In this magical episode of the LightSong School of 21st-Century Shamanism and Medicine Energy Talking Stick Podcast, Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader explore the fairy realm, the “hidden folk,” and what it means to live in respectful relationship with unseen dimensions of the Earth.
Jan shares teachings from Celtic shamanism, stories from LightSong’s Vision Quest Practicum, and powerful experiences of working with fairies as stewards and healers of the natural world. Micah adds his own extraordinary encounters, including fairy sightings, vision quest dreams, and the deeper lesson that the more we learn, the more we realize how much remains unknown.
Together, they discuss offerings, permission, imagination, owl eyes, nature spirits, dimensional awareness, and the importance of approaching the unseen world with humility rather than entitlement. This conversation invites listeners to soften their focus, expand their perception, and remember that imagination is not fantasy—it is a superpower.
To view the photos of the fairies by Micah, click here.
Learn more about Jan Engels-Smith and LightSong School of 21st-Century Shamanism and Energy Medicine at LightSong.net.
Learn more about Micah Schwader and read about his memoir, Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman at ShamanSezz.com.
LightSong School of 21st-Century Shamanism and Energy Medicine Talking Stick Podcast
Listening to Nature: Messages from Ants, Animals, and the Living World
In this deeply engaging episode of the Talking Stick Podcast, Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader explore the profound wisdom available to us when we slow down and truly listen to nature.
The conversation begins with a grounding invocation that invites listeners into a sacred space of presence, awareness, and connection. From there, Jan and Micah share powerful personal stories of encounters with ants, horses, birds, plants, and other elements of the natural world—each carrying messages of guidance, transformation, and insight.
Through these stories, a central theme emerges: nature is always communicating. Whether through the disciplined community of ants, the playful reflection of a horse, or the unexpected appearance of a wild animal, these interactions become invitations to reflect, grow, and align more deeply with life.
Jan shares a pivotal story about how ants guided her in building community and ultimately in creating her school, emphasizing collaboration, respect, and shared purpose. Micah reflects on lessons of surrender, presence, and joy—reminded that sometimes the message is simply to let go and “just have fun.”
This episode also explores:
At its heart, this conversation is a reminder that we are not separate from nature—we are part of it. And when we begin to listen, life responds in ways that are both magical and deeply meaningful.
Connect with Jan & Micah:
LightSong School of 21st-Century Shamanism: https://lightsong.net
ShamanSezz / Micah Schwader: https://shamansezz.com
LightSong School of 21st-Century Shamanism and Energy Healing Talking Stick Podcast
Listening Beyond Words: Intuition, the Clairs, and Telepathic Connection
In this episode of the Talking Stick Podcast, Micah Schwader and Jan Engels-Smith open with a powerful guided invocation designed to awaken the intuitive mind and activate the “Clairs”—our natural psychic and perceptual abilities.
Through breath, imagery, and focused intention, listeners are gently guided out of analytical thinking and into a deeper state of awareness—where intuition, inner knowing, and energetic perception begin to emerge. This opening experience sets the stage for a rich and grounded conversation about telepathy.
Rather than treating telepathy as something mystical or rare, Micah and Jan explore it as a natural extension of human awareness—one that becomes accessible as we develop trust in our intuitive senses. They discuss how the clairs function as pathways for perception, how subtle communication occurs beyond words, and how cultivating presence allows us to receive information from the unseen realms.
This episode is both experiential and educational—offering listeners a direct entry point into expanded awareness while also deepening their understanding of intuitive development and energetic communication.
If you’ve ever felt something before it was spoken… sensed what someone else was thinking… or wondered how to strengthen your intuition—this conversation is an invitation to listen more deeply.
Explore more:
🌿 LightSong School of 21st Century Shamanism & Energy Medicine
https://www.lightsong.net
🌿 ShamanSezz – Micah Schwader
https://www.shamansezz.com
In this deeply reflective and interactive LightSong gathering, Jan Engels-Smith guides participants through a rich exploration of listening, awareness, healing, and personal empowerment.
Through real-time sharing, questions, and teaching, this session reveals how we navigate our inner and outer worlds—through dreams, energetic boundaries, belief systems, and the power of the mind.
Jan offers grounded insight into how healing truly works, how to work with the ego, and how to reclaim personal power by shifting awareness. Participants contribute meaningful experiences that bring depth and validation to the teachings, creating a powerful collective learning space.
This episode highlights the importance of listening—not only to others, but to self, spirit, and the subtle realms that guide growth and transformation.
Key Topics Covered:
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
In this episode, we explore the profound and often overlooked “art of listening”.
