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Scientific approach to our senses, like way less.
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And I had a point that oh, this actually was like a medicine for me.
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Just moving and shaking my body, immersive and enjoying the journey along the way.
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Hey, welcome to another Internet Podcast episode.
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Uh, as always, I've got a new guest for you.
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Her name is Raha, and she is a sensory meditation, somatic coach, ceremonialist, and musician.
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Welcome.
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Glad to have you.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Thanks for having me.
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As always, we're gonna go through some uh what she does, who she is, how she got here in her life, and then my favorite part.
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She's gonna offer a really cool exercise and find out uh how this can support you men out there.
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So let's kick it off, Rah.
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So, who are you and what do you do?
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Um, well, first, thank you so much for having me.
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It's an honor to be here and an opportunity for me to share my story, my life experience.
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Um just going back, how am I here in this sea talking about what we're talking about?
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Um a little bit of background about my childhood.
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I did grow up in Iran um with a lot of influences of music, togetherness, importance of community, movement, sound, and art as a part of big part of our lives, but also a lot of suppression and especially a woman growing up in Iran, a lot of um limitation in my expression or dancing, the freedom of expression outside, also in the families, just a suppress, suppress, and um so I got a really good amount of both I needed for my path growing up in Iran, and ended up moving to US.
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So lived half of my life in Iran by now, half of my life in US.
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So almost equal.
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Um I ended up going through a really dark time with my mental health, which it was also reflecting my physical health as well.
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Um it's all starts energetic first, and then when you don't address the energetics, it starts hitting and reflecting on our physical form, which that's where I was when I was my Saturn return between 27 to 30.
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I start having major problems with my mental health, panic attacks, anxieties, a lot of uh confusion of my identity, who I am, how this works, where I am.
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Felt pretty lost.
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And there was a series of events of my kidney problems and um migraines, also went to my L5, which was the best blessing that ever happened.
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My herniated disc that was causing sciatic nerve, which was on my beginning of my spine, close to my roots, my energy channels, abdomens, and all my body started um having a lot of uh pain there that I had to go there and address it and find why this pain is there.
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How did I manifest it, and how can I reverse and take myself back into a peaceful, graceful life?
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That was the beginning.
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Well, that was the beginning of um the things get so difficult to push me in the direction that all I could think of and focus on would how can I fix myself?
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Yeah, how can I find ways into aligning myself back, getting rid of my nerve pain, and a lot of Western medication was numbing me, actually was not fixing me.
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It was numbing my symptoms, and when I would come out of it, not take the pill, I would actually hurt more.
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I was constipated from all the numbing medication.
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It was not um helping my issue from the core, it was actually just numbing my symptoms, and I realized that oh, I need to actually do something myself.
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I can't just depend on doctors and oh hey, let me go this visit, this visit.
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Can somebody help me?
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And a lot of places they're like, oh, well, it's your back pain.
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You pretty much you're gonna have this for the rest of your life.
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And as a musician and dancer and athlete that I love moving, it was such a big impact emotionally.
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But it was the way that pushed me to realize having this um pivotal point that I was in the victimhood from what happened to me.
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Yeah.
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And I was able to say, okay, well, here it is.
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This is what I have for the rest of my life.
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What's my attitude towards it?
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I'm just sitting crying like a victim person.
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I'm gonna bring in the attitude of, I'm gonna fix this.
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I'm gonna take care of this, and I'm gonna find ways.
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I just trust it.
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And I start hanging with uh Native Americans and doing a lot of their ceremonies, sweat lodges, and chanting and singing, which just started remembering my childhood, why we were doing those chanting and unfold a lot of wisdom there that way.
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Uh and I remember we called him Uncle.
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He said one day, there's no disease that does not have a remedy in nature, everything balances each other's.
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So if you have birth, you have death.
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If you have a day, you have a night.
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And if you have a disease, you have a remedy.
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You just have to be curious.
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Pray.
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And they brought the pray, which is our intention, intuition, and the focus of our mind towards what we want.
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Yeah.
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And anything we want can be delivered when we truly sit down and ask for it.
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And this lots of amazing modalities came into my way and helped me to figure it out.
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And I'm very happy right now being able to sit down here with no medication, just have my sanity and talk about these things.
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But I did experience it experimentally with my system.
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Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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And how long was your sort of journey from recognizing the challenges in your body to sort of where you can say, let's just say you recovered or you're in a you you're in a space where you feel where you felt at ease.
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Does that make sense?
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Yeah.
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Um I would say close to three years.
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Three years.
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Two and a half to three years.
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Things start getting harder and harder, and then different doctors, different modalities.
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Uh until finally I start noticing that uh what I was doing, it's um it's making a change, it's reversing my conditions.
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Because it's not like those very uh painkiller that you take and instantly your pain is gone.
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Yeah, you kind of have to have a warrior attitude to take steps while you're in pain to figure it out.
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And yeah, and when I knew I'm actually reversing, then it gives me this inspiration and motivation.
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The energy was just like flowing in because I was so excited.
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It's like, oh, I'm doing it, I'm doing it by myself.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Amazing.
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Congratulations.
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What a thank you.
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Yeah, what a beautiful transformation.
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Uh, I love hearing people's transformation because it gives, you know, the listeners and the viewers like, oh, it's possible, you know, yeah.
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Yeah, it's one of the most pleasurable things to experience self-doctoring, self-healing.
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To say that the trees and the flowers, they don't really need to go to school or they don't have a doctor system to go get healed.
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They have it within them and they channel it from within.
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Yeah.
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And absolutely.
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They talk to nature, they talk to spirit, yeah.
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Do all that stuff instead of depending on what the doctor says.
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Which in some ways I've gone back and forth for myself with.
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Uh I got diagnosed with Crohn's three, four years ago.
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And they wanted me to get right away on uh medicine, which basically causes the immune system to shut down.
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Well, not shut down, but basically slows it down in some ways, so I can not have the inflammation in the body.
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And I decided to go the route that you went, which is sort of finding the healing uh modalities and hypnotherapy and all the other things.
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And I can now say, after three years, like, same thing for you, like my body is in the best shape ever without doctor's medicines.
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And next week I'm actually going for a colonoscopy to check on it to see where I'm at.
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So it's really exciting.
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I want the doctor to be like, you're good.
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So we'll see.
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Yeah.
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I wish that for you.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, I appreciate that.
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Uh, so I'm curious, now that you've gone through this journey of supporting and helping yourself, what led you to be like, okay, now I want to serve others.
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I can say I almost didn't have a choice.
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What seeing through the cycle and the language of nature and how we can actually bring ease?
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It was hard to find it, as I said, three years almost.
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But when I found it, it was so simple.
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And finding out that how um we're only using the difficult route as the Western medication, and how our psyche in every individual, it's almost like a prison that we're not expressing.
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We barely are touching our full expression because of proper social behavior, or maybe generation over generation, we have forgotten what it is to be a fully expressed human being.
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It my heart just wanted to do this to bring this awareness to people, but also keep myself involved with these things because I knew this is my prescription and this is how I can keep my sanity for the rest of my life.
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But I always wanted to, only thing I played or did, I wanted other people to experience.
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And my family used to tell me, you should be a teacher, or you're going to be a teacher in the future, because anything I would experience instantly, this is how you do it, this is what you should do.
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I just have that passion, yeah.
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Um, and patience to watch people taking steps to actually experience what I experience, or I'm still experiencing through it.
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It's one big story, it's still continuously going.
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It's uh there's a lot of pleasure into experiencing things, but there's also a lot of pleasure into sharing with someone.
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Like how you have a good story, you're waiting for your friends to just see them and tell them.
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Actually, our hormone levels have shown some people have more hormone when they are sharing the story from the actual incident.
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But it's more pleasurable because now we're sharing it.
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Oh, wow.
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Yeah, cool.
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I love that.
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So I love sharing my story and sharing the codes or discoveries that I had for my personal uh development and personal peace.
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I would say more than anything, just moving through this life with peace.
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Yeah.
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And playfulness to have fun.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Peace, playfulness, and have fun.
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Absolutely.
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Oh, well, let's call it peace, playfulness, and presence.
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So the three P being present with the miracle of life is one of the most joyful things I'm experiencing every day.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Phenomenal.
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I'm curious.
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Let's hear a little bit about what it is that you support people with.
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Like what are some of the things that people come to you and you potentially guide them, maybe some of your workshops.
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What are some of the things that you offer?
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Um, I'll share a little bit of the story of how I got to the conclusion of what I'm offering.
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I do offer um movement and sound experiences for people that uh can help remove tension or process any unprocessed emotion that we're holding into our system that can numb our receptors to receive what's fully here, to be able to clear them somatically, kind of like house cleaning, but energetically, clearing your memory, muscle memory, um bringing activation to our voice, which using voice is also a major, major factor of understanding human experience itself.
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Um everything has an opposition, as I spoke about a day and night, and uh we're moving with ease when we accept both, if we don't deny anything.
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The suffering comes from the resistance.
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And um when I found out that wow, there's a half aspect of me is physical food and touch and physical needs, but then then there's also a 50% energetic self of me exists there, my emotional self, that I haven't been doing any exploration or any like an emotional wellness to figure that part.
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How do I understand about my emotions and frequency?
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I didn't know until I um went, let's say, into a drum circle accidentally walking about the ballpark, and I see these amazing drummers.
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I'm a percussionist as well.
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I'm like, wow, they're good drummers.
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It just like kind of magnetized me towards the sound.
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And I went there and the music starts shaking me and moving me, and I had a catharthic release of my sound, activated the primal.
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And that's one of the times that instantly after an hour or two, I just stood up there, shook with people, and made sound with people in the group setting.
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Uh walking away from this drum circle, I could feel my nervous system switched from fight or flight to a relaxed mode.
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Yeah.
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And that whole pulsation and anxiety that I could feel on my nerves and my system was just like way less.
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And I had a point that oh, this actually was like a medicine for me.
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Just moving and shaking my body and sounding itself.
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So that led me into doing it more and also creating spaces that I transfer this knowledge or experience to people.
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Yeah.
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What if the thing I do is working with sound and movement?
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Yeah, which I'm excited for you to do an experience of that in a little bit.
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You shared something a little earlier that I'd like you to, if you can dive a little deeper into, which is to for the guys out there who don't know how to accept the duality, uh hold the duality, how do you how would you support them in feeling and holding those at the same time so they don't go into suffering?
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The duality aspects of themselves.
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Yeah, themselves or uh you mentioned that you know, to be able to hold both instances of something, right?
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Instead of uh true suffering is when you don't accept those two, when you're resisting those two.
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So I know that I would be like, well, how do I do that?
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How do I not resist?
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How do I accept and accept whatever is in front of me?
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So I found the one most potent part was letting the body have both in its expressive way.
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So if I have an expression of a very civilized woman and tamed and uh just well proper sitting down and expressing with this sound level, and in a safe space, in my own space, I allowed my body to go to those maybe angry seen in the society expressions, maybe roaring, maybe acting like an animal or primal sounds that was deep breathing, guttural sounds, maybe some vibrations in my throat, kind of like a real cat.
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It starts coming out, and I realized actually from the shaking and sounding, I reached the climax of that I am roaring, I'm having a catharthic emotional release, but it was very primal.
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I would act my animal in a really wild and powerful, fierce way, not towards anybody, not at anything.
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There was no story behind it, it was just an expression, and honoring that expression to my body and accepting it as um just an expression and energetics of me, it brought me so much peace.
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Yeah, because these bodies they have their own needs, they have a need to express fully, they have the need to be connected physically, they desire touch, they desire sound, they desire certain things that if we do feed them and hold both for at least the body, uh, will help us with our self-development, understanding all aspects of ourselves.
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Because I feel like in men um behavior, men are even more shut down emotionally because you can be aggressive that you're gonna, you know, you're not a good man if you have a lot of anger, you can't express it, it's almost dangerous.
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Also, your other emotional touch is so suppressed.
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A man, a hero doesn't cry, a hero doesn't show emotions, doesn't show femininity.
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And those are the things that actually need to be welcomed.
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And when we welcome those in the expression with the body, it brings so much peace into our mental state.
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Our physiology is directly connected to our psychology.
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So to heal our psychological wounds, we can just honor it from our body.
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So I create safe space with drumming and repetition, we release and open up our body from contraction to expansion and uh from lack of expression to opening the throat chakra and bringing those, you know, the anger.
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Then you're emptying.
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And when you go home, when we do these practices and you go home, even if the world ends and gives you all these excuses to be really angry, you can be.
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Yeah.
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Then in your family with your loved one, you're already in such a calm space.
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Like there's no need to yell and scream right now.
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I have already done it.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, that's one thing I um realized that even just this the voice expression of it is so essential right now.
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Yeah.
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And then bringing creativity into our anger uh or into our grief.
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Yeah, I feel a lot of other problems of mental health crisis, we're in a mental health crisis right now, is unprocessed grief.
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We're not honoring our grief or letting that emotion to come through and express.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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When it comes to some of the men that come to you, whether it's in your workshop or one-on-one, or what are what are some of the things that you see that they come to you for?
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Um the first thing would be the emotional wellness.
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A lot of them after coming to a Raha um gathering, whether it's a small group or big group, smaller, or one on one has a deeper influence of them just releasing and moving and uh activating they have a better sleep, uh, they feel more in touch with their emotions and pattern recognition, catching themselves, slowing down.
