This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Shamanic Teacher, Healer and Author, Linda Star Wolf.
Linda Star Wolf, Ph.D., has been a shamanic visionary teacher and guide to thousands of people over the last four decades. She draws much of her wisdom from personal experience of using breath to fortify connection to one’s own life force energy.
The author of 13 books, including The Aquarian Shaman, Star Wolf is the creator of Shamanic Breathwork®, the Shamanic Healing Initiatory Process®, the Founder of Venus Rising Association for Transformation, and Founding President of Venus Rising University for Shamanic Psychospiritual Studies. Star Wolf is also co-founder of the Shamanic Mystery Tours and guides spiritual seekers to sacred shamanic sites worldwide.
Dedicating her life to assisting soul seekers to transform and embrace their lives, Star Wolf teaches how to embody the shaman within and step into a life of passionate, soul-purpose. Her commitment to sacred activism and visionary leadership led her to create the Shamanic Ministers Global Network and train Shamanic Breathwork Facilitators from around the world.
Star Wolf has a deep connection to shamanic earth wisdom teachings originating from Indigenous elders. Twylah Nitsch, beloved Seneca Wolf Clan Grandmother, gave her the spirit name Star Wolf and adopted her as a Spiritual Granddaughter.
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https://www.shamanicbreathwork.org/
Sam Liebowitz opens The Conscious Consultant Hour by emphasizing the importance of stillness amidst the busyness of life, sharing a personal blog post that highlights how pausing to center oneself can be the most productive act of all. He then welcomes shamanic teacher and healer Star Wolf, who shares her journey of deep connection with nature from childhood, her initiation into shamanic traditions, and her dedication to spiritual transformation through breathwork. Their discussion teases a deeper exploration of what it truly means to embody the shamanic path, inviting listeners to reflect on their own ability to pause, connect, and awaken to a greater sense of presence.
Sam Liebowitz and Starwolf explore the deeper meaning of shamanism beyond the common association with plant medicine, emphasizing its roots in earth-based wisdom, healing, and transformation. Starwolf shares her personal experiences, including near-death encounters, and highlights how breathwork—rather than external substances—can be a profound tool for spiritual awakening. She also discusses the power of ceremony and deep inner work, stressing the importance of integrating personal healing, family dynamics, and shadow work into a holistic path of conscious evolution.
Linda Starwolf shares how The Aquarian Shaman embodies a new vision of Shamanism that integrates ancient wisdom with the evolving consciousness of the Aquarian Age. She reflects on her lifelong mystical experiences, the recognition she received from indigenous elders, and how her journey has led her to understand Shamanism as a bridge between earth-based traditions and the transformational shifts happening in modern society. Starwolf emphasizes the importance of inner work, emotional intelligence, and conscious action, urging spiritually awakened individuals to embrace their unique medicine and contribute to humanity’s evolution during these deeply transformational times.
Linda Starwolf reflects on how the people drawn to her teachings have evolved over the years, with a growing number of seekers—ranging from holistic professionals to spiritual explorers—deeply committed to personal transformation. She emphasizes the importance of staying grounded, keeping the heart open, and engaging in deep inner work to navigate today’s chaotic and revolutionary times with clarity and compassion. Encouraging a vision of global rebirth, she urges spiritually conscious individuals to hold space for transformation, trusting that these challenging times may be the catalyst for a profound shift in human consciousness.
00:00:46.020 --> 00:01:09.639 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Good afternoon, my conscious co-creators. Welcome to another edition of the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. I am very, very pleased that you are all here with me today. We've got another wonderful show in store for you today, hey? Did you guys catch my show last week with Paul Levy? It was a wonderful interview. If you
00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:19.539 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: did not listen to it, I highly recommend you catch the replay on Talkradio, Dot, Nyc. Or on our Youtube Channel, or on any of the podcasting apps.
00:01:19.540 --> 00:01:31.599 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But it was wonderful. And I have a great guest coming up today. And I want to introduce her in just a moment. But first, st of course, we have my blog post just going in order from a couple of years ago.
00:01:31.650 --> 00:01:40.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and this one is entitled, Being still, instead of being busy is far more productive
00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:48.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in the rush of our daily lives. It is easy to forget something something very important
00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:52.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that affects our lives in a very fundamental way.
00:01:53.010 --> 00:01:58.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yet it is so easy to lose in the face of all of our responsibilities.
00:01:59.250 --> 00:02:05.639 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for our attention is often too externally focused.
00:02:05.940 --> 00:02:12.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We can forget the internal and to ignore our own needs.
00:02:12.610 --> 00:02:15.339 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Even the most important need we have.
00:02:15.630 --> 00:02:18.379 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: which is to take time for ourselves.
00:02:18.620 --> 00:02:23.029 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to take a moment and pause, and to breathe.
00:02:23.940 --> 00:02:29.219 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to take a few minutes and unwind from the tension of the day.
00:02:30.050 --> 00:02:37.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We usually do not realize how important it truly is to take a moment to just sit and be still.
00:02:38.740 --> 00:02:45.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: stopping our activity for a few minutes, centering ourselves and being quiet.
00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:53.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: cutting out the input of screens, phones and other people making some space
00:02:54.150 --> 00:03:00.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: out of our busy hectic lives to spend some time with ourselves.
00:03:01.190 --> 00:03:03.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: This is no small thing.
00:03:03.760 --> 00:03:05.399 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How can we know
00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:12.329 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: how we truly feel if we do not give ourselves a moment to sit and feel.
00:03:13.620 --> 00:03:20.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Indeed, one of the most important things for us to do is to know how we truly feel about something.
00:03:21.330 --> 00:03:25.759 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: about everything, even about our lives.
00:03:26.870 --> 00:03:34.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we live our life, just rushing from one thing to another, without giving ourselves space to feel
00:03:35.300 --> 00:03:38.479 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we can miss what is most important to us.
00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:44.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to feel the love we have, and sink into that connection.
00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or notice the pain we carry.
00:03:47.870 --> 00:03:51.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and how that pain affects us.
00:03:51.200 --> 00:03:52.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Throughout the day.
00:03:54.160 --> 00:04:01.699 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There is a wide range of feelings and emotions that are right under the surface, waiting to come out.
00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:09.339 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we need only to give it some space and time to bubble up from the unconscious.
00:04:10.170 --> 00:04:17.149 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yet we rush around from work to home, to friends, to family, to chores, to responsibilities.
00:04:17.269 --> 00:04:22.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: without taking a moment to just feel where we are at.
00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:31.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to notice the way we are carrying ourselves, both internally and externally
00:04:31.910 --> 00:04:37.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: taking a few precious moments to just sit and do. Nothing
00:04:37.620 --> 00:04:42.429 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: can be the most fruitful thing we do all day.
00:04:43.470 --> 00:04:48.239 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So in the midsts of all our doings in our busy days.
00:04:48.540 --> 00:04:51.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Perhaps we can strive to just be
00:04:52.220 --> 00:04:56.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for a few moments and see how it feels.
00:04:57.570 --> 00:05:00.559 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Do you take time in your life to just be.
00:05:01.110 --> 00:05:07.400 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what can you do to create some space and have a practice of just being still?
