What happens when spiritual traditions find you despite yourself? In this inspiring conversation, Catherine Corona, DSS —award-winning filmmaker, singer, composer, and author—shares how sixty years of meditation and encounters with Sufi masters, Lakota elders, and faith leaders transformed her path.
Catherine reveals how she used spiritual practice to heal her body when doctors said it was impossible. After surviving cancer three times, she describes the visualization technique that healed her crushed ureter without surgery: “You take your soul, which is perfect, and you put it in your body in the places that have disease. Nothing that is not perfect can be in the presence of the soul.”
Her Soul and Spirit program distills decades of wisdom into five daily practices—invocations, teachings, affirmations, chanting, and meditation—that take just 5–7 minutes. With humor and heart, she explains how to live with “multidimensional awareness” while embracing ordinary life.
Through practical wisdom and profound stories, Catherine invites listeners to see that “you are not a physical person reaching for a spiritual life—you’re a spiritual entity having a physical experience.” This episode is a roadmap for anyone seeking healing, soul connection, and everyday joy.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello everyone, welcome to the Spiritual
Spotlight Series.
Today I'm joined by DrCatherine Corona.
She is an award-winningfilmmaker, singer, composer and
author.
She also has had a meditationspiritual practice for over 60
years.
Thank you so much for coming onthe Spiritual Spotlight Series.
I'm really happy you're here.
Nice to be here.
(00:22):
Thank you, nice to be here.
So we're just going to jumpright in.
So, Catherine, you've had anincredible journey with over 60
years of meditation andspiritual practice.
Can you maybe share with uswhat initially inspired your
spiritual path?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It found me, despite myself, despite myself.
So what happened was when I wasabout 19,.
I lived on a ranch up in themountains outside of Boulder
Colorado.
I live in Boulder, colorado nowand I lived in this little two
room, no running water, abovethe barn place.
(01:01):
That was just great.
I loved it.
And there was a big ranch houseand the ranch house moved in.
Some people that followed Sufitraditions.
Sufi is sort of an esoteric armof Islam, the whirling
dervishes, if you see them withthe big.
They practice what's called thesound current, the voice of God
(01:25):
in Hebrew, the flow of theenergy from creation that comes
from the spiritual heart.
And they lived right next door.
And then they moved out andthey had a teacher there that
was renowned and he was fromEurope.
And you know, I didn't knowanything.
I was studying the hardsciences in college.
(01:46):
I knew nothing about thewoo-woo spiritual world.
So he would talk to me becauseI didn't put him on a pedestal,
I didn't revere him, I was justlike meh, meh, you know, but it
kind of rubbed off.
I was like there's somethinghere.
(02:10):
Then they moved out and somepeople that practice Lakota
traditions moved in and I wasinvited to sweat lodges and I
was invited to a pipe ceremonyand again I was kind of like,
okay, whatever, I'm busy withphysics and chemistry, but I'll
go because there's going to be afeast afterwards.
Hey, food is good, food is good.
(02:32):
I want to go for that.
I'll go for the food.
I would too.
So I went to these ceremoniesthat were all in Lakota.
None of it was in English andwas blown away.
I was just going into a sweatlodge, even though I know
(02:54):
nothing about what was going onbecause I didn't speak the
language.
I came out of there and I waslike I feel completely different
.
I feel completely transformed.
I'm elevated, I'm buoyant, Ifeel all this energy.
I feel released.
My mind isn't driving me crazy,my emotions are calm.
(03:15):
What is this?
And I want more of it.
I moved again and I had aPresbyterian minister on one
side of me and a Lutheranminister on another side of me
and everybody invited me for tea.
And then I moved again and Ihad the president of the
Theosophical Society live nextto me and she would invite me
(03:36):
over for goat milk.
And theosophy, just to narrowit down, is sort of an esoteric
part of Christianity.
Yeah, so, despite myself, I hadgreat spiritual teachers around
me.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I love that and that's how it's.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And then after those years I met a Hindu teacher that
taught at mantra meditation.
And then I met a sound currentteacher called John Roger and I
sort of landed with him becauseI felt really at home with his
teaching and I feel still today,50 years after studying with
(04:21):
him I feel still transported inwhat he called soul
transcendence.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I love that.
That's a great answer.
So over the years, you'veworked in various creative
fields, such as filmmaking,music and writing.
How do these artistic outletsintersect with your spiritual
practices and beliefs?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
They all sprung from my spiritual practices and
beliefs.
So the movie I worked in thefilm industry, just as a crew
person, and then I made my ownfeature length documentary
called the Great Mystery, whichwas about the six major world
religions.
So I got to really dig deepjust, and I made it for ordinary
people to talk about theirreligions, because the academic
(05:12):
approach has been done you canwatch plenty of academic movies
about spiritual traditions so Iwanted to find out what the
everyday, ordinary people, whattheir lives, were like in their
spiritual tradition and then howthe traditions where they were
similar and where they weredifferent.
Yeah, I wrote a book that wasmy.
(05:41):
I wrote a doctoral thesis thatbecame a book called Loving,
tapping your Spiritual Source,and that was actually nominated
for the Nautilus Award, which isa really prestigious award.
I was really proud of that,along with the Dalai Lama that
year.
So I'm very proud of that,that's awesome.
Congratulations.
Yes, thank you, and I broughtthat book.
I worked in a jail and Ibrought that book into the jail
(06:02):
with women inmates and workedsome of the processes, brought
that book into the jail withwomen inmates and worked some of
the processes of that book, andso that's how the spiritual has
been my favorite subject eversince.
So everything I'm doing isalong that line.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, I love that.
So you're known for blendingspiritual guidance with personal
healing.
Could you maybe share a momentwhere you experienced a profound
shift in your own healingprocess?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh, I have a really profound shift in my own healing
process.
So I had cancer, I had it threetimes.
Wow, it just recurred, yeah.
And then one of the things, andit had metastasized.
So that in itself was kind of amiracle that I survived that
(06:50):
and I can talk about that.
But I wanted to talk about, so,one of the things I had a tumor.
I had endometrial cancer.
I had a tumor that crushed theureter which goes, yes, goes
from the kidney to the bladder,and so I had a nephrostomy bag,
which is, you know, I called itthree different ways to pee.
(07:15):
That's a good point, that's agood way to put it.
Yeah, and I wasn't having it,you know, and they gave me the.
