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Yoga Beyond Poses: The Final Four Limbs

• Giana Rosa Giarrusso • Season 4 • Episode 11

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In week four of the Deepen Your Practice Challenge, Dee and I are going inward—way inward.

This episode is all about the subtle (and often skipped) limbs of yoga: pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi. These advanced practices invite us into stillness, deeper awareness, and connection to the Self. And honestly? In today’s overstimulating, always-scrolling, burnout-on-the-rise world… these might just be the most important tools yoga has to offer.

I’m joined by the brilliant Dee, and together we unpack what it really means to withdraw from the senses (pratyahara)—and why this can feel nearly impossible in our notification-filled culture. We get real about what happens when we finally pause long enough to hear ourselves again.

From there, we flow into dharana, the art of one-pointed focus. In a society that glorifies multitasking, this practice is a game-changer for the mind and nervous system. Think of it as a pathway out of overwhelm and back into presence.

We explore dhyana (meditation) not as something you “get right,” but as something you experience—a chance to witness your thoughts without gripping them. Giana offers a visual comparing thoughts to passing clouds or a freight train you don’t have to board. This leads us into a conversation about the parasympathetic nervous system and how stillness is essential for true healing.

And finally, we land in samadhi—blissful awareness, the ultimate surrender. Total enlightenment may feel far off (which is why this podcast is called Nearly Enlightened, after all), but these practices can absolutely bring you closer to your true essence.

✨ If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, scattered, anxious, or just deeply disconnected... this episode is your invitation to come home to yourself.

What we cover:

  • How to practice pratyahara in a hyper-connected world
  • Why multitasking is destroying our focus (and how dharana can help)
  • Meditation as nervous system repair
  • What samadhi really means—and how it shows up in everyday life
  • Personal stories of how these limbs helped us reconnect with peace, purpose, and presence

🎧 Tune in now and rediscover yoga beyond the poses—as a radical path to inner freedom.
🔗 Share with a friend who could use some stillness.
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Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Nearly Enlightened Podcast, the high vibe toolbox designed to help you connect to your body, mind and spirit. I'm your host, gianna Girusso, and I'm here to share tools, conversations and insights to help you on your journey of self-discovery. This podcast is all about exploring what it means to live a conscious, connected and nearly enlightened life, because the truth is, the answers aren't outside of us, they're already within. Let's dive in. Dee is back. This is week four of our Deepen your Practice Challenge.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1:

It's been so awesome podcasting with you weekly.

Speaker 2:

No, it does feel very nice, thank you for having me.

Speaker 1:

Oh my gosh, thank you for sharing this challenge with me and doing this, and if you haven't listened to the other episodes, go back. If you're curious about spiritual practices, ritual community, yogic practices, yogic philosophy, go back, listen to the first episode and then come back to this one. Then come back to this one. Alrighty, this week we're diving into um, like the back half of, or I would say, the, the advanced practices.

Speaker 2:

These are the advanced practices of the eight limbs.

Speaker 1:

Yes, um, so we're turning into. I love this because we have three limbs that are dedicated towards cultivating stillness, and that just really goes to show how important this practice is, and all of the other limbs really lead you to ready yourself for these limbs.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, exactly, exactly, very well said so we are coming into pratyahara, which is withdrawal of the senses, and this is what helps us to really start to turn inward yes, it is like the, the withdrawal of senses, or the control of senses, and I think that this too, even like I mean, just think about it plainly like what do you do when you're meditating?

Speaker 1:

you close your eyes or you soften your gaze even and I think about this in yoga poses too, because you can even bring this back to the physical practice and think of a pose like child's pose, or even down dog, where you're like a little bit more active, like can you find that place of like letting go that there might be muscle sensation, letting go of the smells of the yoga room, letting go of your own armpits If you use natural or no deodorant, like, yeah, maybe maybe it's your own smell that you're letting go of? Yeah, maybe it's. You know, I think about this a lot because and it sounds mean, but when I first started practicing yoga, the teacher would tell you when you could wipe your sweat and when you could take a sip of water. Oh, and I think about this a lot because it was, it was a practice of discipline and it was also a practice of disconnecting. Like you might feel thirsty now, but it's temporary. Like we're not gonna, we're not gonna take away your knee, your water, forever. It's just right now.

