 Hello everybody. Once again, this is a very impromptu video. Don't even have any makeup on except for a little lip gloss and I just quickly put on before making this video. What's it planning on filming again for a couple of days? I've already got some videos pre-scheduled, but I have a lot of questions coming in about the challenge and some of the questions were very similar, so I want to go ahead and address some of these questions just to everyone. First of all children. So we spoke about this with Shanti and Mornay and but obviously if you didn't see that episode, I'll go ahead and reiterate with children with this challenge. Absolutely your children can do this challenge with you. However, in my opinion, I would not make this challenge for them what it is for you, especially if they're under the age of 10. Now remember our chakras, our energy points develop at certain points in our lives and so the seventh chakra, the last one to complete its creation happens in our early 20s and so through these developmental stages in a child's life, I would just let them kind of play with you in the challenge. Shanti and Mornay obviously work with children and so if you want your child to specifically be involved in a program that's like this challenge but geared towards children, I would definitely look into their son kids program and I will link Aquarius Rising Africa's channel in the description box below so you can click over there to get more information on their son kids program where they are specifically trained to work with children through this process of shadow work because with kids it's not going to be, you're not going to go as deep with children as you are as an adult because children don't have the, they have the intuition but they don't have the intellectual understanding that you do and so some of the topics especially later on in the challenge we're going to be talking about betrayal. We're going to be talking about our own childhood wounds, all those kinds of things. That might be a little bit too heavy for a kid that's under the age of 10 so if you want to talk to them about that, Shanti and Mornay again had a really good idea about drawing pictures, having them color a picture and so you could even say like is there a time when one of your friends at school hurts your feelings or you know I wouldn't, the trail is a very deep trauma and I'm actually the day that we cover that later on in the challenge I'm going to pose me posting some interviews and some discussions with a clinical therapist that talk about the trail trauma and hopefully fingers crossed hopefully most children under the age of 10 haven't actually experienced that yet so I would just be really mindful about that of course as a parent you know you, you, you have the ultimate authority over how much you let your child know or or how much you allow them to participate in this challenge. I would not be doing cold therapy with your child that's going to be one of the things you do is like the last five minutes of your shower you're going to make it cold. I wouldn't do that with your kid because they're just too young to understand the nervous system and all that kind of stuff and they're still growing and as Shanti mentioned their bones are still kind of mushy as they they still grow and shift into who they are or who they're going to be as as adults before puberty they're in the coppa stage of life anyway the cocooning stage so as far as the exercise you know if they want to do the videos with you that I put up great but if they stop halfway and go play with their toys then awesome just let them kind of have fun let them play with it you know be if your kid is does like 10 minutes of a bar video with you and then decides to go run off and play just tell them they did a good job you know don't mean boost their confidence up so that when they become an adult and they are faced with these this kind of work it won't be something that they're unfamiliar with and they won't have a lot of hang-ups around it of course with journaling again depending on what age they are if you have a teenager that's doing it with you if some hardcore triggers arise with your teenager once again remember their seventh chakra has not developed yet so that's the hard thing with teenagers teenagers have the intellectual capacity of an adult but they don't have the wisdom energy yet and so that's where it gets tricky with teenagers and I would definitely suggest if something comes up if your teenager is doing it and something comes up really dark or really heavy starts to come out of your teenager I personally would suggest fighting a trauma therapist in your area to then work with them or you can contact Shanti or any of these Reiki healers that you know through YouTube that can help you better handle that and navigate that the thing about trauma is that sometimes it can kind of be like a landmine and I said this in the opening of our challenge this challenge is just meant to be kind of a breakthrough kind of like an introduction for you and so if something gets overwhelming even for you if something comes up like you have a memory of something that happened to you as a kid and it feels like all the sudden it's super overwhelming please seek out professional help it's okay I've gone through trauma therapy my yoga showed me that I needed trauma therapy I went through years ago is the best thing I ever did so sometimes these exercises they're not going to like give you the answers they're