The Carlo Cirillo Show

#35 - Karlee Imogen on the Importance of your Breath, How to Juggle Multiple Passions in Life & Living Consciously.

December 12, 2018 Carlo Cirillo Season 1 Episode 35
The Carlo Cirillo Show
#35 - Karlee Imogen on the Importance of your Breath, How to Juggle Multiple Passions in Life & Living Consciously.
Show Notes Transcript

Hey conscious fam,  welcome to episode 35 of the Conscious Podcast! 
 

On this episode I shared a conscious conversation with the lovely, Karlee Imogen. Karlee is Travelling Yoga Teacher, Reiki Healer and Co-Creator of Holistically Living.


We got stuck into topics including how to blend a life full off all the things you love, the benefits of being optimistic, choosing experiences in life, The importance of breath & why you MUST prioritise time to breathe, the value of getting energy work done, conscious living, finding peace within and so much more! 


This was the first time meeting Karlee after I first messaged her on instagram 2 days before this recording.. and what an incredible conversation we shared! I loved her energy and perspective on life, so much to resonate with and be inspired by!



I really enjoyed this and I hope you do too! 


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Speaker 1:

Hi Guys. My name is Kali imaging and you are listening to the conscious pittcon.

Speaker 2:

The conscious part of my name is college to reload and this is your place to cultivate wisdom, awareness, life insights to raise your B and become more conscious in your daily life.

Speaker 3:

Hey, conscious fam. Welcome to episode 35 of the conscious podcast. On this episode I shared a conscious conversation with the lovely Carly imaging. Kali is a traveling yoga teacher, Reiki healer, and cocreator of holistically living. We got stuck into topics including how to blend a life full of the things you love, the benefits of being optimistic, choosing experiences in life, the importance of breath and why you must prioritize time to breathe, the value of getting energy work done, conscious living, finding peace within and so much more. This was the first time meeting Carly after I messaged her on Instagram two days before this recording and what an incredible conversation we shared. I loved her energy and perspective on life, so much to resonate with and be inspired by. I really enjoyed this and I hope you do too. Carly,

Speaker 1:

how are you? Very well. And Yourself. Oh, excellent. What have you been up to today? Today? Uh, it's a Sunday at the moment, so I have attended a beautiful two hour Yin Yoga workshop actually this morning. So it was a nice way to spend a bit of self care on a Sunday I think. And then, um, did the washing. It's a cookie around home and here I am. So yeah, it's been a good, good relaxing day actually. Awesome. So the workshop, you were just there to be a part of it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I just know I just attended as a student, which are, yeah, it was really nice actually. I think as a yoga teacher you can get so caught up in just being a teacher. Yeah. And I've had it really important to also go as a student and switch off that teaching brain and just immerse myself in the actual practice. Yeah. So, yeah. So I really, really enjoyed it. It was very, um, timely, I think as well. Sounds excellent for Sunday morning. Yep. Yep. Not Complaining at all. What are you most excited about in life right now? Well, they might sound a bit strange, but I'm actually really excited about the unknown. So I think we come, I came from us being such a planner and you know, just in just in life in general, like you go, I went from school, I did the uni thing, I, I did the work thing working up through a corporate ladder. Like there's always, every year you kind of look and have as a goal or a little bit of a plan or you know, we got married, we bought a house, like he kind of ticking off those boxes. And I think, um, particularly my lifestyle has changed in the last two years. But um, I'll have late and we're coming to the end of 2018 at the moment. So we're coming to the end of the year and you kind of look forward and, and yes, I think it's important to have goals and things in place. But what I'm most excited about is we're at a point, or I'm at a point in my life where there's a few different pathways in a few different roads and a few different doors opening. And I don't really know which direction or which one I'm going to take yet. And the, uh, what, uh, what lies ahead and that, that I'm known as well actually is it, it's making me excited at the moment. Yeah. Just to go with it to rather than to be doing, I'm just fame and a sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then make that decision and uh, yeah, I've not really been at that point yet in my life before, so I've just, I've just gone, yeah. I mean I'm excited for whatever it is. Daddy's coming. Yeah. The unknown.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. We only met two days ago on Instagram. Um, and it was fraud through our, both of our good friend Ebony. Yup. And I happened to be coming to Adelaide spontaneously with my family and I put it out there on the conscious group. If you're not part of it, you can click on the link on Instagram and you can apply to be in it. And I said, who knows, some awesome conscious humans in Adelaide. And Ebony recommended Carly. So now we're here, which is amazing. And that's why I love doing what I do. Because I get to meet amazing people like you and it's like, ah, just your networks.

