Love, Sex & Freedom Podcast

Mastering Inner Polarity: The 4 Archetypes of Masculine and Feminine.

This weeks podcast is a powerful transmission from Chantelle shared at our Fundamentals of Tantra workshop in Perth. Chantelle guides us into the living map of inner polarity, where masculine and feminine energies, both light and dark, coexist as one unified whole. Through the lens of the four archetypes: Light Masculine, Dark Masculine, Light Feminine, and Dark Feminine, you’ll discover how each aspect of your being carries a sacred gift and a shadow. This is where the real Tantra begins: not in transcending emotion or chasing stillness, but in mastering the dance between action and surrender, love and truth, creation and destruction. This episode is a call to step beyond polarity into presence, to cultivate the spacious witnessing of the light masculine, the fierce clarity of the dark masculine, the tender heart of the light feminine, and the raw aliveness of the dark feminine. Together, they form the soul’s compass: a way of living that’s both grounded in purpose and drenched in feeling. This conversation will illuminate how mastering your inner polarity changes everything, from how you love, to how you lead, to how you meet yourself in every breath. Inside This Episode: • What the four archetypes of masculine and feminine truly represent • How to recognize when you’re polarized in one energy (and what to do about it) • The difference between Light and Dark expressions — and why both are sacred • Why meditation and movement are equally essential to awakening • How to cultivate balance through practical Tantric tools • The power of bringing compassion to your fire and presence to your softness • Living from soul — the center point where all archetypes unite There’s a freedom that comes when you stop trying to “be” one thing — and allow all of you to exist. This is the path of inner mastery. The path of Tantra. Top Quotes: “Life isn’t just stillness — it’s the flow of both.” “When we live from soul, we have access to it all — the dark, the light, the masculine, the feminine.” “The work isn’t to choose a side. It’s to learn how to dance between them.” Resources + Links: Sign up for the waitlist for the 18-month Tantra Practitioner Program: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/] Check out our Self-Paced Program here: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/] Follow us on Instagram: @embodiedawakeningacademy

No Mud, No Lotus: Embracing the Dark and the Divine

No Mud, No Lotus: Embracing the Dark and the Divine Can you meet your darkness with the same reverence you offer your light? In this raw and liberating transmission from our Fundamentals of Tantra event Chantelle Raven invites us into the heart of Tantra — where awakening is not about rising above, but about descending into the body and welcoming all that we are. Through stories, practice, and embodied wisdom, she guides us to see Kundalini not as something to control or “achieve,” but as life force itself — the pulse of creation, destruction, and renewal that moves through every breath. What happens when you stop resisting your contractions and start trusting your body’s intelligence? When you let the mud be mud — and find the lotus blooming right through it? This episode is a fierce reclamation of the dark feminine — the part of us that feels deeply, speaks truth, and refuses to hide behind spiritual perfection. It’s an invitation to bring compassion to your shadow, reverence to your rage, and love to the parts of you that were once deemed “too much.” If you’re a practitioner, space holder, or simply a human who feels deeply, this one will move you — and remind you that the divine isn’t separate from your humanity. Inside This Episode: • What Kundalini truly is and how to work with life force energy in the body • The difference between contraction and resistance • Dark Feminine vs. wounded feminine — how to know the difference • Turning shame into self-acceptance through the “So f*cking what” mantra • How spiritual conditioning can suppress our authentic expression • Practicing radical acceptance before creating change • The daily devotion of embodying your future self There’s something holy that happens when we stop performing “high vibe” and start honoring what’s real. When we let rage move through love, and tears become our prayer. This is the Tantra - where shadow and light, human and divine, are finally allowed to dance. Top Quotes: “Discomfort is only discomfort when we resist it.” “There’s an ecstatic current available in every feeling.” “Dark feminine isn’t chaos — it’s truth with compassion.” “Accept first. From that place, change becomes devotion.” And when you’re ready to walk deeper, come find us in the trainings, the retreats, the spaces where the lotus keeps blooming. Resources + Links: Sign up for the waitlist for the 18-month Tantra Practitioner Program: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/] Check out our Self-Paced Program here: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/] Follow us on Instagram: @embodiedawakeningacademy

Healing the Caretaker Wound - Nectar of Tantra Masterclass replay.

