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

Math and Physics are two of science's fundamental and most exciting branches. For centuries, scientists have used Math and Physics to answer some of the world's most fascinating questions and help us understand the universe that we live in. But no matter how important it is in our daily lives, most students now shy away from these subjects and is disinterested in them. For this week's Outer Travel, Inner Journey, we will talk with Ulli and Daria, two teachers of Math and Physics, as we dig deeper into the cause of students' fear in these subjects and find ways to bring a positive light to it. For Ulli and Daria, the low interest and fear of taking up Math and Physics stem from how it is taught in today's educational system. These subjects are taught by teachers and educators that are not experts on the topics, making it hard to translate concepts into simple explanations. Since Physics and Math are complicated and complex, making them as basic as possible is crucial to allow students to grasp the concepts. It does not also help that the system is forcing teachers to take a shortcut in teaching these subjects with the view that not all are good at them; therefore, students won't need it. This is a struggle that Daria deals with because she believes that students must understand the whole process to connect with the subject and apply it in the real world. Both agreed that to capture the interest of their students and increase their appreciation of Math and Physics, teachers like them should engage their students based on their interests and relate them in a way that students can easily understand the concepts. For parents, it is also vital to continue being curious and open to learning themselves. This way, they can be students and models themselves for their children too. Join us to learn more about being better teachers and students in learning about ourselves and the universe in this week's episode! Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Check out previous Podcasts

If you are a new parent, have you ever wondered why no matter how much you take care of your baby, give them milk, sway them, sing a lullaby, sometimes it's just not enough? Do you ever ask yourself if what you're doing is correct? Do you ever question why parenting portrayed by the media is different from what you are experiencing? Don't worry you are not alone. In this week's episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, Alexandra Scherzer, a parenting educator and counselor shares how becoming a mother pushed her to look within herself more, which made her a better parent to her child. She starts with explaining that in babies and toddlers, behavior and emotions are what we see. It is important to understand what lies under their behavior, what influences it, what part of one's parenting is going to affect their behavior, and what part of a child's in-born genes is going to affect certain behaviors. These are the factors that most parents are not aware about because these things are not explicit. She said that parents need to consider what they want for their children to be in 30 years time, and reverse engineer their strategy to support their children reach that goal. It is important for the steps to start early because the first five years of a child's life is at its most formative. What happens early on will impact what will happen to their family life 40 years from now. The way a person was raised in early childhood will impact on how they will parent in the future. It is called the Inner Parent - gut response and emotion when something happens as a parent. How you parent your child during their formative years will also be their parenting style when they themselves become one. This is why parents must focus on what they want for their child, in order to work on it on the long haul. To raise a child that can trust him/herself and his/her intuition, a parent must respect their child from the start and not try to box or conform them to what society dictates. Parenting is a long game and to develop a healthy relationship with your child, you must not try to change them. Build their confidence and uplift them by encouraging them to trust themselves. Both Alexandra's share their parenting experiences, which concluded in a realization that in parenthood and to be better parents, one still has to look from within and understand oneself. Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Faye Blake Website Check out previous Podcasts

Retreats are meant to encourage healing and self-discovery by focusing your attention inwards, calming your senses and clearing your mind. A holiday does the opposite. It encourages you to open all your senses to experience the world and leaves your mind busy processing all you've seen. Listen to me and Ulli discuss what it means to have a meaningful traveling experience. In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey. We will discuss what's the difference between holidays and retreats based on our personal experiences. And hopefully it will guide you in pursuing experiences that can enrich your inner self. Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Check out previous Podcasts Take advantage of the special price – This week only join Greek Escape Pocket Quotes “In retreats, I'm forced to sit for hours and hours without doing anything and have some spiritual talks and it goes so deep that even for weeks after I see the results and I see the positive influence it has in my life. Whereas holidays, it's good, it's wonderful to relax and don't have to be in the daily chores. But on the other hand, also I'd like to do my job so sometimes I think do I really need holidays?” - Ulli Helmstetter “Self-care retreats are time where you take time to go deep and use methods to be really clear with yourself." - Alexandra Kreis

In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, Ulli and I discuss what the challenges are in maintaining sexuality and intimacy in our relationship. As we unpack those challenges, we also share how we cope with those gaps and ensure that we still both feel whole in the relationship and our sexuality. Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Check out previous Podcasts Take advantage of the special price – This week only join Greek Escape Pocket Quotes “With menopause, I find that I have gaps in concentration. I'm losing touch with myself, but also losing the touch with you." - Alexandra Kreis “Intimacy requires investment, commitment, and time. It's more of the commitment of allowing yourself to find time again for each other, nothing is more valuable than experiencing this human exchange." - Alexandra Kreis

There are things that people do not usually talk about but are common and natural to us. Most of the time these are signals or signs from our bodies trying to communicate with us. In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, Faye Blake shares her journey of finding her inner self and how her personal experiences, including hairdressing, help her help other people in finding their inner selves. As a herbalist hairdresser and Aruyvedic coach, Faye believes that the key to living a sustainable life is to listen to the signals that our bodies tell us and not wait for the extremes. She explains that this is her way even in hairdressing, wherein she lets hair take its form and express itself. She learned this the hard way when she started hairdressing in a more traditional hair salon wherein they were expected to conform to a certain mould and have a specific image. When she tried conforming, she felt drained and coped through unhealthy addictions like smoking and alcohol. This is when Faye realized that people tend to not actively try and make a difference unless something extreme happened and forced them to do it. After quitting the salon, she found herself working with naturopathic nutritionists. Shortly afterwards she understood that what she really want to do is to empower people through listening to our bodies' wisdom and intuitive nature. Self-empowerment for her is living intuitively through listening to what the elements and energies in our bodies and not looking for answers externally. It is trusting yourself and being to speak from a place within and trusting that your voice is valid.  People who work in hairdressing, like Faye, have a gift of connecting and listening to people and reflect with them and make them feel good about themselves. They are also a reminder that we cannot do everything alone, on our own. They help us nurture ourselves by listening to what our bodies are telling us and loving the parts that we take for granted. By mirroring us, they teach us how to live intuitively and love ourselves more. Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Faye Blake Website Check out previous Podcasts Take advantage of the special price - This week only join Greek Escape Pocket Quotes “I want to sit at a hairdresser because it's about me, my own self-care, and about somebody who wants to talk about my hair and treat it like a part of me that needs the love and affection.” - Alexandra Kreis “When they [hairdressers] are puffing it up, it's almost like asking your hair what it wants to do. I see this a lot in the body. Our emotional body and physical body is always talking. How do we a gain a conversation with it? It's by going through this more intuitive way of living. With hairdressing it's the same. What's going on within there, what does it actually wanna do, how does it wanna express. It's free expression, it's us, it's an extension of us and we're not molding it and shaping it to fit in like we do to the rest of our body in life to be in a box or how it should look. It's a real process of freedom and living in alignment of how naturally it wants to be, in alignment with nature.” - Faye Blake “For women, we tend to put a lot of other people that we care about way before ourselves. From that place they can really burn out or really go to depletion and fatigue, and total disconnect from ourself and our path and how we truly want to live.” - Faye Blake “I believe aryuveda does that with the elements and the energies and how you get to see them within your own body.That to me is your body's intuitive nature, and your body's wisdom talking, that's your body's voice.” - Faye Blake “Intuitive is self-trust, self-trusting what comes within and being able to speak from that place and not just looking externally for answers. It's a way of trusting self, trusting my own voice, and knowing that it's valid.” - Faye Blake Guest Bio Faye Blake is a naturopathic nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, and Ayurvedic health coach. She helps create deeply sustainable self-energy, to help people make a difference in the world without depleting and spiraling around into self-sabotaging behaviors. She promotes living intuitively through listening to what our bodies tell us. Faye loves to surround herself with a community working on their inner selves and freeing themselves from their past to create a loving and purposeful life. She is also a herbalist hairdresser at Tame the Mane Salon in Bristol, a salon that offers alternative natural hair services and products. Faye encourages people to equally nourish both their minds and bodies in a sustainable way.

In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, Ulli and I will share our journey towards improving the passion in our relationship by being open and authentic to our sexual and erotic desires. Although happily married, we acknowledge that a good sexual relationship should excite and feel like an adventure. Most marriages, like ours, is an exclusive and monogamous one. However, we are at the point where we are looking for ways to improve our relationship and are exploring the middle ground between monogamy and polyamory. An open relationship is a taboo topic for most relationships, and we are not there yet, but we are willing to talk about it, significantly if it will add spark and passion between us. Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Take advantage of the special price - This week only join Greek Escape Pocket Quotes We've been asking ourselves is this something that would be a development between the two of us to have an open relationship? And to look into how to be with other people that we have a desire to be with intimately. There's a saying in Germany "you can look outside, but you eat at the home." - Alexandra Kreis          We know that a good sexual relationship and very alive erotic                       relationship also requires adventure, there has to be a little bit of                 tension, there has to be a little bit of new things. So how can one                 integrate that in to a very good relationship? - Ulli Helmstetter

Creativity is a soulful expression. A spiritual practice, even. We've seen or heard it in visual arts, music, and songs, even in dance. For many centuries, people have used the creative to express spirituality, faith, and belief. It was actually through this that it was passed on to the succeeding generations. When I encountered this episode's guest, Tesz Milan, she had left singing for over a decade but she had just finally come into owning that she was creative. To Tesz, being a creative director for other businesses is very much like a musical—you have a story that you're telling as a singer and you're creating that story for others. It was her way of connecting to all of what's unseen. And she's using her creative output as a way of drawing that energy and creating things for others to feel that for themselves in whatever shape that is in their lives. In this podcast, we give light to the realities and practicalities of and around the artistic expression. Behind every awe-inspiring act, work, or sound is a whole being poured in in the process of its creation. Tesz narrates how at the beginning, when she was starting off as a singer, difficult conversations about compensation and the struggle of finding a balance between that and cultivating the creative. In places like finance or medicine or these more easily understood professions, we have a concept as a society of how we're going to compensate for those services, whereas for artists, it's so tough. So one has to know what they're going into when venturing to art and the creative as a full-time commitment–it takes a lot of time, energy, perseverance, and courage to continue doing what artists do and not get paid right away. And as an artist, especially with as quickly as digital has taken over our world in the way that we express and communicate our artistic and creative abilities, putting oneself out there to connect with others has been both challenging and exciting at the same time. Catch this enlightening “insight from the inside” by Tesz Milan! Only here at the Outer Travel, Inner Journey podcast! Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Tesz Milan Website Check out previous Podcasts Pocket Quotes Let me listen to your message. I bridge what you're trying to communicate to your audience to who you are and what it is that they want and need in their lives. - Tesz Milan Every time I'm being creative, it is a spiritual practice. It's something that I do to feel connected to all of what's unseen. And I'm using myself and using my creative output as a way of drawing that energy and creating things for others to feel that for themselves in whatever shape that is in their lives. - Tesz Milan It's so easy to have dreams and visions, but it's very hard to bring them into this world and stimulate the subconscious. There's always a sense that if I say my mantra often enough, I probably am going to get it. But it takes real action to get things down. - Tesz Milan Music is a part of our spiritual makeup or our spiritual being. - Tesz Milan The easiest way for me to feel discouraged is when I don't feel like what I'm doing is actually reaching anybody. - Tesz Milan Guest Bio Tesz Milan, formerly a singer and performer, is a Creative Marketing Director and Copywriter. Her creativity helps businesses communicate their purpose and the value they bring to the world.

We start this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey with the story of how Ulli and I met, and why being in our most vulnerable state was a conducive foundation for our relationship.   The safety that we felt with each other amidst being in the middle of a sensitive and vulnerable predicament brought forth a loving support from each other with little to no judgement. While being in the mess, openness to each other brought beauty. And letting go of our guard and strength and being raw with your struggles to your partner is courageous. Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Check out previous Podcasts Ayurveda Style Pocket Quotes We can only talk about honesty when we know that our vulnerability is safe with the other person. And I think a lot of the times when we are in relationships where we feel hurt and we're still in love, we are vulnerable and we are being touched in those wounds and those places that are tiny/micro traumatic to us and we feel like we are the wrong people. But all there is to it is we can't feel safe - Alexandra Kreis Sometimes I'm weak, sometimes I'm vulnerable. And it's so beautiful to show it. And what I realized as soon as I show my vulnerabilities and my fears, they vanish. They go up into thin air. After I show my weak spots, they are immediately replaced by strong spots. - Ulli Helmstetter

In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, we look through the eyes of a prolific sustainable living activist, Elaine Butler. She maintains a website wherein she shares information about concepts related to sustainable living and what can people do if they want to start living in harmony with nature. Her journey started when, as a young mother, she wanted to contribute to improving the world, to be part of something bigger than herself. She joined an environmental political party in Ireland and heavily lobbied for environmental policies for 4 years. She realized in the process that the more she researched, the less she knew, especially with the basic things about environmentalism and sustainability. She noticed that even simple things like the disposable coffee cups that she drinks from are neither recyclable nor biodegradable. From then on, she kept a record of everything she was learning and shared it through her blog. For her, the last 6 years of living sustainably are not only about choosing differently, it's living with a different set of priorities. She chooses to live opposite the traditional way of overconsumption, overindulgence, and convenience. In trying to avoid buying stuff, she opts to borrow, lend, repair items or get them second-hand. To do this she connects and operates with her community, interacting with people more than the traditional way of living. Elaine underscores that taking action on climate catastrophe in every way possible should be encouraged. Instead of waiting for billionaires and large corporations and pointing fingers to act on it and be responsible, individuals can start somewhere simple which eventually, along with like-minded people, will make an impact. She emphasizes that everyone should take the first steps in protecting the planet, no matter how small that step may be. Elaine lives in a way such that the planet's health and resources will still be available for future generations to come. She said sustainability and climate chaos exposed how interconnected humanity and nature is. And being in harmony with nature is also reconnecting with ourselves and our communities. Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Elaine Butler Website Check out previous Podcasts Ayurveda Style Pocket Quotes Sustainability is living in a manner that protects the planet and resources for future generations. Similar to the native American way of approaching things where they make decisions with the next 7 generations in mind. - Elaine Butler We all have to do our bit. Rather than pointing a finger and saying “well, I'm not doing anything because that person's not doing something”, I would rather do my bit and point finger at the other person and say "well, you need to try harder". Whereas (if) we all just stand and watch the world burn pointing fingers at one another, does it really help us? Even if it's not fair, it doesn't help anybody to do that. - Elaine Butler Overall, what we have to do in the overdeveloped world is to reduce our consumption levels. They are just, completely on whack, they are not sustainable. - Elaine Butler I feel more connected to humanity. The challenge of sustainability and climate chaos is that we now are seeing how interconnected we are. - Elaine Butler I am doing this because I believe it's the right thing to do. I do think my life is so much richer and so much more rewarding doing this than it was previously where I struggled to know what my purpose was and I don't feel that now. - Elaine Butler Guest Bio Elaine Butler is a designer and environmentalist, managing her website Living Lightly Sustainably in Ireland since 2016. She shares in her website practical ways on how to live a sustainable lifestyle. She has appeared in various radio shows and contributed to a number of newspaper companies and websites. She gives talks and on sustainable and zero waste.