Not just listening with your ears…
but listening with your awareness, your body, your intuition, and your energetic field.
Listening is more than receiving sound—it is a gateway into deeper understanding, connection, and presence. It shapes how we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us.
As you move through this conversation, you may begin to notice where you truly listen… and where you filter, anticipate, or interpret before fully receiving.
This episode is an invitation to slow down…
to become present…
and to rediscover what it means to genuinely hear.
In This Episode We Explore:
When you begin to listen in this way, something shifts.
Communication softens.
Understanding deepens.
And a new level of awareness becomes available to you.
Take a breath…
and allow yourself to listen—not just to this episode, but to your life.
With love,
Jan, Colleen, Micah and Robyn
In this gathering of the Manifesting Miracles community, Jan opens the circle with a sacred invocation inviting participants to move from the mind into the heart. The discussion centers on how belief systems influence what we create in our lives, and how awareness, intention, and energetic alignment can transform challenges into opportunities for growth.
Through group dialogue and shared experiences, participants explore health, resilience, personal transformation, and the power of conscious manifestation. Jan emphasizes that humans are constantly manifesting their reality and that examining and shifting belief systems is a powerful tool for creating change.
· Creating a sacred container through intention and heart-centered awareness
· The role of belief systems in shaping personal reality
· Manifestation as a continuous process occurring in everyday life
· Viewing challenges and illness as opportunities for growth and understanding
· The energetic and spiritual components of healing
· Listening to the body as a source of intuitive guidance
· The influence of attitude and perception on life experiences
· Transforming fear and negative patterns through conscious belief changes
· The importance of writing, reflection, and self-inquiry to uncover limiting beliefs
· Using intention and action together to manifest desired outcomes
· The power of resilience, gratitude, and community support
· Navigating major life decisions by combining intuition with practical tools
Participants explore how deeply held beliefs influence health, circumstances, and opportunities. By examining and rewriting these beliefs, individuals can begin to change the experiences they attract into their lives.
Rather than viewing difficult experiences as failures, the conversation reframes them as opportunities for growth, learning, and transformation.
Energy is constantly moving and changing form. Through awareness and intention, individuals can redirect energy toward more positive outcomes.
Jan reminds the group that humans are constantly manifesting their reality through attention, thoughts, emotions, and actions.
Participants share personal stories of healing, sobriety, resilience, and life transitions, highlighting the strength that comes from learning within a supportive spiritual community.
The gathering concludes with gratitude and encouragement for participants to continue exploring their belief systems, setting intentions, and recognizing the many ways they are already creating their lives through conscious awareness and energetic align
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
S2 E15: Stopping the Frustration Cycle - LightSong Talking Stick Podcast
In this LightSong Talking Stick Podcast conversation, Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader explore frustration—how to recognize it quickly, what it’s really doing to your energy field, and how to interrupt the “snowball effect” before it multiplies into more conflict, mistakes, and overwhelm.
The episode begins with a grounding invocation and a simple breath practice (inhale, hold, exhale) to shift out of the busy mind and into the heart. From there, Micah shares how studying Human Design helped him identify frustration as a key internal signal—an indicator to pause, change direction, or step away. Jan expands the conversation into a shamanic and energetic framework: our emotions broadcast through our chakras like a “signal,” shaping what we attract and amplify.
You’ll hear practical tools you can use in real time—even at work—like physically changing location, using breath to break the loop, and a shamanic practice Jan calls “scattering the energy,” transforming frustration into motivation, creative momentum, and better outcomes. The underlying message is empowering: you’re not stuck—you can change your state, your frequency, and your next choice.
In this episode:
Jan Engels-Smith LightSong.net
Micah Schwader - ShamanSezz.com
Manifesting Miracles : https://lightsong.wufoo.com/forms/manifesting-miracles
I will be teaching the Level 1 Basic Shamanic Journey Class in the late spring of 2026. In the meantime, I do have that class in a prerecorded ON DEMAND form that a lot of people do and enjoy. https://www.lightsong.net/level-1-on-demand-course/ You also have access to me for questions or further explanation. I can’t speak highly enough about the advantages of learning to journey and develop a profound relationship with the spirit world. Its benefits are endless and fun! Let me know what you decide to do. If you buy the On Demand you are automatically invited to the live on zoom when I teach it with no extra cost, a win win for you! Hugs Jan
Get the newest Podcast:https://www.lightsong.net/lightsong-podcast/
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
S2 E14 Reiki, Shamanism, and Manifestation with Jan Engels-Smith
In this collaborative episode of the Reiki Lifestyle Podcast, Colleen and Robyn Benelli welcome Jan Engels-Smith, founder of LightSong School of 21st Century Shamanism, and Colleens shamanic teacher, for a grounded and expansive conversation on Reiki, shamanic practice, and conscious manifestation.