00:05:08.970 --> 00:05:09.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So.
00:05:10.110 --> 00:05:19.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this blog post is definitely the pot calling the kettle black. I wrote it probably more for myself than for anybody else.
00:05:19.540 --> 00:05:27.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because so often I do find myself rushing from one zoom, meeting to another from one task to another.
00:05:28.060 --> 00:05:34.979 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then, once all the doing is over, and I can just sit and be for a moment.
00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:39.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I just get remind. I just remind myself that like, Oh.
00:05:40.490 --> 00:05:43.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I really need to just take some time and sit
00:05:45.790 --> 00:05:53.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: my wife, who's a therapist, and she's really wonderful at being very present with people.
00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:57.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and we often have conversations around this.
00:05:59.710 --> 00:06:06.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And one of the things that in some ways it's kind of obvious. But it's easy to forget
00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:11.069 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is that in order to really be present.
00:06:11.320 --> 00:06:13.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we need to take a moment
00:06:15.150 --> 00:06:20.869 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to center ourselves, to be focused, to be with whoever we're going to be with.
00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:28.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so this this blog post was me kind of writing to myself.
00:06:28.420 --> 00:06:35.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: trying to remind myself that like, Hey, you know, sometimes just
00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:38.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: taking a few moments to just sit
00:06:39.010 --> 00:06:43.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and drop into what we're feeling in the moment.
00:06:45.100 --> 00:06:53.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Sometimes that can be the most productive thing we do all day long, and it may not look like we're doing anything.
00:06:54.330 --> 00:07:01.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But we actually are. And we're doing the thing that's actually the most important thing for us to do.
00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:28.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So. I don't know if that speaks to you or not, but hopefully you get something out of it again. The title of this blog post is being still. Instead of being busy, is far more productive. And of course you can always find my blog post at theconsciousconsultant.com or on talkradio dot nyc slash blog
00:07:29.460 --> 00:07:39.709 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: all right. Now. It is my extreme pleasure to welcome to the show Shamanic teacher, healer, and author, Linda Starwolf.
00:07:41.140 --> 00:07:42.020 Star Wolf: Hi, Sam.
00:07:43.150 --> 00:07:59.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Star Wolf has been a shamanic, visionary teacher and guide to thousands of people over the last 4 decades. She draws much of her wisdom from personal experience of using breath to fortify connection to one's own life force, energy.
00:07:59.980 --> 00:08:03.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The author of 13 books, including
00:08:03.550 --> 00:08:25.409 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: whoops, the Aquarian, Shaman Star Wolf, is the creator of Shamanic breathwork, the Shamanic Healing, initiatory process, the founder of Venus Rising Association for Transformation and founding President of Venus rising University for Shamanic psycho spiritual studies.
00:08:25.620 --> 00:08:46.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Star Wolf is also co-founder of the Shamanic mystery. Tours and guides spiritual seekers to sacred sites, worldwide, dedicating her life to assisting soul seekers to transform and embrace their lives. Star teaches how to embody the Shaman within and step into a life of passionate soul purpose.
00:08:46.820 --> 00:08:59.139 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Her commitment to sacred activism and visionary leadership led her to create the shamanic ministries, global network and train shamanic breathwork facilitators from around the world.
00:08:59.700 --> 00:09:02.259 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Welcome to the conscious consultant hour star.
00:09:02.810 --> 00:09:15.179 Star Wolf: Thank you, Sam. It's a pleasure to be here with you today. And I loved how you started off everything, because I've been running around this morning, too. So it was like, Oh, well, he's doing that. I can take a moment to drop in
00:09:15.180 --> 00:09:21.650 Star Wolf: good and slow my brain down and just open my heart and see what's really there. So thank you.
00:09:21.650 --> 00:09:32.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah. Somehow the the blog posts always seem to be so appropriate for whoever I have coming on for the show that that day.
00:09:33.740 --> 00:09:39.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So I always like to start off just with a little bit of background for our audience. So
00:09:40.110 --> 00:09:59.069 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: how does someone like yourself, who, by all appearances I don't want to assume, is not indigenous by heritage. Get involved in Shamanism, and get involved with all these very indigenous practices.
00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:11.210 Star Wolf: Well, that's a great question. And frequently I'm asked that question, and so I'd love to answer it. And you know indigenous means belonging to the earth.
00:10:12.610 --> 00:10:31.970 Star Wolf: And I grew up in Western Kentucky. You know I'm 72. I'll be 73 this year and back when I was a little girl. We went barefoot from the time school was out, you know. All summer long we took off our shoes, and we didn't put them back on until we went back to school.
00:10:32.530 --> 00:10:46.780 Star Wolf: and so, and I grew up on a farm with my grandparents. My parents lived a mile away, and they were young parents that worked so I had this wonderful time as an only child, and at the time an only grandchild for several years
00:10:47.630 --> 00:11:08.519 Star Wolf: of being with these wonderful people from the old country. Their parents had come from the old country in Europe, and I was able to absorb, I would say, the biomes, the nature spirits, the energies of the earth from the creatures we had all around us, the animals on the farm.
00:11:08.520 --> 00:11:27.849 Star Wolf: I had my own collection of rabbits and chickens, and all kinds of turtles and fish and hamsters, and birds that had broken wings and all kinds of things. So it was kind of like there used to be a book. Years ago I think it was called Heidi, or Something, where a little girl lived up on the mountain with her grandparents.
00:11:28.630 --> 00:11:54.000 Star Wolf: So for me. I feel as indigenous as anyone in that way, and that's not to discredit the indigenous peoples around the world. But it also means that as I got older that I became very interested in the different cultures, and started my travels and started seeking out different elders from different nations, different tribes.
00:11:54.000 --> 00:12:22.470 Star Wolf: And I found this warm, loving reception with these individuals that just got my soul, and who I was right off the bat, and was adopted by Seneca Wolf Clan, Grandmother Twyla Niche, who's passed when she was 94, some years ago, and she gave me my name Star Wolf, and taught me intimately, and charged me with the task of taking her medicine back out into the world.
00:12:22.780 --> 00:12:30.840 Star Wolf: So that's the abbreviated version of a long lifetime of connection to indigenous ways.
00:12:30.980 --> 00:12:48.700 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So this was something that started relatively young for you, and really has been a part of your life for so long. I'm curious when you started spending time with various tribes and different indigenous teachers.
00:12:49.121 --> 00:13:05.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Did. Did. Were you having challenges with your family like? Were they like, you know, Linda, what are you doing? Start! What are you doing? I mean, did people think you had lost it? Or were they relatively accepting of what you were investigating.
00:13:05.230 --> 00:13:15.350 Star Wolf: Well, there were a few camps, so to speak. My mother's like Linda. How'd you get into all this? I'm like, well, mama, you're mama.
