ALCHEMY / A LIVING LIBRARY
What do you need today?
Come. Arrive.
You don’t need to know exactly.
Follow what draws you.
Alchemy / a living library
What do you need today?
Come. Arrive.
You don’t need to know exactly.
Follow what draws you.
A few ways in
What is alive in you?
You might begin here. Or somewhere entirely different.
Somewhere to land
Slow down. Arrive as you are.
Refuge (opens in a new tab)
A soft return to Now, for an ordinary day when life is happening and you would like somewhere to land.
Gentle
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Water’s Memory (opens in a new tab)
A Harvest Full Moon ritual for slowing down, returning to the Body, and remembering that we are Nature.
Gentle
Made for the Autumn Equinox. Find a quiet space and take your time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Journey to the Internal Waters (opens in a new tab)
An invitation into sensation, image, and your own Inner Terrain. Rooted in the elements and in the Waters of the land where I live.
Reflective
An introduction to active imagination. Choose a quiet space and wear headphones if you can.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A Guided Encounter with Earth & Body (opens in a new tab)
A journey into the Body and the Body of the Earth, recorded in the living Jungle. An invitation to remember what we belong to.
Reflective
Includes an introduction. The guided practice begins at 10:45.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Room to feel
There is room for what is here. You can take your time.
Meeting Yourself Here (opens in a new tab)
Notice what is alive in your Body, with room to pause, move, or simply be here. A short guided encounter with yourself.
Gentle
Rachael Spyker · 2025
What to Remember When Waking (opens in a new tab)
Begin the day with breath, the Body, and the living sounds of the Jungle. An unhurried invitation into the aliveness of morning.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Fear Becoming Courage: Sitting with Sensations (opens in a new tab)
An invitation to notice where tension or feeling lives in the Body, and meet it with breath, care, and attention. Take your time with what arises.
A deeper journey
Works directly with fear and strong sensations. Originally made within an established therapeutic relationship; pause or choose something gentler if you wish.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Persephone Rising: An Ecstatic Dance Ceremony (opens in a new tab)
A telling of Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo, followed by thirty minutes of free movement and a resting meditation to land.
A deeper journey
Moves through grief and descent into dance. Make space to move freely; stillness is welcome too.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A few more places
Awakening Dream (opens in a new tab)
Come. Arrive. Settle into this moment. A Blue Full Moon encounter with yourself, simply as you are.
Gentle
Headphones, a comfortable space, and time without interruption.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Rewoven: A Guided Journey (opens in a new tab)
A return to an earlier recording, recut and rewoven with music. Create a cocoon, and let the part of you that is still becoming feel seen.
A deeper journey
Originally made for ceremonial work with Cannabis; the published page gives that context. Music by Liquid Bloom.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Guided Inner Child Meditation (opens in a new tab)
Enter a forest within, and meet the younger part of you with care and curiosity. There is time to listen to what is here.
A deeper journey
May bring up old emotion. Choose privacy, something comforting, and time afterwards to rest.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Back to my Body
Breathing. Sensing. Remembering.
A Meditation Back to the Soft Animal of Your Body (opens in a new tab)
A soft place to return to the Body and notice what it loves. Move if you want to move. Rest if you need stillness.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space, if that feels good.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Breathe Into Belonging (opens in a new tab)
Slow down with breath and sensation. Listen for the quiet rhythm of aliveness, and let yourself be here without having to fix anything.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Water’s Memory (opens in a new tab)
A Harvest Full Moon ritual for slowing down, returning to the Body, and remembering that we are Nature.
Gentle
Made for the Autumn Equinox. Find a quiet space and take your time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Awakening Dream (opens in a new tab)
Come. Arrive. Settle into this moment. A Blue Full Moon encounter with yourself, simply as you are.
Gentle
Headphones, a comfortable space, and time without interruption.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
For yoga: Soul Compass Yoga (opens in a new tab)
An outside resource, shared for you to explore.
A few more places
Refuge (opens in a new tab)
A soft return to Now, for an ordinary day when life is happening and you would like somewhere to land.
Gentle
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A little wonder
Follow a question. Enter a story.
Cracks in the Noise: Attention as Sacred Currency (opens in a new tab)
East Forest and I talk about attention, creative integrity, and making art in a world that profits from distraction. Slowing down becomes part of the conversation.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with East Forest · 2025
My Date with Artemis (opens in a new tab)
I take Artemis canyoning. Waterfalls, Trees, and a small plane become the beginning of a story I didn’t know I was going to write.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker · 2025
The Descent of Inanna: The Myth (opens in a new tab)
A reading of Inanna’s descent, offered before my conversation with Carly Mountain. You are invited to receive the ancient story through the Body.
A deeper journey
Underworld imagery, loss, and transformation. An ancient myth read by Rachael, not an original story.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
The Burgeoning of a Seed: Storytime (opens in a new tab)
I read my story of an anti-poaching pilot, a psychedelic retreat, and the longing to return to protecting the living world.
A deeper journey
A long fictional journey involving trauma and psychedelic ceremony. Settle in, or listen in parts.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A few more places
Myth as Medicine: Animism, Psychedelics, & Cultural Repair (opens in a new tab)
Simon Yugler and I talk about stories as maps, our relationship with Earth, and the cost of chasing experiences without community. Myth becomes a way of making meaning.
Reflective
Includes grief and psychedelic culture.
Rachael Spyker with Simon Yugler · 2025
Moon & Muse: A Guided Encounter (opens in a new tab)
A long, imaginal encounter with the Muse: the creative part of you that may have something to show you.
A deeper journey
An active-imagination ceremony. If this is new to you, Inner Child or Journey to the Internal Waters offers a way in. Allow a quiet space and unhurried time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Aliveness
Pleasure. Movement. What wants to emerge.
Returning to Eros: Pleasure as Birthright (opens in a new tab)
Milagros Maldonado and I follow pleasure, longing, and the possibility of feeling more fully alive. What might happen if we listen to what draws us?
Reflective
A conversation about Eros, desire, and the Body.
Rachael Spyker with Milagros Maldonado · 2026
Milagros: Ecstatic Dance (opens in a new tab)
A full dance journey for moving out of stillness and into the aliveness of your Body. Follow the music in your own way.
A deeper journey
The complete 86-minute SoundCloud recording. Find room to move; pause or rest whenever you wish.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Moon & Muse: A Guided Encounter (opens in a new tab)
A long, imaginal encounter with the Muse: the creative part of you that may have something to show you.
A deeper journey
An active-imagination ceremony. If this is new to you, Inner Child or Journey to the Internal Waters offers a way in. Allow a quiet space and unhurried time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Garden of Mutual Delights (opens in a new tab)
A Magpie meets me in the garden, and something softens. A reflection on the delight of being met, by one another and by the living world.