Jan brings decades of experience as a teacher, author, and ceremonial leader, sharing how spiritual practice becomes meaningful when it is lived, embodied, and applied with integrity. Together, the conversation explores how Reiki and shamanism support clarity, alignment, and discernment, especially when working with intention, healing, and creation in everyday life.
This episode speaks to the relationship between spiritual awareness and practical action. Jan offers insight into how manifestation develops through presence, responsibility, and relationship with the natural and spiritual worlds. The discussion weaves together Reiki energy, shamanic worldview, and lived wisdom, offering listeners a deeper understanding of how these paths complement one another.
This is a collaborative episode focused on shared values, spiritual maturity, and honoring diverse traditions while staying rooted in personal experience.
In this episode, you will hear about:
Colleen and Robyn Benelli at Reikilifestyle.com.
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Jan Engels-Smith LightSong.net
Manifesting Miracles : https://lightsong.wufoo.com/forms/manifesting-miracles
I will be teaching the Level 1 Basic Shamanic Journey Class in the late spring of 2026. In the meantime, I do have that class in a prerecorded ON DEMAND form that a lot of people do and enjoy. https://www.lightsong.net/level-1-on-demand-course/ You also have access to me for questions or further explanation. I can’t speak highly enough about the advantages of learning to journey and develop a profound relationship with the spirit world. Its benefits are endless and fun! Let me know what you decide to do. If you buy the On Demand you are automatically invited to the live on zoom when I teach it with no extra cost, a win win for you! Hugs Jan
Get the newest Podcast:https://www.lightsong.net/lightsong-podcast/
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
S2 E13. Spiritual Allies, Source Energy, and the Power of Discernment
In this expansive and story-filled episode of the LightSong 21st-Century Talking Stick Podcast, Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader explore a question that arises often in spiritual practice:
What is the difference between Source energy and spiritual allies—and how do we work with each?
The conversation begins, as always, with a grounding invocation—breathing into the right brain, the divine mind, and welcoming known and unknown allies into a sacred container of connection. From there, Jan offers a clear energetic framework: whatever we give energy to multiplies. Manifestation is not moral—it is mathematical. Whatever receives the most energy becomes form.
But here’s where discernment enters.
While Source (or universal energy) is unconditional and non-discerning, spiritual allies—power animals, guides, elemental forces, ascension energies—offer perspective. They help us see the bigger picture. They assist us in asking not just, “Can I manifest this?” but “Is this in my highest good?”
Throughout the episode, Jan and Micah explore:
Micah shares powerful personal stories of Bear and Elephant emerging as allies—appearing first in healing work and vision journeys, then unmistakably in the physical world. From a cabin filled with bear imagery to a spontaneous embrace from an elephant in South Africa, the message becomes clear: once awareness opens, allies reveal they have always been present.
Jan reflects on how her understanding of spiritual helpers has evolved over time, leading to the shift to 21st-Century Shamanism—moving beyond older paradigms that framed allies as conditional or capable of abandonment. Instead, she describes them as expressions of unconditional love, always available, never sleeping, never leaving.
The episode also moves into extraordinary stories of weather work—calling in rain during drought conditions in South Africa and the American plains—illustrating the deep relational intelligence between humans and the natural world. Allies, Jan explains, are not limited to spirit figures; they can be wind, rain, trees, animals, or ascension energies such as LightSong itself.
Ultimately, this conversation invites listeners to expand their understanding of what help is. To move beyond left-brain logic and into right-brain receptivity. To ask for guidance. To recognize that we are part of a much larger energetic ecosystem.
And perhaps most importantly, to experience the peace that comes from knowing we are never walking alone.
Be a good human.
I will be teaching the Level 1 Basic Shamanic Journey Class in the late spring of 2026. In the meantime, I do have that class in a prerecorded ON DEMAND form that a lot of people do and enjoy. https://www.lightsong.net/level-1-on-demand-course/ You also have access to me for questions or further explanation. I can’t speak highly enough about the advantages of learning to journey and develop a profound relationship with the spirit world. Its benefits are endless and fun! Let me know what you decide to do. If you buy the On Demand you are automatically invited to the live on zoom when I teach it with no extra cost, a win win for you! Hugs Jan
Get the newest Podcast:https://www.lightsong.net/lightsong-podcast/
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
For more information about Micah and his work, visit ShamanSezz.com.
