January 23, 2024 • 38 mins
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Embark on a sonic odyssey as we chat with Kassia Meador, the pro surfer who caught the wave of sound healing to realign her life's energies. Feel the vibrations as we delve into the power of sound therapy, exploring Kassia’s own transformation from the adrenaline-fueled world of surfing to the tranquil shores of vibrational medicine. This conversation isn't just about waves but how the frequencies we encounter – both audibly and internally – can resonate within us, shaping our well-being and guiding us towards balance.
Picture the stark, ethereal beauty of Antarctica, where the silence speaks volumes and nature's own rhythms provide the ultimate backdrop for rejuvenation and introspection. Through tales of rainbow clouds witnessed during yoga and the emotional liberation of a tea ceremony, Kassia and I share heart-stirring moments from a land that defies description. The contrast of energetic nights pulsating with music to the sacred stillness of wellness activities offers a glimpse into an adventure that transcends the physical journey into a profound spiritual expedition.
As we wrap up our polar narrative, I invite you to consider the power of silence and the profound shifts that can occur when we truly connect with the environment around us. Whether it's processing the multitude of feelings from an awe-inspiring trip or finding stillness amidst the chaos of daily life, this episode is about embracing the transformative potential that lies within us all. Let Kassia's story inspire you to tune into your own frequencies and discover the healing tunes of your soul’s symphony.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To work with sound.
It's like working with our trueessence because we're vibratory
beings in that level.
So, yes, it can absolutely helpto move and reharmonize and
pull into balance through bioresonance, because it's like the
highest frequency or thestrongest frequency will entrain
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everything around it into thatvibration, which is also so
important.
It's like vibes are real, like,oh, this person gives me a good
vibe and you feel good aroundthem.
Their energy is a vibrationthat you're being resonates with
.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Welcome to the Seen and Heard podcast, helping you
enhance your connection, evolveyour mindset and emerge
confidently as your true self,living a life feeling aligned,
activated and energized.
I'm your host, pruajainternational photographer,
motivational speaker andalignment strategist.
This episode was recorded livein Antarctica on a music,
(01:05):
wellness and conservationadventure hosted by Insider
Expeditions, where we danced allnight to DJs like Diplo Flume
and Oliver Tree.
We went deep inside our mindsof secular Sabbath and learned
about and explore the world'smost precious, powerful and
protected land Antarctica.
If you're the adventurous typelike me and live for wild
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experiences like this, check outthe show notes for up and
coming trips with InsiderExpeditions, where I have also
included a very special offerfor my listeners.
Today's guest I had unknowinglycrossed paths with in the late
90s on the AustralianLongboarding Circuit and now
once more at the end of theearth in Antarctica.
(01:50):
Kassiya Mirdoy is a professionalsurfer, sound healer and wisdom
seeker whose journey has woventhe rhythmic dance of riding
waves with healing frequenciesof sound.
Born and raised in California,kassiya began her path in the
late 90s, shaping the world ofsurfing for women.
It was during a sound healingmeditation session.
(02:13):
I felt inspired to captureKassiya on the rooftop of the
boat framed by the Antarctica'sdramatic mountains, as she
played her singing bowls, anethereal scene that is showcased
on the cover photo of thispodcast episode and you can see
more on my Instagram page.
Beyond waves, kassiya is aforce behind Kassiya's surf
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brand, offering women's wetsuitsand surf wax that embody
performance, quality andconscious production solutions.
Exhale and relax into ourdiscussion as we share our
experience in Antarctica and gointo a mini breath meditation.
Enjoy what's that called again.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Jaw harp.
I love the jaw harp.
Where's it from?
It's Tibetan.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
When did you get into all this musical, sound and
sound healing?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well, I first was introduced to vibrational
medicine in 2008,.
Totally by accident, as mostthings happen, I was out in the
desert with some friends on aphoto shoot and we finished
early and we went over to thisspace that they were rebuilding
and my friend that originallybrought us there she's kind of
(03:58):
in the art world from like, wentto Brown and very like just
like one of those brilliant kindof academic type people that
love studying structures and youknow kind of these different
things and she's like I heardabout this place called the
Integra Tron.
Let's Go there and it wasbefore it got kind of popular at
all.
So what is it?
(04:18):
It's essentially like astructure that was built by an
aeronautical engineer back inthe 60s.
His name was George Vantassel.
He used to work with HowardHughes and at one point, like
the CIA, he was on the wantedlist because, you know, in the
60s it was all that craze aboutspies and all this other stuff.
And you know, he worked inaeronautics and disappeared at
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one point and came back andessentially said that he was
abducted by aliens and that hecame back with the blueprints
for the Integra Tron and it wasa time travel machine, you know,
and I think there was a cellregeneration element to it, but
he never ended up fully likecompleting it because he then
(05:06):
died he was poisoned.
So there is all thisinteresting conspiracy in and
around it, and so it's been outin the desert near a place
called Landers for a long timeand we rocked up and this
gentleman kind of came out andhe was a surfer, grew up surfing
Topanga, so of course I juststarted chatting with him and he
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invited us in and gave us myfirst sound bath.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Wow, so does he live in it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
No, so these sisters took over the land because the
land, I think, was like in atruss and this was back in 2008.
He doesn't live there.
He was just helping to restoreit at the time.
Now it's a place that you haveto book months out in advance.
Everything has changed, butthis was, like you know, 2008,.
A long time ago, kind of,before everybody started talking
about really sound baths andall this stuff.
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So that's when I got interestedin it.
I mean, it definitely liketransported me.
It felt a lot like surfing.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Well, doing it in that space as well, it would
have transported you Totally.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I felt like it was like an interesting initiation
into it and I've since gone backand we played at the Integra
Tron and at one point they weretrying to get us to come out
from LA and do sound baths allthe time and it was just too far
, I mean.
It's like two and a half, threehours from LA, like I wasn't
going to go out there all thetime and I was traveling a lot
at the time surfingprofessionally.
So it was not like you know,but it was my first kind of
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entry into sound and vibrationaltherapy and it's something that
stuck with me.
And then it kind of led me on ajourney.
I was kind of like disenchantedwith the surf world and
disenchanted with like just themarketing media aspect and I
felt like it just kind of likefor me at that point I had been
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within that world for like 15,16 years.