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Um because um sensory.
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Meditation also um it's a very potent way to access information.
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Our senses are doorways.
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Oh yeah.
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It's in a way a mystery science.
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I can't tell you exactly how you feel or what you feel if you use your voice for 15 minutes or if you meditate with this bite of food and close your eyes and take 10 minutes for one bite and what's gonna unfold internally.
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I can point towards the practices, and then you by doing it uh you uncode those inner realms of okay, what your voice would do if you use it 15 minutes straight.
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And gently and softly in your reality, you start finding matching points.
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Uh seeing the reality as a live intelligence um force that it's communicating with you, like a mystery force.
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The language of communicating with nature.
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A lot of guys they tell me they uh after working with me, they see trees more, they notice the clouds more, the sound of the birds.
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So sensory meditation activates and opens the door for a high end awareness and a deeper presence here.
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So it has helped people with releasing, they can sleep better, they have let go of anxiety, they have brought more creativity and expression into their personality, even.
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Yeah, um, I think everything can be creative.
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Life is art.
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We are art.
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This is art.
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The way we talk is art.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah.
00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:45.839
Wow, this is that's that's amazing.
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So for you guys out there, like wanting to feel a bit more present, bringing your and connecting to your body so you can actually go out into nature or go out and just taking a walk and being like, oh, wow, that's actually pretty beautiful.
00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:10.640
Like instead of like going from point A to point B, like you can actually go from point A to point B being in immersive and enjoying the journey along the way.
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Yeah.
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Oh, amazing work.
00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:21.039
Thank you for what you offer and bringing more men into their body, connecting them to their sense of self and their presence.
00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:23.119
I think it's important in today's world.
00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:24.160
Yeah.
00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:35.759
I want to hear a little bit more about what other ways that the men can be supported in this work besides presence.
00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:53.039
Uh and so, so for some of the men out there, for them to be able to be like, ooh, that's the kind of work or support I need, what are some of the sort of like things that they're going through in their life where you could point to where they can recognize that, oh, that's me.
00:24:53.200 --> 00:25:00.240
Let me reach out to Raha, or let me reach out to someone who can support me with somatic, with drumming, with sound.
00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:04.559
What are some of those things that you come into your yeah, that you come aware of?
00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:25.039
I would say the meditation aspect of what I do, active and creative meditation uh for people with um anxiety, stress, PTSD, or people who feel they have a lot of life force that they just don't know what to do with it.
00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:29.759
They were having because that's some other part of the panic attack I realized.
00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:35.839
They were it was just a signal for my body to let go, be more even intense, be more physical.
00:25:36.400 --> 00:26:01.440
Um if they have a problem with um focusing, like ADD, so rhythm drumming, dedicating yourself to a metronome, it's the most natural way to train ADD rather than taking those pharmaceutical medications that we're taking, and we are treating our bodies so poorly that could be fixed with a simple singing and drumming.
00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:03.599
Oh wow, that gave me chills.
00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:04.480
Mm-hmm.
00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:11.039
That's why we've seen in a lot of ancient shamanic practices a shaman has a little middle syndrome and they're chanting.
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Basically, when you dedicate yourself to a timing of a tempo, a metronome, there's no way you can think.
00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:25.119
So your mind muscles, you're gonna train your mind muscle to slow down and eventually be quiet.
00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:31.759
And slowing down, dedicating yourself to just a simple tempo.
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It is the way to intermeditation.
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For me personally, it was really hard because sitting still, I was accelerating my thought process, not knowing where the state of meditation is.
00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:49.839
I was thinking more, actually, I was causing more drama for myself.
00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:58.319
Yeah, then I realized, oh, um active meditation, creative meditation works 100% instantly for me.
00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:05.759
When I grabbed my drum and play it again, I was like, oh, okay, this is this is a medicine.
00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:07.839
Yeah, my thoughts are going away.
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And then I was able to bring in a lot of creative energy into my singing.
00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:36.000
And when people who are also seeking for spirituality and they know there's something more there that they haven't accessed yet, if they are to that point that they know there's more about themselves, there's more layers of themselves that they want to find it, um, this work would be great for them.
00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:44.720
We all want to be smarter, we all want to be having a higher IQ or a deeper awareness of what's going on.
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And to me, um having the discovery or the realization how keeping track of multiple expressions is the only way to expand our IQ, which musicians and athletes they they do it just naturally because of what they're putting themselves into playing music or playing small sport with a group.
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But basically, how we get smarter is how many mathematical patterns of expression we can hold with our body.
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So if you hold a foot pattern and then you have a clap pattern, and then you do a head, so now you're doing three, and then if you add your voice, now you're doing four, and maintaining these four layers is how we actually expand our awareness.
00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:50.880
So putting an effort, just simply sitting and keeping four layers of expression, synchronizing with a group, which now has proven that actually our hormone level changes, is the way to expand our IQ.
00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:52.480
So who doesn't want to be smarter?
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Yeah, right.
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It's not in the seminar, it's not in a book you read, is how much you sit down and you put effort to open those neurological pathways to maintain four things.
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:12.240
And if you do maintain the four things, so next you go to a restaurant, you can hear four different conversations, kind of engage with all of them, know what's up.
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I'm not saying know every single word, but you can kind of know what's up in the whole room.
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Uh, you also can have a wider lens because you trained your neurological system that way, that angle difficult uh time and difficult different angles in your life and bring them together into a dance to have the best problem-solving attitude for your whatever is happening.
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Yeah.
00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:45.759
So that's another thing that actually I sat down for five days in my patio with no food.
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Well, a minimum food, only when I thought that I couldn't take it anymore.
00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:53.759
And that's what I picked up from the vision quest of Native American.
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And I did my own version in my home in my patio for five days, no talking, no engaging, minimum food, just watching nature.
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I saw birds will come every sunset, sunrise, come together and do this.
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They would they're flying with different patterns, they're sounding, and they're doing it in a group dynamic.
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And that's just for the health of the species and the evolution, their smartness, and the tribe.
00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:23.920
Yeah.
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So we're missing that because we're not living in a tribe setting.
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:36.799
So creating these experiences, at least it gives our bodies to have that food, the desire they need to create with a tribe.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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It's so powerful.
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It's so powerful.
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So powerful.
00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:56.480
Doing it with yourself is really powerful for self-development, but then it takes you to a next level when you do it with a group, let's say, with four or five to fifteen men.
00:30:56.880 --> 00:30:57.519
Yeah.
00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:05.359
Also, if you do it with a bigger group for 50 to 60, 70 for the and different energetics of it.
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Yeah.
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But um, even in the book of uh Body Keeps the Score, the last chapter talks about how a lot of veterans actually healed from these um kind of AA meetings, they would meet weekly with a group to bond, and all they did, they interact musically and expressively.
00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:27.440
Wow.
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They didn't really talk about their problems.
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Because energies are emotions are energy emotions.
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And it cannot be processed with our intellect.
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It's a whole different thing.
00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:48.319
You can have the realization with your intellect, but you cannot process the energies that are in motion into your body with your thoughts.
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:52.960
So talk therapy can open the wound and look at it and be like, okay, that's it.
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:53.279
Yeah.
00:31:53.519 --> 00:32:03.759
And it wouldn't really cause heal the problem from the core issue that you're actually holding a lot that needs to be released or expressed or just moved through you.
00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:14.559
And then um, a lot of ancient Persian dances, I don't know if you've ever seen them, like cordish dance, they hold hands and they they move together.
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Yeah.
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:19.680
This is not a poetic imagination anymore.
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:41.039
Now, here science has approved by monitoring people what's their hormone level is, what's their neurological impulse and activation is in the group before and after they come and they repeat a movement together and synchronize in their expression.
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When multiple bodies are synced into what they're expressing and what they're feeling through their system, our intelligence multiplies.
00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:53.039
These are codes that ancient knew and they would just do it.
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It's still there.
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We have designed such an individualism lifestyle that we're not honoring these tribal approaches to these bodies, our instruments that they needed.
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So we can provide spaces, even in this modern life, to at least honor our system, regulate our system, uh to be in a more peaceful, expanded, graceful experience of ourselves and others.
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:31.359
And our our self-relationship and other uh relationships will definitely impact.
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:33.519
Absolutely.
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:40.160
There's there's so much to the body that I think we're just starting to learn more and more about hey, guess what?
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Like, why don't you move your body a little bit?
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:49.359
Like, yeah, for the guys out there, like putting on a music, putting on a song and like just move to the song.
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Like you don't need to dance.
00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:57.359
It's not about dancing, it's about just letting your body move to the song, like whatever it is, however your body wants to move.
00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:02.720
Putting a sad song, a happy song, whatever it is, and just let your body express itself, it's a game changer.
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:05.759
So yeah, anything somatic is yeah.
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It's the language of the body.
00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:08.960
Totally.
00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:13.199
That's why you changed the game because it's the language of our bodies.
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Yeah.
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Somatic is anything that has nothing to do with your intellect and your analytic process.
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:37.039
So we have both, but we've been engaging on analytic and intellectual process continuously, and this is directly connected to the mental health crisis or lack of understanding of self because we're not actually speaking the main language of these bodies.
00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:42.719
We're only speaking with the language we came up with, this analytic language.
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:45.920
But they have that's the main language, yeah.
00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:56.159
So I bring in a lot of um physical somatic dialogues into the group or something similar to the contact improv dance.
00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:56.320
Okay.
00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:59.599
And that's something I highly recommend for people bring it into their life.
00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:01.199
It's like a language, yeah.
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It's not a sports or a show or performance, it's a language of communication without a word, of communication with motion.
00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:13.519
Yeah, yeah, it's so powerful.
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.280
Yeah, I love I love contact and pro it's a lot of fun.
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:20.320
Yeah, that's how um that's how I basically healed.
00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:34.000
The more activity I brought into my body, yeah, the more music, the more rhythm, singing, chanting, going to wild, expressive uh sound of mine, I healed.
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:39.280
So that's the part I'm like, it can be so simple, it can be so creative and fun.
00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:40.239
Totally.
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We can heal together.
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Actually, it accelerates, it enhances the process of healing together.
00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:58.400
Uh, even in the research of the group dynamics, they realize when the group is more synced, the more synced they are, the more hormone release.
00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:16.719
All the good hormones, serotonin, endorphin, dopamine, and also the brainwave shifted and put everybody into alpha and theta uh brain waves, which improves and promotes intuition, creativity, creative expression, authenticity.
00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:18.159
Hell yeah.
00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:19.199
I want all that.
00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:38.000
And another thing that this can be offered is for team members or group and companies that they're actually building something with a team and they have some sort of uh emotional um process or conflict in the group, that the group of amazing creators or artists are creating something valuable.
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They put time for many years to finish this project, but then they have an emotional process.
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:48.559
Uh, a lot of approach nowadays is sit and talk about it.
00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:58.880
But I also study a little bit of monkey chanting and learn this a little bit from that um part of the world's like being like monkeys.
00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:09.920
Um we can process and move through rhythm, expression, togetherness, and creating a pattern and dancing and cultivate an energy, release it.
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:12.880
The team are fine after.
00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:14.960
They don't even have to talk about it.
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:15.519
Wow.
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Because all those talks come from these emotions inside of you.
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Once you come out and do something.
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But if you drum and jump into space and you're doing something about it, it would be your foolish, your creative raw that is not harming anybody.
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It's just you and your full expression.
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:33.920
After that, they were fine.
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:48.960
They held each other, we watched this, they kissed each other, they apologized, loved each other, they cried because they changed the motion by going fully into the expression of the anger they had without harming anything or anybody.
00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:49.840
Yeah.
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I mean, this is technology.
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It is.
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This is the technology of the universe.
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I mean, look at the dogs and the cats and birds.
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How many times a day they shake?
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Right.
00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:16.320
Every time the nervous system gets goes from the parasympathetic, which is relaxed, to uh sympathetic, which is fight or flight.
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When it's a time of dangers or it needs all your focus into something important matter, we go to fight or flight.
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:28.800
And with a little shake, we can come out of a fight or flight and go into a relaxed mode.
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:29.039
Yeah.
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Which the digestion goes back into digesting and all the other stuff starts happening.
00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:36.159
But when we're in fight or flight, everything stops.
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:42.800
So dogs shake, cats shake, birds shake, everybody's shake, all the species shake.
00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:48.079
So shaking is one of the most important parts of the body language.
00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:52.000
Yeah, we've taken shaking out of our system.
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:56.480
You know, as children, I remember like uh, you know, just bouncing around everywhere, right?
00:38:56.719 --> 00:39:00.400
And parents being like, my mom and dad being like, sit down, stop.
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:01.280
Yeah.
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Uh you know, we're both Persian, so that means just sit, sit on your, you know, sit on your chair, sit on your hands.
00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:10.960
Like, yeah, they've stop moving my mom.
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Because I would be like a snake climbing everything.
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:15.920
It's like stop moving, stillness, still.
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:17.519
Like Sam here.
00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:20.320
Yeah, absolutely same here.
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:42.079
Yeah, so I I wanted to sort of like share a little bit about what you said to sort of like bring it into like a uh explanation for the listeners, which is what I heard you say when when you know going to like the work office place, the office might have a conflict.
00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:49.679
So what they're feeling in their body right now is tension, anxiety, frustration, upset, anger.
