Higher Calling, Soul Connection, and Reimagining Reality with Cindy Reynolds

Dear Friends,In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Doug Hilton, a counselor with over 30 years of experience supporting clients through trauma, addiction recovery, and couples/family dynamics, and a Certified Universal Healing Tao instructor who has integrated Qigong into his clinical practice for two decades. Doug is also the co-author (with Master Mantak Chia) of The Tao of Addiction and Recovery, a book that reframes addiction through a Taoist lens: not as a moral failure, but as a system-level imbalance—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.Together, we explore:- Why Doug describes addiction as an imbalance in the system, and how that insight emerged through Taoist training in Thailand- What Taoism is (and what it is not): a spiritual system rooted in living in harmony with nature, without dogma or forced belief- How addiction develops through natural human tendencies (adaptation, denial, pain avoidance) that can become exploited over time- The Taoist view of recovery as harmony over willpower, and why inner balance reduces the “need to medicate”- A practical, grounding Qigong entry point: breathing into the lower Dantian (“Where the mind goes, the chi follows”)- The Inner Smile Meditation and the elemental organ system—how sequencing (wood → fire vs. water → fire) supports balance- Doug’s work bridging Western therapy and Taoist energetics: EMDR, trauma, and Taoist Emotional Recycling (TER)- A simple guided TER eye-movement practice you can try (when you are not driving) to support emotional clearing- Shame, guilt, relapse, and how restoring flow through the “garden hose” system of energy channels changes recovery outcomes- Why sexuality and sexual energy are often neglected in mainstream recovery—and how Taoist practices help integrate it with care- Doug also shares his personal journey—how Taoism “found him” long before he fully understood it—and why he believes this work matters not only for people facing addiction, but for anyone touched by it.Resources & LinksDoug Hilton: fullcirclehealing.caThailand program: balancerhehab.solutionsBook: The Tao of Addiction and Recovery Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com

In this illuminating episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with Cindy Reynolds, soul coach, author of Soul Seeker and Soul Bridges, and founder of NeuroFit — for a deep conversation on intuition, emotional mastery, and the intelligence of the soul.With a background spanning software engineering, QEEG brain mapping, and spiritual practice, Cindy bridges neuroscience and spirituality to offer a grounded, practical framework for working with life’s challenges. She shares her signature “soul exercise” for transforming fear, anger, and frustration into higher emotional states like trust and peace, and explains how tuning into the soul’s perspective can clarify purpose, strengthen intuition, and support healing across the body, brain, and spirit.Together, Yasmeen and Cindy explore how external chaos becomes internal noise — and how learning to work with that noise can become a powerful path of awakening, alignment, and self-leadership.In this episode, you’ll learn:How to distinguish between the voice of the personality and the voice of the soulA simple, repeatable process for transforming fear into trust through higher perspectiveWhy we are often here to master just a few core emotions — and how to work with themHow intuition, prayer, and emotional awareness guide purpose and decision-makingThe role of brain health and root-cause healing in spiritual and emotional well-beingTune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from Yasmeen: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

