What if everything you were taught to fear is actually sacred?

In this intimate, resonant conversation, Mariana Garcia Flores and Rosalind Atkinson, dear friends and fellow teachers speak about Mariana’s life story which continues to unfold in powerful ways. Raised in a strict Catholic school environment in Mexico, Mariana shares how years of religious repression shaped her understanding of sexuality, embodiment, and spirituality and how the practices of Yoga, meditation, and humanistic psychotherapy helped her unravel those beliefs and come home to her own sacred aliveness.

This episode is not a theoretical conversation. It is an embodied testimony to the power of Yoga as life itself as Shakti, as descent, as the energy that we are. Together, we question the cultural scripts that pit spirit against flesh, and remember what it means to live in a world where the seen is the source.

What if everything you were taught to fear is actually sacred?

In this intimate, resonant conversation, Mariana Garcia Flores and Rosalind Atkinson, dear friends and fellow teachers speak about Mariana’s life story which continues to unfold in powerful ways. Raised in a strict Catholic school environment in Mexico, Mariana shares how years of religious repression shaped her understanding of sexuality, embodiment, and spirituality and how the practices of Yoga, meditation, and humanistic psychotherapy helped her unravel those beliefs and come home to her own sacred aliveness.

This episode is not a theoretical conversation. It is an embodied testimony to the power of Yoga as life itself as Shakti, as descent, as the energy that we are. Together, we question the cultural scripts that pit spirit against flesh, and remember what it means to live in a world where the seen is the source.

Mariana Garcia Flores shares her experience of Yoga. “I knew nothing about yoga, but I had a sense that there were gifts in it I didn’t yet know about, and I wanted to uncover them.”

What if our anger is sacred? What if the rage we feel in our bodies, in our culture, in our Earth, is not something to suppress, but something to honor? This week, Mariana Garcia Flores and Rosalind Atkinson sit again in the Garden of the Moon to invoke the presence of Kali, the fierce face of the Divine Feminine, and the part of us that says no more.