Your ureter's crushed, there'sreally, there's a.
You know, the urologist said,yeah, well, there's a surgery,
but I don't think I'd evenrecommend it.
You know, we have to open youall up and I have to replace
(07:35):
that ureter with an artery andso, and then I have to put all,
I have to take all your organsout.
Then I have to put them allback, and it's five, seven hour
surgery.
I mean, really, I don't know.
And then I got the lecture Well, you can live with a
nephrostomy bag.
You just With my quality of life, yeah, and it's a surgery every
three months, right, no?
(07:57):
So I was like no, no, I'm notliving like this, no, I'm not
living like this.
And at the same time, thisminister I studied with, who was
John Roger the main teacher,sort of protege, one day he was
doing a seminar and I feel thistap on my shoulder and all of a
(08:17):
sudden it's him and he pulls meoff to the side and he doesn't
know about any of this.
I shared it with him, I didn'tknow.
He was behind me and he says tome and here's the key you take
your soul, which is perfect, andyou put it in your body, in the
places that have a disease, andnothing that is not perfect can
(08:42):
be in the presence of the soul.
It's profound right.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
So I made an exercise out of it and every day
actually I did it at night to bereally specific I would just
mock up in my imagination.
But then it was real.
But first it started, myimagination bringing my soul
into my body and the perfectionof the template of the soul
(09:15):
which mirrors the body into myphysical form and specifically
into where that yurter was, andI just would hold there for a
few seconds in the consciousnessof that.
And then I did that every night, every night, every night, and
it was about the magic number 33nights.
(09:36):
And then I woke up one morningand I went it was not fireworks.
I went this is healed.
I picked up the phone, 8 in themorning I called the urologist.
He actually answered the phone,which never happens, right?
No, that's shocking.
Never.
He answered the phone and Isaid look At that point I had
(10:01):
changed from a nephrosti bag toa stent and it was worse.
And just for your I know you'rea nurse, but for your viewers-
of course yeah just opens upthat, that ureter, so that the
kidney can drain Right, right,right.
It was so bad.
I actually went to theurologist and said just take the
(10:23):
kidney out, just take it out.
That's how bad it was.
Wow, I actually went to theurologist and said just take the
kidney out, just take it out.
That's how bad it was to livewith.
And he just started laughing.
You know, like no, you've had,you can't, you with their cancer
, we can't, we can't take thekidney.
So so at that point I had astint, and so on the phone he's
on the phone eight in themorning and I said I would like
(10:45):
that stint remove my my uretershealed, my kidneys healed.
And he goes oh no, no, we can'tdo that.
We can't do that.
You'll get hydronephrosis.
You'll be really sick, which Ihave had, and you get really
nauseous.
You get really sick, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah sick.
And he said no.
And I said okay, I'll do a dealwith you.
(11:07):
Here's the deal.
How long does it take, once youremove the stent, to know if I
have hydronephrosis again?
He said it'll take about a weekand I said here's the deal then
Take out the stent, I'll comeback in a week do a test, which
was an ultrasound.
If I have hydronephrosis, I'llgo back to the nephrostomy bag.
(11:30):
I'll have you put it insurgically and that'll be that
he goes.
Okay, I will do that, deal withyou.
So I went the next day, pulledout the stent.
It was awful, I like threw upon the way home.
A friend of mine drove me itabout the stint.
It was awful, I threw up on theway home, a friend of mine
drove me it was awful.
But anyway, I went back a weeklater did the ultrasound.
(11:50):
He came in the room and he saidwell, I have to tell you I'm
completely surprised but yourkidney is fine, I love that.
So he said but we've, we've thatyou're going to lose that
kidney it.
We have beaten it up so much,We've done so much damage to it
with the surgeries and the stint.
(12:12):
Right, you're going to lose it.
And I said, well, why he goes?
Well, that just the bloodvessels and the capillaries in
it are just going to die andit'll just shrivel up.
We don't have to do anything.
So shrivel up, we don't have todo anything.
So I said, okay, we'll see,we'll see.
Well, my kidney is fine, totalfunction.
And I asked him, you know,won't it regenerate?
(12:34):
He said no, kidneys don'tregenerate, livers regenerate,
kidneys don't Right, right, oh,it's fine.
So that's one story of how thattechnique works.
Of course I did that story.
I did that technique with thecancer.
I still did.
I still have cancer at thatpoint Can't remember now, yeah.
But so that's how you can usethat awakening and awareness.
(12:59):
So since then I've made it my,I've made a relationship with my
soul yes, yeah, deeprelationship by inviting it in,
like I did when I was using itas a healing template.
Yeah, right, conjuring up aconversation, listening to its
(13:23):
voice, sort ofanthropomorphizing it Right to
its voice.
Sort of anthropomorphizing itRight, which you don't actually
have to do because it already is, it's just a part of you, it's
like it's the biggest part of us, right?
So I've learned over time ofhaving developing that
relationship with.
Some people might call it yourspiritual self, right, right,
(13:45):
right.
People might call you know lots, right, right.
But my call you know lots ofdifferent names, but it's the
part that is eternal, it's thepart that is the first thing
created from god when we werecreated.
So we were created as a souland we take on this body, these
minds, these emotions and allthe, all the levels of of our
(14:06):
consciousness to live here inthis world, but what I've
discovered by developing arelationship with my soul and my
spirit, whatever you want tocall it is, it has its own body,
its own voice and it's our bestfriend right.
It's our.
The sufis would say our beloved, our where, where we're, we're
(14:32):
all goodness there, right, right, I love that so much.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, I want to jump in to talk about your.
Your program, soul and spiritbecause I mean, this is like
probably where your program camefrom is offers five sacred
practices each day.
Can you maybe tell us a littlebit about the significance of
these practices and how theybenefit participants on a daily
basis?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
On a daily basis.
Well, I learned over the yearsthat the best way to stay sort
of on the straight and narrow,develop awareness, develop a
relationship with my soul, withmy spirit and beyond that, into
what creates the soul and spiritcreates us, was to go there, go
inward and take that time to gointo stillness and sit and
(15:22):
listen.
And then I took, I distilled orcurated many different
techniques from all the faithtraditions that were around me
or found me or studied and Ifound the best ones so to invoke
or invite your soul and yourspirit to your consciousness.