00:13:16.060 --> 00:13:26.949 Star Wolf: you know it skips a generation, you know, because my mother wanted to be modern. She wanted to have air conditioning and a dishwasher, and things that people before her generation didn't have okay, so
00:13:26.950 --> 00:13:31.829 Star Wolf: and a different world. Meanwhile, as soon as I could get outside, my shoes came off, you know
00:13:32.390 --> 00:13:48.640 Star Wolf: I could get outside. That was where I wanted to be. Mom wanted to be in the air conditioning. So my mom's 94 now, and I'm her caretaker now, and you know it's a whole different journey with me, but it's I. Just remember the
00:13:49.020 --> 00:13:53.520 Star Wolf: you know. I was back when I was a little kid. I was called a Tom. They called them tomboys.
00:13:53.520 --> 00:13:54.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right.
00:13:54.150 --> 00:14:01.120 Star Wolf: Right, because I like to do what the boys did instead of what the girls did. I like to be in the creek and with the tadpoles and in the trees, and in.
00:14:01.610 --> 00:14:04.350 Star Wolf: you know those and that sort of thing. So
00:14:04.500 --> 00:14:23.230 Star Wolf: there's that world, and you know of just the family kind of wondering, like, you know, telling me to be a lady, or to act a certain way. But my grandmother, who was more indigenous, saying, Let's go down to the chicken yard. My mother didn't like for me to go in the chicken yard with bare feet, for obvious reasons.
00:14:23.230 --> 00:14:23.690 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:14:23.690 --> 00:14:27.009 Star Wolf: My grandmother would say. It's good for her. It's good for her.
00:14:27.010 --> 00:14:27.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Hey!
00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:29.510 Star Wolf: What I know now is biomes.
00:14:29.510 --> 00:14:30.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:14:30.450 --> 00:14:36.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but my grandma just say it's good for her, you know. So there was now, as I got older.
00:14:37.358 --> 00:14:47.880 Star Wolf: And you know I was a hippie during the seventies still am just call it different now. Hippies transformed into shamans is what happened.
00:14:47.880 --> 00:14:48.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, I.
00:14:48.630 --> 00:15:00.890 Star Wolf: You know what I'm saying. And so I went to the University of Kentucky, become a licensed, clinical social worker. Later on I became an addiction specialist, and I started working in that arena.
00:15:01.090 --> 00:15:29.159 Star Wolf: But then I was also, you know, you can't really take the little country Earth girl and the hippie out of anybody, so you just morph it and disguise it, and put on pantyhose and those sort of things so, but eventually pantyhose become too tight, and you throw them off again. And you say, Okay, I can't really work in the constraints, even though there's good work going on in the addiction centers and hospitals and things.
00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:31.620 Star Wolf: I could feel that it was too
00:15:31.810 --> 00:15:54.480 Star Wolf: constrained, and that we were only doing a portion. We were doing good stuff, but only a portion of what we could do for individuals, and I also was no stranger to my own addictions and issues and things, and have worked through a lot of those things still am, all those years later, you know. But you know some things I've put to rest and some things I'm like. Oh, my goodness, this needs to work, you know.
00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:55.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:15:55.370 --> 00:16:07.279 Star Wolf: But just to kind of bring it up to date is that at some point there was just this different awakening, and it really came when I 1st started doing breath work
00:16:08.220 --> 00:16:11.229 Star Wolf: in the late seventies, early eighties and
00:16:11.750 --> 00:16:22.630 Star Wolf: I had big inner changes, and it was like I opened up another part of my mind of my consciousness, like I had earlier on when I was doing psychedelics and things, except this.
00:16:22.630 --> 00:16:23.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Was with the.
00:16:23.260 --> 00:16:23.920 Star Wolf: Breath.
00:16:24.050 --> 00:16:53.579 Star Wolf: and everything just started coming together. My childhood, the you know, my studies in school, my experiences, and finding indigenous peoples, or them finding me, and it all just became one journey. Finally it just merged for me. It wasn't, you know. It wasn't different hats. It was just one hat, and it was I called it Shamanic psycho. Spiritual consciousness.
00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:54.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Hmm.
00:16:54.340 --> 00:17:02.759 Star Wolf: So it involved all those things. So people around me. Some people thought it was cool and great, and other people thought I was an agent of the devil
00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:04.810 Star Wolf: literally what they said.
00:17:06.349 --> 00:17:09.179 Star Wolf: She's an agent of the devil, you know.
00:17:09.180 --> 00:17:09.589 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:17:09.845 --> 00:17:12.059 Star Wolf: And I'm like, no, he doesn't pay enough so.
00:17:12.060 --> 00:17:23.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wonderful wonderful. All right, thank you, sir. Let's we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back let's talk about
00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:31.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what it means to be a shaman. And and what does that, you know, mean for people? Because I think we all kind of
00:17:31.930 --> 00:17:45.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: assume we know what the term means, because it's so commonly used these days, but but not necessarily so just a reminder. We're talking to Linda Starwolf, author of the book, the aquarian shaman. We're going to talk about
00:17:45.580 --> 00:18:02.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the book for sure, and we will be right back in just a moment. This is the conscious, consultant hour awakening humanity. We do this every Thursday 12 noon to one Pm. Eastern time, right here in Talkradio, dot Nyc. And all over social media, and we'll be right back in a moment.
00:19:48.210 --> 00:20:04.339 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And welcome back to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. We're speaking this hour with Linda Star Wolf, author of the book, The Aquarian, Shaman and Shamanic breathwork teacher and healer. And
00:20:05.870 --> 00:20:20.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know you mentioned before about psychedelics and a lot of people these days when they hear people talking about shamans. They immediately think of plant medicine work serving ayahuasca, doing all that kind of stuff. But
00:20:20.430 --> 00:20:32.859 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: being a shaman is actually much more than us than just that that's 1 particular thing. So so, Star, what is being a shaman mean to you?
00:20:33.530 --> 00:20:36.779 Star Wolf: Yeah, you know.
00:20:37.310 --> 00:21:04.219 Star Wolf: there's a couple of answers to that. For one thing, you know, in indigenous tribes around the world people are born into certain. I guess you could say ethnic and tribal traditions, and frequently someone will rise up within that tribe as a leader. Sometimes it's the son or daughter of the tribal leader or Shaman. That sort of thing, and they learn in those ways, or someone's called to it
00:21:04.220 --> 00:21:08.780 Star Wolf: frequently, whether it's in a traditional tribe.
00:21:08.780 --> 00:21:14.050 Star Wolf: or whether it's in what I will call the aquarian shaman. I'll speak more about that in a moment.
00:21:14.570 --> 00:21:18.039 Star Wolf: There is something that happens in someone's life.
00:21:19.220 --> 00:21:40.450 Star Wolf: and sometimes it's a near-death experience, or where they're resuscitated and they come back. I've had 2 death near death experiences where I died for a moment when I was struck by lightning and one when I was younger and adolescent with drugs. And that's when I came into a different awareness around that.
00:21:40.941 --> 00:21:48.449 Star Wolf: So it was a rock festival, you know. Go figure, but anyway, but I had to. I've had 2 near death experiences.
00:21:48.450 --> 00:21:49.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wow!
00:21:49.080 --> 00:22:01.550 Star Wolf: So a lot of people think of that as because there's been a lot of writing about that, as that's a prerequisite, it is not a prerequisite to die. You don't have to die to be a Shaman.
00:22:01.780 --> 00:22:06.160 Star Wolf: The Shaman energy itself does have to do with of the earth.
