Life, Health & The Universe
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Life, Health & The Universe
The Medicine Within: Discovering Your Inner Healing Power - Visionary & Leader, Christine LaRock
Christine LaRock's journey from corporate worker to spiritual guide exemplifies what happens when we finally listen to that persistent inner voice saying "there must be more." After 23 years in a police service, feeling increasingly misaligned with her true nature, Christine embarked on a path of self-discovery that would transform not only her life but the lives of hundreds around her.
The conversation explores how understanding her Human Design as a Manifestor helped Christine recognise her natural cycles of creation and rest, validating patterns she had struggled with her entire life. Rather than seeing herself as "inconsistent" for starting projects and then moving on, she discovered this was her authentic energy signature—a revelation that brought profound self-acceptance.
When pandemic restrictions prevented many from participating in community gatherings, Christine's manifesting energy sparked the creation of the Coming Home Festival—a three-day celebration of music, wellness, and inclusive community. What began as a reaction evolved into a powerful catalyst for connection, with ripple effects far beyond what she could have imagined.
The most compelling segments reveal Christine's transformational journey to Egypt, where ancient temples and sacred sound practices confirmed her path forward. Standing in spaces where ritual healing had occurred for thousands of years, she experienced profound remembering—a homecoming to wisdom she had always carried.
Throughout our conversation, one message resonates above all others: healing isn't something we acquire from outside ourselves—it's a remembering of what we've always been. In Christine's words, "You are the medicine." This simple yet profound perspective invites us to trust our bodies, honour our authentic rhythms, and create the space for our natural healing capacity to emerge.
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Today we're joined by Christine Laroque, founder of Coming Home to Heal. Christine, among many other things, is a wellness practitioner and sound healer with a powerful message. That message is we are living in miraculous times and the energies are ripe to turn inward. It is a powerful time to remember that you are the medicine. Are you ready? It powerful time to remember that you are the medicine. Are you ready? It's time to come home. Welcome, christine. It's been a long time getting this one organized hasn't it?
Speaker 2:It has. I think it's been like a year, has it been? I was going to ask you when we did the gene keys. Has it been a year? Yes, oh my gosh. So you've joined at the heart since then.
Speaker 1:Yes, exactly, I was thinking about it. I went on a little walk with my dog this morning and I was thinking about our upcoming conversation and I thought you know, I feel like I've known you forever and it's almost like we've known each other before.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you feel the same like we've known each other before.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you feel the same like we've known each other before, and it's like where have you been? What have you been doing in this lifetime?
Speaker 2:I want to know all about the other side of the world, nadine, we're on the opposite sides of the world, oh my gosh. Yeah, I so enjoyed meeting you and yeah, it's been. This is our. I said this is our third chance, our third shot at this. For whatever reason, it didn't happen the first two times and I'm so excited, so excited that you would have me on.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'm really looking forward to it too. So do you want to start off by just giving us a little bit of a background of you? You know who you are, all of the things.
Speaker 2:Who am I? Oh my gosh. Well, I'm a seeker. I am I'm a seeker of knowledge, of all things and all things esoteric, and I've kind of had an interesting life because I'm currently living in a city that I did not grow up in and I'm in Canada. So for your listeners, wherever they're listening in from I'm from, I'm in Ontario, canada, and just north of the border for the for the US, but 51st state maybe at some point.
Speaker 2:I don't know, who knows whatever it is, but I was in a corporate job I guess I actually worked for a police service for a really long time, like 23 years, and it was not fulfilling in the slightest, was always a spiritual seeker and was always very uniquely different, not only from everybody in my family but people at work, and they would just know any. You know my outlook on life or the events that I would attend were very spiritual in nature and they would just be. They just came to know and love me for who I was. So I was always that spiritual seeker and was a single mom. I have a beautiful daughter she's 30 years old and so I raised her and always knew that there was something different. And I mean I was raised in a time where and I now things are really different these days, but it's like you know my parents wanted me to grow up and get that one job and then retire and that's what it was going to look like. And well, that's just not the way it is and that's not was really for me being in a job. Of course, I didn't know anything about gene keys or human design or anything. Way back then all I knew was going to work and doing the same thing every day was quite literally just killing me energetically. I just was like there's got to be more, there's got to be more and I kept saying why do people do, do people just? I don't know why isn't anybody else questioning the fact that we're all really just like a little hamster in a wheel, like you know, we're just going to work and then that's it, and there's, there's more.
