Rooted and Rising: How One Entrepreneur Found Stillness (in the Chaos) and Chose to Share It.

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Speaker 6 (02:02):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to another segment of these seek elevation
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definitely challenge the status quo.

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Here.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
We respect opinions, thoughts, and we just bring it to
the table. So today I'm excited about what we're bringing
to the table, rooted and arising how one entrepreneur, one light,
one person found stillness and chaos and chose to share that.

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So I'm excited about today's conversation because we definitely need to.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Talk about finding stillness.

Speaker 6 (03:40):
And I definitely find this individual, of course, credible. I
bring all credible people to speak about the topics we're
speaking about, because it's not just about from books, right,
It's not just about reading and learning what books tell you.
It's living experiences and that's what I love. And I
got a chance to meet her a few weeks back

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and experience her light, felt the light, seeing the light,
and it was immediate connection. So I'm excited to have
her on stage, especially to let us know something that
she not just found for herself, but she has also
impacted and continues to impact many others. So let's go

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ahead and just get a little bit into it before
I introduce her, I just do want to say a
recap of what I even posted with the show, because
I just want I wanted to really resonate with us
right now. In a world that praises constant hustle, we
hear this all the time, especially if you're an entrepreneur,

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if you're creative, sports professional. Honestly, it's just a community leader,
it's just a few existing We keep hearing this thing
about constant hustle, and sometime we can get really pulled
into that. But the question is what happens when we.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
As people decide to choose stillness instead.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
And stillness doesn't mean to stop and not do anything.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
It is to be centered.

Speaker 6 (05:18):
It is to listen to the download, to do the
things the way that we need to do. So I
do feel that in this episode, in this conversation, one
that I feel is going to be very powerful. This
is a visionary leader that I'm speaking to. And the
reason why I say visionary leader and I can put

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that out there is because this is someone who really
seeing Okay, I'm gonna turn yoga, not yoga as a trend,
but as a lifeline, and I want to learn. I
want you all to learn just how those moments led
her up to the mat and how that practice became

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not just survival mode but thriving mode, and how she
now is empowering other families, which again, this information can
transcend to not just families and the youth, but to
entrepreneurs and sports professionals. And guess what, everyone who's in

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those other areas. You are a person that's part of
a family, and you may even have youth around you.
So whether you're building a brand, or raising a family,
or just simply trying to catch your breath, I strongly
believe this conversation is for you, So tap in, please
share it. It's for you and for others. This is

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going to be a groundbreaking reminder that peace is not
a luxury. It's not it's a necessity, necessity, and it
is a strategy for us to be.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Successful. And what we do. So let's dive in my
guest intro.

Speaker 6 (07:05):
So today's guest, as I stated, is a true light
in every sense of the word. Camellia Camellia Felton and
I aka Mimi. I'm gonna call her Mimi throughout the
rest of the show today. Is a devoted wife, proud
mother of six, and a grandmother of four grandsons. But

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beyond her family roles, she is a radiant force of
healing and empowerment in her community, our community, your community.
And as the founder of Mimi Yoga Kids l C.
She has made it her mission to help children and families,

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all children and families, but especially in underserved communities. She's
tapped into the light within the transformational power of yoga.
And it was born, like I mentioned earlier, from her
own journey through hardship as a single mother seeking peace

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in the midst of chaos. She turned one of her
darkest seasons of her life into one of her best
power moves. So what started as a personal wellness practice
blossomed into a calling, or should I say it was
already a seed and I see blossom into this open flower,
especially when her grandson began mimicking her poses and sparking

(08:38):
the realization that ugh hold up, kids too can benefit,
will benefit, shall benefit from mindful movement. So since twenty eighteen,
Mimi Yoga Kids has been dedicated to teaching youth and
families four foundas pillars. And I will let her talk

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about those four foundational pillars. But she's not just spreading yoga,
she's not. She's spreading love. She's spreading joy, she's spreading peace,
and of course, because she is a light, she's spreading
light everywhere she goes. So let's get ready for this
powerful conversation with a woman who found or illuminated her

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light in order.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
To share others.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
I had just read a quote a few days ago,
and it was talking about a candle, a candle that
shines so bright even when it lights other candles, and
never lose its light. And that's what I think of
when I think of Mimi. So with no further ado,
I'm going to go ahead and bring our guests to
the stage.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Who Hello, I love you. Now you all see.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
I wasn't just talking when I introduced individuals. I introduced
them from my heart and what resonates with me about
the individuals And now you.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
See it, Honey, that is the most heart felt. I'm
sitting over here like, who is this girl? Oh my god,
wait a minute, that's me?

Speaker 1 (10:27):
That is all You're like?

Speaker 5 (10:30):
That was You don't know how much I just needed that,
not all of the accolades and just all of the things,
but just the season that I'm in. You gave me
the reminder of why I do this work. And thank
you so much, like, thank you so much. I needed that.
You're my pisce sister.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
So yes, we already know, we already know, we already know.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
I'm just sitting here like, I mean, you know me
better than some people that have known me a whole life.

Speaker 6 (11:02):
Yes, And that's what I do like when we talk
when we met, I meant it when I said, you know,
as an energy person, I really tap into energy.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
I feel it.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
There's a lot being assessed and pick up that people
don't even know when I'm in their presence, and then
to continue to learn from there and not just learn,
but to take whatever I learn and deposit that into
the energy that is speaking to me about that person.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
And so I hope that's what reflected.

Speaker 6 (11:31):
I trust that's what reflected when I shared it and
like you just said, I always trust that it's less
of me and more of the when I share whatever
about whoever, because I wanted to be downloaded to your
point confirmation that and we all need that.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
We don't need validation.

Speaker 6 (11:48):
We just sometimes that confirmation is just good that I
am walking exactly how it's supposed to be walking. No
matter what it looks like, I'm going to get the confirmation.
So I always try to let go and flow with that.
So that way, that is what is speaking through. It's
more than a bio introduction.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
I don't do that. It's letting the world know.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
Thank you, who's here, thank you. And one thing. I
have four grandsons and I have a beautiful granddaughter. I
don't know. Yes, she's six months old, and I don't
know if we got I don't know if we got
to that part, honey, but yes I heard it, and
I was like, so I have a total of five grandchildren,
four grandboys, and a beautiful granddaughter, honey. So we could

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not let her not get her raising.

Speaker 6 (12:32):
Absolutely not. We're gonna take calls in a moment for
that light. You have a baby girl, you have a
princess here that is so beautiful. That's just going to
be continue to be another light. Now it's her turn. Oh,
I can't wait to see what she's gonna be doing that.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
I mean already just she's amazing. She's six months, but
I can see so much of myself and in her.
It's just beautiful to see. And I'm just excited to
see her grow and blossom and blue and be all
the things. Legacy is so important to me. And you know,
grandchildren are just they are like constant reminders of like, Okay,

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what are you leaving, what are you doing? How are
you moving, what are you changing? What are you what
are you depositing? You know, because the return, they are
the return, right, And so yeah.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
And actually, like you just said too, legacy is not
sometime we just think about legacy.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
We think about.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
Just when we're gone, when we're gone, what is left
when we're gone.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
But there's a living legacy.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
And so even while you're here right now, you're living
in it and you continue to see your legacy and
the reproductions and like you said, of just who you are,
just of your life.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
So that living legacy, and they are reminders of that.

Speaker 6 (13:49):
Grandchildren I have one, and boy, it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
It is absolutely amazing. Yeah, how's your day been.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
Oh, it's it's been a day. It's been a day.
It's been a beautiful day. I've been so excited about today.
So I just kind of I had a little a
little thing last night that kind of threw me off
a little bit. So yeah, just moving today. And you know,
we could talk about that another time. But yeah, I'm

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super excited to be here. And like I said, this
is just a beautiful confirmation of I am exactly where
I'm supposed to be.

Speaker 6 (14:27):
Absolutely And so as we get into our conversations is
one thing I want you to think about for our listeners,
viewers and those who will listening later even on audio podcasts.
As we get in our conversation, keep this one thing
in the back of your mind that, of course we
know yoga. There's a stigma associated with yoga. There's a

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stigma associated with meditation because a lot of people just
don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
So as we move.

Speaker 6 (14:52):
Forward, keep that in mind and the answer the question
sharing information because we want to dismantle stigmas and strongholds
that are keeping people stuck. And there's also not one
size fit all, there's so many different form, shapes and
fashions of everything. Because even if we talk about religion
or whatever, right, there's different things that people took. I'm

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not even talking about diverse religions and one religion. People
took that same teaching and made it whatever they want
to make it for themselves. They could deviate from the
good news to personal news. And it's even said in scripture,
whatever one you want to read, but it's said in
the Holy Bible that man has curved the way of

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the message to fit them. So just know that in
any practice and anything that we do, it can look
like whatever.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Just find that good light.

Speaker 6 (15:43):
So keep that in mind as we're talking. All right,
So tell them, I know I said a little bit
about who you are. Just let them know from your
own words. What do you want them to know about
Mimi before we get in, Like give them a little
little back drop.

