May 28, 2025 • 25 mins
Eavesdrop in on more of my convo with Beth!!!
Beth Rockert is a CYT-200 yoga instructor, PMP-certified professional, and co-founder of The Om Well Collective Yoga and Wellness Center in Kankakee, IL. With 37 years of experience in Corporate America, Beth understands firsthand the stresses of professional life and is passionate about helping others find balance through yoga.
She loves working with those new to yoga practice, offering variations to every pose so each practitioner can find the version that fits their unique body structure and absorb the intended benefits. Beth weaves together the foundations of both the physical and spiritual practice, providing practical insights for integrating yoga both on and off the mat. She has a particular passion for using yoga to reduce stress, anxiety, and tension, creating a warm and supportive atmosphere in her classes.
Personally, yoga has transformed Beth physically, spiritually, and emotionally. The tools she’s learned through yoga guided her recovery from physical injury and a rare tumor. Breathwork and gentle movement helped her cope with the grief and loss that often accompany serious health conditions, leading her through the exploration of her “new” physical body as she relearned balance and strength.
Beth also holds additional credentials in Chair Yoga, Reiki Levels 1 and 2, Yoga for the Workplace, Yoga Inclusivity, and Yoga Activism. Outside the studio, she’s a proud mom, grandma, and wife — roles that deepen her compassion and understanding of life’s many stages.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, I hope you loved episode 51 with Beth
Rockert.
This is just a little bit moreof our conversation, kind of our
bonus content, so enjoy.
Tell me more about this.
Quiet on the mat, because Istruggle with this.
Did it take you a while to getquiet on the mat?
It?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
did.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Because I think my mind's still too busy, because I
think I'm still worried aboutthe people around me, worried
about if I can do what they'redoing, worried about getting too
sweaty, feeling nauseous,listen and so I don't sometimes
feel like I can drop into thatwhat everyone keeps telling me I
should be feeling, which isthis connection with myself,
(00:38):
this, you know I haven't gottenthere.
What do you think the barrierto that is?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So, first, of all, let go of the should've.
That's the biggest, that's thebiggest lie we tell ourselves is
the should'ves.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
And you can tell me right now no, get rid of the
should'ves.
I need steps for that orsomething, because I can say
that and I'll be like nope, I'mgoing to walk in there, I'm not
going to care who's there, I'mnot going to minute, but I can't
.
Then I get and I can't becausesometimes I'll be sitting and
I'll be sweating, like I've donea hot yoga class before where,
like I'm sweating before itstarts and I'm like this doesn't
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feel fun.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Curiosity, yeah, Into it with curiosity.
I think is.
And at that point in my life Iwas coming out of a divorce, I
was going through you know I'mdealing with an injury and but I
had made a decision to change.
Yep, like, there was this mentalswitch that happened that said,
life is going to be different.
And so I moved into it with acuriosity, like an exploration.
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Like, yeah, it was hard for meto get quiet on the mat the
first time I laid in Shavasana Iwas like what am I supposed to
be doing, right?
How long is it going to be?
Am I going to make noises?
Am I going to get up?
What if I sneeze?
What is the person next to medoing?
But it's a practice.
Yoga is a practice, right, andso it's the practice of catching
yourself every time the mindstarts to wander.
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And when you realize the mind'swandering off, or when you
realize that your monkey mind iswhat we call it, when you got
the monkey mind going on, youcan stop yourself and then come
back to the breath.
Where in the body are youfeeling the breath?
Is it?
Maybe it's the belly expandingand contracting?
Maybe it's the shoulders liftingand lowering, maybe it's the
heart raising and lowering, orexpanding and contracting, and
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then just focus on the breath.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Logistically.
If you're in the middle of aflow okay, you know up and
you're down and you're flowingaround and you just feel this
disconnect and your mind's toobusy, is it against the rule?
There's no rules, I know this,but is it against rules to say I
got to just sit down andbreathe for a minute?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'll get back into this in a sec.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Do people do that often?
Because I always worry about ifI do it.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
The most advanced yogi is not the person who can
stand on their head or reacharound and grab their foot.
It's the yogi that knows I needto pause what I need.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Okay, and sit down, and who's?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
in tune with their body and who can say I'm just
going to sit here?
And I'm going to meet them inthe next pose.
I'm going to meet them in thenext flow.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay, I like that.
That sounds like a good plan.
Okay, all right, we don't haveto go off of yoga.
That's really just my ownpersonal question, but I know
other people are probablythinking the same thing, like
okay, what do I do If I need toconnect with myself?
How do I do it with a groupfull of other people people and
not feel subconscious?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
When you step on that mat, it's you and your mat yeah
.
And the teacher is your guide,right, yeah.
And if your body is telling youto take a pause, it's time to
take a pause, and it's okay,it's okay, but there are times
you're going to step on the matand you're going to be like
today I got this.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
No, I'm going to do every flow, do everything.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
That's right, and you know what?
And if she tells me that I'mgoing to, you know, try a
handstand or do a couple ofbunny hops and in my maybe I'll
try it today.
I'm going to try it today, butthen there are other days that
you're like you know what, Ineed to skip this one, yeah, and
it's okay.
Yeah, okay, it's you and yourmat.
Okay, so just background.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
You guys, I remember Beth from like high school,
junior high and high school.
Okay, we went to the samejunior high school and I will
say, beth, one of my corememories of you is that you were
very Christian-y religion, yeah, okay, and I don't even know
where that core memory comesfrom, but there's, you know,
every.
We can all go back in time andremember like the group of kids
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that were like that group.
I don't want to say goody-goody,but you know you almost help
them at a higher level becauseyou're like, oh yeah, her dad's
a pastor, she's super religious.
You know what I mean, and Idon't even mean that in a bad
way.
That's just one of my corememories.