So I just felt like a littlekind of burnt out and wanting
some new challenges and alsojust feeling like a lot of like
the magic was being lost and thepurity of what surfing was for
me as like a heart medicine andalso a way to interact with like
creation in real time and, youknow, interact with the natural
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world in such a pure andauthentic way was being kind of
like I don't know, justmanipulated into a field,
commercialized and put a dollarsign on it.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
That's it, yeah.
And it is like that's what Ilove about surfing when you're
out there, you know it bringsthat present, you're fully
present with nature.
And that's when you just becomeclear, like all your worries
just disperse and you get thatchannel of creative
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consciousness and becoming onewith the wave and riding it and
feeling it out, and yeah justcreating magic with it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Super stoked, you know, and exactly that it's like
so pure and you need nothing.
It's like the ocean forces youto be present, the ocean forces
you to be in your body and Ithink that also you know, the
ocean taught me so much aboutembodiment and being in my body
and being totally aware andreceptive to everything that's
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happening around me, constantlyand all the time, that it was
such a way to practice singlepointed focus, which I think is
a very I mean, it is the keyelement to fully get immersed
when you're in like meditation,when you like fully go deep into
that space.
It's that single pointed focusand having an active mind, being
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like a young kind of likeexcited person.
It was through movement that Ifirst got into flow state of
meditation, you know, and I feellike sound and vibrational
therapy is like a great way togo there for people as well.
It helps to kind of quiet thatactive chatter in the mind.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Definitely.
I learned Vedic meditationmaybe eight years ago and yeah,
it's totally changed my life.
But I am curious with the soundbath and the sound healing.
What else does it do?
Because I've kind of made up inmy head that it shifts energy
through your body and clears you.
(09:15):
But that's what I've justguessed.
What would you say?
How would you explain what itdoes?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well, it's like, how do you put words to everything
and make it concise?
And essentially, you know, froma full quantum mechanics
perspective, everything that isaround us is vibration.
You are sound, you arevibration that is actually
stopped down into the thirddimensional reality that we're
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experiencing, into solid matter.
So everything has a frequency,everything has a tone and by
working with sound andvibrational therapy, we're able
to bring into harmony andbalance frequencies that have
been dissonant in our field, sodissonant dis-ease, right.
So when things come out ofbalance, there's maybe an energy
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block and maybe that energyblock and or energy cysts causes
some pain and some swelling.
Maybe it's emotional, maybeit's physical.
Like what layer is it?
It's like the physical body isthe densest form of energy
essentially, which is why we canhave a, you know, witness and
(10:27):
be here, and there's this tablewe can put a cup of tea on, you
know.
So, to work with sound, it'slike working with our true
essence, because we're vibratorybeings in that level.
So, yes, it can absolutely helpto move and reharmonize and pull
into balance through bioresonance, because it's like the
highest frequency or thestrongest frequency will entrain
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everything around it into thatvibration, which is also so
important.
It's like vibes are real, like,oh, this person gives me a good
vibe and you feel good aroundthem.
Their energy is a vibrationthat you're being resonates with
and by coming into resonanceand relation, we're actually
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starting to kind of, like youknow, come into cohesion in that
way.
So it's interesting, right, sowe can break it down into a
scientific perspective and thenwe can also just like break it
down into like what it feelslike, like if it's moving stuff
in you.
It's like everything wants tocome back into resonance.
Everything, I feel personally,wants to come back into peace
and harmony.
And you know you have a daythat everything feels super
(11:35):
groovy.
And then you have a day you geta couple weird phone calls and
or interactions and maybe youhit all the red lights and spill
coffee on your shirt rightbefore a thing and you're kind
of like fragmented and sometimesreally just going back to that
piece and whether it's groundingin the earth, using your own
voice to hum and soothe yourself, self soothing.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
That's huge actually, when I was going through all
this anxiety this year.
I was keeping up my meditationpractice, for one morning I just
felt the need to really hum andmake a vibration in my body and
it just shifted.
So much stuff, instead of justbeing in silence and in that
(12:15):
dense denseness like creatingsound, like you can even I can
feel it now as I'm talking youknow creates a vibration in your
body and I guess that's wherepositive affirmations can shift
your body to absolutely.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I mean, that's why, like mantras, you, you know, you
said you were interested inVedic meditation and they give
you a mantra and that mantra hasa frequency with it, because
actually every sound has afrequency, right.
So, like our voices, our ownsounds are the original healing
tool.
Just by speaking, you know, asI speak, so it is.
(12:50):
You know, abhacadabra, that'swhat that truly means.
So by actually breaking it intothese mantras and or phrases,
there's a certain tone, there'sa certain energy and or
frequency that has beenassociated with that mantra or
that phrase or whatever you knowyou work with, yeah, for so
long that you're actuallycalling into that and that's
(13:13):
actually what, and then otherpeople who have worked with it
for so long.
It's actually energizing moreso that mantra.
So you notice too, even words,words are vibration.
So if words have beenassociated with a certain
thought, form and or feelingcultural, you know, energetic,
like, whatever kind of it hasbeen associated, it has its own
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tone with it.
And how do, like we re-tonelanguage, because language has
been associated with so manythings and sometimes language
divides, you know.
I mean I can go like off onkind of that stuff and maybe we
might lose people a little bit.
But, like you know, it's all,it's all sound, you know, it all
goes back to like you know, andthat's why you know ohm, you
(13:58):
know the ohm, like that is the,the sound of God, the word of
God, you know, and it is afrequency and it is a sound.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I recently learnt that when you do ohm, that it
goes from here to your throatand then that and is it out of
your mind?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
like you kind of you move it up your body instead of
just going ohm and just fromhere it actually yeah and and in
, in and out, like in evolutionand evolution, like you know,
like from your heart space outand up and from that kind of
solar center of our universe,the sun, back and down into our
heart space and from our heartspace into that core of the
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earth and from the core of theearth back into our heart space.
You know, can you demonstratethat?
I mean, okay, so we can sithere and ohm together.
Let's do three ohms, so likefeeling into our heart, and as
we feel into our heart, we canohm and as we ohm, feeling that
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frequency move through your bodyfrom your heart space up into
your throat, up into the thirdeye, up into your crown and out
the top of your head into thatsolar star, that galactic solar
logo that is the sun Inhaling.
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Ohm.
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And then breathing it back downfrom the sun into our hearts.
Ohm.
And then from our heart spacedown into the core of the earth
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through our solar sacral rootearth star, and then in through
the earth crust, visualizing itfully and completely aligning
and connecting with the core ofthe earth.
Ohm, ohm.
