Personal Shaman
Personal Shaman is a somatic healing and nervous system regulation podcast designed to help you release trauma, reduce anxiety, and build deep self-trust. Hosted by Polly (Polly Behringer), the podcast features guided meditations, visualization practices, and conversations with practitioners, experts, and real stories of transformation — all designed to help you regulate your body, clear stored stress, and shift out of survival mode. Rooted in the Release & Reset approach, this podcast teaches you how to work with your nervous system — not against it — so you can create lasting, embodied change. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, or disconnection, Personal Shaman gives you grounded, body-based tools for self-ownership.
Episodes
Hello, I am Polly Behringer, and welcome to the Personal Shaman Podcast, the voice of Release Reset.
In this episode, you will experience a guided visualization meditation inspired by the poem, The Road Not Taken, written by Robert Frost in 1915.
This exercise is one of my most requested during lectures, likely because it allows individuals to be transported from walking through a forest to standing along a road, reaching a crossro...
I wanted to get back to meditating, but I was struggling with time constraints of incorporating into the flow of my day. It turns out a lot of listeners, friends and people that ask me about meditation do too!
I take on a brief journey over coffee on my front porch sharing how I'm modifying and stacking habits / routines that I'm already doing that are part of my journey and melding holistic practices like yoga and meditation.
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In this episode, we'll go through the power transformation that happens during Yoga Nidra as we begin to explore how the 3 main Nadis are activated during yoga nidra and the role the central nadi, Sushumna, plays an integral part of Kundalini awakening.
This is longer (less edited version) episode. I touch on so many topics such as; how our personal perception creates our reality, which limits our views of what we're truly capable...
Welcome to the third episode in our Healing Trauma Through Art series, where we explore the transformative power of journaling as a tool for healing and releasing trauma, the power of creating and using a mantra and prayer.
In this episode, we’re joined by renowned artist Cassandra Elaine, whose work deeply explores the connection between emotional landscapes and spiritual growth. Cassandra shares her personal journey as an artist—...
Welcome to the second episode in our Healing Trauma Through Art series, where we explore the transformative power of symbolism as a tool for expression, healing and releasing trauma. We're joined by special guest Cassandra Elaine, a talented and visionary artist whose work delves into the deep connection of our complex emotional landscapes. Cassandra’s art serves as a powerful testament that art is a healing modality.
In this episo...
Join us for this introduction episode in Healing Trauma Through Art Series featuring special guest Cassandra Elaine, a talented and visionary artist where her art serves as a powerful tool for healing and inner growth, inviting viewers to experience her storytelling on a profound level.
In this episode, Cassandra shares her journey as an artist—her education, her life’s work, and how embracing art as a healing modality helped her r...
Three powerful prompts and journaling hack to change how your idea surrounding journaling. Learn how to use journaling as a powerful tool to rewrite how you view your past to change your potential. These prompts overtime will rewire your brain as you learn how to reframe your past and see progression in your daily endeavors. (excerpt from 10 Days to Mindfulness, online course USE code: Podcast15 and save 15%).
This is an excerpt from our new online course, 10 Days to Mindfulness (on our website). This episode explores the power of cellular healing your body goes through and how the practice of Yoga Nidra helps facilitate this internal, intuitive healing process.
Yoga Nidra helps to regulate the nervous system by calming the fight or flight response and activating the rest and digest response. So this shift in the nervous system activity...
Did you know gratitude raises your personal vibration and changes the frequency of how you feel and view your past, present and future? In this episode, we dive into the practice of why and how to cultivate gratitude. At the end of the episode, there is a bonus section where you're able to experience Gratitude Cultivation in a session. This mini podcast episode is something you can do daily through out the day and bring yourself ba...
Our bodies intuitively know how to tap into its ability to recover from trauma, to let go and find peace. The issue is we've never been taught how to do this. Most feel you have to dig up old traumas to move forward; I'm here to tell you... you don't have to. All you have to do is lean back and relax.
This is the first LIVE session to be uploaded into the podcast. This is something new for us and I'm excited about sharing this with you. After endless hours over the course of 10 days, I've learned a lot and I hope I'm able to produce and share content with each of you to assist you on your journey with my candid approach of answering questions and sharing a much more off the cuff Yoga Nidra Session. So, please find a comfortable ...
**Podcast Description:**
Welcome to our Yoga Nidra Sanctuary, where tranquility awaits. In this extended session, we invite you to immerse yourself in a longer Yoga Nidra experience designed to guide you into profound relaxation through visualization and breath sync. Lasting over 20 minutes, this session is perfect for those struggling to achieve deep, restful sleep, providing a serene escape from the stresses of daily life.
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My simplified attempt to explain yoga nidra by using an analogy in a story telling format. Yoga Nidra is the pie we'll make... the tree is the yoga system and a branch, Raja Yoga, that bears 8 apples for the pie... one of them being the apple we need.
Learn more about myself, my studies, education & other modalities at https://www.thegreybadass.com/
Personal story of observation and disappearing into nothingness... where our body has the ability to separate and become one with everything around us.
When you look at life, there's a lot of times when we can't put our finger on it, but it doesn't feel right. Something doesn't feel right, because we're off path. But I didn't know that then. We've all experienced moments of being an outlier...
Join me for an outside, morning yoga nidra session. Listen to the outside sounds of birds chirping, wind chimes chiming and the morning breeze all from my front porch.
This deep relaxation is 14.69 minutes in length and requires NO physical practice. This session is scripted from a position of laying down... but you can do this from a chair.
*Do not listen to this episode or do this practice while operating a vehicle or machinery.
Yoga nidra means sleep with a trace of awareness. It's a place where your mind is between being awake and being in a dream. You tap into this really healing brainwave. This vibration you enter and then leave in short periods of time in your actual sleep state. In this realm, this vibration, is Delta Vibration is healing. Your body intuitively knows and begins the process of healing.
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