In the last of the series on relationships, Ulli and I discuss the importance of being present and presence in a relationship. In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, Ulli gives us an insight into what it means for him to be present and the comfort and bliss it affects him to be in that state. You will also see how different we are as individuals and how our individuality complements each other and make our relationship more colorful. Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Check out previous Podcasts Pocket Quotes and the energy of life come by itself, you don't have to force it. We cannot influence much, so I just put myself into the stream of life, into the string of the moment, and then everything unfolds by itself. It's completely relaxing. when I'm in the moment, I cannot be tense. It's not possible. - Ulli Helmstetter When you are in presence, when you are in the now, then your relationship is there as it is; not as you imagined, not there as you would like to have it to be. So you are in an absolute, very authentic situation. - Ulli Helmstetter

Do you lie to your partner? How many times has your partner lied to you? In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, we still have Ulli, my partner, as my guest, and we will talk about the boundaries that couples set in lying to keep a healthy relationship.   We will explore what we have been keeping from each other and what it means to be honest in a relationship. We will also find out who is more open with their feelings and why sometimes one decides not to share. Links mentioned in the podcast Support Outer Travel - Inner Journey Podcast Watch the Video of the Podcast Follow us on Instagram  Follow us on Facebook  Podcast Highlights In trying to create more health and sustaining health in our relationship, it means to both of us to become more clear about how we are feeling honestly about the situation. And from there revealing to the other person in the right manner how it makes me feel. Because we're all (just) human. - Alexandra Kreis The more fine-tuned you are with each other, (the more) you feel if the other is uncomfortable, if the other is feeling different than (what) they are saying. - Ulli Helmstetter

For thousands of years, humankind has been looking at the cosmos as a guide to our daily lives, internal and external relationships. Ancient and modern, western or eastern, there are a plethora of systems on astrology that people subscribe to in order to understand themselves and the world around them. In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, we will look at Vedic Astrology and how embodying its principles can improve the way we see things and live our lives. Kathleen Whalen, the founder of Conscious Calendars, shares with us how she and her clients are guided by Vedic Astrology in their day-to-day experiences. Kathleen starts by explaining that Vedic Astrology, which originated in India, is different from Western Astrology which is more recognizable and currently more popular in mainstream culture. It is the ancient understanding of the cosmos, rhythms of the sun and moon, and natural rhythms of people. These living tones give us indications on how to live a balanced life as an individual in a spiritual path and among people. Kathleen recognizes that there are people who are adamant in believing in such systems, thinking that astrology will dictate or interfere with their lives and decision-making. For her, Vedic Astrology offers a different perspective on a situation that one is experiencing, still in a space where people can operate based on their personal choices. She elaborated that for example, the colors in the Vedic calendar can be implicit in ways that will teach individuals to look beyond and deeper than what's on the surface to be able to truly appreciate their experiences. The practice of being aware, being present, and connecting with oneself is at the heart of being human. There are days when the actions one may take have a greater impact in the future, so taking positive steps not only for oneself but for people around them is important as well. Kathleen says that in green days, the most positive of days, sometimes you are the ones giving answers, the ones giving help to somebody, by spreading kindness. Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Check out previous Podcasts Kathleen Whalen Website Ayurveda Style – Only 2 days left for special promo price! Pocket Quotes It allows a perspective, and it's not about imprinting anything. It' to allow us more space in our day to almost shift our perspective and be able to have more resilience. And if a green day wasn't the perfect day, it's all the more reason to look back and say "where were the silver linings?" because there really are some secret gifts that came on the green days. - Kathleen Whalen Present in being is a method of becoming more aware and more grateful and more in the moment. - Alexandra Kreis The Golden Hour is the time of day when we can create ourselves and re-recreate ourselves. - Kathleen Whalen The actions we take on a green day have a greater karmic fruit at some point in the future. - Kathleen Whalen Most people who are disappointed are passive people. They are like "oh the green day wasn't that perfect" and I'm like, what did you do on a green day? Did you spread kindness more? Were you someone else's answer? We can receive answers on green days too. Sometimes we're the ones giving someone else help.  - Kathleen Whalen Guest Bio Kathleen Whalen provides solutions and guides professionals and individuals working in stressful environments to improve their mental health and well-being by employing Vedic Astrology and Chinese Medicine. She has a background in allopathic medicine, lab research in immunity and neuroscience, and has degrees in Biochemistry and Chinese Medicine. She is the founder and creator of Conscious Calendars and has been serving the international community with its products since 2006. Through her work and consulting tools, she has helped thousands of individuals and companies see opportunities ahead of time to succeed. Kathleen is currently residing in the United States.

We  explore what makes up a healthy relationship in the first part of a 5-episode talk with my husband, Ulli Helmstetter. In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, we break down what happens after the honeymoon stage of a couple and all the hormones that kicked in are gone.   We discuss the root of the reason why not communicating with your partner is detrimental to one's relationship. In addition to that, we also look at how couples should balance needs within their relationship and as individuals to keep a healthy relationship with one another and avoid sickness. Podcast Highlights After 3-4 months of falling in love, of honeymoon, and all the hormonal cocktail that is involved with it, the dopamine, adrenaline is gone and fade off, then comes the reality of the situation. And then you will see if you really can come along with the other one without drugs. - Ulli Helmstetter To come off the ego-centric "what do I need". You have to find your place in a relationship in a way you feel happy. But you cannot see a relationship as a lamp that a genie, like you're rubbing your partner to get what you need. - Alexandra Kreis Support Outer Travel - Inner Journey Podcast https://ko-fi.com/alexandtheartoflovingpresence Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/iamalexandrakreis/ Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/guideyourselfintohealth  

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Tantra is the practice of being in a full relationship with life, a living connection with what is opening yourself, your senses, awareness, and emotions to the present moment, and experiencing reality from that place of openness. It creates an active merging of body and spirit.    Many people tend to associate Tantra with the awakening of the senses and connection. Sometimes, even with an unbridled lust for life and sexuality.   Some practitioners say that Tantric practices are more of a strategy that helps quiet the mind and soul and helps activate sexual energy in an individual. It helps instill a better sense of wellbeing and higher states of consciousness, igniting the overall mind, body, and soul of an individual.   In this podcast, Steffo Shambo, a men's relationship coach, talks about tantra yoga for men. He is the founder of Tantric Academy. He helps empower men to realize and tap into their full masculine confidence, intimate power, and their ability to connect with themselves and their partners on a deeper level than ever before.   Men have challenges, too. Sometimes, it is even harder to navigate because of societal stereotypes. Historical roots of movements for women empowerment have gained momentum and advances and paved for general acceptance of personal development concepts. But it men, it's another story.   Steffo, through his work in Tantric Academy, and in this episode, gives advice and tips for men on how to reflect within and be better partners in their relationships in a Tantric way.   He's also in for some eye-opening conversation about men's challenges and some ways to address that. Don't miss this out on Outer Travel, Inner Journey! Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Check out previous Podcasts Steffo Shambo website Mit Alexandra Klarheit für das neue Jahr gewinnen! Podcast Highlights 4:26- 5:28 - Classical Tantra 9:31-11:04 - Men and Women's Awareness 12:13-16:52 - Transformation 20:23-21:57 - Dark Night of the Soul 22:46-24:04 - Coaching Journey 29:40 -31:27 - Transmissions 32:55-34:27- Modernization 37:14-38:48 - Gift of Words Pocket Quotes “Masculine and feminine can meet in a place of healing and equality. That's really what the planet needs right now and what helps to bring the world to a better place.” - Steffo Shambo “I had my own challenges, journey and suffering that helped me let go out in the world to seek answers and transform myself.” - Steffo Shambo “My purpose is to help one man at a time to become integrated and whole again.” - Steffo Shambo “For me what's most important for my clients is not the format, it is the result and outcome.” -Steffo Shambo “When we fix that micro relationship, we also fix the macro, on a global scale.” - Steffo Shambo Guest Bio Steffo Shambo is the founder of the Tantric Academy. He is a men's relationship coach and hosts a mentorship program called the Tantric Man Experience, that has transformed hundreds of men's marriages from all around the world. His specialty is helping men realize their full masculine confidence, sexual power, and depth of connection with their spouse.

We're back in the house with Amanda Rose - to enlighten us on this topic that we don't necessarily find easy to talk about in other spaces. Sex education is meant to lead us to great sex, a better understanding of ourselves, and a deeper connection with our partners. When you know and understand your body, you can communicate to your partner easily and thus increase satisfaction. And that builds confidence in each and a strong bond between them. Amanda Rose talks about these in our two-part episode with her. The types of Erotic Blueprints and learning your erotic language to express what turns you on and turns you off are some of the keys she's sharing to open the doors to sexual pleasure for your partner and from your partner. With no holds barred, Amanda continues to take us on in this enlightening conversation about how we can discover our own language, better understand a partner's language, and how to use this road map to embrace and fulfill our desires. And to actually free ourselves! Amanda also shares some of her expert knowledge on kinds of orgasm and playing the gender role. Understanding that pleasure can come from within or without, there's an exciting way ahead—a wonderful journey—that you and your partner can traverse together or separately. And you'll get heaps of advice from here! As a certified and experienced sex educator, she's has helped many couples figure out problems in their relationship and we're lucky to have her bravely share her work with us in this podcast! This is an important conversation you don't want to miss! Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Mit Alexandra Klarheit für das neue Jahr gewinnen! Podcast Highlights 3:11-4:14 - Internal Pleasure and Erotic Blueprints 5:54-9:11- Gender Roles and Orgasm 10:47-11:26 - Shame of Orgasm 20:56-21:51 - Sex and Religion 22:06-23:44 - Sex Education 26:03-27:34 - Pleasure Responsibility 30:07 -30:44 - Pleasure and Respect 33:28:34:04 - Sex and our Nervous System Pocket Quotes “There's so much focus on orgasm as the ultimate goal and we are so fixated on that in our heads that we miss the rest of what's going on.” - Amanda Rose “When you take the goal off the table, there's all this pressure that goes away.” - Amanda Rose “Shame isn't attached to orgasm, it's just the shame that lives in our body. When you open yourself up and to be seen and maybe some of that gets triggered.” - Amanda Rose “Be fully present and alive. If I'm fully present and consciously alive and feeling what's happening in my body and what's happening around me, that to me feels orgasmic. It feels like I'm fully expanded.” - Amanda Rose  “I turn to sex but sex is god, sex is creation and it's my version of god.” - Amanda Rose Guest Bio Amanda Rose is a certified and experienced sex educator. She has been privileged enough to help many couples figure out problems in their love lives. Coach and long time doTERRA Wellness Advocate. She works with people who want to bring more pleasure, excitement and self expression into their lives. Amanda is here to help you remember who you are, and to remind you of the magic words “pleasure, consent, sovereignty and communication.”

During the time of crisis in Costa Rica's real estate and industries, some of the contractors and developers lost their projects. But during the profound lull that followed the crisis, a new idea was born stirring the direction of real estate development in Costa Rica. La EcoVilla was born and it grew to become home to many. In this podcast, Marcelo Valansi shares how he started building this community. It started out as a dream and a conversation; an idea of a visionary who decided to put his dream of living in harmony with the environment into action. One of Marcelo's passions is to enjoy nature, sail, dive, travel, explore, learn from different cultures and meet new people around the world. Marcelo has extensive experience in developing residential and commercial projects of different scales in countries like Argentina, the United States, Panama, and Costa Rica. Marcelo's vision about home and his innovativeness gave birth to a new home for many other people. It started as a businessman's idea about developing new projects. But its purpose grew to regenerate a site and to create communities that leave an impact, accessible, profitable, and sustainable. Because building and caring for our community is actually part of our relationship with nature. Communities and the place we live in are meant to be a home—a place where we feel cared for, a place we care for, a place of connection, peace, and alignment. In much the same way that communities—as it is people living together more than just structures beside each other—is a source of support, sense of belongingness, and co-creation. Come and envision your community and learn how you can make it true from Marcelo Valansi! Sharing his experience and insights at Outer Travel, Inner Journey! Links mention in the podcast Download Audio of the Podcast Marcelo Valansi FB Mit Alexandra Klarheit für das neue Jahr gewinnen!   Podcast Highlights 2:28-4:22 - Marcelo's Turning Point 4:57-5:46 - Disconnection to People 7:33-9:32 - Adjustment of our Planet 13:22-14:05 - Creating a Village 16:56-20:32 - Definition of Community 22:00-28:12 - 9 years of Growing a Community 32:43-34:29- Marcelo's Challenges in Life 35:21-37:53 - Support System 38:55-40:16 - Achieving your Dreams   Pocket Quotes “We will not survive as a species. I feel that the planet is much stronger than us and that they will likely to wipe us.” - Marcelo Valansi “If we start planting trees to regenerate the ecosystem, we can live  in harmony with nature and we can produce more than we consume.” - Marcelo Valansi “Everybody should be empowered to lead or contribute to a community that can work.” - Alexandra Kreis “If we want to see a change in the world, we cannot keep giving the same education we  receive that brought us here.” - Marcelo Valansi “Life is too short. We all have dreams. It's really important to make them happen sooner than later.” - Marcelo Valansi   Guest Bio Marcelo Valansi is an innovative entrepreneur who is dedicated to the design, development and implementation of self-sustaining regenerative projects and communities. Marcelo has extensive experience in developing residential and commercial projects of different scale in several countries, such as Argentina, the United States, Panama, Costa Rica.

For sure, you've read this many times before: yoga is more than just a movement exercise. While we see many videos, platforms, or even apps that offer yoga as part of a fitness program, the full meaning, and benefits of yoga are beyond the sweat and calories you burn out during each practice.   For those who've been in the practice, yoga is a mind and body practice. Yoga is a way of life—of a constant union of the mind and body into the space and energy we're moving in.   The ancient Indian practice of yoga combines meditation, breathing, and precise postures and poses to make a connection with thoughts, body, and spirit. People who practice yoga say it leads to a state of physical health, relaxation, happiness, peace, and tranquility. Its range of benefits won't fit the space for the description of this podcast! Yoga changes lives. This episode's guest, Nicole Henkel, can attest to that as yoga changed her perspective, even led her to politics. There's something about yoga that penetrates right to the heart and those who begin their yoga journey often find themselves feeling more compassionate about other people and the world around them. In this podcast, Nicole Henkel, a well-trained yoga teacher, talks about yoga and politics. She teaches yoga full-time for more than a decade and has taught yoga worldwide. She also shares about her journey being a yoga teacher and the moment she discovered she had cancer.  Nicole is also sharing motivating words about how yoga helped her when she had cancer and how it changed her life. But yoga is no magic pill. It's the change that happens in you that is. Join Nicole and Alex in this next episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey! Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Nicole Henkel Contact Invest in yourself and your health, discover 50% discount! Podcast Highlights 3:36-7:05 - Yoga and Politics 10:15-15:18 - Nicole's Journey 20:29-23:47 - Is yoga a magic pill 24:56-27:12 - Fighting 27:44-29:45 - What Yoga means to Nicole 30:47 -31:46 - Meditation 33:19-35:52 - Yoga and Righteousness Pocket Quotes “We don't know how far we have to push ourselves in order to see the boon that's waiting for us. Sometimes it comes in horrible ways until we wake up and get really clear.”  Alexandra Kreis “You have to be conscious and you have to connect to every power and force.” - Nicole Henkel “I'm a dreamer to make this place better.” - Nicole Henkel “I'm a cancer survivor. Yoga made me change my life.” - Nicole Henkel “Be brave enough to be the change.” - Nicole Henkel Guest Bio Nicole is a yoga teacher for more than a decade and has taught yoga worldwide. She has trained with renowned yoga teachers like Sri Guru Dharma Mittra, who enabled her to deepen her knowledge about the Marga Asthanga and Vinyasa Yoga.   Nicole studied anatomy and physiology intensively and incorporated aspects of yoga therapy into her yoga classes. She has a deep knowledge of Vedic Chanting and Yoga Therapy within the Krishnamacharya yoga mandiram.

