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49. MICHELLE DALEY - HERE TO INSPIRE YOU LIVE A LIFE YOU LOVE!!
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Hey guys! I'm so happy to have Michelle on the podcast today! I swear I was meant to have her on because she literally boosted my mood and gave me goosebumps multiple times throughout the episode.
For anyone who doesn’t know Michelle, she owns a hot yoga studio here in St. John's, Newfoundland, called Bodhi Hot Yoga! If you haven’t tried it, YOU SHOULD!!
Michelle was in sales and knew she wasn’t meant to do that her whole life, which is why she opened Bodhi. As she continued her journey of teaching yoga, she quickly realized she was meant for more. She knew she was put here on earth to help people step into their higher vibrational selves, and that’s exactly why I had to get her on this podcast!
I hope you all enjoy this episode as much as I did.
If you want to check out Michelle on social media, here are her personal links:
https://www.instagram.com/bodhihotyoga?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==
https://bodhihot.yoga/
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Transcript
Introduction to Michelle Daly and Bodhi Hot Yoga
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I have a special guest on for you this episode and I swear to God, I had goosebumps listening to her talk to me. It was like she was just speaking to me on a whole other level and she was like explaining everything that I've gone through in my life and like explaining how I got to where I am right now and I'm like, I had goosebumps. I was like, holy shit.
00:00:24
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Anyways, we got Michelle Daly on the podcast today. For those of you who don't know her, you might know her yoga studio, Bodhi Hot Yoga. She opened up this yoga studio in 2018, basically with a mission to teach as many people as possible the yoga practice. But like as she kept doing this, she realized that she was doing a lot more than just teaching yoga. She was actually,
00:00:51
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helping people reach their higher vibrational feeling within their mind, body, and soul. So that's exactly what she did to me on this podcast. So anyways.
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I'm not going to say too much more. I hope you guys enjoy this episode. And if you do, like I always say, don't forget to share it with somebody that might need to hear it. if If you know somebody that could relate to this episode, share it to them. Be like, Hey, listen, listen, mom, listen, dad, listen, sister, my friend, whoever it is. I know that you're going through some things right now, but like I listened to this podcast and it's honestly great. And I really feel like you should give it a listen. That's all you got to do.
00:01:33
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And if you like this episode or you like this podcast, don't forget to rate this show, whether that's on Spotify or Apple podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcast to give it a rating. It would mean a lot to me. It would mean a lot for the show and it would kind of help us continue doing what we're doing. And that's just spreading this good message. So you guys enjoy. Let's get to it.
From Sales to Yoga: Michelle's Awakening
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Michelle, what's up? We finally got you here. How are you doing? Hi, Adam. I'm excited to be here. been um It's been a minute. It's been a minute. I was i was going to your your hot yeah ah yoga studio for a while, hoping to get it into one of your classes. And I swear to God, I don't know how many times I tried, but it was like, oh, Michelle's not here tonight. I'm like, oh, I'll get her next time, I guess.
00:02:21
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September is rolling around, so you will be sick of seeing me. I'm going back to two and three classes a day, events all the time, so and it'll be a great place for us to connect again. yeah Yeah, I honestly haven't been to yoga in a while. I was really enjoying it when I first when i started going. I was going like once a week, like nothing crazy, but like i I definitely noticed a difference in my body.
00:02:45
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But we got to get back into it. But the reason why I brought you on here today is because I thought you'd be a great follow up episode for the one I just done. So I was kind of talking about fear from holding you back. And you basically opened up your own business. And I just kind of wanted to pick your brain about like What was going through your head? like I don't really know your backstory. like I don't know what you were doing before you were teaching yoga, before you opened up hot body, but maybe just feel the same. What were you doing before that? Awesome. so I was doing sales. Okay. A big change. Big change, like a total opposite vibration. I was constantly chasing and striving, and then I took more of a backseat of entreating that striving for arriving.
00:03:37
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And i was I had that moment like you were saying in your last episode about how you were like, this can't be it. This can't be all, and there has to be something more. You you felt it, that it's almost like you're inspired to find your calling, like why you came here on earth. and And as you get closer to it, it becomes really exciting. And get closer to what you want to do with your life,
00:04:04
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It's, it's almost like you're pushing against what you're already doing. You become, um, it starts to show itself more of what you don't want because of your finding out more of what you do want. Does that make sense? Yeah. yeah right Step into that light and it becomes very contagious feeling. Um, but I was doing sales and I remember that moment that you had and just being like financially stable, but being like, this is not filling up.
00:04:32
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my soul. This is, this cannot be it. There, there has to be more. And I was on a spiritual journey before I found yoga and and yoga in 2015. My friend was asking me for about, I don't know, three or four months to go and take a class with her. And I said, no, yoga is boring. I did it at the gym. I don't like it. And you know, she said to me one day, she was like, it's only 40 bucks.
