In this episode of Toxic Silence, we’re exploring the body’s most ancient language — the quiet gestures, shapes, and postures through which emotion speaks when words fall away.

So many of us carry the residue of unspoken experience — the tension in a jaw that never got to shout, the collapsed chest of someone who learned to stay small, the throat that still fears being heard. Our bodies remember what our minds try to forget.

Healing doesn’t always require effort — sometimes it begins in stillness. A simple gesture, a soft breath, the willingness to bring awareness to the places we’ve abandoned.

The body is always whispering, always trying to find its way back to flow. A blocked channel, a held muscle, a forgotten inhale — all of it waiting for our presence, for the small acts of devotion that say: I’m here now. You can soften.

When we shape our hands into a Mudra, when we sit and breathe into a posture, we’re not forcing anything open. We’re creating space — a quiet invitation for energy to circulate again, for emotion to move, for life to return to the places that have gone numb.

This is the essence of Kriya, of Mudra, of movement as medicine: the understanding that the divine is not something we must reach for, but something we remember through the body.

My guest today is Rachel Zinman, an internationally renowned yoga teacher, author, and musician based in Byron Bay. With over 35 years of teaching experience, she shares the wisdom of Yoga and Self Knowledge through the Sundaram Online Ashram, which she co-founded with her partner and Vedanta master, John Weddepohl. Rachel’s love of mudras — sacred gestures that restore balance and calm — infuses her work with depth, stillness, and grace. Through her classes, writing, and music, she guides others to experience yoga as a living path toward harmony and awareness.

instagram.com/rachelyogi

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RachelZinmanYoga

Website: https://rachelzinmanyoga.com/

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Today we’re exploring something that lives beneath language… beneath thought… even beneath emotion.

It’s the body’s own rhythm of release — a trembling, shaking, quivering movement that we’ve long been taught to suppress.

It's something called it TRE — Trauma and Tension Release Exercises — a simple but profound practice that invites the body to remember how to let go.

When animals experience threat, they shake.
After the chase, after the freeze, their bodies tremor — releasing the charge of survival. And then, just like that, they return to grazing. Calm. Present. Reset.
Humans, on the other hand, have learned to override this natural wisdom. We hold it all in. We stay composed, controlled, contained.
We call it resilience — but really, it’s often just endurance.

Over time, this unspent tension builds up — in our muscles, our fascia, our breath, our sleep, our relationships.
It becomes the silent language of the body — tightness, anxiety, inflammation, burnout.
Our systems are still trying to complete a story that never had an ending.

TRE is a way to finish that story.

My guest today, TRE and Reiki Therapist Gabriel Kaszab. Gabriel is a TRE® (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) and Reiki practitioner based in Brisbane. He guides people in reconnecting with their body’s innate wisdom through tremor, touch, and presence — helping the nervous system unwind stored tension and return to calm. His work bridges science and energy, offering a grounded, compassionate path to regulation and resilience.

Links:

Website: https://www.gabrielkaszab.com/

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/gabriel_kaszab

Today I’m joined by Kim Williams, founder of the Frequency Lab in Newtown, Sydney. Kim is an experienced wellness entrepreneur, aromatherapist, and sound medicine practitioner whose work bridges ancient healing and modern innovation.

In this conversation, we explore the language of frequency — how rhythm, resonance, and light entrain the body toward coherence, release stored emotion, and help us return to our natural state of balance.

Links:

Website: https://frequencylab.com.au/

Insta:

https://www.instagram.com/frequency_lab_sydney?igsh=MTN5czdycmo1MjdrYQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

Today I'm honoured to be speaking with Vicki Noble, author, scholar, teacher, artist, mother, and one of the true pioneers of modern feminist spirituality. Vicki is best known as the co-creator of the Motherpeace Tarot, the first feminist deck of its kind.

For more than 40 years, Vicki has been a leading voice in the study and revival of the ancient feminine mysteries. Teaching about the Dakini, the dark goddess, the cycles of the moon, and the sacred dimensions of menstruation, birth, sexuality, and transformation.

She's written extensively about the ways patriarchal culture has severed us from these mysteries and what happens to our bodies, our psyches, and our planet when the feminine is suppressed, shamed, and forgotten. In this conversation, we're descending into that underworld space. The shadow realms where the feminine has long been buried or silenced.

