Speaker 1: Welcome to today's Breakthrough Lab. Your next breakthrough starts here. Today.
Speaker 1: I have a special guest which I met at a
Speaker 1: very impactful and I would say just Breakthrough weekend where
Speaker 1: we both joined a program called the Bridge Method, and
Speaker 1: we just dropped some major energy there. I saw this
Speaker 1: beautiful soul dancing and showing up as this wonderful source
Speaker 1: of energy in the world, and I said, I need
Speaker 1: to get her on the Breakthrough Lab. So let me
Speaker 1: present to you her because this this spio here is
Speaker 1: so beautiful and special. Today I'm joined by Samantha, founder
Speaker 1: of Soma House, a sanctuary inspired by aer venic wisdoms
Speaker 1: and mindful living. Her work reminds us that true healing
Speaker 1: begins when we slow down and listen to the intelligence
Speaker 1: of our own bodies. In this episode, we explore how
Speaker 1: much intentional movement and inner alignment can help us restore
Speaker 1: peace and clarity in a world that never stops moving.
Speaker 1: If you've been craving for a grounded path to renew,
Speaker 1: this conversation is for you. Welcome everyone to the Breakthrough Lab.
Speaker 1: Samantha Woo, let's go, Let's go. Samantha, Welcome, Welcome, nice
Speaker 1: to be here. Thanks for having Yeah, so, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I am ecstatic to have you here. It's been it's
Speaker 1: I feel like I haven't seen you in a long time,
Speaker 1: but it's only been like two weeks. And boy, how
Speaker 1: was the Bridge method for you?
Speaker 2: Incredible?
Speaker 3: Still unclear on how everything is different, but everything does
Speaker 3: feel different.
Speaker 2: So and then that followed by Extreme.
Speaker 3: It's just been kind of there's a lot to kind
Speaker 3: of integrate and process. But I love to show up
Speaker 3: differently in life, in just kind of daily tasks and
Speaker 3: in the subtlety of it all.
Speaker 2: So I'm very.
Speaker 3: Inspired and curious to see how it continues to unfold.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's been a it's been a remarkable two
Speaker 1: weeks for me. You stayed for Extreme, I hear, and
Speaker 1: so like, yeah, I'm kind of like even jealous here
Speaker 1: because like, man, I would have loved to have stayed
Speaker 1: as well. You'll be so very cool, right, Yes, I
Speaker 1: will definitely be back in February. I can't wait. I
Speaker 1: cannot wait. So yeah, So, Samantha, you had a journey
Speaker 1: where at one point you were listening to a new book, right,
Speaker 1: and you felt so moved. I think correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Tears started flowing and you were living with
Speaker 1: your boyfriend. Yeah, yeah, living with your boyfriend, and you're
Speaker 1: so moved by I think the idea of conception through
Speaker 1: what you were hearing, and you said, I got to
Speaker 1: move to New Mexico, And so I think this person
Speaker 1: became your your teacher, your guide, person of a source
Speaker 1: of knowledge, a source of wisdom for you. And so like,
Speaker 1: tell me what did what is it mean to have
Speaker 1: a calling like that and to have something that just
Speaker 1: moves you so deeply?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So, well, his name is doctor Laud.
Speaker 3: He he became my teacher, and I moved to New
Speaker 3: Mexico to study with him the calling. So that moment,
Speaker 3: that kind of pivotal moment of just listening to his voice,
Speaker 3: he was, like you said, he was describing conception through
Speaker 3: the aerveda lens and it just brought me to tears.
Speaker 3: And I knew in that moment that I needed to
Speaker 3: go deeper in this realm of Araveda. But the journey
Speaker 3: started long before that, I would say, with Chinese medicine,
Speaker 3: having some really great breakthroughs basically in my own health
Speaker 3: with a Chinese medicine doctor, maybe fifteen years ago, when
Speaker 3: I lived in New York City and then fast forward
Speaker 3: back up kind of always wanting to be involved in
Speaker 3: the healing arts, but basically doing every other thing instead.
Speaker 2: Like when I look back on the journey, it's.
Speaker 3: Like I was getting tons of hits and tons of
Speaker 3: calls in that direction, but I was like, Oh, let
Speaker 3: me become a jeweler.
Speaker 2: Oh let me do this, Oh let me do that,
Speaker 2: like just other things.
Speaker 3: Which are all important things to do, but like really
Speaker 3: avoiding that path and on that moment when the tears came.
Speaker 2: But there's another piece to it. You mentioned.
Speaker 3: I was living with my boyfriend at the time, who
Speaker 3: was and is a doctor who also has an interest
Speaker 3: in Ariveda and some other you know, kind of Eastern philosophy.
Speaker 3: And I remember that in the beginning of our relationship,
Speaker 3: it was I was jealous of him, like I felt
Speaker 3: the jealousy of like I want to be devoting my
Speaker 3: time to Ariveda and to delving deeper and to be
Speaker 3: working with clients and all these things that I saw
Speaker 3: him doing. Granted, his at the time was more from
Speaker 3: my perspective through the allipathic lens as far as his
Speaker 3: actual practice goes, although his you know, knowledge and kind
Speaker 3: of passion was much broader than all apathy. But anyway,
Speaker 3: it was that piece of like I want that that
Speaker 3: finally triggered me to realize, yes, you've been avoiding this
Speaker 3: for twelve years.
Speaker 2: Like now it's it's time.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: A little bit of jealousy, a little bit of tears
Speaker 3: on a walk hearing doctor Lott talks about and I
Speaker 3: decided to move to New Mexico.
Speaker 2: A couple of months later.
Speaker 3: I just called the mission staff and said I need
Speaker 3: to apply and and made the move.
Speaker 1: What a beautiful journey so far. And so you're sitting
Speaker 1: there in the room, uh, filled with jealousy and emotion, right,
Speaker 1: and it's very hard to like get well maybe not
Speaker 1: for you, but let's figure this out. Uh, it's hard
Speaker 1: to like just leave a city, right, like especially like
Speaker 1: you were in New York City at the time, you said,
Speaker 1: and to make a big move. To me, you're in La, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're in La at the time where this moved
Speaker 1: to equally two of the biggest cities in America, right,
Speaker 1: very social places where people lots of movement. And to
Speaker 1: just pick up two months later and move it's a
Speaker 1: big deal. You know, what do you think inside of
Speaker 1: you shifted, you know at that moment, right, what was
Speaker 1: what was the thing that just said snapped into place
Speaker 1: for you and said this has got to be it.
Speaker 3: I think it was almost just kind of observing my
Speaker 3: own emotional reaction to that, you know, seeing the tears,
Speaker 3: like being unable to deny how deeply I felt this
Speaker 3: to be my calling and something that I was just
Speaker 3: interested in exploring for myself and ultimately to share with others.
Speaker 3: There was just kind of no denying it at that point.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and then also to feel the connection. I
Speaker 3: didn't actually know who doctor Laude was at the time.
Speaker 3: This was my first time, you know, I'd found his
Speaker 3: book somehow, I don't remember exactly how, but I was
Speaker 3: new to him. And so I think that something else
Speaker 3: clicked in that moment of like, oh, like you know,
Speaker 3: he can be my guide, like I will, I will,
Speaker 3: Like I found someone who can be my guide. It's
Speaker 3: kind of like when the student is ready, the teacher
Speaker 3: appears like he appeared to me in that So true,
Speaker 3: and so I felt safe to be like, all right,
Speaker 3: we're going got it?
Speaker 1: Got it? Yeah? And it requires a sense of like
Speaker 1: relinquishment of control to be led and to be guided
Speaker 1: by somebody. Right, so beautiful. I love it, Like I
Speaker 1: almost like I'm just envisioning you in that in that
Speaker 1: in that space, on that day and having those those
Speaker 1: energetic shifts and the call really stand forward. Yeah, now
Speaker 1: some of us have a call for the healing arts.
