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Living a Life of Alignment & Unleashing Your True Potential - with Ellie Petschek | EP26
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In this episode I'm joined by Healer & Kundalini Activation Facilitator, Ellie Petschek, where we explore the transformative power of living in alignment with our true selves and unlocking our highest potential.
In this conversation we cover:
- How to uncover your identity
- Why now it’s more important than ever to be YOU
- Unpacking your childhood conditioning that’s holding you back
- What it means to live your life in alignment
- Answering the question “who am I?”
- The power of retreat experiences
- Your invitation to ALIGNED Retreat, happening November 2024 in Costa Rica
- What the retreat involves and who ALIGNED is for
- Early bird bonuses for you
What is ALIGNED?
Your retreat experience to discover your true identity and reclaim your power!
✈️ 12th to 17th November 2024 in Costa Rica
🔥 10 spaces open to men + women (you can come solo or with a friend / partner)
✨ Each day is focused on a different theme of self identity, relationships, abundance & manifestation
🎉This is mind, body, soul upgrade - a whole system reset for you
Early bird pricing of $2,995 USD until 15th April (you’re saving $2k by locking in your spot now).
Put in your application & we'll be in touch to share more details with you and see if it's ALIGNED for you to join this retreat.
LINKS:
- Join Becoming Her, my free 5 day challenge for the women ready to embrace her radiant rebirth and step into your bold, empowered self to receive the desires you’ve been dreaming about.
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- Join the Wild & Free Retreat Waitlist to get the details about my next retreat in Costa Rica.
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Transcript
Living Authentically
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If your life feels really fucking hard, it's because you're making it hard. You're not really living for you. You're not living in a line. Bring the retreat. One of the breath work sessions, it just came to me. This is my jam. This is a soul calling. Everything from that started popping up. The opportunities were being drawn to me.
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rather than me chasing them. That was the big shift. I asked her something, it would arrive. I want to be able to ask the fashion, who am I? And I don't know where I begin, I don't know what that means. Are you choosing that to numb your problems? Or are you making the choice to solve those problems? I was truly mind blown because I thought, wow, this just is more proof of how
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delusional some people are living. Welcome to the
Podcast Introduction
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Unfiltered Femme podcast. Your new world to get the lowdown on all things pleasure, sexuality, the mysterious female body, dating, relationships and everything you need to know to step into your most unfiltered, unapologetic, empowered and turned on self.
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I'm Steph Morris, a love, sex and intimacy coach and along with some incredibly fabulous guests, I'm here to spill the tea on those topics that are typically hush hush. The juicy things that you want to know all
Guest Introduction: Ellie
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about that have maybe been a little bit too shy to talk about.
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Think of me as your fearless guide and partner in crime, creating a space for the unfiltered, the raw, the authentic chats where nothing is off limits and there's no such thing as too much. The Unfiltered Femme podcast is all about breaking down those walls and celebrating what it means to be an unfiltered feminine being. I hope you're ready for a wild ride. Let's dive right in.
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Welcome back to the Unfiltered Firm. Let's dive into this conversation with my amazing guest friend, retreat co-host, client, all of the things wrapped in one. Welcome, Ellie, how are you doing? I am doing amazing, resurfacing from these last crazy couple of weeks with the eclipse and everything going on, but I'm generally just feeling really good and obviously so happy to be here with you. Yeah, feeling good.
Raising Planet's Vibration
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love to hear it. I'm also feeling really clear and revitalized after I feel like really intense energy the last few weeks so I'm excited to share more about this and to talk about alignment because that is something that I'm definitely feeling a lot more of recently. So to kick us off I would love to ask you to share with the people what is the mission that you are on in this life?
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Wow. Okay. Great question. For me, the mission that I'm on is to raise the frequency, raise the vibration of this planet. I really believe that all of the work that we do internally has this huge ripple effect on the planet. So even though people think I'm just one person, like
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what's my transformation, what's my healing got to do with it. But it's such a ripple effect when we heal the others around us who heal the others around them. And just generally like raising the vibration of the planet making everyone a more enlightened being but also happier beings spreading joy and to get everyone to heal together. So yeah, that's my mission is helping people even just like one fraction at a time. I love that.
Challenges Women Face in Self-Celebration
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That's super powerful.
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Thank you for the work that you do and that you share with people. And before we go more into that, I want you to answer the question. The big question, this is going to lay the foundation for the conversation we're having. Who are you?
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such a good question such a good question i love this question who am i because it changes doesn't it changes so much over your life if i ask myself this question two years ago or five years ago or ten years ago get such a different answer and something that i really love about doing this kind of work and like doing being on the healing journey is every time i ask myself that question
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I love the answer even more and that's when I know that I'm evolving, that's when I know that I'm changing, I'm shifting,
Steph's Personal Journey
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I'm raising my own vibration because I start to get really aligned in who I am and I'm really confident and happy with who I am. So right now, who am I? I can confidently say and this feels good to say confidently, I'm a healer,
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I'm a guide, I'm a channel for energetic work, for energetic frequencies, and I'm a massive support to my clients, to my friends, my family, to those around me. Generally, I'm a light. I'm a light to people around me and in people's lives. I used to be self-conscious about saying, oh, I can light up a room.
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I was like, oh, that sounds really arrogant to say, but I know that I do and I have that ability. I'm so proud of that. I'm so proud of being that person. That's who I am today.
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I love it. And I'm celebrating you with the confidence that you shared that and really embodying your power. That's really amazing to witness and to see. And actually on this note, women especially have a hard time celebrating themselves and really standing in the truth of who they are. I was just chatting with a friend last night and she was sending me a voice note. I was like finding it really hard to vocalize a celebration of
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something that she was recognized for at work. And she was like, this is so hard for me to say this without feeling like I shouldn't be boasting or bragging. And I was like, no, Queen, you toot your own horn. That is what we need to be doing. And I love the mission that you're on. I love the discovery for you of knowing who you are. And I totally agree that it does change and evolve. And
Alignment and Rapid Personal Growth
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I think that's the beauty of being a human is that we're supposed to grow and evolve. And I think especially with the nature of
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the society that we live in now, we are really rapidly growing and evolving and changing more than we ever have before. Previous generations were not really growing in this way. They weren't doing healing work. The healers were the indigenous people, the witches, like they were not part of everyday society. And now we have many of us who are going on this path of trying to evolve and grow and heal.
