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Welcome dreamers, seekers, healers and anyone on their healing journey. My name is Amanda Lux of the Elevation Hive school and community for energy medicine and dreamwork. In this podcast, I share teachings, musings, poems, songs, and interviews with other amazing humans who walk the healer's path. 

Lean in for some serious wisdom on living a realized life, manifesting your dreams, and the importance of finding what you love and giving it away. In this episode I'm thrilled to share some serious inspiration and downright encouragement from two of my most treasured mentors; Gary Strauss and Tracy Griffiths. In this episode they share:

• How they have sustained their healing arts careers in teaching and practicing Craniosacral and Polarity therapy among other things, over many decades (I have been following them around for over 20 years and I'm a newbie...so, like, yeah- you will want to listen up!)
• The one piece of advice they would give to their younger selves
• How working with the nervous system and specifically the vagus nerve is essential for living a healthy life in todays stressful environment
• How their upcoming trip to Olympia Washington to share these tools is going to be the best time ever- and you should absolutely come! (Even if you are finding this later... you should still check out our upcoming classes and programs)xoxo.

Go to Elevationhive.com to learn more about us!

• Learn about all of our upcoming classes and programs.
• Check out Gary and Tracy's school: The Life Energy Institute
• Learn about the upcoming classes August 2024 in Polarity Autonomic Nervous System with Gary Strauss and TRE with Tracy Griffiths
• Read our current Astrology report with Emily Trinkaus
• Join the Hive Community Membership for free here.
• Click here buy me a cup of coffee or show your support for this podcast. So much energy goes into the creation of this free content and I'm a one-woman show over here. I really appreciate your appreciation! 

Thank you for listening, sharing, reviewing and sending me your dreams! 

I love to read them. 

Alone/All One theme song written and performed by Amanda Lux

All other music from Music from #Uppbeat

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Welcome dreamers, seekers, empaths, and healers! My name is Amanda Lux of the Elevation Hive school and community membership for energy medicine and dreamwork. In this podcast, I share teachings, musings, poems, songs, and interviews with other amazing humans who walk the healer's path. 

• An interview with Dzhan Wiley, my best friend and co-creator of the Healer's Journey Dream Oracle deck about our soon-to-be-released deck
• Insight into our creative process around painting the 44 images that became the cards (22 paintings each)
• How we wrote the poetic guidance that accompanies each card using a method of "blind" synchronicity poetry that we made up when we were 16 years old (over 30 years ago!!???)
• Three card pull on the positive and negative pole of sharing the deck, and we even pull a card for you! (Go ahead and start pondering your question...)
• How the healer's journey is inspired by but totally different from the hero's journey and how this pertains to YOU!
• Pre-order your Healer's ​Journey Dream Oracle Deck​
• Interested in purchasing prints of the cards? Email me at amandalux@elevationhive.com

Go to Elevationhive.com to learn more about the upcoming live online class: Free intro to Intentional Dreaming ​on zoom ​

Join us in person for a Free intro to Polarity One: Session FREE​

FREE Polarity Somatic Yoga for the month of May (I will soon be offering this on zoom as well)​https://www.elevationhive.com/polarity-somatic-yoga​

Work with me: ​https://www.elevationhive.com/book-a-session​

Learn more about upcoming classes: ​https://www.elevationhive.com/classes​

Read the current astrology: ​https://www.elevationhive.com/astrology​

Certificate Programs ​https://www.elevationhive.com/certificate-programs​

Pre-order your Healer's ​Journey Dream Oracle Deck​

Click here buy me a cup of coffee or show your support for this podcast. So much energy goes into the creation of this free content and I'm a one-woman show over here. I really appreciate your appreciation! 

Thank you for listening, sharing, reviewing and sending me your dreams! 

I love to read them. 

Alone/All One...

Join me for the second episode in the Soul-Care Series where I chat with my dear friend Kelly Watkins about Grief. Kelly is a Board Certified Polarity Practitioner, a fellow polarity teacher (who happened to help me start the Hive!) and a grief expert who offers online sessions and mourning circles for anyone who has experience loss, trauma, or has endured the trials of being human. In this down-to-earth and intimate conversation Kelly shares about some of her own losses including her current walk with cancer, and offers some helpful ways to process and honor grief.

In this episode of the Soul-Care Series you will hear:

• About the ether element (throat chakra) and its relationship to grief and bliss
• About the importance of honoring grief and the whole continuum of our experience
• How grieving is both personal and universal
• Kellys amazing "wailing tub" exercise for allowing grief to leave your body and go down the drain
• A poem from my book which you can learn more about or purchase on Amazon here:   The Soul-Care Workbook: A 33 Day Journey Through your Chakras and Elements  

Welcome dreamers, seekers, empaths, and healers! My name is Amanda Lux of the Elevation Hive school and community membership for energy medicine and dreamwork. In this podcast, I share teachings, musings, poems, songs, and interviews with other amazing humans who walk the healer's path. 

