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The Playground
Author: Shanila Sattar
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Welcome to The Playground, a space for self-mastery, spiritual exploration, and mysticism - all while having fun!
Hosted by Shanila Sattar, author of Breathe, creatrix of FLOW Breathwork Facilitator Training, and the Healing Arts Academy.
Connect: @shanila.sattar
Discover your Healer Archetype: www.alwaysplay.org/healerarchetype
Study the Healing Arts: www.alwaysplay.org
Hosted by Shanila Sattar, author of Breathe, creatrix of FLOW Breathwork Facilitator Training, and the Healing Arts Academy.
Connect: @shanila.sattar
Discover your Healer Archetype: www.alwaysplay.org/healerarchetype
Study the Healing Arts: www.alwaysplay.org
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Join me for 13 days of energy upgrades inside Awaken the MYSTIC CODES. https://www.alwaysplay.org/awaken-the-mystic-codes-register
The pre-equinox energy is giving NO SLEEP TEAM. QUANTUM UPGRADES. Inner knowing on turbo mode. It's everything all at the same time. This episode breaks down how you can navigate pre-equinox energies in a way that feel grounding, empowered, and truthful to your highest gifts. The mystics and energetically sensitive folks are going to be way more impacted in the days leading up and a few WEEKS post equinox energy. Join me for a 13 day training from Spring Equinox to the Full Moon to fully hone in on these MYSTIC CODES. https://www.alwaysplay.org/awaken-the-mystic-codes-register
You're at the cusp of your initiation in the healing arts. You know it because every medicine you touch is giving you the same answer. Your connection to nature and elemental spirits are undeniable. You know it because the synchronicities are getting louder. The signs are everywhere. You keep seeing the same numbers, hearing the same words, dreaming the same dreams. You know it because there's a pull in your intuition that you can't explain and can't ignore. It doesn't make complete logical sense. But it's undeniable. Do you feel it? __________ ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/
Are you in the Healer's Paradox? You're excellent at helping others… But struggle being helped yourself. You can: • Regulate someone else's nervous system • Ask powerful questions • See blind spots clearly • Hold space without flinching But when it's your turn? You deflect. Minimize. Intellectualize. Self-coach. The paradox isn't hypocrisy.It's protection! Let's chat. __________ ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/ ▲ Healer ARCHETYPE QUIZ: https://alwaysplay.org/healerarchetype ▲ Free Healing Arts Community: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ MYSTIC CODES MASTERMIND waitlist: https://www.alwaysplay.org/mystic ▲ Read my Breathwork book, Breathe: www.alwaysplay.org/orderbreathe
Healers, tap in. In this practitioners chitchat, we're talking about stepping into your power and returning back with the medicine. ________________________________ ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/ ▲ Learn your Healer Archetype: www.alwaysplay.org/healerarchetype ▲ Read my Breathwork book, Breathe: www.alwaysplay.org/orderbreathe ▲ Free Playground for Mystics: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ Connect on social: @shanila.sattar ▲ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/shanilasattar ▲ Healing Arts Practitioner Training Program Immersion: www.alwaysplay.org/immersion
What got you here won't get you there. And maybe you don't really know that this constant sense of urgency that you feel about being left behind is actually a function of your nervous system still in survival mode. definitely is a difference between having aspirations, goals, and desires but what happens when you are in the pursuit of those things from a place of feeling like they can be taken from you at any given time? What does it say about your desire to belong? ________________________________ ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/ ▲ Learn your Healer Archetype: www.alwaysplay.org/healerarchetype ▲ Read my Breathwork book, Breathe: www.alwaysplay.org/orderbreathe ▲ Free Playground for Mystics: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ Connect on social: @shanila.sattar ▲ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/shanilasattar ▲ Healing Arts Practitioner Training Program Immersion: www.alwaysplay.org/immersion
The feminine energy of the year of the FIRE HORSE. You can be a horse running in circles on a racetrack for a race you don't care about or you can be a horse running wild and free, stopping to play in the creek, taking naps, laughing with friends, and being just as strong and resilient. This energy is about PLAY and enjoying the PATH rather than having obsessions over the outcome. ________________________________ ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/ ▲ Learn your Healer Archetype: www.alwaysplay.org/healerarchetype ▲ Read my Breathwork book, Breathe: www.alwaysplay.org/orderbreathe ▲ Free Playground for Mystics: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ Connect on social: @shanila.sattar ▲ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/shanilasattar ▲ Healing Arts Practitioner Training Program Immersion: www.alwaysplay.org/immersion
▲ Free Healing Arts Community: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ JOIN DAYDREAMER https://alwaysplay.org/daydreamer Your altar isn't a space with your crystals and your knickknacks. It's your dedication to show up for yourself every single day. It's your devotion to your art, your craft, to your community. To your Mystic Codes. Why would you only show up to the altar when you need something rather than a devotional prayer to your life? A space where you get to make, create, and ritualize so that it all becomes second nature. Your daydreams deserve a space where you can breathe life into it. Not from a place of force or having to, but from a place of flow… And getting to. Your dreams deserve to feel expansive and to be seen. And simultaneously, they need devotional habits to be created into reality. 🌙Are you down to take the journey with me?