Reflective
Includes reflections on therapy and relational healing.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A few more places
Joy as a Transmission (opens in a new tab)
Jesse Roper and I follow music, fear, generosity, and the ridiculous joy of live performance. Stories, laughter, and the courage to offer what moves us.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with Jesse Roper · 2025
Rockstar Muse: Guided Meditation (opens in a new tab)
Made for Jesse Roper before a concert in a cave. A return to the Body before a performance, a ceremony, or a moment of being seen.
Reflective
Originally made for a guitarist; some guidance is specific to playing guitar.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Connection & belonging
With yourself. With one another. With Life.
Breathe Into Belonging (opens in a new tab)
Slow down with breath and sensation. Listen for the quiet rhythm of aliveness, and let yourself be here without having to fix anything.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Guided Inner Child Meditation (opens in a new tab)
Enter a forest within, and meet the younger part of you with care and curiosity. There is time to listen to what is here.
A deeper journey
May bring up old emotion. Choose privacy, something comforting, and time afterwards to rest.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Unlocking Transformation: The Healing Power of AEDP (opens in a new tab)
Zara Neukom and I talk about being met in relationship, making room for unfelt emotion, and returning to the Body. A conversation about the capacity already within us.
Reflective
A conversation about psychotherapy, rather than a guided practice. Re-released in December 2025.
Rachael Spyker with Zara Neukom · 2025
Garden of Mutual Delights (opens in a new tab)
A Magpie meets me in the garden, and something softens. A reflection on the delight of being met, by one another and by the living world.
Reflective
Includes reflections on therapy and relational healing.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A few more places
The Mother Within: Grief, Chaos, and the Path to Secure Belonging (opens in a new tab)
Mackenzie Amara and I explore mothering, grief, asking for help, and learning to love while knowing loss is part of being alive.
A deeper journey
A long conversation with grief, the mother wound, and belonging.
Rachael Spyker with Mackenzie Amara · 2025
You Belong Here: Inviting Aliveness into Connection (opens in a new tab)
Alice and I talk about trust, reciprocity, and the feeling of being alive together. An invitation into relationship with ourselves and one another.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with Alice · 2025
Inside Psychedelic Somatic Therapy: Healing Trauma at the Root (opens in a new tab)
Saj Razvi and I explore early relational wounds, secure attachment, and the care and preparation involved in psychedelic somatic work.
A deeper journey
Includes trauma and psychedelic psychotherapy. A conversation, not instructions for practising alone. Re-released in November 2025.
Rachael Spyker with Saj Razvi · 2025
MOON & MUSE (opens in a new tab)
A reflection on what emerges when we gather with one another, Nature, our Bodies, and Mystery. The story behind Moon & Muse.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Make room for play
Follow a little delight. See where it takes you.
Joy as a Transmission (opens in a new tab)
Jesse Roper and I follow music, fear, generosity, and the ridiculous joy of live performance. Stories, laughter, and the courage to offer what moves us.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with Jesse Roper · 2025
Conscious Festivalling: Healing in the Psychedelic Playground (opens in a new tab)
Marisa Radha Weppner and I explore the dance floor, ritual, adventure, and the joy of being fully expressed. A conversation about play as part of a meaningful life.
Reflective
Includes psychedelic culture and integration. These gatherings are discussed as art and ceremony, not clinical therapy.
Rachael Spyker with Marisa Radha Weppner · 2025
Garden of Mutual Delights (opens in a new tab)
A Magpie meets me in the garden, and something softens. A reflection on the delight of being met, by one another and by the living world.
Reflective
Includes reflections on therapy and relational healing.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Moon & Muse: A Guided Encounter (opens in a new tab)
A long, imaginal encounter with the Muse: the creative part of you that may have something to show you.
A deeper journey
An active-imagination ceremony. If this is new to you, Inner Child or Journey to the Internal Waters offers a way in. Allow a quiet space and unhurried time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A few more places
Milagros: Ecstatic Dance (opens in a new tab)
A full dance journey for moving out of stillness and into the aliveness of your Body. Follow the music in your own way.
A deeper journey
The complete 86-minute SoundCloud recording. Find room to move; pause or rest whenever you wish.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Persephone Rising: An Ecstatic Dance Ceremony (opens in a new tab)
A telling of Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo, followed by thirty minutes of free movement and a resting meditation to land.
A deeper journey
Moves through grief and descent into dance. Make space to move freely; stillness is welcome too.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
My Date with Artemis (opens in a new tab)
I take Artemis canyoning. Waterfalls, Trees, and a small plane become the beginning of a story I didn’t know I was going to write.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Musings from the Coconut Tree (opens in a new tab)
A poem spoken toward the Trees, about uncertainty, longing, and letting Mystery become a dance partner.
Reflective
Touches existential fear and grief.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Find my voice
What I was taught. What I know. The world I want to live in.
WOMEN: A Guided Invocation (Advanced) (opens in a new tab)
A calling forward of capacity, choice, and the authority that lives in your Body. Made from the experience of being a Woman, and open to anyone who feels resonance.
More intense
An advanced invocation that may stir intensity. Best received when you already feel grounded and resourced.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Magdalene Is My Mother (opens in a new tab)
A personal and political reflection on Magdalene, religious conditioning, and returning to the sacredness of the Body. An inquiry into who gets to speak for the sacred.
A deeper journey
Patriarchal and religious harm, erotic life, and spiritual reclamation.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Embodied Presence as Praxis (opens in a new tab)
From a protest to meditation on the Capitol steps, I reflect on presence, privilege, and bearing witness. The personal and political meet in the Body.
Reflective
Protest, colonialism, and collective grief.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
The Girl Who Wept for the Squirrels (opens in a new tab)
I return to the four-year-old who spoke up for the Squirrels. Her grief brings me closer to the voice, love, and courage that have been here all along.
A deeper journey
Childhood grief and collective harm, including Palestine.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A few more places
The Map They Kept From You (opens in a new tab)
An Easter reflection on the descent missing from the Christian story I was handed. Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo offer another way into grief and rising.
A deeper journey
A direct critique of Christianity, with underworld and sexual imagery.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Attention as Activism: The Power of Thresholds (opens in a new tab)
Dr. Patrick O’Neill and I talk about disorientation, grief, vocation, and what we pass on. What can attention offer at a threshold?
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with Dr. Patrick O’Neill · 2025
What He Consumes Privately Does Not Stay Private (opens in a new tab)
I question the pornography industry, the silence around it, and what private consumption brings into intimacy. A direct essay about boundaries and believing what we know.
