The Wild Temple

A sacred ritual is returning.

After centuries of suppression under colonial rule, the Irish Keen is being reclaimed. Once an essential communal ritual of grief, praise, remembrance, and devotion, this powerful vocal tradition was systematically severed from the Irish people, leaving generations disconnected from one of their deepest ancestral practices. Today, that lineage is being remembered and brought back to life.

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In this episode, Brooke shares stories that help us navigate the terrain of magical versus practical thinking, and key flower essences that can aid us in both.

Please excuse the second half of the recording's audio. Due to a natural event, wifi came down and this section was recorded on the road. 

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At the heart of yoga is learning not only how to move and breathe, but how to experience prāṇa as ...

Most people underestimate the profound power of flowers, prana, and subtle energy—yet these ancient tools hold the key to transforming your life from the inside out. In this episode, Reverend Rebecca Medvin and Brooke Sullivan explore the sacred intersection of yoga, flower essences, and prana vidya, revealing how nature’s wisdom guides us toward healing, empowerment, and self-trust.

Discover how flower essences ...

Many of us come to yoga seeking relief.

Perhaps we're overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, chronic patterns, or simply the feeling that something in life is not quite aligned. Yoga can be profoundly therapeutic, helping us calm the mind, strengthen the body, regulate the nervous system, and reconnect with ourselves.

But what if healing is only the beginning?

In this episode, Brooke reflects on a powerful teaching from her late teach...

What happens when the deep, (often hidden) desire for safety becomes the organizing force of our lives?

In this timely episode of The Wild Temple Podcast, Brooke Sullivan is joined by clinical therapist and school counselor Kristin Keliher for a deeply honest conversation about nervous systems, overperformance, community care, and what it means to become an empowered human in a world organized around fear, productivity, and survival...

In this episode, Brooke talks about the power of Bealtaine, Kundalini and the Fire. Stay to the end for a delicious poem written by Brooke, that weaves this liminal time of Bealtaine with the power, healing, fertility and sensuality of Kundalini awakening. 

At the heart of yoga is learning not only how to move and breathe, but how to experience prāṇa as a living intelligence within us. 

August 28–30, Brooke will be te...

Discover how Tantra Yoga Therapy, Vedic star wisdom, and the Honey Doctrine meet in a single healing arc. After exploring Ashwini, the celestial physicians, the celestial “honey” of Madhu Vidya, and the paradox of deceleration, Brooke offers a guided 75-breaths relaxation practice to help you slow down, reset, and receive.

At the heart of yoga is learning not only how to move and breathe, but how to experience prāṇa as a...

Happy Spring! 

In this episode of The Wild Temple Podcast, host Brooke Shannon Sullivan explores how Tantra, Yoga Therapy, Prana Vidya, Ayurveda, herbalism, and Kundalini come together as a holistic science to support desire as a generative force, dharmic living, and self‑mastery. Recorded on a Full Moon in Hasta Nakshatra, Brooke weaves in the symbolism of the hands (Anjali, food measurement, relationship with nourishment) as ...

This week’s episode of the Wild Temple Podcast opens with Brooke feeding the crows and reflecting on the strange landscape of the modern world. A recent encounter on social media—someone spell binding  through their Instagram reel—felt both jarring and strangely revealing. It sparked a deeper contemplation about the subtle ways we influence one another every day, often without realizing it. Not through grand ...

Streaming from a Himalayan Institute campus in India, this intimate “Kitchen Talk” episode of The Wild Temple Podcast unfolds in the midst of a rare six-month Himalayan practice known as Maha Sri Yaga, a devotional immersion of daily mantra, meditation, and fire ceremonies devoted to tending the subtle forces of nature and refining what is nonessential- for a 6 month period of time.

From this sacred container of retreat ...

What if desire is not something to discipline or deny, but a living force asking to be felt?

In this intimate conversation with Somatic Sexologist, Nadine Hamilton, we explore desire as Shakti, the sacred current of life moving through body, creativity, longing, and love. Rather than something shameful or indulgent, desire reveals itself as an intelligent guide, pointing us toward wholeness, truth, and deeper embodiment.

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What if desire is not a temptation to overcome, but a sacred current guiding us back to the divine?

In this luminous conversation, Brooke Sullivan sits down with Ekabhumi to talk about the mystery of desire as an ancient, erotic intelligence that moves through all of life. Together, they explore desire not as a flaw of the human condition, but as a holy force, one that animates creation, fuels awakening, and invites us into deeper i...

Welcome. Today’s exploration is about spiritual freedom, storytelling, and finding truth within oneself. The journey of understanding one's own spirituality can be both challenging and empowering, as we unravel what religiosity means and the boundaries that it sometimes crosses. 

Religiosity often brings with it the imposition of belief systems. What boundaries are crossed when one insists their spiritual path is the only...

The New Year: Desire for Freedom and Fulfillment

This episode marks a threshold—a bridge into the next season (our 3rd) of The Wild Temple Podcast.

Here, Brooke reflects in a solocast, on the transition from a year devoted to Dharma—structure, coherence, and sacred technologies—into a new season centered on Desire. In the Tantric tradition, desire is not something to overcome or supress, but a living intelligence th...

As we step into the new era of 2026, we are invited to delve deep into the realms of Vedic astrology and the teachings that guide us towards understanding our true essence. In this episode, Brooke speaks with Sara of SaraVedicSoul.com and together they explore how the celestial influences can empower individuals to live more consciously and align with their unique dharmic path.

Vedic astrology provides a map to the unseen re...

In this episode, we explore what happens when truth is suppressed and desire is smothered… and how Shakti rises in ten fierce directions to reclaim her power. This myth is a map of what happens inside each of us when the feminine is silenced, when desire is suppressed and the importance now of finally saying: “no more.”

From Shiva’s retreat into grief, to Sati’s self-immolation, to the falling of the G...

In this episode of The Wild Temple podcast, we take a evocative journey into the heart of sacred practice, Brooke  shares an interview with Mary, a deeply intuitive hypnotherapist steeped in the subtle arts of energetics. Streaming from the lush, humming landscape of Assam, India, Brooke opens the episode with a tapestry of sensory impressions - verdant green, ancient stories carried on the wind, and the grounding pulse of the...

Episode Summary: “Believing in What You Love” — The Rose, the Thorn, and the Power of Sacred Technologies

In this Full Moon reflection, Brooke invites you into believing in what you love—and loving what you do..even when it challenges you. From the joy of creating her new Twilight Studio to the honest exhaustion that surfaced an old trauma response, she shares how sacred technologies like Tantra, mantra, Ayur...

In a world where intangible factors such as ethical spaceholding are just as crucial as physical infrastructure, understanding how to create and inhabit these spaces has become vital. Whether in community circles or personal growth avenues, the significance of holding and seeking ethical spaces underlines our journey of self-mastery, resilience, and spiritual evolution.

Embracing ethical spaceholding with grace encourages evolution ...