Speaker 1:

Like notice, notice that you're getting uncomfortable, notice that that that thirst is coming up. Like can you detach yourself from that, knowing that it's coming? This too, shall pass. So I think it's funny because we don't we don't really use those practices in class anymore because it's labeled as like mean or you know whatever. And I try to bring those practices the way I flow. It's like we flow through and then there's like a little break. We take child's pose or another resting pose where you have a moment to breathe, and I try no, no, not everyone listens but you try to cue through, like let the sweat drip, like notice it, maybe even follow that bead down, like notice the sensations before you allow yourself a few breaths to let go of them. Yeah, but people use it as a distraction of like can't quiet the mind, can't find that stillness, the distractions yes, let me wipe that sweat.

Speaker 1:

Let me. I mean now, the biggest thing that I've been battling the last couple weeks in the yoga room is people cannot disconnect from their phones for 60 fucking minutes, and it's driving me absolutely batty I okay.

Speaker 2:

So this is, oh, this is the hot take. Okay. Why are you even there then? Yes, I are you even there, and even, too, I feel like even it's not even just the phone, it's the watch that goes with it the smart watch that goes with it are you, even there also like, can you allow yourself a little bit to be disconnected from the constant radiation that we're around?

Speaker 1:

and I know it sounds hypocritical because I'm sitting around a computer, a microphone, a headset. Um, my phone is right next to me, yes, but like 60 minutes, it's not going to kill you and I think I've said this in a podcast past if you, if you are waiting on that one important phone call, you're waiting for the job offer, you're waiting for a doctor to call you back, you're waiting on whatever. Like, yes, absolutely keep your phone by you if you need to, but like, be honest with yourself, like why the fuck can't you disconnect from your phone for 60 minutes?

Speaker 2:

you there? Yes to me, to me, no, like this really lights a fire under my bum. I love that. Why are you even there? Why are you going to practice yoga? And this is, I think, the whole. This comes just like full circle, comes into the reason why we are doing this challenge. I should say why are you even practicing asana If it's just for the workout? I guess that's a whole nother story.

Speaker 2:

But if you're going to be on your phone, like go run on the treadmill and be on your phone, To me, just it doesn't make sense and I think maybe that's just who I am, but I feel like I've grown into a teacher practitioner who really tries to honor the roots of this yes, practice. And to me you're not honoring the roots, you're not honoring your, you're not respecting your teacher and you're not respecting yourself if you're going to be connected others.

Speaker 1:

Like that's I mean, I guess that is part of the practice is to like learn to disconnect and if somebody is next to you and being on their phone, their phone's going off, whatever. Like that's your time to really practice the deep yoga. But, like you're right, it is a respect thing, because why are you going to give your fellow student that like extra? There's already so many things that we're distracted from. Like, why are you going to be that person? Like just a little bit of self-awareness goes a long way, and I know there's like a classic Gemini fashion. Like I kind of am seeing the other side of this too. It's like okay, well, they're at the practice, they're still planting the seeds, so maybe next time they'll learn to like put their phone in the fucking cubby yeah, I don't know if I were to own a studio.

Speaker 2:

I feel like that would be like leave your phone at the door in the car wouldn't be allowed.

Speaker 2:

I don't know, and I feel like it's just interesting, even like, for as I just this year I started doing this teaching class, I usually have, you know, music to go with whatever kind of flow, whether it's a yin class or you know, a vinyasa class, and it's a little bit more upbeat. You know, whatever I always do have a very like calm, slow paced beats for like savasana, when we end our practice to allow for integration. And just this year I've just stopped doing that. I have let it be complete silence. Oh, I love that Because I feel like, can you, can you sit in silence? Can you?

Speaker 1:

it's really hard and in a 60 minute class it's hard to get a good Shavasana in. So in a 60 minute class, really like it might be three to five minutes and five minutes is probably on the longer end. But even like three minutes like I yeah, you just watch the fidgeting and the studios that I work at do like the cold lavender towel, which is awesome, it's really nice, it's like a great little treat, but again it's just like a distraction. People are fussing with it and playing with it. It's like I feel sad because I remember those good Shavasanas when I first started yoga, where you would go to like you would go to a place and you would get up from Shavasana and you'd be like what just happened to me?

