Soul Crush

Hello Soul-healers! Adriana is back for the first episode of Soul Crush in 2021-Ram Dass and Embodying Love.   Join Adriana as she shares her account and relationship to Ram Dass and how her recent travels to Hawaii and the Ram Dass House have stirred up reminders of the life’s work and purpose she has dedicated herself towards.   Things that are asked in this episode: What is Embodiment? How do we Embody & Express the Love that We Are? The legacy that Ram Dass left How facing Grief can open us to Love Learning to take chances and trust ourselves Following our intuition and inner callings We invite you to join Adriana this Saturday, May 15th for her class on self love and pleasure, called: EROS + EMBODIMENT Tickets to join can be found here: https://signup.artoflovingyou.com/eros-embodiment?mc_cid=6065e3af45&mc_eid=7741f4c026 To Join The Power of Love School’s next Teacher Training, jump onto the waiting list to receive the signup discount~ https://signup.artoflovingyou.com/cj7282r0qe To f

Join along with Soul Crush this week in sitting down with poetess and artist, Faith Shakti Heyliger.   Faith is a Harlem-born poetess that was able to take her childhood of growing up in an ashram-community and navigate how the world treated her when this lifestyle wasn’t accepted.   In being given the name of the goddess Shakti, Faith has taken her life to explore and live the duality of what it means to be divine and human; and Faith shares this through her performative arts and poems that she curates.    Adriana and Faith discuss the power of performing, how chanting and meditation plays a role in our ability to express ourselves more freely, and ways to support one another as artists and sensitive souls who FEEL IT ALL.   Things that are brought up in this conversation:   Duality of being Human & Divine. Who is Shakti? “Fear is fuel”; learning how to harness fear’s power to discover ourselves fully. How the creative process can be such medicine in today’s world. Ways that performative arts can gi

Join us this week with spiritual teacher, author & artist David Harshada Wagner.  In this episode, David and Adriana Rizzolo celebrate and relate this Full Moon in Aries season to today's overwhelmed society, the f**kery of leadership seen today, and how this all can actually relate and be addressed in learning and delving deeper into the Bhagavad Gita.   Things that are brought up in this conversation: Why the Bhagavad Gita is the most "seminal texts" of the Indian-Hindu traditions and how it relates and shines light on today's climate.    Leadership & F**kery.  How these times of watching our leaderships fail is causing an overwhelming feeling of disempowerment as citizens are unsure of what they can do during these times.    "What is our Good Fight to be Fighting Right now?" Taking the idea of "fighting a good fight" internally: of finding your individual purpose and then confronting your inner enemies. Dharma and Swadharma: the importance of knowing your purpose right now.  Knowing that i

Join us this week with artivist (artist/activist) Angel Del Sol.  In this episode, Angela and Adriana Rizzolo unpack climate crisis, queerness, the Wounded Healer, social change and how art can be a way of bringing to light what has been denied and the true heart of spirituality. Things that are brought up in this conversation: How the act of service can bring us to a truer sense of who we actually are-in purpose, spirituality + passion.   Angela's journey of discovering how to create cultural bridges as a Latina, Columbia-born immigrant in the U.S.   How art has become an form of activism: a way to remind and wake-up our communities to what is truly going on within our systems of government and societies.  That ART can be a way of speaking up and out! Angela sharing what the Creative Resilience Project in NYC is.    Ways we can connect to our ancestral pain.  To sit in this and then move from that awareness towards micro & macro healing towards joy.  Listen in to find how you can find connec

Join us this week with embodiment and social justice healers, Reuben + Nyasha from the Ascension Seed and Adriana as they talk about the Ascension Seed's recent work of Racism: Reveal to Heal (ending for this 2020 year...but more from them soon to come!) and why NOW is still the time to continue standing up and speaking up about racism, social separation, and white supremacy. Things that are brought up in this conversation: Bravely facing the hard conversations and asking the questions of why we have allowed silence, passiveness, ignorance and avoidance into our lives & how these barriers are holding us back.   Learning how to open our eyes, minds, hearts, and voices to allow truth to be the pathway into creating our real purpose in life.   Two embodiment practices (for opening and closing the conversation) to ground + set an intention of social justice and truth for all ready to receive.   Our core connection between us all; the multi-dimensions of this and how to show up better in our "now" reali