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our own traumas and experiences, but also the lineage that we've come from past generations, a trauma that's passed within families and passed on to future generations. We're all saying no more. And that's really powerful, but I do think it's worth recognizing that we live in very different times. And that means that we all have to adapt to those times that we are living in.
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And I think this is why alignment, which is the theme that we're going to be talking about today. And obviously there's a reason, there's a reason for that. But one thing that I want to touch on around the who are you question, because I'd love to answer this for me and the question, who am I? Stemmed everything that I do in my life currently. I had never asked myself that question until the beginning of 2020.
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At the beginning of 2020, I went on my first retreat in Costa Rica, which was a retreat that I won through my local yoga studio, and the time out, the break, the pause, getting uncomfortable, being outside of my usual bubble that I live in and going to a different country by myself with people that I didn't know.
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was such a gift and it really showed me who I was showing up as which I believed was who I was. Shy, reserved, very quiet, not really like bubbly, felt very misunderstood and the reflection from the people who were attending that retreat saw me as a certain way and were like oh you are this way and inside
The Power of Personal Truth
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I felt such an internal conflict because I was like that's not who I am, this isn't me. But that was the way I'd been showing up there and was showing up my entire life.
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And so after I came home from that retreat, I started questioning, who am I? Why did I feel so misunderstood at that retreat? Why was I showing up in a way that didn't feel good to me? And how do I actually show up in a way where I can feel fully self-expressed and I'm not having to be a certain way, hide parts of myself and feel really closed off and uncomfortable?
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And as I went on this mission, it was like, I want to be able to answer the question, who am I? And I don't know where I begin. I don't know what that means. But I want to ask myself that question and be able to feel in my body. I know who I am. And I love who I am. And I am the most authentic self-expressed version of myself. And I'll know when I have reached that point, which does change and evolve.
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But there is this knowing point that I think you get to where you've done enough work that you're like, okay, I know who I am in this moment. And I also know that's going to change and evolve and grow. And so that was my journey. And that was started everything for me was let me set the mission for 2020.
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to be able to answer the question, who am I? And I'm so open to the path that this takes me down. And I was like, I don't know why I don't know, but let's go on this journey. And that started my spiritual awakening journey, my sexual awakening journey. And within 12 months post that retreat, my whole life changed, even though it didn't look like it changed on paper, but I was a different person. Everyone was saying, wow, you are so much more confident, so much more sure of yourself. You're putting yourself out there.
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did training to become a coach. I started my business. I transformed the relationship that I was in. I was having more sex than ever. I felt it was self-pleasuring and having amazing orgasms and didn't no longer feel shame around that. I no longer felt shame around my body. It was such a wild journey. And that led me to going on this journey that I'm on as having this amazing business and living this incredible life.
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But it started with the question, who am I? And once I was able to go on that journey to answer that question, I was able to really
Life Flow and Authenticity
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discover what I wanted, what I desired for my life, own the big dreams that I had, because I started to feel worthiness and find that worthiness within. I can dream big and I deserve these things and I can actually create them for myself.
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now I can create a life that's in alignment with me and that to me means a life that's fulfilling, a life that I go to bed satisfied every night, a life where I have relationships that really energise me and fill me up that I'm just so grateful for and removing anything that drains me that is an energy vampire whether that's people, behaviours,
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habits, work that doesn't really turn me on, eliminating those things and truly finding pleasure from the simplicity of life and knowing that I'm living out my mission and my soul's purpose and I'm in alignment, mind, body, soul, spirit, relationships, work, everything is truth. That is what alignment means to me. I would love to know what alignment means to you.
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yes oh my gosh i love that i love everything you said so many juicy bits there that i want to dive into but and really elaborate on as well alignment and like what you said about knowing who you are it actually doesn't matter what your answer is right anyone who's listening to this maybe ask themselves the question who am i what does that mean is it my preferences is my likes is it
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My personality, is it who I consider myself to be? I'm a banker, I'm a marketing person, I'm a crier, I'm a lover, whatever it is that you think you are. It actually doesn't matter what those words are, but what's important is how you feel when you say those words, right? How you feel when you say, who am I? And knowing that changes, but in every moment,
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of asking yourself feeling so good like this fuck yes that's who I am and feeling so alive in knowing
Chaos as a Catalyst for Growth
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who you are and that to me is in alignment when like you feel it in the cells of your body when you walk around every day feeling like this is who I am and like letting that feeling make you radiant make you walk around with this magnetism because you're so
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happy and aligned with who you are because it's not about what the answer is those questions, we're all such unique humans, it doesn't really matter but what matters is that you're happy with that and that feels good in your body. For me alignment really is a connection of the mind, body and soul. It is feeling in your mind every day the decisions that you make, the thoughts that you have, being in alignment with what your passions are, what you're excited about,
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and making those decisions based on you. So instead of questioning yourself and saying no when you really mean yes, which we so often do, and then resent ourselves for it and then feel guilty for it and just then feel completely out of alignment because we've done something we don't want to do. And so alignment really looks like having that mind connection that's connected to the body. You don't even need to ask your mind when you're so connected. Your body will tell you. And being so connected to your body that your body will tell you whether it's a yes or a no.
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your body will tell you whether it's time to go out for a run and you have the energy or whether you need to stay at home in a warm bath or whether that person is for you or not for you in business, in relationships, in anything and then also connecting that with your soul and with your soul like that's
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wherever you feel your soul is in your body, wherever you feel that your soul exists, but it's like that knowing that that's where the true answer lies. And when everything's connected, it's just, it's so easy. And I think that's another facet of alignment. And that's when you know, you'll be in alignment in alignment. So people are like, okay, I think I know how to listen to my body. And I think I'm making the right decisions. And I think I'm living on my soul's purpose. But how do I know? How do I know this?
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And really the way to know this is because your life will just be easy. And obviously not everything's going to be easy because we live in this world. Everything is easy all the time. But generally you'll be in ease. Things will flow. When your alignment things flow. The right people are attracted to you.
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because you're giving off the energy of alignment and people who are also aligned in their soul's purpose and aligned with what you're aligned to will naturally be drawn to you. Business opportunities, relationships, everything will just flow. And that's what alignment feels like. Yeah. And that's the way life gets to be. And that unfortunately is how a very small percentage of humanity are living.