Speaker 1:

That's right. I love how things like that. Just the line and just planning away actually. Yeah. And I haven't mentioned this to you. I'm only literally a week ago I was doing a bit of a meditation and I either meditate or journal and write down like my goals quite often. Sometimes I would just meditate. Sometimes I'll do the both. And I was kind of met it manifesting in my meditation or things that I want to attract, um, career wise and work wise. And I had on there, I'd love to be on a podcast. I'm not, I'm not kidding you. And then a wait like a week later you've messaged me and said this and I was like, well, I can't really say no. I literally asked for this. Like yeah, that is the power of manifest. Exactly. Exactly. I'm a big believer of it and sometimes it happens a lot quicker and sometimes it takes forever. But we get there.

Speaker 3:

Well you must've raised your frequency. I was very clear I wasn't coming until two days ago. Yeah. So awesome. I love that stuff. That's my thing. You wrote down conscious podcast guy named Carlos, so it worked out very well. So I don't know much about your life apart from your Instagram, which is also great too to go back and stalk people and have a look, which is exciting and I'm sure you'll get into all of that. So for the listeners and for me that don't much about you, can you give

Speaker 1:

us a wrap up of your life from start to where you are now and everything that you're doing show I show us. Okay. So I was um, born in a town about two and a half hours at about Lakewood Port Pirie. And so I was born there. My parents went their separate ways, separate ways and break up when I was about 18 months. And my mom and I moved to Adelaide and the big world outside of our little town. And then, um, my parents have always remained very, very, I had a good relationship. Like it was, I have got close relationship with both my mom and my dad. I've always been a mummy's girl and mom and I are very, very close. Um, so obviously living in Adelaide together help that. And then I looking back over my childhood, yeah, there were, there were definitely moments of, you know, pain and, um, situations that are probably not ideal, you know, life happens. But in general I look back and it's full of love and laughter and a family and really like really good opportunities. Like I feel very grateful and fortunate for that. And so it grew up three in Adelaide. I then finished school a year 12. I took a gap year, which, um, I, I really encourage, I think it's great. I who, who really knows what they want to do at the end of high school, but at the same time, I think my life as I'll explain, I've changed and swapped paths a few times and I think that's completely normal and okay. So then I finished high school. I actually met my now husband when I was 17, so we grew up together pretty well. Yeah. We didn't actually go to the same school. Yeah, he's a little bit older, but uh, yeah, we, we definitely had the most significant part of our lives and teams growing up together. And so we've been together now 14 years, married for four of them always for them, which is awesome. And then finish that gap year three school. And kind of through that time I was working at a surf shop and I've always found myself in positions of leadership or management. Like I've, I think I've just always got that I guess personality that I find myself either leading or guiding or managing people and I really, really liked that. So then at the surf shop I worked in the management team there for three years. I then went on to help open and manage a fashion store in Adelaide as well. And I worked there three years full time while I also studied at uni football, it's time at uni. I started in tourism, uh, that lasted a semester and it just wasn't challenging me enough. I had a little bit of a Geeky side, so I do love maths and numbers and that whole business side. So then that naturally led me into studying a double degree in commerce and business management. So I did that for three and a bit years full time. I then took another gap year before I found, I guess what you call a serious job. And, uh, my husband and I did our first real traveling thing where we got a four drive and camper trailer and traveled three months down the west coast of Australia. And like, we just love that lifestyle. So that has something that's been part of us for so long, which I'll get to you again soon. From there, I then came back and got a, I applied for a job in the insolvency accounting sector. So you're running like liquidations, receivership's, bankruptcies, that type of thing. And I, um, I don't, I know I want it to work for one film in Adelaide and I put all my willpower, my manifesting pallet into that to get into this boom, which I got to. So then I worked with them for six years while also studying my child at accounting and my in solvents, professional insolvency courses and all that. And you know, I love, I do love the corporate world. I worked up slowly, worked up through the ranks to assistant manager, but over the six years and then, um, I guess this is where I kind of really had a little bit of a mixed, um, mixed feelings. So growing up with my mom, she was always very spiritual are we always had like affirmation cards, positive thoughts, crystals, essential oils that we always had that in our home. And it was very normal to me. That didn't even, even my friends who always knew that I was that type of person and there's always an answer. There's always a more a positive look out to things. And that's just how I naturally was. And then I was finding myself in a corporate environment that challenge, that sometimes challenge that the energies were very different. So he, I was so funny you say that. Say I was the one in the office that would, where I kind of disguise it a little bit. So I would like crystals down my top. I'd have like essential oils. I have the automation cards on my desk. I was that person, but I had like a tight lid on it really. But it was still notice that people would say, oh, you're so positive. And in like situations that were high stress, or I'd go meet a client and they would go, oh, you're not who I, who I expected. Like it's obviously had a different persona then I guess the stereotype accounting, especially in the insolvency industry. And then I'd meet people that didn't know me and I'd tell them what I was doing and they were just like, oh, I wouldn't have guessed that that was you. And so, not that it's a bad thing, but I just was becoming more and more tone with the energy. So I was still doing, um, a little bit of energy work on myself and at home. And like with friends, I'm always the one that they would come to for advice, that type of thing. And then I did. So my mom became a reiki master, so she's been practicing as a reiki healer and muster now for, oh, probably get wrong but a while now. And I won't say the exact time, but she, yeah, she's been doing that for a while and so I did my training three her. And um, so this is kind of three or four level three Reiki courses that you do as you go through and after my second one, my intuition like kicked in overload. Like I've always been very intuitive, but I just really kicked overload and I was just feeling and knowing things and being pulled in different directions. Putting that aside, I was still really happy with the corporate world. February we the identity, I was creating their, you know, women in business. I was networking, I was doing all the right things. I had goals of where I want it to move and stuff in there. But then three, I'm going out, my husband, Dan, and I've always said if we had 12 months to do something different, to travel, to work, to live somewhere else for 12 months, like we have to make sure we take that. And so we got to a 0.2 years ago where that opportunity kind of arose and the discussion was being had more than uh, more often than not now. It was becoming reality and it wasn't an easy decision because here I was going, no, I'm this corporate woman. I can balance my energy stuff on the side. I started taking reiki clients on the side. Um, but there's an opportunity that we again had put out for that. It was right there. Um, those definitely tears. I was like, so onset and then like down's very supportive going, you, you choose whichever direction. If we don't do it now, we'll do it. We'll work it out later. But it was just like, be silly not to really. And so we made that choice and we, I left my work so two years ago and we decided to travel Australia and we said we'd give ourselves 12 months to, you know, kind of fully the Sun. So wherever it was warm, we'd go, um, we have, ah, an Oh, we were doing it in is our four drive as swag and a attorney. And that was the, and we wanted to keep, I mean, really, you know, one of the reasons beside the fact that he want to do, do something different and we've always been, I'm going to get his and, you know, experiencing life over material things, it's always been a focus, but also just to bring it back to really simple, make life simple to realize that you don't need all that stuff and just appreciate it and spend time together and, and without all the noise. And so it's now coming into two years, well, it's two years and I'm coming into our third year of traveling enlists to doing that. In that space of traveling. I, um, did my yoga training course pretty much as soon as I finished at my corporate job, I went, I need to do something totally different here. And I, if I'm taking that time away from that weld, I want to immerse myself in my other wells. And as soon as I did my yoga course, I was like, this is where I'm meant to be. It was a life changing. It was very intense and life changing. And then I decided teaching while we're on the road, so we're pretty much where we would end up for a while. I would do my own classes that connect with studios. I would carry, we carried my reiki bed around for the first year and I'd set up Reiki it around, um, does network, had volunteer at a yoga festivals and things. Just really what, what have I got to lose? I just put myself out there and it was amazing. As soon as I stepped away from the corporate world or as soon as I made that decision, the doors that were open as if they were just waiting for me to do that. And it was just really magical to say. So I, I haven't looked back since. I also run an online holistic health health business with my sister in law, um, who is in the wellness space as well. And my mom's also one of our coaches for our program members as well. So yeah, just a lot happening. But that's, that's my lab so far