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:58.159
And so all the thoughts that are associated with that are like, it's your fault, blame, like I hate you, I can't stand you, right?
00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:00.639
So all those stories are going in their heads, right?
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:11.119
And what Raha is suggesting, like, if they went into some sort of somatic movement and danced and like, you know, expressed it from their body, what would happen?
00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:16.800
It will loosen that anxiety, that tenseness, it would pretty much release it, right?
00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:21.280
To a level where all of a sudden what happens is the thoughts change.
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:25.679
I'm no longer, or that person is no longer pointing a finger, being like, it's your fault.
00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:27.599
It's sort of like, I love you, man.
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Like, let's work this out.
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:30.000
Yeah.
00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:30.559
Yeah.
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.320
There's a direct connection there.
00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:33.920
Direct connection, absolutely.
00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:37.519
You're not looking for the guilty one, or you're not hurt anymore.
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You don't need to figure anything out.
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You're done.
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You've your body did it for you.
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:43.519
Absolutely.
00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:43.840
Yeah.
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:47.440
I mean, that's what's simple, but I know hard to see sometimes.
00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:50.800
It is so it is simple.
00:40:51.519 --> 00:41:04.079
So I think that I would be curious for the audience to know how would you suggest if they're afraid or if they're like, oh my God, can I actually do this?
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:09.599
How would you suggest that they take one little step towards doing that?
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:32.639
One little step and the main little step would be shaking and sounding, whether uh they're sitting down in their office, or as soon as they get home, put a 10-minute song and shake their body without thinking of anything.
00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:44.159
Um if it's a team if they do it together will enhances uh the result of bonding and binding and creating again.
00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:52.639
Um and the practice we'll do at the end of the podcast today would be a great simple.
00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:56.079
Code's even just shaking.
00:41:56.159 --> 00:42:02.320
Sometimes I feel like I enter a room and something hits me or I go into a fight or flight.
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:09.119
I even go into a bathroom, just like, ooh, just do one like the dogs and the cats, just one.
00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:14.079
Yeah, one good shake like a dog, and I come out, it changes the whole game.
00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:15.519
It's super simple.
00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:22.000
Yeah, and if you have a chance, I know we are even more conditioned with our voice, which I'll go over that a little bit more too.
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:24.000
Just I go into my car.
00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:29.119
I go into my car and I have a good shake and a scream, a couple of good scream.
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:32.960
Yeah, I'll bring a little creativity into it.
00:42:33.119 --> 00:42:38.639
Try to keep it long and not think that I'm screaming about something.
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:47.679
I just feel and observe it as emotion and energy that is helping my expression to be maybe more primal.
00:42:48.639 --> 00:42:50.960
Just let it out and then go back.
00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:54.960
I go either to bathroom, my car, emergency exit.
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Psychology.
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Like a little emergency exit.
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And sometimes some people and friends, I feel comfortable.
00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:07.280
I mean, I am bringing, I would get up in the corner of my shit, my desk, and shake.
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:11.119
Because I know it's really awkward to do that in the office.
00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:17.360
Oh, the office, um, it's all sitting and not moving as much and not expressing as much.
00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:18.880
They would think you're crazy.
00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:22.079
But I'm sure all the workers they know you're not crazy.
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:31.440
And if every single one of us get up and even bringing these little somatic codes into life will help me and will help whoever is watching.
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:50.400
So maybe even being bold about pause for a second, let me shake my body and see what it does to me and be okay with being seen as crazy or so, yeah, having the audacity to get off from your chair, go in the corner of your desk and shake your body.
00:43:50.639 --> 00:43:59.599
Um, I also find a lot of healing and a lot of spiritual uh.
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:03.199
Improvement with not being serious anymore.
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:09.920
Yeah, being silly, letting go of seriousness is essential.
00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:11.280
Is that 50%?
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:18.639
So 50% serious, have discipline and be able to hold it together and do it.
00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:27.280
But then for that mental health crisis, we need a 50% of being absolutely silly and goofy and not making sense.
00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:31.119
One of the other problems I had, I was trying to make it sense all the time.
00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:35.679
So my system was signaling, no, life is a play.
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:36.559
Look at children.
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:38.800
They just play all day.
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:41.599
You can't, Osho talks about it in his book.
00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:44.960
You can't even ask them, why are you playing all day?
00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:45.920
The children.
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They would look at you.
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Is there anything else here to do right?
00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:51.519
We're just here playing.
00:44:52.320 --> 00:45:01.440
And the more I brought silliness and let go of my seriousness and making sure I have it together all the time.
00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:07.519
That was another major uh breakthrough for me to heal.
00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:18.800
Yeah, it sounds like at least seriousness, the way that I sort of think about it, seriousness of and knowing and it comes from the intellect, right?
00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:20.159
Like, oh, am I getting it right?
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:21.360
Is this is this the way to go?
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:22.960
Is this okay, is this working?
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:23.760
Right?
00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:27.760
Where versus silliness is sort of the unknown.
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:28.719
Exactly.
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:29.039
Yeah.
00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:38.320
So these practices also can help uh to turn off the prefrontal control, which is our personality.
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:39.119
This is proper.
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:41.360
We should, I should be like this, I should be like that.
00:45:41.599 --> 00:45:45.599
If I'm like this, I'm gonna be loved, or if I'm like this, I'm gonna be approved.
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:52.800
Um so that all comes from prefrontal cortex, that it forms our personality.
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:58.480
And by certain movements, a repetition of your head or head shake, you turn it off.
00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:11.039
And then it gives you a little glimpse or a little bit of relief of behaving from a place that it wasn't predict or imitated or has hesitated or edited basically to be accepted.
00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:15.119
We become into a more raw, authentic expression of ourselves.
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:23.840
And that's what we're thirsty for, and that's why we're suffering from different mental problems because the body is like, please give it to me.
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:26.400
I want to feel something.
00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:31.599
Can I express like telling your dog always never bark?
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:33.760
It's like what?
00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:35.199
That's how I talk.
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:39.840
You know, dogs want to express themselves.
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:45.039
And I think that for me as a as an individual, like expression has been a big thing for me.
00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:56.960
Uh, whether it's, you know, voice, sexual expression, uh, embodied expression, there's moments where I really want to express flamboyantly, and I felt very, very restricted in doing that.
00:46:57.119 --> 00:47:00.320
Uh, same thing with my sexuality, wanted to express my fullness.
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:04.480
And so I've gone through my own own journey of discovering what that is.
00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:13.920
And I know that a lot of guys out there also have challenged when it comes to sexual expression, you know, vocal expression, like how do they express their bodies?
00:47:14.079 --> 00:47:17.199
Like, what is your experience when it comes to sexuality in your world?
00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:18.079
Like, what is that?
00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:19.360
How does that look like?
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:25.039
That's a great and very essential question.
00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:30.880
Because that's our major natural way of playing with life force, right?
00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:33.519
They we're all made in sex.
00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:42.480
Uh, the source of every single human being here is sex, is through orgasm frequency.
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:47.199
The beginning of our presence, been orgasm frequency.
00:47:48.559 --> 00:48:04.079
And um, sadly, unfortunately, there is porn out there in media as a form of educator, as a form of education for people who are curious.
00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:09.599
And I do see it that it is designed for a show.
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:15.519
It's not really uh guiding people into understanding sexuality.
00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:35.199
And in my personal experience and some of the clients that I'm working with and friends and people who I'm in touch in their lives, um, we see that this is promoted that your life force is something you get turned on, you play with it, and you have a destination of climax and you release.
00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:41.039
But that's like the first introduction.
00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:41.760
Right.
00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:51.039
That's literally the the introduction of oh, you can actually have these type of other energetic experiences, like a climax.
00:48:51.679 --> 00:49:07.840
Um there is so much in that in there that it's not being explored or experienced or discovered or played with uh because of the lifestyle we have uh created.
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:11.119
And I do see it a little bit of the influence of the porn.
00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:34.000
It's all directly connected to the finish line and having a destination, you have to perform a certain way, you have to sound like a certain way, they won't really bring in the primal, like a fool expresses, is all designed for a movie that's a production, it's not a real interaction.
00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:46.079
And I in personal life, I find people who are just operating from that, a place of performance, and a destination-seeked playfulness.
00:49:47.760 --> 00:49:58.000
So finding um the energy which my L5 and Hernata disc was all giving me the chance to go there and explore more.
00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:24.159
When I realized that I can actually let go of the destination and explore the erotic energy, the life force energy, I discovered so much of my somatic wisdom and how we can extract wisdom from pleasure was another breakthrough that I was like, oh God designed this to for us to learn through pleasure.
00:50:24.880 --> 00:50:28.639
We don't have to suffer, we don't have to go study so hard.
00:50:28.960 --> 00:51:02.159
We can be present with our senses, and I um feel really strongly bad for men because there are many different ways we can have orgasms, there are many different ways we can actually be in that intensity frequency of orgasmic waves going through our system and not pumping your body to ejaculate an actual fluid to make a human being.
00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:22.559
So at the same time where my L5 was um kind of hernia disc and causing problem, I was a studying tantra, a lot of Osho's book and playing, doing all the practices he has to become one with the intelligence flow.
00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:26.559
And the sex is the way, our sexual force is the way.
00:51:26.719 --> 00:51:37.519
And unfortunately, I see with a lot of men, they just as soon as they're activated in their rook chakra, they pump it and they give this fluid that is only designed to make another human being.
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:40.079
So we give a lot of life force out.
00:51:41.920 --> 00:52:24.239
We can have practices that you put that aside, you go into the meditative aspect of the pleasure, you meditate with sensation, bringing the attitude of meditation into the erotic exploration of self and bringing the voice aspect, which this is what I do a lot in my one-on-one sessions, to connecting the voice into the pleasure and not having any process in between what is a pleasure and what does it sound like that opens up the door for a lot of understanding of our frequency body and being turned on basically means having more life force.
00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:27.360
So you stay there, you don't have to finish it.
00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:28.079
Right.
00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:47.280
But finding the full expression through it, so it they're all cultivation practices which we do cultivate and bring into meditation and go into the pleasure, penetrating through our flesh with our own voice is the most potent healing and activation one can do to themselves.
00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:55.280
And the voice is a bridge to the unseen world, to the invisible mechanism.
00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:00.880
And the invisible mechanism can be understood through playing with our voice.
00:53:01.760 --> 00:53:03.679
That's how we can understand the bridge.
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:07.519
And also the voice is directly connected to our nervous system.
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:18.480
That's why when you hurt yourself or you hit something, you'll instantly use your hand and you say, ah, you we make a sound because our nervous system is directly connected to our voice.
00:53:18.639 --> 00:53:22.880
And instantly, because of that shock, you we use the voice to regulate it.
00:53:23.039 --> 00:53:23.360
Yeah.
00:53:23.599 --> 00:53:42.960
And of knowing these techniques and technology, so we can go to the voice and be a little bit of turn on and play with the erotic energy and use the voice meditative for 20 minutes of sounding in pleasure and see what type of frequency activation it does to your body.
00:53:43.360 --> 00:53:44.719
There is no other way.
00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:49.039
Yeah, that's phenomenal.
00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:52.079
I used to I studied Osho as well and tantra as well.
00:53:52.159 --> 00:54:02.960
And so I can attest to having studied it in my, you know, I've been studying it for about 20 years, but in my earlier days, I would be very, very, very efficient in practicing very every day.
00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:09.920
So I can promise you that it is possible if you consistently practice where you have orgasms without ejaculating.
00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:10.400
Exactly.
00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:11.440
So that is possible.
00:54:11.519 --> 00:54:12.960
You can do it, you just have to practice.
00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:16.400
Like any anything you want to cultivate requires practice, right?
00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:21.440
Daily, consistent, if not daily, as often as you can, but it requires practice.
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:23.679
So I love this.
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:29.440
Why don't we dive into what your exercise or your experience is that you're offering?
00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:30.639
Like, what is it?
00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:41.440
Um so especially what I'm offering today, it will be a little mini-sample of what we do.
00:54:41.679 --> 00:54:44.480
Um first we shake a little bit.
00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:46.559
Make sure shake the system.
00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:58.559
So even if you're in a seated position in your work, behind your desk, you feel something, and you have hit the dead end, it can help you to just shake and activate.
00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:01.440
We shake our body sitting down.
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:12.079
Um using different um movement pattern and maintaining them to expand our IQ.
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:38.000
So it makes say you have hand movement and foot pattern and using voice that will help us to maintain multiple things at the same time, multiple pattern, and using the voice will regulate our nervous system, so calm us down with something which is just five to seven minutes every day.
00:55:38.719 --> 00:55:51.599
Well, in uh some of the religious practices like Islam has a movement and sound practiced five times a day.
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:55.840
So and they all point at the same thing.
00:55:56.079 --> 00:56:08.159
All the religions, if they're understood, they're pointing into the self awareness and using the voice, um, bringing expression, playing with energy.
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:11.440
I wanna wanna I wanna do this.
00:56:11.519 --> 00:56:12.000
Let's go.
00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:15.519
Anything else you want to share before you go into the actually guiding it?
00:56:19.519 --> 00:56:29.519
I would just um want to echo for everybody to have a really loving relationship with your body.
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:44.320
These bodies are highly intelligent and they are thirsty for our attention, they are thirsty for our love, our personal love, like touching your body and be like, You're doing great.