Go to Elevationhive.com to learn more about the upcoming classes in Polarity therapy and in-person and online dream circles  

• Learn more about Kelly Watkins and her Mourning circles
• Check out my art at AmandaLux.com
• Purchase the Soul-Care Workbook on Amazon here:   The Soul-Care Workbook: A 33 Day Journey Through your Chakras and Elements  

• Click here buy me a cup of coffee or show your support for this podcast. So much energy goes into the creation of this free content and I'm a one-woman show over here. I really appreciate your appreciation! 

Thank you for listening, sharing, reviewing and sending me your dreams! 

I love to read them. 

Alone/All One theme song written and performed by Amanda Lux

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

https://uppbeat.io/t/sonder-house/let-go-josh-jacobson

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Join me for the first episode in this new Soul-Care series as I build upon and dive even deeper into how we can tend to our body, energy and life with energy medicine. Soul-Care offers a multidimensional version of energetic self-care through action based exercises, practices, suggestions, and guided visualizations.

In this first episode of the new Soul-Care Series, I share:

• A guided energy attunement to help you tap into your own energy and shift an actual issue that is currently presenting for you physically, mentally or emotionally (and ultimately energetically).
• How I went from skeptic to teacher of energy medicine
• How bringing your energy into alignment (using only your imagination) can shift imbalances on any and all levels- and how everyone (even you) is born with this ability!
• An excerpt from my book which you can learn more about or purchase on Amazon here:   The Soul-Care Workbook: A 33 Day Journey Through your Chakras and Elements  

Go to Elevationhive.com to learn more about our upcoming classes in Polarity Therapy and Craniosacral Balancing

• Click here buy me a cup of coffee or show your support for this podcast. So much energy goes into the creation of this free content and I'm a one-woman show over here. I really appreciate your appreciation! 

Thank you for listening, sharing, reviewing and sending me your dreams! 

I love to read them. 

Alone/All One theme song written and performed by Amanda Lux

All other Music from Uppbeat

*Afterthoughts:

I just want to acknowledge the Western allopathic medical system for its wonderful contributions as well. I am grateful for all the medical workers who show up at all hours for all the hardest things, and for the amazing technological advances in medicine!

I do not think Energy Medicine should replace standard care. I do, however, believe that a broader definition for healing could be emphasized and I also believe this is coming, little by little. Perspectives are broadening. And thank goodness for that!

What exciting times we are living in.

This is the sixth and final episode in this series where I am exploring how to cultivate alignment through each of the five elements.

In the completion of this elemental series, I share:

• Various ways the earth element expresses through our root (sacral) chakra and how to balance them
• How I was given a special dream which I share in story form as I explore the very earthly themes of completion, death, transformation, and the ultimate elemental embodiment of the earth itself
• How we can all tap into the wisdom of the Mother, Maiden and Crone to transmute fear into courage (regardless of our gender or orientation)
• How contemplating our death can help us feel more alive and engaged in our life

• Learn more about your chakras and elements in my book: the Soul-Care Workbook available on Amazon.com

• Learn more about our upcoming classes at: https://www.elevationhive.com/classes

• Check out my art and learn about in-person and online healing sessions at AmandaLux.com

• Click here buy me a cup of coffee or show your support for this podcast. So much energy goes into the creation of this free content and I'm a one-woman show over here. I really appreciate your appreciation! 

Thank you for listening, sharing, reviewing and sending me your dreams! 

I love to read them. 

Welcome dreamers, seekers, empaths, and healers! My name is Amanda Lux of the Elevation Hive school and community membership for energy medicine and dreamwork. In this podcast, I share teachings, musings, poems, songs, and interviews with other amazing humans who walk the healer's path. 

Alone/All One theme song written and performed by Amanda Lux

All Other Music from #Uppbeat:

https://uppbeat.io/t/hemlock/timelapse

This is the fifth episode in a series of six where I am exploring how to cultivate alignment through each of the five elements.

