Marilyn Alauria says that our guides have purposes that are big, limitless, infinite, and constantly growing. They know what our soul is here to do and have wisdom that we don’t have access to yet. Guides help us access the wisdom within ourselves—to grow, learn, open to possibilities, and live in alignment with and reflect the truth of our souls. But guides may be more than you imagine. Join our guests, author Marilyn Alauria, and Tibetan medical doctor, Tawni Tidwell, in this riveting conversation about our personal guidance.
ABOUT OUR GUESTS:
MARILYN ALAURIA is the author of the bestselling book GUIDES: Mystical Connections to Soul Guides and Divine Teachers, a book in the Common Sentience series. She is a gifted psychic medium, teacher, and coach with an unmatched capacity to ignite deep, soul-level transformation for her clients around the world. Marilyn provides messages from Guides that are always with us and from loved ones who have crossed over.
As the creator of Soul Finder Academy and Membership for Your Soul and host of the podcast Who Can It Be Now, she offers a clear action plan for developing our talents, following our purpose, fulfilling our dreams, and living in alignment with our souls.
Her online courses Live and Thrive with Your Psychic Gifts and Communicate with Your Soul Guides are popular courses on Sacred U.
After a successful Emmy Award-winning career in the entertainment industry with MTV and NBC Olympics, Marilyn shifted her focus to sharing her natural gifts and helping others discover their own intuitive abilities and living a life from the seat of their soul. She teaches spirituality in a way that leads to a practical, meaningful, and joyous life—no unicorns, flying carpets, or impossible routines required. Marilyn simplifies the path to living a life of peace, ease, and alignment, making true fulfillment easy and achievable. As a psychic medium, healer, teacher, author, and speaker, she lights up audiences around the world and is devoted to using her abilities to bring awareness and enlightenment to every life she touches.
TAWNI TIDWELL investigates the mind-body relationship foundational to cultivating healthy minds and bodies through biocultural and Tibetan medical paradigms for well-being. She examines markers and practices of flourishing in lives well-lived as well as processes of dying mindfully. She is particularly interested in work that contributes to understanding the cultural, social and environmental contexts that support practices and qualities of mind that lead to experiences of well-being across the life course, as well as aspects of its diversity among populations.
Tawni is a biocultural anthropologist and Tibetan medical doctor. Her research facilitates bridges across the Western scientific tradition and the Tibetan medical tradition, along with their attendant epistemologies, ontologies, and pedagogical methods. Her doctoral work focused on embodiment in textual-oral transmission and perceptual techniques in differential diagnostics.
Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ERC-funded Project RATIMED) and the University of Vienna, where she examined pharmacological innovations in Tibetan medicine and training practices for medicine compounding, particularly across eastern Tibet. From 2020 to 2022 she served as Principal Investigator of the North American COVID-19 Tibetan Medical Observational Study (NACTMOS) as well as the Varela Study Examining Individual Differences in Contemplative Practice Response, funded by Mind & Life Institute.
Tawni is currently Project Manager of the Field Study of the Physiology of Meditation Practitioners and the Tukdam Meditative State (FMed, also known as the Tukdam Study), a collaborative research project with the Russian Academy of Sciences, Delek Hospital, Men-Tsee-Khang Tibetan Medical Institute, and a network of Tibetan Buddhist monastic institutions across India, guided by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She also collaborates on the Austrian Science Fund Project Pandemic Narratives of Tibet and the Himalayas, where she contributes work on Tibetan medical responses to COVID-19 in Tibet and North America, and the Project Potent Substances in Sowa Rigpa and Buddhist Ritual, looking at concepts of potency in Tibetan pharmacology and medicine-compounding (menjor) for mind-body transformation.
She contributes transdisciplinary work to understanding gut disorders, cancer, and chronic inflammatory conditions. Her publications focus on diagnostic/treatment paradigms, pharmacological synergies, and modes of embodiment in contemplative practice, health and hea
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