So you really did.
I mean you were very in yourfaith is what I remember.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah.
So, funny story like back story.
My husband and I Mike and Iknew each other in high school.
When I was a freshman, hislocker was four down from mine.
We dated then, okay, in highschool, okay, yeah, but you know
, you know, mike, he's amusician, he's a rocker.
He came to my house and my dadwalked in and saw him in his
(05:03):
leather jacket and long hair andkicked him out.
I can see that Totally Get out,you out.
Those were the only two wordshe ever said to me, because I
remember Mike in high school upon stage rocking out.
With his long hair and hisrose-colored earring.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, at our pep rallies and stuff.
Yeah, no.
If you could envision Guns N'Roses rocker, this was.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Mike, and so he comes to my house.
That way, my dad comes homefrom class and work and he took
one look at Mike and said youget out.
And those are the only words heever said to my husband.
I do want you to know now thatI truly believe he's my dad's
favorite son-in-law at thispoint.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Things change, but at the time it was a no Okay, so
you went your separate ways.
You both got married hadchildren, you led separate adult
lives.
And then when did the reconnecthappen there?
So it was actually shortlyafter.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I don't think my divorce was totally final.
It was like a month before mydivorce was final.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The paperwork was not quite done.
The paperwork was not quitedone right.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But my daughters and I were having a garage sale.
Our plan was it was the summerbetween their junior and senior
year, and so we were going to,we were kind of consolidating
everything.
The plan was to move to Floridaand it's a garage sale.
My daughter comes in and I'minside.
She's like, hey, mom Colton'sdad's outside.
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I'm like, okay, well, tell himI'll be out in just a minute.
And so I walked out and we, youknow, as always whenever we
hadn't seen each other inforever we'd be like hey, how
you doing what's up.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Whatever, yeah, you're catching up.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And then you know that summer we started spending
some time together.
The interesting thing like hasbeen amazing is my parents have
been amazing through thisjourney.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I was wondering how your dad thinks.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
What's your dad's thinking about all this?
So our yoga studio opened alittle over a month ago.
So it's just not.
We haven't been home very longand my dad is physically not
well he can't drive on his ownand so we had made a plan that
I'm going to you know, we'regoing to get you.
The open house was from likeone to four and I'm like we're
going to come get you at three.
We're going to bring you overso you can hang out and see the
(07:09):
finished space and all that, andthat was the plan.
Yeah, at like 1.45, my dadwalks in the door.
I don't like he's here, he'sdrenched.
I'm like where did you comefrom, dad?
He's like I took the bus.
Oh, dad, I told you we weregoing to come get you at three.
He said I didn't want to missit, I wanted to make sure I got
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here.
I wanted to be there oh that'sprecious, so like their support
has been so beautiful in all ofthis, and I think for my parents
, for them it was they see adifferent side of me.
They see someone who's moreconfident.
They see someone who's my faithhasn't wavered no, you know,
like my faith in the divinehasn't wavered.
It's very different.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
But it hasn't changed , right?
They see that now I walkthrough life knowing that the
universe has good intentions,the divine has good intentions
in freedom.
In freedom, and there's peaceand there's grief.
One of the things I've learnedas I get older is the life
experiences that we walk through.
Is that there's room in yourlife for both opposite emotions,
(08:20):
right?
So, for instance, there was acouple of years back that one of
my daughters was going througha divorce.
My other daughter had her houseburned down.
She hadn't even made her firstmortgage payment a month after
they bought it.
So you can imagine the joy ofgoing from signing the mortgage
on your first house, moving inand then losing everything
within a four week time, andthen, shortly after that, my
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father-in-law passed away andthere was a lot of grief.
There was a lot going on all atonce.
There was so much grief, but atthe same time, there's these
joyous things going on.
We had a son getting married,we had grandchildren who were
starting sports and all of theseother joyful events, and so I
remember many conversations withMike as we lay down to bed,
(09:04):
that how interesting it is to beholding onto and being present
with both the grief and the joy,and that's something that I
think, as a younger person, Ihad no idea how to hold space
for both emotions at the sametime.
So a couple of interestingstories.
I don't know if you've everwatched the Goop Lab, do you?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
ever watch that on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So Gwyneth Paltrow does this, oh okay, yeah, goop
Lab things.
So I binge watched that one oneweekend when I was sick and she
has an episode where thiscouple, they're doing a therapy
session and they do thisinteresting session where
there's other people you don'tknow but they place them in the
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room and you assign them sort ofa person in your life.
So she's like they wereoutdoors in this particular
example, but she's placing thesepeople around and they
represent different people inher life.
And then the therapist hands hera backpack and that backpack
represents the things weighingyou down, the trauma, the things
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that you struggle with, thatyou're holding onto, and she
said this is not yours.
You need to give it to who itbelongs, to Give yourself
permission to give this back towho it belongs to, and so she,
you know, through this therapysession she did.
So I'm in this meditation, I goto this meditation circle and
(10:34):
I'm in this meditation and Ihave this vision of myself in my
early 20s, I think this visionthat I had and I was in this
garden.
My grandpa used to be thiscaretaker for a historical
community in Southern Indiana,and so there's all these
different historical landmarks,that and inside this community
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there's like a little garden andin the back of the garden
there's a gate, and then you goon this gate and it's just this
open, like this open place, andthere's these beautiful trees
and it's one of my favoriteplaces to go to when I meditate.
But when I was young, in thistree there used to be like a
swing that hung from the treeand when I would go to work with
my grandpa cause he would takeme sometimes he would take me
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there and we would swing.
So in this vision I'm in myearly twenties and I'm in this
garden and I go to this swingand I meet ancestral females in
my life and then my child meshows up with a backpack and she
hands it to me and she saysthis isn't yours, the not good
enough is not yours.
