WEBVTT 1 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:42.039 Welcome to today's Breakthrough Lab. Your next breakthrough starts here. Today. 2 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:44.200 I have a special guest which I met at a 3 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:48.719 very impactful and I would say just Breakthrough weekend where 4 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:51.840 we both joined a program called the Bridge Method, and 5 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.640 we just dropped some major energy there. I saw this 6 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:01.039 beautiful soul dancing and showing up as this wonderful source 7 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:03.240 of energy in the world, and I said, I need 8 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:06.000 to get her on the Breakthrough Lab. So let me 9 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:09.840 present to you her because this this spio here is 10 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:14.000 so beautiful and special. Today I'm joined by Samantha, founder 11 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:18.879 of Soma House, a sanctuary inspired by aer venic wisdoms 12 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.159 and mindful living. Her work reminds us that true healing 13 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.719 begins when we slow down and listen to the intelligence 14 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:31.680 of our own bodies. In this episode, we explore how 15 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:37.200 much intentional movement and inner alignment can help us restore 16 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:41.000 peace and clarity in a world that never stops moving. 17 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.760 If you've been craving for a grounded path to renew, 18 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:49.959 this conversation is for you. Welcome everyone to the Breakthrough Lab. 19 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:57.840 Samantha Woo, let's go, Let's go. Samantha, Welcome, Welcome, nice 20 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.840 to be here. Thanks for having Yeah, so, oh my god, 21 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:06.079 I am ecstatic to have you here. It's been it's 22 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:08.400 I feel like I haven't seen you in a long time, 23 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:13.479 but it's only been like two weeks. And boy, how 24 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:14.919 was the Bridge method for you? 25 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:17.080 Incredible? 26 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:22.159 Still unclear on how everything is different, but everything does 27 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:23.080 feel different. 28 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:26.719 So and then that followed by Extreme. 29 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:29.919 It's just been kind of there's a lot to kind 30 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:34.639 of integrate and process. But I love to show up 31 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:38.800 differently in life, in just kind of daily tasks and 32 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:39.919 in the subtlety of it all. 33 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:42.000 So I'm very. 34 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:45.520 Inspired and curious to see how it continues to unfold. 35 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.560 Yeah. Yeah, it's been a it's been a remarkable two 36 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:52.639 weeks for me. You stayed for Extreme, I hear, and 37 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:56.159 so like, yeah, I'm kind of like even jealous here 38 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:58.120 because like, man, I would have loved to have stayed 39 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:03.120 as well. You'll be so very cool, right, Yes, I 40 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:05.759 will definitely be back in February. I can't wait. I 41 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:11.800 cannot wait. So yeah, So, Samantha, you had a journey 42 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:15.199 where at one point you were listening to a new book, right, 43 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:19.360 and you felt so moved. I think correct me if 44 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:22.479 I'm wrong. Tears started flowing and you were living with 45 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:25.639 your boyfriend. Yeah, yeah, living with your boyfriend, and you're 46 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:31.240 so moved by I think the idea of conception through 47 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:33.919 what you were hearing, and you said, I got to 48 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:37.039 move to New Mexico, And so I think this person 49 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:42.560 became your your teacher, your guide, person of a source 50 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:45.319 of knowledge, a source of wisdom for you. And so like, 51 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:48.000 tell me what did what is it mean to have 52 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:50.080 a calling like that and to have something that just 53 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:51.199 moves you so deeply? 54 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.639 Yeah? So, well, his name is doctor Laud. 55 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:59.680 He he became my teacher, and I moved to New 56 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:04.280 Mexico to study with him the calling. So that moment, 57 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:06.919 that kind of pivotal moment of just listening to his voice, 58 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:10.560 he was, like you said, he was describing conception through 59 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.360 the aerveda lens and it just brought me to tears. 60 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:15.520 And I knew in that moment that I needed to 61 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:20.680 go deeper in this realm of Araveda. But the journey 62 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:24.160 started long before that, I would say, with Chinese medicine, 63 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:28.560 having some really great breakthroughs basically in my own health 64 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:32.319 with a Chinese medicine doctor, maybe fifteen years ago, when 65 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:37.759 I lived in New York City and then fast forward 66 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:40.000 back up kind of always wanting to be involved in 67 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.240 the healing arts, but basically doing every other thing instead. 