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Unfortunately, most people are living through struggle and living through pain and living in a way where it feels like they're trudging through mud because they're out of alignment. So the way most people are living is a symptom of a lack of alignment, a lack of alignment because they're not connected to who they truly are.
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to the work that they wanna be doing that's gonna light them up. They feel like, oh, I have to just be doing this to make a living. Or I chose this partner and this is the person that I have to now be for
Choosing Growth Over Comfort
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the rest of my life, even though their body could be screaming out to them through anxiety or depression or other health challenges that are simply symptoms and information from the body, trying to communicate with them that something's off. And it really makes me sad that people live in that way. And I think,
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When people see, and obviously social media is a highlight reel from somebody's life, but when people see the way that others are living with this ease and talking about this magic and magnetism and ease and flow, it can seem like, oh, that's nice for them.
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or that's not realistic. And it is, it's actually possible for everybody. And it's inevitable when you choose a path of alignment. But the reason why people don't do that is because it's fucking challenging. And to go on that journey of discovering who you are is the most courageous journey that someone can go on, because that means you've got to go into the depth of darkness within, into the shadows to find
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What parts of myself have I disconnected from? What parts of myself have I been rejecting? What parts of myself have been lost within because they were not accepted when I was younger, therefore I reject them because I had to end up for survival and to belong and to be loved. And it is a really scary and challenging journey and I think
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most people are not willing to go there because they don't have the tools or the support system or the awareness to go down on that path but
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the ease and the flow is really possible for everyone. And then just to touch on the ease that comes up, and I see this a lot when it comes to relationships as well, that when you know who you are, when you're living in alignment, it does mean that sometimes relationships are going to need to evolve in some way. And that doesn't mean you have to
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break up with people, whether that's in a romantic partnership, that can also be friend friendships. But sometimes, in fact, most of the time, a relationship needs to evolve. And sometimes that includes having a death of that version of a relationship, because there's a version of you that has also died and been reborn. And I also think that's to be celebrated in part of life. And when we have conscious communication and relationship, we can
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choose to enroll other people in that new evolution and either they're like yeah let's do it or they don't and they fall away but that's the path of alignment that's the path of you choosing you over everything and when I see people go on this journey and they have the awareness of who they are it does make it easier in relationships
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or in dating or in work because it's not this, should I, shouldn't I, do I do this, do I not do that? It's, ooh, this seems to be the right thing. Let me choose to make this decision. And very quickly your body is gonna tell you through feelings and sensations and emotions in the body whether that is the right move to take. So I'll just share an example that
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I'll share about a client actually who was at the January retreat who is dating and she was disconnected from her body before, running around like a headless chicken, very busy woman, always on the go, running a business, like fast paced life, socializing, very rarely having slow down time.
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seeking an incredible relationship. She's seeking a partner to start a family with, to get married with and she had always dated for drink dating. So like
Attracting Opportunities Through Alignment
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in the UK, very boozy culture. And after the retreat, she went on a date and she said, as soon as she saw him, she felt an immediate fuck no. It was like,
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No, this isn't it. She had the date, it was fine. She was still open, but she was like, wow, that was actually so much easier because I wasn't in my head trying to decide whether I should see him again or whether I should be leading the conversation or saying this because she knew and she also was sober dating, which was a massive shift as well. Post-retreat, not...
00:19:03
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Drinking anymore on dates because that is just numbing you and that's not helping you get into alignment But that's just one powerful example of when you all have that connection to yourself where you're living from your body It's not this umming and aring trying to analyze and make decisions only from your head you can go and be open and then your body's yeah, or your body's no and then You can't deviate from that because it's like your entire being is screaming at you as to which direction to go
00:19:33
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I love that. And even from my own personal experience, I will say every time I've done a shift, a transformation, usually when I've gone on a retreat or done one of your programs, any relationship that I was in at the time just became so much better. And either that person was for me and then they accepted my
00:19:54
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shifts my changes my upgrades and grew with me and if anything fell more in love with me because and that's a romantic relationship my friendships also got better my family relationships got better because they became more in love or loved those parts of me more because they became more of me
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I became more happy in who I was and more of in alignment with who I am and so therefore it made every relationship better and those relationships I might have been in maybe when I went on a retreat and came back, the ones that weren't right for me then fell apart and actually they fell apart so much quicker than they would have done in the long term. I saved myself so much time so that's really the other benefit of
00:20:31
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getting in alignment because I know and I hear this a lot I hear this a lot with my clients and people who want to go on this path that there's a fear there's a fear sometimes in wanting to transform because you're scared that your partner or your friends won't be in alignment with you anymore like you like the way you are because you want to be on the same level as your friends the same level as your partner as your kids or whatever
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your family, but really all you're doing is damaging yourself. You're keeping yourself at this lower frequency in the anxiety, in maybe a bit of depression or even just in that stuck position because it's easy and it's comfortable, but really it's not a good position to be in. It's not really that comfortable because you're living out of alignment, so you're in this struggle every single day. Whereas when you do the work, when you go on the retreat, when you do the course, make the transformation, do the healing,
00:21:23
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Yes, sometimes it happens that some people start falling away, but really those people were not meant to be in your life anyway. And you notice, and I know this happened for you, it's happened for me, and everyone I know who's been on this journey, you find yourself opening up to all these amazing new friendships, amazing new relationships, amazing community of people who are so aligned with you.
00:21:44
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And then it's every interaction, every coffee day, every holiday you go on, even every day in your daily life just feels so good, feels so yummy. You get to just hang out with people who get you and understand you at your core. Totally. That's what people fear the most, isn't it? It's the relationships evolving and changing. And there's this societal conditioning that makes us believe that if we don't have
00:22:11
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The relationship or the friendships by the time we're in our 30s and it's too late. Like, how am I going to meet people at this age? And the thing is you do. Like you said, when you know who you are and you're really solid in that and confident and you have worked on your self-esteem and your worthiness and you are in your authentic self-expression, that's so attractive to people. Like that's when you meet people and you're like, I don't know what it is about them, but I want to be around them.