(15:46):
And then I studied a lot ofdifferent spiritual masters
throughout history, like Rumi,hafiz, jesus, muhammad, buddha,
and then I took many of theirteachings and made just a
teaching of the day and thenmade an affirmation that's so
cool so you can keep your mindand your emotions directed.
(16:07):
So, for example, hafiz, one ofthe great Sufi poets, says I've
learned so much from God that Ican no longer call myself a
Christian, a Buddhist, a Hindu,a Jew.
So I made the affirmation Ihave learned so much from God.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Today, I love that, I love that.
That's a really beautifulaffirmation.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
That's the way I start my morning and then that
just resounds through my day.
Yeah, and then I do a chantfrom Sanskrit.
Sanskrit syllables have some ofthem, have a vibe with them, an
energy Right.
So by practicing, just like ifyou thought of the word love and
you said it inwardly toyourself pretty fast, you're
(16:56):
going to feel pretty expandedand wonderful.
So that's a mantra ofmeditation.
You can meditate just on thatword and bring yourself to a
beautiful, expanded state ofconsciousness.
So I do a chant with someoriginal music and then I do a
guided meditation, all in fiveto seven minutes.
(17:18):
It doesn't take long.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
That's awesome.
I mean because sometimes I feellike we get a little crazy with
things and we expand it out andit's too much time.
So this is something that youoffer a daily spiritual practice
to your subscribers.
So like, how do you balanceconsistency with flexibility and
offering daily guidance withyour spiritual seekers?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Say that again.
It's kind of went fast.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I get excited and I talk fast.
Everyone I love this.
I love that you're talkingabout.
This is kind of like your dailyspiritual practice, and this is
something that you also offeras a paid service for
subscribers.
So how do you balanceconsistency with, maybe,
flexibility and offering dailyguidance with spiritual seekers,
(18:10):
because that could be a littlehard at times.
It's not hard.
Tell me, love it.
There's no rules.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
There's no rules.
If you miss a day or two daysor a week.
You're on vacation, you'rehaving fun in Mexico on the
beach, you know.
Eventually you understand thateverything is a spiritual
practice, absolutely, and youcan live your life that way.
(18:41):
Now you might want to prime thepump and have some real
dedicated time to sit and listento your soul and your spirit
and what is bigger than that,what created whatever you want
to say, and have that dedicatedtime and maybe you only have two
minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
That's fine.
Yeah, no, absolutely that mightbe.
All you need is two minutes.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
well, 15 seconds of connecting with divinity will
change your life so tell me moreabout that well, one thing that
I would first of all ask yourguests to consider is
everybody's had an experiencewith divinity, with holiness,
(19:28):
with their soul, with theirspirit.
You just may not define it thatway or recognize it, but when
you feel your heart get huge,you feel really blissful.
Oh, I'm getting goosebumps justtalking about it.
You feel really expanded and yougo, I, you actually don't go
(19:49):
anywhere, you just rest in it,right.
That's a spiritual practice,that's a spiritual moment,
that's a connection withdivinity Right Now.
When you practice that intentwith intention, tensionally,
consistently, then more and moreand more of those moments will
find you, and you will find themuntil, in the mystic path or
(20:12):
spiritual path, you're riding inthat divine energy all the time
, aware of it, awake to it.
At the same time, you're livingyour everyday, ordinary life
Right and you becomemultidimensionally aware.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh, I like how you put that.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
So we as humans, we live in a duality in this
physical existence.
We practice spirituality or webump into it in a moment, on the
beach or in the mountains orwith your child on the beach or
in the mountains or with yourchild and our practice can be
(20:51):
just expanding that so that youhold that more and more and more
of the time and so that becomesyour natural state of being.
The natural state of being isnot I have to get groceries, I
have to do my checkbook, I haveto check on my child, then I
have to go here, and thatbecomes people's natural state
of being.
But that's not the naturalstate of being.
(21:12):
That's what the world demands,that's what we do to live in the
world.
But our natural state of beingis an expanded awareness of what
is divine and holy andbeautiful.
And you can do both all thetasks of life while expanding
into the awareness of the loving, and then, when you are really
(21:34):
anchored in that, it's justnaturally shared.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yes, absolutely.
Oh, that's.
I really like how you put that.
That's really beautiful, Likeit's not in the hustle and
bustle, it's just it's in theknowingness and anchor of you
know, being in the love and the.
I like that.
That's very beautiful.
Thank you for sharing that.
So, over the years, what aresome key lessons that you have
(21:59):
learned that you believe areessential to spiritual evolution
and personal transformation?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Number one lesson I've learned.
Number one everything thatcomes your way, even though it
seems so hard and maybe sopainful or so challenging, it's
meant for you.
It's meant for your expansion,it's meant for your learning,
(22:28):
it's meant for your growth, it'smeant for catapulting you into
a higher just a higher place ofexistence.
Now, a lot of times it doesn'tlook like that on the surface,
but when I'm sure you've had theexperience, you go through
something hard and you look back, maybe years later, and you go.
(22:52):
I wouldn't change that for theworld.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah, no, absolutely.
I can think of a couple thingsAbsolutely, and it's like, oh,
but going through it it was hard, but hard back you're able to
say, oh, you're right, there wasless than there.
I did expand, I grew from thismoment.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
That's how every single thing in life is
presented to us when you'regoing through it.
It is hard until you start torecognize and acknowledge and be
grateful for which isantithetical to the way.
But be grateful for the cancers, the challenges, the deaths,
(23:30):
the accidents, the everything.
Be grateful for them whileyou're in them and then you've
really made a huge leap inself-mastery.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh, I love that.
Any other lessons that you goto automatically Love that.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Any other lessons that you go to automatically Sit
, sit in stillness, sit instillness, and I'll put it this
way, it's a little crude sit instillness and shut up and listen
.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I like how you put that it's true.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And if your mind starts to intrude, you know
you'll have moments when you'rejust in total peace, when you
sit down to listen, and then themind usually kicks back in and
starts talking to you.
It's chattering like I've gotto do this and get up and what
are you doing?
And now they've got to do this?
And what about that person?
And why did they say that?
And all that stuff.
That's okay.
Don't try to shut the mind off.
Shutting the mind off is a myth.
(24:35):
You can't do it.
It's not meant to do it.
You're not meant to do it.
But if you focus your mind on amantra, a word like the word
love, the word God, the wordholiness, om, I like the word
hue.
