Highest Self Podcast® — Episode 620:

"My Year Traveling the World Through the Sacred Feminine with Sahara Rose"

Date: September 16, 2025
Host: Sahara Rose

Episode Overview

In this deeply personal and reflective solo episode, Sahara Rose recounts her transformative year traveling between Los Angeles, Dubai, Bali, India, Egypt, Amsterdam, Boston, and New York. Rather than offering a typical travelogue, Sahara shares the wisdom, healing, and spiritual insights gained through living the path of the Sacred Feminine—her lessons in trust, surrender, devotion, and self-becoming. She weaves stories of plant dieta, ancient temples, heartbreak and healing, cultural discovery, creative breakthroughs, and the embodied spirituality that inspires her work.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Rose Dieta and The Nature of Sacred Feminine Unfolding

[00:00–09:50]

• Rose Dieta: Sahara describes her experience of a rose "dieta," sitting in silence and spiritual communion with the rose plant. The primary lesson: "Trust the process. A rose does not reveal everything instantly...The beauty of the rose is the unpeddling. Petal by petal, she reveals herself, and that is life." (Sahara, 00:55)
• The practice inspires her deeper journey with the Sacred Feminine, setting the tone for her year.

2. Listening to Divine Nudges: Returning to India

[10:10–17:45]

• India’s call returns to her through synchronicities—the energy from her rose dieta, a Bollywood-inspired longing, and an unexpected wedding invite in Udaipur.
• She reflects on the creative and spiritual muses India has provided throughout her life and how her first love (who was Indian) left an indelible mark on her heart.

3. Following the Sacred Feminine Path: Surrender, Movement, and Self-Initiation

[18:00–38:00]

• Moving from LA to Dubai: Guided by intuition and opportunity, Sahara moves to Dubai, seeking reconnection with Middle Eastern culture and business partners—but finds herself physically unwell due to environment (pollution, lack of nature).

• Softening and Healing in Bali: Bali offers her “womb-like” nurturing after Dubai, embracing presence, ritual, and deep feminine restoration. Adventures with her best friend Christine reinforce the power of sisterhood and play.

  "Bali, for me, has always been like a womb... She takes you in like the mother, and she's like, 'Baby, what do you need?'" (Sahara, 27:40)

• Cultural Adornment: Dubai inspires stepping into “queen” energy—adornment, elegance, and presence. In contrast, Bali evokes the wild, earthy feminine.

4. Sacred Sites, Temple Culture, and Living Mysticism

[38:00–56:00]

• Sahara delves into her fascination with temples: from Pushkar, India's "Vatican City," to the mystic temples of Egypt, each place activates a different archetype and level of consciousness.

  "I could dedicate my life to just going to temples...it just reminds me how small my problems are." (Sahara, 49:50)

• She describes studying Indian classical dance in Rajasthan and meeting artisans, musicians, and a local photographer who opened new ways of seeing beauty, art, and devotion.

5. Heartbreak as Sacred Initiation

[56:00–01:10:00]

• India once more brings up cycles of love, heartbreak, and healing. Instead of rushing into new love, she learns the necessity of “titrating” her giving and attunes to self-protection, maturity, and discernment.

  "As the feminine, we have so much love to give. The word titration means, instead of giving all of our love right now...let it simmer for a little bit, to not...even to ourselves, like, 'Oh my god, I'm in love.'" (Sahara, 01:02:00)

• She connects these relational insights to the archetype of the queen—embodying self-respect, sovereignty, and healthy boundaries.

6. Alchemy at the Priestly Heart: Egypt and Beyond

[01:10:00–01:35:00]

• Egypt as Initiation: Sahara reflects on her month in Egypt, returning 29 months after her first transformative visit (a full lunar cycle, symbolic of spiritual completion). She describes her powerful, initiatory experiences in closed Isis/Asat temples and the energetic upgrades she received.

• Priestess path is not learned in books but through lived heartbreak and shadow work; devotion becomes central.

  "When we sign up on this path...life will give us the real initiations that we need. Heartbreak, I feel for the path of the feminine, is one of the biggest initiations." (Sahara, 01:22:45)

• Alchemy and Embodiment: The role of the Sacred Feminine is not just to rise above pain but to transmute (“alchemize”) it into wisdom, beauty, and service.