Speaker 1: It's something that I'm also embodying recently as well. And
Speaker 1: just like you, there's a sense of avoidance, you know,
Speaker 1: where like you know, situations, things you know, like maybe
Speaker 1: I've been a career coach for twelve years, but I
Speaker 1: realized that I was healing people. I was giving them optimism,
Speaker 1: joy and a sense of confidence. Right. What do you
Speaker 1: think was your avoidance during that period where like things
Speaker 1: keep coming up like like hey, Samantha, this is kind
Speaker 1: of for you. What do you think was your hesitance
Speaker 1: to to move forward in that direction?
Speaker 3: Well maybe kind of just sometimes it's hard to be
Speaker 3: asked to step up and really make changes in your
Speaker 3: own life.
Speaker 2: And that's what this journey has been for me.
Speaker 3: Like first and foremost, it was utilizing these principles of
Speaker 3: vir Veta to heal myself and to work on myself
Speaker 3: and to learn about myself and to meet myself you know,
Speaker 3: it was all this journey to the self, and that
Speaker 3: can be an intimidating journey because that's kind of like
Speaker 3: the real shit.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 3: It's it's and to do it and to step into it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's obstant choice to keep stepping toward that. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I also think that I think just kind of my
Speaker 3: own and I still see this in myself today, but
Speaker 3: issues around making commitments and like wanting to go experience
Speaker 3: all the flavors of life and go here and go there,
Speaker 3: and do this and do that, and build a lot
Speaker 3: of one story buildings. Finally it became clear to me, like, well,
Speaker 3: I'm ready to start building a two story, a three story,
Speaker 3: a four story building. Like I oh me, that's that
Speaker 3: was difficult because I'm just kind of like grabbing, grabbing,
Speaker 3: And I'm still like that.
Speaker 2: I still notice that tendency.
Speaker 1: Yeah mm hmmmm, I get it. I get It's like,
Speaker 1: do you want the chocolate bar or the bag of skittles.
Speaker 1: The bag of scales gives you all the colors and flavors. Well,
Speaker 1: the chocolate bar, well it it tastes yummy, but there's
Speaker 1: so much other cool things in the world, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what would you recommend. Yeah, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people struggle with that too, particularly people that are very spiritual.
Speaker 1: What would you recommend for someone who you know does
Speaker 1: want to like experience as much of the world, but
Speaker 1: you know, life sort of like demands that you that
Speaker 1: you create something, something you know that like for legacy
Speaker 1: or something that just has a great found that you
Speaker 1: could build on. What do you think is a good
Speaker 1: like piece of advice for someone that kind of has
Speaker 1: that personality, but it's having a calling to build something.
Speaker 3: I would say that this is something that has been
Speaker 3: said to me over the years and it really helped me.
Speaker 2: It's like, whatever we do, we're going in the same direction.
Speaker 3: Like the surfer finds God out on a wave, you know,
Speaker 3: the architect finds God when they deepen and deepen into
Speaker 3: their practice as an architect. And it's like it's it's
Speaker 3: all one thing, Like we don't have the time this
Speaker 3: lifetime to become a masterful surfer, a masterful architect, a
Speaker 3: masterful engineer, a masterful body worker, a master like it's
Speaker 3: not actually possible this lifetime, so.
Speaker 2: You know, just choose one.
Speaker 3: And it's hilarious to hear me even say that because,
Speaker 3: like I'm saying, I've chosen so many different things, but
Speaker 3: as I kind of like anchor into one, like I
Speaker 3: see what that does, like moving toward and by no
Speaker 3: means a mass about moving toward that, you know, committing
Speaker 3: committing one step after the next in one direction. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean that's been kind of like the deepest growth
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 1: So I have to say that's probably one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things I've ever heard while doing this podcast. I
Speaker 1: love that the surfer finds God in the wave, the
Speaker 1: reiki master finds you know, God in transferring energy and
Speaker 1: unblock and energy. I love that. Yeah, it's so deep
Speaker 1: that actually like gave me the goosebumps here. So you're
Speaker 1: so obviously you've been through a journey, right and you
Speaker 1: said before your veda there was you know, going through
Speaker 1: like Chinese practices or Chinese methodologies. Tell me about like
Speaker 1: what that meant for you, because obviously you were out
Speaker 1: there searching for something. Did you have things happen in
Speaker 1: your life that sort of you know, brought you to
Speaker 1: a healing journey And now obviously you're on the other
Speaker 1: side of the coin where you're healing, helping others heal,
Speaker 1: but Yeah, was there a journey there that occurred that
Speaker 1: you sought out something else, you know, to help you
Speaker 1: to get more whole or remember yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the way you're wording it really resonates with me
Speaker 3: because that's what I was doing, like searching, searching, seeking, seeking.
Speaker 3: I had basically I had chronic back pain, and I
Speaker 3: dealt with that for probably over fifteen years. It's kind
Speaker 3: of since childhood, and that kind of put me on
Speaker 3: this journey of seeking so much help outside of myself,
Speaker 3: really constantly kind of giving my power to someone outside
Speaker 3: of myself. Can the PT help me? Can the body
Speaker 3: worker help me? Can the Chinese medicine doctor help me?
Speaker 2: Like? Can you help me? Can you help me?
Speaker 3: I'm in this office, I'm in that office, Like, can
Speaker 3: someone help me, you know, outside of myself. And while
Speaker 3: a lot of those while I did receive help in
Speaker 3: some relief from these various practitioners, it finally became clear
Speaker 3: to me that it's like this is an inside job,
Speaker 3: you know, Like, of course we can reach out to
Speaker 3: people who are expert their fields for help, but like,
Speaker 3: what is actually happening here within me? Like what is
Speaker 3: this mysterious chronic back pain? That no one could really
Speaker 3: help me find a cure for. And everyone was just
Speaker 3: kind of speaking at it in their lens. So, you know,
Speaker 3: the physical therapist says, do this strengthening exercises. The chiropractor says,
Speaker 3: let me crack your back every Tuesday. You know, everyone
Speaker 3: just uses their lens to speak, which is super valid,
Speaker 3: But I'm like, what's my lens?
Speaker 2: Like, what's actually happening for me? Where is this back
Speaker 2: pain coming from?
Speaker 3: So that combined with I had been taking birth control
Speaker 3: in my late teens and early twenties, and when I
Speaker 3: stopped taking birth control, I didn't start my period again.
Speaker 3: And it was a Chinese medicine practitioner that did. Within
Speaker 3: a month with through needling and herbs, my period was
Speaker 3: started again.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of.
Speaker 3: Walking this line of the how powerful this medicine was.
Speaker 3: Like I would leave my appointments with him, but I
Speaker 3: wouldn't leave. I'd stay there and keep asking questions. He's like, ma'am,
Speaker 3: like I have another client, you know. I'm just like,
Speaker 3: I can't let you think.
Speaker 1: And I love that.
Speaker 3: I was so curious, you know, and so I was
Speaker 3: seeing the potency of it, but also still that was
Speaker 3: an external kind of projection like can you help me?
Speaker 2: Can you help me?
Speaker 3: It was still like that, but as I, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of in my Chinese medicine study was always just
Speaker 3: very informal questioning my practitioners or reading a few books.
Speaker 2: Here and there.
Speaker 3: And then as I kind of leaned more towards the
Speaker 3: Arabada path, I realized all ariveda is really about, is
Speaker 3: you know, giving us guidance to understand our true nature
Speaker 3: and to read our own book. That's what my teacher,
Speaker 3: doctor Lot always says, Like the whole practice of aerveda
Speaker 3: is first of all figuring out how to read your
Speaker 3: own book, and then if you feel like sharing these tools,
Speaker 3: these ancient you know, practices helping other people read their
Speaker 3: own books. So that to me, and that combined with
Speaker 3: just the ancientness of this wisdom, like that's what felt
Speaker 3: so safe and empowering to me. Because the modern day
Speaker 3: the mind, the western medicine system, like it's very mental
Speaker 3: and very confusing and very not rooted in holistic healing
Speaker 3: and very trendy.
