Sacred Garden Mandala
Sacred Garden Mandala is a podcast exploring healing, embodiment, and authentic sexual wellbeing through the integration of body, energy, and mind. Hosted by Dr. Gretchen Blycker, each episode invites listeners to cultivate compassion, curiosity, and deeper connection within themselves. Through conversations and reflections on sexuality, mindfulness, energy, embodiment, and transformation, this podcast offers gentle guidance for tending your inner landscape with care and intention. Inspired by the rhythms of nature and the wisdom of the elements - earth, water, fire, air, and space - Sacred Garden Mandala explores what it means to heal, grow, release, renew, and begin again. Whether you are seeking emotional healing, renewed intimacy, personal awakening, or a more grounded relationship with yourself, this podcast is an invitation to plant new seeds and discover the possibilities already alive within you. Your garden is already growing. Let’s begin.
Episodes
Dr. Gretchen Blycker returns to The Sacred Garden Mandala podcast with The Yoga of Sex: A-MYSTERY Miniseries. This episode contains Modules Ten and Eleven.
In module ten, she introduces the Five Element Mandala Journey, exploring how the elemental qualities of nature offer a framework for understanding body, energy, emotion, communication, relationships, and consciousness. Drawing upon contemplative traditions, she examines how th...
Dr. Gretchen Blycker returns to The Sacred Garden Mandala podcast with The Yoga of Sex: A-MYSTERY Miniseries. This episode contains Modules Eight and Nine.
In module eight, she explores the methodology behind A-MYSTERY, tracing how research, literature, and scholarship became a living educational curriculum. She examines the research questions that guided the program’s develop...
Dr. Gretchen Blycker returns to The Sacred Garden Mandala podcast with The Yoga of Sex: A-MYSTERY Miniseries. This episode contains Modules Six and Seven.
In module six, she explores trauma, disconnection, and the return to embodiment, examining how trauma can affect connection with the body, sexuality, relationships, and self. She emphasizes survival responses as intelligent adapta...
Dr. Gretchen Blycker introduces The Sacred Garden Mandala podcast and is back with The Yoga of Sex: A-MYSTERY Miniseries. This episode contains Modules Four and Five.
In module four, she explores sexual media socialization in the digital age, explaining how online environments and sexually explicit media shape beliefs and “sexual scripts,” and emphasizing comprehensive sex education, media literacy, and embodimen...
Dr. Gretchen Blycker introduces The Sacred Garden Mandala podcast and shares modules from her dissertation-based audio miniseries, The Yoga of Sex: A Mystery, focused on deep healing and authentic sexual wellbeing through compassion, curiosity, and embodied awareness.
Module two defines comprehensive, holistic sex education as multidimensional—physical, emotional, relational, social, cultural, ethical, psychological, spiritu...
Dr. Gretchen Blycker introduces The Sacred Garden Mandala podcast and an evidence-based miniseries adapted from her doctoral dissertation, The Yoga of Sex: A Mystery, a mindfulness-based, yoga-centered sexual wellness curriculum for young adults.
She frames sexual wellness as multidimensional—woven into body, mind, heart, culture, relationships, and spirit—and emphasizes that education must move beyond information to c...
In this episode of The Sacred Garden Mandala, Dr. Gretchen Blycker welcomes Fernanda González-Vilchis, Director of SRI en Español (Sowa Rigpa Institute en Español), Nejang Yoga Instructor, Sowa Rigpa practitioner, editor, translator, and educator.
Together they explore the wisdom of Sowa Rigpa, the traditional Tibetan science of healing, and the practice of Nejang Yoga—a profound system that integrates body, energy, breath, v...
Dr. Gretchen Blycker introduces Episode 2 of The Sacred Garden Mandala, framing sexual well-being as something cultivated with compassion, curiosity, and embodied awareness rather than fixed through performance.
She offers the mandala and garden as organizing metaphors and presents “two views of the mountain” (developmental skill-building and discovery/remembering) to avoid either endless self-improvement or bypassing ...
Dr. Gretchen Blycker introduces The Sacred Garden Mandala podcast as an invitation to cultivate holistic sexual wellbeing through compassion, curiosity, and embodied awareness of body, energy, and mind, joined this season by co-producer Dee Daniels and a range of guests.
Drawing from Tibetan lineages and Sol Rigpa teachings, Blycker connects ancient practices with modern neurobiology, including polyvagal theory, emphasizing person...
The Sacred Garden Mandala: Planting Seeds for Healing and Sexual Wellbeing
Dr. Gretchen Blycker introduces the Sacred Garden Mandala podcast, an invitation to cultivate the inner landscape through compassion, curiosity, and embodied awareness in support of deep healing and authentic sexual wellbeing.
She explores sexuality as a source of vitality, meaning, and connection, welcoming listeners who are seeking healing, awakening, rene...
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