DIWA SOUL SESSIONS is a decolonized podcast around the FILIPINX experience. If you're interested in being a guest, please contact: TRINITY@DIWASOUL.COM
*Theme song: Healing in C by Diwa Soul is available for digital download on all major platforms*
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About the host:
Trinity Villanueva is a mother, musician, artist, educator, and coach. She's the Founder of Diwa Soul LLC:
- Diwa Soul Sessions, podcast
- Trin's Music, in-home music lessons
- Kapwa Koven, online coaching for Indigenous + queer healers
- Sanctuaries, a fiscally sponsored (Fractured Atlas) experiential healing project
🎧 NOW STREAMING ON SPOTIFY 🎧
Diwa Soul Sessions — Season 2, Episode 4
✨ Messages from the Akasha
ft. Akashic Records Reader & Intuitive Kaye Namba
Feeling called to reconnect with your inner knowing?
This episode dives deep into soul remembrance, healing through the Records, and trusting your path. 🌌
Tap into the unseen.
Let the messages rise.
💫 Your soul has something to say.
🎙️ Search “Diwa Soul Sessions” on Spotify or hit the link in bio.
#NowPlaying #SpotifyPodcasts #DiwaSoulSessions #AkashicRecords #KayeNamba #IntuitiveHealing #SpiritualAwakening #MessagesFromTheAkasha #HealingThroughStory #SoulWork
8 Mar 2025
S2, Ep. 3: Demystifying Babaylan (Part 2): Rites of Passage & Living as a Diwataan
🌿✨ SEASON 2, EPISODE 3 IS HERE! ✨🌿
This week on Diwa Soul Sessions, we continue the powerful conversation in Part 2 of Demystifying Babaylan with Babaylan Batara Gat Baya, a traditional spiritual leader from Mindanao, Philippines 🇵🇭.
🔮 What’s in this episode?
We explore Batara’s rites of passage, from the trials and initiations that shaped his spiritual path to the deep rituals and traditions he upholds as a Diwataan – someone who fully embodies the pre-colonial animist ways of the Philippines. 🌊🔥
✨ Who is a Diwataan?
A person who dedicates their life to spirit, nature, and ancestral wisdom, living in alignment with the unseen world. 🌿✨ Batara shares how this path has shaped his daily life, ceremonies, and responsibilities as a Babaylan.
🎥 Want a visual glimpse into his world? Check out his YouTube channel: @Batara.Diwataan (https://www.youtube.com/@Batara.Diwataan)
🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms! Let’s journey deeper into our ancestral roots together.
💭 What resonates with you from this episode? Drop your thoughts in the comments or DM me! 🌺 #DiwaSoulSessions #Babaylan #Animism #IndigenousWisdom #PhilippineSpirituality
27 Feb 2025
S2, Ep. 2 Unlocking Your Soul’s Blueprint: Human Design with Krystle Alfarero
What if you had a roadmap to living in alignment with your true self? 🌿✨ In this episode of Diwa Soul Sessions, we’re exploring Human Design with special guest Krystle Alfarero, founder of the Human Design Accelerator class and YouTube channel.
Krystle breaks down the basics of this powerful system—what it is, how it blends quantum physics and the mystical, and why understanding your unique energy type can be a game-changer for stepping into your purpose. Whether you’re a Manifesting Generator, Projector, Generator, Manifestor, or Reflector, this episode will help you start navigating life with more ease, clarity, and flow.
Tune in for a soul-deep conversation on self-discovery, energy alignment, and how to live life on your terms. 💫
🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts!
#DiwaSoulSessions #HumanDesign #EnergeticBlueprint #QuantumAlignment #SoulPurpose #ManifestingGenerator #Projector #Generator #Reflector #UnderstandingYourself #SpiritualGrowth #FlowState #HealingJourney #KrystleAlfarero #PodcastLove #ListenNow
https://www.instagram.com/krystlealfarero/?hl=en
https://www.humandesignrevolution.co/accelerator
21 Feb 2025
S2, Ep 1: Mental Illness or Wisdom: Interview with "Crazywise" Filmmaker Phil Borges
Film creator Phil Borges speaks with Trinity about his global studies around the parallels of shamanism and wisdom against Western practices of diagnoses and DSMs (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).
1 Nov 2024
Ep. 9 Beyond the Veil with Filipina Intuitive Kaye
Divine You Podcast Host Kaye Namba teams up with Diwa Soul Sessions Podcast Host Trinity Villanueva and records on Halloween - October 31, 2024.
Messages from beyond the veil are shared in this very grounding episode.
Links from the episode
Intuitive Kaye Namba (https://www.instagram.com/kaye_namba/)
Diwa Soul Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/diwasoul/)
Healing in C (https://open.spotify.com/track/3P3bxLGzafpTRpsVg5G4YT?si=bff76d9943ca4298) (Intro song)
Book time (https://diwasoul.as.me/schedule/e29c20ec) with Trinity
Abundant Home Design (https://www.instagram.com/abundant.home/)
Coming soon is an app by Trinity. More to come!
5 Sept 2024
Ep. 8: Award-Winning Filipinx Author Jen Soriano
Podcast host Trinity Villanueva interviews Jen Soriano around topics within and beyond the pages in her newest book "Nervous".
Books mentioned:
Nervous, Jen Soriano (https://www.jensoriano.net/books)
Your Brain on Art, Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross
Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert
Hula: A Novel, Jasmine Iolani Hakes
Songs featured:
Healing in C, Diwa Soul (https://open.spotify.com/track/3P3bxLGzafpTRpsVg5G4YT?si=8b37beb4a58f45b2)
Liminal Gb, Diwa Soul (coming soon)
Against the World, Shining Blade Theory (https://open.spotify.com/track/43cHOEcyNLZFThYW17PyxU?si=0455bf5b6cd841ae)
8 Aug 2024
Ep. 7: 1-900-Woo-Wooo with Filipina Intuitive Kaye Namba
Let's talk about channeling. We are demystifying it, picking it apart, and understanding a bit more about guidance from the other side.