More intense
Explicit discussion of pornography and sexual violence.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
The Commodification of the Sacred: Psychedelics, Activism, & the Feminine Reclamation (opens in a new tab)
Marisa Radha Weppner and I question what happens when the sacred becomes a product. Psychedelics, power, activism, and reclaiming the Feminine are part of the inquiry.
A deeper journey
A conversation about psychedelic culture and collective harm.
Rachael Spyker with Marisa Radha Weppner · 2025
Dancing in the Nigredo (opens in a new tab)
A heartbreak, a conversation at the market, and the making of Persephone Rising. Myth and movement become company in a season of coming undone.
A deeper journey
Grief, heartbreak, and mythic descent.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
For the wandering part of you
Or let curiosity
choose.
No need to name what you need.
Musings from the Coconut Tree (opens in a new tab)
A poem spoken toward the Trees, about uncertainty, longing, and letting Mystery become a dance partner.
Reflective
Touches existential fear and grief.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Another way in
How would you like to enter?
Ceremony
Create a little space. Light a candle, if you like. There are many ways to enter.
Water’s Memory (opens in a new tab)
A Harvest Full Moon ritual for slowing down, returning to the Body, and remembering that we are Nature.
Gentle
Made for the Autumn Equinox. Find a quiet space and take your time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Moon & Muse: A Guided Encounter (opens in a new tab)
A long, imaginal encounter with the Muse: the creative part of you that may have something to show you.
A deeper journey
An active-imagination ceremony. If this is new to you, Inner Child or Journey to the Internal Waters offers a way in. Allow a quiet space and unhurried time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Awakening Dream (opens in a new tab)
Come. Arrive. Settle into this moment. A Blue Full Moon encounter with yourself, simply as you are.
Gentle
Headphones, a comfortable space, and time without interruption.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Guided Inner Child Meditation (opens in a new tab)
Enter a forest within, and meet the younger part of you with care and curiosity. There is time to listen to what is here.
A deeper journey
May bring up old emotion. Choose privacy, something comforting, and time afterwards to rest.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A few more places
Journey to the Internal Waters (opens in a new tab)
An invitation into sensation, image, and your own Inner Terrain. Rooted in the elements and in the Waters of the land where I live.
Reflective
An introduction to active imagination. Choose a quiet space and wear headphones if you can.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
WOMEN: A Guided Invocation (Advanced) (opens in a new tab)
A calling forward of capacity, choice, and the authority that lives in your Body. Made from the experience of being a Woman, and open to anyone who feels resonance.
More intense
An advanced invocation that may stir intensity. Best received when you already feel grounded and resourced.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Rewoven: A Guided Journey (opens in a new tab)
A return to an earlier recording, recut and rewoven with music. Create a cocoon, and let the part of you that is still becoming feel seen.
A deeper journey
Originally made for ceremonial work with Cannabis; the published page gives that context. Music by Liquid Bloom.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Milagros: Ecstatic Dance (opens in a new tab)
A full dance journey for moving out of stillness and into the aliveness of your Body. Follow the music in your own way.
A deeper journey
The complete 86-minute SoundCloud recording. Find room to move; pause or rest whenever you wish.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Persephone Rising: An Ecstatic Dance Ceremony (opens in a new tab)
A telling of Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo, followed by thirty minutes of free movement and a resting meditation to land.
A deeper journey
Moves through grief and descent into dance. Make space to move freely; stillness is welcome too.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Meditate
A few places to begin. More ways into the Body, the imagination, and the living world are here when you want them.
What to Remember When Waking (opens in a new tab)
Begin the day with breath, the Body, and the living sounds of the Jungle. An unhurried invitation into the aliveness of morning.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A Guided Encounter with Earth & Body (opens in a new tab)
A journey into the Body and the Body of the Earth, recorded in the living Jungle. An invitation to remember what we belong to.
Reflective
Includes an introduction. The guided practice begins at 10:45.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Wintering: A Meditation for All Men (opens in a new tab)
A place to meet fatigue, loneliness, and the wish to retreat. Let winter be winter, without asking yourself to be somewhere else.
Gentle
Uses he/him language, and welcomes anyone who feels resonance. Jungle sounds are part of the recording.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Refuge (opens in a new tab)
A soft return to Now, for an ordinary day when life is happening and you would like somewhere to land.
Gentle
Rachael Spyker · 2026
More ways into the Body
A Meditation Back to the Soft Animal of Your Body (opens in a new tab)
A soft place to return to the Body and notice what it loves. Move if you want to move. Rest if you need stillness.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space, if that feels good.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Breathe Into Belonging (opens in a new tab)
Slow down with breath and sensation. Listen for the quiet rhythm of aliveness, and let yourself be here without having to fix anything.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Meeting Yourself Here (opens in a new tab)
Notice what is alive in your Body, with room to pause, move, or simply be here. A short guided encounter with yourself.
Gentle
Rachael Spyker · 2025
The First Meditation (opens in a new tab)
I speak about the nervousness of making something new, then guide a Body scan. A way to arrive with the hesitation, noise, and imperfectness of being here.
Gentle
The Body scan begins at 9:06; the time shown includes the introduction.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Imaginal journeys & ceremony
Water’s Memory (opens in a new tab)
A Harvest Full Moon ritual for slowing down, returning to the Body, and remembering that we are Nature.
Gentle
Made for the Autumn Equinox. Find a quiet space and take your time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Awakening Dream (opens in a new tab)
Come. Arrive. Settle into this moment. A Blue Full Moon encounter with yourself, simply as you are.
Gentle
Headphones, a comfortable space, and time without interruption.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Journey to the Internal Waters (opens in a new tab)
An invitation into sensation, image, and your own Inner Terrain. Rooted in the elements and in the Waters of the land where I live.
Reflective
An introduction to active imagination. Choose a quiet space and wear headphones if you can.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Guided Inner Child Meditation (opens in a new tab)
Enter a forest within, and meet the younger part of you with care and curiosity. There is time to listen to what is here.
A deeper journey
May bring up old emotion. Choose privacy, something comforting, and time afterwards to rest.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Moon & Muse: A Guided Encounter (opens in a new tab)
A long, imaginal encounter with the Muse: the creative part of you that may have something to show you.
A deeper journey
An active-imagination ceremony. If this is new to you, Inner Child or Journey to the Internal Waters offers a way in. Allow a quiet space and unhurried time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Deeper journeys & original recordings
Fear Becoming Courage: Sitting with Sensations (opens in a new tab)
An invitation to notice where tension or feeling lives in the Body, and meet it with breath, care, and attention. Take your time with what arises.