00:05:02
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as if to call me cheap. And I was like, well fine, ill I'll go. And I did one class and I remember it was really calm and the music was playing and it was really gentle and tears were just like kind of streaming down my face. And I said, oh, that is the best thing I ever did. And after the second class, I said, I know what I'm going to do with the rest of my life. And I'm going to teach yoga to as many people as I possibly can.
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and I quit my job. That was in December. I quit my job and six months later, I was in Tampa doing a 500 hour Bikram training. and That was it. and i I came back and of course I needed a job to financially take care of myself. yeah so I took my old job back and I wasn't doing it.
00:05:53
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I was in the stores, well supposed to be in the stores, and I'd be sitting in my car and I drew the logo that you see on my sign, now that little yogi, and I drew that myself. It's in my little book and I started to create it and I was i was creating my website on my iPad and creating the act, doing the the and a business plan, everything was just in my car. And I said, I'm going to get fired because I'm not doing my job. And this is, I could feel the energy going towards, let's leave with grace. And I quit and I just jumped full in to teaching yoga.
Fearless Journey and Overcoming Challenges
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And I taught sometimes, I taught at this little hole in the wall that could hold 12 people. And sometimes Nolan would show up.
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Sometimes it would be my mom and my aunt and eventually I just busted out of there. And I got the realtor to look at a place that was bigger that could hold what I had envisioned in my mind. And she found me this place that I'm in now and came out around.
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And while it was crazy. It happened so quick because the building owners are contractors. So I told them what I wanted it to look like. And I kid you not, they took a loose sleeve, a three hole piece of loose sleeve and drew with a pin what I was saying, and then just bust it down the walls and built up Bodhi in the matter of a month, like six weeks, I think it was. And I came in with a hundred people and now I've got, I'd say close to 20,000 people that have walked through the door.
00:07:32
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ah big deals That's wild. That's wild. Yeah. yeah Let's go. but There was no fear. and There was no fear? There was no fear because I knew I had myself. i banked I knew that I had everything I needed in myself. I knew I had the drive. I knew I had the skill. I knew I had the location. I knew I had the price. um I just needed someone to give me the money.
00:08:00
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do it I knew I had it. I knew, I knew that I had to get in while there was only one other hot yoga studio, but there was no fear. And I remember moments of telling my mom, cause my mom would like, Michelle, what if it doesn't work out? What if you lose all your money? What if this, and I'd said to her, I said, mom, I can't manifest what I have to do.
00:08:23
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with your vibration. I would never get anywhere if I thought like you. So you got to stop calling me. And if you do call me, you better come in line. Like, you know, I can't do what I got to do with that kind of mindset. So it, there was no fear in it. Um, fear is just kind of putting resistance in the way of getting to where you need to go. So yeah, I knew
Aligning with Joy and Manifesting Desires
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I had me. I just mean it the chance.
00:08:52
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and yeah not Not everybody got that. normally Normally, like myself, I dealt with that for quite some time, just wanting to do things. I don't know if you listen to the last podcast, but i don't i want to I'd have these big ideas in my head, but like it's like the fear of just, oh, I can't do that, right?
00:09:09
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so like you're you're just proof that like you just go all in and do it and you show up you're gonna fucking make it happen and like what's the worst that could happen right you could you could have quit but you know when you said that your mom would show up and it was just not like nobody there a lot of people would get scared then and be like i don't know man i don't know yeah and you just kept it going and made it happen Well, you said something about, you know, why would anyone want to listen to me? Why is anyone going to follow me and do this on my fitness journey or my spiritual journey or whatever it is? It's almost like the imposter syndrome, right? I never really felt like that. I always felt like whatever you could do, I could do a probably even better. That was my mentality. But like yourself as well, I always felt like I would have all these big, huge ideas.
00:09:58
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And I didn't know how to get there. So I would get overwhelmed. I would have too many big ideas and not know how to execute them. And that's also a point where people have the idea and have the drive and all that, but are scared because they don't know how to execute it. The fear of, of how, and that part is the part I kind of wanted to talk about after listening to your podcast. So it was like that imposter syndrome or that overwhelming feeling of how, how do I get there?