We'll talk about menstrual shame and how women have internalized centuries of denial around the natural power of their cycles.

We'll explore the Dakini archetype, fierce, erotic, untamed, and utterly truthful as a guide for personal and collective transformation.

And we discuss what it means to reclaim the dark as sacred, the bleeding time.

Vicki Noble is a visionary teacher, author and co-creator of the Motherpiece Tarot. She's based in Santa Cruz and has spent over four decades reviving the ancient feminine mysteries from the Dakini and the dark goddess to the healing power of menstruation and cyclic living.

Today she shares her wisdom with us and why she believes the dark goddess holds the keys to our healing and transformation, personally and collectively.

Resources:

https://www.vickinoble.com/about-1/

@vickinobleone
https://motherpeace.com/
https://www.vickinoble.com/dior-adventure/

Today we’re diving into a profound conversation about the body as a vessel of memory, energy, and truth — and the spine as a living archive of both our pain and our potential.

My guest is Dr Olivia Whan, a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine who also works in the quantum field through Spinal Energetics and trauma-informed Kundalini Activation. Olivia weaves these modalities into a practice that clears inherited density, awakens dormant energy, and restores coherence to the body, mind, and spirit.

This episode — Clearing Ancestral Tar: Energy, Epigenetics & Voice Liberation — explores what Olivia calls the “energetic tar” that sits on the spine: the residue of trauma, outdated beliefs, and ancestral weight that can dim our light and silence our truth. We’ll look at how these patterns are passed through epigenetics, how they shape our nervous system, and how they manifest as dis-ease or self-suppression.

We’ll also explore how healing within the quantum field invites light into the dense body — and why density must first transform before true illumination can occur. We discuss why talk therapy or manifestations alone often cannot reach these layers, and how energy-based work can access and release what language cannot.

Together we’ll ask:

• What happens when we begin to peel back these energetic layers?
• How does clearing the spine create space for sovereignty, self-expression, and authenticity?
• How do energy practices like Spinal Energetics and Kundalini Activation open the pathways for that transformation?

We’ll touch on the dance between the divine feminine and masculine in healing, the importance of safety and consent when working with trauma, and the courage it takes to embody light through density.

What I love about Olivia’s work is that it reminds us that healing is never passive — it’s an act of choice. Clearing this “tar” requires willingness, presence, and the responsibility of shaping our own energy. When we do, the rewards are extraordinary: a voice freed from fear, a body alive with vitality, and a spirit moving in harmony with truth.

This is an episode about healing at the deepest root — about remembering that your spine is not just bone and tissue, but a channel of light, a map of memory, and a gateway to sovereignty.

So take a breath, soften your shoulders, and open your heart. You’re about to hear from the extraordinary Dr Olivia Whan, as we journey into the clearing of ancestral tar and the liberation of the voice.

Dr Olivia Whan is a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine who works at the intersection of energy, emotion, and embodiment. Alongside her clinical practice, she weaves Spinal Energetics, Kundalini Activation, and Specialised Kinesiology into a unique approach that helps dissolve stored trauma and awaken the body’s innate intelligence.

Deeply passionate about women’s health and fertility, Olivia sees herself as a bridge between worlds — a conduit helping new souls enter the world with harmony and grace.

Her current work explores a potent blend of energy medicines designed to collapse dis-ease structures at their vibrational root, allowing the body to return to its natural blueprint of vitality and coherence.

Resources:

https://bangalowwitchdoctor.com.au

https://byronenergetics.com.au

@byron_energetics

How Online Sessions Work: https://rebeccajaxholistichealing.mykajabi.com/jax-energetics-1

Elliott Saxby: https://elliottsaxby.com/

https://www.alignwithmiri.com/

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Today we’re entering a sacred conversation — one that takes us deep into the wisdom of the body, and more specifically, into the seat of our creativity, intuition, and lineage: the womb.

Our guest is the radiant Zoe Bosco — a teacher, guide, and energetic practitioner whose work weaves kinesiology, ancestral healing, and the reclamation of the feminine voice.

Zoe supports women to awaken their greatest potential, cultivate radical self-trust, and harness the unique energetic gifts of the womb space — not just for personal healing, but to elevate the vitality of the collective. Because the truth is, the quality of your energy directly shapes the quality of your life.