Speaker 3:

that is super inspiring because as we're talking about right now, just before we got on was that because we have literally just met like 15 minutes ago, 20 minutes ago, and I was like, ah, so this is my life before you find out more about me and ask about you don't say anything cause we're gonna talk about in the podcast and I'm like, I'm in bed by then and do all this and you're like, wait till we get to the point because you're saying all that and it's, I'm getting those feelings of like, oh no, I've got a good thing. I was just telling you job security. But it's like I've got this urge to just go. And like you said it a few times and it's like, you know,

Speaker 1:

why not like what's Yep. And your ego and society and everything else will guide you otherwise. And it's really hard to keep kind of channeling back to that I say and I say to my clients, it's that gut feeling, it's intuition. It's that heart that you follow your fear and everything else will come into it. But you just know. Yeah. Even when you were saying that it kept coming up because I just had a coaching session yesterday in all she was saying was just got to trust, trust going to work, but trust that you know what you want, you trust it's going to happen. I just, it doesn't matter how it happens, you know what you want to do. Trust and it will, it will bring about trust has been my 2018 word. Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Love it. Awesome. Um, so much that's come up in that, um, I, I can relate on the gap year but my gap has been eight years now and it's still going and the Brexit stepped into uni. So live in the gap year life. Um, but I guess the one thing that stood out as well was when you got to that point where you're balancing the corporate world but then also doing your passions and the spiritual side, which is great because I think you can still live, let's say someone's passionate about that corporate life or that job. You can still do that, but then also have your, your downtime, you can, you can juggle those things. And we've spoken about that in the podcast before, but it was really nice hearing from a woman about it. It was, it was from guys that said it before, that you can have both, have to find