00:10:29
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So when I listened to your last podcast, I thought of what is fear? Like what, what is it? And I picture it as being like you have your hand on the door and on the other side of the door is everything you've ever wanted and everything you could ever dream up, but you don't open the door. Right. And what is it? Fear. So fear is the doubt. Fear is the unknown. Fear is the,
00:10:57
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Unshore or the insecurity. So I said to myself what is that? And I say it a lot in my classes and in the events that I do at the studio I talk about the chakra system and blocked energy in your body So in short like the chakra system is just basically energy wheels around and inside of your body and when they're in line you feel imbalanced spiritually physically and emotionally right you're just in balance and So when it's blocked, like if you were to feel fear, it manifests in your physical body as anxiety, as like stomach issues, as digestive problems. Because what it is is you're in opposition of what it is that you want. you're you're You're in one place, but you want to be somewhere else. So you start to get that built up anxiety in your body. and you want to You just don't know how, right? So that that energy, we need to balance it so we can move forward.
00:11:58
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Right? So then, of course, I thought to myself, if we know it's stuck energy, how do we move from that fearful state to fearlessness? How do we how do we get there? And I just kind of equated it to finding joy. What is it that excites you? What is it that you're passionate about? And do that. And the more that you align yourself with joy, and finding that passion and just doing it in little things, then the universe is saying, okay, now we can start to communicate, right? Now, now that person is getting it, right? So then the universe starts to, you start to feel more of an ease in your life and in a flow in your life. And then the universe starts to line you up.
00:12:50
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with the right people like the Adams, right? And these conversations that we're having. And then the universe lines you up with the right finances and the right opportunities. It all starts to become easy, right?
00:13:04
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I got cold shivers. I got cold shivers over here. yo You're speaking to me at a whole lot of level because like everything you just explained was just my journey of fucking getting there. and it's Mine too. My mind is actually blown right now. My mind is actually blown right now. You're so yeahre so you're so fucking right.
00:13:25
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so fucking because ever since i've you know As much as i felt like I thought I was happy at the time, a few years back, I was not. i was like I felt like I had all this pent-up energy. and like I wasn't in a line. nothing everything Everything was just hard. and Then when I finally just like broke free of like the past version of myself and I started actually just becoming frickin' happy. and like You know, like take a little breather and then I started doing things that I enjoyed. And like, then I just, like you said, I got into flow and, and then everything, the universe was like literally just tossing things at me. And I'm like, Holy shit. Things you're not even thinking of and the universal here, this will help you on the path here. Here's another thing to make you joyful and happy. And then it just all starts to line up.
00:14:16
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And that's when you know you're in pocket. That's when true manifestation starts to happen, been right? But it's ah it's a very beautiful thing and very contagious. Because once you know that you're in control of your destiny and that you your reality is what you believe to be, then it's it's a game changer, right? One of my favorite quotes is from Esther Hicks. And she says, the only reason why you do not have what it is that you currently want is because there's a belief that you can't and it's higher than the belief that you can't. So we got to flip the script. We have to start believing it because you have to let the grid kind of fill in, right? Because once you put into vortex what it is that you want, once the universe hears the calling of your heart and your soul and your desire, what you're inspired to be,
00:15:08
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and become once they hear that then all of a sudden you start to seek out ways to get there so you start to do a little bit of research on what it is that you're most interested in you start to ask people certain questions and then the grid starts to fill in and as you start to get closer to what it is that you want then you start to really feel it and taste it and touch it and love it. and And then it just starts flowing even faster, right? So it's almost like you just need to put it out there, not worry about the when and the how and just allow it to happen. Just keep finding the joy, keep trying to fill in the grid. Esther Hicks gets asked all the time about this grid that I just brought up about like filling in the grid. And she says, how will I know when I'm ready?
00:15:56
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How do I know? How do I know it's the right time for me to just leave my job and go teach yoga? Like people thought I was actually crazy. I'm sure my mom was like, dear God, Jesus, she's got another freaking great idea, right? That I've been having since I'm three. But you know, how, how, how, what happens when we ask for it and how does the grid fill in? And she says, if you're still asking, you know, should I do it now? The grid's not filled in enough. So you need to start,
00:16:25
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doing, asking the questions and doing the research and then it's never like you're fully ready. It's almost like I've got no more questions to ask and my research is done and now it's either now or never. That's the point I was at in my life. It's like, I've done the research. I've trained myself in the yoga. I've put it out there and started to teach. I know I can do it. I just got to jump in.
00:16:48
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And let that fear go and kind of put your trust into the universe that you're now connected and aligned. And plus, Adam, if you're in alignment with who you truly are, everything becomes so easy. And that's how you know that and everything you else you'll touch is gold, right? Because you're in alignment.