In this episode I invited Elizabeth Betwixt, a Women’s Sexuality and Pelvic Care Specialist, a BirthKeeper and Somatic Movement Therapist & Teacher, onto the show to discus how we can work with and balance our water element. Elizabeth and I explore:

• Various ways the water element expresses through our second (sacral) chakra and how to balance them
• How important it is for all people (especially women) to connect more to their sensuality, sexuality, creativity and PLEASURE
• Eco-somatics and the many ways our bodies (and our physical issues) are reflected in the earth and vice versa
• How stagnation in the second chakra can lead to all kinds of dis-ease such as fibroids, fertility issues, pain during sex or menses, relational issues, creativity blocks (and other un-pleasurable things). 
• How listening and trusting the wisdom of our tissues can unwind old traumas and restore our physical vitality and so much more!

Elizabeth Betwixt guides women in the EcoSomatic Arts of Healing, Pleasure, Fertility, Birth, Ritual, and Movement. She is a lifelong student of pelvicology and the esoteric and physiologic nature of feminine lifeforce. She offers sessions and programs in her local community in Boulder, CO and on Zoom, such as Wild Womb : Wise Yoni bodywork sessions, Women's Sexual Soul Health groups, and Birth Prep and Postpartum Healing work for women and families.

Elizabeth Betwixt 

Pleasure :: Fertility :: Birth :: Movement 

WiseWomen Pelvic Care 

Learn more about Elizabeths offerings at https://www.elevationhive.com/elizabeth-betwixt

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https://uppbeat.io/t/sanchii/horizon

Alone/All One theme song written and performed by Amanda Lux

Welcome dreamers, seekers, empaths, and healers! My name is Amanda Lux of the Elevation Hive school and community for energy medicine and dreamwork. In this podcast, I share teachings, musings, art, poems, songs, and interviews with other amazing humans who walk the healer's path. Learn more at elevationhive.com

Click here buy me a cup of coffee and show your support for this podcast. I really appreciate your appreciation! 

Thank you for listening, sharing, reviewing and sending me your...

In this episode: 

This is the fourth episode in a series of six where I am sharing stories, anecdotes, exercises and valuable tips on how to align your energy via the five elements which relate to the chakra system within Polarity Therapy. 

As this episode is focused on the fire element, I invited Sharon brown- sacred Fire Keeper, Granicera and Curindera, to share some of her deep wisdom on how to align your energy through the Fire element. 

Sharon has also been taking my Polarity classes, so this conversation became a lively and riveting comparison between these two lineages- philosophies and energetic principals of Polarity Therapy and those of the Nahua spiritual healing traditions of Mexico. 

In this episode Sharon and I discuss:

• How I reached out last minute to interview Sharon because of a dream (not that this is unusual- but still...)
• Sharons fascinating insights around the similarities and differences between Polarity therapy and the Nahua perspectives on energy, astrology, healing, the elements and more. 
• How neutrality is one of the greatest common denominators between these two lineages.
• How to connect with Fire in a ceremonial context vs. an everyday context, and how doing so can open your heart, your mind and your energy in profound ways! 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Go to Elevationhive.com to learn more about upcoming classes in polarity therapy, cranial sacral therapy and online courses in dreamwork, energy work, soul work, astrology, and more.

• Learn more about how to find Sacred Fire Keeper near you (or become one) here:
• Learn more about Sharons women's fires every new moon on Facebook here 
• Read the current astrology report by Shelley Bredeson
• Click here buy me a cup of coffee or show your support for this podcast. So much energy goes into the creation of this free content and I'm a one-woman show over here. I really appreciate your appreciation! 

Thank you for listening, sharing, reviewing and sending me your dreams! 

I love to read them. 

Songs used in this episode:

Music from #Uppbeat

https://uppbeat.io/t/avbe/i-forgot-your-smile

https://uppbeat.io/t/dan-phillipson/moments

https://uppbeat.io/t/zimpzon/sine

https://uppbeat.io/t/vens-adams/voyager

https://uppbeat.io/t/sanchii/horizon

Alone All One theme song written and performed by Amanda Lux

Welcome dreamers, seekers, empaths, and healers! My name is Amanda Lux of the Elevation Hive school and...

This is the third episode in a series of six, where I am sharing stories, anecdotes, exercises and valuable tips on how to align your energy via the five elements which relate to the chakra system within Polarity Therapy. As this episode is focused on the air element or heart chakra, I am sharing a deeply heartfelt, vulnerable, and undoubtedly heart-warming conversation with myself and my daughter Ruby Roebuck.

Ruby is a 20 year old college student wise beyond their years, and an incredibly empathetic human being. Their studies in embodiment, social justice, outdoor education, and climate action have led them to a myriad of heart centered practices. Ruby's eloquent share is full of generosity, humility, and a spiritual maturity that may just bring you, the listener, straight into your own heart alignment.

