360 Shauna Cummins "Wishcraft"
02/05/25 • 107 min
Today I get to speak with Shauna Cummins, a certified Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner with a private practice in New York, author of Wishcraft (2021), holder of ceremonies, multi-disciplinary artist and founder of Divine Feminine School of Hypnosis and MindMassageHotline.
She is the resident event hypnotist at The Four Seasons Hotel New York Downton and regularly teaches workshops and conducts ceremonies in NYC and abroad. She also creates hypnotic sound art and installations and her work has been featured internationally at The National Gallery of Denmark, The Queens Museum of New York, The Center for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Borealis Music Festival, Obonjan Island and in publications such as The Independent, YAHOO News and The Numinous among others.
She's also held residencies in hotels and wellbeing centres, such as ACE Hotel Mediums Residency, The James Hotel Downtown NYC, Nomade Hotel Tulum, Maha Rose Brooklyn, and Obonjan Island Croatia.
The method she developed and works with is called WishcraftTM. Wishcraft is self-hypnosis that teaches the art of well-wishing as a practice for changing thought patterns and beliefs, turning wishes into action.
She received the board certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists in 2012 and started working as a Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner. She's also worked as an artist and entrepreneur in NYC and abroad for over fifteen years. Her life’s passion is helping people help themselves through the healing art of hypnosis.
Today we talk about her big pivot to hypnosis work from a previous unfulfilling career and how she stays in tuned with what makes her heart sing. Shauna walks us through the five pillars of Wishcraft and shares what her regular practices are to stay in touch with her inner knowing and desires. Personally, it was a very inspiring conversation that I hope you enjoy!
In honor of the weekend's holidays, I pull a card to get us into the Imbolc mood... The Kiss from Kim Kran's archetype deck. And here's your New Moon musings too!
Today’s show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org.
Our show music is from Shana Falana!
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Today I get to speak with Shauna Cummins, a certified Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner with a private practice in New York, author of Wishcraft (2021), holder of ceremonies, multi-disciplinary artist and founder of Divine Feminine School of Hypnosis and MindMassageHotline.
She is the resident event hypnotist at The Four Seasons Hotel New York Downton and regularly teaches workshops and conducts ceremonies in NYC and abroad. She also creates hypnotic sound art and installations and her work has been featured internationally at The National Gallery of Denmark, The Queens Museum of New York, The Center for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Borealis Music Festival, Obonjan Island and in publications such as The Independent, YAHOO News and The Numinous among others.
She's also held residencies in hotels and wellbeing centres, such as ACE Hotel Mediums Residency, The James Hotel Downtown NYC, Nomade Hotel Tulum, Maha Rose Brooklyn, and Obonjan Island Croatia.
The method she developed and works with is called WishcraftTM. Wishcraft is self-hypnosis that teaches the art of well-wishing as a practice for changing thought patterns and beliefs, turning wishes into action.
She received the board certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists in 2012 and started working as a Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner. She's also worked as an artist and entrepreneur in NYC and abroad for over fifteen years. Her life’s passion is helping people help themselves through the healing art of hypnosis.
Today we talk about her big pivot to hypnosis work from a previous unfulfilling career and how she stays in tuned with what makes her heart sing. Shauna walks us through the five pillars of Wishcraft and shares what her regular practices are to stay in touch with her inner knowing and desires. Personally, it was a very inspiring conversation that I hope you enjoy!
In honor of the weekend's holidays, I pull a card to get us into the Imbolc mood... The Kiss from Kim Kran's archetype deck. And here's your New Moon musings too!
Today’s show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org.
Our show music is from Shana Falana!
Feel free to email me, say hello: [email protected]
** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND IT
http://iwantwhatshehas.org/podcast
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359 Anastasia Wasko "Writer, Editor, Psychospiritual Guide"
Today on the show, I get to chat with Anastasia Wasko, a writer, editor, and psychospiritual guide from the NYC area who calls the Deep South her adopted home. She has a BA in Transpersonal Psychology from Sofia University (former Institute of Transpersonal Psychology) in Palo Alto, California and an MA in Psychosynthesis Psychology from The Institute of Psychosynthesis in London, England.
