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Listen to the Outer Travel - Inner Journey podcast for an engaging conversation with Dr. Daisy Bowman. She shares her journey from traditional medicine to exploring the benefits of Ayurveda and sound therapy, particularly the power of chanting for healing and personal growth. Discover how you can achieve inner peace and balance through this practice.

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An Ayurvedic practitioner specialising in conscious sound and music as a means for self empowerment, harmonisation and joy. She gave up working as a doctor in London, and moved to the black forest Germany to immerse in and dedicate herself to the deepening and practical application of sound -( in the form of kirtan, mantra, songs and sound meditation) as well as the wisdom of yoga and ayurveda and as way to live more joyfully and authentically. She also offers a unique online harmonium course which takes especially yoga teachers on a journey to discover not only to learn the instrument but also onto the path of sound based meditation practices such as om and bija mantra chanting and offering of kirtans which then inevitably result in a journey towards a truer relationship with ones own voice and self. Daisy is also a singer songwriter and a music producer in training. Since experiencing the profound impact of certain sounds and music to wake something up inside, to restore balance or simply to inspire and return the attention to the true joy. And she has a vision of producing songs and sound meditations which can be listened to by anyone anywhere and be used to bring about these effects.

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In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, listen to Ulli and I give you a female and male voice for Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush’s Just Like Me meditation. This is part of our podcast series wherein we find ways to strengthen relationships and intimacy. In practicing this, we hope that we help you in your personal relationships as well.

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Just Like Me by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush

This person has a body and a mind, just like me.

This person has feelings, emotions, and thoughts, just like me.

This person has experienced physical and emotional pain and suffering, just like me.

This person has at some time been sad, disappointed, angry, or hurt, just like me.

This person has felt unworthy or inadequate, just like me.

This person worries and is frightened sometimes, just like me.

This person will die, just like me.

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Just Like Me by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush

This person has a body and a mind, just like me.

This person has feelings, emotions, and thoughts, just like me.

This person has experienced physical and emotional pain and suffering, just like me.

This person has at some time been sad, disappointed, angry, or hurt, just like me.

This person has felt unworthy or inadequate, just like me.

This person worries and is frightened sometimes, just like me.

This person will die, just like me.

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Math and Physics are two of science’s fundamental and most exciting branches. For centuries, scientists have used Math and Physics to answer some of the world’s most fascinating questions and help us understand the universe that we live in. But no matter how important it is in our daily lives, most students now shy away from these subjects and is disinterested in them. For this week’s Outer Travel, Inner Journey, we will talk with Ulli and Daria, two teachers of Math and Physics, as we dig deeper into the cause of students’ fear in these subjects and find ways to bring a positive light to it.

For Ulli and Daria, the low interest and fear of taking up Math and Physics stem from how it is taught in today’s educational system. These subjects are taught by teachers and educators that are not experts on the topics, making it hard to translate concepts into simple explanations. Since Physics and Math are complicated and complex, making them as basic as possible is crucial to allow students to grasp the concepts. It does not also help that the system is forcing teachers to take a shortcut in teaching these subjects with the view that not all are good at them; therefore, students won’t need it. This is a struggle that Daria deals with because she believes that students must understand the whole process to connect with the subject and apply it in the real world.

Both agreed that to capture the interest of their students and increase their appreciation of Math and Physics, teachers like them should engage their students based on their interests and relate them in a way that students can easily understand the concepts. For parents, it is also vital to continue being curious and open to learning themselves. This way, they can be students and models themselves for their children too.

Join us to learn more about being better teachers and students in learning about ourselves and the universe in this week’s episode!

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Pocket Quotes * “Physics and Math are some of the most fundamental sciences that we have to understand the world. It explains the universe or tried to explain the universe, and how it works. But there's a contrast that it has very low interest in school.” - Ulli Helmstetter * “It's the fear, that they always, or so many of them, fail in Math or Physics. And this failure is maybe the biggest reason why also the joy is gone.” - Ulli Helmstetter * “The simpler an explanation is required, the more of an expert you need to introduce it.” - Daria * “Slowing down and always taking a look at the ability to estimate an answer and to take as many steps as are required in order to see the logical progression of the question as opposed to taking a shortcut.” - Daria * “The fun is in the understanding, and not so much in the use of the stuff.” - Ulli Helmstetter * “Know who you are, what is your key interest, and come back to what is your key interest in learning. We can inspire ourselves, and we can be inspirational to others. as teachers or as parents who find inspiration for their kids.” - Alexandra Kreis

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Join us to learn more about being better teachers and students in learning about ourselves and the universe in this week’s episode!

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If you are a new parent, have you ever wondered why no matter how much you take care of your baby, give them milk, sway them, sing a lullaby, sometimes it’s just not enough? Do you ever ask yourself if what you’re doing is correct? Do you ever question why parenting portrayed by the media is different from what you are experiencing? Don’t worry you are not alone.

In this week’s episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, Alexandra Scherzer, a parenting educator and counselor shares how becoming a mother pushed her to look within herself more, which made her a better parent to her child.

She starts with explaining that in babies and toddlers, behavior and emotions are what we see. It is important to understand what lies under their behavior, what influences it, what part of one’s parenting is going to affect their behavior, and what part of a child’s in-born genes is going to affect certain behaviors. These are the factors that most parents are not aware about because these things are not explicit. She said that parents need to consider what they want for their children to be in 30 years time, and reverse engineer their strategy to support their children reach that goal. It is important for the steps to start early because the first five years of a child’s life is at its most formative. What happens early on will impact what will happen to their family life 40 years from now.

The way a person was raised in early childhood will impact on how they will parent in the future. It is called the Inner Parent - gut response and emotion when something happens as a parent. How you parent your child during their formative years will also be their parenting style when they themselves become one. This is why parents must focus on what they want for their child, in order to work on it on the long haul.

To raise a child that can trust him/herself and his/her intuition, a parent must respect their child from the start and not try to box or conform them to what society dictates. Parenting is a long game and to develop a healthy relationship with your child, you must not try to change them. Build their confidence and uplift them by encouraging them to trust themselves.

Both Alexandra’s share their parenting experiences, which concluded in a realization that in parenthood and to be better parents, one still has to look from within and understand oneself.

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The way that you are parented in your early childhood, before your memories really begin have a long term impact on them (your child) when you become a parent. Your inner parent is your gut response when something happens, your gut emotion when something happens, as a parent. The way that you're driven to automatically respond is very in line to how you would respond when you were so young. - Alexandra Scherzer
Knowledge is extremely powerful. Once I understood the main goal that my son's brain was trying to reach in the first 18 months, it made a lot of small decisions get smaller. Our framework is what we do with that one main thing, and everything else is secondary. When you have that type of focus, it's just like with anything. All of the noise starts to settle down. - Alexandra Scherzer
To establish trust as a primary caregiver, is to understand your child's inborn characteristics and what that means in terms of their behavior, because they are actually expressing emotions through their behavior. Understanding that piece of the pie is actually really valuable because what many parents start to feel as the beginnings of negative emotions within themselves because it's frustrating. If you understand why your child is behaving in a certain way, and then you understand that responding to them in a way that they are expressing it. - Alexandra Scherzer
Parenting is such a long game, that if you hope to raise a child who can trust him or herself in the long run, who can trust him or her intuition in the long run, the best way to do that is to respect who they are from the very get go. If you truly respect who they are, and not try to conform to everything that society is sometimes pushing and pulling us to do, you truly respect your child for who they are, and not try to change them. - Alexandra Scherzer
Looking within can be very powerful in our relationship with ourselves and our relationship with everybody. Our children, family, parents, friends, colleagues, everybody. Starting within first applies to anybody in any circumstance. Whether they are a parent of a young child, not a parent at all, or just looking at who they are day-to-day, living through life in their own life's journey, or interacting with the other adults in their life. - Alexandra Scherzer

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Alexandra Scherzer is a parenting educator and consultant at W.I.S.E. Parenting Academy. She focuses on parenting for secure attachment. Her passion for helping parents started when she herself became one and what she was experiencing was far from what she expected. As a mother experiencing new things, she had a lot of questions that traditional sources were not able to answer. She teaches parents like herself how to manage parenthood and raising children especially in their formative years of first 5-6 years, which will impact how the child will grow to be themselves in the long run. Alexandra conducts one-on-one sessions and pod/group sessions and works with parents and expecting parents alike.

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Both Alexandra’s share their parenting experiences, which concluded in a realization that in parenthood and to be better parents, one still has to look from within and understand oneself.

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The way that you are parented in your early childhood, before your memories really begin have a long term impact on them (your child) when you become a parent. Your inner parent is your gut response when something happens, your gut emotion when something happens, as a parent. The way that you're driven to automatically respond is very in line to how you would respond when you were so young. - Alexandra Scherzer
Knowledge is extremely powerful. Once I understood the main goal that my son's brain was trying to reach in the first 18 months, it made a lot of small decisions get smaller. Our framework is what we do with that one main thing, and everything else is secondary. When you have that type of focus, it's just like with anything. All of the noise starts to settle down. - Alexandra Scherzer
To establish trust as a primary caregiver, is to understand your child's inborn characteristics and what that means in terms of their behavior, because they are actually expressing emotions through their behavior. Understanding that piece of the pie is actually really valuable because what many parents start to feel as the beginnings of negative emotions within themselves because it's frustrating. If you understand why your child is behaving in a certain way, and then you understand that responding to them in a way that they are expressing it. - Alexandra Scherzer
Parenting is such a long game, that if you hope to raise a child who can trust him or herself in the long run, who can trust him or her intuition in the long run, the best way to do that is to respect who they are from the very get go. If you truly respect who they are, and not try to conform to everything that society is sometimes pushing and pulling us to do, you truly respect your child for who they are, and not try to change them. - Alexandra Scherzer
Looking within can be very powerful in our relationship with ourselves and our relationship with everybody. Our children, family, parents, friends, colleagues, everybody. Starting within first applies to anybody in any circumstance. Whether they are a parent of a young child, not a parent at all, or just looking at who they are day-to-day, living through life in their own life's journey, or interacting with the other adults in their life. - Alexandra Scherzer

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Retreats are meant to encourage healing and self-discovery by focusing your attention inwards, calming your senses and clearing your mind. A holiday does the opposite. It encourages you to open all your senses to experience the world and leaves your mind busy processing all you've seen.

Listen to me and Ulli discuss what it means to have a meaningful traveling experience. In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey. We will discuss what’s the difference between holidays and retreats based on our personal experiences. And hopefully it will guide you in pursuing experiences that can enrich your inner self.

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“In retreats, I'm forced to sit for hours and hours without doing anything and have some spiritual talks and it goes so deep that even for weeks after I see the results and I see the positive influence it has in my life. Whereas holidays, it's good, it's wonderful to relax and don't have to be in the daily chores. But on the other hand, also I'd like to do my job so sometimes I think do I really need holidays?” - Ulli Helmstetter
“Self-care retreats are time where you take time to go deep and use methods to be really clear with yourself." - Alexandra Kreis

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In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, Ulli and I discuss what the challenges are in maintaining sexuality and intimacy in our relationship. As we unpack those challenges, we also share how we cope with those gaps and ensure that we still both feel whole in the relationship and our sexuality.

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“With menopause, I find that I have gaps in concentration. I'm losing touch with myself, but also losing the touch with you." - Alexandra Kreis
“Intimacy requires investment, commitment, and time. It's more of the commitment of allowing yourself to find time again for each other, nothing is more valuable than experiencing this human exchange." - Alexandra Kreis

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There are things that people do not usually talk about but are common and natural to us. Most of the time these are signals or signs from our bodies trying to communicate with us. In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, Faye Blake shares her journey of finding her inner self and how her personal experiences, including hairdressing, help her help other people in finding their inner selves.

As a herbalist hairdresser and Aruyvedic coach, Faye believes that the key to living a sustainable life is to listen to the signals that our bodies tell us and not wait for the extremes. She explains that this is her way even in hairdressing, wherein she lets hair take its form and express itself. She learned this the hard way when she started hairdressing in a more traditional hair salon wherein they were expected to conform to a certain mould and have a specific image. When she tried conforming, she felt drained and coped through unhealthy addictions like smoking and alcohol.

This is when Faye realized that people tend to not actively try and make a difference unless something extreme happened and forced them to do it. After quitting the salon, she found herself working with naturopathic nutritionists. Shortly afterwards she understood that what she really want to do is to empower people through listening to our bodies’ wisdom and intuitive nature.

Self-empowerment for her is living intuitively through listening to what the elements and energies in our bodies and not looking for answers externally. It is trusting yourself and being to speak from a place within and trusting that your voice is valid.

People who work in hairdressing, like Faye, have a gift of connecting and listening to people and reflect with them and make them feel good about themselves. They are also a reminder that we cannot do everything alone, on our own. They help us nurture ourselves by listening to what our bodies are telling us and loving the parts that we take for granted. By mirroring us, they teach us how to live intuitively and love ourselves more.

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Pocket Quotes * “I want to sit at a hairdresser because it's about me, my own self-care, and about somebody who wants to talk about my hair and treat it like a part of me that needs the love and affection.” - Alexandra Kreis * “When they [hairdressers] are puffing it up, it's almost like asking your hair what it wants to do. I see this a lot in the body. Our emotional body and physical body is always talking. How do we a gain a conversation with it? It's by going through this more intuitive way of living. With hairdressing it's the same. What's going on within there, what does it actually wanna do, how does it wanna express. It's free expression, it's us, it's an extension of us and we're not molding it and shaping it to fit in like we do to the rest of our body in life to be in a box or how it should look. It's a real process of freedom and living in alignment of how naturally it wants to be, in alignment with nature.” - Faye Blake * “For women, we tend to put a lot of other people that we care about way before ourselves. From that place they can really burn out or really go to depletion and fatigue, and total disconnect from ourself and our path and how we truly want to live.” - Faye Blake * “I believe aryuveda does that with the elements and the energies and how you get to see them within your own body.That to me is your body's intuitive nature, and your body's wisdom talking, that's your body's voice.” - Faye Blake * “Intuitive is self-trust, self-trusting what comes within and being able to speak from that place and not just looking externally for answers. It's a way of trusting self, trusting my own voice, and knowing that it's valid.” - Faye Blake

Guest Bio Faye Blake is a naturopathic nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, and Ayurvedic health coach. She helps create deeply sustainable self-energy, to help people make a difference in the world without depleting and spiraling around into self-sabotaging behaviors. She promotes living intuitively through listening to what our bodies tell us. Faye loves to surround herself with a community working on their inner selves and freeing themselves from their past to create a loving and purposeful life. She is also a herbalist hairdresser at Tame the Mane Salon in Bristol, a salon that offers alternative natural hair services and products. Faye encourages people to equally nourish both their minds and bodies in a sustainable way.

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In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, Ulli and I will share our journey towards improving the passion in our relationship by being open and authentic to our sexual and erotic desires.

Although happily married, we acknowledge that a good sexual relationship should excite and feel like an adventure. Most marriages, like ours, is an exclusive and monogamous one. However, we are at the point where we are looking for ways to improve our relationship and are exploring the middle ground between monogamy and polyamory. An open relationship is a taboo topic for most relationships, and we are not there yet, but we are willing to talk about it, significantly if it will add spark and passion between us.

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Pocket Quotes * We've been asking ourselves is this something that would be a development between the two of us to have an open relationship? And to look into how to be with other people that we have a desire to be with intimately. There's a saying in Germany "you can look outside, but you eat at the home." - Alexandra Kreis

We know that a good sexual relationship and very alive erotic relationship also requires adventure, there has to be a little bit of tension, there has to be a little bit of new things. So how can one integrate that in to a very good relationship? - Ulli Helmstetter

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Creativity is a soulful expression. A spiritual practice, even.

We’ve seen or heard it in visual arts, music, and songs, even in dance. For many centuries, people have used the creative to express spirituality, faith, and belief. It was actually through this that it was passed on to the succeeding generations.

When I encountered this episode’s guest, Tesz Milan, she had left singing for over a decade but she had just finally come into owning that she was creative.

To Tesz, being a creative director for other businesses is very much like a musical—you have a story that you're telling as a singer and you're creating that story for others. It was her way of connecting to all of what's unseen. And she’s using her creative output as a way of drawing that energy and creating things for others to feel that for themselves in whatever shape that is in their lives.

In this podcast, we give light to the realities and practicalities of and around the artistic expression. Behind every awe-inspiring act, work, or sound is a whole being poured in in the process of its creation.

Tesz narrates how at the beginning, when she was starting off as a singer, difficult conversations about compensation and the struggle of finding a balance between that and cultivating the creative.

In places like finance or medicine or these more easily understood professions, we have a concept as a society of how we're going to compensate for those services, whereas for artists, it's so tough. So one has to know what they’re going into when venturing to art and the creative as a full-time commitment–it takes a lot of time, energy, perseverance, and courage to continue doing what artists do and not get paid right away.

And as an artist, especially with as quickly as digital has taken over our world in the way that we express and communicate our artistic and creative abilities, putting oneself out there to connect with others has been both challenging and exciting at the same time.

Catch this enlightening “insight from the inside” by Tesz Milan! Only here at the Outer Travel, Inner Journey podcast!

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Let me listen to your message. I bridge what you're trying to communicate to your audience to who you are and what it is that they want and need in their lives. - Tesz Milan
Every time I'm being creative, it is a spiritual practice. It's something that I do to feel connected to all of what's unseen. And I'm using myself and using my creative output as a way of drawing that energy and creating things for others to feel that for themselves in whatever shape that is in their lives. - Tesz Milan
It's so easy to have dreams and visions, but it's very hard to bring them into this world and stimulate the subconscious. There's always a sense that if I say my mantra often enough, I probably am going to get it. But it takes real action to get things down. - Tesz Milan
Music is a part of our spiritual makeup or our spiritual being. - Tesz Milan
The easiest way for me to feel discouraged is when I don't feel like what I'm doing is actually reaching anybody. - Tesz Milan

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Tesz Milan, formerly a singer and performer, is a Creative Marketing Director and Copywriter. Her creativity helps businesses communicate their purpose and the value they bring to the world.

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We start this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey with the story of how Ulli and I met, and why being in our most vulnerable state was a conducive foundation for our relationship.

The safety that we felt with each other amidst being in the middle of a sensitive and vulnerable predicament brought forth a loving support from each other with little to no judgement. While being in the mess, openness to each other brought beauty. And letting go of our guard and strength and being raw with your struggles to your partner is courageous.

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Pocket Quotes * We can only talk about honesty when we know that our vulnerability is safe with the other person. And I think a lot of the times when we are in relationships where we feel hurt and we're still in love, we are vulnerable and we are being touched in those wounds and those places that are tiny/micro traumatic to us and we feel like we are the wrong people. But all there is to it is we can't feel safe - Alexandra Kreis * Sometimes I'm weak, sometimes I'm vulnerable. And it's so beautiful to show it. And what I realized as soon as I show my vulnerabilities and my fears, they vanish. They go up into thin air. After I show my weak spots, they are immediately replaced by strong spots. - Ulli Helmstetter

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In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, we look through the eyes of a prolific sustainable living activist, Elaine Butler. She maintains a website wherein she shares information about concepts related to sustainable living and what can people do if they want to start living in harmony with nature.

Her journey started when, as a young mother, she wanted to contribute to improving the world, to be part of something bigger than herself. She joined an environmental political party in Ireland and heavily lobbied for environmental policies for 4 years. She realized in the process that the more she researched, the less she knew, especially with the basic things about environmentalism and sustainability. She noticed that even simple things like the disposable coffee cups that she drinks from are neither recyclable nor biodegradable. From then on, she kept a record of everything she was learning and shared it through her blog.

For her, the last 6 years of living sustainably are not only about choosing differently, it’s living with a different set of priorities. She chooses to live opposite the traditional way of overconsumption, overindulgence, and convenience. In trying to avoid buying stuff, she opts to borrow, lend, repair items or get them second-hand. To do this she connects and operates with her community, interacting with people more than the traditional way of living.

Elaine underscores that taking action on climate catastrophe in every way possible should be encouraged. Instead of waiting for billionaires and large corporations and pointing fingers to act on it and be responsible, individuals can start somewhere simple which eventually, along with like-minded people, will make an impact. She emphasizes that everyone should take the first steps in protecting the planet, no matter how small that step may be.

Elaine lives in a way such that the planet’s health and resources will still be available for future generations to come. She said sustainability and climate chaos exposed how interconnected humanity and nature is. And being in harmony with nature is also reconnecting with ourselves and our communities.

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Pocket Quotes * Sustainability is living in a manner that protects the planet and resources for future generations. Similar to the native American way of approaching things where they make decisions with the next 7 generations in mind. - Elaine Butler * We all have to do our bit. Rather than pointing a finger and saying “well, I'm not doing anything because that person's not doing something”, I would rather do my bit and point finger at the other person and say "well, you need to try harder". Whereas (if) we all just stand and watch the world burn pointing fingers at one another, does it really help us? Even if it's not fair, it doesn't help anybody to do that. - Elaine Butler * Overall, what we have to do in the overdeveloped world is to reduce our consumption levels. They are just, completely on whack, they are not sustainable. - Elaine Butler * I feel more connected to humanity. The challenge of sustainability and climate chaos is that we now are seeing how interconnected we are. - Elaine Butler * I am doing this because I believe it's the right thing to do. I do think my life is so much richer and so much more rewarding doing this than it was previously where I struggled to know what my purpose was and I don't feel that now. - Elaine Butler

Guest Bio Elaine Butler is a designer and environmentalist, managing her website Living Lightly Sustainably in Ireland since 2016. She shares in her website practical ways on how to live a sustainable lifestyle. She has appeared in various radio shows and contributed to a number of newspaper companies and websites. She gives talks and on sustainable and zero waste.

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In the last of the series on relationships, Ulli and I discuss the importance of being present and presence in a relationship. In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, Ulli gives us an insight into what it means for him to be present and the comfort and bliss it affects him to be in that state. You will also see how different we are as individuals and how our individuality complements each other and make our relationship more colorful.

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and the energy of life come by itself, you don't have to force it. We cannot influence much, so I just put myself into the stream of life, into the string of the moment, and then everything unfolds by itself. It's completely relaxing. when I'm in the moment, I cannot be tense. It's not possible. - Ulli Helmstetter
When you are in presence, when you are in the now, then your relationship is there as it is; not as you imagined, not there as you would like to have it to be. So you are in an absolute, very authentic situation. - Ulli Helmstetter

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Do you lie to your partner? How many times has your partner lied to you? In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, we still have Ulli, my partner, as my guest, and we will talk about the boundaries that couples set in lying to keep a healthy relationship.

We will explore what we have been keeping from each other and what it means to be honest in a relationship. We will also find out who is more open with their feelings and why sometimes one decides not to share.

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Podcast Highlights * In trying to create more health and sustaining health in our relationship, it means to both of us to become more clear about how we are feeling honestly about the situation. And from there revealing to the other person in the right manner how it makes me feel. Because we're all (just) human. - Alexandra Kreis * The more fine-tuned you are with each other, (the more) you feel if the other is uncomfortable, if the other is feeling different than (what) they are saying. - Ulli Helmstetter

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For thousands of years, humankind has been looking at the cosmos as a guide to our daily lives, internal and external relationships. Ancient and modern, western or eastern, there are a plethora of systems on astrology that people subscribe to in order to understand themselves and the world around them. In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, we will look at Vedic Astrology and how embodying its principles can improve the way we see things and live our lives. Kathleen Whalen, the founder of Conscious Calendars, shares with us how she and her clients are guided by Vedic Astrology in their day-to-day experiences. Kathleen starts by explaining that Vedic Astrology, which originated in India, is different from Western Astrology which is more recognizable and currently more popular in mainstream culture. It is the ancient understanding of the cosmos, rhythms of the sun and moon, and natural rhythms of people. These living tones give us indications on how to live a balanced life as an individual in a spiritual path and among people.

Kathleen recognizes that there are people who are adamant in believing in such systems, thinking that astrology will dictate or interfere with their lives and decision-making. For her, Vedic Astrology offers a different perspective on a situation that one is experiencing, still in a space where people can operate based on their personal choices. She elaborated that for example, the colors in the Vedic calendar can be implicit in ways that will teach individuals to look beyond and deeper than what’s on the surface to be able to truly appreciate their experiences. The practice of being aware, being present, and connecting with oneself is at the heart of being human.

There are days when the actions one may take have a greater impact in the future, so taking positive steps not only for oneself but for people around them is important as well. Kathleen says that in green days, the most positive of days, sometimes you are the ones giving answers, the ones giving help to somebody, by spreading kindness.

