 Let's try again, okay good morning, welcome to Sunday morning coffee, I'm just doing a refresh because I want to make sure it's working, oh here we go, okay just a minute or you're going to listen to my stuff, just a minute, gotta do some silent check in here, oh good it's working, yay alright sorry about that I did have a different link here this morning, it is our last, I might have to put a hat on because I cannot stand this hair stuff, it's gonna look like a rooster, yeah a little roosterish, I've been trying to finger things out in my new space with the Sunday morning coffee stuff so sometimes it's been live stream and sometimes it's been, oh god it's way too puffy I cannot handle it, it's been live stream and sometimes I've just done some recordings for you because I want to make sure I don't miss them but I also am trying to figure this out here, alright so we're gonna have a conversation about core today, oh geez I know it's kind of early it's like 9 a.m. my time central time which feels early on a Sunday for some reason why I don't know maybe because I've had an exciting weekend so we'll have a little conversation about that how about that but the good news is woke up sexy as hell again aside from this fluffy puffy hair I'm getting my haircut this week you guys next time you see me I have no idea what my hair is gonna look like we'll find out I'll just go with it I might shave it I don't know what the heck okay you guys don't come here and I'm listening to talk about my hair but I'm just trying to figure life out here okay hi nice to see you in the chat let me just I have my laptop right here so good morning hey majestic nice to see you all right so thank you I'm tired I've had a great weekend so I'm gonna chat a little bit with you and then we'll focus in on our topic of core now the core the energy of the core is literally coming from my core this morning because I can feel it I can feel these abs and I'm like oh I do have abs that's great um forgot that I had them actually until Friday night this week so I'm gonna tell you I've been trying to force myself to show up for things to try things when I commit to something and I'm like yeah I'll do that it sounds great like something new and different instead of like being a big chicken about it and not going I'm just showing up and I'm going and I'm seeing what it's about so Friday night I went to a boxing club so I work with somebody at the community center who her whole family is in boxing and she's the youngest of I think four I think four and her older brothers are in boxing and so they've traveled around and gone boxing and done boxing events and tournaments and all that kind of stuff and so she wanted to create something for women and so she started a women's boxing group and it's Friday night Saturday Saturday morning Sunday morning it's like a weekend and it's like training it's really like she like she described it and she was so accurate when she described it as like a crossfit kind of a scenario where you do a lot of interval stuff you know sit-ups push-ups all these things combined with like these boxing movements which I've never boxed you guys I've never I've never boxed before I don't even know like all I know is what you see on television and what you like instinctively want to do oops sorry instinctively want to do with your hands you know and so I'm like okay and let me just be clear like I was clearly the eldest there everybody was like in their mid to upper 20s and stuff I think there was one woman who was like 30 maybe 32 and she was great she doesn't want to she was my partner so when you had to do things together like you know you do like a push-ups and then you'd be like slap each other's hands and stuff and then you'd have to stand on each other's feet when you're doing these other thing oh my god you guys I thought okay it's been a while since I've done any kind of ab or core work in your body the center core of your body right like all the muscles in your belly and your center of your stomach and your sides and in your back too and so it's really good for your back right so strengthen your core then your back you know not as many injuries all that kind of stuff right your posture is better and everything and it's been a long time since I've done that because I haven't really done yoga very religiously since probably January this year it's been a long time like six months I mean I've done some yoga but not like like the strength training kind of stuff and so I get in there and I'm like oh I've done oh I can do oh I have abs I can do these things where we're laying down on this the ground and you put your legs straight out and you hover them and I'm like okay I can do that I could barely do that and then we did this thing where like because you have to do footwork and stuff so like you run around the ring the outside of the ring and you do like this footwork stuff and you do like these different things oh my god it was so fun and they did this thing where I'm laying on my back and I'm like oh my god and then you like cross your legs like this and you have to hold them hold them hold them I was like I am gonna die I had no strength in my core so I thought this was a good sunny mind coffee