 Hello everybody. I'm so super excited about this episode because this is one of my favorite favorite topics to talk about And of course I am joined here with Eva from Queen Midas life alchemist, right? That's your title, right? Yeah, and then Stephanie from spiritual perspectives of our great awakening and the topic that we're gonna talk about It's something Stephanie and I've been briefly speaking about of course. I've spoken about this a lot because this is my Life, this is my job outside of YouTube as well as a bus which we're gonna get to in a minute and that is exercises spirituality and that's something that I think in the Western world as we were chatting off camera since the three of us are Westerners that we don't really understand and it's taken me many many years 15 years to be exact on my yoga mat to really truly understand what what's happening physically when we move our body and That the physical body is something that's very spiritual. It's as our friends Cindy says and it's true It's the Shakti of the soul. It's the expression of the soul our body holds information Both good and bad it holds energy Bondage that needs to be released and you of course are the only one that can't do that And I know you guys have heard me speak about this a lot on my channel through yoga But and you obviously Stephanie because we did a episode on the doshes and we talked a lot about exercise Now before I get into Ava telling her awesome story. I want to just give you guys a head up I've gotten so much positive feedback Regarding our dosha episode both my episode with Catherine Edwards and with Stephanie and so many people have asked me questions about their diet And all that kind of stuff the thing again I want to clarify about the doshes that every single person's diet is going to be a little bit different So for example because I'm bought to Pitta because that is my my Disposition I have a little bit tiny little bit of copper, but it's not enough to really count So what I have to do in my diet is pull up the copper energy by eating copper foods Now somebody asked me in the comment section that they were bought to copper They were confused because I was eating more copper foods will know your diet is gonna be different because you're bought to copper You're missing the Pitta and so that's going to be true now for people like Stephanie or a tridotia Sometimes that makes it even harder to balance because you have to find where the missing links are to then create that balance And so for me specifically I cannot help people that I don't know personally with this I have to know you I have to know your habits all that kind of stuff. So I can't give you a diet plan It's going to be specific just to you So that's something you're interested in just Google where you can use Google Google's fine for this Just Google are you vated clinic in your area? Now if you live in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, you might not have an are you vated clinic? You might have to go to the nearest city to do that. They're also going to take your pulse They're also going to look into your eyes. They're also gonna look at your tongue They're gonna ask you questions about your sleeping pattern stuff that you can't do over a zoom that you have to actually Be face-to-face to get a better idea the doctor will get a better idea of what what's your in what's happening with your energy cycle? And so please I can't give you any advice on what to eat or how to eat You really need to be seeing an are you vated practitioner yourself? It's worth it if you make the drive It's totally worth it because it will change your life Somebody asked me to they said they found something but it looked like there was a shop attached Yes, most are you vated clinics will have a shop in their clinic where they sell Products that they like right and Catherine I have spoken about this a lot of times with oils I know Stephanie. We talked about this Sometimes especially here in the West the products we get like castor oil coconut oil isn't actually the legit stuff And so a lot of are you vated clinics will import stuff from India or imports and oils or certain mushrooms or certain Vitamins from India or from places where they know the product is good. That's why there's a shop attached Most are you vatic doctors? I know though will not force you to buy from them They just have it on hand in case you need it Or you want it? Okay, so that's not their main focus is selling you stuff Their main focus is to treat you so so don't be turned off by the fact There's a shop attached as I told someone I love the fact that the bar you vated clinic here in Atlanta Has a shop attached because I haven't been able to go to India in a couple of years And that's only where I get all my castor oils So I can just go there and get what I need from them And they're not going to try to sell you anything that doesn't apply to your energy cycle, right? So because I'm a Vata, they're not going to try to sell me cat coconut oil because coconut oil is terrible for me, right? So so don't be turned off by that. Okay. It's like most Clinics will have products of what they they like, you know That makes sense to me. I as a yoga teacher. I always tell people to buy a manduka mat I don't sell my nuka mats but manduka mats the best in my opinion. So that's what I tell my students That's what I use, you know, it makes sense, right? That's what What they would do. So I just want to clarify that please please please find a practitioner yourself That can help you through this process. I cannot do it for you So, all right with that being said Ava Second time you've been on my channel or first Yeah Sorry guys, that was my reminder that we were filming today because as you guys see, I'm still not at last Third time filming from your bag I'm still not making what porn stars make but But anyway, so Ava you Are like me. Were you Before you two before this great awakening you were working as a personal trainer You're also a dancer too, correct, but you were also working as a personal trainer So can you share a brief story of your journey through exercise? Yes, so I actually started out in healthcare. So my undergrad was in clinical laboratory science I was a medical technologist for about two and a half three years and and When I Found my way back to a hospital in Dallas I met a guy and we were dating and he actually had guest privileges to a club that was there So I started to I'd get off work I worked overnight and I'd get off and I started taking cycling and Western yoga and Pilates and I started I loved it because I was moving my body and Mind you, I had been an athlete since seventh grade. So I was in I played volleyball for 15 years soccer for seven I was a cheerleader. I ran track. I played rugby in college and I did Most tackles on my team But yeah, I I was super active however of my sisters I was the one that fluctuated in weight and a lot of that was due to Emotional stuff and and feeling like I didn't fit in with my family and eating to console myself and just being alone and all these other things in college I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety and Actually lost weight So I'll talk about my weight journey and it ties into this So I lost weight when I got to junior high and that's when I started playing sports And then toward the end of high school. I was playing less sports. So I kind of Fluffed up a little bit more got to college lost weight by the end of college I had gained a little bit more but then after college I gained more and I was in a relationship with my ex-fiancé he's now my ex-fiancé but It's so funny because I look back and I'm like wow this person never would have been anywhere on my radar at this point in my life, but it goes to show the emotional situation that I was in at that time and This is I was still breaking away from the church. So I Was getting back in like back into Going back to church after having left when I graduated high school because I was like, I don't have to go now So I'm going to college and I'm gonna do my own thing found my way back in and so I was like doing Bible studies getting more involved and that was actually kind of my escape and my Strengthening and feeling like I needed to start really taking care of myself because I was in this abusive manipulative Situation and so I was focusing on my relationship with God at the time Like I said, I had gained more weight at that time and so then I started to get more active so I'm tying this back to my Athleticism before that so I didn't work out regularly. I would just show up practice work out randomly. There was no real Habit there, you know for working out on my own that started to happen during this time when I was engaged and I started loving myself physically more as I was working on my spiritual aspect and I started to get the confidence and the Kind of like the know-how to stand up for myself and and really get myself Along with some help from a few outside people out of that situation So now I'm going to fast forward back to when I got away from this person and I was working at a hospital in Dallas and then I started to Go to this fitness club regularly when I get off of work So I this was the first time I had taken cycling yoga or Pilates and I just loved them And I was it was natural for me cycling I loved that and my teacher was like you're you're really good. You should start teaching and I'm like, oh my gosh I never thought about that same thing with the yoga instructor. She said that to me too And she was also the woman who taught bar. So I took two classes with her So that kind of started to spark my mind and I knew that when I first went to college I wanted to be a neurosurgeon Then I realized how much school that was I was like Mm-hmm and then Although my undergrad was still the second longest like our largest hour requirement And so I thought I was gonna go back to school to be like to PA school for my master's Long story short with this high activity that I had like shifted into when I got out of work I started to find this passion and this love for moving my body So when there weren't samples coming into the lab at night I was on women's health oxygen muscle and fitness hers like researching Diets and and different exercise articles and everything and just Just like diving in like Bryce. I'm like you like I love to get