Speaker 2: Even you know this.
Speaker 3: Fad, that fad, this vegetables, yes, this vegetables that no
Speaker 3: eat meat, don't meet, don't eat meat, like all of
Speaker 3: this trending and it's just like wow, that is such
Speaker 3: a whirlwind of confusion. So anchoring things back into the
Speaker 3: ancient practices is what feels the most comforting to me
Speaker 3: because it's like these are time tested, five thousand year
Speaker 3: old practices.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's incredible right that. I think there's almost like
Speaker 1: a full circle happening shift happening with society right now.
Speaker 1: We're just uh, all the quantum tests and physics and
Speaker 1: it's all pointing right back that the these ancient practices
Speaker 1: had it right some way, somehow, this ancient wisdom, you know,
Speaker 1: the Western world had completely forgot. They got too much
Speaker 1: in their own head, created structures and things that are
Speaker 1: aren't necessarily the most friendly to the human body right
Speaker 1: into the human psyche.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: But some way, somehow, the the all the tests that
Speaker 1: they continue to crash molecules and atoms and and how
Speaker 1: these particles behave are just pointing to that this Eastern
Speaker 1: practices or really ancient wisdom from down from the from
Speaker 1: the Mayas to the Aztecs, to the Incas to the
Speaker 1: to Uh in India and in China, and Western practices, sorry,
Speaker 1: Eastern practices, that they all had something in common that
Speaker 1: you know, it all's internal, right, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: journey of within, as you stated, and so it's it's
Speaker 1: so beautiful. By the way, I'm so curious, now, how's
Speaker 1: your back pain?
Speaker 2: My back pain is gone.
Speaker 3: I haven't had any back pain about five or six years.
Speaker 3: And that's actually kind of the full little story around
Speaker 3: some should I go into it a little bit.
Speaker 2: There's there's a doctor.
Speaker 1: This is your show.
Speaker 4: This is your show, Samantha, doctor Starno, who he's cast
Speaker 4: away now, but he was a Western doctor, but he
Speaker 4: was kind of obsessed with in the eighties this mind
Speaker 4: body connection.
Speaker 3: Again, Eastern philosophy understands the mind body connection. Western medicine
Speaker 3: wasn't totally on board in the eighties, so he keeps
Speaker 3: kind of talking about mind body connection, mind body connection.
Speaker 3: He wrote this incredible book called it's like the corniest title,
Speaker 3: Healing your Back Pain, I think is the name of it.
Speaker 1: And I mean, you can't get any closer to what
Speaker 1: you need right totally.
Speaker 3: And my final kind of extreme flare up of my back,
Speaker 3: I was laying on the ground, you know, stuck down there,
Speaker 3: unable to move because the whole musculature had spasmed, and
Speaker 3: I saw on my book shelf, just a couple of
Speaker 3: shelves up like this book, you know, Healing Your Back
Speaker 3: Pain that I'd been carrying around for a couple of
Speaker 3: years and somehow never read small book.
Speaker 2: I just grabbed it off the shelf and read it in.
Speaker 3: One sitting, and yeah, and it sounds wild, but I
Speaker 3: haven't had back pain since because basically, wow, it's all
Speaker 3: kind of.
Speaker 2: Linked to pain.
Speaker 3: A lot of the pain in them that is really common,
Speaker 3: especially in the West, like neck pain, low back pain, sciatica,
Speaker 3: hit pain, these really common areas for pain.
Speaker 2: He kind of.
Speaker 3: Boils it down to all of that being associated with
Speaker 3: repressed emotions basically and oftentimes repressed rage.
Speaker 2: So that was kind of the.
Speaker 3: Beginning of my journey with rage because I didn't think
Speaker 3: I was angry.
Speaker 2: I remember being like rage, Like what rage?
Speaker 3: And after kind of reading through this book and doing
Speaker 3: some of the practices that he suggested, the back pain
Speaker 3: went away and then the rage surfaced.
Speaker 2: So that was a pretty ragefull couple of years.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, oh my god, I can't even imagine you.
Speaker 1: Your energy is You show up in the world so
Speaker 1: soft and gentle, I want to see raging Samantha. Very cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead. You wanted to say something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, just that you know, there's all of it there,
Speaker 3: And I think that's the thing is like when we suppress.
Speaker 2: Of course, we talked a lot about that a lot
Speaker 2: in Bridge.
Speaker 3: It's like when we're suppressing certain emotions, they're going to
Speaker 3: be popping up in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 2: And for me it was through body pain of the body.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, incredible. So, by the way, I've had some
Speaker 1: back pain, so I'm going to have to read that book.
Speaker 1: And I just I loved the visualization of you completely
Speaker 1: in pain and like kind of like just you know,
Speaker 1: laying there and you look over to your shelf and
Speaker 1: you're like, you know, I should probably read that. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean, like God in the universe. It's so beautiful.
Speaker 1: I love that as a story. You know, I would
Speaker 1: love to hear you tell that story on stage, to
Speaker 1: be honest. It sounds so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a key.
Speaker 1: Yeah, please do, please do, please do Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I'm gonna go rage mode. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: let's get into your practice, right, So are your vita
Speaker 1: you found yourself, how you moved to New Mexico. How
Speaker 1: many years did you study this? And then when did
Speaker 1: you say, like it's time for me to help other
Speaker 1: people read their book.
Speaker 3: So I studied with doctor Lott for two years first year,
Speaker 3: and then I took a year off from and I
Speaker 3: stopped studying with doctor Lodd for a year and I
Speaker 3: went to India and I studied with someone named doctor Ethla.
Speaker 2: She's she lives in poone.
Speaker 3: She's an Indian woman who's her entire practice is devoted
Speaker 3: to kind of preconception through postpartum care.
Speaker 2: So she's an aromatic doctor.
Speaker 3: And I had found actually a good friend of mine
Speaker 3: who was studying with doctor Loud our first year together.
Speaker 3: She found doctor Ethla on the Internet through a search.
Speaker 3: And by the time we were over there in India,
Speaker 3: I hadn't heard back from doctor Ethla, and I had
Speaker 3: been emailing her NonStop, and finally the emails started being like, Hey,
Speaker 3: I'm actually in India now, like I'm in South India now.
Speaker 2: No response a few days later, like I'm.
Speaker 3: Coming up to poone now, like I was just getting
Speaker 3: I'm like I'm coming to knock on.
Speaker 2: Your door, you know, And she finally emailed me a.
Speaker 3: Couple days earlier or like later, and was like Samantha, like, hello,
Speaker 3: I I've been missing these emails.
Speaker 2: I have a lot going on in my inbox. Like wow, you.
Speaker 3: Seem really interested in you know, coming to study, Like
Speaker 3: by all means, come up to Pune and and we
Speaker 3: can take a look at what I do and I
Speaker 3: can share, we can go through the classes that I
Speaker 3: offer with you and your friends. My friend and I
Speaker 3: went together. So that was that time in India, and
Speaker 3: then I came back and study with doctor Latte for
Speaker 3: another year.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, and then.
Speaker 3: I guess, you know, they kind of give us the okay,
Speaker 3: it's like okay, go off, start your practice now. And
Speaker 3: that was a challenge because you know a lot of
Speaker 3: people are Veda means the.
Speaker 2: Science of life.
Speaker 3: It literally applies to everything that's living, but it's not
Speaker 3: like the most common word, and there's kind of a barrier.
Speaker 2: To entry there.
