Surviving the Sacred Dark with Yukia Sandara

Beyond Words with Anna Misrasi

Join Gaia Art Bar’s Ana Estrada and Anna Misrasi discussing mystical approaches to art making. An immigrant from Russia, Anna believes that her paintings choose her, and serve to transmute suffering and challenging emotions there are no words for. "I do not obey the canvas. I make it spin. My paintings have no fixed position; they flip, transform, and open new worlds with every glance. In one moment you see flowers, in the next you are drifting through a galaxy, and then suddenly you recognize emotions you have never spoken aloud. I create spaces where imagination is gently caught, where there are no rules, only the play of light, color, and your own heart. There are no mere viewers here, only co-authors; when you look, you become part of the painting. Each work is available for purchase, yet in truth, they seem to choose their owner." ~Anna Misrasi Based in Sandy, Utah, Anna Misrasi creates paintings and photographs that transform ordinary moments into emotional, dreamlike experiences. Through flowing color, movement, and layered textures, she invites viewers to slow down, breathe, and rediscover their own memories within each piece. Inspired by Utah's natural beauty and the inner landscapes of human feeling, her work balances strength with tenderness and mystery with warmth, forming a quiet conversation between nature, imagination, and the human heart. Through her art, Anna reminds us that beauty often lives in the emotions we dare to feel. Follow or contact Anna for a private session or soul portrait via~ Instagram: @ARTMISRASI Facebook: ANNA MISRASI Email: ARTMISRASI@GMAIL.COM Subscribe to Gaia Art Bar for more conversations with artists, healers, and visionaries working with land, light, sound, and spirit: https://www.gaiaartbar.com [https://www.gaiaartbar.com] ana@gaiaartbar.com Follow Gaia Art Bar:   YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@gaiaartbar_podcast]    Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/gaiaartbar/]    Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/ana.estrada.948]

Surviving the Sacred Dark with Yukia Sandara

Welcome to Gaia Art Bar! In this episode, visionary artist and sonic alchemist Yukia Sandara joins our host Ana Estrada for a conversation about light language and the mystery of initiations that may ask more of us than we ever thought possible, including devastating feelings of separation and abandonment as the divine fire burns through distorted perceptions and ancestral imprints. Surviving the sacred dark is one of the most challenging paths to mastery, especially when it entails losing our faith, our identity, our physical health and financial security. How does it feel to surrender to losing everything, and then come out of it even more radiant and sovereign than ever before? Yukia Azorah Sandara is an embodied multidimensional soul empowerment mentor who has dedicated her life to assisting humanity in this great planetary shift for 35 years. She has studied quantum wisdom from the stars with her guides the Sun Elders, and from a very early age mastered teachings and healing technologies through light language coding and decoding, Her full embodied awakening also came through a vast interaction with indigenous cultures and traveling to sacred sites around the world.   If Yukia’s experience resonates, we invite you to explore her online offerings: Private Sessions • https://www.yukiasandara.com/book-online Sacred Worlds Game • https://sacredworlds.com/ • https://playbasedfamilysupport.com/ Original Music • https://yukiasandara.bandcamp.com/album/remembrance • https://soundcloud.com/elizabete-martins-soares Subscribe to Gaia Art Bar for more conversations with artists, healers, and visionaries working with land, light, sound, and spirit: https://www.gaiaartbar.com [https://www.gaiaartbar.com] ana@gaiaartbar.com Follow Gaia Art Bar:   YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@gaiaartbar_podcast]    Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/gaiaartbar/]    Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/ana.estrada.948]

Writing As Medicine with Diane Dunn

Gaia Art Bar's Ana Estrada and Diane Dunn, author and founder of Paz y Luz Hotel and Conference Center in Pisac, Peru, have a conversation about life altering experiences that call to be shared with the world through writing. When Diane's husband unexpectedly passed away in the midst of writing her second book, the insights and communication she shared with him became a part of the editing process and later gave birth to a screenplay and a novel written at his request, revealing that even life's most devastating blows can be transformed through the medicine of writing and storytelling. Lock-down Reflections (Diane’s adventures with her trusted Schwinn bicycle): https://dianedunn.net/lock-down-reflections/ [https://dianedunn.net/lock-down-reflections/] Contact Diane Dunn: diane@dianedunn.net https://dianedunn.net [https://dianedunn.net] Purchase Diane's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Diane-Dunn/author/B00MAS10XG?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=4f7c78ad-e64d-4aa8-b043-00dbbb2cdf9d [https://www.amazon.com/stores/Diane-Dunn/author/B00MAS10XG?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=4f7c78ad-e64d-4aa8-b043-00dbbb2cdf9d] Subscribe to Gaia Art Bar for more conversations with artists, healers, and visionaries working with land, light, sound, and spirit: https://www.gaiaartbar.com [https://www.gaiaartbar.com] ana@gaiaartbar.com Follow Gaia Art Bar:   YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@gaiaartbar_podcast]    Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/gaiaartbar/]    Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/ana.estrada.948]

Alchemy of Surrender with Yannick Fernandes

Alchemy of Surrender invites us into the sacred art of letting go, a radical choice to release the story that no longer defines who we are, creating space for the experience of true freedom. Yannick and Ana discuss how this choice of letting go of our painful stories and false identities is crucial for establishing ourselves in creative sovereignty, where we realize the capacity to offer service with humility and return to a more intimate relationship with the Earth. Yannick Fernandes serves as spiritual guide, transformation catalyst, and embodiment mentor. In a session, he uses a multidisciplinary approach, blending his metaphysical work with quantum energy healing, past life regressions, shamanic clearings, and light language activations. He is gifted with the capacity to connect with the deeper parts of your own unconscious patterns, helping to dissolve them, and bring tangible change in your physical reality. To connect with Yannick 👉 https://linktr.ee/yunique_alchemy [https://linktr.ee/yunique_alchemy] Subscribe to Gaia Art Bar for more conversations with artists, healers, and visionaries working with land, light, sound, and spirit: https://www.gaiaartbar.com [https://www.gaiaartbar.com] ana@gaiaartbar.com Follow Gaia Art Bar:   YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@gaiaartbar_podcast]    Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/gaiaartbar/]    Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/ana.estrada.948]

World Peace? Reciprocity in the Andes

In this Gaia Art Bar [https://www.gaiaartbar.com/podcast] conversation, we welcome Diane Dunn [https://dianedunn.net/], founder of Paz y Luz, a spiritual retreat center nestled in the heart of Pisac, Peru. Together, we explore what peace truly means in our fractured world. We share our experience of the ancient wisdom found in the Andes, and the practices that nourish our modern lives: * The multidimensional symbolism of the chakana, or Andean cross. * The sacred tradition of the despacho ceremony, an offering of gratitude to the Earth. * The embodiment practice of Biodanza [https://dianedunn.net/biodanza/], where movement and music facilitate profound healing within the body and psyche. More than a discussion, this episode is a call to awaken reciprocity in our own lives, not as an abstract theory or ideology, but as a practice. We reflect on how honoring indigenous wisdom, softening polarity, and opening to unfamiliar perspectives can become an inner activism that is subtle, sacred, and transformative. World peace may not begin with nations, but with how we listen, and how we choose to relate to the Earth, to each other, and to the mystery that connects us. Subscribe to Gaia Art Bar for more conversations with artists, healers, and visionaries working with land, light, sound, and spirit: https://www.gaiaartbar.com [https://www.gaiaartbar.com] ana@gaiaartbar.com Follow Gaia Art Bar:   YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@gaiaartbar_podcast]    Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/gaiaartbar/]    Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/ana.estrada.948]