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Alchemy with Bronwyn
Hosted by Bronwyn Ayla · EN
Conversations at the meeting place of medicine and transformation.
Bronwyn Ayla — licensed primary care provider, acupuncturist, and Reiki Master with 25+ years of teaching — explores what happens when clinical rigor meets the sacred. Each week: teachings, field reports, and conversations on Reiki, Traditional Chinese Medicine, ritual, and the intelligent body. → bronwynayla.com → Bronwyn's book: The Reiki Handbook: Beginner to Master Level (on Amazon)
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Summer Begins: Beltane and How to Work With Summer Fire
May 100:18:39Tap to summarizeIn Taoist seasonal timing, early May marks the true beginning of summer, while the summer solstice is the peak of yang and the moment yin begins to rise again.In this episode, I share a Chinese medicine lens on qi as time, not just “energy,” and what summer conduct actually asks of us so we can thrive rather than run hot. We explore the gifts of summer fire (momentum, expression, fruition) and the shadow side (overdrive, irritability, aggression, and “trapped heat” that shows up later).In this episode, we cover: Why early May is considered the start of summer (Tong Shu timing) Summer fire and the heart-mind, and how to avoid burnout patterns Sleep/wake rhythm, hydration, and morning water Summer exercise, sweating, and recovery Food cues for the season (greens to protect fluids) Kids and why forcing maturity too early creates imbalance Summer as joy, passion, and community that unites rather than dominates Follow/subscribe for more seasonal guidance, and share this with someone who’s been running hot. 🫶 The Sanctuary - Weekly live calls, sacred practice, and a field of resonance to hold your unfolding🫶 Get your free Reiki Attunement✨ Work with me 🤲 Study Reiki with me In-Person in the Bay Area - The 6-month comprehensive Training begins this Autumn. Early bird discount available through 6/21!Online Reiki Courses - Self-paced online certification courses 🙏 Support this show! - Your support makes this happen in a good way!🌟 Stay connected - Check out all of Bronwyn's current offerings
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A Guided Meditation For Full Moon, May Day And Summer Vibes
Apr 3000:29:19Tap to summarizeBlessings on May Day, Beltane, and the Beginning of Summer. The light gets stronger this time of year. What do I actually want to bring forward? What needs to burn away so my energy can move clearly again? I guide a grounded, mystical meditation at the seasonal threshold between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, at the full moon, where it’s easier to feel the pull of both sun and moon and let our breath widen into something steadier. We work with the fire element and “Yang fire” as an inner force for joy, warmth, pleasure, and clear momentum. Rather than pushing for intensity, we ask for discernment: show us when to go faster and when to slow down. We name the desire to be beacons of light in our real lives as friends, parents, children, and community members, and we set our sights on an abundant autumn harvest built from aligned action instead of stress. We also make space for release. We invite this fire to burn what’s old, stale, and misaligned, including outdated beliefs and invisible glass ceilings that keep our vibration lower than it needs to be. Then we bring the practice into the body, moving into the belly and solar plexus chakra (Manipura) to receive confidence, clarity, centeredness, and ease, storing that frequency with each exhale. We close with a powerful image of “brushing the fire horse” clean, clearing the mud and sweat so your system feels bright again. If you’re looking for a guided meditation for full moon energy, beginning of summer intention setting, chakra healing, or simple breathwork for confidence, press play and breathe with us. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a lift, and leave a review with what you’re calling in this season. 🫶 The Sanctuary - Weekly live calls, sacred practice, and a field of resonance to hold your unfolding🫶 Get your free Reiki Attunement✨ Work with me 🤲 Study Reiki with me In-Person in the Bay Area - The 6-month comprehensive Training begins this Autumn. Early bird discount available through 6/21!Online Reiki Courses - Self-paced online certification courses 🙏 Support this show! - Your support makes this happen in a good way!🌟 Stay connected - Check out all of Bronwyn's current offerings
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Spring Equinox Reset: A Guided Meditation for Balance