into research and just learn and just like oh Questions, let me find that out and then I started to program for myself And I set a goal for myself like I'm gonna lose weight at You know within this month span I look up and I had hit surpassed my goal like three months ahead of time and I was like oh my gosh I'm having so much fun doing this. I didn't even realize that I lost this weight weight You know, I was it was just happening. I can teach other people how to do this so that's how I figured out I'm going to go back to get my master's in exercise science and So the way that affected me emotionally and spiritually was I felt empowered. I I because it happened over time and I was doing research and Weighing my food like I know this sounds really tedious but if you're serious about losing weight you are going to take this into your own hands and and like Relish this power that you have over literally sculpting your own body and shaping your own body into what you wanted to be And what it's healthy, you know, how you were created to be so I was weighing my food I was reading labels, which is so crazy. We're not they talk about reading the labels But most people don't ever stop to read the labels serving sizes are on there like this the stuff that's in the food is on there, you know Sorry And It's it was just like the food was under control. The the fitness was under control. My mindset was changing. I Felt better about myself. I felt stronger. I felt more empowered clothes were fitting Better my skin was glowing. My hair was healthy. My eyes were brighter I I stood up for myself more. I the people that I chose to be around just started shifting You know, so I can totally attest to the fact that when we start to that fitness and Emotional and spiritual health go hand-in-hand when we start to take care of our self on one level The other things start to fall in place and it changes our entire reality It changes the people that we associate with because I don't know if you've noticed like people that look alike typically hang out together Birds on a feather flock together. So you see um More in shape fit people they're usually going to be hanging out together because they have similar lifestyles They eat a similar way or they they just carry themselves in a similar Energy and that's what's attracted and then same thing with You know, the other end of the spectrum, maybe a heavier set people They they eat a certain way. They think a certain way. They speak a certain way about themselves So the two tie-ins are just it's it's pretty incredible how Tied in they are and I feel like that's very dissociated in our society. Like yes, especially with all the shaming Well, that's one thing too that I I one thing that the powers that be Try to do and we were kind of speaking about this off-camera is you can't stop somebody for moving their body Right, you can't do that what you can do is manipulate the way they think about moving their body And so a lot of people and one thing I hope to change Moving forward with exercise is that a lot of especially women Will look at exercise is something I have to do to look a certain way It's like a punishment and I used to be that way because I've been really open about struggling with body morphic disorder And I saw my body as something that was like a burden that I had to look a certain way in order to receive love All that kind of stuff and then going to india and really getting into the energetic body I started to see it as something totally different And I I'm 39 now. I told I think I've said it on my channel when I was 27 years old I threw my skills out and I haven't weighed myself since um, I just haven't and I'm not Being overweight is not something I struggle with um, but I do have the propensity to Stop like not want to eat sometimes. And so I just don't weigh myself because uh, it's better for me um, and I have it every time go the doctor I Turn around and I tell them not to stay my way out loud And if I ever got pregnant, I'd probably do the same thing And um, and one thing I want to change about people's perception about exercise is that it's it's your birthright Somebody asked me um, um, because I'm here on vacation. If I if I'm not am I enjoying not exercising on vacation? I was like, what do you mean? I haven't I still get up and I might see a little bit later and get up and I still do it this I it's it's my it's it's a gift To be able to move my body. It's a gift to bring my body to life every single day And one thing I've noticed and we know that the bad guys do this is they take a sentiment That is good, but they manipulate the purpose. We see that with a particular organization I can't say the name having to do with lives mattering. Well the sentiment. Yes We all agree with that sentiment, but the organization is nothing to do with that but is about A political alliance, right a political agenda Um, well the same thing with the body positivity movement, which is something that drives me insane Of course, you should absolutely love your body But I've watched so many discussions on youtube of people Who are morbidly obese? And they join the circle of people of body positivity and the minute somebody decides I'm actually going to lose weight. They get shamed for it Yep Like you're succumbing. Well in yoga, we know that anytime you're overweight or underweight There's an imbalance Some things off emotionally some things off energetically. It's not just overweight. It's also underweight too They're both qualify as a disorder, right? Both of them on both ends of this of the spectrum And so they're pushing this disorder and people and and creating this morbid Sense of and then also as you said using food as as as um An emotional support instead of actually dealing with your issues And something exercise does and I'm going to share the screen quickly so our audience can kind of see now Most people are aware of the chakra system and I know Stephanie We're going to do a show soon about the chakra system I've done it on aquarius rising africa as well And the three from the solar plexus all the way down to money pour all the way down to muladara Are the three chakras that really focus on your body and your groundedness then above it we get into more of the ethereal like psychic glove stuff And so many people in this movement also want to get into like the third eye all that kind of stuff But you got to actually this the upper bed is never going to be Good until this is balanced and down below, right? But what we can attest to that And what we also have though is this a prana prana and a panna And this is the energy that runs through the body and stephanie and I actually filmed yesterday and we talked about the prana um With association with the christ consciousness So prana is upward Upward moving energy It's associated with the sun the solar energy Up panna is downward flowing energy. It's associated with the moon and so like in um And yoga we have the sun salutations which in sanskrit. That's syria namaskar Now the church will tell you because the church really likes to lie. That's all the church does is lie about everything that You're worshiping the sun. That's not true That's not you really can't worship anything outside of your own internal world What you're doing in syria namaskar the sun salutations is your your um, you're rising your pranic energy Right. So namaskar is a greeting and syria is prana. So what does that mean? You're warming your body up when you start to the sun salutations You feel your heart rate starts to go up a little bit. You start to sweat You start when you're um, you start to feel actually feel the blood moving and pulsing through the body You actually feel the energy starting to move and come alive that chronic energy is telling you you're alive The up hannock energy or the moon the downward flowing energy That's like when we exercise our practice yoga, especially we always twist right first not left first We twist right first because you're ascending colon You're on the right side of your body And if you twist left first over and over again, you're going to constipate yourself Because going to the bathroom is an up hannock a downward flowing energy And we want to make sure that is also clear and moving as well Having a baby is a panic When we're on our cycle for women, that's an aponic energy That's why you don't do inversions when you're on your cycle because that's chronic And so when you start to understand these different energy flows and you can kind of see it here How they move through with the chakra system Through the body you start to realize that the body Is something here's a good aponic chronic see upward and downward the body is something so freaking magical It's not something to punish It's not and it does shift and change when you're mean to your body your body is going to Show it's going to swell up. It's going to probably hold on to weight When you actually go wow You know like in bar, especially they do the pelvic tucks when you really start to move and bring your attention to the pelvis And you're starting to unlock these values these pathways. You can actually feel it You feel things breaking down and energy moving if you have for example, if you're someone that struggles with back pain Nothing's going to fix that back pain until you fix what's causing the back pain and most of the time it has to do with your thought process Right and and a lot of times that has to do with your hips So many people don't even know how to how to open up Their hips or that their hips are something that needs to be open But that the hips are like the drunk drawer of the human body where we have emotions and we don't know what to do with them Or we're uncomfortable. We just shove them in the hips And then want to say something to that price for a second because I actually just recently went through this actually Ava Saw me I threw my back out two days ago And I was on a zoom with her late at night and I was having a hard time just even sitting The next day I woke up and I did my workout And it hurt like hell But I felt so much better after and my back is starting to now heal Because I didn't baby it I kept going, you know, I I didn't Um do anything that would make it worse But I continue to do the workout in addition to that I have terrible hips and they pop out of it all the time The more I've been doing those