Speaker 1:

that what works for you. And I don't like to use the word balance because I think juggle. Juggle. Yeah. It's your own balancing. Anyone knows what that's nice. Um, yeah, because it does, sometimes it does get to the point where the pull in opposite directions is too much and you have to find a way you sit in that. Um, but yeah, I think exactly. You, you can do both. And I see more and more people being in the like in a job or a corporate world or a bit more of a different, I don't like to say proper job, but you know, different space and had their side side thing. But now I'm kind of seeing a shift where their side thing is now their main thing and they and this other, this corporate or this other lifestyle is now their side thing. So they've kind of, they're kind of shifting a little bit, which is really interesting to see. Yeah, just totally fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. And I get, I still get my little business mine and my little geeky input by like I'm running my own businesses so there's, I still have that input and still feel like I'm using that and my accounting and that side of things. You've kind of blended them together. Totally. Awesome. Would you say is you're living your purpose? Yes, I would. I would say that there are definitely still detours and challenges. I think people have this perception that when you are living your purpose, life is a blissful and you're on this light lock. And goes wrong and you're on this beautiful path and ricocheting all the other stuff off you. Oh yes, yes. But not like, and living your purpose is, it's still going to bring up it's challenge and the university is going to constantly challenge you to make sure you are on path, that you are still on truck to bell, three things and curve balls at you to make you question all the time, which, which they should. But I think that if you're living with passion, if you are excited about every day, you know, if you're making choices that shape your life in that direction, then you're living a purpose. And I feel that those things, other things that I am doing.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. Yeah. Um, another thing that came up in my mind was going back to when you were like, we're going to take you and your husband walk. We're going to take these, we're going to do it now. Take it off. What inspired that? Like, what, what was the stop everything and just go, was it, um, I know for me, like in my situation, it's like, I just see there's a better, better way of explaining this, but people just wasting life, not being happy, doing things I don't want to do. I've done that. And I'm like, I don't care from 24, I'm 34. I've realized that now. And I'm like, I want to go.

Speaker 1:

