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You are in for a treat. Camille Smith joins me today. She is the owner and founder of Restoration Yoga: yoga that helps foster emotional and physical healing. Her passion is helping women overcome anxiety, stress and depression through the healing power of Christ centered yoga and meditation.
Camille is a fellow hyper-achiever who discovered yoga to be a vehicle that helps to bring back all the parts of her that get swept away in busyness- and bring her back to feeling centered and calm.
Yoga is medicine for calming her mind, tuning into her body, restoring her energy and finding deeper meaning and connection in all the things that make up her busy life.
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Do you have a busy brain? Do you long for greater peace of mind but struggle to slow down? You are in for a treat. Camille Smith, founder of Restoration Yoga, joins me today. Camille is a fellow hyperachiever who discovered yoga to be a vehicle that helps to grab all the parts of her that get swept away in busyness and bring her back to feeling centered and calm. Yoga is medicine for calming her mind, tuning into her body, restoring her energy, and finding deeper meaning and connection to all the things that make up her busy life. Don't worry, if getting quiet and tuning into your body feels out of reach, Camille shares some really simple, tangible ways to start. In this conversation, we talk about true caring for your mind, body, soul, and spirit. We talk about the challenges of getting quiet and the benefits when we're willing to stop. Camille shares how our bodies are a powerful messenger when we're willing to get quiet enough to listen. Whether you're trying to figure out your next steps, struggling with how to handle the circumstances you find yourself, or seeking more quiet purpose and meaning in your daily life, listening to Camille will be a welcome retreat. I found myself settling in and feeling very calm just hanging out with her. And I think you will too. Camille and I are both presenting at the Mindwell Mini Retreat on March 3rd. It's an afternoon event in Tempe, Arizona. You can attend in person or get a virtual ticket. You can find out all the details and save your spot. There's a link in the show notes. I'm Carla Reeves, and this is Differently. Whether you feel stuck in survival, navigating a change, or seeking more for your life, may this podcast be your weekly nudge to take a risk to build a life that is uniquely bold, authentic, and in alignment with your deepest values. After a decade of coaching individuals from corporate leaders to creative artists to multimillion dollar CEOs, I'm convinced we are far closer than we realize to what we deeply desire, and it's a willingness to do differently that can change everything. Hey differently listeners, I'm so excited to have a very special guest today, uh, Camille Smith. And we met, gosh, I mean, officially not that long ago, but I think we've been in the Mindwell uh collective group together for a while. And I'm just so excited to um have you share your wisdom and story with us today. So welcome.
SPEAKER_00Thank you. I'm very excited to be here. Thanks for inviting me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so give give everyone a sense of kind of your where you are in your life. What will give it, paint a little picture of the chapter you're in at this moment.
SPEAKER_00Okay. I will do my best to do that. So I am, let's see, paint a picture of where I am in my life. So I I love the work that I do. So I'll start with that and then go outward. I um I've been teaching yoga for years. So that's kind of what I do. I spend my days, you know, preparing classes, teaching classes and whatnot. And I also am a trauma integration coach. I work one-on-one with people, and you know, I've gone through a lot of different things, um, different hats that I've worn in my career, and uh to bring me to the point that I'm at now where I feel confident, I feel comfortable, and really just happy to be here. You know, I've got a family, um, I work from home, my children are grown, although I do have one son who is uh special needs who lives here, and we just kind of have a good rhythm in our life, knockwood. And I just I'm a people person. I love to connect with other people, and um the work that I do is very fulfilling, and I feel kind of peaceful right now. You caught me on a good day.
SPEAKER_01I love that. So I'm really curious, Camille, like what yoga has meant in your life? Like, how did it come into your life? And like, what has it been for you in your life?
