Marking the Threshold: Sacred Tattooing, Hypnosis & Modern Rites of Passage with Yaël Lhoir

What if you’re still caught between identities because you never fully marked the end of the old chapter?

In this episode, I’m joined by ritualist and hypnotist Yaël Lhoir, creator of Hypnotic Rites of Passage, for a deep conversation about modern initiation, sacred tattooing, hypnosis, identity transformation, and the missing pieces that help inner change become lived reality.

Yaël shares her seven-part framework for rites of passage and explains why so many retreats, healing journeys and transformational experiences can leave us suspended in limbo if we never consciously mark, witness and return from the process. We explore the identities we become loyal to: the seeker who never arrives, the woman endlessly doing inner work, the shy or hidden self we’ve already outgrown- and what it takes to recognise that a chapter is actually complete.

We also go into the difference between healing as necessary inner work and healing as a permanent identity, and why there comes a point where our growth asks us to move outward: to be seen, to claim who we’ve become, and to live from that identity rather than continually preparing for it. Yaël speaks beautifully about the need for a mark, a vow, witness and a return — the elements that seal an initiation rather than leaving us spiralling forever in the work.

And we talk about sacred tattooing. Yaël shares how she uses hypnosis and the intensity of tattooing as part of a modern rite of passage, helping clients become deeply present in the body and consciously mark a transition. We explore why the body can become a witness to change, how symbolism and vows can anchor a new identity, and the difference between enduring pain and consciously working with intensity as part of ritual.

This is a rich conversation on symbolic death and rebirth, self-initiation, identity, embodiment, sovereignty, being witnessed, and the moment when the medicine you’ve been receiving becomes something you’re finally ready to carry into the world.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why some healing journeys never feel complete
• The seeker identity and the loop of endless transformation
• Yaël’s seven elements of a rite of passage
• Why marks, vows, witness and return matter
• The difference between healing and living
• Hypnosis and altered states in identity transformation
• Sacred tattooing as a modern rite of passage
• Pain, presence, symbolism and the body as witness
• Claiming sovereignty and being seen as who you’ve become
• How to know when a new identity has actually landed

YAËL'S LINKS

• IG: @thehypnotictemple
• Website: https://www.hypnotictattooing.com/experiences

CHARLOTTE'S LINKS:

• QUIZ: Activate Your Sacred Leadership Identity: https://charlottepointeaux.com/quiz/
• IG: @charlotte.pointeaux
• Website: https://charlottepointeaux.com

Feminine embodiment is about learning to take up space and express yourself authentically, instead of performing for anyone else.

Your body is not a performance. What would change if you moved to feel it instead of to prove something?

In this conversation, Katty Hozavsky, founder of Shemotion, shares her journey from strict competitive ballroom as a young girl in Russia, through pole and sensual movement, to the night her body refused to perform anymore. We talk about why “I can’t dance” keeps so many women locked out of the instinctual wisdom of their body, about movement as legitimate meditation, and about the shame and hesitation that so often are trapped in the hips and pelvis.

We also explore sensuality without the mirror or the male gaze, how the body shows us where we take up space and where we hold back, and the simple question Katty closes every session with: body, how can I love you more?

We talk about:

• What it means to come back to your authentic self through feminine embodiment
• Moving to feel, not to perform
• Taking up space and expressing yourself without self-monitoring
• Rebuilding self-trust and body confidence
• Reclaiming sensuality as your own, not something you do for someone else’s gaze
• The Feminine Embodiment Coaching program both Katty and I trained in with Jenna Ward.

Get the full episode notes here.

KATTY'S LINKS:

• Shemotion is a women-only movement and feminine embodiment experience on the Gold Coast of Australia https://www.shemotion.com.au/
• Instagram: @shemotion.au

CHARLOTTE'S LINKS:

• Take the free Sacred Leadership Identity Quiz: https://charlottepointeaux.com/quiz/
• Instagram: @charlotte.pointeaux
• Website: https://charlottepointeaux.com

What happens when the land itself becomes the initiator — and when the deepest spiritual experiences are the ones that don’t look beautiful, graceful or remotely Instagrammable?

Julia Weigert, Sacred Site Oracle, Magdalene Energy Priestess, founder of Soul Wisdom and host of The Sacred Travel Podcast, joins me for a rich conversation on sacred pilgrimage, Magdalene wisdom, sacred sites and the body as oracle.

We talk about why certain places can call us long before we understand why, how the body reads and receives information through sensation, intuition and energetic resonance, and how sacred sites can become catalysts for initiation, remembrance and real-life change. Julia shares from her own experiences in Egypt, Magdalene sites and other sacred landscapes, as well as the pilgrimages she now leads to help women consciously work with the intelligence of place.