Speaker 5 (16:00):
Yeah, yeah, So I am just a human being, right,
I am a human that is living my purpose, my mission,
and my goal, you know. And it took me a
long time to get here. I could honestly say I
was like really in my forties before the light came

(16:20):
on and I was like, this is what I meant
to do right, and I have been doing it all along,
but just just had an aha moment of all the
things that prepared me to realize what it is I've
been called to do. And so, you know, like I said,
I'm just a woman that's really striving to make the
world a better place. I am a wife, a mom,

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a grandmother, a daughter, a friend, a boss, you know.
But at the core of all of it, I know
that I am a healer. I am a manifestor, and
I am a lover of building people up. I firmly

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believe that you know that saying hurt people hurt people.
That may be true, but I firmly believe that healed
people heal people right. And so with the healing that
has taken place in my life and that continues to
take place in my life, it is my responsibility to

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help others get to that light that's within them to
find healing as well. As long as we're breathing, we
should be constantly evolving and changing and healing and growing
and being the best version of ourselves. And sometimes we
can get stuck. Right Well, I'm that girl that's gonna
help you get unstuck because I can see, you know,

(17:51):
it's so funny. I can walk into a space and
I can feel the energy. I can see things on people.
And it used to to scare me. It used to
scare me. It really did when I was, you know, younger,
because I didn't know what to do with it. Now
it's one of those things.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
It's like, hey, friend, hate friend, right, so you.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
Know, and it's so funny. It's just it just comes
to the surface. You know. I'm just I'm just a
vessel that allows people to find that light that's already
within them.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
And I love you to say that, because we're all vessels.
You just just it's a beautiful journey about life is rediscovering, yeah,
where it can do it for.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
And that's why I love what you just said. It
was like in your forties or whatever.

Speaker 6 (18:43):
That's like aha, because people need to hear that whatever
you're doing in life, it is a continual journey into
the day we take our last breath. It's not this
thing about oh, it's too late for this, or it's
too late for that.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's never too late.

Speaker 6 (18:57):
As long as you are giving breath, warm blood running
through your veins. You wake up the next day, you're
still on that journey of read discovery and so it's
never too late. So I love how you just said
when I was in my forties is aha, it's because
everything is a combination. Yeah, the next thing. So I
appreciate you definitely sharing that. So everyone knows mem So

(19:21):
let's kind of talk about it. Let's back up a
little bit, because it is your own personal experiences that
kind of push you to let me, oh, this is it,
this is the thing, and let me evolving.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
I love that word you use.

Speaker 6 (19:37):
It's not cliche, it's not it's real life evolving. It's
it's constant evolution. Let me keep evolving through this to
not only continue to help myself, but to help others.
So let's back up a little bit and talk about
what was just apps what was happening in your life
during that time.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
When you started to move towards there before you move towards.

Speaker 5 (19:59):
Got it, absolutely so, And it's so funny. This story
never gets old, right, it's so funny. I never thought
in a million years that you know, this is what
I would be doing and sharing my story to help others.
But essentially what happened in twenty fourteen is when it

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kind of kind of started right. My oldest daughter, which
is about to be thirty this year. She was at
the wrong place at the wrong time, got into some
trouble and was incarcerated, you know, for a crime she
didn't commit. She was actually with her boy her then

(20:43):
boyfriend at the time, and like I said, got caught
up in some things that she didn't have anything to
do with. It was just kind of by association, right
finding out at this time that she was pregnant. She
was two months pregnant, and so with all of that,
you know, happening, it was like a ton of bricks

(21:06):
hit me at one time. And so going through that process,
I'm gonna kind of, you know, make it the shorter
version of it. She was incarcerated her entire pregnancy. She
was two months when she was arrested. She had her
baby while incarcerated. She had him on a Wednesday. I
brought him home on a Friday. He was two days old.

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She went back to being incarcerated and I took him home.
That was an extremely difficult season in my life. Here
I am taking care of a new born baby, my
first grand baby, and my baby is incarcerated and can't

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have that bonding that they both needed right and so
I couldn't work. There were a lot of things I
couldn't do because I chose. I chose to bring him
into my care. He could have easily gone to foster
care because both of his parents were incarcerated when he
was born, so essentially he was he was in custody.
He was supposed to be in custody of the state,

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but the universe God made it where I was able
to bring that baby home, and that's a whole nother
thing that kind of snowballed. But I eventually became his
legal guardian, and yoga was one of the things that
I turned to because it's like I was on a swivel.

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If I wasn't going to court for her, I was
going to court for the father to see what that
was going to turn to because that affected her. And
I was going to court for the baby to try
to figure out how all this legal stuff was going
to play out for him. So, you know, I went
to the doctor and you know, got medicine, and I'm
not knocking medicine if that's you know, if that's what
you need, but that had me like a zombie, and

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I was like, Okay, how am I going to take
care of him and my other children and myself, but
all I want to do is sleep. So yoga was
one of the things that I turned to and sorry,
I started and it was yoga I had did like
years ago. It was like, oh, that's cute. You know,
I would do it here and there, but yoga was
one of the things that I turned to and after

(23:15):
a couple sessions on the mat, essentially doing it at
home in my in my den, because I couldn't afford
or to go anywhere, didn't have money, and I didn't
have you know, I had him. One day, I'll never forget.
I was on the mat and it was like the
floodgates of like everything I had been feeling and going through.
I was able to release on that mac. Girl, I cried.

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I mean that good old snot knows. You can't breathe
your chess, you know when you stop breathing for a
second and then you release and let it go. And
I was like, wow, that felt good, right, And so
it was just something that you know, every day, first
thing in the morning, I will hop on that mat.

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And as you know, Elijah got a little bit older,
he would be crawling around and it just hit me
one day, like, wow, babies need yoga too. You know,
kids need yoga too, because all of us were stressed out, me,
my kids, my family, everybody could have you know, could
use the benefits of it. So I started you know,
doing it with him, teaching him little things, and it

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was just the sweetest thing, you know, and he started
joining me on the map, we started doing poses. He
would sit and just move around and do all the
things and I could breathe and go through it. And
then my daughter I went to go visit her one
time and she was doing it. There was somebody that
was coming to you know, the jail doing yoga with her.
So we were able to talk about how it's helping her,

(24:42):
how it was helping me. So it was one of
those things that just kind of connected us, right because
I couldn't touch her, I couldn't hug her, I couldn't
kiss her, but we we could look through the screen
and do breathing or we talked about poses, we we learned,
and so it was just something outside of everything else
that was going on that we could talk about that

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brought some love and joy and life to us. Because
you know, a lot of times I would leave there
sometimes sad or mad because we would have had a
little spad or what you know, just whatever. But yoga
was one of those things that kind of brought us
together in that time. So that's kind of how I
got into yoga. And then for me, I was like, I,

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you know, I've always been like an entrepreneur. I've always
kind of had an entrepreneur spirit. So I was like,
how can I like make this a business? You know?
And fast forwarding, I went back to work and I
was working at a spot and I said, I'm going
to have a little event in my house. And I
worked with a lot of moms. I worked for a pediatrician,
so I was around a bunch of kids, and I
was like, y'all, I'm going to have a little party
at my house and I want you to bring your girls.

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And everybody's like yeah, sure, you know, they didn't know
it was yoga, but they came, and you know, I
had like a theme party and everybody's like, oh my god,
this is amazing. And I was like, yes, y'all, this
is yoga for kids. And they were like, oh my god,
this is awesome. They was like me, me, well, I
was still Camellia at the time. They were like, you
need to do this, this, I love this, you know.

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I was like, oh, okay, all right. So I took
a training, a kid's yoga training, and I was like,
I think I'm onto something, right, and so it just snowball.
I started the business. I was working a full time job.
I went part time and then was kind of doing both.
And then fast forward and I had got married and

(26:30):
all these other things, and my husband was like, you know,
if you want to give this a shot. He couldn't
even get it out good. I was like, okay, I'm
quitting my job.

Speaker 6 (26:38):
Even get the whole sentence out you ready, I was like,
and I'm like, help, get it there a little faster.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
And so in twenty eighteen, that's that's essentially when Mimi's
Yoga Kids was born, and Mimi was something I was
called at another job. It was like my nickname, and
it just came to me. Mimi. You know, Mimi's your kids,
and Mimi essentially stands for mindfulness, inner peace, meditation, and

(27:06):
imagination through yoga, and it just came to me. So
I'm there and you can attest to this. I listen
to the signs I pay attention, and I'm always open
to what it is supposed I am not big on hustle.
I'm big on alignment, right, and so I always want
to be in a space to what am I supposed

(27:28):
to do next. I don't do a lot of over
here over there that I've never been that tight, because
that's not that doesn't serve me, that doesn't serve the
people that I am trying to help. If I'm just
hustling and grinding and just always you miss a lot
of things when you're in that in that headspace of

(27:50):
just hustle, hustle, hustle, hustle and grinding, grinding, grinding, what what?
What are you doing right?

Speaker 6 (27:56):
Because it will actually affect your LIGHTE And I wrote
some things down, so I want to back up. I
want to go back real quick. Yeah, because you said,
you know, you did yoga before. It wasn't new to you.
You did it here and there it was cute. Oh yeah,
and then you realize I want to come back to it.
So I have two questions about that, Like, when you
first started doing it, even when it was cute, what

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brought you to it? And then when you walked away
from it what made something click in your mind and say,
I need to go back to that thing that I
used to do that was just cute then. But I
have a feeling that what I'm going through right now,
I just need to go back to that.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
Yeah. So you know when I first started it, I
remember going into the public library and I rented a DVD.
It was called Yoga Booty Ballet, I think, right, So
it had all these things. It had the yoga, it
had the ballet, which is kind of like what we
kind of call pilates now, okay, yeah, it was kind

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of like three things into one on a DVD. That's
when we still went to the library, right, and could
do DVDs. Right.

Speaker 6 (29:00):
So I was just about to tell the listeners that
it's no, it's so funny because last guest I had
no it was that last guests before that we talked
about a tape and I had to pause a minute
and say, okay, for all the young listeners a tape.
I had to tell them this thing we put in
about now DVD anyway that some of you played, you know,
PlayStation you had a little things and it was a

(29:21):
digital now, but we got things on DVDs that we
can put them in. It's called a DVD player that
looks just like the PlayStation.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
PlayStation actually started playing DVDs and.

Speaker 6 (29:29):
It's a circle thing. Yeah, we didn't listen, so we
have to educate that. It'd be like what is a tape?