00:22:06.270 --> 00:22:15.299 Star Wolf: and it does have to do with the elemental world of water, earth, fire, and air. So it has to do with the environment it has to do with life
00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:37.269 Star Wolf: and birth and death and rebirth. So those who are particularly interested in the cycles of change, and how things transform on this planet, including consciousness, have always been the medicine people, the shamans, the witches, whatever you want to say, you know the healers
00:22:37.320 --> 00:23:02.550 Star Wolf: before it became so clinical, and I'm not against clinical medicine at all. I'm just saying that before it became that it was something else, and it was treated more holistically. If you had an illness or an injury, they might say the shaman might say, Tell me about your mother, you know, out of the blue, or you know what was your dreams, or.
00:23:02.550 --> 00:23:02.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And.
00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:06.710 Star Wolf: You know. What are you learning from this illness?
00:23:06.850 --> 00:23:10.409 Star Wolf: Frequently an illness would go away as soon as you knew the meaning of it.
00:23:11.140 --> 00:23:35.329 Star Wolf: So there was a whole way of looking at health and wholeness and connection to the earth, and to your tribe, and all those kinds of things that was very different than maybe what you would get from most medical people today. Again, I don't mean to be critical. I have many wonderful friends, actually, who are in the medical, especially the American Board of Holistic Health.
00:23:35.330 --> 00:23:35.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Hmm.
00:23:35.850 --> 00:23:55.400 Star Wolf: Things like that, who are very universal in the way they treat medicines and people and those kind of things. So I'm not anti, but I do think that we've lost something, and that I think that's why people are returning to those medicines. One other thing Sam, is to mention is that
00:23:55.630 --> 00:24:24.430 Star Wolf: I don't do any psychedelics of any kind except the breathing and some cacao. Occasionally those kinds of things I'm kind of like over it. I'm like, I'm so altered already. I don't need anything else, but I know that. You know I have different friends and people who are very dedicated to working with certain plant medicines and things like that. But the work that I specifically do, and that I train people to do is using what you have your breath
00:24:24.600 --> 00:24:41.320 Star Wolf: and your own consciousness. And yeah, and there's different components to the work we do. But the main thing is the sacred breath, and being in ceremony with that and doing breathing exercises in order to activate the chemicals in your body that create the altered states.
00:24:41.710 --> 00:24:47.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right right? And and you mentioned ceremony being in ceremony.
00:24:48.110 --> 00:24:52.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and one of the things that actually is is
00:24:52.790 --> 00:25:01.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: something that in modern times we've in a way kind of lost sight of is the power of ritual and ceremony.
00:25:02.468 --> 00:25:04.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so I'm wondering.
00:25:04.780 --> 00:25:11.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: how do you use ceremony to support the work that you do in helping people to heal.
00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:18.619 Star Wolf: Well for me whether I do a private session for someone or like we just finished a two-week intensive
00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:43.530 Star Wolf: 4 HA night for 2 weeks for people from around the world, intensive shamanic healing initiated process to go through for 14 days. So they were on with us every day for 4 h. It was actually from 7 to 11 at night that container was held as a 14 day ceremony. So we say you are entering into this ceremony. We ask that you do not use any mind altering substances during this time.
00:25:43.530 --> 00:26:03.789 Star Wolf: You know, we have a whole thing that we people sign off on that they're going to be with us. They're going to be exploring deeply. And this is whether we do this in person. Most of our events are 2 week long, intensives in different places, either in person here at our retreat center in North Carolina or online, or like we were in Costa Rica last year. Egypt last year.
00:26:04.310 --> 00:26:05.960 Star Wolf: Anyway, you get the gist. So.
00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:06.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:26:06.390 --> 00:26:17.640 Star Wolf: We're interested in people who want to sincerely heal and change their lives and or become consciousness. Teachers themselves and leaders of this work.
00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:18.220 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And.
00:26:18.550 --> 00:26:33.030 Star Wolf: So. And there's several levels one has to go through in order to kind of be at a full level to be able to do that. But we're really not interested in working with people who aren't interested in doing their own healing. I have an assumption that everybody's a little bit screwed up.
00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:54.219 Star Wolf: I'm just going on my own, I just, you know, and that's meant in a good way that you know you're you're a product of your family which I love them. But still family of origin issues. People come in and I say, one of the 1st things we're going to do is some family of origin work, and they'll go. That's not shamanic I'm like, are you kidding me?
00:26:55.470 --> 00:27:06.469 Star Wolf: That's the most shamanic thing I know of is our family of origin, no matter how we love them, or estranged or not, or whatever my mother could train anybody to be a shaman
00:27:08.070 --> 00:27:10.219 Star Wolf: still at it, too, at 94, so.
00:27:10.220 --> 00:27:11.159 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Oh! God bless!
00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:40.389 Star Wolf: And then we also say that from the family of origin work comes, and and your family of origin also means your schools, your churches, your synagogues, your whole upbringing that that creates your shadow. And I'm very much into Union psychology have been for a very long time, and we teach about the shadow, and that everybody has a shadow, and that we how to pull our projections back and own what we can change, which is ourselves.
00:27:40.480 --> 00:28:07.349 Star Wolf: And so there's a lot more to it. But so there's a strong psychological part that comes into the medicine, and our medicine is using the breath and going into altered states, and then doing mandala work and deep artwork and deep, deep process, and sharing to integrate all that together. So it's very comprehensive. It's not just like, Come here, lie down, get high, gather this experience, and then, bye.
00:28:07.560 --> 00:28:08.130 Star Wolf: that's not.
00:28:08.130 --> 00:28:08.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And.
00:28:08.580 --> 00:28:09.770 Star Wolf: The work we do.
00:28:09.980 --> 00:28:23.238 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right? Right? Exactly. Exactly. I mean 4 HA day for 2 weeks straight. That that's an intense commitment. And that's definitely an intense experience beautiful. Okay,
00:28:24.220 --> 00:28:27.309 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we need to take another break when we come back.
00:28:27.470 --> 00:28:41.439 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Let's talk about your book, the Aquarian Shaman, and especially I want to get into the title, and and why you wrote the book. Who is it for? And and what the book is all about. Okay, Star.
00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:42.830 Star Wolf: Sure sounds great.
00:28:42.830 --> 00:28:53.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wonderful. So everyone, please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. We're talking this hour with Linda Starwolf, author of the book, the aquarian shaman.
00:28:54.460 --> 00:28:57.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We'll be right back to talk all about it in just a moment.
00:30:32.950 --> 00:30:39.000 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And welcome back to the conscious consultant hour. So, Linda, you have a slightly
00:30:39.320 --> 00:31:05.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: different approach, I guess, to Shamanism than some other people, and and even your book, the title, The Aquarian Shaman. Even. That's something that's kind of different. I don't think I've ever heard of anybody putting those 2 terms together. I know you've written many, many books, so I'm just curious. What was the inspiration for writing this book? And who did you really write it for?
00:31:07.070 --> 00:31:20.929 Star Wolf: Listen. It's interesting because I've been trying to write this book for probably 15 years. And like, I said, you know, growing up in the sixties and seventies. This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
00:31:21.130 --> 00:31:22.960 Star Wolf: and not quite yet, you know.