SPEAKER_00Well, um, first of all, I have to say that I love your podcast and I I've listened to it in the whole hyperachiever thing. The first time I listened to it, I'm like, oh yeah, now I know why we're connected. I hadn't even heard, I had never heard that term, believe it or not. I had never heard hyper-achiever. And I'm like, oh, now I know what that that's describing me. So to to to let you know, it kind of has connected me with the need to slow down. And because I have such a busy brain and a need, it's like a hamster on a wheel to go and do and go and do. And I've done a lot of coaching or been coached a lot on how to kind of slow that down. But really, yoga has been the thing I would say that has helped me the most to find balance. I mean, that doesn't ever go away. And a lot of people assume, since I teach yoga and I teach meditation, you must be a totally, you know, zen person. But actually, that's not like the true me. The true me is like, you know, go, go, go. I wake up in the morning and I just can't wait to start running. And I always tease my husband because he's like, why don't you just lay here for a little while? And I'm like, I can't. I feel like I'm getting bed sores. I gotta get up, you know. I feel like I'm jumping out of my skin to start. And yoga has really helped me calm down. It's helped me connect, you know, all parts of my body, mind, body, spirit. You know, the word yoga is from the word yuj, that means to yoke, to yoke those three things together. And finding, you know, I'm actually a very busy, like movement-wise, I love to be active. And so being able to do yoga, which is active, also integrating those other parts, it's been like such a blessing. It's been a godsend for me to find it and to really sink into it so much so that I am able to teach it. Anything that I learn, if I love it a lot, I need to get it all, I always say, get it all inside of me, all the way, so so well that I could teach it. And that's what yoga is for me.
SPEAKER_01That is so beautiful. I think it's so important what you said, you know, that you know, because you're a yoga teacher, people think you're all Zen and all that. I can so relate to that because I think the work I do, like I do because I have to practice it every day. I not only have to practice it, I have to teach it every day. Like I need it so much. I need to be calm my mind, manage my mind, manage my thoughts, because I have a very busy brain. And the work I do helps to calm and root me and you know, all of that. And I need extra of that. So I think that's why I'm teaching.
SPEAKER_00I want to hear you, sister. I yeah, you gotta get it all the way so that you could, you know, to teach it outward. Yes.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And then I also heard somebody say something last week. I was having coffee with a friend, and she was talking about this pastor who was doing this sermon, and she he had said he was an introvert. And she was like, I was so surprised to hear that he was an introvert because he does not uh come across that way. And she said, and then I realized that he's operating in his God-given strength. That's why he can do what he does. But to restore himself and to get energy, he has to get quiet. And I feel that I resonate with that too. And I'm it sounds like you do too.
SPEAKER_00Oh, 100%. I I know when I'm going off course because the voices they get louder and louder. And I I just can't stop. I love to create programs and events and and messages and everything, classes, and I can't, it's like I can't get enough of it. I start to go kind of crazy. And usually the the cues outside of me, like my family members or friends, will be like, Are you okay? And that's when I know I need to bring it in and get quiet and just like get in tune, you know, with God and hear, okay, what do you want me to be doing? That's when I can tell I've gone off path. Like, okay, slow down, get you know, get quiet and figure out what I need to be doing. I can totally relate to that.
SPEAKER_01Wow, we are soul sisters because the creativity thing this year, like I saw it more than ever that I get myself overstimulated in creating, and it can be a good thing, right? Like sometimes we get like it's so fun, addicted to good things, and it is so fun, and I can get lost creating, creating, creating, creating, and then I'm overstimulated, and then I have a hard time resting or sleeping at night, and I really have to learn to manage and watch that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, because after the creation, there's the, you know, then what do you do with it? Then you have to birth it, and that takes energy too. So you could really be on that hamster wheel ramping up, ramping up, ramping up. So for sure.
SPEAKER_01100%. And it this year is really about like finishing things and implementing things I've created. And so every time I have like this new idea, it's like a joke in our house that like go look because you have already created you probably already created this. And most of the time I have already written something about it, or it's crazy, it's crazy making. Um, okay, so I have a question for you. So I whenever I hear the word like self-care, whenever I hear like that's just like been such a popular word in our world for a while now. And it's when I hear it, you know, like on the outside, people would be like, of course I support self-care. But when I hear that word, I like cringe inside. And I'm curious, like at the very core of it, I yes, I believe that we have to care for ourselves, our bodies, our minds, right? Like I I believe that. But what it has become is not in alignment for me. And so I'm curious what you believe about that.