00:17:11
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You're gonna start you're gonna start doing some motivational speaking i do yeah yeah so really like i don't even know what to say i'm just so i can't I can't wait to go back and listen to this i know cause i was like i'm just like Holy shit, like so right down to because you've got such a great platform and i want like You know, what's funny I said to my husband Andrew the other day We were sitting in the truck and I was going off talking about this high vibrational thought that I was having in all this beautiful things I was thinking about doing. And I said, you know what, Andrew, I want to talk more. And of course, I just said about a thousand words in a minute. And he's like, oh, Jesus, we want to talk more. And I was like, yes. And then all of a sudden, I just was given this idea. Oh, you should call Adam. You should message Adam. And he's got this podcast right up your alley, spiritual mental health and wellness. And let's just do it. Let's Let's not think of fear and let's just ask them. What's the worst thing? We wouldn't have this conversation today. It's the worst thing, right? good this I would actually like just going on what you just said. My friend was asking me, like, I'm thinking about starting a podcast. And he's like, it's like, I got all these things. Like, how did you start yours? And then I was like, I was like, bro, I was like, I was literally in your shoes. And I was like, well, how do I post it? but Like, what what equipment do I need? Like,
00:18:33
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Well, how am I going to connect it to, you know, what there's all these things in my head, but like when you actually just start, you know, i'll go by the mic, start talking to other podcasters. Okay. Get all the notes. Like you said, get all the information and then you just like keep eliminating some things from your brain that creates more space. And then finally, when you you got all the shit ready, it's just and step and click record and just go. Right. But like, if you got these ideas in your head and you're like,
00:18:58
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It's good to put it down on paper too, right? Like just, just do one thing at a time. That's why a lot of people gets like ah chaos. Cause there's so much going on in the brain and they just can't pick one thing and just do it. So it just, it just seems like such a large thing. But if you just go one by one by one.
00:19:13
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one thing after the other. You know, and you said it yourself in the last podcast. And that's the best thing that you said was people get overwhelmed with this big tall task, but you got to start somewhere. Like you said, you just went out and you bought the mic. So like I was talking about the grid, you just started filling in the grid, right? You started listening to to other podcasts. So you're moving towards what it is that you want.
00:19:36
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and the more that you do that, it's it's supposed to be joyful. The journey from A to B is not supposed to be a struggle. The journey from you wanting to be on a podcast and sharing your knowledge and finding inspirational people to help you know spread light in the world, that's supposed to be fun. this This conversation between us is the end result of all the work, right? But the part that led up to this moment is supposed to be fun. And that's why finding the joy in what you're doing It should be exciting. Like you getting ready to, I got to get this, this and this. And once I got that, then I can press record. So it's supposed to be exciting, right? It's not supposed to be a resistance way. Like it's not supposed to be, you were out of fear when you were doing that. You weren't fearful. You were just didn't know how, but we don't need to know how.
00:20:24
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We just keep doing those little steps because eventually all of a sudden you're sitting down in front of your mic and it was fun as you did it. And it's really fun seeing it manifest, isn't it? It's really fun seeing it coming up. Yeah. Fuck yeah. I'm on episode 49 now. That's crazy. It's nuts. And we're just getting started. Yeah. And then you realize you start to believe in yourself and you start to realize that anything you want to do, you can do because you're, you're, you've lost all limitations in your reality. You're wide open. And now the world is your oyster.
Meditation, Yoga, and Peace
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The belief that you can is now higher than the belief that you can't. Talk your shit, Michelle. Talk your shit.
00:21:07
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I love it. I love it. No, it's so good though. It's just, I'm just, I honestly just reflecting a lot of my life right now as you're talking, like I'm listening, I'm like thinking back. I'm like, I just been to so many.
00:21:18
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so many dark frickin places man and like it just did um I wasn't like truly Adam right and I was always like living for other people and just never really truly happy and Like as you're saying, like everything's just, everything's just happening now, right? Cause I'm actually just like broke out of that bullshit. And like for anyone who's listening, man, like if you're going to some shit and like, yeah, it seems like the hardest thing that you're dealing with right in this moment, you might not see the little light, but like you gotta do things to get you out of that light. Because if you just stay there and you sulk and you know, like not not to use your mom and for example, but like her energy when you were trying to make that business was off. So like if you're in this dark little rut and then you're kinda,
00:21:59
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you know bitch into your friends and they're like oh yeah and then you're just in that fucking energy you're gonna stay there you're never gonna get out of it you know so I feel like that's I was stuck there for a very long time and it wasn't until I started getting on this kind of wellness spiritual journey that that's when I kind of like broke free of all that just bullshit It's like these ahas. And the more that you start to feel good, the more you're protective of your energy and the more that you want to feel good. So you start to eliminate all of the things that don't make you feel good. It could be people, it could be jobs, it could be circumstances. You just let it go because it's not in alignment of your high vibration now. It's not in alignment of who you want to be and what you want to attract. And you know you lose people along the way and you gain more magnificent ah people
00:22:49
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as you move forward. um Yeah. So I feel like I too was in that place of complete darkness. And I think rock bottom is where I, there's nowhere where else to go when you're in rock bottom, right? That's where you start to build up a life that you actually truly want to live.