Blood is thicker than water, they say. I think this goes especially for the bond we share with our family, like the unconditional love of our parents, or the friendship of our siblings. So for those who have, we're lucky to have siblings—we just don't realize it. Even more than the friends or parents, siblings have been right by our sides through the awkward, embarrassing, joyous, and miserable times of our lives. Siblings are our first friends. But relationships between siblings can be complicated, especially in childhood. Remember fighting over your toy or favorite costume. We fight and argue but at the end of the day, we laugh with them over dad's jokes or our favorite cartoon. Also, there will be points when we believe them to be our biggest rivals. But we feel the proudest for them nevertheless. This episode's guests, Kerstin and Astrid Walsh have stories we can relate so much with. And they're twins! The bond and friendship they share is truly inspiring. And like most of us, it's not all flowers and fairies. They had their challenges, reflections about time and space, the life we're living in, our communities, and more! But the understanding they share even of the differences is something we can all learn from. It is always great to have friends you can go out with, get drinks with and do things with. But it's important to have friends you can actually connect with. And most importantly, friendship—even among siblings—is about growing together and apart. A truly inspirational conversation! Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Astrid Walsh Contact Kerstin Walsh Contact Invest in yourself and your health, discover 50% discount! Podcast Highlights 6:19 -9:12 -  Being Twins and Friends 13:32-15:12 - Kinds of Friendship 15:55-20:05 - Changes for Being Apart Together 20:26-28:42 - Quantity or Quality of Friendship 32:47-35:47 - Idea of the Musketeers and Friendship 42:42-46:20 - Where do I belong? 48:00-49:15 - Astrid Little Metaphor Pocket Quotes “Weather conditions will get more unpredictable, everything gets a little bit more wobbly and unstable, but we're going to have to look after each other.” - Kerstin Walsh “We all strive to be able to be independent and look after ourselves.” - Kerstin Walsh “Just being together has been a kind of support, even when we're not speaking or doing anything.” - Astrid Walsh “Belonging is not only something that we feel we can have a place in this world but also with people seeing us in this world, recognizing us and affirming our status of life.” Alexandra Kreis “Time and space are key elements for creating friendships.” - Kerstin Walsh Guest Bio Kerstin Walsh is an artist born in Meppen, Germany in 1976 and later lived in Germany. Together with her twin sister Astrid, also an artist, she explored the world, collecting a BA in English Literature and Sociology (University College Dublin 1998), a HDip in Social Policy (2002) and a Masters in Social Work (2005) University College Cork.   Astrid Walsh is an amazing visual artist from Ireland. She has done numerous individual and collaborative exhibitions across the country and received awards and recognitions for her work. She first started her healing journey and discovered Ayurveda when she was undergoing treatment for Lyme disease in 2003.

In this latest episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, we are embarking on a conversation not often (and openly) talked about in still a lot of spaces. A good way to start the season, Amanda Rose is leading us to a free flow of exchange and critical discussion about the things that bring us holistic wellness—including sex and pleasure! The physical connection can do a lot of things to the human body—a newborn being cradled by the mother, a warm hug for someone who's depressed and feeling down, sex for those in intimate relationships. When couples have challenges keeping that ‘fire' of physical intimacy, relationship challenges often come up. Not all the time, of course. Couples feel less connected and bonded, and thus, feel less affectionate and loving. Sex is then often attributed to strong and happy relationships But the benefits of sexual pleasure don't end there. Learning more about each other's physical erotic zones is one of the ways to make sure that sex translates to pleasure and bliss and our bodies reap the benefits from that sexual energy. Amanda, a sex educator, and pleasure advocate educates us about the importance of pleasure and explains the erotic blueprints. She works with people who want to bring more pleasure, excitement, and self-expression into their lives. To her, understanding the Blueprint will guide you in creating your map to pleasure, communicate your needs to others, and navigate compatibility with your partners—things that are very important in nurturing a healthy relationship not only with your partner but to yourself as well. Sexual energy is creative energy! And so nourishing this energy inside you is also a way to bring out and share a version of yourself that is aligned and inflow. Don't miss this! Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Invest in yourself and your health, discover 50% discount! Podcast Highlights 3:21-5:26 - Something Missing in our Body 6:19-9:15 - Erotic Blueprints 11:46-14:46 - Pleasure 17:31-18:26 - Emotion and Pleasure 20:11-22:55 - Exploring Erotic Blueprint 23:50-26:08 - Pleasure Creation 26:36-28:43 - Masculine and Femenine Energy Pocket Quotes “Our sexual energy is essentially our creative energy.” - Amanda Rose “If you feel fragile, be fragile and don't see it as weak or bad.” - Amanda Rose “Having freedom to talk about different styles and freedom to express ourselves in different ways feels like a huge step in the right direction.” - Amanda Rose “Happiness is just being present, being alive, being aware of your aliveness and your divinity.” - Amanda Rose Guest Bio Amanda Rose is  a certified and experienced sex educator. She has been privileged enough to help many couples figure out problems in their love lives. Coach and long time do TERRA Wellness Advocate. She works with people who want to bring more pleasure, excitement and self expression into their lives. Amanda is here to help you remember who you are, and to remind you of the magic words “pleasure, consent, sovereignty and communication.”

Grief is a natural response to loss. It can be overwhelming because suddenly, you have no one or nowhere to devote your affection to. What used to be positive energy flowing out of the emotions of love, the joy of being with a person dear to you, and just the presence of that person, have nowhere to go. Because suddenly, there's a void, a black hole that doesn't vanish. Suddenly, no receiver could potentially return the same energy we give. The pain of grief can disrupt your physical health, your inner harmony, and your life. In this podcast, our guest Natasha Nandini, who has been studying yoga, Indian classical dance, and Indian classical vocal as methods to cultivate the self, is back with us to continue our discovery of ourselves through our sound.  She has taught both sound and yoga worldwide. But during this pandemic, Natasha lost someone she loved and here, she shares about grief and coping with the situation.  Opening herself up after pain and healing is a gift of sharing. In many cultures, grieving is facilitated by rituals for the bereaved person to connect with their lost loved one. These rituals help people to experience and manage challenging emotions, understand and accept their grief, and establish a connection to their memories of the lost person.  But grieving during this pandemic has been enormously different and overwhelming. The losses are immense and yet the chance to absorb the moment is cut short, for many. Movement restrictions and health protocols meant some people have been unable to travel and to be with loved ones at the end of their lives, or to attend their funeral. But then, a loss is a loss. There is no “normal” time period nor a proper way for someone to grieve. Capture Natasha's wisdom on grief, loss, and finding back that presence on this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey. Links mention in the podcast Natasha Nandini Website Invest in yourself and your health, discover 50% discount! Podcast Highlights 10:41-14:01 - Singing Practice 19:09-20:31 - Dark Hole 21:10-24:16 - Losing Someone 26:23 -27:18 - Grieving 27:24-29:36 - Hindu Tradition and Rituals 39:33 -40:33 - Feeling the pain and grieving 40:52 -42:29 - Formula to Grieve 57:2 -59:23 - Nobody knows when grieving is over Pocket Quotes “Mind is stable and everything is free.” - Natasha Nandini “We have to say goodbye to certain things so that we can say hello to new things.” - Natasha Nandini “If you lose something, it's natural law for that to be replaced.” -Natasha Nandini “You only ever focus on the beautiful things about that person and your memories.” - Natasha Nandini “Nobody knows when grieving is over.” - Natasha Nandini Guest Bio Natasha Nandini has been studying yoga, Indian classical dance and Indian classical vocal as methods to cultivate the self. She is now living and teaching in London (and online) but she has been traveling to India for the last 20 years to deepen her studies and to host sacred tours. The tour is a window into the lives of the local people and their practices. Her yoga focuses on building strength and postural corrections by working through from the feet up.  

Concepts of family, union, and separation are still very much entangled in different cultural values. In many places in the world, we have come to some degree of common understanding, but in some places, it remains to be a conversation that's difficult to navigate, causing it to be painful for those who go through it. In this podcast, Monica Biasiolo shares her life experiences, marriage, and divorce. Going through the often difficult and painful process of divorce took a toll on her health. There was negative energy, shame, intense emotions—her internal self in complete disharmony! This was a wake-up call for Monica. Monica is a certified Yoga Health Coach giving back to the Yoga healer community. She lived as an ex-pat for decades and is now a certified mindfulness teacher. Realizing that taking back her health is about taking back her power in driving her own life, Monica shares how she strived to shift from victim mode to an empowered decision-maker in her life. From being in the passenger's seat to driving change and purpose in her life and other people's. Her wisdom and practical tips are coming first-hand from her journey of changing habits for her health, transitioning from being a student to a mentor, and finally leading her own health coaching business. Monica believes difficult journeys can be done with ease and that anyone can start healing themselves and find their dharma while they are at it. Catch this deeply relatable and inspiring conversation with Monica! Links mention in the podcast Monica Biasiolo Website Watch Video of the Podcast Invest in yourself and your health, discover 50% discount! Podcast Highlights 8:04-9:23 - Shaming and Blaming 11:01-12:37 -  Body's Wake Up Call 13:15-18:06 - Signs of Disempowerment 19:36-23:56 - Moving Forward and Forgiveness 29:52-31:48 - Reflections Pocket Quotes “It's too early to leave. It's better that I do something and change something.” - Monica Biasiolo “I have the power of choice and I choose to empower another person.” -Monica Biasiolo “We are not here in this world because we need to. We are here in this life, in this journey because we are meant to be.” - Monica Biasiolo “You can change the nose of the ship ever so slightly and it will bring you into a totally different direction.” - Alexandra Kreis  “Look at a beautiful flower, even if it's a tiny one on the rough side. It has that bright color and it's beautiful . You look at it and you see perfection—you'll see that it is also you. We are part of the whole.” - Monica Biasiolo Guest Bio Monica is a certified Yoga Health Coach who loves to give back to the Yoga healer community. She is also a Forrest Yoga and Mindfulness teacher and a Certified Living Ayurveda, Yoga healer, USA, and  Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Shamash Alidina, UK. She recently moved back to her hometown in Rome after living as an expat for 20 years in four continents.

Who doesn't enjoy dancing? Even just as a way to release your excitement or thrill over some good news!    Dancing is therapeutic in every sense—you can dance in a group, with a partner, or on your own. You do it in dance schools, social venues, community halls, and your own home (and in the shower, probably!) Dancing has become a popular way to be active and keep fit, that most fitness clubs now offer dance classes in their group exercise programs. You can dance both competitively and socially.   In this podcast, Zoe Knights and Alexandra Kreis talk about dancing. Zoë Knights is a singular artist and performer who has made a name for herself in the field of contemporary performance. Her creations are distinct for their unity of sound, movement, lighting, and design, inventions that produce transformative moments and mesmerizing synchronizations.   Zoe has been praised for her craft's visual and acoustic coherence, and intensity, and inventiveness.   To Zoe, dance is expression. As well as a spiritual and inner journey just like yoga.   When you dance, you should not simply be going through a series of moves; you should be performing. Dance is another means of expression. It should convey a story or an emotion; it should make the audience feel something, communicate with them on another level. Many young dancers forget about this expression/communication and forget that their whole bodies, including their faces, must feel and convey their story or emotion to perform successfully. The story or emotion should be the starting point of your dance; the appropriate moves and style should be selected, and the music should reflect and compliment this motivation. You need to interpret the music and dance expressively. Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast Find out what type of Habit Personality do you have? – [FREE QUIZ] Podcast Highlights 4:28 -5:49 -  What is Dance? 7:24-9:37 - Expressing in Dance 14:45-17:05 - Yoga and Dance 19:25-20:55 - Meditation 32:03-35:19 - Movement in our bodies Pocket Quotes “With dancing, I constantly like rediscovering what it is about that really needs to be expressed or really important to me.” - Zoe Knights “With dance it's mostly non-verbal, and the body is able to express things.” - Zoe Knights “The origins of dance are really social and spiritual and are markers of events in life, social agreements or social understanding or expression and being thankful.”- Zoe Knights  “Dance is already a spiritual practice.”- Alexandra Kreis “If you move, you release all these blockages and you come to another space.” - Zoe Knights Guest Bio Zoë Knights is a singular artist and performer who has carved a unique niche in the field of contemporary performance from Australia. She works as a choreographer, dancer, vocalist and actor in many parts of the world. She currently lives and works in Berlin. She has received various prizes for both her choreographic and vocal work. Zoë also regularly teaches classes in contemporary dance, choreography and composition, and mentors/advises BA and MA level students.