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:52.159
Thank you for being my instrument and having the intimacy with self and our senses.
00:56:53.360 --> 00:57:04.239
It's the most potent spiritual practice or self-develop development practice that anybody can have immediately with no cost.
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:09.440
Yeah, no, these bodies are art.
00:57:09.920 --> 00:57:12.800
We are art, we are a miracle.
00:57:13.360 --> 00:57:24.079
So spend time exploring your body, spend time and see what combos you can do and how long you can repeat a chant, and what kind of altered state can you create.
00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:27.039
Just have fun with these instruments.
00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:33.519
That'll be my last echo conversation.
00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:35.440
Thanks.
00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:40.480
Go ahead and lead us into it.
00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:42.480
Okay.
00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:52.079
So where you are sitting, for a moment, close your eyes.
00:57:53.440 --> 00:58:04.800
Bring your attention, your awareness to your body, your feet that's touching the ground, to your roots, that's touching your chair.
00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:08.480
Notice your breath.
00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:10.960
Breathe from your abdomen.
00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:17.519
Inhale, expand your belly.
00:58:19.760 --> 00:58:23.199
Exhale, empty, draw it in and up.
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:33.760
Inhale, expand, exhale, empty.
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:40.639
Sit fully straight with straight spine.
00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:45.039
Hold your weight.
00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:55.920
Notice your bones, your flesh, your muscles that are holding the bones.
00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:24.800
Have your feet on your tippy toes, go on your tippy toes, and just start gently shaking, shaking your knees, shaking your thighs.
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:32.719
Sending the shakes to your roots.
00:59:48.880 --> 00:59:54.400
Holding your hands in the space and shaking your palms.
00:59:55.519 --> 01:00:03.599
As you're shaking from your toes to your roots, so the second layer is shaking your palms.
01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:10.800
Our palms each directly reflects our brain hemisphere, right and left.
01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:19.760
To balance our brain hemispheres, we go through somatic shaking to balance energy, to balance masculine and feminine.
01:00:20.159 --> 01:00:28.880
This is a simple practice to balance your masculinity and femininity and shake off your fascia.
01:00:33.840 --> 01:00:39.920
Literally saying the act of letting go with your hands, letting go with your legs.
01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:52.320
Take your hands up above your head and shake it, and that's shake your head side to side.
01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:55.760
Sound kind of like a yawn.
01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:04.159
Little jumps.
01:01:05.440 --> 01:01:07.039
Standing sitting jump.
01:01:08.719 --> 01:01:09.760
Letting go.
01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:18.480
Okay, give it one good let go.
01:01:25.840 --> 01:01:32.719
And bring your hands into space, kind of like a prayer towards the sky.
01:01:40.639 --> 01:01:52.079
Keeping our toes activated, our heels off the ground, straight spine.
01:01:53.199 --> 01:01:55.440
Our hands are in the space.
01:01:57.119 --> 01:02:04.320
Completely mirroring each other, drawing figure eight, sideway figure eight in the space.
01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:13.119
So there's magic into holding your hands into space for certain.
01:02:21.039 --> 01:02:29.679
So this figure eight-ish, we don't have to think of perfection, just the movement is the essential.
01:02:31.679 --> 01:02:35.679
And holding your toes, your heels off the ground.
01:02:42.880 --> 01:02:56.480
Going to maintain this figure aid with our hands into space and bring in a calling response of a voice activation.
01:02:57.920 --> 01:02:59.920
I say a phrase.
01:03:01.840 --> 01:03:04.719
You guys repeat after me.
01:05:45.280 --> 01:05:53.360
So not only figure eight in your hands, you're rocking your body back and forth.
01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:19.360
Bring your hands into your face, put your palms on your face.
01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:29.199
Sharing your love and gratitude with his body.
01:07:38.239 --> 01:07:40.159
Just simply feeling your face.
01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:10.480
It's beating your heart.
01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:13.599
It's creating with you.
01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:22.399
It's growing your nails, growing your hair, digesting your food.
01:08:22.960 --> 01:08:24.880
So the mystery force is here.
01:09:36.079 --> 01:09:37.199
How does that feel?
01:09:37.439 --> 01:09:40.720
Do you feel changes in your presence?
01:09:42.159 --> 01:09:42.800
Oh yeah.
01:09:42.880 --> 01:09:44.560
I feel attention.
01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:47.359
Definitely a lot more.
01:09:47.520 --> 01:09:50.079
There's some sort of clarity in my vision, actually.
01:09:50.239 --> 01:09:51.600
Like there's depth.
01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:53.119
There's a lot more light.
01:09:53.840 --> 01:09:56.239
I definitely feel a lot in my third eye.
01:09:56.720 --> 01:09:58.159
There's a lot of activation.
01:09:59.359 --> 01:10:03.600
I'd say actually I just feel my whole body a lot more relaxed.
01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:10.159
And there's a sense of alignment in just my whole both left and right hemisphere.
01:10:10.560 --> 01:10:13.359
So I feel really connected to myself right now.
01:10:15.199 --> 01:10:15.520
I love it.
01:10:17.520 --> 01:10:18.239
Short but quick.
01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:19.119
I love it, yeah.
01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:20.640
Enough to feel it.
01:10:20.720 --> 01:10:21.600
I felt it too.
01:10:21.680 --> 01:10:26.319
And I think it's something just like three times a day minimum.
01:10:26.880 --> 01:10:29.279
Morning, afternoon, evening.
01:10:29.680 --> 01:10:30.239
Yeah.
01:10:30.960 --> 01:10:39.359
Can save us a lot from medication and discomfort.
01:10:41.359 --> 01:10:42.960
It can be simple and fun.
01:10:43.279 --> 01:10:43.760
Right.
01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:54.079
What I what I noticed is uh when we got to the sounding, I noticed myself being at first quite in my head about it.
01:10:54.479 --> 01:10:56.079
Like, ooh, what am I sounding like?
01:10:56.159 --> 01:10:57.039
What is it gonna come out?
01:10:57.199 --> 01:11:04.000
And then I don't know where all of a sudden at some point I was just like not even, it was just coming out.
01:11:04.239 --> 01:11:04.960
It was so cool.
01:11:05.039 --> 01:11:05.760
I was like, what?
01:11:06.159 --> 01:11:08.079
It was really neat, actually.
01:11:08.960 --> 01:11:14.399
Exactly to echo on your question that you said, why am I doing what I'm doing?
01:11:14.560 --> 01:11:14.960
Yeah.
01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:26.399
When I found the pleasure and playfulness with my voice and the ranges and layers I could go in and have fun with it, it was so pleasant.
01:11:26.640 --> 01:11:33.760
Because for many years I was into that illusion that I'm not a singer, I wasn't born this way, I wasn't using my voice until I had to.
01:11:34.079 --> 01:11:37.279
And it healed me, then I started using it creatively.
01:11:37.600 --> 01:11:52.079
And when I found out that this instrument is me, and I have not been playing with it at all, just mimicking and imitating a language only.
01:11:53.680 --> 01:11:59.199
It was so pleasant and so liberating, but also a source of information for me.
01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:00.000
My voice.
01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:09.359
The source of information that I was seeking all my existential questions starts being answered when I use my voice 20 minutes continuously.
01:12:09.600 --> 01:12:13.119
I had answers from the unknown source.
01:12:13.439 --> 01:12:30.640
So I just want to help any other human being to find this connection to play with their body, with their senses, also ask a question and access the somatic wisdom and get answers.
01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:34.479
But also really play with our voice.
01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:35.840
This is so fun.
01:12:36.399 --> 01:12:36.960
So fun.
01:12:37.279 --> 01:12:37.600
Yeah.
01:12:37.840 --> 01:12:38.880
So we're not doing it.
01:12:39.039 --> 01:12:43.680
The majority of us, we we're not, and the birds, they never say, Oh, I'm not a singer.
01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:48.880
All the birds they sing daily, multiple times a day.
01:12:49.119 --> 01:12:49.520
Yeah.
01:12:50.000 --> 01:12:53.439
We are in some ways are designed that way.
01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:55.039
So yeah.
01:12:55.279 --> 01:13:04.640
Yeah, and by by singing, I want to interpret that you're saying we all have a voice, we all have sound.
01:13:05.119 --> 01:13:09.199
And it's not about you having a good singing voice.
01:13:09.359 --> 01:13:10.319
That's not what we're talking about.
01:13:10.479 --> 01:13:19.920
We're talking about like you have a voice that can sound, that's a form of expression and not talking sound, but like creative.
01:13:20.239 --> 01:13:20.880
Creative sound.
01:13:21.039 --> 01:13:23.600
Let it express just what like what we did in the exercise.
01:13:23.680 --> 01:13:24.319
So yeah.
01:13:24.720 --> 01:13:27.920
Just being playful and creative, bringing multiple layers.
01:13:28.079 --> 01:13:28.399
Yeah.
01:13:29.039 --> 01:13:34.399
Is also bringing multiple layers into your voice can make you multidimensional.
01:13:39.600 --> 01:13:41.199
Sweet, that was amazing.
01:13:42.079 --> 01:13:44.880
So what are your current offers?
01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:49.359
And I know that you do some you have some workshop that you do every year.
01:13:49.439 --> 01:13:50.960
Why don't you tell us a little bit about that?
01:13:51.600 --> 01:14:19.600
Uh so I have two uh big gatherings in a year on Equinoxes that I bring a big group together, bring drummers and musicians, artists into creating something improvise on the spot with rhythm, movement, sound, creative expression as a meditation, also group dynamic flow of what human synchronization has to offer and experience it in a group setting.
01:14:20.640 --> 01:14:54.000
Um I also offer um monthly uh smaller groups that I design and I host, but I also um get booked for people's private parties, um birthdays or events to bring in somatic um dialogues or somatic forms of communication into the group or three parties syncing the group and getting people into a more liberated state to have more fun in the parties.
01:14:54.319 --> 01:15:33.920
I also work one-on-one with people working with the energetic field, with the meridian points, and kind of combining some modalities of horror massage, Mayan's abdominal massage, and finding energy points and where the blocks are and helping you to connect to your voice to penetrate through your nervous system, through your neuroconnectivity, and open up your channel and go deeper into your full expression, because full expression is the main goal of every single human being on this planet to reach their full expression.
01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:59.119
And that will be in the one-on-one and going deep into how we actually can extract information and wisdom through pleasure, through the pleasure of our own senses, smell, touch, breath, voice, and having a little bit more scientific approach to our senses and meditative approach to find what they actually have for us.
01:16:00.560 --> 01:16:01.760
I'm still exploring.
01:16:02.720 --> 01:16:03.039
Right?
01:16:03.199 --> 01:16:03.920
It's never ending.
01:16:04.159 --> 01:16:05.279
I don't think it ever ends.
01:16:05.600 --> 01:16:06.720
It never ends, absolutely.
01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:08.319
And where can they find you?
01:16:08.399 --> 01:16:10.960
Uh, is this like Instagram socials better?
01:16:11.600 --> 01:16:14.079
Uh yes, Instagram.
01:16:14.319 --> 01:16:16.800
Um, you can also email me.
01:16:17.119 --> 01:16:17.359
Great.
01:16:17.840 --> 01:16:22.800
And we'll drop those links uh on the description so you can find that easily.
01:16:26.159 --> 01:16:26.479
Yes.
01:16:26.880 --> 01:16:27.520
Great.
01:16:28.560 --> 01:16:34.880
So as always, we're gonna see you in the community to offer something a little longer and a QA.
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Potentially you'll have some questions of her of like, yeah, well, how is this?
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How does this work?
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XYZ, whatever you might have, so you can ask her those in the community.
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And finally, what are some let's leave the viewers with some final remarks.
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I would say my final remark would be bringing the attention and the awareness to the bodies as our main instrument to move through this world, move through this planet to develop a deep intimacy, an emotional relationship to this body.
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Spend time, explore what the senses have, be totally present with your senses, and have a scientific approach to your senses, to what you can do, how you can move, and what is the combo you can put it, and what kind of altered state can you create.
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Because this is the instrument to play with.
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Our bodies are so thirsty, waiting for us, waiting for our attention to tune in and actually play, because they have so much to show us.
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And just remember that we are the art, we are the miracle.
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Having these bodies is a temporary gift.
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It's temporarily, it's not forever to explore, experiment, and have deep layers of pleasurable sensory experience while we're alive.
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Because it's not forever.
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We all gonna die.
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We're all gonna die.
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The train's gonna end.
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Well, the body's gonna it has expiration, not our spirit, but this is a temporary gift.
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So just see it as an instrument, see it as a playtime.
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Thank you, thank you for being here.
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Of course, that was a pleasure.
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Thank you for having me.
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And uh it was a pleasure for me.
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I'm excited to create more meet your community and um keep keep learning and raising our awareness and sharing the wisdom we have with each other.
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Perfect.
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Thank you.
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Thank you guys, thank you.
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Scientific approach to our senses, like way less.
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And I had a point that oh, this actually was like a medicine for me.
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Just moving and shaking my body, immersive and enjoying the journey along the way.
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Hey, welcome to another Internet Podcast episode.
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Uh, as always, I've got a new guest for you.
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Her name is Raha, and she is a sensory meditation, somatic coach, ceremonialist, and musician.