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And then from the core of theearth, breathing it back up
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through every layer, every pieceof crust, all the magma, up
through our earth, star chakra,our root, sacral, solar, and
back into our heart space.
Ohm.
(17:53):
And then, lastly, let's extendit out to encircle our physical
body, our electromagnetic, ourauric, our aetheric bodies, into
our subtler bodies, out andaround us, kind of greeting and
meeting everything around us,greeting the wind and the water
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and just as an act of gratitudeand thanks, just extending out
into the universe from our body.
And as we extend it out to meetthe earth and all the elements,
we're also feeling it shiningback towards us.
Ohm, ohm, ohm, there's an icepack, yeah it's so nice, so it's
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interesting, it's the mostgrounded, I feel, all day.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I woke up and was so scattered and I think it's from
dancing to 5 am and because weare sitting here on an
incredible boat in the mostincredible place landscape,
majestic, untouched land in theworld and so privileged to be
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here.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
What a privilege and an honor it is to have step foot
on the seventh continent today,Actually put our feet on that
continent and been, you know,some of the very few people who
have ever landed upon thoseshores.
What like a pure place to be.
And this ship has been takingus through truly like uncharted
(20:24):
territory.
And I heard kind of number fromone of the guides and I don't
know how accurate or true it is,but they were like yeah,
there's probably outside ofresearchers and scientists and
then people obviously that camehere probably by accident, got
lost at sea at some point, andor maybe some of the early
explorers.
(20:44):
There has only been 150,000around people to have ever
stepped foot on the seventhcontinent outside of science and
research.
So what a gift it is to comehere and I feel like a mix of
like a lot of gratitude and thenalso in my space like fear
coming up for having too manypeople go visit it and also
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noticing it's important to gosee it and there's really not
much untouched land on theplanet and this is a very sacred
space because it is so pure andkind of feeling.
I've felt like wow, it's such agift to be here and I've also
felt conflicted by even beinghere.
I don't know about you, but Ifelt what's like also conflicted
(21:32):
Wow, what a gift and also likefeeling the weight humans have
put everywhere.
So I'm really really sograteful for this crew and how
they've been teaching us aboutthe AYATO regulations and
guidelines and and how, by likelearning about these guidelines
and regulations, we can kind ofalso help to like communicate
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that, and I think it's reallyawesome that you know people
from other countries in theworld have all kind of
collaborated around Antarcticaand protecting it, and I also
feel very fortunate and gratefulto be here to be able to like
actually experience this place.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, I would love that the practice they've put in
place here to protect the landto be on more land around the
world.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
It would be really.
I mean, it is important and Ithink that's the thing, and just
being present and aware, likegoing back to what you said,
this is the most grounded youfelt all day.
I think we all kind of comefrom busy lives and busy things
and sometimes when we're in thatbusyness, we're focused on
what's in front of us and we'renot like as much expanding our
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awareness around us.
And I think it's reallyimportant to have a wide view
and have like awareness aroundeverything around us and how,
like every step we take everywhich way in our life whether
it's a step towardscommunicating or a step towards
putting something out there inthe world or just like walking
on the street how, like everystep we, every footprint we make
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, has a ripple effect in one wayor another.
So I feel like being here, youwitness it even more and you're
like, oh yeah, so that'ssomething I'm definitely gonna
take back with me even more.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
We're even learning about a crumb.
A crumb coming out of someone'spocket, landing on the ice, a
penguin eating it, and then themassociating humans coming on to
land with food, and just howthat tiny crumb can just ruin
the biodiversity.
(23:46):
Is that what the word is?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I mean, yeah, it definitely starts to like kind
of mess with, like the structureand the fabric of the ecosystem
and what holds it together.
Because all of a sudden it'slike think about, like you know,
sugar.
It's like people want sugarrather than like nutrients, you
know.
So like that crumb could likeaffect its palate, you know, and
it could have the ripple effector what you're saying like
associating.
(24:09):
So it's like all of a sudden,they're waiting for us to come
ashore rather than going andhunting for food.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, they turn into pigeons.
They associate people comingdown the beach eating their fish
and chips and they're like oh,the seagulls and they fly over
and they're like, oh, thesepeople, they're gonna give me
chips.
So if that happened and wherepeople are doing a walk and then
the penguins all start runningover, going, oh, there might be
more crumbs of these guys.
That would be awful.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
That would be awful, and we've seen it happen time
and time again across the wholeworld over.
You know, yeah, so that's, yeah, that's an interesting thing,
and just being here with thismuch space around and how pure
the land is, you're just likewow, and how wild and raw it is.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
What would you say is being your or moment?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Gosh, you know so many all moments.
Really it's hard to say one.
That said, I feel likeyesterday morning, right after
kind of like the yoga, or maybeit was in the middle of yoga and
we went outside and that kindof like cloud, rainbow, the
rainbow cloud like it was likethat iridescent rainbow and then
having our actual reflectionsand the glassy water and how it
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created like we can see our ownauras, essentially.
And then I was like, wow, likethis is like an angelic realm,
like the, the air feels reallyfine and everything feels really
pure and crisp and it felt likewe had drifted like my like
actual sensory feeling was thatwe had like drifted into this
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kind of like seaship of, likeclouds and we were just in this
different space, like almostlike a different dimension,
where we can see our own auras.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
It was crazy that's been my all moment as well
because there was this fog overthe water and then there was
mountains and there was more fogand the way the ship moves it
kind of feels like it moves inslow motion and it felt like we
were a spaceship going throughhere, this other dimension, like
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literally floating through it,with these gigantic mountains
and such an expansive space andsomething you never had seen
before.
It just was incredibly hardopening.
Absolutely.
Before that in the tea ceremonyI had a.
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I had a nice cry like a purge Icould.
Quite a few emotions werecoming up.
I was actually.
I got a message from someonejust before it that triggered me
and made me really angry and soI was angry at them and being
reactive in my head and from thegestalt therapy the night
before questioning am I okay orhow do I feel?
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and then how do I really feel?
And getting underneath whatthat was.
So I did a lot of processing inthat tea ceremony and I
realized it was actuallyremnants from what I was
clearing out in the last yearand it was just this stuff that
was still there and releasingthat brought me back.
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Well, releasing that and cryingand then looking out at the
expansive space and just going,bringing it back to the present
and going this is all I need andhave right now and I've been
taken care of and that can, itwill.
Everything is fine it's all okay, it was that morning it's cool.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
It's like there's always those moments and I think
it's so important.