Hi Everyone, In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Jason Dilts, a yogi, writer, evolutionary astrologer, and certified KRI Kundalini Yoga instructor, for a wide-ranging, deeply practical conversation on how we evolve, how we liberate old storylines, and how we actually work with energy in a way that changes real life.We explore - What makes evolutionary astrology different (spoiler: it’s not “fate,” it’s a living map), - Why Pluto is the key to the soul, and how the North Node / South Node axis reveals the evolutionary storyline you came here to live. - Jason breaks down the planet, Pluto, through the generations (Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius) and how each cohort is shaping the collective, and what it means that we’re moving into a year where multiple outer planets shift signs, resetting the energetic grid beneath humanity.- Kundalini Yoga as a multidimensional technology. We talk about Kundalini as the yoga of angles and triangles, how mantra moves energy (not just emotion), and why developing a strong nervous system is essential in these times. - Jason also shares a powerful overview of the 10 Bodies system. - We also go into Vastu, sacred spatial alignment through gemstones, yantras, and planetary intelligence, and why building an intimate relationship with planetary archetypes can create major shifts in your home, your nervous system, and your life trajectory.“You are alive at the turning of the ages… and what you do with your gifts helps rewrite the timeline.” - Jason DiltsIf you’ve ever felt the pull to understand your chart beyond “sun sign astrology,” or you’ve sensed that 2026–2028 is a threshold timeline, this episode is for you.​Connect with Jason:Find him on Instagram/TikTok/YouTube at @TegAkaldeepHe offers one-on-one readings and teaches in Los Angeles at Babaje.You can also sign up for our 4-week Beginner Vastu and Evolutionary Astrology class on February 26th with Tashi Powers, which is not to be missed! You can also download our app here. Best, -Yasmeen 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Robert Lee Camp, leading authority on the ancient science of the cards and author of the best-selling book Love Cards and Cards of Your Destiny. Robert has spent more than three decades researching, teaching, and translating this once-hidden system into a practical tool for modern life.Together, we explore what “destiny cards” actually are, why a standard deck of playing cards mirrors the calendar year with uncanny mathematical precision, and how this system works as a form of spiritual psychology that is both predictive and deeply revealing. Robert shares the lineage of the work through his teacher Arnie Lean, and traces the system back through historical sources such as Olney Richmond’s The Mystic Test Book, including the idea that the cards were used as an esoteric framework for understanding fate, karma, and human nature. Big thank you to our mutual friend, Jen Hill, for the introduction! To explore your own cards and receive a free introduction, visit cardsofyourdestiny.comIn this episode, you’ll learn:- Why a deck of cards mirrors Earth’s calendar (52 weeks, 13 lunar cycles, 4 seasons, 365 days).- What destiny cards are and how your birthday mathematically determines your cards.- The difference between a birth card, planetary ruling card, and decanate ruling card.- Why the Ace of Spades is considered the symbolic “key” of the system.- How karma cards work, and what they reveal about past patterns and current growth edges.- How the four suits map to life stages: hearts (relationships), clubs (knowledge), diamonds (values), and spades (work and mastery).- Why relationship dynamics can be one of the greatest spiritual initiations in a lifetime.- How to use the system to reflect on your past, navigate your present, and forecast what is ahead.Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com. You can also check out my latest book, A Glitch In the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, #1 New Release in the Self-Help category on Amazon, to learn more. 

Dear Community, This episode is a little different—in the best way.Host, Yasmeen Turayhi, hands the mic to her friend Bella Shing for an intimate, real conversation about Yasmeen’s new book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life —a practical guide to waking up from unconscious patterning and stepping into conscious authorship. Grounded in 15+ years on the personal development path and 250+ interviews on Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen distills what she’s learned into 10 core Energy Codes designed to help you shift your identity, reclaim your energy, and create from coherence rather than conditioning.Together, Yasmeen and Bella explore what a “glitch” actually is: the moment you see the program running your life—and realize you don’t have to keep living it. They talk about the “Matrix” as a cultural agreement built on conditional worth and performance, how people unknowingly give their power away every day, and why identity is the real engine behind long-term change. The conversation also moves into energy mastery—presence, embodiment, intuition, nervous system capacity—and why levity, play, and humor are not distractions from the sacred, but often the doorway into it.If you’ve ever felt like you’re living on autopilot, this episode is a transmission back to your agency.In this episode, you’ll learn:1. What a “glitch in the matrix” really is—and how to recognize it in your own life2. How the “Matrix” functions as a dominant cultural program built on conditional worth3. The most common ways we give our power away (and how to call it back)4. Why identity is the reason most people don’t change—and how to use identity intentionally5. How intuition differs from fear (and what “nonlinear knowing” feels like)6. Why embodiment and nervous system capacity are essential for real transformation7. How karma, resonance, and energetic “accounting” shape what comes back to you8. The role of humor and play in spiritual maturity—sacred doesn’t have to mean seriousAbout the book: A Glitch in the Matrix is Yasmeen’s love letter to the world—an accessible, grounded framework for energy mastery, presence, and conscious creation, written for anyone ready to stop sleepwalking through life and start living from inner authority.About the guest host: Bella Shing is an artist and creator living in Lisbon. In this episode, she also shares what she’s building next, including her new app Daily Miracles, designed to help people track serendipity and train attention toward what’s working.If this episode resonates, share it with someone you love—and let it be your reminder: your life is not a dress rehearsal.Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from Yasmeen: follow her writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.This show is sponsored by Vastu Feng Shui. You can also check out my latest book, A Glitch In the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, #1 New Release in the Self-Help category on Amazon, to learn more. 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen sits down with Michelle Masters—internationally acclaimed bestselling author, transformational facilitator, and founder of Wired for Magic—to explore the deeper energetic and subconscious roots of money.Michelle shares how she went from having no real interest in money to creating her renowned Money Magic workshop and book, Money Magic: Clearing Your Path to Money, Time, and Happiness. She explains why most money work fails when it stays at the level of mindset and strategy, and shows how our core money patterns are actually laid down in the womb and early childhood, often entangled with our parents’ trauma and our ancestral field.“We will not let ourselves have more than we think we deserve.” – Michelle MastersIn this episode, we explore:Why money, at its essence, shows up as the energy of blessingsHow core beliefs about safety, worth, and “being too much / not enough” form before age threeThe difference between changing a behavior and changing an identityHow ancestral grief and parental overwhelm can become our money storyA powerful question to unlock a new future: “Even if it’s not rational or reasonable, what would I most love to experience?”Practical ways to start revising old wiring and inviting in more ease, abundance, and supportYou can sign up for her mastermind, now on the Shift network OR her live workshop on Money in April in Marin here. Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.You can also check out my latest book, A Glitch In the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, #1 New Release in the Self-Help category on Amazon, to learn more. 