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:23.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yes.
00:31:23.340 --> 00:31:32.880 Star Wolf: But that was planted in my little hippie soul all those years ago, and what that meant. And you know
00:31:33.090 --> 00:31:58.320 Star Wolf: I really well, I have my Mars, my Venus, and you know my mid heaven, everything all in Aquarius, anyway, you know I'm a good Sagittarian sunshine, but everything else is so. I got a lot of fire, but everything else about me is aquarian, and that and what I mean about that is, I've you know I claim it. I have been a visionary my whole life.
00:31:58.560 --> 00:32:16.780 Star Wolf: I've always seen things sometimes a little bit earlier, perhaps, than a lot of people. I used to kind of freak out my parents and things around those kind of things. I'd have dreams tell them they become true. So there was kind of a the family kind of like, you know Linda's weird. Linda's strange, or you know.
00:32:16.780 --> 00:32:17.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Okay.
00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:20.119 Star Wolf: As my cousin used to say. She ain't right.
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:45.159 Star Wolf: you know. I just so. There was that part of me. I'm laughing about it now, as a child, I frequently as an only child, and with that kind of projection felt different. I guess a lot of people feel that way, but I felt different. Strange. Maybe something was wrong with me, you know, in my own healing and transformation over the years coming out of my own addictions, various things. I just began to love and accept myself the way I am.
00:32:45.320 --> 00:32:53.380 Star Wolf: and how I began to really identify this is, I had a mystical cousin who actually had been friends.
00:32:53.570 --> 00:33:06.629 Star Wolf: other mystics and teachers, and she had said to me, You know this is who you are. And she was my mother's age, but she was my mother's 1st cousin, but she really saw me, and she herself was a town psychic.
00:33:07.050 --> 00:33:16.849 Star Wolf: and drove reader in the little town that was hush! Hush, you know. So she kind of spurred me on, much to my mother's like, no.
00:33:16.850 --> 00:33:17.440 Star Wolf: yeah, sure.
00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:29.770 Star Wolf: Good old Margaret, Jean. But it was her that where I felt normal between my grandmother and Margaret. Jean and Margaret. Jean had known Edgar Casey.
00:33:29.770 --> 00:33:30.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Oh!
00:33:30.620 --> 00:33:33.709 Star Wolf: Lived 30 min from where we lived. Those kinds of things.
00:33:33.710 --> 00:33:34.409 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Oh! Geez.
00:33:34.410 --> 00:33:38.119 Star Wolf: So there was this, you know, I feel like I was.
00:33:38.230 --> 00:33:55.669 Star Wolf: You know, that the Creator strategically placed me in this place where I could go through these obstacles. But have these kind of down home mystical people that were in the I guess you would say in the you know, right there in the eaves, waiting for me.
00:33:55.670 --> 00:33:56.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, yeah.
00:33:56.486 --> 00:33:57.910 Star Wolf: As I grew up
00:33:58.460 --> 00:34:15.950 Star Wolf: and became more aware of mysticism and Shamanism in my studies, I loved it and just dove into it, and I began to find these indigenous elders. Oddly enough, this little blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl from Western Kentucky. It was as if they recognized me.
00:34:16.110 --> 00:34:16.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Hmm.
00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:44.829 Star Wolf: Know, and immediately took me under their wing. Sometimes I'd be the only non-native person in a lodge or in a ceremony of some kind. And so there was something that just happened, Sam, that you can't really choreograph or make happen. And I think, you know, Grandmother Twilight said to me, she could feel my heart, she could feel my indigenous heart, and she's the one who said to me when I said, You know I'm not native, and she said, yes, you are. You're native to the earth, we all are.
00:34:44.889 --> 00:34:46.909 Star Wolf: We all belong to the earth.
00:34:47.059 --> 00:35:06.879 Star Wolf: and we all have different. We just come from different tribes. Your people came from Europe. We all have tribes, and we're all native, and it's when people forget their indigenous roots. Forget that they belong to not only the heavens, but to the earth, that they lose their souls. And so for me, as I was going on along.
00:35:07.478 --> 00:35:12.629 Star Wolf: A part of me began to heal myself and transform myself.
00:35:12.799 --> 00:35:30.449 Star Wolf: And I felt, okay, Shaman, I understand Shaman, death and rebirth. Those usually have had either a near-death experience, or at least a psychic death experience. I definitely fit into that. But what does that mean, you know, and what I really came to understand. It was someone who
00:35:30.569 --> 00:35:50.769 Star Wolf: understood death and rebirth and the cycles of change in the elemental world, and who was dedicated to the beauty of this world as well as the heaven worlds, and to being a good person, and to walk upon the earth in a good way to carry, find out what your medicine is, whatever it is, and carry that in a good way. And
00:35:50.859 --> 00:36:01.629 Star Wolf: as I began to dive more into Shamanism, I also started feeling this energy around the aquarian energy. What does it mean the age of enlightenment?
00:36:01.809 --> 00:36:29.479 Star Wolf: And gradually it all came together in my consciousness that the new era of Shamans were not necessarily the remote tribes like that I've been with in Peru or other places, but that they could only do so much for us. They could tell us they could leave the messages they could tell people who come to their countries. But there's 8 billion of us going on 9 billion of us. How can we reach everyone at some level.
00:36:29.769 --> 00:36:35.439 Star Wolf: And then it was just. It was more like a download. I guess you could say that we're we're
00:36:35.879 --> 00:36:37.229 Star Wolf: physically
00:36:37.299 --> 00:36:53.529 Star Wolf: moving into what's called the aquarian age. Astrologically, that's a reality, that the aquarian vibe. And at a time when Shamanism is rising around the world, and where people, young people are going all around the world
00:36:53.529 --> 00:37:08.369 Star Wolf: to study shamans. Okay, and to go and breathe and to do different medicines and that sort of thing. So it's kind of like the rock festivals during the sixties and seventies. It rose up at another octave. But instead of you know, drug sex and rock and roll, it's
00:37:08.409 --> 00:37:12.609 Star Wolf: sex and and plant medicine and rock and roll.
00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:13.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right.
00:37:13.390 --> 00:37:22.760 Star Wolf: But hopefully in another octave, where people are a little bit more conscious. And so for me, the aquarian Shaman is for those of us
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:32.359 Star Wolf: who are doing like you, that conscious heart now, or who are awakening to our own Dharma, who are awakening to a bigger purpose.
00:37:32.410 --> 00:37:48.950 Star Wolf: and who care about this earth. We believe in the maybe the aliens will come and save us. Who knows all of that? It's not that we discount other dimensions and realities. But, as Grandmother Twas said, you have plenty of time for that later. You're here on Earth for a reason.
00:37:48.950 --> 00:38:12.029 Star Wolf: And so to me, the bringing this aquarian values of love, peace, harmony, and understanding, and the hard work that it takes to create, that in our personal lives, and then bring that out into the world in some meaningful way to me. That's what the aquarium path is, and that means you have to work with the real world of earth, water, fire and air, people, animals, consciousness.