hip or the pelvic tucks And moving the hips and getting it all to like all that energy to now circulate in that area where it was very very weak The less they're popping out now and the more I can lift my legs higher and the stronger they're getting So do not allow pain to stop you from doing any kind of working out working on yourself and you talk about all all time price, but I'm coming from a A place where it's now personal to me. I have a terrible back I have spinal stenosis and you know what I'm actually I'm claiming I don't have it anymore because I'm going to heal myself But I'm not ever going to sit there and allow my pain level To not have me work out again Because I'm realizing that that's actually the worst thing you can do It's it's actually my motivation now to help me work out more because the days that I don't work out I tend to be in pain versus the days that I work out. It's a good pain It's that burning of the breaking down of the muscle tissue so that I can rebuild itself And what is pain so let's talk about this for a second. This is what they've done They they feel like if anything's uncomfortable, don't do it. Well, here's the thing Everything that's wrong with your body You did it to yourself By your thoughts and your attachment. Yeah disease is just disease. It's so and I and I had back surgery at 17 Um, I I practiced through a broken sacrum. I've had practiced through a broken wrist All sorts of I never stopped you modify when you need to of course, but you don't stop And the minute those things go away is when you start to deal with your shit And you start to you start to go through because that's what the that's what and we were talking about what this was Cindy like with ancient practices like traditional yoga is designed To piss you off On purpose David greed one of my teachers I've told the story before he was in conference with garuji once in India And he asked garuji he was like garuji because he has stronger practices very painful. It's very physically painful It's not prime. It's not it's not joyous. It's it's very physically uncomfortable And david said grudges is this pain in the practice necessary And grudges said yes Because pain is real Pain is real And what happens, you know, one thing that drives me crazy about western yoga, which is not yoga at all You know the teacher puts on music And she creates her own choreograph and if it doesn't feel right, don't do it just get in a child's position. That's not yoga guys If you try to pull that shit off in india, they'll kick you out of the shawa. Like that's not fucking yoga There's a systematic design of postures first of all that the teacher did not design because if you design your own practice You're going to avoid the stuff that's uncomfortable Like for me my hamstrings have always been pretty open my hips have always been pretty open So anything involving leg behind the head forward folding that kind of stuff. No problem for me. I enjoy it back bending though Because of my back surgery because of whatever is going on in here that I've had to work through that's a totally different story And so if I were to design my own class I would just have you put your foot behind your head all the time Because that's my attachment to something that feels nice But if I follow the system of shawa yoga, I'm forced then as everybody is To go through every single obstacle and every single obstacle Is an and is an opportunity to shed off bondage mental bondage You know, it's interesting in our last video that we just shot. Cindy talked about the nervous system knowing your nervous system one thing about back bending that people Freak out as we have more nerve endings in the front of our body in the back of our body This is for there's a purpose for that because for most of our human existence Our ancestors whatever We're in situations where uh spears would come flying into their tribe, right? And so we were conditioned with the nerve endings for our brain to go. Oh I have to cover my vital organs. So we have ribs over our vital organs, right? Well nine times out of 10. I mean it is yeah, you know 2022 Who knows what can happen until now at this point? But but most of the time when you're in a yoga show and you're doing a back bend No spear is going to come flying out of the forest You're safe And so for me as a teacher I tell my students that they go Oh and it helps them to relax more into that sensation, right of a panic Right when I talk about stretch your stomach. Don't bend your back. Oh All of a sudden there's an understanding there of what's actually happening. And so there's a release You know and do do what I said that's a good cue Yeah. Oh back then you know about stomach opening. Yeah, all about opening your stomach and that that money poor those Are we at the gym? Do you see people stretching their stomachs that much? No And those are fine that your app your abdominal muscles like the first layer those are really They're really pliable like you touch your stomach. It can move. Yeah, especially for women. It has to move And for how much people think they just need to get in and do abs and like crunch and crunch and crunch But then they don't think about stretching their their abs. So that's that's such a good point that you just made I mean back bending. It's funny second series of a strong a yoga It's a ton of really deep back bends just one after the other and then you throw your leg behind your head Um, and when you're in the mycel room because traditional yoga is taught differently It's taught in an open format where there's the teacher isn't standing up front leading and we don't play music And anything like that So the teacher works with each student individually and they have a system they have to follow And whenever i'm in the mycel room when a student's finished their Uh lineup of back bends they always get off get off their mat and go to the bathroom And I know exactly what's happened They're detoxing You got toxins that are held in those muscles and when you stretch them open They're going right into your colon to be then Literally released like literally Yeah, I always laugh and we're always like nobody wants to hang out the yoga people because all they do is talk about poops and periods Um, you know, but that's I we were talking to the night. I mean not to be tmi. Remember the night we're talking about Gassy men Men who are gassy Yep, I sure do. I just said that's not normal like we now believe that that's just a part of our body I Not the doctor I worked with said if you're gassy, you're eating correctly No, that's supposed to show you how the western medicine Was completely manipulated and I said that never sat right with me. No, that's not comfortable That's your body telling you something's wrong. Yeah, but it can't just something. I'm not gassy I'm not I've dated a few men in the yoga world in the ashtong world. They weren't either Because we were educated in how to feed ourselves Your dinner table at night, you know, nobody should be the same thing at the dinner table That's a western thing You should be eating the food that is appropriate for your body Which is not going to be appropriate for your child or for your husband or for your sibling If you're forcing your child to eat what you're eating You're possibly really screwing your kids health up Because they're probably different and that's that's the truth of energy And when the western world we're so just disconnected from that We see the body and the spirit is being too And they are separate things because the body will die and the spirit will go on But in this existence the spirit the soul is what's creating the body and everybody has a different karmic reaction Everybody has a different karma different energy to work through And so if you have gas You're hurting yourself stop it Go to an activated clinic figure this out because that's your body's way of telling you Something isn't right If you're constipated something isn't right If you have the opposite problem Usually you have an overbundance of pitta if you have the opposite problem. Something isn't right Constipation is big with the vata dosha. That's because we're dry, right? So and that's also big for rh negative people as well. But um, but yeah, so you have to figure out That's your responsibility. But that's the plot twist, right? That's a power move is you have the power and let food be We can be our own doctor. Yeah The body has to feel that's one thing I was thinking about it today. Um Because I grew up in a medical family everybody my family's the brice is my mom's maiden name is brice and south carolina They're the brice is all over the University of south carolina stadium is the williams brice state and they're a huge medical family all of them for generations have been doctors And so I was raised In the medical world. I was constantly getting these as a kid And I was sitting there in the car today and I was thinking How dare us God gave us the perfect immune system What makes us think we can do better than that? Huh? We've been robbed of everything everything And you're right like pain. I I mean I my back has been really bad since I was a kid I was 17 years old when I had spinal surgery and um I had to work through I mean I still have flare-ups that I have to work through with my lower back But I know it has not really it's got nothing to do with my lower back Because the the physical body is an expression of what the energetic body is telling it And so that's something and I know where it comes from because it's connected to moledara, which is the root base chakra which is You're right to be here on this earth That you are enough And we were texting about this right like when fear comes up because these that's the beautiful thing about exercise as well Is it brings up it forces because the energy is moving rapidly through the body because the body is moving into different shapes Regardless, you're swimming or doing yoga or running You're creating a pattern with your your muscles are alive and it's pumping stuff So it's like when you're When you're power washing the driveway and all this mud comes up and starts running down That's what's happening in your body too, but that mud is bondage that you put on yourself And so these emotions sometimes sometimes you do get flashbacks But sometimes you just feel an emotion that comes up because it's the