Yeah. Yeah. And it's say it's a hard one because I took it. Yeah, totally think that I, um, you know, I've found looking at older people than myself and they were, you know, either they're still waiting for something as to writing to do something or waiting for this change or saving. Yeah. And, and you know, great. Good on them. And if they get to a point that they can then go and explore and if troubles, air thing or investment, whatever that is at said their passion, um, good on you, but then what would it be done for the rest of that time? And what if you don't get to that point or you know what if, and it's a different experience. So Dan and I doing it now is going to be um, a different life experience of traveling and seeing Australia than if we wait another 30, 40 years and do it on my older totally different. It's going to be a totally, we'll probably still be doing it then and exactly a different place. And I did it sounds so I materialistic but I noticed like people aging and I've been like, but I put if you don't like what does do you don't get to do and yeah, so there was this thing like you never know what can happen, anything to happen and I think there's an important concept that you know, you can do it all but not all at once I think is the saying. And I think just working out how that suits you and everyone's different and where that works. Don't worry, we've still go, oh you know, should we be doing this or should we be doing that? And it is still a question and the discussion you need a half. But when things aligned, it's hard not, it's hard to ignore them after a while. And we spoke about it that much that it just was, it just, it just was happening. It was just evolving literally in front of us. Yeah. What is success to you? Success to me, I feel like success, you know, he's just, it's just having that, that, that moment in your day or in your, in your day, in your life that you go, oh, I, I feel good. Or I, you know, I made someone happy because of me or, you know, I'm acting from a place of love, not fear or I made a big decision and I'm owning it. Like it's, it's success I don't think is definitely not monetary to my son myself. It's, it's an ad I don't like just saying happy because that's just so broad. Um, but yeah, I think it's just successes, just doing your, your thing and feeling good about it really in a simple way. That makes sense. I guess through your journey of transformation of going from uni, you found that what works for you. And I felt success in all of those situations, um, in different ways and in different ways. When I achieve a or something, I feel success, but when I get a client that leaves me and gives me a hug and goes, I feel lighter on my success. Yeah. It's measured in very different ways. How, hitting question now, what is the worst thing that has ever happened to you and how is that the best thing that has ever happened to you? Alright, so I, so my, um, my mum and my birth dad both remarried after they split. And then my mom and my step dad split when I was about the team. So that right on that team stage. Uh, so he was a big father figure in my life and I think that's, it was, it was very, um, something that was very hard to deal with at one of the age and just in general with any parents splitting. Um, so I was, yeah, 13 and think my brother was five. So we, we were at those ages where as well we were, he was about primary school. I was in high school, so me dealing with Tina hormones as well as you know, parents. And I think as a, as hard as, um, it was through that time and my mom pretty much raised us as a single mum through those significant parts of my life. I, um, I w I ha I had to grow up a little bit quicker I think in that situation. So I, I felt like I took a little bit more ownership of being the big sister, you know, my mum support that type of role and it really, I feel like I'm pretty independent person and that definitely helped in that in a positive way. I also, it also allowed my mom to really explore her spiritual path. So she obviously, I said she's always had that in the background, but kind of that was a big shift in her life where I saw her really evolve, um, down that spiritual path. And through that I did too. So with her leadership, with her using the tools of, of what she found in energy healing and whatnot, I also use those tools. So it was, you know, in that time when that happened, I didn't tell my friends for months and months, but I was, I use my own tools. Like I did my own meditation, I did my own, like, you know, in situations where it was, I felt upset or stressed. I could calm myself down and at the time I'd probably didn't even realize the power. I definitely didn't realize the power of that. But now I, I, I still use those tools and through life I did use those tools. And that's, that kind of is what has led me to being a healer and being a yoga teacher because I realized how something that became so second nature to me is not at all second nature to majority of people. And I wanted to be able to share that. And so yeah, that big kind of shitty situation is probably, that's probably the takeaway from that. Obviously those two situations, how you dealt with them. Obviously it was painful at the time, whatever happened at the moment, but you, I guess subconsciously had those tools, use them, got through it and that's kind of helped you along life when other things have come up and then things that have happened since then. I'd go back to the same original tools and things that I've used from back then that I didn't even realize that's what I was doing. Sounds like a very conscious way to be living in it. Exactly. There's so many things in the day they could come up that would throw people off. Like I know it hasn't happened to me. I guess the closest it came to today was I'm only finding out that my brother had these tests and we had to move our podcast. I'm an hour for a bank and I was like, Oh, you didn't tell me this, like why was I not aware of this? And I was like, well, did you have a schedule today? We didn't know. And it was like, okay, I'll just messaged Carly when we were back in town. But it wasn't getting all angry and their reaction, their initial reaction is so reactive and giving, having that extra little millisecond where you can just shift that sport. Being more conscious or being like it's not the end of the weld is is huge and applying that in everyday situations from sitting in the traffic to you know, ordering food that takes a longer time to come out. Not letting all those little things lift your stress level is is so pointy. Health. Yeah. I heard it on a podcast recently with her, like before you react to something, just take a big breath, breathe it out. Now react. Don't, don't do it while you're holding your breath and instantly in a millisecond take that time to breathe then then you'll figure it out. Yeah. Unfortunately in such a high paced society, people think I don't have time to have a breath. Like how crazy is that? Like I'd have time to have one breath. I don't have time to meet. What's your priority? Look, I have fought fell victim to that even in the past week. Oh yes it has. I meditated every morning. Like I said, is part of my daily method of operations. No. Do I have 20 minutes to meditate? I do find that time and glad you brought that up because, and I say that to my clients and I carried them to journal and meditate and it put things in place that works for them. But I also say don't be hard on yourself if you don't either. You know, you can always come back to it. It's the things that you do. What does it, the things that you do consistently, almost often that make the biggest differences. So if you miss a few days here and there, it is not going to matter. Is that going to matter? Yeah. Just tick off as many as you can. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. They have a breather. Yes. Everything in moderation. Journaling, meditating. That should be, what's the best advice you've ever been given? The best advice that I've been given. I, yeah, I like this one actually. Nobody knows you better than you. So we can, I say, hey, my yoga classes, I always, I always had this line where I give, you know, we might go into a tricky oppose or something and I say to them, okay, I'm, I'm a yoga teacher. Yes, but you are your master. You are your own teacher. You are your own healer. If this isn't working for you, how crazy is it that you can actually choose not to do it? Or you can choose to alter, you can choose to say something, do something else and that works in all aspects of your life. So I do encourage that you should seek guidance. You should seek healing, have a counselor and acupuncturist have, you know, get your energy work done, get your sh, shockers, read, do whatever. Do you get the angel cards done? But at the end of the day, the choice is yours. And just hearing that, I was like, yes. At the end of the day, the choice is mine. I do have my team of people that I go to and get advice and do that with. But at the end of the day, I am, I'm in control of that choice and I like to look at it as having his suitcase of all these amazing tools and goodies that when I need it, I can open it and pull out