A deeper journey
Works directly with fear and strong sensations. Originally made within an established therapeutic relationship; pause or choose something gentler if you wish.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Rewoven: A Guided Journey (opens in a new tab)
A return to an earlier recording, recut and rewoven with music. Create a cocoon, and let the part of you that is still becoming feel seen.
A deeper journey
Originally made for ceremonial work with Cannabis; the published page gives that context. Music by Liquid Bloom.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
WOMEN: A Guided Invocation (Advanced) (opens in a new tab)
A calling forward of capacity, choice, and the authority that lives in your Body. Made from the experience of being a Woman, and open to anyone who feels resonance.
More intense
An advanced invocation that may stir intensity. Best received when you already feel grounded and resourced.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A Guided Meditation & Fairytale for Sleep (opens in a new tab)
A nighttime meditation followed by a fairytale told by Alice. The story begins at 26 minutes.
Artist’s recording
An original artist’s recording with harsh cicada sound and an abrupt music ending. I wouldn’t choose this for soothing sleep; you can explore it as art.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Rockstar Muse: Guided Meditation (opens in a new tab)
Made for Jesse Roper before a concert in a cave. A return to the Body before a performance, a ceremony, or a moment of being seen.
Reflective
Originally made for a guitarist; some guidance is specific to playing guitar.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Dance
Room to move, and permission to rest. Two complete journeys.
Milagros: Ecstatic Dance (opens in a new tab)
A full dance journey for moving out of stillness and into the aliveness of your Body. Follow the music in your own way.
A deeper journey
The complete 86-minute SoundCloud recording. Find room to move; pause or rest whenever you wish.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Persephone Rising: An Ecstatic Dance Ceremony (opens in a new tab)
A telling of Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo, followed by thirty minutes of free movement and a resting meditation to land.
A deeper journey
Moves through grief and descent into dance. Make space to move freely; stillness is welcome too.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Podcast conversations
Questions to spend time with. People whose work moves me.
Inanna’s Map: Consecrating the Descent (opens in a new tab)
Carly Mountain and I explore grief, the need for a witness, and the tender work of returning after a season of unraveling.
A deeper journey
An hour with loss, descent, and myth.
Rachael Spyker with Carly Mountain · 2026
Cracks in the Noise: Attention as Sacred Currency (opens in a new tab)
East Forest and I talk about attention, creative integrity, and making art in a world that profits from distraction. Slowing down becomes part of the conversation.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with East Forest · 2025
The Mother Within: Grief, Chaos, and the Path to Secure Belonging (opens in a new tab)
Mackenzie Amara and I explore mothering, grief, asking for help, and learning to love while knowing loss is part of being alive.
A deeper journey
A long conversation with grief, the mother wound, and belonging.
Rachael Spyker with Mackenzie Amara · 2025
Unlocking Transformation: The Healing Power of AEDP (opens in a new tab)
Zara Neukom and I talk about being met in relationship, making room for unfelt emotion, and returning to the Body. A conversation about the capacity already within us.
Reflective
A conversation about psychotherapy, rather than a guided practice. Re-released in December 2025.
Rachael Spyker with Zara Neukom · 2025
A few more places
Inside Psychedelic Somatic Therapy: Healing Trauma at the Root (opens in a new tab)
Saj Razvi and I explore early relational wounds, secure attachment, and the care and preparation involved in psychedelic somatic work.
A deeper journey
Includes trauma and psychedelic psychotherapy. A conversation, not instructions for practising alone. Re-released in November 2025.
Rachael Spyker with Saj Razvi · 2025
Attention as Activism: The Power of Thresholds (opens in a new tab)
Dr. Patrick O’Neill and I talk about disorientation, grief, vocation, and what we pass on. What can attention offer at a threshold?
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with Dr. Patrick O’Neill · 2025
Returning to Eros: Pleasure as Birthright (opens in a new tab)
Milagros Maldonado and I follow pleasure, longing, and the possibility of feeling more fully alive. What might happen if we listen to what draws us?
Reflective
A conversation about Eros, desire, and the Body.
Rachael Spyker with Milagros Maldonado · 2026
Read
A few pages from my world.
The Time-Out Chair (opens in a new tab)
An injured foot asks me to stop. In the company of a Gecko, Bats, Birds, and an inconvenient amount of feeling, I discover what is here.
Reflective
Touches anxiety, shame, and uncertainty.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Magdalene Is My Mother (opens in a new tab)
A personal and political reflection on Magdalene, religious conditioning, and returning to the sacredness of the Body. An inquiry into who gets to speak for the sacred.
A deeper journey
Patriarchal and religious harm, erotic life, and spiritual reclamation.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Garden of Mutual Delights (opens in a new tab)
A Magpie meets me in the garden, and something softens. A reflection on the delight of being met, by one another and by the living world.
Reflective
Includes reflections on therapy and relational healing.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Dancing in the Nigredo (opens in a new tab)
A heartbreak, a conversation at the market, and the making of Persephone Rising. Myth and movement become company in a season of coming undone.
A deeper journey
Grief, heartbreak, and mythic descent.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A few more places
Musings from the Coconut Tree (opens in a new tab)
A poem spoken toward the Trees, about uncertainty, longing, and letting Mystery become a dance partner.
Reflective
Touches existential fear and grief.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
The Black Tent (opens in a new tab)
A personal account of a long dance ceremony and the cost of choosing myself. Lineage, grief, voice, and the Body become part of the story.
More intense
Describes an intense facilitated ceremony, physical holding, and childhood grief. A personal account, not a practice to recreate.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
My Date with Artemis (opens in a new tab)
I take Artemis canyoning. Waterfalls, Trees, and a small plane become the beginning of a story I didn’t know I was going to write.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker · 2025
What He Consumes Privately Does Not Stay Private (opens in a new tab)
I question the pornography industry, the silence around it, and what private consumption brings into intimacy. A direct essay about boundaries and believing what we know.
More intense
Explicit discussion of pornography and sexual violence.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
The Map They Kept From You (opens in a new tab)
An Easter reflection on the descent missing from the Christian story I was handed. Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo offer another way into grief and rising.
A deeper journey
A direct critique of Christianity, with underworld and sexual imagery.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Embodied Presence as Praxis (opens in a new tab)
From a protest to meditation on the Capitol steps, I reflect on presence, privilege, and bearing witness. The personal and political meet in the Body.
Reflective
Protest, colonialism, and collective grief.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
The Girl Who Wept for the Squirrels (opens in a new tab)
I return to the four-year-old who spoke up for the Squirrels. Her grief brings me closer to the voice, love, and courage that have been here all along.
A deeper journey
Childhood grief and collective harm, including Palestine.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Stories & myth
Let a story find you.
The Burgeoning of a Seed: Storytime (opens in a new tab)
I read my story of an anti-poaching pilot, a psychedelic retreat, and the longing to return to protecting the living world.