For more information about Micah’s memoir, Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman, visit ShamanSezz.com/stumbling-into-grace-the-book/
Merging with Spirit, and Recognizing the Magic Already Present
In this Manifesting Miracles gathering, Jan guides listeners into the sacred heart space, opening a powerful container for spiritual connection, energetic awareness, and conscious creation. Through teaching, storytelling, and shared experiences, this episode explores how manifestation unfolds through alignment, surrender, and raising vibration.
Jan explains that spirit is always present and responsive, working in partnership with us as co-creators. She emphasizes that challenges, emotional triggers, and life disruptions are not setbacks, but invitations to uncover deeper belief systems and evolve into greater awareness.
Listeners will discover how daily spiritual practices, merging with spiritual allies, and shifting beyond ego strengthen their connection to higher frequencies and support manifestation. This episode offers both practical guidance and profound insight for anyone seeking to consciously participate in their own evolution.
· The difference between ego-based thinking and spirit-based awareness
· How ego creates suffering through fear, interpretation, and mind chatter
· The importance of moving into right-brain spiritual awareness
· Why emotional triggers are opportunities for growth and transformation
· How spiritual allies assist in personal evolution
· The practice of merging with spiritual helpers
· Learning to hold higher energetic frequencies through practice
· The importance of daily connection with spiritual support systems
· How spirit communicates through subtle and unexpected experiences
· The importance of awareness in recognizing manifestation already occurring
· How gratitude and openness amplify manifestation
· Why miracles often appear in simple, everyday moments
· Releasing vows, emotional entanglements, and energetic attachments
· Understanding emotional triggers as opportunities for healing
· The role of surrender in dissolving limiting beliefs
· How healing shifts internal reality regardless of external circumstances
· The power of focusing attention to shape reality
· Daily spiritual practice as the foundation of manifestation
· Strengthening awareness of spiritual support and guidance
· Becoming conscious participants in personal and collective evolution
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Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
S2 E11 Grief: Letting the Energy Move
In this intimate and deeply human episode of the LightSong Talking Stick Podcast, Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader explore grief as a natural, necessary, and sacred process—one that must be felt, expressed, and allowed to move rather than managed, solved, or suppressed.
The conversation opens with a heart-centered invocation, inviting listeners to slow down, soften, and enter the space of the right brain and the heart—where grief is understood not as weakness, but as a form of deep intelligence. From there, Jan and Micah speak candidly about grief in all its forms: the loss of loved ones, animals, identities, relationships, belief systems, and entire ways of life.
Jan shares powerful reflections from her own life, including the death of her husband and close friends, and the realization that no amount of spiritual practice can—or should—remove someone from grief before the cycle is complete. Grief, she explains, carries its own energy and timing. When honored, it becomes a teacher. When resisted or “stuffed,” it can lodge in the body and eventually manifest as illness or soul loss.
Throughout the episode, they explore:
Micah shares personal stories of loss, including the death of his mother, parents, and beloved dog, reflecting on how grief opened unexpected doorways to connection with spirit, nature, and meaning. Rather than closing him down, grief became a bridge—deepening relationship, awareness, and spiritual insight.
Together, Jan and Micah emphasize that grief is not only about death. Transitions, identity shifts, and life changes all carry grief because something meaningful is being released. These moments of “dying to the old” are not failures—they are prerequisites for growth and ascension.
The episode closes with a gentle but honest invitation: to reflect on where grief may still be held in the body, whether it has been expressed or suppressed, and what small, safe ways it might be allowed to move—through breath, sound, motion, or quiet presence.
This conversation offers compassion, permission, and grounding for anyone navigating loss, transition, or the lingering weight of unprocessed grief—and for those learning how to walk beside others in their mourning with wisdom rather than urgency.
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
For more information about Micah and his work, visit ShamanSezz.com.
For more information about Micah’s memoir, Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman, visit ShamanSezz.com/stumbling-into-grace-the-book/
This episode explores deep spiritual themes through shared experiences and reflections on reincarnation, oneness, right- and left-brain consciousness, ancestral patterns, and the mystery of the human soul's journey. Participants share personal stories of synchronicity, intuitive music, childhood knowing, and navigating grief. Jan guides the conversation toward trust, surrender, and becoming—a process of internal transformation and openness to divine timing and higher consciousness.