It's like when you do big tripsor or you have something
profound come up, it's like it'slike holding space for all of
it, and I think there's alwaysthose moments of the breakdown
to break through and there hasto be like a crack for the light
to come in and like, okay,where is that moment that we do
kind of crack open a little bitso we can actually shed another
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layer?
Crack open to shed anotherlayer.
It's like this kind of likethat's it more and more, you
know, and just when we thinkwe're clearing more, and just
when we feel like something isdone more and more and more,
just getting to the finer andfiner and finer essences of I'm
glad it was.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was only like for an hour, not a week or a month,
but it was a nice process andreleased to have in this place
with these people mm-hmm andlike the best music in the world
, so healing modalities in theworld.
It's just magic.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's so magical, like I'm so grateful for the whole
crew that like all worked sohard to make this happen and I
got brought on to this trip withthe secular Sabbath community
and they're good friends withlike Diplo and like it's such a
nice contrast and I feel likeit's really like you know, with
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all the music talent that is onthis ship it's, and then also
like all the wellness offeringsto you know, secular Sabbath
it's.
It's like a beautiful contrastof all things, like it's and
we're like in the South Pole andI feel like it's like perfect
polarized elements of like whatyou need to move through stuff.
In that way it's such a perfectbalance of like all night music
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and dancing and like full, youknow expression and then also
this like softer, subtlerexpression with like tea
ceremonies and gestalt and youknow sound bass and ambient
music and excursions to the land, to ground at all, and then
coming back to the boat and likedoing a drawing workshop with
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Whitney and you know droppinginto like deeper layers and then
having that time to pause andso on.
I mean honestly like it's sucha journey and it's only been a
few days and it's like what aradical crew of humans to be
experiencing this with.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Oh, so incredible, yeah, and then going on
excursion, the only thing isthere's actually this is for the
listeners like there's no timeto sleep.
Everyone's had hardly any sleepbecause there's so much fun to
have.
It's non-stop.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
We're up all night.
It's like I went to bed atthree last night and woke up
this morning at like 6.30 to godue to ceremony and sound bath,
but they were cleaning upbecause I don't think like the
dance party stopped until fivethis morning, so like it was
like this was the first morningwe haven't done tea or yoga or a
sound bath first thing in themorning.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
It was a big party night last night.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah but it's so beautiful because everybody's
showing up to it.
And then you know, the minutethe announcement came on that it
was time to go to land, likewow, everybody got their stuff
and, you know, whacked a bit ofcoffee in their eyeballs
probably and down their throatand got out.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
You know I was lying in bed for only three hours
sleep and was thinking you knowwhat I might just give in.
A mere sleep's more importantnow.
But then you remember where youare and you're like, no,
there's actually no time tosleep, and you go and we just
climbed a mountain this morning,or maybe it was.
Maybe it was a hill.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It felt like a mountain though, because, too,
it's like going through the snowand just like the elevation,
like.
I don't know about you, but Ifeel like this place feels
denser, like I feel like theweight is different here, like
it's heavier the air.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
That's been my experience, interesting yeah
well, a couple of people, and itsounds a bit silly and I kind
of laughed with them about it.
They're like we're at a highaltitude, aren't we?
And I was like, well, we'reactually at sea level so, but
it's maybe has that feeling ofbeing at a high altitude because
of the thin air, maybe it's alatitude thing.
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It's interesting.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I mean we're literally in the Arctic Circle
and there is differentpolarities.
Like I've been to the NorthPole before, Heavy and yeah,
like a couple years ago actually, with Andrew the yoga teacher
that's here with Secular Sabbathand like and yeah, it's
interesting we had been therebefore and I felt like I felt
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lighter there.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Interesting and I feel like.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I feel heavier here and I don't know what that is.
But yeah, it's interesting.
Also, when we have to go toshore, we go with so much gear
on, so maybe it's also that youknow like we're just wearing so
much stuff.
But yeah, there is, there isdefinitely something that feels
different.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
What's another contrast between the North Pole
and the South Pole?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
you found I mean the equator right, oh, between.
I mean I guess I was thinkinglike what's the difference
between the North and the SouthPole?
That I feel a different polarshift and like when I'm on the
equator I just feel like nothing.
I feel like kind of thatbalance of all things.
But I think another contrastbetween the North and the South
Pole is it has the northernlights, in the North Pole it has
(33:11):
the aurora borealis and it'snot down here.
So that's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
It's all right.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, so that's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, well, they have the australis borealis here.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
So I want to see it, but I think it just never gets
dark enough.
Winter, that's one it is.
Yeah, so is that kind of likethe aurora, like it's the same,
it's the same?
Yeah, interesting because, likesomebody was saying, that
doesn't happen here.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
No, it doesn't but maybe it's just because when
we're here, yeah because we comein summer and I'm wondering if
it's actually too cold in winter.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
To even experience it and go see it, yeah, which is
why you don't see it, and alsothere's nobody here but
scientists.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah, it's hard to think Well interesting.
Might wrap it up here.
Cool Is there anything else youwanted to share?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
No, I mean, I'm just like so grateful to be here and
it's just so awesome and youknow, I'm happy to share sound
and just happy to share thisexperience, you know.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, I just that's the thing, because we have got
the privilege to be here andexperience this.
I think it's I want to be ableto share you know everyone
else's experience but share itwith the outside world so they
can understand what it's like.
I had no idea.
I had no expectations, whichwas great as well, but so
(34:28):
curious about what it's actuallylike and I think, having these
discussions, you get differentperspectives.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
What different people take away from it.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Totally.
It's like I'm taking so muchaway from this and I feel like
on the whatever 20 somethinghours of flights it'll take to
get home, it's like I alwaysfeel like whenever I go
somewhere, and especiallysomewhere this far out and this
powerful and this special andthis unique and like I mean
literally like I feel like we'rein a different universe.
That's how it feels for me,like somebody's, like it's like
(34:58):
the moon.
I'm like, yeah, totally, it'slike the moon, you know.
It's like beyond the map.
It's like we're like you can'treally see it unless you're here
, because the map you can't likelook at it.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You know.
So, beyond the map, and likeYou're, open off the edge of the
map.
Yeah, it's like how do we evenbegin to process all that we're
experiencing?
It's going to take a while tounpack.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
So it's probably good having our long flights home to
integrate.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I feel.