emotion. That's the trigger. So fear Anxiety all that stuff starts to come up to the surface because it's being presented to you Like like you've boiled it now. It's being presented to you like I hear look at this Look look at this look at this for you to then work through it So that's why exercise becomes so spiritual too because it forces you and it brings you to a place where the ego I mean, you know this avan, you know this Stephanie when you're doing a really hard exercise And you're exhausted physically and you've got just these emotions coming up You have hit a place of honesty that you can't hit out in the real world when the ego's out No I learned that today Yeah, it's honesty and that's the beautiful thing about injury too. That's um, david greeks says that in ashtonga yoga They're three teachers the teacher the practice the injury The injury is your teacher because nothing's going to bring you to a level of honesty then when something in your body hurts Well, like you said rice, you know, I You know this I have a major issue with my wrists and doing anything with putting any kind of weight on my wrists And instead of thinking oh, well, maybe I got carpal tunnel or something like I've been told in the past It's my shoulders are not aligned and I'm and I was not Properly Extending them out. They were in like this instead of being out like that That's the uh, oh my god. I know what it's called protraction retraction. Yes all that And so when I went to go do my bar workout today and then um yesterday I had to really stop and think and go are my shoulders aligned and my protracting correctly And I had to really stop and think, you know, what is disaligned or am I aligned? and it's I'm still getting the hang of it because I'm I've been so not aligned for a long time so my body has to now get this memory of Just doing it But um, and I'm sure eventually I'll come to a place where you know, like you just go into your head your head stands or Your uh hand stands and stuff like that Um, and I know I'll get I'll get to that place one day. Um But it's um, it hurt like hell I I dropped a couple f-bombs. I'm not gonna lie But I I continued to work through the best I could um, I do need probably a teacher like Right with me and everything, you know helping me align things because I'm still You know a little bit sketchy on Getting all the alignment and everything done um But it's teaching me that no, there's nothing wrong with my wrists. No, it's my shoulders. Well, no, it's Because that's here too. Well, that's the thing Let's let's pause on this for a second because if the body is the expression of the soul And the body is out of alignment then what does that say about the soul? Souls are out of alignment And that makes sense because you grew up in a you grew up you worked in a world that told you that your body And your soul weren't all the same thing, right? With your body, it's just your body you inherit it. You can't really do anything about it. That's it Yeah, so that that intentionally fragmented. That's the word that city just used. I loved it fragmented Your soul from your body But now you're rewiring the way you see this because the body is not separate from the soul The body was actually created by the soul. That's what this shiva Shakti It's that's what Shakti yeah the creation of the soul And so that's if you if I I tell people all the time to buy the yoga sutras Read them multiple times. Even if you don't practice yoga, read the yoga sutras multiple times Sri swamisha chitinanda has got a great commentary where he speaks about this He speaks about this Right, so when when we have an what the body The body is the gross body, right? So like this like just our arms our gross body everything if my bicep hurts I can all my bicep hurts or my shoulder hurts. That's the gross body That's the thing that we can identify first when we first go on on this journey when we're trying to when we're going Wait a minute, wait a minute My body is not separate from my soul in this life because it's the expression of my soul My soul created this my thoughts my energy created this wow ding ding ding plot twist That means I can change it if I want to right But doesn't happen overnight So when we start to study the body we start with the gross body because that's what we know When we skin a knee when we have a knee paint we recognize the gross body when we Wrist risk issues are super common in the beginning In the beginning then they go away Because what happens is when they start people start to feel that pain and they go Oh, I don't want to do this because my wrist Well, no, it's because your shoulders out of line that your core has give no core strength Okay, let's work on that when we protract all the sudden the core starts to wake up The beautiful thing is god gave you every single muscle you need You have it You want to do a handstand? You have everything you need Including the inhale because the inhale is what lifts you up to that chronic lift, right? You don't you don't go up into a hands-down on exhale. You don't have to go anywhere You know Yes, then we have to work with the breath the breath that comes into that as well Right when you lower down into a push-up you're lowering down on an exhale when you push up your inhaling because that's that chronic response Of that. Yeah, I'm lifting up that rising up. I don't teach you that in gym class No Like if you were if I had you in the room my yoga room Stephanie what I would do Is I would say all right, let's let's put you up against the wall I'm going to have you put your your bare feet against the wall And I'm going to have you squeeze a block in between your thighs And I'm going to have you come into a push-up position So that you can see how much your legs are also dumping weight Into your shoulders because water runs downhill and the legs. Oh the legs Those legs that's some some and that's where things get real interesting Real because you know that inner thigh that in bar where they have you that's why I'm having to do the barks They squeeze those balls. Oh, yeah For some women they'd be like, oh it gives me skinnier legs. No This inner thigh because I'm on my bed so I can do this this inner thigh right here This is where we store anger Well, that's where that came from I did a lot of work today and I oh my god. Okay, so I I already told you I was going to tell this story The workout I did this morning was all about the glutes of the thighs and and all of that happy jazz, right? And I just started to get angry. I mean I was triggered and I continued through it I was very proud of myself. I continued through it Drop some mouth bums. Maybe some other words in there. A lot of passion words came out and um Um, maybe a couple grunts Okay, I then Felt so then I started to do a lot like the hip stretching and stuff like that after you know, how marnie does it marnie alton um, and then I just Normally I don't get the flashbacks and everything but I started to get a lot of flashbacks of things that in my past that have angered me and I allowed myself to sit in it and cry Yeah, because I had really I had to face it and release it So let's look at what happens soon. I'm sure avid you see this with clients as well So what the body what the mind will do not because the body she's doing what the mind tells her to do The body is literally like clay that the mind just directs, right? So david used to call it the artful dodger I agree with it 100 so when you don't know if you don't have the you know Knowledge is power. So if you don't know that your inner thighs carry Potency for health anger anger. You don't know that and anger is not fun It's not fun to be angry It's not fun to feel that and you all of a sudden start to ignite your inner thighs for exercising You're doing a push-up and all of a sudden the inner thighs kick in which they should But also you feel that anger. What does your mind then do it goes? Oh shit drops the legs because Intuitively it knows that's where that's coming from and then dumps the weight into the shoulders And then what do you have you have wrist issues you have shoulder issues So then we say oh, I have wrist issues shoulder issue. Okay Well, what's my body telling me my shoulders telling me that I just took all this weight and dumped it into it What the fuck man like you just gave me all this weight, but then the mind's going but the thighs have anger I don't want to deal with it. But then this the psychological spiritual aspect says no no no We need to deal with it It's there. We have to we have to go with it I don't keep coming back up So this wrist issue that you have is beautiful. It's gold Okay golden wrist folks Like like now we have something now we have something to work on Right and think about that opportunity that if if you're you walked away because your wrist hurt That karma is not going anywhere. That anger is not going where you're just gonna have to deal with the next life And it's gonna stay there until you actually deal with it But when we actually understand that when the body hurts, it's not a bad thing. It's the body. Just tell me it's just communicating with you It's saying hey Something's imbalanced show me Talk to me show me. All right. Now if you get a teacher or an instructor that knows these things They can work you through it I would have you at the wall squeezing a block while you did push-ups and telling your feet not to leave the wall As you come up and down to make sure those legs stay engaged the most dangerous thing you can do With stretching especially is to passively stretch Because that's when injury happens when we stretch when it went and um ashanga yoga Well ashanga yoga, there's a lot of cardio in between the stretching But like when we do a seated series, for example If my students feet are not flexed. I will come and kick their leg Because when your feet aren't flex when they're relaxed guess what happens to your knee It relaxes the joint relaxes the muscles deflate What happens when the nut muscles deflate? Well, the joint could get injured first of all set But second of all energetically you're not moving energy in your body when the muscles are engaged That's the energy moving through the body if they're not engaged. It's just sitting there So we're moving that energy And I will say to my students in like a leg class because I only teach a leg class once with at Cindy