00:38:12.250 --> 00:38:25.389 Star Wolf: and I have found many people who are willing to walk the spiral path of transformation to heal themselves and help others heal themselves, and I think that's the only way that we really are going to change is to know thyself.
00:38:25.610 --> 00:38:46.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, yeah, it's so interesting what you're saying. Because just yesterday I was having a conversation with a group of friends around sort of people who tend to spiritually bypass, who are like, Oh, I'm a starseed. I don't feel any anger or hate. I'm above all this, and it's like, really, you know, and be curious about that. And yeah, maybe. But
00:38:46.490 --> 00:38:55.980 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, are they really being present to what's happening in their life? And it sounds like what you're saying, like the aquarian Shaman is sort of
00:38:56.130 --> 00:39:04.019 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: like the bridge between the the ancient worlds and the future worlds.
00:39:04.420 --> 00:39:18.040 Star Wolf: Absolutely, and I don't mean to be negative. But if I feel at some level, if we're not a bit outraged, we're in spiritual bypass, and that something's wrong, you know. 1st of all, Creator gave us these emotions, all of them.
00:39:18.690 --> 00:39:19.160 Star Wolf: Okay.
00:39:19.580 --> 00:39:33.460 Star Wolf: that there's, you know. Didn't he go oops or she didn't go? Oops? I've made a mistake. The whole range of emotions that we have is emotional intelligence. It tells us something's great, something's going well, something's wrong.
00:39:33.460 --> 00:39:33.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right.
00:39:33.910 --> 00:39:51.450 Star Wolf: You know those kinds of things, and then we have to discern what that is, and you know, see what it is that we personally can change or work together to change or to accept that we can't. You know there's so much going on in the world right now. I'm not going to go into all of it right now. We'd be here for 10 h.
00:39:51.450 --> 00:39:51.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:39:51.880 --> 00:40:03.059 Star Wolf: But there's so much that's going on in the world, and especially here in the UN. United States, you know, that's going on. And if these aren't shamanic times, I don't know what are.
00:40:03.060 --> 00:40:03.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:40:03.650 --> 00:40:08.800 Star Wolf: Know what shamanic times I mean. This is about a shaman, I mean. I thought the sixties was shamanic.
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:09.349 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Oh, yeah.
00:40:09.350 --> 00:40:15.219 Star Wolf: That feels like a walk in the park at this moment. And so I'm just like Whoa.
00:40:15.350 --> 00:40:38.060 Star Wolf: So okay, you know. So what does it mean to be an aquarian Shaman during these incredibly transformational times? What does it mean? So this is where everybody has the opportunity to say, well, I by myself can just change a few things about myself and maybe my immediate environment. Or maybe I could make some sort of discovery. Scientific discovery.
00:40:38.060 --> 00:40:45.920 Star Wolf: But most of us are just saying, Is there anything I truly can do? And I would say, be a really good human being to the best of our ability.
00:40:46.540 --> 00:40:58.720 Star Wolf: and that's not about spiritual bypass. But it's also about not denying the negativity. The destructive forces that are going on. And
00:40:59.380 --> 00:41:10.450 Star Wolf: perhaps these destructive forces quote were always going to happen at some level to awaken a new level of consciousness. So I do believe in bigger pictures and bigger stories.
00:41:10.450 --> 00:41:14.689 Star Wolf: Yeah, but that what's the outcome. After a lot of hard work.
00:41:14.690 --> 00:41:15.270 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right.
00:41:15.270 --> 00:41:22.280 Star Wolf: Dedicated work of consciousness. So yes, that may be the projected outcome, and the reason for this time.
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:48.139 Star Wolf: But that doesn't give us a get out of jail free card. In fact, it calls us to be even more aware, more conscious, and more dedicated to being who it is we really are to me. That's who an aquarian Shaman really is. In my book. I talk about people from all walks of life that I've worked with. I've been working Sam with people for a very long time. Many of these people are doing wonderful things in the world.
00:41:48.250 --> 00:41:54.519 Star Wolf: and some never light a piece of smudge in their life. You know it's not about that.
00:41:54.670 --> 00:42:12.160 Star Wolf: It's about being that healer and teacher learning from your own journey, and then feeling a deep calling, such as you have a deep calling to do what you're doing to bring consciousness to the planet and to make a difference if we can.
00:42:12.160 --> 00:42:16.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly, really, about
00:42:17.250 --> 00:42:23.290 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: finding our own inner gifts that we can share with people. I remember someone once said.
00:42:24.790 --> 00:42:31.869 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: our purpose in life is to discover our true gifts, and our mission in life is to share them with others.
00:42:31.870 --> 00:42:33.820 Star Wolf: Yes, beautiful.
00:42:33.820 --> 00:42:45.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm wondering you've been at this for so long. I mean, you've been doing breathwork in the seventies and eighties long before most people even heard of breathwork, they would be like, what breathing! Of course everyone breathes. I'm breathing.
00:42:47.240 --> 00:42:50.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm wondering. After all these years.
00:42:51.330 --> 00:43:00.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are there still challenges you face, or are there still? Things that are difficult for you or like? Is is everything
00:43:00.310 --> 00:43:01.290 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: just?
00:43:01.670 --> 00:43:08.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know you? You can be just just neutral and compassionate to everything that goes on.
00:43:08.730 --> 00:43:10.420 Star Wolf: I wish.
00:43:10.420 --> 00:43:15.019 Star Wolf: Yeah, I have a great sense of humor. Okay? And a great.
00:43:15.020 --> 00:43:15.400 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:38.870 Star Wolf: Awareness. I lived with a man for 7 years. We were beloved for 7 years, who wrote the book called The Shadow Jeremiah Abrams, and it's a beautiful, you know, Jungin collection of books, and that really helped me come out of my I guess you could say spiritual bypass because I was very peace, loving Woodstock, you know, and as I
00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:55.229 Star Wolf: continue to do my own inner work and dive into union work and shadow work and go deeper into the breath work into the parts of my childhood. That I really hadn't, you know, looked at things like that. Just doing the inner work is what I call it.
00:43:55.470 --> 00:44:04.120 Star Wolf: and really doing it. Not that it's your you know. Your past is always your past, and it's still informing you whether you want it to or not.
00:44:04.120 --> 00:44:04.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: -
00:44:04.560 --> 00:44:10.439 Star Wolf: But it doesn't have to take charge of your life. You can go. Oh, that's that pattern that comes.
00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:10.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: From.
00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:16.249 Star Wolf: Time to time, but I find that for myself. You know
00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:40.190 Star Wolf: that I feel like I'm this soul, if you will, that's sitting here, and that swirling around me is everything that I've ever been, every lifetime, every age of this time. And then I'm floating around in a large sphere of consciousness. And then I'm connected to the consciousness of others that I'm close with. And then I'm connected to the consciousness of animals and to
00:44:40.190 --> 00:44:48.589 Star Wolf: nature and to the stars and to past lives, and you know, maybe I did too much acid during the sixties. I don't know.
00:44:48.890 --> 00:44:54.189 Star Wolf: I can feel all of it as if I'm you know the cartoon character, Pigpin.