Speaker 5 (29:33):
What is a.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
What you pay funk? What is all that beepers? So
we have to always educate. Okay, so go ahead with
the DVD.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
Yeah. So I would pop that in in the mornings,
you know, and it was kind of like, you know,
my that was like my time. I would pop it
in before the kids, you know, got up and going.
And so the yoga part of it taught like the
breathing and then the uh it was yoga booty ballet
or something. So I got my little cardio in and

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like the pilates up, the stretching and all the things.
And so I just remember how I felt the mornings
that I did that, and how it was kind of
like the thing that I could go to. It didn't
cost me anything. I didn't have to go anywhere, I
didn't have to have anything but like a yoga mat.
And I said, I don't even think I had a

(30:23):
yoga mat when I was doing it then, but it
just it just clicked. It just kind of came to
me like try try yoga, Like try yoga again and
see it. Because I was just looking and searching for
something just to give me some peace. And that wasn't
the only thing I try, you know, like I said,
I went to the doctor, did medication. I was like, no,

(30:44):
I was walking every day. I lived close to Stone
Mountain here in Atlanta. I would walk there every day
and that was very helpful too. So I was just
looking and searching for things, and so yoga was kind
of like one of the things that I was like,
you know what, let me let me try that. Let
me try that and see if that works. Not knowing
that that.

Speaker 6 (31:02):
Was it, it was gonna be on a whole another level,
which brings me to my next question. You said, so
when you went back to it, you got on that
mat and then you boohooed. It was a release, And
I know what you talk about. Sometime we just hold
so much. We don't realize we're holding more than we
even think. We know we may be holding something, but
we're holding a lot. And then when it lets go

(31:24):
like a river and it's not you letting go. It
is just something that was compressed and then it explodes.
What was it that you were doing on the mat?
Can you think of at that time? Was it a
particular pose? Was it when you was breathing? Was it
when you were done in the middle? What was it
that you did that you all of a sudden felt
that explosion.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
I know exactly what it was, and I can close
my eyes and really remember that moment. I had done
all of the movement that I was going to do
in that moment, and I went into child's pose. And
I don't know if you know what child's pose is? Child?

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yes, so they may not know you know, yes.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
So child poles is that pose where you know you're
gonna stretch your hands out in front of you, right,
You're gonna you're gonna be on You're gonna be on
your knees. You're gonna stretch your hands out in front
of you, and you're gonna push back. You're gonna push
your body back where your bottom touches your heels, yes, right,
and then you're stretching forward, but then you're pressing back.

(32:26):
And then I had my forehead on the mat and
I just I just began to breathe, and you know,
I was just thinking about everything that was going on
in my life, and I just started to breathe, breathe
in and breathe out, breathe in and breathe out. And
it just seems like in that fourth or fifth breath,

(32:49):
everything that I was holding on to I was able
to release it and let it go. And in that
releasing I just felt like weight was just coming off
of me. I was holding on to things that I
that weren't even mine to carry. And in that moment,

(33:11):
I could just hear, you know, the spirit saying to me,
let it go, let it go, let it go. And baby,
when I let it go, I let it go.

Speaker 6 (33:24):
It was a cleansing and for those okay, and this
is what I hear, and it gives me chills even
hearing you say that.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
And that's why I wanted to know.

Speaker 6 (33:33):
If you remembered at what point it happened, just in
you explaining that in the child's polls, several things one
child polls, we have to go back to our child,
inner child, right, are most high the ways of a child, right,
So you're in that pose. Secondly, that pose is one
that it is a pose of surrender. It is in

(33:56):
every every practical religion.

Speaker 5 (33:59):
You kneeled.

Speaker 6 (34:01):
Hands forward and you're leaning the crown up. That is
a pose of surrender. And then the third thing I
heard is breath. Breath is God. Everything begin with breath,
and so you're in God, God is within you, and
you're breathing of the most high spirit. Anybody want to

(34:24):
identify that with. It is breath that identifies us having
even life. Without breath, we're not here. So we know
that is the ultimate source. So you're in a child pose. Child,
you're in the pose of surrender and acknowledgment, and you're breathing,
you're letting go into breath, and then all of a sudden, willingly,

(34:49):
because we have a will, you say, I'll let go
and then that's when it flow. That's why I wanted
to hear and that's why I want people to hear
it too, because I had that feeling with something and
I want people to hear that because cause again, when
you have the stigma. And this is why I want
to point things out of what yoga is. It is
all interconnected and no matter what you're doing, you can
take that word off if you wanted to.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
That is the.

Speaker 6 (35:10):
Same polls, teaching guidance, whatever you want to call it.
That absolutely happened doing you. So that's why I wanted
you to say it, share it, and I'm I had
a feeling. So it was a beautiful okay, So I
wanted to point out now the next question. So you
did that and you realize, oh im and keep doing
this and wait, hold up, how can I turn this

(35:32):
to a business?

Speaker 1 (35:33):
And that is huge.

Speaker 6 (35:35):
I didn't want us to skip past that because a
lot of us are asking what is our why? What
am I supposed to be doing? It's that thing that
we go through. It's connected somehow to what we're experiencing.
Our why is in it? And so you knew to
even ask then me going through this how do I
turn this to a business? But also what you're saying
in there is how do I share this with other people?

(35:57):
How do I share this with other people? And you
can be fruit will multiply in it. So when you
decided to turn into a business, what was the first
thing you were thinking about doing other than okay, I
got a name LC?

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Did you just say name LLC and I got connections?
Let me call them?

Speaker 6 (36:10):
Or what did that process look like when you were
thinking about turning into a business.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
So initially, like, it wasn't the business side of it
that I was thinking about. It was how can I
share this not only with you know, women or people
of color, children, But that was like the nucleus of it, right,
And then me being the entrepreneur sphere that I am,

(36:37):
how can I make this a business as well? So
initially it was like, Okay, let me do like small
groups or let me do like circles or something of
that nature. But then, to be quite honest with you,
my husband was like, okay, what are you trying to
be a nonprofit? Like what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Right? Right? Right?

Speaker 5 (37:00):
I said, I had a job. But at the same time,
in my heart of hearts, I knew that this is
something that I could do every day and it wouldn't
feel like work. So for me, I was like, how
can I mesh the two? How can I do? You
know what I love doing, which is helping people, spreading
love spread I've always everything I've ever done, that's been

(37:20):
the core of what it is, Like, I've sold everything.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Can you hear me? I hear you, But it's there,
you go, It's back, Okay.

Speaker 5 (37:40):
Yeah, So you know, that was kind of like that
was nothing new to me, you know, but I was like,
how can I turn this into something that can allow
me to do both? You know, give me financial freedom,
give me time, and do you know what I feel
like I've been called to do. So at that point
I was like, Okay, how can I make this a business?

(38:02):
And then that's when I started to do research and
was like, you know, I started with kids. I was like,
how can I do this? You know, because I didn't
see that that was the thing too. I didn't see
anybody doing what kind of the light bulb that came
on for me. I had never experienced a kid's yoga class.
I didn't even know if that existed, right, And then

(38:24):
even me going into yoga studios like sporadically from time
to time, I never it may be one or two
people of color in there, and I was usually one
of them, you know. So I didn't see a space
where there were just people of color, you know, or
just women or just you know, mommy and kids doing yoga.
So I was like, Okay, that's something that you know

(38:46):
I can create because I don't see it. And so
that's how it kind of started and then being in
a space, you know, working for a pediatrician where kids
were all the time. I had an extremely cool doctor
and practice administrator that was like, yeah, share your stuff,
we don't care, you know. So I was able to

(39:06):
parents that I kind of had a relationship with. I
was like, hey, you know, I'm gonna start teaching kids yoga.
Would you come to my class? They were like yeah,
you know, I remember one of the kids parents. I
had a little yoga party at her house. You know.
So once I kind of like let people know what
I was doing and open my mouth and a say

(39:28):
eat it right, and put it out into the universes
that this is what I want to do. Alignment just
allowed things to flow, you know, and I people will
laugh at me. I'm like, yeah, I'm going to start
a yoga business for kids. You're gonna do what now?
You what now? Kids yoga? You know I'm like yeah, yeah.

(39:51):
And I just you know, I did all the things
I moved in silence. I laid the foundation. So that's
when I got the name and the LLC you know
the business side of it, you know LLC and the
tax i did and then you know, the website and
all the things, and then I started going to spaces.
I started knocking on schools, you know, school doors, and

(40:13):
just showing. On my lunch break. I would go to
the different schools around around my job and say, hey,
you know, I'm a new kids yoga teacher. Do y'all
need a yoga teacher? And you know, some were like Needa, what,
and then some were like, oh, this is interesting, you know,
I want to learn more. And I'll never forget. I
went to one of the schools that I had visited.

(40:35):
They called me and was like, we're having like an
informational session. Would you like to come and set up
a table? I was like yes, I remember, I took
my lunch break and did it. And an organization came
up to me at that space and was like, hey,
what do you do? And I did my whole speel
and they was like that come with us, and I

(40:56):
worked with that. What was one of the first organizations
that allowed me to go into spaces and do what
I wanted to do. I was so excited, you know.
So that's kind of when that opened. And that same organization,
the guy we're still friends to this day. He gave
me my first opportunity to get a grant to work
in the area that I wanted to work in, and

(41:17):
so laying the foundation having all my ducks in a
row business wise, I was able to secure a twenty
five thousand dollars grant like months after I had started
my business.

Speaker 6 (41:31):
So that's why I ask you that because as those
watch and listen, of course we'll always get to how
you all can connect and that person can serve you
and possibly you that person. But you have to hear
that story one to realize these are real people, real
stories like I talked about. But also in that information,
given that journey sharing, there's a lot of questions in

(41:52):
which cause a lot of chaos. People are like, what
do I do next? How do I get my breakthrough?

Speaker 1 (41:56):
How this?