what I need because it's me that's choosing it. I'm not going to them for them to fix me. I already have that within me. I just need the, those tools. So yeah. You know, you, nobody knows you better than you being very intuitive. Yeah. Connecting. Yeah. What would be your advice to your 16 year old? My 16 year old self. So I'd probably say it's okay to say no. I'm, I'm very, and have always been a very like yes person. Um, and I will do and yeah, I'm still, I'm still working on it, but that's it. But no, I do. Yeah. I feel like I have always been making sure I do everything for everyone and make sure everyone else is happy. And when I've started to say no or realize that that doesn't align with me or my purpose or in a non selfish way, but in a way a little bit selfish and going, yeah, this isn't, this isn't right. You can say no and to not look at people that um, you know, you perceive that are doing better or doing more or than you to just know that your, your, and your right path that you're, you're there and um, we don't often see the journey it takes for that person to have got to that point. And you have your own journey too and just the keyword, just the trust say no, re aligned with yourself and just trust. Yeah, that'd be what I had a little bus. Awesome. How do you think people can become more fulfilled in life? I think to come off for field in life. I think it comes back to really tuning in to yourself. Tuning into what makes you smile, makes you happy. What, what, what I'm, sets your soul on fire essentially. What, what like gets you going and gets you up in the morning. Do more of that. Do more like I as traveling, he's just, it lights me up every day and so we're still continuing to do more of that. You know, when I teach a yoga class, even if some days I might, I literally can't be bolded going and I'm feeling like whatever, I'm tired. As soon as I stepped into that space, like Ay Ay, Ay my soul is on fire and I want to do more of that, I feel more fulfilled. And I think that comes back to people learning to connect, to connect with in, to just slow it down. And, and I, I really important question. I like to ask myself sometimes when I'm a bit flustered or be uncertain, I say, what do I need from me today? Like what do I need from me today? And I just see and I see on that and work out, do I, do I need to go for a run? Do I want to get like really in my young masculine space? Do I need to do something like that, sweat it out or do I just want to like slow it down? Do I just want to read a book or dwell and meditate. Do I want to do my own yoga practice or do I want to go and be a student? It's coming back and working out what it is that I need from me today. Yeah. Yeah. Again, goes back to that intuitive feeling. Yes. What are you feeling? Being aware of that, being conscious of that. I love that question. What do I, what do I need? Do I need from me today? Ooh, Ooh. It's a good one. Pause this. If you're listening and think about that, what do I need from me for Nice. What do you need from you today? He asking me. Yes. I think, I feel like I got that today. I wouldn't do my in class. I felt like that and I honestly felt that was what I needed today. I just needed to switch into that job, into that zone into, they call it the Yin, the skin, or you'd just a space of femininity and slowing it down like that. That is exactly what I needed from me today. Tomorrow might be a different on it. Yeah. Yeah. What's a big problem that you think needs to be talked about? More in society? Actually I've become always been aware of that consciously aware about but more so lately is the, and slightly different I guess path but I still think it's a bit fits in a space of conscious living is um, the amount of plastic waste that we as society consume. And I definitely am not perfect but I am definitely very aware and conscious of it. I I think in a, in a conscious living space, this is the conscious podcast, you have to think of the big, the environment. We have to think of the bigger picture and, and just that it's something that if someone can not get a takeaway cup, that's one person that leads into the next person, not use a plastic straw, not get a plastic bottle refill. It sounds, and it's, there has been awesome shifts in that lately. I love when I go into a cafe and they don't actually have straws an option. I, yeah, I'd just like yes, winning. And I still think it's something that needs to be discussed more and educated in children now. And, um, yeah, just the, that's something that I really have grown to be passionate about. I don't know whether it's also because traveling Australia, we, we stay in pretty remote off the grid places where rubbish ends up. So you see that there's hardly anyone comes through there or had been a more people and it's all about taking the rubbish with you. But still there's heaps of this stuff that's, that's washed up and it all has that throwing away isn't really a way like all go somewhere. And I just think we could all be more conscious aware of our decisions on environmental scale. Yeah. So conscious, sustainable living. Yes. How did you go doing that while you're traveling? Yeah, so we, I guess in a way where, because we have a little space, so less waste is as we have to kind of abide by that. Um, but we always take our rubbish with us and wouldn't be buying coffee. You'd have your own reusable cups. Yes, yes. Yeah. We've got our bamboo toothbrushes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All, all of these things. And there are things where you go, oh, I could be doing this better. Um, but it's taking this to me starting my adventure. And even at home it's starting to realize that with the shampoo bottles and the bars now, once you start, it's a open up a welds. It's amazing. They really want to dig into that rabbit hole. So I'm going to pick your brain on that. Yeah, the bonus. But that's amazing. It's so good that you're conscious of the environment and the mother earth that we live in and your making those active, still taking those active steps to I guess not contribute. That's right. Because it's, it's uh, I think people can be quiet and naive when they say, well, you know, by the time I'm done on this earth does not my problem. I couldn't be a friend. I just, you, we are contributing for the next generation, our children's children, that type of thing. And then all of a sudden we were creating a space that we've, we just don't care for. I just, this doesn't sit well. It reminds me of the old smokers a court. It's going to kill me anyway. He's going to kill me and I just don't want to contribute. I, you know, and there's people that are on different vibrations and different levels and I sometimes I'm just like, okay, you're just not there yet. Maybe an next lifetime will. Yeah. If this was the last time you seen me and I asked you to teach me something tangible that I can use every day in my life to improve my life, what would you teach me? The importance of breath awareness. I love working with my breath. Uh, it's an everyone of my classes that I teach, so I'm in Yoga, we call it Pranayama. So proud of meaning, like vital life force and breath. And then yama meaning control or a strain and learning to work with your breath to expand that vital life force is really powerful. I can tell as soon as my breath is short or shallow, um, or I can't quite catch it. There I am either stressing about something or I'm in a space where the energy is low and I'm just, my vibrations are trying to match it and I'm just struggling. Your breath is one of your first queues at something isn't right in your body. And if you live constantly having short breads, a, your body will start to try to give you other messages in other ways because you're not, you're not listening to your breath. So you, you know, you can, you'll get CQ feel, um, anxious, depressed, like oh always comes back to taking. And we speak earlier about taking that one deep breath and yes, do that. I love, um, I have a practice. So as well as my meditation, like even if I do a five minute meditation, I always do a five minute breath work and whether that's um, counting my breath or you think pauses in between and when you practice and I say when he stopped practice to do it guided by someone that has experienced at least that you slip into this real space of like, yeah, I collect yumminess. It just is so blissful and so nice. And just create such a, it sets your day up or wind you down depending, cause you can do really heating, heating, breath practice where you can do really cooling breath practice. And once you start to explore it, it becomes a little bit addictive and you want to, you want to play with it a little bit more. Some yogis measured their life by the amounts, the number of breaths they take. So imagine in such as high stressed, um, society, we take lots of short breaths and really quick and, and way of shortening our life span. So by slowing it down, pulling it out, we're expanding that laugh for. So I think if you can incorporate breath awareness, even if it's taking three to five deep breaths, just stop and do that every day. Um, and then explore other ways to do that. That would be my bit of little takeaway. Awesome. Yeah.

