This week’s episode of the Wild Temple Podcast opens with Brooke feeding the crows and reflecting on the strange landscape of the modern world. A recent encounter on social media—someone spell binding through their Instagram reel—felt both jarring and strangely revealing. It sparked a deeper contemplation about the subtle ways we influence one another every day, often without realizing it. Not through grand gestures, but through the power of our thoughts, reactions, and the stories we carry in our minds.

From this reflection arises a deeper inquiry: how do we begin to look more honestly at our own minds? How do we notice the ways we react to people, the ways we project, the ways our emotions can surge like storms within us—and begin refining them so that we become steadier, clearer, and more compassionate human beings? In this episode, Brooke reflects on the importance of taking responsibility for our inner landscape, recognizing that the work we do with our own minds has real impact on the world around us.

Because this season of desire also invites us into pleasure, the conversation gently turns toward how we might orient our lives toward what truly nourishes us. What happens when we allow pleasure—not indulgence, but deep nourishment for the body and senses—to guide us back into harmony with ourselves and the rhythms of nature?

This conversation opens the doorway into the upcoming Chaitra Navaratri & Devi Sādhana Cleanse, a seasonal practice Brooke has facilitated for seven years alongside Ayurvedic physician Michael Van Sciver. Unlike conventional cleanses that focus on restriction or deprivation, this experience centers on deep nourishment and seasonal alignment. Rooted in Ayurvedic wisdom yet approached in a unique and refreshing way, the cleanse helps participants gently shift their habits so that the mind becomes more positive and compassionate, the body begins to release unhealthy cravings, and the senses rediscover the beauty of truly nutritive food.

The practices are intentionally simple—often as easy as one-pot meals and uncomplicated daily rhythms—making it possible to participate even within the fullness of everyday life. Rather than adding stress or complexity, the cleanse becomes a sweet and supportive window of time to realign with the season through food, sensory awareness, and nourishing practices.

Listeners who feel called can learn more about this year’s cleanse by visiting https://www.thewildtemple.com/Navratri-Regenerative-Cleanse

And for those ready to go deeper, the Sage Apprenticeship at The Wild Temple School is right around the corner. This beloved Navaratri cleanse is included as part of the apprenticeship journey, offering students a powerful seasonal initiation into the deeper practices of Tantra Yoga, Ayurveda, and Dharmic living. https://www.thewildtemple.com/sage-apprenticeship

Sometimes the most meaningful shifts begin with very small refinements—such as how we observe the mind, nourish the body, and how we choose to show up in the world with care.

Sage Apprenticeship early tuition is now open. Step into Tantra Yoga as your North Star—an embodied path of self-mastery, clarity, and lived wisdom beyond the mat. www.thewildtemple.com

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Streaming from a Himalayan Institute campus in India, this intimate “Kitchen Talk” episode of The Wild Temple Podcast unfolds in the midst of a rare six-month Himalayan practice known as Maha Riga, a devotional immersion of daily mantra, meditation, and fire ceremonies devoted to tending the subtle forces of nature and refining what is nonessential.

From this sacred container of retreat and rhythm, Brooke gathers around the "kitchen table" with fellow practitioners including ER physician Dr. Adwaita from Guyana/Toronto, animator Hannah from Florida/LA, and yoga teacher Kia Miller for an unscripted, heart-led conversation on living tantra in real time.

Together they explore what it means to bring spiritual knowledge out of philosophy and into lived experience. Themes of ahimsa, humility, surrender, ego, and discernment weave through reflections on relationship, healing, and the courage to feel deeply. Strong emotions like anger are reframed as shakti, or intelligent life force, while trauma is approached not as identity, but as something to meet with elemental gentleness and embodied awareness.

This episode is both grounded and mystical and a reminder that awakening happens not only in ceremony, but in kitchens, conversations, and the quiet daily pauses where we soften, listen, and let ourselves be reshaped.

The temple is not elsewhere. It is here in practice, in presence, in the pulse of being alive.

Sage Apprenticeship early tuition is now open. Step into Tantra Yoga as your North Star—an embodied path of self-mastery, clarity, and lived wisdom beyond the mat. www.thewildtemple.com

When you sign up for our newsletter at www.thewildtemple.com you will receive seasonal recipes, herbal inspiration, and first access to our upcoming events, retreats, and special teachings.

Each letter we send is a love offering—woven with insights from our Tantric Yoga teachings, designed to nourish your heart, align your rhythms, and awaken your inner Sage.

Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School

What if desire is not something to discipline or deny, but a living force asking to be felt?

In this intimate conversation with Somatic Sexologist, Nadine Hamilton, we explore desire as Shakti, the sacred current of life moving through body, creativity, longing, and love. Rather than something shameful or indulgent, desire reveals itself as an intelligent guide, pointing us toward wholeness, truth, and deeper embodiment.

Listen in as we unravel the cultural conditioning that has cast desire, especially feminine desire, into shadow. We look at how shame fragments us, how suppression distorts our vitality, and how reclaiming desire becomes a path of healing. Through breath, movement, reflection, and embodied practice, desire shifts from something we grasp at to something we listen to, a teacher, a threshold, a return to self.

This is an invitation to stop negotiating with your longing and begin honoring it. To let desire move through you without apology. To remember that the ache you feel may not be a problem to solve, but a sacred signal guiding you home.

Desire is not the obstacle. It is the doorway.

Connect with Nadine Hamilton:

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/iamnadinehamilton/

Website: https://www.bloomwithnadine.com/

Sage Apprenticeship early tuition is now open. Step into Tantra Yoga as your North Star—an embodied path of self-mastery, clarity, and lived wisdom beyond the mat. www.thewildtemple.com

When you sign up for our newsletter at www.thewildtemple.com you will receive seasonal recipes, herbal inspiration, and first access to our upcoming events, retreats, and special teachings.

Each letter we send is a love offering—woven with insights from our Tantric Yoga teachings, designed to nourish your heart, align your rhythms, and awaken your inner Sage.

Come be part of the living practice. xobrooke Director of The Wild Temple School