topic core for sure because you like take for granted what you've had like you've built something and then you just expect it's gonna be there those muscles no no no no no no no no we need to pay attention and give attention to ourselves if we want to stay healthy whatever that is for you if that's like your mental health stuff if that's keeping your mind sharp you know reading books educating yourself pushing yourself a little bit whether that's exercise or activity whatever that looks like for you eating how maybe it's a certain style of eating a little bit eating a little bit healthier I'm not talking anything massive you guys I'm talking just basics here basic paying attention to ourselves and our bodies is extremely important and what helps our bodies our engines run right what is at the core of us at the core of us is our engine room you know it gets us moving and I cannot explain to you how much the fire in my belly was just after that experience I was like just filled with I was dripping sweat it was super hot anyway it was like 90 degrees and it was like this big warehouse thing and the doors were wide open and then we were outside and we're inside and running on the ring you know doing all the little exercises and stuff and it was freaking hot and it was amazing I was just drenched in sweat in my head and I brought a towel because I knew it was gonna be odd and I brought my water and all that stuff I was like oh my god it was amazing I felt so I haven't felt like that since like college I haven't had that good of a workout since probably college I'm serious it really the endorphins were like whoa but it was in my core like I felt it in my sacred chakra I felt this like oh my god motivation I was like I mean this is I'm like this is the best experience I've ever had you know because she's like how you doing I do okay how you doing I'm like what I'm back I'm signing up you know I'm coming back I knew I wouldn't be able to go back on Saturday or Sunday no fucking way because I knew I was gonna need a couple days to recover I didn't feel like my physical body just felt high and great and awesome and I'm like I didn't even think about my meniscus in my right knee here my weird shoulder thing I have in the back and you know I just was aware when I was doing things to modify if I needed to but once I got those boxing gloves on I'm going to buy boxing gloves today by the way I gotta buy gloves and that you get two sets there's like a set underneath that you do or a wrap thing and then you get gloves I can't not tell you what happened to me when I put on these boxing gloves I was like wow because as a healer doing healing work it's like people focus on our hands right like you even see like if you watch tiktok or whatever people are like oh they're going like this how dramatic am I spreading right but they are they're like okay I'm not saying it doesn't work distance healing works but hands for healers I'm like I told I told the rain I said when I come to the the class I said I'm gonna modify as needed and but I'm I'm gonna show up and I did I wasn't going at all because it was like pouring rain and thunderstorming before that because it was so humid we had like rain move through and I was like laying in my bed going I really want to go I don't really want to go like no go show up I'm like nope I'm just gonna go I just I just said go and I jumped out I just got on the bed and I put on my exercise stuff and I out the door like I just went I didn't think too much about it I just did it so so glad I did but I told her I said I'm gonna modify as needed and that kind of thing and and she said I said I am not gonna hit anybody and I don't want to be hit but like those are my boundaries I have boundaries I want to participate and here are my boundaries I'm not gonna just conform and do whatever I don't know but I'm not gonna be a jerk I'm not gonna be resistant I'm gonna try stuff but I'm not gonna hit anybody any person and I'm not gonna get hit by any person okay like that was my rule for the first experience I had there right and she was totally fine she's like all right she's like yep nope don't worry about it it's not good that's not gonna happen you're good it's more like a crossfit don't worry about it I'm like crossfit I don't even like crossfit I never wanted to do crossfit are you crazy that's insane stuff I don't want to do that no so I got these gloves on and I was like and now I was getting prepped before that because we were doing these things where we were like and our stances as we were walking and then running and then stopping and then doing these stances and then walking and then doing stances and practicing like the the jabs and stuff and then you know the cross and the whatever you know kind of thing and I'm like I just jumped right in and did it and when I got the gloves on I was like she's like pick a bag and I'm like okay I'm like wait what do I do now I'm like thinking oh my god and I'm watching the people next to me just you know and I'm like okay and she's like all right here's what I want you to do and then she called out like the combination and so I'm just doing it and she came over to me and she goes okay and this is how you hit this is where you hit