August 29, 2025 • 14 mins
How does intuition show up in everyday life—not just for psychics or energy workers, but in parenting, teaching, and even customer service? This interview is with Helen du Cros from A Space to Breathe, a holistic health practitioner whose offerings include yoga, breathwork, reiki, meditation, and sound therapy.
Helen shares how intuition weaves through her life, and how something as simple as the breath can open the door to deeper self-trust. This episode explores the many ways intuition speaks to us - through feelings, sensations, emotions, and knowing - and how each of us can discover our own unique “intuition language.”
If you’ve ever wondered how to tune in to your inner voice, this conversation will leave you inspired, grounded, and ready to listen within. You can connect with Helen on facebook, instagram or her website (coming soon).
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Michelle (00:00):
Hello curious friends and welcome to Connect to
Center, the podcast aboutlearning to listen to trust your
inner guidance to make yourlife easier.
I'm your host Michelle fromSunCloud and today I'm
interviewing Helen Du Cros fromA Space to Breathe.
Helen is a holistic healthpractitioner whose modalities
include yoga, breathwork, Reiki,meditation and sound therapy.
(00:23):
Welcome Helen.
Hi Michelle, thank you forhaving me.
It feels fabulous to be here.
It's so exciting to have youhere and I'm really looking
forward to hearing how youengage with some of the
questions I'm going to ask aboutintuition.
There's a standard set ofquestions that I ask all of the
friends that come on thispodcast, so let's get started.
(00:45):
Great.
The first one is, how does yourintuition show up in your life?
I think the most prevalent waythat intuition shows up in my
life is through parenting.
I've got two gorgeous youngboys and I am able to tune in on
(01:07):
their energies and wherethey're at whether it be after
school and I'm like okay you'retired or whether it's the
rhythms of our family and it'sthe energy of, okay, I think we
need to get out in some nature.
Helen, I really like thatframing about it relating to
your parenting and that beingthe major way it shows up in
(01:30):
your life.
Because one of the questionsthat's come to me in thinking
about who to invite onto thispodcast has been around how I
define intuition and how itshows up.
And originally my idea was tointerview people who overtly say
that they use intuition in somekind of professional sense.
(01:52):
So particularly people who arepsychics or who do breath work
or meditation.
When I engage with thosepeople, they often use the word
intuition and say, yes, theintuition is the basis of my
oracle card reading, forexample.
But then I We realize that allsorts of people who use
intuition in all sorts of waysand just don't use the word
(02:15):
intuition.
So, for example, lots of lightworkers or energy workers like
Reiki practitioners who workwith energy may not say they're
responding intuitively.
They might say that they'rejust channeling energy through
them.
But in my head, I translatethat to that, oh, they're being
intuitive.
So I've had to already start tothink, okay, it's not just the
(02:38):
psychics.
And actually, it's not evenjust the energy workers, but
actually, to some extent,anyone, because intuition really
does show up in so manydifferent ways.
Yeah, thank you.
And I really agree with that,that A lot of the time when I
was thinking about intuition,and a lot of the time I don't
(03:01):
use that as an actual word,probably in my vocabulary.
Even in my business, even whenI'm running breath work and yoga
and different sessions, I'mnaturally using my intuition,
albeit not referring to it asintuition.
And I'm reading the room, I'mreading people's wants and
(03:21):
needs.
breath brings to me a lot ofspace for my intuition to come
through as well.
But it's also a great indicatorto show where people's energies
are at.
I can tune in and have a bit ofa hunch as to, oh, hang on a
sec, they're not feelingthemselves today.
And let's not do this originalplan that we were going to do.
(03:42):
It's probably, you know, aconstant in my everyday life.
I am a swim teacher of childrenas well.
And I definitely use myintuition there.
So I can often spot theirfears, their apprehension, their
excitement, doing a certainstroke or jumping in the pool by
themselves, you know, withoutany assistance.
(04:03):
for me and yeah it is just whenI stop and do think about it it
is a constant in my everydaylife and yeah I'm quite an asset
at times and I've always hadroles in customer service as
well so I've always been able toprobably unbeknown to me that i
(04:23):
was using intuition you knowi've always been able to
identify people unique wants andneeds and therefore being able
to provide a server to you knowmeet those needs as well so yeah
listening to you makes me thinkabout the range of words that
can be used so perhaps at oneend there's a a very obvious
(04:45):
term like intuition and thenthere's other words like gut
instinct or reading the room andthen you get into really
mainstream everyday words likefeeling or being in tune it
almost makes me want to say thatjust responding to someone is
actually intuitive but then Iwant to reframe that as it's not
(05:08):
actually responding to wherethey're separate it's a being in
a place where there's that someperhaps interconnection.