Speaker 6 (41:56):
So you hear other people's stories, there may be seeds
within that, and so that's why I'm happy you share
that one. I just want to go back. You talked
about support. You definitely had that support. You had your
support from your husband. You already had a drive within
you that you didn't wait on. You responded to it.
You didn't It sound like you didn't wait for all
of it to be clear, You just knew it's something

(42:19):
here like I would already love doing this now, how
can I already do what I love doing for myself?
I see now for my grandson that I could do
for other families and other youth.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
So I love hearing that.

Speaker 6 (42:31):
So whoever's listening, whatever it is, that's probably right there
in front of you and around you. It's all about
connecting what you're doing. But also you talked about speaking
of connection, you talked.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
About utilizing the connections you already had.

Speaker 6 (42:43):
Sometimes and we wait for this thing. I don't know
what we wait for, but you got to utilize. You
opened your mouth, you utilize your connections. And then outside
of the connections, you created opportunities.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
You knocked on doors.

Speaker 6 (42:56):
Yes, so you realized there was a need that needed
to be fulfilled, and you didn't wait for anything to
come to you. You were going to it, and in turn,
you attracted something else to you that you were prepared
for that attraction. So I thank you for sharing. I
hope they pick that up. And then another last thing

(43:17):
before we move on. You mentioned other people laughed when
you said when you were given the vision, and that's
how it always happened. You're given the vision. It's not
somebody else's vision. You are given a vision that this
is not here. And if it is, it's not on scale.
It's not something practice. Whatre's youth. Where's the kids?

Speaker 1 (43:35):
And that's what we're losing. It starts there. I mean
you get to the adults.

Speaker 6 (43:39):
Yes, we can do the great things, but cycles continue
because we have this thing called kids. Yes, and so
you realize you can laugh about it. This is my
vision and I'm standing ten toes down. And you learned
when to keep your mouth shut and when to open
your mouth. Those are two important things, all right.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
So my question.

Speaker 6 (44:00):
You talked about medicine, and like you said, you're not
going to for other people. You ain't saying anything. You're
just saying it wasn't It did not work for you,
So take to have they want?

Speaker 1 (44:08):
What do you believe? I heard you a little bit
say zombie.

Speaker 6 (44:12):
But what is it about you know, traditional practice, the
medicines real quick that you feel felt or feel is
not enough right for healing for the things that you're seeing,
for the chaos, the suppression, the burnout, the mental What
is it that you don't see that that's happening with tradition,

(44:33):
traditional ways of dealing with it.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
So this is one of those things. It's a it's
a it's a it's a line, right, and it's it's
good and on both sides. And so what I find
and just you know, dealing with people on a daily basis,
you know, the medicine, it doesn't get to the root
of the problem. It's like putting on a band aid.

(44:58):
You have, you have a so you put that band
aid on it. You're not giving it air to breathe,
You're not giving it you know, you're not giving it
space to heal, You're just covering it. So when you
take it off, it's still it's still yucky, right, And
so sometimes you have to peel off that band aid

(45:19):
and allow that open wound to have air, to have light,
to have you know, sun, to have all the things
so that it can heal. So it can like seep
in all of those things, the sun, the light to
really heal. And so when you see it, you know
it's like, oh, yeah, you you went through something there,

(45:42):
but it's healed, right if it's a reminder of all
that you've gone through. And so for me, sometimes we
have to get to the root of the problem. And
that's a thing. I don't know what other cultures do.
I don't know what other because I've been black all

(46:03):
my life. I'm fifty years old, and I know what
we do in our community. I know what we do,
even what has happened in my own family. Right. We
like to cover things up. We like to, you know,
just pretend like everything's okay until it's not okay. And
I'm one of the ones. Let's talk about it. Let's

(46:23):
dig deep, let's dig up the things that's really keeping
us down and holding us back. And we don't like
to do that. We don't like to be real. We
don't like to be open and honest with ourselves, let
alone anybody else. And so I had to do that
for myself. I had to go back to my childhood

(46:46):
and really understand why I moved the way I did,
you know, for so long, Why I allowed people to
dim my life, Why I would go in spaces and shrink,
you know, to make other people feel COmON comfortable. There
was a route to that, you know, there was a
reason for that. And once I got to that, you know,
I was able to say, hey, mm hmmm, I'm not

(47:10):
dimming my light. I'm gonna speak my truth. I'm gonna
show up as Camellia. You can squint, you know, you
can put some sunglasses. I don't know what you're gonna do,
but you gonna get this light right. Even as a child,
you know, I had it, but someone was always trying
to turn it off or minimize it, you know. And

(47:33):
it got to a space and it got to a
time where I just I was just like, Okay, I'm
not gonna fight it anymore. But in the process of that,
I was losing myself. I was I was falling into depression.
I was, you know, I was believing what people were
trying to put on me. And it took me to

(47:56):
a very dark place. It took me to a very
dark place. And so when I come in contact with people,
I know what that feels like, right, And I'm gonna
tell you that it takes work. It takes work, it
takes unmasking. I think twenty twenty was like one of

(48:17):
the moving past. It. It was one of those things
where we had to take off the mask right. People
were really able to look at each other because we
couldn't go nowhere, we couldn't do anything. Marriages didn't realize
that they were like struggling friendships. Didn't know because we
had to sit and we had to really evaluate things

(48:41):
because people were leaving here left and right, you know,
so people started to express things because they was like,
I don't know if I'm be here next week, So
I'm gonna tell you about yourself or I'm gonna tell
I'm gonna let it all out, you know, right, you know,
and so we need to live like that daily, you know,
not harming people, not being or nasty, that's no, that's

(49:01):
not the goal. But to speak your truth and to say, hey,
this bothers me or why is this this way? Or
what is this? So what is that? You know, and
being you know, being in a space where we can
really talk about things because we're passing these things onto
our children and our grandchildren and then they're leaving here.

(49:23):
The elders are leaving here, and we're lost. We're completely lost,
wondering why we have all these things in our families,
and we it's time out for that, you know. We
really got to get to the root of things. So
and that's where, yeah, that's where I feel like, you know,

(49:43):
sometimes like medicine can just yeah, just just cover it.
Sometimes we need medicine, but a lot of times we
got to get to the core of things.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
And that's the part.

Speaker 6 (49:54):
It's okay if there's a combination of things, as long
as the core of it is being addressed. And I
do want to substantiate exactly what you just said. Last month,
I had went to one of my doctor's appointments and
they had did my blood pressure and it was like,
it's high, it's really high, and said we'll do it again,
and they did it again.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
I asked them.

Speaker 6 (50:14):
I was like, well, you know, I work out a
lot and everything is fine. Everything's been fine, is it?
You know, maybe that worked out earlier and my blood
pressure is high now. Nope, it definitely wouldn't be that.
And they were pushing, you know, especially now you're fifty. Yeah,
they was telling me, you fift this time, maybe think
of some medicine. Do you have these different things in
your family? Went through all these questions. I was like, yeah, no,

(50:35):
I'm not doing that. I know I work out, well,
I feel great, We'll figure this out. So I so
happened because I was working out and I was like, oh,
I need to go get adjusted right. So I went
to a chiropractor and because of my first time there,
we had to do the whole assessment. And then after
she finished the whole assessment, she came over there and
she started talking about certain vertebrate. See this ceed too

(50:58):
with our clothes, with our fine what needs to be adjusted? Well,
why does she point out the vertebrates that were jammed?
It actually affects your blood pressure. It was in the
I said, ma'am, can.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
I take this pample? She said, it's your us and.

Speaker 6 (51:14):
I explained to her the story. I said, I want
to take it because this is what just happened. She said, listen,
she said, I know we you know, the doctors and us,
we differ on different stuff, but this is why we
tell people the natural And it was literally so when
I got adjusted, end of going back to the doctor
and my blood pressure is like, what did you do different?
I said, I'm gonna show you, and I open up
the pamphlet and I showed her I got adjusted in

(51:37):
C two see one, whatever these vertebrates are, and it
shows on the pamphlet what is connected to blood pressure.
But the whole pamphlet she gave me is cnted to
everything because blood pressure migrains constipation I mean, the list
goes on that your spinal cord, the nervous system, it
can cause.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
These other things.

Speaker 6 (51:55):
So imagine how many people are on medicine from these
diagnoses that you didn't get to the core of whatever
the thing is. So now if I would have taken medicine,
vertebrae still jammed up. Now it's more medicine. Now it's well,
this didn't work. We need something stronger or and now
I'm worse. I don't have the thing fixing and everything else.
I want people to hear that. It's again, it's not

(52:16):
to knock medicine, but it is to say, check the
most natural foundation first first, to see what is going
on with the core. Don't just go to MD's, go
to both, right, And that's why I even choose for
my doctor DIOS versus MD's, because a least they try
to combine both. But I just want to substantiate what
you were saying. It's not it's not conspiracy. This is

(52:40):
literally real life. What happened to me and I got adjusted,
and I said, see I knew my blood pressure was fine.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
What if I yes?

Speaker 5 (52:46):
Though, Yeah, And the most important thing that I want
people to understand what you and I both said, is
doing the research for yourself and knowing that there's something
more to this, right, and so being aware, being aware

(53:08):
of an in tune with yourself. I am so aware
and in tune to my body that you know. I'm like, yeah,
you're saying that, but I think it's something else to
your point. Just last night, having a little thing and
like you said, I turned fifty in March, and it's
like it's fifty the time where they want to start

(53:29):
the peel pushing because it's like, oh, you's this and
you're the end. I'm like, but my blood pressure's fine.
You know, all of this isn't making sense. I've been
sent to get CT scans making sure there's no plaque
on my heart. That came back zero plaque on my heart.
So you couldn't give me medicine there because it's zero
plaque on my heart. So what are you trying to
find to give me? You can't find anything. You know

(53:53):
I'm getting telling you things that I'm feeling, and you
want to find something that's not there so you can
maybe put me on a peal. And I'm like, you
got the right game, but the wrong girl.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Exactly.

