Derek Januszewski has sat with Ayahuasca more than 150 times and is the founding pastor of Pachamama Sanctuary in Maine. A father of three and a survivor of profound trauma and addiction, Derek came to the medicine in 2017 and has since devoted his life to service, healing, and integration work. In this conversation, Derek addresses purge fears, explains how the medicine works on the body, mind, and spirit. Derek walks us through ceremony prep and everything that goes down at a Pachamam...

Often spirituality pulls us up and out. We often wanna connect into the crown chakra, the ether, the beyond. But somatic work, the practice of tuning into the body’s sensations, brings us right back in. Back into this miracle suit we live in, this body that carries us through our entire human experience. Tierra Karoua, is an embodied movement guide helping people reconnect somatically to their inner power, to the truth that lives in the tissues, in the breath, in the subtle shifts...

Ayahuasca - an ancient Amazonian plant medicine. A brew made from two plants that somehow unlocks a portal to your inner world. People drink ayahuasca for many reasons - to heal trauma, to understand their purpose, to peel back layers that life has piled on. It is not a casual trip. It’s not cute. It’s profound, humbling, and, yes, it can get messy, maybe you've heard about the purge...and we get into that more in this episode...but Ayahuasca is also one of the most powerful invit...

Once you start really digging into unseen energies...it’s a slippery slope. In the world of woo-woo, there is a lot out there. Past lives/ numerology / astrology / human designs / dreams / hypnotherapy / understanding chakras / and a million more modalities or systems or symbols, or charts all offering us something. A peak into the metaphysical, into what makes us tick, into the energies behind what we can and cannot see, helping us discover more about why we’re here, what’s our purpose...

Kate Neligan is an animal communicator and healer who specializes in equine-partnered spiritual growth. Meaning: she works with her horses to help people heal, offering greater clarity, focus, empowerment, improved communication, deeper self-awareness, more love, courage, confidence, reduced stress… truly the whole spectrum. Sometimes this looks like sitting quietly in a chair near a horse, closing your eyes, taking a deep breath, and allowing the horse to come to you and do its energy work. ...

Content Warning: This episode contains a conversation about an act of childhood sexual assault. MDMA — also known as the pure form of Ecstasy or Molly — is a psychoactive substance that increases serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin in the brain. It’s illegal, mainly because the U.S. government classified it in the ’80s as a Schedule I drug. But like many political decisions made 30+ years ago, it’s definitely worth another look. These days, most people know MDMA from the party scene... raves,...

Our homes should feel like sanctuaries, places that nourish and restore us. But so often, everyday things we use, from our beauty products to our cleaning supplies, are not nourishing at all. They could be draining our energy or even making us sick. Alexandra Brook-Clark, founder of ARMUR Health, is here to help us detox our lives from the inside out. After navigating her own battle with Lyme disease, mold infection and parasites she is now helping others live nontoxic, healthy, v...

What does it mean to be a witch in 2025? This week, I’m talking to the incredible Mia Magik — modern witch, spiritual teacher, viral rage-ritual pioneer, and a total force of nature. Her new book, Witchual, is all about bringing magic back into the everyday. Mia is also at the forefront of reclaiming pleasure, using what she calls Sex Magic and teaching it to droves of women at her retreats! Your eyebrows WILL raise. Mine did, and also I LOVE how she is empowering wom...

Past Life Regressions are so WILD! And my experience with Mayra Rath of Soul Signs Hypnosis, was exactly that. We talk all about it in this episode and we also discuss: - Doubt and Ego during your Past Life Regression - All the logistics and the prep for a Past Life Regression - Soul Families - Soul Contracts - Light Language - Mayra answers listener questions Mayra Rath is a certified as Hypnotherapist (C. Ht) and Past Life Regression Therapist. Mayra guides clients i...

Andrea Choate is the founder of Soul Mechanics Healing and the pioneer of Integrative Quantum Mindset Coaching. She supports success-minded people to transform their inner world and create the meaningful results they most desire in their business, career, relationships and life. In this episode we discuss: - Upgrading your mindset - Discovering the root issue behind blocks - Re-writing neuorpathways - How to tackle challenging relationships To experience your own individually cust...