SPEAKER_00Oh, well, how fun, Carla. We're gonna go there, right? So um, first of all, I'm with you with the cringey thing, cringe worthy, because self-care can be, it's like a trendy, it's probably trending right now, right? Hashtag self-care. Um it's really popular right now. And I've thought a lot about it. In fact, I wrote an article a couple years about self-care. And um what my feeling is about it, most people, and I used to think of it this way, self-care is like, you know, making sure that you um, you know, you take a bath, a bubble bath, that you get your nails done, that you do all of these, like, you know, you get a massage. That's kind of the way that I used to look at self-care. Or you, you know, you bend your favorite programs on on Netflix, or, you know, also eating ride, all of those things. But recently I've started to really dig deeper into what that means to care for my soul, like to answer my soul's call, to, you know, it used to be enough to just any kind of self-care was like laying on the couch. It usually involved watching some kind of screen and probably eating some kind of chocolate. That was like my ultimate self-care. But it came to the point where it just wasn't satisfying anymore. Like my soul wanted more, and I started to explore what does self-care really mean? And we can just pick a different word instead of self-care if it's still cringy, but basically finding things that really fill me up. So it's not enough to just like, oh, I feel satisfied because I watched this or I ate this or whatever. It's like fill yourself up with something that lights you up, that gives you more energy, you know, like having a really great conversation with a friend you haven't talked to in years, or you know, going outside and just looking at the clouds and laying on your yard and looking up, or whatever it is, something that really fills your soul. And like I said, I agree with you about the the word choice, but I just look at it differently than I used to. And so when I talk about that, that's what I'm talking about. Something that really helps you have more of yourself that you can, you know, spread around.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's beautiful. It is, it's it's something that's more lasting, it's something that's more sustainable, it's something that um sustains you for longer periods of time, right? And I think back to you know, a lot of years of my life, um, you know, just kind of going through the motions and checking the boxes. And if everything was lining up in the outer world, then I felt pretty good. But the moment that stuff went away, then I felt like crap. And it would just kind of then I have to be more and do more and try harder. And it was so exhausting. And you talked about, you know, like the go and do, go and do. I would like go, go, go, crash, go, go, go, crash. And yeah, I had to learn to start to take better care of myself mentally, spiritually, physically. Um, and I think in doing that, I also got in touch with like the real things that make my life meaningful or the real things that um you know fill your cups. And so when was when was that moment for you of like was there a pivot moment where or kind of a wake up moment for you?
SPEAKER_00Um, where I kind of felt that.
SPEAKER_01Like where you made some real changes in your life, yeah, to start doing some of the deeper work or seeking God or whatever that was for you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I think that um yoga, everything you were just saying is why I do yoga because that is the vehicle that I have used to grab all of those parts of myself that go crazy off, you know, off the hamster wheel or however you want to say it. Bring kind of bring all those strands back. And, you know, I teach Christ-centered yoga, which I absolutely love. And when I discovered what that was, I'd never heard of it before. Um, a friend of mine who I actually grew up with was teaching it and invited me to her class, and I went. And when I was there, I was like, what is this? Like it was such a deep connection for me with the movement of my body, the quiet, and my faith, you know, my belief in Christ. All of those got brought together. And I just I felt like a new, I don't even know how to describe it, I felt like being at church on my mat, like feeling the spirit and just really feeling that richness and thinking, I really like this. Because at the time I was teaching yoga, I was teaching kind of a yoga fusion class. I my teaching was at the gym for several years. And I loved that. But this was this felt very different. And I just knew it was something that um I needed to pursue. I later I pursued it and became um trained in that. And that's that's what I do now. But that moment of being in that class was it was just a different experience that I hadn't had before. And it was my soul kind of woke up in a different way. I loved it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, when you said that I saw like the the clouds opening, the sky opening up, right?