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Give it to who it belongs to ohand then did you distribute it.
I had this beautiful vision ofall of these women, ancestors
dressed in white surrounding me,and this little child, me,
takes me by the hand and handsme the backpack, and she walks
me to a specific person and saysthis is who it belongs to.
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It was someone I never met inmy ancestral lineage.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, no, no.
Ancestor, ancestors, right, notjust grandma, but further.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Further back, yeah, but I handed it to this woman
and there was this beautifulembrace and it was one of the
first times I'd ever had avision that clear, yes, but it
was so poignant and so touching.
That clear, but it was sopoignant and so touching.
But it was also in that QHHTsession with Amy, where Hawk
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appeared, that I got theaffirmation that it was time to
open the studio and so that was2020.
We didn't open until now.
So it's been a journey.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
It's been a journey.
It's been a journey, it's beena process.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
It was in that session, I was like am I doing
this alone or will I have apartner?
And it became very clear Iwould have a partner.
But interestingly enough, eventhough Gina and I have spent
years in the yoga circleteaching and sometimes teaching
at the same studio, we weren'tclose.
We didn't know each other.
Very well, it was just like oh,hey, hey how you doing.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You know, whatever, we'd stuff for each other
occasionally, whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
There was no real connection.
And then shortly after that sothat was late 2020.
So it was probably a year and ahalf later she and I got
connected and we just clickedand we became close.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Just the right timing .
The dream was born and thereand so All right.
So you two opened the.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Omwell collective.
Where'd you come up with thename?
What's it mean to you?
So um we, one of our dreams isto create a community, a
collective of people who have avariety of healing modalities to
offer.
Okay so, whether it's Reiki, orsound healing, or massage, or
mental health therapy, or theidea of this holistic wellness
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approach and so that's where thecollective came from, like this
collective of people who wantto approach wellness in a more
holistic way, and yeah.
And then you know, om is thesound of the universe.
(14:02):
Yes, right, it's the sound ofthe universe.
It's the vibration ofconsciousness.
And so in yoga you often OMlike in a more spiritual yoga
class.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yes, there's lots of different styles of yoga.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Ours is much more spiritual.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And so you know, om was for both of us, meant a lot.
The OM symbol, the OM the sound, just the meaning behind the OM
.
And then OM, well, is just aplay on this right?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
OM well, om well, om well, om well.
Yeah, I like it.
So would you say what?
What separates your studio orwhat's made it more original for
you than what already exists?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Because listen, there's they're opening up
everywhere, man, because, listen, they're opening up everywhere,
man.
They are, they're popping up,and so here's the thing I say
it's the new Starbucks, theseyoga studios, which is great,
but I always feel like all right.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
what's different, though, about this one?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I love when something's a little bit
different.
Yeah, and what I want to say Ihave had the honor of being in
the yoga community for a lot ofyears before we did this.
And every yoga studio that Ihave attended in the area has
something very unique and veryspecial.
One of our dreams, long-term,is that the yoga studios will
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have more of a partnership,where like, hey, let's have a
teacher training and let's alldo it at the studio one time,
let's do a much less competitivevibe.
That might take some time, andit's okay.
And and the the yoga communityhas been very welcoming to me.
Yeah, Um, and so I'm verygrateful for that, and I could
tell you every yoga studio inthe area what I love unique
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about that studio.
Every one of them is beautifuland I've learned something from
everyone.
What I feel like makes ours abit unique is the fact that we
don't want the competitiveness,and not that the other studios
do.
I want to be clear about that.
We want it to be a community.
We want it to be a family.
Also, we don't want it to justbe yoga.
(16:03):
We recently started a Pilatesteacher, right.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, and we want it to have other modalities.
We have someone there that doesbody work now and we have one
class that's a Reiki Restoreclass.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So there's Reiki going on.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, so some other things going on there and sound
healing a little bit of soundhealing going on.
Bit of sound healing going onand long-term.
Our goal is to have multiplespaces and each space having a
very unique offering, whetherthat's a mental health therapist
in one of the rooms and yeah,and different things going on a
person in another room, but wealso, I would say, bring in much
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more of the spirituality pieceof it than you'll see in other
yoga studios in the area.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Okay, so during a yoga session with you guys,
you're going to add more ofthose sounds, maybe more of that
vibe, or how is it?
More spiritual.
So you're logistically.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Logistically, you're most likely going to OM at the
end of our class.
And there are lots of studiosthat don't do that.
It's just not their vibe.
Um, so you're going to own.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
You're going to own everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And it's fun and and you know what's great.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Like it is hard to um make noises around other people
.
It's just even sometimes thebreathing exercises, when you
really need to breathe loud andrelease a lot of people.
You can feel in in the roompeople are holding back, or I
can feel the vibe, because it isa little bit I don't know
uncomfortable because we're sotrained to care about what
others think.
Right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, also another thing that you'll experience in
our studio.
We keep the bowls at the studio, the sound healing bowls.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
So we have Tibetan and we have crystal bowls, we
have a drum, we have a gong, andso we'll incorporate those in
class Also you're going toincorporate.
I don't know if you knowsomeone like Sean Korn.
She's a yoga guru.
She's one of the leading in thenation.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
She does a lot of training, she does a lot of
stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
She wrote a book called Evolution of the Soul,
which is amazing.
So a revolution of the soul I'msorry, evolution, but she's
amazing.
But in her classes she reallybrings in the philosophy of yoga
.
Okay, and so like talking aboutthe yamas and the niyamas,
talking about the koshas and thedoshas, and so I'm not at all
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comparing myself to Sean Corn,because she's amazing, right,
but I will say you'll get alittle bit of that.
Right now I'm working one of myWednesday night classes doing a
seven week chakra series.