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Pocket Quotes

It allows a perspective, and it's not about imprinting anything. It’ to allow us more space in our day to almost shift our perspective and be able to have more resilience. And if a green day wasn't the perfect day, it's all the more reason to look back and say "where were the silver linings?" because there really are some secret gifts that came on the green days. - Kathleen Whalen
Present in being is a method of becoming more aware and more grateful and more in the moment. - Alexandra Kreis
The Golden Hour is the time of day when we can create ourselves and re-recreate ourselves. - Kathleen Whalen
The actions we take on a green day have a greater karmic fruit at some point in the future. - Kathleen Whalen
Most people who are disappointed are passive people. They are like "oh the green day wasn't that perfect" and I'm like, what did you do on a green day? Did you spread kindness more? Were you someone else's answer? We can receive answers on green days too. Sometimes we're the ones giving someone else help. - Kathleen Whalen

Guest Bio

Kathleen Whalen provides solutions and guides professionals and individuals working in stressful environments to improve their mental health and well-being by employing Vedic Astrology and Chinese Medicine. She has a background in allopathic medicine, lab research in immunity and neuroscience, and has degrees in Biochemistry and Chinese Medicine. She is the founder and creator of Conscious Calendars and has been serving the international community with its products since 2006. Through her work and consulting tools, she has helped thousands of individuals and companies see opportunities ahead of time to succeed. Kathleen is currently residing in the United States.

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We explore what makes up a healthy relationship in the first part of a 5-episode talk with my husband, Ulli Helmstetter. In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, we break down what happens after the honeymoon stage of a couple and all the hormones that kicked in are gone.

We discuss the root of the reason why not communicating with your partner is detrimental to one’s relationship. In addition to that, we also look at how couples should balance needs within their relationship and as individuals to keep a healthy relationship with one another and avoid sickness.

Podcast Highlights

After 3-4 months of falling in love, of honeymoon, and all the hormonal cocktail that is involved with it, the dopamine, adrenaline is gone and fade off, then comes the reality of the situation. And then you will see if you really can come along with the other one without drugs. - Ulli Helmstetter
To come off the ego-centric "what do I need". You have to find your place in a relationship in a way you feel happy. But you cannot see a relationship as a lamp that a genie, like you’re rubbing your partner to get what you need. - Alexandra Kreis

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Communication is the key for a healthy relationship.
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Tantra is the practice of being in a full relationship with life, a living connection with what is opening yourself, your senses, awareness, and emotions to the present moment, and experiencing reality from that place of openness. It creates an active merging of body and spirit.

Many people tend to associate Tantra with the awakening of the senses and connection. Sometimes, even with an unbridled lust for life and sexuality.

Some practitioners say that Tantric practices are more of a strategy that helps quiet the mind and soul and helps activate sexual energy in an individual. It helps instill a better sense of wellbeing and higher states of consciousness, igniting the overall mind, body, and soul of an individual.

In this podcast, Steffo Shambo, a men's relationship coach, talks about tantra yoga for men. He is the founder of Tantric Academy. He helps empower men to realize and tap into their full masculine confidence, intimate power, and their ability to connect with themselves and their partners on a deeper level than ever before.

Men have challenges, too. Sometimes, it is even harder to navigate because of societal stereotypes. Historical roots of movements for women empowerment have gained momentum and advances and paved for general acceptance of personal development concepts. But it men, it’s another story.

Steffo, through his work in Tantric Academy, and in this episode, gives advice and tips for men on how to reflect within and be better partners in their relationships in a Tantric way.

He's also in for some eye-opening conversation about men’s challenges and some ways to address that. Don’t miss this out on Outer Travel, Inner Journey!

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Podcast Highlights

4:26- 5:28 - Classical Tantra
9:31-11:04 - Men and Women's Awareness
12:13-16:52 - Transformation
20:23-21:57 - Dark Night of the Soul
22:46-24:04 - Coaching Journey
29:40 -31:27 - Transmissions
32:55-34:27- Modernization
37:14-38:48 - Gift of Words

Pocket Quotes

“Masculine and feminine can meet in a place of healing and equality. That's really what the planet needs right now and what helps to bring the world to a better place.” - Steffo Shambo
“I had my own challenges, journey and suffering that helped me let go out in the world to seek answers and transform myself.” - Steffo Shambo
“My purpose is to help one man at a time to become integrated and whole again.” - Steffo Shambo
“For me what's most important for my clients is not the format, it is the result and outcome.” -Steffo Shambo
“When we fix that micro relationship, we also fix the macro, on a global scale.” - Steffo Shambo

Guest Bio

Steffo Shambo is the founder of the Tantric Academy. He is a men's relationship coach and hosts a mentorship program called the Tantric Man Experience, that has transformed hundreds of men’s marriages from all around the world. His specialty is helping men realize their full masculine confidence, sexual power, and depth of connection with their spouse.

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We’re back in the house with Amanda Rose - to enlighten us on this topic that we don’t necessarily find easy to talk about in other spaces.

Sex education is meant to lead us to great sex, a better understanding of ourselves, and a deeper connection with our partners.

When you know and understand your body, you can communicate to your partner easily and thus increase satisfaction. And that builds confidence in each and a strong bond between them.

Amanda Rose talks about these in our two-part episode with her.

The types of Erotic Blueprints and learning your erotic language to express what turns you on and turns you off are some of the keys she’s sharing to open the doors to sexual pleasure for your partner and from your partner.

With no holds barred, Amanda continues to take us on in this enlightening conversation about how we can discover our own language, better understand a partner’s language, and how to use this road map to embrace and fulfill our desires. And to actually free ourselves!

Amanda also shares some of her expert knowledge on kinds of orgasm and playing the gender role. Understanding that pleasure can come from within or without, there’s an exciting way ahead—a wonderful journey—that you and your partner can traverse together or separately. And you’ll get heaps of advice from here!

As a certified and experienced sex educator, she’s has helped many couples figure out problems in their relationship and we’re lucky to have her bravely share her work with us in this podcast!

This is an important conversation you don’t want to miss!

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Podcast Highlights

3:11-4:14 - Internal Pleasure and Erotic Blueprints
5:54-9:11- Gender Roles and Orgasm
10:47-11:26 - Shame of Orgasm
20:56-21:51 - Sex and Religion
22:06-23:44 - Sex Education
26:03-27:34 - Pleasure Responsibility
30:07 -30:44 - Pleasure and Respect
33:28:34:04 - Sex and our Nervous System

Pocket Quotes

“There's so much focus on orgasm as the ultimate goal and we are so fixated on that in our heads that we miss the rest of what's going on.” - Amanda Rose
“When you take the goal off the table, there's all this pressure that goes away.” - Amanda Rose
“Shame isn't attached to orgasm, it's just the shame that lives in our body. When you open yourself up and to be seen and maybe some of that gets triggered.” - Amanda Rose
“Be fully present and alive. If I'm fully present and consciously alive and feeling what's happening in my body and what's happening around me, that to me feels orgasmic. It feels like I'm fully expanded.” - Amanda Rose
“I turn to sex but sex is god, sex is creation and it's my version of god.” - Amanda Rose

Guest Bio

Amanda Rose is a certified and experienced sex educator. She has been privileged enough to help many couples figure out problems in their love lives. Coach and long time doTERRA Wellness Advocate. She works with people who want to bring more pleasure, excitement and self expression into their lives. Amanda is here to help you remember who you are, and to remind you of the magic words “pleasure, consent, sovereignty and communication.”

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During the time of crisis in Costa Rica’s real estate and industries, some of the contractors and developers lost their projects. But during the profound lull that followed the crisis, a new idea was born stirring the direction of real estate development in Costa Rica. La EcoVilla was born and it grew to become home to many.

In this podcast, Marcelo Valansi shares how he started building this community. It started out as a dream and a conversation; an idea of a visionary who decided to put his dream of living in harmony with the environment into action.

One of Marcelo’s passions is to enjoy nature, sail, dive, travel, explore, learn from different cultures and meet new people around the world. Marcelo has extensive experience in developing residential and commercial projects of different scales in countries like Argentina, the United States, Panama, and Costa Rica.

Marcelo’s vision about home and his innovativeness gave birth to a new home for many other people. It started as a businessman’s idea about developing new projects. But its purpose grew to regenerate a site and to create communities that leave an impact, accessible, profitable, and sustainable. Because building and caring for our community is actually part of our relationship with nature.

Communities and the place we live in are meant to be a home—a place where we feel cared for, a place we care for, a place of connection, peace, and alignment. In much the same way that communities—as it is people living together more than just structures beside each other—is a source of support, sense of belongingness, and co-creation.

Come and envision your community and learn how you can make it true from Marcelo Valansi! Sharing his experience and insights at Outer Travel, Inner Journey!

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Podcast Highlights * 2:28-4:22 - Marcelo’s Turning Point * 4:57-5:46 - Disconnection to People * 7:33-9:32 - Adjustment of our Planet * 13:22-14:05 - Creating a Village * 16:56-20:32 - Definition of Community * 22:00-28:12 - 9 years of Growing a Community * 32:43-34:29- Marcelo's Challenges in Life * 35:21-37:53 - Support System * 38:55-40:16 - Achieving your Dreams

Pocket Quotes * “We will not survive as a species. I feel that the planet is much stronger than us and that they will likely to wipe us.” - Marcelo Valansi * “If we start planting trees to regenerate the ecosystem, we can live in harmony with nature and we can produce more than we consume.” - Marcelo Valansi * “Everybody should be empowered to lead or contribute to a community that can work.” - Alexandra Kreis * “If we want to see a change in the world, we cannot keep giving the same education we receive that brought us here.” - Marcelo Valansi * “Life is too short. We all have dreams. It's really important to make them happen sooner than later.” - Marcelo Valansi

Guest Bio Marcelo Valansi is an innovative entrepreneur who is dedicated to the design, development and implementation of self-sustaining regenerative projects and communities. Marcelo has extensive experience in developing residential and commercial projects of different scale in several countries, such as Argentina, the United States, Panama, Costa Rica.

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For sure, you’ve read this many times before: yoga is more than just a movement exercise. While we see many videos, platforms, or even apps that offer yoga as part of a fitness program, the full meaning, and benefits of yoga are beyond the sweat and calories you burn out during each practice.

For those who’ve been in the practice, yoga is a mind and body practice. Yoga is a way of life—of a constant union of the mind and body into the space and energy we’re moving in.

The ancient Indian practice of yoga combines meditation, breathing, and precise postures and poses to make a connection with thoughts, body, and spirit. People who practice yoga say it leads to a state of physical health, relaxation, happiness, peace, and tranquility.

Its range of benefits won’t fit the space for the description of this podcast!

Yoga changes lives. This episode’s guest, Nicole Henkel, can attest to that as yoga changed her perspective, even led her to politics. There's something about yoga that penetrates right to the heart and those who begin their yoga journey often find themselves feeling more compassionate about other people and the world around them.

In this podcast, Nicole Henkel, a well-trained yoga teacher, talks about yoga and politics. She teaches yoga full-time for more than a decade and has taught yoga worldwide. She also shares about her journey being a yoga teacher and the moment she discovered she had cancer.

Nicole is also sharing motivating words about how yoga helped her when she had cancer and how it changed her life. But yoga is no magic pill. It’s the change that happens in you that is.

Join Nicole and Alex in this next episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey!

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Podcast Highlights * 3:36-7:05 - Yoga and Politics * 10:15-15:18 - Nicole's Journey * 20:29-23:47 - Is yoga a magic pill * 24:56-27:12 - Fighting * 27:44-29:45 - What Yoga means to Nicole * 30:47 -31:46 - Meditation * 33:19-35:52 - Yoga and Righteousness

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“We don't know how far we have to push ourselves in order to see the boon that's waiting for us. Sometimes it comes in horrible ways until we wake up and get really clear.” Alexandra Kreis
“You have to be conscious and you have to connect to every power and force.” - Nicole Henkel
“I'm a dreamer to make this place better.” - Nicole Henkel
“I'm a cancer survivor. Yoga made me change my life.” - Nicole Henkel
“Be brave enough to be the change.” - Nicole Henkel

Guest Bio

Nicole is a yoga teacher for more than a decade and has taught yoga worldwide. She has trained with renowned yoga teachers like Sri Guru Dharma Mittra, who enabled her to deepen her knowledge about the Marga Asthanga and Vinyasa Yoga.

Nicole studied anatomy and physiology intensively and incorporated aspects of yoga therapy into her yoga classes. She has a deep knowledge of Vedic Chanting and Yoga Therapy within the Krishnamacharya yoga mandiram.

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Blood is thicker than water, they say. I think this goes especially for the bond we share with our family, like the unconditional love of our parents, or the friendship of our siblings.

So for those who have, we’re lucky to have siblings—we just don’t realize it.

Even more than the friends or parents, siblings have been right by our sides through the awkward, embarrassing, joyous, and miserable times of our lives. Siblings are our first friends.

But relationships between siblings can be complicated, especially in childhood.

Remember fighting over your toy or favorite costume. We fight and argue but at the end of the day, we laugh with them over dad’s jokes or our favorite cartoon.

Also, there will be points when we believe them to be our biggest rivals. But we feel the proudest for them nevertheless.

This episode’s guests, Kerstin and Astrid Walsh have stories we can relate so much with. And they’re twins! The bond and friendship they share is truly inspiring. And like most of us, it’s not all flowers and fairies. They had their challenges, reflections about time and space, the life we’re living in, our communities, and more! But the understanding they share even of the differences is something we can all learn from.

It is always great to have friends you can go out with, get drinks with and do things with. But it's important to have friends you can actually connect with.

And most importantly, friendship—even among siblings—is about growing together and apart.

A truly inspirational conversation!

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Podcast Highlights

6:19 -9:12 - Being Twins and Friends
13:32-15:12 - Kinds of Friendship
15:55-20:05 - Changes for Being Apart Together
20:26-28:42 - Quantity or Quality of Friendship
32:47-35:47 - Idea of the Musketeers and Friendship
42:42-46:20 - Where do I belong?
48:00-49:15 - Astrid Little Metaphor

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“Weather conditions will get more unpredictable, everything gets a little bit more wobbly and unstable, but we're going to have to look after each other.” - Kerstin Walsh
“We all strive to be able to be independent and look after ourselves.” - Kerstin Walsh
“Just being together has been a kind of support, even when we’re not speaking or doing anything.” - Astrid Walsh
“Belonging is not only something that we feel we can have a place in this world but also with people seeing us in this world, recognizing us and affirming our status of life.” Alexandra Kreis
“Time and space are key elements for creating friendships.” - Kerstin Walsh

Guest Bio

Kerstin Walsh is an artist born in Meppen, Germany in 1976 and later lived in Germany. Together with her twin sister Astrid, also an artist, she explored the world, collecting a BA in English Literature and Sociology (University College Dublin 1998), a HDip in Social Policy (2002) and a Masters in Social Work (2005) University College Cork.

Astrid Walsh is an amazing visual artist from Ireland. She has done numerous individual and collaborative exhibitions across the country and received awards and recognitions for her work. She first started her healing journey and discovered Ayurveda when she was undergoing treatment for Lyme disease in 2003.

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In this latest episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, we are embarking on a conversation not often (and openly) talked about in still a lot of spaces. A good way to start the season, Amanda Rose is leading us to a free flow of exchange and critical discussion about the things that bring us holistic wellness—including sex and pleasure!

The physical connection can do a lot of things to the human body—a newborn being cradled by the mother, a warm hug for someone who’s depressed and feeling down, sex for those in intimate relationships.

When couples have challenges keeping that ‘fire’ of physical intimacy, relationship challenges often come up. Not all the time, of course.

Couples feel less connected and bonded, and thus, feel less affectionate and loving. Sex is then often attributed to strong and happy relationships

But the benefits of sexual pleasure don't end there.

Learning more about each other’s physical erotic zones is one of the ways to make sure that sex translates to pleasure and bliss and our bodies reap the benefits from that sexual energy.
Amanda, a sex educator, and pleasure advocate educates us about the importance of pleasure and explains the erotic blueprints. She works with people who want to bring more pleasure, excitement, and self-expression into their lives.

To her, understanding the Blueprint will guide you in creating your map to pleasure, communicate your needs to others, and navigate compatibility with your partners—things that are very important in nurturing a healthy relationship not only with your partner but to yourself as well.

Sexual energy is creative energy! And so nourishing this energy inside you is also a way to bring out and share a version of yourself that is aligned and inflow.

Don’t miss this!

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Podcast Highlights

3:21-5:26 - Something Missing in our Body
6:19-9:15 - Erotic Blueprints
11:46-14:46 - Pleasure
17:31-18:26 - Emotion and Pleasure
20:11-22:55 - Exploring Erotic Blueprint
23:50-26:08 - Pleasure Creation
26:36-28:43 - Masculine and Femenine Energy

Pocket Quotes

“Our sexual energy is essentially our creative energy.” - Amanda Rose
“If you feel fragile, be fragile and don't see it as weak or bad.” - Amanda Rose
“Having freedom to talk about different styles and freedom to express ourselves in different ways feels like a huge step in the right direction.” - Amanda Rose
“Happiness is just being present, being alive, being aware of your aliveness and your divinity.” - Amanda Rose

Guest Bio

Amanda Rose is a certified and experienced sex educator. She has been privileged enough to help many couples figure out problems in their love lives. Coach and long time do TERRA Wellness Advocate. She works with people who want to bring more pleasure, excitement and self expression into their lives. Amanda is here to help you remember who you are, and to remind you of the magic words “pleasure, consent, sovereignty and communication.”

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Grief is a natural response to loss.

It can be overwhelming because suddenly, you have no one or nowhere to devote your affection to. What used to be positive energy flowing out of the emotions of love, the joy of being with a person dear to you, and just the presence of that person, have nowhere to go. Because suddenly, there’s a void, a black hole that doesn’t vanish. Suddenly, no receiver could potentially return the same energy we give.

The pain of grief can disrupt your physical health, your inner harmony, and your life.

In this podcast, our guest Natasha Nandini, who has been studying yoga, Indian classical dance, and Indian classical vocal as methods to cultivate the self, is back with us to continue our discovery of ourselves through our sound.

She has taught both sound and yoga worldwide. But during this pandemic, Natasha lost someone she loved and here, she shares about grief and coping with the situation.

Opening herself up after pain and healing is a gift of sharing.

In many cultures, grieving is facilitated by rituals for the bereaved person to connect with their lost loved one. These rituals help people to experience and manage challenging emotions, understand and accept their grief, and establish a connection to their memories of the lost person.

But grieving during this pandemic has been enormously different and overwhelming. The losses are immense and yet the chance to absorb the moment is cut short, for many. Movement restrictions and health protocols meant some people have been unable to travel and to be with loved ones at the end of their lives, or to attend their funeral.

But then, a loss is a loss. There is no “normal” time period nor a proper way for someone to grieve.

Capture Natasha’s wisdom on grief, loss, and finding back that presence on this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey.

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Podcast Highlights

10:41-14:01 - Singing Practice
19:09-20:31 - Dark Hole
21:10-24:16 - Losing Someone
26:23 -27:18 - Grieving
27:24-29:36 - Hindu Tradition and Rituals
39:33 -40:33 - Feeling the pain and grieving
40:52 -42:29 - Formula to Grieve
57:2 -59:23 - Nobody knows when grieving is over

Pocket Quotes

“Mind is stable and everything is free.” - Natasha Nandini
“We have to say goodbye to certain things so that we can say hello to new things.” - Natasha Nandini
“If you lose something, it's natural law for that to be replaced.” -Natasha Nandini
“You only ever focus on the beautiful things about that person and your memories.” - Natasha Nandini
“Nobody knows when grieving is over.” - Natasha Nandini

Guest Bio

Natasha Nandini has been studying yoga, Indian classical dance and Indian classical vocal as methods to cultivate the self. She is now living and teaching in London (and online) but she has been traveling to India for the last 20 years to deepen her studies and to host sacred tours. The tour is a window into the lives of the local people and their practices. Her yoga focuses on building strength and postural corrections by working through from the feet up.

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Concepts of family, union, and separation are still very much entangled in different cultural values. In many places in the world, we have come to some degree of common understanding, but in some places, it remains to be a conversation that’s difficult to navigate, causing it to be painful for those who go through it.

In this podcast, Monica Biasiolo shares her life experiences, marriage, and divorce. Going through the often difficult and painful process of divorce took a toll on her health. There was negative energy, shame, intense emotions—her internal self in complete disharmony!

This was a wake-up call for Monica.

Monica is a certified Yoga Health Coach giving back to the Yoga healer community. She lived as an ex-pat for decades and is now a certified mindfulness teacher.

Realizing that taking back her health is about taking back her power in driving her own life, Monica shares how she strived to shift from victim mode to an empowered decision-maker in her life. From being in the passenger’s seat to driving change and purpose in her life and other people’s.

Her wisdom and practical tips are coming first-hand from her journey of changing habits for her health, transitioning from being a student to a mentor, and finally leading her own health coaching business.
Monica believes difficult journeys can be done with ease and that anyone can start healing themselves and find their dharma while they are at it.

Catch this deeply relatable and inspiring conversation with Monica!

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Podcast Highlights

8:04-9:23 - Shaming and Blaming
11:01-12:37 - Body's Wake Up Call
13:15-18:06 - Signs of Disempowerment
19:36-23:56 - Moving Forward and Forgiveness
29:52-31:48 - Reflections

Pocket Quotes

“It's too early to leave. It's better that I do something and change something.” - Monica Biasiolo
“I have the power of choice and I choose to empower another person.” -Monica Biasiolo
“We are not here in this world because we need to. We are here in this life, in this journey because we are meant to be.” - Monica Biasiolo
“You can change the nose of the ship ever so slightly and it will bring you into a totally different direction.” - Alexandra Kreis
“Look at a beautiful flower, even if it's a tiny one on the rough side. It has that bright color and it's beautiful . You look at it and you see perfection—you’ll see that it is also you. We are part of the whole.” - Monica Biasiolo

Guest Bio

Monica is a certified Yoga Health Coach who loves to give back to the Yoga healer community. She is also a Forrest Yoga and Mindfulness teacher and a Certified Living Ayurveda, Yoga healer, USA, and Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Shamash Alidina, UK. *She recently moved back to her hometown in Rome after living as an expat for 20 years in four continents.*

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Who doesn’t enjoy dancing? Even just as a way to release your excitement or thrill over some good news!

Dancing is therapeutic in every sense—you can dance in a group, with a partner, or on your own. You do it in dance schools, social venues, community halls, and your own home (and in the shower, probably!) Dancing has become a popular way to be active and keep fit, that most fitness clubs now offer dance classes in their group exercise programs. You can dance both competitively and socially.

In this podcast, Zoe Knights and Alexandra Kreis talk about dancing. Zoë Knights is a singular artist and performer who has made a name for herself in the field of contemporary performance. Her creations are distinct for their unity of sound, movement, lighting, and design, inventions that produce transformative moments and mesmerizing synchronizations.

Zoe has been praised for her craft’s visual and acoustic coherence, and intensity, and inventiveness.

To Zoe, dance is expression. As well as a spiritual and inner journey just like yoga.

When you dance, you should not simply be going through a series of moves; you should be performing. Dance is another means of expression. It should convey a story or an emotion; it should make the audience feel something, communicate with them on another level. Many young dancers forget about this expression/communication and forget that their whole bodies, including their faces, must feel and convey their story or emotion to perform successfully. The story or emotion should be the starting point of your dance; the appropriate moves and style should be selected, and the music should reflect and compliment this motivation. You need to interpret the music and dance expressively.

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Podcast Highlights

4:28 -5:49 - What is Dance?
7:24-9:37 - Expressing in Dance
14:45-17:05 - Yoga and Dance
19:25-20:55 - Meditation
32:03-35:19 - Movement in our bodies

Pocket Quotes

“With dancing, I constantly like rediscovering what it is about that really needs to be expressed or really important to me.” - Zoe Knights
“With dance it's mostly non-verbal, and the body is able to express things.” - Zoe Knights
“The origins of dance are really social and spiritual and are markers of events in life, social agreements or social understanding or expression and being thankful.”- Zoe Knights
“Dance is already a spiritual practice.”- Alexandra Kreis
“If you move, you release all these blockages and you come to another space.” - Zoe Knights

Guest Bio

Zoë Knights is a singular artist and performer who has carved a unique niche in the field of contemporary performance from Australia. She works as a choreographer, dancer, vocalist and actor in many parts of the world. She currently lives and works in Berlin. She has received various prizes for both her choreographic and vocal work. Zoë also regularly teaches classes in contemporary dance, choreography and composition, and mentors/advises BA and MA level students.

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Holistic health is about caring for the whole person and providing for their physical, mental, spiritual, and social needs. It's rooted in the understanding that all these aspects affect your overall health, and being unwell in one aspect affects you in others.

In this podcast, Jator Pierre and Alexandra Kreis talk about holistic health.

Jator Pierre is an eternal seeker, vlogger, comic-obsessed hockey player, and lifestyle and wellness, coach. Fifteen years into seeking health and wellness, Jator discovered and professionalized numerous self-growth and development tools which he uses to reveal the inner power within each of his clients.

