LightSong School of 21st-Century Shamanism and Energy Medicine Talking Stick Podcast

S2 E9 The Medicine Wheel, Life Cycles, and the Hero's Journey
Talking Stick Podcast – Medicine Wheel – 12-30-25
In this episode of the LightSong Talking Stick Podcast, Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader explore the medicine wheel as a living map for understanding life cycles, creative processes, grief, healing, and purpose.
Through a grounding invocation and an expansive conversation, they contrast Western linear thinking with Indigenous cyclical wisdom, revealing how life unfolds through seasons of beginning, growth, reflection, and letting go. They discuss why modern culture resists rest and reflection, how burnout and depression can signal an incomplete cycle, and how honoring the full wheel creates ascension rather than stagnation.
Micah connects the medicine wheel to the Hero's Journey, showing how this ancient pattern shapes storytelling, writing, business, and personal transformation. Jan shares personal reflections on long seasons spent in the North—where loss, wisdom, and deep healing emerge—and explains how multiple areas of life can occupy different directions at the same time.
The episode also touches on vision quests, daily reflective practices, nature as a living mirror, and the necessity of completing the circle— there is no single "correct" medicine wheel.
A rich conversation for anyone navigating transition, creativity, grief, identity, or the question of legacy and meaning.
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Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options [email protected]  
 Manifesting Miracles:  This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls.  Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call.  Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation.  If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within.  You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism.   Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.  
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
For more information about Micah and his work, visit ShamanSezz.com.
For more information about Micah's memoir, Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman, visit ShamanSezz.com/stumbling-into-grace-the-book/

S2 E8 Talking Stick Podcast with Jan Engels-Smith & Micah Schwader
Episode Title: "Embodiment: Living What You Think, Feel, and Manifest"
In this expansive and deeply practical episode of the Talking Stick Podcast, Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader explore the true meaning of embodiment—not as a concept, but as a lived, moment-to-moment experience that shapes our health, emotions, relationships, and the reality we create.
The episode opens with a grounding invocation, inviting benevolent allies to hold a sacred container of safety, integrity, and heart-centered awareness. From there, Jan reframes embodiment as the integration of our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual systems—a rare and powerful configuration unique to human beings.
Together, Jan and Micah examine how unconscious thought patterns—especially repetitive negativity and unresolved emotional reactions—become physically embodied in the body, often manifesting as pain, illness, exhaustion, or emotional reactivity. Jan explains how the body cannot distinguish between a remembered experience and a current one, meaning that replaying old wounds can cause repeated energetic and physiological harm.
This conversation moves beyond theory into practice. Jan shares simple yet profound techniques for interrupting destructive mental loops, including her powerful "cancel" practice, which stops unconscious mind chatter and returns the nervous system to the present moment. She illustrates how choosing and embodying higher-frequency emotions—such as gratitude, appreciation, joy, and peace—can recalibrate the entire system and shift what we attract into our lives.
Micah adds personal stories that ground these teachings in real life, from noticing how chronic negativity shows up as physical pain in others, to recognizing his own patterns of victimhood through writing—and ultimately rewriting both his manuscript and his life. Together, they explore how awareness, accountability, and conscious interruption allow us to move from being participants in old stories to directors of new ones.
The episode closes with a powerful experiential moment, inviting listeners to feel the immediate bodily shift created by high-frequency words—demonstrating, in real time, how embodiment works.
In this episode, you'll explore:
What embodiment really means in shamanic practice
How thoughts and beliefs become physically embodied in the body
Why repetitive negativity causes energetic and physical harm
How to interrupt unconscious mind chatter and emotional looping
The role of gratitude, appreciation, and joy in manifestation
Why embodiment—not intention alone—is what shapes reality
How awareness transforms suffering into choice
This episode is both a teaching and an invitation—one that asks a simple but powerful question:
What are you embodying right now?
Listen in, feel into your body, and begin practicing embodiment as a way of living—not just thinking—your truth.
Learn more about Jan's teachings and programs at LightSong.net
Learn more about Micah at ShamanSezz.com