Okay, and in that those chakraclasses, we're going to be
moving, we're going to have somesound.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
So we're going to be like are you Veda or you know
type vibe, like the Vedas, that,like all of this stuff too.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I am not an art of Vedic practitioner, but we're
going to bring in, like all ofthe chakras.
I'll give a recipe out at theend of the class that goes with
that chakra and I'll have anessential oil blend for that
chakra, and so we're bringing insort of more that it's not just
about the movement.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, a holistic kind of approach to the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It's not just about the movement and so, yeah, so
loving it, and we have chairyoga classes.
There's not a lot of placesaround that have that and we're
offering Pilates, and so it'sbeen a beautiful unfolding.
It's been-.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
You got anybody going to come hit up the old
Kundalini or something reallydifferent.
Oh my gosh, I would love thatIf you could I know Any
Kundalini teachers in the area,please let me know.
Kundalini yoga the yin.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
There's so many different ones I've been
learning about.
We have a yin teacher.
You have a yin now.
Okay, I like to try out the yin.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, because there's so many yogas I hadn't even
heard of before, and I'm like oh, that sounds cool.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, yeah, you know a little bit of my partner.
Gina is also very crafty, soshe's the handcrafted flow, so
she does.
That's her dream catcherworkshop.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
She did one last night.
Then we have a flower arrangingclass coming up, so just fun
things.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, it's like we really would love it to be a
space of community, and ourWednesday night class is free to
the community.
So one of the things that sheand I love to do is we love to
get back, and for a long time Idid a free class in my backyard
on the river in the summer.
I've done that for two or threeyears, and so now we're
bringing that to the studio.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So Wednesday night is free.
Make it accessible to everyone.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Make it accessible I don't feel like money should be
a reason that someone can't comein and do the movement.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
That you can't come and experience yoga, right, yeah
, yeah, yeah, which is nice toexperience it too, to see if
it's something you really dowant to invest your time and
your money into.
Right, exactly, yeah, becauseit's tricky.
Right now it is tricky, thingsaren't great.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's like am I going to go to yoga or?
Yeah, decisions are being madethese days so we gotta, yeah,
for sure, to try something outfirst.
Yeah, I'm trying to keep itaffordable, yeah, you know, and
and trying to just create alittle space, yeah, okay,
because music has always been abig thing for me, like for my
whole life.
I and I always laugh thatpeople be very confused if they
looked at my playlists becausethey would not understand why
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Amazing Grace and Mercy Me areon the same track as Trevor Hall
or yeah, no, you know, likesame, mine's all mixed up, ozzy.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Osbourne, like it's like you know it's like they're
same one minute.
I've one minute of my playlistrun.
I can only imagine yep, andthen the next minute.
Um, you know, I like Big Buttsmy playlist run.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I can only imagine.
And then the next minute.
You know, I like Big Butts,like exactly, exactly, like I'm
listening to Crazy.
Train.
I'm listening to Crazy Trainand the next song and it's fine
that you bring up Mercy Me, oneof my favorite bands of all time
.
Flawless is my favorite album.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Like it and I still listen to it.
The music in Christianity isprobably my favorite thing and
always was.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
There's some good music.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah, there's some good, inspiring, beautiful music
out there.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
The same song I used to love, let's just even say 10,
15 years ago.
I listen to it now.
I loved them at both eras.
I get something different outof them.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I hear something different out of the music you
come to my Soulful Awakeningmorning class and you're going
to hear some interesting tunes,because it's an uplifting funky
playlist and so you'll hear lotsof things.
But yeah, it can be hardsometimes.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yep.
So it sounds like the bottomline is for everybody out there
in your journey, wherever you'reat, whether you're in, and it
is trickier to get quiet in thistech technological age we have
going with the phones andeverything else it's tricky to
get quiet.
But you really do have tofigure out what quiet looks like
for you and get there.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Without fail.
When I'm the most ungrounded, Ijust need to go be in nature,
whether I'm in my kayak, whetherI'm taking a hike, whether I'm
sitting in the hammock swing inthe backyard watching the other
kayaks go by, the quiet ofnature.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Getting back to that, and I sound like a broken
record because I say this in alot of my episodes like we got
to get back to nature, we got toget back to it and get outside,
whatever that means.
You may live in a big old city,you can still go outside, you
can still go to a park, you canstill do a little grounding.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, one of my favorite things to do is I will
do yoga in my backyard and watchthe river.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
And.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I have some, you know I still have a little classes
out there or whatever.
One of my favorite things to dois to lay in shavasana in my
backyard and watch the leaves atthe very tops of the trees just
blow.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
There's something so spiritual.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
There's something so connected to divine in seeing
the trees.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I love the trees, I love watching the animals doing
stuff and sometimes I just likeclouds and seeing what they look
like.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I love water.
I love the water, watching thewater just flow.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yep, and hearing the sounds going on all around you,
that are just nature.
They're not manmade.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I'm going to sound really mushy, but I do want to
share this thing that my husbandtells me.
Mike is amazing and he just hasthis very interesting
perspective on life.
But he works outside, he worksfor utilities, so he's
oftentimes out digging in thedirt and walking around with his
head down.
And he said one of the thingsthat I do when I I purposefully
during the day stop and look up,yeah, and he'll say whenever I
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get down.
So so now he says to me whatyou know, and he said this to me
for years look up when I'mstressed, when I'm overwhelmed,
when all of the pressures ofbeing in that sandwich
generation where you're caringfor your parents and you're,
which is a whole.
We could have a whole otherepisode on that.
He'll say just look up.
And there's a song called LookUp, look Up, child.
And it's just this beautifulreminder to look up.
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And so those are my moments.
I look up and I'll see a hawk.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I'll look up and I'll see the trees, and then
there'll be a hawk and somepretty clouds going by that look
like something and yeah, no.
So you're going to find yourown way through this journey.