Join us this week with death doula, Matthew Dwyer, as he and Adriana talk about death and grief, and how Matthew’s journey took him on the path as a death doula.  Things that are brought up in this conversation: Exploring grief and our fear of death on the spiritual path of healing and awakening to living more fully.   Why we would welcome our own relationship to death and dying and how it can help us find more meaning in life and challenging times.   How to use our own suffering or grief to be able to sit with someone else's in our work with people.   Meditation and guidance for connecting to the ALIVENESS we find in the TRUTH of the natural cycles of our being.   Matthew Dwyer will be a guest teacher in the next Wounded Healer Training: Sexuality, Service, Self-Love + The Stars. Starting September 22nd.   In this 8-week series we will be journeying down through the chakra system to move from Spirit and then embracing our intuitive nature.  That we may solidify our service in this world.   We will

Join us this week with astrologer and poet, Heidi Rose Robbins, as she visits the Soul Crush podcast once again to discuss and explore the realm of the soul’s purpose with Adriana Rizzolo.   In this episode Heidi and Adriana discuss: How astrology can underline and pinpoint what each of our soul’s purpose + habitual patterns in this life are.   How to be generous in our services in our soul's purpose AND also generous to ourselves within the moon-patterned moments.   What we can discover in our rising sign + moon position in our birth charts, and how to use this to the fullest advantage of self-information for our plans in life.   Learning tools and articulation of how to express the energy of our birth charts and discovery of our innate talents.    Developing a sense of humor in the reflection of our “moon-to-the-rising sign patterns” and continued cycles that may seem to hinder our destination in life.    Being kind and soft to ourselves and others.    Heidi Rose Robbins will be a guest teache

This episode is part of Power of Love School's Free Online Series, where we are learning about the roots of Yoga, how it can heal us and how we can open to more diversity and inclusivity into our practice, hearts, and lives.   Join Adriana Rizzolo with guest speaker, Nikki Slade in this discussion about chanting and Freeing Your Inner Voice.   In this episode, Adriana and Nikki share with our listeners: Two offerings and examples of a mantra-chanting practice, for listeners to experience  the art and practice of chanting. The basic origins of mantra and the examples of some of the Indian saints that brought this practice into being. How the "pursuit of bliss" is actually not about the outer practices or environments we find ourselves in-but rather a practice of the inner growth and nurturing of the self. Giving ourselves permission to choose our own devotion and beliefs to utilize to the fullest extent of our purpose her on earth. Learning how a mantra and chanting practice is not discrimin

In this 60 minute class Adriana + Olivia who are long time friends and dharma sisters, will discuss both practical and esoteric ways to connect to your sexuality as well as the spiritual path of relating.  In this recording of their virtual class, Adriana + Olivia discuss some topics such as: Ways to open to greater pleasure during sex, and how to stay cultivate it when alone. Common communication pitfalls and ways we can open to greater intimacy both to ourselves and another. How to stay in connection to our worth with boundaries when relating to others. Meditation and guidance for connecting to the wildness of our love. Olivia Clementine is a healer and mentor as a relationship guide, having deepened her own practices and teaching within the realms and cycles from the ancient Nyingma buddhist school, and Chöd from the 11th century Tibetan yogini Machig Labdrön.   Olivia persistently explores methods of communication, somatic and subtle body awareness, erotic tension, as well as mind modifi

