WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:06.879 Welcome to the Crystal Coach Show with me your host, Anahatta, 2 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:12.359 helping you live every day with clarity, guidance, and practical wisdom. 3 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:19.760 Are you feeling overwhelmed, anxious, maybe disconnected? Do you ever feel. 4 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:22.399 Like you don't know how to live a life of 5 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:23.600 peace and joy? 6 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:28.079 I am Anahada Roach the Crystal Coach and during this 7 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:32.679 show we channel divine wisdom through stories of service, spirituality, 8 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:34.479 and stones for self care. 9 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.479 The Crystal Coach Show leaves you with a feeling of 10 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:40.880 connection and the clarity it takes towards becoming the best 11 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:44.159 version of yourself as you hear from thought leaders and 12 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:48.240 many others to help you ignite the crystalline nature of 13 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:52.320 who you really are. Stay tuned. The Crystal Coach Show 14 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:53.119 starts now. 15 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.479 Hello and welcome to the Crystal Coach Show. I'm your 16 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.679 host Anahata, and today we have a real treat. We're 17 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:07.879 going to talk crystals, all the crystals, all the time. Listen. 18 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:10.760 A podcast called The Crystal Coat Show wouldn't be really 19 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:15.040 legitimate without some episodes being about crystals and stones, right, 20 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.799 So in this one you'll hear our guest, Ryan Gorman 21 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:23.280 talk about his travels and experiences with the mineral Kingdom, 22 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:26.920 and yet you get to listen in today as two 23 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:32.359 crystal enthusiasts geek out on the subject of collecting stones, 24 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:36.920 creating community, and working with the energies of the Earth's minerals. 25 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:40.640 It's guaranteed fun and it's going to be educational, So 26 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:43.719 stay with us. But the first thing I want to 27 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:49.439 do is introduce you to my guest, Ryan Gorman. Ryan 28 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:54.159 is a naturalist, artist, adventurer, and mineral expert. He's a 29 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:58.359 free spirited crystal collector and seller. His passions for travel, 30 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:02.280 rock climbing, and nature led him to become interested in 31 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:05.920 the study of minerals and the symbiotic relationship between Mother 32 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:10.879 Earth and all who inhabit her. Early family trips to 33 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:14.039 the Rocky Mountain National Park the Smoky Mountains in the 34 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:17.080 Grand Teton National Park helped Ryan to be able to 35 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:21.680 appreciate the natural wonders and beauty of Mother Earth, and 36 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:24.599 as a young man, Ryan was drawn to the mineral 37 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:28.879 kingdom while traveling in California, where he spent many summers 38 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:34.599 at Yosemite National Park rock climbing, just really experiencing the 39 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.360 frequencies of the crystals and stones, in the granite right, So, 40 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:43.120 being an artist and a naturalist, the mineral and crystal 41 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:47.560 formations became a source of fascination and study for him. Then, 42 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:51.280 in twenty twelve, driven by a vision of creating a 43 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:56.240 place of community, education, and peace, Ryan collected a team 44 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:00.560 of friends to help produce the first Midwest Christal Fest, 45 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:05.800 a festival of crystals, spiritual connection, music, food, and fellowship. 46 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.360 More than fifteen hundred people came to that first free 47 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:13.280 weekend event in Saint Louis, Missouri, and the goal of 48 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:17.039 every subsequent Crystal Fest is to provide children and their 49 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:21.360 families with opportunities to experience and learn about natural wonders 50 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:26.159 as well as the traditional indigenous indigenous uses of minerals 51 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:30.759 and plants. Ryan currently uses his artistic talents in tandem 52 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:34.879 with the crystals and stones, with the lapidary arts, jemstone faceting, 53 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:39.840 wire wrapping and silversmithing. The Gorman Medicine bags are prized 54 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:42.680 for the quality of craftsmanship and the energy of the 55 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:46.800 wrapped crystals and stones. When he isn't off rock hounding, 56 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:50.719 climbing or gemstone prospecting, Ryan's native Saint Louis is where 57 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:53.240 he calls home and he offers some of his crystal 58 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.240 fines for sale at local gym and mineral shows, and 59 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:00.240 also sells crystals and his medicine bags through Instagram at 60 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:04.280 Blue Feather Minerals. Welcome to the show, Ryan. 61 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:10.159 Thank you Anna. I'm really happy to be here. I've 62 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:13.360 been looking forward to being a part of your podcast 63 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:15.840 for a while now, so yeah, it's very exciting to 64 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:17.040 be here. Great. 