SPEAKER_00It's like yeah, yeah, the angels saying and all that. I mean, it wasn't a showy kind of class or anything. Yeah, but I did feel different inside.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. I you reminded me, like, I remember doing it, might have even been my first yoga class. I was a new mom and I went into this yoga class and I literally was just in tears almost the entire class. And I think it was the first time I had like gotten quiet. Like it almost makes me emotional now, but I think it was the first time I'd gotten quiet in a really long time. And so I would love to hear you kind of speak to that. Like, what happens when we get quiet and get in our bodies? And what becomes available?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, thank you for that question. So when you were just talking, the the image I had was of when you said you were crying. First of all, I've had that experience myself and also teaching other people where they have some kind of emotional release during class. And I remember a friend of mine, we were doing a trade. She's a marketing expert, and I said, I'll teach you and you help me with marketing. And she was so um, she cried and she was so embarrassed and so apologetic afterwards about I don't know what happened and I'm so sorry. And I said, That's normal. Like that's just your body talking. Your body was talking to you in that moment. And, you know, when I used to teach, well, still, um, when I used to teach in studio, there would be times, especially at the gym, where we would get to the end of the class, which is, you know, they call it the shavasana or the the, you know, the the guided meditation, the relaxation portion of class. Some people would quietly get up and roll their mat up and they would leave. And I always thought, why are this is the best part? Why would you leave like that? But I also understood that for some people, getting that quiet, their their body, their head, their minds, their thoughts would get really loud, so much so that they didn't want to have that experience. And um, but that's where, you know, whenever you feel that, that's when you know you need to stay, right? That's your signal, like, oh, I need to be here and be quiet, because that's when your body feels safe enough to communicate with you. And that's another thing I love about yoga is I've learned, you know, oh, there's something going on over there on that side of my body, or oh, I have this unprocessed emotion that I can feel in my heart and moving up into my throat. And, you know, it's just it's an exploratory place on your mat where you can examine who has the time and the space to do that in their normal life. When you get into bed, you just pass out, right? I mean, you just go to sleep. You're not exploring what's happening, you're holding space for yourself to see what sensations are floating up for you to be aware of. We just don't ordinarily, most people don't set aside time for that. But that's an important part of learning more about ourselves and the signals that we can hear and receive when we make time for it.
SPEAKER_01So fascinating because I mean, I see it in my own life, but also the people I work with, like we're so busy. And busyness is a distraction, right? From like actually getting quiet and listening. And I find when people, you know, I journaling and writing is kind of, you know, my tool inside of the work I do. And it's a for me, it's been a way to get quiet, a way to listen, a way to process. Um, but I have look had to learn how to like that. My body is has so many important messages too, and to listen to that. And so why do we get so disconnected from our bodies? And what we're not really ever taught to integrate, right? Or yoke those things. I love how you shared that root word. But what is what is possible for people in in doing that more? Like people listening, what what becomes available when we when we do that and how do we do that?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so much. Like it kind of goes along with meditation too, the ability to kind of quiet and still the mind. I I teach a format, I teach several formats. One is called Yoga Nidra, um, which in Sanskrit, nidra means sleep. So it's a very profound, systematic, guided meditation that allows you to just go through the different parts of your body and feel that intense quiet and um relaxation isn't even the right word for it. It's so um, it fills you up. It's like warm, it's like warm water. You know, it just is so um comforting. And we don't know it if we've never been there. And like you said, we're not really taught how to do this. It depends on the household you were raised in. Maybe some people are, you know, we're taught to to have time to themselves or but usually we're just busy. We're just busy is our norm. And if we're not busy, we feel like we're wasting time, you know. But there's a difference between like wasting time or just, you know, on purpose choosing to not do. Like non-doing is a thing. It's just being and observing. And it sounds so weird in our culture, we're not taught that way, but in other cultures in the world, you know, they they are taught that way. And so it doesn't seem so strange to be, you know, just closing your eyes and just being still, you know, not listening to something or not watching something, just being with yourself. The more you do it, the more you crave it. And the more it just we're talking about self-care, the more it fills you up at a deeper level, and you discover there's more of yourself. There's more there, you know. It's just so many benefits. I mean, I could talk all day about that. Yeah. The experiences that I've had.
