Tonya Dawn Recla

About Tonya Dawn Recla

As Executive Director of Super Power Experts, Tonya Dawn Recla brings decades of human intelligence experience and training to each unique workshop, episode and engagement. As a former counterintelligence agent, Army veteran and two time graduate of Arizona State University, she offers a unique perspective to current global challenges. Her experience in critical race theory, electronic warfare and human energetics led to the creation of the Superpower Network, ranked in the top 1.5% of podcasts globally, and the Creative Energy Field Activation (CEFA) modality. She continues to empower individuals and organizations around the globe to create greater social impact for a greater humanity. Listen in at The Science of Superpowers

Birthing a Powerful Message

Birthing a Powerful Message How do you encapsulate over 30 years of experience, self-discovery, training, education, teaching, and gnosis in a succinct, easy-to-use, powerful message? This is the type of question I ask myself…or I did. It’s amazing to me that no matter how many times I remind myself and others that all great works have their own time, place, and energy the process always surprises me. For the last six years, I knew my life’s journey guided me to a very specific place. I knew that place involved speaking, training, guiding, mentoring, writing and serving. I knew it would somehow incorporate my education, experience, self-development, and integration. But how to you take a B.A. in intercultural communication, a M.A. in education/critical theory, an Army enlistment, a spy-chasing career, wifedom, motherhood, and entrepreneurship, wrap it all up and package it in a way that serves the world? [...]

Tonya Dawn Recla2021-06-15T22:36:15-07:00June 24th, 2013|

Personal Power through Integration

Personal Power through Integration Is power masculine? Is power feminine? Is a concept of personal power possible? As my work with women (and the men who find me) continues, I’m amazed by the confusion surrounding the concept of personal power. I first explored this concept in 2007 when I wrote the first version of W.A.R. – Watch, Assess, React: The Ultimate Guide to Personal POWER and Safety. I coined a term POWERinity in the hopes that we start looking at power in unique ways, devoid of gender-specific nuances. I didn’t realize how necessary that concept was until recently. […]

Tonya Dawn Recla2021-06-15T22:34:25-07:00June 15th, 2013|

Eris: Chaos or Personal Power Energy?

Eris: Chaos or Personal Power Energy? I’m really intrigued by the “new” planet, Eris. She speaks to me of all things chaotic, unkempt and wild about women. She represents deep personal power. Immediately these things emerge around Eris: “Bitch” by Meredith Brooks Delilah (as in Samson) Women who Run with Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes Kali And I think about an audio recording I loved by Caroline Myss who told her live audience to guard their personal boundaries and monitor their personal power with her. The first time I listened to her, I couldn’t believe she spoke so boldly and unapologetically about not being sensitive to others’ experiences. But I as listened more, I appreciated what she intended. […]

Tonya Dawn Recla2021-06-15T22:34:56-07:00June 15th, 2013|

Live in the Pink! Personal Power

Live in the Pink! Personal Power (Excerpted from W.A.R. – Watch, Assess, React: The Ultimate Guide to Personal POWER and Safety) The first step in gaining control over your environment is to start being vigilant. Vigilant is defined as “being alertly watchful, especially to avoid danger.” Anyone who’s been involved with law enforcement knows to be constantly aware of her/his surroundings. The purpose of being vigilant is to train your eyes, mind, and body to remain in a state of awareness that allows you to react to situations more quickly that you could from an unaware state. Truthfully, you should strive to be vigilant at al times. When you get home for the night and are locked away safely from the world, you can let your guard completely down, but until then, it’s best to remain vigilant.ved with law enforcement knows to be constantly aware of her/his surroundings. The purpose of being [...]

