What if the patterns you’ve spent your life trying to “fix” are actually doorways back to who you truly are?

In this episode, I’m joined by Human Design expert, master coach, and host of the globally recognised Human Design Podcast, Emma Dunwoody. Known for making Human Design and the Gene Keys practical, accessible, and deeply transformative, Emma bridges ancient wisdom systems with modern psychology to help people live in alignment with their authentic nature.

Together, we explore how conditioning shapes our emotional responses, decision-making, and sense of self — and how systems like Human Design and the Gene Keys can support a return to inner authority, clarity, and embodied truth.

This is a grounded, spacious conversation about healing beyond self-improvement, and learning to trust the intelligence already living within the body.

In this episode, we explore:

• What Human Design really is — and how it differs from personality typing

• How the Gene Keys reveal the path from shadow to gift through awareness and compassion

• The impact of conditioning on our nervous system, emotions, and life choices

• Why embodiment is essential for real transformation

• How to make aligned decisions without overthinking

• Moving out of “who you were shaped to be” and into authentic self-expression

• Practical ways to begin living your design in everyday life

About Emma Dunwoody

Emma Dunwoody is a Human Design expert, master coach, author, and the host of the Human Design Podcast. She is the creator of Transformational Human Design, an approach that weaves Human Design, the Gene Keys, and modern psychology to support emotional healing, aligned decision-making, and purpose-led living.

Resources & Links

• The Human Design Podcast: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/the-human-design-podcast

• Learn more about Emma’s work: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/

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In this episode of Toxic Silence, we explore one of the most surprising and intimate relationships in the body:
the connection between the Heart and the tongue.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Heart “opens to the tongue,” governing speech, truth-telling, and the Shen — the light of spirit that animates us. And modern science is now confirming what the classics have always known: nearly half of the body’s bitter taste receptors are not on the tongue… but on the human heart.

Together we explore:

• Why bitter is the elemental flavour of the Heart
• How the tongue reveals the emotional state of the Shen
• What bitterness means emotionally, energetically, and physiologically
• How grief, joy, anxiety, or suppression change someone’s voice and tone
• Why patients are shocked when they realise their tongue has been telling their heart’s story
• How modern genetics is validating ancient Chinese wisdom

This episode bridges ancient lineage and modern science to help you understand:
your Heart has been speaking through your tongue all along.

My Guest today is Dr. Maz Roginski. A Doctor of Chinese Medicine and an expert in Qi, the life-force energy that animates every system of the body. Drawing from 13 years of clinical experience, she blends classical Chinese Medicine with modern science to create precise, embodied rituals that restore vitality, radiance and inner coherence. Her work treats the whole system — nervous system, hormones, digestion, body, mind and soul — through the lens of Qi.

Having rebuilt her own health through the practices she now teaches, Maz guides clients through profound whole-system resets that reignite clarity, resilience and aliveness. Her mission is simple: to help people return to their life force and remember themselves as part of the great flow of nature.

Links

WEBSITE http://drmaz.earth

POD - Balanced Natural Health

Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/balanced-natural-health-with-dr-maz/id1490364806

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In this episode, we dive into the real world of hypnotherapy — far from stage tricks or swinging watches, and back to its ancient roots in the healing temples of Egypt and Greece. Modern hypnotherapy, shaped by Mesmer, Braid and Erickson, blends psychology, neuroscience and the art of working safely with the subconscious.

Hypnotherapy isn’t about losing control — it’s about reclaiming it.
By guiding us into a natural, focused state of awareness, it opens the doorway to the subconscious, where trauma imprints, fear patterns and old conditioning often live. From here, gentle suggestion, imagery and deep relaxation help the brain form new pathways, release old stories and restore emotional freedom.

We explore:

• What hypnotherapy truly is (and isn’t)

• How it supports trauma healing

• Why the subconscious is key to lasting change

• The science of re-patterning protective responses

• Reconnecting with the original, authentic self beneath conditioning

This conversation is about integration, nervous system repair and reshaping your life from truth, not trauma.

BA Psych, Dip LS Hyp

Lucas Olmos is a trauma-informed Clinical Hypnotherapist and co-founder of Awakening Purpose, where he helps clients across the world release subconscious imprints, rewire protective patterns and return to who they really are.

Links:
Website: https://awakeningpurpose.com.au/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@awakening_purpose

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awakening_purpose?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Guest: Lucas Olmos

In today’s episode, we journey into the sacred sound traditions of mantra and kirtan — two ancient practices that use the voice as a vehicle for healing, devotion, and transformation.

Mantra — from the Sanskrit roots “man” (to think) and “tra” (to liberate) — means “a tool of the mind that leads to freedom.” It’s the rhythmic repetition of sacred sound or vibration to calm the mind and awaken consciousness.

Kirtan, on the other hand, is the call-and-response chanting of mantras, often accompanied by music. It’s communal, heart-opening, and designed to dissolve separation — bringing us into union through sound.

To help us explore these profound sound medicines, I’m joined by Carmella Baynie — a renowned musician, kirtan leader, and teacher of mantra and sound healing. Through her decades of study in classical Indian music, yoga, and the voice as a spiritual instrument, Carmella has guided many on the path of awakening through sound.

Carmella will share her insights on how using the voice can help us process emotional pain, reclaim confidence, and rediscover joy in self-expression. And for those new to chanting, she offers gentle ways to begin this practice at home — without needing to “sound perfect” or know the meaning of every word.

So take a breath, soften your heart, and listen deeply — because as Carmella reminds us, when we touch sound, we touch creation.Links

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Website: https://www.voiceconnectionsforlife.com.au/

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.

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. This is the essence of Kriya, of Mudra, of movement as medicine.

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.

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.

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, 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/