· Invocation to raise vibration and create a sacred space
· Personal story of childhood trauma and suppressed memory tied to reincarnation
· Reflections on the soul as a single expression in different lives
· A theory of reincarnating when planetary alignments repeat
· Right-brain vs. left-brain understanding of time and the soul
· The role of belief systems in shaping perception and reality
· Personal and intuitive experiences of oneness and soul resonance
· Trust, acceptance, and non-resistance as pathways to alignment
· Shamanic stories about putting out fires through inner alignment
· Discussion on ancestral curses, fear-based belief systems, and spiritual sovereignty
· Closing thoughts on the soul as a shapeshifter, unity with all existence, and usable insights for personal transformation
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
S2 E9 The Medicine Wheel, Life Cycles, and the Hero’s Journey
Talking Stick Podcast – Medicine Wheel – 12-30-25
In this episode of the LightSong Talking Stick Podcast, Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader explore the medicine wheel as a living map for understanding life cycles, creative processes, grief, healing, and purpose.
Through a grounding invocation and an expansive conversation, they contrast Western linear thinking with Indigenous cyclical wisdom, revealing how life unfolds through seasons of beginning, growth, reflection, and letting go. They discuss why modern culture resists rest and reflection, how burnout and depression can signal an incomplete cycle, and how honoring the full wheel creates ascension rather than stagnation.
Micah connects the medicine wheel to the Hero’s Journey, showing how this ancient pattern shapes storytelling, writing, business, and personal transformation. Jan shares personal reflections on long seasons spent in the North—where loss, wisdom, and deep healing emerge—and explains how multiple areas of life can occupy different directions at the same time.
The episode also touches on vision quests, daily reflective practices, nature as a living mirror, and the necessity of completing the circle— there is no single “correct” medicine wheel.
A rich conversation for anyone navigating transition, creativity, grief, identity, or the question of legacy and meaning.
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Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
For more information about Micah and his work, visit ShamanSezz.com.
For more information about Micah’s memoir, Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman, visit ShamanSezz.com/stumbling-into-grace-the-book/
S2 E8 Talking Stick Podcast with Jan Engels-Smith & Micah Schwader
Episode Title: “Embodiment: Living What You Think, Feel, and Manifest”
In this expansive and deeply practical episode of the Talking Stick Podcast, Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader explore the true meaning of embodiment—not as a concept, but as a lived, moment-to-moment experience that shapes our health, emotions, relationships, and the reality we create.
The episode opens with a grounding invocation, inviting benevolent allies to hold a sacred container of safety, integrity, and heart-centered awareness. From there, Jan reframes embodiment as the integration of our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual systems—a rare and powerful configuration unique to human beings.
Together, Jan and Micah examine how unconscious thought patterns—especially repetitive negativity and unresolved emotional reactions—become physically embodied in the body, often manifesting as pain, illness, exhaustion, or emotional reactivity. Jan explains how the body cannot distinguish between a remembered experience and a current one, meaning that replaying old wounds can cause repeated energetic and physiological harm.
This conversation moves beyond theory into practice. Jan shares simple yet profound techniques for interrupting destructive mental loops, including her powerful “cancel” practice, which stops unconscious mind chatter and returns the nervous system to the present moment. She illustrates how choosing and embodying higher-frequency emotions—such as gratitude, appreciation, joy, and peace—can recalibrate the entire system and shift what we attract into our lives.
Micah adds personal stories that ground these teachings in real life, from noticing how chronic negativity shows up as physical pain in others, to recognizing his own patterns of victimhood through writing—and ultimately rewriting both his manuscript and his life. Together, they explore how awareness, accountability, and conscious interruption allow us to move from being participants in old stories to directors of new ones.
The episode closes with a powerful experiential moment, inviting listeners to feel the immediate bodily shift created by high-frequency words—demonstrating, in real time, how embodiment works.
In this episode, you’ll explore:
This episode is both a teaching and an invitation—one that asks a simple but powerful question:
What are you embodying right now?
Listen in, feel into your body, and begin practicing embodiment as a way of living—not just thinking—your truth.
Learn more about Jan’s teachings and programs at LightSong.net
Learn more about Micah at ShamanSezz.com
S2 E7 Talking Stick Podcast – 12-20-25 – Emotional Regulation and Divinity
In this reflective episode of the LightSong Talking Stick Podcast, Micah Schwader and Jan Engels-Smith begin with a beautiful invocation, calling in benevolent allies, opening the blessing fields, and inviting listeners into a global circle—heart to heart—so the conversation can unfold from the wisdom of the heart.
From there, Micah shares a breakthrough sparked by a leadership program: the idea that we often “have what we want” because we’ve been unconsciously creating it, driven by hidden attachments and “mind-chatter story.” A deep values exercise reveals something surprising—Micah’s top values include financial freedom and creative expression—and that insight exposes an internal mismatch: pushing away clients wasn’t failure… it was an unconscious attempt to make space for his next chapter.