Just keep going.
You got to go through, youcan't get around it.
Listen, I know your time isvaluable and right now I'm
feeling super grateful andtotally humbled that you chose
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See you next time.
Hey guys, I hope you loved episode 51 with Beth
Rockert.
This is just a little bit moreof our conversation, kind of our
bonus content, so enjoy.
Tell me more about this.
Quiet on the mat, because Istruggle with this.
Did it take you a while to getquiet on the mat?
It?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
did.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Because I think my mind's still too busy, because I
think I'm still worried aboutthe people around me, worried
about if I can do what they'redoing, worried about getting too
sweaty, feeling nauseous,listen and so I don't sometimes
feel like I can drop into thatwhat everyone keeps telling me I
should be feeling, which isthis connection with myself,
(00:38):
this, you know I haven't gottenthere.
What do you think the barrierto that is?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So, first, of all, let go of the should've.
That's the biggest, that's thebiggest lie we tell ourselves is
the should'ves.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
And you can tell me right now no, get rid of the
should'ves.
I need steps for that orsomething, because I can say
that and I'll be like nope, I'mgoing to walk in there, I'm not
going to care who's there, I'mnot going to minute, but I can't
.
Then I get and I can't becausesometimes I'll be sitting and
I'll be sweating, like I've donea hot yoga class before where,
like I'm sweating before itstarts and I'm like this doesn't
(01:10):
feel fun.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Curiosity, yeah, Into it with curiosity.
I think is.
And at that point in my life Iwas coming out of a divorce, I
was going through you know I'mdealing with an injury and but I
had made a decision to change.
Yep, like, there was this mentalswitch that happened that said,
life is going to be different.
And so I moved into it with acuriosity, like an exploration.
(01:36):
Like, yeah, it was hard for meto get quiet on the mat the
first time I laid in Shavasana Iwas like what am I supposed to
be doing, right?
How long is it going to be?
Am I going to make noises?
Am I going to get up?
What if I sneeze?
What is the person next to medoing?
But it's a practice.
Yoga is a practice, right, andso it's the practice of catching
yourself every time the mindstarts to wander.
(01:57):
And when you realize the mind'swandering off, or when you
realize that your monkey mind iswhat we call it, when you got
the monkey mind going on, youcan stop yourself and then come
back to the breath.
Where in the body are youfeeling the breath?
Is it?
Maybe it's the belly expandingand contracting?
Maybe it's the shoulders liftingand lowering, maybe it's the
heart raising and lowering, orexpanding and contracting, and
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then just focus on the breath.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Logistically.
If you're in the middle of aflow okay, you know up and
you're down and you're flowingaround and you just feel this
disconnect and your mind's toobusy, is it against the rule?
There's no rules, I know this,but is it against rules to say I
got to just sit down andbreathe for a minute?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'll get back into this in a sec.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Do people do that often?
Because I always worry about ifI do it.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
The most advanced yogi is not the person who can
stand on their head or reacharound and grab their foot.
It's the yogi that knows I needto pause what I need.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Okay, and sit down, and who's?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
in tune with their body and who can say I'm just
going to sit here?
And I'm going to meet them inthe next pose.
I'm going to meet them in thenext flow.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay, I like that.
That sounds like a good plan.
Okay, all right, we don't haveto go off of yoga.
That's really just my ownpersonal question, but I know
other people are probablythinking the same thing, like
okay, what do I do If I need toconnect with myself?
How do I do it with a groupfull of other people people and
not feel subconscious?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
When you step on that mat, it's you and your mat yeah
.
And the teacher is your guide,right, yeah.
And if your body is telling youto take a pause, it's time to
take a pause, and it's okay,it's okay, but there are times
you're going to step on the matand you're going to be like
today I got this.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
No, I'm going to do every flow, do everything.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
That's right, and you know what?
And if she tells me that I'mgoing to, you know, try a
handstand or do a couple ofbunny hops and in my maybe I'll
try it today.
I'm going to try it today, butthen there are other days that
you're like you know what, Ineed to skip this one, yeah, and
it's okay.
Yeah, okay, it's you and yourmat.
Okay, so just background.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
You guys, I remember Beth from like high school,
junior high and high school.
Okay, we went to the samejunior high school and I will
say, beth, one of my corememories of you is that you were
very Christian-y religion, yeah, okay, and I don't even know
where that core memory comesfrom, but there's, you know,
every.
We can all go back in time andremember like the group of kids
(04:23):
that were like that group.
I don't want to say goody-goody,but you know you almost help
them at a higher level becauseyou're like, oh yeah, her dad's
a pastor, she's super religious.
You know what I mean, and Idon't even mean that in a bad
way.
That's just one of my corememories.
So you really did.
I mean you were very in yourfaith is what I remember.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah.
So, funny story like back story.
My husband and I Mike and Iknew each other in high school.
When I was a freshman, hislocker was four down from mine.
We dated then, okay, in highschool, okay, yeah, but you know
, you know, mike, he's amusician, he's a rocker.
He came to my house and my dadwalked in and saw him in his
(05:03):
leather jacket and long hair andkicked him out.
I can see that Totally Get out,you out.
Those were the only two wordshe ever said to me, because I
remember Mike in high school upon stage rocking out.
With his long hair and hisrose-colored earring.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, at our pep rallies and stuff.
Yeah, no.
If you could envision Guns N'Roses rocker, this was.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Mike, and so he comes to my house.
That way, my dad comes homefrom class and work and he took
one look at Mike and said youget out.
And those are the only words heever said to my husband.
I do want you to know now thatI truly believe he's my dad's
favorite son-in-law at thispoint.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Things change, but at the time it was a no Okay, so
you went your separate ways.
You both got married hadchildren, you led separate adult
lives.
And then when did the reconnecthappen there?
