 You're with a group of people who are all there to look within, discover themselves, and connect with themselves. So the energy that the group created was so special because you have like-minded people who are not there just for sightseeing or just to indulge their senses. I felt like a natural sense of community was created in the group. And in this day and age, a sense of community is something that feels so good. And the pandemic showed us that being alone is very difficult. So moving through New Zealand with a sense of community, sharing and exchanging good energy of encouragement to each other, helping each other along, encouraging their growth, experiencing the beautiful nature setting of New Zealand. All of that combined together made such a powerful healing experience for me. I can't say enough good things about New Zealand. Hi guys, this is Linda from Brain Education TV. Today I wanted to share with you a very exciting meditation tour that I just went on. It's the New Zealand Meditation Tour by Body and Brain. Okay, now note, New Zealand, if you guys haven't been there, is the most pristine, green, lush, natural, pure place on earth. And because of that, it also happens to be my absolute favorite place in this whole entire planet. And what was so special about the New Zealand Meditation Tour is that there are so many tours out there, right? There's so much sightseeing. There's so many programs and packages where they take you to all the tourist attractions and you take pictures and then you leave. But something about New Zealand Meditation Tour, there's no such thing as a meditation tour out there really. But a meditation tour is something that's unique to Body and Brain and it basically gives you the time and space for you to reflect on your own life in nature. So I thought that idea from the get go was really, really attractive and really different. Especially if you're somebody who's interested in looking for some answers deep inside of you or you have some questions or you just wanna get away and have some time to refresh yourself. It's not easy to do that if you're stuck in the same environment that gave you the stress in the first place. So to be able to remove yourself, to go to a place where it's completely different from my usual surroundings, it gave me like a place for my brain to refresh. And because my brain could refresh, I could reflect back on my life. So some of the places that we went to were the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, which is a very historically important place for New Zealand culture. We also went to Haruru Falls, which was amazing. Haruru in the native Maori language means big sound. So it's a waterfall that had huge cascading amounts of water. And you can also hear this big roaring sound from the waterfall that was really amazing. Take a look at this video and see, you can hear the gushing sounds of Haruru Falls. And then the highlight of the trip was we got to go to Earth Village, which is a retreat center founded by the creator of brain education, Ilchi Lee. There are many meditation spots that we can go to in Earth Village. So we have the 120 steps where each step reflects the year of your life and you take some time to reflect on that year that represents that step, whatever happened to you that you need to let go of or remind yourself about the good things that happened that year. So it's a staircase that really lets you reflect on all that you've done and accomplished and the life that you've lived so far. And then it gives you some time to reflect on the life that you wanna create from here on out. So that was really special. We got to go to this huge rock called Earth Rock where you literally, it's so big, it looks like an Earth standing right in front of you. So that was really special. You got to feel so much Earth energy from there. And then my personal favorite was there was this wishing rock at Earth Village. It was so, so special because that place is where you go and you pray for your wish, whatever that wish may be. You place your hands on the stone and then you make that wish. So because so many people went there to just imbue and stamp and imprint their wishes into the rock, the energy of it feels so special that so many people who went there actually cried and cried. And including myself, I felt a lot of special energy there and I was deeply moving just to be able to place my hands on the rock and wish for something that I really want from the bottom of my heart. And then we got to see some really cute animals at the Animal Farm. All of these animals have kind of a story to them. So there's a pig at the Animal Farm. His name is Youngsang Lucky. So Youngsang in Korean means eternal life and his name Lucky. So eternal life, Lucky. And that's because when he was a piglet he actually ate a poisonous fruit and he was about to die. He couldn't walk. He was like twitching and having seizures. And then Ilchili gave him some healing, acupuncture, acupressure and did massages on the pig. And long story short, the pig came back to life. So when you go there, you can meet this pig. And then next, there's a goose named Daebakcheonson. So Daebak means big energy. Cheonson means descendant of heaven. And the reason Daebakcheonson is named this is because Daebakcheonson is a goose. But the mother abandoned the egg that Daebakcheonson was in. So usually, you know, when eggs get abandoned they don't have a chance at hatching unless you put them in an incubator or do something special to make it hatch. So the egg was abandoned and Ilchili had this thought, okay, so this is a goose egg. But what would happen if I put this goose egg under a hen? Would the hen sit and incubate the goose egg even though it's not her egg? So Ilchili slipped this goose egg under a mommy hen. The hen, to his surprise, took the egg, incubated it, sat on it and out came this beautiful goose and Ilchili named him Daebakcheonson because it's huge energy, huge big news that this goose that was abandoned was born in the first place. And because he had such a fortunate fate he named him descendant of heaven. And another place we visited on the New Zealand meditation tour was the Huangchil Farm. So Huangchil, it looks like this and the scientific name for it is Dendropanix Morbiferous. It's a cousin of Jinseng and has a whole range of medicinal properties. You can drink it as tea, you can extract the sap. There are lots of beneficial properties of Huangchil that's been studied by science. So when we got to the Huangchil Farm there were rows and rows and rows of Huangchil that body and brain instructors in New Zealand planted by hand with the hope of creating a plant cultivating a plant that could help people become healthier. And probably my favorite part was knowing that you're with a group of people who are all there to look within, discover themselves and connect with themselves. So the energy that the group created was so special because you have like-minded people who are not there just for sightseeing or just to indulge their senses. They're all there to connect deep within themselves. And then also because we all have the same purpose and goal I felt like a natural sense of community was created in the group. And in this day and age a sense of community is something that feels so good. And the pandemic showed us that being alone is very difficult. So moving through New Zealand with a sense of community sharing and exchanging good energy of encouragement to each other, helping each other along, encouraging their growth experiencing the beautiful nature setting of New Zealand. All of that combined together made such a powerful healing experience for me. And I'm telling you the nature of New Zealand is so unbelievably incredible. Just being there. You have so much water energy. You have green energy. You have so much sunshine energy. And the air is pure and clean. I can't say enough good things about New Zealand. So if you're interested in going to New Zealand or if you've been to New Zealand but you've never been on the meditation tour I highly, highly, highly, highly, highly, highly, highly recommend it. So if you want to know more information find a Body and Brain Yoga Studio near you. At your Body and Brain Center they will give you all the information that you need to sign up to go to get you on that list so that you can also go to New Zealand. Refresh, recharge, connect with yourself. Find some answers to the questions that's been lingering on your mind. Find directions for where you need to go this year in life. And most importantly, take some time to do something good for myself. Away from the busyness, away from the chaos where I can just shut everything out and connect deeply to me, deeply to nature and start over and create something new from a blank slate. I hope you can join us on a New Zealand meditation tour. Find a local Body and Brain Center near you for more information. Hope to see you in New Zealand. Bye.