If you feel scattered, overwhelmed, or not fully here, this episode is for you.On this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I speak with Maria Christina Owl, author of Planetary Ascension: The Purpose of 3D and the Choice We Face, spiritual mentor, ceremonial leader, and teacher of indigenous wisdom technologies and energy medicine. For over 25 years, Maria has helped people break trauma patterns, reclaim soul fragments, and reconnect to the living web of life.We explore what it actually means to be a multidimensional human—through dreams, astral travel, intuition, and quantum DNA—and how many of us are unknowingly living inside “false timelines” that pull us away from our authentic soul path. Maria explains how to recognize when you’re off your true timeline, how fragmentation occurs through trauma, and how to begin calling your soul parts back through the body, somatic awareness, and loving adult consciousness.We also dive into:Working consciously on the astral plane: silver cord, solar plexus portal, and why nightmares are often a recall mechanismReversal grids, the “inverted pyramid,” and shifting from over-giving to receiving support from the universePsychic interference and entities—and why Maria lives by the mantra “I have no enemies”Planetary ascension, solar light, changing Earth grids, and what acceleration in 2026–2027 might really be aboutGrief as a teacher and how being forged in the fire of loss can open us to deeper compassion and embodied loveIf you’ve ever felt like you’re in the wrong reality, stuck in loops, or exhausted by unseen energies, this conversation offers both language and practice for coming back to your highest timeline—through love, sovereignty, and wholeness.Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen speaks with transformational guide Sascha Haert to explore the deeper architecture of intimacy, embodiment, and authentic relating. Sascha works with women leaders who have achieved external success but still feel disconnected from themselves. Together, they unpack why relational patterns repeat, how to build partnerships rooted in truth rather than performance, and what it means to live from your deepest intelligence, the intelligence of the body.This conversation illuminates the subtle ways we abandon ourselves, how to reclaim our needs with integrity, and why intimacy always begins with honest self-resonance.“Intimacy only works when you stop performing and start telling the truth — not the dramatic truth, but the embodied one.” — Sascha HaertKey TakeawaysWhy many high-performing individuals struggle with intimacy and self-connectionHow the nervous system shapes our ability to stay open, present, and receptiveThe two pillars that Sascha believes every relationship needs to thriveHow to express truth without collapsing into reactivity or performanceWhy sensuality is a doorway to self-awareness, not just pleasureHow polyamory can act as a healing phase — and where it becomes a bypassPractical tools to speak the unspoken and build authentic connectionsHow to recognize and stop subtle self-abandonment in real timeThe difference between compatibility and resonanceWhat it means to live from “yes” instead of fear, obligation, or patternYou can find Sascha Haert on IG here. Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