That's a Sufi, comes out ofSanskrit, but it's a Sufi word
(24:58):
for God oh, I like that.
Or oneness hue, sometimespronounced who and you just let
that roll inside of yourself.
You can do it outside too, andthen you direct your mind to
that.
So, for example, when you'resinging, is your mind chattering
at you?
No, not at all.
(25:19):
Exactly so when you're chantinga word or sound that brings you
this uplifted vibe, thisuplifted feeling, your mind's
not chattering at you.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Absolutely yes.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It's the same thing as a song.
And so, whatever word you loveand then it could be true self
truth, anything, pick one andthen that focus your mind.
That's another way to self, ofself mastery.
Then, when your mind's a littlebit quieter again, shut up and
(25:53):
listen, and what I do is I andinvite the listening, Invite the
listening, invite the wisdom ofyour soul, of your spirit, of
God, of divinity, whatever wordsyou want to use, I am open to
(26:13):
receive of your wisdom.
What is your guidance for metoday?
Let me hear the celestialmelodies of the high heavens.
Let me hear the celestialmelodies of the high heavens I
love that and let me fly in thatwind of the breath of God.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I have chills as you're saying that that's so
powerful.
I mean it's a very importantpractice and you're right.
Just shut up and listen andthen set the intention and
invite it in.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That's you got it.
It's that simple.
And the longer, the more youpractice with it, the more time
you will have, is my experiencein that blissful place and
another key to expanding yourawareness.
When you're up in the spiritualrealms the soul realms we call
(27:07):
them, there's no referencepoints, it's not physical, so
don't try to like what is that?
Your mind can't really grasp it.
Right, it's not physical, right, it's not physical, right, but
if you start to write down yourimpressions, your sights, your
sounds, when you are in yourfive minutes or however long you
(27:29):
can do it you have time for,and you start to write that down
, you'll start to be able torecognize the inner terrain and
topography of the spiritualrealms.
Yes, yes, yes.
So, and it takes time.
I mean I'm on the slow path.
I guess I wrote down,religiously and disciplined, for
(27:52):
25 years.
Wow, every time I came back outof spiritual exercises or
spiritual practice, meditation,and I wrote down and at first,
like the first year I did it, Iwent I'm totally making this up,
I'm making it up.
I don't know that any of thishappened, right, right, and over
time it's like oh, that'srepeating itself.
(28:13):
Oh, that's the same experienceI had.
Oh, I'm not making that up, Icouldn't think of that if I
tried.
And then you start to it's likethis let's say you go to that
beach in Mexico.
You've never been there before,right right, and it's a
(28:37):
different language.
It seems really unfamiliar whenyou first get there.
The beach is different.
Where am I going?
Where are the bathrooms?
You know where's the food andit's all new and you're unsure
and maybe not that comfortable.
But in a few hours you kind ofgot the terrain, you kind of got
it figured out.
You know where your hotel is orwhere you're staying Absolutely
.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You know how to get there.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's the same thing in the inner realms.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yes, I like that.
It's like building yourspiritual dictionary.
Yeah, I like that, that's goodtoo.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I like that.
I like that your dictionary,your map, your impressions, your
colors, your sight and sound,and then it just becomes part of
who you are absolutely justlike.
If you live wherever you livein your town, that's who you are
Absolutely Just like.
If you live wherever you livein your town, that's who you are
, that's your home base.
Right Well spirit becomes yourhome base.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Spirit becomes your home base.
That's very important.
I love that.
That's so important.
So, before I ask you the lastquestion if anyone is interested
in learning more about you orsigning up for your programs,
your documentary, your book,everything that you do, which is
a lot what is the best placefor them to go to?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
So if you go to soul and spiritnet or you can look up
my name, catherine Coronacom,but soul and spiritnet is better
and I have this subscriptionprogram that delivers about it.
Yeah, del delivers the fivespiritual practices a day.
Um, it's a beta test.
(30:06):
I haven't actually evenlaunched it.
It's um I sent you a link, butit's not like publicly launched,
but about the end of february.
And also, if you sign up, youget um, you get access to the
movie e-book of my book Loving,tapping your Spiritual Source, a
(30:28):
yoga of sound class, yoga Nidra, which is the yoga of sleep,
and many other things foryourself.
But the main thing is gettingevery day, either on the app or
in your email, your fivespiritual practices that just
guide you.
It's just a shortcut.
(30:49):
I love that.
So there's that.
And then also I have a SpotifyCatherine Corona on Spotify if
you want to listen to mydevotional music and my chants
and my.
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I gonna, I'm gonna definitely check that out,
because I'm always looking forthe new chance or music or
whatever.
So I'm definitely gonna have tomake sure to download that.
So, as a final piece of advice,what would you recommend to
someone who is looking to deepentheir spiritual practice,
especially with those who mightbe new to meditation or sacred
traditions?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
consider that you already have a spiritual
practice.
You already have one.
Just define it for yourself.
What opens your heart?
And do more of those.
Do more of that.
If it opens your heart to takea walk in the woods, do more of
that.
Take a walk in the woods.
Do more of that and thenconsider invoking your spirit
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and your soul, sitting quietlyand listening to it, practicing
an inner sound that will helpmaster your mind and emotions in
the direction you want it to go.
And then listening and justalways know that, as it's said
(32:09):
you've probably heard this youare not a physical person
reaching to a spiritual life.
You're a spiritual entityhaving a physical experience.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Your soul is in a flush bag exactly I'm sorry.
I took that nice beautifulmoment and made a joke, but
you've got to keep itlighthearted sometimes jokes are
a great spiritual practiceabsolutely.
That was my focus for 2024 and2025.
It's like I just want to listento more comedians and have and
(32:48):
laugh and have fun like and justthat's part of that.
That's probably what opens myheart yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
It's great.
I think I've watched everysingle comedian stand up on
Netflix.
Same, there we go.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
And it's been like it's been such a joy to me to
learn more about differentcomedians I normally wouldn't
have checked out.
And then like, and now it'slike, okay, now I'm gonna
actually go see them in person.
Like it's like, you know, it'sjust, it's just, it's so fun.
Yeah, I have.
I have like a list of four orfive comedians that I'm in the
process of getting tickets tosee, so I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I really want to see Leanne Morgan.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I know, is she the blonde lady?
Yes, oh, she's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Oh, she's hilarious.