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Welcome.
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Glad to have you.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Thanks for having me.
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As always, we're gonna go through some uh what she does, who she is, how she got here in her life, and then my favorite part.
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She's gonna offer a really cool exercise and find out uh how this can support you men out there.
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So let's kick it off, Rah.
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So, who are you and what do you do?
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Um, well, first, thank you so much for having me.
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It's an honor to be here and an opportunity for me to share my story, my life experience.
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Um just going back, how am I here in this sea talking about what we're talking about?
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Um a little bit of background about my childhood.
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I did grow up in Iran um with a lot of influences of music, togetherness, importance of community, movement, sound, and art as a part of big part of our lives, but also a lot of suppression and especially a woman growing up in Iran, a lot of um limitation in my expression or dancing, the freedom of expression outside, also in the families, just a suppress, suppress, and um so I got a really good amount of both I needed for my path growing up in Iran, and ended up moving to US.
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So lived half of my life in Iran by now, half of my life in US.
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So almost equal.
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Um I ended up going through a really dark time with my mental health, which it was also reflecting my physical health as well.
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Um it's all starts energetic first, and then when you don't address the energetics, it starts hitting and reflecting on our physical form, which that's where I was when I was my Saturn return between 27 to 30.
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I start having major problems with my mental health, panic attacks, anxieties, a lot of uh confusion of my identity, who I am, how this works, where I am.
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Felt pretty lost.
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And there was a series of events of my kidney problems and um migraines, also went to my L5, which was the best blessing that ever happened.
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My herniated disc that was causing sciatic nerve, which was on my beginning of my spine, close to my roots, my energy channels, abdomens, and all my body started um having a lot of uh pain there that I had to go there and address it and find why this pain is there.
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How did I manifest it, and how can I reverse and take myself back into a peaceful, graceful life?
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That was the beginning.
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Well, that was the beginning of um the things get so difficult to push me in the direction that all I could think of and focus on would how can I fix myself?
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Yeah, how can I find ways into aligning myself back, getting rid of my nerve pain, and a lot of Western medication was numbing me, actually was not fixing me.
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It was numbing my symptoms, and when I would come out of it, not take the pill, I would actually hurt more.
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I was constipated from all the numbing medication.
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It was not um helping my issue from the core, it was actually just numbing my symptoms, and I realized that oh, I need to actually do something myself.
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I can't just depend on doctors and oh hey, let me go this visit, this visit.
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Can somebody help me?
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And a lot of places they're like, oh, well, it's your back pain.
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You pretty much you're gonna have this for the rest of your life.
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And as a musician and dancer and athlete that I love moving, it was such a big impact emotionally.
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But it was the way that pushed me to realize having this um pivotal point that I was in the victimhood from what happened to me.
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Yeah.
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And I was able to say, okay, well, here it is.
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This is what I have for the rest of my life.
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What's my attitude towards it?
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I'm just sitting crying like a victim person.
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I'm gonna bring in the attitude of, I'm gonna fix this.
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I'm gonna take care of this, and I'm gonna find ways.
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I just trust it.
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And I start hanging with uh Native Americans and doing a lot of their ceremonies, sweat lodges, and chanting and singing, which just started remembering my childhood, why we were doing those chanting and unfold a lot of wisdom there that way.
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Uh and I remember we called him Uncle.
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He said one day, there's no disease that does not have a remedy in nature, everything balances each other's.
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So if you have birth, you have death.
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If you have a day, you have a night.
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And if you have a disease, you have a remedy.
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You just have to be curious.
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Pray.
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And they brought the pray, which is our intention, intuition, and the focus of our mind towards what we want.
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Yeah.
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And anything we want can be delivered when we truly sit down and ask for it.
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And this lots of amazing modalities came into my way and helped me to figure it out.
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And I'm very happy right now being able to sit down here with no medication, just have my sanity and talk about these things.
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But I did experience it experimentally with my system.
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Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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And how long was your sort of journey from recognizing the challenges in your body to sort of where you can say, let's just say you recovered or you're in a you you're in a space where you feel where you felt at ease.
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Does that make sense?
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Yeah.
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Um I would say close to three years.
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Three years.
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Two and a half to three years.
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Things start getting harder and harder, and then different doctors, different modalities.
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Uh until finally I start noticing that uh what I was doing, it's um it's making a change, it's reversing my conditions.
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Because it's not like those very uh painkiller that you take and instantly your pain is gone.
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Yeah, you kind of have to have a warrior attitude to take steps while you're in pain to figure it out.
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And yeah, and when I knew I'm actually reversing, then it gives me this inspiration and motivation.
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The energy was just like flowing in because I was so excited.
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It's like, oh, I'm doing it, I'm doing it by myself.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Amazing.
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Congratulations.
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What a thank you.
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Yeah, what a beautiful transformation.
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Uh, I love hearing people's transformation because it gives, you know, the listeners and the viewers like, oh, it's possible, you know, yeah.
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Yeah, it's one of the most pleasurable things to experience self-doctoring, self-healing.
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To say that the trees and the flowers, they don't really need to go to school or they don't have a doctor system to go get healed.
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They have it within them and they channel it from within.
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Yeah.
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And absolutely.
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They talk to nature, they talk to spirit, yeah.
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Do all that stuff instead of depending on what the doctor says.
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Which in some ways I've gone back and forth for myself with.
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Uh I got diagnosed with Crohn's three, four years ago.
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And they wanted me to get right away on uh medicine, which basically causes the immune system to shut down.
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Well, not shut down, but basically slows it down in some ways, so I can not have the inflammation in the body.
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And I decided to go the route that you went, which is sort of finding the healing uh modalities and hypnotherapy and all the other things.
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And I can now say, after three years, like, same thing for you, like my body is in the best shape ever without doctor's medicines.
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And next week I'm actually going for a colonoscopy to check on it to see where I'm at.
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So it's really exciting.
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I want the doctor to be like, you're good.
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So we'll see.
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Yeah.
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I wish that for you.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, I appreciate that.
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Uh, so I'm curious, now that you've gone through this journey of supporting and helping yourself, what led you to be like, okay, now I want to serve others.
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I can say I almost didn't have a choice.
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What seeing through the cycle and the language of nature and how we can actually bring ease?
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It was hard to find it, as I said, three years almost.
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But when I found it, it was so simple.
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And finding out that how um we're only using the difficult route as the Western medication, and how our psyche in every individual, it's almost like a prison that we're not expressing.
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We barely are touching our full expression because of proper social behavior, or maybe generation over generation, we have forgotten what it is to be a fully expressed human being.
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It my heart just wanted to do this to bring this awareness to people, but also keep myself involved with these things because I knew this is my prescription and this is how I can keep my sanity for the rest of my life.
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But I always wanted to, only thing I played or did, I wanted other people to experience.
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And my family used to tell me, you should be a teacher, or you're going to be a teacher in the future, because anything I would experience instantly, this is how you do it, this is what you should do.
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I just have that passion, yeah.
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Um, and patience to watch people taking steps to actually experience what I experience, or I'm still experiencing through it.
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It's one big story, it's still continuously going.
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It's uh there's a lot of pleasure into experiencing things, but there's also a lot of pleasure into sharing with someone.
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Like how you have a good story, you're waiting for your friends to just see them and tell them.
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Actually, our hormone levels have shown some people have more hormone when they are sharing the story from the actual incident.
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But it's more pleasurable because now we're sharing it.
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Oh, wow.
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Yeah, cool.
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I love that.
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So I love sharing my story and sharing the codes or discoveries that I had for my personal uh development and personal peace.
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I would say more than anything, just moving through this life with peace.
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Yeah.
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And playfulness to have fun.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Peace, playfulness, and have fun.
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Absolutely.
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Oh, well, let's call it peace, playfulness, and presence.
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So the three P being present with the miracle of life is one of the most joyful things I'm experiencing every day.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Phenomenal.
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I'm curious.
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Let's hear a little bit about what it is that you support people with.
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Like what are some of the things that people come to you and you potentially guide them, maybe some of your workshops.
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What are some of the things that you offer?
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Um, I'll share a little bit of the story of how I got to the conclusion of what I'm offering.
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I do offer um movement and sound experiences for people that uh can help remove tension or process any unprocessed emotion that we're holding into our system that can numb our receptors to receive what's fully here, to be able to clear them somatically, kind of like house cleaning, but energetically, clearing your memory, muscle memory, um bringing activation to our voice, which using voice is also a major, major factor of understanding human experience itself.
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Um everything has an opposition, as I spoke about a day and night, and uh we're moving with ease when we accept both, if we don't deny anything.
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The suffering comes from the resistance.
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And um when I found out that wow, there's a half aspect of me is physical food and touch and physical needs, but then then there's also a 50% energetic self of me exists there, my emotional self, that I haven't been doing any exploration or any like an emotional wellness to figure that part.
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How do I understand about my emotions and frequency?
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I didn't know until I um went, let's say, into a drum circle accidentally walking about the ballpark, and I see these amazing drummers.
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I'm a percussionist as well.
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I'm like, wow, they're good drummers.
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It just like kind of magnetized me towards the sound.
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And I went there and the music starts shaking me and moving me, and I had a catharthic release of my sound, activated the primal.
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And that's one of the times that instantly after an hour or two, I just stood up there, shook with people, and made sound with people in the group setting.
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Uh walking away from this drum circle, I could feel my nervous system switched from fight or flight to a relaxed mode.
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Yeah.
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And that whole pulsation and anxiety that I could feel on my nerves and my system was just like way less.
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And I had a point that oh, this actually was like a medicine for me.
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Just moving and shaking my body and sounding itself.
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So that led me into doing it more and also creating spaces that I transfer this knowledge or experience to people.
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Yeah.
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What if the thing I do is working with sound and movement?
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Yeah, which I'm excited for you to do an experience of that in a little bit.
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You shared something a little earlier that I'd like you to, if you can dive a little deeper into, which is to for the guys out there who don't know how to accept the duality, uh hold the duality, how do you how would you support them in feeling and holding those at the same time so they don't go into suffering?
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The duality aspects of themselves.
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Yeah, themselves or uh you mentioned that you know, to be able to hold both instances of something, right?
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Instead of uh true suffering is when you don't accept those two, when you're resisting those two.
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So I know that I would be like, well, how do I do that?
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How do I not resist?
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How do I accept and accept whatever is in front of me?
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So I found the one most potent part was letting the body have both in its expressive way.
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So if I have an expression of a very civilized woman and tamed and uh just well proper sitting down and expressing with this sound level, and in a safe space, in my own space, I allowed my body to go to those maybe angry seen in the society expressions, maybe roaring, maybe acting like an animal or primal sounds that was deep breathing, guttural sounds, maybe some vibrations in my throat, kind of like a real cat.
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It starts coming out, and I realized actually from the shaking and sounding, I reached the climax of that I am roaring, I'm having a catharthic emotional release, but it was very primal.
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I would act my animal in a really wild and powerful, fierce way, not towards anybody, not at anything.
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There was no story behind it, it was just an expression, and honoring that expression to my body and accepting it as um just an expression and energetics of me, it brought me so much peace.
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Yeah, because these bodies they have their own needs, they have a need to express fully, they have the need to be connected physically, they desire touch, they desire sound, they desire certain things that if we do feed them and hold both for at least the body, uh, will help us with our self-development, understanding all aspects of ourselves.
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Because I feel like in men um behavior, men are even more shut down emotionally because you can be aggressive that you're gonna, you know, you're not a good man if you have a lot of anger, you can't express it, it's almost dangerous.
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Also, your other emotional touch is so suppressed.
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A man, a hero doesn't cry, a hero doesn't show emotions, doesn't show femininity.
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And those are the things that actually need to be welcomed.
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And when we welcome those in the expression with the body, it brings so much peace into our mental state.
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Our physiology is directly connected to our psychology.
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So to heal our psychological wounds, we can just honor it from our body.
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So I create safe space with drumming and repetition, we release and open up our body from contraction to expansion and uh from lack of expression to opening the throat chakra and bringing those, you know, the anger.
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Then you're emptying.
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And when you go home, when we do these practices and you go home, even if the world ends and gives you all these excuses to be really angry, you can be.
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Yeah.
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Then in your family with your loved one, you're already in such a calm space.
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Like there's no need to yell and scream right now.
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I have already done it.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, that's one thing I um realized that even just this the voice expression of it is so essential right now.
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Yeah.
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And then bringing creativity into our anger uh or into our grief.
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Yeah, I feel a lot of other problems of mental health crisis, we're in a mental health crisis right now, is unprocessed grief.
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We're not honoring our grief or letting that emotion to come through and express.
00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:07.039
Yeah, absolutely.
00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:18.240
When it comes to some of the men that come to you, whether it's in your workshop or one-on-one, or what are what are some of the things that you see that they come to you for?
00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:28.400
Um the first thing would be the emotional wellness.
00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:53.839
A lot of them after coming to a Raha um gathering, whether it's a small group or big group, smaller, or one on one has a deeper influence of them just releasing and moving and uh activating they have a better sleep, uh, they feel more in touch with their emotions and pattern recognition, catching themselves, slowing down.
00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:59.519
Um because um sensory.
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Meditation also um it's a very potent way to access information.
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Our senses are doorways.
00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:12.640
Oh yeah.
00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:15.039
It's in a way a mystery science.