Mar 2000:43:46Tap to summarizeSpring Equinox is a balance point in nature, and in us. In this guided meditation, we attune to seasonal qi, soften into harmony, and reconnect with inner guidance through breath, presence, and light.You will be guided through the upward and outward movement of spring, the widening of the central channel, and a river of iridescent light through the crown. We also work with forgiveness and trust as energetic technologies that release fear and restore clarity.Listen when you want a reset into steadiness, renewal, and clean perspective.In this equinox attunement:A Spring Equinox reset for nervous system balance and inner steadinessBreath as ruach, letting life breathe you back into presenceAligning with spring’s upward-and-outward energy without forcing or over-effortingOpening the central channel and receiving a “river of light” through the crownForgiveness as an energetic release that restores clarity and peaceTrust as a frequency shift, moving from self-sufficiency into true supportReconnecting to guidance that feels calm, direct, and simple🫶 The Sanctuary - Weekly live calls, sacred practice, and a field of resonance to hold your unfolding🫶 Get your free Reiki Attunement✨ Work with me 🤲 Study Reiki with me In-Person in the Bay Area - The 6-month comprehensive Training begins this Autumn. Early bird discount available through 6/21!Online Reiki Courses - Self-paced online certification courses 🙏 Support this show! - Your support makes this happen in a good way!🌟 Stay connected - Check out all of Bronwyn's current offerings
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Spring Equinox Guide: Taoist Practices for Balance & Renewal
Mar 1900:18:36Tap to summarizeSpring Equinox is nature’s balance point: when Yin and Yang meet, and Spring qi begins rising upward and outward. In this episode, I’m sharing a Taoist seasonal guide for how to harmonize your energy with what’s happening in the botanical world: replenishing vitality, focusing your direction, and working with Spring momentum without burning out.We explore “Spring conduct”:practical ways to live in rhythm with the season,plus how equinox can be a choice point for what you’ll grow through the rest of the year.In this Spring Equinox guide, you’ll receive:A Taoist view of equinox balance (quality vs. quantity of Yin/Yang)How Spring qi moves (upward + outward) and how to work with it somaticallyEquinox as a “choice point”: selecting the projects you’ll devote the year toA simple dawn practice (face East; breathe in light/dew imagery)Spring movement guidance: steady, modest exercise that builds vitalitySeasonal food as medicine: fresh greens/herbs/sprouts + easy ways to use themWhy study, strategy, and seeking counsel supports Spring focusThe role of play, music, poetry, creativity, and light social connection✨ If you’re feeling the urge to begin again, let this be your grounded Spring map: clear, simple, and aligned with nature. 🫶 The Sanctuary - Weekly live calls, sacred practice, and a field of resonance to hold your unfolding🫶 Get your free Reiki Attunement✨ Work with me 🤲 Study Reiki with me In-Person in the Bay Area - The 6-month comprehensive Training begins this Autumn. Early bird discount available through 6/21!Online Reiki Courses - Self-paced online certification courses 🙏 Support this show! - Your support makes this happen in a good way!🌟 Stay connected - Check out all of Bronwyn's current offerings
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Fire Horse Invocation: A Prayer + Sound Healing
Mar 1300:07:05Tap to summarizeA follow-up to the Fire Horse Guide, this episode is the prayer portion. It gathers everything we explored and offers it up as a concise invocation, carried by beautiful sound.Together we ask for clear direction, steady flame, and clean decisions. For visibility without performance. For devotion as containment, and cooling clarity in a high-fire year. Listen when you want to return to center and let fire become light.🫶 The Sanctuary - Weekly live calls, sacred practice, and a field of resonance to hold your unfolding🫶 Get your free Reiki Attunement✨ Work with me 🤲 Study Reiki with me In-Person in the Bay Area - The 6-month comprehensive Training begins this Autumn. Early bird discount available through 6/21!Online Reiki Courses - Self-paced online certification courses 🙏 Support this show! - Your support makes this happen in a good way!🌟 Stay connected - Check out all of Bronwyn's current offerings
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The Fire Horse Year: How to Hold Power Without Burning Out
Mar 600:38:55Tap to summarizeWe’re crossing from the shedding of the Snake into the momentum of the Fire Horse — a rare double-fire year associated with speed, visibility, and accelerated change.In this transmission from my weekly call (The Sanctuary), I share Seasonal Intelligence for the Soul: not fortune-telling, but an energetic way of listening to the year’s “weather” so you can respond with skill. When the field runs hot, the practice becomes direction, containment, and cooling clarity — so fire becomes light rather than wildfire.In this episode, we explore the gifts and shadows of Fire Horse energy, and the core practice of sacred firecraft: tending the heart-flame with devotion, clean decisions, and nervous system mastery.In this episode, we’ll cover:Fire Horse themes: visibility, decision, momentum, integrityThe shadow: impulsivity, scorched-earth communication, novelty addiction, nervous system heatThe medicine: one primary aim, clear yes/no, built-in recoveryDevotion as the boundary that makes power usableJournal prompts to clarify your “yes,” protect your energy, and stay centered in speed✨ If this year feels fast, intense, or revealing — this is your way to meet it with calm power. 🫶 The Sanctuary - Weekly live calls, sacred practice, and a field of resonance to hold your unfolding🫶 Get your free Reiki Attunement✨ Work with me 🤲 Study Reiki with me In-Person in the Bay Area - The 6-month comprehensive Training begins this Autumn. Early bird discount available through 6/21!Online Reiki Courses - Self-paced online certification courses 🙏 Support this show! - Your support makes this happen in a good way!🌟 Stay connected - Check out all of Bronwyn's current offerings