the rest is just my sore like tap into that Feel that sensation instead of being in the practice and thinking about the laundry you have to do or Wondering like if you're going to see your boyfriend like actually go into your body and feel that sensation of the energy moving Beyond all the emotions that are coming up. That's your body showing you that you are alive How many people are alive, but they forget they're alive We're due to strap working here live. We are kind of walking in a world full of zombies right now. Yeah. Yeah Now more than ever probably. Yeah. Yeah 100% So, um, could I share a little bit just personal, um Experience about what you're talking about brice. Yeah, of course. So I had a friend back in Dallas who taught Um Yoga and it was the the hot yoga, you know And I like I mentioned it was it came pretty naturally to me So I was more advanced for the you know, this western type of yoga I feel so funny talking about it now that I have you as my friend here like that ain't real I'm like, I feel like I'm like, well, I did some of it I'll teach you from where I wear it. We're we're all together. I'll teach you I cannot wait for that. Let me tell you like seriously. I love I've talked to y'all about this before I'm like I'm the type of person who's like, let me know my lessons like I'm trying to hurry up and learn this Like let's get in the I want to go deep and dig in the mud You'd be a great as long as you did then I that's why I'm so excited and like whenever Cindy came on your show and talking about shadow work and like how she speaks about it I'm like, yes girl like that's like so me But uh, anyway, so when I would start I would carry crystals with me to class and sometimes I'd like put them in my bra Because they would just stay with me when I'm moving or I'd like set them at the edge of my mat But when we would start out the practice I would Um speak to spirit and be like, you know, teach me or show me what I need to know Essentially, you know, whatever messages you have for me because I'm a very I'm very in tune with my body and I I'm the type of person who is there to connect with myself when I'm moving. I use that like for me working out like meditation You know stretching or anything. I'm anytime I'm moving my body. I'm learning and I I You know thoughts and feelings come up and I love that connectedness anyway, so, um Anytime I don't know what the actual Sanskrit word is but Kalpo's when your legs are like essentially when your knees are stacked on each other And they're gassana What is it go move gassana go move gassana? Okay, yeah, so whenever I would get in that for a while I would just start like the I'd be like, you know, like just start to get choked up and um Anytime I have to stretch this outer portion like the outer glutes and and that part and just getting real deep into my my, um my quads or my hip Musculature and I also so with dance and cheerleading. I'm fairly flexible in my hips However, like I can do my splits both ways but my straddle splits I've had a hard time getting into it And so it makes so much sense that you're talking about Angers held in that that portion of our body because I held a lot of anger toward Myself for so long toward my family toward others, you know, just through all the the trauma and the stuff that I went through growing up So I can get like I've gotten it's like I get to this certain point And I can't get past that to the ground But I'd be really interested to see how close I can get now because I know I've done a lot of work over this past year But I haven't like I haven't like been doing yoga in that time since I moved up here It's up so it'd be interesting to see that so a lot of women also struggle with um, so that's the saddle split It's called upavista konasana And there's another one where you bring your feet together called bottle konasana But upavista konasana more than bottle konasana women who have experienced RAPE Or any type and not necessarily the full extreme of that but any type of like SA or SM Sorry guys, but if you very careful about what we say, I think you guys know we're talking about Have a really hard time opening up that area as well Especially an upavista konasana because your legs are literally spread apart, right? That's very vulnerable And um, one thing again, you want to do is make sure your feet are flexed so that the muscles are actively then we start to fold forward You're opening up that area Now this might get a little bit TMI, but we have um, I I've spoken about this with the bundas as well because in ash tanga yoga We focus on the bundas more than the chakra system. The bunda system is the locks in your body So you have mola bunda, which is in your perineum, which is right in your crotch basically Um, and that connects to your big toe So that also connects to your thigh So in india, they will stick their hand and check your mola bunda I can't do that and I say in india, it's not weird and just it is not weird in india. It is what it is not weird Um, but in america, I can't do that nor do I want to do that to my students So I look at their big toes a lot when they're on the mat and their big toe is not pressing into the mat I know that their mola bunda is not locked And so for women, that's like a kegel So what happens to when we do postures like upavishtal conassana where the legs are spread apart and we're folding forward Is we have to keep that like flex so the big toe is actively opening up the inner thigh But we're also holding that perineum in so we're keeping the energy inside the body If you fart in yoga class your bunda is not Is not locked basically that's another sign that your bunda is not locked Uh women when you're on your cycle you're you don't have mola bunda It's like a wet paper towel. I know that sounds gross, but it becomes very loose because your body's detoxing, right? So it can't lock. It's got to get this the the lining out of your uterus um And so there's all these like cues with the body and I used to be that way with upavishtal conassana where I had A really hard time folding But there was some stuff regarding that that I had not dealt with and the more I dealt with it now It's super easy to get my chest so far because I dealt with it and all of a sudden my body went okay Because my mind went okay, and sometimes with trauma too what I've noticed uh It's just accepting that it happened Because sometimes we don't want it. We know it happened, but we don't want to accept that it happened And so we just stood there and say yeah that fucking happened And I'm still here All of a sudden the body goes okay Right that's so true That's yeah A perception of your trauma Yeah, perception because because that is that's all it is is uh shanti talks about this all the time And she's so right because that is the yoga philosophy Everything that happened to you is a projection projection of your own issues everything Like when you go into um because I have we just talked about with Cindy I had the propensity for many years going into Relationships with narcissists with men who were not very nice To culminate with me one night almost losing my life because I I would think that I had dealt with it because I would need a new guy And maybe he was a little different or looked different, but no the issue was still there. I hadn't changed anything I just changed the outfit the issue was in Right and so when I finally had to deal with it Everything changed Because I I had to deal with it. It wasn't about punishing them It was about healing myself You had asked me and we were in a group text with this And I wanted to bring this up I went to the same cycle. I dated probably five or six narcissistic men back to back to back And your question was why did you allow the abuse? And my response was I was looking for love from an outside source Rather than me the inside source Yeah, and that comes even deeper There's even deeper roots to that which we spoke about which is knowing having a sense of self Yeah, and they teach us in this western world to lose your sense of self, especially church background You must lose yourself to find yourself you must lose yourself and find jesus christ and then you find yourself It doesn't work that way because the thing is god lives within each and every one of us Yeah, and who do you spend the most time with in your lifetime as yourself be your best friend? Love yourself It is hard to do it is and it requires a lot of work a lot of inner work a lot of uncomfortable work But boy when you start to do it you start to see the benefits you reap what you sow Yeah, if you're working doing so much inner work You're gonna start to look in the mirror and no matter what you You know, whether you don't like your freckles or for me. It's my hair. I have a big Insecurity about my hair because I lost so much of it like years ago So it's something I have to work through. Well, why don't I love my hair. It's not just that it's thin It's there's more to it. There's deep. There's there's something else rooted in that So when you start to do this inner work, you can love yourself regardless of what you've been through and how you look and But when you do like you said Ava when you start doing the physical work, you know, you start um Looking better and feeling better That also comes with um, also a lot of more self-confidence too So, I mean it all comes in hand in hand I mean you shouldn't just work out just to lose weight and that's it That doesn't work that way I don't even want people the weight will come off as it needs to as you start because If you just lose weight if you go on like some crash bad thing And you you're losing weight just to look good in a dress for one day You're not working on you're not dealing with yourself You don't yourself the way it's going to come off and stay off because the weight is just a symptom of something imbalanced and with like the hair situation like I would encourage you to research what that means spiritually where that What what that connects to within these energy cycles here where there's imbalance because your body's telling you something It's like when people have knee issues Okay, the issues are connected to kidneys Kidneys are connected to fear specifically fear of the future So when somebody tells me they have any issue i'm like all right. Well, what are you afraid about in the future? What that explains I'm