00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:29.519
I can't tell you exactly how you feel or what you feel if you use your voice for 15 minutes or if you meditate with this bite of food and close your eyes and take 10 minutes for one bite and what's gonna unfold internally.
00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:41.039
I can point towards the practices, and then you by doing it uh you uncode those inner realms of okay, what your voice would do if you use it 15 minutes straight.
00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:47.599
And gently and softly in your reality, you start finding matching points.
00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:58.960
Uh seeing the reality as a live intelligence um force that it's communicating with you, like a mystery force.
00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:02.480
The language of communicating with nature.
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A lot of guys they tell me they uh after working with me, they see trees more, they notice the clouds more, the sound of the birds.
00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:20.799
So sensory meditation activates and opens the door for a high end awareness and a deeper presence here.
00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:33.200
So it has helped people with releasing, they can sleep better, they have let go of anxiety, they have brought more creativity and expression into their personality, even.
00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:36.559
Yeah, um, I think everything can be creative.
00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:37.839
Life is art.
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We are art.
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This is art.
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The way we talk is art.
00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:43.279
Absolutely.
00:23:43.839 --> 00:23:44.079
Yeah.
00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:45.839
Wow, this is that's that's amazing.
00:23:45.920 --> 00:24:01.279
So for you guys out there, like wanting to feel a bit more present, bringing your and connecting to your body so you can actually go out into nature or go out and just taking a walk and being like, oh, wow, that's actually pretty beautiful.
00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:10.640
Like instead of like going from point A to point B, like you can actually go from point A to point B being in immersive and enjoying the journey along the way.
00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:11.599
Yeah.
00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:13.119
Oh, amazing work.
00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:21.039
Thank you for what you offer and bringing more men into their body, connecting them to their sense of self and their presence.
00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:23.119
I think it's important in today's world.
00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:24.160
Yeah.
00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:35.759
I want to hear a little bit more about what other ways that the men can be supported in this work besides presence.
00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:53.039
Uh and so, so for some of the men out there, for them to be able to be like, ooh, that's the kind of work or support I need, what are some of the sort of like things that they're going through in their life where you could point to where they can recognize that, oh, that's me.
00:24:53.200 --> 00:25:00.240
Let me reach out to Raha, or let me reach out to someone who can support me with somatic, with drumming, with sound.
00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:04.559
What are some of those things that you come into your yeah, that you come aware of?
00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:25.039
I would say the meditation aspect of what I do, active and creative meditation uh for people with um anxiety, stress, PTSD, or people who feel they have a lot of life force that they just don't know what to do with it.
00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:29.759
They were having because that's some other part of the panic attack I realized.
00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:35.839
They were it was just a signal for my body to let go, be more even intense, be more physical.
00:25:36.400 --> 00:26:01.440
Um if they have a problem with um focusing, like ADD, so rhythm drumming, dedicating yourself to a metronome, it's the most natural way to train ADD rather than taking those pharmaceutical medications that we're taking, and we are treating our bodies so poorly that could be fixed with a simple singing and drumming.
00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:03.599
Oh wow, that gave me chills.
00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:04.480
Mm-hmm.
00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:11.039
That's why we've seen in a lot of ancient shamanic practices a shaman has a little middle syndrome and they're chanting.
00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:18.640
Basically, when you dedicate yourself to a timing of a tempo, a metronome, there's no way you can think.
00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:25.119
So your mind muscles, you're gonna train your mind muscle to slow down and eventually be quiet.
00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:31.759
And slowing down, dedicating yourself to just a simple tempo.
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It is the way to intermeditation.
00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:45.680
For me personally, it was really hard because sitting still, I was accelerating my thought process, not knowing where the state of meditation is.
00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:49.839
I was thinking more, actually, I was causing more drama for myself.
00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:58.319
Yeah, then I realized, oh, um active meditation, creative meditation works 100% instantly for me.
00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:05.759
When I grabbed my drum and play it again, I was like, oh, okay, this is this is a medicine.
00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:07.839
Yeah, my thoughts are going away.
00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:14.160
And then I was able to bring in a lot of creative energy into my singing.
00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:36.000
And when people who are also seeking for spirituality and they know there's something more there that they haven't accessed yet, if they are to that point that they know there's more about themselves, there's more layers of themselves that they want to find it, um, this work would be great for them.
00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:44.720
We all want to be smarter, we all want to be having a higher IQ or a deeper awareness of what's going on.
00:27:45.440 --> 00:28:08.160
And to me, um having the discovery or the realization how keeping track of multiple expressions is the only way to expand our IQ, which musicians and athletes they they do it just naturally because of what they're putting themselves into playing music or playing small sport with a group.
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:18.079
But basically, how we get smarter is how many mathematical patterns of expression we can hold with our body.
00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:34.559
So if you hold a foot pattern and then you have a clap pattern, and then you do a head, so now you're doing three, and then if you add your voice, now you're doing four, and maintaining these four layers is how we actually expand our awareness.
00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:50.880
So putting an effort, just simply sitting and keeping four layers of expression, synchronizing with a group, which now has proven that actually our hormone level changes, is the way to expand our IQ.
00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:52.480
So who doesn't want to be smarter?
00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:53.039
Yeah, right.
00:28:53.519 --> 00:29:02.880
It's not in the seminar, it's not in a book you read, is how much you sit down and you put effort to open those neurological pathways to maintain four things.
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:12.240
And if you do maintain the four things, so next you go to a restaurant, you can hear four different conversations, kind of engage with all of them, know what's up.
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:16.559
I'm not saying know every single word, but you can kind of know what's up in the whole room.
00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:37.039
Uh, you also can have a wider lens because you trained your neurological system that way, that angle difficult uh time and difficult different angles in your life and bring them together into a dance to have the best problem-solving attitude for your whatever is happening.
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:37.839
Yeah.
00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:45.759
So that's another thing that actually I sat down for five days in my patio with no food.
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:50.480
Well, a minimum food, only when I thought that I couldn't take it anymore.
00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:53.759
And that's what I picked up from the vision quest of Native American.
00:29:53.839 --> 00:30:00.880
And I did my own version in my home in my patio for five days, no talking, no engaging, minimum food, just watching nature.
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:09.599
I saw birds will come every sunset, sunrise, come together and do this.
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They would they're flying with different patterns, they're sounding, and they're doing it in a group dynamic.
00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:23.519
And that's just for the health of the species and the evolution, their smartness, and the tribe.
00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:23.920
Yeah.
00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:27.440
So we're missing that because we're not living in a tribe setting.
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:36.799
So creating these experiences, at least it gives our bodies to have that food, the desire they need to create with a tribe.
00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:43.200
Yeah.
00:30:43.599 --> 00:30:44.079
Absolutely.
00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:45.039
It's so powerful.
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:46.079
It's so powerful.
00:30:46.319 --> 00:30:46.720
So powerful.
00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:56.480
Doing it with yourself is really powerful for self-development, but then it takes you to a next level when you do it with a group, let's say, with four or five to fifteen men.
00:30:56.880 --> 00:30:57.519
Yeah.
00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:05.359
Also, if you do it with a bigger group for 50 to 60, 70 for the and different energetics of it.
00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:05.839
Yeah.
00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:26.960
But um, even in the book of uh Body Keeps the Score, the last chapter talks about how a lot of veterans actually healed from these um kind of AA meetings, they would meet weekly with a group to bond, and all they did, they interact musically and expressively.
00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:27.440
Wow.
00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:29.839
They didn't really talk about their problems.
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:34.160
Because energies are emotions are energy emotions.
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And it cannot be processed with our intellect.
00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:39.680
It's a whole different thing.
00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:48.319
You can have the realization with your intellect, but you cannot process the energies that are in motion into your body with your thoughts.
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:52.960
So talk therapy can open the wound and look at it and be like, okay, that's it.
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:53.279
Yeah.
00:31:53.519 --> 00:32:03.759
And it wouldn't really cause heal the problem from the core issue that you're actually holding a lot that needs to be released or expressed or just moved through you.
00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:14.559
And then um, a lot of ancient Persian dances, I don't know if you've ever seen them, like cordish dance, they hold hands and they they move together.
00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:15.039
Yeah.
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:19.680
This is not a poetic imagination anymore.
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:41.039
Now, here science has approved by monitoring people what's their hormone level is, what's their neurological impulse and activation is in the group before and after they come and they repeat a movement together and synchronize in their expression.
00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:48.319
When multiple bodies are synced into what they're expressing and what they're feeling through their system, our intelligence multiplies.
00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:53.039
These are codes that ancient knew and they would just do it.
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It's still there.
00:32:55.440 --> 00:33:06.720
We have designed such an individualism lifestyle that we're not honoring these tribal approaches to these bodies, our instruments that they needed.
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:24.480
So we can provide spaces, even in this modern life, to at least honor our system, regulate our system, uh to be in a more peaceful, expanded, graceful experience of ourselves and others.
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:31.359
And our our self-relationship and other uh relationships will definitely impact.
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:33.519
Absolutely.
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:40.160
There's there's so much to the body that I think we're just starting to learn more and more about hey, guess what?
00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:42.480
Like, why don't you move your body a little bit?
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:49.359
Like, yeah, for the guys out there, like putting on a music, putting on a song and like just move to the song.
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:50.640
Like you don't need to dance.
00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:57.359
It's not about dancing, it's about just letting your body move to the song, like whatever it is, however your body wants to move.
00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:02.720
Putting a sad song, a happy song, whatever it is, and just let your body express itself, it's a game changer.
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:05.759
So yeah, anything somatic is yeah.
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:08.159
It's the language of the body.
00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:08.960
Totally.
00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:13.199
That's why you changed the game because it's the language of our bodies.
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:13.679
Yeah.
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:19.280
Somatic is anything that has nothing to do with your intellect and your analytic process.
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:37.039
So we have both, but we've been engaging on analytic and intellectual process continuously, and this is directly connected to the mental health crisis or lack of understanding of self because we're not actually speaking the main language of these bodies.
00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:42.719
We're only speaking with the language we came up with, this analytic language.
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:45.920
But they have that's the main language, yeah.
00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:56.159
So I bring in a lot of um physical somatic dialogues into the group or something similar to the contact improv dance.
00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:56.320
Okay.
00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:59.599
And that's something I highly recommend for people bring it into their life.
00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:01.199
It's like a language, yeah.
00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:10.880
It's not a sports or a show or performance, it's a language of communication without a word, of communication with motion.
00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:13.519
Yeah, yeah, it's so powerful.
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.280
Yeah, I love I love contact and pro it's a lot of fun.
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:20.320
Yeah, that's how um that's how I basically healed.
00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:34.000
The more activity I brought into my body, yeah, the more music, the more rhythm, singing, chanting, going to wild, expressive uh sound of mine, I healed.
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:39.280
So that's the part I'm like, it can be so simple, it can be so creative and fun.
00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:40.239
Totally.
00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:41.760
We can heal together.
00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:46.880
Actually, it accelerates, it enhances the process of healing together.
00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:58.400
Uh, even in the research of the group dynamics, they realize when the group is more synced, the more synced they are, the more hormone release.
00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:16.719
All the good hormones, serotonin, endorphin, dopamine, and also the brainwave shifted and put everybody into alpha and theta uh brain waves, which improves and promotes intuition, creativity, creative expression, authenticity.
00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:18.159
Hell yeah.
00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:19.199
I want all that.
00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:38.000
And another thing that this can be offered is for team members or group and companies that they're actually building something with a team and they have some sort of uh emotional um process or conflict in the group, that the group of amazing creators or artists are creating something valuable.
00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:44.000
They put time for many years to finish this project, but then they have an emotional process.
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:48.559
Uh, a lot of approach nowadays is sit and talk about it.
00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:58.880
But I also study a little bit of monkey chanting and learn this a little bit from that um part of the world's like being like monkeys.
00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:09.920
Um we can process and move through rhythm, expression, togetherness, and creating a pattern and dancing and cultivate an energy, release it.
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:12.880
The team are fine after.
00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:14.960
They don't even have to talk about it.
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:15.519
Wow.
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:18.880
Because all those talks come from these emotions inside of you.
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:21.199
Once you come out and do something.
00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:28.719
But if you drum and jump into space and you're doing something about it, it would be your foolish, your creative raw that is not harming anybody.
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:31.840
It's just you and your full expression.
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:33.920
After that, they were fine.
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:48.960
They held each other, we watched this, they kissed each other, they apologized, loved each other, they cried because they changed the motion by going fully into the expression of the anger they had without harming anything or anybody.
00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:49.840
Yeah.
00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:53.039
I mean, this is technology.
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It is.
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This is the technology of the universe.
00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:03.679
I mean, look at the dogs and the cats and birds.
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How many times a day they shake?
00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:06.400
Right.
00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:16.320
Every time the nervous system gets goes from the parasympathetic, which is relaxed, to uh sympathetic, which is fight or flight.
00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:23.599
When it's a time of dangers or it needs all your focus into something important matter, we go to fight or flight.
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:28.800
And with a little shake, we can come out of a fight or flight and go into a relaxed mode.
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:29.039
Yeah.
00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:33.440
Which the digestion goes back into digesting and all the other stuff starts happening.
00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:36.159
But when we're in fight or flight, everything stops.
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:42.800
So dogs shake, cats shake, birds shake, everybody's shake, all the species shake.