Speaker 5 (54:06):
You know. So it's like, and then if you're saying something,
I'm gonna research what that is, what the side effects are,
What are the long terms effects of this if I
get on it, if it's something, is it something I
can get off of? Like, I am going to research
that because one, I don't really care for medicine, never have,
but I will take things if I know I need it. Right,

(54:27):
But you're just not gonna be popping pills.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Like you said, you got to know your body.

Speaker 6 (54:32):
And then with someone and I think a lot of
times we get caught up in our.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Titles, right, we're trusting titles.

Speaker 6 (54:38):
We think, oh, because you are a doctor, because your attorney,
because you whatever, whatever the title is. The thing you're
talking to me about has to be.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
This is it, This is truth.

Speaker 5 (54:52):
It be like this cookie cutter.

Speaker 6 (54:54):
Exactly lies to you and the information that's given to you.
Let me take what you just said and let me
just drill down to see if there was something else.
Are there other causes? Are they these other things? And
to your point, I just knew my body and I
know I feel great, so I wasn't gonna take anything regardless.
But it was just alignment for me to go all

(55:16):
is working now, I'm off, let me get adjusted, get
this whole assessment for her to point out this. We're
gonna adjust you here because this is affecting your blood pressure.
I'm like, ah, so that is important for us just
to figure out are there other things too, because, like
you said, when we get to a certain age, they
want to tell you what you should be on.

Speaker 5 (55:36):
And what you should yeah, and how you should eat.
And another thing everybody's diet. I can't. My husband and
I eat totally different, like things that I don't I
shouldn't eat he should, you know, And so just that's
another thing and another thing before I forget what a
wonderful world this would be if all of them work together.

(55:57):
Like doctors, they you know, they're getting to where like, okay, yoga,
I'm a yoga therapist now, and so it's like we're
getting closer to being in the medical field and being
you know, something that they can add to the toolbox.
Chiropractor should be something that's added to the toolbox. For
the longest, you know, I've heard don't go to a chiropractor.

(56:19):
They can do this, and they can do that. No
chiropractice can change your life. Okay, I was in a
car accident and I wouldn't have gotten through that time
if it wasn't for my chiropractor, you know. But you
rather me sit in like in pain because oh the
fear they're gonna do something and paralyze me. Like you
have to move past those those stigmas, right right, because

(56:41):
I believed things for a long time about certain things,
you know, and I have to I have to prove
myself in some spaces like oh, like, oh, you just
do some stretching, right, yeah, I just I just do stretching, yeah,
or you know, breathing, What what is that all about?
And you know, some kind of really like cult or something.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
It's just that's why I said, keep that that thing
in mind, of that.

Speaker 6 (57:06):
Comprehension part of answer, because it's so true and it's
part of fear. That's what we do a lot in everything,
I don't care what we're talking about, from politics to life.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
It's called it's this fear mongering.

Speaker 6 (57:16):
It's fear in order to control you to do what
it is that I want you to.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
I want to say because on I G.

Speaker 6 (57:23):
You can't see the comments, but Auntie Ree, she was
making a lot of comments she was saying, you know,
just thank you for this.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
She loves the natural.

Speaker 6 (57:32):
She's definitely checking her insurance and the am for chiropractor,
but she's making those comments. But yes, it's fear muggering
for us to push from one side other. Don't fear me,
show me, show me that if you if don't talk
to me about anything, show me and the chiropractice what
they did would show me. And exactly being scared of chiropractice.
You gotta be scared of getting these things pushed into you.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
With that thing, it's not.

Speaker 6 (57:56):
And now you're talking about being paralyzed. You are paralyzed. Yeah,
like you said, you walk around like a zombie.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
So there's a there's.

Speaker 6 (58:04):
Some type of paralyzation there in your life because you're
paralyzed from the true essence of you. And so yeah,
so I'm happy that you brought that up, and I
just wanted to substantiate that. It's not we always get
deep conspiracy, but to your point that you brought up earlier,
a lot of that can be cultural. Right. We pushed
these things culturally because that's all they knew. Everything was

(58:26):
just pushed because I don't know. And so I'm gonna
say this, I don't know, and that continues to be
the cycle. Now we have to start breaking those cycles
and start, like you said, researching, knowing your body and
being healed.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
I just made it most today. I don't know if
you know Jamal Roberts, I think his name, the young
kid that won American Idol. He Oh yeah, yeah, the
cover of Healed. I use that one.

Speaker 6 (58:49):
And that is funny that you kept saying that word
over and over again. We need to heal, and that
song is it resonates so much.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
We can't talk about twenty twenty.

Speaker 6 (58:58):
Because that exposed that we need to hell as an individual,
as a nation, and we were forced to face things that.

Speaker 5 (59:06):
Were to unmask. The masking forced us to unmask. Isn't
that crazy?

Speaker 1 (59:11):
It absolutely I like that. That was yeah, because.

Speaker 5 (59:16):
We were walking around just covered. But so much unmasking
happened in that season.

Speaker 6 (59:21):
Like oh my gosh, okay, So now I want to
go into so well, we drilled all way up to here.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Let's let's get into.

Speaker 6 (59:27):
Your your pillars and what you you know, help. But
before we get there, you can get into your pillars,
but first start off, what are some of the signs
that you would see that you feel like someone is
super overwhelmed. People are overwhelmed because you, like you said,
you feel energy. I know you see it. What are
some of those signs? And then go into speaking about
some of your pillars or all of your pillars.

Speaker 5 (59:49):
Okay, So a lot of times, you know the masking
you can see? Well, you know how I I remember,
you know, being asked before for I really became honest
with myself like how are you. Oh I'm fine, Oh
I'm good. Oh I'm great and about to fall apart

(01:00:09):
at any moment, about to lose all my marbles at
any given moment, you know. So I see a lot
of that, how you know, how are you doing? Oh
I'm great, Oh I'm fine. And I remember asking a
lady one day. I'm like, okay, okay, how no, I
asked her how she's doing? Oh, I'm fine, my job, this,

(01:00:31):
my kids, this, my this, my this, my this, my this, my.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
This, my this, And I was like, ma'am, how are you?

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
How are you? She bust out crying. She was like,
nobody has asked me that. I remember going to a
Starbucks one day and you know, doing my order and
the guy was looking down, he was being kind of rude,
and he looked up at me and he made eye

(01:00:56):
contact and I said, how are you doing today? And
he said, ma'am. Nobody never asked me that. It's always
give me this, do this, do this, do this. Nobody
never asked me how I'm doing. Girl walked out of
there with a Starbucks like this big it didn't have
to pay for And I made his day simply by

(01:01:20):
asking him how are you? My point is, when you
create a space for people to be seen, heard and validated,
it opens a channel within them to feel safe, to
start chiseling at you know, some things. It may not

(01:01:44):
happen right away, but it opens that that source that
we have to heal that. Okay, somebody is concerned about me,
somebody cares about me, somebody wants to know about me, right,
and so I've always been good at that. And once

(01:02:07):
again keep going back to this, as Pisces, that's our gift.
We can feel energy, we know energy, and yeah, we
have this this natural way of allowing people to share,
and I use that. I use that gift to their

(01:02:30):
advantage because it's gonna help them. It's gonna I mean,
I've gotten to where now I'm able to filter out
all the things I've been told. Girl, it's some stuff
that I'm gonna take to my grave and I'm like, whoo.
You know, but it helped them heal. And so that's

(01:02:52):
what it's about, is creating space for people to feel seen,
heard and validated.

Speaker 6 (01:02:58):
And I like you said that before we get to
your pillars, because you had to stop. I knew that
was where we were going. Because we're on autopilot sometime
of we're just used to saying certain things, how are
you good?

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Good?

Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
Good?

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
How are you?

Speaker 6 (01:03:09):
Don't even we don't even hear the question, Like, we
don't really process the question because we're so on autopilot
on certain things.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
You good, Yeah, I'm good. You didn't even think. We
are always shocked.

Speaker 6 (01:03:20):
We're processed on both sides, mind you, because you'll be
shocked you ask me you good, No, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
You need me to do yeah, you need me to
do anything for you? Yes, I do. Like we're so
used people saying no, you don't.

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
Expect people to do to say it right, we don't.
And when somebody does, especially if you're not in the
space or you could really care less, like yeah, so
we really have to be to your point, we have
to be open if we're really gonna ask people, how
are you doing or how you have to be ready
for I'm about to fall I'm falling apart, and that's

(01:03:54):
everybody can't that's not everybody's calling, that's not everybody's gift,
right right, Yeah, and it just happens to be mine.
And like I said, it took me a while to
understand that I know what I'm supposed to do. I
don't have to question it. I don't. I don't need validation,
I don't need you to. I know what I'm supposed

(01:04:16):
to do. So when and if I know, I'm not
in a space myself, I'm not asking you all that now.
I don't walk around just asking people. Don't get it twisted.
I'm not just walking around like this open channel, just
taking stuff from everywhere. You know. I have to prepare
myself and equip myself to be ready for those type
of interactions. And when I've had days where I've gotten

(01:04:38):
a lot of that, I have to come home and
decompress and do the things to get back to me
because if not, it becomes weight on me and in
the beginning of this business, I didn't know. I didn't know.
I didn't have the boundaries, and so I was like, Okay,
something's gonna have to give or I'm not gonna So

(01:05:01):
that's another part as well. But I've gotten really good
at that now, Like I have some serious boundaries, Like
anybody that knows me, like Mimi does not play about
her rest. I have no problem saying no, and I'm
gonna communicate and I'm gonna make sure I understand what
we're doing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
And why we're doing it.

