🐚Topics covered

• Karissa's journey from corporate wellness to birth work through personal initiation
• Why intellectualizing birth doesn't prevent power outsourcing during labor
• Four waves of Wavework: physical prep, emotional alchemy, trance state, primal intelligence
• Rehearsing birth intensity through simulations before labor arrives
• Emotional cathexis versus catharsis: befriending fear rather than clearing it
• The cervix as frequency gate responding to safety & environmental attunement
• Bringing birth partners into rehearsal for nervous system regulation
• Why men struggle witnessing powerful birthing women without preparation
• Connection between birth trauma & postpartum depression epidemic
• Wavework for postpartum integration, loss, preconception & life thresholds

About Karissa Bollinger

Karissa is a physiologist, birth worker, and founder of WaveWork™, a method that bridges biomechanics, nervous system science, and altered states of consciousness to prepare the body for birth. Her work reframes labor as an initiated state of expanded awareness and teaches women how to condition their physiology for intensity, coherence, and trust. After supporting hundreds of women through birth, trauma healing, and psychedelic integration, Karissa created WaveWork™ to bring the body back to the center of birth. She’s passionate about helping women rehearse intensity before they meet it, rewire their nervous systems for safety, and return to their power as creators of life.

Where to find Karissa Bollinger

📝Website: http://www.goldenteacherwellness.com

📷Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wavework.birthing/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wavework.birthing

Join Karissa’s Masterclass and get a $50 usd off (CYCLESEEDS50) https://www.goldenteacherwellness.com/waveworkbirthing

About the Host

I’m Iris Josephina, a functional hormone specialist, orthomolecular hormone coach, and entrepreneur. Through Cycle Seeds and The Inner Rhythms Podcast, I support people in reconnecting with their cyclical nature, deepening body literacy, and reclaiming hormonal harmony from a place of sovereignty and embodied knowledge. Most people know me from Instagram, where I share stories, tools, and inspiration on cyclical living, menstrual cycles, fertility, hormones, and more.

Let’s stay connected:

📸 Instagram: @cycleseeds

📧 Join my newsletter: https://www.cycleseeds.com/

💻 Visit the Cycle Seeds website: https://www.cycleseeds.com/

📝 Check out the blog: https://www.cycleseeds.com/blog

🎓 Holistic Hormone & Cycle Coaching Certification Training: https://www.cycleseeds.com/hhcc-training-2025-selfstudy-vip

📚Join my courses: https://www.cycleseeds.com/courses-masterclasses

📊 Chart Your Cycle Masterclass: https://cycleseeds.plugandpay.nl/checkout/chart-your-cycle-97

🐚Topics covered

• Zaid's journey from competitive athlete to circadian biology educator
• Circadian biology defined: body as a timing system tied to the sun & moon
• Master clock (SCN) & peripheral clocks in every organ & cell
• Natural versus artificial light impacts on the circadian system
• The light bulb invention correlated with chronic disease emergence
• Ancient sun worship confirmed by modern circadian science
• Early 1900s heliotherapy curing tuberculosis & lupus with sunlight
• UV light as a hormetic stressor, not inherently toxic
• Near-infrared preconditioning removes isolated UV cytotoxicity
• Sunscreen breaks apart the hormetic signaling
• Chemical sunscreens are transforming into photo-carcinogens under light & heat
• Sunscreen blocking UVB & preventing vitamin D synthesis
• Morning sunlight creates collagen, elastin, & natural SPF
• Midday UV treated like exercise: progressive overload approach
• Sunglasses blocking master clock signals & creating light sensitivity
• Sunglasses prevent melanin production & increase burn risk
• Violet light stops myopia progression via the EEG1 gene activation
• Circadian eyesight regeneration through unfiltered light exposure
• Skin is a circadian organ with light-sensing proteins in all layers
• Blue light disrupts skin's circadian signaling, not just eyes
• Practical timing: sunrise, UVA rise, midday UV, nighttime darkness
• Natural fabrics for nighttime skin protection from artificial light
  
  
  

About Zaid K. Dahhaj

Zaid K. Dahhaj is a circadian biology educator and coach, helping people reconnect with sunlight, natural rhythms, and the body’s innate clocks to restore health. His work bridges quantum biology, ancestral wisdom, and modern lifestyle design, making circadian science practical, relatable, and transformative.