this is and then she just told me like in two seconds I'm like okay so she held the bag and I just didn't she's like oh she's like yeah I'm like I'm a natural she's like yeah I was just like oh my god I was so into it I was like this is the best thing I've ever done in my life and it wasn't like this I thought it was like this violence thing this fighting thing but I have the energy of this I have this warrior energy right Joan of Arc a fierce advocate for your spirit to encourage you to empower you to have your power and so for me I was like my core was activated I worked on my core in these muscles and all this energy came up and through and it wasn't anger it wasn't frustration it wasn't it was power it was your power and movement and fluidity and and it was just this like motion and then it was in my heart and it was like so oh my god I don't want to say it was tantric but it was kind of it was very it was like I was like whoa oh my god I was so just a hi after I felt so good I'm like I'm coming back so every Friday I'm gonna try to do this and then after I kind of get used to it I might try to do it Fridays and Mondays or Fridays and Sundays we'll see I think I need a day in between to kind of rest my body a little bit until I get used to the interval training part of it but it's cool because my stomach I can feel the muscles I'm like sweet you know and walking up and down the stairs here in the town house there's like three flights of long flights of stairs I'm like oh I could feel it in my legs you know I'm like sweet feels good so let's talk about your core let's talk about your core what is at the core of you where is your strength when we talk about inner strength think about the body and the core of the body like I said the stomach and this is where your solar plexus is your spirit chakra right this is where your gut intuition is your instinct is and then your back so who's got your back do you see what I'm saying you have the front and the back and the back isn't just about the past the back is about your strength the back is where you're going to shore up your core it's it's like the the practices we've used here on above-life channel and we've talked about it on Sunday morning coffee before where I've said use four pillars do you remember that if you missed that episode of Sunday morning coffee go back and listen when I call him the energy of the four pillars of light and I basically did like a kind of a little bit of a an inspiring kind of psychic experience vibe I kind of did that for you guys here that was a couple of weeks ago so check that out because it will give you this understanding of what I say when I say the core so two picture two like pillars or poles in front of you and two pillars or poles behind you and create that however it fits for you and feels safe and structured and solid so the poles go into the earth and connect to the earth there might be trees you might be picturing trees in front of you and trees behind you but close because the idea is as your etheric field which is like maybe six inches from your body is is to be able to touch that space and then your auric field encompasses and infolds them so it creates the sacred structure within you and again it could be anything picture four poles it could just be metal poles like at a playground it could be you might like something more fluid maybe you don't like this idea of something really that you can hang on to or touch maybe you're like that makes me feel too caged in or constricted then what you do is you picture just beams of light like little flashlights from the earth like a circular light in the earth like a flashlight beaming up in the front and beaming up in the back but close your body okay instead of the four pillars being in our room or being in our space and channeling angels or spirit guides I'm telling you for this core exercise we're going to two pillars in the front two pillars in the back they can be white like beautiful Roman Greek architecture pillars or it can be just a little like at the edges of a pergola like if you're sitting outside right now and you're like by a deck or a porch or padding you just have big cedar kind of beams like that just that whatever yours is it can be anything you want could just be light so I want you to feel into that for a moment to your core and I want you to connect to that can you do that and I want you to if for those of you who are watching live stream or if you're watching after put it in the comments what your pillars are those four that are creating a structure for your core these are for your core structure okay because you need that it's going to ground you into the earth and connect you ethereally then to spirit to that cosmic consciousness to that wisdom okay so to whoever your guides are to God your angels to your totem animals to to the elements whatever yours is okay it'll connect on the top okay so go ahead and do that set that up I'm not feeling too much minor like they could be like seriously you know what I'm seeing right now this is my team okay my spirit team is so funny this is what they're showing me hey patty nice to see you mod good morning um I just want patty popping in the chat so I had to say hello I see pool