going to kind of show you where the work needs to be done and so something becomes really overwhelming for you or for your child please seek out a professional either with Reiki or trauma therapy I know people have mixed views about therapists but I'm telling you there are some good ones out there but it's totally up to you that's your power to figure out what your next step is if something like that does come out of you or out of your child the next thing I want to again reiterate a lot of people have written saying I don't know if I get all the exercising in it's okay if you if you have to like modify some of the days this is just a template it's not mandatory that you do everything exactly right this is a call to challenge for that reason to kind of challenge you to see what you can learn about yourself and for me I have I know what exercise modalities work for me and so that's why for me personally I'm yoga and bar that's pretty much all I do is yoga and bar because I know that's what that's what works best for my body it's what works best for my joints and for my emotional state but for you your best modality might be kickboxing and you don't know that yet and so that's why in this challenge every day I have different exercises and different selections so some days you're going to get to pick which one you do and it's for you to figure out what works best for you just as there's not one diet that works with everyone it's going to be the same with exercise not one exercise is going to have the same reaction to every single person and with that being said the exercise modality might change over time as well like like this month you kickboxing might not be good for you this month but you know in a couple months if you go back and try it again maybe then your body will be ready for it there's no there's no idea just attempting to do this challenge is you doing the challenge right you're not being graded you can't the only way you can fail this challenge is if you just completely put all together right as long as what if one day you only get the 64 ounces of water in okay then you got the 64 ounces of water in perfect awesome you did that so if a day goes by and you didn't hit everything on the list okay who cares you did something and something is better than nothing you know people have to I've heard running coaches say you know people complain like I'm the slowest runner in the group well you're a hell of a lot faster than the person who's laying on a soba right now right so don't ever think that there has to be perfection in anything like this that's that's the sports world coming out that's the ego coming out I don't care if you only make it through 10 minutes of the exercise portion every day as long as you're doing something to get to know yourself and I am aware that there are people of all fitness levels doing this challenge and so that's why on some days I'll have like either 45 minute kickboxing or 20 minute beginner yoga and you get to pick which one works for you with that being said some people have asked me that they already have an exercise plan that they've been working with for a while awesome great stick to what you're doing just replace what what I have on the challenge with your exercise modality right so then the journaling portion you can just you know x out all the questions about that particular exercise and you can ask the questions about like how what emotions are coming up you know maybe for some of you but let's use the example let's say you've been runners for a really long time and you've just been doing the running just for your physical health which is a great reason to do exercises for your physical health but but maybe you never put two and two together that your running is actually meditative or that the running is actually presenting you with emotions so maybe that's what this challenge is going to be good for you that that you can replace all the other exercise programs keep your exercise program and then look at it differently look at it a different perspective when you're doing say you are a runner and so now you're starting to think about it differently because the challenge is giving you that opportunity so when you're doing your three mile run maybe you can bring your focus into your body and be like okay how is the energy moving through my body how are is energy coming out of my hands when I run when I do this with my arms is this instinctual what's happening with my heart chakra is there energy coming through my hands through my shoes through my feet yeah so even if you are doing an exercise modality and you got to replace it with the ones that I have because that's what you've been doing then you just journal differently about what you've been doing okay does that make sense everything always makes sense in my mind I don't know if it makes sense in other people's minds same with I had someone ask about water aerobics yes of course if you've been doing water aerobics because it's better for your joints keep up with the water aerobics and then just start to journal about your experience with the water aerobics how are your joints can you actually go into your body while you're in the exercise and feel how your joints are moving through the water ask your body while you're doing the water aerobics what do you want me to know about this experience what are you trying to tell me about this experience does that make sense I have a lot of men signed up for this which I'm super excited about I