Jator, like many of us, had his own struggles, so his practice has a highly personal and integrative approach. His clients often find themselves examining, discovering, and understanding not only how their bodies function and respond but how each one of their physical symptoms correlates to emotional, mental, and spiritual blockages.

Through his podcast, he shares about Holistic Health Coaching and how holistic exercises help in healing. Jator also discusses the fear of death and how we should overcome it.

People usually think exercise has to be physically and mentally taxing to be beneficial—“No pain, no gain,” we’d say. It is true to some extent, but it has been treated as dogma, and as a result, people approach exercise as entirely physical, sometimes even masochistic.

It’s not all wrong but exercise, and getting fit and healthy does not need to be painful. Isn't the ultimate goal of this is to feel good?

Holistic exercise takes the opposite approach, employing workout techniques that keep the body fit while contributing to a sense of relaxation and spiritual balance. Yoga, for one, and other holistic exercise offers countless benefits without the self-punishment too often associated with physical fitness. Learn more about it from Jator and Alex here at Outer Travel, Inner Journey!

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Podcast Highlights

1:40- 4:14 - How Jator Pierre became a Holistic Health Coach
5:11 - 6:00- The Fear of Death
6:31- 9:38 - Teaching and Facilitating Method
17:06 - 23:38 - Shameful and Fearful
26:32 - 29:50 - Light Chaser
32:32 - 38:18 - One Strange Planet
40:17- 43:59 - Holistic Health Coaching

Pocket Quotes

“I won't be myself, so other people can like me.” - Jator Pierre
“Looking into the light is also blinding. When I'm outside, out in the world and the darkest places where there are no lights, I get to see the brightest stars.” - Jator Pierre
“If we don't see the purpose to our life, you know then there is no purpose and we all start chasing one”- Alexandra Kreis
“It's really beautiful work getting to know ourselves in the presence of others, to create a space where we're learning to have permission to feel, express and be ourselves again.”- Jator Pierre
“One of the most spiritual things we can do is not to be a step rug but learn how to represent ourselves and how to set healthy limits and boundaries and be honest.” - Jator Pierre

Guest Bio

Jator Pierre is an eternal seeker, vlogger, comic-obsessed hockey player, and lifestyle & wellness coach at wehlc.com. His specialty areas are Holistic Emotional Coaching, Digestive Disorders, Weight Loss / Obesity, Diabetes / Blood Sugar Regulation, Acne / Skin Conditions, Stress management, High Blood Pressure, Inflammation, and Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching.

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Starting a small business can be scary. It's like taking a leap, but even if you’re unsure where you would be landing on.

Some people start a business out of pure fascination or even as a hobby. But whether you are starting a business to fulfill your passion or meeting your financial goals, you need to have a plan.

Starting a small business is no easy task and can take days, if not months, to prepare. The most important aspect to have is the thrive and heart to start a small business, as, without passion, no business can succeed.

In business, you are your own boss. You are making your dream a reality--or not! It takes sacrifice (sometimes your career in someone else’s business), discipline, long hours, and hard work. But, with courage, passion, and dedication, a business can be the start of something big.

During this pandemic, hundreds of thousands of workers were rendered unemployed. And so many took the chance of opening their own small businesses to generate income. To many, they saw the exciting opportunities to ‘create’ something new--new solutions, for a new world.

There's no perfect time to start a business. What matters is how motivated you are to begin a business and make an impact through that.

In this podcast, Ali Lowndes shares about how they started their own business. Ali Lowndes, a designer, and maker based in Dublin, creates laser-cut acrylic jewelry, buttons, handmade greeting cards, retro headbands, and hair accessories.

Here, she also talks about how the pandemic helped her business to rise. Listen to some very practical tips on how one should manage their time for their business while being a mother and wife at the same time. Ali also has some essential reminders in showing appreciation to customers.

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Podcast Highlights

2:13 -8:22 - A Little Idea
16:30-19-40 - Switching Career
20:37-22:55 - Irish makers and designers
24:05-28:48 - Starting Your Own Business during the Pandemic
30:45 34:25 - Gift of Words

Pocket Quotes

“If you run your own business, you definitely get to see everything behind the curtains.”- Alexandra Kreis
“We all want to live a happy life, and happiness doesn't often mean being safe. It means trying to go for what makes you shine and happy.”- Alexandra Kreis
“Our customers are everything to us, and we want to make their day just like they've made our day.” - Ali Lowndes
“When you have a creative bone in your body, you're constantly thinking: what's the next thing I'm going to do, what's the next thing to make? Ideas can explode.” - Ali Lowndes
“If you just stay doing the same thing forever, you get bored, you lose passion for it.” - Ali Lowndes

Guest Bio

Ali Lowndes is a designer and maker based in Dublin. Ali creates laser-cut acrylic jewelry, buttons, handmade greeting cards, retro headbands, and hair accessories. Her designs are inspired by the decades that have passed, full of color, lightweight, unisex, and fun to wear. Her stature as rising star in the business world accelerated when Lowndes was shortlisted for the prestigious Irish Made Award 2020 by Irish Country Magazine. Her business, A Little Idea, has made it into the jewelry category’s final list.

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Wisdom is knowing what’s worth understanding, understanding the value of ideas, and always placing knowing in the context of not knowing–seeing the limits of knowledge and our understanding.

From the wisdom of our deep consciousness, we can understand what is needed to experience deep happiness. We can learn to free ourselves from unwholesome thoughts, to sense our bodies, and to feel our emotions mindfully. We can find ways to broaden our consciousness, to live authentically, to be free from anxiety, to be in love.

In this podcast, Benjamin Joon shares his life journey from South Korea to Germany. He shares his struggle being different from others and being an orphan, along with his good and bad experiences in his childhood. Benjamin lets us into his spiritual journey through his experiences and the challenges throughout his journey being a coach, a teacher, and a father.

To Benjamin, spiritual experiences often produce ideal outcomes and blessings, but the most memorable ones come during unfortunate incidents.

Regardless of whether you have a religious affiliation or have no spirituality at all, it will not keep you from spiritual experiences. They happen to everyone, and some of the people are attuned to them while others are not. There is no baseline as to who gets to experience them. Sometimes they are the product of something positive, although being in the darkness often results in the biggest spiritual experiences of them all.

Benjamin Joon believes that integral learning is based on four pillars: studying, practicing, serving, and playing.

Benjamin is currently a student of Bettina Romhardt / Buddhism in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh and Shai Tubali, and Tamar Brosh in Chakra Psychology. Benjamin is participating continuously in seminars and retreats for further education.

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Podcast Highlights

2:36-4:52 - Moving Life to Germany from Korea
6:46-9:37- All Kinds of Complexes
10:30 - 13:41- Spiritual Experiences
27:53 - 29:35 - Faking
31:03-36:07- Challenge being a Father
37:53- 39:30 - Personal Insights

Pocket Quotes

“Suffering is part of life which is very difficult to understand. Sometimes we ask why we suffer and shouldn't life be beautiful.” - Alexandra Kreis
“There's nothing wrong with faking if you are not only clinging to faking.” - Benjamin Joon
“Solution is the way of joy and that you feel motivated by your own deep joy to practice.” - Benjamin Joon
“Practice is for anyone, not only for monks but also for overwhelmed fathers.” - Benjamin Joon
“Perfect circumstances are not the goal. It’s the way we create these circumstances in our lives.” - Benjamin Joon

Guest Bio

Benjamin was born in South Korea in 1977. He lived from 1980-1981 as an orphan in Suwon and was adopted from a German family in 1981. Benjamin moved to Berlin in 2000 and started his own business as a creative project developer, film and advertising actor, and minimal house DJ. In 2004, Benjamin began to study the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, Geshe Michael Roach and Hong Thay Lee. He was co-founder of PAPPA E CICCIA (Organic Restaurant & Catering) and NEXT ORGANIC (Trade Fair for Organic and Slow Food Trends). Since 2013 Benjamin offers the integral movement training "Movement Play" and in 2015 he started with the Integral Life Coaching.

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Love and intimacy go hand in hand.

Love is the physical, emotional, sexual, intellectual, or social affection one person holds for another. Intimacy is achieved when we become close to someone else and are reassured that we are loved and accepted for who we are.

Children usually develop intimacy with parents and peers. As adults, we seek intimacy in close relationships with other adults, friends, family, and with a partner. Intimacy is a close relationship where mutual acceptance, nurturance, and trust are shared at some level.

In this podcast, Sabina Rademacher and Alexandra Kreis talk about love and intimacy.

Sabina Rademacher is a Love and Relationship Coach based in Germany. And here, she shares how passionate she was about her work and coaching other people. Her coaching focuses on all aspects of love, such as self-love, relationships, separation, and breakups.

Sabina loves to talk to young people and open their feelings about love and intimacy. She wants to raise awareness on the necessary conversations about sexuality between parents and their children. And to establish deep trust, openness, and vulnerability between parents and their offspring. Through this podcast, she also discusses feminism, masculinity, authentic feelings, and parents' role to their children about what love and sexuality are or can be.

When you encourage conversations about feelings, friendships, and family relationships, it can help your child feel confident to talk about teenage relationships in general. If your child knows what respectful relationships look like in general, they can relate this directly to romantic relationships.

Conversations like this hope to make your child feel more comfortable sharing feelings with parents even as they start to get romantically interested in others. And there’s a lot more direction than this can go: treating other people kindly, breaking up kindly, and respecting other people’s boundaries.

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Podcast Highlights

2:37-6:31- Passion on work
9:50-12:10- Love and intimacy
15:06-19:41- Feminism and Intimacy
21:19-24:59 - Authentic feeling
29:02-31:22 - Feminism and Masculinity
31:27-35:41 - Intimacy among Young people
35:51-39:45- Parents’ Role
42:34-43:04 - Last words of about Love and Intimacy

Pocket Quotes

“We don't make peace on this earth until we make peace among the gender.” - Sabina Rademacher
Love is never a demand. Love is a gift; it’s a state of being, and it starts with myself. So if I don't love myself, nobody can ever love me.” - Sabina Rademacher
“Love and intimacy and sexuality is still such a taboo.” - Sabina Rademacher
“True feminism is a gentle power; it's not copying the masculine.” - Sabina Rademacher
“Step back into your child because that child will always guide you with authenticity.” - Sabina Rademacher

Guest Bio

Sabina Rademacher is a Love and Relationship Coach. She speaks different languages such as German, English, Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese. A mother of two beautiful grown-ups and adopted an Indian child. She loves spending as much time as possible in nature, and with yoga and dancing. Her coaching focuses on all aspects of love, such as self love, relationships, separation and break ups.

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For more than a year now, many of us have been stuck at home. Well, not literally, but the home-grocery routine. Maybe a short occasional stroll outside. But many times we’ve said we’re missing out on a lot of other important things from the human-and-nature connection aspect because of this prolonged isolation.

We also know that we should be moving around more throughout the day to stay healthy. However, working in an office, working at home, or even staying at home can mean you don’t get the chance to get up and wander around at regular intervals throughout the day.

Physical activity doesn't need to be complicated. Something as simple as a daily brisk walk can help you live a healthier life. Turning your normal walk into a fitness stride requires good posture and purposeful movements.

All of us are born with a sense of movement, and our bodies have their unique language. Some of us lose touch with this sense of movement due to lack of use, illness, disabilities, or blocks from how we perceive ourselves. A movement therapist’s role is to help the person tap into this sense of movement and express themselves, particularly thoughts or issues that may have been repressed.

Shawn Flot, PT, and wellness coach of Moving Into Harmony and Well-Explored Life is back here with us. He studied Manual Therapy at Dynamic Manual Interface w/Frank Lowen. One of his passion projects is encouraging movement with nature by providing online guidance and conditioning to hikers, backpackers, and thru-hikers.

In this podcast, Shawn and Alex share knowledge about moving our feet and going outside with nature. Shawn talks about the coordination of our system and our body when moving. He also shares some experience about his profession and gives some tips on how we should move our body with the right timing of breathing.

This episode is sure to encourage and inspire you that moving outside with nature will help you not just physically but also mentally and spiritually.

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Podcast Highlights

3:08-7:40 - Getting out of your comfort zones
8:08-11:40 - Connection between our Nervous System and our Feet
15:47-22:14 - People Shawn works with
25:42-28:36 - Walking in Nature
28:57-32:29 - The Trapezius muscle
35:42 39:01 - Felt sense

Pocket Quotes

“Walking in nature is freeing myself of things I get stuck at. It allows me to feel more inspired.”- Alexandra Kreis
“We're so uniquely different and we come from such different realms of how we operate our lives.”- Shawn Flot
“Find yourself a little bit more. Don't work so hard at it and that's the key”- Shawn Flot
“Reconnect into the body and let the mind be just the feeler of what the body's amazement can do.”- Shawn Flot
“The feet are one of those places where we regain our fluidity and our ability to move in the world”. - Shawn Flot

Guest Bio

Shawn Flot studied Manual Therapy at Dynamic Manual Interface w/Frank Lowen, Hatha yoga at School of Shadow Yoga, and Spec. Hon. Kinesiology and Health Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a Physical Therapist and wellness coach of Moving Into Harmony. Also, Shawn Flot has Online Personal Fitness Training at A Well-Explored Life, LLC. Doing online guidance and conditioning hikers, backpackers and thru-hikers.

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Everything in this Universe is made up of energy. Everything is made up of atoms and each atom has a vibration.

The human aura has an energy field that surrounds our physical body and extends outwards. What we say, think, or feel affects our aura, our energy field.

Psychic Surgery is holding space for people and being able to scan their energy field and look into their energy, aura, and spirit. It takes bits that need to be taken out and adds in bits of light that need to be added.

Angelic Reiki helps enhance and balance all aspects of your life and total transformation. It helps shift mental, emotional, and spiritual stagnation and strengthens self-esteem.

One of its most well-known benefits is achieving a higher level of mental focus and clarity so you can see yourself, your life, and your path more clearly. It improves your sleep, energizes your body, and eases stress-related conditions. It gives you an even greater awareness of your connection to the Divine, raises your vibration so that you feel good and well and thus, heightens intuition. It helps you to feel loved, supported, and guided—to be able to see the magic and beauty not only in life but most importantly in yourself.

Nowadays, we all need spiritual healing because of this pandemic. But how do we heal in this modern-day? What will tomorrow be like? Psychic Surgeon Dale Tobins will help you understand and trust this kind of healing process.

Through relaxation and guided regression, we can connect more deeply with ourselves, uncover remarkable details about our habits, release unwanted patterns and behavior, and explore the subconscious to feel more free, light, peaceful, and happy.

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Podcast Highlights

01:42:6:11Psychic Surgery
10:00-12:32 Understanding and trusting a Psychic Surgeon
16:06-21:24 Psychic Surgery Session
22:01-23:50 How Dale started teaching Reiki
26:58-29:55 Maintaining Core Energy
30:23-32:06 Words of advice from Dale

Pocket Quotes

Dale Tobin
"It’s not actually me doing the work. It’s them finding their own light and sovereignty. I’m just there to help them to realize that they can do it." - Dale Tobin
"What keeps me trusting is the understanding that we are controlled in our reality. The healing path has helped me regain myself. It’s all about the self-work." - Dale Tobin
"I am a human, a three-dimensional human as well as an infinite human. I have to be here experiencing this reality to keep me being one." - Dale Tobin
"There is a big reason behind what's going on in the earth at the moment and that's leading people to disconnect from the busy life. Always remember you can do something with a pen even if you don't have any money. There's always a way to find happiness." - Dale Tobin

Guest Bio

Dale Tobin is a psychic surgery practitioner & spiritual teacher. Host of a healing show called talking stick show. Also, he is trained in Hypnotherapy & Reiki and co-founder of the angelic reiki system. Dale applies a shamanic approach to healing work. He studied Native American healing process and worked with many other healing modalities

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Often, we think of meditation as a practice that uses techniques such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm, and stable state.

It has been scientifically proven that meditation reduces stress and anxiety. It also promotes emotional health and awareness. The meditation practice during this pandemic has the potential to complement treatment and is a low-cost beneficial method of providing support with anxiety for all.

Conor Creighton, an Irish meditation teacher, and award-winning journalist has a lot to teach us on that!

He came to meditation in 2012 and quickly became immersed in the study of mindfulness meditation and vipassana meditation. He trained in India with the Dalai Lama, and at the Redwood Institute in San Francisco. He has sat several long retreats and studied a number of meditation types. Conor's teaching is a cross-pollination of ancient techniques and contemporary wisdom. He teaches courses throughout Ireland, from art studios to prison yards.

In this podcast, Conor talks about how meditation will change and help you grow as a person. Explore mindfulness meditation techniques that allow you to understand your mind, diffuse stress, and release tension so you can lead, create and perform at your best. This is ideal for people who don’t think they can meditate.

Learn how to change bad habits, focus the mind and set intentions. Meditation—particularly Conor’s course—has been praised to foster better self-awareness, stronger emotional intelligence, and a bag of happiness hacks to help survive modern life.

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Podcast Highlights

02:29-6:51 - How Meditation changed Conor's life
10:59-16:27 - 10 days of Meditation
23:53-28:30- - Success in Meditation
29:03-36:22 - Teaching Meditation

Pocket Quotes

"Meditation opened me to find ways, find identities where I would finally feel some sense of contentment within myself." - Conor Creighton
“When you start to meditate, you activate your empathy and inspire a certain compassion in a person.” - Conor Creighton
“Don't confuse the telescope for the stars.” - Conor Creighton
“The knowledge of meditation will not help you but the experience of meditation will transform your life. “ - Conor Creighton
"The joy and happiness that we are looking outside is actually inside." Conor Creighton

Guest Bio

Conor is a down-to-earth teacher, and a natural storyteller, a skill he learned in part from his many years as a writer, but also as a bartender. He is based in Berlin and Dublin.

Author, journalist, coach, and meditation teacher. Conor Creighton has been traveling the globe as a reporter, a motivational speaker, and a meditation teacher for nearly twenty years.

Conor is the author of two books and has been published in the Guardian, the Irish Times, and Vice Magazine. He's won the Irish Travel Journalist of the Year Award, the Gwaertler Foundation Award, and the Simon Cumbers Media Fund on three occasions.

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Have you ever felt like being confined in a box? On your role, on what you have to do, on who you want to be? It’s hard, especially for us, women. We are constantly influenced by our surroundings—parents, community, society.

But how does one get out of that box? How does one unfold and fly? The idea can seem too vague. Often, we’d say, it’s easier said than done. And it’s true. Many of us just know that we want and have to take off and fly and wander but never really landed yet. Anyhow, life shouldn’t tell you where and when and how to land and stop.

This is exactly the case for Jannetje van Leeuwen, another powerful woman sharing her magic and her story. Jannetje is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, super-connector, and more. She admits that she’s not good at finishing stuff, but starting up is her strength. Jannetje grew up with confidence—being told by her supportive mom that she can do and become successful with whatever she decides to do. But she also puts such great appreciation and understanding of the fact that she’s speaking from a place of privilege—that unlike many others (probably most), she enjoys the liberty to explore because she doesn’t have to worry too much about her next meal, or paying up the rent and so on.

This confidence and view about life have created the space for her to explore enough, not only as a multifaceted entrepreneur but as a person in general. All the checkboxes of successful adult life—glittery title, fancy house and car, figure in the bank account—never really interested Jannetje. But the excitement in uncertainty, the challenge, connection, being able to build and control—these are the more fulfilling things. The jump itself is fulfilling!

After all, life and nature taught us: when you jump, you got to land. You just have to trust.

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Podcast Highlights

03:49-05:49 Journey to Multifaceted Entrepreneurship.
06:57- 12:56 From Self-Exploration to Clarity.
17:54- 20:30 Trusting to let go and jump.
20:35 - A start-up is like giving birth.
25:35 Vatta Personality.
30:37-33:48 Truthful Communication in Business

Pocket Quotes

Trust that when you jump, you gotta land. - Alexandra Kreis
Allow things to unfold. - Jannetje van Leeuwen
You don't have to make this huge shift. It's not the fantasy nor the picture of the kind of person you want to be but much more around the feeling you would have in that new role. - Jannetje van Leeuwen
Pausing before concluding or before you act is easier said than done. - Jannetje van Leeuwen
It's okay to not know. It doesn't have to be so defined. - Jannetje van Leeuwen

Guest Bio

Jannetje van Leeuwen is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, super-connector and door opener from Dublin, Ireland. She co-founded and managed four start-up business

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We spend 90% of our lives indoors. Imagine how much time is that—being in the confines of a space that either supports you or restricts you. These spaces cultivate our experience and awareness and our experience and awareness draw the lines between these spaces.

And so for Victoria Überegger, holistic interior designer and fellow yoga practitioner, spaces such as our home should be designed according to the story that its owners want to tell. Every home should look completely different from the next person's home and each space within a home should reflect how the homeowner wants to feel, what habits they want to create.

Motivated by her own experience, Victoria worked to adopt a holistic approach to interior design through yoga because she knew how a person can take out all the fear and angst that he/she accumulates from a house into his/her social life. Growing up with so much fear and anxiety from living in an old, almost horror house-looking building in the middle of a beautiful city was, to her, next to a traumatic childhood.

As Westerners, we always think of a trajectory—that we're on a target and we always and continuously have to move forward like an arrow. We thought it's that strain swift move, but if you look closer, it's swinging. Like in life, all these pulsations—the endless contraction and expansion—always reflect the polarity of life.

In this podcast, Victoria and Alex exchange and share very profound yet practical tips to create that space that truly reflects one’s vision. Some of them are bringing pieces of nature indoors, reconnecting us with the sense of quietness and nature within ourselves, and getting rid of all toxins that are already pre-existing before moving in.

The philosophy is simple: Try not to possess it all. Let it go. At the end of the day, our home is where we take refuge. After all, our home is our comfort.

Links mention in the podcast * Victoria Überegger Contact * Watch Video of the Podcast * Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!

Podcast Highlights

02:15 - 6:50 Victoria’s Journey to Holistic Interior Design
11:24 - 12:30 Broadening the Horizon through Yoga
15:49 - 17:02 Holistic Interior Design reflects the homeowner’s identity, experience, and expression
20:25 - 23:44 Making a Space your OWN
25:05 - 28:33 Creating your space from a blank canvas

Pocket Quotes

The spaces we live in manifest in our life. - Victoria Überegger
To create something with meaning, you have to stop and be with YOU and sit with YOU and deal with yourself. - Victoria Überegger
A room is a big blank canvas. Everything comes together to portray one big vision board - the most important is the vision part. - Alexandra Kreis
There has never been a better time to reimagine your home than at least the first lockdown. Anything that's wrong with your home, you know it now. - Victoria Überegger

Guest Bio

Victoria Überegger is a holistic interior designer and at the same time, a yoga practitioner, from Innsbruck, Austria.

Victoria is from South Tyrol, a multi-language province in the north of Italy on the border to Austria; therefore, she is able to speak fluent Italian, German, and English. She is an open–minded, creative person, who allows her to think outside the box and can work in a team or by herself to solve problems at hand.

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Not being able to do the things that we used to do, especially those activities that we love and have become part of our identity can be heartbreaking. It can turn our world upside down. We’ve heard about athletes, dancers, who have been physically active their entire lives, made careers out of their passion for movement, but suddenly shift after getting injured or “physically worn out.”

This episode’s guest had a similar awakening—Shawn Flot, a triathlete and physical therapist, one day found himself in debilitating pain, his physical prowess crumbling irreversibly. But his struggle, with the guidance and support of communities working on mobility and movement like the Lowen Systems, yoga, and breathwork, brought him to a deeper understanding of trauma, physical and physiological dynamics, and ultimately, to help people now.

This insightful conversation reminds us that there can be so much going on beneath the surface simply because our bodies are designed to hold the pressure up to a certain threshold. Symptoms and pain don't show up until the body can't adapt anymore. And so, as we look after our wellbeing—which is not confined in the facets of the physical needs—we have to be aware of and master the other realms that help to support us.

Movement, hands-on work, breath work are some promising interventions that we can to support healing and recovering our optimum function. But at the end of the day, these are but reminders of the infinite gift of this world for us to live fully. Because we have somehow forgotten that we coexist for a reason: we belong to each other and are dependent on each other.

Bridging the healing arts of Yoga, physical therapy, and manual therapy, Shawn shares his wealth of experience and knowledge through his programs within Moving Into Harmony with a mission: to create space and options for people to take back their power over their bodies; to be back in the body.

Links mention in the podcast * Shawn M. Flot Website * Watch Video of the Podcast * Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!

Podcast Highlights * 03:34 - 09:27: Journey to discovering movement, forces, and harmony * 10:51 - 12:07: Understanding the Body and Pain * 16:05 - 21:15: ‘Hearing’ the body and creating space for options * 21:29 - 23:41: The Well-Explored Life: For those who are interested to actually be in their bodies. * 25:51 - 34:11: Breathwork: Constant expansion-contraction is the way of life.