7. Manifestation vs. Godifestation: Surrender, Attunement, and Present-Moment Trust

[01:36:00–01:50:00]

• Sahara critiques hyper-masculine, controlling notions of manifestation in spiritual culture, suggesting instead the co-creative "dance" with life, which requires desire—then surrender and flow.

  "Instead of manifest, let's godifest...let's co-create, let's dance with the universe...Let it be a salsa dance, you know?" (Sahara, 01:43:30)

• The Sacred Feminine way is to allow life’s answers to “unpeddle” in their own timing, just as the rose does, resisting the urge to prematurely force knowing.

8. Creative Breakthroughs, Legacy, and Authentic Expression

[01:51:00–02:09:00]

• Public Speaking & Music: Sahara shares about a life-changing keynote at Mindvalley in Amsterdam, where she publicly shared her work on mapping past lives—embracing her multidimensionality (spiritual teacher, musician, modern leader).

• Woman of the Year & Times Square Billboard: Unexpected recognition (Oralis Magazine, Woman of the Year) comes not from “on brand” work, but from her music—proving that honoring all sides of oneself brings rewards.

  "Allow that to just be a little permission slip for you...that thing that feels outside the box, weird, it doesn't fit in...do that thing." (Sahara, 02:03:40)

9. Coming Home, Integration, and Planting Roots

[02:10:00–02:18:00]

• Sahara returns to LA after her year of global journeying, feeling humbled, simplified, and focused on creating her next book—embodying her priestess lessons in everyday life.

  "Now it's time for me to plant my roots here and to create my temple of my home...Just a small, cute little place where I feel at peace and to write this book." (Sahara, 02:13:30)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Trusting the Unfolding:
  “A rose does not reveal everything instantly… The beauty of the rose is the unpeddling. Petal by petal, she reveals herself, and that is life.” (Sahara, 00:55)

• On Sacred Devotion at Temples:
  "I had never seen such devotion in my life, like to literally be sprawling the ground and just like, ‘Goddess, spirit, I am at your feet.’" (Sahara, 01:26:45)

• On Heartbreak and Maturity:
  "It's another thing that the person that you chose, the person that you love, the person that you trusted—to go through a heartbreak with them... nothing connects us to our heart in the same way. And that is one of the laws of the sacred feminine: devotion." (Sahara, 01:23:30)

• On Co-creation:
  "Let’s allow, let’s co-create, let’s dance with the universe. This is one of the laws of the sacred feminine as well, that we’re not pushing, we’re not trying to force. Rather, we’re dancing with life." (Sahara, 01:43:40)

• On Permission to be Multidimensional:
  "You are allowed to be multidimensional. You can be ratchet, you can be spiritual, you can be badass, you can be sattvic. You can be everything in between..." (Sahara, 02:06:30)

Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:00–09:50]: Rose Dieta and Opening Sacred Feminine
• [09:50–18:00]: Divine Nudges & Return to India
• [18:00–38:00]: Moving, Dubai, Bali, Chapter Energies
• [38:00–56:00]: Temples, Indian Dance, Cultural Revelation
• [56:00–01:10:00]: Love, Heartbreak, and Feminine Sovereignty
• [01:10:00–01:35:00]: Egypt, Temple Initiation, Alchemy
• [01:36:00–01:50:00]: Manifestation Shift, Surrender
• [01:51:00–02:09:00]: Creative Expansion, Recognition, Multidimensionality
• [02:10:00–02:18:00]: Integration, Simplicity, Returning to LA

Takeaways & Reflections

Sahara Rose’s yearlong journey embodies the Sacred Feminine path: saying yes to the unknown, trusting the spiral of life, deepening devotion, alchemizing heartbreak, and expressing all facets of herself—musician, teacher, seeker, queen, wild woman, and spiritual best friend. This episode invites listeners to consider:

• Where are you being courageously called toward the unknown?
• How can you mature your “manifestation” into true co-creation?
• What initiations (even heartbreak) are asking to be alchemized?
• Which parts of yourself have never been fully owned or expressed?

Connect with Sahara & Resources

• Daily Embodiment Practice: dharmacoachinginstitute.com/dci/embodiment-practice
• Book: Discover Your Dharma
• Divine Feminine Mystery School: rosegoldgoddesses.com
• Instagram: @iamsahararose

Closing Invitation

"Trust your intuition. Trust your inner wisdom. Trust your inner guidance. Close your eyes and listen." (Sahara, 02:17:55)

This vibrant episode offers a map for living spiritually attuned and open to the sacred feminine mysteries—at home, abroad, and within.