Speaker 6 (01:05:22):
Manson amazing when you find when we tap into our
gifts and we just be so we be babies in
and be happy and we just be doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
We just put it all out there.

Speaker 6 (01:05:29):
And then the journey teach us that we have to
have these boundaries because the actual gifts and talents that
we have, especially when it is to touch hearts, to
be a do it for healing, for a message, whatever
it is, it's pulling from you, it's pulling from you,
and we just be wide open.

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
All of a sudden, we were like.

Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
Who and the dark the dark light's light too, it
will and suck it all.

Speaker 6 (01:05:53):
Right out and you just be thinking. Everybody save the world. No,
there is discernment in these particular gifts. There's bound in
these particular gets. And once you start learning all that,
that's when you start walking more in your power. I
became more power for learning that and submitting to WHOA. Okay,
there's a way to take care of this gift. There's

(01:06:14):
a way and a time for this gift to do
what it's supposed to do because that darkness is attracted
to it and they knows I'm gonna suck this out.
So I too, agree with you boundaries and discernment and
know that within those gifts where it's speaking, what you're
doing healing, and we also do take on things that

(01:06:34):
we couldn't even share. We there's some amazing things that
people will pour out into you and you're carrying that
and you have to learn that I can't allow this
to tether to me. I can't. That's not I'm just
the instrument. I cannot hold it. So I agree with you.
So what are some of those four pillars? What are
the four pillars?

Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
Okay? So, like I said me, me, it's for mindfulness,
inner peace, meditate, and imagination. Right, and so starting with mindfulness, right,
just creating spaces where we're in the moment, where we're
thinking about now. A lot of people are stuck in
the past and they want to stay there. It's very

(01:07:16):
hard to move forward when all you think about what
I should have could have I'm mad, and then this
and this should have happened, and I should be this
and this and that and all this and this and
this and this. Well, punkin it has you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
Stuck, not the punkin that's right, punkin lo Punkin.

Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
It has you stuck so less. Sometimes we have to
die to who we thought we were supposed to be right,
and so the shedding. A lot of times, the shedding
is the start of our healing. Dying to you have
to let that person go. You have to give them

(01:07:57):
love and life. Thank you for all that you did.
You did the best that you could in that season
of my life. I love you. I am releasing you
and really letting that past person go, that past version
of you go. I made so many mistakes in my
younger days, but I had to forgive myself. I had

(01:08:18):
to because I operated at the capacity that I could
in that season, and so I had to let that
Camellia go, that version of her I celebrated her, I
honored her, and I let her rest right. And then
you come into the now. Who am I now? Who

(01:08:39):
am I truly now looking in the mirror? And that's
ugly too, because a lot of us we put on
all these things and we do all this stuff, and
on the outside we look amazing, but we are a
hot mess on the inside. So really getting to the
core of who we are right now? What what am
I really presenting to the world. Am I really showing

(01:09:03):
up as my true authentic self? Am I really being
who and what I've been called to be? Or am
I performing? You know? Am I making it look good?
Am I making the world think that this is the
best version of me? And I usually can tell like
right away, like, yeah, this isn't you. And we may

(01:09:24):
do it because of what our parents wanted us to
do or what our parents thought we should be. So
sometimes we get in relationships and marriages and things based
on what somebody else wanted us to do. You know,
we have friendships that we probably shouldn't be in. We're
at jobs that we hate, we're you know, we're just
in this cycle of doing things to perform to look

(01:09:46):
like we're okay, and so that's the second thing. So
the mindfulness, right, the inner piece.

Speaker 6 (01:09:52):
Wait before you go to the enner piece, I want
to pulled out a couple of things when you go
through your four. So the mindfulness, I want to go
back to. You say it's dying to yourself. We know
death is a heavy thing. Also that means it's a
morning right. That's what's that when people feel there's this
terminology not of the Dark Soul, and they were talking
about just like this transition from there's this transition of
leaving behind this thing, but you're about to move to

(01:10:14):
something even brighter, and people can even feel that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
Depression or heaviness or disconnect.

Speaker 6 (01:10:20):
It just feels like That's why I call it not
of the Dark Soul is like a I'm in a
weird space. And that's what Sonny to me to say,
mindfulness is death to the old, limiting mindset. And in
any death, there's pain and there's mourning. Is that what
you see in that mindfulness share.

Speaker 5 (01:10:39):
Is mindfulness dying to what's gone and being present. Mindfulness
being mindfully present, like focusing on the here and now,
and getting people to do that is challenging because we
want to, you know, we will, and we either want
to stay in the we stay over here in the past,

(01:10:59):
or we're so worse about the future that it's hard
for us to be present and be in the now.
Oh I'll do this when this happened. Oh I'll do
this when that happens. Oh I'll get married when this happens.
Oh I'll have a baby. Okay, what are you going
to do today? What are you gonna do in this hour?
What are you gonna do at eight o'clock? That's gonna
prepare you for next week, next tomorrow, Right, instead of

(01:11:23):
focusing on something that hasn't even happened, being mindfully present,
focusing on here and now. We can plan, we can
prep we can do all the things. But worrying about
something that hasn't even happened yet. It takes joy. It
robs you of peace and going to inner peace, which
is the next thing. It robs you of the sheer

(01:11:46):
presence of all that you have in front of you.
You know, So learning to be mindfully present, I think
is the foundation of any practice that you do. You know,
you know, we're always like I want to lose twenty pounds,
and when I lose twenty pounds. I'm gonna do this
and I'm gonna do that. Well, be happy while you
have the twenty pounds, you know, and as you're working

(01:12:08):
towards it. I'm the kind of girl I love the
getting too, Like anything that I do, like getting to.
Once you're there, I'm like, okay, like now what, I
love the getting too. So if I gotta lose ten pounds,
I'm enjoying getting to the ten pounds, and so that's
fun for me. Somebody else is dreading everything that it

(01:12:31):
takes to lose the ten pounds. That's why you can't lose.

Speaker 6 (01:12:34):
It absolutely, and I want to before we move on
to I ended with this part because the sum up
what you just said. There was something I read before
and it said, yesterday it's history, tomorrow is a mystery. Yes, today,
ay is a get That's why all the present.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
Yes, So we gotta remember that, Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:12:58):
I what is I inner peace? You know, once you've
done all that that work right, you begin to find peace.
You you begin to be in the now, in the here,
and it's peace in that, you know, it's joy in
that saying I romanticize my life. You know, everything that

(01:13:19):
I do when I wake up in the morning, I'm like, okay,
you know, I'm up. What am I gonna do today?
So getting that coffee, I'm gonna romanticize that coffee, just
as simple as when they put a little smile on
my cup, you know, and they'll put in joy on
my cup.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (01:13:36):
You know. It's just those little things, or when a
ladybug lands on your hand, I'm like, why did you
come to tell me? Like I am always open to things,
or if I have something that's going on, I'm like,
send me a confirmation today. Or I'll talk to a
friend about something and then something will pop up on

(01:13:57):
Instagram confirming what we talk about, and I'm like, oh
my god, we were just talking about this, right. So
just being present you you find so many beautiful Okay,
it's okay, that's my grandson. You find so many You
find so many beautiful gifts and just being present, right,

(01:14:18):
I don't focus too much. Anybody can tell you. Folks
are like, well, what are you going to do for
the fourth of July. A lot of times I'm like,
I haven't got that far yet, Like I'll worry about
maybe the fourth not saying don't plan I'm not saying that,
you know, I don't want people to get confused, you
just walking around like, oh, you know, we have to
plan and we have to prep. If I know I'm
gonna do something for the fourth of course, I'm going

(01:14:40):
to plan and prep and do all the things. But
at the same time, I'm not focused on that. I'm
focused on today and now. Right. So if people ask me, oh,
what do you thought about this and this, and I'll say, well,
I haven't got that far yet. When I get to that,
I'll let you know. You know, I kind of put
things in categories and prioritize certain things. I have like

(01:15:01):
a family little cube in my head. I have a
business cube in my head, and I get to each
thing based on the importance. And if it's not that important,
then I'm not gonna I'm not gonna really stress about
it until it's time to So inner peace and that
and that's that's what it creates. You know. It calms
your brain, it calms your mind, it soothes your heart

(01:15:24):
because you're being present. I know, when I start to
think about too much at one time, it takes me
out of my peace. So just learning to you know,
just just stay present, stay present, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:15:37):
Like I'll say that because I've I sat on prayerfully
on the instruction that I have everything I need within me.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
I'm like, I don't get that.

Speaker 6 (01:15:48):
I'll be having real conversations with God within me and
around me, but i don't get that I'll have everything
I need. I'm still getting the things.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
What do you mean? And then I had a huge aha.

Speaker 6 (01:16:00):
You gotta just sit ask the questions, be genuine, and
it comes to you and the instruction that you have
everything that you need within you. It's never about the
material things, right, It's always you have everything because you
are it. I am peace, I am joy, I am love.
So since you are these things, you have everything you

(01:16:21):
need within you. Choosing to walk and be in it
is a different story. So I am peace. I can
choose not to be peaceful or feel it, but I
have it already.

Speaker 5 (01:16:31):
I have it exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:16:32):
Say that's not true, because what if such and such happened,
then this thing happened. Well guess what that same thing
can happen to two different people. Then answer me this
why two different people will respond to marsh Just say
one respond, one reacts.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
It's the same situation.

Speaker 6 (01:16:48):
So it's not the situation, it's how you are able
to process it. And I'm talking about there's horrible things
that happen, not to say you negate horrible things, but
you are the thing to refrac whatever and handle it
how you need to handle that situation. So it was
just my aha that the I have everything is I

(01:17:08):
don't need to get this to feel joy.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
I have joy. I am joy, So I have it.

Speaker 6 (01:17:15):
These other things are things to experience and to elevate
whatever it is I need to elevate.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
But I already have everything I need.