68 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:45.319 Like when I look back on the journey, it's. 69 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:47.439 Like I was getting tons of hits and tons of 70 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:49.800 calls in that direction, but I was like, Oh, let 71 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:50.800 me become a jeweler. 72 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:52.680 Oh let me do this, Oh let me do that, 73 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:54.920 like just other things. 74 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:58.319 Which are all important things to do, but like really 75 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:03.240 avoiding that path and on that moment when the tears came. 76 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:05.160 But there's another piece to it. You mentioned. 77 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:07.480 I was living with my boyfriend at the time, who 78 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:11.839 was and is a doctor who also has an interest 79 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.920 in Ariveda and some other you know, kind of Eastern philosophy. 80 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:20.680 And I remember that in the beginning of our relationship, 81 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:24.800 it was I was jealous of him, like I felt 82 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.639 the jealousy of like I want to be devoting my 83 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:31.639 time to Ariveda and to delving deeper and to be 84 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:33.720 working with clients and all these things that I saw 85 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:37.040 him doing. Granted, his at the time was more from 86 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:40.480 my perspective through the allipathic lens as far as his 87 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:44.839 actual practice goes, although his you know, knowledge and kind 88 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:49.079 of passion was much broader than all apathy. But anyway, 89 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:51.240 it was that piece of like I want that that 90 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:55.399 finally triggered me to realize, yes, you've been avoiding this 91 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:57.199 for twelve years. 92 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:58.560 Like now it's it's time. 93 00:05:58.839 --> 00:05:59.040 Wow. 94 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:02.319 A little bit of jealousy, a little bit of tears 95 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:05.959 on a walk hearing doctor Lott talks about and I 96 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:07.519 decided to move to New Mexico. 97 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:08.480 A couple of months later. 98 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:11.360 I just called the mission staff and said I need 99 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:14.079 to apply and and made the move. 100 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:19.040 What a beautiful journey so far. And so you're sitting 101 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:22.800 there in the room, uh, filled with jealousy and emotion, right, 102 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:26.399 and it's very hard to like get well maybe not 103 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:29.680 for you, but let's figure this out. Uh, it's hard 104 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:33.040 to like just leave a city, right, like especially like 105 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:34.839 you were in New York City at the time, you said, 106 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:39.360 and to make a big move. To me, you're in La, Okay, Yeah, 107 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:41.319 so you're in La at the time where this moved 108 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:46.040 to equally two of the biggest cities in America, right, 109 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:50.000 very social places where people lots of movement. And to 110 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:52.920 just pick up two months later and move it's a 111 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:56.120 big deal. You know, what do you think inside of 112 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:58.839 you shifted, you know at that moment, right, what was 113 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.120 what was the thing that just said snapped into place 114 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:04.160 for you and said this has got to be it. 115 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:09.040 I think it was almost just kind of observing my 116 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:13.560 own emotional reaction to that, you know, seeing the tears, 117 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:17.879 like being unable to deny how deeply I felt this 118 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:20.079 to be my calling and something that I was just 119 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:23.639 interested in exploring for myself and ultimately to share with others. 120 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:26.639 There was just kind of no denying it at that point. 121 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:32.279 So yeah, and then also to feel the connection. I 122 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.560 didn't actually know who doctor Laude was at the time. 123 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:38.439 This was my first time, you know, I'd found his 124 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:41.319 book somehow, I don't remember exactly how, but I was 125 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:45.399 new to him. And so I think that something else 126 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:49.040 clicked in that moment of like, oh, like you know, 127 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:52.399 he can be my guide, like I will, I will, 128 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:55.360 Like I found someone who can be my guide. It's 129 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:57.639 kind of like when the student is ready, the teacher 130 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.600 appears like he appeared to me in that So true, 131 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:04.120 and so I felt safe to be like, all right, 132 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.319 we're going got it? 133 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.079 Got it? Yeah? And it requires a sense of like 134 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:14.360 relinquishment of control to be led and to be guided 135 