In this engaging episode “Embracing Spiritual Growth: Love, Resilience, and Self Inquiry, Jenny Lee, a Nautilus Book Award-winning author of “Spark Change,” spiritual coach, and certified yoga therapist shares her journey of spiritual growth. She discusses the significance of self-inquiry and meditation in navigating life’s challenges.

Reflecting on the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, she emphasizes choosing love over negative emotions and offers practical strategies like setting intentions and focusing on gratitude. The discussion delves into the practices and philosophies that support resilience, endurance, and conscious evolution, emphasizing the power of questions, curiosity, and a loving mindset to foster inner peace and personal transformation.

Jenny shares ideas on supporting others in their spiritual journey and highlights her offerings, including yoga retreats, creativity coaching, and an artist-in-residency program in Tuscany, Italy.

● Experiencing gratitude in daily life

● Accepting grief and loss in the school of life

● Choosing a “happy heart”

● Importance of cultivating a loving mindset in the face of suffering

● Meditation as a practice to build resilience

● Paramahansa Yogananda

● Basic principles of yoga philosophy

● Choosing love over bitterness, negativity, or anger

● Value of self-inquiry

● Making a conscious choice to move out of negative emotions

● Setting intentions to shift thought patterns

● Feeding the right thoughts

● Curiosity and Kindness

● Offering space for creativity to thrive

“Your love must be greater than your pain.” Paramahansa Yogananda

Spark Change

True Yoga

1. My archetypal journey
2. The role of art in my life from an early age
3. Influence of naysayers on our life path
4. Consequences of suppressing the inner artist
5. Climbing the mountain of creativity
6. Answering the “unanswerable question”
7. The reclamation work of Peter Koenig
8. My mystical mountain experience
9. Ascent Assessment - Base Camp to the Summit
10. Factors of money, power, love, and time
11. Balancing shadow and light
12. The concept of tribes
13. Applying Masterpiece to businesses

1. Challenges on the spiritual path
2. Learning to let go of attachments
3. Connecting and validating the voice of our Higher Self
4. “Surrender into the suffering.”
5. Revelation of God and the path to bliss and ecstasy
6. Aligning with service to all
7. Importance of relaxation vs. rest
8. Practicing Spiritual Kung Fu
9. An unexpected introduction to Kundalini energy
10. Respectfully accessing and working with Kundalini Shakti
11. The “wisdom of the womb”
12. Understanding the Creation Point
13. Connecting the heart and the womb
14. The Enneagram as a magical modality

1. Being the “little reluctant mouse” in the publishing world
2. Getting “skilled up” with luminaries at Hay House
3. Challenges of entrepreneurship, cancer, and life
4. Limiters, pivot points, and leaning in
5. Learning to “embrace the sucky stuff”
6. Discovering the language of emotion and energetic blueprints
7. Fear as an invitation
8. Evolution of Flowdreaming and the ME School
9. Communicating honestly with the universe
10. Exploring my intuitive nature
11. Claiming our royalty - we are all Kings and Queens
12. Playing the long game - watching past efforts fruit in the future
13. Practicing gratitude - past, present, and future

1. Early Recollections of God
2. Influences along my path
3. Effect of COVID-19 on my spiritual journey
4. First journey out of the body
5. Modalities of the subconscious
6. Experiencing the death of the ego
7. Channeling through the heart space
8. Importance of meditation
9. Finding a practitioner to help you
10. Thinking in multi-dimensions
11. Galactic Energy Healing
12. Water Alchemy
13. “It’s all about Self-Realization”

1. Igniting the church of my skull
2. Storytelling as a tool for transformation and clarification
3. Navigating significant life challenges like cancer
4. Releasing assumptions and adjusting to a new body and new consciousness
5. Importance of spiritual practices to help depersonalize the event
6. Blending Western medicines, spiritual practices, and my tribe to restore health
7. Communing with beauty and solace
8. The role of tears
9. Dancing with the demon of fear
10. Having an aspirational narrative and cultivating imagery
11. Community and catharsis
12. “Plant medicine is about communion”
13. The “arena” - Influential dreams and characters
14. Contemplating death and choosing to be earthbound

1. Spiritual Transformative Events (STEs)
2. Perceiving energy teachers - voices in my head
3. Sound of the Universe - Recalling childhood abilities
4. Coping with unbelievers by "tamping down my senses"
5. Military, law, & psychology = skeptic with logical mind
6. Using validation training to confirm messages & teachings
7. Challenges of being an intuitive and a medium
8. Unfolding intuition organically - go with your strength
9. Side effects of “waking up”
10. Benefits of finding a like-minded community
11. What to look for in a mentor/teacher
12. Evolution of my Restorative Energy Technique
13. Awakening - expansion - blessing
14. A call for focus, quiet, and sending peace

1. Experiencing abuse as a child and teen
2. Tuning into the creative as a survival tool
3. “Earth as my Mother”
4. Learning to touch the world - fully embodied
5. Awakening experiences with Shamans and plant medicine
6. Release of the heart through ceremony
7. Importance of establishing community
8. Understanding Sympoiesis - participatory relations
9. Graduate school - teachers who planted guiding questions
10. Exploring eco-avatars and eco-emissaries
11. Spiderwoman influences
12. The Goddess Garden in Atlanta
13. Importance of solitude and spaces
14. Helpful rituals for living fully