Follow Kaye here: thedivinityofyou.com
Hear more of our conversation continued the other way around on her podcast.
This episode gets into deep discussion on our relationship with money, how our identities impact this, belief systems. Further, Trinity and Vivian discuss how the idea of financial means conflates with what it means to be resourced.
This also will air on the beginning of when Mercury officially goes retrograde. Probably a great time for all of us to reanalyze our relationship with money. ;)
Connect with Vivian - https://focusonucoach.com/
20 Jul 2024
Ep. 5 Kwentuhan: Let's Talk Filipino Story
After a two week absence, this episode dives into two parts.
Part 1: Trinity zigging in and cycling around topics to understand thoughts from family vacation and why the absence of two weeks.
Part 2: Trinity recalling three Filipino stories. The first is around LapuLapu. The second is around Manila-Acapulco Spanish Galleon trades. The third is around the Manilamen in the United States.
Songs are:
- Diwa Soul Session Theme Song - Healing in C
- Diwa Soul - Healing in C minor
- Magellan - Canciones de Filipinas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzxawsC7kek
- Rondalla music of traditional Filipino Tinikling dancing
*Spirit has guided us to change course on order of sessions. Also, Spirit shows up and no matter the mics and our internet connection, things continue to not come through clearly!*
Topics covered:
Who is Lakan?
Souls
Indigenous Knowledge
What is Hilot?
Survival
Identity within the Diaspora
Spiritual Practices
Stories thru Food
Silbi (purpose)
Consent
Lakan’s Approach within The Atang:
“My trials and tribulations as a late-diagnosed AuDHD, queer, trans, Tagalog person brought me to the traditional medicines of my ancestors. As a hilot binabaylan and Chinese medicine practitioner I assist people in finding balance in the ecosystem within themselves as well as the larger external ecosystem they reside in. I see the body as a garden to be cultivated, not a warzone against death and disease. Every person’s situation is unique and I tailor my treatments to meet people where they are at."
Website: https://www.the-atang.site/about (https://www.the-atang.site/about)
Instagram: the_atang_site (https://www.instagram.com/the_atang_site)
25 Jun 2024
Ep. 3: Unapologetically Decolonizing God
*Changed the order of the episodes due to Spirit's guidance.
Listen in for a more public stance that I take, to understand why I'm on a quest to contribute in liberation for Black and Indigenous women through healing and awakening - the purpose of Diwa Soul LLC.
🔥 It was late at night this past Saturday where I felt this sudden urge to record this episode.
🙈 Now, this episode has completely shifted the order of the next few episodes, to discuss more at hand a bit more of a zoomed out lens of how colonization within Indigenous spirituality practices has taken away our inner intuition and knowledge in Western culture.
🥀 As a practicing Diwataan and Byanon, I'm undergoing shamanic changes that I realize were always the key to my physical health.
💫 In a later episode with a hilot practitioner, @the_atang_site (https://www.instagram.com/the_atang_site/) I will uncover more about purpose and health.
🗿 But in this bonus episode, I'm a bit unapologetic about my thoughts on the weaponization of organized religion throughout history and how this has impacted spirituality around the world for shamans and witches.
In kapwa ❤️
Credits:
1940s Hawaii video background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpIOEHl_C9Q
Puerto Rican bolero from 1920s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy04CGJqt7o&list=PLKJTsVUovxSzTfIJ90quceuc6aakcaxci
Quick history of Philippines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De08VKktvJ4
Orishas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryvOh6Iu6ug
19 Jun 2024
Ep. 2: Demystifying Filipino Shamans (Babaylan)
In 2021, Batara Gat Baya and Trinity Villanueva (Liway) met virtually and were connected through Spirit. For the first time, Batara started to connect on a Diwataan level with someone in the United States, while he is in his final stages of Baylan training.
Batara and Trinity loosely discuss what Babaylan means and starts touching on how people can begin to tap into it in the modern way.
Part 2 that's much longer and more in-depth comes out next week on June 26, 2024.
To learn more about Batara, visit his YouTube channel (mostly in Tagalog) at: https://www.youtube.com/@Batara.Diwataan (https://www.youtube.com/@Batara.Diwataan)
To learn more about Diwa Soul or want to work with Trinity (Liway)? Visit our webpage at: www.diwasoulretreats.com (http://www.diwasoulretreats.com)
Want to sponsor an episode? Contact us at: podcast@diwasoulretreats.com (mailto:podcast@diwasoulretreats.com)
12 Jun 2024
Ep. 1: The Why with Filipina-Rican Founder Trinity Villanueva
Dayang Liwayway Akua, also known as Trinity Villanueva, is the host of Diwa Soul Sessions and the founder of Diwa Soul Retreats, a business aimed at supporting the liberation of Black and Brown women.
With a diverse heritage—Filipina and Hawaiian from her father's side and Puerto Rican from her mother's—she embraces her rich cultural background.
Trinity introduces herself through quotes, storytelling, spoken word, and sound, sharing that she has previously hidden her spirituality due to fear of judgment.
She invites listeners to approach her with an open heart and curiosity as they learn about her and the upcoming journey of Diwa Soul Sessions.
This endeavor aims to celebrate and grieve their shared heritage, helping to uncover their collective identity.
Read More: https://www.diwasoulretreats.com/soul-sessions/episode-1-the-why
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