Speaker 6 (01:17:22):
So I, like you said, entner piece, we already have
it because you are it. You can't if you're something,
you it. Now you could choose walking what you are
or choose not to walk in what you are. But
you are already.

Speaker 5 (01:17:36):
It already is. You are absolutely And I teach that
in my classes, like peace begins with me, and we
close every class with the power of I Am and
putting those things I am joy, I am like I
am Peace. I close with that the power of I
Am with all of my classes. Anybody that I teach
will tell you that's how community. It's going to close
her class with the power of I am, and peace

(01:17:59):
begins with me. Start your morning with peace begins with me.
If you ingrain that peace starts with you on the
inside when life comes in life, because life be life
and right, you can go back to that piece that
resides on the inside and you can say, Okay, I
see this, I recognize this, and this is what I'm

(01:18:19):
gonna do in this moment. I'm gonna choose peace. I'm
gonna choose joy, I'm gonna choose life. I'm gonna choose love.
I'm gonna choose this instead of this. And it's a
powerful tool that it becomes like brushing your teeth once
you have mastered. That doesn't say it won't ever happen
because we are human. I don't. And that's another thing.

(01:18:40):
People think yogi's just yoga therapist yoga teachers. We're walking
around him on some fluffy pillow and we just never met. No.
Once again, punkin' I do yoga so I don't cush
you out. I do yoga so I don't lose my
marbles when this this and this happens. It keeps me
in a space of understanding that life, Like you said,
what I have within me, that's what I'm gonna go

(01:19:03):
to instead of going to what I really want.

Speaker 6 (01:19:06):
To go to right right right, And even to be
honest with you, even if you really go to it
right and you come back to it, Listen, the source
of what we're made from, the image of what we
made from, there's chastisement.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
There's raft from that very source that you come from, Like.

Speaker 6 (01:19:20):
There is not this Oh well it was I'm gonna
talk about to get down and dirty. There was some
serious bloodshed and wrath. There was some punishment. So the
source what we come from. So no, it's not this
fluffy pillows in this. It is about recognizing our power
and how it is used. That's why I even said
there's a difference between reacting and responding. Now my response

(01:19:42):
in my piece may be this particular raft. Reacting means
I lose it all. I don't I hurt myself, yourself,
I may lose it or a response is totally different
than a reaction.

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
Okay, what's the what's the end? The next?

Speaker 5 (01:19:54):
The next m meditation, So it's mindfulness, inner piece, meditation, meditation.
I am often asked this question, Mimi, what is meditation? So?
And you know I deal in a lot of communities.
Now we could talk about we can put some religion
with it, because I deal with a lot of you know,
communities where religion is is the source of what we are,

(01:20:16):
who we are. It's how we move through life, right,
and I honor that. I mean, that's a whole other thing.
But I know where my source comes from. I know
where my help comes from. So I get it. So
I'm often asked what's the difference between prayer and meditation?
And to make it as simple and as childlike where
everybody can understand it, because I don't like to use

(01:20:37):
big words and doing things where it's like, whoo, why
are we doing that? We really want people to understand
what they're doing and why they're doing it. So meditation,
when you want to compare the two prayer, we're usually
asking for something, right, I need this, can you do this?
You know this, this, this, and this. When you ask

(01:20:58):
for those things, meditate is the time that you take
to hush your mouth, silence your heart, silence your spirit,
silence your soul, and receive the answers to what you've
asked for. So meditation is a moment of not quieting

(01:21:20):
the mind. If the only time the mind. The mind
is quiet, you're dead, you're you're not here. So the
mind is gonna right, the mind is gonna go. That's
that's what it's created to do. But meditation teaches us
to have the mind. It's kind of like a back

(01:21:41):
It puts the mind in the background, and it brings
that the force of stillness. It brings the source of light,
and it brings the source of I guess, just the
enlightenment right where you can really take a moment, you know,

(01:22:05):
you with practice, you get to this space where the
mind takes a little nap, takes a nap. It doesn't stop,
it just takes at little power nap, and you're able
to hear and process and understand and receive all the things.

(01:22:26):
You know. So much happens when I meditate, you know,
ideas come to me, people come to me. So, like
I said, the mind is just not silent for me.
And sometimes I could literally think of nothing, absolutely nothing.
You know, I take twenty minutes and I've thought of nothing,
because that's practice that took years to get there, right,

(01:22:51):
And even sometimes I'll say, oh, let me meditate for
a minute. In my mind's like yeah, it's like anything else.
We have those days where it's a little bit more
challenging than others. But the core of meditation is to listen.
It's just to be fine stillness and to listen. Listen

(01:23:12):
to your heart, listen to your mind, listen to your soul.

Speaker 6 (01:23:15):
And before you go said, I want to go back
when she said I like that peace begins with me.
It was that time you said start with whatever you
start with in the morning, you say, peace begins with me,
and she said I like that. I do too, because
one we're already beginning with speech. We're beginning with words.
We're beginning the thing that brings life to anything, and
you're beginning with that particular saying it's recognizing who you are.

(01:23:39):
I agree with you on the wholeheartedly on a difference
between prayer meditation, and it's one of the things too.
Meditations one of those things people pull away from that's
in't the word that's everywhere, like pray and meditate on
this day and night.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
Yeah, the reason why both boards are used because they
are different.

Speaker 6 (01:23:56):
And I agree with you that prayer is the either
the request the demand. It's like, you know, pray on
these things, make this request, believe it you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
Shall have it.

Speaker 6 (01:24:05):
But the meditation, to your point, is the stillness. It's
now the sitting of stillness to get answers. You already
made request, or you ask questions, or you made demand.
Now meditation is receiving answers, receiving guidance. But also meditation
is about transformation. That's why I said's meditating on the word,
because after I read the word and I say the word,

(01:24:27):
when you meditate on something, it is doing. It's transforming something,
it is becoming, it's mutating and that thing it's latching on.
It's hard for me to explain. I'm trying to go
low to what you're saying. Anybody has the listeners, because
when you're meditating is just allowing.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Meditating is an allowing of something.

Speaker 5 (01:24:46):
It's another act of surrender as well.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
Like surrender.

Speaker 6 (01:24:50):
That's what I'm trying to You're surrendering to whatever it
is that you're surrendering, and it's transforming something. It's transforming
either in that thing becoming it or you're getting what
you need. It's in the silence that transformation and answer
and everything happened. When you're talking, you can't hear. That's
like even regular communication. If I'm talking to you, I
gotta be quiet to hear what you're saying, and then
you're talking to me. So that's the same thing in

(01:25:11):
prayer meditation. If you're constantly talking, you're not quiet here
the thing that you demand. So both have this space
and place and they're together, and meditation is important in
order to hear the other side of the communication and
to actually transform.

Speaker 5 (01:25:26):
Yes, ma'am, so.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
I agree with you. Okay, So meditation number four.

Speaker 5 (01:25:31):
Number four is imagination. Imagination. This is one of my favorites.
I love that I can. I love that I can
be in this space with you because we you know,
we kind of on that same wave. But imagination, I
live in two worlds.

Speaker 1 (01:25:50):
Yes, number but wait, but actually mean we do.

Speaker 6 (01:25:55):
There's there's like what we see here, and that's why
we bring other things from the world. Right, it starts
in our mind and we bring things that already are done.
That's why I said, it's already you already have these
things are already done. It's the revelation of what's done
and where's it done at. Then it's already done outside
of the world.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
But go ahead, yes girl.

Speaker 5 (01:26:17):
Yes, So imagination simply you know, getting back The simplest
way I can explain this is getting back to that
that child, that inner child that we all have, Right,
we lose that as we become adults. We lose that
that infinite nature of just being open and free and honest.

(01:26:40):
And you know, kids, kids are gonna be They gonna
keep it one hundred right, yes, And so that's the
core of memis yoga. Kids like our babies, because I
can go into a space and I can immediately tell like,
they ain't feeling this today or they need this today
because their energy is real, it's pure, and it's it's honest.

(01:27:03):
And so we as adults need to get back to that. Yeah,
we'll never be like a kid five or six or whatever,
but we can still have that nature of being open
and free. And so when you take the time to
you know, practice mindfulness, inner peace, meditation, that just opens

(01:27:24):
the world to so many possibilities, right, you can you
can and you can have visions of things you hadn't
even thought about, or you know, things come to you
that otherwise in the mundane of just moving and shaking
and doing all the things that you may miss. So
I love it's nothing for me to just sit in

(01:27:45):
daydream and just like wow, Like that's how Mimi's Yoga
Kids was born. You know, I was at home going
through a lot, but I knew it was something more.
I knew it was something bigger than the circumstances that
I was in at the time. I am imagined a life,
you know, I imagined that I could be happy. I
would sit and just close my eyes and just imagine

(01:28:08):
what I wanted my day to look like, what I
wanted my husband to look like, what you know, how
I wanted to move in the earth. I wanted to travel,
I wanted to do all of these things. And you know,
some call it manifesting, so I don't whatever you want
to call it. I would sit and do that and

(01:28:29):
to live the life that I imagined years ago. Right, it's
a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. I remember writing
a note. I keep it close. It's around her somewhere.
But I remember being at work and doing one of
my daydreaming sessions and just just writing down. You know,

(01:28:51):
I want the world to be my office. I want
to work for myself. I want to own a business.
I want to you know, I just jotted down everything
on that list I have done.

Speaker 1 (01:29:06):
And also I want to say too, as a child,
we have these things and it's not even so much
we lost it. It's we're robbed.

Speaker 6 (01:29:17):
It's it's it's thievery of it because you're growing up
and we got to teach these things.

Speaker 1 (01:29:23):
You know, something's intentional, some things unintentional.