00:22:37
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And that's what happened. That's a really beautiful byproduct of doing that kind of work of discovering who you are and creating this path of alignment and with relationships. It's so scary when you have this desire inside of you and you want to grow and you're like, I don't think that my partner is going to be on board with this or you subconsciously know like deep down, okay, I know that this friend is going to be judgy or jealous, which
00:23:04
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Sometimes I think we can make assumptions about that. Sometimes you do just know, like, this person's never going to grow. But if you have a desire to change and evolve and grow, you have a desire for something, that means it's meant for you. And you can't ignore that or bypass that. And
00:23:19
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something that I think is really powerful was a conversation I had on a podcast last week, which was with a relationship coach. And she was saying, the thing that you think you have by staying in a relationship, when you actually dig deeper than that, you don't actually have it. So let's take it with this partner because I love the security and the safety and the companionship and the love
00:23:48
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But if you're questioning and you're ignoring a desire that you have to go in a certain direction, then when you go deeper and deeper, do you really have that long-term security? Do you really have the safety of that relationship? Do you have the love? Sure. I'm sure in some cases, but love and companionship are like easier to come by, but you can't ignore
00:24:12
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the deeper down like what's actually going on and I see that all the time of people in relationships are like it's too late now if I left this person I'd be my own and speaking from somebody who had everything that came crumbling and crashing down and I know the fear of
00:24:30
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losing everything and i have been on that journey of losing everything and now i'm on the other side still rebuilding because it does take time but it's a lot less scary now because it's happened and i'm fine i've survived and i knew i would survive and i'm on the path to truly thriving and what i'm seeing already is when your life crumbles and you're in the chaos that is the restructuring process
00:24:59
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So the more of the shit that you feel like you're in, the more amazing your life is going to be on the other side. That's just the way things work. Like laws of the universe, when something's coming crumbling down, when there is this immense shattering, there's a reason for that. And it's not instant. And
00:25:17
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something that I've really struggled with is the patience of I want things to move quickly, I want to be in the amazing phase of life again, I want to be like feeling obsessed with my life and so look out every single day and I have to keep telling myself it's not been that long, I'm still like in this first year of all of this unfolding and it takes time to rebuild but the opportunities that are arising for me
00:25:40
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are beyond what I would have ever imagined for myself even a year ago. And I know that the next relationship that I'm in is going to be beyond what I can even conceive in my mind. I know how I want to feel, I know what I desire, I know what I deserve, but actually experiencing that is different. And so
00:25:56
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Chaos does restructure reality and the more that we can embrace that and be that little butterfly emerging from the cocoon, the more we get to experience the pleasure and the bliss and the joy. And I think that's what people are missing in this lifetime. Too many people are going through the motions, going from A to B, getting up, being a robot through their day and not really living. And that's such a shame. Really such a shame.
00:26:22
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Yeah and this couldn't be a more perfect time to to talk about this just astrologically speaking which just pointing out I am not an astrologer but I just love this stuff and if you haven't been aware of what's going on in the last couple of days what we've had this big solar eclipse going on at New Moon and Aries and what I've been reading and knowing from my very well qualified astrologer friends is that this is a huge time for rebirth. The whole earth is
00:26:50
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having this death and rebirth cycle. Solar eclipses happen very rarely, very few times in our lifetime, and so we can harness that energy. If you haven't already been feeling it or feeling it around the eclipse time, you're listening to this podcast. But if you look back, you'll notice
00:27:07
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that there's big shifts are happening and a lot of questioning, a lot of questioning yourself, who am I without maybe actively questioning it. But you're noticing that parts of you that have been wanting to die for some time are dying and part of you wants to rebirth. And this rebirth is coming out of the chaos. And I think it would be rare that you'd find a person on earth that hasn't been going through some sort of chaos in the last couple of weeks with all of this stuff going on. Things have been very chaotic.
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And
The Role of Retreats in Personal Growth
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so it's an opportunity to come out that chaos and rebirth into that person who lives from your desires and lives in that alignment. Yeah, it is all about finding that purpose. And like you said, people who, you can choose one of two paths here. You can go feel the chaos, see the eclipse or, and even take this metaphorically speaking, anytime in your life, when there's chaos and there's an eclipse happening, this opportunity for rebirth, you can either sit back
00:28:03
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let the chaos pass and just go back to your normal life your day-to-day your robot living and be in that place that's comfortable and just continue that and continue on this life going day to day and say maybe by the end of life you've lived a happy somewhat life right or you can choose the other option which is to harness that energy see the rebirth
00:28:25
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do the work understand what your actual passions are what your actual desires your dreams envision that dream life that you had when you were a little kid or that you have now and see how that's evolved until now and just fucking go for it because there are these people who are living their their dream lives god i know i look at myself five years ago
00:28:47
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And I was just like, working in my nine to five job, going into the office every day in a big city, making it just about till Thursday, couldn't wait to go out for drinks, drink my way through the weekend, have my regrets on Sunday, wake up, do it all again on Monday, cyclical, just like waiting for something to change and shift that would never change because
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If I don't change, then nothing changes. And then I had to completely get out of my comfort zone in order to change that. And that is, that's what makes it, the big changes make the big changes. Yes, it's good to start with the habit and start making these little things, but unless you push yourself out of your comfort zone,
00:29:23
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nothing big is going to change. And I had to fly across the world, go spend time living in Barbados and in Costa Rica and Mexico and meeting a whole bunch of new people, quitting my corporate job, starting coaching, starting getting into Kundalini activation in this world, doing the work myself as well.
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but really putting myself out there and shifting everything in order to realize that there's so much more out there. And every time I made the shift, it was like, oh wow, this incredible life does exist. I always thought these people who traveled the world and works remotely from a beach and had these incredible groups of friends and went to
00:30:01
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these amazing ecstatic dance or like women's circles and frolics on the beach every day. I was like oh that's not real life but I'm very happy to say that is my real life and I love it and it's incredible to live in that alignment and live that dream life and yes there's many more dreams that I have going forward but I know I'm on the right path and I know I'm on
00:30:21
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in the alignment so I know those dreams can come true because the last ones did and so like why the fuck not why not reach for that dream life because we can all get it if that's what we put our mind to. I love that it's so perfect and I think
00:30:36
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for people to really consider and realize that if your life feels really fucking hard, it's because you're making it hard. You're not really living for you. You're not living in alignment. Life is not supposed to be that challenging unless you're in the crumbling. And if you don't choose to make the changes,
00:30:54
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then sometimes the universe is really kind to you and it will fuck you up for you to force you to make moves. So if you don't choose it, then it might be forced upon you and you're gonna have to deal with it anyway. But you get to make the choice of what path you're gonna go down, either selling yourself out, choosing to follow society's standards, living for other people, living for your family, living for the opinions of
00:31:22
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your friends or your local community or whoever it is. Or you can say, fuck that, I am going to deviate from that path and I'm going to figure out who I am because I want to be on my deathbed celebrating myself for how much courage I had to go against the grain and to choose me and maybe piss some people off, but to live for you. And I think that's the biggest gift that everybody can give themselves.
