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Lab PartnersVictimhood Meta Inquiry: Out of the Consciousness and Into the Feels ~ With Quinn and KelseyBuckle up for a heady one. Quinn and Kelsey put their minds together to investigate the terrain of victimhood. Parts of this conversation might feel a little inaccessible to those with less fluency in the nuances of the Human Design system. Lean into the mental stimulation, or let it wash over you!Your Victimhood Psychopomp hosts discuss:The distinction between victim-y feelings and victim consciousnessThe relationship between early childhood trauma and ones tethers to victimhoodThe shift from “why did this happen?” to “what is here?”Feelings of victimhood as normal, transient statesAwareness as psychopomp: traveling between realms i...
2025-11-171h 50Lab PartnersCaveat Council: The False Binary of Emotions vs. Consciousness ~ with Amalia & QuinnIn this conversation, Quinn joins Amalia’s weekly talk show, One Foot on the Roof. It wasn’t evident during the exchange that this conversation would be a Lab Partners episode or that it would be shared at all, so the vibe is cozy, intimate, and even more behind the scenes than usual. Enjoy this generous access to two friends digging into some potent exploration of:The quantum effect of observation: exploring how recording a conversation shifts the field and the desire to blur the line between relaxed intimacy and public sharingThe value of sharing from and w...
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Living Your Design30. Emotional AuthorityIn this episode Kelsey dives into exploring Emotional Authority, the most common of all Inner Authorities in Human Design. Governed by the Emotional Solar Plexus, which is both a motor and awareness center, Emotional Authority is the energetic and experiential process through which emotional beings arrive at clarity over time.Kelsey examines how the emotional wave functions as a natural cycle of highs, lows, and neutrality and why there is “no truth in the now.” Emotional Authority teaches us patience, detachment, and self-responsibility, showing that clarity is not about certainty, but about witnessing the unfolding of truth thro...
2025-11-131h 15Living Your Design29. Intro to Authority As Your Anchor & FilterIn this episode, we begin exploring Inner Authority, which is the foundation of decision making in Human Design. Authority is the anchor and filter through which we experience life’s conditions and conditioning. It’s not something we develop or have to "figure out." It’s the inherent intelligence of the body, always operating beneath the mind’s commentary.Kelsey examines the difference between conditioning and authority, how authority arises from our defined centers, and why the mind is never the place from which to make personal decisions. This episode invites you to begin recognizing the voice of your...
2025-11-1135 minLiving Your Design28. Aura Type in SummationIn this episode, we bring the Aura Type series to completion with a reflective synthesis on the four Types in Human Design. This conversation revisits the mechanics and lived experience of each Type, exploring how their distinct aura patterns, strategies, and signatures weave together to form the larger tapestry of human interaction and consciousness.We’ll look at the broader dynamics of energy vs. non-energy beings, personal vs. impersonal auras, and the universal lessons embedded in each Type. This episode invites us to move beyond comparison, aka the “grass is greener” illusion, and instead honor the unique purpos...
2025-11-0632 minLab PartnersMetabolizing Shame: The World is Burning and We are Creating ~ With Nic, Kelsey, and AmaliaMetabolizing Shame: The World is Burning and We are CreatingNic, Kelsey, and Amalia take advantage of the trust established amongst them to observe and digest their experiences of Shame when it comes to prioritizing their joy, creativity, peace, and satisfaction, even as the World Burns.This is a raw and powerful conversation offering listeners an opportunity to challenge the black and white narratives that keep them in a disempowered freeze state and to calibrate to new conceptualizations that carry potential for real transformation. They discuss:Shame, Fear & Safety: h...
2025-11-061h 47Living Your Design27. The Reflector (Part 2)In this episode, we continue our 2 part conversation on the Reflector with diving deeper into their lived experience, themes of surprise and disappointment, and their profound role as mirrors of the collective. Reflectors are here to reveal the health of the world around them, not by doing or fixing, but by reflecting what is.Kelsey explores what it means for Reflectors to live in detachment from outcomes, the importance of environment and community, and how awareness transforms disappointment into surprise. This episode is a meditation on neutrality, presence, and the quiet power of those who reflect life...