Burning man is an annual weeklong gathering in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert where 70,000 people create a temporary city dedicated to art, community, and radical self-reliance - it culminates with the burning of a large wooden effigy called the Man. Historically I have rolled my eyes at this event. It seems a bit dusty and like a lot of effort to get to the middle of nowhere, bring in all your own drinking water, and food, camp in the heat, and dust storms and then leave no trace.&...

We are back at it. Into the school year. Moving into fall. This is the time of year for me when I fall into my masculine/work horse mode. Maybe many of us do? There’s so much I wanna get done in a day and yet I have to remind myself to eat, to breathe, to check in and really allow space to empty out, to detox, to restore. Shanna Fiorucci says it best in this episode she talks about how our daily choices are our biggest power moves. Shanna reads energy, taro...

We had to put our dog down last week and it gutted us. In my grief I came back to this podcast. Living in the edit of this conversation was such a gift, because while it's expansive, at its core, it's about letting go. Most people don’t want to talk about death and dying. I get it! Even though we can honor grief as another form of love … Who wants to think about something that includes all of those messy emotions. Another truth though - is that one day.&n...

When we pause, look inward, or intentionally take stock of our lives, a question almost always rises to the surface: What is my purpose? Why am I here? What am I meant to do? In a capitalist society, we’re taught to believe our career equals our purpose, or that our worth is measured by our paycheck. But when you really check in with yourself, is that true? Is your self-worth only tied to your 9–5? Maybe it is! But maybe there’s more. The woo offers plenty of ways to explore your purpose: med...

It's the 5 year anniversary of my near-death experience. When I got run over by a car while 18 weeks pregnant. The moment that cracked me open, transformed my life and affected those closest to me. I. Am. So. Grateful. To. Be. Alive. In that moment I surrendered it all and accepted that this was the end. Turns out…it wasn’t. I was meant to bring Wes into the world a few months later. I was meant to watch him and Will grow to be 4 and 7. I was meant to forge new fierce friendships in a...

Get yourself a psychic medium who can talk to dead people and your guides! MaryAnn DiMarco is a psychic medium, author, speaker, spiritual teacher, and one of my all-time favorite guests on The Woo Report. In her new book, The Guide(s) Book, MaryAnn demystifies Spirit Guides and explains how to receive their messages and how to lean on their immense support in everyday life. MaryAnn surprises me by channeling my grandmother and my guides....which, needless to say, was an absolute deligh...

Rita Ellen Mirchandani is a spiritual coach and Akashic Records expert. In this episode Rita explains what the Akashic Records actually are, how we can access them, and why we would want to. Rita takes ancient, cosmic wisdom and turns it into something you can actually use in everyday life, offering hacks and shortcuts for answering the big questions (What is the meaning of my existence?) and the small ones (What should I eat for breakfast?). In this conversation, we also explore: The differe...

The best woo-woo stories are the ones that make you gasp. The kind that make you giggle with delight because the synchronicity, the message, the sign is so spot-on, you just know there’s something else at play. Get ready to gasp, giggle, and pick your jaw up off the floor, because Caitlin Wilder of WILDERBEGINNINGS and I are trading some incredible stories about connecting with things not of this realm. We also play a little game called How Woo Are You? and hope you’ll play along with us. We ...

If you're not following Karin Hadadan / ICIETNU on instagram stop what you're doing and go follow! She is an EXHALE amidst your chaotic scroll. Karin's words have become spiritual touchstones for so many, especially her transformative quote on quantum leaping, which has gone viral five times. An author, storyteller and screenwriter, Karin talks to Laura Scarpati about how and why she channeled these life changing passages. Karin opens up about her battle with end...

How aligned are we, really, to our astrology charts? When you read your horoscope, does it feel spot‑on? Or feel like it’s written for someone else? Author Jessie Rosen takes us right into that tension in her new novel "All The Signs" exploring astrological alignment and a concept I had never heard of before: star twins. A star twin is someone born within a two‑hour window of you, same date, same year. While Jessie’s book is fiction, her research was very real. She went looking for her...