When Life Gets Too Much to Bear, You Kneel with Tonya Schroka

When Life Gets Too Much to Bear, You Kneel with Tonya Schroka

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Tonya Schroka, a wife, mother of five, lifelong space-holder, Certified Reiki Master, and Certified Master Intuitive. After years of personal healing and spiritual awakening, Tonya now supports highly sensitive individuals as they navigate transformation, life transitions, and soul remembering. She shares painful experiences that shaped her path, including sudden loss of her first husband caused by a heart attack, the clairaudient (clear hearing) message that transformed her understanding of surrender, and an eight-year journey with chronic pain instigated by being pushed by a personal trainer that she understands as a metaphor for not listening to herself and her body. Together, we highlight different kinds of pain, grief, embodiment, self-compassion, and the ways our bodies reveal truths we may not yet be ready to acknowledge.

If I Operate in This Very, Like, One-Dimensional Space and Don’t Connect with My Gifts, My Life Is Hard with Dr. Tequilla Hill

On this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Dr. Tequilla Hill, a licensed psychotherapist, mindful wellness leader, educator, and healer whose work bridges mental health, somatic healing, expressive arts, and spiritual wisdom. With over 20 years of experience, she weaves together systemic and somatic therapeutic approaches, expressive arts, and wellbeing practices to nurture whole-person wellness. Dr. Hill shares how growing up in New Orleans and within a family of healers shaped her understanding of intuition, spiritual gifts, and what it means to live in alignment with one's true nature. Drawing from African spiritual traditions, she discusses the concept of Ori, the inner self that guides us toward our most authentic path, and how life becomes increasingly difficult when we ignore our gifts and make decisions disconnected from who we are. Together, we explore authenticity, performance, embodiment, suffering, intuition, clairvoyance, and the ways our bodies reveal when something in our lives is misaligned. Dr. Hill also reflects on how eczema, hair loss, and other physical symptoms mirrored periods of inauthentic living, why suffering is often the result of choices that no longer serve us, and how small daily decisions can reconnect us to ourselves.

You Meet a Version of Yourself Who Had Always Existed but Had Never Been Seen with Tamela Julia Gordon

In this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, meet Tamela Julia Gordon, author of Hood Wellness, a memoir that blends personal storytelling, communal care, spirituality, wellness practices, and collective healing. She is also a freelance writer, editor, tarot reader, and communal care advocate. Introduced to Santería through her father's Cuban lineage, Tamela was immersed in spiritual practices from an early age. By age four, she was creating altars, and as a teenager, she was giving spiritual readings, following in the footsteps of her paternal grandmother, who also gave readings. Tamela shares how ancestral altar practices, intuitive experiences, and spiritual traditions shaped her understanding of healing, belonging, and community. She also reflects on receiving intuitive information from a young age, discovering tarot during the pandemic, and why she believes everyone has the capacity to deepen their own spiritual practice. We also discuss the creation of Casa de Tammy, a self-care home and community-funded retreat space for Black activists and community organizers seeking rest, healing, and renewal. Her book emerged from those experiences, and, specifically, seven years of studying care. Together, we also explore the challenges of vulnerability in writing and of maintaining authenticity through the publishing process.

I Acquired All the Drugs and Alcohol I Could, and I Just Couldn’t Get High with Paul Gerard

Paul Gerard is a chef with a lifetime of experience cooking for discerning clients across New York, in Los Angeles, and internationally. A native of South Brooklyn, Chef Paul Gerard honed his craft in the intense, fast-paced kitchens of 1980s New York, where he began cooking at just 13 years old. His culinary journey led him to New Orleans, where he spent over a decade in some of the city’s most celebrated kitchens, including Restaurant August, Peristyle, Lilette, and Gautreau’s. He later led acclaimed culinary programs as Executive Chef at Soho Grand Hotel, Soho House, and China Grill Management.  On this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, chef Paul shares a deeply personal conversation about food, grief, addiction, spirituality, healing, and the intelligence of the body. What begins as a discussion about cooking with intention, food as support for grief and fear, and the relationship between taste, smell, and memory evolves into a profound exploration of trauma, recovery, meditation, and spiritual awakening. He reflects on a life of addiction that began at age 11 and shares the pivotal moment that transformed his relationship with drugs and alcohol when, despite taking them, he could no longer get high. Paul describes the experience as evidence that there was something greater than himself, which led him more deeply into meditation, prayer, energy work, and spiritual study. We also discuss emotional sensitivity, intuition through the body, silence, grief, conversations with Radhanath Swami, mythology, India, and learning how to surrender, heal, and reconnect with both the body and the soul. This conversation is a rich reflection on what it means to truly feel, transform, and allow life to open you spiritually.

It Wasn’t Darkness for Naught, It was Darkness for Purpose with Karen Allen

Karen Allen is an international keynote speaker, growth mindset coach, and author with nearly a decade of experience empowering leaders and teams. Specializing in growth mindset, mindfulness, and human leadership skills, Karen uses her Stop & Shift methodology to drive positive change. She has collaborated with organizations such as Genentech, Google, and Thomson Reuters to enhance leadership and team dynamics, resulting in more productive and resilient work environments. On this episode of the Bodyway Intuition Podcast, Karen shares how the murder of her husband before the age of 30 transformed her relationship with grief, intuition, healing, and self-trust. She reflects on how her body processed the experience before her brain could fully understand it, and how that darkness ultimately became a space of transformation and purpose. Together, we explore post-traumatic growth, subconscious processing, visualization, dreams, clairvoyance (clear vision), clairsentience (clear feeling), and the intelligence of the body. Karen also shares how learning to trust herself, follow intuitive guidance, and connect more deeply with her inner world helped shift the trajectory of her life and work. This conversation is a powerful reflection on how even the darkest experiences can crack us open, deepen our connection to ourselves, and lead us toward greater healing, alignment, and purpose.