2025-11-0437 minLab PartnersProcessing Scarcity & Valuing Initiation ~ With Kelsey, Steph, and EréndiraThis one is a real real real behind the scenes. Listen in on colLaboratory’s manifestors checking in during a moment of anger and perceived scarcity. Kelsey, Steph, Erendira (& briefly Quinn!) recorded a conversation about the sometimes-tension between relaxed, generous initiation and sustainable resourcing.Together, they relax into layered feelings about:Moments of contraction, anger, and scarcity in their processes with initiation & resourceThe difference between selling beginnings versus selling completion or consumptionThe “self-responsibility binary” and the trap of emphasizing internal alchemy over expression of whats present Capitalism’s incompatibility with differentiation in general and specifically with the manif...
2025-11-031h 00Living Your Design26. The Reflector (Part 1)In this episode, we begin our two part exploration on the Reflector, which the rarest of all Human Design types, representing about 1–1.5% of the population. Reflectors are completely open beings with no defined centers, designed to sample, measure, and mirror the health of their environments and communities.Kelsey unpacks the mechanics of the Reflector aura and explores what it means to be a lunar being in a solar world. This conversation re-frames sensitivity and openness as profound wisdom, showing how Reflectors embody the pulse of the world around them and reflect it back for collective awareness....
2025-10-3046 minLiving Your Design25. The Projector (Part 2)In this episode, we continue our 2 part exploration of the Projector through diving into the experience of recognition, success, bitterness, and guidance. Projectors are designed to master the art of seeing and knowing the other, but this wisdom can only emerge through correct invitations, self-recognition, and deep deconditioning.Kelsey explores the energetic challenges of being a non-energy type in a Generator world, the sacred responsibility of Projector's attention, and what it truly means to wait for the invitation and recognition. This conversation offers insight into how Projectors can release bitterness, reclaim their authority, and step into their...
2025-10-281h 00Lab PartnersI Can Feel Your Alchemy ~ with Amalia, Noah, and KelseyIn this conversation, Amalia, Noah, and Kelsey trace the currents of emotional alchemy. Through reflection on their somatic experiences with grief, relief, heartache, breakthrough, relationship, and surrender, they dive deep with each other and with listeners in exploring:The solar plexus as both energy and awareness: how feelings transform through embodiment and timeWhat defines a “breakthrough” moment, and how story-making, timing, and inner authority may shape that processDehomogenizing the “feel your feelings” orientationIdentifying where emotions live in and move through the body as they arrive and integrateWhat is grief? Where does it live in the body? Relational Safety and Emoti...
2025-10-272h 16Living Your Design24. The Projector (Part 1)In this episode we begin our 2 part exploration of the Projector aura type in Human Design. Projectors make up about 20% of the population who's auric function is not designed to work like Generators or initiate like Manifestors, but rather to see, absorb, and guide the energy of others.Kelsey unpacks the mechanics that define a Projector and explores how their focused, penetrating aura is designed for one-on-one connection and deep recognition. This episode introduces the strategy of waiting for the invitation, and how this simple yet profound practice protects a Projector’s limited energy and aligns them wi...
2025-10-231h 07Living Your Design23. The Manifestor (Part 2)In this episode, we continue our exploration of the Manifestor, including the relational and energetic dynamics of what it means to be a Manifestor (i.e., Informing, anger, peace, and impact). As a Manifestor herself, Kelsey dives into the misconceptions of informing so you can see your Strategy not as a way to control you, but as a practical tool for reducing resistance and honoring the Manifestor’s inherent independence.This episode also unpacks the emotional experience of anger and the true nature of peace, illuminating how resistance and control shape the Manifestor’s conditioning. This conversation invi...
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Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking225. Kelsey Rose Tortorice: The Frequency DojoI'm so thrilled to have Kelsey Rose Tortorice back on the pod!Kelsey is a student teacher of the maia, translator of the languages of consciousness & talisman for upheaval. This conversation is all of that and more. The second we got on the call, we started riding the wave of the frequency, so this is an unedited, Kelsey-and-Jonathan-meeting-the-moment transmission.Some topics we covered: The disintegration of tribal agreements.The awakening of individual frequencies.Personal authenticity, meeting the present moment, and parking metaphors.The role of emotional alchemy.Ancestral healing.We also discussed the P...
