, is seeing
every shadow.
This again, this imprint, thephysiological imprint, the
(16:15):
psychological imprint, thespiritual imprint, energy
holding, basically holding youback in the sense, constricting
you.
It's closing down your heart.
There's something, it's like anactual physical response in
your body.
You're closing down yourpotential.
You're not there.
Yes, yeah, something right that.
If you see that as a signpostof there is so much light behind
(16:40):
me, that's a gift that I'm hereto give you, right, so you
immediately see it.
Oh, there is something Now.
Oh, I see it now.
Oh, I know it, I know what itis now, and the retraining
starts.
It starts with compassion,curiosity and a desire to
integrate the gift, right.
(17:01):
So it's gift I have.
This is what I just shared.
It actually has a gift.
She's traumatized little girl.
Okay, she has a story.
She's dramatic, whatever,whatever she needs to believe to
do what she's doing, which,which, again, that part of me
believes she's doing me a favor.
Right, so it's not like I dosomething bad.
Okay, so compassion andcuriosity.
I wonder I'm resisting this.
(17:23):
I wonder what the gift is.
And as soon as I do that, myphysiology changes.
I then step into my full rightself.
It's my heart.
So I'm like, ooh, there is thiselement in me.
She's doing this.
I wonder, hmm, open, I receive.
What's the gift?
I choose to believe there is agift.
I choose to believe that thiswouldn't be happening if there
(17:44):
wasn't something here for meright now.
It's important that I receiveit right now.
Yeah, because it's reallybothering me right now.
Right, and oh, it's actually thefact that she is not nourished,
she's starving, right, and onmany levels.
Right, doesn't have to bespecific to everything.
She's not playing, she's notbeing fed.
Well, she's not given attention, she being this specific part.
(18:05):
But I can say me right, my bodydoesn't, okay.
So let me get even more curious.
Where, where in my life, am Ibypassing my needs?
Right?
Where am I selecting what Idesire, what I want?
Right, oh, okay, I need to.
I need to sit down to eat.
I need to take a walk.
I need to see.
No to this.
I need.
Oh, wouldn't it be interestingif, whatever you know like I'm
(18:28):
not going to do this.
She's coming up.
She's like, no, don't do this,you're not ready, you're ashamed
.
Okay, okay, valid.
I hear you what, if, what, if Itake the lead?
Again, I take the lead.
I promise you you're going tobe okay.
And I hear you, what you need,I will give you.
(18:50):
I will give you what you need.
You need to be nourishing, tobe held.
I hear you, I will give youthat and thank you.
Right, so that conversation, itdoesn't have to happen right In
this like big, dramatic way,but that actually is the
practice.
The practice is any shadowimprint, anything in you that's
coming up.
It's not a service, so to speak, to you is actually urgently
(19:14):
yelling that there is some work,embodied work, that you need to
do within yourself to realizewhere you're blocking the flow
of life body, in your mind, inyour psyche, that's triggering
this response of survival rightOf fear.
Essentially, that's what it'sfear to be here, to be here now
and to do what you want to do,so that you can then not just
(19:35):
make it go away, you can learnwhat is on offer for you,
because I bet that whatever youreceive will enhance whatever
you want to do.
I want to step up and be on thewebinar and she's what?
Or interview.
She's like, okay, you needsomething Great, I'm going to
give it to you.
Can I show up and do this thing?
I trust, I trust it's going tobe great.
(19:55):
I can feel her presence, yes,an element of me saying okay,
and she can then become part ofthe experience.
She can then say something andshare something that will
enhance what I can offer,because she's okay, she's not
just a shadow, she is an imprintfrom something that clearly
impacted me, right?
(20:15):
So, whatever that is, I can useit in service when she's an
ally, when she's not somethingthat I'm calling a shadow, that
I need to fix and get rid of theego.
Right, it's like, no, actuallywe can't get rid of it and
there's no need to, and alsoit's actually not advisable.
We can't even try, because theego is part of how you
(20:35):
experience life.
So what are you doing?