So in fact, you're engagingwith that.
It's a dance.
Maybe intuition is when you'rereally dancing with someone.
Yeah, it is a dance.
And yeah, when you touched onthere, the different language
(05:30):
around intuition and go somelike the more gross, doesn't it?
So the more subtleties and thenuances.
So yeah, it's quite a widespectrum.
I did want to pick up on, youtalked about how the breath can
be a really good way in for you.
I was wondering if you couldexplain a little more about what
you meant by that.
Breathwork made quite apowerful entry into my life when
(05:53):
I became a single mom with anewborn and a two-year-old.
Because at that time, For me,intuition was my lifeline,
navigating that tricky season ofmy life.
And that's when breathworkentered.
And the breath provides me withthe space in my physical body,
(06:19):
in my energy body.
I am in my mind, in my soul, inevery cell of my body to then
be able to actually lean into myintuition from my breath and,
okay, I'm breathing quiteshallow at this moment.
What's that meaning for me?
(06:40):
So I find that the breath forme is this window.
And so it enables me to look onin into my inner landscape and
to then be able to really listento my intuition.
Well, that seems like a goodsegue into the second question
on how do you receive intuitivemessages?
(07:01):
So you've already talked a bitabout knowing and perhaps
there's some answer there aroundphysicality of your breath, but
other people hear things or seethings.
How does that information cometo you?
more often than not, it comesto me in physically and
emotionally.
So physically, I can often feellike tingles throughout my
(07:25):
actual body.
And I often feel like they'rein every cell of my body
sometimes.
Often I can feel a sense ofwarmth.
Then emotionally, I feelemotions.
So still on the feeling, Iguess, teary and sad.
So I can feel a whole range ofemotions.
So again, I feel quite deeply alot of the time.
(07:50):
I'm always interested in my ownreactions to people's answers
to this question.
Listening to you talk aboutfeeling it in every cell of your
body makes me feel so jealous.
I'm like, wow, that would be socool to be able to feel it so
deeply.
That's kind of one of thereasons I started this podcast
because when I've talked abouthow I feel intuitions, which is
(08:12):
more about hearing and seeingand some feeling and knowing.
I've had people say thatexactly back to me.
Oh, wow, I wish I could see theway you do in your mind's eye.
I really wanted everyone tounderstand, well, we all do it
actually.
And our own ways of doing itare very special and unique.
The beauty is finding out howit does happen for us, just
(08:34):
celebrating that.
The next question was about howyour intuitive ability has
evolved throughout your life.
Intuition was always there.
It showed up in my childhood infeeling emotions more deeply
than others and often beingknown as the sensitive one.
So it felt, when I was younger,it felt like too much and could
(08:59):
often feel a little bitisolating.
So I was the only one thatcould read a room.
But then as I started reading,a lot of my job roles in
customer service.
It soon became, you know, Icould externalize this.
And especially when I came toAustralia and ran a hostel for
(09:21):
10 years, we used to have lotsof guests from all around the
world coming to stay.
So when they'd walk in, I'dprobably be able to pick up on
their wants and needs beforethey'd even speak.
That's when I started readingunspoken needs.
and being able to makedecisions or help guide them
(09:41):
during their stay at, say, likethe hostel.
I'd know which reef trip tosend them on, who to send them
off on a road trip with.
Yeah, that's just when Istarted realizing this, my
intuition started having value.
I think it's really interestingat what point awareness of our
(10:02):
intuition really comes into ourlife.
I suspect just about everyonedoes exactly what you're doing
in some way, in some aspect oftheir life.
But at some point for some ofus, it becomes conscious and
then we can really value it andenhance it and maybe use it a
little more consciously as well,or even try and teach it to
others.
Absolutely.
(10:23):
What's been really big part forme was becoming a single mom.
I really had to tune in or orlisten to to almost what felt
right even under pressurebecause when I was going through
court I tuned in all the timeto my intuition what felt right
(10:43):
for the boys and Well, it got methrough it.