Jan expands the teaching through a spirit-led story about manifestation, reminding us that we live in an attraction-based universe—what we focus on (even what we don’t want) grows. Together they explore attachment, “unraveling” old dreams, and reclaiming energy from outdated identities so it can fuel the new.
The episode then turns toward emotional regulation as the practical companion to spiritual growth: the “swirl” of daily chaos, the snowball effect of frustration, and the importance of pausing—breathing, sweeping energy off, shifting from sympathetic fight-or-flight into parasympathetic flow. They discuss how quickly we can change our broadcast, how stories harden into identity, and why true transformation begins with self-awareness.
The conversation closes with encouragement to know thyself, honor the medicine wheel’s full cycle (including the West and North—introspection and letting go), and create space for solitude, journaling, and inner listening. Jan offers a blessing for the new year—“Miracles come quick in 2026”—inviting listeners to choose differently, step into alignment, and welcome the next evolution.
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For more information about Micah’s memoir, Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman, visit ShamanSezz.com/stumbling-into-grace-the-book/
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
For more information about Micah and his work, visit ShamanSezz.com.
This episode of the LightSong podcast offers a deep and immersive spiritual experience guided by Jan Engels-Smith and the LightSong team.
The session begins with an invocation to lift participants out of "densities"—energetic states like fear, doubt, and worry—into realms of purity filled with divine qualities such as love, truth, harmony, and healing. The intention is to raise the frequency of the group and create a sacred and protected space where transformation can occur.
Jan calls a “safe container.” This space allows each person to release distractions and engage with spiritual presence, anchoring into their divine nature.
Throughout the session, participants are encouraged to:
- Reclaim their spiritual authority and clarity
- Engage in collective healing and frequency elevation
- Trust their inner knowing and direct connection to spirit
Themes of sacred unity, divine presence, spiritual protection, and community collaboration are interwoven through guided meditation, spiritual teachings, and group intention.
The podcast delivers both a teaching and an energetic transmission, making it a valuable episode for anyone committed to deep spiritual work and conscious evolution.
Ideal for listeners seeking:
- Energy clearing and protection practices
- Spiritual empowerment
- A sense of community in sacred space
- Guidance on aligning with higher frequencies
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
S2 E5 ReCreate: The 21-Day Super Self Transformation — Markers, Miracles & Whole-Brain Living
This episode is offered as an extra feature for our ReCreate Manifesting Miracles community.
The group practiced the Super Self Meditation for 21 days, giving their right brain consistent “airtime” to experience true vibrational shifts. What emerged were profound transformations, energetic markers, emotional breakthroughs, and deep personal insights.
In this heartfelt, expansive follow-up gathering, participants share their real-life experiences of shifting realities, dissolving fear, healing relationships, increasing joy, and learning how whole-brain living can elevate every aspect of their lives.
Jan offers teachings on markers, vibrational alignment, memory and ego, the power of love over tools, ancestral fear patterns, past-life imprints, and the lifelong lifestyle of right-brain engagement. It is a rich, intimate conversation about becoming the new human — whole-brained, heart-centered, and vibrationally aware.
Lifestyle vs. Practice
Link to the SuperSelf Meditation https://www.lightsong.net/product/superself-meditation/
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
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Talking Stick Podcast — “Right Brain, Left Brain, and the Ego: Becoming Whole-Brained Humans” – 11-15-25
In this thought-provoking episode of the Talking Stick Podcast, Jan Engels-Smith and Micah “MJ” Schwader explore the balance between the left and right hemispheres of the brain—and how this balance influences creativity, intuition, and spiritual connection.
The episode opens with a beautiful invocation from Jan, guiding listeners to rise above the densities of worry, frustration, and doubt into the realms of pure light, love, and truth. From there, Jan and Micah discuss the wisdom of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, whose groundbreaking insights on brain hemispheres validate what shamanic teachings have long known: energy work isn’t “woo-woo”—it’s whole-brain living.
Highlights include:
Jan and Micah remind us that wholeness begins with awareness—that our natural state is one of presence, gratitude, and connection to the living field of creation.
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For more information about Micah’s memoir, Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman, visit ShamanSezz.com/stumbling-into-grace-the-book/
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
For more information about Micah and his work, visit ShamanSezz.com.