Speaker 3: You know, Chinese medicine has a lot more Chinese medicine
Speaker 3: is a licensed form of medicine now in this country,
Speaker 3: and a lot more people are aware of Chinese medicine,
Speaker 3: and there's some more tangible offerings like acupuncture. You know
Speaker 3: that we understand here now in the West, but Areveda
Speaker 3: seems to have a little bit more it has I
Speaker 3: think it's following as similar trajectory, but it's not as
Speaker 3: well known yet.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there have been some hurdles in that way.
Speaker 3: I like to practice kind of how much can I
Speaker 3: speak about Arebeda without ever saying the word, you know, because.
Speaker 2: The words so true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they can become barriers to entry. But really we're
Speaker 3: we're just talking about what it means to be alive
Speaker 3: on human earth, like on Earth, we're not talking about
Speaker 3: anything else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that the signs of life. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't even use that Eveda. I used to say, Hey,
Speaker 1: I studied the signs of life. It's such a beautiful word.
Speaker 1: By the way. And just like just like everyone, I guess,
Speaker 1: or like most people, I'm like, oh, what is that? Right?
Speaker 1: And so when you told me you had this practice,
Speaker 1: and when I'm at the event we were at where
Speaker 1: you detailed that you were having a woman's uh uh
Speaker 1: call it a seminar? Would you call it a seminar
Speaker 1: or would you call it more of a retreat? There
Speaker 1: we go, it's a better it's a gathering or retreat. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was immediately inspired because obviously it's you're bringing something
Speaker 1: new to the table, something that people are yet not
Speaker 1: aware of or may just have a little bit of knowledge.
Speaker 1: But like you, you know, you just you seemed so
Speaker 1: genuine about it. And I love the fact that you
Speaker 1: were like marketing this retreat within a seminar. It was
Speaker 1: a really funny reaction by the host. Right, but I
Speaker 1: found compellative obviously, bring it to the Breakthrough Lab to
Speaker 1: to to number one, talk about that and talk about
Speaker 1: your practice. So, so walk us through the science of life, right,
Speaker 1: walk us walk us through at your veda, Like, uh,
Speaker 1: how does one enter it? And and like what are
Speaker 1: some of the things that you can expect when when
Speaker 1: going to a practitioner like you? Cool?
Speaker 2: I love that question.
Speaker 3: So Areveda as a science of life is really a
Speaker 3: you know, a system of medicine that supports mind body
Speaker 3: spirit healing and really supports the truth that mind, body
Speaker 3: spirit are connected. So when we're we can go in
Speaker 3: kind of through any angle, like we can be treating
Speaker 3: the body as a result or you know, in an
Speaker 3: effort to find harmony in the mind or vice versa.
Speaker 3: So it's holistic in that way. I think some really
Speaker 3: key principles in Ireveda that apply to everything that you
Speaker 3: would do with a practitioner are that, you know, the
Speaker 3: world around us is made up of the five elements,
Speaker 3: and we are a microcosm of that macrocosmic world. So
Speaker 3: therefore we are also made up of the five elements.
Speaker 3: So we can look to the natural world around us
Speaker 3: to understand how are the five elements you know of earth, water, fire, air,
Speaker 3: and ether. How are those five elements? What's the dynamic there?
Speaker 3: And then we can look within our own body to
Speaker 3: find harmony and balance kind of with the support and
Speaker 3: the guidance of the natural world around us. So we
Speaker 3: when we kind of go one on one in consultation,
Speaker 3: we take a look at everything from you know, how
Speaker 3: do you feel when you wake up in the morning
Speaker 3: to what time of day do you have a bowel movement?
Speaker 3: And is it similar to a righte banana or is
Speaker 3: it you know, we just get into all the details immediately,
Speaker 3: like is there coding tongue? Question after question? Do you
Speaker 3: have ridges on your fingers? Like fingernails? So all these
Speaker 3: like kind of specific little things that we're looking at,
Speaker 3: take a look at the body and try to get
Speaker 3: an idea of what is out of balance, and so
Speaker 3: by nature, we're all out of balance. And that's okay,
Speaker 3: and that's great. That's part of being incarnated a human
Speaker 3: on planet Earth. If we weren't out of balance, we
Speaker 3: would be enlightened and we wouldn't be incarnated anymore. So
Speaker 3: it's like this beautiful journey. We're born with a constitution
Speaker 3: which is actually established at the moment of conception, which
Speaker 3: is what I was crying about back then when I
Speaker 3: was listening to the audiobook, because that's so epic. I'm like,
Speaker 3: what the hell you know? That's incredible. So that constitution's
Speaker 3: established at the moment of conception, we're currently operating in
Speaker 3: a state of imbalance, which is like another version of
Speaker 3: our constitution. And the whole journey of Ariveda is from
Speaker 3: this imbalanced state back to the balance state, which is
Speaker 3: unique for us because it's that balance of the five
Speaker 3: elements that was present when we were conceived. So it's
Speaker 3: not a prescriptive medicine and it's not a one size
Speaker 3: fits all. The same remedies for Giovanni would not be
Speaker 3: the same for Samantha. Although there's a lot of overlap
Speaker 3: because we all are humans dealing with so many of
Speaker 3: the same issues. But I just love how personalized it
Speaker 3: can get. I also love that, and definitely through my
Speaker 3: practice and through my one on one consultations and through
Speaker 3: the teaching that I do to groups. You know, understanding
Speaker 3: these five element the five element theory, and the Doshic
Speaker 3: theory and the twenty attributes that make up this manifest world, like,
Speaker 3: understanding these principles gives you the keys back to finding
Speaker 3: your own well being and your own harmony. So it
Speaker 3: dissolved this like practitioner client thing.
Speaker 2: That I would love to dissolve. I don't like man
Speaker 2: in the white coat, please tell me what I need.
Speaker 2: You know, I was on that journey. As I said earlier,
Speaker 2: he doesn't know.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know like I can bring to
Speaker 3: someone the ancient wisdom that I consider myself to be
Speaker 3: a steward of. And then from that place, you know,
Speaker 3: it's up to each one of us to, like you said,
Speaker 3: and like I said, and like doctor Laud said, read
Speaker 3: our own book and connect to our own inner guidance.
Speaker 3: So the prep, the one on one consultation, or the
Speaker 3: teaching can have really concrete steps like drinking warm water
Speaker 3: in the morning is your first thing that you drink,
Speaker 3: or a certain herbal formula that can be catered specifically
Speaker 3: to a person who's dealing with whatever health issues they're
Speaker 3: dealing with. You know, there's plenty of kind of offerings
Speaker 3: to be made, concrete offerings because it's a very it's
Speaker 3: mind body spirit, but it has very three D action,
Speaker 3: like we're here, we're incarnated on planet Earth. Let's take
Speaker 3: the action in the three D right, And Aribata really
Speaker 3: offers that because diet and lifestyle are the two pillars,
Speaker 3: and it really moves us away from of course, pill
Speaker 3: for an ill kind of stuff doesn't exist, and.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that one. Yeah, pill for a n ill.
Speaker 3: It's much more how are we going to understand the
Speaker 3: elements around us, under stand the cycles of the sun,
Speaker 3: understand the cycles of the seasons, understand our own constitution,
Speaker 3: and find harmony in all of that.
Speaker 2: So it's it's a lifestyle shift for sure.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, yeah, so like it sounds. So I did
Speaker 1: a little bit of research on it, and I did
Speaker 1: hear about how individualistic this practice can be. That you know,
Speaker 1: it really is tailored to that very individual's path. And
Speaker 1: their body type there the way they show up in
Speaker 1: the world, you know, their body composition. So it's very
Speaker 1: interesting to So I wouldn't I would. I would say
Speaker 1: there's like an insanely large body of knowledge that you
Speaker 1: have to digest, right is that? Is that a correct
Speaker 1: statement or like or can you elaborate on that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, when it comes to too kind of analyzing someone's situation,
Speaker 3: do you mean that kind.
