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.

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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.

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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/

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What if desire is not a temptation to overcome, but a sacred current guiding us back to the divine?

In this luminous conversation, Brooke Sullivan sits down with Ekabhumi to talk about the mystery of desire as an ancient, erotic intelligence that moves through all of life. Together, they explore desire not as a flaw of the human condition, but as a holy force, one that animates creation, fuels awakening, and invites us into deeper intimacy with reality itself.

Woven through reflections on sacred art, spiritual traditions, and the living wisdom of nature, this episode reveals desire as a threshold: a place where matter and spirit meet. Sexuality becomes only one expression of a far older cosmic eros, the pulse that moves through trees, breath, imagination, and the ache to know and be known. Sacred art emerges as a devotional practice, a way of remembering our orientation in the world and making contact with the unseen.

Through beauty, symbol, and imagination, we touch a deeper order of meaning, one that invites reverence, creativity, and surrender to the mystery of being alive. This is a conversation for those who sense that enlightenment does not arrive through denial, but through devotion - to the body, to beauty, to desire itself. An invitation to step into the erotic, sacred unfolding of reality and rest in the delight of awareness.

Desire brought you here—let it guide you further. Subscribe and stay in the current.

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Welcome. Today’s exploration is about spiritual freedom, storytelling, and finding truth within oneself. The journey of understanding one's own spirituality can be both challenging and empowering, as we unravel what religiosity means and the boundaries that it sometimes crosses.

Religiosity often brings with it the imposition of belief systems. What boundaries are crossed when one insists their spiritual path is the only way? Empowered choice is our birthright, but others' belief impositions cloud our heart’s deity. Herein lies the essence of volition, or the power of using our will, in spiritual journeys.

When trusted figures, such as a therapist, bypass personal agency, it reflects a broader sickness of spiritual colonization. This is important to name and challenge respectfully.

Comments and open dialogue from this tender place are welcome. May this invocation bring you peace, nurtured by the divine force residing within each of our hearts. Much love to all.

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The New Year: Desire for Freedom and Fulfillment

This episode marks a threshold—a bridge into the next season (our 3rd) of The Wild Temple Podcast.

Here, Brooke reflects in a solocast, on the transition from a year devoted to Dharma—structure, coherence, and sacred technologies—into a new season centered on Desire. In the Tantric tradition, desire is not something to overcome or supress, but a living intelligence that, when understood, becomes a path toward freedom (mukti) and fulfillment (bhukti).

Drawing from Tantra and lived practice, this episode explores:

• Desire as a generative force that moves through a dharmic life
• The relationship between bhukti (enjoyment, participation in life) and mukti (liberation, freedom)
• How desire matures when guided by vimarśa—reflective wisdom and clear seeing
• Why this New Year moment invites orientation rather than resolution
• How desire can support self-mastery, clarity, and conscious direction when held with discernment

This is an episode that offers a contemplative entry into a season where desire is approached as a teacher, a current, and a companion on the path of dharmic living.

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As we step into the new era of 2026, we are invited to delve deep into the realms of Vedic astrology and the teachings that guide us towards understanding our true essence. In this episode, Brooke speaks with Sara of SaraVedicSoul.com and together they explore how the celestial influences can empower individuals to live more consciously and align with their unique dharmic path.

Vedic astrology provides a map to the unseen realms of life. As Sara eloquently explains, it offers insight into the cycles upon cycles of time that influence our lives beyond a single lifespan. By understanding these astrological forces, we gain a powerful tool to navigate our dharma and karma, ultimately leading to a more fulfilled existence.

This episode is a reminder of the profound interconnectedness between our spiritual practices and the celestial patterns that guide us. By embracing the teachings of Vedic astrology, we unlock doors to our past, present, and future, weaving a tapestry of awareness that extends beyond the stars.

As we look to 2026 with anticipation, let us carry forward the wisdom of our lineage, the peace of self-awareness, and the courage to chart new paths in the light of dharma. Here’s to an extraordinary year of exploration, reflection, and growth.

Connect with Sara via her website at https://www.saravedicsoul.com/

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In this episode, we explore what happens when truth is suppressed and desire is smothered… and how Shakti rises in ten fierce directions to reclaim her power. This myth is a map of what happens inside each of us when the feminine is silenced, when desire is suppressed and the importance now of finally saying: “no more.”

From Shiva’s retreat into grief, to Sati’s self-immolation, to the falling of the Goddess’ yoni in Assam — this story reveals the spiritual and psychological roots of awakening, shadow work, and the return to our deepest dharma.

Brooke also shares reflections from recent time in Kamakhya — the cave, the water, the pulse of the land — and what it stirred in her own heart.

This is a sensorial, embodied entry point into the heart of Shakta Tantra and a reminder that every true path of awakening begins in the body, in honesty, and in the places where we have not yet dared to feel.

This episode is for anyone drawn to the Divine Feminine, shadow work, the origins of Tantra, or the fierce grace of the Goddess who rises from the ashes of our own suppression.

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Books by Linda Johnson: Daughters of the Goddess; The Living Goddess

Gratitude to author and religious scholar Tova Olsson, for her beautiful interpretations of the story of Sati and Sīva, that enabled me more insight for its heartful retelling. https://saraswati-studies.teachable.com

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