Holistic health is about caring for the whole person and providing for their physical, mental, spiritual, and social needs. It's rooted in the understanding that all these aspects affect your overall health, and being unwell in one aspect affects you in others.   In this podcast, Jator Pierre and Alexandra Kreis talk about holistic health.   Jator Pierre is an eternal seeker, vlogger, comic-obsessed hockey player, and lifestyle and wellness, coach. Fifteen years into seeking health and wellness, Jator discovered and professionalized numerous self-growth and development tools which he uses to reveal the inner power within each of his clients.   Jator, like many of us, had his own struggles, so his practice has a highly personal and integrative approach. His clients often find themselves examining, discovering, and understanding not only how their bodies function and respond but how each one of their physical symptoms correlates to emotional, mental, and spiritual blockages.   Through his podcast, he shares about Holistic Health Coaching and how holistic exercises help in healing. Jator also discusses the fear of death and how we should overcome it.   People usually think exercise has to be physically and mentally taxing to be beneficial—“No pain, no gain,” we'd say. It is true to some extent, but it has been treated as dogma, and as a result, people approach exercise as entirely physical, sometimes even masochistic.   It's not all wrong but exercise, and getting fit and healthy does not need to be painful. Isn't the ultimate goal of this is to feel good?   Holistic exercise takes the opposite approach, employing workout techniques that keep the body fit while contributing to a sense of relaxation and spiritual balance. Yoga, for one, and other holistic exercise offers countless benefits without the self-punishment too often associated with physical fitness. Learn more about it from Jator and Alex here at Outer Travel, Inner Journey! Links mention in the podcast Jator Pierre Website Watch Video of the Podcast Find out what type of Habit Personality do you have? – [FREE QUIZ] Podcast Highlights 1:40- 4:14 - How Jator Pierre became a Holistic Health Coach 5:11 - 6:00- The Fear of Death 6:31- 9:38 - Teaching and Facilitating Method 17:06 - 23:38 - Shameful and Fearful 26:32 - 29:50 - Light Chaser 32:32 - 38:18 -  One Strange Planet 40:17- 43:59 - Holistic Health Coaching Pocket Quotes “I won't be myself, so other people can like me.” - Jator Pierre “Looking into the light is also blinding. When I'm outside, out in the world and the darkest places where there are no lights, I get to see the brightest stars.” -  Jator Pierre “If we don't see the purpose to our life, you know then there is no purpose and we all start chasing one”- Alexandra Kreis “It's really beautiful work getting to know ourselves in the presence of others, to create a space where we're learning to have permission to feel, express and be ourselves again.”- Jator Pierre “One of the most spiritual things we can do is not to be a step rug but learn how to represent ourselves and how to set healthy limits and boundaries and be honest.” - Jator Pierre Guest Bio Jator Pierre is an eternal seeker, vlogger, comic-obsessed hockey player, and lifestyle & wellness coach at wehlc.com. His specialty areas are Holistic Emotional Coaching, Digestive Disorders, Weight Loss / Obesity, Diabetes / Blood Sugar Regulation, Acne / Skin Conditions, Stress management, High Blood Pressure, Inflammation, and Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching.  

Starting a small business can be scary. It's like taking a leap, but even if you're unsure where you would be landing on. Some people start a business out of pure fascination or even as a hobby. But whether you are starting a business to fulfill your passion or meeting your financial goals, you need to have a plan.   Starting a small business is no easy task and can take days, if not months, to prepare. The most important aspect to have is the thrive and heart to start a small business, as, without passion, no business can succeed.   In business, you are your own boss. You are making your dream a reality--or not! It takes sacrifice (sometimes your career in someone else's business), discipline, long hours, and hard work. But, with courage, passion, and dedication, a business can be the start of something big.   During this pandemic, hundreds of thousands of workers were rendered unemployed. And so many took the chance of opening their own small businesses to generate income. To many, they saw the exciting opportunities to ‘create' something new--new solutions, for a new world.   There's no perfect time to start a business. What matters is how motivated you are to begin a business and make an impact through that.   In this podcast, Ali Lowndes shares about how they started their own business. Ali Lowndes, a designer, and maker based in Dublin, creates laser-cut acrylic jewelry, buttons, handmade greeting cards, retro headbands, and hair accessories.   Here, she also talks about how the pandemic helped her business to rise. Listen to some very practical tips on how one should manage their time for their business while being a mother and wife at the same time. Ali also has some essential reminders in showing appreciation to customers. Links mention in the podcast Ali Lowndes Website Watch Video of the Podcast Find out what type of Habit Personality do you have? – [FREE QUIZ] Podcast Highlights 2:13 -8:22 -  A Little Idea 16:30-19-40 - Switching Career 20:37-22:55 - Irish makers and designers 24:05-28:48 - Starting Your Own Business during the Pandemic 30:45 34:25 - Gift of Words Pocket Quotes “If you run your own business, you definitely get to see everything behind the curtains.”- Alexandra Kreis “We all want to live a happy life, and happiness doesn't often mean being safe. It means trying to go for what makes you shine and happy.”- Alexandra Kreis “Our customers are everything to us, and we want to make their day just like they've made our day.” - Ali Lowndes “When you have a creative bone in your body, you're constantly thinking: what's the next thing I'm going to do, what's the next thing to make? Ideas can explode.” -  Ali Lowndes “If you just stay doing the same thing forever, you get bored, you lose passion for it.” - Ali Lowndes Guest Bio Ali Lowndes is a designer and maker based in Dublin. Ali creates laser-cut acrylic jewelry, buttons, handmade greeting cards, retro headbands, and hair accessories. Her designs are inspired by the decades that have passed, full of color, lightweight, unisex, and fun to wear. Her stature as rising star in the business world accelerated when Lowndes was shortlisted for the prestigious Irish Made Award 2020 by Irish Country Magazine. Her business, A Little Idea, has made it into the jewelry category's final list.

Wisdom is knowing what's worth understanding, understanding the value of ideas, and always placing knowing in the context of not knowing–seeing the limits of knowledge and our understanding. From the wisdom of our deep consciousness, we can understand what is needed to experience deep happiness. We can learn to free ourselves from unwholesome thoughts, to sense our bodies, and to feel our emotions mindfully. We can find ways to broaden our consciousness, to live authentically, to be free from anxiety, to be in love. In this podcast, Benjamin Joon shares his life journey from South Korea to Germany. He shares his struggle being different from others and being an orphan, along with his good and bad experiences in his childhood. Benjamin lets us into his spiritual journey through his experiences and the challenges throughout his journey being a coach, a teacher, and a father. To Benjamin, spiritual experiences often produce ideal outcomes and blessings, but the most memorable ones come during unfortunate incidents. Regardless of whether you have a religious affiliation or have no spirituality at all, it will not keep you from spiritual experiences. They happen to everyone, and some of the people are attuned to them while others are not. There is no baseline as to who gets to experience them. Sometimes they are the product of something positive, although being in the darkness often results in the biggest spiritual experiences of them all. Benjamin Joon believes that integral learning is based on four pillars: studying, practicing, serving, and playing. Benjamin is currently a student of Bettina Romhardt / Buddhism in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh and Shai Tubali, and Tamar Brosh in Chakra Psychology. Benjamin is participating continuously in seminars and retreats for further education. Links mention in the podcast Benjamin Joon Website Watch Video of the Podcast Find out what type of Habit Personality do you have? – [FREE QUIZ] Podcast Highlights 2:36-4:52 - Moving Life to Germany from Korea 6:46-9:37-  All Kinds of Complexes 10:30 - 13:41- Spiritual Experiences 27:53 - 29:35 - Faking 31:03-36:07-  Challenge being a Father 37:53- 39:30 - Personal Insights Pocket Quotes “Suffering is part of life which is very difficult to understand. Sometimes we ask why we suffer and shouldn't life be beautiful.” - Alexandra Kreis “There's nothing wrong with faking if you are not only clinging to faking.” - Benjamin Joon “Solution is the way of joy and that you feel motivated by your own deep joy to practice.” - Benjamin Joon “Practice is for anyone, not only for monks but also for overwhelmed fathers.” - Benjamin Joon  “Perfect circumstances are not the goal. It's the way we create these circumstances in our lives.” - Benjamin Joon Guest Bio Benjamin was born in South Korea in 1977. He lived from 1980-1981 as an orphan in Suwon and was adopted from a German family in 1981. Benjamin moved to Berlin in 2000 and started his own business as a creative project developer, film and advertising actor, and minimal house DJ. In 2004, Benjamin began to study the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, Geshe Michael Roach and Hong Thay Lee. He was co-founder of PAPPA E CICCIA (Organic Restaurant & Catering) and NEXT ORGANIC (Trade Fair for Organic and Slow Food Trends). Since 2013 Benjamin offers the integral movement training "Movement Play" and in 2015 he started with the Integral Life Coaching.

Love and intimacy go hand in hand. Love is the physical, emotional, sexual, intellectual, or social affection one person holds for another. Intimacy is achieved when we become close to someone else and are reassured that we are loved and accepted for who we are. Children usually develop intimacy with parents and peers. As adults, we seek intimacy in close relationships with other adults, friends, family, and with a partner. Intimacy is a close relationship where mutual acceptance, nurturance, and trust are shared at some level. In this podcast, Sabina Rademacher and Alexandra Kreis talk about love and intimacy. Sabina Rademacher is a Love and Relationship Coach based in Germany. And here, she shares how passionate she was about her work and coaching other people. Her coaching focuses on all aspects of love, such as self-love, relationships, separation, and breakups. Sabina loves to talk to young people and open their feelings about love and intimacy. She wants to raise awareness on the necessary conversations about sexuality between parents and their children. And to establish deep trust, openness, and vulnerability between parents and their offspring. Through this podcast, she also discusses feminism, masculinity, authentic feelings, and parents' role to their children about what love and sexuality are or can be. When you encourage conversations about feelings, friendships, and family relationships, it can help your child feel confident to talk about teenage relationships in general. If your child knows what respectful relationships look like in general, they can relate this directly to romantic relationships. Conversations like this hope to make your child feel more comfortable sharing feelings with parents even as they start to get romantically interested in others. And there's a lot more direction than this can go: treating other people kindly, breaking up kindly, and respecting other people's boundaries. Links mention in the podcast Sabina Rademacher Website Watch Video of the Podcast Find out what type of Habit Personality do you have? – [FREE QUIZ] Podcast Highlights 2:37-6:31-  Passion on work 9:50-12:10- Love and intimacy 15:06-19:41- Feminism and Intimacy 21:19-24:59  - Authentic feeling 29:02-31:22 - Feminism and  Masculinity 31:27-35:41 - Intimacy among Young people 35:51-39:45- Parents' Role 42:34-43:04 - Last words of about Love and Intimacy Pocket Quotes “We don't make peace on this earth until we make peace among the gender.” - Sabina Rademacher  Love is never a demand. Love is a gift; it's a state of being, and it starts with myself. So if I don't love myself, nobody can ever love me.” - Sabina Rademacher  “Love and intimacy and sexuality is still such a taboo.” - Sabina Rademacher “True feminism is a gentle power; it's not copying the masculine.” - Sabina Rademacher  “Step back into your child because that child will always guide you with authenticity.” -  Sabina Rademacher Guest Bio Sabina Rademacher is a Love and Relationship Coach. She speaks different languages such as German, English, Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese. A mother of two beautiful grown-ups and adopted an Indian child. She loves spending as much time as possible in nature, and with yoga and dancing.  Her coaching focuses on all aspects of love, such as self love, relationships, separation and break ups.

For more than a year now, many of us have been stuck at home. Well, not literally, but the home-grocery routine. Maybe a short occasional stroll outside. But many times we've said we're missing out on a lot of other important things from the human-and-nature connection aspect because of this prolonged isolation. We also know that we should be moving around more throughout the day to stay healthy. However, working in an office, working at home, or even staying at home can mean you don't get the chance to get up and wander around at regular intervals throughout the day. Physical activity doesn't need to be complicated. Something as simple as a daily brisk walk can help you live a healthier life. Turning your normal walk into a fitness stride requires good posture and purposeful movements. All of us are born with a sense of movement, and our bodies have their unique language. Some of us lose touch with this sense of movement due to lack of use, illness, disabilities, or blocks from how we perceive ourselves. A movement therapist's role is to help the person tap into this sense of movement and express themselves, particularly thoughts or issues that may have been repressed. Shawn Flot, PT, and wellness coach of Moving Into Harmony and Well-Explored Life is back here with us. He studied Manual Therapy at Dynamic Manual Interface w/Frank Lowen. One of his passion projects is encouraging movement with nature by providing online guidance and conditioning to hikers, backpackers, and thru-hikers. In this podcast, Shawn and Alex share knowledge about moving our feet and going outside with nature. Shawn talks about the coordination of our system and our body when moving. He also shares some experience about his profession and gives some tips on how we should move our body with the right timing of breathing. This episode is sure to encourage and inspire you that moving outside with nature will help you not just physically but also mentally and spiritually. Links mention in the podcast Shawn M. Flot Website Watch Video of the Podcast Find out what type of Habit Personality do you have? – [FREE QUIZ] Podcast Highlights 3:08-7:40 - Getting out of your comfort zones 8:08-11:40 - Connection between our Nervous System and our Feet 15:47-22:14 - People Shawn works with 25:42-28:36 - Walking in Nature 28:57-32:29 - The Trapezius muscle 35:42 39:01 - Felt sense Pocket Quotes “Walking in nature is freeing myself of things I get stuck at. It allows me to feel more inspired.”- Alexandra Kreis “We're so uniquely different and we come from such different realms of how we operate our lives.”- Shawn Flot “Find yourself a little bit more. Don't work so hard at it and that's the key”- Shawn Flot “Reconnect into the body and let the mind be just the feeler of what the body's amazement can do.”- Shawn Flot “The feet are one of those places where we regain our fluidity and our ability to move in the world”. - Shawn Flot Guest Bio Shawn Flot studied Manual Therapy at Dynamic Manual Interface w/Frank Lowen, Hatha yoga at School of Shadow Yoga, and Spec. Hon. Kinesiology and Health Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a Physical Therapist and wellness coach of Moving Into Harmony. Also, Shawn Flot has Online Personal Fitness Training at A Well-Explored Life, LLC.  Doing online guidance and conditioning hikers, backpackers and thru-hikers.