00:23:11
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But it is scary when you're in those moments of complete darkness and you don't know how and what I would say to someone in those moments where they feel stuck and they're not making means they don't have enough money they don't they're in the job they dislike they're in a relationship they don't like and how do you move forward and the best thing not only go find joy but find a space between the chaos in your brain in a little meditation. It could be one minute. It could be just sitting in your car on the way to work, just shut off the music. Find a space between all the thoughts because it's really hard for some people to go from darkness or grief or hard places in their life to joy. if They're just two different vibrations, right? It's too far apart for you to go from that dark place to joy.
00:24:08
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So what I would suggest is finding a place of meditation for your thoughts to stop because it's in that little gap when the thoughts cease to exist for even a split second that the universe can come in and give you a thought. Doesn't have to be a joyful one, but it could be a thought that brings you more forward in the direction that you want to go rather than staying in or going back into the darkness. It's going to bring you more into light. So the more that you're able to create a gap between the chaos of your mind, the more the universe can come in and plant little seeds that bring you forward into more of a lighting place. And and then you start to move forward and find joy. But you just need a gap in the chaos. You need you need a moment and you need the belief. Because if you can do it, if I can do it, if people who have had it harder than us combined can do it, it's possible. There's people everywhere. If you're looking around the world at people who've been in hard places, who have risen up,
00:25:06
Speaker
and conquered? I mean, it's everywhere. Where are you focusing your energy on? Who are you listening to? What are you listening to? Where intention goes, energy flows. Yeah, absolutely. ah would produce What would you recommend? Because for people that are just starting to to get into meditation, because I know when I like, my brain used to race and I could never sit there, right?
00:25:33
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Some people they try it, they're like, oh, this is not for me. Cause they just can't shut, they can't shut their mind off and maybe they don't want to sit with their own thoughts. Like, is there something that you would maybe recommend? Like would, would yoga be something, you know? Yeah. Yeah. A meditation to people think that you're supposed to sit there and literally have no thoughts that you will never stop your thoughts. Your thoughts are inevitable. Your goal is to slow them down long enough that there's a gap.
00:26:02
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you will never stop them fully. um I remember watching Deepak Chopra, who is an author and spiritual writer. He's amazing. And he's very scientific based and he meditates a lot. So he says, right, which is funny because he was doing um ah an interview online and his son was being interviewed and It was live, it was televised or whatever. and And the son was saying, my dad is in for his 12 o'clock meditation. And he was like going to quotations, right? Meditation. And they he said he meditates every day from 12 to one. And when they open up the door to his meditation, he's just lying there snoring.
00:26:42
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like solid sleep and he was meditating. Like, he was like, I just need to shut the world off for a day, right? For an hour or whatever it is. But you're never going to stop the thoughts. But if you can just make the intention of it to just even drive to work with little to no thought. And every time they arise, come back to breath, even inhale, exhale or yoga. Yoga is how I do it. I don't really sit and meditate a lot.
00:27:10
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I don't know why. I know how many benefits there are, but yoga, to move the energy out, like we were talking that blocked energy in the body, yoga is going to move it through and out. yeah yeah and anyway I want to all want add on this because like you you you own a yoga studio.
Yoga's Transformative Power
00:27:27
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I'm not a yoga person, so like anybody that's listening, I'm telling you guys.
00:27:32
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There was twice I went into your your studio and it's like anyone who don't want to meditate and they don't want to sit there, I think yoga is probably a ah pretty good thing to start with because you paid for it, you're there, you're forced you're forced to just you know listen to the instructor, the music is very calming. but like There was twice, I was literally just bawling, bawling my eyes out, crying, like tears rolling down my, like it's just crazy. like I guess what you were talking about, the like the chakras or the built up energy, whatever happened in that session, something something released and like something hit a nerve and it was just, you leave, you like I remember like every time I would leave, I'd just walk out like, oh man. You go home, like you have like the best freaking sleep ever. yes I gotta get back to that, man.
00:28:19
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yeah It's telling you. Yeah, just I just convinced myself. Yeah. It's true. That feeling is truly why people keep coming back to their med. It's not really the poses themselves. It's the feeling that they have after they do that, the feeling of lying there on your med.
00:28:37
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and you move the energy out of the body and people ask me all the time, they come out and they're like, why am I crying? Why am I crying? I'm like, because you feel freaking good. You actually were for the last hour for the most part in the moment. You were listening to me, like you said, you were listening to the music, you were out of your mind for a minute and you weren't in that outside world and you felt peaceful and you felt calm and you lie you're lying there in your own puddle of sweat and goodness and something,
00:29:07
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It's that feeling that brings you back. That's truly why my studio is full. It's the feeling of of peace in your body, in your mind. And the release of the day and release of the stress and the release of the worry that you had, even for that day or the week or whatever you brought into that room, it tends to subside.
