Sacred AF Podcast

Igniting the Journey to Embodiment

Happy 2024! Sacred AF Podcast is excited for the year to come and is starting off casual with this guest conversation episode around beginning your journey to embodiment.  Join Bharat and Jas and Jas’ bestie Talina as they share their own experiences of realizing how much they weren’t in their bodies and what life is like after making the journey downwards
In this episode examples of ways for you to build your bridge to make the journey from head to body, if you resonate with being stuck in your thinking brain, are shared.  This is so common in our world that prides itself on strong intellect and ration and reason. We have all experienced feeling stuck because of what's going on in our minds.  
This episode intends to shed light to this important work and challenge that so many of us face.

Bad Trips vs Difficult Experiences

With any psychedelic experience, difficult experiences are highly likely.  But the presence of a difficult experience does not equal a bad trip and Bharat and Jas feel it is important to distinguish the differences between the two.
In this episode, Bharat and Jas decipher the big and small differences between a difficult experience and a bad trip so that it is clear.  Once that groundwork is laid out, they share many ways to navigate bad trips to help you move into safer territory.  They also share ways how to avoid bad trips altogether. 
It is important to understand that we do not speak to avoiding or managing difficult experiences as these are valid and important to go through for our healing.  In a society that confuses pain and discomfort, and is discomfort adverse a lot of the time, it is important to start to accept these experiences as they are if we want to experience true, embodied and sustainable healing. 
If you are interested in trip sitting services, reach out to B or Jas on their instagram accounts (@bthymedicine or @healwithjas)

Amplifying your Healing with Psychedelics

With the growing popularity of psychedelics, B and Jas wanted to take time to share their perspective with you about how you can make the most of your healing experiences.  Access to psychedelics, especially mushrooms, has never been easier, with storefronts, grow your own kits and microdosing companies now offering macro-doses in various forms.  Because of that, The Scared AF Podcast feels it is important to speak to the topic of healing with psychedelics from the context of amplifying their benefits.
Some of the topics that are covered are:
The importance of an eyes closed experience
Choosing to work with a professional trip sitter, as opposed to loved ones holding space
Judging your first experience and chalking these medicine up to “it doesn’t work for me”
Attempting to recreate your first or past experience
Doing too much research and staying in your head
There are a few other topics touched on and tons of golden nuggets throughout this episode. If you enjoy it, leave us a review and come follow us on Instagram (@bthymedince + @healwithjas) to learn more from us and hear about our latest offerings with these magic medicines. 
 

Ode to the Cycle Breaker

If you resonate with the title of black sheep, cycle breaker or outcast, this episode is for you. 
 
Bharat and Jas both identify with this term and in turn their clients are notoriously cycle breakers, whether they know it of not. 
 
Being a cycle breaker is no easy task but for those who have taken on this role, they know it’s not a path that one can easily step off of.  Once we recognize our truth here, we also recognize that ignorance is truly bliss. 
 
Because of that, Bharat and Jas have dedicated this episode to the cycle breakers in hopes it will offer some reprieve and guiding light. 
 
They discuss: 
many misconceptions of being a cycle breaker 
Many challenges of being a cycle breaker 
Their own experience with family, being cycle breakers 
Tips and tools to navigate this important yet challenging work. 
 
They hope to inspire confidence in choosing yourself in this way if you identify with breaking the cycles that clearly serve no one. 
 
If you want to feel more supported on your journey as a cycle breaker, consider immersing yourself in a container with Bharat and Jas during 2024 to support yourself on your path. 
 
There are two options (both very different and very impactful)
The Void Initiation https://www.bthymedicine.com/the-void-initiation
 
The Bliss Retreat 
https://www.healwithjas.com/theblissretreat
 
We hope to see you their! 

Siva’s Healing Journey

Siva, like most people that work with Jas and Bharat, is a cycle-breaker. Bharat interviews him about the journey he has been on this year. They chat about:
How he came to work with Bharat
His biggest shifts so far
His experiences attending both the Bliss retreat and Void initiation
His advice for other cycle-breakers who are starting a similar journey
For more information on Jas and Bharat’s work, visit:
https://www.healwithjas.com/
https://www.bthymedicine.com/

Post Retreat Conversation

Both Bliss and Void retreats are done for the year. Dates for next year have been announced and spots are filling up already. 
 
In this episode, Jas and Bharat chat about the things they share at the end of every retreat with their participants - maintaining sacred space post retreat, the contraction after the expansive, few cautions around sharing their experiences with others and reciprocity. 
 
If you are interested in joining them next year, check out these links:
 
https://www.healwithjas.com/theblissretreat
https://www.bthymedicine.com/the-void-retreat

Managing Expectations on the Healing Journey

Are you finding yourself frustrated on your healing journey because things are not going as you expected? This may be the episode for you to help put things into perspective and ease some of that frustration.  
 
Having expectations for specific desired outcomes is common. Without these expectations, you may not be motivated to take any action. The problem is that when you get attached to these expectations, you overlook what is unfolding before you. Your mind gets fixated on the destination and you can't hear the whispers of your heart and soul. 
 
Fact is, the journey you have embarked on is very individual, intuitive and requires surrendering to the mystery.
 
Jas and Bharat share a lot of stories to illustrate the most common expectations people get caught up in and reflect on them with their wisdom. 
 

Michele’s Healing Journey

The moment that led her to take the first step
Her experiences using different medicines snd modalities
The biggest shifts within and around her since then
Her challenges on this path
How she has influenced her family
 
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And don’t forget to check out the Podcast Community (http://Www.patreon.com/SacredAF)
We have added an Integration Club and a Book Club to it! 

Building a Relationship with Psychedelics

As psychedelics and other sacred indigenous medicines become popular, something that needs to be emphasized is developing a relationship with them. Consciously or unconsciously, we may approach these medicines with the colonial and capitalistic mindsets of dominion, exploitation, and objectification. 
Jas and Bharat hope that this episode will remind you that these medicines have consciousness. They are living spirits. They use the analogy of dating to demonstrate that building a relationship with the medicines requires effort, integrity, communication, reverence and reciprocity. 
It is a short episode packed with a lot of nuggets! 

Emotions As Messengers

Bharat and Jas dive deep into the energy behind emotions in episode 10 and share their perspective on how emotions can be messengers for us, delivery what we need to know and pay attention to in our emotional and subtle energy bodies.
There is so much conversation out there on emotions, how to manage them, how to regulate them, but what do these emotions that keep popping up for us actually mean?
In a world that loves to pathologize emotions, we hope this episode gives you a different perspective and helps you understand how to honor and acknowledge your emotions as a way of managing or regulating.  This is a different approach than finding tools and practices that move you out of the emotion and bypass the experience of truly feeling.
Like always, this information must be taken in with discernment.  There is no one size fits all protocol here and we bring up self awareness a few times because only who can know what the best approach is for you in this current season.  
We touch on how masculine and feminine harmony can be achieved internally and externally through getting to know our emotions more intimately.
Anger, grief, jealousy, rejection and anxiety are a couple of emotions we touch on.