A deeper journey
A long fictional journey involving trauma and psychedelic ceremony. Settle in, or listen in parts.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
The Descent of Inanna: The Myth (opens in a new tab)
A reading of Inanna’s descent, offered before my conversation with Carly Mountain. You are invited to receive the ancient story through the Body.
A deeper journey
Underworld imagery, loss, and transformation. An ancient myth read by Rachael, not an original story.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Persephone Rising: An Ecstatic Dance Ceremony (opens in a new tab)
A telling of Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo, followed by thirty minutes of free movement and a resting meditation to land.
A deeper journey
Moves through grief and descent into dance. Make space to move freely; stillness is welcome too.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Myth as Medicine: Animism, Psychedelics, & Cultural Repair (opens in a new tab)
Simon Yugler and I talk about stories as maps, our relationship with Earth, and the cost of chasing experiences without community. Myth becomes a way of making meaning.
Reflective
Includes grief and psychedelic culture.
Rachael Spyker with Simon Yugler · 2025
A few more places
A Guided Meditation & Fairytale for Sleep (opens in a new tab)
A nighttime meditation followed by a fairytale told by Alice. The story begins at 26 minutes.
Artist’s recording
An original artist’s recording with harsh cicada sound and an abrupt music ending. I wouldn’t choose this for soothing sleep; you can explore it as art.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
For yoga: Soul Compass Yoga (opens in a new tab)
An outside resource, shared for you to explore.
Stay a little longer in the full Treehouse collection (opens in a new tab).
Still becoming
From my world to yours.
I’m Rachael. This is a gathering of things I’ve made, and conversations I’ve shared. Ceremonies, meditations, stories, words, and movement. Ways of coming into relationship with our Bodies, one another, and the living world.
There is more growing here. For now, a few paths through.
A little about me (opens in a new tab) · The Treehouse story (opens in a new tab)
If you’d like company beyond the library.
Work with me (opens in a new tab), or get in touch about a gathering, collaboration, or supporting the work (opens in a new tab).
These are public offerings, not individual therapy or medical advice. Your own sense of what feels right comes first.
With love,
Rachael
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A few ways in
What is alive in you?
You might begin here. Or somewhere entirely different.
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Slow down. Arrive as you are.
A soft return to Now, for an ordinary day when life is happening and you would like somewhere to land.
Gentle
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A Harvest Full Moon ritual for slowing down, returning to the Body, and remembering that we are Nature.
Gentle
Made for the Autumn Equinox. Find a quiet space and take your time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Journey to the Internal Waters
An invitation into sensation, image, and your own Inner Terrain. Rooted in the elements and in the Waters of the land where I live.
Reflective
An introduction to active imagination. Choose a quiet space and wear headphones if you can.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A Guided Encounter with Earth & Body
A journey into the Body and the Body of the Earth, recorded in the living Jungle. An invitation to remember what we belong to.
Reflective
Includes an introduction. The guided practice begins at 10:45.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
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There is room for what is here. You can take your time.
Notice what is alive in your Body, with room to pause, move, or simply be here. A short guided encounter with yourself.
Gentle
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Begin the day with breath, the Body, and the living sounds of the Jungle. An unhurried invitation into the aliveness of morning.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Fear Becoming Courage: Sitting with Sensations
An invitation to notice where tension or feeling lives in the Body, and meet it with breath, care, and attention. Take your time with what arises.
A deeper journey
Works directly with fear and strong sensations. Originally made within an established therapeutic relationship; pause or choose something gentler if you wish.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Persephone Rising: An Ecstatic Dance Ceremony
A telling of Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo, followed by thirty minutes of free movement and a resting meditation to land.
A deeper journey
Moves through grief and descent into dance. Make space to move freely; stillness is welcome too.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A few more places
Come. Arrive. Settle into this moment. A Blue Full Moon encounter with yourself, simply as you are.
Gentle
Headphones, a comfortable space, and time without interruption.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A return to an earlier recording, recut and rewoven with music. Create a cocoon, and let the part of you that is still becoming feel seen.
A deeper journey
Originally made for ceremonial work with Cannabis; the published page gives that context. Music by Liquid Bloom.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Enter a forest within, and meet the younger part of you with care and curiosity. There is time to listen to what is here.
A deeper journey
May bring up old emotion. Choose privacy, something comforting, and time afterwards to rest.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
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Breathing. Sensing. Remembering.
A Meditation Back to the Soft Animal of Your Body
A soft place to return to the Body and notice what it loves. Move if you want to move. Rest if you need stillness.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space, if that feels good.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Slow down with breath and sensation. Listen for the quiet rhythm of aliveness, and let yourself be here without having to fix anything.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A Harvest Full Moon ritual for slowing down, returning to the Body, and remembering that we are Nature.
Gentle
Made for the Autumn Equinox. Find a quiet space and take your time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Come. Arrive. Settle into this moment. A Blue Full Moon encounter with yourself, simply as you are.
Gentle
Headphones, a comfortable space, and time without interruption.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
For yoga: Soul Compass Yoga
An outside resource, shared for you to explore.A few more places
A soft return to Now, for an ordinary day when life is happening and you would like somewhere to land.
Gentle
Rachael Spyker · 2026
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Follow a question. Enter a story.
Cracks in the Noise: Attention as Sacred Currency
East Forest and I talk about attention, creative integrity, and making art in a world that profits from distraction. Slowing down becomes part of the conversation.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with East Forest · 2025
I take Artemis canyoning. Waterfalls, Trees, and a small plane become the beginning of a story I didn’t know I was going to write.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker · 2025
The Descent of Inanna: The Myth
A reading of Inanna’s descent, offered before my conversation with Carly Mountain. You are invited to receive the ancient story through the Body.
A deeper journey
Underworld imagery, loss, and transformation. An ancient myth read by Rachael, not an original story.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
The Burgeoning of a Seed: Storytime
I read my story of an anti-poaching pilot, a psychedelic retreat, and the longing to return to protecting the living world.
A deeper journey
A long fictional journey involving trauma and psychedelic ceremony. Settle in, or listen in parts.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A few more places
Myth as Medicine: Animism, Psychedelics, & Cultural Repair
Simon Yugler and I talk about stories as maps, our relationship with Earth, and the cost of chasing experiences without community. Myth becomes a way of making meaning.
Reflective
Includes grief and psychedelic culture.
Rachael Spyker with Simon Yugler · 2025
Moon & Muse: A Guided Encounter
A long, imaginal encounter with the Muse: the creative part of you that may have something to show you.
A deeper journey
An active-imagination ceremony. If this is new to you, Inner Child or Journey to the Internal Waters offers a way in. Allow a quiet space and unhurried time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
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Pleasure. Movement. What wants to emerge.