So you know, I feel like inthat space it's going to be like
whoa, going back to likemovement and different things,
and then coming out here like Imean, just being here makes me
want to spend time like just onthe land, like in silence here,
like it makes me want to comeback.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I wonder if we could set that intention of one of our
landings, that we actually justhave a moment like two minutes
silence, at least Totally, or asilent walk, a meditation walk.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I mean, I think, like on this next one, I really want
to invite people to do itbecause there's like that's
something that I would just loveyou know, because, yeah,
totally.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Maybe we'll coordinate one of the zodiacs to
be a silent zodiac.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Totally, you know.
And then also like maybeinviting other people, like, hey
, why don't we take thisexcursion and be in silence and
be in full like experience, andlike let us have a silent
meditation, walking experience.
Do this like really specialland, because I feel like
there's so much subtlety thatcan't get through with all the
(36:31):
noise, and that would be really,really special.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, yeah let's do it.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Let's go.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Thank you.
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To work with sound.
It's like working with our trueessence because we're vibratory
beings in that level.
So, yes, it can absolutely helpto move and reharmonize and
pull into balance through bioresonance, because it's like the
highest frequency or thestrongest frequency will entrain
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everything around it into thatvibration, which is also so
important.
It's like vibes are real, like,oh, this person gives me a good
vibe and you feel good aroundthem.
Their energy is a vibrationthat you're being resonates with
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
Welcome to the Seen and Heard podcast, helping you
enhance your connection, evolveyour mindset and emerge
confidently as your true self,living a life feeling aligned,
activated and energized.
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This episode was recorded livein Antarctica on a music,
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Kassiya Mirdoy is a professionalsurfer, sound healer and wisdom
seeker whose journey has woventhe rhythmic dance of riding
waves with healing frequenciesof sound.
Born and raised in California,kassiya began her path in the
late 90s, shaping the world ofsurfing for women.
It was during a sound healingmeditation session.
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I felt inspired to captureKassiya on the rooftop of the
boat framed by the Antarctica'sdramatic mountains, as she
played her singing bowls, anethereal scene that is showcased
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Beyond waves, kassiya is aforce behind Kassiya's surf
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Exhale and relax into ourdiscussion as we share our
experience in Antarctica and gointo a mini breath meditation.
Enjoy what's that called again.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Jaw harp.
I love the jaw harp.
Where's it from?
It's Tibetan.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
When did you get into all this musical, sound and
sound healing?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well, I first was introduced to vibrational
medicine in 2008,.
Totally by accident, as mostthings happen, I was out in the
desert with some friends on aphoto shoot and we finished
early and we went over to thisspace that they were rebuilding
and my friend that originallybrought us there she's kind of
(03:58):
in the art world from like, wentto Brown and very like just
like one of those brilliant kindof academic type people that
love studying structures and youknow kind of these different
things and she's like I heardabout this place called the
Integra Tron.
Let's Go there and it wasbefore it got kind of popular at
all.
So what is it?
(04:18):
It's essentially like astructure that was built by an
aeronautical engineer back inthe 60s.
His name was George Vantassel.
He used to work with HowardHughes and at one point, like
the CIA, he was on the wantedlist because, you know, in the
60s it was all that craze aboutspies and all this other stuff.
And you know, he worked inaeronautics and disappeared at
(04:42):
one point and came back andessentially said that he was
abducted by aliens and that hecame back with the blueprints
for the Integra Tron and it wasa time travel machine, you know,
and I think there was a cellregeneration element to it, but
he never ended up fully likecompleting it because he then
(05:06):
died he was poisoned.
So there is all thisinteresting conspiracy in and
around it, and so it's been outin the desert near a place
called Landers for a long timeand we rocked up and this
gentleman kind of came out andhe was a surfer, grew up surfing
Topanga, so of course I juststarted chatting with him and he
(05:27):
invited us in and gave us myfirst sound bath.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Wow, so does he live in it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
No, so these sisters took over the land because the
land, I think, was like in atruss and this was back in 2008.
He doesn't live there.
He was just helping to restoreit at the time.
Now it's a place that you haveto book months out in advance.
Everything has changed, butthis was, like you know, 2008,.
A long time ago, kind of,before everybody started talking
about really sound baths andall this stuff.
(05:55):
So that's when I got interestedin it.
I mean, it definitely liketransported me.
It felt a lot like surfing.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Well, doing it in that space as well, it would
have transported you Totally.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I felt like it was like an interesting initiation
into it and I've since gone backand we played at the Integra
Tron and at one point they weretrying to get us to come out
from LA and do sound baths allthe time and it was just too far
, I mean.
It's like two and a half, threehours from LA, like I wasn't
going to go out there all thetime and I was traveling a lot
at the time surfingprofessionally.
So it was not like you know,but it was my first kind of
(06:31):
entry into sound and vibrationaltherapy and it's something that
stuck with me.
And then it kind of led me on ajourney.
I was kind of like disenchantedwith the surf world and
disenchanted with like just themarketing media aspect and I
felt like it just kind of likefor me at that point I had been
(06:51):
within that world for like 15,16 years.
So I just felt like a littlekind of burnt out and wanting
some new challenges and alsojust feeling like a lot of like
the magic was being lost and thepurity of what surfing was for
me as like a heart medicine andalso a way to interact with like
creation in real time and, youknow, interact with the natural
(07:13):
world in such a pure andauthentic way was being kind of
like I don't know, justmanipulated into a field,
commercialized and put a dollarsign on it.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
That's it, yeah.
And it is like that's what Ilove about surfing when you're
out there, you know it bringsthat present, you're fully
present with nature.
And that's when you just becomeclear, like all your worries
just disperse and you get thatchannel of creative
(07:42):
consciousness and becoming onewith the wave and riding it and
feeling it out, and yeah justcreating magic with it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Super stoked, you know, and exactly that it's like
so pure and you need nothing.
It's like the ocean forces youto be present, the ocean forces
you to be in your body and Ithink that also you know, the
ocean taught me so much aboutembodiment and being in my body
and being totally aware andreceptive to everything that's
(08:13):
happening around me, constantlyand all the time, that it was
such a way to practice singlepointed focus, which I think is
a very I mean, it is the keyelement to fully get immersed
when you're in like meditation,when you like fully go deep into
that space.
It's that single pointed focusand having an active mind, being
(08:35):
like a young kind of likeexcited person.
It was through movement that Ifirst got into flow state of
meditation, you know, and I feellike sound and vibrational
therapy is like a great way togo there for people as well.