00:44:54.190 --> 00:44:54.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:44:54.650 --> 00:44:57.470 Star Wolf: And Charlie Brown and everything swirling around him, and.
00:44:57.470 --> 00:44:58.123 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know.
00:44:58.450 --> 00:45:06.019 Star Wolf: That's how I feel a lot, and you know that it's all swirling around. But I've done so much
00:45:06.590 --> 00:45:12.039 Star Wolf: consciousness work around it. It fills. Hold for me all these.
00:45:12.040 --> 00:45:12.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Okay.
00:45:12.500 --> 00:45:35.360 Star Wolf: If you will. Parts just feels like different aspects of me. And there's some central part of me that's in the center of that that I would call my aquarian Shaman that loves and accepts me, that sees who I am, that pats me on the back and tells me I'm doing a pretty good job, and reminds me some other things I could still be working on, and to look out in the world, and to say.
00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:39.079 Star Wolf: These are shamanic times.
00:45:39.380 --> 00:45:51.919 Star Wolf: you know, and I don't want to make it too dear, because there's always been shamanic times on this planet. It's always been a planet of birth, death, and rebirth. But this was specifically written in the stars.
00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:52.479 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Hmm, yeah.
00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:56.809 Star Wolf: We would have a time of tremendous chaos. During this time.
00:45:56.810 --> 00:45:57.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:45:57.680 --> 00:46:12.979 Star Wolf: And that as above, so below that as things were moving in the cosmos, it would shake things up here, and as it shook things up here. It's literally shaking. It's like shaking a rug out getting the stuff out of the you know, to shake it out.
00:46:12.980 --> 00:46:14.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right shake, shaking all the dirt out.
00:46:14.930 --> 00:46:18.209 Star Wolf: To see if we can. Honestly.
00:46:19.230 --> 00:46:22.610 Star Wolf: I want to say, be a successful experiment on this planet.
00:46:22.610 --> 00:46:23.270 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Okay.
00:46:23.270 --> 00:46:38.209 Star Wolf: If we can successfully awaken those unconscious parts of ourself that's connected to the consciousness of the shaman of the aquarian shaman for the aquarian age. We know what the shamans of the past look like.
00:46:38.350 --> 00:46:38.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right.
00:46:38.750 --> 00:46:46.270 Star Wolf: What do the what do the shamans of the present and the future look like? And my words would be tag. You're it.
00:46:46.270 --> 00:46:47.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yes.
00:46:47.470 --> 00:46:56.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: beautiful, beautiful Linda. Thank you. Star. Okay, we're going to take our last break of the show when we come back.
00:46:57.310 --> 00:46:59.079 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I want to talk about?
00:47:01.170 --> 00:47:12.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: where do you see things going? What does the future look like to you? And and who do you see coming to you today? That's maybe different than who came to you in the past.
00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:13.090 Star Wolf: Hmm.
00:47:13.470 --> 00:47:26.739 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So everyone, please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. We've been speaking this hour with Linda Starwolf, author of the book, the aquarian shaman, and we'll be right back to wrap it all up in just a moment.
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:08.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So, Star Wolf.
00:49:08.640 --> 00:49:29.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm always curious to hear people's perspective about sort of the change over the last number of years of who's showing up and and like, who is drawn to you today to learn about the path of the aquarian shaman compared to the past? Like, how are they different? What are people looking for today.
00:49:30.700 --> 00:49:37.329 Star Wolf: Well, it's still really interesting, Sam, that you're saying that because when I started teaching this work
00:49:37.560 --> 00:49:52.590 Star Wolf: 30 plus years ago, really, I keep thinking, was it really that long? Was it really closer to 40? You know, it's like, okay, anyway, who's counting? But early on
00:49:53.160 --> 00:49:59.589 Star Wolf: quite a few of the people that were interested. I had a couple of different groups. I had disgruntled women in Kentucky.
00:50:00.390 --> 00:50:11.700 Star Wolf: so I had a lot of women that I was working with at that time. And and it was actually women that were considered kind of in our little town kind of higher class, like the doctor's wives and things like that. That kind of thing, you know, and stuff.
00:50:11.700 --> 00:50:12.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Often.
00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:33.079 Star Wolf: Those kind of things, and as time has gone by, I've had a lot of actually medical doctors and people in the helping professions is what I would say have been very, very drawn to the work. And so a lot of times I was thinking about one of the earliest trainings. I did. Almost everybody in that group
00:50:33.080 --> 00:50:42.780 Star Wolf: was members of the American Board of Holistic Medicine chiropractors, psychiatrists.
00:50:42.780 --> 00:51:02.479 Star Wolf: One guy was a colonel, and from Vietnam war, you know those kinds of things. So that was kind of that kind of crew right now, for instance, I'll give you like the last instead of the online one. We just did. I'll say the one we did in in
00:51:03.210 --> 00:51:17.160 Star Wolf: last winter. Oh, in Costa Rica in December. We had like 30 people for 2 weeks, and the goddess garden there, going through the training and healing, you have to go through the healing in order to be in our training. So it's healing and training.
00:51:18.170 --> 00:51:25.600 Star Wolf: and I would say the we had people ranging in age from 20 to 65,
00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:36.379 Star Wolf: I would say the biggest majority of people were in their thirties to early forties.
00:51:36.380 --> 00:51:36.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Okay.
00:51:38.010 --> 00:51:44.369 Star Wolf: Almost everyone had done some other kinds of breath work, plant medicines.
00:51:44.550 --> 00:52:01.670 Star Wolf: Yoga teacher trainings, you know, festivals almost the way we used to go to rock festivals and concerts and things and stuff. So it's kind of become not just something, you know. It's become kind of a pastime almost.
00:52:02.060 --> 00:52:19.399 Star Wolf: That consciousness has become really popular, and healing and transformation has become really popular, which is a great thing. But it's a different clientele. Some of these people don't have any quote credentials
00:52:19.420 --> 00:52:32.199 Star Wolf: that would necessarily say that they could be a healer, or you know this or that sort of thing, or a counselor, and then we have some professionals there who are wanting to add this to their profession. So it's a mixed bag.
00:52:32.400 --> 00:52:32.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Hmm.
00:52:32.720 --> 00:52:54.790 Star Wolf: And we have a lot of people quite frankly, who come mainly for the healing, and then they get hooked and say, I want to share this with others, and so they come back and come through it again. To then go into, because we have different levels of training that you can go through to become a Shamanic minister, to become a shamanic breathwork facilitator, become a Shamanic teacher. Shamanic psycho spiritual teacher. So
00:52:54.790 --> 00:53:04.159 Star Wolf: people are looking for a lot of different things, I would say. The biggest thing, though, is really wonderful is, people are looking for their own personal healing and transformation.
00:53:04.300 --> 00:53:30.889 Star Wolf: and they also know that they really want to do something to help other people, too, and that they probably should be looking at how to clear up some of their own stuff before they really dive into holding space. And that's exactly what we want them to learn. So the second go around when they go through the second, 2 week long they move into a different level of being able to start doing more of that. And they're still doing healing inner work.