encourage you men to do the bar I know a lot of times men think oh the bar that's for girls Marnie Alton is a badass and I am a part of Marnie Alton's online platform I which one of the prizes is going to be a month access to her online platform which is her studio now where she puts up new exercises almost daily and there are a lot of men that are involved in this because it is such an ass kicker there's a reason why the NFL does ballet right and I just put an interview up on my community tab from Marnie Alton and it's an incredible interview to listen to she is by far one of my favorite teachers I've done a lot of bar classes when I first was introduced to bar it was when I broke my sacrum a few years back and I was having a really hard time just healing it with the yoga and so one of my really good friends who's kind of a movement expert suggested I try bar classes because it was going to focus more on my core to help support the healing of my sacrum and I tried a bunch of bar classes in Atlanta like live classes and I just didn't I didn't excuse me I didn't find much benefit from them they weren't I wasn't at that point my and still as my level of fitness was so high that I wasn't feeling the extra added strengthening I needed to get through my injury and then one day I was just looking on YouTube and I found Marnie the 45 minute bar Marnie Alton that I'm sharing on this challenge I found that and I thought I like this girl she teaches bar a little bit different than other bar teachers and so I started to kind of follow her and then I joined her platform and so and I started to really pay attention to the way she was teaching and she really marries the Eastern philosophy of spirituality with this modern adaptation of bar and when I hear when I hear her say certain things like being the watcher right not judging yourself but watching yourself that's all yoga principle that she's pulling into the bar and I for one and have always been a firm believer that the yoga principle or theory can be put into any type of modality of exercise yes the yoga postures are designed to open up different pathways and channels of energy however the theory it can be used anywhere and so that's why I added a lot of different other exercises because I want you guys to understand that any type of exercise can be a modality for friction and change okay and I've had a lot of people ask me about their age am I too old to do this absolutely not let me tell you something I started going to India in my early 30s I'm now I'm about to be 40 in a couple of months when I go to India there are students in that room who are like in their 70s and they're the toughest students in the freaking room okay you're aging nothing but a number and the way I see it is if you are in your 60s or 70s and you're kind of nervous because of your age first of all no one's watching you so you're not in a room with a bunch of 20 year olds don't worry about it it's not about you even comparing yourself to a 20 year old the comparison is the thief of joy I want you guys to remember that that's your mantra for your first week I need to write that down to remind myself to put it up comparison is the thief of joy so think about that every time you've compared yourself to someone else it stole your joy don't let anybody steal your joy especially you all right do not compare yourself to a 20 year old don't compare yourself to someone who's thinner than you or stronger than you don't compare your chapter 1 to someone's chapter 10 okay the only reason why we're doing these exercises again is for you to discover yourself it's not for you to be perfect at the exercise it's not for you to become a fitness instructor yeah that's something you want to do work towards it none of that you are going to be by yourself no one's going to be watching you can mess up as much as you want you can fall down as many times as you want you can pause it as many times as you want it's the free you have that freedom in your own home to do that okay and if you are older I want you to think about this though you have years of experience in your body you have more experience in life than someone 40 years younger than you you think about how incredible that is in your situation yes you're sitting there thinking oh I'm older I'm not going to be able to know your body has is a treasure chest of experiences and wisdom that you can start to unlock by doing these exercises as long as you're getting a little sweaty and you're feeling that friction perfect I tell my students in yoga all the time messy yoga ugly yoga that's the best yoga pretty yoga that's boring it's uninspiring when I see demos I'm like okay wow you know but when I see someone that's really struggling but they're focused and they're sweating man that is so interesting that's the best kind so I want you to think about that when you're doing these exercises the place where you feel like you're not strong enough or you're having a hard time keeping up that's where it's interesting the places in these exercises where you feel great and like you're in Cirque du Soleil and you're a performer and you know the moves that's boring that's boring but I want to hear where you're struggling because that's where it's juicy that's where it's interesting that's where you have something to work with you know I've said before in my own body so in my own body that I'm in I'm really good at forward folding I'm really good with leg behind the head I've just always been good at that