Speaker 1: Of yeah, yeah, yea, yeah exactly, yeah, yeah, I got
Speaker 1: So it's so individualistic that I'm assuming there's a large
Speaker 1: body of knowledge that you have to pull from and
Speaker 1: then like kind of like fine tune and tweak.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yes, there's a large body of knowledge, and it's so
Speaker 3: supported it you know, it's shared.
Speaker 2: Through the classical text in such a.
Speaker 3: And also I don't want to just say the classical
Speaker 3: text digested by doctor Lotte so well and shared with us,
Speaker 3: because I don't I can't just sit down and read
Speaker 3: a Sanskrit text right now. So thank god for all
Speaker 3: the people who have translated these texts into English. But
Speaker 3: because of the framework of the five elements and principles
Speaker 3: like opposites, balance opposites, or like increases, like you know,
Speaker 3: we're really simplifying things.
Speaker 2: So if we think about if you come with a
Speaker 2: big list.
Speaker 3: Of health concerns, let's say, and these things are like
Speaker 3: I'm I mean, any list anything skin rashes, diabetes, constipation,
Speaker 3: high blood pressure, balding, whatever it is you know, through
Speaker 3: the allopathic lens, that's like, whoa, my god, this is
Speaker 3: a huge list of symptoms. Ah, how are we gonna
Speaker 3: figure out how to treat all these different things? But
Speaker 3: with ira Veda, we kind of take a look again
Speaker 3: at the elemental balance, what's gone out of balance, and
Speaker 3: then we utilize that principle of opposites balance opposites to
Speaker 3: just bring balance to the system. So if we hear
Speaker 3: bloodshot eyes, bleeding gums, and extreme irritability, we're not going
Speaker 3: we don't get super overdone by that. We're like, okay,
Speaker 3: this is high pitza. There's a little bit excess fire
Speaker 3: in the body.
Speaker 2: So we just can kind of simplify it down in
Speaker 2: that way, and we always look for confluence. We would
Speaker 2: never make any decisions based off of one comment or
Speaker 2: one observation that we made. We're always.
Speaker 3: Taking a lot of information in from the client. What
Speaker 3: do they have to share, We're using our observation. We
Speaker 3: do pulse reading to feel into the body, so we
Speaker 3: come at it from different angles before we make any
Speaker 3: sort of conclusion. But yeah, when we do make that conclusion,
Speaker 3: it's simplified down into like the science of the elements,
Speaker 3: if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I completely I love it. I love it
Speaker 1: is seeing something for complex the complexity and seeing how
Speaker 1: all the systems play together and then you create a
Speaker 1: simple solutions even though the problem may seem complex in nature. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so beautiful. I really love it. Yeah. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the things in my research is that there's
Speaker 1: a there's a lot there's herbs to use and talk
Speaker 1: me about the the the things that the tools that
Speaker 1: you can use and now your VETA and to help
Speaker 1: your client. What are some of the tools other than
Speaker 1: obviously the there's your knowledge base, but like tools and
Speaker 1: practices that enhance this practice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I would say our main a lot of
Speaker 3: our tools are linked directly to digestion and supporting healthy
Speaker 3: digestion in a client. So that can be the digestion
Speaker 3: on kind of the gross dense level that we think of,
Speaker 3: like I need to digest my food. But we also
Speaker 3: have a concept in airiveta. That's really critical, and it's
Speaker 3: called ugny, and ugny again, it represents our digestive fire,
Speaker 3: but it also represents basically the ugni is in every cell,
Speaker 3: it's in every organ, it's in my tongue, it's in
Speaker 3: my eyes, it's in my fingernails again, it's in my thyroid.
Speaker 3: Ugnies everywhere, and it's kind of this gatekeeper between the
Speaker 3: outside and inside world. So everything that happens in the
Speaker 3: world around me needs to be digested by this gatekeeper
Speaker 3: called ugne. So if I eat some pizza, it needs
Speaker 3: to be digested. If I watch a movie, it needs
Speaker 3: to be digested. If I have a challenging conversation with
Speaker 3: my coworker, it needs to be digested. If I listen
Speaker 3: to some music, it needs to be digested. If I
Speaker 3: drink water, it needs to be digested. So a basic
Speaker 3: or basic and complex at the same time thing that
Speaker 3: we're always trying to do in Araveda is support ugny.
Speaker 3: So we can come at that with physical things like
Speaker 3: like you mentioned with herbs.
Speaker 2: It's like we can.
Speaker 3: Basically offer people suggestions on herbs to take that have
Speaker 3: the same qualities as ugny, are the same qualities as fire,
Speaker 3: so a more pungent heating quality to bolster and kindle
Speaker 3: that digestive fire again in an obvious spot, like in
Speaker 3: our stomach, but also in our minds, in our liver, everywhere.
Speaker 2: Augny is everywhere.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so we utilize herbs a lot for that.
Speaker 3: We utilize routine a lot. There's a concept in Ariveda
Speaker 3: called vata, which is basically the air element, and so
Speaker 3: this is going to account for any movement in the body,
Speaker 3: from the movement of my hand to the movement of
Speaker 3: my breath, to the movement of my thoughts. And because
Speaker 3: it's so light and airy, it goes out of balance
Speaker 3: very easily. A plane ride puts this out of balance.
Speaker 3: A lack of sleep puts this out of balance. So airaveda,
Speaker 3: we take so much care with the routine, so constantly
Speaker 3: making suggestions on routine. And how are we knowing what
Speaker 3: the routine should be. We're looking to the outside world.
Speaker 3: So if the sun is high in the sky from
Speaker 3: ten am to two pm, that's when we need to
Speaker 3: eat our lunch because we can see that the digestifier
Speaker 3: of the natural world around us is strong right now.
Speaker 3: So when we start implementing these routines that we're not
Speaker 3: just making them up. The sages and rishi's who downloaded
Speaker 3: this information into the classical text gathered this all from
Speaker 3: what they were seeing in the natural world, which is
Speaker 3: a reflection of us.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: So supporting ugny and digestion and implementing routine are two
Speaker 3: of the main pieces in aramatic support.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's so beautiful. I really feel like it's it's
Speaker 1: like becoming one with the world, you know, which I
Speaker 1: feel like human beings, we've disconnected ourselves from nature so much,
Speaker 1: and I feel like this practice sort of takes our
Speaker 1: little puzzle piece and puts us right back. Yeah, in
Speaker 1: in harmony, in uh, in tandem, link to link, you know,
Speaker 1: quantum field to quantum field, and it just locks us
Speaker 1: back into that beautiful natural state of being one with
Speaker 1: the world. And and it sounds so so beautiful. It's
Speaker 1: like a beautiful work of art because see all the breaststrokes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what what would be like an.
Speaker 2: I just want to say, when you said work of art,
Speaker 2: this little tagline that I'm working with is the science
Speaker 2: of life, which we know means I the science of
Speaker 2: life is an art because this is an art, you know,
Speaker 2: And so I love.
Speaker 1: I am going to reinforce that tagline. I really like it.
Speaker 1: And what do you think is uh so it's Irata
Speaker 1: just seems like it's ideal for everyone, right, But like
Speaker 1: you know, people are going to have different callings for
Speaker 1: different things and different experience in the world. So what
Speaker 1: would be an ideal client, you know, of yours? Right,
Speaker 1: if someone's experiencing X ir Veda, look into are Veda,
Speaker 1: look into uh, you know, Samantha's practice, like look into
Speaker 1: some in my house. So if if that client's experience
Speaker 1: an X this might be for you, what would that
Speaker 1: look like?