You know, all those experienceshave brought me to what I do
today.
And that's with a space tobreathe.
And that's how I decided on thename of my business as well.
That guides me into offeringsin my business.
And ah, light bulb moments orreflection moments.
(11:05):
Oh, okay, I'm not going to dothis.
This doesn't sit right with me.
Even through my yoga, my breathwork, my Reiki, my sound
healing.
They're all...
a weave.
So each session is unique.
whether it be a one-on-onesession and I may then weave in
a different meditation or I mayuse different sound bowls
(11:29):
because I can tune into people'senergy lines, like their
chakras.
And in a Reiki session, thatmight be, hang on a sec, I'm
going to play the root chakrabowl and the crown chakra bowl.
And that's just what myintuition is guiding me to do.
That will also guide the actualmeditation.
meditation to begin with, orlet's bring something, you know,
(11:54):
some breath work into thissession.
That also seems to lead wellinto the next question about
what would you recommend as astarting point for someone
wanting to explore their ownintuitive path?
Funny enough, Michelle, forsomeone starting their intuitive
journey, start with the breath.
Especially when life is fulland it can be intense, whether
(12:18):
it be with work, children, andall parts of the human
experience that we dance with.
Just taking, even start bytaking a few minutes a day,
whether that be through somegentle movement, I do quite a
lot of swimming as well.
So yeah, that's a good place tostart in the water.
Just starting gentle and makingthose few minutes a day.
(12:42):
Just see what feels good foryou each day and that will
shift.
But I suppose the foundation ofall those tools that I have in
my toolbox is the foundation ofcoming back to the breath.
Maybe observing, being curiousjust throughout your day.
Maybe just taking a moment to,ah, where am I breathing from
(13:05):
right now?
You'll find your own intuitionlanguage.
You'll find your own intuitionlanguage.
That's a divine way of puttingit.
So if people would like toengage more with you in finding
their own intuition language,Where can they find you and what
kind of offerings or eventsmight you have coming up?
(13:28):
You can find me atwww.spacetobreathe.com.au and
that will tell you all thelatest events and ways to
connect with me and alsoFacebook, Space to Breathe, as
well as Instagram.
Fantastic.
And as always, I will lookforward to continuing to connect
(13:50):
with you in a whole range ofways.
I'm always delighted to havethat session with you and put
myself in your hands and trustthat you will help me find
whatever I need to find inmyself.
It's always been a delight.
Thank you so much, Michelle.
Thank you for having me.
Yeah, it's been amazing.
Hello curious friends and welcome to Connect to
Center, the podcast aboutlearning to listen to trust your
inner guidance to make yourlife easier.
I'm your host Michelle fromSunCloud and today I'm
interviewing Helen Du Cros fromA Space to Breathe.
Helen is a holistic healthpractitioner whose modalities
include yoga, breathwork, Reiki,meditation and sound therapy.
(00:23):
Welcome Helen.
Hi Michelle, thank you forhaving me.
It feels fabulous to be here.
It's so exciting to have youhere and I'm really looking
forward to hearing how youengage with some of the
questions I'm going to ask aboutintuition.
There's a standard set ofquestions that I ask all of the
friends that come on thispodcast, so let's get started.
(00:45):
Great.
The first one is, how does yourintuition show up in your life?
I think the most prevalent waythat intuition shows up in my
life is through parenting.
I've got two gorgeous youngboys and I am able to tune in on
(01:07):
their energies and wherethey're at whether it be after
school and I'm like okay you'retired or whether it's the
rhythms of our family and it'sthe energy of, okay, I think we
need to get out in some nature.
Helen, I really like thatframing about it relating to
your parenting and that beingthe major way it shows up in
(01:30):
your life.
Because one of the questionsthat's come to me in thinking
about who to invite onto thispodcast has been around how I
define intuition and how itshows up.
And originally my idea was tointerview people who overtly say
that they use intuition in somekind of professional sense.
(01:52):
So particularly people who arepsychics or who do breath work
or meditation.
When I engage with thosepeople, they often use the word
intuition and say, yes, theintuition is the basis of my
oracle card reading, forexample.
But then I We realize that allsorts of people who use
intuition in all sorts of waysand just don't use the word
(02:15):
intuition.