00:31:47
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and it's not selfish. That's what we have been ingrained to think is that when we choose ourselves we'll say
00:31:54
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Fuck it, I'm gonna go away for a week, be by myself with a bunch of people and put all this money into an experience, whatever it is. But that is absolutely what I encourage everyone to do. Last thing I'm gonna say on this and then let's go into our retreat because this is obviously along the theme of alignment. I was chatting with a friend yesterday and she was telling me about hen parties, bachelor weekends that she has coming up. And she was saying, yeah, she's in England. She was like, I've got this hen party which is
00:32:23
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600 pounds each for the weekend and I was like sorry what a hen party is 600 pounds each per person and she was like yeah and then I just went on another one it was about the same price a bit more and I just was like which is like a thousand dollars probably us if we're converting it yeah yeah so I haven't lived in England for 10 years so I don't haven't been doing like hen parties or anything like that the friends I have are in different phases of life I don't think I've ever even been to a hen or a bachelorette party to be honest
00:32:52
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I never made it because I'll always be living in a different country, so I'll get back for weddings, can't make it to those things. Anyway, I was mind blown, like truly mind blown because I thought, wow, this is just more proof of how
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Okay, this is gonna sound mean, but delusional some people are living. People will happily invest that money or spend money on something like that. But when you say, do you want to put that into a course to improve yourself? Do you want to learn some new skills and spend this on a coach? People are like, I can't afford it. And it honestly really frustrates me because
00:33:25
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Speaking from my own personal perspective, I've invested so much money into my own growth, into retreats, courses, mentors, coaching programs, different things. I love growing, I love learning, I love evolving. I want to expand my skill set, my awareness, my capacity as a human. And I have prioritised out of everything. So it actually annoys me a little bit when I hear people say, oh, I don't have the money. I'm like,
00:33:52
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I have sacrificed like many times over the years like going shopping or going on girls boozy trips or getting laser hair removal like everybody I know seems to get and I'm like it's just an example of those things. I'm not shaming anyone for choosing those things but you do have to make a choice. Are you going to have your monthly shop, your weekly shop or are you going to choose
00:34:12
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a path of alignment and growth and I would rather choose that because sometimes life you do have to make like minor sacrifices to get ahead in where you want but I just started share that to help people like evaluate where are you putting your money because when people say like I can't afford I just think
00:34:28
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That's not true. It just you're prioritizing other things, which is okay if that's a conscious choice. If you want to go on holiday, a boozy trip, like all inclusive place, that's great. Like you deserve that. You can do that. I, you know, love one of those trips as well. But be really aware of where you're putting your resources and if it is really getting you ahead in life.
00:34:50
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Or if it's just going to be like a checkbox, I'm going to have a great time, but I'm actually not progressing towards my goals and really where I want to get to in life. And one more thing to add to that is like, the question is, are you choosing that to numb your problems? Or are you making the choice to solve those problems? Because often like that I'm going to buy a new handbag or do some shopping, get some new shoes or
00:35:13
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go on a boozy holiday like those things are all like numbing the problems numbing the pain feels good for an instant feels good while you're on the boozy holiday but then you come back and you feel worse how many people gone on that boozy holiday and come back I need a holiday for my holiday yeah spending that money on going on a meditation retreat going to I don't know just like a beautiful place in the countryside with your friends instead and like doing some like
00:35:37
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deep talks and going on some nice walks or hikes or that sort of thing, you come back revitalized and like you've had some deep conversations, you've come up with some new creative things you want to do in your life or go on a retreat, go deep, learn about yourself and have fun while you do it. This kind of guides nicely into us talking about our retreat because
00:35:56
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I think, firstly, one of the reasons we're even working together and co-hosting this retreat is because I asked you, you said yes, but this happened while I was on your retreat, having the best time ever, because it was such a perfect mix of, yes, going deep, yes, uncovering some shit that was in there that needed to get out, but also having so much fun. That was the most fun week ever, and it gets to be both a holiday, where I feel good and
00:36:25
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and go to waterfalls and lay by the pool and make amazing friends and eat great food and have so many giggles in the pool at nighttime and all of this. But at the same time, hold each other, support each other, go deep and shift and change my life. So many amazing things have changed for me since the retreat I did with you. And that's our goal. That's why we're doing this because we want the same for our retreat participants to have fun. Yes, feel like they've had an amazing break in the sun and the beaches of Costa Rica.
00:36:55
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also to make that investment in yourself, that's going to give back to you. It's money spend that's going to come back to you because if you feel better about yourself, if you feel more aligned with who you are, with what you want to do, you'll even from a monetary perspective, like you'll feel more aligned in your business, whatever that is. And you'll naturally then get more business, do better in your job, maybe switch jobs to something you're passionate about. You'll want to work harder and you will therefore
00:37:24
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have more coming back in. So there's always gonna be benefits to being more aligned. 100%. I would love for you to share, what do you feel like are some of those big shifts that you've experienced in the last, just under three months? Has it been since the retreat? Oh, it's only been three months. It feels both like it was two weeks ago and also feels like it was two years ago. No, literally. I think for me that the biggest shift has been in my confidence and just like,
00:37:52
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being so unapologetically me I think before the retreat I definitely have been like the last few months like culminating a lot of ideas in my mind about where I want to go with my business and I knew that there was like something that needed shifting like something else I wanted to do and I don't know doing some Google research what
Retreats as Catalysts for Transformation
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goes well with
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this thing that I do and what I don't know, what might interest me going on Instagram, looking at random courses, like trying to just wait for one of the courses on Google to show up and be like, this is the one for me. I'm just like reading loads of things and it just felt so hard. And then bring the retreat, actually, one of the breathwork sessions, it just came to me like
00:38:30
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I need to be going into Tantra. Like Tantra is, this is my jam. This is what feels, and it was a soul calling. I felt it in my soul. I was like, this wasn't something that I just like Googled and oh, that looks pretty and it looks nice. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe I'll give it a try. I was like, this is my soul's purpose. This is my calling. And talking about things that just fall into place, I put that out there in the universe afterwards. Okay. I want to start getting into Tantra. Two weeks later, I met a woman who came to one of
00:38:57
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my workshops, who was then running a Tantra retreat and needed an assistant and had one space left for an assistant and asked me and it was like, yep, perfect. And not only did I get to learn about Tantra beyond her course, but also learn to assist Tantra retreats, which is what I want to be doing. And it was just like everything just started falling into place. I also went to that retreat, like feeling so aligned in myself, so confident about who I was,
00:39:25
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And just like everything from there started popping up that the men who were showing up in my life, the friends that were showing up in my life, the business opportunities like were being drawn to me rather than me chasing them. That was the big shift. It was just like things were just like coming to me. I asked her something, it would arrive. And then yeah, it just felt so good to be unapologetically me.