We also go into Magdalene Reiki, Starfire as an embodied spiritual technology, and the idea that sensitivity is not something to shut down or overcome, but a capacity we can learn to trust, refine and live from. Julia shares how her Magdalene work invites women to move beyond collecting spiritual modalities and into actually embodying their medicine in relationships, business, leadership and everyday life.

And we talk about the part of initiation that rarely makes it onto social media: the missed plans, the awkward moments, the unexpected detours, the plunges into cold water, the journeys that don’t unfold the way we imagined. Because very often, the strongest initiations are the ones that strip away the performance and ask us to listen more deeply.

Julia closes with a beautiful Magdalene Starfire activation, offering a direct taste of the frequency she works with.

A juicy conversation on sacred travel, pilgrimage, Magdalene consciousness, Earth-based initiation, embodied intuition, spiritual sensitivity and becoming the woman who trusts what her body already knows.

Get the full episode notes here.

JULIA'S LINKS:

• Julia's Free Magdalene Starfire Activation: https://www.soulwisdom.ch/free-magdalene-starfire-activation
• Julia on Instagram, website and her free Sacred Travel Type Quiz and her Sacred Travel Podcast

CHARLOTTE'S LINKS:

• Sacred Leadership Identity Quiz, Instagram
• Charlotte's Professional Trainings, Sacred Business programs, and Coaching

Girls need rites of passage, not just period education. We're talking puberty, periods and how we as mums, teachers, communities and guides can help our girls feel confident, prepared and supported when they have their first menstrual cycle.

My guest Kate Andrews is the founder of Wild Creative, offering holistic education and rites of passage programs for young people. With nature as her preferred classroom, Kate runs outdoor programs focused on building children’s social and emotional intelligence, and facilitates rites of passage retreats and camps for pre-teens and teens.

Her work has culminated in her beautiful book, Bodywise: A Puberty and Period Guide, a resource created to support girls and families with puberty and period education that goes beyond the purely biological.

In this episode, Kate and I speak about why girls need period and puberty education before their first bleed, not only once visible signs arrive. We talk about how change begins invisibly first, why waiting for children to ask questions is not always enough, and how mothers and caregivers can begin these conversations in small, age-appropriate, imperfect ways.

We also explore the power of Bodywise as a companion resource — something girls can dip in and out of, return to over time, and use for reflection as they begin asking, “Who am I becoming?”

Together, we explore the value of ritual within rites of passage, and why information alone is not enough. We talk about the concentric circles of support children need: parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, mentors and community, and why young people need trusted adults beyond their immediate family as they grow.

We explore:

• why puberty education needs to be more than “the birds and bees” and how puberty is a transformation of the whole being, not just the body
• why girls need early conversations before visible puberty changes arrive and how to start small when your child withdraws.
• why books and journals can be powerful conversation starters, and how Bodywise supports girls with period education, reflection and self-knowledge
• why ritual and rites of passage help young people embody change and
• why adolescents need mentors, community and a village beyond the family unit
• how nature teaches children about cycles, flux, discomfort and transformation and what changes when girls know their bodies are sacred, unique and ever-changing
• how puberty and perimenopause mirror each other as rites of passage

This episode is for anyone wanting their own daughter or the children in their care to have an empowered puberty - by being willing to talk where others won't.

Get your copy of Bodywise book and find Kate on Instagram @wildcreative.aus

Enrol in our September First Moon Circle Facilitator Training here or Find A First Moon Circle to attend here.

Full show notes https://charlottepointeaux.com/period-education-for-girls/

It's Lion's Gate Portal peaking Saturday 8/8 - the peak Manifestation window of the year! As you prepare your manifesting ritual, have you checked if you can actually HOLD what you're calling in? There's a key way your manifesting gets sabotaged. Vision boards and candles expand your energy - but manifestation needs coordinates, not just a wish.

In this episode I unpack why so many spiritual healers, coaches and sacred business owners keep dreaming huge and watching it stall right before it lands - how to manifest powerfully in your life and to make bigger money in your spiritual business - plus the real ritual practice to add this weekend.