S2 E7 Talking Stick Podcast – 12-20-25 – Emotional Regulation and Divinity
In this reflective episode of the LightSong Talking Stick Podcast, Micah Schwader and Jan Engels-Smith begin with a beautiful invocation, calling in benevolent allies, opening the blessing fields, and inviting listeners into a global circle—heart to heart—so the conversation can unfold from the wisdom of the heart.
From there, Micah shares a breakthrough sparked by a leadership program: the idea that we often "have what we want" because we've been unconsciously creating it, driven by hidden attachments and "mind-chatter story." A deep values exercise reveals something surprising—Micah's top values include financial freedom and creative expression—and that insight exposes an internal mismatch: pushing away clients wasn't failure… it was an unconscious attempt to make space for his next chapter.
Jan expands the teaching through a spirit-led story about manifestation, reminding us that we live in an attraction-based universe—what we focus on (even what we don't want) grows. Together they explore attachment, "unraveling" old dreams, and reclaiming energy from outdated identities so it can fuel the new.
The episode then turns toward emotional regulation as the practical companion to spiritual growth: the "swirl" of daily chaos, the snowball effect of frustration, and the importance of pausing—breathing, sweeping energy off, shifting from sympathetic fight-or-flight into parasympathetic flow. They discuss how quickly we can change our broadcast, how stories harden into identity, and why true transformation begins with self-awareness.
The conversation closes with encouragement to know thyself, honor the medicine wheel's full cycle (including the West and North—introspection and letting go), and create space for solitude, journaling, and inner listening. Jan offers a blessing for the new year—"Miracles come quick in 2026"—inviting listeners to choose differently, step into alignment, and welcome the next evolution.
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For more information about Micah's memoir, Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman, visit ShamanSezz.com/stumbling-into-grace-the-book/
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options [email protected]  
 
Manifesting Miracles:  This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls.  Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call.  Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation.  If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within.  You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism.   Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.  
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
For more information about Micah and his work, visit ShamanSezz.com.

This episode of the LightSong podcast offers a deep and immersive spiritual experience guided by Jan Engels-Smith and the LightSong team.

The session begins with an invocation to lift participants out of "densities"—energetic states like fear, doubt, and worry—into realms of purity filled with divine qualities such as love, truth, harmony, and healing. The intention is to raise the frequency of the group and create a sacred and protected space where transformation can occur.

Jan calls a "safe container." This space allows each person to release distractions and engage with spiritual presence, anchoring into their divine nature.

Throughout the session, participants are encouraged to:
- Reclaim their spiritual authority and clarity
- Engage in collective healing and frequency elevation
- Trust their inner knowing and direct connection to spirit

Themes of sacred unity, divine presence, spiritual protection, and community collaboration are interwoven through guided meditation, spiritual teachings, and group intention.

The podcast delivers both a teaching and an energetic transmission, making it a valuable episode for anyone committed to deep spiritual work and conscious evolution.

Ideal for listeners seeking:
- Energy clearing and protection practices
- Spiritual empowerment
- A sense of community in sacred space
- Guidance on aligning with higher frequencies
 
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options [email protected]  
 
Manifesting Miracles:  This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls.  Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call.  Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation.  If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within.  You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism.   Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.  
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.

S2 E5 ReCreate: The 21-Day Super Self Transformation — Markers, Miracles & Whole-Brain Living
This episode is offered as an extra feature for our ReCreate Manifesting Miracles community.
The group practiced the Super Self Meditation for 21 days, giving their right brain consistent "airtime" to experience true vibrational shifts. What emerged were profound transformations, energetic markers, emotional breakthroughs, and deep personal insights.
In this heartfelt, expansive follow-up gathering, participants share their real-life experiences of shifting realities, dissolving fear, healing relationships, increasing joy, and learning how whole-brain living can elevate every aspect of their lives.
Jan offers teachings on markers, vibrational alignment, memory and ego, the power of love over tools, ancestral fear patterns, past-life imprints, and the lifelong lifestyle of right-brain engagement. It is a rich, intimate conversation about becoming the new human — whole-brained, heart-centered, and vibrationally aware.
Lifestyle vs. Practice
Jan emphasizes:
This is not a 21-day practice.
This is a lifestyle of vibrational awareness, choice, intention, and right-brain airtime.
Every challenge is an opportunity to evolve and rise.
 
Link to the SuperSelf Meditation https://www.lightsong.net/product/superself-meditation/ 
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options [email protected]  
 
Manifesting Miracles:  This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls.  Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call.  Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation.  If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within.  You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism.   Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.  
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
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