Today, we’re exploring the intersection of mystery and neuroscience, what Lara J. Day and I call Magic. And when I talk about magic, I don’t mean illusion or fantasy. I mean the felt sense of aliveness that arises when we attune to the unseen layers of reality: synchronicities, symbols, and the subtle ways life communicates with us when we slow down enough to listen.

To help us dive into the magic that opens specifically at this time of year, I invited a special guest: Lara J. Day, author of the 13 Sacred Nights Oracle and creator of Neurogenic Qigong. Lara is on a mission to reclaim the hyper-commercialized holidays and return the Soul to the Solstice.

In this episode, we explore the 13 Sacred Nights ritual, an ancient winter solstice practice: what it is, how it works, and how its magic can shift the way your brain and nervous system perceive the world. Lara shares 17 years of personal experience with the practice, along with stories of synchronicity, prophetic dreams, animal symbolism, and why this ritual has become one of her greatest teachers in cultivating presence, awe, and deep attunement with the unseen world.

If you want a more intentional, soulful way to envision and plant seeds for 2026, you’ll want to listen before December 21st. Lara shares exactly how to prepare, what to expect, and how to work with the energies of each sacred night beginning on December 24th.

Inside the Episode:

(00:00) How do we define the experience of magic in everyday life?

(03:32) Why magic is a natural neurobiological state

(05:07) The origins of the 13 Sacred (aka Holy) Nights ritual

(09:55) Solstice as the New Moon of the solar year

(13:20) Understanding the practice and structure of the 13 Sacred Nights

(20:32) Receiving and blueprinting your next year during the Sacred Nights

(25:43) Symbolism of animal signs, dreams, and repeated Oracle cards

(36:04) What it means to co-create with the future as a creator with agency

(41:01) Darkness as a teacher and Sacred Nights as a nervous system reset

(47:14) How to live with the practice throughout the year

(52:40) Small structural habits to weave the sacred into daily life

(56:05) Reclaiming holidays and rituals in modern life

Connect with Lara J. Day:

Lara has a one-year program coming up that kicks off with the Sacred Holy nights practice + a year of accountability and support to watch in community how each of our blueprints unfolds. She also has a beautiful oracle deck called the 13 Sacred Nights.

Website: http://www.larajday.com

Instagram: @larajday

Facebook: @larajday

TikTok: @larajday

Join the Revealing Wisdom Collective with Anne-Marie:

If this episode awakens something in you, I’d love to support you more deeply with awakening your power to build the life you long to live through the Revealing Wisdom Collective, my new membership devoted to nervous system coherence and power reclamation. We open our weekly sanctuary on January 13, 2026. https://www.revealingwisdom.com/collective

Connect with Anne-Marie Marron:

- If you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie https://anne-mariemarron.com/ask

- Find Anne-Marie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/anne.marie.marron/

- If you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call https://calendly.com/anne-marie-marron/30-minute-consultation

- For more on customized immersions with Anne-Marie, please visit: https://anne-mariemarron.com/integral-leadership-immersion

In this episode, I take you into the rich terrain that I have been living inside for much of this past year. I speak about how our biology and nervous systems were not designed for the amount of input, data, and stimulation we are attempting to metabolize each day. This often leads many of us to choose behaviors that help numb the overwhelm.

It is a smart strategy, but it comes with a cost. Numbing pulls us out of our own lives. It creates distance in our relationships and leaves us with a quiet loneliness beneath our strength, alongside a deeper ache that keeps calling for our attention.

This episode is the origin story of the Revealing Wisdom Collective, a weekly sanctuary where we strengthen the nervous system, awaken the deeper self, and let buried wisdom rise.

Inside the Collective, we move through one Power Gateway at a time over the course of two full months, following a deliberate rhythm designed to soften the mind, loosen subconscious limiting beliefs, and integrate new truths into the body and bones. Doors for this membership offering opens January 13, 2026 - join anytime and catch up on through recorded sessions.

Inside the Episode:

• the loneliness that can stay hidden even when we are surrounded by people
• why numbing is an innocent biological response, not a personal failing
• the cost of living in a world that moves far faster than our nervous systems were designed to handle
• how subtle freeze states disconnect us from intuition, aliveness, and self trust
• the personal journey that required me to pause, slow down, and radically tend to my own system
• how the Revealing Wisdom Collective was born from that deep winter of listening

A look at the Six Power Gateways inside the Collective

Centering Power
The power that returns you to your inner axis, the quiet, unwavering ground beneath every emotion, every choice, every storm.