65 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:22.000 Great, I was going to I felt felt really bad. 66 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:24.720 I had my my my Gorman penn it the one 67 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:27.639 you made me after the Crystal first Crystal Fest, and 68 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:29.120 I had it. I was going to be wearing it. 69 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:32.319 I see this is this is a price. It is price, 70 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:40.720 but oh look a bird I forgot. Oh well, listen, 71 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:45.160 I want to start with your story about your awakening experience, 72 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:49.079 you know, the the rocky mountains at Grand Tetans, Yosemite, 73 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:52.560 Mont Shasta. You know I've got over the years, we've 74 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:55.319 we've known each other. It's it's we've I've heard a 75 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.399 lot of different stories. But I'm really interested in you 76 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:03.560 if you can share with our listeners, what was you know, 77 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:07.279 how you kind of kept getting drawn into nature and 78 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:11.279 minerals and how you just started like it was the 79 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:14.240 call of the earth and crystals. You started studying those 80 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:16.839 minerals and their chemical and metaphysical properties. 81 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:25.120 Go sure. So my twin brother and I, we were 82 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:28.560 both raised by my mom and she was a single mom, 83 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:33.639 so a lot of respect for her, and as we 84 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.879 were growing up, she always liked to take us out 85 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:42.120 to different regions of the country. Sometimes we would go 86 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:45.560 east to the Smoky Mountains. Sometimes we go west to 87 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:50.040 the Rockies. But as a young child, my brother and I, 88 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:53.560 we were always really excited to be on the hiking trail. 89 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.240 And you know, I'm a taurust, which is at Earth sign, 90 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:01.879 so often, you know, I would be really into the surroundings. 91 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.480 But you know a lot of my fixation was on 92 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.759 the ground, you know, looking at the you know, the 93 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:11.680 trail and looking at all the cool rocks that were 94 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:15.000 just like protruding out towards me. Because you know, as 95 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:18.720 you're younger, you're a little closer to the ground. So yeah, 96 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:24.079 early on, early on, Yeah, any mountain region we would 97 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:27.920 go do, I just would be infatuated with the different 98 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:31.240 you know, the colors and the fields and the textures 99 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.319 of the stones on the trail. And then I soon enough, 100 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:36.839 I had to take some home, you know, and then 101 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:39.560 I had a box in the car. And then soon enough, 102 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:42.560 my mom's like, you can't bring any more of those home, son, 103 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.319 there's too many of them. We already got so many. 104 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:49.720 So early on I didn't really realize. I was like, 105 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:55.040 you know, basically starting my medicinal stone collection from the 106 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.399 hiking trails. But you know, that's how it all got started, 107 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:00.319 just by Foxy. 108 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:03.160 Really, Oh, I did the same thing, Ryan. I had 109 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:05.399 a box of rocks that were my friends. I mean, 110 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:08.839 I would go anywhere. We'd go on walks and you know, 111 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:10.879 there was some woods out behind our house and we 112 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:13.160 would go on walks as a family, and I would 113 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:15.879 always find something to pick up and bring home. And 114 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:17.879 I love this I had. It was like a big 115 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:20.920 shoe box, and I kept it under my bed, and 116 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:24.160 I had it, you know, all throughout high school. And 117 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:25.800 then when I left to go to college, you know, 118 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:28.240 I left my rocks under my bed. I came home 119 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:30.439 and my mother had cleaned out my room and thrown 120 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:32.160 away my box of rocks. 121 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:39.040 So I've heard those titles before, but usually if you're 122 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:42.120 really into the rocks, you just you know, you find more, 123 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:45.399 you keep persevering. Sometimes you got art over. 124 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.519 Right, Yeah, exactly exactly. 125 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:55.800 So you know, they can't stop collecting sometimes it's what 126 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:57.920 we need to be, like you know what, mom threw 127 00:07:57.959 --> 00:07:59.120 that away, I got to start over. 128 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:04.279 Yeah, but it was heartbreaking that were my friends. I 129 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:10.439 could talk to them, m Yeah, So well, you know 130 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:15.680 you were You've your knowledge of the of the chemical 131 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:22.240 properties of stones is amazing, Like you know, I mean 132 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:25.160 I've got quite a bit of study that I can 133 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:29.120 pull from, but I always, you know, you're always surprising 134 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:31.920 me with a you know, like, well this rock has 135 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:33.759 got this and this and this in it, you know, 136 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:37.399 and I'm not just know the primary one. How did 137 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:40.559 you what? You're mostly self taught, right. 