It helps to kind of quiet thatactive chatter in the mind.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Definitely.
I learned Vedic meditationmaybe eight years ago and yeah,
it's totally changed my life.
But I am curious with the soundbath and the sound healing.
What else does it do?
Because I've kind of made up inmy head that it shifts energy
through your body and clears you.
(09:15):
But that's what I've justguessed.
What would you say?
How would you explain what itdoes?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well, it's like, how do you put words to everything
and make it concise?
And essentially, you know, froma full quantum mechanics
perspective, everything that isaround us is vibration.
You are sound, you arevibration that is actually
stopped down into the thirddimensional reality that we're
(09:43):
experiencing, into solid matter.
So everything has a frequency,everything has a tone and by
working with sound andvibrational therapy, we're able
to bring into harmony andbalance frequencies that have
been dissonant in our field, sodissonant dis-ease, right.
So when things come out ofbalance, there's maybe an energy
(10:06):
block and maybe that energyblock and or energy cysts causes
some pain and some swelling.
Maybe it's emotional, maybeit's physical.
Like what layer is it?
It's like the physical body isthe densest form of energy
essentially, which is why we canhave a, you know, witness and
(10:27):
be here, and there's this tablewe can put a cup of tea on, you
know.
So, to work with sound, it'slike working with our true
essence, because we're vibratorybeings in that level.
So, yes, it can absolutely helpto move and reharmonize and pull
into balance through bioresonance, because it's like the
highest frequency or thestrongest frequency will entrain
(10:51):
everything around it into thatvibration, which is also so
important.
It's like vibes are real, like,oh, this person gives me a good
vibe and you feel good aroundthem.
Their energy is a vibrationthat you're being resonates with
and by coming into resonanceand relation, we're actually
(11:11):
starting to kind of, like youknow, come into cohesion in that
way.
So it's interesting, right, sowe can break it down into a
scientific perspective and thenwe can also just like break it
down into like what it feelslike, like if it's moving stuff
in you.
It's like everything wants tocome back into resonance.
Everything, I feel personally,wants to come back into peace
and harmony.
And you know you have a daythat everything feels super
(11:35):
groovy.
And then you have a day you geta couple weird phone calls and
or interactions and maybe youhit all the red lights and spill
coffee on your shirt rightbefore a thing and you're kind
of like fragmented and sometimesreally just going back to that
piece and whether it's groundingin the earth, using your own
voice to hum and soothe yourself, self soothing.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
That's huge actually, when I was going through all
this anxiety this year.
I was keeping up my meditationpractice, for one morning I just
felt the need to really hum andmake a vibration in my body and
it just shifted.
So much stuff, instead of justbeing in silence and in that
(12:15):
dense denseness like creatingsound, like you can even I can
feel it now as I'm talking youknow creates a vibration in your
body and I guess that's wherepositive affirmations can shift
your body to absolutely.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I mean, that's why, like mantras, you, you know, you
said you were interested inVedic meditation and they give
you a mantra and that mantra hasa frequency with it, because
actually every sound has afrequency, right.
So, like our voices, our ownsounds are the original healing
tool.
Just by speaking, you know, asI speak, so it is.
(12:50):
You know, abhacadabra, that'swhat that truly means.
So by actually breaking it intothese mantras and or phrases,
there's a certain tone, there'sa certain energy and or
frequency that has beenassociated with that mantra or
that phrase or whatever you knowyou work with, yeah, for so
long that you're actuallycalling into that and that's
(13:13):
actually what, and then otherpeople who have worked with it
for so long.
It's actually energizing moreso that mantra.
So you notice too, even words,words are vibration.
So if words have beenassociated with a certain
thought, form and or feelingcultural, you know, energetic,
like, whatever kind of it hasbeen associated, it has its own
(13:36):
tone with it.
And how do, like we re-tonelanguage, because language has
been associated with so manythings and sometimes language
divides, you know.
I mean I can go like off onkind of that stuff and maybe we
might lose people a little bit.
But, like you know, it's all,it's all sound, you know, it all
goes back to like you know, andthat's why you know ohm, you
(13:58):
know the ohm, like that is the,the sound of God, the word of
God, you know, and it is afrequency and it is a sound.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I recently learnt that when you do ohm, that it
goes from here to your throatand then that and is it out of
your mind?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
like you kind of you move it up your body instead of
just going ohm and just fromhere it actually yeah and and in
, in and out, like in evolutionand evolution, like you know,
like from your heart space outand up and from that kind of
solar center of our universe,the sun, back and down into our
heart space and from our heartspace into that core of the
(14:39):
earth and from the core of theearth back into our heart space.
You know, can you demonstratethat?
I mean, okay, so we can sithere and ohm together.
Let's do three ohms, so likefeeling into our heart, and as
we feel into our heart, we canohm and as we ohm, feeling that
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frequency move through your bodyfrom your heart space up into
your throat, up into the thirdeye, up into your crown and out
the top of your head into thatsolar star, that galactic solar
logo that is the sun Inhaling.
(15:27):
Ohm.
(15:51):
And then breathing it back downfrom the sun into our hearts.
Ohm.
And then from our heart spacedown into the core of the earth
(16:27):
through our solar sacral rootearth star, and then in through
the earth crust, visualizing itfully and completely aligning
and connecting with the core ofthe earth.
Ohm, ohm.
(16:51):
And then from the core of theearth, breathing it back up
(17:13):
through every layer, every pieceof crust, all the magma, up
through our earth, star chakra,our root, sacral, solar, and
back into our heart space.
Ohm.
(17:53):
And then, lastly, let's extendit out to encircle our physical
body, our electromagnetic, ourauric, our aetheric bodies, into
our subtler bodies, out andaround us, kind of greeting and
meeting everything around us,greeting the wind and the water
(18:15):
and just as an act of gratitudeand thanks, just extending out
into the universe from our body.
And as we extend it out to meetthe earth and all the elements,
we're also feeling it shiningback towards us.
Ohm, ohm, ohm, there's an icepack, yeah it's so nice, so it's
(19:27):
interesting, it's the mostgrounded, I feel, all day.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I woke up and was so scattered and I think it's from
dancing to 5 am and because weare sitting here on an
incredible boat in the mostincredible place landscape,
majestic, untouched land in theworld and so privileged to be
(19:57):
here.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
What a privilege and an honor it is to have step foot
on the seventh continent today,Actually put our feet on that
continent and been, you know,some of the very few people who
have ever landed upon thoseshores.