Pocket Quotes * Symptoms, pain doesn't show up until the body can't adapt anymore. The facets of our wellbeing aren't just physical, diet, etc... There are so many other realms that help to support us. We may look like we're doing well, but something else may be under the surface. - Shawn Flot * The advantage of a hands-on setting: the patient feels being heard and the body knows it. People do feel the shifts. It is like giving back the person and their body options to heal. It's up to them through movement, like yoga, to implement and integrate those new options. - Shawn Flot * We've been so self-made, individualized, but we forget that we belong to each other and are dependent on each other. It's no harm if you can't move correctly and someone else assists you. - Alexandra Kreis * Breath is so intimately close to wounding in traumatic events. Breath is divine, always available. Use the breath to reopen the aperture - that's healing. - Shawn Flot * Don't force yourself to strive to get rid of the trauma but be with it. This body has so much amazing love for you and potential. The more we can be with it, the more companionship will support us. - Shawn Flot

Guest Bio *Shawn M. Flot*, PT, MPT is mobility and movement practitioner who bridges the healing arts of Yoga, Physical Therapy, and Manual Therapy in his Moving Into Harmony programs and solutions. He runs a clinic in Southern Oregon, USA, and also offers his programs through www.movingintoharmony.com

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Artists not only create works of art. History has shown the important role they played in shaping our consciousness and environment. Every piece of art will resonate with someone, somewhere. It initiates dialogue and conversations; it stimulates action; it inspires change and growth.

To this episode’s guest, Jörg Reckhenrich, therapy, coaching, and deep self-inquiry can come through art. You can apply and implement art thinking for business, entrepreneurship, everyday problem-solving...to practically everything!

While Jörg is an artist himself and became a gallery owner, he didn’t like art books or theories in his younger days. Observing artworks and going deep into conversations about perceptions was what drew him into this lane. To him, it's not about the artwork itself, it's about the resonance of the person who's looking at that piece of art.

Experiencing the power of art, it became important for Jörg to share it with people and spread positivity. Combining art coaching, positive psychology, and systemic attitude has become his wonderfully pieced together work-of-art to scale learning, education, and leadership.

Coaching through art starts with a free conversation about a general topic before questions are posed. But it’s not like the conventional coaching process—the coach doesn’t always have to be the one who asks and the coachee answers. It’s a multidirectional learning process; from observation to context and real-life questions and problems.

And as the landscape for learning is changing, especially these days, coaching through art has become even more relevant and effective. Especially because in art, it's not about knowing better, but daring to be out there and just doing it; trying to shift the world with the simplest notion.

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3:00 - 6:47 Discovering his love for art and perceiving art

8:00 - 10:30 Understanding Art for Therapy, Learning, and Leadership

11:00 - 20:10 Coaching Through Art

20:30 - 28:00 Digital Art Solutions for Growth and Empowerment for Young Women of Uganda

Pocket Quotes * It's not about the artwork itself, it's about the resonance of the person who's looking at that piece of art. - Jörg Reckhenrich * Many artists, especially visual artists, are incapable of telling about their art. Always start with pure perception and the dialogue will emerge. - Jörg Reckhenrich * Let go of the things why you observe an art piece. The choice you do has so much to do with your own ideas, questions, your involvement. - Jörg Reckhenrich * It's not about knowing better, but daring to be out there and just doing it. Trying to shift the world with the simplest notion. - Alexandra Kreis * Have the courage to try out before you think too much. If you see and sense something that interests or stimulates you, go for it. Do and make a new experience, and then learn from it. That's the artist's way. - Jörg Reckhenrich

Guest Bio Jörg Reckhenrich is an artist, systemic consultant, and business coach. He is the founder of PParts, a consultant company that combines positive psychology with Art Thinking. Jörg is a member of the faculty at CEIBS (Zürich Institute of Business Education) and visiting lecturer at IMD Lausanne, London Business School, ESMT, and ESCP Berlin. Reckhenrich has been listed as one of the world’s “top 25 management thinkers” by the journal Business Strategy Review. He is a member and network driver of the BMW Foundation, responsible leader network, and BMW Alumni foundation. He is also a member of the advisory board of the MBA program at the Quadriga University Berlin and holds a permanent teaching position at the coaching and leadership academy, Berlin.

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Math and physics—or ‘hard science’—can be intimidating to some (or many). Because most of the time, it is approached as abstract concepts and principles detached from reality. This area is often a space your kid may not feel too confident.

But to Ulli Helmstetter, teacher of mathematics and physics, these are like lenses to see through this perfectly uncertain world. It’s the knowledge that ties us closest to understanding nature because they are nature itself.

Having to tackle seemingly rigid concepts, it was easy to fall oblivious to your environment and self. No other subject could even frustrate you as mathematics. But Ulli understood these from a perspective that brings him back to the very purpose of knowledge: to be able to live in this world and live in it fully. Math and physics, in their essence, teach about the fundamental principles of nature; problem-solving and adaptation; of the truth, spirituality, and profoundness of life.

And as a teacher, he took it as his mission to share this lens with his students and encourage them to re-discover the infinite magic of the world that we live in as he did when he first fell in love with science.

The whole world is like a hologram. Every piece resembles the qualities of the whole. Like the tail of the elephant—you touch it and you know it's an elephant. No matter where you look if you look clearly and healthily at things, you're always connected with the truth. It doesn't matter which method you use to get or stay connected.

Just like how science is—that it is not a set of information that we have and can hold in our hands. Understanding it is an infinite process as it is ever-expanding. But the basic principles are what we can hold and learn. After all, these principles, math, and physics, are just anchors to the higher intelligence that have let us thrive amid the horrors and wonders of this world!

life Understanding the World of Meditation through Math and Physics

The first intro to physics and spirituality was a book by Vienna Heisenbeck The Path and the Home; changed the course of my life

Was in physics but the mechanic aspect but this book opened a new perspective.

All the old concepts that we have of nature were completely upside down.

I like to be puzzled and shocked. And this book did that to me.

Mainly about the uncertainty principle. Things are uncertain. They are not clearly defined that a particle is not at one place but at different places at the same time. The world became magical again.

A lot of us are dealing with the fear of possibility.

It's a mission to bring this to my students. To bring an understanding of the changes in paradigm - what an open, mystical world we are in.

Science is not a set of information that we have and that we know most or almost everything in the world. We hardly know anything. It's an infinite process. It's fascinating to have the feeling that we can take part in this process.

People like my teaching because I'm open to what is happening - the ability to bring the magic of math physics to them. It is not a fixed system that is boring and invented by mankind. This is nature itself.

No matter where you look if you look clearly and healthily at things, you're always connected with the truth. There's no escape. It's just a matter of being connected. It doesn't matter which method you use to get or stay connected.

One reason we're here is to enjoy this world - to live in it and to live it fully.

Is insane feeling bad or not acting according to the rule?

There's an instinct, impulse, or built-in ability to adapt.

To be in this world means to be in situations that can be horrible. But we are also naturally adaptable. We have a much higher intelligence that lets us comprehend and adapt to those situations. I trust with this higher intelligence. In the end, it's trust. It's not philosophy. It's trusting that intelligence.

You can only give them what you have yourself.

How do you change habits to make you a more whole, profound, and happier being?

If you run full speed

Switching gears

No other subject that could frustrate you as mathematics. In Math, you reach a point As soon as you take something as the chance to take the next level,

You learn how to approach problems. Math is like a lens for looking at your life.

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To bring an understanding of the changes in paradigm—understanding what an open, mystical world we are in—has been my mission to my students. - Ulli Helmstetter
Science is not a set of information that we have and that we know most or almost everything in the world. We hardly know anything. It's an infinite process. And it's fascinating to have the feeling that we can take part in this process. - Ulli Helmstetter
Math and physics are not a fixed system that is boring and invented by mankind. This is nature itself. - Ulli Helmstetter
No matter where you look if you look clearly and healthily at things, you're always connected with the truth. There's no escape. It's just a matter of being connected. It doesn't matter which method you use to get or stay connected. - Ulli Helmstetter
Math is like a lens for looking at your life. You learn how to approach problems. - Ulli Helmstetter

Guest Bio:

Ulli Helmstetter is a dedicated teacher of mathematics and physics. He has taught in schools in Germany, Costa Rica, and Kenya and over the past 30 years. Aside from teaching inside the classroom, he coaches kids on the more practical skills that kids need to reflect their school performance in exams

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Re-Authoring Your Trauma

With Veronica Maurel

Any experience can lead to a loop inside you. The more you ignore it, the more it gets ahead. - Alexandra Kreis

Veronica Layunta Maurel, an Ayurvedic health consultant, yoga teacher, storyteller, and writer, tackles trauma from an insider’s perspective. Trauma is like a huge portal—to other past traumas, to the deepest levels of the self, and to everything that we need to work on.

Searching for her healing, Veronica found re-authoring her story is pivotal in addressing trauma. It’s how you tell your story and how you tell it to yourself.

When we think of trauma, we imagine horrible things. And people undergoing these are sometimes stigmatized. But we have to realize and be conscious that trauma is much deeper than that. Trauma can change the way we see things. We can have the same experience but the effect will be different. To some of us, it can be a stepping stone to be stronger. To some, it triggers an onset of trauma. It’s up to us how we author our lives around wounds like traumas and the space for healing that is always there for us.

Breaking Free from Trauma

With Adair Finucane

“There is nothing wrong with me.”

Growing up in an average, normal family, Adair had never imagined that a deep-seated trauma was behind her rage, anxiety, and depression. How could that be? This isn’t trauma—she kept denying it to herself. She refused to honor her own experience and feelings. All that despite her being a trauma researcher.

It’s easy to fall for the same lie about ourselves. We don’t or sometimes, we just refuse to, think something IS wrong or special in our experience or situation. Just like the social-worker-turned yoga-healer Adair, sometimes it takes being in a safe space to allow yourself to be vulnerable enough...to let your eyes see the fact that has been staring at you.

Innate Resources for Healing Trauma

With Patrick Haraghy

Seek help. Life is not a rehearsal. And so life should be lived in its full potential. There's a good life out there to be lived. - Patrick Haraghy

With trauma, whether it’s developmental or shock trauma, a lot are out into the unconscious. And our first instinct is to protect ourselves from it by avoidance, pushing it aside, brushing it off under the rug. Even persistent pains in the body are telling of a trauma hiding somewhere waiting to resurface or erupt. But there are different ways of working on these traumas.

Patrick, a therapist specializing in trauma, offers practical pointers to resources innate to us, human beings, to address trauma. If trauma is just right there hiding, and so is healing.

Aisha Harley

Coming Home to Yourself after Severe Trauma

“Being alone and meeting my anxiety face-to-face helped me find my happiness and my peace.”

From pain to love, Aisha, a former photographer, and doTERRA leader realized that healing has to start with the self.

Struggling from Lyme disease, stress, and pain from toxic relationships, Aisha was afraid to leave an abusive situation because she was afraid to be alone. She thought peace existed outside herself; her happiness depended on some other person.

But in her journey, she learned that putting herself first, working on her boundaries, and taking her power back were the first pieces in the puzzle of her healing. Others came in to build her picture of happiness and peace soon after she decided that, yes, she could heal, and she can do it by herself.

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‘An empath—but what are you really?’

This was Maskarm’s question to herself before she embarked on that first ride out of Ethiopia. She knew she always had this incredible gift of being able to put herself in someone else’s shoes and feel things as if she was them. She understood her ability to see, hear and feel things. But in her world back in Ethiopia, there was no place for such. And so she went out to fly.

Deeply sensitive, intuitive, good listener, self-sufficient. These were the qualities that had let her successfully sail across pan-Africa and beyond as a couch-surfer, meeting people along the way who either challenge her chosen way of life or think alike. But more importantly, it was indeed an outer travel to journey towards what within her.

Maski was born and raised in a religious and traditional Ethiopian family. From the very start, traveling was her dream but it was not something comprehensible in her family and their culture. But she knew she had to be someplace and went for it. To her, it felt as if someone left her here on Earth by mistake and that being in one place for a prolonged period of time is not her safe space.

Traveling gave her inspiration and a feeling of oneness. It unpacked for her so many things about herself, her childhood and traumas, her connection with her family, especially her mother. Traveling was her healing until she arrived and became ready to recognize her identity and share it with others (through writing and her book, Abyssinian Nomad).

But it wasn’t all happy and exciting. Along her journey, Maski found out she has fibromyalgia, a disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory, and mood issues. To her, maybe it was a way of saying ‘I'm done here and now it’s the body’s time to heal.

For years of searching, Maskarm lived in total freedom. But she also learned that there are things that needed to happen and shouldn’t be refused and ignored to preserve that perceived freedom. Especially if that comes from within—a voice that wants to be heard, a thought that needs to be shared and read, or even a feeling or pain that has to be tended to. Letting it all out is freedom in itself.

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I felt like someone left me here on Earth by mistake and they're going to come back and take me. I felt this is not my place. That was the feeling the entire time except when I'm traveling. - Maskarm Haile
It was my dream to travel. But it also became like a pilgrimage for me. Most of the time, I don't know why I'm in one place, I just know I have to be there. It just unfolds. The experience of it makes me feel I need this more. - Maskarm Haile
During the lockdown, I do miss some things but I also see it as a grace to us. It's like an opportunity given to us to go within and search for more. - Maskarm Haile
If it keeps showing up, don't ignore it because it will catch up. - Maskarm Haile
Being wise is about listening, sharing, and being sensitive. Not just knowledge. - Alexandra Kreis

Guest Bio:

Maskarm Haile is an empath and traveler from Ethiopia who wandered across pan-Africa and the world in search of her identity. She is the woman behind the book Abyssinian Nomad. Maskarm, in her book, incredibly wrote about her priceless memories and experience.

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Traveling never ends, when you are wandering the forgotten path. It's the curiosity and bewilderment that propels us forward, not the one thing that we want to solve. But as we go into our inner sanctuary, we realize there is nothing to resolve. It's just all a play of life. After all, life is so hard to fit into a shoe.

This week's guest - a fellow traveler - wandered to the forgotten spaces wanting to learn more about life and the life that exists beyond her experience.

Jolanda Todt, an artist, designer, cultural educator, went around getting away from and, eventually, wanting to reconnect to her memory of her father. Jolanda became a spiritual researcher, a truth-seeker in her own right.

Losing her father to suicide as a result of his long-running mental health situation, Jolanda realized how difficult situations in our lives make us reach out and reach deeper. And these experiences are what sailed her through life and brought her to immerse in the indigenous community and culture of shamans—something her father wouldn't have thought she will do but she certainly has grown to love doing. She learned that psychological illnesses have complementary spiritual counterparts.

But the ceremonies in these communities forged a strong connection to Jolanda and her experiential understanding of life. The two women singing, praying, and chanting for hours left a strong impact on Jolanda. In her culture, women are fighting for their space and place. But in these indigenous cultures, women have such a beautiful space, expressing their spirituality, in such a very authentic way.

Being part of this community gave Jolanda invaluable nuggets of wisdom - the like that doesn't resolve questions but moves you through the unending quest for learning. The like that she proudly brings in her journey from sorrow to understanding the life that her father had.

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Difficult situations in our lives make us reach out and reach deeper at the best times. - Alexandra Kreis
Trauma can be passed on to generations. - Jolanda Todt
In our culture, women are fighting for their space and place. But in this culture, these women have such a beautiful space; they are expressing their spirituality, in such a very authentic way. - Jolanda Todt
The bigger the questions are, the bigger answers required. - Jolanda Todt
Life is so hard to fit into a shoe. Travelling never ends. It's the curiosity and bewilderment that propels us forward, not the one thing that we want to solve. But as we go into the inner sanctuary, we realize there is really nothing to resolve. It's just all a play of life. - Alexandra Kreis

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Jolanda Todt, an artist, designer, and cultural educator from Berlin. She studied communication design and has done exhibitions, performances, and lectures in Germany, Iceland, and London

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Breathing is one of those instinctive things that we know and do. So instinctive that we seldom pay attention to how it supports everything else in our system. So constantly done that we almost neglect the dynamics that it plays to other aspects of our core such as our voice.

In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, Regan O'Brien, vocal coach and performing artist, and singer, inspires us to rediscover our breath and voice.

Growing up with an innate love for music, singing was that one thing that brings Regan to her element—but she does it alone. She even recalls being so shy she couldn’t speak and join in conversations. Her nerves would always get in the way because she didn’t look at singing as sharing her voice and story with other people. To the younger Regan, it was something she had to do to meet someone else's expectations.

Until she discovered breath and voice work.

The thrive that she found among friends cheered her on to studying speech and drama. This opened her to a world of resources and support to build more strength and confidence in her ability. And there, she discovered her gem: realizing that finding her voice was a core experience of attuning to her sense of comfort and identity. And as she began to consolidate that identity, she felt more certain about the ‘I’ in all of her work.

Today, Regan partners with people on their journey towards connecting with their voice in a meaningful way. She works with people and the poetics of their voice—the preverbal movement of the voice and the body, sensing inward, feeling the actual physicality of producing voice within the body, and finding the path of least resistance to creating support for that vibration with breathwork and strengthening exercises.

Through her lived experience and example, Regan inspires people to step into the flow, rather than control it, and to immerse in the nervousness and rawness of the moment. With the right support, allowing ourselves to move with this flow while staying present in the movement is what gives depth to the breath and voice.

Voice work, vibrations, resonances—all of these, there's movement in it that attunes us into our internal landscape. Sensing our voice vibrating in our body is such a practical and effective way of understanding ourselves. Our voice is our main vehicle of expression, not only of our thoughts. It ushers our emotions, our identity, the life within us to come out and come free.

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As time went on, I began to realize that finding my voice was a core experience of attuning to my sense of comfort and identity. - Regan O’Brien
Your breathing is the rhythm of your life. - Regan O’Brien
Voice work is controlling and supporting the out-breath on a vibration. And there's something very intimate about it because we are so attached to our sound. The embodied voice work is very important because it gives a sensory experience. - Regan O’Brien
Healing doesn't need to come through one path - you can do it through breath and voice work or deep diving. - Alexandra Kreis
Everyone is capable of expressing their own meaning and truth. We don't have to rely on words to do that. There are so many other art forms and practices that allow us to do that. - Regan O’Brien

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*Regan O’Brien* is a musician, a vocal coach, and a creative facilitator. She performs her compositions throughout Ireland and Europe. She has lectured in performance studies and taught vocal and movement practices at school and post-graduate levels. She facilitates a creative and therapeutic voice coaching service called Vocal Movement Ireland.

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Many times, the things that you're scared of usually aren't as scary as you think they are. The thought of the thing is usually scarier than the actual thing.

Astrid Walsh’s journey to save her vision was witness to this. Having been confronted one day by a diagnosis that meant she won’t be able to do many of the things that she loves doing and a possibility of being derailed from her passion for the visual arts, Astrid allowed herself to be scared off by what she thought would be the worst.

While being treated conventionally for Lyme disease, she noticed episodes of flashing in her vision. Later on, she was told it was a detached retina and surgery is the only way. But that night of the soul pulled her inwards to wait and hear an answer, led her to discover a world that taught her that healing occurs so much deeper than and after the treatments and interventions that we do for our body.

Astrid took her health on her hands: for better or worse, she relied on what she feels. She had the inner knowing but had to find out what it is. So Astrid researched and found Ayurveda as the only healing modality that looked at the senses specifically. Alexandra, as a long-time friend of Astrid, introduced her to that world and went deeper—into Panchakarma.

Astrid spent weeks in a tiny village in India, being taken care of by Dr. Ashwin Shastri and practically the whole village. These weeks led her to discover so much about herself and the world we live in. Panchakarma and all the detox she went through taught her that healing is about creating space for and letting in what could heal us and letting go of the things that intoxicate, not only our bodies but also our mind and soul.
More than the interventions, big and small, Astrid learned that it was really about tuning in to the self, about attachments and sufferings, about the way we look at life and death. And ultimately, about letting go.

This whole journey, for Astrid, brought closer together two worlds—traditional medicine and Ayurveda—to teach her most precious take away: let in, want something, but let go of the necessity to get it and you’ll find peace in your decision.

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Every illness brings death with it to a certain degree. Dr. Ashwin Shastri showed me the terror of death, blindness. As a visual artist, I overly relied on my eyes and blindness equaled to death. I was coming to grip the reality of death. - Astrid Walsh
I came from a culture where death was the absolute worst-case scenario. Whereas from Ayurveda and India’s cultural perspective, there's rebirth. The way we see it isn't necessarily the only way to see it. - Astrid Walsh
In modern times, we live in a very fast-paced environment that we almost have to learn patience. - Alexandra Kreis
You can only have the energy to do these things for yourself, it's all self-responsibility in making the choices every day. But you can only actually do that if you're supported in some way. Big interventions can give you a good place to start. Because sometimes, you just have to act now, in a big way. But then after that, you have to integrate it into your new reality. And that takes time and patience. - Astrid Walsh
Ayurveda gives you the stability to be able to face health problems and not get panicked. The sickness can't travel so deep if you keep an eye regularly on what is falling out of shape in you and what needs amending. - Astrid Walsh

Guest Bio Astrid Walsh is an amazing visual artist from Ireland. She has done numerous individual and collaborative exhibitions across the country and received awards and recognitions for her work. She started first started her healing journey and discovering Ayurveda when she was undergoing treatment for Lyme disease in 2003. Later on, she was diagnosed with a detached retina and that’s when she dove really deeply into Ayurveda, which she practices until today.

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Sleeplessness, anxiety, unhealthy eating habits—we often regard these as just part of the “modern life”. But these can have more far-reaching effects on our well-being. And many times, people don’t realize that these often disregarded factors can be traced from an unaddressed trauma.

The discourse around this becomes extra important as the world navigates a 180-degree shift in our lives as individuals and societies to cope with a pandemic. People explore a newly evolving world of work, mostly, with uncertainty and a small support system.

But this episode’s guest, Patrick Haraghy, a therapist specializing in trauma, is out to take listeners through it with his five resources to stabilize our lives, whether traumatized or not.

For Patrick, these five key resources—exercise, food, engagement, relaxation, and sleep—may seem simple and have always been a part of the health and wellbeing narrative. Yet people continue to take for granted many of them, especially sleep.

A lot of healing happens during sleep—both for physical and mental healing. But trauma—whether developmental or shock trauma—often messes up one’s ability to get a good night’s sleep. And hence, the lack of it affects the body’s ability to recover and heal. And so it is important to know and practice some techniques to get a good night's sleep.
Practicing sleep hygiene would usually involve small habits such as not having caffeine in the evening, not eating late, not taking alcohol, trying to go to bed at the same time and getting up at the same time (so activate the internal clock), and preparing for sleep like a baby like going for a bath and doing something but not watching TV, etc.

In Ayurveda, this has been discussed in Samhita—how you run your day, creating an evening routine, and creating the atmosphere for sleep.

But dealing with trauma is a long-haul flight. It can be activated later in our lives. The body tends to protect us from that trauma, shifting us to avoidance mode for so long, but then something might come and trigger it. A lot of people become self-reliant because of trauma and develop difficulty in reaching out. Hence, creating a safe space and opening up the self to external support is key to addressing the trauma for good. And of course, practicing these five resources works wonders!

To Patrick, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with seeking help. Life is not a rehearsal and so life should be lived in its full potential. There's a good life out there to be lived.

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A lot of healing happens during sleep. - Patrick Harraghy
Self-care is very important, so I can be more available for the clients. - Patrick Harraghy
With covid, a different kind of stress builds up within the home, especially with people working from home. Get out for a walk, even for just 10 minutes. It's important to get out of the environment and respect boundaries. - Patrick Harraghy
Don't freak out; reach out. We all struggle. But life is there to be fair. We're all just human beings. - Alexandra Kreis
Seek help. Life is not a rehearsal. And so life should be lived in its full potential. There's a good life out there to be lived. - Patrick Harraghy

Guest Bio Patrick Harraghy is a psychotherapist at Centre Professional Therapy, specializing in trauma. His practice deals with trauma caused by traffic accidents, industrial accidents, shootings, sexual abuse, bullying, etc. Patrick is currently in Ireland and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Irish Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy(IACP). Patrick met Alexandra in yoga with a common interest: to help people in their journeys for a more stable, well-lived life.

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Art and science, indeed, can become one. Daria’s journey tells us that.

This heartwarming conversation with Philipa Daria Filip traces back the strokes of that interesting moment of discovery of her art. It also dances us to the intricate details of how her artistry has been married to her world of science and philosophy of living sustainably.

Her moment of truth was that long journey from Poland to Paris—almost like an exposure trip to her unlived childhood days captured in countless photographs in an attempt to vividly store its beauty intangible memory—that went straight to a vernissage. But Daria’s art and science started even way back.