138 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:46.080 Yeah, pretty much? So, like I said, as a youth, 139 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:48.360 I you know, I had a pretty big collection, and 140 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:51.440 you know, through high school is really when I started 141 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:55.000 started getting an idea of what was going on, because 142 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:59.519 you know, the geology class was really easy for me. Biology, 143 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:04.200 all the Earth's science classes were you know, it's one 144 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:07.879 of my natural talents. So I just kind of understood 145 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:13.120 how the chemical compositions then led to sometimes how the 146 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.360 indigenous peoples would use it and it you know, it 147 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:19.960 was it basically proved that they knew about how to 148 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:24.799 balance our bodies chemically intuitively. And then you know, I've 149 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:28.000 got a lot of Celtic in my background from Europe, 150 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:30.399 so I just kind of tuned into it as well, 151 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:34.879 and I started being able to bridge the gaps of like, hey, 152 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:40.039 you know, the metaphysics goes right into the chemical compositions, 153 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:45.200 which then usually helps support the indigenous uses if you 154 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:45.759 look at it. 155 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:48.759 Oh sure, yeah, I mean science is just now catching 156 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:52.600 up to whatever the shamans of are always known about. 157 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:57.200 The on the quantum level, there's this frequency match, right, 158 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:00.639 and that's you know, the im minerals and your body 159 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:04.039 the same as the minerals and stones and crystals and 160 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:10.279 certain certain matches helped align things that are within the 161 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:13.360 body's system that's out of whack. 162 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:19.240 Yep, pretty much. To put that simply, you know, our 163 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:22.799 blood is full of little micromnerals, and when we get 164 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:26.679 around the stones and nature and plant medicine, they're always 165 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:30.240 having a chemical reaction and having a really deep conversation. 166 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:36.840 Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Well, anyway, I just I was kind 167 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:39.200 of curious because I don't think we've ever talked about 168 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:44.879 this in particular, how you really got, you know, the 169 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:51.320 knowledge that you carry now aside from our previous lifetimes 170 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:55.720 in the miraa of knowing all of that, but in 171 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:58.159 this lifetime, how did you what did you do to 172 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:00.000 go about getting your crystal knowledge? 173 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:06.639 Well, so I don't know. In two thousand and nine, 174 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:10.000 I moved back to Saint Louis, and I had been 175 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:13.320 collecting for a while seriously. But then I started looking 176 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:17.799 at why I was doing it, and I started realizing 177 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:22.559 that that's what probably some Celtic people intuitively do. We 178 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:25.759 kind of you know, if you're a stone person, you 179 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.799 you know, usually kind of like to balance your your 180 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:32.399 living area with you know, stones, and then I would 181 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:36.000 be balancing the outdoor herb garden. I'd put a little 182 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:40.519 crystal under my basil and under my lavender and rosemary. 183 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:44.159 So I just I just realized, Hey, your ancestors have 184 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:48.720 been doing this, Ryan, working with the different minerals that 185 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:52.200 are in the area, you know, wherever you are. So 186 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:54.279 then I realized that you have that gift and you 187 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:57.159 got it real you know, it comes in pretty strong. 188 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:00.720 So I just started realizing, hey, you know, this is 189 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:04.919 what the Native Americans would say, Hey, Ryan's a rock 190 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:09.279 talker or Ryan's or an as a yeah, and as 191 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:12.320 a plant speaker. You know, it's an example of us 192 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:18.960 getting the whispers from that natural kingdom and somehow through 193 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:22.279 our channels we know what to do with it. So, 194 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:25.759 you know, I think basically, I'm always going to be 195 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.399 a student. I'm always going to be learning here on earth. 