I watched her special at leasttwice and then YouTube quit.
Oh my goodness, I love that.
She'll bring joy into yourheart in two seconds.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Guys, check her out, check out Dr Corona, and I want
to say thank you so much forcoming to the Spiritual
Spotlight Series.
This truly has been amazing toconnect with you today.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Oh, you too, Rachel.
Thank you for having me.
I love getting the chance totalk about my favorite subjects
because I know what it does forpeople.
I know the transformation youcan have in your life.
No, absolutely.
Hello everyone, welcome to the Spiritual
Spotlight Series.
Today I'm joined by DrCatherine Corona.
She is an award-winningfilmmaker, singer, composer and
author.
She also has had a meditationspiritual practice for over 60
years.
Thank you so much for coming onthe Spiritual Spotlight Series.
I'm really happy you're here.
Nice to be here.
(00:22):
Thank you, nice to be here.
So we're just going to jumpright in.
So, Catherine, you've had anincredible journey with over 60
years of meditation andspiritual practice.
Can you maybe share with uswhat initially inspired your
spiritual path?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It found me, despite myself, despite myself.
So what happened was when I wasabout 19,.
I lived on a ranch up in themountains outside of Boulder
Colorado.
I live in Boulder, colorado nowand I lived in this little two
room, no running water, abovethe barn place.
(01:01):
That was just great.
I loved it.
And there was a big ranch houseand the ranch house moved in.
Some people that followed Sufitraditions.
Sufi is sort of an esoteric armof Islam, the whirling
dervishes, if you see them withthe big.
They practice what's called thesound current, the voice of God
(01:25):
in Hebrew, the flow of theenergy from creation that comes
from the spiritual heart.
And they lived right next door.
And then they moved out andthey had a teacher there that
was renowned and he was fromEurope.
And you know, I didn't knowanything.
I was studying the hardsciences in college.
(01:46):
I knew nothing about thewoo-woo spiritual world.
So he would talk to me becauseI didn't put him on a pedestal,
I didn't revere him, I was justlike meh, meh, you know, but it
kind of rubbed off.
I was like there's somethinghere.
(02:10):
Then they moved out and somepeople that practice Lakota
traditions moved in and I wasinvited to sweat lodges and I
was invited to a pipe ceremonyand again I was kind of like,
okay, whatever, I'm busy withphysics and chemistry, but I'll
go because there's going to be afeast afterwards.
Hey, food is good, food is good.
(02:32):
I want to go for that.
I'll go for the food.
I would too.
So I went to these ceremoniesthat were all in Lakota.
None of it was in English andwas blown away.
I was just going into a sweatlodge, even though I know
(02:54):
nothing about what was going onbecause I didn't speak the
language.
I came out of there and I waslike I feel completely different
.
I feel completely transformed.
I'm elevated, I'm buoyant, Ifeel all this energy.
I feel released.
My mind isn't driving me crazy,my emotions are calm.
(03:15):
What is this?
And I want more of it.
I moved again and I had aPresbyterian minister on one
side of me and a Lutheranminister on another side of me
and everybody invited me for tea.
And then I moved again and Ihad the president of the
Theosophical Society live nextto me and she would invite me
(03:36):
over for goat milk.
And theosophy, just to narrowit down, is sort of an esoteric
part of Christianity.
Yeah, so, despite myself, I hadgreat spiritual teachers around
me.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I love that and that's how it's.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And then after those years I met a Hindu teacher that
taught at mantra meditation.
And then I met a sound currentteacher called John Roger and I
sort of landed with him becauseI felt really at home with his
teaching and I feel still today,50 years after studying with
(04:21):
him I feel still transported inwhat he called soul
transcendence.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I love that.
That's a great answer.
So over the years, you'veworked in various creative
fields, such as filmmaking,music and writing.
How do these artistic outletsintersect with your spiritual
practices and beliefs?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
They all sprung from my spiritual practices and
beliefs.
So the movie I worked in thefilm industry, just as a crew
person, and then I made my ownfeature length documentary
called the Great Mystery, whichwas about the six major world
religions.
So I got to really dig deepjust, and I made it for ordinary
people to talk about theirreligions, because the academic
(05:12):
approach has been done you canwatch plenty of academic movies
about spiritual traditions so Iwanted to find out what the
everyday, ordinary people, whattheir lives, were like in their
spiritual tradition and then howthe traditions where they were
similar and where they weredifferent.
Yeah, I wrote a book that wasmy.
(05:41):
I wrote a doctoral thesis thatbecame a book called Loving,
tapping your Spiritual Source,and that was actually nominated
for the Nautilus Award, which isa really prestigious award.
I was really proud of that,along with the Dalai Lama that
year.
So I'm very proud of that,that's awesome.
Congratulations.
Yes, thank you, and I broughtthat book.
I worked in a jail and Ibrought that book into the jail
(06:02):
with women inmates and workedsome of the processes, brought
that book into the jail withwomen inmates and worked some of
the processes of that book, andso that's how the spiritual has
been my favorite subject eversince.
So everything I'm doing isalong that line.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, I love that.
So you're known for blendingspiritual guidance with personal
healing.
Could you maybe share a momentwhere you experienced a profound
shift in your own healingprocess?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh, I have a really profound shift in my own healing
process.
So I had cancer, I had it threetimes.
Wow, it just recurred, yeah.
And then one of the things, andit had metastasized.
So that in itself was kind of amiracle that I survived that
(06:50):
and I can talk about that.
But I wanted to talk about, so,one of the things I had a tumor.
I had endometrial cancer.
I had a tumor that crushed theureter which goes, yes, goes
from the kidney to the bladder,and so I had a nephrostomy bag,
which is, you know, I called itthree different ways to pee.
(07:15):
That's a good point, that's agood way to put it.
Yeah, and I wasn't having it,you know, and they gave me the.
Your ureter's crushed, there'sreally, there's a.
You know, the urologist said,yeah, well, there's a surgery,
but I don't think I'd evenrecommend it.
You know, we have to open youall up and I have to replace
(07:35):
that ureter with an artery andso, and then I have to put all,
I have to take all your organsout.
Then I have to put them allback, and it's five, seven hour
surgery.
I mean, really, I don't know.
And then I got the lecture Well, you can live with a
nephrostomy bag.
You just With my quality of life, yeah, and it's a surgery every
three months, right, no?
