Monday Mar 31, 2025
Come Back to Love with Robyn Vogel: Guest: Ray and Nina Crist
Come Back to Love® Radio: Shamanism and Your Healing Journey with Ray and Nina Crist
SUMMARY: Here’s an episode summary for *Come Back to Love® Radio* featuring Ray and Nina Crist of Jaguar Path:
Come Back to Love® Radio – Episode: Awakening the Body, Mind, and Spirit with Ray & Nina Crist
In this inspiring episode of Come Back to Love® Radio, host Robyn Vogel welcomes Ray and Nina Crist, founders of the Jaguar Path—a powerful fusion of yoga, shamanic healing, and personal transformation. Together, they explore the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern embodiment practices that support us in returning to love within ourselves and in our relationships.
Ray and Nina share their profound journey of creating Jaguar Path, blending the science of yoga with the sacred traditions of the Andes. They offer insights into how energy, movement, and intentional living can help us release old patterns, restore vitality, and live from the heart.
You’ll hear stories from their personal paths of awakening and how they’ve cultivated a sacred partnership rooted in presence, purpose, and mutual devotion. This heartfelt conversation touches on healing the body, accessing intuitive wisdom, and the power of community and ceremony in supporting our evolution.
A simple yet powerful grounding practice is used to connect body, breath, and spirit—so you can begin to feel the medicine of Jaguar Path for yourself.
Tune in for an uplifting and soul-nourishing episode that invites you to walk your own path of transformation, healing, and—most importantly—love.
BIOS:
Ray Crist is a world-renowned visionary who offers his teachings from a deep well of knowledge of indigenous wisdom. He has been an apprentice and an initiate of the Q'ero Nations elders since 2006 and ever since has shared the ways of living with thousands of spiritual seekers. Ray has traveled the world and has spent the last three decades immersed in shamanism, various styles of yoga, Chinese medicine, and martial arts. He has been offering workshops and trainings at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, NY Open Center, Yoga Journal, Blue Spirit, Bodhi Tree Yoga Resort, and other centers around the world.
Ray’s trainings focus on how to use shamanic tools and yoga as technologies that assist us to reach an optimal state of being to live a balanced, empowered, and extraordinary life.
Ray was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2003 and was given 3 months to live. He left his home country of Greece and in 2005 had surgery at the National Institute of Health (NIH) where he gave up his right kidney. After that, he ventured in search of indigenous healers. To his surprise, the shamans he met told him that they couldn’t heal him ... but that they could train him to become a shaman and heal himself.
Ray went on to become an apprentice of three shamans from lineages as old as the Inca civilization and the Amazon jungle shamans. Spending time with the shamans and living with them, he received several initiations up to the top level of the Q'ero lineage. In the 12th year of his apprenticeship, Ray was initiated by his teacher, Don Sebastian Pauccar Flores as a Kuraq Akulleq. This title translates to “seer” or “visionary” and comes with a directive to share the Q'ero teachings with other nations as a planetary representative of the tribe's culture and medicine. This has become the mission of Ray’s life, and he founded The Jaguar Path in 2007 as the home base for that work.
Ray is honored to share these teachings that he holds so close to his heart. Ray bows to the unfathomable power of this work and the unlimited potential of each member of the ever-growing international Jaguar Path Tribe.
Nina Crist has lived, breathed, studied, and taught the martial arts since the early age of 17, learning the essence of each these styles: Karate, Aikido, Jiu-Jitsu, Tai Chi, Chi Gung, Kung Fu, and others. She is a black belt with the title of Master and as a keeper of this ancient wisdom, she is honored to share the beautiful practices with all who are drawn to them. Her teaching is inspired by decades of traditional training and she makes these ancient practices accessible to all.
It is Nina's life work to peel back the layers of dogma and fear that surround this ancient wisdom so that people from all walks and all stages of life can benefit.
Nina grew up close to nature in Maine and was called from a young age to live a spiritual path in service of uplifting and developing others. She always knew that her life would focus on offering nourishment and support to those around her. At 17 she began training extensively in the martial arts, drawn to a deeply traditional, non-competitive, nature-based delivery of these ancient teachings in which discussion of the virtues and becoming your best self, was held side by side with the physical forms.
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