Episode #17
Somatic Healing Tools For Safety And Connection with Wilder Akasha
Send Us a Message! Your body is not being dramatic. It is being honest. Christine Renee sits down with Wilder Akasha, a somatic coach and embodied leadership guide, to talk about what happens when trauma, stress, and long-held survival strategies get stored in the soma and start running the show. Drawing from more than three decades across education, leadership, somatics, mindfulness, energy work, and embodied personal development, Wilder explores the intersection of self-trust, relationship, sexuality, and human transformation. We explore a simple shift that can change everything: treating emotions like signals you can welcome, not threats you have to suppress. Along the way, Wilder shares how curiosity and connection are not soft skills, they are biological design, and how the nervous system is always scanning for one thing: safety. In this episode we'll explore: Welcoming feelings as signals that want acknowledgment Being born wired for connection and curiosity Recognizing fight flight freeze appease patterns in the soma Practicing radical responsibility without self-abandonment Noticing how suppressed truth can become physical symptoms Tools to find your “home within yourself” Calling in spiritual support to expand capacity in hard moments Repurposing vigilance from scanning for danger to scanning for good Mapping comfort stretch panic zones and taking body snapshots Defining tantra as moving energy to support healthy relationships The conversation opens into matriarch embodiment and the weight many women carry through patriarchy, leadership, and the second shift, plus tools for finding “home within yourself” anywhere. Wilder also offers a grounded, trauma-informed definition of tantra as learning to generate and move energy through the body so you feel supported by the earth, connected to source, and capable of healthier relationships. Her vision is a world in which people have the self-trust and embodied awareness to make choices that are truly their own, the relational skills to create honest and nourishing connection, and the courage to build lives that reflect who they are becoming. If this resonates, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find this work. Wilder lives and works in Hawai‘i and California and is developing her writing, speaking, retreats, and teaching through Cultivating Aliveness and the Hawaii School of Tantra. Links to connect with Wilder: cultivatingaliveness.io hawaiischooloftantra.com wilderakashagrace.com Book referenced on this episode: The 5 Personality Patterns by Steven Kessler Moon Rising Shamanic Institute is sponsoring the Intro to Sacred Tantra , a 4-day tantra training in Austin, Texas January 15-18th, 2027 where Wilder Akasha and Jim Macdonald will be facilitating. Christine Renee, host of the Wisdom Rising podcast, will be there assisting as well. Learn more and register here: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/intro-to-sacred-tantra/ #somatichealing #connection #spiritualpodcast #tantra #traumahealing Moon Rising Shamanic Institute Links: Website: https://moonrisinginstitute.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/moonrisinginstitute Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moonrisingmystics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonrising.institute Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moonrisinginstitute Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://moonrisinginstitute.kit.com/spiritguide Book a session with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minutes-intensive Book a FREE 10 minute connect call with Christine: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/10-minute-connect-call-srpt