noodles as mine so my pillars the two in the front the two on the back are like pool noodles one of them is like a lime green one of them's a hot pink one of them's a yellow and one of them's an orange oh oh and I laugh it really hurts my lower stomach in a good way in a good way like I feel that my muscles my core activated when I giggle all right so that's what I see minor pool noodles what are yours come on you guys I want to see that I want to hear that I know Sunday morning coffee very interactive when we do live streams isn't it that water element must be active yes queen hey queen by the way nice to see you hi mary beth nice to see you too I'm glad you're here live that's great yay oh white pillars yeah beautiful I'm not surprised queen I'm not surprised that very Oracle of Delphi vibe going on there that very Greek vibe there yeah for you I can see that for sure so core what is that your core now your pillars your stabilizations here these these grounding beams for you they can change and more if you can use any they could be any different kinds of types or ways or trees or light or whatever at any time so if you feel this need to get really stabilized ask for the connection to your core in this way and ask for them to be close to you okay my I think minor poodle noodles pool poodle noodle pool noodles because they're soft right now and the bumping into them and stuff is okay because I'm I'm pushing myself I'm expanding myself out a little bit from this like almost hidden part of me you know this hidden little smaller self part of me and so I'm bumping into these and it needs to be safe for me you know it needs to kind of help me float and buoy me a little bit so that's what that's what the symbolism of mine feels like for me so oh thank you yeah it's nice to see you too yeah so I also love the idea of these being trees too that would be really nice and for me of course they'd be beautiful birch trees um I just I love the birch trees um um symbolizing the beginnings right the beginning of things so core let's talk about core so I'm going to give you another so that simple just that is to connect us in to create a safe and sacred space for us as we're having our conversation today so in the core of you the core part of you the core grounded centered base foundation of you just in that sweet space that sacred very deeply sacred part of you that space inside you when you breathe in let that energy come forward a bit to come into the structure to come into these beautiful vibrating beams of energy to your pillars that are creating the honoring of the structure of you representing and symbolizing your core the validity of your presence of your existence here in this timeline on earth now because that's really important for us to acknowledge especially this week especially during this time of the ending of july and the stepping into august august first just just tuesday we have a full month we have some energy coming in here if you follow anything as far as astrology goes you know there's a lot of stuff active and activated there's a lot of the whole venous thing coming in or that's been here is is bringing up some things and so when you feel in just to you this the purity of you nobody else is there no one it's just you it's the layers of you and when you establish the structure of the core of you these two beams in the front and these two pillars in the back it's not constriction or or confining it's safety it's the places where you hang on and where you can lean back and you bump into yourself you're held by yourself you're you're in a safe relationship an environment because of you because of who you are because of energy of you at your core not what you've done not your past behaviors not other people not anybody else's identity on you or projections on you and not even your own crap but just the pure energy sense of you forward and back creating a core resonance just breathe that and be that so that your your solar plexus is activated your belly your your spirit chakra your heart chakra as well let it be in this sacred space let it be nobody's in control the essence of you is just present it's not what am i doing what am i supposed to be picturing what am i supposed to know just honoring the energy of your solar plexus your spirit and your heart chakra and then deep into the hips to that engine room to that beautiful root in the back of your body at your sacrum the base of your spine that tailbone dropping down pointing that tail into the earth just pointing it into the earth honoring and acknowledging the human that you are the body that you are the presence that you are and bringing that energy down into the earth not to keep you stuck but to recognize in this moment in this moment you're here you are right here your core is connected you are alive you are well wellness is not a judgment it's a feeling isn't it crazy like we have done so much i think as a society to try to initiate change and to control through results the outcomes of things like the way our body looks the way our face looks the way we gain or build on our knowledge like in our coursework like in school or in a certificate certificate program or that kind of thing there's always like this there's