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Moving Towards Wholeness with Sharanya Naik

Title: Moving Towards Wholeness

Subtitle: Holotropic Breathwork, Shamanism and the Nature of Consciousness

Guest: Sharanya Naik

Recorded: September 2025

What happens when we move beyond the ordinary boundaries of consciousness?

For decades, Western culture has largely treated altered states of consciousness as either pathological, chemically induced or scientifically unexplained. Yet across human history, traditions of breath, ritual, meditation, dance and shamanic practice have been used to enter these extraordinary states and explore dimensions of experience that ordinary waking…

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