my body for some reason was always just able to do that but back bending that's where I struggle so that's where it's interesting because that's where the rubber meets the road that's where there's friction and in that spark of friction there's information there's a treasure chest of information where it's easy and there's not as much friction what are you going to learn but where there's tension and resistance that's where we get to dive deep and learn things about ourselves and the real beautiful thing about this is in your own body you're the only one who can learn that you're the only one I'm not in your body your husband your wife your kid they're not in your body you are you are that's your power so you can either choose to waddle in self pity because something's hard and you don't think you can do it or you can choose to say you know what I really suck at this exercise but it's going to be fun and because I suck at it because it's hard for me this is where it's really entertaining and this is where it's really interesting and this is where my potential lies yeah it's just like when we lift weights right when you lift the weight when you don't lift weights there's nothing there but when you grab that weight there's more resistance that you're working against that's where your trouble spot is that's where the weakness is that's where you have to focus too that's where the meditation wants so again where the where the workout is easy for you you're not going to be meditating you're going to be thinking about the laundry you're going to be thinking about that cute boy at your job you're going to be thinking about how your husband pissed you off last night because he didn't close the toilet seat I don't know you know whatever but when you're at that place that's like oh shit this is hard your mind is totally focused on that moment and when you have that one pointed focus because that's what meditation is is a one pointed focus then you're in meditation because God lives in the now God didn't send us here to earth to just kind of twiddle our thumbs and let life pass us by he gave us these bodies because these bodies hold treasures and information for us and so don't run away from that the only way it's like when you go on a treasure hunting if you ever like tried to dig up treasure you got to actually put the shovel in the dirt to dig up the dirt right or else you're not going to find the treasure same with your body if you don't do anything and you don't create friction you're never going to know what your own what you're made of you're never going to find that friction and even with the muscles alone like even health wise when you sweat when the muscles are burning that you're feeding your muscles at that point that's your muscles being fed and I'm going to encourage you guys I know that some of you guys are going to get really sore during this I've been sore for 16 years I'm sore today I was sore yesterday I was sore the day before and when you first start working with soreness it's going to feel very emotional but don't stop don't not exercise because you're sore days when I'm super sore is usually when I have the best exercise because you're sore because your muscles are rebuilding themselves right so that's what's happening in exercises you're ripping your muscles apart and then they're having to rebuild themselves and when they rebuild themselves they build stronger so if you're sore from the day before and you get back on that yoga mat or back on that kickboxing and you go at it again you're still flushing you continue to flush out that yeah so I hope that makes sense don't be afraid of soreness don't be afraid of discomfort any of that don't be afraid of your age don't be afraid of your limitations because your limitations aren't limitations Marnie Alton says this all the time obstacles aren't obstacles they're just puzzles they're just puzzles being presented to you they aren't obstacles they're puzzles yeah um let me see what else I'm trying to think of there were any other questions somebody had I'm sure I'm probably missing something um oil bathing I know I've gotten some questions about that it's not an actual bath it's a shower but when you get to the Friday night oil oil bathing I have it written out but I also have a link to a video where I go into detail about oil bathing that's really good for soreness and for removing the inflammation and heat um yeah and if you guys have any more questions that a left out just ask me down in the comment section below um we are literally almost at 300 people right now doing this challenge somebody put let's get to 500 if you guys can just spread this word spread the word and we get us a 500 that would be unbelievable so um so yeah I mean I know whoever's supposed to do it will do it because that's how divinity works and by just you doing this and taking on your own demons you're gonna your vibration is going to change so much and I want to explain that again we got to descend before we can ascend so it might not feel like it some of these days when your emotions are raw it might not feel like you're actually changing your vibration but you are we call it the dark night of the soul or the ego death those days where you're really feeling in the pits of darkness and you're emotional and the world feels heavy that's when things are shifting don't give up okay all right you guys I'm so excited I can't wait to see how this goes um anyway I love you all and I'll talk to you soon bye guys