Speaker 2:

I've had people say like I will like slowly start queuing to come out. You know, begin to deepen your breath again. People are like no, because you, just you, want it. You get to the point where, like you just said, you go somewhere.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I had a studio that I worked at that I really loved. They would put everyone in shavasana and they would cue and say, like just be mindful of the people around you, but end your shavasana when you're ready, like, but I think that that flows into.

Speaker 2:

I didn't mean to cut you off there, but I think that this, the idea of quote unquote going somewhere, flows into the next limb. Yes, it does finish what you were gonna finish what you were gonna say no, that was really.

Speaker 1:

That was really it. So after pratyahara we're going into dharanya. I can never say this, dharan say dharana.

Speaker 2:

I think, I don't know if I say it with like a Spanish accent, but like when I see it, I say like when you say, with a Spanish accent, that's what feels right to me.

Speaker 1:

But anyways, we're going into concentration and that is one pointed focus. And really that is what the asana is training us to do is to have that one pointed focus. And what is that one pointed focus on? Is it on the breath, is it on the pose, is it on the movement, is it on an object Like, I think, in the challenge here we're going to be talking about, like candle gazing or, or you know, you could do moon gazing or eye gazing. You could look at yourself in the mirror. You can look at another person. We actually did that in my first 200 hour. We did too.

Speaker 2:

Powerful stuff, oh powerful.

Speaker 1:

It's so powerful. But just bringing it back to that one pointed focus, and I think this is a really important practice for our modern society, because we have been so conditioned that multitasking is like what we all need to be doing, like that was such a buzzword in the late nineties, early two thousands like you. And then I remember like getting my first jobs and it was like, oh, you have to have on your resume that you're like you can multitask, you're a good multitasker and it's like it's fucking ridiculous.

Speaker 2:

It is because can you focus on like just one thing, Like even like as a mom living on a farm and trying to cook a million meals a day? I'm like, living on a farm and trying to cook a million meals a day, I'm like, can I just stand here and just do the dishes? Can I? Because I, it is very hard for me to do that.

Speaker 1:

And that is the yoga practice.

Speaker 2:

Like the yoga practice is right there, can you just do the dishes without thinking about, like the laundry that needs to be done or that I'm burning on the stove Like to be done, or that I'm burning on the stone, like yeah, it's a real thing, but yeah, that's a practice, and like, so if you, if you can't do that, what are your barriers? Like ask yourself that's what I think that this limb is like, maybe provokes or invites us to question ourselves. Like, if we can't get there, if we can't find that concentration, what are our barriers? And then, like I don't know, like explore that a little bit with yourself, be the observer.

Speaker 1:

And this is what I talk about constantly in my classes. Whether I'm teaching meditation, whether I'm teaching breath, whether I'm teaching asana, can you be the observer of your body and mind, like what is happening, can you just observe it without assigning any attachment? I mean, people have probably heard me say this on the podcast 500 million times but like can you observe it without the attachment, the emotion, the meaning, the story? Like can you just sit with it? Can you just observe it Like almost not detaching, but like zooming out, looking at it through an observer's lens?

Speaker 1:

And how I explain it in my classes is imagine that you're lying on the grass, you're looking up at the sky. It's got like the sky is blue, it's got the big puffy clouds, the sun is out and the clouds are just like gently rolling by. Like can you observe that way where you're just like laying in the grass watching the clouds roll by, like you're not trying to assign any anything to it, you're just like literally watching the sky, watching the clouds go by? Like can you observe your body and mind that same way? Yeah?

Speaker 2:

That's the practice. Exactly, it's very.

Speaker 1:

It sounds simple, but it actually I love um, justine Harrington, owner of Soul Sanctuary. She's been on this podcast before. She has a book called Journey to the Heart or Journey back to the heart, um, something like that. But she talks about it beautifully in her book. Because she was always intimidated I don't want to tell her story, but like I read her book. So, um, just like paraphrasing a little bit, but she always thought meditation was like clearing the mind. And she's like how the fuck do you clear your mind, especially as somebody who's like an overthinker, like how, how do you do that? And the. And she eventually came upon a teacher where it's like, no, the point is not to clear your mind, it's to observe your mind. So like, let that freight train of thoughts go by, but like, just watch the train. Like where does it go? Be the observer.