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:18.480 by somebody. Right, so beautiful. I love it, Like I 136 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:21.240 almost like I'm just envisioning you in that in that 137 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:25.439 in that space, on that day and having those those 138 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:29.959 energetic shifts and the call really stand forward. Yeah, now 139 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:32.279 some of us have a call for the healing arts. 140 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:37.240 It's something that I'm also embodying recently as well. And 141 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:39.600 just like you, there's a sense of avoidance, you know, 142 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:45.559 where like you know, situations, things you know, like maybe 143 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:48.080 I've been a career coach for twelve years, but I 144 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:51.200 realized that I was healing people. I was giving them optimism, 145 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:55.240 joy and a sense of confidence. Right. What do you 146 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:58.919 think was your avoidance during that period where like things 147 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:01.799 keep coming up like like hey, Samantha, this is kind 148 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.960 of for you. What do you think was your hesitance 149 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:07.559 to to move forward in that direction? 150 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:14.600 Well maybe kind of just sometimes it's hard to be 151 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:16.879 asked to step up and really make changes in your 152 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:17.360 own life. 153 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:19.639 And that's what this journey has been for me. 154 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:23.879 Like first and foremost, it was utilizing these principles of 155 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:27.360 vir Veta to heal myself and to work on myself 156 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:30.120 and to learn about myself and to meet myself you know, 157 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.240 it was all this journey to the self, and that 158 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:35.759 can be an intimidating journey because that's kind of like 159 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:37.840 the real shit. 160 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:38.919 You know that. 161 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:43.720 It's it's and to do it and to step into it. Yeah, 162 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:49.559 and it's obstant choice to keep stepping toward that. And yeah, 163 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:53.279 I also think that I think just kind of my 164 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:56.600 own and I still see this in myself today, but 165 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:00.559 issues around making commitments and like wanting to go experience 166 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:02.879 all the flavors of life and go here and go there, 167 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:04.639 and do this and do that, and build a lot 168 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:08.519 of one story buildings. Finally it became clear to me, like, well, 169 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:10.840 I'm ready to start building a two story, a three story, 170 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:15.000 a four story building. Like I oh me, that's that 171 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:17.799 was difficult because I'm just kind of like grabbing, grabbing, 172 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:18.559 And I'm still like that. 173 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:19.960 I still notice that tendency. 174 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:23.919 Yeah mm hmmmm, I get it. I get It's like, 175 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:27.360 do you want the chocolate bar or the bag of skittles. 176 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:30.600 The bag of scales gives you all the colors and flavors. Well, 177 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:32.960 the chocolate bar, well it it tastes yummy, but there's 178 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:37.559 so much other cool things in the world, right, Yeah, yeah, 179 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:40.960 what would you recommend. Yeah, I think a lot of 180 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:45.840 people struggle with that too, particularly people that are very spiritual. 181 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:49.279 What would you recommend for someone who you know does 182 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:52.000 want to like experience as much of the world, but 183 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:54.840 you know, life sort of like demands that you that 184 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:58.279 you create something, something you know that like for legacy 185 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:00.480 or something that just has a great found that you 186 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:02.600 could build on. What do you think is a good 187 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.639 like piece of advice for someone that kind of has 188 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:10.039 that personality, but it's having a calling to build something. 189 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:15.559 I would say that this is something that has been 190 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:17.679 said to me over the years and it really helped me. 191 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:22.399 It's like, whatever we do, we're going in the same direction. 