Everything in this Universe is made up of energy. Everything is made up of atoms and each atom has a vibration. The human aura has an energy field that surrounds our physical body and extends outwards. What we say, think, or feel affects our aura, our energy field. Psychic Surgery is holding space for people and being able to scan their energy field and look into their energy, aura, and spirit. It takes bits that need to be taken out and adds in bits of light that need to be added. Angelic Reiki helps enhance and balance all aspects of your life and total transformation. It helps shift mental, emotional, and spiritual stagnation and strengthens self-esteem. One of its most well-known benefits is achieving a higher level of mental focus and clarity so you can see yourself, your life, and your path more clearly. It improves your sleep, energizes your body, and eases stress-related conditions. It gives you an even greater awareness of your connection to the Divine, raises your vibration so that you feel good and well and thus, heightens intuition. It helps you to feel loved, supported, and guided—to be able to see the magic and beauty not only in life but most importantly in yourself. Nowadays, we all need spiritual healing because of this pandemic. But how do we heal in this modern-day? What will tomorrow be like? Psychic Surgeon Dale Tobins will help you understand and trust this kind of healing process. Through relaxation and guided regression, we can connect more deeply with ourselves, uncover remarkable details about our habits, release unwanted patterns and behavior, and explore the subconscious to feel more free, light, peaceful, and happy.   Links mention in the podcast Dale Tobin Website Watch Video of the Podcast Find out what type of Habit Personality do you have? – [FREE QUIZ] Podcast Highlights 01:42:6:11Psychic Surgery 10:00-12:32 Understanding and trusting a Psychic Surgeon 16:06-21:24 Psychic Surgery Session 22:01-23:50  How Dale started teaching Reiki 26:58-29:55   Maintaining Core Energy 30:23-32:06  Words of advice from Dale Pocket Quotes Dale Tobin "It's not actually me doing the work. It's them finding their own light and sovereignty. I'm just there to help them to realize that they can do it." - Dale Tobin "What keeps me trusting is the understanding that we are controlled in our reality. The healing path has helped me regain myself. It's all about the self-work." - Dale Tobin "I am a human, a three-dimensional human as well as an infinite human. I have to be here experiencing this reality to keep me being one." - Dale Tobin "There is a big reason behind what's going on in the earth at the moment and that's leading people to disconnect from the busy life. Always remember you can do something with a pen even if you don't have any money. There's always a way to find happiness." - Dale Tobin Guest Bio Dale Tobin is a psychic surgery practitioner & spiritual teacher. Host of a healing show called talking stick show. Also, he is trained in Hypnotherapy & Reiki and co-founder of the angelic reiki system. Dale applies a shamanic approach to healing work. He studied Native American healing process and worked with many other healing modalities

Often, we think of meditation as a practice that uses techniques such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm, and stable state. It has been scientifically proven that meditation reduces stress and anxiety. It also promotes emotional health and awareness. The meditation practice during this pandemic has the potential to complement treatment and is a low-cost beneficial method of providing support with anxiety for all. Conor Creighton, an Irish meditation teacher, and award-winning journalist has a lot to teach us on that! He came to meditation in 2012 and quickly became immersed in the study of mindfulness meditation and vipassana meditation. He trained in India with the Dalai Lama, and at the Redwood Institute in San Francisco. He has sat several long retreats and studied a number of meditation types. Conor's teaching is a cross-pollination of ancient techniques and contemporary wisdom. He teaches courses throughout Ireland, from art studios to prison yards. In this podcast, Conor talks about how meditation will change and help you grow as a person. Explore mindfulness meditation techniques that allow you to understand your mind, diffuse stress, and release tension so you can lead, create and perform at your best. This is ideal for people who don't think they can meditate. Learn how to change bad habits, focus the mind and set intentions. Meditation—particularly Conor's course—has been praised to foster better self-awareness, stronger emotional intelligence, and a bag of happiness hacks to help survive modern life. Links mention in the podcast Conor Creighton Contact Watch Video of the Podcast Podcast Highlights 02:29-6:51 -  How Meditation changed Conor's life 10:59-16:27 - 10 days of Meditation 23:53-28:30-  - Success in Meditation 29:03-36:22 -  Teaching Meditation Pocket Quotes "Meditation opened me to find ways, find identities where I would finally feel some sense of contentment within myself." - Conor Creighton “When you start to meditate, you activate your empathy and inspire a certain compassion in a person.” -  Conor Creighton “Don't confuse the telescope for the stars.” -  Conor Creighton “The knowledge of meditation will not help you but the experience of meditation will transform your life. “ -  Conor Creighton "The joy and happiness that we are looking outside is actually inside." Conor Creighton Guest Bio Conor is a down-to-earth teacher, and a natural storyteller, a skill he learned in part from his many years as a writer, but also as a bartender. He is based in Berlin and Dublin.  Author, journalist, coach, and meditation teacher. Conor Creighton has been traveling the globe as a reporter, a motivational speaker, and a meditation teacher for nearly twenty years.  Conor is the author of two books and has been published in the Guardian, the Irish Times, and Vice Magazine. He's won the Irish Travel Journalist of the Year Award, the Gwaertler Foundation Award, and the Simon Cumbers Media Fund on three occasions.

Have you ever felt like being confined in a box? On your role, on what you have to do, on who you want to be? It’s hard, especially for us, women. We are constantly influenced by our surroundings—parents, community, society. But how does one get out of that box? How does one unfold and fly? The idea can seem too vague. Often, we’d say, it’s easier said than done. And it’s true. Many of us just know that we want and have to take off and fly and wander but never really landed yet. Anyhow, life shouldn’t tell you where and when and how to land and stop. This is exactly the case for Jannetje van Leeuwen, another powerful woman sharing her magic and her story. Jannetje is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, super-connector, and more. She admits that she’s not good at finishing stuff, but starting up is her strength. Jannetje grew up with confidence—being told by her supportive mom that she can do and become successful with whatever she decides to do. But she also puts such great appreciation and understanding of the fact that she’s speaking from a place of privilege—that unlike many others (probably most), she enjoys the liberty to explore because she doesn’t have to worry too much about her next meal, or paying up the rent and so on. This confidence and view about life have created the space for her to explore enough, not only as a multifaceted entrepreneur but as a person in general. All the checkboxes of successful adult life—glittery title, fancy house and car, figure in the bank account—never really interested Jannetje. But the excitement in uncertainty, the challenge, connection, being able to build and control—these are the more fulfilling things. The jump itself is fulfilling! After all, life and nature taught us: when you jump, you got to land. You just have to trust. Links mention in the podcast Jannetje Van Leeuwen Contact Watch Video of the Podcast Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts! Podcast Highlights 03:49-05:49 Journey to Multifaceted Entrepreneurship. 06:57- 12:56  From Self-Exploration to Clarity. 17:54- 20:30  Trusting to let go and jump. 20:35 - A start-up is like giving birth. 25:35 Vatta Personality. 30:37-33:48 Truthful Communication in Business Pocket Quotes Trust that when you jump, you gotta land. - Alexandra Kreis Allow things to unfold. - Jannetje van Leeuwen You don't have to make this huge shift. It's not the fantasy nor the picture of the kind of person you want to be but much more around the feeling you would have in that new role. - Jannetje van Leeuwen Pausing before concluding or before you act is easier said than done. - Jannetje van Leeuwen It's okay to not know. It doesn't have to be so defined. - Jannetje van Leeuwen Guest Bio Jannetje van Leeuwen is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, super-connector and door opener from Dublin, Ireland. She co-founded and managed four start-up business

We spend 90% of our lives indoors. Imagine how much time is that—being in the confines of a space that either supports you or restricts you. These spaces cultivate our experience and awareness and our experience and awareness draw the lines between these spaces. And so for Victoria Überegger, holistic interior designer and fellow yoga practitioner, spaces such as our home should be designed according to the story that its owners want to tell. Every home should look completely different from the next person's home and each space within a home should reflect how the homeowner wants to feel, what habits they want to create. Motivated by her own experience, Victoria worked to adopt a holistic approach to interior design through yoga because she knew how a person can take out all the fear and angst that he/she accumulates from a house into his/her social life. Growing up with so much fear and anxiety from living in an old, almost horror house-looking building in the middle of a beautiful city was, to her, next to a traumatic childhood. As Westerners, we always think of a trajectory—that we're on a target and we always and continuously have to move forward like an arrow. We thought it's that strain swift move, but if you look closer, it's swinging. Like in life, all these pulsations—the endless contraction and expansion—always reflect the polarity of life. In this podcast, Victoria and Alex exchange and share very profound yet practical tips to create that space that truly reflects one’s vision. Some of them are bringing pieces of nature indoors, reconnecting us with the sense of quietness and nature within ourselves, and getting rid of all toxins that are already pre-existing before moving in. The philosophy is simple: Try not to possess it all. Let it go. At the end of the day, our home is where we take refuge. After all, our home is our comfort. Links mention in the podcast Victoria Überegger Contact Watch Video of the Podcast Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts! Podcast Highlights 02:15 - 6:50 Victoria’s Journey to Holistic Interior Design 11:24 - 12:30 Broadening the Horizon through Yoga 15:49 - 17:02 Holistic Interior Design reflects the homeowner’s identity, experience, and expression 20:25 - 23:44 Making a Space your OWN 25:05 - 28:33 Creating your space from a blank canvas Pocket Quotes The spaces we live in manifest in our life. - Victoria Überegger To create something with meaning, you have to stop and be with YOU and sit with YOU and deal with yourself. - Victoria Überegger A room is a big blank canvas. Everything comes together to portray one big vision board - the most important is the vision part. - Alexandra Kreis There has never been a better time to reimagine your home than at least the first lockdown. Anything that's wrong with your home, you know it now. - Victoria Überegger Guest Bio Victoria Überegger is a holistic interior designer and at the same time, a yoga practitioner, from Innsbruck, Austria.   Victoria is from South Tyrol, a multi-language province in the north of Italy on the border to Austria; therefore, she is able to speak fluent Italian, German, and English. She is an open–minded, creative person, who allows her to think outside the box and can work in a team or by herself to solve problems at hand.

Not being able to do the things that we used to do, especially those activities that we love and have become part of our identity can be heartbreaking. It can turn our world upside down. We’ve heard about athletes, dancers, who have been physically active their entire lives, made careers out of their passion for movement, but suddenly shift after getting injured or “physically worn out.” This episode’s guest had a similar awakening—Shawn Flot, a triathlete and physical therapist, one day found himself in debilitating pain, his physical prowess crumbling irreversibly. But his struggle, with the guidance and support of communities working on mobility and movement like the Lowen Systems, yoga, and breathwork, brought him to a deeper understanding of trauma, physical and physiological dynamics, and ultimately, to help people now. This insightful conversation reminds us that there can be so much going on beneath the surface simply because our bodies are designed to hold the pressure up to a certain threshold. Symptoms and pain don't show up until the body can't adapt anymore. And so, as we look after our wellbeing—which is not confined in the facets of the physical needs—we have to be aware of and master the other realms that help to support us. Movement, hands-on work, breath work are some promising interventions that we can to support healing and recovering our optimum function. But at the end of the day, these are but reminders of the infinite gift of this world for us to live fully. Because we have somehow forgotten that we coexist for a reason: we belong to each other and are dependent on each other. Bridging the healing arts of Yoga, physical therapy, and manual therapy, Shawn shares his wealth of experience and knowledge through his programs within Moving Into Harmony with a mission: to create space and options for people to take back their power over their bodies; to be back in the body. Links mention in the podcast Shawn M. Flot Website Watch Video of the Podcast Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts! Podcast Highlights 03:34 - 09:27: Journey to discovering movement, forces, and harmony 10:51 - 12:07: Understanding the Body and Pain 16:05 - 21:15: ‘Hearing’ the body and creating space for options 21:29 - 23:41: The Well-Explored Life: For those who are interested to actually be in their bodies. 25:51 - 34:11: Breathwork: Constant expansion-contraction is the way of life. Pocket Quotes Symptoms, pain doesn't show up until the body can't adapt anymore. The facets of our wellbeing aren't just physical, diet, etc... There are so many other realms that help to support us. We may look like we're doing well, but something else may be under the surface. - Shawn Flot The advantage of a hands-on setting: the patient feels being heard and the body knows it. People do feel the shifts. It is like giving back the person and their body options to heal. It's up to them through movement, like yoga, to implement and integrate those new options. - Shawn Flot We've been so self-made, individualized, but we forget that we belong to each other and are dependent on each other. It's no harm if you can't move correctly and someone else assists you. - Alexandra Kreis Breath is so intimately close to wounding in traumatic events. Breath is divine, always available. Use the breath to reopen the aperture - that's healing. - Shawn Flot Don't force yourself to strive to get rid of the trauma but be with it. This body has so much amazing love for you and potential. The more we can be with it, the more companionship will support us. - Shawn Flot Guest Bio Shawn M. Flot, PT, MPT is mobility and movement practitioner who bridges the healing arts of Yoga, Physical Therapy, and Manual Therapy in his Moving Into Harmony programs and solutions. He runs a clinic in Southern Oregon, USA, and also offers his programs through www.movingintoharmony.com

Artists not only create works of art. History has shown the important role they played in shaping our consciousness and environment. Every piece of art will resonate with someone, somewhere. It initiates dialogue and conversations; it stimulates action; it inspires change and growth. To this episode’s guest, Jörg Reckhenrich, therapy, coaching, and deep self-inquiry can come through art. You can apply and implement art thinking for business, entrepreneurship, everyday problem-solving...to practically everything! While Jörg is an artist himself and became a gallery owner, he didn’t like art books or theories in his younger days. Observing artworks and going deep into conversations about perceptions was what drew him into this lane. To him, it's not about the artwork itself, it's about the resonance of the person who's looking at that piece of art. Experiencing the power of art, it became important for Jörg to share it with people and spread positivity. Combining art coaching, positive psychology, and systemic attitude has become his wonderfully pieced together work-of-art to scale learning, education, and leadership. Coaching through art starts with a free conversation about a general topic before questions are posed. But it’s not like the conventional coaching process—the coach doesn’t always have to be the one who asks and the coachee answers. It’s a multidirectional learning process; from observation to context and real-life questions and problems. And as the landscape for learning is changing, especially these days, coaching through art has become even more relevant and effective. Especially because in art, it's not about knowing better, but daring to be out there and just doing it; trying to shift the world with the simplest notion. Links mention in the podcast Jörg Reckhenrich Website Watch Video of the Podcast Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts! Podcast Highlights 3:00 - 6:47 Discovering his love for art and perceiving art 8:00 - 10:30 Understanding Art for Therapy, Learning, and Leadership 11:00 -  20:10 Coaching Through Art 20:30 - 28:00 Digital Art Solutions for Growth and Empowerment for Young Women of Uganda Pocket Quotes It's not about the artwork itself, it's about the resonance of the person who's looking at that piece of art. - Jörg Reckhenrich  Many artists, especially visual artists, are incapable of telling about their art. Always start with pure perception and the dialogue will emerge. - Jörg Reckhenrich  Let go of the things why you observe an art piece. The choice you do has so much to do with your own ideas, questions, your involvement. - Jörg Reckhenrich  It's not about knowing better, but daring to be out there and just doing it. Trying to shift the world with the simplest notion. - Alexandra Kreis Have the courage to try out before you think too much. If you see and sense something that interests or stimulates you, go for it. Do and make a new experience, and then learn from it. That's the artist's way. - Jörg Reckhenrich Guest Bio Jörg Reckhenrich is an artist, systemic consultant, and business coach. He is the founder of PParts, a consultant company that combines positive psychology with Art Thinking. Jörg is a member of the faculty at CEIBS (Zürich Institute of Business Education) and visiting lecturer at IMD Lausanne, London Business School, ESMT, and ESCP Berlin. Reckhenrich has been listed as one of the world’s “top 25 management thinkers” by the journal Business Strategy Review. He is a member and network driver of the BMW Foundation, responsible leader network, and BMW Alumni foundation. He is also a member of the advisory board of the MBA program at the Quadriga University Berlin and holds a permanent teaching position at the coaching and leadership academy, Berlin.