What like a pure place to be.
And this ship has been takingus through truly like uncharted
(20:24):
territory.
And I heard kind of number fromone of the guides and I don't
know how accurate or true it is,but they were like yeah,
there's probably outside ofresearchers and scientists and
then people obviously that camehere probably by accident, got
lost at sea at some point, andor maybe some of the early
explorers.
(20:44):
There has only been 150,000around people to have ever
stepped foot on the seventhcontinent outside of science and
research.
So what a gift it is to comehere and I feel like a mix of
like a lot of gratitude and thenalso in my space like fear
coming up for having too manypeople go visit it and also
(21:09):
noticing it's important to gosee it and there's really not
much untouched land on theplanet and this is a very sacred
space because it is so pure andkind of feeling.
I've felt like wow, it's such agift to be here and I've also
felt conflicted by even beinghere.
I don't know about you, but Ifelt what's like also conflicted
(21:32):
Wow, what a gift and also likefeeling the weight humans have
put everywhere.
So I'm really really sograteful for this crew and how
they've been teaching us aboutthe AYATO regulations and
guidelines and and how, by likelearning about these guidelines
and regulations, we can kind ofalso help to like communicate
(21:55):
that, and I think it's reallyawesome that you know people
from other countries in theworld have all kind of
collaborated around Antarcticaand protecting it, and I also
feel very fortunate and gratefulto be here to be able to like
actually experience this place.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, I would love that the practice they've put in
place here to protect the landto be on more land around the
world.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
It would be really.
I mean, it is important and Ithink that's the thing, and just
being present and aware, likegoing back to what you said,
this is the most grounded youfelt all day.
I think we all kind of comefrom busy lives and busy things
and sometimes when we're in thatbusyness, we're focused on
what's in front of us and we'renot like as much expanding our
(22:50):
awareness around us.
And I think it's reallyimportant to have a wide view
and have like awareness aroundeverything around us and how,
like every step we take everywhich way in our life whether
it's a step towardscommunicating or a step towards
putting something out there inthe world or just like walking
on the street how, like everystep we, every footprint we make
(23:11):
, has a ripple effect in one wayor another.
So I feel like being here, youwitness it even more and you're
like, oh yeah, so that'ssomething I'm definitely gonna
take back with me even more.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
We're even learning about a crumb.
A crumb coming out of someone'spocket, landing on the ice, a
penguin eating it, and then themassociating humans coming on to
land with food, and just howthat tiny crumb can just ruin
the biodiversity.
(23:46):
Is that what the word is?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I mean, yeah, it definitely starts to like kind
of mess with, like the structureand the fabric of the ecosystem
and what holds it together.
Because all of a sudden it'slike think about, like you know,
sugar.
It's like people want sugarrather than like nutrients, you
know.
So like that crumb could likeaffect its palate, you know, and
it could have the ripple effector what you're saying like
associating.
(24:09):
So it's like all of a sudden,they're waiting for us to come
ashore rather than going andhunting for food.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, they turn into pigeons.
They associate people comingdown the beach eating their fish
and chips and they're like oh,the seagulls and they fly over
and they're like, oh, thesepeople, they're gonna give me
chips.
So if that happened and wherepeople are doing a walk and then
the penguins all start runningover, going, oh, there might be
more crumbs of these guys.
That would be awful.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
That would be awful, and we've seen it happen time
and time again across the wholeworld over.
You know, yeah, so that's, yeah, that's an interesting thing,
and just being here with thismuch space around and how pure
the land is, you're just likewow, and how wild and raw it is.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
What would you say is being your or moment?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Gosh, you know so many all moments.
Really it's hard to say one.
That said, I feel likeyesterday morning, right after
kind of like the yoga, or maybeit was in the middle of yoga and
we went outside and that kindof like cloud, rainbow, the
rainbow cloud like it was likethat iridescent rainbow and then
having our actual reflectionsand the glassy water and how it
(25:23):
created like we can see our ownauras, essentially.
And then I was like, wow, likethis is like an angelic realm,
like the, the air feels reallyfine and everything feels really
pure and crisp and it felt likewe had drifted like my like
actual sensory feeling was thatwe had like drifted into this
(25:45):
kind of like seaship of, likeclouds and we were just in this
different space, like almostlike a different dimension,
where we can see our own auras.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
It was crazy that's been my all moment as well
because there was this fog overthe water and then there was
mountains and there was more fogand the way the ship moves it
kind of feels like it moves inslow motion and it felt like we
were a spaceship going throughhere, this other dimension, like
(26:18):
literally floating through it,with these gigantic mountains
and such an expansive space andsomething you never had seen
before.
It just was incredibly hardopening.
Absolutely.
Before that in the tea ceremonyI had a.
(26:39):
I had a nice cry like a purge Icould.
Quite a few emotions werecoming up.
I was actually.
I got a message from someonejust before it that triggered me
and made me really angry and soI was angry at them and being
reactive in my head and from thegestalt therapy the night
before questioning am I okay orhow do I feel?
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and then how do I really feel?
And getting underneath whatthat was.
So I did a lot of processing inthat tea ceremony and I
realized it was actuallyremnants from what I was
clearing out in the last yearand it was just this stuff that
was still there and releasingthat brought me back.
(27:22):
Well, releasing that and cryingand then looking out at the
expansive space and just going,bringing it back to the present
and going this is all I need andhave right now and I've been
taken care of and that can, itwill.
Everything is fine it's all okay, it was that morning it's cool.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
It's like there's always those moments and I think
it's so important.
It's like when you do big tripsor or you have something
profound come up, it's like it'slike holding space for all of
it, and I think there's alwaysthose moments of the breakdown
to break through and there hasto be like a crack for the light
to come in and like, okay,where is that moment that we do
kind of crack open a little bitso we can actually shed another
(28:06):
layer?
Crack open to shed anotherlayer.
It's like this kind of likethat's it more and more, you
know, and just when we thinkwe're clearing more, and just
when we feel like something isdone more and more and more,
just getting to the finer andfiner and finer essences of I'm
glad it was.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was only like for an hour, not a week or a month,
but it was a nice process andreleased to have in this place
with these people mm-hmm andlike the best music in the world
, so healing modalities in theworld.
It's just magic.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's so magical, like I'm so grateful for the whole
crew that like all worked sohard to make this happen and I
got brought on to this trip withthe secular Sabbath community
and they're good friends withlike Diplo and like it's such a
nice contrast and I feel likeit's really like you know, with
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all the music talent that is onthis ship it's, and then also
like all the wellness offeringsto you know, secular Sabbath
it's.