00:53:30.890 --> 00:53:57.570 Star Wolf: But they're moving more towards now how they're going to deliver these services to other people. We have several different levels that people can go through, and we are an accredited Shamanic Breathwork school with the breathwork accreditation. So people can go through certain levels and become accredited themselves. And we also authorize people after a certain level to kind of go on their own and do their own trainings.
00:53:57.750 --> 00:54:02.059 Star Wolf: So we're trying to spread the work as much as we can around the world.
00:54:02.340 --> 00:54:08.319 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! We don't have a lot of time left. I'm just curious with
00:54:08.690 --> 00:54:12.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: all the things that you've been through
00:54:12.860 --> 00:54:15.959 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and what you see going on today.
00:54:16.350 --> 00:54:40.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what piece of advice would you have for our audience for facing these chaotic times with people concerned about everything, from artificial intelligence to what's going on on the world stage to what's going on in the American government to what's going on locally, and the polarization and division? I mean, what have you learned
00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:47.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: through all of this work that supports you? The most right now that you feel would help our audience.
00:54:48.180 --> 00:54:50.920 Star Wolf: 1st of all, I would say, please don't lose your heart.
00:54:51.030 --> 00:55:07.950 Star Wolf: you know. Don't close your heart, and even though you may have family members and different people and things going in different directions, and where you're going, and you're thinking, how can they possibly, whatever keep breathing, keep centering yourself and seriously. Keep coming back to yourself.
00:55:08.020 --> 00:55:25.260 Star Wolf: and don't villainize people that you love or care for, who think and feel differently than you, even though you like to shake them, or do whatever they might want to do the same to you, but still try to remain kind. And I'm not saying codependent, I'm saying, try to remain kind.
00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:50.980 Star Wolf: because your unkindness will only drive people the other direction, you know, have other people that you're really close with that totally agree with you that you can just go like you know, and let it out with each other and say, How can they think this way? Well, you know, how can this be happening. Let you know. Don't pretend that you're not angry. Frustrated disappointment. Scared, wondering. Wtf, I mean, don't deny that
00:55:50.980 --> 00:56:03.130 Star Wolf: to yourself. Make sure you have some good buddies that are good shadow partners that can really get your energy out. Do some shamanic breath work, do whatever it is you need to do. Do your prayers, do your walk.
00:56:03.240 --> 00:56:10.019 Star Wolf: whatever it is that you need to do that will ground you and help you. Come back to yourself. Keep coming back to yourself.
00:56:10.170 --> 00:56:15.180 Star Wolf: Keep an open mind and an open perspective, and at the same time
00:56:15.520 --> 00:56:25.609 Star Wolf: keep doing the work that you need to do. 1st for yourself, you know. Put your own seatbelt on first, st and then what can you do for others?
00:56:26.080 --> 00:56:27.190 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What can?
00:56:27.190 --> 00:56:43.860 Star Wolf: You do to support others? And how can you remain kind and understanding, and understand that we may not understand what's going on right now in the bigger picture, and there's so many behind the scene, things everywhere. But have we ever really, as far as the world goes.
00:56:43.860 --> 00:56:44.770 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, yeah.
00:56:44.770 --> 00:56:48.489 Star Wolf: You know what I'm saying. Things come to the surface. It's always been there.
00:56:48.900 --> 00:56:55.680 Star Wolf: I think the aquarian times remember that the aquarium time, Aquarius. Energy is an energy that blows things up.
00:56:55.680 --> 00:56:56.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yes.
00:56:56.480 --> 00:56:57.370 Star Wolf: It always is.
00:56:57.370 --> 00:56:58.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The revolutionary.
00:56:58.750 --> 00:57:02.500 Star Wolf: Is revolutionary. So you know.
00:57:02.780 --> 00:57:14.779 Star Wolf: my prayer is is that these chaotic, revolutionary, transformational times are going to bring us my hope and prayers into what we've envisioned as an aquarian age.
00:57:14.780 --> 00:57:15.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Some.
00:57:15.310 --> 00:57:26.719 Star Wolf: Of us may not live to see it, but at least we can, you know, be there holding space for it, and you know, keep taking good care of yourself on all levels.
00:57:27.020 --> 00:57:30.660 Star Wolf: Keep praying, keep breathing.
00:57:31.330 --> 00:57:42.720 Star Wolf: Keep being as kind as you can, and when you need to beat on pillows and say 4 letter words, do it, go for it. That's what we do in breath work, you know. Get it out. Don't pretend that you don't feel that it.
00:57:42.720 --> 00:57:43.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Make.
00:57:43.090 --> 00:57:43.930 Star Wolf: 6.
00:57:43.930 --> 00:57:52.959 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, yeah. I just saw an article the other day that said that like saying a whole bunch of curse words when you're upset or angry, is actually very healthy for you. Yeah.
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:57.529 Star Wolf: It gets it out, it really does, and then, you know, don't still project it on anybody else. Just.
00:57:57.530 --> 00:57:58.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right, right.
00:57:58.770 --> 00:58:04.930 Star Wolf: And and if we can, maybe collectively, the dream could be, Sam is that we could hold
00:58:05.240 --> 00:58:24.789 Star Wolf: the vision that this time is transformative. And it's just like a baby coming through the birth canal. It's going to be a little bit bloody. It's going to be a little bit messy. It's going to be, maybe some screaming and kicking and crying. But maybe if we stay conscious and hold the energy, just maybe maybe there's a plan bigger than us.
00:58:24.790 --> 00:58:25.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:30.560 Star Wolf: And maybe we can come out on the other side and clean ourselves off.
00:58:31.130 --> 00:58:37.220 Star Wolf: See a new rebirth happening in consciousness on this planet. And that's the vision that I'm going to hold to.
00:58:37.220 --> 00:58:42.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Well, I I hope both you and I live to see that day.
00:58:42.960 --> 00:58:51.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So it's been wonderful having you, Star. If people want to learn more about you. Get in touch with you. What's your website? Where can people go to learn more.
00:58:51.860 --> 00:58:54.090 Star Wolf: It's so easy. It's just shamanic
00:58:54.210 --> 00:59:03.810 Star Wolf: breathwork.org. And if you put Star Wolf on, yeah, just put it in. I'll probably come up these days, so I've been getting around for a while now.
00:59:04.040 --> 00:59:24.699 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wonderful wonderful. Well, thank you so much, Star. I really appreciate you taking the time out of your schedule to come on my show. It's been a pleasure having you again, Linda Starwolf, author of the book, The Aquarian Shaman, and 12 other books like you've written a lot so so definitely check her out. Thank you so much.
00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:29.849 Star Wolf: Thank you, Sam. Thanks for the good work. I'll be in New York later on this year, so maybe we'll connect.
00:59:29.850 --> 00:59:33.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Oh, please let me know when you're in New York. I would love to meet you in person.
00:59:33.560 --> 01:00:01.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and of course, thank you, my loyal listeners for tuning in without you there is no show. If you liked any part of today's show, please share it with your friends, your family members, your colleagues, whoever you think would be interested in it. And if you did miss any part of today's show, you can always catch the replay on talkradio Dot, Nyc. And on all the Podcasting platforms. Apple spotify Pandora Iheartradio. Thank you all for tuning in. Take care. We will talk to you all next week.
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