The WakeUp Protocol
Something inside of you knows… there’s more. You’re right!
The WakeUp Protocol is a podcast for sensitive, curious souls who know there’s more to life than what we’ve been taught.
Hosted by Nadja Haldimann, this is a space for big questions, deep remembering, and honest conversations about what it means to come back to your true self, beneath the conditioning, beyond the mask, outside the matrix.
Each week, you’ll hear from guests who are in it too, navigating their own awakenings with courage and grace. We talk about grief, near-death experiences, psychedelics, illness as initiation, visions, and the mysteries that science hasn’t yet caught up with, but our bodies and hearts already know to be true.
This is a space for remembering and fierce truths. For sovereignty, soul, and the kind of conversations that leave you changed.
If you’re waking up... welcome home.
The WakeUp Protocol
Questioning the Stories: Awakening Through Ceremony, Identity & Belonging with Gil Bar-Sela
What happens when you start questioning everything you were taught about who you are, what’s real, and how we’re meant to heal?
In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann sits down with Gil Bar-Sela — a psychedelic guide, facilitator, and trainer from Israel whose work bridges ancient wisdom, queer identity, and modern healing.
Together, they explore how Gil’s journey — from apprenticing with a medicine woman in the lineage of María Sabina to guiding others through expanded states of consciousness — has led him to challenge mainstream narratives around healing, identity, and belonging.
Gil shares insights on:
- Growing up queer in Israel and how it shaped his relationship with identity and freedom
- Apprenticing in a sacred psilocybin lineage and what it taught him about ceremony, healing, and humility
- Questioning the status quo of Western models of therapy and transformation
- Merging psychology with indigenous wisdom in his medicine work
- How community, compassion, and deep listening can transform personal and collective conflict
- Why integrating expanded states is just as important as accessing them
This is a spacious, thought-provoking conversation that invites you to look at your own assumptions — and consider the possibility that healing isn’t about fixing, but about remembering.
Connect with Gil:
website: gilbarsela.com
Instagram: @gilbarsela
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