00:39:46
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Oh, I love that. That's really what I wish for everyone. And I think it's just so cool to hear these examples of how things shifted. And when you shared about the Tantra retreat that you went on, it was just so cool to hear. That's what it gets to be like. And I, just as you were sharing that, I was like, okay, I want to share one more.
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example that happened for me this weekend which is really about alignment and then let's get into the nuts and bolts. So I went to a concert the other night, Benson Boone, don't know if anyone knows who Benson Boone, oh my god, go listen to his music, he is
00:40:20
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So incredible. He has some great songs. His most popular one is Beautiful Things. You'll have heard it all over TikTok. Anyway. Is this going to be on our playlist for our retreat? In fact, you do know it because I was playing it in Costa Rica. I definitely was playing it. You would have heard it. The love affair really with Benson Boone was kicking off between, so Rachel, my good friend who was at the retreat, I introduced her to Benson Boone in January. We were playing his songs in the car on repeat.
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and it was like our anthem from the retreat and his album just came out on Friday and he's all over TikTok, me and Rachel will like send each other his videos. Anyway on Friday she sent me his album and was like you gotta listen to his new album that's just dropped so I was like oh my god so good and then that night I was like oh my god I just saw that he's playing in Toronto on Sunday, this is Friday.
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I was like just saw you playing Toronto on Sunday like crying face so I was like I'm not gonna go like it just doesn't make sense for me right now like I hadn't planned to buy ticket or anything like $200. Anyway the next day I saw a friend so right now I'm training to be a reformer pilates teacher which is super exciting this is something that I never would have thought that I would do and it just made sense for me to get into this
00:41:33
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And the course, there's 15 people. I basically made friends with one person on this course. And we've just gotten really well, so many synchronicities between us. It's wild how like we just happen to be working at the same studio and then connected anyway.
00:41:48
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There is a point this story I go into the studio she's talking to the receptionist I hear her say Benson Boone and I'm like what are you saying about Benson Boone are you going to his concert she was like oh actually I work for she like works in music she was like yeah if I can probably get another ticket do you want to come I was like
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Excuse me, do I want to come to see Benson Boon? Fuck yes. Anyway, she texted me later that night, got you a ticket, what's your email sending it to you? And I was like, I didn't even know what you did. I did not know that you worked with Benson Boon.
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and basically 24 hours before I'd text my friend saying I wanted to go to Benson Boone and then 24 hours later I got a ticket and then 24 hours later I was there and that was a very long-winded explanation for me but again it just my friend was literally like how the fuck did you create that? I was like this is just how things get to be and again even this friend like coming into my life like people you just start to meet people and they're like really freaking cool people that you would never have come into contact with before
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This is what's possible and this is what happens when you really, I truly believe go on retreats and the reason why I'm passionate about retreats and let's talk about aligned is that you get to fast track your growth because you're getting out of your daily routine.
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disconnecting from your phone, your reality, the people in your life, your work, and you are going to this new space where you're outside of your bubble, you get to really see who are you showing up as in that environment? Who do you want to be? And the experience is so
00:43:21
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intense because we are together for 24 hours a day you get to sleep obviously but we are going deep. The days are full out retreats and your experience it's not just like one breathbook session or one Kundalini session it's you're getting fucking all of that and more in a day you go and grow really quickly and so
00:43:40
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retreat, let's get into it. Let's do it. It is all about, like you said, like the fast track for your life. It's like doing like a year of therapy in six days. And that's what makes it so amazing. And yeah, it sounds easy when it's just, Oh yeah, six days and just like fast track into all of this. Like you said, yes, we're going to go deep, but we make it in a way so that yes, it's fun. And it feels like a vacation at times, but also that you're really held in a space to be able to go deep.
00:44:08
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and that's how you have the transformation because of the way that the retreat is set up and the way that we've designed it and curated it in this very specific way to take you on that transformation because it's not just about spending six days at a beautiful villa in Costa Rica with sea views in the jungle with the local sloth that lives on the tree down the hill. All those things are great but
00:44:32
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The purpose of the retreat is to take you on this journey. And so we'll talk a little bit about that journey, but it is firstly about self-realization, like coming to yourself.
00:44:41
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figuring out who you are, what is your self-identity, who are you, what drives you, what your passions are, what your desires are, and what parts of that are just childhood trauma, childhood behavior and patterns that you're holding on to. So we'll work through those, we'll do inner child work, letting those things go. And once we've discovered who we are, we then expand on that and shift into, okay, how do I be me in relationship with others? So that's why we do this work in a group as well because
00:45:10
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Every person we work with is a mirror for us. And so it's easy to say, I know who I am. It's like easy to do the work. You can sit and meditate and be like, I know who I am. I feel good. But then go out in the world and see what your reactions are with other people, what your triggers are. It's like that famous phrase is, oh, you think you're enlightened? Go spend a week with your family. If anyone's going to trigger you, it'll be your family. So we then will work in partners, work in relationships to help you get to know yourself and your triggers more, but also learn how to
00:45:39
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to bring that into relationships. So whether you come with a partner or you come by yourself, which we recommend both, but definitely going on a retreat by yourself is wonderful. Make so many new friends, but then you can replicate that, what you're learning there back home in your life as well. So we'll work on relationships and then we start moving into what I would think, what I think is the fun stuff, which is all about calling in abundance and manifesting those desires. So once you know who you are,
00:46:07
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Once you know how you want to show up in your relationships, then manifesting those desires. And how do you do that? How do you call in abundance so that these things can happen? You can get your Benson Boone tickets. And that also happened to me like a month after the retreat. I said, I want to go to Envision Festival. That's living in Costa Rica. I want to go, but like the tickets are so expensive that like $800. And it was literally like three days before Envision started. And I just said to my friends, like, I want to go to Envision.