SPEAKER_01There's there's more there beyond like being a producing machine, right? Like I just know like so much of my life was just all about doing. And my husband is very much on the being side. Like he is constantly my reminder of like what you know, here's what you're doing, but who are you being? Right. And that's been such an important part of um our relationship. And and I've learned so much watching him because he's he's very comfortable in that space. And that was a very uncomfortable space for me. Um, because I didn't feel um, I just felt like I always had to be doing to be sort of a worthy human being, right? And I love you, and I love doing, I love being busy, but I've really had to learn how to blend those two things together so that I could build a life, um, a meaningful life. And okay.
SPEAKER_00It can be more intentional that way.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Instead of just happening, happening.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Um, okay, so kind of switching gears. Um, I would love, I know you shared a little bit about your journey with your son when you and I talked um before. And I I would love, if you're willing, to share some of that journey because I think people listening, um, I just know there's going to be something for somebody in that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'd be happy too. So um I have I have three children. I have two daughters and a son. My son, when he was three, was diagnosed with autism and sensory integration disorder. At the time we were living in Bangkok, Thailand, which was a super fun adventure. But when that happened, we had to kind of change our plans and come back to the States. And um, you know, we we didn't, you know, he's 26 now. So at that time there wasn't as much information and resources for that. And so we were like, well, we I guess we're going home and we're gonna figure out how to help him what to do. And so we did that and started doing a lot of different sorts of therapies, and almost immediately I started to be introduced to things that were kind of outside the Western box of medicine. And I really do credit the way that I think now and the work that I do kind of as a healer to that early experience of having to look outside of the box of what you know Western medicine was offering, which was basically speech therapy and um, you know, OT. I'm like, that's all you got for me. Like that's it. And so, you know, when you start to look, then other people would come into my sphere and say, hey, have you thought about, you know, this or you know, oils or like so many things. And so I started to think differently and to be more open-minded. Ordinarily before that, and I still am recovering, very kind of controlling thinking, you know, problem-solving kind of person. And so that helped kind of crack open the way that I looked at things and willing to try new and different things and see, you know, how he was reacting to those things. But I really feel like him, his experience, our experience together taught me so much about, you know, um looking outside, but also um we've talked about going, doing, going, doing. I learned the cycle because my natural self was, you know, try to solve this problem. I'm uh I came from a background, a very busy background. The hex, as my name name, are like workers. That is what we do. We work, we work, we work, we work. When we're together, we work some more. That's what we do. And I feel like that's a very deep part of who I am. So when this kind of problem came along, trying to help him, I would work so hard, I would research, I would do all these things, do all these things, talk to so many people, and then eventually I would burn out. I would flame out and I'd be like, I can't do this anymore. I can't do this anymore. And I would just kind of go, go quiet for a while. Not a good quiet, but just like give up quiet. And then when I felt like I had that fire grow again in me, I'd be like, okay, I'm ready again. Let me go do all these things, be busy, busy, busy, busy, you know, try the supplements, you know, take them to this doctor, take him to this therapy. I haven't tried this one yet. Let's try that. And then it was a cycle for me of doing, doing, doing, crash. And, you know, eventually I had to just realize, first of all, I am not the healer. I'm not the healer. He already has a savior, it's not me. And I had to pass that along and just be like, I'm just here to guide and to love him and to, I had to rethink how I was going to handle his problem. And I see it less of a problem now because of all the blessings being his mother has brought into my life. But there was a long time where I was doing that cycle of too much, too much, too much. I didn't think it was too much, but now looking back, I could see, and then flame out and take a rest. So that's another way that I had to find something that was going to help me be more even and more steady. And like you, my husband is that for me. I always tell him, you anchor me. Like I feel like you grab me and bring me out of the clouds when I'm trying to do all these things. I'm out in orbit, and then you just pull me back down. And right?