this process laid out and then there's this achievement or result or outcome which isn't a bad thing i mean we quantify lots of things right but when it comes to energy like this term wellness being well in the term core isn't about how strong you are necessarily in your body and wellness isn't about how mentally stable you are or how quick-witted you are how much you have to be able to how fast you are processing things how good you are with numbers how great you are with people that's not what well is wellness we've commodified it we've qualified it by quantifying it and so i'm not saying that that doesn't have a space that's it's good to have information but that's one tiny piece of the big picture of who you are breathe in feel your core and be well breathe in feel your core and be well feel your back like got your own back do you got your back i think we're so afraid like i know for me personally i'm like afraid to feel my back sometimes because i feel like it's the past the back is the past right but my back is me it's it's part of who i am it's here and now i just can't see it but i can sense it and feel it so too can you it's part of who you are it's part of your core it's part of your wellness it's part of being well okay so i have a couple things coming through that i'd like to share for a extra curricular activities that you might want to do or try to connect into your core to give yourself grounding and centered energy um one is to take the word take the word let me grab oh i have a short tell just a minute just let me i gotta show on top listen to my body all cracking cracking can you hear that it's like my knees are cracking i'm popping i'm cracking snap crack pop just call me ross chris space okay i got this beautiful so yesterday on saturday i actually went to um my friend's farm she invited me out to her farm frequency farm it was amazing and i'm got to see the horses and chickens and i got fresh eggs oh my gosh i'm so excited for them i got to meet the chickens and laid eggs it's awesome they're really cool too they're like free range chicken vibes um and there's a ton of little kittens too and i'm like oh i'm a little allergic but they were sweet you know so i got this on the way i went to barns and noble which i love the bookstore rate and i bought this i've been eyeing this before i buy this and i decided to buy it look at it isn't it beautiful oh my goodness okay so i'm gonna use this hole hole it just smells so good you know a new journal just has that oh that's a new page i don't feel that oh my gosh such i'm such a nerd okay so we're gonna take our pen and we are going to use on a notebook or notepad or sketch scratch paper whatever we're gonna write the word core and we're gonna write it going down the page now i don't stay in the lines but you're gonna write it like this going straight down the page and for each of the letters this is an exercise i've used with coaching clients forever i call it word power because i love words they're vibrational they have such meaning and they connect our brain to our energy so it's a really great way to include the mind in our healing process okay so core so we're gonna take this and you notice there's four of them four letters c o r e so right so in the front c and o are the front two of our pillars and r in the e are the back two of our pillars so right here right now facing you whoops what you are facing what is in front of you well you know feel into that energy and the first word that is a letter c that comes in is what what you write down so for me it's like cake she's gonna have her cake and eat it too yes she is oh yes she is this is what my team does for me okay cake is my word for that yeah for my one of my pillars and the oh i'm gonna say origin even though i want to say something else i think i want to say something else okay i'm just gonna write that down so cake and origin origin our mind so what are yours the first two that come up c and o and it might be an animal like c might be cat o might be i don't know ocean it could be that too okay it could be thing or whatever so this is the energy of what my pillars are helping to support me with in this moment so to me this is very sensual very yummy energy very savoring enjoyment of life and that's exactly what i've done this weekend i put myself out there i drove to a freaking farm that's like an hour and 15 minutes away whatever and i hung out the whole day and we had so much it was just so cool i was outside i mean she does yoga on her farm and so there's big big beautiful carpets and oh my god and the horses were amazing and i'm like oh my god it was so great and then we all went out to dinner went out to lunch it was so fun i mean just it was so beautiful it was just a really cool experience and that was coming out of my and it was so peaceful and calm which was so dramatically different than boxing the night before which was like you know but i was up to do this and had the energy to do this because i had activated my core and i had allowed the energy within me to just move forward and move around me and just like spiraling figure aiding shock team moving up my body just very primal goddess energy which is exactly the frequency that i'm in right