Although Paris, and its beauty and promise of sustainable living, is the cradle of Daria’s art, her motivation to marry art and science transcends beyond her artistry and this city. It is actually about her philosophy. Inspired by David Rocks' Quiet Leadership, she lives by the lesson that we don't learn on a linear curve; it's more parabolic. We have to focus our attention to make the space to make mistakes until we hit the curve. More like in art.

Coming from the logical corner—from studying and practicing engineering to teaching math and physics, and coming from a family who did the same—Daria found herself grabbing the camera and pouring out all her artistic side into it as her way of expression. But not only that. It is also her way of communicating details and of teaching science to the public eye. She has brought all these things together and calls it art is science and science is art.

To Daria, we can use common knowledge to understand the foundational principles (in math, science). And by slowing down and paying attention to the details—not doing shortcuts—we get so much more and higher quality understanding. In a way, sustainable learning.

Beyond Daria’s mind for details, she leaves an important trick to muster: Know when to focus on the detail and when to be a master of the subject to be able to appreciate and teach it. Know when to pull back and look at the big picture and how all pieces fit together. Not being a specialist in anything and trying to work and teach on it is equally dangerous as being a specialist in just one thing.

And above all, Daria inspires listeners to apply artistry to life: “Do not be afraid to try something new. Let it flow. Do not be afraid to take a chance.”

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With art, I've never felt so refreshed and rejuvenated. It further bolstered this concept of arts and science and how it impacts life. - Philipa Daria Filip
The symbol of the delta, which means change, appears everywhere in science. We can use the common knowledge to really understand the foundational principles. By slowing down and really paying attention to the details, not doing shortcuts, you get so much more and higher quality understanding. - Philipa Daria Filip
The trick of life is knowing which quote to follow when. When do we need to focus on the detail and be a master of a subject to be able to appreciate and teach it and when to pull back and look at the big picture and how all pieces fit together. Not being a specialist in anything and trying to work and teach on it is equally dangerous as being a specialist in just one thing. - Philipa Daria Filip
Do not think that you have to choose one or the other. Just dabble in your art or artistry and however, it shows itself. See how that makes you go about your day to day life. You can find ways to combine it. - Alexandra Kreis
Do not be afraid to try something new. Let it flow. Do not be afraid to take a chance. - Philipa Daria Filip

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Philipa Daria Filip is a teacher at the American School of Paris. Born in Toronto, Canada and to parents who emigrated to Canada from Poland/Ukraine after WWII, Daria had always longed to revisit her roots and explore Europe. She grew up in a family with an inclination to science—her mother always wanted her to be an engineer. She worked for three years in Western Canada and at the University of Waterloo and had a lot of experience working in industrial plants and factories. But in 1998, she switched to teaching math and science in high school and since then taught in different schools until she found her way to the American School of Paris.

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Kay's life journey has got something big and bright to tell.

He met Alexandra 30 years ago, at a time when they were both unsure yet of the paths they want to take. They lost sight of each other and the next thing Alex knows, Kay is navigating a tremendously difficult health journey of his own. An unusual one—a journey which eventually brought bickers of hope to many people undergoing the same.

It may be the worst nightmare for anyone—having HIV and then the Big C. For Kay, it took him many months to know about it. And more months to get past the ‘acceptance’ stage and to finally adjust to the demands of the situation.

But Kay picked up and learned to focus on how to move on with life. His healing journey opened him to more spiritual things, to find the meaning of life and of his situation. It opened him to many healing philosophies and techniques; led him to meet healers he didn’t know existed in real life—something not so distant from his personality as he had always changed paths drastically. His life’s way has always been to go a different new direction.

For Kay, learning to be quiet and get in touch with the deepest part of the soul brought the most mind-changing effect to his life. And despite the changes—not being able to do what he used to—Kay had a firm mind about the things he had to let go of and to define his life in a new way. For him, we can't escape the challenges in life. What we can do is confront and adapt to those changes. After all, mindset is everything when confronting the seemingly insurmountable!

As he found a new channel for his creativity, Kay began bringing his experience and message to the world out there. And this was his newfound freedom and passion—with people who have shown him respect for being someone with an unusual life and path. His journey, of healing both the body, mind, and soul, has gone to give hope to countless people every day.

For Kay: Experience stays with you. It never goes away. You have to integrate it into your body, mind, and soul to move on. It's quite a challenge but it's the better way to live life.

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There's always a fight between cancer, diagnosis, and therapy. But I never had the feeling of fighting. During the chemo, I've learned that I have to let go of things, not to cling to things. On many levels. - Kay Bohlen
I've channeled a lot of things that happened to me in life and I've made a decision about what I can do with these. - Kay Bohlen
Whatever happens to you in a healing session, you decide what's going to happen with you next. Focus on the solutions to let go of focusing on the problems. - Kay Bohlen
There was never a day when I thought I couldn't do this anymore. There are difficult days, yes, as a stage fright in theater, but as soon as I'm on the first call, I've done the first step, everything becomes fine. You’re grounded again. It's very enriching. - Kay Bohlen
We're not all sick, but we all experience sickness around us. We need to shift thoughts. - Alexandra Kreis
Experience stays with you. It never goes away. You have to integrate it into your body, mind, and soul to move on. It's quite a challenge but it's the better way to live life. - Kay Bohlen

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Kay Bohlen used to be a stage performer for more than ten years. While working on stage, he found out that he has HIV and later, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. As he went on his healing journey, he had to give up many things including performing. But his journey led him to become an inspiration for many others facing difficult health situations. He was an AIDS ambassador in Germany and worked in Telecare, bringing hope to many, through phone calls.

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Ana Rakovac, a friend, colleague, and student of Alex is a medical doctor herself who worked in paramedics and emergency medicine, in ICU, and a lot of other different fields within. Her professional journey brought her to study, do research and specialize in internal medicine and endocrinology, and chemical pathology. A lot of the turns throughout her career were brought by circumstances but also by her understanding that diseases have to be approached holistically. To Ana, medicine is about the whole picture.

And this podcast is all about that.

Coming from a respectable and deep scientific background herself, Ana opens up with Alexandra an important conversation about complementing and supporting efforts of different sciences or frames in looking at our health. Especially in this era welcomed by a pandemic.

Here, Ana looks back at her first dive into Alexandra’s ‘world’ of yoga and Ayurveda. Again, it was circumstantial: struggling to keep an ‘eat less, move more’ lifestyle amid the lockdowns and limitations brought by Covid.

The pandemic has affected work completely, especially those like Ana. But to her, it was momentous as the medical community is witnessing something unique; something so huge unfolding for the first time. Scientifically, it was exciting but also very scary. Until she ended up contracting it and got an inner view.

And this moment made her realize and appreciate more the habits Ayurveda has brought in and how one science supports the others. What she learned in the language and lens of Ayurveda are very much the same in her practice, say in endocrinology, which is about balance and finding out which are inappropriately normal. Ana’s medicine and Ayurveda are not enemies.

She realized that what Alex and Ayurveda are teaching her are observational lifestyle interventions that were 5000 years old and are aligned with what she teaches to her patients in her diabetes clinic. It's all about concepts. And the small things, like rest or sleep, that actually matter and completes the picture

To Ana, it’s high time we wake up to the necessity of observing and respecting the interplay between our own rhythms and the rhythms of the planet and keep being healthy for as long as we can. It's been so much that we keep healthy in order to be pretty, to be productive, or achieve some other goal. But how about learning to keep healthy to be happy?

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Podcast Highlights * The Ujjayi breathing exercise I learned from Alex was really instrumental at the peak of my disease. Yoga and anatomy taught us that most of the lung is towards our back. So when you’re on your belly, you use more of your lungs and in Ujjayi breathing, you learn to breathe with your diaphragm. - Ana Rakovac * Ayurveda is an observational medicine. Same as the medicine that I practice. It is how we interpret what is causing these observations that differs. - Ana Rakovac * What we do not get taught in med school is habit formation. There is this overemphasis on knowledge and not enough emphasis on how to bring the knowledge into practice. - Ana Rakovac * This whole one-track thinking of productivity and efficiency being above everything disregards the cyclical way that humans are. We need rest. We need to sleep. - Ana Rakovac * We have to stop fighting each other or pointing fingers, but join hands to teach people how to be healthy. - Alexandra Kreis

Guest Bio Ana Rakovac is a medical doctor who worked in paramedics and emergency medicine in the field during the Serbia and Croatia conflict, worked in ICU, and a lot of other different fields in medicine. Her professional journey brought her to study, do research and specialize in internal medicine and endocrinology, and chemical pathology. She runs a laboratory for diagnosis and research and a diabetes clinic.

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Annica Lindberg

Sense of Yoga

Annica started a blog in Swedish about her yoga journey. She wrote whenever she felt so alone in her practice and wrote almost every day for 10 years. Through her blog, she got connected to other people, gained friends despite practicing yoga at home (her teacher was online and her friends were not with her. She shared with readers and friends the struggles she stumbled upon in her practice, who later encouraged her to write a book.

Her self-published book gained a lot of attention and respect and attracted followers. It was a thoughtful narration of getting herself to the mat which is not a natural thing for her all the time and how that struggle led her to discover her center. To Annica, those small situations in a person’s life are what showed her that she’s into something else now.

“The more I trust the things I do, the more I get what I need.”

Sonja Radvilla

Fears and Desires

Sonja lets us into the back curtains of writing the book. Some parts were difficult for her to write. One of the characters even came out after all of the struggles of telling the story in a more interesting way.

The book is like a strange universe—Sonja specifically wanted the characters to have universality but also a creation of intersecting realities of India and other places Sonja loved.

Priya Basil

Be my Guest: Reflections and Discussions While Sharing Food

For Priya, we live in a time where food has somehow become an identifier, a part of the statement of who you are and how you want to be seen in the world. For me, my eating—being a vegetarian and leaning towards vegan—was an ethical choice. For others, it can also become oppressive and restrictive. But there’s joy, the possibility for connection, and discovery in food. And so her book was about celebrating those and the possibilities that give us the chance to talk about bigger issues of how we live together and share while acknowledging that there should be a sense of responsibility in our choices.

To Alexandra, this book and the author have so much guts to tackle an important topic and open a sensitive discourse. It takes tremendous openness and clarity to bring these thoughts out to a broader audience. But to Priya, she approached the difficult aspects of this book by confronting her doubts and struggles.

Take the steps that are possible for you at a particular moment. Recognize that we don’t always get it right completely but encourage ourselves and others to keep making better choices.”

Jessica Sanders

Love your Body

Jessica wrote the book from her deep involvement and passion for Body Positivity a movement started by lesbian women to acknowledge the body in its truth. It’s about combating fatphobia in our culture and the shame it creates in individuals that could be potentially a very damaging thing for an individual.

But Jessica is not only about it, but self-acceptance of all kinds, promoting kindness and self-care, and emotional resilience. And these important themes brought out her second book for teens and young adults and possibly a third book specifically for boys and male adults.

“I’m just trying to be as intuitive as possible because I think that is when the best stuff happens.”

Elisa Marie Collins

Becoming a Super Ager

Elisa, in her book Super Ager, bravely explains how pervasive individualistic culture made us think that older people are useless. Looking at the form, the fire element (the competition), and just what we see on the surface, makes us think that older people are useless. And this is in contrast with the wisdom that older adults actually possess and impart—the wisdom of seeing the bigger picture.

In this podcast, Elisa walked us through the intriguing Blue Zones, or the places where there is a higher concentration of super-agers, and unboxed the phenomena in these places so we can adopt the habits for a fuller, longer life that super-agers enjoy.

“We don't necessarily have to isolate ourselves to become a super ager, but we could set things up where we're supporting each other.”

Gianna Shamone

Becoming a Writer

To Gianna, her writing flourished because she was just letting it flow. Forget about the pressure of being ‘good enough’, of targeting to get published—when a thought or feeling or even a question pops in and triggers words in her head, she would just grab a pen and paper go with it.

But she so believes that writers are born—and that happens when one feels the want of writing. Her advice was simply to learn to have the confidence of just doing it. Because she strongly believes that we are all able to write because we are all able to communicate. It's just when we start overthinking that it blocks us to do it.

“Finding peace in the moment is a new favorite thing of mine.

It makes me feel more alive than anything else—calm, steady.

Only my breathing and my heartbeat remind me of the physical shell I chose this time.

Everything else flows and hovers around me.

And I can feel the energy flowing.”

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This podcast with Elise Marie Collins, author of the best-selling book, Super Ager, is admittedly a conversation like going through uncharted waters for our host, Alexandra. But having so much to share as both yoga health coaches and many deep values as Ayurvedic practitioners just made this talk flawlessly eye-opening and inspiring. Especially while tackling the topic of aging! (And mind you, not only aging but “super” aging.)

Elise, a yoga health coach, and a gerontologist have also written two other books—Chakra Tonics and An A to Z Guide to Healing Foods. Her work was inspired mainly by her practice, her quest for healthier choices for her son, and her passion for helping people live a longer and fuller life.

To her, writing these books, and eventually, Super Ager is like passing on the wisdom of Ayurveda and an expression of her love and respect for older adults and admiration for the habits that made them thrive and become centenarians.

This conversation navigated through some very important notions (and misconceptions) about getting old and old age itself as that part of our lives, igniting appreciation and respect for older adults, their wisdom, and the very wisdom behind what got them to this now-precious stage of life.

Walking us through gerontology (the study of aging) and how it is so much like the Western Ayurveda for its multidisciplinary nature, to the fun facts about Blue Zones, you are sure to pick up gems of lessons you’ll want to implement in your life as soon as possible. Because for centenarians, everything that got them to live up to a hundred started at birth.

Elise also touched on breaking down some common misconceptions, or views, and attitudes towards people of old age. She explains how pervasive individualistic culture made us think that older people are useless. Looking at the form, the fire element (the competition), and just what we see on the surface, makes us think that older people are useless. But centenarians are precious because they tell stories of the life they've seen and history. And learning from their habits tells us tons about living a full, more satisfying, and happy life.

And these stories of older adults is such a fountain of new possibilities and hope!

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To becoming a super ager, being supported by family, friends and a community is more powerful than anything else. Social connections are huge. And people want to be around you when you have positive thinking and mindset. - Elise Marie Collins
In the modern era, we could set up an environment that could be like a blue zone. We don't necessarily have to isolate ourselves to become a super ager, but we could set things up where we're supporting each other. - Elise Marie Collins
Not everybody wants to live a long life. But the habits that lead to living a long life are usually those that help you live a full life, a more satisfying and happy life. - Elise Marie Collins
They have nothing to chase. All there is to do is to be. Just be. Just see what's coming your way. - Alexandra Kreis
We make these supportive interconnections if we open ourselves up to the vulnerabilities of life. The more people keeping our minds uplifted and supported, the more we can look at a healthy, thriving life over the next decades. - Alexandra Kreis

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*Elise Marie Collins* is the author of three books on holistic health: Chakra Tonics, Essential Elixirs for Mind, Body and Spirit and An A-Z Guide to Healing Foods, A Shoppers

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This episode’s guest is a leading cybersecurity executive who knows what it's like to be the only female executive in the room. Meet Jothi Dugar. Cyber exec for NIH in the US for over 25 years. She is a catalyst for change, inspiring transformational leadership as a holistic wellness specialist and coach, author of three books, an international public speaker, and a mom of three.

Cyberspace is one of those industries that’s operating 24/7. And that’s been bringing so much stress, burnout, and overwhelm to the community because they just have to be connected round the clock. It's a beautiful field, with so much to learn. But it's like a place where you don't have a choice on the matter; something you're forced to stand because of the urgency aspects and potential safety issue. With that, Jothi, one of the very few females leading the industry, felt it's one of those that desperately need to put mental health wellness among industry values. Something she has so much passion about.

But it wasn’t easy. Mental health seemed unapproachable for them. Yoga, meditation, mindfulness were like off-words. A jargon from a completely different word.

Coming out from a traumatic childhood herself, Jothi opens up a deep place and shares how she found and grew her calling to help people feel better while continuing to lead the industry she also has immense talents for.

And Jothi’s faith, passion, and commitment helped her break the walls. And not only that, but she’s also transcending the cybersecurity and safety aspect to the personal development space to better protect people especially in this day and age of almost everything going virtual.

These two hardworking, persevering coaches also exchanged ideas about the approach they share with their students. Jothi shares about the Jedi approach which is about finding a creative solution, a way to navigate and bring out empathy and compassion.

Her work is an inspiring story of doing what seemed impossible: merging the two worlds together—the outer (cyberspace, so out there!) and the inner (mental wellbeing and the many other aspects of the self).

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Being a woman leader, you already have to cross a lot more obstacles and roadblocks than if you are a male especially in an industry dominated by males like the cyber community. I want to encourage women and girls to stick with what you want to do; you don't have to make excuses for yourself or feel like not to be your authentic self just to please somebody else. - Jothi Dugar
My goal is to bring cyber and the wellness worlds together without making it seem so scary, especially to women. - Jothi Dugar
I had a traumatic childhood but I've set my goals. I had dreams that seemed so far and impossible. But it's only in setting those dreams that I actually had something to look forward to. The path isn't always linear. That's where the power of your intention really shines through. - Jothi Dugar
Sometimes too many choices can make you more inactive. But it really boils down to two things: you're born as a human for a reason and that you're meant to be happy. - Jothi Dugar

Guest Bio Jothi Dugar is a cyber executive for NIH in the US for over 25 years. She is a catalyst for change, inspiring transformational leadership as a holistic wellness specialist and coach, author of three books, an international public speaker, and a mom of three. She helps corporate leaders and their teams with achieving health, balance, and peace that they need in all walks of life to not only survive but thrive in the chaos.

Jothi Dugar is a cyber executive for NIH in the US for over 25 years. She is a catalyst for change, inspiring transformational leadership as a holistic wellness specialist and coach, author of three books, an international public speaker, and a mom of three. She helps corporate leaders and their teams with achieving health, balance, and peace that they need in all walks of life to not only survive but thrive in the chaos.

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This episode takes us to Gianna's extraordinary journey into becoming a writer and writing her book.

Gianna Shamone had always been in the creative industry as an artist manager for musicians. Her interest in understanding poetry and lyrics was her foundation for building effective collaboration with artists she works with. But she didn’t know that this deeply lying passion inside her all along could be a craft on its own.

The writing was always a part of Gianna, from writing short stories as an elementary school student to journaling—she knew she wanted to write. But she never really trusted that her writing could interest others until people around her repeatedly tried to convince her that it’s her purpose: help in people’s healing through her poetry around life and feelings.

Her newly-released book, Finding Me, now available in many different stores worldwide, came to be as Gianna worked on herself. It was birthed by overcoming a lot of her fears and courageously diving deeper into her inner world and letting it come out.

Not until receiving endless people’s positive feedbacks on her poetry captions for her photos (another craft of hers!) posted on Instagram and that final push from the tarot card reading after a Reiki session in New York just before the world shutdown from Covid19, Gianna never had it in her cosmos of possibilities that she was good enough to be read by the whole world.

Her journey and this intimately honest conversation are out to inspire listeners to pursue their passion. One’s life purpose, or dharma, doesn’t have to occur to you in a grandiose moment; sometimes, it just starts with an interest you have kept in the bay for so long and never really let to flourish and take you on. Let it flow let it take you!

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Being an artist manager, I was there to represent their art. But being a writer of my own, I am transitioning to being an artist and representing myself. - Gianna Shamone
Many people are not aware that the thing most natural to us is actually our biggest gift. Our life purpose, or dharma, really comes through the easiest methods. - Alexandra Kreis
We need to be aware that life is super simple. At the end of the day, it's all about practicing life. - Alexandra Kreis
As soon as there is the want of writing, then a writer is born. If something interests you, then that's supposed to be a part of you in this lifetime. - Gianna Shamone
Learn to have the confidence of just doing it. We are all able to write because we are all able to communicate. It's just when we start overthinking that it blocks us to actually do it. - Gianna Shamone

Guest Bio Gianna Shamone is a berlin-based author who writes poetry mainly about her own live-journey, empowerment, and womanhood.

She is also a self-taught, photographer, and music video/short movie director, who fuses these skills in her shoots.

She mostly uses analog cameras to capture her photos, which combines nostalgia feelings and today's aesthetics in a soothing way. When it comes to directing, she totally relies on her visual mind and her general emotional being.

Her focus lies in working with artists in the music field, whether it's in the studio or in front of stages.

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This episode’s guest will take us to the depths of her soul and her fond memories of deep diving. Sara Campbell is like the ‘grandmother’ of free deep-diving by holding three world records on free deep diving for several years. Like the program she founded and manage, Discover Your Depths, this conversation is out to bring us to discover Sara’s and our notion of the depths that lie within everyone.

Sara’s discovery of her passion for deep-diving was almost accidental. Her success story in the sport was pretty unusual as she came to it on a different path. She was teaching yoga and meditation when one of her students asked her to take lessons with her. And as the first rule of freediving is to never dive alone, she went in and let fate have it. For all she knew, she was just playing and having fun!

But throughout her journey exploring the depths of the ocean, Sara has also deepened her understanding of the foundational principles she’s been teaching in her yoga and meditation classes. And most of all, she understood that integrating her spiritual teachings with her new-found passion is what propelled her to success. And these pieces of gems are what she’s sharing with Alexandra and their listeners in this podcast.

Free deep-diving can be for competition but also recreation as relaxation is the foundation, key-stone aspect of freediving. To dive deep without suffering an injury, you have to receive this incredible embrace from the ocean; the embrace of the divine that's down there. This is where the surrender comes in—you cannot be the one controlling the dive. One has to let go and give in to the wisdom of the body. Going further into the deeper depths is a process of trusting that the wisdom and intimacy are already there and of surrendering the ego.

To Sara, the struggle is much more an internal one—when we get an uncompromising confrontation with ourselves and with everything not in alignment with our spirit. Everything that the ego is bringing up to get involved in the process happens when people are stuck in the numbers. There's this pull to be something more than we already are. If we're ready to go there, the body will go there. It is not about us creating or forcing or doing anything; it's allowing.

Sara and Alex also went on to explore the dynamics between the ego and the spirit. If the desire comes from the spirit, we are guided towards something which is in our path and for our expansion. But often, we get attached to desires through our ego. And this is something Sara learned unwittingly in her journey. The relationship of the body with the ocean gives her so much honest feedback—a great level of awareness and honesty people cannot get from anywhere else.

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You have to let go and give in to the wisdom of your body. Our bodies and the ocean know each other intimately because that's our original home. Going further into the deeper depths is a process of trusting that the wisdom and intimacy are already there and surrendering the ego. - Sara Campbell
It's initially very counter-intuitive. It can be for competition but also for relaxation. Because people hold their breath and take them further and further away from the most vital source of life, which is the breath, the air. In order to dive deep, one has to completely relax and that requires trust and surrender. - Sara Campbell
My motivation was happiness. And so when I was going in the ocean with that as my intention, I was always in a space of openness, not in a space of contraction. - Sara Campbell
If the desire comes from the spirit, we are guided towards something which is in our path and for our expansion. But often, we get attached to desires through ego. - Sara Campbell
In having so many labels for ourselves, we become so much less than more. - Alexandra Kreis

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Sara Campbell is a Kundalini Yoga teacher since 2003, and four times World Record-holding freediver. She is the founder of Discover Your Depths, a unique teaching and personal growth philosophy based on yoga, meditation, freediving, and body-mind-spirit awareness. She was the second woman ever to have dived, self-propelled, below 100m on one breath. She originated from the UK but is now living in her chosen hometown in Egypt where she teaches classes, workshops, and retreats.

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Losing someone you love is one of life’s truths. But can we prepare ourselves for that moment?

In this podcast, Alexandra and guest Barbara Western will take us on a journey that’s universal but different for everyone: grieving. These two ladies, who met in the practice of yoga and Ayurveda, bravely confronts a conversation about death and its inevitability and the uniquely complicated process that follows it.

Barbara grew up in a large family with very philosophical parents. She and her brother are the two youngest among ten siblings. Death in the family was not new to her; they had lost a sister and the father some years back. But her brother’s death in 2019 was different. It was sudden. And it was because of something often misunderstood by many.

There's nothing like death, particularly the sudden death of a loved one. It immediately throws one into a place where you are constantly trying to make sense of things; trying to identify and engage what's most meaningful in your life and all the uncomfortable feelings of grief.

While growing from a childhood that encourages questioning, Barbara has always been conscious of the not-so-distant reality that unpleasant things happen. But to her, the paths we take in our lives in the face of these things can prepare us, or not, for more loss.

Grieving comes in different forms, but sure there are somatic elements to it. It’s mostly feelings but sure it’s also about thoughts that you permit to linger. It's like when you're meditating. You allow the thoughts to come, sit there as long as it needs to be, and then go. Most of all, grief is something that we manage and get over within due time.

And as it is like meditation, grief is about being in the moment and being out. Many would advise being out; anyway the whole world is about selling us distractions. But we cannot let go if we don't own the emotion. Pushing it away puts the emotions somewhere just temporarily but it lingers. Even longer. And you cannot ignore it forever.