00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:48.079
So shaking is one of the most important parts of the body language.
00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:52.000
Yeah, we've taken shaking out of our system.
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:56.480
You know, as children, I remember like uh, you know, just bouncing around everywhere, right?
00:38:56.719 --> 00:39:00.400
And parents being like, my mom and dad being like, sit down, stop.
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:01.280
Yeah.
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:08.320
Uh you know, we're both Persian, so that means just sit, sit on your, you know, sit on your chair, sit on your hands.
00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:10.960
Like, yeah, they've stop moving my mom.
00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:13.360
Because I would be like a snake climbing everything.
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:15.920
It's like stop moving, stillness, still.
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:17.519
Like Sam here.
00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:20.320
Yeah, absolutely same here.
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:42.079
Yeah, so I I wanted to sort of like share a little bit about what you said to sort of like bring it into like a uh explanation for the listeners, which is what I heard you say when when you know going to like the work office place, the office might have a conflict.
00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:49.679
So what they're feeling in their body right now is tension, anxiety, frustration, upset, anger.
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:58.159
And so all the thoughts that are associated with that are like, it's your fault, blame, like I hate you, I can't stand you, right?
00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:00.639
So all those stories are going in their heads, right?
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:11.119
And what Raha is suggesting, like, if they went into some sort of somatic movement and danced and like, you know, expressed it from their body, what would happen?
00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:16.800
It will loosen that anxiety, that tenseness, it would pretty much release it, right?
00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:21.280
To a level where all of a sudden what happens is the thoughts change.
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:25.679
I'm no longer, or that person is no longer pointing a finger, being like, it's your fault.
00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:27.599
It's sort of like, I love you, man.
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:29.440
Like, let's work this out.
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:30.000
Yeah.
00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:30.559
Yeah.
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.320
There's a direct connection there.
00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:33.920
Direct connection, absolutely.
00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:37.519
You're not looking for the guilty one, or you're not hurt anymore.
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.320
You don't need to figure anything out.
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:40.800
You're done.
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:42.719
You've your body did it for you.
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:43.519
Absolutely.
00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:43.840
Yeah.
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:47.440
I mean, that's what's simple, but I know hard to see sometimes.
00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:50.800
It is so it is simple.
00:40:51.519 --> 00:41:04.079
So I think that I would be curious for the audience to know how would you suggest if they're afraid or if they're like, oh my God, can I actually do this?
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:09.599
How would you suggest that they take one little step towards doing that?
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:32.639
One little step and the main little step would be shaking and sounding, whether uh they're sitting down in their office, or as soon as they get home, put a 10-minute song and shake their body without thinking of anything.
00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:44.159
Um if it's a team if they do it together will enhances uh the result of bonding and binding and creating again.
00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:52.639
Um and the practice we'll do at the end of the podcast today would be a great simple.
00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:56.079
Code's even just shaking.
00:41:56.159 --> 00:42:02.320
Sometimes I feel like I enter a room and something hits me or I go into a fight or flight.
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:09.119
I even go into a bathroom, just like, ooh, just do one like the dogs and the cats, just one.
00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:14.079
Yeah, one good shake like a dog, and I come out, it changes the whole game.
00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:15.519
It's super simple.
00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:22.000
Yeah, and if you have a chance, I know we are even more conditioned with our voice, which I'll go over that a little bit more too.
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:24.000
Just I go into my car.
00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:29.119
I go into my car and I have a good shake and a scream, a couple of good scream.
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:32.960
Yeah, I'll bring a little creativity into it.
00:42:33.119 --> 00:42:38.639
Try to keep it long and not think that I'm screaming about something.
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:47.679
I just feel and observe it as emotion and energy that is helping my expression to be maybe more primal.
00:42:48.639 --> 00:42:50.960
Just let it out and then go back.
00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:54.960
I go either to bathroom, my car, emergency exit.
00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:55.760
Psychology.
00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:58.159
Like a little emergency exit.
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:01.440
And sometimes some people and friends, I feel comfortable.
00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:07.280
I mean, I am bringing, I would get up in the corner of my shit, my desk, and shake.
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:11.119
Because I know it's really awkward to do that in the office.
00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:17.360
Oh, the office, um, it's all sitting and not moving as much and not expressing as much.
00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:18.880
They would think you're crazy.
00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:22.079
But I'm sure all the workers they know you're not crazy.
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:31.440
And if every single one of us get up and even bringing these little somatic codes into life will help me and will help whoever is watching.
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:50.400
So maybe even being bold about pause for a second, let me shake my body and see what it does to me and be okay with being seen as crazy or so, yeah, having the audacity to get off from your chair, go in the corner of your desk and shake your body.
00:43:50.639 --> 00:43:59.599
Um, I also find a lot of healing and a lot of spiritual uh.
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:03.199
Improvement with not being serious anymore.
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:09.920
Yeah, being silly, letting go of seriousness is essential.
00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:11.280
Is that 50%?
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:18.639
So 50% serious, have discipline and be able to hold it together and do it.
00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:27.280
But then for that mental health crisis, we need a 50% of being absolutely silly and goofy and not making sense.
00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:31.119
One of the other problems I had, I was trying to make it sense all the time.
00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:35.679
So my system was signaling, no, life is a play.
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:36.559
Look at children.
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:38.800
They just play all day.
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:41.599
You can't, Osho talks about it in his book.
00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:44.960
You can't even ask them, why are you playing all day?
00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:45.920
The children.
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:47.119
They would look at you.
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:49.440
Is there anything else here to do right?
00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:51.519
We're just here playing.
00:44:52.320 --> 00:45:01.440
And the more I brought silliness and let go of my seriousness and making sure I have it together all the time.
00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:07.519
That was another major uh breakthrough for me to heal.
00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:18.800
Yeah, it sounds like at least seriousness, the way that I sort of think about it, seriousness of and knowing and it comes from the intellect, right?
00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:20.159
Like, oh, am I getting it right?
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:21.360
Is this is this the way to go?
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:22.960
Is this okay, is this working?
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:23.760
Right?
00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:27.760
Where versus silliness is sort of the unknown.
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:28.719
Exactly.
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:29.039
Yeah.
00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:38.320
So these practices also can help uh to turn off the prefrontal control, which is our personality.
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:39.119
This is proper.
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:41.360
We should, I should be like this, I should be like that.
00:45:41.599 --> 00:45:45.599
If I'm like this, I'm gonna be loved, or if I'm like this, I'm gonna be approved.
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:52.800
Um so that all comes from prefrontal cortex, that it forms our personality.
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:58.480
And by certain movements, a repetition of your head or head shake, you turn it off.
00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:11.039
And then it gives you a little glimpse or a little bit of relief of behaving from a place that it wasn't predict or imitated or has hesitated or edited basically to be accepted.
00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:15.119
We become into a more raw, authentic expression of ourselves.
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:23.840
And that's what we're thirsty for, and that's why we're suffering from different mental problems because the body is like, please give it to me.
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:26.400
I want to feel something.
00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:31.599
Can I express like telling your dog always never bark?
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:33.760
It's like what?
00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:35.199
That's how I talk.
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:39.840
You know, dogs want to express themselves.
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:45.039
And I think that for me as a as an individual, like expression has been a big thing for me.
00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:56.960
Uh, whether it's, you know, voice, sexual expression, uh, embodied expression, there's moments where I really want to express flamboyantly, and I felt very, very restricted in doing that.
00:46:57.119 --> 00:47:00.320
Uh, same thing with my sexuality, wanted to express my fullness.
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:04.480
And so I've gone through my own own journey of discovering what that is.
00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:13.920
And I know that a lot of guys out there also have challenged when it comes to sexual expression, you know, vocal expression, like how do they express their bodies?
00:47:14.079 --> 00:47:17.199
Like, what is your experience when it comes to sexuality in your world?
00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:18.079
Like, what is that?
00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:19.360
How does that look like?
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:25.039
That's a great and very essential question.
00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:30.880
Because that's our major natural way of playing with life force, right?
00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:33.519
They we're all made in sex.
00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:42.480
Uh, the source of every single human being here is sex, is through orgasm frequency.
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:47.199
The beginning of our presence, been orgasm frequency.
00:47:48.559 --> 00:48:04.079
And um, sadly, unfortunately, there is porn out there in media as a form of educator, as a form of education for people who are curious.
00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:09.599
And I do see it that it is designed for a show.
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:15.519
It's not really uh guiding people into understanding sexuality.
00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:35.199
And in my personal experience and some of the clients that I'm working with and friends and people who I'm in touch in their lives, um, we see that this is promoted that your life force is something you get turned on, you play with it, and you have a destination of climax and you release.
00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:41.039
But that's like the first introduction.
00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:41.760
Right.
00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:51.039
That's literally the the introduction of oh, you can actually have these type of other energetic experiences, like a climax.
00:48:51.679 --> 00:49:07.840
Um there is so much in that in there that it's not being explored or experienced or discovered or played with uh because of the lifestyle we have uh created.
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:11.119
And I do see it a little bit of the influence of the porn.
00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:34.000
It's all directly connected to the finish line and having a destination, you have to perform a certain way, you have to sound like a certain way, they won't really bring in the primal, like a fool expresses, is all designed for a movie that's a production, it's not a real interaction.
00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:46.079
And I in personal life, I find people who are just operating from that, a place of performance, and a destination-seeked playfulness.
00:49:47.760 --> 00:49:58.000
So finding um the energy which my L5 and Hernata disc was all giving me the chance to go there and explore more.
00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:24.159
When I realized that I can actually let go of the destination and explore the erotic energy, the life force energy, I discovered so much of my somatic wisdom and how we can extract wisdom from pleasure was another breakthrough that I was like, oh God designed this to for us to learn through pleasure.
00:50:24.880 --> 00:50:28.639
We don't have to suffer, we don't have to go study so hard.
00:50:28.960 --> 00:51:02.159
We can be present with our senses, and I um feel really strongly bad for men because there are many different ways we can have orgasms, there are many different ways we can actually be in that intensity frequency of orgasmic waves going through our system and not pumping your body to ejaculate an actual fluid to make a human being.
00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:22.559
So at the same time where my L5 was um kind of hernia disc and causing problem, I was a studying tantra, a lot of Osho's book and playing, doing all the practices he has to become one with the intelligence flow.
00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:26.559
And the sex is the way, our sexual force is the way.
00:51:26.719 --> 00:51:37.519
And unfortunately, I see with a lot of men, they just as soon as they're activated in their rook chakra, they pump it and they give this fluid that is only designed to make another human being.
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:40.079
So we give a lot of life force out.
00:51:41.920 --> 00:52:24.239
We can have practices that you put that aside, you go into the meditative aspect of the pleasure, you meditate with sensation, bringing the attitude of meditation into the erotic exploration of self and bringing the voice aspect, which this is what I do a lot in my one-on-one sessions, to connecting the voice into the pleasure and not having any process in between what is a pleasure and what does it sound like that opens up the door for a lot of understanding of our frequency body and being turned on basically means having more life force.
00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:27.360
So you stay there, you don't have to finish it.
00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:28.079
Right.
00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:47.280
But finding the full expression through it, so it they're all cultivation practices which we do cultivate and bring into meditation and go into the pleasure, penetrating through our flesh with our own voice is the most potent healing and activation one can do to themselves.
00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:55.280
And the voice is a bridge to the unseen world, to the invisible mechanism.
00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:00.880
And the invisible mechanism can be understood through playing with our voice.
00:53:01.760 --> 00:53:03.679
That's how we can understand the bridge.
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:07.519
And also the voice is directly connected to our nervous system.
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:18.480
That's why when you hurt yourself or you hit something, you'll instantly use your hand and you say, ah, you we make a sound because our nervous system is directly connected to our voice.
00:53:18.639 --> 00:53:22.880
And instantly, because of that shock, you we use the voice to regulate it.
00:53:23.039 --> 00:53:23.360
Yeah.
00:53:23.599 --> 00:53:42.960
And of knowing these techniques and technology, so we can go to the voice and be a little bit of turn on and play with the erotic energy and use the voice meditative for 20 minutes of sounding in pleasure and see what type of frequency activation it does to your body.
00:53:43.360 --> 00:53:44.719
There is no other way.
00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:49.039
Yeah, that's phenomenal.
00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:52.079
I used to I studied Osho as well and tantra as well.
00:53:52.159 --> 00:54:02.960
And so I can attest to having studied it in my, you know, I've been studying it for about 20 years, but in my earlier days, I would be very, very, very efficient in practicing very every day.
00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:09.920
So I can promise you that it is possible if you consistently practice where you have orgasms without ejaculating.
00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:10.400
Exactly.
00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:11.440
So that is possible.
00:54:11.519 --> 00:54:12.960
You can do it, you just have to practice.
00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:16.400
Like any anything you want to cultivate requires practice, right?
00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:21.440
Daily, consistent, if not daily, as often as you can, but it requires practice.
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:23.679
So I love this.
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:29.440
Why don't we dive into what your exercise or your experience is that you're offering?
00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:30.639
Like, what is it?
00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:41.440
Um so especially what I'm offering today, it will be a little mini-sample of what we do.
00:54:41.679 --> 00:54:44.480
Um first we shake a little bit.
00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:46.559
Make sure shake the system.
00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:58.559
So even if you're in a seated position in your work, behind your desk, you feel something, and you have hit the dead end, it can help you to just shake and activate.