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And she's, hey, I'll only go if I get a free ticket. And we ended up with two free tickets. We ended up finding this amazing combination, needed a car, got a car the next day, drove down there, had the best time ever, and it was just so aligned. Because once you know how to manifest and call in abundance, which is what we will be teaching you at the retreat, which you can also do at home,
00:46:57
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Once you're in that energy, you really do call these things in. Your free tickets to concerts and festivals and your dream jobs and working with the people you want to work in, the relationships you want to be in, or transforming the relationship that you are in. You get to do all those things. And that's what this retreat is really about.
00:47:15
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Yes, it is. So if you want to join us in November 12th to the 17th of November in Costa Rica, which is in Uvita Costa Rica, you're flying to San Jose. If you are somebody who aligns with this conversation, if you have something that's been sparked within you, if you know that you're meant for more, perhaps you have this feeling inside that there's something missing, but you're not really sure what that is.
00:47:39
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You don't really know where to go from here. You don't really know what your next moves are. You want to create massive change in your life in some form, then this is going to be the experience for you. And really, this is going to help you.
00:47:54
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discover and really uncover your true identity, so who you truly are, your most authentic self, and what your potential is. So you're going to reclaim your power, you're going to feel so connected with who you truly are, and feel ready to go home with the clarity and the
00:48:14
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action steps to go after what you want so that the 12 months post retreat are the most incredible and mind blowing 12 months that you've ever experienced where yes, there may be some like breakdowns
Long-term Impact of Retreats
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and some crumblings of structures that need to come down so that you can rebuild.
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But we can guarantee that the 12 months following a retreat will be you following that path of alignment and you will create a life that is more fulfilling and happy and feels really impactful and meaningful to you, which is ultimately what aligned is about and what creating an aligned life is about, where your relationships, your work,
00:48:58
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your relationship to money and to yourself and to everything in this life is true to who you are. Yes, yes. Absolutely can't wait. And I just love to mention as well that the last day is my birthday. I think I should keep saying that. We're going to end with a big party to celebrate the big transformation that everyone has made, which is going to be so fun. And that's what it's all about. It's
00:49:22
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yes it's about having fun and doing the sessions and going deep and making these amazing friends and there's not a single retreat that I've been on where I haven't made at least one like and for life and usually multiple and even from the retreat in January Rachel and I seeing each other next week we're going dancing together. I'm so jealous!
00:49:43
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Because that's what retreats are also about. A little side benefit is making amazing friends for life. But yeah, on top of that, it's about what happens afterwards, about the big shifts in your life and what your life gets to become. And yeah, if you want to, if you're feeling called to dive into the life that you're meant to have, that you feel you're meant to have, then try it.
00:50:06
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Come join us. So this is for men and women. It's a co-ed retreat. You can either, like I said, you can come alone, which I highly recommend. If you want to come with a friend, you can. If you want to come with a partner, amazing. Once you land in Costa Rica, everything is taken care of for you. So you have to get your own flights, but once you land at San Jose airport, you're going to be met with a transfer. You're going to meet up with the group. You'll already have connected with the group before you have left to reduce as much
00:50:33
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Anxiety as possible because that is inevitable to be like, what the fuck am I doing? Where am I going? And am I sure about this journey because I'm diving into the unknown. So you'll be picked up, you're taken care of all your accommodation. We have a private chef catering three meals a day. All of the workshops are retreat space is completely private. So it's just as the group who are on site.
00:50:55
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and we're all staying there and it's a fucking stunning place. It's so calm and beautiful and you feel so nourished in that space. You're in the middle of the jungle, there's a sloth local by, there's so much nature and wildlife. This space alone is so regulating and calming to the nervous system that it really creates the safe space for you to de-stress and relax.
00:51:20
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And that's really the foundation of everything to be able to go deep is to release the stress of your everyday life. So everything is included.
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aside from your flights and travel insurance, which we highly recommend that you make sure you have before embarking on the journey. And let's just talk about what a day might look like, because we know people are going to want to know. So every day is going to be different, but we do start early at retreats. In Costa Rica, the sun rises at 5.30 AM and sets around 5.30 PM every single day throughout the whole year.
00:51:53
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So your circadian rhythm is going to snap into place, which is really nice to help regulate you as well and make sure that you're well rested. We gap early. We start around 7, 7.30. So we're going to start with some form of movement, perhaps yoga, definitely yoga, maybe other forms of movement in there. But we're going to start with that. After yoga and morning practice, we will have our breakfast.
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Sometimes we do a silent breakfast or on day one, we may or may not, which we did at the Wild and Free Retreat, which was really awesome to help you just connect inward.
00:52:24
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have breakfast. So then we might have something like a beach trip or a morning workshop or some free time. And then a little bit of workshop and then lunch, then in the afternoon is going to be going into workshop of some kind. So that could be breath work, Kundalini activation, inner child healing or something that's really going to
00:52:48
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support you in going deep and creating this safe space for you to go explore into yourself. And then a little bit of time to watch the sunset or chill or have another workshop. And then we have dinner. Typically we finish with dinner around seven ish, 7 30. And then after that is bedtime. So really, it's like free to go to bed around eight, which people are pretty exhausted by
00:53:14
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7.38 so we like to get people to go to bed early and then we're getting up early. That doesn't really give you that much of an indication of what we're doing but at least there's like some structure that you can understand but every day is different and we do have a couple of trips that we do off-site so you get to get out and about and to explore and there is some chill time in there as well but ultimately people are coming for the experience and
00:53:38
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We find the perfect balance between where you need more rest, you're going to get that rest and we're going to flow this with the schedule based on your needs because really a retreat for you and for the group that are that is going to be 10 people.
00:53:50
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were on this experience together and it's going to be amazing. I know the concept of retreat and when you hear what your days are going to look like and we're going to be diving into these practices and it can be scary. It can be scary and I know that many of you may be feeling like oh that feels like a lot. What if I don't want to do the practice? What if I don't feel comfortable? What if I don't like the people in the group? What if I don't vibe with them and
00:54:13
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I don't vibe with this workshop or that workshop. And I want to address that because I've been on retreats and I know I felt that way before as well. And something that I really love about you, Stefan, I'm working with you is that everything feels so my choice and so optional. Like every practice that we're going to do is going to be with your consent. If you want to chill for a morning, you don't want to do a practice, don't do it.