Speaker 2:

The point is to be able to not attach judgment to it, whether it's good or bad just to observe it and bring awareness to it.

Speaker 1:

And then eventually you do find those little, those little points of like the nothingness in between. That becomes the practices, finding that way back to, okay, like these crazy thoughts are coming up, this embarrassing memory from third grade like, just observe it, let it go. I mean that, tell me it doesn't happen.

Speaker 2:

Yes, I'm going to remember exactly what you said on March 16th 2017.

Speaker 1:

And I'm going to still let it bother me, and that just moves us right towards meditation. And this is using those two practices the turning inward, the withdrawal of senses, the concentration and letting yourself find meditation diana, that's how I would say it diana yes, that's, that's how I've heard it said.

Speaker 1:

I mean, like we've said before on this podcast too, like the sanskrit is so hard because, like I mean, india wasn't even india then, but it was like I forget what the name of it was hind Hindu, something about that because it was mainly Hindi people. So I feel like it's like Italy, where there's lots of little dialects and you can say the same word and it sounds vastly different. So we're learning it from a bunch of white women that have passed it down to us and so, yeah, the pronunciation can be up for interpretation.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we're giving it our best, and if there's anyone fluent in sanskrit, please reach out. Holla, let me know yeah, so coming into oh what?

Speaker 2:

no, I was gonna say. I think that this one is like a beautiful combo of the last two, just kind of how we've been speaking about, as we've spoken about all these other limbs. It's really beautiful to see how they all combine and flow into each other yes, and even asana was created to prepare us for meditation.

Speaker 1:

So if you go back to the history, the roots of how yoga came to be, yoga is a 5,000 year old practice that was created for 12 year old boys and the whole point was they were trying to get these 12 year old boys to be able to sit and meditate for six to eight 12 hours. And like, how do you get little children, boys, to concentrate their energy? It was asana was a way to move that energy out, so that it was preparing the body to sit and meditate. So I think it's important to know that that, like, yes, all these limbs there's, there's a reason why they come in a specific order, and I think it's important to honor that. And I know that that's partially why this challenge was born. Yeah, and meditation is where my heart is because, yes, asana was what pulled me into the practice, but meditation is really what shifted things for me. Yeah, I would me. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

It was. I would agree.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it was, that was you know. It really is the advanced work, it really is the hard work. Yeah, it's easy to go through a kick, you know, an ass kicking flow, but, like we've said, like asking people to sit for a few minutes and and be in stillness, it that's, that's the hard work.

Speaker 2:

And allow for the integration to happen through your whole body. You know, and like this is to where you can also combine with pranayama and you know your breath and something that our body does for us subconsciously. It just our body does that for us, we don't even have to think about it. But when you're sitting and just breathing with yourself and connecting with you know perhaps a higher power if that feels comfortable to you and just that and just being yourself and having that connection with and to and for yourself is something that I don't think any of us make enough time for. I think we would all be kinder human beings if we did that to ourselves and others.

Speaker 2:

Exactly, yeah, and I think it's just, it's an incredible. I mean, I've shifted things. Even I like don't want to sound silly here, but I had some pretty gnarly cystic acne all over my face five years ago and five, six years ago now, and one of the things that allowed me to push past a threshold was sitting in meditation every single day and allowing my breath to work from my brain to my gut. You know it. All this all ties into things that I love and allow for that release and sense of freedom.

Speaker 1:

Yes, because really, I mean, so many of us spend so much time in fight or flight and the body doesn't have a chance to have these detox processes that are natural to the body if we're in fight or flight. So just a few moments, and that's why they say like a few minutes of meditation is worth like four hours of sleep. There's a reason for that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I was able to shift my face. I was able to clear up my acne.

Speaker 1:

It's because your body was really being able to go into a place of rest and digest. You were resetting your parasympathetic nervous system and that's why I love using the breath and movement to get us there. And you know I've talked about this on the podcast too. Like I teach a class on Monday nights and Thursday nights that are really about the hardest thing we do is tabletop, and really the point is to find these little meditative States in between these breath linked movements, to find this nourishment of the parasympathetic nervous system. And I think that as a society, we we really need that. That's why we see so much illness, so much disease. It's because we're spending so much time in fight or flight when our body was meant to be in rest and digest. That was like a protective, that's a protective mechanism. So we're, if we're always in that protective mechanism and we, we can't, we can't heal.