SPEAKER_01God bless them. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Well, just imagine if there were two people like that in a relationship.
SPEAKER_01I can't imagine.
SPEAKER_00It doesn't work. It does not work that way, I'm convinced.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00Yin and yang. Yes.
SPEAKER_01Wow. Something really stood out to me uh in your story is um like the realization of like that your role could shift and the way that you saw your role. And I mean, I I felt like a surrendering, right? And I had a client once tell me she was raising her, she was in her 60s, raising her grandson, who was five, and also the primary breadwinner um in the home. And she told me that there was a moment in time where she was like her her mission in her mind was like to um take care of this boy, right? Take care of him. Her mission was just to take care of him. She's gonna provide for him and take care of him. And you know, it was like a another job. And she said there was a moment in time where she shifted to I'm gonna enjoy him. And she said that he literally relaxed. And I just thought that was so beautiful, and I can only imagine that there probably was some kind of shift like that for your son too, uh as you shifted.
SPEAKER_00It happens still all the time. I know when I'm getting too intense, and then when I when I can make the shift. The other thing about my son is he's very empathic, which means he feels other people's feelings, which is one reason he likes to not be around too many people at once, because it's too overstimulating. But he is very tuned into me. He can come in the room and immediately he knows when something is off. And so that's been a gift for me to see him, but also I have to work hard to keep myself in a place where he can relax, the poor guy. This world is so ramped up, you know, it's not easy for him. I did have one quick story I want to share, if that's okay, that will illustrate this. So um, when I when he was young, shortly after we came back from Bangkok, so he was three-ish, three and a half maybe, and I I would do these call and cry. That's another thing I used to do a lot is call somebody and cry on the phone. It was usually my mom or a sister. Yeah, call and cry. And, you know, I was just like drop it all over them. I'm like, this is so unfair. I don't know what to do, you know, more crying, more crying. And I remember my mom said once to me, this was it was her turn to get to call and cry. She said, um, I said, I'm doing everything I can think of to try to heal him and try to fix him. And I'm praying so much, you know, Heavenly Father, please, please, please help heal Emery. And she said, You might actually have to go through this. And that was such an important thing for me to hear. Because again, surrender. It wasn't that I had to fix him. I was thinking I had to fix him. It was my job to do enough things, to try enough therapies to find the right one so I could make him healed or fixed and not be the way that he was. And that was a that was a turning point for me is yes, I guess I'm gonna go through this.
SPEAKER_01Wow. I mean, and this is kind of circles back to like who you're being, right? Instead of like shifting from doing to like who are we called to be in this moment? And that's a question I ask myself a lot. That's writing has really helped me to surrender things and to trust that what's in my path is in my path for a reason. And I can't always control what's happening or the circumstances or the other people, but I can always come back to and kind of surrender to it and trust what's happening and ask, like, who am I called to be here? And yes, yeah. And how we show up to that makes a really big difference.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, there's a term that I've learned called presencing. I learned from one of my yoga mentors, and it basically means, have you heard that term before? No. Okay, I'm pretty sure it's made up, but I still like it. So presencing means just being like as much of yourself as you can. I mean, the best part of yourself, just that alone is healing and helpful to other people. So, me, with the training that I've had, including parenting my son, is probably the most important training I've ever had, has helped me be a person that other people, when they're around me, they feel safe, they feel comfortable, they feel relaxed. And so we do that for the people around us by being our most authentic, you know, self, just our just being there. That's all it is. It's not like you're doing anything in particular to help them. You're just being yourself there, you're presencing yourself. And that alone is a huge helpful thing. And I I mean, you probably know people like that, right? Just when you're around them. That's all you need. You don't need them to do anything or say anything. Just let me be there.