S2 E37 Manifesting Miracles: Surrender, Healing, and the Quantum Power of Belief
✨ Podcast Summary / Description:
In this expansive and deeply inspiring episode of Manifesting Miracles, Jan facilitates a full circle of transformation — beginning with a grounding invocation and evolving into a rich discussion on surrender, spiritual healing, manifestation, and shamanic wisdom. Through real-life stories of miracles, Jan and the participants explore how surrender, trust, and energetic alignment open the gateway for Spirit to work through our lives.
Listeners hear powerful personal accounts — from licenses miraculously renewed, to trees moved by unseen forces, to lost wedding rings returned through divine timing — all illustrating how miracles manifest when we let go of control and align with love. Jan expands the conversation into profound teachings on shamanic healing, the unraveling of energetic patterns across lifetimes, and the laws that govern transformation in the quantum field.
Through every question and story, Jan reminds us that what we focus on multiplies. By choosing trust over fear, gratitude over worry, and curiosity over judgment, we step into co-creation with Spirit — becoming conscious participants in the miraculous unfolding of life itself.
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Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
Episode Title: Intuition, Prophecy & the Language of the Soul
In this deeply heart-centered episode of the LightSong Talking Stick Podcast, co-hosts Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader explore the many dimensions of intuition—its spiritual roots, psychological clarity, and poetic beauty. The conversation begins with a grounding invocation as Jan guides listeners into breath, presence, and the welcoming field of divine support.
From there, Jan and Micah open a rich dialogue about intuition as the “quiet language of the soul,” sharing their personal stories, shamanic experiences, and teachings on how intuitive knowing shows up in everyday life. They discuss:
Together, they illuminate intuition not as a mysterious gift for a select few, but as an ancient human ability that lives within all of us—one that can guide, warn, inspire, and connect us with spirit, with nature, and with each other.
This episode invites you to recognize the intuitive moments woven throughout your life, to trust the quiet voice within, and to remember that you are supported by both seen and unseen allies on your Earth walk.
Aho and enjoy the journey.
For more information about Micah’s memoir, Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman, visit ShamanSezz.com/stumbling-into-grace-the-book/
Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is in a series of gatherings that are held bi-monthly on zoom calls. Participants from around the world that are interested in making positive changes in their life: career, relationship, health and finances are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most important tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change you must change within. You must become an energetic match for the things that you desire. Jan as a tenured teacher for 30+ years shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
S2 E1 - Heart Connection and Spiritual Light - Manifesting Miracles
In this heartfelt episode of Manifesting Miracles, Jan gathers a global community of souls to reconnect with the pure frequency of love and divine awareness. The session begins with a gentle meditation that invites participants to close their eyes, settle into stillness, and find comfort within the shared presence of the group. With hands resting over the heart, listeners are guided to send a simple, profound message to their own being: “Hello, I see you. I am safe.”
From that space of loving acknowledgment, Jan channels spiritual light from the heavens, guiding it to flow through the crown, face, neck, and body—infusing every cell with warmth, illumination, and peace. The light becomes a river of grace, connecting heaven and earth within the body. This meditation opens the pathway to self-recognition, allowing participants to remember their divine nature and expand their energetic field outward to bless others.
Throughout the episode, Jan speaks to the beauty of vulnerability, the courage of the open heart, and the power of presence. She encourages each listener to feel the unity that exists beyond physical distance, reminding us that light is not bound by space or time—it moves through intention, love, and awareness. By the end of the experience, the listener feels renewed, grounded, and uplifted, aligned once again with the miracle of being alive.
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Gratitude donation- If you would like to make a donation to Jan Engels-Smith and keep Manifesting Miracles active, please use Venmo @Jan-Engels-Smith or contact Jan with other payment options Jan@lightsong.net
Manifesting Miracles: This podcast is part of a series of gatherings held bi-monthly on Zoom. Participants from around the world who are interested in making positive changes in their lives —career, relationships, health, and finances — are on this call. Jan starts this series with the most essential tips in conscious manifestation. If you want the world to change, if you want your situation to change, you must change within. You must become an energetic match for what you desire. Jan, as a tenured teacher for 30+ years, shares her wisdom on intentional manifestation and shamanism. Jan teaches, discusses, and answers questions.
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
S1 E36 - The Bigger Picture - LightSong Tlaking Stick Podcast
In this illuminating episode of the LightSong Talking Stick Podcast, Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader invite listeners to rise above the noise of daily life and glimpse the bigger picture—that vast web of connection, energy, and meaning that shapes our experiences beyond what the eye can see.
The episode opens with a grounding invocation that lifts us from the “densities of Earth” into the frequencies of light, love, and awareness. From there, Jan and Micah explore how every challenge, synchronicity, and belief carries purpose—threads in a much larger tapestry of the soul.
