Gateways to Awakening with Yasmeen Turayhi

Dear Community,
You don't want to miss this episode.  In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Sarah Elkhaldy, known as The Alchemist, a spiritual teacher, author, and contemporary mystic whose work explores spiritual alchemy, intuition, and multidimensional awareness.
I’ve spent hours exploring Sarah’s teachings, and I loved the depth and honesty she brought to this conversation. We explore her understanding of the heart as the philosopher’s stone, the inner child as a gatekeeper to expanded awareness, and why the desire to forgive can sometimes move us past the very feelings that need our attention.

“On one hand, it’s to honor oneself. And on the other hand, it is to let go of oneself.” — Sarah Elkhaldy

We also talk about:
The distinction Sarah makes between the heart chakra and the heart center.

Meeting shame and self-judgment with love, including a simple mirror practice.

Why peak spiritual experiences don’t necessarily translate into lasting emotional growth.

What Sarah calls “false light,” and how both spiritual superiority and excessive self-effacement can reflect imbalance.

Discernment and boundaries: knowing when to receive feedback and when to trust your own knowing.

Her interpretation of Mary Magdalene’s seven seals and the ways our perceptions can expand.

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, right-brain pattern development, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 
You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.
Best, 
-Yasmeen 
Sarah also shares her personal experience of living with chronic illness, the role intuition played in her search for healing, and the unexpected joy of discovering a life beyond constant pain.​​
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This conversation is an invitation to bring more honesty, compassion, and discernment to your spiritual life—and to give the parts of yourself you’ve struggled to love a place at the table. Explore Sarah’s work and her book, Book of the Body, at thealchemist.community. You can follow her on IG @the.alchemist------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We're now opening a private Gateways Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here.

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with internationally acclaimed yoga teacher, teacher trainer, and author Mark Stephens for a fascinating exploration of pranayama, the ancient yogic science of working consciously with the breath. Mark has been practicing yoga for decades, and his newest book takes a deep dive into the history, science, philosophy, and practice of pranayama.

We talk about the difference between breath and prana, how breathing can influence our nervous system and state of consciousness, and why nervous-system regulation doesn't simply mean becoming calm. As Mark explains, a healthy nervous system is flexible: sometimes we need to settle, and sometimes we need to mobilize. The deeper question is how we can prepare ourselves to meet what the moment requires.

We also explore alternate nostril breathing, Breath of Fire, breath retention, the bandhas, nadis, chakras, Kundalini, sleep, and the relationship between subtle-energy traditions and modern anatomy.

In this episode, we explore:
• What pranayama actually means—and why prana is much more than breath
• How changing the breath can change our physiological and emotional state
• The relationship between breath, consciousness, and the nervous system
• Why nervous-system regulation isn't synonymous with relaxation
• Breath of Fire, alternate nostril breathing, retention, and other pranayama practices
• Kundalini, bandhas, chakras, nadis, and the subtle body
• Where ancient yogic wisdom and modern science intersect—and where they don't
• Why preparation and gradual progression matter in breathwork
• The potential risks of intense or one-size-fits-all breathwork practices
• How conscious breathing can help us become more present in our everyday livesWe're now opening a private Gateways Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here. 
If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 
You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.
Best,

Dear Friends 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Tim Kelley, a global expert on purpose and author of the book (which just released today) True Purpose. Tim has worked with leaders and executive teams at organizations including Alibaba, Oracle, ING, and PwC, trained more than 1,000 coaches and consultants in his methods, and even explored purpose at the level of entire countries.
We explore why so many people struggle to identify their purpose and Tim’s framework for understanding its different dimensions: essence, blessing, mission, and message. We also discuss why discovering your purpose is only part of the equation, and how fear, resistance, and our desire for safety can keep us from actually living it. We also explore projection, relationships, dreamwork, Internal Family Systems, and how to distinguish resistance that tells us something isn’t our path from the resistance that appears because something deeply aligned scares us.
You can listen to the entire conversation here: 
Takeaways:
- Purpose has multiple dimensions: who you are, how you impact others, your larger mission, and the message you are here to share.
- Fear can keep us from living our purpose, even when we already sense what we are being called toward.
- Shadow work brings unconscious patterns into awareness, helping us understand what may actually be driving our choices.
- The people who trigger us can reveal our own projections and unconscious material.
- Knowing your purpose isn’t enough. Purpose still needs a plan.
“Give yourself permission to learn what your purpose is without having to do it. You’re just investigating. You’re just gathering information.” — Tim Kelley
We're now opening a private Gateways Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here. 
If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 
You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.
Best,