2025-10-201h 40Lab PartnersTruly Relational Beings: 4/6 Transpersonal Praxis ~ With Quinn, Amalia, and NicJoin colLaboratory’s three 4/6 profiles for a chat from their respective roof balconies about the living assignment of Transpersonal Praxis that is the Opportunist - Role Model life.Quinn, Amalia, and Nic share with each other and with listeners their experiences and reflections around:Shame and failure in the process of bumping into life before finding resilience or detachment “on the roof.”The evolving relationship to community, friendship, and environment: finding spaces and people that allow one’s full expression to exist without defense.Parentification in early role modeling Balancing participation and observation: needing distance within connection...
2025-10-201h 33Living Your Design22. The Manifestor (Part 1)In this episode, we begin our exploration of the Manifestor type, which is the only type designed to initiate in Human Design. Making up roughly 9% of the population, Manifestors are here to bring new impulses into form, to start movements, and to catalyze energetic change in the world.Kelsey dives into the mechanics that define a Manifestor and the experience of carrying a closed, repelling aura that is designed to move independently through life. This conversation redefines what it means to be powerful and create impact, not through constant doing, but through honoring rest, urges, and the...
2025-10-1659 minLab PartnersTending the Revolt, Behind the Scenes ~ With Eréndira and NicIn this special episode of Lab Partners, Nic Strack interviews Eréndira Jiménez about her new eight-week circle, “Tending the Revolt.” The conversation explores how caregiving, creativity, and liberation can coexist—especially for parents and caregivers who are seeking to integrate revolutionary ideas into their daily lives. They discuss: How the 8-week circle serves as a communal space for reflection and creativityShifting experiences & expressions of liberation and activism from something more “combustible” to something more intimate, poetic, and lived in the everydayExploring stories, myth weaving, and community woundsThe power of gathering honestly, without agenda, to discover transformation through mutu...
2025-10-1552 min
Your Design & StuffTotally PlutonicThanks for being Here! Instead of dipping a toe into the Human Design ocean, we are diving in head-first, because the world's energy right now just won't take no for an answer.Today we take a journey with Pluto through the Root Center, to get some context and perspective on the literal How of evolution, and everything that development tends to trigger right now. Our intention: Comfort through context, a sense of home through tapping into the purposefulness of it all. Work with mePlay with meInstaResources...
2025-10-141h 35Living Your Design21. The Generator (Part 2)In this episode, we continue our two part conversation on the Generator type by exploring the difference between Generators and Manifesting Generators and how both are here to transform life through work that they love. Kelsey also dives into how the Sacral response serves as the body’s innate guidance system and how Generators are designed to know themselves through what they respond to and create. This conversation invites Generators to awaken to their true power, which doesn't happen through force or initiation, but rather through surrender to response, trust in timing, and deep satisfaction in the cr...
2025-10-1439 minLab PartnersTrust is the Resource (What Does it Cost to Be Free?) ~ With Maru, Erendira, and KelseyThis is a powerful conversation (between two heretics and a role model!) embracing queries that are relevant to many creatives, like:“HOW TO JUST DO WHATEVER YOU WANT““HOW TO BE RESOURCED TO JUST BE YOU”and“WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE FINANCIALLY FREE?”Maru, Eréndira, and Kelsey offer stories, examples, and perspectives clarified in their years of deprogramming orientations to resource, success, security, and certainty.They discuss:Letting go of metrics of success that were never theirsTrajectory shifts from more “safe” and traditional career paths to t...
2025-10-131h 20Lab PartnersCollaboration, Parenting, & Collaborative Parenting (Oh My!) ~ With Steph and NicThis episode is a brainstorming session that Steph & Nic decided to record and share! In it, you’ll hear them getting to know each other’s stories a bit more and exploring ideas for how they might join forces in their work and creativity this season. They discuss:The effect of self-withholding on connective creative flowAccessing neutrality when it comes to our experiences of wounding and mistrustTheir histories and identities in parentingWhere parenting and awareness experimentation intersectand of course, much more. You get to witness their organic arrival to an idea for wo...