196 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:32.600 So I just you know, right around in two thousand 197 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:35.399 and nine twenty twelve, time I started realizing, hey, this 198 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:38.240 is a gift of yours and you have the ability 199 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:45.279 to help others understand the medical applications to help themselves 200 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:48.679 and others. And then you know, through the work with 201 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:53.879 the Native American tribes of North America and South America, 202 00:12:54.039 --> 00:13:00.559 they also helped empower my understanding of just you know, 203 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:03.320 we have all the natural tools in front of us, 204 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.480 we just sometimes need to, like you said earlier, Bridge, 205 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:11.600 the you know, the two worlds of you know, the 206 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:16.159 science and then the metaphysics, because it's it's all basically 207 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:17.200 saying the same. 208 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:20.679 Thing, right and and as I say, the Shamans have 209 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.399 always known that, but it you know, science is just 210 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:29.080 not catching up to that. What was your first UH 211 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:34.720 book that you got and studied about crystals? And Stones. 212 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:40.240 I think the first book I got a hoove was 213 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:42.000 The Crystal Body from Judy Hall. 214 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:48.840 Yeah that, yeah, I had that. That wasn't my first one. 215 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:55.679 My first one was the Book of Stones with Yeah 216 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:59.960 Nisha Osion. It was my who ended up being my teacher. 217 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:08.039 But then I also have you know Melody's book, you know, yeah, 218 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:16.639 big one. Literally is this this big you know, what 219 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:17.000 is it? 220 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:17.440 What is it? 221 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:24.919 Something of the earth, Treasures of the Earth. I I 222 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:27.399 see it in my head. I can't read the title. 223 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:33.679 I'm just working out on that. But anyway, those for 224 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.080 those of you listening, those are those are books that 225 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:39.919 are really good to start with, just to kind of 226 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.639 give you a sense of the frequencies that crystals and 227 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:50.200 stones can hold. And you know, but just like anything else, 228 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:55.240 if you ask, like, for example, a bee keeper, how 229 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:58.360 you ask two bee keepers one question, you're going to 230 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:02.000 get like maybe five answers. So there's no really one 231 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:06.360 way to work with crystals and stones. It's just that 232 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.720 you have to the more knowledge you have, the more 233 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:17.759 than you can then find that particular alignment for your 234 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:23.480 own frequency. But I use I use the guidelines that 235 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:27.720 Nayosha gave me because actually she's my teacher, but I've 236 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:34.120 also been I've also learned from another Crystal teacher called 237 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:40.200 Sarah Thomas, the Upper Clarity School, and you know, she 238 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:44.080 comes at it from the Do Dao, the Taoist kind 239 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:49.840 of perspective, so the Chinese medicine aspect of it, and 240 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:54.639 that's really fascinating too. So there's just so many ways 241 00:15:54.679 --> 00:16:02.960 that the Mineral Kingdom can work with us because we 242 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:07.879 are part of her and our physical bodies are part 243 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:12.320 of her. So that's what what resonates when we are 244 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:19.320 here in body, in the integrated soul body alignment using 245 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:25.559 those frequencies of stones. We we were we first met 246 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:29.240 at a gem and Mineral show. Was that your very 247 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:29.840 first one? 248 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:36.200 It was a leonic career? I think I definitely. I 249 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:42.559 think I had been doing uh the stone shows four 250 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:45.919 than fires. I think maybe two years in it. 251 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:51.799 Okay, well I knew it was in the beginning beginning 252 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:56.840 stages and yeah, was it it was? Was it this rock? 253 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:02.600 Was it this coonzit piece that you introduced me to? Kunzai? 254 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:08.480 So I went through my collection and I'm thinking, I 255 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:12.960 think maybe Ryan Gate I bought this from Ryan. I 256 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:14.759 don't know. Does it look like something. 257 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:19.319 Yeah, you might have got me. 258 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:23.200 Yeah, because it's a pretty big chunk. You can't the 259 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:28.880 camera's not showing the pretty pink of it, but it 260 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:32.559 is pink. Looks white there in the camera, but yeah, 261 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:36.200 it's pink. Anyway, that that was. That was the first 262 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:39.559 time we met, and I just there was you know, 263 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:46.279 your knowledge was really impressed me of how you were 264 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:51.799 making recommendations and stuff. So that's how at least that's 265 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:53.799 how we bonded. And then later on we kind of 266 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:56.599 had some shared memories. That was kind of fun to 267 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:01.440 discover that. You know, you're an r artists and I 268 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:05.960 have to show this to you. Do you remember this? 269 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:11.240 Yes, that's you. 270 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:16.720 Yeah, you did that. You you you drew that for me, 271 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:21.559 just freehand, and I've had it all these years. It's 272 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:25.079 sits underneath in my in my office. It sits underneath 273 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:29.200 my tray of stones, just supporting the frequency of that. 274 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:32.559 So I thought you could get a kick out of it. 275 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:41.960 That's cool. Integrating the art the art into healing work. 276 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:46.400 Yes, absolutely, and I knew it belonged in my healing space. 