It’s okay not to be okay!

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When you're faced with the death of someone you love, it becomes the ultimate reality. Wrapping you're head around it is almost like being in an altered state of consciousness. - Barbara Western
Grief and love are inextricably linked. - Barbara Western
There are people who are uncomfortable with the idea of death that they can't talk about it. I have compassion for them because I know it will be harder for them when they are faced with it. Until you start working through these feelings, you start becoming familiar with the uncomfortable, then it's going to be difficult to face this enormous loss when it comes to you. - Barbara Western
Every moment really is a moment that we get to choose how we're going to move in the world; how we're going to think and feel. Sometimes those feelings are overwhelming and so we're not choosing that. But we can choose up to a certain extent. Do so because having a choice is a privilege. - Barbara Western
We'll forget the events but we'll remember the feelings. It then becomes our story, our narrative. And that’s why the narrative is so powerful. - Barbara Western

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*Barbara Western*, originally from Canada and now living in the United States, is a mother of two and a wonderful wife, and a loving sister.

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This podcast is a brave but inspiring conversation between two people who started with a common question, wandered and explored the vast world of faith and understanding faith, and now merging to a common understanding of what it means to believe.

Janeen is a graphic designer from New York who has over 30 years of experience in the industry and owns her own business, the Hudson Valley Graphics.

Without anything to do with her career background, guest Janeen came to this deeply intimate but thought-provoking conversation with host Alexandra because they both recently found their voices in talking about God again.

Coming into age was Janeen’s primary reason for her introspection. But these volatile times of uncertainty and change was also what prompted her to really speak about what she did found within her in those years of condensing the many different messages of belief and faith she tried listening to.

Janeen thinks of herself as someone who’s always been a truth-seeker, especially in regard to death—something people say that as you get older, you just can't help but think about it.

Starting out with questions like ‘what's going on?’ ‘What's the plan here?’ ‘Do I have any control over what's gonna happen?’, she sat unto many different ministries, denominations and heard many different kinds of messages. Janeen daresay she doesn’t have the answers but she has settled into a belief system that has it.

The same situation that set Alex to assail. And it took a lot of uncovering all the shadow issues she had with it, tossing out a lot of old beliefs.

Respect and deep appreciation of the journey that it has been at the center of this conversation. People do get caught and stuck in concepts and stop learning and growth. So Janeen doesn’t go there. And because no, this not anything to convince people but something that opens up and lets listeners into the wonderful journey that it has been for people like Janeen and Alex.

And sharing the grace of arriving, Janeen leaves Alex and the listeners a challenge: Sit in silence and feel the love of God.

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We are living in very volatile times. This past year has humbled a lot of us. So I have been motivated to be more outspoken about my faith. And turning 60 really impacted me: I looked at my life and asked myself how I want to be remembered. A big part of that is to candidly share my beliefs and about my faith. - Janeen Violante
I have come into a place where I understand God to be a loving Father, who loves me and desires to guide and lead me and hold me and feel safe there. - Janeen Violante
I try to stay in this place: God created, formed, designed me in my mother's womb. God knows me better than I know myself, loves me more than I can ever imagine, wants to have a relationship with me, wants to hold me and lead me in my life. - Janeen Violante
I have not encountered a death-like experience but I have a deep spiritual knowing that God is real and that I have a relationship with him. Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I'd rather live with a sense of peace and a spiritual sense of knowing of what I believe to be God than not. - Janeen Violante
There's a lot of nuances to explore. And somehow, some organized religions have somehow run with it. The reality is there is nothing we can actually do to make God love us more or less. - Janeen Violante
It's not about whether what you believe is true or not. Just go into the depth of what you believe in. And that's what we're also learning in Ayurveda. While having your beliefs, you can create something where you feel safe and peaceful and in harmony with the bigger nature at the end of the day. - Alexandra Kreis
You can find your way in. It's written in so many ways. Just listen to yourself. - Alexandra Kreis

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*Janeen Violante*, now with over 30 years of experience in the graphic design industry, earned her BFA in Communication Design at Parsons School of Design in New York. She worked for several prestigious branding agencies before starting her own business, Hudson Valley Graphic Design. Janeen leads a team of talented designers and production experts at her company which she co-owns with her husband, Joe. Her team shares her vision and passion for quality branding, and excellence in design. Janeen is an Adjunct Professor at Westchester Community College, teaching Graphic Design 1. She’s a member of the Courtland Rowing Association and recently practices yoga and Ayurveda in search of ways to self-care and self-love.

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This episode’s guest is a healer and geneticist, now living and thriving in Ireland, who took her love of science and learning to the holistic art of healing and helping people in their journey to wellness. Meet Julie Williams.

Growing up a very sensitive child, Julie realized she had shut down all those intuitive and empathic abilities early in her life. Finding the love for science, her curiosity about how things work got her a degree in biology and genetics. Her exceptional work on clinical research and pharmaceuticals brought her up the management career ladder.

Julie had it all. But this same fact made her more afraid, unhappy. This took her out of the corporate world and set her off on a sail—her growth process and journey—not in a big bang but a gradual, step-by-step one, deeply reconnecting to her truth each time.

In this thoughtful conversation, our guest inspires us that it is possible to live what you dreamed of by living your truth. Through the help of mentors and teachers, who're there to keep perspective, we are not alone in finding that truth. But the answer to the questions will always lie within ourselves and ourselves alone.

Listeners also get a sneak peek at the family constellation work— a modality, a therapy of healing. Julie, through the various practices she explored, brings that work under the umbrella of consciousness medicine. Using the power of consciousness to heal, this work is done to release the issues and, hence, the suffering that's constraining the flow of love within the family and the self. It focuses on clearing that suffering so we can fulfill our dharma, embrace life, and channel our energy to help our community and the world.

To Julie, “We can't get it wrong. It's not unicorns and rainbows; it can get difficult but it's okay. Living from that place of trust is what will bring so much joy and confidence to you.”

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Podcast Highlights * I began to realize that the more successful I became in the business world, it was actually not making me happy. All that success factors that people talk about—I attained all of those; it was beautiful but there's something within me that didn't feel fulfilled. And that's what prompted me in this journey that eventually aligned me with my truth. And as I began internally, my external world also aligned with that. - Julie Williams * We want things to change really quickly but it's the universe that will tell us that it's time. I did not try to think about the 'why', 'how' or 'when'; just the 'what'. And that's when my life took a complete turn. - Julie Williams * What helped me was aligning with my truth. I asked myself: what are my needs, what is my truth. Just because I'm good at something, I thought it's what I was meant to do. I did it but it felt constrictive. - Julie Williams * To really trust in uncertainty is one of the most difficult things to do. - Julie Williams * One of the fundamental premises under family constellation work is to release the entanglement to suffering. It's about reincluding everybody, not cutting the ties. - Julie Williams * We are a matrix of bodies—physical, emotional, energetic, ancestral, and spiritual bodies. I realized that promoting lasting change needs work on all these bodies. - Julie Williams

Guest Bio Julie Williams is a healer and scientist who “combines her love of science with extensive training in sacred and holistic healing arts for a powerful combination with a heart-based approach.” From California to Ireland, Julie moved from her training and career in Molecular Biology and biotechnology and clinical research to realizing her true calling as a healer in 2003. She brings her science background to ground her practice called Consciousness Medicine and certifications in complementary healing therapies such as NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Hellinger Family Constellation Work, Shamanism, Non-Dual Tantra Yoga, Neuro-Muscular Massage, Chakra Healing, Cranial Sacral Therapy, and Reiki.

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In today’s episode, Alexandra and her guest, Jon Thorisson, take us on a critical conversation on two topics that many people evade or find uncomfortable: death and recreational drugs. Jon, who tried ayahuasca out of curiosity to later find out that he will have to confront the possibility of dying at an unexpected time, is giving this often perceived as a ‘dark’ topic’ a shed of the bright light of life, hope, and happy living.

Alexandra met and became friends with Jon when he moved to Berlin from Iceland in search of reinventing himself and how to move on with his life after finding out he has lung cancer. He was 60+ and does not have good prospects of recovery during the time of his diagnosis. His tumor was removed and was introduced to psychedelics for his recovery. This led him to a healing path less taken.

Jon's willingness to go through healing the mind through substances was mind-blowing for Alexandra. And Jon, who openly speaks about it, takes that sharing about his healing journey as an opportunity to help people in similar situations.

Recreational substances open people to new experiences and things. This is where the therapeutic benefit of healing through substances comes in—it massages us through revisiting old trauma and memories and looking at it from a different perspective. It rids people of the baggage that impedes the healing of both the body and mind.

But before his diagnosis, Jon has tried ayahuasca out of curiosity. Introducing him to the experience and idea that demystifies death, he felt this made him ready and more accepting of the possibilities when the news of big C came. It opened a new world for him. He was calm because ayahuasca has taken away his fear of dying.

Things like this happen and we try to give it meaning. To these two friends, the more important question lies in finding the excuse for not giving up and the springboard for a new determination. Yes, of course, we know we're all dying. But we do come in egotistical intent when we want to die. So when we are faced with the scenario of dying younger than we intend to, then that’s when it scares us.

Lessons from Jon’s extraordinary healing journey are extraordinary gems, too, because it confronts death by approaching life. It's important not to feel that we are just victims of our circumstances. Letting go of the baggage, as well as possessions, are immensely freeing. And so we must go for the experience.

Just stay open. Be curious. Embrace life.

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Podcast Highlights * It was this fortunate discovery—that dying is not the worst thing—that made me accept and ready for the possibilities in having cancer. I had the presence of mind to make my own decisions about how I want this to evolve. - Jon Thorisson * People think that death is something that can be totally avoided. With the pandemic, we've become so risk-averse. When you're not afraid of dying, it doesn't mean you want to die, but it makes you more relaxed in your approach to life. - Jon Thorisson * People who came up with healing methods came out of situations like Jon's. People make choices and embrace death, and in embracing and accepting it, is where the healing journey actually starts. In moments when we feel helpless, we want to get help. But sometimes, that help is like somebody else taking over our mind and guiding us to something, while the crucial part really is our own mental aspect in it. - Alexandra Kreis * When you're not controlled by fear, you'll see the opportunities. You approach life with an open heart and a positive mind. And that influences whatever situation you enter. - Jon Thorisson * At the root of healing is letting go of old ways, of old tricks, and becoming more connected to our nature. - Alexandra Kreis

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Eavesdrop on this conversation with Richard Fuhrmann about his inner journey and sharing this journey through storytelling. With so many wonderful opportunities to share and listen to people’s experiences of healing, awakening, and self-discovery, we ask: why through storytelling?

In this podcast, Alex brings on this question (and more!). Alex navigates the conversation behind her work: making the space and sharing the limelight to people’s stories—the campfire ones that are not so alien but are so ‘us’. And Richard, a holistic consultant for entrepreneurs from Graz, Austria, and a solopreneur himself, join this by sharing the stops, bumps, and crossroads in his inner journey.

Richard’s spark and story may not exactly be the same as in many of us. It started early for him, but not one that he’s been sure about right from the start. But as he said, ‘we are all on the same journey: from ourselves to ourselves.’

Along his road, Richard realized and took to his mission the importance of bringing the consciousness of compassion and love for one another to the space of business, especially the tech industry. This is founded on his principle that human beings are meant to be tribal and that it's part of how human beings survived and evolved. And storytelling is one act of sharing and embodying the tribe!

But as solopreneurs, how is storytelling making us visible? How is it leading people to find us? Richard’s answer is simple: People who need you will find you. And hence why our stories of awakening should be told and be brought out there. So people can stumble upon us and see what resonates with them and, eventually, find us.

And for us who listen, always be aware that the person we follow has been through a lot. Celebrate the wisdom in their stories by not putting them up on a pedestal but by giving credit to their experiences and life stories.

Surely, this is the podcast that explains why you should listen to one!

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Podcast Highlights * We are progressing so rapidly in technology, but we, as humans, are left behind. Our emotional intelligence, compassion for each other, and our understanding of the foundations of our society are not at par with the rate technology is progressing. - Richard Fuhrmann * We need more people in powerful positions to develop more compassion for other people. And this takes introspection—that we are not separate from one another in the consciousness level. This changes everything. - Richard Fuhrmann * A calling is something within you that whispers of curiosity to discover and follow something. If you follow this calling, only then it starts to unfold. - Richard Fuhrmann * There's more that we can't see with our eyes. But with sensing and feeling. It's a whole new level of experiencing the world, other people, and your own journey. If you open to this as a question, you'll find your answers. - Richard Fuhrmann * Many people are reluctant to own their stories in detail. It's some form of protection to the listeners. Because sometimes when we hear stories, we come into the copycat mode, we think their way is the only way to move forward. Storytelling can be an informed conversation as well.- Alexandra Kreis * 2020 is the best year to face your fears. Fear starts within. It's not something bad per se; what's bad is the way we treat fear. - Richard Fuhrmann

Guest Bio *Richard Fuhrmann* is from Graz, Austria. His urge to know more led him to spend time with Indian monks from the Kriya Yoga tradition and being in an Ashram near Miami for 5 weeks at an early age of 18. Richard did a lot of meditation and introspection and his journey back to himself made him learn Vortexhealing® and I spend time with an Advaita-teacher, whom he also wrote music for. He also studied classical guitar, jazz guitar, and music-therapy. Richard is engaged in a systemic coaching course in business-consultancy called “money coaching“ since 2013 and worked with different entrepreneurs who were interested in meditation and who wanted to know more about themselves.

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In this podcast, we’ll travel the wonders of the holistic Ayurvedic approach to health, especially it’s wisdom in cleansing our body and mind of toxins from the busy world that Earth has become.

And taking us into this journey is Leslie Lovlin, a clinical Ayurvedic practitioner and Panchakarma specialist from Alberta, Canada, who herself got into a life-changing ride towards Ayurveda.

Her faith and trust in its wisdom have been tested and solidified when she had to use her knowledge of it to bring back the hope and life into her own son. From coma and hopeless diagnosis from the doctors, Leslie didn’t give up. She used her knowledge of healing through the five senses to rejuvenate her son, even if this meant tirelessly juicing up organic greens and vegetables every day, aromatherapy and oils, massage, meditation music, and surrounding him with positivity.

Beyond the day-to-day consulting of Ayurveda, Leslie also studied it in-depth to slowly go deeper into understanding this holistic healthcare system. She specializes in Panchakarma, which is for cleansing the body and the mind. It encompasses actions for balancing, healing, and rejuvenation. She herself has undergone the program which took off so much mental ama from her. Panchakarma programs can take 3, 7 days, or longer, depending on the depth of each individual issue. It can also be done at home if you work with a specialist to guide you through.

This conversation is an exchange of experiences between two holistic health specialists and offers a credible sneak peek to the many wonders of Ayurveda. But more importantly, Leslie and Alex share this informed discourse about the information and methods widely available nowadays to anyone who wants to take a shift and implement changes in their lifestyles.

After all, as Leslie puts it, “[w]e all are our own guru if we learn to listen. That is what Ayurveda teaches us.”

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Podcast Highlights * Panchakarma took off so much mental ama; it cleansed out mental toxicity from me. It must've gradually happened but I just noticed that the things that used to affect me did not affect me anymore. - Leslie Lovlin * There are so many programs out there. But it's always great to start with yourself. You learn best through embodying it. If you don't have a clear understanding of where you're at, it can be more confusing and overwhelming, pushing people to drop off. - Leslie Lovlin * Best to do two cleanses in the conjunction of the year—twice a year, spring and fall. In early spring, we are removing the accumulation of Kapha that happened over the winter and in the fall, we cleanse to prepare for the winter. They're similar but different cleanses. - Leslie Lovlin * When I'm talking as Ayurvedic and holistic practitioners, I never try to exclude conventional medicine. But I would always say that your health is a good investment. Always go the extra mile. - Alexandra Kreis * Ayurveda teaches us to take responsibility for ourselves. We have relied too much on the quick fix. The more we take responsibility for our health, the more we become truly empowered. - Leslie Lovlin * We all go out of balance; that's human nature. But the more we understand who we are, the easier it is for ourselves to go back in. - Leslie Lovlin

Guest Bio: Leslie Lovlin is a clinical Ayurvedic practitioner and Panchakarma specialist from Alberta, Canada. Her passion is to “help guide people to heal energetically, physically, and emotionally and educate them on changing the way they live in order to change the way they feel and age.” Leslie studied and put on some real hard work in her passion earning her titles such as Ayurvedic Health Counselor, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Ayurvedic Massage & Bodywork Therapist, Panchakarma specialist, Ayurvedic Spa Specialist, Registered Yoga Teacher, Meditation Teacher, Reiki Master, and Reconnective Healer.

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Today's guest will take us on a wonderfully written story of her healing journey.

Veronica Layunta Maurel, an Ayurvedic health consultant, yoga teacher, storyteller, and writer. Interestingly, she is a postgraduate researcher working on creative writing and medical science wanting to prove that fictional writing is a valid way of researching. And at the heart of it, Veronica tackles trauma—a topic that Alex has always wanted to share into people’s informative and explorative discourse.

Veronica, always curious, found Ayurveda unexpectedly. She thought she didn't have any problems and just went out of curiosity. She was put on detox and immediately fell in love with the feeling and continued exploring from then on. But the Ayurvedic doctor told her: there's something fundamental that needs to change in you, otherwise, you'll fall ill. And she did, after two years! And this has led her back, and permanently, to the Ayurvedic lifestyle and practice. To Veronica, it's one of those things that you discover but you felt like it has always been there; it was like home.

Her immense work on trauma took off from a similar starting point. It started with her awakening and search for healing from a severe head injury. Trauma, she found, was like a huge portal—to other past traumas, to the deepest levels of the self, and to everything that we need to work on. But Veronica presents a unique and fresh perspective on healing by re-authoring trauma, the experience, and identity.

As the powerful storyteller that she is, Veronica took it as her mission to bring back the value of storytelling and its healing power. As long as we keep stuck in a particular story of trauma, there's no healing possible.

But this dense conversation of two Ayurvedic coaches and healers also jumped on several other important topics of surrendering, grace, “doing the work” and the constant reminder of being patient

This intimate conversation’s nugget of wisdom: When we explore ourselves, our possible or past traumas, just bring that sense of playfulness. Anything that you're going through can be a portal to who you really are, for healing for you and others. Even when we're stuck on the suffering, keep the gates open for that mystery. It's there waiting for you.

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Podcast Highlights

Ayurveda is a lifestyle and something deeper. It's not a checklist that you have to take and do. It wasn't about doing more things; it's about the journey and finding the gems and wisdom along the way. - Veronica Maurel
When we think of trauma, we think of all the bad things. That happens. But trauma is much deeper. - Veronica Maurel
Any experience you can have can lead to a loop inside you. The more you ignore it, the more it gets ahead. - Alexandra Kreis
It's important to see that in everything that we do, the goal is not only on the "done" thing but on what happens in the deepest levels while you do it. - Veronica Maurel
Find your own way. It's a bit of a cliche, but it's harder than it looks when you live in a world of expectations. After the accident, I modified the way I do things. I did have a choice but I adjusted my life as a profound act of love for myself. - Veronica Maurel
We need stories so much. Because we lost the communal life of sitting by the campfire and hearing stories that makes our brain spin but activates our creativity. And feel alive. - Alexandra Kreis

Guest BIO: Veronica Layunta-Maurel is a Yoga and Ayurveda Health Coach, Fiction and Yoga Philosophy Writer, and founder of Akasha Yoga Centre in the UK and Akasha Projects Ltd. worldwide. She is now undertaking a Ph.D. in Creative Writing where she explores the healing power of storytelling and developing new links between yoga, creativity, and spiritual practices. Veronica’s experience with yoga began 20 years ago. She trained as a Dru Yoga teacher, Yoga Nidra Teacher. She also teaches Dru Relaxation, Meditation, Yoga Nidra, Yoga for Sleep Recovery and Insomnia, Creative Writing with Yoga, Yoga Psychology, and Ayurveda nutrition and Lifestyle.

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Today's podcast is a daring conversation about a hot topic. But hopefully, casts a light of hope for everyone.

With Gary O' Toole, an astrologer based in Galway Ireland, we will talk about traveling with the stars. Gary takes us to an enlightening ride to understanding astrological perspectives and how they view what’s happening around us right now.

Despite still getting a weird look when he talks about what he's doing, Gary loves his craft and practices Indian astrology and what he calls timeline astrology. Like the way yoga was a weird place 20 years ago, Gary decided to just follow this interest and a teacher studying the stars and planets because, to him, he gets a sense of release with astrology. It frees him to be who he is and to be in the moment. Gary and Alex looking at how astrology was reduced to horoscopes that claim a one fits all. Instead, it’s true nature; it’s about reading those patterns and using them as a guide to the person we’re becoming.

No one astrologer can predict 100% accurately. Astrology is like describing the same thing using two different languages but still using the same alphabet. Different perspectives, different outer travels to guide one inner journey.

Looking at 2020, astrologers see that we’re in the conjunction of Jupiter (expansion) and Saturn (contraction). Jupiter is in line with the philosophy of expansiveness and abundance while Saturn is more in line with the stoic philosophy. In history, looking at those times when all planets have come together, it’s marked with epidemics and upheavals. But what message do we really want to pick up from these?

To Gary, it is both an opportunity and a responsibility that he may be able to predict but he will always have to skirt a fine line between not scaring people but preparing them at the same time. There's enough fear already. And so we have to focus our eyes on what other messages are in front of us. Saturn is showing us that, ultimately, things are all good. Things have to happen in a certain way. Sometimes we don't like the way they happen but it has to happen that way. And 2020 has been a very good time to really look inside and see where we're measuring ourselves.

Coming from different practices, there’s one wisdom Gary and Alex share: Step back. Let's be grateful for the things that we have as we have them. It’s always helpful to align a little bit out of the self-consciousness into the bigger consciousness by just noticing that you're not alone. Worry not, there's an energetic movement in the skies and everywhere.

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Podcast Highlights * You are who you are. You can have a million different labels and each one could bring a different aspect of you. But Indian astrology brought out a map of my life. It was amazing that my life can be explained by the planets and how they move. - Gary O’Toole * Astrology is like looking at a person from many different angles. But it isn't about pinning you down and labeling you, it's more about the timeline, about timing things and decisions. In ancient India, astrology was used to time rituals. - Gary O’Toole * It is a pivotal year. But it's like we're turning a corner; it's going to be some years before we can see that corner in the distance and see where we've come around. - Gary O’Toole * Simplifying life: 2020 has helped me clear out all the things I thought I needed to do in my life. The biggest lesson of Saturn and Capricorn this year is about sustainability-- what can you keep doing every day. - Gary O’Toole * Astrology has always been for me a double-edged sword. It's solving a problem and at the same time, when you've addressed something, you can no longer pretend that it's not happening. The more important thing is to be open. Astrologers will give you different stories based on what they're looking at. You can take whatever from that. - Gary O’Toole * We're all human. We all have traits that we can see as we have in common. But astrology is about what we want to extract out of this moment, what personality traits we want to emphasize, what is being emphasized in these timelines. It's not so much about who you are, but who you're becoming. - Gary O’Toole * Sometimes the best of the best seems to be the worst of the worst at that time. Like a prediction of my death. I went past that date but it helped me a lot in life. I think that as a possibility, and it completely changed the way I lived my life. That way, it helped me, but it was also highly unethical. - Gary O’Toole

Guest BIO: Gary O’Toole is a Vedic (Indian) astrologer living in Galway Island, Ireland. He trained in counselling and studied Ayurveda with the American Institute of Vedic Studies and at the International Academy of Ayurveda. He is a member of the British Association of Vedic Astrology and lectured at their annual conference. Gary practices timeline astrology and has authored a book titled Cosmic Bodies: The Ayurvedic Astrology Guide to Health & Well-Being, available on Amazon and am currently working on a book about timing techniques titled Timeline Astrology. He writes everyday to share to people what he reads about planets which is soon to be available in an app!

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This episode's guest is a fountain of knowledge and wisdom—a strong and motivated healer and coach, Cate Stillman.

Cate has inspired a lot of the paths that Alex took throughout her journey. She founded Yogahealers, a community of people wanting to live their unique greater purpose, in 2001 where she met Alex later in 2015.

This episode gives a nosy insight into what made Cate pivot from being the privileged, young American girl who took counterculture steps to help other people and how these bits and pieces of experience and learnings propelled her forward a non-unilateral journey.

As a teenager, Cate woke up to her privilege, and as a global citizen, she woke up to what was going on in the ecosystem of our planet. To her, the brighter part of that privilege is to have the opportunity to understand what's going on right now. And most importantly, to have wanted to change the game as against the fact that not many people who had the same privilege want to do something about these problems. Instantly, there was a deep alignment to making a difference to being part of the solution and not the problem for her. And Cate was aware that doing so will require her to step up and step away from the I-me-my conundrum.