SPEAKER_01It's so true. I mean, I it's something I have to remind myself all the time in the work I do because I can get in my mind wanting to like, you know, make sure I'm being like doing the work and being a good coach and doing all the things. And it's really none of that. The most powerful calls I have with people are when I'm actually just really deeply present. And then trusting that the questions, you know, then I then is when I really feel I can be a vessel for God to work through me. And often things that come onto my heart or the questions that I, you know, I'm provoked to ask. I can't tell you how many times people are like, oh my gosh, it's funny you're asking that, or I can't believe you just asked that question because this just happened, or there's always a synergy or some sort of link. And that kind of takes us back to like being in our bodies, right? And listening and trusting and getting quiet enough that we can get out of the way for greater things to come out. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I love what you said about the yeah, the vessel thing. That's huge because when you realize that's what you are, you're a conduit, you're a vessel, you know, for God's love or whatever to come through you. And you get you said you got ideas for questions to ask and stuff. That's you know, it takes the pressure off in a way, if you can frame it that way. You don't have to know everything, do everything. You're like, I'm just, you know, I'll just be here for whatever inspiration comes through me. And it's always the best anyway, right?
SPEAKER_01It's always the best. Yes. It's always the best. I uh I love that, you know, even for creative like creativity and creative ideas, right? Like if we're open and willing, yeah, then we can be, you know, a vessel for those creative ideas. And there's just there's so much there. And it it did. I mean, you said like it takes the pressure off so much, so much. If I can just get out of the way um and set down the doing, um, there's there's so much more available. And I think, you know, contrary to the hyperachiever brain, um that when I get quiet, when I get in my body, when I do yoga, when I allow myself to rejuvenate, it always gives back to every part of my life and my business too. I have to remember that, but it's so counterintuitive to what this driving energy inside of us thinks, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah. It's like you have to come. There's a term in the scriptures about coming to yourself. I think it's the prodigal son one where he wakes up and he's like in the trough eating the pig's food and then he comes to himself. That's how I feel about doing yoga or getting quiet. It's a chance to come to yourself and see what's going on. You know, when you're busy and you're doing, you can ignore a lot of things. Like when there's a noise in your car, what do you do? You just turn your car radio up, right? So you don't want to hear it. And we're like that with our bodies. We just don't want to, I don't want to look there. I don't want to see that ugly thing or that painful thing. So I'm gonna just keep moving and then I won't have to deal with it. But guess what? There's a book called Your Body Keeps the Score, and your body does keep the score. You can keep ignoring that sound, but eventually, you know, your wheel's gonna fall off or whatever. Yeah. Your body will have the last word.
SPEAKER_01It's so true. So let's give people listening some tangible, simple ways that if they're like, yeah, I I want more of this in my life, how do I even begin? Um I know with writing, a lot of times, like you just said, people are scared because they're scared of what they're gonna find when they start writing or journaling, right? And I always tell them, like, almost the the more afraid you feel, I believe the more treasure is there. Um, you know, that it in our mind it feels scary. But if you're willing to, like you said, go through, there's something bigger and greater there available. So share some simple ways that people could start to incorporate what we're talking about.
