Your Hair Is an Antenna: Ceremony & Hair Alchemy with Hair Priestess Jade Atia

In this episode, Kait speaks with Jade Atia about the hairdressing chair as a site of transformation — and what it cost her to discover that.Jade is the founder of Shekinah Temple, Crown Alchemy and Neshima Wellness Collective in Brisbane. She has spent over twenty-five years as a hairdresser, but it wasn't until her body forced the issue — a nervous breakdown two days after finishing a five-renovation, two-and-a-half-year build of her wellness space, with a one-year-old in her arms — that the real shift began. She calls that collapse her initiation. What followed was training with the Temple of KA Sacred Feminine Mystery School in Greece, and a full redefinition of what happens in her chair: not a haircut, but ceremony.This conversation moves between two rooms. In one, Jade unpacks a hairdressing industry she says is burnt out — fast-paced, outcome-obsessed, built on a perfectionism that leaves practitioners unable to sustain the work and clients unaware there was ever another way to receive it. In the other, she traces the death of her mother — from an aneurysm Jade reads as the physical expression of a lifetime spent suppressing her own feminine nature — and what it meant to feel nine generations of suppression in her female line come to an end inside her own body, later confirmed on a retreat in Greece.In this episode you'll hear: — What happened in the two days between finishing her build and her nervous breakdown, and why she calls it an initiation rather than a collapse. — Why Jade believes her mother's death completed a nine-generation pattern of suppression, and how that completion landed in her own body. — The specific ways the hairdressing industry keeps practitioners and clients from what Jade sees as sacred: presence, ceremony, and time. — What it means to treat a haircut as a rite of passage, and why ancient communities already understood this. — How Jade rebuilt her business and her nervous system around ritual, and what she now teaches through Crown Alchemy, her hairdresser training.Connect with Jade: Instagram: @shekinah._.temple · Website: shekinahtemple.com Crown Alchemy — a six-week online training for hairdressers, opens Wednesday 14 October 2026: shekinahtemple.com/crown-alchemy One-on-one sessions and Kundalini Activation ceremonies, Brisbane or online — book via her website. Connect with Kait + PhenXXKait on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kaitlyntregenzaPhenXX: phenxx.comPhenXX IG: @lovephenxxBecoming Flame IG: @becomingflame.podYouTube: @lovephenxx If something in this is pulling at you, DM Kait FLAME on Instagram for the Becoming Flame Transmissions — a free private podcast series.Becoming Flame: Where Sensuality, Sovereignty, and Sacred Power Ignite. New episodes every Friday, 7am AEST.