So, for example, lots of lightworkers or energy workers like
Reiki practitioners who workwith energy may not say they're
responding intuitively.
They might say that they'rejust channeling energy through
them.
But in my head, I translatethat to that, oh, they're being
intuitive.
So I've had to already start tothink, okay, it's not just the
(02:38):
psychics.
And actually, it's not evenjust the energy workers, but
actually, to some extent,anyone, because intuition really
does show up in so manydifferent ways.
Yeah, thank you.
And I really agree with that,that A lot of the time when I
was thinking about intuition,and a lot of the time I don't
(03:01):
use that as an actual word,probably in my vocabulary.
Even in my business, even whenI'm running breath work and yoga
and different sessions, I'mnaturally using my intuition,
albeit not referring to it asintuition.
And I'm reading the room, I'mreading people's wants and
(03:21):
needs.
breath brings to me a lot ofspace for my intuition to come
through as well.
But it's also a great indicatorto show where people's energies
are at.
I can tune in and have a bit ofa hunch as to, oh, hang on a
sec, they're not feelingthemselves today.
And let's not do this originalplan that we were going to do.
(03:42):
It's probably, you know, aconstant in my everyday life.
I am a swim teacher of childrenas well.
And I definitely use myintuition there.
So I can often spot theirfears, their apprehension, their
excitement, doing a certainstroke or jumping in the pool by
themselves, you know, withoutany assistance.
(04:03):
for me and yeah it is just whenI stop and do think about it it
is a constant in my everydaylife and yeah I'm quite an asset
at times and I've always hadroles in customer service as
well so I've always been able toprobably unbeknown to me that i
(04:23):
was using intuition you knowi've always been able to
identify people unique wants andneeds and therefore being able
to provide a server to you knowmeet those needs as well so yeah
listening to you makes me thinkabout the range of words that
can be used so perhaps at oneend there's a a very obvious
(04:45):
term like intuition and thenthere's other words like gut
instinct or reading the room andthen you get into really
mainstream everyday words likefeeling or being in tune it
almost makes me want to say thatjust responding to someone is
actually intuitive but then Iwant to reframe that as it's not
(05:08):
actually responding to wherethey're separate it's a being in
a place where there's that someperhaps interconnection.
So in fact, you're engagingwith that.
It's a dance.
Maybe intuition is when you'rereally dancing with someone.
Yeah, it is a dance.
And yeah, when you touched onthere, the different language
(05:30):
around intuition and go somelike the more gross, doesn't it?
So the more subtleties and thenuances.
So yeah, it's quite a widespectrum.
I did want to pick up on, youtalked about how the breath can
be a really good way in for you.
I was wondering if you couldexplain a little more about what
you meant by that.
Breathwork made quite apowerful entry into my life when
(05:53):
I became a single mom with anewborn and a two-year-old.
Because at that time, For me,intuition was my lifeline,
navigating that tricky season ofmy life.
And that's when breathworkentered.
And the breath provides me withthe space in my physical body,
(06:19):
in my energy body.
I am in my mind, in my soul, inevery cell of my body to then
be able to actually lean into myintuition from my breath and,
okay, I'm breathing quiteshallow at this moment.
What's that meaning for me?
(06:40):
So I find that the breath forme is this window.
And so it enables me to look onin into my inner landscape and
to then be able to really listento my intuition.
Well, that seems like a goodsegue into the second question
on how do you receive intuitivemessages?
(07:01):
So you've already talked a bitabout knowing and perhaps
there's some answer there aroundphysicality of your breath, but
other people hear things or seethings.
How does that information cometo you?
more often than not, it comesto me in physically and
emotionally.
So physically, I can often feellike tingles throughout my
(07:25):
actual body.
And I often feel like they'rein every cell of my body
sometimes.
Often I can feel a sense ofwarmth.
Then emotionally, I feelemotions.
So still on the feeling, Iguess, teary and sad.
So I can feel a whole range ofemotions.
So again, I feel quite deeply alot of the time.
(07:50):
I'm always interested in my ownreactions to people's answers
to this question.
Listening to you talk aboutfeeling it in every cell of your
body makes me feel so jealous.
I'm like, wow, that would be socool to be able to feel it so
deeply.
That's kind of one of thereasons I started this podcast
because when I've talked abouthow I feel intuitions, which is
(08:12):
more about hearing and seeingand some feeling and knowing.