00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:01.440
We shake our body sitting down.
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:12.079
Um using different um movement pattern and maintaining them to expand our IQ.
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:38.000
So it makes say you have hand movement and foot pattern and using voice that will help us to maintain multiple things at the same time, multiple pattern, and using the voice will regulate our nervous system, so calm us down with something which is just five to seven minutes every day.
00:55:38.719 --> 00:55:51.599
Well, in uh some of the religious practices like Islam has a movement and sound practiced five times a day.
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:55.840
So and they all point at the same thing.
00:55:56.079 --> 00:56:08.159
All the religions, if they're understood, they're pointing into the self awareness and using the voice, um, bringing expression, playing with energy.
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:11.440
I wanna wanna I wanna do this.
00:56:11.519 --> 00:56:12.000
Let's go.
00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:15.519
Anything else you want to share before you go into the actually guiding it?
00:56:19.519 --> 00:56:29.519
I would just um want to echo for everybody to have a really loving relationship with your body.
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:44.320
These bodies are highly intelligent and they are thirsty for our attention, they are thirsty for our love, our personal love, like touching your body and be like, You're doing great.
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:52.159
Thank you for being my instrument and having the intimacy with self and our senses.
00:56:53.360 --> 00:57:04.239
It's the most potent spiritual practice or self-develop development practice that anybody can have immediately with no cost.
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:09.440
Yeah, no, these bodies are art.
00:57:09.920 --> 00:57:12.800
We are art, we are a miracle.
00:57:13.360 --> 00:57:24.079
So spend time exploring your body, spend time and see what combos you can do and how long you can repeat a chant, and what kind of altered state can you create.
00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:27.039
Just have fun with these instruments.
00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:33.519
That'll be my last echo conversation.
00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:35.440
Thanks.
00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:40.480
Go ahead and lead us into it.
00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:42.480
Okay.
00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:52.079
So where you are sitting, for a moment, close your eyes.
00:57:53.440 --> 00:58:04.800
Bring your attention, your awareness to your body, your feet that's touching the ground, to your roots, that's touching your chair.
00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:08.480
Notice your breath.
00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:10.960
Breathe from your abdomen.
00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:17.519
Inhale, expand your belly.
00:58:19.760 --> 00:58:23.199
Exhale, empty, draw it in and up.
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:33.760
Inhale, expand, exhale, empty.
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:40.639
Sit fully straight with straight spine.
00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:45.039
Hold your weight.
00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:55.920
Notice your bones, your flesh, your muscles that are holding the bones.
00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:24.800
Have your feet on your tippy toes, go on your tippy toes, and just start gently shaking, shaking your knees, shaking your thighs.
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:32.719
Sending the shakes to your roots.
00:59:48.880 --> 00:59:54.400
Holding your hands in the space and shaking your palms.
00:59:55.519 --> 01:00:03.599
As you're shaking from your toes to your roots, so the second layer is shaking your palms.
01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:10.800
Our palms each directly reflects our brain hemisphere, right and left.
01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:19.760
To balance our brain hemispheres, we go through somatic shaking to balance energy, to balance masculine and feminine.
01:00:20.159 --> 01:00:28.880
This is a simple practice to balance your masculinity and femininity and shake off your fascia.
01:00:33.840 --> 01:00:39.920
Literally saying the act of letting go with your hands, letting go with your legs.
01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:52.320
Take your hands up above your head and shake it, and that's shake your head side to side.
01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:55.760
Sound kind of like a yawn.
01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:04.159
Little jumps.
01:01:05.440 --> 01:01:07.039
Standing sitting jump.
01:01:08.719 --> 01:01:09.760
Letting go.
01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:18.480
Okay, give it one good let go.
01:01:25.840 --> 01:01:32.719
And bring your hands into space, kind of like a prayer towards the sky.
01:01:40.639 --> 01:01:52.079
Keeping our toes activated, our heels off the ground, straight spine.
01:01:53.199 --> 01:01:55.440
Our hands are in the space.
01:01:57.119 --> 01:02:04.320
Completely mirroring each other, drawing figure eight, sideway figure eight in the space.
01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:13.119
So there's magic into holding your hands into space for certain.
01:02:21.039 --> 01:02:29.679
So this figure eight-ish, we don't have to think of perfection, just the movement is the essential.
01:02:31.679 --> 01:02:35.679
And holding your toes, your heels off the ground.
01:02:42.880 --> 01:02:56.480
Going to maintain this figure aid with our hands into space and bring in a calling response of a voice activation.
01:02:57.920 --> 01:02:59.920
I say a phrase.
01:03:01.840 --> 01:03:04.719
You guys repeat after me.
01:05:45.280 --> 01:05:53.360
So not only figure eight in your hands, you're rocking your body back and forth.
01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:19.360
Bring your hands into your face, put your palms on your face.
01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:29.199
Sharing your love and gratitude with his body.
01:07:38.239 --> 01:07:40.159
Just simply feeling your face.
01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:10.480
It's beating your heart.
01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:13.599
It's creating with you.
01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:22.399
It's growing your nails, growing your hair, digesting your food.
01:08:22.960 --> 01:08:24.880
So the mystery force is here.
01:09:36.079 --> 01:09:37.199
How does that feel?
01:09:37.439 --> 01:09:40.720
Do you feel changes in your presence?
01:09:42.159 --> 01:09:42.800
Oh yeah.
01:09:42.880 --> 01:09:44.560
I feel attention.
01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:47.359
Definitely a lot more.
01:09:47.520 --> 01:09:50.079
There's some sort of clarity in my vision, actually.
01:09:50.239 --> 01:09:51.600
Like there's depth.
01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:53.119
There's a lot more light.
01:09:53.840 --> 01:09:56.239
I definitely feel a lot in my third eye.
01:09:56.720 --> 01:09:58.159
There's a lot of activation.
01:09:59.359 --> 01:10:03.600
I'd say actually I just feel my whole body a lot more relaxed.
01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:10.159
And there's a sense of alignment in just my whole both left and right hemisphere.
01:10:10.560 --> 01:10:13.359
So I feel really connected to myself right now.
01:10:15.199 --> 01:10:15.520
I love it.
01:10:17.520 --> 01:10:18.239
Short but quick.
01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:19.119
I love it, yeah.
01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:20.640
Enough to feel it.
01:10:20.720 --> 01:10:21.600
I felt it too.
01:10:21.680 --> 01:10:26.319
And I think it's something just like three times a day minimum.
01:10:26.880 --> 01:10:29.279
Morning, afternoon, evening.
01:10:29.680 --> 01:10:30.239
Yeah.
01:10:30.960 --> 01:10:39.359
Can save us a lot from medication and discomfort.
01:10:41.359 --> 01:10:42.960
It can be simple and fun.
01:10:43.279 --> 01:10:43.760
Right.
01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:54.079
What I what I noticed is uh when we got to the sounding, I noticed myself being at first quite in my head about it.
01:10:54.479 --> 01:10:56.079
Like, ooh, what am I sounding like?
01:10:56.159 --> 01:10:57.039
What is it gonna come out?
01:10:57.199 --> 01:11:04.000
And then I don't know where all of a sudden at some point I was just like not even, it was just coming out.
01:11:04.239 --> 01:11:04.960
It was so cool.
01:11:05.039 --> 01:11:05.760
I was like, what?
01:11:06.159 --> 01:11:08.079
It was really neat, actually.
01:11:08.960 --> 01:11:14.399
Exactly to echo on your question that you said, why am I doing what I'm doing?
01:11:14.560 --> 01:11:14.960
Yeah.
01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:26.399
When I found the pleasure and playfulness with my voice and the ranges and layers I could go in and have fun with it, it was so pleasant.
01:11:26.640 --> 01:11:33.760
Because for many years I was into that illusion that I'm not a singer, I wasn't born this way, I wasn't using my voice until I had to.
01:11:34.079 --> 01:11:37.279
And it healed me, then I started using it creatively.
01:11:37.600 --> 01:11:52.079
And when I found out that this instrument is me, and I have not been playing with it at all, just mimicking and imitating a language only.
01:11:53.680 --> 01:11:59.199
It was so pleasant and so liberating, but also a source of information for me.
01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:00.000
My voice.
01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:09.359
The source of information that I was seeking all my existential questions starts being answered when I use my voice 20 minutes continuously.
01:12:09.600 --> 01:12:13.119
I had answers from the unknown source.
01:12:13.439 --> 01:12:30.640
So I just want to help any other human being to find this connection to play with their body, with their senses, also ask a question and access the somatic wisdom and get answers.
01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:34.479
But also really play with our voice.
01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:35.840
This is so fun.
01:12:36.399 --> 01:12:36.960
So fun.
01:12:37.279 --> 01:12:37.600
Yeah.
01:12:37.840 --> 01:12:38.880
So we're not doing it.
01:12:39.039 --> 01:12:43.680
The majority of us, we we're not, and the birds, they never say, Oh, I'm not a singer.
01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:48.880
All the birds they sing daily, multiple times a day.
01:12:49.119 --> 01:12:49.520
Yeah.
01:12:50.000 --> 01:12:53.439
We are in some ways are designed that way.
01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:55.039
So yeah.
01:12:55.279 --> 01:13:04.640
Yeah, and by by singing, I want to interpret that you're saying we all have a voice, we all have sound.
01:13:05.119 --> 01:13:09.199
And it's not about you having a good singing voice.
01:13:09.359 --> 01:13:10.319
That's not what we're talking about.
01:13:10.479 --> 01:13:19.920
We're talking about like you have a voice that can sound, that's a form of expression and not talking sound, but like creative.
01:13:20.239 --> 01:13:20.880
Creative sound.
01:13:21.039 --> 01:13:23.600
Let it express just what like what we did in the exercise.
01:13:23.680 --> 01:13:24.319
So yeah.
01:13:24.720 --> 01:13:27.920
Just being playful and creative, bringing multiple layers.
01:13:28.079 --> 01:13:28.399
Yeah.
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Is also bringing multiple layers into your voice can make you multidimensional.
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Sweet, that was amazing.
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So what are your current offers?
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And I know that you do some you have some workshop that you do every year.
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Why don't you tell us a little bit about that?
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Uh so I have two uh big gatherings in a year on Equinoxes that I bring a big group together, bring drummers and musicians, artists into creating something improvise on the spot with rhythm, movement, sound, creative expression as a meditation, also group dynamic flow of what human synchronization has to offer and experience it in a group setting.
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Um I also offer um monthly uh smaller groups that I design and I host, but I also um get booked for people's private parties, um birthdays or events to bring in somatic um dialogues or somatic forms of communication into the group or three parties syncing the group and getting people into a more liberated state to have more fun in the parties.
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I also work one-on-one with people working with the energetic field, with the meridian points, and kind of combining some modalities of horror massage, Mayan's abdominal massage, and finding energy points and where the blocks are and helping you to connect to your voice to penetrate through your nervous system, through your neuroconnectivity, and open up your channel and go deeper into your full expression, because full expression is the main goal of every single human being on this planet to reach their full expression.
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And that will be in the one-on-one and going deep into how we actually can extract information and wisdom through pleasure, through the pleasure of our own senses, smell, touch, breath, voice, and having a little bit more scientific approach to our senses and meditative approach to find what they actually have for us.
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I'm still exploring.
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Right?
01:16:03.199 --> 01:16:03.920
It's never ending.
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I don't think it ever ends.
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It never ends, absolutely.
01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:08.319
And where can they find you?
01:16:08.399 --> 01:16:10.960
Uh, is this like Instagram socials better?
01:16:11.600 --> 01:16:14.079
Uh yes, Instagram.
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Um, you can also email me.
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Great.
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And we'll drop those links uh on the description so you can find that easily.
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Yes.
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Great.
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So as always, we're gonna see you in the community to offer something a little longer and a QA.
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Potentially you'll have some questions of her of like, yeah, well, how is this?
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How does this work?
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XYZ, whatever you might have, so you can ask her those in the community.
01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:50.479
And finally, what are some let's leave the viewers with some final remarks.
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I would say my final remark would be bringing the attention and the awareness to the bodies as our main instrument to move through this world, move through this planet to develop a deep intimacy, an emotional relationship to this body.
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Spend time, explore what the senses have, be totally present with your senses, and have a scientific approach to your senses, to what you can do, how you can move, and what is the combo you can put it, and what kind of altered state can you create.
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Because this is the instrument to play with.
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Our bodies are so thirsty, waiting for us, waiting for our attention to tune in and actually play, because they have so much to show us.
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And just remember that we are the art, we are the miracle.
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Having these bodies is a temporary gift.
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It's temporarily, it's not forever to explore, experiment, and have deep layers of pleasurable sensory experience while we're alive.
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Because it's not forever.
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We all gonna die.
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We're all gonna die.
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The train's gonna end.
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Well, the body's gonna it has expiration, not our spirit, but this is a temporary gift.
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So just see it as an instrument, see it as a playtime.
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Thank you, thank you for being here.
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Of course, that was a pleasure.
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Thank you for having me.
01:18:34.239 --> 01:18:36.560
And uh it was a pleasure for me.
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I'm excited to create more meet your community and um keep keep learning and raising our awareness and sharing the wisdom we have with each other.
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Perfect.
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Thank you.
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Thank you guys, thank you.