Speaker 6 (01:29:26):
Because it's just practice what the child like begins to
get robbed because it's don't do this, you can't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:34):
And sometime we're trying to teach them sometimes to even be.

Speaker 6 (01:29:37):
Respectful, don't do this. I mean, but my mom told
me growing up, I was an inquisitive person. I will
stare at you, like we'd be in church, we'd be somewhere,
and I be.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
But something I must have been looking at. I don't
know what I was looking at. But you know, we
teach kids, don't do that, don't do.

Speaker 6 (01:29:54):
That, don't do that, and so we learn a lot
of you know, don't do this, or we may say
things just out of mouth for base, just Dave, if
we see something like, oh no, you can't say that, right,
So we start to again sometime out of attempt a
good place and sometimes not just cultural things past whatever
it is, we take away that innocence and we start

(01:30:16):
brick by brick by brick.

Speaker 5 (01:30:19):
That's called domestication. You know, we are domesticated from the
time we're born. You know, move this way, act this way,
do this, don't do this, you know, and all I
think every just human nature, you know, we do that.
And so just getting back once again, like you said,
to that imagination and just allowing adults even to dream,

(01:30:44):
to imagine too. Yeah, it's it's just a it's a
beautiful thing and it brings everything full circle.

Speaker 1 (01:30:52):
And there's a reason.

Speaker 6 (01:30:54):
And keep coming back to this because for me, I'm
just saying these last later years, it's just a lot
of AHAs because I was just saying things the same
and I heard them, but they're coming to life now.
But that's why the instruction is to renew your mind. Yeah,
that's why we have that instruct The imagination comes from

(01:31:15):
in her mind, in her eye, and you got to
constantly renew it because the layers of things that suppresses
the imagination that's within you. It's the image of a
nation within you, imagination, and that nation is beyond this
realm right here that we can touch.

Speaker 1 (01:31:35):
But from what all things come from?

Speaker 6 (01:31:39):
And so that's why we have to constantly renew our
mind in order to allow not suppressed thoughts, but the
inner thought. It's already inner, it's already written within us.
That's why I said rediscovery. There's a difference between discovering
and rediscovering. There's already this thing that's our it's there.
So we lost it. We lost it. Now we're just rediscovering.

Speaker 1 (01:32:03):
Right, I love. I agree with the imagination. That's important. Yeah, okay, So.

Speaker 6 (01:32:12):
Is there anything that I didn't touch on that you
want to share with them about a Mimi yoga kids
that I did not touch on?

Speaker 5 (01:32:22):
Oh, we pretty much covered everything. But just you know,
I'm just so thankful that you gave space, you know,
to talk about this mission. This you know, we call
it a business, but it's really a mission. You know,
it's really a mission. It's a purpose, and it's a calling.

(01:32:43):
And just being in spaces where we can share and
we can educate and we can provide resources. Outside of
just one thing, right, there's many. You know, there's so
many ways to get to one destination. Healing is the destination,

(01:33:07):
and there's so many ways to get there. You know.
Yoga is just one Yoga is not the only thing.
It's just one of the things that I've been blessed
to use to open the gates for so many other things.
Yoga is what I am allowed to go into spaces
a lot. I've gone to classes before. We didn't even

(01:33:28):
do yoga, you know, but because it turned into something else,
whatever was needed in that space. It turned into a
healing session. It turned into just somebody having somebody to
talk to because they were about to do something that
could have hurt everybody, right, you know, or you know,

(01:33:48):
I've been in spaces where I had a mom where
her child had been incarcerated for years, for seven years,
and when he got out the first place, she wanted
to take him to a yoga class with me. And
in that space, we moved, we stretched, and that baby,
I mean, he's a grown man, but he was like, Mimi,

(01:34:11):
you don't understand what this has done for me today.
And then at the end of that class, we put
him in the middle of the circle. He was surrounded
by his children and his mom. He was surrounded by love,
he was surrounded by light, and we breathed love and
light into that young man, something that he hadn't had
in seven years, you know, being isolated and confined, and

(01:34:33):
you know, so yoga it's bigger than just getting on
a mat and doing some yoga poses. It's really transforming lives.
I go into you know, senior spaces where some of
the people nobody comes to see about them anymore. You know,
their family has turned their back on them, and I'm
the only person that comes every Wednesday to see about them.

(01:34:57):
That's changing their life. You know, they're gone to the
doctor and telling their doctor their blood pressure is lower
because they're moving and they're breathing, and me and me
has taught them. I have met It's so funny. I've
met doctors and they're like, honey, what are you doing
to these people? Like they love you? And I'm like,
I'm just being me. I'm just I'm giving them a

(01:35:20):
space to be seen, heard and validated. That's all humans want.
I don't care who you are. You want to be seen,
you want to be heard, and you want to be validated.
That's God created us that way, and we need each other.
This culture has gotten soul. I don't need anybody, well, honey,

(01:35:40):
I need people. I need I need people that love me,
and I need people that want me to be around, Like, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:35:49):
Absolutely, how do people two questions? How do people connect
with you? And then I think you've kind of answered
this because it was a question do you teach yoga
to adults? But you kind of mention because got in prison.
But is that something that you do? Is it this
side thing or do you teach Oh, so go ahead
the answers.

Speaker 5 (01:36:08):
Yes, it started with kids, but now it has blossomed
into I teach everybody. Like I said, I started as
a kid's yoga teacher. I went on to get two
hundred hours to teach adults, and then I got five
hundred hour and then I went to school to become
a yoga therapist. I am a yoga certified yoga therapist,
so I can work in hospitals, I can work, I

(01:36:29):
can go anywhere. And I like to take yoga to
people versus people coming to me. And so I teach
anybody that's breathing.

Speaker 6 (01:36:40):
And that is true because that's how we met because Okay,
so you was at and I didn't know if it
was a special situation, but no, yes, that's how I
met Meme.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
She taught us.

Speaker 6 (01:36:47):
We went through I mean it was even a short
session that felt like it was so much relief within
that short period of time. That's how I knew there
was power in it. Right, That's why it's important. I'm
not gonna get deep into the energy of people that's
leading you in whatever area or leading you, but that
energy enough was enough to just go through that short

(01:37:07):
session to feel like we already did more, to feel
just weight off. I felt so refreshed after our short session.
So yeah, she did that for us adults. So I
wasn't sure if that was so. Yep, there were your answer.
How can they connect with you?

Speaker 5 (01:37:20):
So Instagram, Instagram is my jam, Memi suga kids, Facebook,
all the social platforms you know, I'm there. Can always
shoot me an email trying to get on this linked in.
Since I became a yoga therapist, I was like, okay,
let me get in this linked in space. So you know,

(01:37:40):
just anywhere social media, I'm there. It's just simply Memi
shoga kids and people get sometimes you know, the kids
kind of throw people off, but for me, it's like
we're all kids at heart. So I teach from zero
to one hundred and one, right, so me MEI sugar kids,
just as the black woman just trying to change the

(01:38:01):
world one step, one step, one breath, one poles, just
one one thing at a time. And it gives me
so much joy to be able to do that every day.

Speaker 1 (01:38:13):
I love it. I thank you so much. I know
it would be powerful.

Speaker 6 (01:38:17):
And this was, this is, this is going to This
is a sea that continue to grow, that weeds will
not choke out. This is something that's important to put
our stamp on. Like real estate, it's going to continue
to build equity in this for you and to share.
Like even with things that's going on now, a lot
of times we go back real look up a video
and we find stuff from years ago that's helping us

(01:38:37):
right now, even in this moment. It's so good that
we capture the education, the empowerment, and the teachings that
wants to come through all of us because we never know.

Speaker 1 (01:38:46):
It may not be I may not benefit from that.

Speaker 6 (01:38:49):
Shade of the tree, but definite will. And so that's
why this is here for now. And then I thank
you so much for joining taking the stage, going into
individuals sharing your journey. I want to say to everyone else,
Mimi has talked to us and reminded us that even
in our darkest moments. The light is within us. It's

(01:39:13):
never lost. It just needs a space to shine. And
sometime we are blocking and suppressing that space. We're the
ones who's blocking it. It needs a space to shine
and we need to relieve it. So I want us
all to give a huge thank you to Mimi for
sharing not just her heart, her journey and her powerful mission,

(01:39:35):
not business powerful mission behind Mimi yoga kids. And this
doesn't just mean little kids, you're kids, these are Memi kids.

Speaker 1 (01:39:43):
Let's go.

Speaker 6 (01:39:44):
We gotta find the child in us, like we talked
about earlier, right, the part that was robbed on us.
We're going back to the childlike minds where we're free,
and her work is back to the basic. Her work
is proof that wellness is not just you know this trend,
and it's not even just a practice right you practice it,
but is a pathway to healing. That's what we said, heal, heal, heals,

(01:40:07):
a pathway to healing to joy into generational impact. So
if you're listening now, thank you so much. I hope
you're feeling inspired. If you're listening later again, I hope
you are feeling inspired. And remember your light matters, your
peace matters, and just like Mimi said, it's going to
take these four things mindfulness, enter, peace, meditation, and imagination

(01:40:36):
to reconnect, not connect, reconnect, rediscover who you really are.
So that is a wrap for today's episode. Again, thank
you so much for tuning in and I notice added value.
I'm not going to say I hope this added value
to you. But remember the more you know, the more

(01:40:57):
you grow, the more you learn, the more.

Speaker 1 (01:41:00):
You can earn.

Speaker 6 (01:41:00):
But when you share, that's when you show you really cared.

Speaker 1 (01:41:09):
Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (01:41:10):
Thank you, beautiful Soul, thank.

Speaker 1 (01:41:12):
You my pleasure, and you have a wonderful night.

Speaker 6 (01:41:16):
And of course I will be sharing, sharing, sharing, sharing
this with you, so thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:41:21):
All right, good night, good night,

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