I've had people say thatexactly back to me.
Oh, wow, I wish I could see theway you do in your mind's eye.
I really wanted everyone tounderstand, well, we all do it
actually.
And our own ways of doing itare very special and unique.
The beauty is finding out howit does happen for us, just
(08:34):
celebrating that.
The next question was about howyour intuitive ability has
evolved throughout your life.
Intuition was always there.
It showed up in my childhood infeeling emotions more deeply
than others and often beingknown as the sensitive one.
So it felt, when I was younger,it felt like too much and could
(08:59):
often feel a little bitisolating.
So I was the only one thatcould read a room.
But then as I started reading,a lot of my job roles in
customer service.
It soon became, you know, Icould externalize this.
And especially when I came toAustralia and ran a hostel for
(09:21):
10 years, we used to have lotsof guests from all around the
world coming to stay.
So when they'd walk in, I'dprobably be able to pick up on
their wants and needs beforethey'd even speak.
That's when I started readingunspoken needs.
and being able to makedecisions or help guide them
(09:41):
during their stay at, say, likethe hostel.
I'd know which reef trip tosend them on, who to send them
off on a road trip with.
Yeah, that's just when Istarted realizing this, my
intuition started having value.
I think it's really interestingat what point awareness of our
(10:02):
intuition really comes into ourlife.
I suspect just about everyonedoes exactly what you're doing
in some way, in some aspect oftheir life.
But at some point for some ofus, it becomes conscious and
then we can really value it andenhance it and maybe use it a
little more consciously as well,or even try and teach it to
others.
Absolutely.
(10:23):
What's been really big part forme was becoming a single mom.
I really had to tune in or orlisten to to almost what felt
right even under pressurebecause when I was going through
court I tuned in all the timeto my intuition what felt right
(10:43):
for the boys and Well, it got methrough it.
You know, all those experienceshave brought me to what I do
today.
And that's with a space tobreathe.
And that's how I decided on thename of my business as well.
That guides me into offeringsin my business.
And ah, light bulb moments orreflection moments.
(11:05):
Oh, okay, I'm not going to dothis.
This doesn't sit right with me.
Even through my yoga, my breathwork, my Reiki, my sound
healing.
They're all...
a weave.
So each session is unique.
whether it be a one-on-onesession and I may then weave in
a different meditation or I mayuse different sound bowls
(11:29):
because I can tune into people'senergy lines, like their
chakras.
And in a Reiki session, thatmight be, hang on a sec, I'm
going to play the root chakrabowl and the crown chakra bowl.
And that's just what myintuition is guiding me to do.
That will also guide the actualmeditation.
meditation to begin with, orlet's bring something, you know,
(11:54):
some breath work into thissession.
That also seems to lead wellinto the next question about
what would you recommend as astarting point for someone
wanting to explore their ownintuitive path?
Funny enough, Michelle, forsomeone starting their intuitive
journey, start with the breath.
Especially when life is fulland it can be intense, whether
(12:18):
it be with work, children, andall parts of the human
experience that we dance with.
Just taking, even start bytaking a few minutes a day,
whether that be through somegentle movement, I do quite a
lot of swimming as well.
So yeah, that's a good place tostart in the water.
Just starting gentle and makingthose few minutes a day.
(12:42):
Just see what feels good foryou each day and that will
shift.
But I suppose the foundation ofall those tools that I have in
my toolbox is the foundation ofcoming back to the breath.
Maybe observing, being curiousjust throughout your day.
Maybe just taking a moment to,ah, where am I breathing from
(13:05):
right now?
You'll find your own intuitionlanguage.
You'll find your own intuitionlanguage.
That's a divine way of puttingit.
So if people would like toengage more with you in finding
their own intuition language,Where can they find you and what
kind of offerings or eventsmight you have coming up?
(13:28):
You can find me atwww.spacetobreathe.com.au and
that will tell you all thelatest events and ways to
connect with me and alsoFacebook, Space to Breathe, as
well as Instagram.
Fantastic.
And as always, I will lookforward to continuing to connect
(13:50):
with you in a whole range ofways.
I'm always delighted to havethat session with you and put
myself in your hands and trustthat you will help me find
whatever I need to find inmyself.
It's always been a delight.
Thank you so much, Michelle.
Thank you for having me.
Yeah, it's been amazing.
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