This episode is part of Power of Love School's Free Online Series, where we are learning about the roots of Yoga, how it can heal us and how we can open to more diversity and inclusivity into our practice, hearts, and lives.   Join Adriana Rizzolo with guest speaker, Malcolm McQuirter in this Real Talk about Tantra.   In this episode, Malcolm shares with our listeners: What Tantra is and how we cause learn more to deepen both our yoga practice and take back out lives from societal conditional and suffering. What Goddess worship is really all about from a traditional perspective and how this applies to those of us wanting to honor and appreciate the traditions of Yoga. The true meaning of the Guru, how yoga gets passed down from teacher to student, the issues with themwe have, and what it really means to live with an awarness of greater ALIVENESS. Meditation and how it can help us tap in to that root of our souls power, passion and pleasure filled living! To find out more about Malcolm an

In today's Episode we explore the traditional teachings of Tantra yoga and how we can embody them in our lives today. David H Wagner and I explore the context many spiritual teachings emerged from and how to apply them with more compassion to our lives today.   We have an online Power of Love Inner Yoga Teacher Training coming up this week for those interested in deepening their practice, learning mroe about mantra, meditation, yoga, the origins of it and SO MUCH MORE!   Find more about David here and stay connected to us on Instagram @artofloving.    

Join us for this very special episode with Olivia Clementine. We discuss everything from navigating challenges in romantic partnership, to intimacy with all things, including practical ways to develop and nurture that in your own life.   What it means to be ALIVE and how to create and cultivate self-love. There is a meditation for you to practice at the end. Stay in touch with Olivia here and on Instagram @olivia_clementine and with us @artofloving. 

In this One Year anniversary and closing of this season of Soul Crush we get down with teacher and author Sara Avant Stover. We get all into healing, the voice, speaking up, abortion and how we heal shame through sharing. How we are being asked to not only work on ourselves, but to turn around and do something to contribute to the wider problems int he world. Thank you for tuning in and send us feedback, join us on retreat in Ojai and connect on instagram @artofloving. "We cannot draw boundaries between our Dark Goddess energy, sexual energy, creative energy, health and vitality, and spiritual energy — they are all one and the same. We need to recognise our innocent, luminous, erotic nature — not just with our minds, but also through our direct participation in life. Once our raw vitality wakes up from old trauma and frozenness, it melts into the nectar that transforms the darkness into light, spirit into matter." (from The Book of SHE) Learn more about Sara here. "There is a soul thread, that is why we

  On todays show I am sharing the wisdom and inspiration of friend and founder of Intuition University, Aimee Cartier. I found our conversation to be so healing and feel into her energy as just a clear, colorful channel, a rainbow if you will, of practical tools to take you home into your own magic of your own intuition and empathy.  Please enjoy and give us a rating on iTunes, reach out with any questions on instagram @artofloving or on our website TheLoveRecovery.com. Aimée Cartier is a psychic guide who specializes in helping her clients discern what choices are in their highest and best interest so they have the information they need to act on and align with their own Highest Good.  She’s known for her clear, accurate insight and her attention to practical details.  She is the founder of Intuition University and Empath Intuition University where, in either private or group programs, she words with students who are ready to understand, enhance, trust and rely upon their own innate psychic skills and int

    On today's show of Soul Crush I get into all things God, sex, death and the true understanding of yoga of the heart as shared by Mark Whitwell. Mark is a refreshing voice of reason in a mostly otherwise mad yoga world, and proclaims repeatedly that there is a yoga for everyone while speaking to the many misunderstanding of the popularized yoga of our time. He dismantles the ideas that we are winners or losers in our patriarchal power structures, including the spiritual world. And how we are going to restore hope in humanity by reclaiming the Mother Nature wildness that is this body. I am very grateful to have shared this time. Find Mark and his upcoming training in Bali on his website and on Instagram. Rate us on iTunes and reach out to me @artofloving with questions and feedback. "Each one of us is the power of the cosmos that is arising s pure intelligence that even science cannot understand. It is unspeakable beauty, life. Everything in the natural world is utter beauty, sunlight on the water, each st