Tonya Dawn Recla2021-05-28T01:24:25-07:00June 1st, 2013|

It Takes a Village to Teach Personal Power

It Takes a Village to Teach Personal Power Artist: Willow Arlenea designsbywillow.com Over the last couple of months, I’ve developed a new appreciation and deep love for humanity. I also discovered the hidden joys and unimaginable excitement layered deep within this human existence we call life. And I did it all by giving up what most people accept as necessary and embarking on a journey far outside my comfort zone, but…amazingly…deep within myself. My husband and I travel full-time with our 3 year-old daughter. We recently adopted the terms “location independent” and “digital nomads.” We call ourselves The Traveling Faerie Tour (it’s amazing what you’ll do when you fall in love with a child). We packed up our necessary belongings and piled into our minivan endearingly named “Pixie Dust.” […]

Tonya Dawn Recla2021-06-15T22:34:19-07:00May 20th, 2013|

Here Comes the Snake – Live in the Pink!

Here Comes the Snake – Live in the Pink! As the new Chinese year kicks off, the dragon swims back into her underwater cave for another 12 years. On her journey, she passes the latest zodiac energy emerging from the same watery depths in a purely feminine and transformational way. The black water snake gently cuts the surface of the water with her head held high demonstrating the confidence and knowing of her sign. This imagery lends itself nicely to the Live in the Pink!TM concept. While it provides obvious connections to the rise of feminine energy so readily talked about today, it goes deeper than that. In fact, the entire conversation around feminine and masculine energies goes so much deeper than that…or it should. […]

Tonya Dawn Recla2021-06-15T22:33:45-07:00February 13th, 2013|

Integration

Integration Integration is the tearing apart, melting down, merging, rebuilding, pursuit of wholeness. Tonya Dawn Recla

Tonya Dawn Recla2021-06-15T22:34:13-07:00February 1st, 2013|

Powerinity – Very Personal Power

Powerinity – Very Personal Power I get a lot of questions regarding my use of the word POWERinity. Rightly so, I made it up. It started out sort of whimsically, but it represents a very powerful concept. Back in 2007 when I first penned (typed, word processed…sigh…it just doesn’t have the same ring, does it?) W.A.R. – Watch, Assess, React: The Ultimate Guide to Personal POWER and Safety. (Amazon link) I struggled with the inevitable connection between femininity and power was in its relative infancy and I wanted to make a distinction between anything that conjured gender specificity and intrinsic power. I searched and searched for a term, but nothing quite fit…so I made one up. The following is an excerpt from the second edition of W.A.R. This holiday season let’s allow these words to remind us of our personal responsibility to be the best we can be, regardless [...]

Tonya Dawn Recla2021-06-15T22:34:34-07:00December 8th, 2012|

I Solemnly Swear…

I Solemnly Swear… Sunday was Veteran’s Day. I did two things I’ve never done before. I posted this picture of me in uniform on Facebook and I took Applebee’s up on their offer of a free meal. But I struggled with both of these. You see, I didn’t have a real illustrious Army career. The down and dirty is I completed my master’s degree in 2001, a few months before 9/11. That shattering event, and my indecision regarding my next career, led me to the Army recruiter’s door. So at 27 years old with a master’s degree I enlisted in the Army (I chose to enlist rather than pursue a commission as an officer because there was only one job I wanted – counterintelligence. I could get the guaranteed job or the commission, not both…I chose E4). One year and four months later the Army medically discharged me. [...]

Tonya Dawn Recla2021-06-15T22:33:32-07:00November 13th, 2012|

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Faerie

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Faerie Artist: Tom Dunlap ArtbyDunlap.com I recently had the distinct pleasure of participating in the AZ Goddess Conference at the Peaceful Spirit Enrichment Center. It was a first for me and I’ll certainly partake again and again. The camaraderie felt amazing, the love flowed powerfully and the combined feminine energy lit fires that will change the world. While I’m sure the experience meant something specific to each woman present, for me it precipitated a huge life change. The conference concluded the day before my daughter and I set out on an adventurous, nomadic phase of our lives. At the beginning of October, my husband and I made the decision to forego traditional housing. While he served the country in Afghanistan, I stored our valuables, packed our van and bid sayonara to our abode as my daughter and I drove off into [...]

Tonya Dawn Recla2021-06-15T22:33:39-07:00November 5th, 2012|