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Do you have any, uh, I guess tools that you could recommend? Is there anything on youtube maybe like, I know for me, I do box breathing. Yes. Awesome. Is there anything you can recommend of like something to look up a guy that had

Speaker 1:

yeah, well I just kind of do it, use my own from my own training really. But if box breath is a great one and I don't think people need to be like, you don't need to be in a space to do that, but um, anything that you're pausing or holding your breath for the, as soon as you're feeling discomfort or tightness or dizziness, you need a drop out of that and just go back to it. Um, but you know, not as tall as, as such. I'm sure there's plenty out there. I know even like the calm meditation App has the breathing section where you go, you press it so they, maybe that's my little one. Calm. And you, you press the button and then it tells you to inhale for account and then it pauses and an x house where account. And so you can do it with a bit of guidance, but to sit in your space and take deep breaths, it's all you need to do to start with. Yeah, I've seen it on someone's tee shirt somewhere. Might be on Instagram. So breathing that good ass. Yes, I need that. Great. How can I find my purpose? How can you find your purpose? How can people find people? Um, I guess it comes back to that whole thing I was saying earlier. I remember which question it was for. Um, but connecting with your intuition and what makes your soul shine. How do you find that you, you explore those things. You try those things. You, you, you make a decision and you commit to it. You do it. You don't, um, the things that if you're, if you're sitting down or you're working and things pop into your mind that takes you away from that or you know, you're constantly, what are the things that are constantly coming up for you? Go and explore that because there's a message in it. There's a message in that and maybe that will lead you on your purpose. Essentially. Like I said earlier, it's, um, live your life with passion. So where's that passion for you? If, and I don't, I think people think, oh, I need to go off and be like a Yogi or something. But yeah. And maybe we're not the best examples of living of, but if your passion is to crunch numbers and do spreadsheets and um, you know, set up big corporates and that's what you feel good and passionate about, that's, that's awesome as well. Then it doesn't have to be on this other path at all. There's so many different passions. You know, you're, you don't have to go fix the world. Um, in that sense you're, you're doing something better for a corporate and that makes you feel good then that's fine too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We need those people. We need me a little bit doing that. We almost to stop and become a gypsy is like awesome travel. Yeah, exactly. All do that. What's most meaningful to you in life right now? I guess one when my most grateful forward also fall under that. Maybe you meaningful, grateful, grateful. Um, as I was, I guess everyone would say their friends and family, but I'm really grateful for the people in my life at the moment. Yes. Changing my path in the last two years has meant that some of my friendship circles has changed and not in a negative way I feel now. There's no really like bad, bad. Um, it's just literally shifted and I feel the people that are in my life at the moment, the level of conversation that I'm having to some of these conversations two years ago, like it just different and I'm really, it's really meaningful that I've got those people in my life and from all different, like a very diverse range of, of friendships and I made them all, yeah, yeah. Wise comes up and it keeps coming up and it's very similar with myself. It's like you still want your best friends, but you also vibe with other people on a similar path, but maybe your best friends aren't, but that doesn't mean they're not your best friend. And you could have multiple Thomas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. And I'm very like my husband and I, we've got a great relationship and he's so supportive and, and he's, you know, he, he grounds he's a good, got a good balance. He really definitely grounds me and brings me back down. Cause sometimes I get really excited and I need to be pulled back down cause I want it, I want to do all the things all the time and I know and he's like, you know, you can do that but just not all right now and okay. Yeah, that's right. And so yeah, that he'd be very uh, meaningful person in my life at the moment. Amazing. Always. Not just Saturday. What impact do you want to have on people, the community and the world? I just want to be able to hold space for people to reconnect, to slow it down to us. Like be able to stop and ask themselves questions or how does that feel like they've got that time to have that breath. And then I think by helping one person to find that one person to help find their purpose or for one, one person to make a big life changing decision and then those individual people then influence other people and then all of a sudden we've got this beautiful flow on effect of greater thing happening. And yes, I'd love to, you know, besides manifesting a podcast, I've got bigger man and manifest manifested other things too to influence a greater number of people at a time. But I love my one on ones or even in a yoga class and impacting those people to find, find that peace within like literally what does it mean to be conscious to, okay. So to be conscious, to be aware, to have awareness. Like I think they're, they're the key words. Um, like how I think if you can look at it in a way that, yeah, I need to be conscious within myself, but I also, and I want to, he'd be able to, you know, consciously understand the messages of my body up to follow my heart and my God. Like that's being conscious, that's being present. But also to understand that you as an individual are also part of a greater collective that you would part of a great greater thing than just yourself. Um, is, is, is conscious living that every one of your actions has a reaction. So whether you know, whatever that action is and where the house smaller, my new you think that is, is there is a reaction to that and that that flows onto other things in life. Um, I think the question is to ask yourself, how can I act in a way that will heal and be supportive to me, but also to society and the environment that I'm part of? So I know like initially what does it mean to be conscious? You can say be present like yeah, 100%. You should learn to be more present, but it has so much more behind the word conscious, I feel anyway. Um, and to do that is to understand that, to make those changes, to ask yourself those questions, you need to come back to the moment and understand that what you do at this present moment is what actually counts. Because you can't control what has just been and you can't control what's about to happen. So being conscious in this present moment will help that flow on effect to the greater consciousness. Yeah, I did like that question, that one, that one I was like, great question. Yeah. Great. Um, where can people see more of

