Debbie Philp

A livable planet for all beings depends on your well-being. If you are not well, we cannot collectively be well. This episode’s grounding and detoxifying yoga practice sequence supports your path to well-being and awakens your sense of embodiment and interconnection. It is yoga for a livable planet. Shamanic Reiki Master Practitioner virtual training will take place over two weekends,…

Apr 16

Episode 91: Energize Your Strength, Your Heart and Your Voice

Leadership does not always mean going it alone or being in charge. When you energize your internal strength, open your heart, and fire up your voice, you can bring those qualities to an aligned group, and organization, or a movement and amplify the roar. Inspired by lion, this episode’s yoga practice will energize your core, heart, and throat to ready…

Apr 09

Episode 90: Yoga to Navigate Challenges

When you are advocating for change, you are going to have challenges, no matter how beautiful your vision is. Your practices will help keep you in the game when everything seems to be falling apart. Inspired by my own recent challenges, the yoga practice in this episode is bright but easy sun salutations with time to pause, breathe, and be.…

Mar 19

Episodes 1-89: The Rest of Them

In 2021, my laptop crashed and I lost all of the original files for my podcast episodes. Rather than downloading and recreating all those files, I created a playlist so you can scroll through and listen to any of the first 89 episodes. You will also find them in whatever app you use to listen to podcasts if you've subscribed…

Jan 05

Why you should learn Shamanic Reiki

By Debbie Philp Blog, Shamanism and Reiki

I had had fifteen years of Reiki experience already when I discovered Shamanic Reiki. I did not need more Reiki training to continue serving as I had been, but I was drawn to the aspects of shamanism that were incorporated into Shamanic Reiki. My first training weekend experience marked a pivotal point in my work – and my life. Here…

Nov 23

Sitting with Squirrels as a Meditation Practice

If your idea of meditation is sitting comfortably on a cushion in a softly lit, quiet room, with an hour-long recording of Tibetan singing bowls streaming on your tablet while incense smoke curls around you, sitting with squirrels is not the practice for you. If you are ready to be fully present to what is true now, even if what…

Aug 13

Broken Turtles and Spiritual Journeys

“Follow the turtle home,” repeated the box turtle, as he danced across the night sky. Each step sent a cloud of stardust flying, which left a sparkling wake behind him. “Follow the turtle home,” I heard again and again. When the drumbeat stopped, I came out of my first shamanic journey experience confused. What could that message mean? In the…

Apr 22

Earth Day 2020

On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, I’m awake at 4:00 a.m. after another restless night during the COVID-19 pandemic and trying to think of a reason to say, “Happy Earth Day.” In 1970, the first Earth Day wasn’t a celebration, but a protest. Sparked by an oil spill, backed by a U.S. Senator, and organized from the ground up,…

Apr 16

Perceiving Interconnectedness Through Touch

On a Tuesday in September 2017 I had a Shamanic Reiki client in the afternoon, so my parents picked my son up from school. I arrived at their house to claim him as they were finishing dinner. When my father started to push his chair back, I said, “No, stay there. We have to run.” I missed out on a…

Feb 20

Spiritual practices and self-examination