277 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:49.799 So anyway, we're going to take a real quick break 278 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:51.880 and when we come back, we're going to start talking 279 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:55.519 about how you transition from rock climbing to rock hounding 280 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:59.559 and where we're digging next. So don't go away, We'll 281 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:00.000 be right back. 282 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:06.119 Hey everybody, Oh my goodness, we have got talk radio 283 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:07.200 for all of that. 284 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:10.519 And really thank you for blazing the trail for women 285 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:13.400 in talk radio and just being such an inspiration to 286 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:14.920 me and so many other people. 287 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:16.799 What you're doing is so awesome. 288 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:20.079 And you know, without people like you there to like 289 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:22.079 really step out of the box and go for it, 290 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:23.599 I don't know if someone like me would have ever 291 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:25.559 ended up here, but I'm so happy to be here, 292 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:27.640 and yeah, I just want to thank you for everything 293 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:28.000 you're doing. 294 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.799 You're one of my major inspirations. 295 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:36.519 If you're feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or in grief, I'm here 296 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:39.680 to help. I'm Fade Out into the healer and founder 297 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:43.359 of Faye Inspired Healing through soul guided sessions. I help 298 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:46.920 you reconnect with your body's wisdom and inner truth, whether 299 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:49.920 you're healing from loss, letting go of pain, or rising 300 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:54.400 into elevated energies. My work combines energy clearing, grief support, 301 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:57.880 and spiritual coaching. Schedule a session or learn more at 302 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:03.599 Faye Inspired healing dot com. 303 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.319 Here's your transformational tip for today. Make the big things 304 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:10.480 little and the little things big. Oh how often we 305 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:15.279 get this one backwards? Catastrophizing things, making mountains out of molehills, 306 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:20.119 using our imagination to worry instead of wonder, well, simultaneously 307 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:34.440 downplaying our accomplishments. 308 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:39.279 Hi, welcome back to the Crystal Coach Show. I'm your 309 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:42.680 host Ana Hatta, and we're talking today with my buddy 310 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:47.599 Ryan Gorman, who is just another crystal enthusiast just like 311 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:50.599 I am. And we're geeking out on how minerals and 312 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:55.759 the frequencies of stones all work together. And we've talked 313 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:59.599 about Ryan's story about how he went from you know, 314 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:03.920 just fascinated with nature and really got it expressed himself 315 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:07.279 as with this kind of fixation on crystals and stones, 316 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:10.519 and I have a similar story too, But we're going 317 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:15.279 to kind of segue from that into how you go 318 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:21.559 from rock climbing to rock hounding. Ryan, you were you know, 319 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:24.920 we spent all those summers in Yosemite going up the face, 320 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:30.680 you know, the sheer granite walls. What what? How did 321 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:33.920 you make that transition from being a rock climber to 322 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:34.720 a rock Hounder. 323 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:39.319 It's a good story, so yeah, I'd love to talk 324 00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:45.200 about this one. So for climbing, I started getting into 325 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:49.440 that my teenage years. I started working this outdoor shop 326 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:55.519 call Pine Shop, located at the time Mister Groves and 327 00:21:55.599 --> 00:22:01.599 you know they're you know, hiking, backpacking in climbing shop. 328 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:06.759 So I started work there and soon enough started getting 329 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:14.440 into rhyming. Pretteriously. It was like main pass in my twenties. 