Cate's path seemed to have always been carved out, but from the inside out. She always knew what she wanted to pursue—the ground of being. But it was never a straight path either.

Like anyone else, Cate had struggled with her body and asthma, symptoms of Kapha which were resolved altogether along her critical issues through the full acceptance of her constitution, something she now shares and helps people with. Her take: surround yourself with people who are where you want to be next. It's mission-critical. Because otherwise, you will end up taking advice from and being influenced by people who haven't gotten where you want to go.

But this conversation around a successful journey also travelled the nuances of waking up into our ecosystem's reality and the self in this ecosystem. To Cate, it's like sleepwalking, and the pain of waking up is like the same painful conversation around this reality. But this pain evolves just like grieving stages—from despair, anger, denial to acceptance. The more important thing is we see through it to live our deeper dreams finally.
Cate's piece of advice: Honour your deeper dream. Do it. You have it for a reason. It's there to guide your life.

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Podcast Highlights * Working with human consciousness is the fastest way. If humans can become more conscious of and connected to their ecosystem, then the NIMBY principle takes charge. We don't want to pollute our own backyard. If our backyard is the ecosystem, then we're not going to pollute the ecosystem. This brought me to yoga and Ayurveda. - Cate Stillman * Part of accepting my own privilege was accepting that I could probably do what I wanted and figure how to make it happen. There was a very strong sense of dharma. I’ve always been interested in bigger solutions and I constantly surround myself with people who are big-picture thinkers. - Cate Stillman * For people who see the potential, it's a fight. There's a lot of ignorance to overcome. Yogis are clear about overcoming ignorance, waking up from sleepwalking. But with all the distractions around like devices, it's harder than ever. - Cate Stillman * I was looking for the truth. I was looking at how humans can become more conscious. From that lens, Ayurveda becomes second to none. I just pressed on. I knew I had a very high quality of life but not a lot of money. I was more interested in knowledge and wisdom than material riches. - Cate Stillman * People are not really taking the time to digest their critical issues. If we're not doing that, we're not really creating a good strategy. There has to be a lot of coming up against your own insufficiencies to do what you actually want to do next. That's real. And it doesn't feel good. There's a level burn but when you're there, you're going to get used to it. - Cate Stillman * We might be going down a path that is not filled with the money but is a path that makes us totally happy and is synced with everything leading to greater liberation. We need to be in surround-sound with people who have done what we want to do. - Alexandra Kreis * The truth of what I always wanted is that I want to be a spokesperson for the possibilities of living a life where you really thrive, that there is a good in us through and through and I want to become that more and more. I want to go through all the pathways and to be led more. - Alexandra Kreis * Master of You: Achieving bigger goals and a life of purpose. Once people have met their material needs, checked their boxes of material goals, they really get on with a much bigger vision of impact.

Guest BIO: Cate Stillman is the founder of Yogahealer.com. She “empowers thrive-seekers to uplevel their health, their careers, and their lives in real time.” Cate is a wellness teacher for professionals so they can grow their impact and their income. And Alex just felt so fortunate to have been able to swim along in the sea of Cate's knowledge which manifested in her publication Beyond Body Thrive, released just this March 2020.

Cate was able to help thousands of people thrive in their health, their families, and their communities through her coaching, Ayurveda courses—Body Thrive and Living Ayurveda— and her book, Master of You.

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This week’s podcast brings us another enlightening conversation about trauma and healing. Thanks to our guest, Adair Finucane, who allowed us to hear her most vulnerable and most decisive.

Diagnosed with Celiac disease at three years old, Adair’s journey was about discovering her trauma through her trauma research and nontraditional social work. She started with her theory that the immunological celiac condition she had has something to do with her emotional balance. She could not eat a lot of food; her siblings and other kids could otherwise do. Growing up with supportive parents and the environment indeed helped her, but her parents didn’t know what to do; they didn’t have the right tools to heal her fully.

She was rageful at 6. And that rage turned into anxiety and depression over time. She had this tumultuous inner world with a lot of pain behind her seemingly ordinary social world. She was capable of joy; she was socially and academically on-point, but she was so sensitive to pain.

Adair became a trauma expert when she was on a journey of calibrate her emotions and life. She was 22 years old when she met a psychotherapist with expertise in dialectical behavioral therapy and mindfulness practice who gave her the crowbar to smash all the boxes that enclosed her. From there, she fell in love with social work and providing service.

But her continuing search for healing brought Adair to different spaces. She studied with amazing mentors and discovered Kundalini yoga. She got trained on eye movement desensitization retraining (EMDR) and other trauma healing techniques. That’s when she realized she was not intended to go on a traditional social work path. Adair decided and since then has been helping healers to be able to continue helping others. Taking care of the self is part of the dharma, and Adair is sharing this now with her yoga health coaching.

Alex gracefully draws out from Adair’s own experience that at the root of all classical traditions of awakening or trying to reconnect with yourself, the journey to being awakened is never a straight path. It takes a lot of tools and not just one process.

So from these two wonderful ladies, this podcast profoundly reminds us that we have to go too far and too disciplined and undisciplined. Somewhere in between, they assure, we get to be alive and hopefully happy. Embrace and love life.

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Podcast Highlights * It was really grounding to be in a space where what I’m dealing with was not unusual. Dialectical behavioral therapy had me learn coping skills which let me track my progress. The shift was extreme. It got me more into my yoga and meditation. It also led me to love social work and the activism world. - Adair Finucane * I started learning coping skills and I realized nobody ever taught me how to breathe. It’s very simple stuff. Western culture is very sick for not having it a part of how children are raised. - Adair Finucane * It’s funny that some of the most uncomfortable experiences in our lives can bring such huge joy and clarity. One of these brought me to Kundalini yoga practice, like my second crowbar, which helped my energy explode. It made me realize that I could control my energy, turn it to joy and power. - Adair Finucane * We often see experts with an annotation to their name. But I think experts are also those who really lived life and who walk the talk. - Alexandra Kreis * I wouldn't be drawn to the teachers I've trusted and been with if I didn't know my heart, soul, and gut that I'm supposed to be with them. But they're not gonna be there forever. I have to be my own teacher. Stick with your gut. Stay close to your friends who know you. Always be willing to stop a practice; never think you have to do a practice in order to be on the path. Because it will just be attachment and it will confuse you. - Adair Finucane

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Adair is from Rochester, New York, living with her big love James. She started out as a social worker who’s now in the Ayurveda health and wellness practice to help people heal and turn life into a passionate and fulfilled one. She grew up with the Celiac disease and finding full healing on her own. She was a social worker, worked around labor, environmental justice, among many others. She’s now helping healers, coaches, teachers to take care of their own trauma and self with her own yoga health coaching With Adair.

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This episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, is a love story-- of a dedicated and soulful musician's love affair with his instruments.

Meet Antonio Alemanno. He is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who has traveled here and there discovering the language that speaks his soul-- MUSIC.

His journey started exploring the distinctive, bright, and powerful sound of charango. It's a small Andean stringed instrument of the lute family that produced the Motorcycle Diaries movie's popular music. Antonio learned the charango and transcribed more than ten songs from a composer from Buenos Aires, whom he met and heard the stories behind the songs from. It was at this moment that Antonio became acquainted with the nuances of music. The stories and emotions behind it may be very emotional and intense but one could not necessarily hear that from the songs. Stories could drift away from the instrument, like how he didn't connect with the charango stories.

So Antonio's journey discovered the respective translation of an instrument's and music's tradition into new contexts and its practical use as a language of the soul. He and Alex delved into a productive discussion of contentious narratives around this. To him, art, like a human soul, has an inner journey and an outer story expressed in it. He explains that putting music in a different context does not necessarily remove its sacredness; it depends on what you do with it.

While learning the Oud, an Arabic lute, Antonio finally unraveled the secret to learning and speaking with music. The Oud was a delicate instrument to learn, but he just went on, tried, and took the challenge.

With the help of one of his teachers, Antonio has opened the gate to learning by surrendering to the instrument. Playing and composing came out naturally from him because he was learning from the instrument in much the same way that the instrument is learning and feeling what his soul speaks of. To him, it was the realization of 'bringing something in a different context with full respect to the tradition'.

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Podcast Highlights * The instrument has a life in itself and it can teach you. In one of my classes, my teacher said, I am not letting go-- like I am putting too much where it needs very little. It was like a gate opener. It revealed a lot to me. An instrument is on its own, but how you relate to it makes you one with it. If you blend with it, music becomes your language. - Antonio Alemanno * Music is vibration. What I learned from Yoga and now reaffirming with you is the art of surrendering. Instead of trying to control something, let the music and the instrument teach you. Hear each other's language. Each one is teaching each one. - Alexandra Kreis * The inner voice may not always be right. But how do you know? Truth can be so relative and individual at times. Observe where truth resonates more and follow those vibrations. - Antonio Alemanno * Antonio’s Superpower Wish: Getting the green on the traffic light. Will power. When faced with a challenge, my will power gets shaken too. In yoga and music, it's about listening. It's about relating to your inner voice and intuition. At the end of the day, you will have to find a compromise. It's not easy, but if you have a strong feeling about something, try it. Do it. - Antonio Alemanno * Will power can be so easily abused and misperceived. But the beauty of will power, combined with intuition gets you good results. People can say what they want, but you'll know what is true and you're going to make it true for you. - Alexandra Kreis

Guest BIO Antonio Alemanno, from Italy, has been traveling here and there; wherever his calling is bringing him. He is a professionally trained multi-instrumentalist (double bass, cello, oud, charango, frame drums, electronics) and composer, graduated at Sibelius Academy in Global Music (MA) Helsinki, Finland. He has developed a distinctive rhythmical and melodic approach, in which he borrows and blends the different colors and nuances of the instruments he plays. He is also a Hatha yoga teacher and practitioner.

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In this podcast, we have again Cecilia Muller Stahl, actress and manifestation coach from Berlin. She's the queen of the art of getting to the core of who we are, called deep manifestation from the soul.

Cecilia came into manifestation as a part of her healing journey and bodywork, which she explains not just about the body touch but also about touching the soul. Having worked through herself using different methods from different people, she realized that she has the hunger to help others heal. It was then that she felt it's her calling-- that something that had been missing the entire time she was on and off the stage as an actress.

Helping women struggling with issues around food and body image was Cecilia's first work. She holds a special place for people going through the same things she went through. Her journey taught her that no one deserves to have that feeling of 'no self-worth, no deep connection; always in the spiral of wanting to eat then self-loathing for doing that', just as she did back then.

To her, when we get to do what we want, that's when our lives come to fruition. It is how our soul starts to speak, communicate who we really are and unlocking the powers that we hold deep within ourselves and manifesting.

But the best part here: Alexandra and Cecilia take this conversation into a crucial topic that has put down millions of people, especially women and girls. FOOD, satisfaction, and pleasure.

Cecilia and her ideas around pleasure have exciting takes on this topic that hopefully would shift the narrative on this very important and basic human need that society has turned overly complicated. As Alex puts it, "the grandeur of nature was the richness that made me understand that life is not lacking; that life is always giving, and it's a matter of tapping into that."

In such a short conversation, Cecilia opens up our minds to the idea that manifesting desires and pleasure and being at peace (by letting go of the desire) can go together. She reminds us, 'allow yourself to want what you want and bring you peace.'

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Podcast Highlights * Following pleasure, what feels good for my body and trusting myself and body again were my guide; not a food plan whatsoever. Then this resonated with money issues because it's the same self-worth wound that was healing. - Cecilia Muller Stahl * Generally, women were not allowed to follow and enjoy their desire and pleasure. If I allow pleasure to be a priority, then I get back to really sensing what feels right, what feels good and what does not. Dieting prevents us from doing that. We have all these instincts that we need to trust. Our bodies speak and it sends clear signs. - Cecilia Muller Stahl * We have put a lot of restraints on ourselves but then we have to please ourselves with food or other things. We have forgotten what natural hunger is; we have unlearned to listen to know what hunger is, our desire for sleeping and resting. - Alexandra Kreis * We all long for satisfaction. We crave because we want this inner feeling of emptiness to be fulfilled we don't expect to be satisfied through it. Accept that you're hungry and that you're curious about how does satisfaction feels and when are you going to feel it. That is when you get the understanding that you don't have to live lacking. - Cecilia Muller Stahl * Don't try to sort out your desires into fake and genuine. Instead, feel into every desire and the degree of your fulfillment. Track the feeling of completeness, track how your heart and whole being resonates with that desire. - Cecilia Muller Stahl

Guest BIO Cecilia is a manifestation coach and actress living in Berlin. She’s working on feminine empowerment, calls herself Manifestation Queen on Instagram coming from being a priestess of pleasure. Pleasure through Body Work: Expanding pleasure in the body allows us to let all of what we are incarnate into this being. Body and spirit do this together through pleasure.

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We could all agree that change, for us to be successful, has to happen not just in one area but also in our minds, bodies, and spirits. And that these three must work in synchrony, in alignment with each other. Fortunately, this is what we’re learning from today’s guest.

Meet Ilyse Soutine. A subconscious transformation coach, creator of her method called the Subconscious Shift method.

Ilyse has been on the transformational journey for about 30 years. She has been exposed to many modalities but has put the best combination of these into her methodology by reaping the lesson from her own life experience.

Having suffered from extreme depression and anxiety, a lot of violence, severe trauma from childhood, running away as a teenager, and having a hard time as an adult, Ilyse’s journey to healing and helping others to heal is truly inspiring.

Her life experience is living proof of research-backed discussions around how meditation physiologically changes the brain to make logical and sound decisions. When she found her connection to transcendental meditation and tried its consistent practice, she noticed how it helped her end the panic attacks and make better decisions and not from a place of fear, scarcity, and survival. She then came across the subconscious mind, which is now at the core of her practice and methodology.

Through the ups and downs, twists, and turns along Ilyse’s journey, she finally found her gift: to coach and help people heal. Her practice, which is devoted to the subconscious, helps people remove blocks in their subconscious to meet and be aligned with their conscious minds. She now works with entrepreneurs and coaches with programs to release what holds them back, so they become authentically aligned with what they were born to contribute to this world.

In this podcast, we are lucky to have Ilyse share lessons that come from a profound, unique place of her being and how she continues to heal and unfold the vast wisdom and knowledge from the rollercoaster ride that was her life.

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Podcast Highlights * When you're in trauma, you are living from the survival part of the brain. You don't make good decisions. But with meditation, which I learned from Gabriel Bernstein, my mind was opened up to the idea that I have a choice with which to perceive my life. - Ilyse Soutine * With meditation, we begin to uncover the truth of who we are that we have become so divorced from living this life. The truth that we are inherently whole, complete, and healed. When we are still, like in the practice of meditation, yoga, or just by being close to nature, we begin to become close to that truth again. * We all need each other to heal. We can't see our blind spots. We can't go really deep within ourselves without someone holding space for us. We're meant to help each other heal. And I've learned that the hard way. * Healers and coaches are not perfect human beings. We are also continuing on our healing journey. It never stops. And that's the beauty of it-- the constant unfolding of the wisdom, strength, and knowledge. * It is not only a matter of shifting the mindset. It's really about transforming the subconscious identity. We can’t shift our life with just reframing things. We have to go deeper and recreate and reprogram a new identity for ourselves that is in alignment.

Guest BIO *Ilyse Soutine* is a subconscious transformation coach and creator of her method called the Subconscious Shift method. She is also a certified hypnotherapist. She helps entrepreneurs and others become happier, more plugged into their intuition, and have a stronger sense of themselves and what they're here to do. She does this through various programs such as the Subconscious Shift Call, Hypnosis Recreated for Anxiety, among others.

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Today's episode with Cecilia Mueller Stahl is truly an eye-opener. Cecilia, an artist who is also in the coaching space, breaks myths and takes us to the frequently misunderstood yet critical topic of pleasure and desire.

Her journey to the craft that she shares with people now-- soul manifestation, which manifests the things from deep down one's self-- was a brave and empowering one. Her discovery of this space and methods will surely shake up connotations. They will lead us to a full new understanding and appreciation of ourselves, including our desires and the things we take pleasure from.

To Cecilia, pleasure is an integral part of manifestation. It is the energy and vibration that attracts the components of our manifestation. Thus, her platform is about being the pleasure priestess as the core of her work, and being the manifestation queen as the outcome.
Pleasure has many connotations. You have to work hard to achieve it.

It was a long journey for Cecilia. But learning along the way and being able to impart these to people in her work now is a part of what she has always desired. She has been on stage as a successful actress, but somehow. She felt like hiding and that something's missing. That's when she went to bodywork and felt more present. She found her presence in ayahuasca, tantra, and quantum healing.

This conversation talks about empowerment and, in itself, is empowering. Cecilia takes us to a clearer sense of trusting and taking responsibility for the healing paths we choose. And this goes along her principle of trusting the desire and allowing the self to go for it. Cecilia reminds us: be it for choosing a healing path or small day-to-day decisions, it should be about 'interrupting the pattern of "I have to" and enjoying life the right way!

PS: LSD and Ayahuasca were mentions as similar tools of shifting consciousness in this podcast. Although both act as agents to liberate constricted thought patterns they differ immensely in their healing opportunities. Ayahuasca mostly is used to mirror the self and connect to the deeper essence within. While LSD and Mushrooms are agents that help download information.

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Podcast Highlights * To me, pleasure may not be 100% the opposite of hard work. Because sometimes even hard work can be pleasurable. It's about trusting that life has your back and that you have to enjoy being here. It excludes the "I have to" attitude. - Cecilia Muller Stahl * People have to get used to two things: (1) sex is not dirty, and (2) Pleasure is not always about sex. Yes, it's delicate. But it's a calling. Part of my mission is to empower people to trust that their pleasure can go into any direction, that it's not dirty and not good when they feel their sexual desires. - Cecilia Muller Stahl * Ayahuasca is an herbal shamanic medicine from the Amazon used to open up the consciousness and connect to the greater good of ourselves. In Western societies, it was used to have the same effect of LSD but more wisely as it opens up the brain waves and its connections, opening up the gateway to our microcosm-macrocosm connection - Alexandra Kreis * Going for your desires is not about being selfish. It sets us free from toxic codependency, toxic self-doubt and low self-worth. Desire teaches us to love ourselves to get what we desire. - Cecilia Muller Stahl * It's tough if you don't have that grain of trust into your intuition and methods to distinct which is for me and which is not. We can easily fall into the trap that we feel that there is an abuse of power that can come with these healing methods. People may feel disconnected from the healing paths they went into suddenly. - Alexandra Kreis

Guest BIO Cecilia is a manifestation coach and actress living in Berlin. She's working on feminine empowerment, calls herself Manifestation Queen on Instagram coming from being a priestess of pleasure. Pleasure through Body Work: Expanding pleasure in the body allows us to let all of what we are incarnate into this being. Body and spirit do this together through pleasure.

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Like many of us, Natasha didn't expect what would be her life-long passion at first. She didn't know she would be into singing, much more into Indian classical music and singing, until she felt it coming to her in her body.

In this podcast, I am very proud to share a conversation with an esteemed music teacher and a friend, Natasha Nandini, about how she found and continues to find herself in the realm of what the universe brought her to do-- TO SING.

Natasha fondly recalls here how oddly she first came across Indian classical singing. She used to smoke about 20 Marlboro reds that time but found herself in a workshop singing for 4 hours. When she came home, the cigarette suddenly tasted disgusting. She knew then, and this has something to do with how the wind and sound are passing through her body. And some shift happened.

Natasha shares how she studied and followed through this passion. From raga to yoga, which somehow complemented each other and made her practice stronger and more meaningful. She shares with us that music is not so much about how good a singer you are because it's not a performance, but about how much you can let go of your identification of how you sound and merge into the frequency that is bigger than us.

Natasha also takes this conversation to an essential discussion that she thinks teachers should have: the evolution and essence of learning. She bravely shares her thoughts about teaching yoga as a business now. She explains that a reality we have to face is that many want to be certified to make a living out of it, especially in a society where it is tough to make a living when something takes a long time to learn. It puts a lot of pressure on many us and perhaps created it the way we see science now.

Natasha gracefully raises these points and reminds teachers like her that everyone is on a personal path. And as people who help others, we can only help up to an end before moving on the next. To her, we should be mindful of doing as much as one can without feeling obligated to do more because less is more.

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Podcast Highlights * I know that sound is vibration. But sound penetrates the tissues. Like water or sand moving in geometrical patterns just from a vibration of sound. In the same way, creating a sound in the body can push things through. That's how powerful sound is! Also in the same way that when you speak of truth, the truth starts to be very powerful. - Natasha Nandini * Raga, as a form of singing, is the term given to a melodic structure that has a deeper meaning. Each raga has an entity, an entirely different character from the other. But the essence these sounds wake up seems like they are meant to be brought up, like the sun touching the horizon. - Natasha Nandini * We don't do enough stuff for fun. Look at children. They learn so quickly because it's fun for them. Let it penetrate you rather than you trying to trespass on its space before your time. It's a process of getting to know ourselves and doing the things that make us feel good. - Natasha Nandini * I feel this is a time in the world and in my life when things are asking me to break open and out of lineage, out of all these regimented, rigid forms that have evolved even though their origins weren't thinking that way. - Alexandra Kreis * First of all, there has to be a spark. It's always good to follow whatever is sparkling for you. The things that are right for you will always shine a bit brighter, but it will only be noticeable when we don't want things. When you see that spark, follow that spark deeper and deeper. But one has to gel with the teacher, someone you resonate with. - Natasha Nandini

Guest BIO: Natasha Nandini has been studying yoga, Indian classical vocal, and Indian classical dance as methods to cultivate the self since 1997. She is now living and teaching in London (and online) but she has been traveling to India for the last 20 years to deepen her studies and to host sacred tours. The tour is a window into the lives of the local people and their practices.

Her yoga focuses on building strength and postural corrections by working through from the feet up.

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Our guest for this podcast is a guy with a very curious mind and heart. Meet Joachim Saflund, or Joe to his friends.

This curiosity has caused him a lot of things-- mostly trouble, then and now, and he hopes it continues to do so. But this same curiosity and trouble is what also brought him happiness. But the way he lived his life has been an inspiration, seeing through what to be and not to be until the being he created of himself has helped him become.

For Joe, as he humbly shares here, he is a person past middle age, someone people can say successful in his career as an artist, not without talent, drive and focus, but has not followed through with what people would call a solid career or path. He wondered if this was a good thing until he realized how he's held himself has also a purpose and place in this world for others to benefit from.

A few weeks ago, he met a young man, the son of a good friend. He had started working on his friend's garden when the son came around to ask him out of the blue for some advice on life. In this meaningful conversation, Joe summed up to say: You got to find a way, your own way. And even it is pondering over a cup of tea and enjoy life and understand that we are all wondrous beings and wonderful even if we don't express it in a particular way right now. We need to settle on what it is we want to do.

The son said it's the best advice he got in his life - turning 30 years old now.

That moment made Joe realize that it's the work he has been meant to do.

Why he is here.

Joe takes us on his thought journey of how he came to make sense of things-- finding happiness and contentment, in everything he does. Joe is very tenacious, able to sit still and plough through things, and tolerate discomfort or pain. But he learned when and how to stop clawing to the pain that’s damaging him. This is one of the many places where his curiosity has not gone well. But he kneaded his way through, with artful practice and learning from people and things that have become his teacher all throughout.

Come and let’s join him in this conversation...

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Podcast Highlights * To tell anybody that doing nothing is the best you can do is wrong. Because to do nothing, there needs to be an embodiment of great openness and emptiness and clarity to be doing nothing. - Joachim Saflund * Everything should be a teacher. If you sit down and stay at that moment, you can see what you're feeling, feel what your body is telling you and understand what you need to do. But not everyone will know that and are going to take that advice. Having a teacher, whoever and however they are, you've got to practice loving them. - Joachim Saflund * If you haven't learned the right connection in inner journeying and outer seeing, you need a teacher in life, and you have to acknowledge that there is a relationship between the two of you. But teachers are not only humans; they can be pets, things… - Alexandra Kreis * Life is about breathing--in and out, expansion and contraction, inspiration and letting go, renewing, happiness and so on-- all cyclical. But I've always been interested in exploring the gaps between the breaths. - Joachim Saflund * Depression is sometimes like cocooning, not always a black hole. Happiness is like a spark in the distance, it's still right there, stay close to that. - Joachim Saflund

Guest BIO: Joakim Säflund is an artist working primarily but not exclusively with painting. Born in 1963 in Sweden.
He is currently living and working in Sydney. He began his formal art education at Virginska Skolan, Örebro, Sweden.
Then went on to take an M.F.A. at the 'Bauhaus inspired' HDK, University of Göteborg, specializing in graphic design.
One year of which was spent at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland.
After graduating from HDK he spent time apprenticed to Swedish sculptor Pål Svenson. His subject matter is wide-ranging.