Dear Friends,
In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Canadian singer, songwriter, and composer Tammy Weis to explore the extraordinary world of Portuguese poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa, the mystical energy of Portugal, the Fifth Empire, and the synchronicities that can unfold when we become open to receiving.

Tammy shares how a chance encounter in Lisbon’s Alfama district led her to Pessoa’s poetry, and ultimately inspired Soul Whisper, her album setting his words to music. What followed were dozens of what she calls “Pessoa miracles”: unexpected encounters, collaborations, and synchronicities that completely changed the course of her life. We also explore Pessoa’s many identities, his vision of the Fifth Empire, dreaming and imagination, presence, intuition, frequency, and why his work feels perhaps even more relevant today.
One of the central questions Pessoa’s work continually brings us back to is beautifully simple: “Who am I?” 
And perhaps Tammy’s greatest lesson from this entire journey: “I’m open to receive.”You can listen to the entire episode here: 

In this episode, we explore:
- Fernando Pessoa and the many selves within us, and why his heteronyms were far more than pen names.
- The Fifth Empire, Pessoa’s vision of an empire rooted in language, culture, imagination, intellect, and spirit.
- The mystical energy of Portugal and why Lisbon seems to create such powerful experiences of synchronicity and connection.
- How to stop overthinking and become more grounded in the body, intuition, and the present moment.
- Dreaming and imagination as ways of experiencing realities beyond what is immediately visible.
- Synchronicity and resonance, and what can happen when we stop forcing and become open to receiving.
- Music, frequency, and intention and how Tammy intuitively heard music while reading Pessoa’s poetry.
- Presence before explanation, experiencing life before immediately analyzing or judging it.
- The deeper invitation of Pessoa’s work: to question who we think we are and become more open to the mystery of what we might be.
Ultimately, this conversation is an invitation to think less, perceive more, and become open to the synchronicities already trying to find us. We're now opening a private Gateways Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here. 
If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 
You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.
Best, 
-Yasmeen

What if reality is far more fluid than we’ve been taught to believe?

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Cynthia Sue Larson, bestselling author of Reality Shifts, Quantum Jumps, The Mandela Effect and Its Society, and High Energy Money.
Cynthia has a background in physics from UC Berkeley and has spent decades exploring consciousness, reality shifts, synchronicities, quantum phenomena, and what happens when our experience of reality doesn’t quite match what we thought was possible. 
She wrote the book about the Mandela Effect, which Cynthia describes as “collective alternate memory,” and why different people can seemingly remember the same events, words, places, or cultural moments differently.

 “We are the dreamer. We are in the dream.” - Cynthia Sue Larson 

We begin by exploring what Cynthia calls reality shifts, those strange moments when something appears, disappears, changes, or seems to exist differently than we remember, and her belief that consciousness plays a fundamental role in how we experience the physical world.
Throughout the episode, we explore:
- What reality shifts are and how to begin noticing them
- Whether consciousness can influence our experience of reality
- Quantum jumping and moving between possible timelines
- Why our internal state and perspective matter
- The Mandela Effect and collective alternate memories
- Whether the past, present, and future are as fixed as we assume
- Individual versus collective realities
- Free will, destiny, and conscious agency
- Why Cynthia asks herself every day: “How good can it get?”

Thank you for listening! 
We're now opening a private Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here. 
If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 
You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.
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