2025-10-101h 14Living Your Design20. The Generator (Part 1)In this 2 part episode, we begin our exploration of Type, with the Generator. These Sacral beings make up around 70% of the population. Generators are the life force of the planet, designed to respond to life rather than initiate it. Through the mechanics of their defined Sacral Center and open, enveloping aura, Generators produce energy when they engage with what truly satisfies them. Kelsey also unpacks the deeper meaning of “work” and “labor” for Generators, outside the lens of capitalism or productivity culture. This episode invites Generators to reimagine their relationship with energy, creativity, and satisfaction so they can begi...
2025-10-0734 minLiving Your Design19. Aura Type as a Practical SynthesisIn this episode, we begin our exploration of Aura Type, which is the foundational synthesis of the Human Design system. Type takes the infinite complexity of the Bodygraph and makes it universally accessible, offering a practical entry point into the deconditioning process.Kelsey dives into how Type weaves together definition, openness, strategy, and themes, and why awareness of your Type alone can be transformative. By aligning with your Strategy and honoring your aura mechanics, you can begin to witness how your body naturally moves through life, without forcing or proving.What's Discussed in This Episode:
2025-10-0734 minLab PartnersThe Frequency Was Clear, We Forgot the Rest ~ with Nic and KelseyCome along with Nic & Kelsey for a chat that’s both wide-ranging and deeply rooted, exploring:the differentiated experience of empathythe distinction between intellectual and somatic assimilation of Human Design learning to let ideas breathe and embracing creative mania, sometimes disrupting the capitalist pipeline by leaning into the creative process how their bodies (with sacral & emotional authorities) navigate the field of ideation …and more.🧪 This episode's Lab Partners:Nic is a 4/6 Sacral Generator with Desire MotivationKelsey is a 5/2 Emotional Manifestor with Innocence MotivationYou can find more about them and their other lab p...
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the maia games28 ~ in our authority with jessa reedjessa and kelsey are back in swap-cast mode to talk about what it's like to be anchored in our (human design) inner authorities.we have watched our ability to anchor to inner authority as a means to clearing both relational codependency and codependency with the state.we talk about it a little in this share, and invite you to sign up for our 5 week course - inOur Authority - starting October 28th.learn more about the course at kelseyrosetort.com/authority.check...
2025-09-3045 minLiving Your Design18. The G-CenterIn this episode, Kelsey dives into the final center lecture with the G-center, which plays a unique and special role. The G-Center is the home of the Magnetic Monopole, which is moves us along our unique trajectory in life and operates based on resonance. Our mind is designed to be a passenger in the vehicle (our body) and the G-center acts as the driver of that vehicle. We’ll look at how the G-center operates when defined versus undefined, how conditioning shapes our relationship with love and life direction. This episode is about learning to trust in yo...
2025-09-3029 minLiving Your Design17. The Ajna CenterIn this episode, Kelsey dives into the Ajna Center, which is our mental awareness center in Human Design. Rooted in logic and reasoning, the Ajna is always seeking answers through formulating and conceptualizing thoughts, opinions, beliefs and ideas. However, what is externalized through the Ajna is not intended for personal use but rather for others. It's here to be an outer authority for others, not as your own inner authority. We’ll look at how the Ajna operates when defined versus undefined and why regardless of definition, the mind is never supposed to be used in decision ma...
2025-09-3030 minLab PartnersThe Power and Price of Authenticity ~ with Steph and KelseyDrop in with Steph & Kelsey for a juicy exchange about creativity, emotionality, and authenticity. They reflect on:The intersections between the emotional and the creative processesBeing surprised by what’s growing inside The transmuting of self rejection The emotional manifestor experience The power and the price of authenticity …and much more.🧪 This episode's Lab Partners:Kelsey is a 5/2 Emotional ManifestorSteph is a 2/4 Emotional ManifestorYou can find more about them and their other lab partners at kelseyrosetort.com/labpartners, including bodygraphs, natal charts, and ways to connect with their work.
2025-09-2951 minLiving Your Design16. The Splenic CenterIn this episode, Kelsey dives into the Splenic Center, which is the oldest awareness center in the Bodygraph. Rooted in instinct, survival, health, and well-being, the Spleen communicates through spontaneous, moment-to-moment hits of intuition that tell us what is and isn't safe and supportive for life. We’ll look at how the Spleen operates when defined versus undefined, how conditioning shapes our relationship with fear and intuition, and what it means to hold onto things that are no longer good for us. This episode is about learning to trust your instincts, honor your health, and let go of...
