EP 12 | Are We Entertaining Or Facilitating Healing? Whatever You Can Know. podcast

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In this episode I share a story about a recent experience I had at a breathwork event and how all the 'bells and whistles' diminished the experience. I talk about the influence of social media luring and enchanting people into healing spaces that fail to create a safe space to heal. I dive into some thoughts around authenticity and integrity, the lack of wise and embodied teachers in our world, and the dilution of healing practices because of social media's influence in entertaining the masses, rather than safely guiding clients/participants/students through life changing healing. I also eat a little bit of humble pie and laugh at my own humanity. Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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EP 13 | Oh, but just how trusting can you be? 11:04

6 days ago11:04

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In this episode I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 2nd April 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse. It’s titled ‘Oh, but just how trusting can you be?’ It’s all about the feeling of the loss of financial security and how that’s inherently tied into my sense of worth, and testing the limits of my trust. Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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EP 11 | I've been in a funk 11:40

10 days ago11:40

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In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 26th March 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse. It’s titled ‘I’ve been in a funk. And by funk I mean, really freaking irritated’. I share some truth about feeling pretty irritated and how I have a tendency to retreat when I’m feeling funky. But how sharing what’s real, right now, can help shift the energy. I share the power of being open and honest and how looking at the ‘real’ can create safety and connection. I talk a little about the impact of social media’s fallacy of perfection and the impact that has on authentic businesses suffering because the enchantment of deception doesn’t have a home in the real. Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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EP 10 | On judgement 10:52

11 days ago10:52

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In this episode I am reading a poem that I wrote a couple of years ago called 'On Judgement'. I decided to read it recently because I've been noticing myself judge. I share a little bit about how I watch, with curiosity, the ways in which my mind judges people and experiences. It's also a bit of prelude to podcast 12 where I expand on the breathwork experience I mention in this episode, and riff into thoughts on authenticity and being real. Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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EP 09 | Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): Using EFT to overcome mental and physical dis-ease 19:35

20 days ago19:35

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In this episode I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 14th March 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse. It’s titled Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): Using EFT to overcome mental and physical dis-ease. I come off script a little when I am sharing the EFT protocol. You can learn more about EFT from a video I have on YouTube which you can find here . Or Dr. Peta Stapleton's website (who I mention in the podcast) here . Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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EP 08 | The benefits and importance of being barefoot 30:21

21 days ago30:21

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In this episode I talk about my love of being barefoot. I share all of the amazing benefits of going barefoot and the importance of connecting to the earth; often called earthing or grounding. Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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EP 07 | Supporting kids through emotional experiences 25:55

26 days ago25:55

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In this episode I share a story about an experience my daughter had at school that caused a big emotional outburst and the way that I supported her through that. I chat a little about the importance of emotional regulation within ourselves so we have the capacity to be great space holders, guides and supporters to our little loved ones. I also chat about a practice that I really love for helping my daughter and myself to move through difficult emotional experiences called EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique (commonly called tapping). Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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EP 06 | Seeing the light through my daughter's blindness 8:37

30 days ago8:37

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In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 1st March 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse. It's titled Seeing the light through my daughter's blindness, and how I follow her lead. I talk about a beautiful moment I had with my daughter, who is blind, autistic and has a developmental delay, during some neurological testing, and how exposure to stressful situations as a special needs mum, and yoga, meditation and breathwork, taught me to weather any storm. You can read it on substack here . Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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Podcast Trailer 2:13

5 weeks ago2:13

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Welcome to Whatever You Can Know Podcast with me, your host, Tanya Savva. A place where spirituality meets special needs parenting, consciousness meets embodiment, trauma meets healing and a whole bunch of extra stuff to inspire curiosity about whatever you can know. My insatiable interest in physiology, biology and science started with cadavers in a wet lab in the year 2000 as a university student. But when my life took an unexpected turn in 2009 and my daughter was born with a disability, my interest moved from the physical to the metaphysical, emotional and spiritual. Becoming a special needs mum unravelled me to my core. It wasn’t part of my life’s plan but hindsight comes with many gifts and I wouldn’t want my life to be any other way. I’ve since been many things in the health, wellbeing and healing space for over 20 years as a therapist, creative and healer. I’ve studied and shape-shifted from one thing to another, time and time again, following my gut, my inner voice and intuition. Despite the ways in which I’ve changed, throughout my conscious evolution, I have consistently been a special needs mum, a student, a writer, and deeply curious. I’ve supported many people to ignite radical self responsibility, awaken awareness, release unconscious limitations and reconnect with purpose and presence. Just as my daughter did for me. As life thrusts its unexpectedness against me, I choose to loosen my grip on the illusion of control, and allow myself to be swept up in the magic of life’s unfolding. So here we are, you and me, on a podcast, where I share an amalgamation of what is real, what is true, what I've learnt, what is current and what I know. This is not a self help space. But you may see yourself in my muse, and I hope that awakens an insatiable interest in you, too. Welcome to Whatever You Can Know — your home for what’s real, right now. Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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EP 01 | Nice to meet you! How did I get here? 20:14

5 weeks ago20:14

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In this episode I offer a little intro and insight to me, your host Tanya Savva, giving a little snap shot of my life trajectory and career. I introduce the fact that I am a special needs mum, how following my intuition has lead me to life changing and affirming decisions, and the influence of numerology on making decisions like starting a podcast and a substack platform. I also share the poem that inspired the title of my podcast Forget about enlightenment by John Welwood Sit down wherever you are And listen to the wind singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing, the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, Not who you would like to be, Not the saint you are striving to become, But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You are already more and less Than whatever you can know. Breathe out, Touch in, Let go. Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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EP 02 | I let it all go, again 10:47

5 weeks ago10:47

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In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 20th February 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse. It’s titled I let it all go, again. As one doors closes, another opens. I shares how being a special needs mother empowered me to accept change and all the change that is at the forefront of my life right now. You can read it on substack here . Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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EP 03 | Storytelling. The power of community and sharing your story 10:56

5 weeks ago10:56

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In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 21st February 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse. It’s titled Storytelling: the power of community and sharing your story. I talk about a women's storytelling event I attended recently and reflect on the lost of art of storytelling, and intergenerational importance of connecting, being in community, and having a voice. I share about an incredible opportunity I had to speak at a storytelling event in 2018, and how saying yes to that landed me in Australian actress, Heather Mitchell's house, for a private workshop on how to write and present my story! You can read it on substack here . Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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EP 04 | Holding on to The Past. Losing generational stories 8:20

5 weeks ago8:20

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In this episode, I am reading a post I am shared on Substack on the 24th February 2025. I have made the decision to create audio versions of my written content to ensure the blindness and low vision community, or people who just prefer to listen, can access and enjoy my muse. It’s titled Holding on to the past: Losing generational stories and my responsibility to remember them. I talk about being the daughter of a Greek immigrant, and the lost stories of my father's parents who left their world for a promise of something more in Australia in the 50s. I share how I feel a strong pull towards documenting my only surviving grandmother's story, before it's lost forever. You can read it on substack here . Connect with Tanya: Website Substack Instagram This episode was recorded on Dharug Country and I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this land.…

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EP 05 | I shaved my head because of a past life 29:12

5 weeks ago29:12