Anastasia manages Planet Dust Enterprises, a visionary book publisher that produces multidimensional, co-creative, intellectually expansive works. The mission of Planet Dust Enterprises is to sow seeds of ideas and creative expression so they create an organic network of connection and support for individuals who are shifting consciousness. Her signature program Self Mastery supports individuals undergoing spiritual emergence and worldview change. She is also available for one on one psychospiritual guidance.
Anastasia is the Associate Editor for Mindfield Bulletin, the official publication of the Parapsychological Association. She wrote about parapsychology and psychosynthesis for Paranormal Ruptures: Critical Approaches to Exceptional Experiences (edited by Dr Jacob Glazier) and released by Beyond The Fray Publishing in 2023.
Anastasia’s fiction and creative non-fiction writing have appeared in Space Cowboy’s Simultaneous Times podcast, Thrive Global, and in Journal of Exceptional Experiences. Her debut work of autofiction SevenThirteen was self-published in 2003. Her subsequent autofiction Meta Work was released in 2021 and KiezKucker was released in 2024.
Anastasia believes that imagination is among our most valuable assets in thinking beyond systems of oppression, environmental crises, and the collective loss of humanity. Imagination helps us remember who we are. Creative writing is medicine administered through the words (worlds) of others to illuminate, inspire, darken, reveal, and provide possible new realities for you to inhabit as you write your own story, reclaim agency, and shine freedom. Thinking “crazy” has been the bedrock of change in our society. Another word for it—usually when it has worked and we’re speaking in hindsight—is vision.
Today Anastasia shares her journey through spiritual emergence and how that's impacted her work and her life. Our conversation weaves through her journey to the south, her work there and beyond, imagination and mental health, and her focus on writing and its medicine. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!
Today’s show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org.
Our show music is from Shana Falana!
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361 Lexa Walsh "Artist, Cultural Worker and Experience Maker"
It's another installment of Spirituality and Politics with Marielena Ferrer. Joining us today is... Lexa Walsh an artist, cultural worker and experience maker. Her upbringing as the only bad athlete in a family of fifteen in the Philadelphia suburbs, and coming of age in the Bay Area post punk cultural scene of the 1990’s informs her interest in alternative lifestyles, economies and communities. With a background in both sculpture and social practice, Walsh makes site specific projects, exhibitions, publications and objects, using an array of materials including ceramics and textiles, employing social engagement, institutional critique, and radical hospitality to question hierarchies, power and value. She recently relocated from Oakland, CA to the Hudson Valley.
The In Between: Tea Talks are series’ of intimate facilitated discussions over home cooked meals that bring together conflicting populations of artists, activists, workers, Veterans, civilians, and others in a hospitable environment so each may share their positions in a safe yet open and critical dialogue. The goals of the project are to:
- Complicate the current good vs, evil/us vs. them narrative while eliciting understanding and extracting nuances from all sides.
- Engage in local micro politics while placing these issues in the larger current political landscape.
- Create a space for hospitable democracy.
- Share understanding about issues affecting our communities to a broader audience.
Walsh founded the experimental music and performance venue the Heinz Afterworld Lounge, and co-founded and conceived of the all women, all toy instrument ensemble Toychestra. Walsh worked for many years as a curator and administrator at CESTA, an international art center in Czech republic, whose team created radical curatorial projects to foster cross-cultural understanding. She founded Oakland Stock & Soup for Social & Racial Justice, and the Bay Area Contemporary Art Archive. She is a graduate of Portland State University’s Art & Social Practice MFA program and was Social Practice Artist in Residence in Portland Art Museum’s Education department. She was a recipient of Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Award, the CEC Artslink Award, the Gunk Grant and was a de Young Artist Fellow. Walsh has participated in projects, exhibitions and performances at Apexart, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, FOR-SITE, Grand Central Art Center, Kala Art Institute, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, NIAD, Oakland Museum of California, SFMOMA, Smack Mellon, Walker Art Center, Williams College Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and has done several international artist residencies, tours and projects in Europe and Asia.
Lexa and Marielena are co-hosting a Tea Talk at Unison Arts on Saturday, March 1st from 3-5pm. There's also a Destroy to Create event happening at Unison this Saturday, February 15th. More info and to RSVP here!
Here are your Full Moon Vibes!
Today’s show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org.
Our show music is from Shana Falana!
Feel free to email me, say hello: [email protected]
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