Through stories drawn from Jan’s decades of shamanic healing and soul-retrieval work, she reveals how unseen energetic patterns—vows, attachments, and forgotten choices—can quietly influence health, relationships, and abundance. Micah reflects on his own lifelong awareness of signs in nature, the patterns revealed through writing and reflection, and how perspective transforms hardship into insight.
Together they weave shamanic wisdom, storytelling, and personal experience into a rich conversation about karma, energetic law, and human evolution—reminding us that what we perceive as coincidence is often divine design.
Highlights include:
Whether you’re navigating personal change, exploring energy medicine, or simply seeking perspective, this episode is a reminder that there is always a bigger picture—and you are part of it.
For more information about Micah’s memoir, Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman, visit ShamanSezz.com/stumbling-into-grace-the-book/
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
For more information about Micah and his work, visit ShamanSezz.com.
S1 E35 - Breath, Belief & The Quiet Power of Kindness - Manifesting Miracles
Manifesting Miracles Host: Jan Engels-Smith
In this heartfelt gathering, Jan opens with a guided, intentional-breathing practice—inviting listeners to “bring in the new, let go of the old,” and to embody gratitude as a felt sensation rather than a thought. What follows is a living conversation about raising personal vibration through small, consistent acts: smiles to strangers, opening a door, pausing to notice beauty, stepping outside, and using simple cues—chimes, post-it notes, repeating numbers, crystals, even a watch set to buzz—to return to presence.
Community stories flow: how kindness disarms polarization, why connection dissolves loneliness, and how neighborhood resilience emerges after storms. Jan frames adversity through a shamanic lens—dismemberment that precedes renewal—and revisits the Medicine Wheel as a spiral of growth.
Manifestation is grounded in practice: match your inner broadcast (gratitude, coherence, love) with your intentions, and train focus with imagination and daily reminders. A thoughtful Q&A explores health worries, “blind beliefs,” and the Course in Miracles idea that there is no hierarchy in healing. The episode closes with a practical 21-day challenge to anchor new habits and become the “new, healed self.”
Episode highlights
Perfect for anyone ready to step off the hamster wheel, re-center in love, and recreate themselves—quietly, consistently, and together.
Manifesting Miracles is a bi-monthly gathering on Zoom that brings together participants from around the world who are committed to creating positive change in their lives—whether in careers, relationships, health, or finances.
Each session begins with Jan sharing the most essential teachings on conscious manifestation. Her core message: If you want the world to change—or your circumstances to change—you must first change within. You must become an energetic match for what you desire.
Drawing from over 30 years of teaching experience, Jan offers her wisdom in intentional manifestation and shamanism. Every gathering is interactive, with Jan teaching, guiding discussions, and answering participant questions.
Visit www.LightSong.net for more information.
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S1 E34 - Soul Retrieval: Reclaiming Divine Essence - LightSong Talking Stick Podcast
LightSong Talking Stick Co-hosts Jan Engels-Smith and Micah Schwader
In this heartfelt and illuminating episode, Jan Engels-Smith, founder of the LightSong School of 21st Century Shamanism, joins host Micah Schwader to explore one of the most profound and ancient shamanic healing practices: Soul Retrieval.
Jan begins with a beautiful invocation—an invitation to call home the scattered parts of ourselves that may have become lost through conflict, trauma, or simply the busyness of life. From there, she guides listeners through a rich, grounded explanation of soul loss and retrieval, bridging ancient shamanic understanding with modern psychology.
Together, Jan and Micah discuss what it means to “maintenance the soul,” how illness and emotional distress can stem from energetic dissonance, and why the reclamation of our own divine essence is essential to personal healing. Jan shares her decades of experience performing soul retrievals, describing the ceremony, preparation, and aftercare with deep reverence—and Micah reflects on two of his own transformative retrievals, including one that coincided with his transgender awakening.
Their conversation flows from the deeply personal to the universally spiritual: from the practical ways we can call ourselves back each day, to the vision of a worldwide soul retrieval—a collective healing for humanity and the Earth itself.
Highlights include:
A tender, insightful episode for anyone drawn to spiritual healing, self-integration, or the art of living with more light and connection.
Listen in and reclaim the parts of yourself that have been waiting to come home.
For more information about Micah’s memoir, Stumbling Into Grace: The Adventures of a Transgender Shaman, visit ShamanSezz.com/stumbling-into-grace-the-book/
For more information about Jan Engels-Smith and her work, visit LightSong.net.
For more information about Micah and his work, visit ShamanSezz.com.