Speaker 2:

You can't, you can't, yeah, yeah, exactly, it's called that because you, literally your body, cannot absorb nutrients. If your cells are thinking, you're being chased by a tiger.

Speaker 1:

Right and your body doesn't know the difference between like real physical danger, like somebody is going, somebody or something's going to attack you, versus like what's happening in your mind. And that's why these practices are so important, because if you learn to hone in and be the observer of your mind, then you learn to let it go, then you learn to change those thoughts, change those patterns, change those subconscious beliefs into something else. And you, you do. You spend more time in these more peaceful States, which leads us to samadhi, or blissful awareness, and, you know, nearly enlightened we talked about this before we were recording, but, like nearly enlightened was born because it probably won't happen on this lane of existence, it probably won't happen on this planet, but maybe it will for you and that's great, um, but you probably aren't listening to this podcast, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Unless you're the Buddha. Isn't, like the Buddha, the only one that got here, or something?

Speaker 1:

I think Jesus too, like I would say that he did it. I mean to overcome death and become you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is possible. And there are accounts, like ancient accounts I don't know what this is like. I guess I will preface this with allegedly this is what has been passed down to me that, like these ancient gurus and sages, they would get there by meditating and doing all the practice, um, all of the yoga sutras that are so beautifully given to us by patanjali, um. But there are accounts that they would be when they were ready to, like, leave this planet. They would basically like go into a cave, meditate and they would burst into light particles and, just oh, their soul would go to the next, whatever the next thing is that's beautiful, because I think too there is in our, in our society.

Speaker 2:

We have this such fear around death. Imagine if it that's what it was. If that is truly what it is, you wouldn't be afraid of it. I wouldn't. I want to burst into a million light particles.

Speaker 1:

I know it sounds beautiful.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I mean I'm not ready yet. I'm not ready yet universe, but when it is time, like, take me in a thousand light particles.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I don't think we would fear it that much.

Speaker 1:

No, and I mean death is always something that I really love talking about. I had Kaylin Talley on here, um, like maybe last year and she's a death doula and I mean I grew up in a family. My uncle and my two cousins were funeral directors, so like death is something that we talked about all the time. I also experienced death at a young age, like when I was eight my brother passed away, so, um, like I had the big questions young about death. So, and because of who my family was, death was like that was like a dinner table conversation but I think that's beautiful.

Speaker 1:

I really think that that's important and I think that you're really blessed that you have had that, yeah, it is, it really is, and I think it makes you look at also elders different. You know, like something that I'm noticing in my, my elder millennial status, now that I've seen people get old and and and pass away um, my train of thought, it'll come back um, yeah, it's beautiful because so many of us don't know what to do with grief or don't know.

Speaker 2:

Oh, that's what I was we don't respect our elders.

Speaker 1:

We kind of like put them in a corner and tuck them away, but like I think if we respected our elders more, like different cultures do, like there's so much wisdom to be gained, to be gained stories, yeah, and like lineage history. Just you know, I remember sitting with my grandmother.

Speaker 1:

I was like very fortunate to like spend some time with my paternal grandparents through college because they lived in the same building that I lived in and love that yeah, so funny, very italian, um, and she was talking about world war ii a lot through like the lens of literally being in italy, like in pretty much the thick of the action, like talking about how she remembers the fighter planes, like flying over their fields and having to literally hit the deck and wow, and just like like tons of stories like that and um, yeah, I think it's important.

Speaker 2:

I think it is important to sit with that and to know your history, to where you came from and yeah, and I think that that's a beautiful thing, too, to say to when we're speaking about this, because it also is about like connecting all of these limbs together. To me, that's like what this means, but you know, the union of it all together, the ultimate surrender yes, the ultimate surrender, that is yeah, oh, oh that's.

