Nervous System Alchemy: Unleash Your Magic and Flow

Nervous System Alchemy: Unleash Your Magic and Flow is where somatic science meets spiritual intelligence. Hosted by Rachel Hardy — Somatic Coach, Nervous System Educator, and guide for visionary entrepreneurs — this podcast explores how regulation becomes the doorway to your creative genius, purpose, and deepest self-trust. Each episode blends nervous system education, embodied healing, peak performance, spiritual connection, and intuitive wisdom to help you access clarity, flow, and your most expansive self. Whether you’re navigating growth, building something bold, or learning to trust your body again, you’ll find grounded insight, practical somatic tools, and soulful conversations that bring you back to your center. This is your space to regulate your energy, unlock your creative brilliance, and lead your life from the truth inside your body.

Episode 20 - Redefining Purpose: Beyond the Box of “Spiritual Work” with Jia Dafu 12/05/2025

Episode 19 - Sacred Resistance: What Your Nervous System Knows About Pushing Back 06/17/2025

Episode 19 - Sacred Resistance: What Your Nervous System Knows About Pushing Back There’s a kind of resistance that rises right at the edge of change — when something big is asking to move through you. We’ve been taught that resistance is something to override. Push through it. Get out of your own way. Do it scared. But what if that pushback you’re feeling — the shutdown, the procrastination, the discomfort, the annoyance — isn’t dysfunction? In this episode, I’m offering a reframe that might change everything: Resistance isn’t always a block. Sometimes, it’s your body saying “no” and pushing back -- where you used to abandon yourself. And when you learn how to meet that energy — not override it, but actually feel it and understand what it’s communicating — resistance becomes the path back to clarity, power, and deeply aligned action. This is a trauma-informed, somatically rooted look at what’s actually happening when “resistance” shows up — in you, or in your clients. In this episode, we'll explore: Why resistance may a sign of healing — not sabotage The relationship between resistance, safety, and the fight response What’s actually happening in your nervous system when you push back How override culture can retraumatize, even with good intentions The subtle signs of healthy protective energy coming back online What to do when nothing you’ve tried “works” A short guided practice to help you track and honor what’s real 💥 Resources + Next Steps 🔹 Free Gift: — This 3-part video experience reveals why expansion is so often followed by a snapback into old patterns — and how to finally shift this cycle at the root, through your nervous system. 🔹 Waitlist: 1:1 Integrative Somatic Nervous System Work For those ready to go deeper into nervous system healing, trauma resolution, and spiritual connection — through a body-based, intuitive process. 👉 🔹 Waitlist: Embodied Astrology Certification A first-of-its-kind certification for practitioners who want to integrate trauma-informed astrology with somatic work. Learn to read your clients' charts fluently while guiding transformation that lands in the body. 👉 💌 Stay Connected If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend. This work is meant to ripple — and your presence matters. "Grace" written and recorded by and used by permission. /episode/index/show/somaticknowing/id/37041430

Episode 18 - Let it Flow: Trusting the Intelligence of the Body — with Dr. Leslie Carr + Julia de'Caneva 05/27/2025

Episode 18 - Let it Flow: Trusting the Intelligence of the Body — with Dr. Leslie Carr + Julia de'Caneva 💡 Episode Description What happens when you stop trying to fix your emotions — and instead feel the raw energy underneath them? In this episode, I’m joined by two brilliant colleagues and dear friends, Dr. Leslie Carr and Julia de'Caneva, for a grounded, powerful conversation about how life force energy moves through the body — and what becomes possible when we stop overriding, bypassing, or spinning in the mind, and instead partner with the nervous system to let it reorganize and transform. We talk about everything from public speaking anxiety to cancer, trauma, and collective grief — and how even the most intense emotions can feel strangely good when met purely as sensation in the body. This is an honest, real-world exploration of what it means to stay with what’s true, and allow the intelligence of your nervous system to do what it knows how to do. 🔑 Key Themes & Takeaways Why emotions are expressions of deeper energy — and why this is important How nervous system work helps you access clarity beneath mental loops The moment Leslie’s public speaking fear suddenly shifted to aliveness Julia’s experience of body-based presence after cancer Grief as sacred — and how it honors what was and what matters Why presence is the medicine that unlocks transformation How individual regulation supports collective change 🌀Meet Today’s Guests Dr. Leslie Carr Leslie is a psychologist and an expert in how trauma, stress, culture, and digital technology impact the mind. She’s been active in mental health advocacy and public psychoeducation for over fifteen years, with work featured in The LA Times, Bustle, and Ask Dr. Drew. She’s the host of the podcast The Nature of Nurture and an e-course on mindful tech use. → Julia de'Caneva Julia is a certified holistic health coach, blending her intuition, professional certifications, and lived experience as a cancer survivor to help people build intentional, meaningful lives. She’s the founder of If It’s The Last Thing I Do and co-founder of elemental, a platform for reconnecting humans to Nature through mindful practice. → → 🌿 Nervous System Alchemy: Live in LA Leslie and Julia are hosting a powerful in-person workshop on June 7 from 3–5pm at Laughing Frog Yoga in Los Angeles. This event blends nervous system regulation, breathwork, and yoga into a community-based space for deep release, integration, and grounded aliveness. → ✨ Free Mini- Series from Rachel: Moving Through Upper Limits If you’ve ever found yourself hitting a ceiling — emotionally, financially, or creatively — even when you're doing all the right things, this 3-part video series will show you why your nervous system might be holding the brakes... and how to release the pattern at its root. → https://rachel-hardy.aweb.page/p/aea708d2-874b-48ea-8f0f-74b606361daf 💌 Stay Connected If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend. This work is meant to ripple — and your presence matters. "Grace" written and recorded by and used by permission. /episode/index/show/somaticknowing/id/36731385