It's clear that you have just completed a curriculum. ▲ Free Healing Arts Community: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ DAYDREAMER ARCHETYPE QUIZ: https://alwaysplay.org/dreamer ▲ DAYDREAMER PORTAL: https://alwaysplay.org/daydreamer ▲ MYSTIC CODES MASTERMIND waitlist: https://www.alwaysplay.org/mystic ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/ ▲ Read my Breathwork book, Breathe: www.alwaysplay.org/orderbreathe ▲ Connect on social: @shanila.sattar
I love teaching Flows over Flaws to creatives and mystically inclined folks like you because I know how much art and creation wants to be expressed through you. But trashy things like perfectionism, procrastination, and self-doubt are so REAL when it comes to a creative's process. What we'll cover healing perfectionism from a NERVOUS SYSTEM level how to be in a flow state in your creative process and building habits that help you do the above. In an era where every move feels curated and every creation pressured to be flawless, perfectionism is the silent killer of creativity. Flows Over Flaws is a workshop for those ready to break free from the paralysis of overthinking and reconnect with their true expression using nervous system wisdom. REGISTER https://flowbreathwork.myflodesk.com/fof
When you're sensitive, intuitive, or creatively wired, your nervous system knows when something is off. It cannot "perform authenticity". In this episode, we explore why authenticity isn't a brand, a personality, or a performance for creative and spiritual people. It's a state of regulation. 🌙This is why showing up consistently can feel exhausting when your nervous system isn't on board. 🌙How performing alignment leads to burnout, numbness, or creative shutdown Good luck! ▲ DAYDREAMER ARCHETYPE QUIZ: https://alwaysplay.org/dreamer ▲ DAYDREAMER PORTAL: https://alwaysplay.org/daydreamer ▲ Free Healing Arts Community: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ MYSTIC CODES MASTERMIND waitlist: https://www.alwaysplay.org/mystic ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/ ▲ Read my Breathwork book, Breathe: www.alwaysplay.org/orderbreathe ▲ Connect on social: @shanila.sattar
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Perfectionism isn't the problem because it was protection. For many sensitive, creative people, perfectionism once kept things safe and it helped with belonging, regulation, and avoiding rejection. But over time, that same protection started to be a prison for creative expression. Ideas get stuck and the right time to make moves never arrives. This is often a nervous system story and rarely has anything to do with "standards". When the body doesn't feel safe to be seen or felt, creativity retreats. The truth is: moving forward doesn't come from forcing or fixing. It comes from learning how to create safety within the body, so expression can emerge naturally again. ▲ DAYDREAMER ARCHETYPE QUIZ: https://alwaysplay.org/dreamer ▲ DAYDREAMER PORTAL: https://alwaysplay.org/daydreamer ▲ Free Healing Arts Community: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ MYSTIC CODES MASTERMIND waitlist: https://www.alwaysplay.org/mystic ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/ ▲ Read my Breathwork book, Breathe: www.alwaysplay.org/orderbreathe ▲ Connect on social: @shanila.sattar
Who dropped into 2026 with renewed creative energy? Sit with this question: What does it actually take for a creative nervous system to feel safe enough to create? So many sensitive, intuitive, imaginative people carry so much potential and yet feel stuck, scattered, or quietly overwhelmed. In a world that rewards urgency, productivity, and performance, creativity often becomes something we push instead of something we EMBODY. You feel me? This episode is an invitation to return to that truth: to explore how your nervous system shapes your creativity, your energy, and your ability to move forward without forcing. ▲ DAYDREAMER ARCHETYPE QUIZ: https://alwaysplay.org/dreamer ▲ DAYDREAMER PORTAL: https://alwaysplay.org/daydreamer ▲ Free Healing Arts Community: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ MYSTIC CODES MASTERMIND waitlist: https://www.alwaysplay.org/mystic ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/ ▲ Read my Breathwork book, Breathe: www.alwaysplay.org/orderbreathe ▲ Connect on social: @shanila.sattar