Speaker 3: So I love working with women, and I work with
Speaker 3: men too, but I really love working with women, and
Speaker 3: I love working with women around well women and men
Speaker 3: around preconception. And so basically there's a three and a
Speaker 3: half roughly three and a half month protocol that kind
Speaker 3: of sets people up to conceive in the way that
Speaker 3: we plan for a lot of things. I mean, most
Speaker 3: people plan their wedding for three and a half months,
Speaker 3: but they don't plan their conception, you know. And so
Speaker 3: Areveda offers such an incredible protocol that kind of sounds
Speaker 3: like a sterile word because it's such a divine act.
Speaker 1: No, I love it. Yeah, I know protocol is kind
Speaker 1: of sterile, but I get it. It's a great word
Speaker 1: for what you're.
Speaker 3: And so I love working with people who are trying
Speaker 3: or thinking about conceiving.
Speaker 2: And again, it's like.
Speaker 3: That protocol could really benefit anyone because it's just a
Speaker 3: balancing act, Like what are we doing with everything? We're
Speaker 3: just trying to come back into balance, back into harmony.
Speaker 3: I also love working with women in the postpartum period.
Speaker 3: The reason is because that's kind of I mean, that's
Speaker 3: a time where people need support. The forty two days
Speaker 3: after birth are considered the sacred window, and so many
Speaker 3: women in this culture, in this country are not getting
Speaker 3: the support that they need during that time, and so true, right,
Speaker 3: and it's devastating. And I think that one of the
Speaker 3: most radical acts ever is for women to start reclaiming
Speaker 3: that time during the sacred window after birth, not just
Speaker 3: for themselves, not just for their baby, but for society
Speaker 3: as a whole. Because the more mothers who we support,
Speaker 3: the more that just kind of fractals out into all
Speaker 3: of society. Like the mothers need support, especially, you know,
Speaker 3: especially during that time right after birth.
Speaker 2: So I love working in that.
Speaker 3: Realm and then and then I just love working with
Speaker 3: anyone who's open to slowly and gracefully making shifts in
Speaker 3: their life. You know, Ireveda is not like a super
Speaker 3: fast Oh here's this herb and all your issues are gone,
Speaker 3: because that's a construct of the mind that doesn't even exist,
Speaker 3: you know what. Like it's like kind of an allopathic
Speaker 3: thing that we don't we see that it doesn't really work.
Speaker 3: So it's a slow journey. It's like we keep saying,
Speaker 3: a journey inward. It's a very sacred journey. And so
Speaker 3: anyone who's interested in that on any level is uh,
Speaker 3: you know, a candidate for Arabdic learnings.
Speaker 1: So beautiful. I resonate with you on the support for
Speaker 1: women so much. Our society here in the Western world
Speaker 1: has just created structures that don't where these things that
Speaker 1: women go through, they're looked at like less than you know,
Speaker 1: like oh my God, like like like why are you complaining?
Speaker 1: Right when it's I means you this is a portal
Speaker 1: that you just get gave life through and you're giving
Speaker 1: a gift to the world.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: The world is there are many things. There's a microphone
Speaker 1: here because someone decided to have a baby who had
Speaker 1: the talent to look at engineering. And so the world
Speaker 1: is has become a much better place because someone decided
Speaker 1: to have a baby. And here we are not supporting
Speaker 1: the one thing that gives us, you know, shifts and
Speaker 1: this modern world whether we like it or not, but
Speaker 1: it's a world that has created a lot of comfort
Speaker 1: and it's all because a mom decided like, yes I
Speaker 1: will conceive and yes I will bring life into the world.
Speaker 1: So I just love that that you're providing a space
Speaker 1: for women there. Yeah, I applaud that. And heck, if
Speaker 1: I ever decide to conceive, I might have to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, give you attle call there. So yeah, So
Speaker 1: tell me about Soma House, right, Like, tell me what
Speaker 1: what does Soma House mean? And by the way, I
Speaker 1: love your logo. Shout out to your designer, Like your
Speaker 1: logo is a logo within a logo within a logo.
Speaker 1: It's like inception, you know. And so tell me what
Speaker 1: does so House mean? Why did why did you pick
Speaker 1: that as a as a as a business name? And
Speaker 1: then and also walk me through your logo too.
Speaker 3: Okay, so my logo was made by an incredible woman.
Speaker 3: Her Instagram is Vara Koya if you want to check
Speaker 3: her out. I'd been following her for years. She's an
Speaker 3: incredible artist and when I finally decided I need a
Speaker 3: logo for this Somma house, she was the first person
Speaker 3: that came to mind. And we patiently and almost like
Speaker 3: laboriously went through this process for months.
Speaker 2: But the logo itself, I wanted to see if I
Speaker 2: could just look at it while I speak about it.
Speaker 1: But it's yeah, I almost wish I had the graphic
Speaker 1: to put it up.
Speaker 3: Baby.
Speaker 1: You know what, while you talk, I'm going to bring
Speaker 1: up your website.
Speaker 3: So it has in the middle of the a drop
Speaker 3: of soma. And this is like a pearly drop of
Speaker 3: the most nourishing substance on the planet that nourishes everyone.
Speaker 3: It's ruta. It's the like nectar of life. It's the
Speaker 3: fountain of youth. It's the most it's the water, it's
Speaker 3: it's all the nourishing fluids and waters in your body.
Speaker 2: It's the juiciness of life. It's love like that is soma.
Speaker 3: And in the forehead of the two beings there's a flame.
Speaker 3: And so that's that ugny that I was talking about
Speaker 3: earlier of just that ultimate kind of yes, simply put digestion,
Speaker 3: but it's everything, like ugne is the gatekeeper of everything,
Speaker 3: and ugny is kind of the optimal health is dependent
Speaker 3: upon the state of ugny, and ugny is the first
Speaker 3: word in the Vedic text, like it's the it's ugny
Speaker 3: is like almost everything you know. But then when you
Speaker 3: go to say something's almost everything, then you look at
Speaker 3: its opposite and then you see soma, and then you
Speaker 3: realize it's just this one kind of thing.
Speaker 2: So it's all there in this logo.
Speaker 3: The reason I chose to have the two beings is
Speaker 3: because I do kind of focus on that preconception and
Speaker 3: postpartum window. I love the kind of divine mother holding
Speaker 3: a smaller being. And yeah, I'm I love this logo.
Speaker 3: I'm so in love with it, actually.
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at it right now and I just
Speaker 1: love that it's it's like another human being nurturing another
Speaker 1: human being, nurturing the light within that human being, nurturing
Speaker 1: their own light within the human being. You know, it's
Speaker 1: open to interpretation, and I just really love it. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's such a beautiful logo. And then and then the
Speaker 1: company name right, Soma house. You know, what does that?
Speaker 1: What does that mean to you? Like it sounds so
Speaker 1: warm and in fighting.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm yeah, so kind of like the concept of
Speaker 3: some of just being this ultimate nourisher and this kind
Speaker 3: of uh you know, I think of it representing the
Speaker 3: feminine and the moon and water and just such yeah,
Speaker 3: such nourishment. And then I like the word house because
Speaker 3: it's like brings kind of a little bit of that
Speaker 3: masculine container too, of like house like structure, containment, Like
Speaker 3: it's both they're both there for me and soch not
Speaker 3: just fluid, it's.
Speaker 2: All of it, like we need we need the container
Speaker 2: for that fluidity. So to me, it feels complete in
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would agree. I would agree. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get that sense. I get that feeling, and it
Speaker 1: matches you, matches your personality as a beautiful container of
Speaker 1: this energy right now? Does does is there anything because
Speaker 1: there's mind, body, and spirit, right, is there anything in
Speaker 1: ir veta that that enhances that spirituality? Right? Maybe if
Speaker 1: someone has spiritual gifts. I'm in a very spiritual journey
Speaker 1: this year, and so is there anything there that that
Speaker 1: enhances spirituality? It's obviously addressing bodily needs and being in
Speaker 1: tune and in harmony with nature. But is there also,
Speaker 1: you know, something that enhances that spiritual experience that it
Speaker 1: is to be a human being.
Speaker 2: M I love that question.