In this episode we’ll explore womb karma — how the red thread of ancestral memory and karmic imprint lives within us, and how it can shape the way we move through life. We’ll look at how menarche — our first bleed — imprints our cycles and decision-making, and how food, exercise, and nervous system care all play a role in our womb health.

We’ll talk about what it means to make decisions from our womb — to literally ask our bodies for answers — and why this deep listening is so vital in a culture that has long silenced or shamed feminine wisdom. Together we’ll touch on ancestral wounds, inherited trauma, the witch wound, and how all of this can impact our ability to speak, to trust ourselves, and to manifest what we most desire.

And of course, Zoe will share practical rituals and remedies — from sound and clay to kinesiology touch points — that help us reconnect with our womb, reclaim our voice, and live with more coherence and vitality.

This is a conversation about remembering who we are, and the power that lies within us when we turn toward the wisdom of our own bodies.

So settle in, soften your belly, and listen deeply as we welcome the radiant Zoe Bosco to the podcast.

www.zoebosco.com/home
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In this season of Toxic Silence, we’ve been exploring how silence can wound us—how unspoken truths, unmet needs, and lost attunement create toxic patterns in our lives. Today’s conversation takes us straight into the heart of that theme.

When we talk about lost attunement, we’re really talking about one of the earliest forms of toxic silence: the silence of a parent who doesn’t respond, mirror, or truly see us. That silence says: your feelings don’t matter, your voice doesn’t matter, you don’t matter. And it leaves a lasting legacy.

For boys, this may show up as hyper-toughness or emotional collapse, carrying unprocessed feelings into adult relationships—sometimes as passivity, resentment, or a split between façade and hidden shame. For girls, it can look like over-performance, constant giving, or waiting for rescue, fantasy, or validation.

Underneath it all lies the same deep longing: a desire to repair the original wound of emotional abandonment. Often, we unconsciously recreate these dynamics in relationships, perpetuating cycles of silence, avoidance, and unspoken pain.

Our guest today is Hawatea Bryson, a powerful therapist and friend who works deeply with couples on these themes. She explores what she calls silent relationships—how lost attunement shows up between partners, keeps us stuck, and what it takes to finally find repair.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How silence becomes toxic in relationships
• The different ways men and women carry the legacy of lost attunement
• How to move from being silenced to reclaiming your authentic voice

Because silence shapes us—but when it’s met, named, and transformed, it can also set us free.www.natureknows.co

Today we journey along the banks of the Rhine River in Germany, a mythic waterway that has carried stories, merchants, crusaders… and mystery for centuries. From this sacred soil flowed Hildegard of Bingen—born in September 1098, fierce, fertile, and destined to move with purpose.
Hildegard was the tenth child of noble parents and, as such, was given to the Church as a spiritual offering. At just eight years old, she was enclosed within the walls of Disibodenberg monastery—sealed in, cloistered from the world, surrounded by silence and stone.
For nearly 30 years, she listened, watched, and waited. In that hidden life, Hildegard learned the healing powers of plants and gems, nurtured her visions, and prepared herself for a world that was not yet ready to hear her.
Remarkably, she did not begin to write her visionary texts, compose music, or speak publicly until her 40s—an age when most people of the 12th century had already passed. Emerging from decades of quiet preparation, Hildegard became a healer, composer, theologian, and spiritual leader. She founded her own abbey, preached publicly with the Pope’s blessing, and became a voice of the Divine in a world that expected women to stay silent.
Hildegard’s story is not just history—it is a metaphor for midlife awakening. It reminds us that silence does not equal absence, that hidden years can be potent incubation, and that emerging into one’s voice is a transformative act of sovereignty.
In this episode, we explore Hildegard as both a historical figure and an archetype for modern women navigating the passage from silence to sovereignty. We’ll discuss her teachings, her use of herbs and music, and the ways her wisdom continues to guide creative and healing journeys today.
Our guest is Georgina Langdale, artist, healer, and herbalist, who walks between worlds much like Hildegard herself.
Georgina’s Website: https://archeus.nz
FB + Instagram: @Archeusnaturalliving
Podcast: The Soul Garden
Art: @Georginalangdaleart