00:54:40
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There's breathwork and you're feeling like it's too much for you and you just want to sit in the corner and look out at the ocean and just breathe with yourself like that's okay. Know that this is your journey and we will take you deep if you want to go deep and we are there to hold you, support you. We are trained in guiding breathwork and guiding Kundalini activation.
00:55:00
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somatic movement supporting people with going through their processes and we're absolutely here to support and we'll take you deep if you want to go deep but at the same time we're also fully here to support you in whatever feels like a yes and whatever feels like a no but know that everything feels scary but once you're there you can like
00:55:22
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ready to go deep into it and when you come with an open heart and an open mind and really just like ready to like jump into whatever's there you'll find little treasures in every single practice you'll learn something about yourself about what you love what you don't love in every single practice so even though the invitation is there to do whatever you want know that
00:55:45
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If you do involve yourself with everything that you'll really see the big transformation in the end. I love that you shared that because it's such an important point that everything that we share is an invitation and you are the expert of your own body and your own journey. And I never want anybody to bypass their own bodies. No.
00:56:04
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because I'm saying, do this or I'm going to invite you into this. You get to decide how far you go. And I feel like I'm pretty good at finding that balance for people of where they need to be pushed a little bit more, where I can see, I can really tell when somebody's in their resistance and in their story versus when somebody has gone outside of their window of tolerance or outside their level of comfort.
00:56:29
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and it's going to be too much for them because my work is trauma informed and I'm not a trauma expert but I understand trauma and I never want to ever to re-traumatise somebody that is very important not to do that and we have to make sure you're expanding your nervous system's capacity but that has to be done incrementally so if you
00:56:50
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put yourself too far too much too hard too fast that's going to blow you wide open in a bad way and that's not what we want so everything is very much invitational and while we recommend that you do every practice there are times like sometimes there's been somebody that has a headache or they have a migraine or they just need some time or whatever it is
00:57:13
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You get to do that. You get to be the captain of your own ship, your own journey. And you'll get out what you need. Because it's your life at the end of the day. And we're creating the container, we're creating the space, we're facilitating you. But it's your life. And you get to decide how far you want to go. But we are good at pushing you as well. In a safe way. Yes, exactly.
00:57:33
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And it is as well, last thing I'll say, this is someone I was chatting yesterday with an awesome guy, he was wanting information about the retreat, he's probably gonna come, so that's super exciting. And I was saying to him, you're gonna have freakouts, like, who the fuck are these people? Do I wanna go? Am I gonna make friends? Do I really need this? All of those thoughts are gonna come up, and they still come up for me every time I attend a retreat. I have attended six retreats in the last four years,
00:57:56
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and I've hosted four retreats in the last 12 months and I myself experience freakouts every time and I have supported clients through their own freakouts in that lead up to the retreat and it's normal. Nothing phases me because I've experienced it and I know what's going to arise and if you feel that then well done you're human and that's normal
00:58:19
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And that means that there's something really fucking big coming on the other side. The bigger the freak out and the fair in the lead up, the bigger the transformation on the other side. And we got you. We're here to support you. Last thing, post retreat integration is super important to us. So we're not going to leave you high and dry. We're going to support you as you go back home.
00:58:37
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to have the tools to take back into your daily life, to have the accountability and the support so that when those post-retreat two to three weeks arise and you start falling into old habits and those people start trying to push your boundaries and work is piling up, we're gonna be there to support you to navigate that so that you can really have this long-lasting, life-changing transformation that is gonna impact you for the rest of your life.
00:59:03
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Yes, and also I'm just like so excited about the group that we're gonna have I have such a good feeling the people who already joining are amazing The people who were speaking to so far are just epic I love meeting people at retreats like that Everyone just becomes your best friend and you get to know these like brothers sisters and I'm just really excited about this group I feel like I am too
00:59:25
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It feels super powerful. Like when you do retreats as the host, you can feel the energy and like tap into the energy. And yeah, we can definitely feel that this is going to be a powerful group. And last thing I want to say is that there are no prerequisites to joining this. So you don't have to have any experience. You don't have to be like super spiritual. You might be completely new into this. All you need is to have an open mind and be willing to get uncomfortable to wherever your comfort level is.
00:59:54
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But coming in without expectations without judgment and just being open to knowing that you don't know what you don't know and you have no idea what you're getting yourself into. But if it feels like a yes in your body, trust yourself enough.
01:00:08
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that you've made the right decision for you and be open to the experience, to meeting yourself in the discomfort and the fear and the unknown and all of that. And we'll take care of the rest. We've got you. Yes. Oh my God. So excited. Okay. Next steps. Yes. You can find both of us on Instagram and you can find me at evolve.with.elly. So evolve with Ellie and Steph, you're going to, you're going to post these links with the podcast, right?
01:00:35
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Yeah. So you can find me on Instagram. The link is on my Instagram page and also we'll post the link for the more information about the retreat and also how to apply. And so once you read through it, you're getting a fuck yes, this is for me, I'm fucking in. You can submit your application and then we'll have a call with you. So we'll talk through any questions you might have and just like anything else you want to know and make sure that it's a fit.
01:01:02
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It's a fit for you. It's a fit for us. We want to make sure that this group really meshes well, works together. We're all on the same page here. And if it's, if that's in alignment, then you'll be joining aligned with us. So if you are ready, get that link, put the application in. There's not a fee to put your application in. That's just expressing your interest. And then we'll chat with you from there.
01:01:26
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to make sure that it feels good for everybody, but you can find on the application page, you'll see all of the information of everything we've shared about you. So you can really feel into this retreat experience and then reach out to us with questions. And we're super excited to welcome you into this space. If you've never been in a retreat before.
01:01:45
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You're going to have a blast. If you've been in retreats before, don't come in with expectations. And yeah, you can't wait. Like I said, the application form is free, so you've got nothing to lose by lying and having a conversation with us and just seeing the records. Let us know what you've left from this conversation. We can't wait to welcome this group for Aligned November 2024 Costa Rica. Let's go. Let's do it.