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See Differently: A Meditation for a New Perspective
Feb 1900:25:13Tap to summarizeWhen you change the way you see, you change what you feel. This guided meditation helps you soften reactive perception and open into a clearer, kinder way of meeting your life.You’ll be guided through breath, light-field connection, and a focused inner practice inspired by Course in Miracles teachings, including the reminders I have no neutral thoughts and I am determined to see things differently. Bring to mind a person, pattern, or situation that feels charged, and let this practice support a real shift in how you relate.In this meditation, you’ll experience:Nervous system settling through breath and inner attunementLight-field connection for coherence and supportA perception reset for relationships and recurring triggersThird-eye focus and spacious inner visionA closing prayer of humility and surrender to be shown what is truePress play, breathe, and let your seeing become more free.🫶 The Sanctuary - Weekly live calls, sacred practice, and a field of resonance to hold your unfolding🫶 Get your free Reiki Attunement✨ Work with me 🤲 Study Reiki with me In-Person in the Bay Area - The 6-month comprehensive Training begins this Autumn. Early bird discount available through 6/21!Online Reiki Courses - Self-paced online certification courses 🙏 Support this show! - Your support makes this happen in a good way!🌟 Stay connected - Check out all of Bronwyn's current offerings
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Spring Begins: Rituals for a Fresh Start
Feb 600:28:53Tap to summarizeSpring begins before you can see it. This is the threshold season of wind, inspiration, and gentle beginnings. In this episode, Bronwyn shares grounded seasonal rituals to help you release what is complete, refresh your relationships, and invite a new chapter with clarity.You will explore simple ways to welcome spring through ritual, food and seeds, sleep and dreaming, and spontaneous movement that supports new growth without forcing it. The episode closes with a guided visualization to let go of the past year and receive a symbol to carry into the months ahead.We explore:Rituals for renewal and relationship repairSeeds and seasonal nourishmentSpring sleep and dreamingGentle movement that supports fresh growthGuided meditation for release and intention 🫶 The Sanctuary - Weekly live calls, sacred practice, and a field of resonance to hold your unfolding🫶 Get your free Reiki Attunement✨ Work with me 🤲 Study Reiki with me In-Person in the Bay Area - The 6-month comprehensive Training begins this Autumn. Early bird discount available through 6/21!Online Reiki Courses - Self-paced online certification courses 🙏 Support this show! - Your support makes this happen in a good way!🌟 Stay connected - Check out all of Bronwyn's current offerings
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Reiki Is Not What You Think
Jan 3100:28:58Tap to summarizeReiki isn’t just hands-on healing. It’s a vibrational transmission that clears, awakens, and aligns you with your true path. In this episode, Bronwyn unpacks Reiki as a path of involution ✨ a practice that activates rapid transformation from within. Whether you’re new to energy work or a longtime seeker, this conversation invites you into a deeper remembrance of what Reiki truly is.Explore Reiki trainings and resources at reikiyoga.com 🫶 The Sanctuary - Weekly live calls, sacred practice, and a field of resonance to hold your unfolding🫶 Get your free Reiki Attunement✨ Work with me 🤲 Study Reiki with me In-Person in the Bay Area - The 6-month comprehensive Training begins this Autumn. Early bird discount available through 6/21!Online Reiki Courses - Self-paced online certification courses 🙏 Support this show! - Your support makes this happen in a good way!🌟 Stay connected - Check out all of Bronwyn's current offerings
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Winter Wisdom: A Daoist Path to Rest and Renewal
Dec 2600:16:56Tap to summarizeWinter invites us inward ❄️ to pause, restore, and realign with nature’s rhythm. In this nourishing episode, Bronwyn shares insights from Daoist medicine to help you embrace winter’s quiet power and tend to your body’s deeper needs.We explore how gentle movement, warming foods, and hydration can support vitality, while dream work and rest offer a path to inner clarity. By honoring the season’s slower pace, you’ll learn how to conserve energy, build resilience, and create a sense of calm that carries you into spring.Let this be your winter guide to moving with intention, warmth, and wisdom. 🫶 The Sanctuary - Weekly live calls, sacred practice, and a field of resonance to hold your unfolding🫶 Get your free Reiki Attunement✨ Work with me 🤲 Study Reiki with me In-Person in the Bay Area - The 6-month comprehensive Training begins this Autumn. Early bird discount available through 6/21!Online Reiki Courses - Self-paced online certification courses 🙏 Support this show! - Your support makes this happen in a good way!🌟 Stay connected - Check out all of Bronwyn's current offerings
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