2025-09-2334 minLiving Your Design15. Into to Awareness CentersIn this episode, Kelsey introduces the three awareness centers in the Human Design Bodygraph: the Spleen, Ajna, and Solar Plexus. These centers provide us with perception, recognition, and knowing. Each center has a different focus and time orientation. Together, they chart an evolutionary trajectory of awareness from instinct, to mental strategy, to emotional depth.We’ll explore how awareness operates both differently when originating from above and below the Throat, why the mind is not your authority, and how awareness centers shape the way we perceive reality and share it with others. This episode sets the foundation fo...
2025-09-2322 minLab PartnersNot Some Bullshit, Not Alone ~ with Noah and ErendiraDrop in with Noah & Eréndira for an open-hearted, conversational flow. Together, they explore:Safety & trust in collaborationWhat it feels like to be witnessed mid-creative processThe impact of colonialism on the body's experience of being seenStretching one’s capacity for being perceived Hopes for how this podcast might support listeners…and much more.🧪 This episode's Lab Partners :Noah is a 1/4 Splenic ProjectorEréndira is a 5/2 Emotional ManifestorYou can find more about them and their other lab partners at kelseyrosetort.com/labpartners, including bodygraphs, natal charts, and ways to connect with their wor...
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Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking221. Pisces Virgo Nodes: The Cosmic Context with Kelsey Rose TortoriceIn advance of the upcoming Solar Eclipse in Virgo on September 21st, I'm re-sharing a section of my deep dive on the 2025 astrology with Kelsey Rose Tortorice – specifically the part where we discussed the Lunar Nodes in Pisces-Virgo axis. I hope this serves you! If you're into my and Kelsey's vibes and transmissions, check out the full conversation: Part 1 on this podcast (Outer Planets + Chiron)Part 2 on Kelsey's podcast, The Maia Games (The Lunar Nodes, Saturn, and Jupiter)Here's Kelsey's bio:Kelsey is a post-capitalist astrologer, teacher, human design experiMentor, and commu...
2025-09-1950 minLiving Your Design14. The Emotional Solar PlexusIn this episode, Kelsey dives into the Emotional Solar Plexus, which serves two functions as an awareness hub and a motor. This is the seat of emotional awareness, experiential knowing, and the energy to emote, which makes it one of the most powerful and complex centers in the Human Design system.We’ll look at how emotional authority functions, the role of the wave in decision making, and the difference between defined and undefined Solar Plexus experiences. This episode invites you to shift your relationship with emotions from something to fix or avoid, into a vital source of...
2025-09-1636 minLiving Your Design13. The Ego CenterIn this episode, we turn to the Ego Center (also known as the Heart Center), which is the smallest and most inconsistent of the four motor centers in Human Design. Despite being one of the smallest centers in the Bodygraph, containing only 4 gates, it is the fuel for willpower, commitment, competition, and material reality. This center also holds deep themes of self-worth, value, and self-esteem.Kelsey explores how the Ego functions when defined versus undefined, the challenges of living in a world that overemphasizes willpower, and how to release the pressure to prove yourself. By understanding the...
2025-09-1628 minLiving Your Design12. The Sacral CenterIn this episode, we're diving into the Sacral Center, which is the most powerful motor in the Human Design Bodygraph, fueling life force, vitality, creativity, and sexual energy. The Sacral is what defines the Generator and Manifesting Generator Type by providing consistent and renewable energy to be used in ways that feel satisfying.Kelsey explores how this major motor operates when defined versus undefined, the role of satisfaction and frustration, and the not-self tendencies that arise when we don’t respect the limits of our energy. This episode is about learning when “enough is enough,” and how to har...
2025-09-0943 minLiving Your Design11. Intro to the Motor CentersIn this episode, Kelsey introduces the four motor centers in the Human Design Bodygraph. The motor centers act as energy hubs that fuel movement, action, and sustainability in the Bodygraph. These centers determine how we generate, direct, and utilize energy, and play a defining role in the mechanics of Type.We’ll look at the unique functions of the Sacral, Root, Solar Plexus, and Ego centers, as well as how their definitions shape the energy dynamics of Generators, Manifestors, Projectors, and Reflectors. This episode sets the stage for a deeper dive into the specific role of each of...