learning so much here guys. I'm learning so much. I was having knee issues too. My biggest issue was fear of death Funny part is i'm no longer afraid of death. My knees hardly ever hurt me Yeah, so this is what this is what the west they want us to think that anytime there's a pain It's something else so beyond yourself. It's something you've inherited. Yeah, you can because you inherit energy from Yeah, from your parents and so if your dad had a Fear of the future and that sperm was at that vibration and it went into the egg that made you you're going to carry that too But it's not your dad's interesting. It's not your dad's responsibility to deal with that It's yours Your responsibility to deal with that That's why you know Guruji used to say that when you practice yoga and you deal with this you vibrationally change change seven generations beneath you Yeah, yeah That's so that's so powerful So powerful. Um, I wanted to add on to what stephanie was saying About working on yourself and learning to love yourself and spending time with yourself When we do that more and we learn and we We approach everything as the observer in our lives and the emotions that come up and how we have responded in certain situations It makes it so much easier To navigate social situations because because you understand yourself It's easier to understand others and if we are all one then You're interacting with yourself healthier and it's easier to approach Outside relationships healthier too and that's one thing that I've really valuable that I've learned By spending so much time with myself and being forced to work on my craft, you know You don't become like we were talking about this, um, you know When we have like certain behavior patterns that aren't healthy, right? And let's take something that and stephanie we were talking about this I don't know if we want to show or off the air, you know, let's talk about something women kind of do a lot Uh Is they become needy with men? We all have that girlfriend that like will obsessively text her boyfriend You know and instead of telling her just don't do that As a yoga teacher, I would ask her why are you doing that? Well, I think he's cheating Maybe but nine times that's any probably isn't did you do this with your other boyfriends too? Yes. Okay. Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this and then it you whittle you start whittling it back And um and most of the time people come it comes down to not feeling like they're enough We don't feel like enough you don't have a sense of self And i'm not talking about the sense of self as in knowing what your favorite color is or your favorite food is That's all part of just your personality, which is just a just one layer of who you are Your sense of self is just that wholeness within you That you can sit with and be alone with We were talking off air somebody in the truth or community that I think has a huge sense of self And you can tell by his behavior is david zooplick on the dark outpost He's so grounded and i've been on his show now for over two years once a week He is so consistent He is he never you know people who have mood swings You know they they they're emotional into the sense where they can't keep I mean i'm emotional But they can't handle their emotions They project emotions on the other people that's somebody that's not comfortable with or doesn't know their sense of self And those emotions that are out of hand are showing them that No one can fix that no medicine can fix that no drug can fix that They have to fix it by actually sitting with themselves being alone Getting involved in a discipline. That's what exercise is too. It's it's it's you know Where do we get the word disciple from? Discipline You become a disciple to source When you use your body and the way it was supposed to be used Which is your gps to your soul? And yeah, the church they're the biggest Those motherfuckers lie about everything Right like they literally like they're dirtier in the deep state in the church like it is the dirtiest of I mean The cap the capitol hill is pristine compared to the church It is dirty. They've lied to you about everything So let's look at what they've done. What did yasha would teach what did maxlin teach? They taught you that you were enough that you they were gnaustic They were gnosis the inter gnosis not the idiom not the outer knowledge the internolly That you you have that spark of life you you have the pathway to god what the church do they manipulate those teachings? They said well you have all these us You you're not enough you have to have this this dude This guy are you sure you believe are you sure so you lose that sense of self? We just celebrated easter, which is not I mean yasha wasn't crucified. Why would why would this why would source ask for a human sacrifice? That's what lucifer does Yep, no human being can repay your karma for you No human being can go for your through you have to keep going through the cycle until you learn and you brought up a Good point on our last video with cindy and you said God doesn't care how long it takes Our our souls are eternal Uh, we we might care though because let's let's you know, I don't think we want to continue these really rough cycles and To me Let's just do this. Let's get this over and done way that I'd rather handle this now And this in this life. I'm I almost a previous life I'm Um, I want to do this now and so I think you got all three of us are at the same level on that um But yeah, god doesn't care because god knows we just will have to continue To learn and learn and learn until we actually like get it Yeah, and you said sin means miss the mark You just have to continue to keep living out these lifetimes until you learn the lesson Minds working it over with and done now and face your shit Yeah, no sin does not yes sin is not what the church tells you it is sin just means to miss the mark to not know who you are So every time you if you're sitting you don't know who you don't have a sense of self then you're in sin You're missing the mark Now let's think about the actions that the church has said is sinful. Let's look at having affairs now I believe 100 and monogamy. That is my choice. I you know, if you are polyamorous then good for you That's just not something I can handle it for me That's too much And I also know that karmically when you have an intimate relationship with someone you are also sharing that energy with that person And so you have to take that into consideration as well if you're doing it with multiple people. Holy shit That's a shit show, you know, um talk about more karma you're building with that. Okay, but let's talk about affairs You know, that's listed as a sin right to have an affair But if we look at some affairs now if my Husband was cheating on me. I would leave him for sure and it would be hard and it would be trauma And I have to work here, but how many people do you know have had affairs and then they've had children In those new relationships So are those children's lives not valuable? And do we not something to learn in every single situation And do we understand that karmically those people made an agreement to go through that to learn from each other Um, that's uh, I mean that's what betrayal is a huge one. That's what affairs are their betrayal Then the shanty said it best. Well, what's the opposite of betrayal? It's truth So when someone betrays you you're there to now learn truth Yeah So and and so there's always if we if we use the obstacles these hard things that come in us in our life Look at what all we've gone through in the past couple years I'm sure everybody watching right now even though it sucked Think about 2019 Do you want to go back to that person in 2019? God, no. Hell no. No, I'm good. I'm gonna leave that over in 2019 So 2019 I was already awake. So for me to be like 2014 I would never want to go because I woke up pretty soon after thanks Jordan Maxwell on his video on the cult of satyr and that's when first like I Wait a minute So So right so you so everything you've gone through It's led you to where you are now and you agree to it because that's darn That's the whole purpose of the Bhagavad Gita You know, it's uh, Cindy actually talks about this in her courses I sat in one of her courses once I was teaching on Out there to teach an apportion on my stonga and I sat in the tail end of her teaching and I was like, yeah, she's right And you know the Bhagavad Gita it's one of my it was the most life-changing book I ever read and it's this dude Arjuna He's literally standing on the battlefield and he's facing off to fighter this land He's looking across the battlefield To his friends his teachers people. He's loved in his life. He's got to go to war with them He don't want to do it Who does And so he's having like a meltdown And he's having this like come to Jesus moment and so Krishna who is the avatar, which is christ That's the the Avatar of Christ was was the deity in this in this epic And so Krishna comes down and has a little conversation with Arjuna Now most people think all spirituality are Christian would have been like, okay Arjuna. It's okay. Just come back here with me. No Christian was like You're a fucking warrior Cowboy up Get your arrow ready. You got to go kill people This is your dharma. You agree to this You can't back out This is it I kind of went through that. I mean I woke up in 2021. Well, I started to wake up in 2020 I mean, I guess I've been awake to like a bunch of different things my whole life I'm sure as both of you have to certain things, but I'm talking like the real like deep rooted deep state stuff Like the little people go, you know being Brought to all places of the world, you know where I'm going with that Like that kind of stuff. Yeah, and I remember 2021 hit And I hadn't seen my family and Almost a year at this point No fight. No nothing and it was like God's voice Yashua's voice You need to part ways with them And I literally had a hissy fit in my head, of course. I cried I carried on, you know in my in my mind Um because I'm a I'm a family girl. I like the the family unit and that's important to me But instead of thinking well, maybe this isn't good for my highest good And I had to really grieve that and I know why now I'm not going to go and you guys don't know why But I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to