Speaker 3: Yes, a big part of Araveda is like prianium, which
Speaker 3: means breath work basically speaking. But also you know, meditation
Speaker 3: is incorporated into this too. So we have a couple
Speaker 3: of beautiful basically I want to share so hum which
Speaker 3: means that's Sanskrit word, but it means I am that,
Speaker 3: like in the way that I am that I'm everything
Speaker 3: around me, Like we're all, like you said earlier, like
Speaker 3: we're kind of finally people are we as modern humans
Speaker 3: are kind of waking up to the fact that we're all.
Speaker 2: We're one with the planet around us.
Speaker 3: It's really like a remembering, right, because no matter how
Speaker 3: much we try to separate ourselves from that, we can't,
Speaker 3: Like even in the way that we are doing our
Speaker 3: weird modern thing.
Speaker 2: We still can't separate. That's the whole trip. You can't separate.
Speaker 2: We're one.
Speaker 3: So so hum, I am that I am everything around me.
Speaker 3: We are one essentially, And so there's a beautiful meditation
Speaker 3: where doctor Lott has described it to us as like
Speaker 3: an inhale. If we listen close enough, the inhale makes
Speaker 3: the sound so and the exhale makes the sound hum.
Speaker 3: Just you know, in our minds, it's not really like
Speaker 3: an audible say it out loud, and that meditation is
Speaker 3: super powerful for just kind of enhancing our spiritual connection.
Speaker 3: So many of us, as students of him, have gone
Speaker 3: to him doctor Lotd.
Speaker 2: Like what's our mantra? Like what do we do?
Speaker 3: You know, just like being students and being curious, like
Speaker 3: wanting something from him, like what's the solution again, doctor Lodd,
Speaker 3: you know, and he's always like, so hummed dear, like
Speaker 3: so hum, that's that's what you do on your meditation.
Speaker 2: So with the inhale and hum with the.
Speaker 3: Scale and just like like you're laughing, like the almost
Speaker 3: comic like comedic simplicity of that. And to doctor Loud,
Speaker 3: who's been there and done it all and come back
Speaker 3: to just so hum, it's like that's so life, you know,
Speaker 3: all the complexity and really it's.
Speaker 2: Just so hum on the xcale.
Speaker 3: There are also a couple of really powerful premiums that
Speaker 3: I love when it comes to connecting ourselves to the
Speaker 3: our divinity.
Speaker 2: One of them is kind of I could demonstrate it.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it would be like through a podcast,
Speaker 3: but I'd also love to share it with you offline
Speaker 3: so that you know. But it's a really kind of
Speaker 3: beautiful way to open the throat and kind of lean
Speaker 3: up and look up, gesturing to the divine and then
Speaker 3: bringing kind of that energy back in and circulating it
Speaker 3: with the mantra heart a home. So that's a beautiful
Speaker 3: aribated practice as well. And then just kind of the
Speaker 3: general uh establishment of any daily practice, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: is like one of the most spiritual acts, do you
Speaker 3: know what I mean? It like gives that container for
Speaker 3: you to amplify your own amplify your own spirituality.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah, I love that. I love anything that
Speaker 1: amplifies spirituality these days, anything that that really enhances that
Speaker 1: beautiful sid Now you refer to a reincarnate right, uh
Speaker 1: incarnated b right, what we are if we're if we
Speaker 1: think about that a soul and there's a soul in
Speaker 1: that that soul has a container be in the human body.
Speaker 1: Is there anything in ariveda that seeks to maybe explain
Speaker 1: why the human why the soul comes on this journey,
Speaker 1: and there's a sense of becoming out of balance to rebalance.
Speaker 1: But is there anything further in that particular in aw
Speaker 1: your veda that seeks to explain why the soul decides
Speaker 1: to take this journey?
Speaker 2: I love that question.
Speaker 3: So interestingly enough, I've heard through my teacher some really
Speaker 3: funny things thinking of like our last desires in our
Speaker 3: last realm our last life. Doctor Lott always talks about
Speaker 3: like if you were the moment you died, you didn't
Speaker 3: have your thoughts on God. If you had your thoughts
Speaker 3: on God, perhaps you'd be liberated from this wheel. But
Speaker 3: instead you were thinking about how you lived your life
Speaker 3: and you didn't have enough children. I really wanted children
Speaker 3: and I didn't have enough children or whatever the desire was.
Speaker 3: And then you come back incarnated as like a pig
Speaker 3: who has like sixteen piglets or something.
Speaker 2: So there you got your.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, like you got your wish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you got your wish.
Speaker 3: And so I don't know exactly what says about why
Speaker 3: we why our souls choose to come here. I think
Speaker 3: that I mean, there's this idea of like the four
Speaker 3: yugas or like these four really big spans of time
Speaker 3: or like eras, and right now we're in one called caliyuga.
Speaker 2: Which is I like at the peak of confusion.
Speaker 3: And everything is heightened and everything's moving quickly and confusingly,
Speaker 3: and I think we can see that in the state
Speaker 3: of Affairs and just you know, it's this confusion of
Speaker 3: the out of the body and what the heck's going
Speaker 3: on type situation. But I've also had it shared with
Speaker 3: me through my teacher that this is actually souls choose
Speaker 3: to come down through this time because it's a time
Speaker 3: when rapid quick change is possible. And we see that
Speaker 3: because then there's like you could have Satya yuga like
Speaker 3: a very much more kind of peaceful, ech clear, equaniminous
Speaker 3: and never know how to pronounce that word time where
Speaker 3: everything is kind of just perfect and gentle, but in
Speaker 3: slow moving But we've chosen everyone who's here right now
Speaker 3: to come down in this time of like extreme chaos.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It almost feels like a pressure cooker for karmac burning.
Speaker 3: It's like if our soul has these karmas and we're
Speaker 3: moving through them every lifetime, and if we're here, that
Speaker 3: means we had karma to continue processing. We're actually here
Speaker 3: in a good time when rapid karma processing is possible.
Speaker 3: But it's also a time when it's very easy to
Speaker 3: pick up a lot of insane karma. So but if
Speaker 3: we keep doing our practices, we can like cut through
Speaker 3: some shit quickly, I think during this yuga.
Speaker 1: So you know, I love that there's an opportunity, opportunity
Speaker 1: cut through. I love that it's such a beautiful explanation,
Speaker 1: you know. And obviously there's so much of this world
Speaker 1: has to offer and so much to explore in spirituality.
Speaker 1: But I do love that. I do love what you
Speaker 1: just brought to the table here. I hope it resonates
Speaker 1: with someone I needed to hear that. So I want
Speaker 1: to talk about when women gather. Right, You've got this incredible,
Speaker 1: uh retreat coming up. It's in Mexico, of all places,
Speaker 1: beautiful Mexico, hot weather. You know, I think I saw
Speaker 1: some of the pictures. How would you describe them, like
Speaker 1: bungalows or huts.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, little bungalows kind of tepee style.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they look so wonderful. I'm like, I want to
Speaker 1: I want to be a girl now and I want
Speaker 1: to gather. So, yeah, tell me about like, what do
Speaker 1: you what do you think these incredible women that are
Speaker 1: going to sign up for this, uh, for this retreat,
Speaker 1: what what are they going to get out of this
Speaker 1: amazing experience?
Speaker 3: So they're going to get they're getting the deepest kind
Speaker 3: of invitation for just rejuvenation, a soulful experience which will
Speaker 3: of course be rooted in iobatic wisdom as we've been talking,
Speaker 3: but also really just rooted in the experience of being
Speaker 3: a woman. Will be seeing what does happen when women gather,
Speaker 3: you know, And.
Speaker 2: So that's up to be decided.