So it was actually shortlyafter.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I don't think my divorce was totally final.
It was like a month before mydivorce was final.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The paperwork was not quite done.
The paperwork was not quitedone right.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But my daughters and I were having a garage sale.
Our plan was it was the summerbetween their junior and senior
year, and so we were going to,we were kind of consolidating
everything.
The plan was to move to Floridaand it's a garage sale.
My daughter comes in and I'minside.
She's like, hey, mom Colton'sdad's outside.
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I'm like, okay, well, tell himI'll be out in just a minute.
And so I walked out and we, youknow, as always whenever we
hadn't seen each other inforever we'd be like hey, how
you doing what's up.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Whatever, yeah, you're catching up.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And then you know that summer we started spending
some time together.
The interesting thing like hasbeen amazing is my parents have
been amazing through thisjourney.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I was wondering how your dad thinks.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
What's your dad's thinking about all this?
So our yoga studio opened alittle over a month ago.
So it's just not.
We haven't been home very longand my dad is physically not
well he can't drive on his ownand so we had made a plan that
I'm going to you know, we'regoing to get you.
The open house was from likeone to four and I'm like we're
going to come get you at three.
We're going to bring you overso you can hang out and see the
(07:09):
finished space and all that, andthat was the plan.
Yeah, at like 1.45, my dadwalks in the door.
I don't like he's here, he'sdrenched.
I'm like where did you comefrom, dad?
He's like I took the bus.
Oh, dad, I told you we weregoing to come get you at three.
He said I didn't want to missit, I wanted to make sure I got
(07:31):
here.
I wanted to be there oh that'sprecious, so like their support
has been so beautiful in all ofthis, and I think for my parents
, for them it was they see adifferent side of me.
They see someone who's moreconfident.
They see someone who's my faithhasn't wavered no, you know,
like my faith in the divinehasn't wavered.
It's very different.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
But it hasn't changed , right?
They see that now I walkthrough life knowing that the
universe has good intentions,the divine has good intentions
in freedom.
In freedom, and there's peaceand there's grief.
One of the things I've learnedas I get older is the life
experiences that we walk through.
Is that there's room in yourlife for both opposite emotions,
(08:20):
right?
So, for instance, there was acouple of years back that one of
my daughters was going througha divorce.
My other daughter had her houseburned down.
She hadn't even made her firstmortgage payment a month after
they bought it.
So you can imagine the joy ofgoing from signing the mortgage
on your first house, moving inand then losing everything
within a four week time, andthen, shortly after that, my
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father-in-law passed away andthere was a lot of grief.
There was a lot going on all atonce.
There was so much grief, but atthe same time, there's these
joyous things going on.
We had a son getting married,we had grandchildren who were
starting sports and all of theseother joyful events, and so I
remember many conversations withMike as we lay down to bed,
(09:04):
that how interesting it is to beholding onto and being present
with both the grief and the joy,and that's something that I
think, as a younger person, Ihad no idea how to hold space
for both emotions at the sametime.
So a couple of interestingstories.
I don't know if you've everwatched the Goop Lab, do you?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
ever watch that on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So Gwyneth Paltrow does this, oh okay, yeah, goop
Lab things.
So I binge watched that one oneweekend when I was sick and she
has an episode where thiscouple, they're doing a therapy
session and they do thisinteresting session where
there's other people you don'tknow but they place them in the
(09:52):
room and you assign them sort ofa person in your life.
So she's like they wereoutdoors in this particular
example, but she's placing thesepeople around and they
represent different people inher life.
And then the therapist hands hera backpack and that backpack
represents the things weighingyou down, the trauma, the things
(10:13):
that you struggle with, thatyou're holding onto, and she
said this is not yours.
You need to give it to who itbelongs, to Give yourself
permission to give this back towho it belongs to, and so she,
you know, through this therapysession she did.
So I'm in this meditation, I goto this meditation circle and
(10:34):
I'm in this meditation and Ihave this vision of myself in my
early 20s, I think this visionthat I had and I was in this
garden.
My grandpa used to be thiscaretaker for a historical
community in Southern Indiana,and so there's all these
different historical landmarks,that and inside this community
(10:55):
there's like a little garden andin the back of the garden
there's a gate, and then you goon this gate and it's just this
open, like this open place, andthere's these beautiful trees
and it's one of my favoriteplaces to go to when I meditate.
But when I was young, in thistree there used to be like a
swing that hung from the treeand when I would go to work with
my grandpa cause he would takeme sometimes he would take me
(11:16):
there and we would swing.
So in this vision I'm in myearly twenties and I'm in this
garden and I go to this swingand I meet ancestral females in
my life and then my child meshows up with a backpack and she
hands it to me and she saysthis isn't yours, the not good
enough is not yours.
(11:36):
Give it to who it belongs to ohand then did you distribute it.
I had this beautiful vision ofall of these women, ancestors
dressed in white surrounding me,and this little child, me,
takes me by the hand and handsme the backpack, and she walks
me to a specific person and saysthis is who it belongs to.
(12:00):
It was someone I never met inmy ancestral lineage.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, no, no.
Ancestor, ancestors, right, notjust grandma, but further.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Further back, yeah, but I handed it to this woman
and there was this beautifulembrace and it was one of the
first times I'd ever had avision that clear, yes, but it
was so poignant and so touching.
That clear, but it was sopoignant and so touching.
But it was also in that QHHTsession with Amy, where Hawk
(12:28):
appeared, that I got theaffirmation that it was time to
open the studio and so that was2020.
We didn't open until now.
So it's been a journey.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
It's been a journey.
It's been a journey, it's beena process.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
It was in that session, I was like am I doing
this alone or will I have apartner?
And it became very clear Iwould have a partner.