Relational Power
The ability to stay rooted in yourself while meeting another with presence, transparency, and clean energetic boundaries.

Self Acceptance Power
The liberating capacity to stop waging war against yourself and to meet your humanity with tenderness, truth, and self regard.

Wild Power
The sovereign, undomesticated intelligence that dissolves internalized hierarchy, obedience, and shame so your original vitality can rise.

Intuitive Power
The subtle inner channel where truth arrives before thought, the deep knowing that guides you through mystery, timing, and right action.

Erotic Power
The sacred life force that animates your creativity, desire, vitality, and full spectrum expression, not only sexual, but inherently alive.

If you have been longing for a place where you do not have to hold everything alone, where your tenderness and your power are both welcome, the Revealing Wisdom Collective was created for you.

Join us here → https://www.revealingwisdom.com/collective

Or stay connected through the Revealing Wisdom Newsletter

Connect with Anne-Marie Marron:

- If you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie https://anne-mariemarron.com/ask

- Find Anne-Marie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/anne.marie.marron/

- If you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call https://calendly.com/anne-marie-marron/30-minute-consultation

- For more on customized immersions with Anne-Marie, please visit: https://anne-mariemarron.com/integral-leadership-immersion

Today’s guest, Victor Warring, has a quite provocative title - he is an Erotic ReWilder. Which includes his roles as a Somatic Sexuality Educator, mentor, coach and community facilitator. Victor is dedicated to supporting people in reclaiming their erotic sovereignty and removing any self-imposed, internalized or socially imposed obstacles that interfere with the expression of their bodily erotic brilliance.

In this episode, we dive into the distinction between erotic and sexual—and why that difference matters.
We also explore what it means to rewild after generations of colonization, and how we begin to deconstruct the narratives that have shaped our bodies, our pleasure, and our sense of self.

What does it mean to rewild, decolonize, and reclaim our experience of pleasure and intimacy?
How do we embody erotic sovereignty—not just in moments of intimacy, but in our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the world?

Victor shares how sexological bodywork can support this reclamation, the role of conscious pleasure practices, and how we can expand our capacity to experience pleasure—even amidst chaos, collapse, and collective overwhelm.

What is Covered:

(00:00) Remembering Tory Capron
(02:05) Understanding the concept of erotic vs sex
(04:02) The meaning of rewilding
(09:08) Rewilding and the connection to ancestral selves
(13:07) The Impact of colonization on body and sexuality
(20:13) Grief, vulnerability, shame and their connection to eros
(27:22) How to deal with performance anxiety in sexuality
(34:25) Why we need to slow down to reconnect with the erotic
(40:05) Navigating pleasure and pleasure practices amidst chaos
(46:07) What is erotic sovereignty?
(51:38) The role of sexological bodywork in reclaiming erotic sovereignty
(56:15) How we can reclaim our erotic nature and erotic power
(01:00:06) Why each decolonization experience is different and unique

Resources:

- Sign up for the Power Reclamation Newsletter https://revealingwisdom.activehosted.com/f/9

- Check out Victor’s upcoming workshops and events: https://www.rewilderos.com/

- A powerful film on death from our dear friend Tory Capron - The Mountains Remain, a film by Henna Taylor https://hennataylor.com/work/until-only-the-mountain-remains/

- Follow Victor on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonobo_man/

- Find Victor on Facebook: https://www.instagram.com/bonobo_man/

- Also, we referred to this podcast, which is fun if you've not listened: Savage Lovecast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/savage-lovecast/id201376301

Connect with Anne-Marie Marron:

- If you have a power reclamation story to share or questions, please send them to Ask Anne-Marie https://anne-mariemarron.com/ask

- Find Anne-Marie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/anne.marie.marron/

- If you wonder whether Power Reclamation Coaching is for you, book a discovery call https://calendly.com/anne-marie-marron/30-minute-consultation

- For more on customized immersions with Anne-Marie, please visit: https://anne-mariemarron.com/integral-leadership-immersion