I don't want to be in this life.
Well then, whole otherconversation about spiritual
work, and if you all want to bein this life, it's a very
different work we're going to do.
You're going to go to theinlayers and live in a cave and
just bliss out and check out.
That's fine.
That's fine, right, but it'snot the work I'm doing, that's
not the work you're in, and I'mnot here to do that work, right?
(20:58):
Yeah, so shadow, great, what'son offer?
How can I help?
How can we actually worktogether?
Because I know, I know itwouldn't be here if I didn't
choose consciously, in some way,that this would serve me
somewhere, consciously, I meanon a soul level, right?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Now, I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
But yes, my nervous system knows.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, that was such.
You have so many gold nuggetsof wisdom in that answer.
I would recommend thateverybody goes back and listens
to that specific answer.
There's like so many likepockets of wisdom.
I love it.
So your podcast being bravewith Sasha Lipskaya what does
bravery mean?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You go ahead.
I need to ask you.
Let me record my intro, sasha.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I love her name.
Okay, guys, like I love hername, I will say it all day long
.
You have no idea.
So what does bravery mean toyou in the context of personal
and spiritual growth?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh, thank you for the question.
Bravery again.
Brave courage, right,Courageous.
The word courage and I say thisa lot because it's so like wow
it comes from the word heart inFrench.
So being courageous, AKA beingbrave, means living with an open
heart, right, and that's backto sacred sexuality, retraining
(22:17):
your nervous system, integratingyour shadows right.
Not being afraid doesn't meanyou're not here, right?
I don't feel that like my fearis worth my closing my heart,
but I very much feel fear allthe time, right, so I choose to
right.
I choose to know that this ismore important.
My open heart is what I'm herefor.
(22:38):
So open, broken heart, it hasto be because it's feeling so
much and it has to grow, whichmeans it has to be open and keep
breaking right so that it couldgrow, Not because it's broken
and we have to fix it.
No, it's broken because it'spart of how your heart owes its
capacity to love back, to loveyourself.
That's what you do Now.
(22:59):
Bravery for me has been thelike I would say it's the one
thing courage, bravery, the onething that has led me through
life Like I've doubted myself,like I said that I've created
different roles, I've playeddifferent roles.
I've tried to achieve.
I've come from a place ofthinking I knew and wanted this
(23:20):
and it wasn't that a lot of,again, shadow, right, a lot of
Right.
Yeah, I'm passing the truth ofmy intuition, although I was
very intuitive always.
What got me through it?
What's through it?
I don't mean get over it.
I really went through it tounderstand how to work with my
gifts and my intuition and notlet them actually become my
handicaps, which they could havebeen.
(23:42):
That's what happens to us whenwe don't work with our guests,
right.
So it's being courageous, it'sbeing brave.
I had to say I don't know, andI did this my whole.
I don't know, I don't know, Idon't know.
Something does I trust, I trustand I know that in that trust
it's not oh cool, I trust, thisis great.
No, no, I trust.
It requires that I am reallybrave, because I don't know
(24:05):
what's gonna come, but I knowI'm brave, I know I am brave, I
just knew that and I keptclaiming that word because and
that actually came up, like lastweek with my parents, I left a
partnership and business and she, my mom was like you're really
brave and I was like I am, thatI am, although I don't have the
stakes around that.
(24:25):
You know, it's like this huge,yeah, it's like every day I'm
being called up.
Okay, how much more courage doyou have?
How much more bravery do youhave?
Because let's go deeper, let'sgo more.
And the reason this is soimportant bravery specifically
again, open heart is bravery.
That's why being open hearttakes courage Every day, doesn't
you?
Don't go with callus it.
(24:47):
No, that you know.
Playing your heart as aninstrument means it's raw, it's
real.
You have to work with it.
You have to know how to have acapacity to actually be with the
open heart.
Right, all of that.
That's what I do, so thatyou're not overwhelmed, so you
know, nervous system doesn'tblow itself out.
So, yes, so that you don'tsabotage yourself, Right, so you
don't regress over a thing thatyou're doing it wrong.
