DWC 139: Social Courage, Reality Transsurfing, and Nervous System Leadership with Dina MaayanDWC 139: Social Courage, Reality Transsurfing, and Nervous System Leadership with Dina Maayan
Deepen with Christina
Christina Weber and Dina Maayan chat about social courage, playful risk, and supporting sobriety through breathwork and nervous system leadership. Their conversation also touches on heartbreak, aligned love, and friendship within a conscious community, all with a mix of humour and honesty.
1:05:31•20 Jul 2026
Social Courage, Playful Risk, and Sober Breathwork with Dina Maayan
Episode Overview
- Playful risk-taking through games and prank calls can shift people out of psychological heaviness and into creativity.
- Breathwork offers a sober way to access altered states while building trust in the body and reducing anxiety.
- Strong friendships can hold space for heartbreak by reflecting desires, boundaries, and courage without feeding victim narratives.
- Gene keys philosophy encourages seeing challenges as opportunities to unlock personal gifts and service to others.
- Being discerning with time and connections helps create relationships that feel growth-oriented, honest, and deeply nourishing.
“I am also choosing to be sober and psychedelics are a chapter for me right now. I really love being catapulted into a higher state of consciousness using my breath.”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This conversation on Deepen with Christina brings together host Christina Weber and body therapist, breathwork facilitator, and gene keys guide Dina Maayan for a lively mix of silliness and serious self-work. You’ll hear Christina frame play as a kind of medicine, especially through games like truth or dare and prank calls, which she sees as antidotes to the “spiral of heaviness” that adulthood can create.
Dina runs with that idea, sharing her take on social courage, why taking playful risks feels like therapy for the ego, and how a “homeopathic dose of gaslighting” in prank calls can spark joy without harming anyone. The episode also steps into deeper territory: Dina talks openly about panic attacks since childhood, her dedication to nervous system leadership, and why breathwork has become her sober route into altered states.
As she puts it, using the breath as an endogenous source of energy lets her reach higher states of consciousness without relying on substances, while building trust in herself and her body. Relationship themes run throughout. Christina and Dina unpack expectations around friendship, the challenge of managing many connections in a so-called conscious community, and Christina’s own breakup and “prayer for aligned love”.
Dina reflects back Christina’s courage and non-victim stance, showing how a supportive friend can hold both tenderness and accountability. You’ll also hear hints of Dina’s “cosmic origin story” with her fiancé, AcroYoga founder Jason Nemer, from smuggled Hawaiian mangoes to coconut-tree climbs, all tied into ideas like reality transurfing and consciously calling in partnership.
If you’re sober or sober-curious, working through heartbreak, or just craving more play in your relationships, this episode offers a blend of humour, honesty, and practical ideas for bringing more courage and connection into everyday life. How might a little extra play and breath change your own recovery or growth journey?
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