192 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:25.720 Like the surfer finds God out on a wave, you know, 193 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:28.639 the architect finds God when they deepen and deepen into 194 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:32.159 their practice as an architect. And it's like it's it's 195 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:35.080 all one thing, Like we don't have the time this 196 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:38.759 lifetime to become a masterful surfer, a masterful architect, a 197 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:41.679 masterful engineer, a masterful body worker, a master like it's 198 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.679 not actually possible this lifetime, so. 199 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:47.960 You know, just choose one. 200 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.639 And it's hilarious to hear me even say that because, 201 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:52.879 like I'm saying, I've chosen so many different things, but 202 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.519 as I kind of like anchor into one, like I 203 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:59.320 see what that does, like moving toward and by no 204 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:02.919 means a mass about moving toward that, you know, committing 205 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:09.159 committing one step after the next in one direction. Yeah, 206 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.360 I mean that's been kind of like the deepest growth 207 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:11.639 for me. 208 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.480 So I have to say that's probably one of my 209 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:19.639 favorite things I've ever heard while doing this podcast. I 210 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.639 love that the surfer finds God in the wave, the 211 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:28.120 reiki master finds you know, God in transferring energy and 212 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:30.879 unblock and energy. I love that. Yeah, it's so deep 213 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:35.279 that actually like gave me the goosebumps here. So you're 214 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:38.639 so obviously you've been through a journey, right and you 215 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:42.879 said before your veda there was you know, going through 216 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:48.600 like Chinese practices or Chinese methodologies. Tell me about like 217 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:51.000 what that meant for you, because obviously you were out 218 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:53.879 there searching for something. Did you have things happen in 219 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:57.519 your life that sort of you know, brought you to 220 00:12:57.720 --> 00:13:00.240 a healing journey And now obviously you're on the other 221 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:02.639 side of the coin where you're healing, helping others heal, 222 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:05.360 but Yeah, was there a journey there that occurred that 223 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:09.759 you sought out something else, you know, to help you 224 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:13.120 to get more whole or remember yourself. 225 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:14.519 Yeah. 226 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:17.159 Yeah, the way you're wording it really resonates with me 227 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:20.799 because that's what I was doing, like searching, searching, seeking, seeking. 228 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:26.559 I had basically I had chronic back pain, and I 229 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:29.600 dealt with that for probably over fifteen years. It's kind 230 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:32.240 of since childhood, and that kind of put me on 231 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:36.679 this journey of seeking so much help outside of myself, 232 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.919 really constantly kind of giving my power to someone outside 233 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:43.759 of myself. Can the PT help me? Can the body 234 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.080 worker help me? Can the Chinese medicine doctor help me? 235 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:47.559 Like? Can you help me? Can you help me? 236 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:49.879 I'm in this office, I'm in that office, Like, can 237 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:55.200 someone help me, you know, outside of myself. And while 238 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.840 a lot of those while I did receive help in 239 00:13:57.879 --> 00:14:02.159 some relief from these various practitioners, it finally became clear 240 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:04.360 to me that it's like this is an inside job, 241 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:06.600 you know, Like, of course we can reach out to 242 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:09.120 people who are expert their fields for help, but like, 243 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:11.919 what is actually happening here within me? Like what is 244 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:15.360 this mysterious chronic back pain? That no one could really 245 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:20.159 help me find a cure for. And everyone was just 246 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:23.720 kind of speaking at it in their lens. So, you know, 247 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:27.440 the physical therapist says, do this strengthening exercises. The chiropractor says, 248 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:30.480 let me crack your back every Tuesday. You know, everyone 249 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:33.720 just uses their lens to speak, which is super valid, 250 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:34.879 But I'm like, what's my lens? 251 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:37.399 Like, what's actually happening for me? Where is this back 252 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:38.440 pain coming from? 253 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:43.200 So that combined with I had been taking birth control 254 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:45.960 in my late teens and early twenties, and when I 255 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:48.879 stopped taking birth control, I didn't start my period again. 256 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:53.399 And it was a Chinese medicine practitioner that did. Within 257 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:56.519 a month with through needling and herbs, my period was 258 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:57.240 started again. 259 00:14:57.480 --> 00:14:58.120 So it's kind of. 260 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.679 Walking this line of the how powerful this medicine was. 261 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.240 Like I would leave my appointments with him, but I 262 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:07.759 wouldn't leave. I'd stay there and keep asking questions. He's like, ma'am, 263 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:09.960 like I have another client, you know. I'm just like, 264 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:11.039 I can't let you think. 