(25:07):
No, that's also courage.
I'm going to be courageous toask for help.
I'm going to be courageous tosay I don't know Right, but
somewhere I'm going to becourageous to keep looking for
the right answer.
I'm going to be courageous toknow this isn't right for me, I
don't need to do this, eventhough everything else or
everyone else is telling me itis.
I know it's not going to bebrave and trust my heart because
(25:29):
it trusts me.
And I'm going to be brave tokeep exploring, yes.
And I'm going to be brave intrusting again, trusting that
whatever it is that I come from,that bravery too, like whatever
I create from, that bravery hasto be in alignment with my
heart.
It has to be because it's notcoming from I want to get
(25:50):
something, I want to get awayfrom something or I'm trying.
No, bravery means my heart isopen.
I'm here to love.
I want to do this fully right.
Like as a sacred warrior, rightLike spiritual warrior.
It's not an archetype, it's away of being in the world.
Absolutely, that's what it is.
Yeah, I totally agree with you.
I dare to love.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I dare to love.
I'm like you're mentioning somany books.
I sorry, I was like, oh, I havethat book, I have that book, OK
, yes, yes, ma'am preach.
So let me ask you this Beforewe ask you the last question me
and my archetypes, you and allof your parts, me and all of my
(26:29):
parts, what is the best placefor somebody that is looking to
learn more about you, get incontact with you?
What is the best place for themto go to?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Sure.
So I feel like my podcast beingbrave yes, with Sasha Lipsky
it's one sentence and my website, sashalipskycom, as well as my
YouTube channel actually, and myInstagram, like you mentioned.
Pretty good, yes, and myYouTube channel and, I would say
, my website are probably thebest places to see all my
(27:00):
offerings in terms of freemasterclasses I'm offering and
however else we can engage, andalso just to learn more about my
weird, quirky, brave self.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I love your weird, quirky brave self.
So in your bio, you mentioneddaily practices for healing and
spiritual growth.
Can you maybe share some ofthese practices that our
listeners can incorporate intotheir daily lives?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yes.
So I will share two right nowfor everyone, because we spoke
about sacred sexuality, we spokewe're training your mindset,
and we spoke about bravery,courage.
So it starts and ends with onething having the capacity to
feel your heart, really feelyour heart, not just know that
(27:45):
your heart's there.
And I was like, yes, I hear it.
No, like really hear your heart, which is how you train your
body to then respond to yourintuition and not mind, right,
and not your again, any shadowor imprint you have.
And back to the practices, itdoesn't just come with.
(28:06):
Let me hear my heart.
For a lot of us, the reason wedon't, I feel, especially for
women, is we are also extremelydisconnected from our lower body
, our wounds.
So for me, when I say speakingto the heart, listening to the
heart, I mean listening to thewomb heart.
So it's the hope into the gut,into the womb.
(28:26):
Even if you're a man, you havean energetic womb right.
There's space inside of youthat holds this creative sexual
energy.
That's now, for women, veryreal.
We're like, oh yeah, that'swhere babies are formed in our
bodies, right?
So like, oh yeah.
So that heart that I speakabout its root goes right in and
through the womb into the earthand then it opens, opens like a
(28:48):
flower right, and it connectsto the sky and it connects to
the whole universe In howeverway.
You are called to experiencethat, and so your heart is your
whole being right.
But physically being able to bewith your heart in your chest,
first and foremost starts withtwo practices.
So I will offer this insequence so you start your day
(29:10):
with, especially if you feel alittle bit disconnected from
your intuition or and the truthof what you want to do.
That's what it is feeling yourwomb first, right.
So feeling, just feeling yourpelvic floor, feeling that space
between your hips, right, justunderstanding that there is this
very potent wisdom center thatwe often don't talk about.
(29:32):
And if this center is not heard, if not, if you don't know how
to feel it, it's not that youcan't right, you might never
practice, you just haven'tpracticed.