00:29:30
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It doesn't become, it's not so much of a problem anymore. That's stressor. It's not so big anymore because you've aligned yourself with who you truly are. And there's different types of classes too, right? Like anyone who don't know much about yoga, you're thinking about it. Like it's not, you're not going to go in there and it's going to be hard. Like there's more relaxing kind of like hold the stretches. That's what I actually like. Don't those like just chill type of. Yeah. Yeah. There's tons. There's something for everybody. A lot of people, Adam can't do the ends like you like.
00:30:00
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they can't sit there with their own thoughts and oppose for three to five minutes. They can't. It's just when the mind starts to race and they get so uncomfortable just being still in silence that they don't like it. They want to come in and get their ass kicked. But I promise you, as you move through that yoga journey and you might come in for the physical part or for the flexibility part, but a shift begins to occur. A shift will occur eventually. And you don't really care about the poses so much.
00:30:27
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You care more about how you're feeling afterwards and drawing. And like I said earlier, you but you want to protect that energy. You want to protect how you're feeling and you want to keep it almost,
00:30:44
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you want to, how will I explain that? You want to protect how you're feeling. We'll leave it there. You want to protect how you're feeling and you won't let anyone get in your way of feeling good and well. That's the number one goal in your life.
00:30:57
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to feel joy and happy. Boom. Boom. Nail on the coffin there because when you're in the shit and you're dealing with shit and your relationship shit and your job is shit and you're so used to it, you literally just are like, Oh, it is what it is. This is my life. Right. And you just start accepting all this like bad behavior and all this nonsense. And I was me. That was me. I was just stuck in this shit. And there's now it's like,
00:31:21
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Get the fuck out of here. yes you Go away. I'm not dealing with that. Yeah, exactly. You have higher expectations of yourself because you know how it is to feel good now. Yeah, yeah it's a beautiful a beautiful thing. It's exciting. You're also um you're also saying too about, do you believe in God?
00:31:42
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or Do you believe in a higher power? I believe in the higher power absolutely, but I also believe that you are it You're not separate from it. There's not God as we see it ah universe or source of that high vibration We're just manifestations of it So we're just you and I are manifestations in physical form of source energy but We're not separate from it. So people think oh you know, that God is one thing or source is one thing and we're another. We're not separate. We are it. We came here, we signed the contract. I'm speaking to someone um at a sound bath the other day at this retreat that I went to. And these two women, it was a mother and a daughter and they were, I walked in supposed to do a sound bath and they were in the middle of this heavy conversation. I didn't know the first whatever happened.
00:32:34
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All I knew was they were in sorrow and in pain and in grief and they were like, how do I remove myself or get out of this? And I just listened to their story for another five minutes or so. And I said to them, I went over privately and I said, listen,
00:32:52
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you signed a contract when you came here. You said, I'm going to go into physical form and I'm going to feel all this ugliness and all of this pain and all of this shit that we go through in our life, but I'm going to do it anyway because when I get to the light, it's going to be so fucking good and it's going to feel so good to be in human form and be able to do this, that it's going to be worth moving through
Spiritual Growth and Universal Energy
00:33:16
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the shit.
00:33:16
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you you You know before you come here. So I think that's what God is our source is. We're not separate. We are it. And we just want to come down into human form and we want to go through shit and hardship and pain and suffering to move into light. And that's the part that we want to, we we come here to do that. We want to come here to feel what we're feeling now, Adam. That feeling that you feel now is why you came here.
00:33:44
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Fuck yeah. You said, you know what? I'm going to have the bad relationships and I'm going to have the jobs I don't like and I'm going to move through shit that feels hard and uncomfortable and I'm going to be angry and pissed off and I'm going to blame the outside world for why I am the way that I am. It's all you. All that. It's all you. It's all exactly. You are the creator of everything.
00:34:03
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Yes, yeah and I'm going to move into the light. The reason why I asked you that is because you were you were saying something earlier about like asking asking for it or like asking for the things that you want. i um when when When I was to cold plunge, just it's too hot and now to cold plunge. and and Obviously, I'm not buying ice every f freaking day, but during during the wintertime when I was cold plunging a lot, um I'd often find myself like out there at night or something and I'd be like,
00:34:30
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Because you could just sit in there with your thoughts, right? And it's almost like I was like, man, I'm like, life's really good right now. Like, you know, I just want it to stay this way. And like, I'm like talking to somebody. I'm like looking up at the stars and shit. I'm like, I'm just, I'm just constantly asking for, okay, I want my life to get better. Like, I want this and this. I'm always like talking to myself when I was in the cold plunge. So like, I don't know. It's just, I definitely believe in something.