2025-09-0923 minthe maia games27 ~ imposter not syndromean energetic attunement and intellectual reframe about what might actually be happening in your body when your mind registers "imposter syndrome," and how your individual experience of such is connected to the story of humanity's evolution unfolding now. yum!relevant links:patreon.com/kelseyrosetortjessareed.com/2027
2025-09-0523 minLiving Your Design10. The Throat CenterIn this episode, we're diving into the Throat Center, which is also known as the manifestation hub of the Human Design Bodygraph. The Throat is the place where pressure from the Head and Root is released, and where energy becomes expression, communication, action and impact.Kelsey explore's how the Throat Center operates when defined versus undefined, how conditioning distorts authentic expression, and why this center is often tied to issues of attention, recognition, and insecurity. By understanding your Throat mechanics, you can begin to trust the natural rhythm of your voice, your timing, and the power of...
2025-09-0241 minLiving Your Design09. The Head CenterIn this episode, we turn our attention to the Head Center, which is the mental pressure center in Human Design. The Head is the source of inspiration, doubt, mystery, and confusion, providing the spark that begins the process of thought and conceptualization.Kelsey explores how this pressure operates when the Head is defined versus undefined, what it means to be influenced by others’ questions and ideas, and how to navigate the not-self tendencies that arise when we try to resolve pressure that doesn’t truly belong to us. This episode is an invitation to shift your relationship with...
2025-09-0230 minLiving Your Design08. The Root CenterIn this episode, we continue our exploration of the nine centers by taking a deeper look at the Root Center, which is the source of pressure, stress, and adrenaline in the Human Design Bodygraph. As both a pressure center and a motor center, the Root provides the ignition that gets energy moving in the body, shaping how we experience urgency, timing, and stress.Kelsey goes into depth on how the Root functions differently when defined versus undefined, how conditioning distorts its natural role, and what it means to move through pressure in a healthy way. This episode...
2025-08-2637 minLiving Your Design07. Life Under PressureIn this episode, we begin our deep dive into the nine centers in the Human Design Bodygraph by exploring the Pressure Centers (Root and Head) as the starting point for how energy moves through our system. All of the energy in the 9 centers is trying to make its way to the Throat Center to be expressed. Kelsey explains how pressure is both inevitable and essential, and how our attempts to avoid, escape, or compulsively relieve it often feed the Not-Self and bring us out of alignment. This conversation introduces the functional categories of the centers, why pressure...
2025-08-2618 minthe maia games26 ~ introducing the LIVING YOUR DESIGN podcastinterrupting the maia games feed to introduce you to my newest podcast project: LIVING YOUR DESIGN. This is the first episode. You can catch the rest on it's own feed. (listen on spotify)Check out the description below, and if you're into it be sure to follow / subscribe to the LYD Podcast on your fave podcast platform.Head to patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for perks and resources and to get in orbit with me.The LYD Podcast is Your Comprehensive...
2025-08-2319 minLiving Your Design06. Aura Type BasicsIn this episode, Kelsey begins the exploration of the four Human Design Aura Types. Your Type describes how you interact with the world, other people, and the collective field. Each Type comes with its own Strategy for moving through life, core themes, and way of experiencing alignment and resistance. In this lesson, you'll learn the mechanical basis for each Type through the lens of center definition in the Bodygraph, which will prepare you for a deep dive on each Type in future episodes. What's discussed in this episode:The four Human Design Types: Generators, Manifestors, Reflectors...
2025-08-1947 minLiving Your Design05. Definition, Conditioning & the Not-SelfIn this episode, Kelsey explores the concepts of definition, openness, conditioning, and the not-self, which are some of the most important concepts to understanding how your energy operates and how you experience the world. In this lesson, you'll look at how defined and undefined centers shape your consistency, your sensitivities, and your unique way of relating to others and the world. Finally, Kelsey breaks down the role of conditioning in both distortion and growth.This is where Human Design becomes deeply personal: your specific arrangement of definition and openness is your own fingerprint. By understanding it, you...