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about you? Um, your staff, your events, follow you?

Speaker 1:

Yeah. So, uh, yeah, I Instagram I run, um, a page Kali imaging. I think it's all just one, one word. I also have a Facebook business page, which is Carly image and I think it's also Carly and virgin travel vblock, Reiki, Yoga and holistic health. Um, and then from there you can also follow through to my online business as well. So that's holistically living is the online business, but find Holly image in and it will lead you there. And my websites and I post all my upcoming workshops and where we are in Australia and things like that, all through that. So I try to balance a little bit of travel life with, um, I call it my journal thoughts. So things that come up and yeah,

Speaker 3:

amazing. All that will be in the show notes as well. Um, anything else you'd like to leave listeners with?

Speaker 1:

No, but I, I'm, I'm really grateful. Thank you for have, for reaching out. I think we only really spoke about it was like, hell, are you doing this? What's your goal? And uh, yeah, I think for everyone listening, yeah. Watch this space because you are very inspiring and I think you've got great goals and visions and um, hopefully we can continue to work together with something in the future because I think it all aligns very well

Speaker 3:

after this because there's a lot that I feel aligning and synchronicities and energies and stuff like that. Thank you so much for those words and like heart is full right now and it's, it's uh, I want to acknowledge you for being the inspiring person you are for stepping into your life and then sharing that with others because that's what's inspiring people. That's what's healing the world. Whether it's just not using, uh, getting a takeaway cup of coffee. Like that's like you said, every step has a reaction and yes, a reaction and you're taking those steps to living your best life but then also impact everything around you, people and the planet as well and I love that and it was so nice to sit down and have a conscious conversation with you and have you, yeah, take time out of your Sunday two to catch up after two compensation's pretty much amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right guys, if you liked this episode, make sure you like share and subscribe. Tag your friends in this one. I'm sure it can be messaged Carly or myself. We'll get back to you or what value that you got from this podcast and until next time take care and the nice piece. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen in on our conversation. Hopefully he got some insights and values to raise your awareness. If you like the podcast please like share on social media and leave a review on whatever platform. I would really appreciate it. You can also keep up to April now Facebook and Instagram pages. Both handles are at the conscious podcast and also my personal account, which is at Carlow underscore Cirillo. Until next time, take care and be nice.