But interestingly enough, eventhough Gina and I have spent
years in the yoga circleteaching and sometimes teaching
at the same studio, we weren'tclose.
We didn't know each other.
Very well, it was just like oh,hey, hey how you doing.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You know, whatever, we'd stuff for each other
occasionally, whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
There was no real connection.
And then shortly after that sothat was late 2020.
So it was probably a year and ahalf later she and I got
connected and we just clickedand we became close.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Just the right timing .
The dream was born and thereand so All right.
So you two opened the.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Omwell collective.
Where'd you come up with thename?
What's it mean to you?
So um we, one of our dreams isto create a community, a
collective of people who have avariety of healing modalities to
offer.
Okay so, whether it's Reiki, orsound healing, or massage, or
mental health therapy, or theidea of this holistic wellness
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approach and so that's where thecollective came from, like this
collective of people who wantto approach wellness in a more
holistic way, and yeah.
And then you know, om is thesound of the universe.
(14:02):
Yes, right, it's the sound ofthe universe.
It's the vibration ofconsciousness.
And so in yoga you often OMlike in a more spiritual yoga
class.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yes, there's lots of different styles of yoga.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Ours is much more spiritual.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And so you know, om was for both of us, meant a lot.
The OM symbol, the OM the sound, just the meaning behind the OM
.
And then OM, well, is just aplay on this right?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
OM well, om well, om well, om well.
Yeah, I like it.
So would you say what?
What separates your studio orwhat's made it more original for
you than what already exists?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Because listen, there's they're opening up
everywhere, man, because, listen, they're opening up everywhere,
man.
They are, they're popping up,and so here's the thing I say
it's the new Starbucks, theseyoga studios, which is great,
but I always feel like all right.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
what's different, though, about this one?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I love when something's a little bit
different.
Yeah, and what I want to say Ihave had the honor of being in
the yoga community for a lot ofyears before we did this.
And every yoga studio that Ihave attended in the area has
something very unique and veryspecial.
One of our dreams, long-term,is that the yoga studios will
(15:19):
have more of a partnership,where like, hey, let's have a
teacher training and let's alldo it at the studio one time,
let's do a much less competitivevibe.
That might take some time, andit's okay.
And and the the yoga communityhas been very welcoming to me.
Yeah, Um, and so I'm verygrateful for that, and I could
tell you every yoga studio inthe area what I love unique
(15:42):
about that studio.
Every one of them is beautifuland I've learned something from
everyone.
What I feel like makes ours abit unique is the fact that we
don't want the competitiveness,and not that the other studios
do.
I want to be clear about that.
We want it to be a community.
We want it to be a family.
Also, we don't want it to justbe yoga.
(16:03):
We recently started a Pilatesteacher, right.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, and we want it to have other modalities.
We have someone there that doesbody work now and we have one
class that's a Reiki Restoreclass.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So there's Reiki going on.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, so some other things going on there and sound
healing a little bit of soundhealing going on.
Bit of sound healing going onand long-term.
Our goal is to have multiplespaces and each space having a
very unique offering, whetherthat's a mental health therapist
in one of the rooms and yeah,and different things going on a
person in another room, but wealso, I would say, bring in much
(16:42):
more of the spirituality pieceof it than you'll see in other
yoga studios in the area.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Okay, so during a yoga session with you guys,
you're going to add more ofthose sounds, maybe more of that
vibe, or how is it?
More spiritual.
So you're logistically.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Logistically, you're most likely going to OM at the
end of our class.
And there are lots of studiosthat don't do that.
It's just not their vibe.
Um, so you're going to own.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
You're going to own everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And it's fun and and you know what's great.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Like it is hard to um make noises around other people
.
It's just even sometimes thebreathing exercises, when you
really need to breathe loud andrelease a lot of people.
You can feel in in the roompeople are holding back, or I
can feel the vibe, because it isa little bit I don't know
uncomfortable because we're sotrained to care about what
others think.
Right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, also another thing that you'll experience in
our studio.
We keep the bowls at the studio, the sound healing bowls.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
So we have Tibetan and we have crystal bowls, we
have a drum, we have a gong, andso we'll incorporate those in
class Also you're going toincorporate.
I don't know if you knowsomeone like Sean Korn.
She's a yoga guru.
She's one of the leading in thenation.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
She does a lot of training, she does a lot of
stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
She wrote a book called Evolution of the Soul,
which is amazing.
So a revolution of the soul I'msorry, evolution, but she's
amazing.
But in her classes she reallybrings in the philosophy of yoga
.
Okay, and so like talking aboutthe yamas and the niyamas,
talking about the koshas and thedoshas, and so I'm not at all
(18:21):
comparing myself to Sean Corn,because she's amazing, right,
but I will say you'll get alittle bit of that.
Right now I'm working one of myWednesday night classes doing a
seven week chakra series.
Okay, and in that those chakraclasses, we're going to be
moving, we're going to have somesound.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
So we're going to be like are you Veda or you know
type vibe, like the Vedas, that,like all of this stuff too.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I am not an art of Vedic practitioner, but we're
going to bring in, like all ofthe chakras.
I'll give a recipe out at theend of the class that goes with
that chakra and I'll have anessential oil blend for that
chakra, and so we're bringing insort of more that it's not just
about the movement.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, a holistic kind of approach to the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It's not just about the movement and so, yeah, so
loving it, and we have chairyoga classes.
There's not a lot of placesaround that have that and we're
offering Pilates, and so it'sbeen a beautiful unfolding.
It's been-.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
You got anybody going to come hit up the old
Kundalini or something reallydifferent.
Oh my gosh, I would love thatIf you could I know Any
Kundalini teachers in the area,please let me know.
Kundalini yoga the yin.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
There's so many different ones I've been
learning about.
We have a yin teacher.
You have a yin now.