Math and physics—or ‘hard science’—can be intimidating to some (or many). Because most of the time, it is approached as abstract concepts and principles detached from reality. This area is often a space your kid may not feel too confident. But to Ulli Helmstetter, teacher of mathematics and physics, these are like lenses to see through this perfectly uncertain world. It’s the knowledge that ties us closest to understanding nature because they are nature itself. Having to tackle seemingly rigid concepts, it was easy to fall oblivious to your environment and self. No other subject could even frustrate you as mathematics. But Ulli understood these from a perspective that brings him back to the very purpose of knowledge: to be able to live in this world and live in it fully. Math and physics, in their essence, teach about the fundamental principles of nature; problem-solving and adaptation; of the truth, spirituality, and profoundness of life. And as a teacher, he took it as his mission to share this lens with his students and encourage them to re-discover the infinite magic of the world that we live in as he did when he first fell in love with science. The whole world is like a hologram. Every piece resembles the qualities of the whole. Like the tail of the elephant—you touch it and you know it's an elephant. No matter where you look if you look clearly and healthily at things, you're always connected with the truth. It doesn't matter which method you use to get or stay connected. Just like how science is—that it is not a set of information that we have and can hold in our hands. Understanding it is an infinite process as it is ever-expanding. But the basic principles are what we can hold and learn. After all, these principles, math, and physics, are just anchors to the higher intelligence that have let us thrive amid the horrors and wonders of this world! life Understanding the World of Meditation through Math and Physics The first intro to physics and spirituality was a book by Vienna Heisenbeck The Path and the Home; changed the course of my life Was in physics but the mechanic aspect but this book opened a new perspective. All the old concepts that we have of nature were completely upside down. I like to be puzzled and shocked. And this book did that to me. Mainly about the uncertainty principle. Things are uncertain. They are not clearly defined that a particle is not at one place but at different places at the same time. The world became magical again. A lot of us are dealing with the fear of possibility. It's a mission to bring this to my students. To bring an understanding of the changes in paradigm - what an open, mystical world we are in. Science is not a set of information that we have and that we know most or almost everything in the world. We hardly know anything. It's an infinite process. It's fascinating to have the feeling that we can take part in this process. People like my teaching because I'm open to what is happening - the ability to bring the magic of math physics to them. It is not a fixed system that is boring and invented by mankind. This is nature itself. No matter where you look if you look clearly and healthily at things, you're always connected with the truth. There's no escape. It's just a matter of being connected. It doesn't matter which method you use to get or stay connected. One reason we're here is to enjoy this world - to live in it and to live it fully. Is insane feeling bad or not acting according to the rule? There's an instinct, impulse, or built-in ability to adapt. To be in this world means to be in situations that can be horrible. But we are also naturally adaptable. We have a much higher intelligence that lets us comprehend and adapt to those situations. I trust with this higher intelligence. In the end, it's trust. It's not philosophy. It's trusting that intelligence. You can only give them what you have yourself. How do you change habits to make you a more whole, profound, and happier being? If you run full speed Switching gears No other subject that could frustrate you as mathematics. In Math, you reach a point As soon as you take something as the chance to take the next level, You learn how to approach problems. Math is like a lens for looking at your life. Links mention in the podcast Ulli Helmstetter website Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!  Reawaken Your Body - Discover New You Podcast Highlights To bring an understanding of the changes in paradigm—understanding what an open, mystical world we are in—has been my mission to my students. - Ulli Helmstetter Science is not a set of information that we have and that we know most or almost everything in the world. We hardly know anything. It's an infinite process. And it's fascinating to have the feeling that we can take part in this process. - Ulli Helmstetter Math and physics are not a fixed system that is boring and invented by mankind. This is nature itself. - Ulli Helmstetter No matter where you look if you look clearly and healthily at things, you're always connected with the truth. There's no escape. It's just a matter of being connected. It doesn't matter which method you use to get or stay connected. - Ulli Helmstetter Math is like a lens for looking at your life. You learn how to approach problems. - Ulli Helmstetter Guest Bio: Ulli Helmstetter is a dedicated teacher of mathematics and physics. He has taught in schools in Germany, Costa Rica, and Kenya and over the past 30 years. Aside from teaching inside the classroom, he coaches kids on the more practical skills that kids need to reflect their school performance in exams

Re-Authoring Your Trauma With Veronica Maurel Any experience can lead to a loop inside you. The more you ignore it, the more it gets ahead. - Alexandra Kreis Veronica Layunta Maurel, an Ayurvedic health consultant, yoga teacher, storyteller, and writer, tackles trauma from an insider’s perspective. Trauma is like a huge portal—to other past traumas, to the deepest levels of the self, and to everything that we need to work on. Searching for her healing, Veronica found re-authoring her story is pivotal in addressing trauma. It’s how you tell your story and how you tell it to yourself. When we think of trauma, we imagine horrible things. And people undergoing these are sometimes stigmatized. But we have to realize and be conscious that trauma is much deeper than that. Trauma can change the way we see things. We can have the same experience but the effect will be different. To some of us, it can be a stepping stone to be stronger. To some, it triggers an onset of trauma. It’s up to us how we author our lives around wounds like traumas and the space for healing that is always there for us.   Breaking Free from Trauma With Adair Finucane “There is nothing wrong with me.” Growing up in an average, normal family, Adair had never imagined that a deep-seated trauma was behind her rage, anxiety, and depression. How could that be? This isn’t trauma—she kept denying it to herself. She refused to honor her own experience and feelings. All that despite her being a trauma researcher. It’s easy to fall for the same lie about ourselves. We don’t or sometimes, we just refuse to, think something IS wrong or special in our experience or situation. Just like the social-worker-turned yoga-healer Adair, sometimes it takes being in a safe space to allow yourself to be vulnerable enough...to let your eyes see the fact that has been staring at you.    Innate Resources for Healing Trauma With Patrick Haraghy Seek help. Life is not a rehearsal. And so life should be lived in its full potential. There's a good life out there to be lived. - Patrick Haraghy With trauma, whether it’s developmental or shock trauma, a lot are out into the unconscious. And our first instinct is to protect ourselves from it by avoidance, pushing it aside, brushing it off under the rug. Even persistent pains in the body are telling of a trauma hiding somewhere waiting to resurface or erupt. But there are different ways of working on these traumas. Patrick, a therapist specializing in trauma, offers practical pointers to resources innate to us, human beings, to address trauma. If trauma is just right there hiding, and so is healing.   Aisha Harley Coming Home to Yourself after Severe Trauma “Being alone and meeting my anxiety face-to-face helped me find my happiness and my peace.” From pain to love, Aisha, a former photographer, and doTERRA leader realized that healing has to start with the self. Struggling from Lyme disease, stress, and pain from toxic relationships, Aisha was afraid to leave an abusive situation because she was afraid to be alone. She thought peace existed outside herself; her happiness depended on some other person.  But in her journey, she learned that putting herself first, working on her boundaries, and taking her power back were the first pieces in the puzzle of her healing. Others came in to build her picture of happiness and peace soon after she decided that, yes, she could heal, and she can do it by herself. Links mention in the podcast Watch video of the podcast Patrick Harraghy Website Veronica Layunta Maurel website  Adair’s website Aisha’s website Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!  Check out my online workshop – Ayurvedic guide to self-care!  

‘An empath—but what are you really?’ This was Maskarm’s question to herself before she embarked on that first ride out of Ethiopia. She knew she always had this incredible gift of being able to put herself in someone else’s shoes and feel things as if she was them. She understood her ability to see, hear and feel things. But in her world back in Ethiopia, there was no place for such. And so she went out to fly. Deeply sensitive, intuitive, good listener, self-sufficient. These were the qualities that had let her successfully sail across pan-Africa and beyond as a couch-surfer, meeting people along the way who either challenge her chosen way of life or think alike. But more importantly, it was indeed an outer travel to journey towards what within her. Maski was born and raised in a religious and traditional Ethiopian family. From the very start, traveling was her dream but it was not something comprehensible in her family and their culture. But she knew she had to be someplace and went for it. To her, it felt as if someone left her here on Earth by mistake and that being in one place for a prolonged period of time is not her safe space. Traveling gave her inspiration and a feeling of oneness. It unpacked for her so many things about herself, her childhood and traumas, her connection with her family, especially her mother. Traveling was her healing until she arrived and became ready to recognize her identity and share it with others (through writing and her book, Abyssinian Nomad). But it wasn’t all happy and exciting. Along her journey, Maski found out she has fibromyalgia, a disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory, and mood issues. To her, maybe it was a way of saying ‘I'm done here and now it’s the body’s time to heal. For years of searching, Maskarm lived in total freedom. But she also learned that there are things that needed to happen and shouldn’t be refused and ignored to preserve that perceived freedom. Especially if that comes from within—a voice that wants to be heard, a thought that needs to be shared and read, or even a feeling or pain that has to be tended to. Letting it all out is freedom in itself. Links mention in the podcast Maskarm Haile website   Watch video of the podcast Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!  Check out my online workshop - Ayurvedic guide to self-care! Podcast Highlights I felt like someone left me here on Earth by mistake and they're going to come back and take me. I felt this is not my place. That was the feeling the entire time except when I'm traveling. - Maskarm Haile It was my dream to travel. But it also became like a pilgrimage for me. Most of the time, I don't know why I'm in one place, I just know I have to be there. It just unfolds. The experience of it makes me feel I need this more. - Maskarm Haile During the lockdown, I do miss some things but I also see it as a grace to us. It's like an opportunity given to us to go within and search for more.  - Maskarm Haile If it keeps showing up, don't ignore it because it will catch up. - Maskarm Haile Being wise is about listening, sharing, and being sensitive. Not just knowledge. - Alexandra Kreis Guest Bio: Maskarm Haile is an empath and traveler from Ethiopia who wandered across pan-Africa and the world in search of her identity. She is the woman behind the book Abyssinian Nomad. Maskarm, in her book, incredibly wrote about her priceless memories and experience.

Traveling never ends, when you are wandering the forgotten path. It's the curiosity and bewilderment that propels us forward, not the one thing that we want to solve. But as we go into our inner sanctuary, we realize there is nothing to resolve. It's just all a play of life. After all, life is so hard to fit into a shoe. This week's guest - a fellow traveler - wandered to the forgotten spaces wanting to learn more about life and the life that exists beyond her experience. Jolanda Todt, an artist, designer, cultural educator, went around getting away from and, eventually, wanting to reconnect to her memory of her father. Jolanda became a spiritual researcher, a truth-seeker in her own right. Losing her father to suicide as a result of his long-running mental health situation, Jolanda realized how difficult situations in our lives make us reach out and reach deeper. And these experiences are what sailed her through life and brought her to immerse in the indigenous community and culture of shamans—something her father wouldn't have thought she will do but she certainly has grown to love doing. She learned that psychological illnesses have complementary spiritual counterparts. But the ceremonies in these communities forged a strong connection to Jolanda and her experiential understanding of life. The two women singing, praying, and chanting for hours left a strong impact on Jolanda. In her culture, women are fighting for their space and place. But in these indigenous cultures, women have such a beautiful space, expressing their spirituality, in such a very authentic way. Being part of this community gave Jolanda invaluable nuggets of wisdom - the like that doesn't resolve questions but moves you through the unending quest for learning. The like that she proudly brings in her journey from sorrow to understanding the life that her father had. Links mention in the podcast      Watch Video  Jolanda Todt Website    Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!         Invite your Friend for FREE and Enjoy Ayurvedic Cleanse together Podcast Highlights Difficult situations in our lives make us reach out and reach deeper at the best times. - Alexandra Kreis Trauma can be passed on to generations. - Jolanda Todt  In our culture, women are fighting for their space and place. But in this culture, these women have such a beautiful space; they are expressing their spirituality, in such a very authentic way. - Jolanda Todt  The bigger the questions are, the bigger answers required. - Jolanda Todt Life is so hard to fit into a shoe. Travelling never ends. It's the curiosity and bewilderment that propels us forward, not the one thing that we want to solve. But as we go into the inner sanctuary, we realize there is really nothing to resolve. It's just all a play of life. - Alexandra Kreis Guest Bio Jolanda Todt, an artist, designer, and cultural educator from Berlin. She studied communication design and has done exhibitions, performances, and lectures in Germany, Iceland, and London

Breathing is one of those instinctive things that we know and do. So instinctive that we seldom pay attention to how it supports everything else in our system. So constantly done that we almost neglect the dynamics that it plays to other aspects of our core such as our voice. In this episode of Outer Travel, Inner Journey, Regan O'Brien, vocal coach and performing artist, and singer, inspires us to rediscover our breath and voice. Growing up with an innate love for music, singing was that one thing that brings Regan to her element—but she does it alone. She even recalls being so shy she couldn’t speak and join in conversations. Her nerves would always get in the way because she didn’t look at singing as sharing her voice and story with other people. To the younger Regan, it was something she had to do to meet someone else's expectations. Until she discovered breath and voice work. The thrive that she found among friends cheered her on to studying speech and drama. This opened her to a world of resources and support to build more strength and confidence in her ability. And there, she discovered her gem: realizing that finding her voice was a core experience of attuning to her sense of comfort and identity. And as she began to consolidate that identity, she felt more certain about the ‘I’ in all of her work. Today, Regan partners with people on their journey towards connecting with their voice in a meaningful way. She works with people and the poetics of their voice—the preverbal movement of the voice and the body, sensing inward, feeling the actual physicality of producing voice within the body, and finding the path of least resistance to creating support for that vibration with breathwork and strengthening exercises. Through her lived experience and example, Regan inspires people to step into the flow, rather than control it, and to immerse in the nervousness and rawness of the moment. With the right support, allowing ourselves to move with this flow while staying present in the movement is what gives depth to the breath and voice. Voice work, vibrations, resonances—all of these, there's movement in it that attunes us into our internal landscape. Sensing our voice vibrating in our body is such a practical and effective way of understanding ourselves. Our voice is our main vehicle of expression, not only of our thoughts. It ushers our emotions, our identity, the life within us to come out and come free. Links mention in the podcast      Watch Video  Regan O`Brien Website    Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!         Invite your Friend for FREE and Enjoy Ayurvedic Cleanse together Podcast Highlights As time went on, I began to realize that finding my voice was a core experience of attuning to my sense of comfort and identity. - Regan O’Brien Your breathing is the rhythm of your life. - Regan O’Brien Voice work is controlling and supporting the out-breath on a vibration. And there's something very intimate about it because we are so attached to our sound. The embodied voice work is very important because it gives a sensory experience.  - Regan O’Brien Healing doesn't need to come through one path - you can do it through breath and voice work or deep diving. - Alexandra Kreis Everyone is capable of expressing their own meaning and truth. We don't have to rely on words to do that. There are so many other art forms and practices that allow us to do that. - Regan O’Brien Guest Bio Regan O’Brien is a musician, a vocal coach, and a creative facilitator. She performs her compositions throughout Ireland and Europe. She has lectured in performance studies and taught vocal and movement practices at school and post-graduate levels. She facilitates a creative and therapeutic voice coaching service called Vocal Movement Ireland.

