Four years ago musician, writer and podcaster Karina Ivanova was listening to one of my podcast episodes, and planted a seed that she’d like to be a guest one day. But then she heard an inner voice ask: “What would you be excited to tell Ksenia about?”

That’s when she realized that the creations she’s meant to share with me (and with you) haven’t come through yet. So Karina got busy bringing her creative visions to reality, from a music album, to a poetry book, a podcast and a journaling movement in her home country of Kazakhstan.

All while exploring her own spiritual journey through the Akashic Records and other modalities. Today, she shares it all with us, and I couldn’t be more excited about this coming full circle!

We discuss: 

• Meeting Spirit while staying persent in your body

• How to learn another language fluently – Karina’s experience learning english

• Karina’s experience growing up with a musician mom

• First encounters with Spirit 

• Karina’s spiritual journey and how opening her Akashic Records changed everything 

• Karina’s experience with residency at the Watermill Center

• Making peace with your inner voice

• Pain alchemized into sacred work

• Music as an invitation to feel

• The creative process of writing a music album 

• The healing power of journaling and free writing 

• How to quantum leap through journaling 

• Changing the trajectory of your life by establishing a communication between your past self and future self 

• Creating your own mantras 

• Appreciating the little things 

• Karina’s upcoming creative projects 

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Mentioned: 

How To Read The Akashic Records by Linda Howe 

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About Karina Ivanova: 

I’m a 26-year-old musician, writer and podcaster from Kazakhstan. currently, I’m creating “jazziam” (www.instagram.com/jazziamwithkarina/) which is a journaling movement, community and podcast, introducing the healing power of writing (jazu literally means two things in Kazakh: to write and to heal) to people. 2 years ago, I released my first music album “metanoia” in English (https://open.spotify.com/album/7DTRqa5W5eWahtx6qpVO7v?si=SvVevKNtS0KnxZJkmA17vw) and a poetry book called “символ отречения от контроля” (symbol of surrendering control), in Russian. It’s a collection of 110 poems-reflections on my spiritual journey activated after a series of events such as residency at the Watermill Center, opening my Akashic Records for the first time and ending my 8.5 year long relationship. I’m interested all things arts and spirituality, conscious living, writing, soulful entrepreneurship and relationships. My sacred work these days is to hold space for people, as individuals and in groups, through writing practices and mantra chanting.