Tune in for:

1. What Lion's Gate actually is — the Sun/Sirius alignment, why 2026 is unusually charged,
2. How Northern vs Southern hemisphere energy shapes what you're manifesting right now,
3. Why manifestation without embodied identity work and grounded action never lands,
4. Why healers and coaches sabotage money magick - by getting stuck being the jack of all trades instead of the master of one,
5. Two doors if you're ready to build real structure around your vision
6. Real ritual prompts + a perfectionist money dare to do before the Lion's Gate window closes

Save $100 off the Sacred CEO Dashboard until August 13 here

First Moon Circle Facilitator Training is enrolling now for our September 2026 round — doors close August 28. Come claim your place this Lion's Gate. Head to firstmooncircleschool.com/training

Journaling prompts from the episode:

• What does this vision actually look like in practice, not just the feeling?
• What's the one practical action this needs from me right now?
• Where in my business is this currently ungrounded or unsupported?
• If I gave the universe coordinates instead of a wish, what would they be?

What if we can become recovered people pleasers and use the very skills we learned to survive to become extraordinary space-holders?

Today we're exploring the power of the attunement, empathy and regulation skills so many of us learned as young girls, and how those same skills can become the foundation of transformational leadership when we stop abandoning ourselves inside them.

Today on Wild Flow, I'm joined by Leilani Garcia, speaker, retreat facilitator and creator of The Artful Alchemist and The Remembrance Method™ – an integrative approach that weaves together nervous system regulation, subconscious transformation and embodied leadership.

Drawing on nearly two decades of creating executive and transformational experiences, Leilani helps individuals and organisations cultivate greater resilience, authenticity and purpose.

But before this became her work, Leilani experienced a profound awakening that led her to leave an abusive marriage and discover she had Celiac disease. What followed was a familiar path for many women listening – a season of unraveling, healing, and moving through multiple deaths and rebirths that ultimately brought her back to herself, her love of life, and her priestess path.

Together, we explore the hidden gifts inside people pleasing, what happens when your body has spent years in protection mode, and the sacred process of returning to yourself after seasons of rupture, illness, divorce and profound change.

We talk about nervous system safety, the sacred pause, and why so many women learn to read a room long before they ever learn to read themselves.

This conversation is ultimately about remembrance. About who we become when we stop abandoning ourselves, soften our grip on old identities, and begin leading not from fear or conditioning, but from presence, truth and deep inner safety.

I think so many of you are going to recognise yourself in this one.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theartfulalchemist/

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Artful-Alchemist-Inc-61553997712543/

• Website: https://www.theartfulalchemist.com/

• If anyone feels called to explore this work more deeply after listening to our conversation, Leilani is offering listeners 20% off any of her Remembrance experiences or the Mount Shasta Healers' Recalibration Retreat using the code WILDFLOW. Find out more here.

Get started here:

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We’re exploring fertility as body literacy, ancestral wisdom, womb sovereignty, lineage memory and the creative intelligence that lives inside the female body.

Chanana McGarry of Womb Literacy brings a powerful lens to this conversation through her work with natural fertility and her African lineage, and I’m especially excited to explore what happens when womb wisdom is remembered not as something new, but as something ancient, sacred and deeply needed in our modern world.

My guest Chanana is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator. After two unplanned pregnancies and over a decade of research, she teaches women to prevent pregnancy naturally with 99.6% effective, hormone and guesswork free contraception. As a direct descendant of the Mujaji Rain Queens of Southern Africa, she weaves together science with ancestral feminine wisdom, making her perspective unique in the natural birth control and holistic women’s health space.

We're hitting on:

1. How both Chanana and I were deeply initiated into body sovereignty and womb wisdom by our unplanned pregnancies

2. Ancestral wisdom as remembered - not newly learnt knowledge - and how Chanana's lineage from Southern Africa taught their daughters to read their cervical fluid as a fertile sign.

3. When you don't trust natural fertility, Chanana explains how scientific evidence backs up the effectiveness of the symptom-thermal method for contraception, and how body literacy helps us advocate in medical system not trained in cycle awareness

4. How Chanana teaches her daughter natural fertility to give her informed consent, and how she's taught her son to respect menstruation, and tend to her during her bleed.

This is SUCH a juicy conversation bridging modern science with ancestral wisdom. It's not about telling every woman what birth control choice she should make. It is about asking whether women have ever truly been given the full picture. It is about body literacy, informed consent, ancestral wisdom, reproductive sovereignty, and the right to understand the language of our own fertility.

CONTACT CHANANA

Instagram: @wombliteracynow

Facebook: facebook.com/wombliteracy

Website: www.wombliteracy.com

Decolonize Your Birth Control: Read or listen to the essay (no opt in required) at www.wombliteracy.com/decolonize-your-birth-control

Ready to grow roots, revenue and reputation to sustain your own sacred business expansion?

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• Take the Quiz: Discover Your Sacred Leadership Identity
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CONNECT WITH CHARLOTTE

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Website: https://charlottepointeaux.com