For every devotional song and dance, there’s a movement of energy that unravels what’s sitting from deep within. This movement of energy, not just of the dancer or singer but of everyone on stage and around, reveals a beautiful story of truth and healing. Coming from a long and deep experience of the art, Kavita Kat Macmillan eloquently shares a beautiful journey of discovering a movement and voice that truly resonates and expresses her truth. This devoted artist, who grew up with an inclination to music both instrumental and vocal, sought an understanding of singing and its place in her yoga practice. But this opened up into a much deeper practice of expression through dance and movement—butoh. But these two very different forms—voice and body—have both taught Kat rightly about expression, presence, truth, and connection. The dance that came out of Post-WWII Japan as a reaction to both the atrocities and the coming in of Western influence, Butoh, as Kat saw it, is a revolution of the body, of expression. It was really about allowing the self to strip away how we think we should know or dance and come into discovering choreography from the internal story. It is indescribably different than a performative performance. Rather, it is interactive because of the moving energy that tells the story and changes everyone. The dancers reveal death and life; it heals us in some way. Everyone is allowed to take a look at these things and to breathe or laugh or feel more. Butoh showed what hasn't been expressed on stage—taking grieve or death as a portal into life. There is death and there is life in the dance. But beyond its almost magical effect, its techniques tells more about what is required of one to be able to tell such a very intimate piece of the self in the dance: practice, physical strength, being vulnerable (reaching a physical limit that then breaks us so we release into a softening), control. The goal of the dance is to get away from the mind creating the image and allow for the body and the internal story to unfold something that might be completely unexpected and was there for being so true and real. Kat’s practice of butoh led her back to singing but this time, with a deeper understanding and connection to her voice. She learned to become free and open to her own authentic story through dance which made perfect sense to work with voice. Kat applied the same principles to music and is now helping people to have confidence around approaching singing and having their expression of music and voice in their lives.   Links mention in the podcast     Watch Video  Kavita Kat Macmillan Website   Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!       Start your Spring Cleanse on time, Enjoy Early Bird price 20% OFF! Podcast Highlights Butoh was like a revolution of the body,  of expression. A very new way to put things that were evocative and controversial, allowing any form of expression that could be shown through the body. - Kat Macmillan Butoh showed what hasn't been expressed on stage - taking grieve or death as a portal into life. There is death and there is life in the dance. - Alexandra Kreis The beauty of formal devotional music: a practice is all about just doing your practice. Sure you have nerves but once the music starts, there's this part of you that knows that practice. Your practice will take you through. Let go of the ego. - Kat Macmillan If you're thinking about trying to do something well, the connection will be severed almost. Because the mental space gets in the way of the energy. - Kat Macmillan Be kind to yourself. Know that your voice and expression, however that comes through, whatever it is that is your passion, dharma is such an important piece of the puzzle. Listen to what makes your heartbeat stronger and allow that to come through because the world wants your gifts. - Kat Macmillan Guest Bio Kavita Kat Macmillan is a musician, yoga instructor, workshop facilitator, and creative guide from Portland, Oregon. She brings over 20 years of experience teaching, sharing kirtan & study nada (sound) yoga to her classes and offerings.  Kavita's 'Open Heart Kirtan' presents traditional mantras in original compositions with Western and Indian influences.  Through her musical offerings, yoga asana classes & ‘Open your Voice ~ Open your Heart’ workshops, Kavita guides students towards authentic voice & movement focused on letting go of patterns that get in the way of artistic expression.  Kavita recently released a new single “Take My Hand” featuring vocals by bhakti legend Jai Uttal and her upcoming album “The Beloved Lives Inside” is expected this year.

Many times, the things that you're scared of usually aren't as scary as you think they are. The thought of the thing is usually scarier than the actual thing. Astrid Walsh’s journey to save her vision was witness to this. Having been confronted one day by a diagnosis that meant she won’t be able to do many of the things that she loves doing and a possibility of being derailed from her passion for the visual arts, Astrid allowed herself to be scared off by what she thought would be the worst. While being treated conventionally for Lyme disease, she noticed episodes of flashing in her vision. Later on, she was told it was a detached retina and surgery is the only way. But that night of the soul pulled her inwards to wait and hear an answer, led her to discover a world that taught her that healing occurs so much deeper than and after the treatments and interventions that we do for our body. Astrid took her health on her hands: for better or worse, she relied on what she feels. She had the inner knowing but had to find out what it is. So Astrid researched and found Ayurveda as the only healing modality that looked at the senses specifically. Alexandra, as a long-time friend of Astrid, introduced her to that world and went deeper—into Panchakarma. Astrid spent weeks in a tiny village in India, being taken care of by Dr. Ashwin Shastri and practically the whole village. These weeks led her to discover so much about herself and the world we live in. Panchakarma and all the detox she went through taught her that healing is about creating space for and letting in what could heal us and letting go of the things that intoxicate, not only our bodies but also our mind and soul. More than the interventions, big and small, Astrid learned that it was really about tuning in to the self, about attachments and sufferings, about the way we look at life and death. And ultimately, about letting go. This whole journey, for Astrid, brought closer together two worlds—traditional medicine and Ayurveda—to teach her most precious take away: let in, want something, but let go of the necessity to get it and you’ll find peace in your decision. Links mention in the podcast    Watch Video  Astrid Walsh Website  Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!      Time to spark power your immune system through the eyes of Ayurveda! Podcast Highlights Every illness brings death with it to a certain degree. Dr. Ashwin Shastri showed me the terror of death, blindness. As a visual artist, I overly relied on my eyes and blindness equaled to death. I was coming to grip the reality of death. - Astrid Walsh I came from a culture where death was the absolute worst-case scenario. Whereas from Ayurveda and India’s cultural perspective, there's rebirth. The way we see it isn't necessarily the only way to see it. - Astrid Walsh In modern times, we live in a very fast-paced environment that we almost have to learn patience. - Alexandra Kreis You can only have the energy to do these things for yourself, it's all self-responsibility in making the choices every day. But you can only actually do that if you're supported in some way. Big interventions can give you a good place to start. Because sometimes, you just have to act now, in a big way. But then after that, you have to integrate it into your new reality. And that takes time and patience. - Astrid Walsh Ayurveda gives you the stability to be able to face health problems and not get panicked. The sickness can't travel so deep if you keep an eye regularly on what is falling out of shape in you and what needs amending. - Astrid Walsh Guest Bio Astrid Walsh is an amazing visual artist from Ireland. She has done numerous individual and collaborative exhibitions across the country and received awards and recognitions for her work. She started first started her healing journey and discovering Ayurveda when she was undergoing treatment for Lyme disease in 2003. Later on, she was diagnosed with a detached retina and that’s when she dove really deeply into Ayurveda, which she practices until today.  

Sleeplessness, anxiety, unhealthy eating habits—we often regard these as just part of the “modern life”. But these can have more far-reaching effects on our well-being. And many times, people don’t realize that these often disregarded factors can be traced from an unaddressed trauma. The discourse around this becomes extra important as the world navigates a 180-degree shift in our lives as individuals and societies to cope with a pandemic. People explore a newly evolving world of work, mostly, with uncertainty and a small support system. But this episode’s guest, Patrick Haraghy, a therapist specializing in trauma, is out to take listeners through it with his five resources to stabilize our lives, whether traumatized or not. For Patrick, these five key resources—exercise, food, engagement, relaxation, and sleep—may seem simple and have always been a part of the health and wellbeing narrative. Yet people continue to take for granted many of them, especially sleep. A lot of healing happens during sleep—both for physical and mental healing. But trauma—whether developmental or shock trauma—often messes up one’s ability to get a good night’s sleep. And hence, the lack of it affects the body’s ability to recover and heal. And so it is important to know and practice some techniques to get a good night's sleep. Practicing sleep hygiene would usually involve small habits such as not having caffeine in the evening, not eating late, not taking alcohol, trying to go to bed at the same time and getting up at the same time (so activate the internal clock), and preparing for sleep like a baby like going for a bath and doing something but not watching TV, etc. In Ayurveda, this has been discussed in Samhita—how you run your day, creating an evening routine, and creating the atmosphere for sleep. But dealing with trauma is a long-haul flight. It can be activated later in our lives. The body tends to protect us from that trauma, shifting us to avoidance mode for so long, but then something might come and trigger it. A lot of people become self-reliant because of trauma and develop difficulty in reaching out. Hence, creating a safe space and opening up the self to external support is key to addressing the trauma for good. And of course, practicing these five resources works wonders! To Patrick, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with seeking help. Life is not a rehearsal and so life should be lived in its full potential. There's a good life out there to be lived. Links mention in the podcast   Watch Video Patrick Harraghy Website Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!     Time to turn off Netflix and try

Art and science, indeed, can become one. Daria’s journey tells us that.   This heartwarming conversation with Philipa Daria Filip traces back the strokes of that interesting moment of discovery of her art. It also dances us to the intricate details of how her artistry has been married to her world of science and philosophy of living sustainably.   Her moment of truth was that long journey from Poland to Paris—almost like an exposure trip to her unlived childhood days captured in countless photographs in an attempt to vividly store its beauty intangible memory—that went straight to a vernissage. But Daria’s art and science started even way back.   Although Paris, and its beauty and promise of sustainable living, is the cradle of Daria’s art, her motivation to marry art and science transcends beyond her artistry and this city. It is actually about her philosophy. Inspired by David Rocks' Quiet Leadership, she lives by the lesson that we don't learn on a linear curve; it's more parabolic. We have to focus our attention to make the space to make mistakes until we hit the curve. More like in art.   Coming from the logical corner—from studying and practicing engineering to teaching math and physics, and coming from a family who did the same—Daria found herself grabbing the camera and pouring out all her artistic side into it as her way of expression. But not only that. It is also her way of communicating details and of teaching science to the public eye. She has brought all these things together and calls it art is science and science is art.   To Daria, we can use common knowledge to understand the foundational principles (in math, science). And by slowing down and paying attention to the details—not doing shortcuts—we get so much more and higher quality understanding. In a way, sustainable learning.   Beyond Daria’s mind for details, she leaves an important trick to muster: Know when to focus on the detail and when to be a master of the subject to be able to appreciate and teach it. Know when to pull back and look at the big picture and how all pieces fit together. Not being a specialist in anything and trying to work and teach on it is equally dangerous as being a specialist in just one thing.   And above all, Daria inspires listeners to apply artistry to life: “Do not be afraid to try something new. Let it flow. Do not be afraid to take a chance.” Links mention in the podcast  Daria Filip Website  Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!    Powerful Wintering routines to consolidate your mind with your body – CHECK HERE! Podcast Highlights With art, I've never felt so refreshed and rejuvenated. It further bolstered this concept of arts and science and how it impacts life. - Philipa Daria Filip The symbol of the delta, which means change, appears everywhere in science. We can use the common knowledge to really understand the foundational principles. By slowing down and really paying attention to the details, not doing shortcuts, you get so much more and higher quality understanding. - Philipa Daria Filip The trick of life is knowing which quote to follow when. When do we need to focus on the detail and be a master of a subject to be able to appreciate and teach it and when to pull back and look at the big picture and how all pieces fit together. Not being a specialist in anything and trying to work and teach on it is equally dangerous as being a specialist in just one thing. - Philipa Daria Filip Do not think that you have to choose one or the other. Just dabble in your art or artistry and however, it shows itself. See how that makes you go about your day to day life. You can find ways to combine it. - Alexandra Kreis Do not be afraid to try something new. Let it flow. Do not be afraid to take a chance. - Philipa Daria Filip Guest Bio Philipa Daria Filip is a teacher at the American School of Paris. Born in Toronto, Canada and to parents who emigrated to Canada from Poland/Ukraine after WWII, Daria had always longed to revisit her roots and explore Europe. She grew up in a family with an inclination to science—her mother always wanted her to be an engineer. She worked for three years in Western Canada and at the University of Waterloo and had a lot of experience working in industrial plants and factories. But in 1998, she switched to teaching math and science in high school and since then taught in different schools until she found her way to the American School of Paris.

Kay's life journey has got something big and bright to tell. He met Alexandra 30 years ago, at a time when they were both unsure yet of the paths they want to take. They lost sight of each other and the next thing Alex knows, Kay is navigating a tremendously difficult health journey of his own. An unusual one—a journey which eventually brought bickers of hope to many people undergoing the same. It may be the worst nightmare for anyone—having HIV and then the Big C. For Kay, it took him many months to know about it. And more months to get past the ‘acceptance’ stage and to finally adjust to the demands of the situation. But Kay picked up and learned to focus on how to move on with life. His healing journey opened him to more spiritual things, to find the meaning of life and of his situation. It opened him to many healing philosophies and techniques; led him to meet healers he didn’t know existed in real life—something not so distant from his personality as he had always changed paths drastically. His life’s way has always been to go a different new direction. For Kay, learning to be quiet and get in touch with the deepest part of the soul brought the most mind-changing effect to his life. And despite the changes—not being able to do what he used to—Kay had a firm mind about the things he had to let go of and to define his life in a new way. For him, we can't escape the challenges in life. What we can do is confront and adapt to those changes. After all, mindset is everything when confronting the seemingly insurmountable! As he found a new channel for his creativity, Kay began bringing his experience and message to the world out there. And this was his newfound freedom and passion—with people who have shown him respect for being someone with an unusual life and path. His journey, of healing both the body, mind, and soul, has gone to give hope to countless people every day. For Kay: Experience stays with you. It never goes away. You have to integrate it into your body, mind, and soul to move on. It's quite a challenge but it's the better way to live life. Links mention in the podcast Watch Video of the Podcast   Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!   Powerful Wintering routines to consolidate your mind with your body – CHECK HERE! Podcast Highlights There's always a fight between cancer, diagnosis, and therapy. But I never had the feeling of fighting. During the chemo, I've learned that I have to let go of things, not to cling to things. On many levels. - Kay Bohlen I've channeled a lot of things that happened to me in life and I've made a decision about what I can do with these. - Kay Bohlen Whatever happens to you in a healing session, you decide what's going to happen with you next. Focus on the solutions to let go of focusing on the problems. - Kay Bohlen There was never a day when I thought I couldn't do this anymore. There are difficult days, yes, as a stage fright in theater, but as soon as I'm on the first call, I've done the first step, everything becomes fine. You’re grounded again. It's very enriching. - Kay Bohlen We're not all sick, but we all experience sickness around us. We need to shift thoughts. - Alexandra Kreis Experience stays with you. It never goes away. You have to integrate it into your body, mind, and soul to move on. It's quite a challenge but it's the better way to live life. - Kay Bohlen Guest Bio Kay Bohlen used to be a stage performer for more than ten years. While working on stage, he found out that he has HIV and later, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. As he went on his healing journey, he had to give up many things including performing. But his journey led him to become an inspiration for many others facing difficult health situations. He was an AIDS ambassador in Germany and worked in Telecare, bringing hope to many, through phone calls.