say it on camera, but um, I had to really grieve And I know it's not like going to battle like that particular story But in a sense it's like he had to face his teachers and his friends and his family, right? In a sense it was like I had to kind of go against my family in terms of their views They're programming on me Everything that they taught me the way that they view me There are thoughts about me all these different things that were all the all these heroes that were always flung at me And I had to say nope Not doing it anymore And again that goes with self-love and that if that means you cut off people in your family because they are not They're because they're toxic and that's what you have to do But there was a lesson I had to learn there was a lot of grieving There was a lot of pent up emotions that had to be brought up. There was a lot of purging I've talked to you ladies about this several times but I know it's not that I seem kind of story or anything, but it's like um I kind of had to buck up and grow. I'm a girl But I had to kind of grow a pair in a sense because it was not easy for me Well, and I'll do you one better With the arjuna story. Let's go a little deeper with this. Okay So this is what we talk about yoga every time you get on your yoga mat. That's your battlefield Where are you having to battle yourself? Where are things within you that you're battling where there's friction that you're having to face Oh, there's a whole bunch of things that's when that real that's when the real that's when the artful dodger sets in Oh, yeah That's the real battlefield because everything inside of us is a projection of our inner world too It's funny you bring that up to brace because it was like the removal of all of that Then became working on me Why Why am I this way? Why am I acting this way? Why do I have these bad habits? What do I need to learn? What do I need to work on? Why do I need to work on and so it's been this There it's been a lot of dips and mountains and valleys and mountains and and this kind of roller coaster thing, but Now i'm seeing the trajectory of it all and i'm understanding now I'm still not 100% understanding and that's that's going to be a lifelong journey, of course Probably that it's part of what you say spirituality is it's lifelong And so it's like I had to have that removed in order to do the self work Because there's a lot of noise around me. Otherwise it was why can't you do this? Why can't you say that this way? There was uh, it was like it was even worse than church almost in a way It was like everybody was trying to shape me and mold me into what they wanted and projecting their own shit onto me No, I I need to focus on me. You can't control somebody else's projections No for your own and that's why I say like this is a whole like where your body's not aligned Was your soul not aligned? So if there's chaos in your life Then that tells me there's chaos inside of you. Yes because like attracts like we attract what we are When there's peace inside of you I have a really peaceful life for the most part besides the whole you know coven thing But as far as like my actual life I I have a very peaceful existence I sit at my desk in the court all day, but you know, I have a very everybody in my life Is very peaceful kind. It hasn't always been that way But because I worked on myself Everything shifted Yeah, and and it's funny because even like I have people now who They're used to me being all hey, you know like anxiety ridden and now they're like you're creepy because you're just so calm I'm like because I have a sense of self now Yeah, because I have a sense of loving myself and I have boundaries And I know what's good for me and what's not I'm taking better care of myself I'm I'm having um more self confidence where I never had that before I've done a total 180 and they're like Girl, what the hell happened to you like we don't know you And but trigger people that are not with it. Oh my god. Yeah People the moment you put up boundaries. They like scatter like roaches. It's like It's it's um, it's interesting and but you start to find though it goes into to like Who is truly there for you? I you're truly there for yourself. You have to be but it also shows you kind of we're in your life What kind of company you're attracting it goes back to what you said eva, you know, uh, you you attract what you are You know what I mean? So it it goes in hand in hand where People who were attracted to me because of my insecurities and my flaws and The way I was acting They had to scatter because god forbid they they want to go work and they can't work on themselves They're they're not at that level yet and I'm not saying I'm above them It's just that now there is this like it's like, um There was no more magnet anymore. It was like they were repelling You repel people that cannot line up with that frequency. Yeah, there's an energetic. Yeah They either vibrate with up with you or they vibrate away from you Yeah, and so you're going to start to figure out people who are truly in your life because they truly love you and respect you and care about you Versus people that just misery loves company. It's so true Well, sometimes people are karmically there to teach a lesson too Yeah, and those those are horrible people to have around but we all agree and You recognize a person as being a karmic Then you go, okay I see them. Yep. It makes so much sense come into a close. You say, thank you Tell them thank you, but thank you spirit for that polarity. See you never I got it. Yeah There's someone people like what's a karmic if there's someone in your life that's causing you intense stress That's a karmic That's a karmic. It's they're there to teach you. Yeah As awful as they are it's a karmic lesson for you. They're not they're going to be there forever They're only going to be there until you learn a lesson And there have been times when you've been a karmic in somebody else's life too. Yeah, we all have that That's why I tell people I'm like in my videos. I'm like, it's okay to ask for help. We have angels. We have ancestors. We have Creator god there like we have to because those good and high beings are not going to Overstep the laws of free will we have to use our voice and speak to the universe and put that vibration out there That we want the help to identify those lessons, you know quickly and I I say it I'm like is ask for it, you know quickly and with love so you don't get your ass kicked because Say sometimes if you ask for if you say I want to be spiritually healed Yeah, yeah Yeah Talking about this beforehand for people to start to understand their Their power and I know people do this and like reiki and I have taken I've been more open If I have taken level one level two reiki. I did it for chits and giggles a long time ago I knew that was never going to be my modality of healing. I just wanted to learn and so I I do I have taken those courses, but I don't do reiki. I yoga is my thing But I I want it because I respect it so much, but you see this ace of cops, huh courses the ace of cops card She got a bowl with the overflowing of the baby batter will just say but um, anyway You see how she's holding her hands and we were talking about this and when you do this exercise You don't just like hold it's like I could talk about flexing your feet You need your your body to be activated now on our stronger yoga We don't like the fingers to be separated like when people do like the jazz hands and yoga Where they do like Starlin's jazz hands and our stronger we keep our hands completely Because that's also where energy releases to is through So we want to keep that locked So I would do it this way because that's how curving this way Now you keep your everything connected everything and you will if you sit there by yourself for a few minutes And you focus on the energy between the palms of your hand You will start to feel the energy flowing through your hands This is energy that's also flowing through your body. It's also flowing through the bottoms of your feet Yeah So That's something people can play with it. They're just now figuring out that their body is really special and magical And it feels like there's something in between the palms and it's so funky feeling I love it So when I go to adjust somebody because adjustments and our stronger yoga we call them man handling Or cranking, you know, like in western yoga cranking. Yeah You know when in western yoga, like they give like it's been so long times I will I still I asked me today about taking a yoga class I will not go to a yoga class unless I have studied in yoke in india and I studied longer than me I won't do it. It's a waste of time. Otherwise I'll just get these off Are you not allowed to or something like that? I can't I can't teach if I was involved flow out excuse me if I was involved in vinyasa flow classes or In the yoga alliance like teacher trainings, I would lose my authorization They do that very seriously because teacher trainings are not okay in in india, but Um, I wouldn't go because I would probably just make me mad because the yoga alliance doesn't teach properly They really screwed up the the teaching So, um, but when I go to adjust somebody or crank somebody even though they're not pleasant Like if you do take that sometimes they like rub your back, you know, that doesn't that doesn't happen in traditional yoga They don't read poetry to you. There's no in your play. They're usually yelling at you and like pulling. I mean sweat's flying I've been farted on I've been all sorts of stuff all over me It's I've had my boobs grab more in a myso room than uh, than any other than in the then in the bedroom It's fine. Whatever students, you know, they they grab because they're like and you're like it's it's fine. It's You know, I have teachers male teachers I've always had a male teacher they I prefer having a male teacher And I've been grabbed unintentionally and it's no big deal whatever but um, but when I go to adjust I always think about my hands because even though I'm going to be forcefully Moving somebody's body and that goes back to um, I the roughing if you've ever been roughing Um, and the woman who created the roughing system She figured out that no matter how much work you do yourself There's certain patterns that you will not be able to break You'll have to have an external