(07:57):
So I was like no, no, I'm notliving like this, no, I'm not
living like this.
And at the same time, thisminister I studied with, who was
John Roger the main teacher,sort of protege, one day he was
doing a seminar and I feel thistap on my shoulder and all of a
(08:17):
sudden it's him and he pulls meoff to the side and he doesn't
know about any of this.
I shared it with him, I didn'tknow.
He was behind me and he says tome and here's the key you take
your soul, which is perfect, andyou put it in your body, in the
places that have a disease, andnothing that is not perfect can
(08:42):
be in the presence of the soul.
It's profound right.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
So I made an exercise out of it and every day
actually I did it at night to bereally specific I would just
mock up in my imagination.
But then it was real.
But first it started, myimagination bringing my soul
into my body and the perfectionof the template of the soul
(09:15):
which mirrors the body into myphysical form and specifically
into where that yurter was, andI just would hold there for a
few seconds in the consciousnessof that.
And then I did that every night, every night, every night, and
it was about the magic number 33nights.
(09:36):
And then I woke up one morningand I went it was not fireworks.
I went this is healed.
I picked up the phone, 8 in themorning I called the urologist.
He actually answered the phone,which never happens, right?
No, that's shocking.
Never.
He answered the phone and Isaid look At that point I had
(10:01):
changed from a nephrosti bag toa stent and it was worse.
And just for your I know you'rea nurse, but for your viewers-
of course yeah just opens upthat, that ureter, so that the
kidney can drain Right, right,right.
It was so bad.
I actually went to theurologist and said just take the
(10:23):
kidney out, just take it out.
That's how bad it was.
Wow, I actually went to theurologist and said just take the
kidney out, just take it out.
That's how bad it was to livewith.
And he just started laughing.
You know, like no, you've had,you can't, you with their cancer
, we can't, we can't take thekidney.
So so at that point I had astint, and so on the phone he's
on the phone eight in themorning and I said I would like
(10:45):
that stint remove my my uretershealed, my kidneys healed.
And he goes oh no, no, we can'tdo that.
We can't do that.
You'll get hydronephrosis.
You'll be really sick, which Ihave had, and you get really
nauseous.
You get really sick, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah sick.
And he said no.
And I said okay, I'll do a dealwith you.
(11:07):
Here's the deal.
How long does it take, once youremove the stent, to know if I
have hydronephrosis again?
He said it'll take about a weekand I said here's the deal then
Take out the stent, I'll comeback in a week do a test, which
was an ultrasound.
If I have hydronephrosis, I'llgo back to the nephrostomy bag.
(11:30):
I'll have you put it insurgically and that'll be that
he goes.
Okay, I will do that, deal withyou.
So I went the next day, pulledout the stent.
It was awful, I like threw upon the way home.
A friend of mine drove me itabout the stint.
It was awful, I threw up on theway home, a friend of mine
drove me it was awful.
But anyway, I went back a weeklater did the ultrasound.
(11:50):
He came in the room and he saidwell, I have to tell you I'm
completely surprised but yourkidney is fine, I love that.
So he said but we've, we've thatyou're going to lose that
kidney it.
We have beaten it up so much,We've done so much damage to it
with the surgeries and the stint.
(12:12):
Right, you're going to lose it.
And I said, well, why he goes?
Well, that just the bloodvessels and the capillaries in
it are just going to die andit'll just shrivel up.
We don't have to do anything.
So shrivel up, we don't have todo anything.
So I said, okay, we'll see,we'll see.
Well, my kidney is fine, totalfunction.
And I asked him, you know,won't it regenerate?
(12:34):
He said no, kidneys don'tregenerate, livers regenerate,
kidneys don't Right, right, oh,it's fine.
So that's one story of how thattechnique works.
Of course I did that story.
I did that technique with thecancer.
I still did.
I still have cancer at thatpoint Can't remember now, yeah.
But so that's how you can usethat awakening and awareness.
(12:59):
So since then I've made it my,I've made a relationship with my
soul yes, yeah, deeprelationship by inviting it in,
like I did when I was using itas a healing template.
Yeah, right, conjuring up aconversation, listening to its
(13:23):
voice, sort ofanthropomorphizing it Right to
its voice.
Sort of anthropomorphizing itRight, which you don't actually
have to do because it already is, it's just a part of you, it's
like it's the biggest part of us, right?
So I've learned over time ofhaving developing that
relationship with.
Some people might call it yourspiritual self, right, right,
(13:45):
right.
People might call you know lots, right, right.
But my call you know lots ofdifferent names, but it's the
part that is eternal, it's thepart that is the first thing
created from god when we werecreated.
So we were created as a souland we take on this body, these
minds, these emotions and allthe, all the levels of of our
(14:06):
consciousness to live here inthis world, but what I've
discovered by developing arelationship with my soul and my
spirit, whatever you want tocall it is, it has its own body,
its own voice and it's our bestfriend right.
It's our.
The sufis would say our beloved, our where, where we're, we're
(14:32):
all goodness there, right, right, I love that so much.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, I want to jump in to talk about your.
Your program, soul and spiritbecause I mean, this is like
probably where your program camefrom is offers five sacred
practices each day.
Can you maybe tell us a littlebit about the significance of
these practices and how theybenefit participants on a daily
basis?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
On a daily basis.
Well, I learned over the yearsthat the best way to stay sort
of on the straight and narrow,develop awareness, develop a
relationship with my soul, withmy spirit and beyond that, into
what creates the soul and spiritcreates us, was to go there, go
inward and take that time to gointo stillness and sit and
(15:22):
listen.
And then I took, I distilled orcurated many different
techniques from all the faithtraditions that were around me
or found me or studied and Ifound the best ones so to invoke
or invite your soul and yourspirit to your consciousness.
(15:46):
And then I studied a lot ofdifferent spiritual masters
throughout history, like Rumi,hafiz, jesus, muhammad, buddha,
and then I took many of theirteachings and made just a
teaching of the day and thenmade an affirmation that's so
cool so you can keep your mindand your emotions directed.
(16:07):
So, for example, hafiz, one ofthe great Sufi poets, says I've
learned so much from God that Ican no longer call myself a
Christian, a Buddhist, a Hindu,a Jew.
So I made the affirmation Ihave learned so much from God.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Today, I love that, I love that.