now and the work that i do in the divine feminine in my groups that i'm in not the ones that i facilitate but the ones that i attend the one that i'm attending is very primal right now so it makes sense so c and the o are in the front whatever years are it could be orange like a color could be that okay then the two in the back what are the two in the back oh interesting um so my r is rear so rear r e a r but has multiple meanings right so like child rearing like raising of right raising up or rear like behind right or like kiki in the rear kind of thing like my butt right like kick me in my butt like don't sit on your butt get moving or allow yourself to be to be moved to move it's okay and that energy of that is also a grounding energy for me um and then the next word that i get with my other pillar is expert and i'm like expert so maybe the message then okay i got it the message for me is that what has been what has what i've experienced in life up to this point especially last two years of like insane intensity dirt and end of the soul vibes because it has been let me just say i've said it before i'll say it again it has been really fucking hard the last two years no question but that has provided a very solid earth a very solid core foundation for me that has now become the earth the composted earth energy right and it has made me so wise in life now so that i will show up in my core and appreciate what is well in my life right now is my life perfect right now no is everything in order no not even close i'm still like trying to figure out how to make an income how to provide for myself and my kids and you know i'm still trying to figure out how to do that because believe it or not people think like youtube and being you know however many subscribers you have is like oh my gosh you have so much money i'm no uh no that's not how it doesn't directly translate right you have to be making income you have to be doing sessions and work and all that kind of stuff right um which makes sense right so i have what i have experienced has created a foundation for me a root for me that has given me wisdom that's how it feels to me so i'm uniquely qualified then to be a fantastic energy worker life coach psychic advocate for your spirit for sure so that is what i'm feeling in my core my co and my r and e so try that do that for yourself and see what kind of messages and information you have now if you're a cardy card person if you have card decks what you might want to do is crack out your card deck and i have a new one here you might want to crack out one of your favorite card decks this one is by elaine kalila jowty and it's called the magdalene rose oracle i know elaine and her work she's part of priestess presence temple she has her own temple work and she does a lot of divine feminine and i have known her for years like 10 years and so when her she just launched this last week and it like sold out already but there's a wait list so if you want to get it it's beautiful beautiful um but you could take your cards i'm getting to know the deck so i don't have um i have them all i'm going through them one by one pulling a card or two each day so so you could take your cards and you could do four cards and each of the cards the first two that you get are the first are the information or message for your core structure right now okay and then the second two are for what has your back and what is supporting you now you know what i mean as you move forward so it's your container how beautiful is that these are gorgeous cards aren't they look at that again it's elaine kalila okay so it's elaine kalila dowty and i'll put this up again here so you can see it it's kind of hard to read it it's the magdalene rose oracle you can get it on amazon it's sold out right now but they'll re they'll restock it so it's intense though it's intense you got to be into the divine feminine mm-hmm it will initiate you that's for darn sure beautiful cards but all right my friends so that is your sunday morning coffee today our topic has been core thanks for humoring me what i'm sharing with you about my experience i need to get up and go for a walk today get a little exercise and since i didn't go to boxing this morning but i also need to go buy some boxing gloves i'm so buying boxing gloves just call me rocky maybe roxy just call me roxy all right thank you so much for being here thank you for watching on the replay every week sunday morning coffee podcast i appreciate you being here it's fun to be able to talk to you and connect with you in this casual day and then on mondays i try every monday but sometimes mondays have been well i guess it's been pretty good i've been pretty consistent it's a little trickier in the summer but i've been pretty consistent on mondays and tomorrow i'm planning to do a livestream so we will do that i'm not sure what time yet i do of course know exactly who i'm going to channel so i'm sure you know that too so all right my friends thank you so much for being here i hope i've inspired your spirit today filled you with some hope and encouraged you as always to live your life it says your life after all and you get to live it just uh live it thanks for being here have a good sunday