265 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:13.120 And I love that. 266 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:15.799 I was so curious, you know, and so I was 267 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:19.279 seeing the potency of it, but also still that was 268 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:21.879 an external kind of projection like can you help me? 269 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:22.559 Can you help me? 270 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:26.360 It was still like that, but as I, you know, 271 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:29.759 kind of in my Chinese medicine study was always just 272 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:33.480 very informal questioning my practitioners or reading a few books. 273 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:33.759 Here and there. 274 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:38.200 And then as I kind of leaned more towards the 275 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:43.720 Arabada path, I realized all ariveda is really about, is 276 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:47.919 you know, giving us guidance to understand our true nature 277 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:50.240 and to read our own book. That's what my teacher, 278 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:53.559 doctor Lot always says, Like the whole practice of aerveda 279 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:56.480 is first of all figuring out how to read your 280 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:59.759 own book, and then if you feel like sharing these tools, 281 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:03.759 these ancient you know, practices helping other people read their 282 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:08.200 own books. So that to me, and that combined with 283 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:12.120 just the ancientness of this wisdom, like that's what felt 284 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:16.279 so safe and empowering to me. Because the modern day 285 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:20.879 the mind, the western medicine system, like it's very mental 286 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:26.480 and very confusing and very not rooted in holistic healing 287 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:29.360 and very trendy. 288 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:30.879 Even you know this. 289 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:34.200 Fad, that fad, this vegetables, yes, this vegetables that no 290 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:36.679 eat meat, don't meet, don't eat meat, like all of 291 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:40.440 this trending and it's just like wow, that is such 292 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:44.080 a whirlwind of confusion. So anchoring things back into the 293 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:50.399 ancient practices is what feels the most comforting to me 294 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:53.240 because it's like these are time tested, five thousand year 295 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:53.960 old practices. 296 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:59.240 Yeah, it's incredible right that. I think there's almost like 297 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:03.399 a full circle happening shift happening with society right now. 298 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:08.640 We're just uh, all the quantum tests and physics and 299 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:13.279 it's all pointing right back that the these ancient practices 300 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:19.519 had it right some way, somehow, this ancient wisdom, you know, 301 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:23.039 the Western world had completely forgot. They got too much 302 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:26.559 in their own head, created structures and things that are 303 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:29.720 aren't necessarily the most friendly to the human body right 304 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:31.799 into the human psyche. 305 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:32.400 Uh. 306 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:35.759 But some way, somehow, the the all the tests that 307 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:39.799 they continue to crash molecules and atoms and and how 308 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:44.640 these particles behave are just pointing to that this Eastern 309 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:48.640 practices or really ancient wisdom from down from the from 310 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:51.160 the Mayas to the Aztecs, to the Incas to the 311 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:57.559 to Uh in India and in China, and Western practices, sorry, 312 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:01.720 Eastern practices, that they all had something in common that 313 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:05.039 you know, it all's internal, right, it's a it's a 314 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:08.720 journey of within, as you stated, and so it's it's 315 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:11.079 so beautiful. By the way, I'm so curious, now, how's 316 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:11.799 your back pain? 317 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:14.640 My back pain is gone. 318 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:18.960 I haven't had any back pain about five or six years. 319 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:24.440 And that's actually kind of the full little story around 320 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:27.240 some should I go into it a little bit. 321 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:28.880 There's there's a doctor. 322 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:29.640 This is your show. 323 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:34.119 This is your show, Samantha, doctor Starno, who he's cast 324 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:38.240 away now, but he was a Western doctor, but he 325 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:41.200 was kind of obsessed with in the eighties this mind 326 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:41.920 body connection. 327 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:47.160 Again, Eastern philosophy understands the mind body connection. Western medicine 328 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:50.000 wasn't totally on board in the eighties, so he keeps 329 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:52.519 kind of talking about mind body connection, mind body connection. 330 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:56.480 He wrote this incredible book called it's like the corniest title, 331 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:59.119 Healing your Back Pain, I think is the name of it. 332 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:02.559 And I mean, you can't get any closer to what 333 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:04.000 you need right totally. 