Returning to Eros: Pleasure as Birthright
Milagros Maldonado and I follow pleasure, longing, and the possibility of feeling more fully alive. What might happen if we listen to what draws us?
Reflective
A conversation about Eros, desire, and the Body.
Rachael Spyker with Milagros Maldonado · 2026
A full dance journey for moving out of stillness and into the aliveness of your Body. Follow the music in your own way.
A deeper journey
The complete 86-minute SoundCloud recording. Find room to move; pause or rest whenever you wish.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Moon & Muse: A Guided Encounter
A long, imaginal encounter with the Muse: the creative part of you that may have something to show you.
A deeper journey
An active-imagination ceremony. If this is new to you, Inner Child or Journey to the Internal Waters offers a way in. Allow a quiet space and unhurried time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A Magpie meets me in the garden, and something softens. A reflection on the delight of being met, by one another and by the living world.
Reflective
Includes reflections on therapy and relational healing.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A few more places
Jesse Roper and I follow music, fear, generosity, and the ridiculous joy of live performance. Stories, laughter, and the courage to offer what moves us.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with Jesse Roper · 2025
Rockstar Muse: Guided Meditation
Made for Jesse Roper before a concert in a cave. A return to the Body before a performance, a ceremony, or a moment of being seen.
Reflective
Originally made for a guitarist; some guidance is specific to playing guitar.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
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With yourself. With one another. With Life.
Slow down with breath and sensation. Listen for the quiet rhythm of aliveness, and let yourself be here without having to fix anything.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Enter a forest within, and meet the younger part of you with care and curiosity. There is time to listen to what is here.
A deeper journey
May bring up old emotion. Choose privacy, something comforting, and time afterwards to rest.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Unlocking Transformation: The Healing Power of AEDP
Zara Neukom and I talk about being met in relationship, making room for unfelt emotion, and returning to the Body. A conversation about the capacity already within us.
Reflective
A conversation about psychotherapy, rather than a guided practice. Re-released in December 2025.
Rachael Spyker with Zara Neukom · 2025
A Magpie meets me in the garden, and something softens. A reflection on the delight of being met, by one another and by the living world.
Reflective
Includes reflections on therapy and relational healing.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A few more places
The Mother Within: Grief, Chaos, and the Path to Secure Belonging
Mackenzie Amara and I explore mothering, grief, asking for help, and learning to love while knowing loss is part of being alive.
A deeper journey
A long conversation with grief, the mother wound, and belonging.
Rachael Spyker with Mackenzie Amara · 2025
You Belong Here: Inviting Aliveness into Connection
Alice and I talk about trust, reciprocity, and the feeling of being alive together. An invitation into relationship with ourselves and one another.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with Alice · 2025
Inside Psychedelic Somatic Therapy: Healing Trauma at the Root
Saj Razvi and I explore early relational wounds, secure attachment, and the care and preparation involved in psychedelic somatic work.
A deeper journey
Includes trauma and psychedelic psychotherapy. A conversation, not instructions for practising alone. Re-released in November 2025.
Rachael Spyker with Saj Razvi · 2025
A reflection on what emerges when we gather with one another, Nature, our Bodies, and Mystery. The story behind Moon & Muse.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker · 2026
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Follow a little delight. See where it takes you.
Jesse Roper and I follow music, fear, generosity, and the ridiculous joy of live performance. Stories, laughter, and the courage to offer what moves us.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with Jesse Roper · 2025
Conscious Festivalling: Healing in the Psychedelic Playground
Marisa Radha Weppner and I explore the dance floor, ritual, adventure, and the joy of being fully expressed. A conversation about play as part of a meaningful life.
Reflective
Includes psychedelic culture and integration. These gatherings are discussed as art and ceremony, not clinical therapy.
Rachael Spyker with Marisa Radha Weppner · 2025
A Magpie meets me in the garden, and something softens. A reflection on the delight of being met, by one another and by the living world.
Reflective
Includes reflections on therapy and relational healing.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Moon & Muse: A Guided Encounter
A long, imaginal encounter with the Muse: the creative part of you that may have something to show you.
A deeper journey
An active-imagination ceremony. If this is new to you, Inner Child or Journey to the Internal Waters offers a way in. Allow a quiet space and unhurried time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A few more places
A full dance journey for moving out of stillness and into the aliveness of your Body. Follow the music in your own way.
A deeper journey
The complete 86-minute SoundCloud recording. Find room to move; pause or rest whenever you wish.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Persephone Rising: An Ecstatic Dance Ceremony
A telling of Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo, followed by thirty minutes of free movement and a resting meditation to land.
A deeper journey
Moves through grief and descent into dance. Make space to move freely; stillness is welcome too.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
I take Artemis canyoning. Waterfalls, Trees, and a small plane become the beginning of a story I didn’t know I was going to write.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A poem spoken toward the Trees, about uncertainty, longing, and letting Mystery become a dance partner.
Reflective
Touches existential fear and grief.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
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What I was taught. What I know. The world I want to live in.
WOMEN: A Guided Invocation (Advanced)
A calling forward of capacity, choice, and the authority that lives in your Body. Made from the experience of being a Woman, and open to anyone who feels resonance.
More intense
An advanced invocation that may stir intensity. Best received when you already feel grounded and resourced.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A personal and political reflection on Magdalene, religious conditioning, and returning to the sacredness of the Body. An inquiry into who gets to speak for the sacred.
A deeper journey
Patriarchal and religious harm, erotic life, and spiritual reclamation.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
From a protest to meditation on the Capitol steps, I reflect on presence, privilege, and bearing witness. The personal and political meet in the Body.
Reflective
Protest, colonialism, and collective grief.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
The Girl Who Wept for the Squirrels
I return to the four-year-old who spoke up for the Squirrels. Her grief brings me closer to the voice, love, and courage that have been here all along.
A deeper journey
Childhood grief and collective harm, including Palestine.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A few more places
An Easter reflection on the descent missing from the Christian story I was handed. Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo offer another way into grief and rising.
A deeper journey
A direct critique of Christianity, with underworld and sexual imagery.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Attention as Activism: The Power of Thresholds
Dr. Patrick O’Neill and I talk about disorientation, grief, vocation, and what we pass on. What can attention offer at a threshold?
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with Dr. Patrick O’Neill · 2025
What He Consumes Privately Does Not Stay Private
I question the pornography industry, the silence around it, and what private consumption brings into intimacy. A direct essay about boundaries and believing what we know.