That's a really beautifulaffirmation.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
That's the way I start my morning and then that
just resounds through my day.
Yeah, and then I do a chantfrom Sanskrit.
Sanskrit syllables have some ofthem, have a vibe with them, an
energy Right.
So by practicing, just like ifyou thought of the word love and
you said it inwardly toyourself pretty fast, you're
(16:56):
going to feel pretty expandedand wonderful.
So that's a mantra ofmeditation.
You can meditate just on thatword and bring yourself to a
beautiful, expanded state ofconsciousness.
So I do a chant with someoriginal music and then I do a
guided meditation, all in fiveto seven minutes.
(17:18):
It doesn't take long.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
That's awesome.
I mean because sometimes I feellike we get a little crazy with
things and we expand it out andit's too much time.
So this is something that youoffer a daily spiritual practice
to your subscribers.
So like, how do you balanceconsistency with flexibility and
offering daily guidance withyour spiritual seekers?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Say that again.
It's kind of went fast.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I get excited and I talk fast.
Everyone I love this.
I love that you're talkingabout.
This is kind of like your dailyspiritual practice, and this is
something that you also offeras a paid service for
subscribers.
So how do you balanceconsistency with, maybe,
flexibility and offering dailyguidance with spiritual seekers,
(18:10):
because that could be a littlehard at times.
It's not hard.
Tell me, love it.
There's no rules.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
There's no rules.
If you miss a day or two daysor a week.
You're on vacation, you'rehaving fun in Mexico on the
beach, you know.
Eventually you understand thateverything is a spiritual
practice, absolutely, and youcan live your life that way.
(18:41):
Now you might want to prime thepump and have some real
dedicated time to sit and listento your soul and your spirit
and what is bigger than that,what created whatever you want
to say, and have that dedicatedtime and maybe you only have two
minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
That's fine.
Yeah, no, absolutely that mightbe.
All you need is two minutes.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
well, 15 seconds of connecting with divinity will
change your life so tell me moreabout that well, one thing that
I would first of all ask yourguests to consider is
everybody's had an experiencewith divinity, with holiness,
(19:28):
with their soul, with theirspirit.
You just may not define it thatway or recognize it, but when
you feel your heart get huge,you feel really blissful.
Oh, I'm getting goosebumps justtalking about it.
You feel really expanded and yougo, I, you actually don't go
(19:49):
anywhere, you just rest in it,right.
That's a spiritual practice,that's a spiritual moment,
that's a connection withdivinity Right Now.
When you practice that intentwith intention, tensionally,
consistently, then more and moreand more of those moments will
find you, and you will find themuntil, in the mystic path or
(20:12):
spiritual path, you're riding inthat divine energy all the time
, aware of it, awake to it.
At the same time, you're livingyour everyday, ordinary life
Right and you becomemultidimensionally aware.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh, I like how you put that.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
So we as humans, we live in a duality in this
physical existence.
We practice spirituality or webump into it in a moment, on the
beach or in the mountains orwith your child on the beach or
in the mountains or with yourchild and our practice can be
(20:51):
just expanding that so that youhold that more and more and more
of the time and so that becomesyour natural state of being.
The natural state of being isnot I have to get groceries, I
have to do my checkbook, I haveto check on my child, then I
have to go here, and thatbecomes people's natural state
of being.
But that's not the naturalstate of being.
(21:12):
That's what the world demands,that's what we do to live in the
world.
But our natural state of beingis an expanded awareness of what
is divine and holy andbeautiful.
And you can do both all thetasks of life while expanding
into the awareness of the loving, and then, when you are really
(21:34):
anchored in that, it's justnaturally shared.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yes, absolutely.
Oh, that's.
I really like how you put that.
That's really beautiful, Likeit's not in the hustle and
bustle, it's just it's in theknowingness and anchor of you
know, being in the love and the.
I like that.
That's very beautiful.
Thank you for sharing that.
So, over the years, what aresome key lessons that you have
(21:59):
learned that you believe areessential to spiritual evolution
and personal transformation?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Number one lesson I've learned.
Number one everything thatcomes your way, even though it
seems so hard and maybe sopainful or so challenging, it's
meant for you.
It's meant for your expansion,it's meant for your learning,
(22:28):
it's meant for your growth, it'smeant for catapulting you into
a higher just a higher place ofexistence.
Now, a lot of times it doesn'tlook like that on the surface,
but when I'm sure you've had theexperience, you go through
something hard and you look back, maybe years later, and you go.
(22:52):
I wouldn't change that for theworld.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah, no, absolutely.
I can think of a couple thingsAbsolutely, and it's like, oh,
but going through it it was hard, but hard back you're able to
say, oh, you're right, there wasless than there.
I did expand, I grew from thismoment.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
That's how every single thing in life is
presented to us when you'regoing through it.
It is hard until you start torecognize and acknowledge and be
grateful for which isantithetical to the way.
But be grateful for the cancers, the challenges, the deaths,
(23:30):
the accidents, the everything.
Be grateful for them whileyou're in them and then you've
really made a huge leap inself-mastery.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh, I love that.
Any other lessons that you goto automatically Love that.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Any other lessons that you go to automatically Sit
, sit in stillness, sit instillness, and I'll put it this
way, it's a little crude sit instillness and shut up and listen
.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I like how you put that it's true.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And if your mind starts to intrude, you know
you'll have moments when you'rejust in total peace, when you
sit down to listen, and then themind usually kicks back in and
starts talking to you.
It's chattering like I've gotto do this and get up and what
are you doing?
And now they've got to do this?
And what about that person?
And why did they say that?
And all that stuff.
That's okay.
Don't try to shut the mind off.
Shutting the mind off is a myth.
(24:35):
You can't do it.
It's not meant to do it.
You're not meant to do it.
But if you focus your mind on amantra, a word like the word
love, the word God, the wordholiness, om, I like the word
hue.
That's a Sufi, comes out ofSanskrit, but it's a Sufi word
(24:58):
for God oh, I like that.
Or oneness hue, sometimespronounced who and you just let
that roll inside of yourself.
You can do it outside too, andthen you direct your mind to
that.
So, for example, when you'resinging, is your mind chattering
at you?
No, not at all.
(25:19):
Exactly so when you're chantinga word or sound that brings you
this uplifted vibe, thisuplifted feeling, your mind's
not chattering at you.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Absolutely yes.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It's the same thing as a song.