SPEAKER_00Well, I think with the getting quiet part, you know, if you're if you like yoga, if you aren't afraid to do yoga, and some people are, you know, they've never done it. They're like, I can't put my head or my foot behind my head or whatever. There's lots of ways that you can get quiet. You know, little things like when I was teach meditation, I would say, just drive in your car without any sound. Like, don't have the radio, don't listen to a podcast, don't, you know, whatever you usually listen to, just have nothing. You know, you can just use that time to look outside. And and there's a lot of things that you'll see that will delight you if you allow yourself to see that. So simple things like that, or if you want to try, you know, meditating, you don't have to lie down or sit and close your eyes. You can actually do moving meditations, you can walk, you can just take a walk and see how it feels when your foot hits the ground. And, you know, that all goes along with being mindful, mindfulness, which is paying attention on purpose, you know, to a particular thing. And so there's a lot of little baby steps that you can take. And also just realizing that if you do have those uncomfortable feelings that float up, which they might, and they probably need to, all you have to do is allow it. Like the reason it becomes big and and ugly and hard to deal with is when you kind of squelch it back down. Like think of a beach ball. If you're ever playing and it's full of air and you're in the water and you're just playing, you're trying to push it down, how hard it is to keep it down because it it pops up again. That's how it is with those things that we refuse to see. So just recognizing that's just okay, it feels a little uncomfortable, but it's just a sensation in my body. Like it's not going to stay because that's how we we're emotional beings. Our emotions are, you know, they're vibrations that we feel and they and they ebb and they flow. And I like to think of myself like a filter. So, you know, the the emotion that I'm feeling is just is just moving through right now. And then it'll come out the backside, and then there'll be another one. So it's kind of a way of thinking about the sensations that you have or not thinking about them. You know, picking just little ways you can practice, you know, being being quiet or you know, just turn the screens off for a while. You know, for a while I was doing on Sundays, I would just say, I'm not gonna look at a screen. If you if you need to talk to me, you can call me. I just made up my rules, right? I love that. I'm gonna look at text because that will lead me to down a rabbit hole. And and those were some really profound experiences that I have have had. I also did a time where I just was quiet for 24 hours. I didn't speak a word. And I know people go on retreats to do that. For me, not speaking for 24 hours. Oh my goodness, it was the hardest thing ever and the best thing ever.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I love that. I love that. I've always wanted to. They come together, right? Yeah, yes, yes, yes. Such good ideas. I've always wanted to do like a silent retreat of some kind and or like a silent hike, even like a two-hour hike or something. Love that idea.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I love that idea.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Okay. So share because people, I know you have classes, and I'm inspired to because I know you can take your classes virtually, right? So tell us where we can find out about your classes and take those.
SPEAKER_00So um, all of my classes are online. I do teach in-person live at retreats and special events, but on a regular basis from week to week, I teach three days a week and I do live streams where people can tune in. My platform integrates with Zoom. But, you know, it doesn't matter where you are, I have members that are all over the country. And I love that because before I just whoever was in my little neighborhood would come, you know, to the studio to my classes. And then also, if it doesn't jive with your schedule, I also have over 300 recorded classes of different formats on my platform that people can access anytime that it works for them. And I have a lot of members that that it works better. You know, they're not able to be there at 8 30 on Monday morning or whatever.
SPEAKER_01Sure.
SPEAKER_00So um yeah.
SPEAKER_01What is your image website?
SPEAKER_00It's www.restoration-yoga.com. My my company is restoration yoga.
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SPEAKER_01So good. So everybody check those out. And I just had the idea that so Camille and I are both gonna be speaking at the Mindwell Retreat on March 3rd. And so I'm gonna make sure this airs for that. And so we would love for you guys to tune into that. So I'm speaking on be in your right mind. And what are you speaking on?
SPEAKER_00Mine is three hacks for your nervous system.
SPEAKER_01Oh, perfect. So if you guys want to check that out, I believe it's at integrate trauma.com. Is it under the event events or I'll put a link in the show notes for you. So check that out. Integrate trauma. Integrate trauma. Um, and you can, like I said, you can sign up virtually for a virtual ticket to that event. There's gonna be so many great speakers. We're really excited for this. Um, and then you can also attend in person if you're local to Arizona. So we would love to see you there either way. Camille, thank you so very much for this conversation.
SPEAKER_00Of course. This was a pleasure to talk to you, Carla. You've got a great way of presencing people, by the way. I can feel that from you. So awesome.
SPEAKER_01Ah, thank you. I love the work that you're doing. I'm so glad that our paths have united. And for everybody listening, check out what Camille is doing. Incorporate some quiet into your life today, and I will see you next week. Hey, thanks for tuning in to this episode of Differently. I hope it stirred your thinking, and I invite you to take one inspired action from something that stood out to you. If you want to hear more conversations like this, be sure to hit follow on your favorite podcast app. And if this episode could impact someone you know, please help us spread the word and pass it along. Remember, new episodes drop weekly. See you next week.