So this is what you do, youstart practicing and you can
squeeze your lower abs, squeezeyour lower body muscles, your
kegel muscles, really feelingthat sexual center and
(29:53):
understanding that, again,that's where that sexual energy
lives.
It will rise, create.
But for you to open your heartand to live with the brave, open
heart, you need energy, youneed stamina and you get a
connection to that gutturalknowing of I am safe in the
snowing, the knowing that I'msafe in the knowing right.
(30:15):
I am safe into know the truth.
I am safe in my body.
My body knows and I feelconnected to the part of me that
wants to express this truth.
And that's where, again, thewomb healing work comes in, as
you don't have to do anything,just feel first your womb.
Take three deep breaths intoyour womb through the nose.
(30:35):
We can do it right now.
You don't have to do anything,just breathe into your womb
space.
If you don't feel it, don'tworry about it, you will
eventually keep practicing.
Squeeze those lower muscles,lower body muscles, lower keg
muscles, that's what you wannacall them, the lower muscles.
Just to help yourself locatethat area and just feel that
(30:56):
place, you can put one of yourhands on your tummy, you know.
Feel your breath, likeliterally between your skin and
your hand.
Just feel your breath movingand as you do that, then feel
that energy energetically.
Just feel rise, that energy isrising right, so you can feel
(31:17):
the energy rise.
If you're intending to, you willinto your heart.
If your intention is to feelyour heart, you will feel your
heart receive this energy.
It's like roots from a flowergetting this water.
Okay, okay, it's safe.
It's safe to be in my body.
It's safe to feel my heart.
It's safe to know the truth.
I'm held right back to sacredsexuality.
(31:39):
My inner wisdom, my feminine,is being held by something that
is protecting it, guiding it,clarifying it, holding it.
That's the masculine, that'sconsciousness.
Right, so you're being aware ofyour wisdom.
Sacred sexuality 101.
That we're done, that's it.
I'm aware of the heart's wisdomand they're coming together so
that I can do something about it.
(31:59):
So, feeling your room, threebreaths.
Bring it into your heart, andthis is part two of the practice
.
Bring it into your heart, heart, feel your heart.
Put your hand on your heart.
Put one of your hands on yourroom or your tummy or your gut,
put one of your hands on yourheart and you feel that
connection.
Take three deep breaths into theheart and ask what do you need
(32:21):
me to know?
What do you need me to know?
What do you need me to know?
And whatever you're sittingwith in your life, your business
, your relationship, your health, you don't have to ask that
specific question.
The what you need me to knowwill evoke the answer to what
you need to know, and that willinclude everything, because it
(32:44):
has to.
Your heart knows this is wherewe need to go right now.
This is what you need.
This is the shadow you need tolook at.
This is where you're sabotaging, resisting.
This is what you wanna do.
Whatever you need to know inthat moment will then lead to
the next right.
So every moment informs the next, but this one right here what
is the truth of my heart?
Really know it's your heart,really feel it's safe to feel
your heart and then actually bewith that for I would say five
(33:07):
minutes, set a timer, breathe,breathe, womb heart connect.
And then the last thing I'llsay is, if you wanna really
complete it one of the practicesthat I love doing then you
stand up once you get the answer, feel the answer still, don't
dismiss, really be with it andthen move your body right, so
not like a linear.
I'm gonna do some stretches.
(33:28):
No, move your body fluidly.
How does it wanna move?
Do you wanna shake right?
Do you wanna, ah, voice,breathe so many things that we
wanna include in embodimentpractice, but specifically for
this, breathing into the womb,the heart, standing up and then
letting your body simplyintegrate whatever knowing you
received into your physiology,so that that knowing isn't just
(33:49):
a thought.
Right, I know this is what Ineed to know and I'm gonna let
my body actually integrate it sothat my whole day then is
informed by this.
Knowing my integrity with myheart.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
That's a beautiful answer.
Well, sasha, I wanna thank youso much for coming to the
Spetula Spotlight Series.
This truly has been amazing,thank you.
Thank you, rachel.
Thank you, I appreciate you.
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