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In this podcast, a yoga and Ayurveda lifestyle junkie who intelligently incorporates her practice to her unrelated business shares her extraordinary journey to discovering her practice and lifestyle.

Meet Jutta Patis. She discovered her identity while traveling and exploring the world-- on her own!

At 13, her parents, who were so protective, but also wanted Jutta to explore the beautiful world, sent her to Italy. Traveling at such a young age made her feel significant ‘cut off’ from her comfort zone, with no internet whatsoever. But this pushed her to step out of that small, pampered world she had in Austria. And just as early as she was about to discover her teenage self, she already had to figure herself out of the cultural overwhelm and language disconnect. Still, all of these helped shape her identity.

Jutta shares how she would keep her thoughts to herself and wander like a scared little girl in the middle of a beautiful country. But she knew why her parents sent her ‘out into the world’: to train her to break the bubble of her reality. Something she now practices masterfully in meditation and yoga: being present and ever-expanding inwardly.

In this episode, Jutta and I will take you to the exploration and adventure that Jutta did in her younger years. It was not all magic-- she recalls how traveling alone can be so scary and lonely. But everything figured out to be the more essential and treasurable inward journey that led her to the current lifestyle that she has.

Her strange encounter in Spain and her stay in the US, led her to discover the beauty of Yoga and Ayurveda. Those miles and miles of travels brought her closer inch by inch to a deeper understanding of herself. Every stop in this journey, she shares, revealed reflections of herself that she picked up, and brought to where she is right now.

To Jutta, when you travel or live in a foreign land, you have this borderless feeling. And now, more people are choosing to isolate all at once. But they are missing the chance and experience. It’s one thing to have experienced that outer travel, but it’s also another to live in solitary by choice to sail on the inner journey. And Jutta proves you can do both!

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Podcast Highlights * Solitary practice makes me tap into my potentiality more. It helps me find talents and strengths I didn’t know I have-- strengths I can put in my business and endeavors for my community. Sometimes you can’t detect this when you are flooded with information from the outside. But it brings you to reconnect with nature and all the life forces around us. - Jutta Patis * Some people travel purposely for self-discovery and realization. Some to escape. It’s for everybody to discover. But I think it’s always about escaping to find what you haven’t found yet. - Jutta Patis * We have the freedom to choose who we are, which we can do freely for a moment. But when we choose to be completely different because we move to a new society, it can be daunting without an inner guideline or format. - Alexandra Kreis * Whatever comes along your way, you have to open your eyes for opportunities. Sometimes we overthink things when we want to do something huge for the world. But opportunities may just be standing there in front of you. - Jutta Patis * Don’t overthink and let go of the attachments. Choose a practice that will help you evolve and expand. Even when you don’t have the chance to travel, you can expand and see the world from an angle you haven’t seen before. - Jutta Patis

Guest BIO: Jutta Patis was born and raised in Austria near Vienna. She is a former consultant for businesses but not the owner of two companies in Berlin and Potsdam. She lives in Potsdam with her family and her four dogs. Jutta loves writing and is a Yoga and Ayurveda, lifestyle junkie.

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Helping create a world equal where we view everyone as equal is Jessica Sander’s central theme in life right now. Through her work, this fantastic young social worker and author of "Love Your Body" hopes to encourage people to be their best selves and to create safe spaces where everyone can feel valued, heard, and included.

In this podcast, we will hear about her motivations and her uplifting stories and ideas leading to this book and her work.

It all started from a conversation with her best friend about unnecessarily dangerous and expensive plastic and vaginal surgeries that we hear so much about nowadays. While even as she was grappling about her identity at that time, hearing women waste time and energy focusing on how they look urged Jess to do something.

Jessica shares writing the book is in itself a journey of self-discovery. She realized the book she was imagining didn’t exist at all. So she decided it will be out of the box with an uncompromising message. It will be the first children’s book that discusses stretch marks and cellulite--all kinds of female forms! While admittedly a white female is falling within “the norm”, she didn’t quite see the way she has growing up, which still made her want to see more representations. Jessica felt like she was an untapped energy source for such a book to come to life.

She also shares how she struggled to find balance in writing the book. Recognizing that we do live in a world that seems to value beauty amongst all else, Jessica explains how she didn’t want to set false expectations. Instead, she strived to make the book as compassionate and positive for people in such places of self-doubt but in a realistic way.

Jessica and Alexandra navigate an essential conversation in this podcast. Especially now that we can be so consumed with what we see on social media, and just like Jessica’s works, this conversation aims to lead diverse voices without being anything less than compassionate, open, and authentic.

Links mention in the podcast * Love Your Body Book * Watch video of the podcast * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * Check out our Free Meditation Challenge with Alexandra

Podcast Highlights * My whole life, I was waiting for myself to be represented by a model or something like that. And when we do not see ourselves represented in the content that we consume, we think we’re not right, normal, desirable, important, and to be held on a pedestal. Then we are always striving to be something other than ourselves. I started sorting out the imagery and saw more and more women showing forms that I haven’t seen before in these content. I was inspired by their body positivity and I realized the true power of representation. - Jessica Sanders * I’m lucky enough to be fairly confident enough in my childhood, not with my body but in my ability to have an opinion and my voice. I challenged the negative thoughts with self-compassion and taught my self a different way. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it has completely gone away; it’s social conditioning and we have to do a lot of unlearning. - Jessica Sanders * Body Positivity, started by lesbian women, is a movement to acknowledge the body in its truth. It’s also combating fatphobia in our culture. People with bigger bodies are also discriminated, maybe not in a life-threatening way, but in all kinds of awful ways on a day-to-day basis. Shame could be potentially a very damaging thing for an individual. - Jessica Sanders * We can easily judge when we’re on the side of normal. It takes tremendous effort to wake up to what other people go through and it was difficult to bear to see all these people in pain and suffering. If I cannot be compassionate with myself, if I don’t understand where my moods, opinion, and own energy comes from and my courage that I want to build in this world, then I cannot bring that forward and towards other people. - Alexandra Kreis * I don’t want young girls to go through what I went through. It shouldn’t be like that it was their destiny. Because my experience is ‘the norm’. And it shouldn’t be ‘the normal.’ We have to start the conversation early. - Jessica Sanders

Guest Bio *Jessica Sanders is the young author behind Love Your Body*. She is also a social worker from Melbourne who started with photography as her first passion. Ready to try anything new, she jumped right into researching and writing her first book and the upcoming ones from inspirations from her own childhood and her post-graduate studies which focused on Gender.

Love Your Body: Your body can do amazing things...

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Have you also had that moment where you feel quite accomplished yet something still feels not quite right?

In this episode, Diana Pieper, the woman behind Yoga Cafe - Mindful Life, will share how she journeyed that unthreaded road to success and living her dream.

Diana drew her inspiration from moments of exhaustion in her former job. For years, she had sat on her office desk from morning till afternoon. She knew something’s missing. She felt she wanted something that gives her more freedom to do what she loves like yoga-- and sipping coffee!

Diana took herself off work started traveling. She met her partner and together they decided to return to Berlin and open a Cafe together, which originally was called Wanderlust. Diana took this big step because they felt why not try to make these things come together-- community, yoga, and a place to recoup and sip coffee.

But it was no walk in the park. Diana shares how overwhelming the steps to getting to her dream and being in that place could actually get. Less sleep, more mental and physical work, thinking round the clock-- having your own time when running your own business is such a myth! Diana had to decide on everything, from the little details in cups and spoons to the bigger tasks such as constructing the place-- it was pure hard work driven by passion. Diana’s journey perfectly captures how it takes a tribe to make a dream come true.

Indeed, the challenges allowed Diana to grow into the successful person that she is right now. But this success also led her to realize the constant need to re-center and take a step back to see with clarity. Whether you are living your dream, or on your way there, this conversation reminds us to always allow ourselves to feel what we’re feeling. It can be exhausting and overwhelming even more than your former job. But the greatest difference between feeling exhausted in a job that does not fulfill you and to run something that contributes to the community is that the latter makes the struggle all worth it. Diana reminds us to trust that everything will fall into their right places. And never forget to stay open, never lose compassion for ourselves; never forget to sit back, relax, and enjoy!

Links mention in the podcast * Diana's website * Podcast on Youtube * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * Check out our Free Meditation Challenge

Podcast Highlights * I was kinda tired of being in the office from morning until evening. It didn’t feel quite right. I knew something was missing. But I think everything happens for a reason. - Diane Pieper * Resources that helped in the journey: First, a lot of help from friends, from the small to the big things. Second, to stick to my practice. At some point, I lost it and I thought I really need to get back to it to feel less exhausted and feel myself again. - Diane Pieper * We have dreams and we are determined to get there. But along our journey, we often find ourselves on unthreaded paths and so we have to carve our own way to pursue those dreams. What’s admirable with Diana is her unwavering commitment to get there while serving others and looking after herself as well. This is what enables her to give out to others even more. And a lot of people forget to do this. - Alexandra Kreis * I need to step back a little and to get a clearer vision of where I want to go or what I want to do. Right now, I want to talk to friends, hear about their experiences and advice, and try to take the pressure off myself which I’m putting on myself. - Diane Pieper * I’m more on the outside growing phase because I want to make the cafe work. The decisions I’m making are from my head and not my heart. The inside is coming soon. - Diane Pieper * Message to listeners: It doesn’t always need to be more, more, more, or about crazy big success or money; it’s about finding happiness in yourself. The more you reach that, the more you’re able to communicate and share that with other people. - Diane Pieper

Guest Bio Diana Pieper is passionate about yoga. Being a yoga teacher is more than just a job for her; it’s a calling. Practicing yoga for the last 10 years, she teaches her students how yoga is more than a sequence of exercises but bringing the body and soul into harmony through meditation concentration, breathing, and movement. She teaches Hatha Vinyasa which is a dynamic yoga style that combines movement and breath to form a flowing unity.

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Welcome to Outer Travel, Inner Journey Podcast. In this episode, we speak with former photographer and doTERRA essential oils presidential diamond leader Aisha Harley--who shares her inspiring healing journey from Lyme disease.

Aisha, currently living happily with her husband Larry and her band of parrots, chickens, ducklings, and dogs in Portland, Oregon, shares here the darkest roads she had traveled and how facing her own anxieties got her to the bright happy place she is in right now. Struggling from Lyme disease, which she didn’t know she had at once, and the massive drop she felt in her body with the onslaught of stress, and pain from toxic relationships brought her to realize that healing has to start with yourself. And that we are all capable of it.

In her healing quest, she found love and the wonders of therapeutic essential oils which led her back to reconnecting to nature and to herself. As magical as this sounds, to her, that moment was like a seed she planted from which everything started to flourish.

Before the magic unraveled there were moments of scariness that dealing with a serious disease can uproot. But her story of collaboration with her physician and actually taking ownership of her healing is truly inspirational. Ayurveda has been teaching us, listening to a deeper level with what the body is telling us is a crucial aspect of healing on all levels. Only when we combine all parts of us, we will be able to come home. We have to be ready to process on so many levels and be our own advocates.

Her message for the listeners is simple: We can keep living and behaving in the same way as before we fell apart or we can choose to start taking baby steps and do things differently. There are endless possibilities that can actually be done to recreate ourselves when we’re in that moment of surrender. It will be uncomfortable, yes, but it’s worth it.

I’m so excited to share this with you!

Links mention in the podcast * Aisha's website * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * Check out our Free Meditation Challenge

Podcast Highlights * The two biggest blessings in my life that helped me in my awakening process are: (1) my husband Larry and (2) essential oils. Larry was an amazing reminder to me that I needed to take my power back. He held a safe, loving space for me to be healed-- something I have never really experienced. --Aisha Harley * The essentials oils to me represented a reconnection to nature which essentially opened up a reconnection to myself. When essential oils started working in my body and healing me, there was a gentle reminder and a nudge of returning to who I really am, to my essence, and to awakening into truth. --Aisha Harley * There are different ways for different people to discover how to let go and keep falling back into the backseats of nature and finally letting go of the concepts. When we start trusting the universal peace or love, start surrendering, we find the right way and the moment to come along. --Alexandra Kreis * I thought my peace existed outside myself, in some other person or relationship to distract myself. As much as I resisted it, everything got stripped away and there I was standing alone, with nobody but by myself. But in that process, I realized that the anxiety wasn’t driven by anybody else and it wasn’t gonna be taken away by anybody else but it was me finding that happiness, peace, and contentment within myself. My happiness needs to be with and without and that I need to stop thinking. --Aisha Harley * Ironically, we’re born into love yet we develop masks and shields until we feel like we’re flawed and we don’t have compassion for ourselves. But as human beings, we just want to be heard, seen, cared for, and loved. --Aisha Harley * Take ownership without being demeaned within systems because you know best. --Alexandra Kreis * We are capable of healing in mind, body, and spirit-- the whole being. But change comes in time. Be patient with and love yourself. --Aisha Harley

Guest Bio Aisha Harley is a former photographer, now Presidential Diamond Leader at doTERRA Essential Oils. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband Larry, two parrots, 6 hens who just hatched 7 chicks, and two dogs. She lived for almost 20 years with an undiagnosed disease, which caused her to question her mental health and capability to show up in the world. She’s the founder of The Essential Wellness Community- a vibrant and flourishing global community of oil users and educators. She writes and gives advice to anyone struggling with health challenges or are interested in starting an essential oil business through her blog.

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In this podcast, meet Shira and Ulli-- my dear family that has come to live together in a patchwork format. And we will talk about and share how our experiences of moving (together and apart) helped us build a more open outlook in our lives. With so much clarity for a very young mind, Shira leads us to share how we are dancing between control and direction and letting ‘life happen through us’.

Traveling and living in different places has been part of Shira as she grows up. She shares here how she was able to manage through that even at a young age and the things that she does to make herself feel ‘at home’.

As tiring as traveling can get, Shira and Ulli share strategies to rest and settle. They also fondly recall the perks of being in a new place such as trying out new food and eventually loving what thrives in the place they are in, especially mangoes for Shira!

Shira also narrates how music helps her let out every kind of emotion she is feeling. To her, music was one of her outlets and companion to get along. Music has been her friend amid the momentary loneliness of traveling to different places every so often.

And part of everybody’s journey is fear. But for a very young Shira, strange as it may initially seem, her greatest fear is the internet! Here, she also talks about the internet’s dark side, the unknowns in the deep web, like the monster under the ocean while Ulli reveals his trivial stage fright. From this, the two enthusiastically delved into a deeper conversation on fear and their shared experiences which taught them more about themselves.

There’s a lot to reflect upon and learn as the young Shira and Ulli give out their thoughts on fear, death, and, more importantly, on life. Ulli tells how he is amazed that Shira, even at a young age, has that clarity. She’s an alchemist!

Links mention in the podcast * Shira’s Instagram * Ullis’s Instagram * View Podcast Video * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * Check out our Free Meditation Challenge

Podcast Highlights * Strategies to Arrive:
“After I travel, I just want to find a place to throw myself in bed and just do my own thing there.” - Shira * “When I come to a new place, I always bring a batik, hung it on the wall, arrange my stuff around it and it makes me feel more at home. I always try to get rest with other people, to get into talk with the people around, slowly increasing my radius.” - Ulli * “Shira is an earth person, she likes to ground, lie down, and feel herself. Ulli, on the other hand, likes to connect to the space around him.” -Alexandra Kreis * “When I feel lonely, music is my escape. When I’m happy, sad, even angry, music is my friend. It expresses how I feel and helps me get along.” - Shira * “In Ayurveda, music expresses the rasa or the juice that flows through us. It’s like the ebbing of the tide; you feel like you’re in a big ocean when you’re listening to music.” -Alexandra Kreis * “I’m not afraid of dying. I don’t think of dying as me vanishing but more of the people I will leave behind. This I think is what the fear of dying really means.” - Ulli * “Even at a young age, we can die any minute. But we should not think about that right now. And also not if you’re older. Don’t force yourself to think about thinks and give yourself an answer.” - Shira * “Have trust. If we don’t, we often try to control things, our lives. Life happens to you.” - Ulli

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Yoga is a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation.

Welcome to Outer Travel, Inner Journey Podcast. In this episode we are very fortunate to speak with Annika Lindberg, author of the book ‘An Onning om Yoga’ (A sense of Yoga) and how she copes with struggles that arise with a daily practice.

We touched upon the question ‘If we need guidance to find our way in the big ocean that is called yoga. How do we find our inner guidance and what do we need to let go of - indeed - to be a good person.’

Be inspired with her life story from being a full-time worker at a University in Sweden, a life coach, and a long-standing student of Yoga - which changed the way she lived her life forever. Her life’s transition from living in a city - to end up living a peaceful life in the countryside with her family. Learn how she conquers all of her hesitations on letting go of the things she used to do and she used to have, and then choose the ones she thought would define her as a person. Keep motivated on her journey as a blogger then later on a writer of her own book. Know the different life tips, struggles, and importance of Yoga by following hashtags #YogaInspiration and #SenseOfYogaSweden.

Links mention in the podcast * En aning om yoga * View Podcast Video * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * Check out our Free Meditation Challenge

Podcast Highlights: * “It’s enough to just be a good person, that's what I ended up”- Annika Lindberg * “You have to be persistent and you have to trust the closest”- Annika Lindberg * “We all have our soul, and if we can listen to that little voice inside, when we need an outer teacher, they will come in your way”- Annika Lindberg * “It doesn’t mean that somebody tells you what to do, but somebody that gives you advice of what you might looking to”- Annika Lindberg * “Embrace life for what it is now, and if you want to start Yoga, do it with a teacher that you trust”- Annika Lindberg

Guest Bio: Annika Lindberg is a former life coach and author of the book A Sense of Yoga which is written in Swedish entitled “an anning om yoga'. She is also a retired employee of a University. She had many years in Yoga when she started her blog on her Journey which is also published in Swedish and after gaining support from her family and Virtual friends, Annika decided to write her own book.

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Welcome to Outer Travel, Inner Journey Podcast. In this episode, we speak with author Priya Basil. She recently wrote a book called Be My Guest ⁠— a thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality.

We touched on what inspired her to write the book, specifically her family who she describes as “fantastical about food.” We also touch on how well received the book is today, even though she felt she wrote it in a very personal way. Pay special attention to the part on how the current generation treats food, especially on Instagram where the hashtag #foodporn and #eatclean is very widely used.

Links mentioned in the podcast * Priya's Website * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * Check out our Free Meditation Challenge

Highlights * “it's been very gratifying to see how well the book has been received and how it offers the possibility for people to connect to it in really different ways. Because I think the dimension of food and sharing is something that somehow we can all connect to.” - Priya Basil * "The whole idea of hospitality is that it's about abundance and bounty and not setting limits. At the same time, of course, one needs boundaries and limits. So configuring that balance is something that is at the core of yoga practice and a general approach. To live in a more generous, ethical way." - Priya Basil * “I think we live in a time where food is really a sort of identifier for many people, the choices of what and how to eat are part of a statement of who you are and how you want to be seen in the world.” - Priya Basil * “I wanted to write something that really celebrated and the possibilities it gives us to talk about bigger issues.” - Priya Basil * “The idea of unconditional hospitality is a call to always be as open as possible to what might come in yourself and from others. It's definitely the most challenging and in a way, the most destabilizing idea I've encountered in my life. But this idea that you approach everything openly without deciding in advance what the outcome should be a powerful one.” - Priya Basil

Guest Bio Priya Basil was born in London to a family with Indian roots, she grew up in Kenya and now lives in Berlin. She’s published two novels and a novella, as well as numerous essays for various publications, including The Guardian, Die Zeit, Neue Zürchner Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Lettre International and Die Tageszeitung. Priya is a co-founder of Authors for Peace. In 2017, she launched a campaign for a European Public Holiday across Europe. Her latest book Be My Guest, Reflections on Hospitality – a hybrid text combining essay and memoir forms – was published by Suhrkamp in Germany in March 2019, and Canongate in the UK in October 2019. It was one of The Observer's Best Books of the Year and Deutchlandfunk Kultur's Non-fiction Recommendation of the Year. Be My Guest is shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 and the Fortnum and Mason Food Writing Awards 2020.

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In today's show I am talking to Ivory about how she chose to live in an ashram for a while to deepen her self experience and make a true change for herself. We pondered on whether we need a container or a group for that and how we can be safe even in groups that sound extreme (cult-like) to us.

Links mentioned in the podcast: * Ivory’s Website * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * YouTube Video of the Podcast * Join now Sunday Soul Sessions and Bring a Friend for Free

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In this podcast, I sit down with Kerstin Walsh to discuss the transformations we go through with (foreign) rituals like marriage and how they influence our growth. Kerstin married her Indian boyfriend in his home country, through traditional Indian ceremonies.

Kerstin is a freelance artist, which allows her to express herself through teaching and creating art. It is extremely healthy to express ourselves freely, especially through art. Take a look at some of Kerstin's work on her website – she will leave you speechless!

Links mentioned in the podcast: * Kerstin's website * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * Sunday Soul Sessions join now and bring a friend for free

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In today's show, I set down with Sonja Radvila, author of the book 'Young Yogi and the Mindmonsters'. An ontake on Patanjalis Sutras as a children's story. Get to know how Sonja created the book. How she struggled with publishing and writing as an inner and outer journey. And get in a chance to own your own copy by entering our raffle.

Links mentioned in the podcast: * Sonja's Website * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * YouTube Video of the Podcast * Sunday Soul Sessions join now and bring a friend for free

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In this podcast, I am sitting down with Filipa Ekeroth who has walked and lived the difficult path of growing up as a ‘stranger’ in another country after losing her dad at the age of thirteen. Listen to how this marriage of different cultures and the early traumatic experience lead her into finding herself through inner and outer travel and self expression.
Filipa lives and works in Berlin -Germany as a free Lance film director.

Links mentioned in the podcast: * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * YouTube Video of the Podcast * Enroll now in the Self-Massage course!(One Session LEFT!)

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On today's show I am meeting with Daria Martens. Daria has lived a life of emigrating in 4 different countries to follow her calling (as a Buddhist, mum, and wife). She became a student of astrology and is more and more sure about how the two practices that are forming her life are helping her to find a home in herself.

Links mentioned in the podcast: * Jyotish Coach * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * YouTube Video of the Podcast * Enroll now in the Self-Massage course!

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Ayse Dayi is an academic and meditation teacher who has been living in Berlin for a year. In her academic work, she researches, teaches and conducts activism around women’s health and sexuality, on unnecessary medicalization of women’s reproductive services (in gynecological care including gyn visits, abortion, birth control and birth) and neoliberal health policies.. She has encountered Tai Chi and qiqong for the first time in the U.S in late 1990s, and has fallen in love with the practice.. Since then, she has been practicing and learning it. In Berlin, she attends WDP (Wudang Deutschland https://www.wudang-deutschland.de), a wonderful school of internal martial arts, which has excellent teachers and a community of practitioners. She also holds a sitting meditation practice, following Thitch Nhat Hahn’s Plum Village tradition and integrating Taoist qiqong practices and learnings from other teachers. Ayse teaches meditation on Sundays at the Internationales Begegnungszentrums der Wissenschaft (IBZ) to a wonderful group of international scholars and their family and whoever joins from outside. The classes are in English and Turkish. http://www.ibz-berlin.org. She hopes to work with children and educators on mindfulness as well.

Links mentioned in the podcast: * Ibz-Berlin * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * YouTube Video of the Podcast * Join the Ayurvedic Cleanse – Restore This Spring

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Today I sat down with Jody O’Neill an autistic writer and performer, based in Wicklow, Ireland who found late in her life that she is affected by the condition. How she put the dots together and then created a successful play to talk about autism to a (non) autistic audience in Ireland. You can find her also here www.aboutautism.ie

Links mentioned in the podcast: * About Autism * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation * YouTube video of the podcast * Join the Ayurvedic Cleanse - Restore Yourself this Spring

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On today's show I am sitting down with Alexandra Epple - she started walking the Camino and ended up walking all the way back to Germany to her hometown.

Alexandra Epple has been active in the healing arts for 17 years. She is an Ayurvedic practitioner, yoga teacher, and Thai massage therapist. Her approach to health is super practical and down to earth. When you work with her, there are no counting calories, chasing vitamins or collecting minerals. Instead, she teaches you how to listen to your body and follow its wisdom according to Ayurveda and yoga principles.

After 20 years in the USA, Alexandra recently moved back to her homeland of Bavaria. A decision that was not caused by external circumstances but came from deep intuition. As a transition between the two continents, she decided to walk the 900 km Camino in Spain. And then ... it was not enough. In the end, she walked 2,800 km on foot in 4.5 months. Shortly before Christmas, she knocked on her parents' door. Now she is in the process of creating her life from scratch. A task that is both exciting and expansive, but also disorienting and confusing.

Links mentioned in the podcast: * Spirit Journey * Alexandra Epple * Join Creating Space program * Schedule free Ayurvedic consultation

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