Speaker 1:

I know that's like a great place to to like wrap it up the ultimate surrender yeah, put that on my tune. Okay, I know um, I think about this often. I, like I've changed my mind over the years. Like I used to be wanted, wanted to be donated to science, but I don't think I want that anymore. But I would become a tree. Oh girl, same. There's. There's, this amazing Italian company that will put you into like a pod and you basically become a tree, and that sounds. That sounds lovely.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, put me in a maple grove and then like, have the maple syrup. Yeah, come on, love that, we are nature, nature. Let's go back to it um I you're showing your new england roots I mean, it's one thing here that where I live in central america that I don't get very often, and when I do it's like, oh, it's so good put it in everything I know.

Speaker 1:

Uh, it's funny because one of my best friends is from Vermont. So last year I was like can you bring me up some, some maple syrup? She brought me up one whole gallon. I was like that is great.

Speaker 2:

Well, that's not as a. You know, it takes 40 gallons to make one gallon, 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup.

Speaker 1:

I know it's crazy and the boiling down process is so long and lengthy and like, laborious, like yeah, I've done it.

Speaker 1:

It's so much fun, it's so much fun um, my brother went to a place that they still do it all by hand, and in Vermont um, I'll have to ask him the name of it but he said it was like the most unbelievable thing and the taste is different. Like you, a thousand percent. The taste is different because the energy that goes into it is different and those people are practicing yoga like that. That is stillness, yes, and that, that honing of your craft, and just like the discipline it takes and the breath, the, the, the just being there in that moment of like this is what we're doing. Like you have to watch that shit. Like if it burns, you lose that whole. Like you said, it takes 40 gallons to make one gallon of maple syrup. Like there's no room for error.

Speaker 2:

No and it, but there is a lot no room for error. No, but there is a lot of room for party. Let me tell you In the sugar shack.

Speaker 1:

That sounds very fun so quintessential.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I was like this is my kind of conversation Yogurt and maple syrup. The fact that we tied that together is that's guess. Literally couldn't ask for anything more.

Speaker 1:

well, it's funny because like uh, like I'm running low now and then september I have her wedding, so I'm like very excited to go and stock up because that's the perfect time oh my gosh, I love that.

Speaker 2:

Okay, now my mouth is watering.

Speaker 1:

Yes back on track. So that kind of concludes the 30 day deepen your practice challenge. Well, we still got.

Speaker 2:

We don't know what day is it, I don't even know on day 19 right now in if you're listening to this, not live and on the day. So we still have, um, the rest of this week, obviously, and um, yeah, I, I mean, I'm just, I can't believe we are here. It's been, yeah, we have this week and then next week we wrap up. So it's just been an incredible experience, like we were just saying before we got on today how I actually pulled out some of my books that I went to training with and you know it was like, oh yeah, so it's been, even as someone leading this challenge and as a teacher, it's been. I feel like I've been benefiting from it so much.

Speaker 1:

Just as any participant we keep going back to. This challenge was for us and like I really do believe that, because coming back to these and being like, oh, this is why, like it's, you've been practicing for so long, it's like it's just, it becomes a part of you and you kind of don't think about it anymore, but to get a reminder on the reason why we do all of these things has been very grounding for me.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I wouldn't say the same. It's been almost like I don't want to say validating, but just kind of like yes, no, this is like because I think it is important, especially as a teacher, that we were walking our talk.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yeah, I know, yes, so it's. It's helped remind me of like, why we walk this path and to be as embodied as I can be, embodied of a teacher as I can be. Yeah, yes, like I'm speaking from I these, this is my way of life. This is why I do it, because, yeah, eventually I do want to reach Samadhi. I do want to burst into light when I'm ready to leave this planet. Heck, yes, and it might not be perfect and it might look a little different every day, but that's the goal.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's where we're headed.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so thank you for being here. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for having me on and thank you for or to anyone who is still listening challenging with us, who's going to participate in the future.

Speaker 1:

Just been, it's been a really wonderful experience and stay tuned for some exciting things from from d, and this is just the beginning. Oh yeah, just the beginning. Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode of the nearly enlightened podcast. If this conversation resonated with you, I would love it If you shared it with a friend or a loved one. Leave a review or reach out and let me know your thoughts. And if you're looking for more ways to deepen your connection to body, mind and spirit, check out my meditate to elevate guided meditation portal or visit nearly enlightenedcom for more resources. Until next time, stay curious, stay connected and remember answers already lie within.