Ana Rakovac, a friend, colleague, and student of Alex is a medical doctor herself who worked in paramedics and emergency medicine, in ICU, and a lot of other different fields within. Her professional journey brought her to study, do research and specialize in internal medicine and endocrinology, and chemical pathology. A lot of the turns throughout her career were brought by circumstances but also by her understanding that diseases have to be approached holistically. To Ana, medicine is about the whole picture. And this podcast is all about that. Coming from a respectable and deep scientific background herself, Ana opens up with Alexandra an important conversation about complementing and supporting efforts of different sciences or frames in looking at our health. Especially in this era welcomed by a pandemic. Here, Ana looks back at her first dive into Alexandra’s ‘world’ of yoga and Ayurveda. Again, it was circumstantial: struggling to keep an ‘eat less, move more’ lifestyle amid the lockdowns and limitations brought by Covid. The pandemic has affected work completely, especially those like Ana. But to her, it was momentous as the medical community is witnessing something unique; something so huge unfolding for the first time. Scientifically, it was exciting but also very scary. Until she ended up contracting it and got an inner view. And this moment made her realize and appreciate more the habits Ayurveda has brought in and how one science supports the others. What she learned in the language and lens of Ayurveda are very much the same in her practice, say in endocrinology, which is about balance and finding out which are inappropriately normal. Ana’s medicine and Ayurveda are not enemies. She realized that what Alex and Ayurveda are teaching her are observational lifestyle interventions that were 5000 years old and are aligned with what she teaches to her patients in her diabetes clinic. It's all about concepts. And the small things, like rest or sleep, that actually matter and completes the picture To Ana, it’s high time we wake up to the necessity of observing and respecting the interplay between our own rhythms and the rhythms of the planet and keep being healthy for as long as we can. It's been so much that we keep healthy in order to be pretty, to be productive, or achieve some other goal. But how about learning to keep healthy to be happy? Links mention in the podcast    Ana Rakovac Website Watch Video of the Podcast   Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!   Powerful Wintering routines to consolidate your mind with your body - CHECK HERE! Podcast Highlights The Ujjayi breathing exercise I learned from Alex was really instrumental at the peak of my disease. Yoga and anatomy taught us that most of the lung is towards our back. So when you’re on your belly, you use more of your lungs and in Ujjayi breathing, you learn to breathe with your diaphragm. - Ana Rakovac Ayurveda is an observational medicine. Same as the medicine that I practice. It is how we interpret what is causing these observations that differs. - Ana Rakovac What we do not get taught in med school is habit formation. There is this overemphasis on knowledge and not enough emphasis on how to bring the knowledge into practice. - Ana Rakovac This whole one-track thinking of productivity and efficiency being above everything disregards the cyclical way that humans are. We need rest. We need to sleep.  - Ana Rakovac We have to stop fighting each other or pointing fingers, but join hands to teach people how to be healthy. - Alexandra Kreis Guest Bio Ana Rakovac is a medical doctor who worked in paramedics and emergency medicine in the field during the Serbia and Croatia conflict, worked in ICU, and a lot of other different fields in medicine. Her professional journey brought her to study, do research and specialize in internal medicine and endocrinology, and chemical pathology. She runs a laboratory for diagnosis and research and a diabetes clinic.  

Annica Lindberg Sense of Yoga Annica started a blog in Swedish about her yoga journey. She wrote whenever she felt so alone in her practice and wrote almost every day for 10 years. Through her blog, she got connected to other people, gained friends despite practicing yoga at home (her teacher was online and her friends were not with her. She shared with readers and friends the struggles she stumbled upon in her practice, who later encouraged her to write a book.   Her self-published book gained a lot of attention and respect and attracted followers. It was a thoughtful narration of getting herself to the mat which is not a natural thing for her all the time and how that struggle led her to discover her center. To Annica, those small situations in a person’s life are what showed her that she’s into something else now.   “The more I trust the things I do, the more I get what I need.”   Sonja Radvilla Fears and Desires Sonja lets us into the back curtains of writing the book. Some parts were difficult for her to write. One of the characters even came out after all of the struggles of telling the story in a more interesting way.   The book is like a strange universe—Sonja specifically wanted the characters to have universality but also a creation of intersecting realities of India and other places Sonja loved.   Priya Basil Be my Guest: Reflections and Discussions While Sharing Food For Priya, we live in a time where food has somehow become an identifier, a part of the statement of who you are and how you want to be seen in the world. For me, my eating—being a vegetarian and leaning towards vegan—was an ethical choice. For others, it can also become oppressive and restrictive. But there’s joy, the possibility for connection, and discovery in food. And so her book was about celebrating those and the possibilities that give us the chance to talk about bigger issues of how we live together and share while acknowledging that there should be a sense of responsibility in our choices.   To Alexandra, this book and the author have so much guts to tackle an important topic and open a sensitive discourse. It takes tremendous openness and clarity to bring these thoughts out to a broader audience. But to Priya, she approached the difficult aspects of this book by confronting her doubts and struggles.   Take the steps that are possible for you at a particular moment. Recognize that we don’t always get it right completely but encourage ourselves and others to keep making better choices.”   Jessica Sanders Love your Body Jessica wrote the book from her deep involvement and passion for Body Positivity a movement started by lesbian women to acknowledge the body in its truth. It’s about combating fatphobia in our culture and the shame it creates in individuals that could be potentially a very damaging thing for an individual.   But Jessica is not only about it, but self-acceptance of all kinds, promoting kindness and self-care, and emotional resilience. And these important themes brought out her second book for teens and young adults and possibly a third book specifically for boys and male adults.   “I’m just trying to be as intuitive as possible because I think that is when the best stuff happens.”   Elisa Marie Collins Becoming a Super Ager Elisa, in her book Super Ager, bravely explains how pervasive individualistic culture made us think that older people are useless. Looking at the form, the fire element (the competition), and just what we see on the surface, makes us think that older people are useless. And this is in contrast with the wisdom that older adults actually possess and impart—the wisdom of seeing the bigger picture.   In this podcast, Elisa walked us through the intriguing Blue Zones, or the places where there is a higher concentration of super-agers, and unboxed the phenomena in these places so we can adopt the habits for a fuller, longer life that super-agers enjoy.   “We don't necessarily have to isolate ourselves to become a super ager, but we could set things up where we're supporting each other.”   Gianna Shamone Becoming a Writer To Gianna, her writing flourished because she was just letting it flow. Forget about the pressure of being ‘good enough’, of targeting to get published—when a thought or feeling or even a question pops in and triggers words in her head, she would just grab a pen and paper go with it.   But she so believes that writers are born—and that happens when one feels the want of writing. Her advice was simply to learn to have the confidence of just doing it. Because she strongly believes that we are all able to write because we are all able to communicate. It's just when we start overthinking that it blocks us to do it.   “Finding peace in the moment is a new favorite thing of mine. It makes me feel more alive than anything else—calm, steady. Only my breathing and my heartbeat remind me of the physical shell I chose this time. Everything else flows and hovers around me. And I can feel the energy flowing.”   Links mention in the podcast    Annica Lindberg Book Sonja Radvila Book Priya Basil Book Jessica Sanders Book Elise Marie Collins Book Gianna Shamone Book Watch Video of the Podcast   Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!   Check out our Free Meditation Challenge with Alexandra  

This podcast with Elise Marie Collins, author of the best-selling book, Super Ager, is admittedly a conversation like going through uncharted waters for our host, Alexandra. But having so much to share as both yoga health coaches and many deep values as Ayurvedic practitioners just made this talk flawlessly eye-opening and inspiring. Especially while tackling the topic of aging! (And mind you, not only aging but “super” aging.) Elise, a yoga health coach, and a gerontologist have also written two other books—Chakra Tonics and An A to Z Guide to Healing Foods. Her work was inspired mainly by her practice, her quest for healthier choices for her son, and her passion for helping people live a longer and fuller life. To her, writing these books, and eventually, Super Ager is like passing on the wisdom of Ayurveda and an expression of her love and respect for older adults and admiration for the habits that made them thrive and become centenarians. This conversation navigated through some very important notions (and misconceptions) about getting old and old age itself as that part of our lives, igniting appreciation and respect for older adults, their wisdom, and the very wisdom behind what got them to this now-precious stage of life. Walking us through gerontology (the study of aging) and how it is so much like the Western Ayurveda for its multidisciplinary nature, to the fun facts about Blue Zones, you are sure to pick up gems of lessons you’ll want to implement in your life as soon as possible. Because for centenarians, everything that got them to live up to a hundred started at birth. Elise also touched on breaking down some common misconceptions, or views, and attitudes towards people of old age. She explains how pervasive individualistic culture made us think that older people are useless. Looking at the form, the fire element (the competition), and just what we see on the surface, makes us think that older people are useless. But centenarians are precious because they tell stories of the life they've seen and history. And learning from their habits tells us tons about living a full, more satisfying, and happy life. And these stories of older adults is such a fountain of new possibilities and hope! Links mention in the podcast   Elisa Collins Website Watch Video of the Podcast  Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts!  Check out our Free Meditation Challenge with Alexandra Podcast Highlights  To becoming a super ager, being supported by family, friends and a community is more powerful than anything else. Social connections are huge. And people want to be around you when you have positive thinking and mindset. - Elise Marie Collins In the modern era, we could set up an environment that could be like a blue zone. We don't necessarily have to isolate ourselves to become a super ager, but we could set things up where we're supporting each other. - Elise Marie Collins Not everybody wants to live a long life. But the habits that lead to living a long life are usually those that help you live a full life, a more satisfying and happy life. - Elise Marie Collins They have nothing to chase. All there is to do is to be. Just be. Just see what's coming your way. - Alexandra Kreis We make these supportive interconnections if we open ourselves up to the vulnerabilities of life. The more people keeping our minds uplifted and supported, the more we can look at a healthy, thriving life over the next decades. - Alexandra Kreis Guest Bio Elise Marie Collins is the author of three books on holistic health: Chakra Tonics, Essential Elixirs for Mind, Body and Spirit and An A-Z Guide to Healing Foods, A Shoppers  

This episode’s guest is a leading cybersecurity executive who knows what it's like to be the only female executive in the room. Meet Jothi Dugar. Cyber exec for NIH in the US for over 25 years. She is a catalyst for change, inspiring transformational leadership as a holistic wellness specialist and coach, author of three books, an international public speaker, and a mom of three. Cyberspace is one of those industries that’s operating 24/7. And that’s been bringing so much stress, burnout, and overwhelm to the community because they just have to be connected round the clock. It's a beautiful field, with so much to learn. But it's like a place where you don't have a choice on the matter; something you're forced to stand because of the urgency aspects and potential safety issue. With that, Jothi, one of the very few females leading the industry, felt it's one of those that desperately need to put mental health wellness among industry values. Something she has so much passion about. But it wasn’t easy. Mental health seemed unapproachable for them. Yoga, meditation, mindfulness were like off-words. A jargon from a completely different word. Coming out from a traumatic childhood herself, Jothi opens up a deep place and shares how she found and grew her calling to help people feel better while continuing to lead the industry she also has immense talents for. And Jothi’s faith, passion, and commitment helped her break the walls. And not only that, but she’s also transcending the cybersecurity and safety aspect to the personal development space to better protect people especially in this day and age of almost everything going virtual. These two hardworking, persevering coaches also exchanged ideas about the approach they share with their students. Jothi shares about the Jedi approach which is about finding a creative solution, a way to navigate and bring out empathy and compassion. Her work is an inspiring story of doing what seemed impossible: merging the two worlds together—the outer (cyberspace, so out there!) and the inner (mental wellbeing and the many other aspects of the self). Links mention in the podcast  Jothi Dugar Website Watch Video of the Podcast Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts! Check out our Free Meditation Challenge with Alexandra Podcast Highlights Being a woman leader, you already have to cross a lot more obstacles and roadblocks than if you are a male especially in an industry dominated by males like the cyber community. I want to encourage women and girls to stick with what you want to do; you don't have to make excuses for yourself or feel like not to be your authentic self just to please somebody else. - Jothi Dugar My goal is to bring cyber and the wellness worlds together without making it seem so scary, especially to women. - Jothi Dugar I had a traumatic childhood but I've set my goals. I had dreams that seemed so far and impossible. But it's only in setting those dreams that I actually had something to look forward to. The path isn't always linear. That's where the power of your intention really shines through. - Jothi Dugar Sometimes too many choices can make you more inactive. But it really boils down to two things: you're born as a human for a reason and that you're meant to be happy. - Jothi Dugar Guest Bio Jothi Dugar is a cyber executive for NIH in the US for over 25 years. She is a catalyst for change, inspiring transformational leadership as a holistic wellness specialist and coach, author of three books, an international public speaker, and a mom of three. She helps corporate leaders and their teams with achieving health, balance, and peace that they need in all walks of life to not only survive but thrive in the chaos. Jothi Dugar is a cyber executive for NIH in the US for over 25 years. She is a catalyst for change, inspiring transformational leadership as a holistic wellness specialist and coach, author of three books, an international public speaker, and a mom of three. She helps corporate leaders and their teams with achieving health, balance, and peace that they need in all walks of life to not only survive but thrive in the chaos.

This episode takes us to Gianna's extraordinary journey into becoming a writer and writing her book.   Gianna Shamone had always been in the creative industry as an artist manager for musicians. Her interest in understanding poetry and lyrics was her foundation for building effective collaboration with artists she works with. But she didn’t know that this deeply lying passion inside her all along could be a craft on its own.   The writing was always a part of Gianna, from writing short stories as an elementary school student to journaling—she knew she wanted to write. But she never really trusted that her writing could interest others until people around her repeatedly tried to convince her that it’s her purpose: help in people’s healing through her poetry around life and feelings.   Her newly-released book, Finding Me, now available in many different stores worldwide, came to be as Gianna worked on herself. It was birthed by overcoming a lot of her fears and courageously diving deeper into her inner world and letting it come out.   Not until receiving endless people’s positive feedbacks on her poetry captions for her photos (another craft of hers!) posted on Instagram and that final push from the tarot card reading after a Reiki session in New York just before the world shutdown from Covid19, Gianna never had it in her cosmos of possibilities that she was good enough to be read by the whole world.   Her journey and this intimately honest conversation are out to inspire listeners to pursue their passion. One’s life purpose, or dharma, doesn’t have to occur to you in a grandiose moment; sometimes, it just starts with an interest you have kept in the bay for so long and never really let to flourish and take you on. Let it flow let it take you! Links mention in the podcast  Gianna Shamone Website Watch Video of the Podcast Support me on Patreon and receive great gifts! Black Friday Deal - Bring Balance and Ease to your home - Save 70% Podcast Highlights Being an artist manager, I was there to represent their art. But being a writer of my own, I am transitioning to being an artist and representing myself. - Gianna Shamone Many people are not aware that the thing most natural to us is actually our biggest gift. Our life purpose, or dharma, really comes through the easiest methods. - Alexandra Kreis We need to be aware that life is super simple. At the end of the day, it's all about practicing life. - Alexandra Kreis As soon as there is the want of writing, then a writer is born. If something interests you, then that's supposed to be a part of you in this lifetime. - Gianna Shamone Learn to have the confidence of just doing it. We are all able to write because we are all able to communicate. It's just when we start overthinking that it blocks us to actually do it. - Gianna Shamone Guest Bio Gianna Shamone is a berlin-based author who writes poetry mainly about her own live-journey, empowerment, and womanhood. She is also a self-taught, photographer, and music video/short movie director, who fuses these skills in her shoots. She mostly uses analog cameras to capture her photos, which combines nostalgia feelings and today's aesthetics in a soothing way. When it comes to directing, she totally relies on her visual mind and her general emotional being. Her focus lies in working with artists in the music field, whether it's in the studio or in front of stages.