00:34:54
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ah Maybe you're definitely right. Maybe it's I'm just connected to everything, right? But yeah, it's just ah putting it out there and like journaling to I find like journaling what I want in my life and where I want to go and just like just getting it in here and like oh I find really kind of it works if you're placing it into the vortex so then the universe knows what it is that you want and then you just got to let it go and then you have no expectations of timeline or how or when you just let it go and then like I said start finding joy start following your passions and then it'll just all start to become easy and line up yeah yeah yeah and you're talking about uh you're talking about your chakras and stuff before I don't really know much
00:35:35
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I don't really know much about that, but like i when I was like honest, i don't I don't really meditate. I haven't been. Summer's been freaking crazy. and i'm And I'm allowing myself to have fun just summer. But like I've said that you know once once I come back from... I'm actually going to Costa Rica in six days. But once I come back from that, I'm getting locked in and stuff like that.
00:35:57
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I don't know where the hell is going with that. man Oh, yeah, meditation. Yeah, yeah. So they're all I do these like, like hour long meditations. It's honestly crazy. But like, ah they always talked about the chakras and stuff like that. And like, there's like certain spots. And I remember they were talking about like, in the there something above my head. And I was like, meditating in my crown. And then like, my head start freaking tingling and like, god going like, I was like, what the fuck is going on?
00:36:25
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Yes. You guys will imagine in it like, you know how it, you know, an aura, like you' you've heard it talked about before, like the aura, all the colors around your body. I'm going to give you the easiest way to explain what chakras are. Okay. I, on Oprah, I was listening to some men explain his near death experience and he said he was on a, on a plane flying somewhere and he was in the front of the plane and something happened with the engine of the plane.
00:36:54
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And the back of the plane, it literally blew off. So there was a hole in the back of the plane. Yes. And people were being pulled from the plane, seat and seatbelt and all, like just being pulled out of the plane. And he was, as he was watching all this happen, he said to Oprah, he said, I don't know what it was or what it meant.
00:37:19
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But I could see when people were leaving, I could see these colors. And some people's colors were really dim. And some people's colors were really, really bright. He said, all I know is when I leave this earth, I want to have really bright colors.
00:37:40
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The chakras. the energy, because when you're in alignment, your colors, they get very, very bright. Your chakras are energy that vibrate. So there's seven of them. So the the lowest chakras they vibrate really slow. And then as you move up to your crown, as you were stopp talking, that energy is vibrating really fast. So the faster they vibrate, the more balanced you are, the the brighter these energy pockets are. So we want to leave with bright colors.
00:38:10
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Yeah. yeah i want to leave I want to leave this earth with bright colors for sure. Oh, yeah, we do. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Because then you're you're closer to what it is that you said it but it's God or universe or source. You're closer to that higher vibration. And in I really feel that's like why we're here. We're here not to suffer, but we're here to move through things and find joy
Living a Passionate and Fearless Life
00:38:36
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anyway. Move through hard stuff and find joy anyway.
00:38:40
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The Buddha was the very first ever like reported enlightened being we'll say, right? And it's, it's actually funny because I chose the word Bodhi, hot yoga, the word Bodhi because it meant enlightenment, the awakened Buddha or master, right? And about a week before I opened up the studio, I was kind of getting anxious and like excited and My body doesn't know anything different but anxiety. When I feel that, it's like you're a kid at Christmas, but my body still feels anxious. So I was trying to do something to kind of occupy my mind. And I looked up what, like, okay, Bodhi means enlightenment, but why? Like, where did it come from? And of course, Wikipedia, I went on, Google knows everything. And I looked it up and it said that Bodhi was shortened from the word Bodhi tree.
00:39:34
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And it meant um it was where the Buddha had found his enlightenment at this tree, right? um He had left his war-ridden state and came to a different place in India and he found this tree and it had heart-shaped petals, like leaves on the tree. And he was so in awe, he just stood there and stared at this tree in like meditation for days. And people would bring him food and water and he would just stand there. And he stood there so long that his feet left an indent in the ground and they bronzed his feet. He bronzed where it is. And you can go to India even today to the Bodhi tree and it's like a shrine and people go and they meditate and they just want to be where the Buddha stood, right? And I'm like, oh my God, wow, right? This is amazing.
00:40:24
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This story gets better. So about a day or two after that, I get a message from a friend who I hadn't seen in 10 years. And she sent me a picture. She was moving to British Columbia. She sent me a picture of this wood. And it was like a trunk of a tree about two feet um long. And it was carved out in the center. And it had Buddhas carved in it and all these faces of Buddhas. And it had like little bells on it. And she said, I'm selling this. Do you want it? I said, that's great, Danny. But what is it? Right?