Okay, I like to try out the yin.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, because there's so many yogas I hadn't even
heard of before, and I'm like oh, that sounds cool.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, yeah, you know a little bit of my partner.
Gina is also very crafty, soshe's the handcrafted flow, so
she does.
That's her dream catcherworkshop.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
She did one last night.
Then we have a flower arrangingclass coming up, so just fun
things.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, it's like we really would love it to be a
space of community, and ourWednesday night class is free to
the community.
So one of the things that sheand I love to do is we love to
get back, and for a long time Idid a free class in my backyard
on the river in the summer.
I've done that for two or threeyears, and so now we're
bringing that to the studio.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So Wednesday night is free.
Make it accessible to everyone.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Make it accessible I don't feel like money should be
a reason that someone can't comein and do the movement.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
That you can't come and experience yoga, right, yeah
, yeah, yeah, which is nice toexperience it too, to see if
it's something you really dowant to invest your time and
your money into.
Right, exactly, yeah, becauseit's tricky.
Right now it is tricky, thingsaren't great.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's like am I going to go to yoga or?
Yeah, decisions are being madethese days so we gotta, yeah,
for sure, to try something outfirst.
Yeah, I'm trying to keep itaffordable, yeah, you know, and
and trying to just create alittle space, yeah, okay,
because music has always been abig thing for me, like for my
whole life.
I and I always laugh thatpeople be very confused if they
looked at my playlists becausethey would not understand why
(21:08):
Amazing Grace and Mercy Me areon the same track as Trevor Hall
or yeah, no, you know, likesame, mine's all mixed up, ozzy.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Osbourne, like it's like you know it's like they're
same one minute.
I've one minute of my playlistrun.
I can only imagine yep, andthen the next minute.
Um, you know, I like Big Buttsmy playlist run.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I can only imagine.
And then the next minute.
You know, I like Big Butts,like exactly, exactly, like I'm
listening to Crazy.
Train.
I'm listening to Crazy Trainand the next song and it's fine
that you bring up Mercy Me, oneof my favorite bands of all time
.
Flawless is my favorite album.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Like it and I still listen to it.
The music in Christianity isprobably my favorite thing and
always was.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
There's some good music.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah, there's some good, inspiring, beautiful music
out there.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
The same song I used to love, let's just even say 10,
15 years ago.
I listen to it now.
I loved them at both eras.
I get something different outof them.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I hear something different out of the music you
come to my Soulful Awakeningmorning class and you're going
to hear some interesting tunes,because it's an uplifting funky
playlist and so you'll hear lotsof things.
But yeah, it can be hardsometimes.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yep.
So it sounds like the bottomline is for everybody out there
in your journey, wherever you'reat, whether you're in, and it
is trickier to get quiet in thistech technological age we have
going with the phones andeverything else it's tricky to
get quiet.
But you really do have tofigure out what quiet looks like
for you and get there.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Without fail.
When I'm the most ungrounded, Ijust need to go be in nature,
whether I'm in my kayak, whetherI'm taking a hike, whether I'm
sitting in the hammock swing inthe backyard watching the other
kayaks go by, the quiet ofnature.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Getting back to that, and I sound like a broken
record because I say this in alot of my episodes like we got
to get back to nature, we got toget back to it and get outside,
whatever that means.
You may live in a big old city,you can still go outside, you
can still go to a park, you canstill do a little grounding.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, one of my favorite things to do is I will
do yoga in my backyard and watchthe river.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
And.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I have some, you know I still have a little classes
out there or whatever.
One of my favorite things to dois to lay in shavasana in my
backyard and watch the leaves atthe very tops of the trees just
blow.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
There's something so spiritual.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
There's something so connected to divine in seeing
the trees.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I love the trees, I love watching the animals doing
stuff and sometimes I just likeclouds and seeing what they look
like.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I love water.
I love the water, watching thewater just flow.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yep, and hearing the sounds going on all around you,
that are just nature.
They're not manmade.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I'm going to sound really mushy, but I do want to
share this thing that my husbandtells me.
Mike is amazing and he just hasthis very interesting
perspective on life.
But he works outside, he worksfor utilities, so he's
oftentimes out digging in thedirt and walking around with his
head down.
And he said one of the thingsthat I do when I I purposefully
during the day stop and look up,yeah, and he'll say whenever I
(24:09):
get down.
So so now he says to me whatyou know, and he said this to me
for years look up when I'mstressed, when I'm overwhelmed,
when all of the pressures ofbeing in that sandwich
generation where you're caringfor your parents and you're,
which is a whole.
We could have a whole otherepisode on that.
He'll say just look up.
And there's a song called LookUp, look Up, child.
And it's just this beautifulreminder to look up.
(24:31):
And so those are my moments.
I look up and I'll see a hawk.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I'll look up and I'll see the trees, and then
there'll be a hawk and somepretty clouds going by that look
like something and yeah, no.
So you're going to find yourown way through this journey.
Just keep going.
You got to go through, youcan't get around it.
Listen, I know your time isvaluable and right now I'm
feeling super grateful andtotally humbled that you chose
(24:58):
to hang out with me today.
If this podcast resonates withyou, could you do me a solid and
hit that subscribe or followbutton?
That's going to help you out,because you're never going to
miss an episode, and it helps meout because you're never going
to miss an episode.
And if you have like 30 secondsmore, could you leave a
five-star rating and maybe leavea kick-ass review.
(25:19):
Thank you so much and I can'twait to continue our journey on
the next episode.
Oh, and I can't forget the fineprint.
You know the legal jargon.
This podcast is presentedsolely for educational and
entertainment purposes.
We're just two friends on thisjourney together and this
podcast is not intended as asubstitute for the advice of a
(25:40):
physician, professional coach,psychotherapist or any other
qualified professional.
You get it.
See you next time.
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