Did you know that your emotions are not just feelings but powerful messengers guiding you toward deeper self-awareness?

In today’s episode, I have invited Julie Lucas, an I-Rest and Yoga-Nidra instructor, to explore the transformative journey of connecting with our inner resources.

Stay tuned to discover how embracing the full spectrum of emotions can lead to greater awareness, ease, and lightness in your life.

In this podcast episode, Julie takes us through:

- Julie's transition from analytical footwear designer to Yoga Nidra practitioner.

- Interoception: learning to feel the body from the inside out.

- Treating emotions as messengers to convey inner state rather than obstacles.

- The journey of self-discovery: from feeling stuck to achieving awareness and aliveness.

- Using "inner resource" practice to find safety and ease in the body.

- Redirecting attention inward as a powerful tool for transformation.

- Connection between feeling "homesick" and bodily disconnection.

- Simple techniques for nervous system regulation.

- The ultimate goal of cultivating ease and lightness by fully engaging with and understanding our emotional landscape. And so much more!

As a designer and certified iRest® yoga nidra teacher, I help people get out of the mind maze and into a life they love from the inside out.

I had my first experience with Yoga Nidra almost a decade ago. Even as I write this, I can feel what a pivotal encounter it was…a Wizard of Oz kind of moment when life shifted from shades of grey to full spectrum color.

Prior to that day, I had slowly, unknowingly set up camp in my head; life had started to feel robotic and lifeless. The daily grind of analyzing, comparing, judging, and overthinking had become my new normal. During and after the yoga nidra class, everything changed…I felt drastically more alive, lit up, and full of sensations that previously had been drowned out by the noise of my mind. All of the sudden I could feel tingling in my fingers, a full body pulsation, and a playfulness that I now know as innate and ever-available.

In awe of its ability to bring me home to myself, I felt called to study and share this transformative practice. As a certified iRest® yoga nidra teacher, I create space to explore our moment to moment experience with wonder and curiosity – gracefully remembering the truth of our wholeness.

In classes and 1:1 sessions, I help people to meet anxiety and pain as messengers.

As we allow our inner landspace to be seen, felt, and heard, we make space for all this “friction” to be digested and begin to move through us naturally. There’s no longer a desperate need to over-analyze… your inner knowing rises to the surface, and the way forward reveals itself.

The practice builds interoception, resilience, and fluency of emotions…with a sensitivity to each person's unique experience and history.

Weaving together her training in iRest, Mindful Schools, and Imagination Yoga, Julie offers practices for both adults and children, in-person and virtually. Whether she's teaching in a 7th grade homeroom, a backyard yurt or an elementary gymnasium, Julie brings her whole heart to the collaborative adventures. Her background in both design and posture therapy informs her creative, body-centered approach to the practice.

Book Julie’s 4-session Embodiment Series or Discover How Embodied You Are With A FREE Online Assessmenthttps://www.withinwonder.com/

And find her collection of kids' meditations on Zenimal and Insight Timer. https://insighttimer.com/within.wonder/

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What if running a business could feel as balanced and harmonious as living a healthy, fulfilling life?

In this episode, I have Raeanne Lacatena, a mental health therapist and musician, who explores how holistic business practices can transform your personal and professional life.

Stay tuned to discover the power of balancing action with downtime, integrating well-being into your work, and embracing vulnerability to foster true growth.

In this episode, Aimee and Raeanne discuss:

• The concept of holistic business, balancing action with receptivity and rest.

• Balancing masculine and feminine energies is crucial for success

• Integration of past, present, and future awareness supports growth

• How integrating mental, physical, and financial wellness into business mirrors holistic health.

• Encouraging entrepreneurs to engage in self-inquiry and find personalized paths to success.

• Raeanne’s background in mental health and music, and how these experiences shape her coaching approach.

• Recognizing and addressing limiting beliefs as key to personal and professional growth.

• How healing and development can be efficient and less painful with a holistic approach.

• Personal trauma and recovery as catalysts for deeper healing and self-discovery.

And so much more!

Raeanne Lacatena helps experienced entrepreneurs and small business owners reach their greatest expectations while living their happiest, healthiest, and wealthiest lives.

Among the business owners she serves are restaurateurs, brick-and-mortar offices like those of physicians and therapists, and online businesses for authors, artists, speakers, and coaches.

Raeanne is a Holistic Certified Professional Business Coach, Licensed Registered Mental Health Practitioner, and Reiki Master with two decades of experience in the business coaching and professional development fields.

Raeanne is also a mother of three children under seven who help her understand and live the principles she teaches more deeply everyday! Contest Link! Win an Air BnB get-away! raeannelacatena.com/contest

Check out her book "The Integrated Entrepreneur" Out Now! https://www.raeannelacatena.com/integrated

And here's a free quiz where listeners can see where they fall on the spectrum of distorted vs. healthy masculine and feminine energy: https://www.raeannelacatena.com/energyquiz

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How does personal growth connect to the greater evolution of humanity?

In this fascinating episode, I welcome David Knox to explore the link between personal habits, somatic experiences, and collective evolution.

From Darwinian evolution to cosmological perspectives, David offers insights into how our individual evolution can contribute to the larger consciousness of humanity.

Join us as we uncover the power of intention, the impact of our emotional state on outcomes, and how physical release can lead to emotional freedom.

In this episode, David Knox and I discuss:

- The connection between habits, intuition, and somatic experiences in personal and collective evolution.

- Evolution from both a scientific (Darwinian) and cosmological perspective.

- David’s journey of realizing the importance of aligning personal goals with universal evolution.

- The interconnectedness of consciousness and the impact of individual growth on collective human development.

- The holistic view of what it means to be human and how it affects our life experiences.

- The idea that consciousness and intention are integral to the universe and personal evolution.

- The concept of a holographic fractal universe, where each part reflects the whole.

- The importance of individual evolution for the betterment of humanity and the planet.

- How the emotional and mental state behind our actions influences our outcomes.

- Challenges of becoming aware of misalignments in one's life and the courage required to make changes.

And so much more!

David Knox is the creator and host of The Evolutionary Podcast and LiveStream YouTube channel. For decades David studied and experimented with the relationship between spiritual practices and life circumstances. In 2019, looking at the state of the world, David decided it was time to walk away from his corporate career and start talking to people who care about things that matter.

Now David teaches others how to use their holographic, fractal relationship with our consciously evolutionary universe to create happiness, meaning, fulfillment and affluence in their lives, and in doing so, help to evolve the human species.

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