00:40:54
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And she said, I bought it on a yoga retreat. It's from a very holy tree. And I said, what? And I said, is it from the Bodhi trees? She said, yes, yes, yes, a very powerful tree. So I was like, didn't have any money because all the money I was having, ah God was trying to get this studio open. And I was like, yes, we're buying it. And I gave her the money and it was wrapped in a silk blanket, a gold silk blanket. and the bells on it rang the whole way home, and I just, tears just streamed out my eyes. And it's hung up in the yoga studio, Adam. The next time I go look at it, I got goosebumps. I will, I will. I will go check that out. That's wild. That just shows you the universe just always providing you with things and these these things that shows you that you're connected to that higher power. They give you these little things that almost become so silly that you just nearly tilt your head up to the sky and laugh because you're like, wow.
00:41:49
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Yeah. Yeah. i mean i but I believe in like the the numbers and stuff like that. Like four, four, four is for me. Like I just, I got a lot of stories and stuff, but, but yeah, I definitely, I definitely take those little signs as like, okay, all right. i'm I'm right where I'm supposed to be. I'm on the right path, you know? Yes. And fear isn't a part of that, is it? No. You don't feel fear in there. No, no.
00:42:13
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There's no fear. you need You need to start a podcast or you need to start doing content or something like that because you got a lot of good things to say. Thank you. You got a lot of good things to say. And I feel like a lot of people would definitely benefit from listening to you talk. Thank you. Yeah. We'll they'll come back and do another one anytime soon about anything you want to talk about. Yeah. Yes. Before we end this off though, um I do this with, with ever I don't know if you listened to the school, the greatness, but the ever have you ever heard of that? No.
00:42:44
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Basically, he just asked his guests, and I like doing it on this because I just like hearing people's answers, but um if you were to like leave this earth tomorrow, right, and everything that you've learned in your life, all the lessons, but you had to leave like one thing for the rest of the world to hold on to, just to remember you by, or maybe you got some sort of quote or lesson you want to tell everybody, what would that one thing be? Your goal in life?
00:43:13
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is to find your passion and then it's your job to give it away. Nice. I like that. I like that. Find your passion and then give it away. Live an inspired life through your passion. I like that. That's a good one. Yeah. Well,
00:43:36
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Thanks for coming on, sharing your sharing your knowledge. it's like I'm excited to... look um Honestly, I can't wait. I'm probably just gonna go... I'm gonna upload this and go for a run and listen to this. I was like, damn. Therefore, oh, wow, man. You were talking for like 20 minutes. I had goosebumps, cold shivers. I was like, Jesus. Just speaking to me.
00:44:01
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because that's what I that's why I said I wanted to talk more. yeah That's what I want to do. I want to bring you closer to that light. I love that. And I feel like you can definitely do that 100%. Just by listen just buy this this little podcast. I know people are going to listen. and um but so But yeah yeah, before we leave, what's next? You do you you you may you you got you got the yoga studio? Is is there any is there any other ah plans? Is there any other big things on the on the list? Of course. I'm excited. I wanted to write a book for so long to write down all this stuff in form. And I sat down a little while ago, it's beginning of the year, and Andrew said, why are you going to write this book and make me rich?
00:44:47
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So I said, now's a good time. But I started to write it and I wrote out a little, I read a little piece in class the other day and everyone was crying. So you already started reading it or writing it. I started to write it and everyone came out and they were crying and they were crying in class and they said, where's the book? And I said, that's all I got. And they were like, what? Where's the rest? So I guess that's my next thing. I love that.
00:45:14
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yeah I'll definitely be picking up a copy. That's for sure. Thank you. I'm excited. Yeah, that's good. like I could see it. I could see the smile on your face. It's good to be excited for life and have things that you're working on. Because if you don't have anything you're working on, then what are you really doing? You're in the same spot. You're doing the mundane. You're doing what people think they're supposed to do. That's not true, right? You're doing you're you're just you're growing up, you're graduating, you're getting a wife or a husband, and you're having the kids, and you're and you're doing the thing.
00:45:43
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yeah but Like you and I, and you know, people are on different spiritual paths, so maybe this lifetime is not when they realize it, but there's a lot more ah to life than the mundane. And get out there and grab it, because it's yours to give. The universe wants you to dream big. Not window down, dream big, because that's what you came here for. And that you want to co-create with the universe to live this beautiful, inspired life of joy and abundance. That's why we're here.
00:46:12
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And with that, I'm going to end this podcast because that was beautiful. See you later, guys. I hope you enjoyed. Bye.