The year of the wood snake begins to conclude its...adventures into to the underworld and emerges slowly but surely. Shedding the skins of what's no longer needed, the energy begins to shift with the Fire Horse which will bring outward momentum towards hopes and dreams that actually mean something to you. You'll come back to child-like curiosities, play, and find that the world is truly your playground. ________________________________ ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/ ▲ Learn your Healer Archetype: www.alwaysplay.org/healerarchetype ▲ Read my Breathwork book, Breathe: www.alwaysplay.org/orderbreathe ▲ Free Playground for Mystics: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ Connect on social: @shanila.sattar ▲ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/shanilasattar ▲ Healing Arts Practitioner Training Program Immersion: www.alwaysplay.org/immersion
It's about that time of year. Here is what healing arts practitioner's can expect in the upcoming year. The shifts are subtle but totally obvious! ________________________________ ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/ ▲ Learn your Healer Archetype: www.alwaysplay.org/healerarchetype ▲ Read my Breathwork book, Breathe: www.alwaysplay.org/orderbreathe ▲ Free Playground for Mystics: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ Connect on social: @shanila.sattar ▲ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/shanilasattar ▲ Healing Arts Practitioner Training Program Immersion: www.alwaysplay.org/immersion
The thing about your subconscious is that it loves to have a VILLAIN. It's always searching for problems, things to fix, to heal, to make better, to improve. The more we look, the more problems we will find. In this episode, let's talk about how we can SLAY the villain so that it no longer takes ahold of us. ________________________________ ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/ ▲ Learn your Healer Archetype: www.alwaysplay.org/healerarchetype ▲ Read my Breathwork book, Breathe: www.alwaysplay.org/orderbreathe ▲ Free Playground for Mystics: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ Connect on social: @shanila.sattar ▲ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/shanilasattar ▲ Healing Arts Practitioner Training Program Immersion: www.alwaysplay.org/immersion
Is your soul telling you to wait on something or are you giving into fear again? How do you know the difference? Let's talk Your nervous system wants to feel safety over anything else. But how it interprets safety… Is not always correct. Sometimes staying in what feels the most familiar FEELS safe but is actually destroying your soul's capacity to grow. We misinterpret the sign by believing that it's not the right time to act, that we need more time to prepare, that's something else needs to line up in order for us to take action. But truthfully, you're operating from a nervous system that is in survival mode. It says, why change something when it's easier to continue to do exactly what we're doing even if we're unhappy with the results we're getting. It's too much work to do the Shadow work. It's too much work to shift our identities. It is too much work to change our habits and thoughts and behaviors. It's easier here. It's easier, but is it better? Is waiting giving your soul the room and space to grow? Is waiting giving your soul permission to explore? _____________________ ▲ Join Mystic Codes Immersion + Mastermind for Healers: https://alwaysplay.org/mystic ▲ Become a certified breathwork facilitator: https://www.flowbreathworktraining.com/ ▲ Learn your Healer Archetype: www.alwaysplay.org/healerarchetype ▲ Read my Breathwork book, Breathe: www.alwaysplay.org/orderbreathe ▲ Free Playground for Mystics: https://tinyurl.com/playground222 ▲ Connect on social: @shanila.sattar ▲ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/shanilasattar ▲ Healing Arts Practitioner Training Program Immersion: www.alwaysplay.org/immersion
My nervous system has been collapsing for the last two weeks and here is a real time account of what I'm experiencing. Something about a nervous system that is slowly in decline is that it's really hard to catch and it will sneak up on you. Perhaps you have experienced some of the symptoms or are currently experiencing the symptoms yourself. As somebody who teaches about the nervous system, it simultaneously is really awesome and it sucks to be so hyper aware when your system is approaching a collapse. For me, I am very aware of my energy rhythms and currently the biggest take away is that any energy that I'm generating is going towards processing emotions to the point where afterwards I don't have anything left for other things. I'm grateful that this emotions have a place to exist in my physical body and that my body is alchemizing them at this intense rate, but it doesn't change the fact that it is incredibly exhausting! I'd love to hear from you if you've experienced what I'm talking about in this episode!
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