More intense
Explicit discussion of pornography and sexual violence.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
The Commodification of the Sacred: Psychedelics, Activism, & the Feminine Reclamation
Marisa Radha Weppner and I question what happens when the sacred becomes a product. Psychedelics, power, activism, and reclaiming the Feminine are part of the inquiry.
A deeper journey
A conversation about psychedelic culture and collective harm.
Rachael Spyker with Marisa Radha Weppner · 2025
A heartbreak, a conversation at the market, and the making of Persephone Rising. Myth and movement become company in a season of coming undone.
A deeper journey
Grief, heartbreak, and mythic descent.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
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For the wandering part of you
Or let curiosity
choose.No need to name what you need.
Conscious Festivalling: Healing in the Psychedelic Playground
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Create a little space. Light a candle, if you like. There are many ways to enter.
A Harvest Full Moon ritual for slowing down, returning to the Body, and remembering that we are Nature.
Gentle
Made for the Autumn Equinox. Find a quiet space and take your time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Moon & Muse: A Guided Encounter
A long, imaginal encounter with the Muse: the creative part of you that may have something to show you.
A deeper journey
An active-imagination ceremony. If this is new to you, Inner Child or Journey to the Internal Waters offers a way in. Allow a quiet space and unhurried time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Come. Arrive. Settle into this moment. A Blue Full Moon encounter with yourself, simply as you are.
Gentle
Headphones, a comfortable space, and time without interruption.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Enter a forest within, and meet the younger part of you with care and curiosity. There is time to listen to what is here.
A deeper journey
May bring up old emotion. Choose privacy, something comforting, and time afterwards to rest.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A few more places
Journey to the Internal Waters
An invitation into sensation, image, and your own Inner Terrain. Rooted in the elements and in the Waters of the land where I live.
Reflective
An introduction to active imagination. Choose a quiet space and wear headphones if you can.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
WOMEN: A Guided Invocation (Advanced)
A calling forward of capacity, choice, and the authority that lives in your Body. Made from the experience of being a Woman, and open to anyone who feels resonance.
More intense
An advanced invocation that may stir intensity. Best received when you already feel grounded and resourced.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A return to an earlier recording, recut and rewoven with music. Create a cocoon, and let the part of you that is still becoming feel seen.
A deeper journey
Originally made for ceremonial work with Cannabis; the published page gives that context. Music by Liquid Bloom.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A full dance journey for moving out of stillness and into the aliveness of your Body. Follow the music in your own way.
A deeper journey
The complete 86-minute SoundCloud recording. Find room to move; pause or rest whenever you wish.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Persephone Rising: An Ecstatic Dance Ceremony
A telling of Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo, followed by thirty minutes of free movement and a resting meditation to land.
A deeper journey
Moves through grief and descent into dance. Make space to move freely; stillness is welcome too.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
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A few places to begin. More ways into the Body, the imagination, and the living world are here when you want them.
Begin the day with breath, the Body, and the living sounds of the Jungle. An unhurried invitation into the aliveness of morning.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A Guided Encounter with Earth & Body
A journey into the Body and the Body of the Earth, recorded in the living Jungle. An invitation to remember what we belong to.
Reflective
Includes an introduction. The guided practice begins at 10:45.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Wintering: A Meditation for All Men
A place to meet fatigue, loneliness, and the wish to retreat. Let winter be winter, without asking yourself to be somewhere else.
Gentle
Uses he/him language, and welcomes anyone who feels resonance. Jungle sounds are part of the recording.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A soft return to Now, for an ordinary day when life is happening and you would like somewhere to land.
Gentle
Rachael Spyker · 2026
More ways into the Body
A Meditation Back to the Soft Animal of Your Body
A soft place to return to the Body and notice what it loves. Move if you want to move. Rest if you need stillness.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space, if that feels good.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Slow down with breath and sensation. Listen for the quiet rhythm of aliveness, and let yourself be here without having to fix anything.
Gentle
Headphones and a quiet, comfortable space.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Notice what is alive in your Body, with room to pause, move, or simply be here. A short guided encounter with yourself.
Gentle
Rachael Spyker · 2025
I speak about the nervousness of making something new, then guide a Body scan. A way to arrive with the hesitation, noise, and imperfectness of being here.
Gentle
The Body scan begins at 9:06; the time shown includes the introduction.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Imaginal journeys & ceremony
A Harvest Full Moon ritual for slowing down, returning to the Body, and remembering that we are Nature.
Gentle
Made for the Autumn Equinox. Find a quiet space and take your time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Come. Arrive. Settle into this moment. A Blue Full Moon encounter with yourself, simply as you are.
Gentle
Headphones, a comfortable space, and time without interruption.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Journey to the Internal Waters
An invitation into sensation, image, and your own Inner Terrain. Rooted in the elements and in the Waters of the land where I live.
Reflective
An introduction to active imagination. Choose a quiet space and wear headphones if you can.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Enter a forest within, and meet the younger part of you with care and curiosity. There is time to listen to what is here.
A deeper journey
May bring up old emotion. Choose privacy, something comforting, and time afterwards to rest.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Moon & Muse: A Guided Encounter
A long, imaginal encounter with the Muse: the creative part of you that may have something to show you.
A deeper journey
An active-imagination ceremony. If this is new to you, Inner Child or Journey to the Internal Waters offers a way in. Allow a quiet space and unhurried time.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Deeper journeys & original recordings
Fear Becoming Courage: Sitting with Sensations
An invitation to notice where tension or feeling lives in the Body, and meet it with breath, care, and attention. Take your time with what arises.
A deeper journey
Works directly with fear and strong sensations. Originally made within an established therapeutic relationship; pause or choose something gentler if you wish.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A return to an earlier recording, recut and rewoven with music. Create a cocoon, and let the part of you that is still becoming feel seen.
A deeper journey
Originally made for ceremonial work with Cannabis; the published page gives that context. Music by Liquid Bloom.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
WOMEN: A Guided Invocation (Advanced)
A calling forward of capacity, choice, and the authority that lives in your Body. Made from the experience of being a Woman, and open to anyone who feels resonance.
More intense
An advanced invocation that may stir intensity. Best received when you already feel grounded and resourced.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A Guided Meditation & Fairytale for Sleep
A nighttime meditation followed by a fairytale told by Alice. The story begins at 26 minutes.
Artist’s recording
An original artist’s recording with harsh cicada sound and an abrupt music ending. I wouldn’t choose this for soothing sleep; you can explore it as art.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
Rockstar Muse: Guided Meditation
Made for Jesse Roper before a concert in a cave. A return to the Body before a performance, a ceremony, or a moment of being seen.
Reflective
Originally made for a guitarist; some guidance is specific to playing guitar.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
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Room to move, and permission to rest. Two complete journeys.
A full dance journey for moving out of stillness and into the aliveness of your Body. Follow the music in your own way.