force help you and that's where the adjustments come Usually comes in twisting getting the body to open in a twist Um, and so when I go I I use my whole we climb on top of people. I stand on people Cindy loves it. There's a Barakunasana adjustment where I lay on her back and lift my legs up and and Cindy We just filmed with I always do that for her because she loves that adjustment. It's a true yoga student We were like give it to me You know, I mean it's it's uh, it's it's intense and so I but I think about that when I'm Adjusting students that I have to use my energy. I listen to their inhale. I listen to their exhale I move the body on an exhale if I'm lifting them into like a handstand or if I'm helping them with the transition I have to wait for their inhale. I have to inhale with them to use the energy appropriate to lift them Um, so it there's a lot that goes into it But you see that when you start to work with the hands that there's so much energy there And if you are a teacher or rakey healer with great power of great responsibility Days when I'm not feeling that great when my energy fills up I won't do as many happy adjustments because I know my energy's not that's why In most traditional yogas you get up at two o'clock in the morning and you do your day of practice for you Go teach at 4 a.m Because you are not supposed to be in a mice room teaching unless you've already done your practice because you've already worked for your energy That's how serious it is. It's how serious they take it. So um Anyway, all right ladies. Do we want to pull like one or two cards to see like what spirit wants to tell us about Discovering our bodies moving forward Yeah Do you want tarot or a cold you choose? Whatever you think whatever you feel Whatever I only have tarot with me. I was telling Stephanie oracle cards. They are um They're harder to read sometimes, you know Uh, do you want me to to read oracle then since y'all are both doing tarot I just pulled two cards and I think that this sounds enough. You guys do it Whatever you whatever you feel like you should do okay But I just two cards flew out and I felt this is perfect the eight of wands to the moon So quickly moving into finding out secrets about yourself. That's how I read that Holy crap. These cards are so accurate Okay So what I'm getting here is um, so first off I have the four of pentacles and the four of pentacles It's like you're hanging on to something with your life let go Let go of what This mind, you know has been fed all of the programming Such as the whole pain concept such as um, the western ways, you know, uh everything that we've been taught um Don't cling to that, you know, or this could be also like um How do I put it? I I think this is more like less saying let let go of the programming. Okay Um Like for me, I have to let go of all of the stuff I learned about the human body in the western medicine world That I had to let go that because that does not serve any purpose any longer um, this is a spiritual in a karmic Thing going through these things. We were just talking about that So a lot of karmic lessons will be coming up and that's part of the spirituality in it So exercising is not just getting your body to look good. Like we said, it's a spiritual bed. It's a spiritual thing but it's a lot of A dropping card A lot of letting go of the old karmic lessons that we have to let go of And which is going to move you up spiritually and it's going to be freaking hard to do This is a hard thing to do But um Hold on. I need to put one more card Allow it It's part of why you chose to be a human So two of wands normally means to block. I'm actually getting this opposite You will unblock yourself Look at that dragon. Yeah, that's a dragon. I love that Bring on the dragon the red dragon um And then I have the page of pentacles. This is actually I feel like saying physically know your body like the energy Get to know the nervous system get to know the chakras those The way the energy flows you're going to actually start to find that you are knowing yourself even more on a higher level And and again, it's like unblocking yourself from um You know, uh, maybe unlock unlock those channels like what like with the hips or Yeah, um dragon can also be like the serpent and the serpent is the yeah the crudelini awakening. Yep Exactly that's coming through exercise guys That was like that was crazy accurate right there. That's like awesome That comes up shishuna, which is the the naughty the bayou in the spine that um Is also along the path of the chakra system and the bundas As a whole other video we can get into one day So Okay, I pulled from the cosmic dancer oracle and then I felt like there was a message Message in the gateway of light oracle as well. So I pulled one from that Uh, the first one I got was play and this has a very like three of cups feel to me. This is is like Finding we uh, I don't remember who I was talking to but exercise is not a one size fits all thing people And just because somebody put up this like super great workout or whatever it might not be for you you might hate running you might hate Uh cycling you might hate whatever find what Makes you smile. What makes you happy like I cannot Even express enough how excited I felt to get off work and go work out when at this time when I was losing weight and the weight felt like It's a privilege Yeah, the goal was surpassed way ahead of time because my heart was in it because I was enjoying what I was doing So play find what your body likes to do find what makes you happy where you're moving Where you're getting your heart rate up and you're sweating. So, you know, you're moving this energy out and you're, uh, transforming and um transferring whatever stuck and and uh Alchemizing that for your health for your benefit and be authentic with yourself Be authentic. So whatever comes up Acknowledge it with love with non-judgment too. That's very very important because like like brice was saying With assault or or r.i.p. E or any any type of Crazy traumatic situation. Yes, it happened in your life and yes, it might have been It's essentially something that you agreed to But when those things come up look at them with a loving eye and a non-judgmental eye and Acknowledge that that happened and be in integrity with yourself and your emotions because when you show up and you're authentic with yourself You can be more authentic with others the way you show up in life Um, I also have higher heart activation dropping shields divine love your heart is healed So this again goes into when we're moving and we're shaking those things around and and dealing with that root Uh, that root chakra We're cracking open like that one card that you have in the deck Stephanie. I think it's star seed oracle. Maybe I don't know But it's cracked open and it's like You're breaking open that tough shell that tough exterior and getting letting the light shine through and the beauty shine through And letting that energy rise up and and you and you can start heart healing from moving your body Because as as bryce was speaking about like a lot of shame and anger and pain and trauma is just tucked away in these folds and in these um In heat like myofascial adhesions in our in our bodies and in our fashion everything and when we start to break that apart We can then start to really heal because that energy is free to flow So yes Yeah, I came through it. I was doing a healing session with shanti once and that came through when I was under I said, um She told me afterwards. I said I realized the more and then the more my heart breaks the more the light comes in Yeah, I love that and and she actually told me I'd said that afterwards And I was like that's probably all the years about shanti yoga then because yeah the more I realized the more trauma i've been through and the more I deal with it myself the more Compassion I have the more empathy I have the better teacher. I am the more authentic I am and that that sense of authentic that that brings back to that sense of honesty too when you allow yourself to like When you allow for things to get hard uncomfortable It brings you to an authentic place of honesty and that's when magic happens. Yeah, so All right guys, um, let us know in the comments below if you want us to do a round too And I was telling ava now ava isn't like a transitional period in her life, but I was you know because ava Is a trainer and so I was trying to talk her into actually putting some workout videos on her youtube I love that idea when and when I get a little bit more situated or like I really want to do that Sooner than that. So I'm Working that out you all Yeah, so y'all let her know if you want her and I was actually thinking No, I can't put our strong yoga up because I have to teach you in person because of the way it's set up But I was thinking about putting just some videos up of some easy Stuff to do at home just to start opening up Some pathways in your body So like if you you need to get hot and sweaty before you do it get your heart rate up so the blood can pump But just some easy stuff like five minute videos here and there to show you how to open your hips a little bit If that's something I'll want let me know it's not on the yoga I'm gonna have to make that very clear. Just let me do it on the comment section below and I will try to figure out how to do that Um, anyway, I know I did the I got so many comments Stephanie I have a last video when I talked about the hip opening on twitter. I got a lot of comments about um You can I'll show you you can bring the sole of your foot to your ear That means that you can get your your your leg behind your head So I can show you guys more of that kind of stuff to open that that ball and hip socket to get it Actually moving and pliable. So All right ladies Thank you, Bryce. Thank you, right and and I'll see you guys. I'll be back in Atlanta Awesome, not a bed Not a bed Although I do film for my bedroom like that is my bedroom I actually faced my bed Yeah, yeah, this is my my third my third filming in a bed. So now my parents are probably so proud right now So All right, ladies. Well, we will talk oh and on my channel you guys all of their links are down in the description box below So make sure if you are not following either or Stephanie make sure that you give them a Follow and we will talk to you guys soon. Bye. Bye