In this extraordinary episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen sits down with evolutionary astrologer and Vastu gemstone master Tashi Powers, whose decades of experience reading charts for luminaries, from the Rolling Stones to Brad Pitt to Nobel Laureates, have made her one of the most respected astrologers in the world. Together, Yasmeen and Tashi explore the hidden architecture of reality through Vastu, gemstone astrology, and evolutionary astrology—revealing how our homes, bodies, and birth charts are encoded with cosmic intelligence.“Your home is a living organism. When you align your space with your planetary blueprint, the universe begins to conspire with you—fast.” — Tashi Powers“These remedies aren’t symbolic. They’re vibrational technologies that have been working for 10,000 years.” - Tashi Powers Tashi explains how to personalize Vastu using your birth chart, how gemstones communicate with planetary frequencies, and why your home is a living organism that can either harmonize or distort your destiny. She shares astonishing stories about space clearing, planetary remedies, and the Deva realm, and breaks down how colors, deities, sacred geometry, and gemstones can transform your relationships, career, creativity, and emotional harmony.This episode also dives into:- How Vastu aligns your home with your planetary blueprint- Why gemstones work—and how to use them for love, money, empowerment, and protection- How the days of the week correspond to planetary energies- What evolutionary astrology reveals about your karma, purpose, and soul path- The power of the moon, Venus gates, and the sacred geometry of the cosmos- How to work with natural law, intuition, and the seed cycle of the zodiac- The importance of the galactic center and why some souls come in with a “galactic mission”Yasmeen and Tashi also announce the relaunch of their personalized Vastu app, Vastu Feng Shui, which turns an ancient $500-$2,000 consultation into a modern, intuitive tool for anyone to use—complete with personalized remedies for love, health, prosperity, and emotional harmony.This is a mystical, grounded, highly practical conversation for anyone ready to understand their space, their chart, and their energy in a completely new way.Learn more at:VastuFengShuiHarmony.comEnlighteningTimes.comInstagram: @tashiastrodikini @yasmeenturayhi @vastushaktifengshuiTune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

Dear Friend, In this powerful and far-reaching episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with writer, historian, musician, and esoteric scholar Ronnie Pontiac, one of the most important living voices on Western mysticism and hidden spiritual lineages.Ronnie’s life was shaped by decades of work at the crossroads of hermeticism, occult philosophy, Rosicrucianism, and alternative American history. From 1981–1987, he served as research assistant and designated substitute lecturer to the legendary teacher Manly P. Hall, gaining unparalleled firsthand access to the inner currents of Western esoteric thought.  We explore his latest book, The Rosicrucian Counterculture: The Origins and Influence of the Invisible Society.  We explore the Invisible Schools, illuminating the mysterious lineage that has quietly shaped philosophy, science, art, politics, and spirituality for centuries.“The universal reformation begins with personal reformation. You cannot transform a society if you have not already transformed within yourself.”— Ronnie PontiacTogether, Yasmeen and Ronnie explore:• The hidden metaphysical roots of America and why much of U.S. history has been misunderstood, and how esoteric currents quietly shaped early American philosophy, science, and political life.• Rosicrucianism beyond the myth - Who the Rosicrucians truly were, why their manifestos electrified Europe, and how their vision of a “universal reformation” still echoes today.• The alchemical process of inner transformation, a rare, grounded look at how real alchemy was practiced and what its steps mean for modern seekers.• The Hermetica, ancient Egypt, and the metaphysical revival - Why astrology, sacred geometry, and ancient esoteric philosophy are resurging today • The battle between America’s spiritual openness and its shadow - A candid exploration of Christian nationalism, pluralism, and the long-forgotten mystical side of America’s origins.• A profound personal story of grief, love, and spiritual revelationRonnie shares the moving, intimate account of losing his wife and lifelong creative partner and the extraordinary experiences that unfolded afterward, reshaping his understanding of consciousness, death, and the continuity of the soul.Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.Best, -Yasmeen Thank you to our sponsors, Vastu Feng Shui, astrocartography and space clearing for your home.