334 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:08.160 And my final kind of extreme flare up of my back, 335 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:11.079 I was laying on the ground, you know, stuck down there, 336 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:15.960 unable to move because the whole musculature had spasmed, and 337 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:18.759 I saw on my book shelf, just a couple of 338 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:21.720 shelves up like this book, you know, Healing Your Back 339 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:23.720 Pain that I'd been carrying around for a couple of 340 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:26.240 years and somehow never read small book. 341 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:28.599 I just grabbed it off the shelf and read it in. 342 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:32.599 One sitting, and yeah, and it sounds wild, but I 343 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:38.880 haven't had back pain since because basically, wow, it's all 344 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:39.319 kind of. 345 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:41.079 Linked to pain. 346 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:43.799 A lot of the pain in them that is really common, 347 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:48.359 especially in the West, like neck pain, low back pain, sciatica, 348 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.240 hit pain, these really common areas for pain. 349 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:54.440 He kind of. 350 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:56.759 Boils it down to all of that being associated with 351 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:59.720 repressed emotions basically and oftentimes repressed rage. 352 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:02.519 So that was kind of the. 353 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:05.279 Beginning of my journey with rage because I didn't think 354 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:05.920 I was angry. 355 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:09.240 I remember being like rage, Like what rage? 356 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:12.920 And after kind of reading through this book and doing 357 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:17.039 some of the practices that he suggested, the back pain 358 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:18.720 went away and then the rage surfaced. 359 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:20.640 So that was a pretty ragefull couple of years. 360 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:25.440 Oh wow, oh my god, I can't even imagine you. 361 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:27.759 Your energy is You show up in the world so 362 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:36.759 soft and gentle, I want to see raging Samantha. Very cool. Yeah, 363 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:38.480 go ahead. You wanted to say something. 364 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:40.799 Yeah, yeah, just that you know, there's all of it there, 365 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:43.720 And I think that's the thing is like when we suppress. 366 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:46.160 Of course, we talked a lot about that a lot 367 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:46.640 in Bridge. 368 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:49.559 It's like when we're suppressing certain emotions, they're going to 369 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:51.599 be popping up in some way, shape or form. 370 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:56.000 And for me it was through body pain of the body. 371 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:00.599 Yeah, wow, incredible. So, by the way, I've had some 372 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:02.559 back pain, so I'm going to have to read that book. 373 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:06.039 And I just I loved the visualization of you completely 374 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:09.359 in pain and like kind of like just you know, 375 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:11.519 laying there and you look over to your shelf and 376 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:15.559 you're like, you know, I should probably read that. Yes, 377 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:20.279 I mean, like God in the universe. It's so beautiful. 378 00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:22.640 I love that as a story. You know, I would 379 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:24.759 love to hear you tell that story on stage, to 380 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:28.319 be honest. It sounds so good. 381 00:21:27.599 --> 00:21:30.519 Yeah, it's a key. 382 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.279 Yeah, please do, please do, please do Yeah. Yeah, yeah, 383 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:38.640 I can't wait. I'm gonna go rage mode. Yeah. So 384 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:42.839 let's get into your practice, right, So are your vita 385 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:46.759 you found yourself, how you moved to New Mexico. How 386 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:49.559 many years did you study this? And then when did 387 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:52.240 you say, like it's time for me to help other 388 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:53.400 people read their book. 389 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:58.720 So I studied with doctor Lott for two years first year, 390 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:01.720 and then I took a year off from and I 391 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:03.559 stopped studying with doctor Lodd for a year and I 392 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:07.839 went to India and I studied with someone named doctor Ethla. 393 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:10.279 She's she lives in poone. 394 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:14.720 She's an Indian woman who's her entire practice is devoted 395 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:18.200 to kind of preconception through postpartum care. 396 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:20.039 So she's an aromatic doctor. 397 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:23.839 And I had found actually a good friend of mine 398 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:26.839 who was studying with doctor Loud our first year together. 399 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:30.680 She found doctor Ethla on the Internet through a search. 400 00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:34.079 And by the time we were over there in India, 401 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:38.480