A deeper journey
The complete 86-minute SoundCloud recording. Find room to move; pause or rest whenever you wish.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Persephone Rising: An Ecstatic Dance Ceremony
A telling of Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo, followed by thirty minutes of free movement and a resting meditation to land.
A deeper journey
Moves through grief and descent into dance. Make space to move freely; stillness is welcome too.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
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Questions to spend time with. People whose work moves me.
Inanna’s Map: Consecrating the Descent
Carly Mountain and I explore grief, the need for a witness, and the tender work of returning after a season of unraveling.
A deeper journey
An hour with loss, descent, and myth.
Rachael Spyker with Carly Mountain · 2026
Cracks in the Noise: Attention as Sacred Currency
East Forest and I talk about attention, creative integrity, and making art in a world that profits from distraction. Slowing down becomes part of the conversation.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with East Forest · 2025
The Mother Within: Grief, Chaos, and the Path to Secure Belonging
Mackenzie Amara and I explore mothering, grief, asking for help, and learning to love while knowing loss is part of being alive.
A deeper journey
A long conversation with grief, the mother wound, and belonging.
Rachael Spyker with Mackenzie Amara · 2025
Unlocking Transformation: The Healing Power of AEDP
Zara Neukom and I talk about being met in relationship, making room for unfelt emotion, and returning to the Body. A conversation about the capacity already within us.
Reflective
A conversation about psychotherapy, rather than a guided practice. Re-released in December 2025.
Rachael Spyker with Zara Neukom · 2025
A few more places
Inside Psychedelic Somatic Therapy: Healing Trauma at the Root
Saj Razvi and I explore early relational wounds, secure attachment, and the care and preparation involved in psychedelic somatic work.
A deeper journey
Includes trauma and psychedelic psychotherapy. A conversation, not instructions for practising alone. Re-released in November 2025.
Rachael Spyker with Saj Razvi · 2025
Attention as Activism: The Power of Thresholds
Dr. Patrick O’Neill and I talk about disorientation, grief, vocation, and what we pass on. What can attention offer at a threshold?
Reflective
Rachael Spyker with Dr. Patrick O’Neill · 2025
Returning to Eros: Pleasure as Birthright
Milagros Maldonado and I follow pleasure, longing, and the possibility of feeling more fully alive. What might happen if we listen to what draws us?
Reflective
A conversation about Eros, desire, and the Body.
Rachael Spyker with Milagros Maldonado · 2026
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A few pages from my world.
An injured foot asks me to stop. In the company of a Gecko, Bats, Birds, and an inconvenient amount of feeling, I discover what is here.
Reflective
Touches anxiety, shame, and uncertainty.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A personal and political reflection on Magdalene, religious conditioning, and returning to the sacredness of the Body. An inquiry into who gets to speak for the sacred.
A deeper journey
Patriarchal and religious harm, erotic life, and spiritual reclamation.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A Magpie meets me in the garden, and something softens. A reflection on the delight of being met, by one another and by the living world.
Reflective
Includes reflections on therapy and relational healing.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
A heartbreak, a conversation at the market, and the making of Persephone Rising. Myth and movement become company in a season of coming undone.
A deeper journey
Grief, heartbreak, and mythic descent.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A few more places
A poem spoken toward the Trees, about uncertainty, longing, and letting Mystery become a dance partner.
Reflective
Touches existential fear and grief.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
A personal account of a long dance ceremony and the cost of choosing myself. Lineage, grief, voice, and the Body become part of the story.
More intense
Describes an intense facilitated ceremony, physical holding, and childhood grief. A personal account, not a practice to recreate.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
I take Artemis canyoning. Waterfalls, Trees, and a small plane become the beginning of a story I didn’t know I was going to write.
Reflective
Rachael Spyker · 2025
What He Consumes Privately Does Not Stay Private
I question the pornography industry, the silence around it, and what private consumption brings into intimacy. A direct essay about boundaries and believing what we know.
More intense
Explicit discussion of pornography and sexual violence.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
An Easter reflection on the descent missing from the Christian story I was handed. Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo offer another way into grief and rising.
A deeper journey
A direct critique of Christianity, with underworld and sexual imagery.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
From a protest to meditation on the Capitol steps, I reflect on presence, privilege, and bearing witness. The personal and political meet in the Body.
Reflective
Protest, colonialism, and collective grief.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
The Girl Who Wept for the Squirrels
I return to the four-year-old who spoke up for the Squirrels. Her grief brings me closer to the voice, love, and courage that have been here all along.
A deeper journey
Childhood grief and collective harm, including Palestine.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
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The Burgeoning of a Seed: Storytime
I read my story of an anti-poaching pilot, a psychedelic retreat, and the longing to return to protecting the living world.
A deeper journey
A long fictional journey involving trauma and psychedelic ceremony. Settle in, or listen in parts.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
The Descent of Inanna: The Myth
A reading of Inanna’s descent, offered before my conversation with Carly Mountain. You are invited to receive the ancient story through the Body.
A deeper journey
Underworld imagery, loss, and transformation. An ancient myth read by Rachael, not an original story.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Persephone Rising: An Ecstatic Dance Ceremony
A telling of Persephone, Demeter, and Baubo, followed by thirty minutes of free movement and a resting meditation to land.
A deeper journey
Moves through grief and descent into dance. Make space to move freely; stillness is welcome too.
Rachael Spyker · 2026
Myth as Medicine: Animism, Psychedelics, & Cultural Repair
Simon Yugler and I talk about stories as maps, our relationship with Earth, and the cost of chasing experiences without community. Myth becomes a way of making meaning.
Reflective
Includes grief and psychedelic culture.
Rachael Spyker with Simon Yugler · 2025
A few more places
A Guided Meditation & Fairytale for Sleep
A nighttime meditation followed by a fairytale told by Alice. The story begins at 26 minutes.
Artist’s recording
An original artist’s recording with harsh cicada sound and an abrupt music ending. I wouldn’t choose this for soothing sleep; you can explore it as art.
Rachael Spyker · 2025
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Still becoming
From my world to yours.
I’m Rachael. This is a gathering of things I’ve made, and conversations I’ve shared. Ceremonies, meditations, stories, words, and movement. Ways of coming into relationship with our Bodies, one another, and the living world.
There is more growing here. For now, a few paths through.
A little about me · The Treehouse story
If you’d like company beyond the library.
Work with me, or get in touch about a gathering, collaboration, or supporting the work.
These are public offerings, not individual therapy or medical advice. Your own sense of what feels right comes first.
With love,
RachaelFor yoga: Soul Compass Yoga
An outside resource, shared for you to explore.Stay a little longer in the full Treehouse collection.
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