Where to find Zaid K. Dahhaj

📝Website: https://www.zaidkdahhaj.com

✍️Substack: https://zaidkdahhaj.substack.com

📲X: https://x.com/zaidkdahhaj?s=21&t=lMyKdyY1i1JiMEgQImSA-w

📷Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zaidkdahhaj

🎙️The 2AM Podcast: https://beacons.ai/the2ampodcast

About the Host

I’m Iris Josephina, a functional hormone specialist, orthomolecular hormone coach, and entrepreneur. Through Cycle Seeds and The Inner Rhythms Podcast, I support people in reconnecting with their cyclical nature, deepening body literacy, and reclaiming hormonal harmony from a place of sovereignty and embodied knowledge. Most people know me from Instagram, where I share stories, tools, and inspiration on cyclical living, menstrual cycles, fertility, hormones, and more.

Let’s stay connected:

📸 Instagram: @cycleseeds

📧 Join my newsletter: https://www.cycleseeds.com/

💻 Visit the Cycle Seeds website: https://www.cycleseeds.com/

📝 Check out the blog: https://www.cycleseeds.com/blog

🎓 Holistic Hormone & Cycle Coaching Certification Training: https://www.cycleseeds.com/hhcc-training-2025-selfstudy-vip

📚Join my courses: https://www.cycleseeds.com/courses-masterclasses

📊 Chart Your Cycle Masterclass: https://cycleseeds.plugandpay.nl/checkout/chart-your-cycle-97

🐚Topics covered

• Applied quantum biology as the missing link in hormone health
• Food as information, light, and time rather than just calories or macros
• How your body reads the light, season, and environment stored in food
• Syncing your inner rhythms with the outer rhythms of Earth through food
• Why eating tropical fruit in the European winter creates a biological mismatch
• Each organ has its own clock, and how meal timing affects them
• Why your gut goes to sleep before you do
• Food is stored light - photosynthesis creates slowed down light in matter
• How your mitochondria decode light information from food
• The difference between eating the same food in different environments
• Summer eating - handling more carbs with increased UV and melanin
• Winter eating - body asking for more fats, proteins, and grounding foods
• Why there's no one perfect diet - everything is cyclical and location-dependent
• Practical steps: breakfast with sunrise, local seasonal foods, stop eating after sunset

🌙 Join the Cyclical Course Waitlist: https://www.cycleseeds.com/cyclical-waitlist

About the Host

I’m Iris Josephina, a functional hormone specialist, orthomolecular hormone coach, and entrepreneur. Through Cycle Seeds and The Inner Rhythms Podcast, I support people in reconnecting with their cyclical nature, deepening body literacy, and reclaiming hormonal harmony from a place of sovereignty and embodied knowledge. Most people know me from Instagram, where I share stories, tools, and inspiration on cyclical living, menstrual cycles, fertility, hormones, and more.

Let’s stay connected:

📸 Instagram: @cycleseeds

📧 Join my newsletter: https://www.cycleseeds.com/

💻 Visit the Cycle Seeds website: https://www.cycleseeds.com/

📝 Check out the blog: https://www.cycleseeds.com/blog

🎓 Holistic Hormone & Cycle Coaching Certification Training: https://www.cycleseeds.com/hhcc-training-2025-selfstudy-vip

📚Join my courses: https://www.cycleseeds.com/courses-masterclasses

🌙 Join the Cyclical Course Waitlist: https://www.cycleseeds.com/cyclical-waitlist

⏱️Get my free Circadian Morning Guide https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNviuz42EO7/?igsh=MTE1aWZ2cnQwZ3kxdA==

📊 Chart Your Cycle Masterclass: https://cycleseeds.plugandpay.nl/checkout/chart-your-cycle-97