Speaker 3: It's not definable because of the kind of sacred magic
Speaker 3: that happens. And we'll be kind of going through the cycles,
Speaker 3: the archetypes of womanhood from maiden to mother, to sorceress
Speaker 3: to crone and how does that impact not only our
Speaker 3: monthly cycle, but the cycle of our entire life and
Speaker 3: delving into that, and we'll be coming together many generations,
Speaker 3: you know. I keep encouraging people to bring your mother,
Speaker 3: bring your daughter, because we cannot get enough generations together,
Speaker 3: like the wisdom that our elders can offer us, the
Speaker 3: wisdom that our children can offer us, and all together
Speaker 3: and just dropping into our experience of womanhood, looking at
Speaker 3: all the places where that are shrouded in mystery. When
Speaker 3: you look at a woman's experience right now, menarchy, pre pregnancy, postpartum, menopause,
Speaker 3: all of this is shrouded in mystery. And we can
Speaker 3: be sure that when something is shrouded in mystery, it's
Speaker 3: exactly where our power lies.
Speaker 2: So coming together in.
Speaker 3: Our voices and speaking about these experiences, just sharing just
Speaker 3: an older woman sharing an experience with a younger woman,
Speaker 3: or a younger woman sharing their experience of recently beginning
Speaker 3: their bleed, for example, Like that is the medicine in
Speaker 3: and of itself, that right there, and somehow that's been
Speaker 3: taken out of this culture. And so in that way,
Speaker 3: just the essence of womanhood. We're going to just like
Speaker 3: get into the essence of womanhood and we're going to
Speaker 3: be supported. Like I said, buy this Aravatic container. So
Speaker 3: we're going to be It's a five day retreat, so
Speaker 3: we will be experiencing the iervadic daily routine.
Speaker 2: So what do we do in the morning, when are
Speaker 2: we eating our lunch?
Speaker 3: What are we eating We're going to be eating according
Speaker 3: to Arabatic principles, what is the ideal sleep cycle. You know,
Speaker 3: what time are we going to be going to bed?
Speaker 3: What are our evening rituals? So we're going to be
Speaker 3: implementing all of these things and just to get an experience,
Speaker 3: an embodied experience of that for five days together the
Speaker 3: support of each other, and then you know, and from there,
Speaker 3: like I've said, iravada is a gradual thing. It doesn't
Speaker 3: actually do much good to try to implement everything at
Speaker 3: once in your life on a Monday, like it's setting
Speaker 3: yourself up for failure. So yeah, like in any lens,
Speaker 3: so we'll get to experience a lot of these practices
Speaker 3: and then we'll slowly integrate back into our lives or
Speaker 3: really forward into our lives, taking what it is that
Speaker 3: we feel we can take right now, what is actually
Speaker 3: serving us right now. There's like a concept, like a
Speaker 3: Yogic concept of a parigraha, which means like greed, and
Speaker 3: we see that a lot like greed.
Speaker 2: We want it all.
Speaker 3: We're like in the information era, right there's so much information.
Speaker 3: I can go on the Internet right now and look
Speaker 3: up anything. But is that embodied wisdom for me? Is
Speaker 3: it just more information? More information has to be digested
Speaker 3: by ugny, like we were saying earlier. So when it's not,
Speaker 3: it just creates waste and build up in the system.
Speaker 3: So we're not wanting to do that. We're not wanting
Speaker 3: to overload the attendees of this retreat. We're wanting to
Speaker 3: like really gracefully offer things that can be again like yeah,
Speaker 3: gracefully taken forward into life at a slow pace. We're
Speaker 3: going to be honoring cycles and stillness and deep reast and.
Speaker 2: You know, womanhood.
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, like I want to be there
Speaker 1: and I'm not a woman, So it sounds so beautiful,
Speaker 1: Like I'm gonna definitely promote it, and this is an
Speaker 1: amazing event happening so so our audience can know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's happening in March, so twenty twenty six,
Speaker 3: March twenty seventh through April first m h And it's
Speaker 3: in Baja Mexico.
Speaker 1: Awesome, are you Baja Mexico? Baha? You can't go wrong
Speaker 1: with Baja Mexico. Also, like if anyone like obviously, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't. The weather's beautiful down there, been there once
Speaker 1: where as far as like, so obviously there's a cost
Speaker 1: to go there. Are you offering payment plans if anyone's
Speaker 1: like interested to go or like, you know, how can
Speaker 1: someone sign up? You know, tell me everything. I want
Speaker 1: our audience to definitely know where to find you and
Speaker 1: where to find the event.
Speaker 3: So, yes, we are offering payment plans, and we're also
Speaker 3: offering so if finances are an issue, there's no way
Speaker 3: that we can't work on a payment plan that would
Speaker 3: work for any kind of situation. I have some generic
Speaker 3: payment plans lined out on the website and that's Soma
Speaker 3: House dot org slash Retreats. But and we're also offering
Speaker 3: something that I'm super excited about, which is twenty percent
Speaker 3: off for any women who come together. So, like I said,
Speaker 3: because I'm really wanting to encourage us to get our
Speaker 3: sisters here and our friends and our mothers and our daughters.
Speaker 3: If two women come together, it's twenty percent off the
Speaker 3: rate of the retreat. And yeah, so Soma House. My
Speaker 3: instagram is at Soma House. And then but soa house
Speaker 3: dot org slash Retreats has the option to select the
Speaker 3: type of room that you want because there's different there's
Speaker 3: different prices, you know, if you want to share a room,
Speaker 3: if you want a single room. So there's a lot
Speaker 3: of flexibility around price, and yeah, we I mean, I
Speaker 3: would not want to turn anyone away due to lack
Speaker 3: of fun. So I'm always I'm very accessible through Instagram.
Speaker 3: Anyone can reach out to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I have to say, ladies, I'm super excited
Speaker 1: for this event. Please sign up. If you're watching this episode,
Speaker 1: you know this this practice just seems so good, especially
Speaker 1: for the times that we're living right now. And uh
Speaker 1: and we're to the point now where Samantha, I really
Speaker 1: invite my guests to drop something, you know, a mantra principle,
Speaker 1: a word of wisdom, something that speaks to you, maybe
Speaker 1: something that spoke to you today, maybe something you've been
Speaker 1: through and you want to share. Is that? Are you
Speaker 1: open to that? I'd love for you to leave something
Speaker 1: for the audience. Awesome, So I'm going to make you
Speaker 1: number numo who here see if I remember, I think
Speaker 1: this is it? There we go.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, so what's coming to me right now is
Speaker 3: just that, like this lifetime is about finding a path
Speaker 3: to connecting with our own inner guidance. That's the whole thing.
Speaker 3: And like we can utilize so many external tools to
Speaker 3: get on that path and along that path. But ultimately
Speaker 3: it's about our own inner wisdom. So all the ways
Speaker 3: that we have to do that, of course for me
Speaker 3: Ariveda being a strong one of those, I just yeah,
Speaker 3: I just invite everyone to kind of take a moment
Speaker 3: to figure out what is that for them and then
Speaker 3: to hold on to that, you know, to keep going
Speaker 3: with that.
Speaker 1: Thank you again for joining me on the Breakthrough Lab.
Speaker 1: It's been the pleasure. Again. I just loved you and
Speaker 1: your buddy paired up at the Bridge method Dan saying
Speaker 1: we were having so much fun. I said, I have
Speaker 1: to get this beautiful Sola platform because your mission is
Speaker 1: so lovely on this earth, and so thank you again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me get a little digital high five here. I
Speaker 1: actually give a lot of high five. Boom, here we go, boom,
Speaker 1: boom and boom, there we go dole one, two three awesome.
Speaker 3: If you look at someone's elbow during a high five,
Speaker 3: you can never miss.
Speaker 2: Have you ever tried that?
Speaker 1: I haven't tried that. I'm going to give that to
Speaker 1: give them a job. Very interesting, very interesting, huh. I
Speaker 1: love that. Thank you for sharing that. Awesome guys. Well,
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