• The dangerous and painful emotions that can keep us from wanting to tune in to the heart and how to create safe space to do so
• Rubys relationship to listening to their heart and how to move the immense grief that is there around climate change and social justice
• How playing piano (even if you don't know how), spending time in nature, crying freely, and being childlike, playful, and embodied can help us to align our energy through the heart
• Heart centered practices and perspectives to help cultivate discernment, connection, and how doing so leads us to the fullest most vivid and precious life we could ever live.

Go to Elevationhive.com to learn more about upcoming classes in polarity therapy, cranial sacral therapy and online courses in dreamwork, energy work, soul work, astrology, and more.

• The books Ruby mentions: "Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation" and "Trust Kids: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy"
• The free course I mentioned on listening to your intuition through connecting with your heart
• Check out and buy art at AmandaLux.com
• Read the current astrology report by Shelley Bredeson
• Click here buy me a cup of coffee or show your support for this podcast. So much energy goes into the creation of this free content and I'm a one-woman show over here. I really appreciate your appreciation! 

Thank you for listening, sharing, reviewing and sending me your dreams! 

I love to read them. 

Music from Uppbeat

https://uppbeat.io/t/simon-folwar/days-of-change

https://uppbeat.io/t/sky-gienger/gently

Welcome dreamers, seekers, empaths, and healers! My name is Amanda Lux of the Elevation Hive school and community for energy medicine and dreamwork. In this podcast, I share teachings, musings, art, poems, songs, and interviews with other amazing humans who walk the healer's path. 

Watch the visual art vlog that accompanies this episode on youtube here!

This is the second episode in a series of six, where I am sharing valuable tips on how to align your energy via the five elements of polarity therapy. In todays episode I am focusing on the ether element or throat chakra and how you can transform your energy using simple techniques and practices.

After a series of profound dreams that continued after I woke up, I was able to dictate this episode (from a waking dream state). So ether! 

In this "transmission" style episode I share:

• The importance of creative expression for energetic alignment
• What it feels like to align your energy via the ether element and what it's like when our ether or throat chakra is out of balance
• How sound or singing can be a profound way to align your energy
• The power of cleansing your space (inside and out)
• How altar work is one of the best ways to tend your ether and align your energy in general 
• How I personally used altar work to manifest one of my favorite jobs ever when I needed it most back in New York City in the 1990's. (Epic).

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Go to Elevationhive.com to learn more about upcoming classes in polarity therapy and online courses in dreamwork, energy work, soul work, astrology, and more.

• Check out my art at and buy a painting (or an altar of your own) at AmandaLux.com
• Click here buy me a cup of coffee or show your support for this podcast. So much energy goes into the creation of this free content and I'm a one-woman show over here. I really appreciate your appreciation! 
• Watch the vlog that accompanies this episode on Youtube where I create my own altar!

Thank you for listening, sharing, reviewing, commenting, and sending me your dreams! 

I love to read them. 

Songs used in this episode:

Music from #Uppbeat:

https://uppbeat.io/t/northwestern/moonlit-feather

https://uppbeat.io/t/dan-barracuda/nocturnal-gardens

https://uppbeat.io/t/adi-goldstein/slow-current

https://uppbeat.io/t/richard-smithson/in-the-next-life

https://uppbeat.io/t/ambient-boy/munari

Welcome dreamers, seekers, empaths, and healers! My name is Amanda Lux of the Elevation Hive school and community for energy medicine and dreamwork. In this podcast, I share teachings, musings, art, poems, songs, and interviews with other amazing humans who walk the healer's path. 

Watch the visual art vlog that accompanies this episode on youtube here!

In this first episode in a series of six, I am sharing valuable tips on how to align your energy via the five elements of polarity therapy.

In this episode 

How do we transform our energy using polarity principals based on the chakra system and five elements? In this episode I share:

• How to deal with obstacles on our path (hint: sometimes it takes a chainsaw- and if you fail the first time, try, try again)!
• How to digest the energy of life and put better options on the menu
• An overview of the five elements and how to know when to use each one
• What energetic alignment feels like (and how to recognize when we have fallen out of alignment)
• Watch on youtube to view the art and backstory that goes along with this episode!

Go to Elevationhive.com to learn more about the upcoming classes and more

• Check out my art at and buy a painting at AmandaLux.com
• Click here buy me a cup of coffee or show your support for this podcast. So much energy goes into the creation of this free content and I'm a one-woman show over here. I really appreciate your appreciation! 

Thank you for listening, sharing, reviewing and sending me your dreams! 

I love to read them. 

Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

https://uppbeat.io/t/northwestern/hey-ho

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Alone/All One theme song written and performed by Amanda Lux