Can you let yourself be nourished by life — without needing to earn it? In this replay of the Nectar of Tantra Masterclass, Chantelle and Tara invite us into the art of receiving — of softening control, dissolving effort, and allowing life to move through us. So many of us have learned to give more than we receive. To measure our worth through doing. But what happens when your soul asks you to stop striving and start listening? When pleasure becomes not something you chase, but something you remember? This conversation explores what it truly means to rest in your body, trust your timing, and open to the beauty that wants to meet you. It’s a transmission for anyone learning that ease isn’t weakness, that rest isn’t avoidance, and that the body’s joy is not separate from awakening — it is awakening. Whether you’re a practitioner, partner, parent, or leader — this episode invites you to return to the simplicity of presence and the deep intelligence of pleasure. Inside This Episode: • How to shift from overgiving to overflow • Why rest is the foundation of creation • The nervous system’s role in receiving pleasure • How to recognise when service becomes self-abandonment • The link between the caretaker wound and self-worth • Why pleasure is the pathway to spiritual power There’s something sacred that happens when you stop performing love and start feeling it. When you stop trying to be the light, and realise you already are. This is Tantra as nectar — the sweetness that arrives when you finally let yourself be filled. Top Quotes: “Pleasure is your body’s way of saying: you’re safe to receive.” “Ease is not the absence of devotion — it’s the presence of trust.” “You don’t magnetise through effort. You magnetise through openness.” And when you’re ready to walk deeper, come find us: at the retreats, the trainings, the spaces where pleasure becomes prayer. Resources + Links: Sign up for the waitlist for the 18-month Tantra Practitioner Program: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/] Check out our Self-Paced Program here: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/] Follow us on Instagram: @embodiedawakeningacademy

Pleasure, Shame and the Sacred Art of Holding Space

Can you let yourself feel good? Like, really good... in your body, in your life, in your truth? In this live recording from the Body Transformation Retreat in Bali, Chantelle Raven invites us into a deeper reckoning with what it truly means to expand our capacity for pleasure. So often on the healing path we focus on pain, shadows, trauma, but what happens when life offers you joy, love, beauty, and Eros? Can your nervous system hold that too? This isn’t just about bliss. It’s about reparenting your body to trust the goodness. It’s about staying present when shame rises. And it’s about recognizing that our ability to hold others: clients, children, lovers, is always mirrored by how gently, how powerfully, we’re holding ourselves. If you’re a practitioner, coach, parent, or partner… this is the episode that will open you to a new depth. Inside This Episode: * Why pleasure is just as transformational as pain * The real reason shame is the gatekeeper emotion * How your inner parent shows up in your space-holding * What most people misunderstand about Eros and embodiment * Why deep presence matters more than any technique * How to be with a loved one or client’s breakdown without rescuing or retreating There’s something sacred that happens when we stop trying to fix and start choosing to feel. When we stop holding back our pleasure or running from our shame. This is what it means to live and lead from the body.  To guide not from perfection, but from presence. If this episode touched something in you, let it take root.  And when you're ready to walk deeper, come find us: at the retreats, the trainings, the moments that change everything. Top Quotes: “Pleasure can burn you into truth just as deeply as pain.”  “Shame is the guardian of every other emotion. If you can’t feel it, you’ll keep denying the rest.”  “Don’t expect your clients to go anywhere you haven’t gone yourself.” Resources + Links: Sign up for the waitlist for the 18-month Tantra Practitioner Program: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/] Check out our Self-Paced Program here: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/] Follow us on Instagram: @embodiedawakeningacademy

Your Body Is the Algorithm: What Truly Attracts Clients

Why is embodied truth more magnetic than any strategy? Here’s the truth no one tells you: people aren’t responding to your content. They’re responding to your frequency. In this no-filter episode from our Body Transformation Retreat in Bali, Chantelle Raven calls out the spiritual performance trap and reminds us what really creates impact. Highlights: * Why your body is more powerful than your branding * The unseen reason your posts aren’t landing * What not to do with sexuality in content creation * How embodiment creates real resonance * The one thing she’s doing now that created more ease, money, and alignment than ever If you’re tired of trying to “get it right” and ready to lead from truth instead, this episode is for you. Let it strip away what doesn’t belong. Let it remind you why you’re here.  Because this path isn’t about being seen… it’s about being real. 🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or anywhere you get your podcasts. Quotes from this Episode: “People don’t respond to your content. They respond to your frequency.” “Don’t speak about the fire. Be the fire.” “When pleasure is truly running through your body, the last thing you're going to want to do is hold up a phone.” Resources + Links: Sign up for the waitlist for the 18-month Tantra Practitioner Program: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/] Check out our Self-Paced Program here: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/] Follow us on Instagram: @embodiedawakeningacademy