2025-08-1948 minLiving Your Design04. The BodygraphIn this episode, Kelsey dives into the mechanics of the Human Design Bodygraph and the foundational elements of the chart that create your Type, Strategy and Authority. She also explains the connections between the Rave Mandala and Astrology and the I-Ching. Kelsey also explores how both your conscious personality and your unconscious design are represented in the chart so that you can start to uncover some of the nuances beneath the surface of your design.This conversation blends technical insight with accessible guidance, so whether you’re a detail-loving 1st line or a seasoned experimenter, you’ll leav...
2025-08-1951 minLiving Your Design03. Main Human Design Concepts & LingoIn this episode, Kelsey unpacks some of the core principles, concepts, and language of Human Design. From the fundamental idea of differentiation vs. homogenization to the mechanics of type, strategy, and authority, this conversation serves as a foundational orientation into the terrain we’ll continue to explore.This episode isn’t just about learning new terminology. Entering the Human Design experiment is about beginning to view your life, body, and choices through a radically different lens. Human Design isn’t asking you to believe anything; it’s offering you a map to experiment with. What you do with it...
2025-08-1237 minLiving Your Design02. What is Human Design?In this opening episode of Living Your Design, Kelsey dives into the big question: What even is Human Design? From its roots in multiple ancient and modern systems to its radical potential as a tool for self-awareness and energetic alignment, this conversation invites you into a new framework for living in alignment with your authentic self. In this podcast, we'll explore Human Design not as a belief system or dogma, but as a living, breathing experiment — one that invites you to let go of control, embrace your own unique frequency, and begin the deeply transformative journey of de...
2025-08-121h 04Living Your Design01. Introducing the Living Your Design PodcastIn this episode, Kelsey talks about how she came to the decision to release her Living Your Design course as a free podcast offering. As an Emotional Manifestor, this initiation was a long time in the making. These lectures were created while the foundational aspects of Human Design were alive within Kelsey. Her unique transmission of Human Design has led to profound shifts and transformations within her students, which is why she's excited to share this with a wider audience. The course will be broken up into over 40 podcast episodes that will be released over the next...
2025-08-1219 minthe maia games25 ~ solar plexus revelations with noah souder-russonoah souder-russo enters the matrix in this conversation that weaves together lots of intersecting elements of our spiritual and deconditioning journeys.we eventually land into some story-telling and exploration around a revelation we came to together about what is really at the root of the “not self” pain and tendencies of the undefined solar plexus. is it actually “avoidance of truth and confrontation” or is there something underneath all that? on our way there, we talk about:beingnessmulti-dimensional relatingintegritydistortionthe three layers of awareness& more!noah is...
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Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking210. July 2025: The Past is The Bridge To The FutureWhat skills and wisdom from my past can we bring into situations unfolding right in front of us?Which human & non-human connections are we asked to update & fortify? Which ones are we asked to sever or put aside for now?July 2025 is a juicy month astrologically. With Uranus finally moving into Gemini, we are, for the first time, experiencing the highly anticipated new cosmic backdrop in the flesh – all three outer planets in fire or air signs, the Nodes squarely in Pisces-Virgo axis, Saturn in Aries, and Jupiter in Cancer.As with any ne...
2025-06-301h 10the maia games24 ~ on the defined EGO with travis & vanessthis episode is a heart to heart to heart with Travis Day (1/3 Splenic Projector on the Cross of Consciousness), Vaness Henry (6/2 Ego Manifestor on the Cross of Healing), any myself (5/2 Emotional Manifestor on the Cross of Upheaval.)it's equal parts raw, deep and delightful, and is an interesting, honest, and maybe a little confronting demonstration of three defined egos meeting one another.here's some of what we get into:what the ego has to do with the material world / the maiafelt experiences of the 51-25 (channel of initiation...
2025-05-031h 23the maia games23 ~ 2027 preview chat with jessaAs the age of the Cross of Planning comes to an end, we are witnessing a breakdown of collective structures, agreements, and conditions that had been assumed to be permanent components of our reality. In 2027, the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix will emerge as the new, primary background frequency on the planet and reorient all of humanity from these structures and the values that created them towards an era of individuality. This episode is a pre game chat before the class 2027: THE BREAKDOWN with Kelsey & Jessa, which starts on Monday, April 28th 2025.
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