And so, whatever word you loveand then it could be true self
truth, anything, pick one andthen that focus your mind.
That's another way to self, ofself mastery.
Then, when your mind's a littlebit quieter again, shut up and
(25:53):
listen, and what I do is I andinvite the listening, Invite the
listening, invite the wisdom ofyour soul, of your spirit, of
God, of divinity, whatever wordsyou want to use, I am open to
(26:13):
receive of your wisdom.
What is your guidance for metoday?
Let me hear the celestialmelodies of the high heavens.
Let me hear the celestialmelodies of the high heavens I
love that and let me fly in thatwind of the breath of God.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I have chills as you're saying that that's so
powerful.
I mean it's a very importantpractice and you're right.
Just shut up and listen andthen set the intention and
invite it in.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That's you got it.
It's that simple.
And the longer, the more youpractice with it, the more time
you will have, is my experiencein that blissful place and
another key to expanding yourawareness.
When you're up in the spiritualrealms the soul realms we call
(27:07):
them, there's no referencepoints, it's not physical, so
don't try to like what is that?
Your mind can't really grasp it.
Right, it's not physical, right, it's not physical, right, but
if you start to write down yourimpressions, your sights, your
sounds, when you are in yourfive minutes or however long you
(27:29):
can do it you have time for,and you start to write that down
, you'll start to be able torecognize the inner terrain and
topography of the spiritualrealms.
Yes, yes, yes.
So, and it takes time.
I mean I'm on the slow path.
I guess I wrote down,religiously and disciplined, for
(27:52):
25 years.
Wow, every time I came back outof spiritual exercises or
spiritual practice, meditation,and I wrote down and at first,
like the first year I did it, Iwent I'm totally making this up,
I'm making it up.
I don't know that any of thishappened, right, right, and over
time it's like oh, that'srepeating itself.
(28:13):
Oh, that's the same experienceI had.
Oh, I'm not making that up, Icouldn't think of that if I
tried.
And then you start to it's likethis let's say you go to that
beach in Mexico.
You've never been there before,right right, and it's a
(28:37):
different language.
It seems really unfamiliar whenyou first get there.
The beach is different.
Where am I going?
Where are the bathrooms?
You know where's the food andit's all new and you're unsure
and maybe not that comfortable.
But in a few hours you kind ofgot the terrain, you kind of got
it figured out.
You know where your hotel is orwhere you're staying Absolutely
.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You know how to get there.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's the same thing in the inner realms.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yes, I like that.
It's like building yourspiritual dictionary.
Yeah, I like that, that's goodtoo.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I like that.
I like that your dictionary,your map, your impressions, your
colors, your sight and sound,and then it just becomes part of
who you are absolutely justlike.
If you live wherever you livein your town, that's who you are
Absolutely Just like.
If you live wherever you livein your town, that's who you are
, that's your home base.
Right Well spirit becomes yourhome base.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Spirit becomes your home base.
That's very important.
I love that.
That's so important.
So, before I ask you the lastquestion if anyone is interested
in learning more about you orsigning up for your programs,
your documentary, your book,everything that you do, which is
a lot what is the best placefor them to go to?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
So if you go to soul and spiritnet or you can look up
my name, catherine Coronacom,but soul and spiritnet is better
and I have this subscriptionprogram that delivers about it.
Yeah, del delivers the fivespiritual practices a day.
Um, it's a beta test.
(30:06):
I haven't actually evenlaunched it.
It's um I sent you a link, butit's not like publicly launched,
but about the end of february.
And also, if you sign up, youget um, you get access to the
movie e-book of my book Loving,tapping your Spiritual Source, a
(30:28):
yoga of sound class, yoga Nidra, which is the yoga of sleep,
and many other things foryourself.
But the main thing is gettingevery day, either on the app or
in your email, your fivespiritual practices that just
guide you.
It's just a shortcut.
(30:49):
I love that.
So there's that.
And then also I have a SpotifyCatherine Corona on Spotify if
you want to listen to mydevotional music and my chants
and my.
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I gonna, I'm gonna definitely check that out,
because I'm always looking forthe new chance or music or
whatever.
So I'm definitely gonna have tomake sure to download that.
So, as a final piece of advice,what would you recommend to
someone who is looking to deepentheir spiritual practice,
especially with those who mightbe new to meditation or sacred
traditions?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
consider that you already have a spiritual
practice.
You already have one.
Just define it for yourself.
What opens your heart?
And do more of those.
Do more of that.
If it opens your heart to takea walk in the woods, do more of
that.
Take a walk in the woods.
Do more of that and thenconsider invoking your spirit
(31:47):
and your soul, sitting quietlyand listening to it, practicing
an inner sound that will helpmaster your mind and emotions in
the direction you want it to go.
And then listening and justalways know that, as it's said
(32:09):
you've probably heard this youare not a physical person
reaching to a spiritual life.
You're a spiritual entityhaving a physical experience.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Your soul is in a flush bag exactly I'm sorry.
I took that nice beautifulmoment and made a joke, but
you've got to keep itlighthearted sometimes jokes are
a great spiritual practiceabsolutely.
That was my focus for 2024 and2025.
It's like I just want to listento more comedians and have and
(32:48):
laugh and have fun like and justthat's part of that.
That's probably what opens myheart yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
It's great.
I think I've watched everysingle comedian stand up on
Netflix.
Same, there we go.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
And it's been like it's been such a joy to me to
learn more about differentcomedians I normally wouldn't
have checked out.
And then like, and now it'slike, okay, now I'm gonna
actually go see them in person.
Like it's like, you know, it'sjust, it's just, it's so fun.
Yeah, I have.
I have like a list of four orfive comedians that I'm in the
process of getting tickets tosee, so I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I really want to see Leanne Morgan.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I know, is she the blonde lady?
Yes, oh, she's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Oh, she's hilarious.
I watched her special at leasttwice and then YouTube quit.
Oh my goodness, I love that.
She'll bring joy into yourheart in two seconds.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Guys, check her out, check out Dr Corona, and I want
to say thank you so much forcoming to the Spiritual
Spotlight Series.
This truly has been amazing toconnect with you today.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Oh, you too, Rachel.
Thank you for having me.
I love getting the chance totalk about my favorite subjects
because I know what it does forpeople.
I know the transformation youcan have in your life.
No, absolutely.
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