330 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:19.799 So pretty much almost three year twenties, I would go 331 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:25.440 to Yosemite Nationals to go rhyming, and some I would 332 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:29.440 spend all summer there just hanging out in the area 333 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.880 and climbing on the boulders, and sometimes we'd go up 334 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:37.160 the big walls and spend a couple of days on 335 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:40.400 the wall, you know, just kind of hang out with 336 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:43.920 on the Golden granite and just just do our best 337 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:46.759 to enjoy ourselves in that. Like it's just such a 338 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:50.920 beautiful National park out there in Yimity. So yeah, my 339 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:55.559 twenties was pretty heavy in rock climbing. And you know, 340 00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:58.559 I at that time, I knew I loved rocks, and 341 00:22:58.599 --> 00:23:01.839 I knew I loved hanging on to them, but I 342 00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:05.799 hadn't really gotten full fledged into the you know, the 343 00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:11.400 metaphysics at that point. So right around let's see two 344 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:13.279 thousand and nine, I moved back to Saint Louis, and 345 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:16.440 you know, Saint Louis doesn't have that many big rocks here, 346 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:20.920 so I started kind of just getting into you know, 347 00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:24.759 the local minerals that are found kind of near Potosi, 348 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:29.200 the Jersey quartzes and the stuff you'll find creeks, so 349 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:35.240 you know, bussels, the row heads. Yeah, miss pretty we're 350 00:23:35.240 --> 00:23:39.599 a very good krillin and rock hounding state. And you 351 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:42.720 know then, you know, right in my mid mid to 352 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:47.200 LATEI as I started to realize, hey, Saint Louis, Zuri 353 00:23:47.319 --> 00:23:49.799 is a great place to find in the crystals. And 354 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:52.960 then I started, you know, kind of learning from a 355 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:56.519 lot of people around me that, you know, the Native 356 00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:59.799 Americans say, you know, you've got a gift to see 357 00:23:59.880 --> 00:24:04.279 these as vibrational medicine and kind of plug them into 358 00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:08.960 your own reality and others and and see how they 359 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:12.920 might benefit us from working with them. 360 00:24:13.160 --> 00:24:13.319 Right. 361 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:18.039 Yeah, there's so much Jersey, so much quartz along the 362 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.160 creeks and rivers. You just go walking through in the 363 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:25.400 woods and you're going to find them in Missouri that's 364 00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:29.160 what I'm talking about. But yeah, but it was just 365 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:31.839 it just occurred to me that we're geeking out and 366 00:24:31.880 --> 00:24:35.119 we know what rock hounding is, but our listeners may not. 367 00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:42.920 So rock hounding is the the sniffing out, if you will, 368 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:47.279 the looking for, the turning over the dirt to find 369 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:55.119 you know, crystals and stones that are I don't know 370 00:24:55.200 --> 00:25:02.440 that that are collectible and useful medicinally frequency rise and 371 00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:09.240 also just really pretty. And so that's what geeks say 372 00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:13.400 we rock hound because we're like being hounds, like you know, 373 00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:17.079 sniffing it out looking for him, but digging over, you know, 374 00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:19.920 turning over other big rocks to see if we can 375 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:24.720 find smaller rocks. But you the first time I ever 376 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:28.319 went digging for crystals was with a group with you, 377 00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:32.960 and we went to Arkansas. And you know, that's a 378 00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:37.000 pretty easy trip for people in Missouri to you know, 379 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:42.440 the next state over. But you know, there's all kinds 380 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:46.720 of beautiful courts that can be found in an Arkansas 381 00:25:46.759 --> 00:25:51.880 that kind of spills into Missouri, but it's mostly in Arkansas, right, 382 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:56.680 So where else I know you've you've been to like 383 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:01.960 Joshua Tree, California, and some other places like in the Carolinas, 384 00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:04.279 and did you go to New York. There's there's You've 385 00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:08.200 been all over the US digging for crystals, right. 386 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:15.680 Rocks, yep, yep, so yep, our first dig years ago 387 00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:19.640 Arkansas together. That was the beginning of kind of my 388 00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:24.319 career of and around the country because you know, I 389 00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:26.440 kind of slowed down on the rock climbing and then 390 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:29.240 I was like, all right, I still love traveling. I 391 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:32.519 really love seeing new places. And then I was like, 392 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:36.279 all right, well the United States just some really amazing 393 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:41.079 minerals all over. So yeah, once we went to Arkansas 394 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.839 and kind of got tuned into into the Washataw Mountains, which, 395 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:49.039 by the way, the Washataws, I believe, are one of 396 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:53.160 the only mountain ranges full of courts that run east 397 00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:57.240 west in our country. So, you know, seven hour drives 398 00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:01.200 south of Saint Louis, you know, near Little Rock, you 399 00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:05.200 run into the Washington Mountains that run east to west 400 00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:11.279 and they are literally just growing full of clear quartz crystals. 401 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:18.440