It's like a beautiful contrastof all things, like it's and
we're like in the South Pole andI feel like it's like perfect
polarized elements of like whatyou need to move through stuff.
In that way it's such a perfectbalance of like all night music
(29:31):
and dancing and like full, youknow expression and then also
this like softer, subtlerexpression with like tea
ceremonies and gestalt and youknow sound bass and ambient
music and excursions to the land, to ground at all, and then
coming back to the boat and likedoing a drawing workshop with
(29:53):
Whitney and you know droppinginto like deeper layers and then
having that time to pause andso on.
I mean honestly like it's sucha journey and it's only been a
few days and it's like what aradical crew of humans to be
experiencing this with.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Oh, so incredible, yeah, and then going on
excursion, the only thing isthere's actually this is for the
listeners like there's no timeto sleep.
Everyone's had hardly any sleepbecause there's so much fun to
have.
It's non-stop.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
We're up all night.
It's like I went to bed atthree last night and woke up
this morning at like 6.30 to godue to ceremony and sound bath,
but they were cleaning upbecause I don't think like the
dance party stopped until fivethis morning, so like it was
like this was the first morningwe haven't done tea or yoga or a
sound bath first thing in themorning.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
It was a big party night last night.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah but it's so beautiful because everybody's
showing up to it.
And then you know, the minutethe announcement came on that it
was time to go to land, likewow, everybody got their stuff
and, you know, whacked a bit ofcoffee in their eyeballs
probably and down their throatand got out.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
You know I was lying in bed for only three hours
sleep and was thinking you knowwhat I might just give in.
A mere sleep's more importantnow.
But then you remember where youare and you're like, no,
there's actually no time tosleep, and you go and we just
climbed a mountain this morning,or maybe it was.
Maybe it was a hill.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It felt like a mountain though, because, too,
it's like going through the snowand just like the elevation,
like.
I don't know about you, but Ifeel like this place feels
denser, like I feel like theweight is different here, like
it's heavier the air.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
That's been my experience, interesting yeah
well, a couple of people, and itsounds a bit silly and I kind
of laughed with them about it.
They're like we're at a highaltitude, aren't we?
And I was like, well, we'reactually at sea level so, but
it's maybe has that feeling ofbeing at a high altitude because
of the thin air, maybe it's alatitude thing.
(32:02):
It's interesting.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I mean we're literally in the Arctic Circle
and there is differentpolarities.
Like I've been to the NorthPole before, Heavy and yeah,
like a couple years ago actually, with Andrew the yoga teacher
that's here with Secular Sabbathand like and yeah, it's
interesting we had been therebefore and I felt like I felt
(32:26):
lighter there.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Interesting and I feel like.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I feel heavier here and I don't know what that is.
But yeah, it's interesting.
Also, when we have to go toshore, we go with so much gear
on, so maybe it's also that youknow like we're just wearing so
much stuff.
But yeah, there is, there isdefinitely something that feels
different.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
What's another contrast between the North Pole
and the South Pole?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
you found I mean the equator right, oh, between.
I mean I guess I was thinkinglike what's the difference
between the North and the SouthPole?
That I feel a different polarshift and like when I'm on the
equator I just feel like nothing.
I feel like kind of thatbalance of all things.
But I think another contrastbetween the North and the South
Pole is it has the northernlights, in the North Pole it has
(33:11):
the aurora borealis and it'snot down here.
So that's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
It's all right.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, so that's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, well, they have the australis borealis here.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
So I want to see it, but I think it just never gets
dark enough.
Winter, that's one it is.
Yeah, so is that kind of likethe aurora, like it's the same,
it's the same?
Yeah, interesting because, likesomebody was saying, that
doesn't happen here.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
No, it doesn't but maybe it's just because when
we're here, yeah because we comein summer and I'm wondering if
it's actually too cold in winter.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
To even experience it and go see it, yeah, which is
why you don't see it, and alsothere's nobody here but
scientists.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah, it's hard to think Well interesting.
Might wrap it up here.
Cool Is there anything else youwanted to share?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
No, I mean, I'm just like so grateful to be here and
it's just so awesome and youknow, I'm happy to share sound
and just happy to share thisexperience, you know.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, I just that's the thing, because we have got
the privilege to be here andexperience this.
I think it's I want to be ableto share you know everyone
else's experience but share itwith the outside world so they
can understand what it's like.
I had no idea.
I had no expectations, whichwas great as well, but so
(34:28):
curious about what it's actuallylike and I think, having these
discussions, you get differentperspectives.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
What different people take away from it.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Totally.
It's like I'm taking so muchaway from this and I feel like
on the whatever 20 somethinghours of flights it'll take to
get home, it's like I alwaysfeel like whenever I go
somewhere, and especiallysomewhere this far out and this
powerful and this special andthis unique and like I mean
literally like I feel like we'rein a different universe.
That's how it feels for me,like somebody's, like it's like
(34:58):
the moon.
I'm like, yeah, totally, it'slike the moon, you know.
It's like beyond the map.
It's like we're like you can'treally see it unless you're here
, because the map you can't likelook at it.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You know.
So, beyond the map, and likeYou're, open off the edge of the
map.
Yeah, it's like how do we evenbegin to process all that we're
experiencing?
It's going to take a while tounpack.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
So it's probably good having our long flights home to
integrate.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I feel.
So you know, I feel like inthat space it's going to be like
whoa, going back to likemovement and different things,
and then coming out here like Imean, just being here makes me
want to spend time like just onthe land, like in silence here,
like it makes me want to comeback.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I wonder if we could set that intention of one of our
landings, that we actually justhave a moment like two minutes
silence, at least Totally, or asilent walk, a meditation walk.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I mean, I think, like on this next one, I really want
to invite people to do itbecause there's like that's
something that I would just loveyou know, because, yeah,
totally.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Maybe we'll coordinate one of the zodiacs to
be a silent zodiac.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Totally, you know.
And then also like maybeinviting other people, like, hey
, why don't we take thisexcursion and be in silence and
be in full like experience, andlike let us have a silent
meditation, walking experience.
Do this like really specialland, because I feel like
there's so much subtlety thatcan't get through with all the
(36:31):
noise, and that would be really,really special.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, yeah let's do it.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Let's go.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Thank you.
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