The experiences that are the most difficult to live through can also guide us to great wisdom.

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Asha Frost, Anishinaabe Kwe On Anishinabewaki, ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Huron-Wendat + Haudenosaunee Land. Asha is an Indigenous healer, author, mentor, and speaker who shares how illness became a gateway to her spiritual journey. As a child, Asha was called a seer by her relatives, and her ancestors visited her through dreams and visions. After being diagnosed with lupus in her late teens, her journey became one of reconnecting with her heritage as an Ojibway woman and the teachings and medicines that surround her. She shares how her intuitive gifts developed, her relationship with animal spirits and ancestors, and how working directly with people helped her recognize and strengthen her intuitive gifts.

Asha also speaks candidly about living with chronic pain and what she calls “wintering,” including why healing does not always mean making pain disappear. She explores learning to see wintering as medicine rather than something to rush through, the difficulty of discerning intuition when fear becomes intense, and the wisdom that can emerge from experiences that society often treats as evidence that something is wrong with us. Together, Eboni and Asha consider how difficult experiences can make us more of who we are, what it means to stop trying to get over or push through pain, and how what we have lived can lead us toward becoming, in Asha’s words, “the elder of yourself.”

What happens when you deny yourself the ability to see spirits, but your ability to sense them remains?

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Kesaine, a New York-based somatic practitioner, intuitive astrologer, Reiki Master Teacher, and professional art model trained in integrative breathwork, shares how a spiritual sensitivity that began in early childhood evolved into a life guided by her own inner wisdom. Born in Jamaica, she remembers seeing deceased family members and hearing voices as young as three or four before eventually asking not to see spirits anymore. Years later, Reiki helped her better understand and develop intuitive abilities she says had always been there, including clairaudience and clairsentience, while deepening her understanding of energy and how her body communicates with her.

Kesaine reflects on why she considers using her inner compass in a world shaped by societal expectations a rebellious act, and how anxiety, expansion, physical discomfort, and other sensations provide information when making choices. Despite years of studying astrology, she allows her own experience to come first, often returning to the chart afterward to understand or confirm what she has already experienced. She also shares how years of meditation, yoga, breathwork, Reiki, and other practices have become integrated into everyday life, allowing the tools to support rather than replace her own wisdom.

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Oneika Mays, a meditation teacher, author, and former Mindfulness Coach at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, as she shares the experiences that shaped her relationship with mindfulness, the body, intuition, spirituality, and love. For more than a decade, Oneika brought trauma-informed yoga and meditation into Rikers, eventually working one-on-one with people navigating incarceration while learning what it required of her to bear witness to so much pain. Her debut book, Sit With Me: A No-BS Journey to Mindfulness and Meditation, explores metta, or loving-kindness, as a practice for personal and collective liberation.

Oneika reflects on growing up spiritually curious in a largely atheist family, unusual spiritual experiences she had as a child, learning through bodywork that she was sensitive to other people's energy, and developing the discernment to recognize communication from ancestors and guides. She shares hearing her father speak to her the day after his death, a profound meditative experience connected to the Door of No Return, and how she has come to understand her physical body as both the vessel through which she experiences this life and a receptor for information beyond the physical.

The conversation also explores the intuitive download that completely changed Oneika's book after 16 rejections, why she believes safety must ultimately be cultivated within ourselves, and how her years at Rikers affected her personally. Oneika reflects on finding meditation during a period when she was deeply unhappy, eventually recognizing the ways she had used spiritual practice to avoid discomfort, and why love, mindfulness, and spirituality are not ways of escaping the realities of life but practices that can help us meet them more fully.