Speaker 2:And I've always had this kind of again a draw to the esoteric, to the spiritual, almost having visions. I've always been a real dreamer, very vivid dreams, and so when my daughter actually turned, she was in high school and I knew she was going off to university and I thought I can't stay here and I mean I could have retired in five years had I stayed there, but it was working for a police service, as you can well imagine. I and I, again I did a lot of meditation, um, during this time it was when I discovered I dabbled in Buddhism. Um, I actually, I don't know, have you heard of, I think, vipassana is is all over the world. So I I did a 10-day retreat and it really changed my life like I've always um, when I was younger, I I used to, and I guess I still have my moments, but now I have the tools to deal with it. I've struggled with anxiety in the past and I was kind of seeking meditation purely as a tool to to not lose it, you know, because I was again very living in my divine masculine. So I was always being a single mom, you know, having to do the things, to make things happen. And again, I knew there was something different for me. So when my daughter went to university, I sold my house that I had owned near the water for about 10 years.
Speaker 2:And there's an interesting story that I can I can try and shorten really quickly. I dated a person for two years. We didn't have the same spiritual beliefs and when we parted ways. I had some health challenges, of course, and you know my connection to spirit really got me through that. So I'm a person I see numbers all the time. So the 1111, we, we have a club and it's growing. Now that we have the internet, we know that there's a whole lot more of us out there. And this person that I had been with for two years and the relationship ended when I was dealing with this medical issue, he reached out to me a little bit later and he said hey, I had a friend who he did a documentary and it was and I'm not giving this guy a plug, I've not talked to him in years, but I think something like Voyage to Betterment.
Speaker 2:And he said you know I, it was where they took these people and it was. There was a spiritual element to it and they did all this. You know blood work and everything. They had these markers to start and they did all these things and they put them on healthy food and they took them to see healers and all of these wonderful things. And he said I want you to come to the.
Speaker 2:He says I was a part of this documentary. And he said had I not been with you and you if you hadn't opened my eyes to this kind of other world? Because he was, you know, italian Catholic, you know blinders, and so he was kind of open, I was a little bit of an influence. So we went and it was fabulous and so, ironically, this is kind of how things go full circle in life. So he said to me come to the. He says come to the screening with me. And then one of the healers and I had said to him he had lost his dad when we were together, lots of anger, and so he had seen a healer in a city that I currently live in for the time being called wealth. It's near Toronto. So even in the documentary she's doing energy work with him and you could see that she was actually over his heart and she was going at this and pulling up and you could actually see his shirt move a little, and so he's just like you know, when I was saying to him, you know, I there's some angers that you, I think you need to kind of clear.
Speaker 2:And so, anyway, the long and short of it is, I ended up I thought I want to go to Guelph. Guelph was about two hours outside of my, my city, and so I I made the track and I thought I have to see this lady. I have to see this lady. So I came, wouldn't have, would have never heard of her otherwise. So I came and I stayed in a beautiful B&B, had a ton of energy sessions, powerful crying, a lot of release, but while I was here I was walking around and just felt home, felt home to me, and I thought I'm, I'm moving. I'm moving to Guelph. Like it felt like my, just an energetic call, and Guelph actually has a very spiritual community here and I really didn't know anything about Guelph, I didn't know anybody that lived here, and then within a very short amount of time, I moved here. So I've been here about, I think, 13 years now and the connections that I have made here are just beyond anything. And I think isn't it interesting how it came full circle, how I kind of planted the seed and then he had the energy healing, and so here I am, so, yeah, and then here I am and since I've been in Guelph I've really done quite a fast forward and I've done lots of different things. You know, done quite a fast forward and I've done lots of different things.
Speaker 2:Um, you know, I've, uh, I've dabbled in. When I first actually moved here, I went to Boulder, colorado, and I don't know if you've ever heard of um esoteric color puncture. No, never heard of Um. So when I was in Sarnia, there was a beautiful store that I used to go to I don't know if it's still there and they used to sell beautiful Tibetan jewelry and homeopathics and things like that. But they had all sorts of alternative medicine sessions that you could get. And I ended up the lady that owned it was actually a nurse and her husband was a doctor. She was. I had a color puncture session with her and it was wild. It was just what happened within me. She was one of the first Canadians certified in this, so it's all over the states that originated.
Speaker 2:What it is, it's a, it's a modality that focuses on frequency. So we have acu-light tools that are, um, we have spectral colors and soul spirit colors. So, uh, there's interchangeable light rods that we put on the body. It's it's quite misleading, because we don't puncture the skin, but we do, that's the client on um, a physical, emotional and a spiritual level, and so we can clear out traumas and basically, at the end of the day, color puncture operates under the premise that all conflict in the body is based on some sort of unresolved trauma, which there's all sorts of other things that lead us down that path these days.
Speaker 2:So I went to Boulder, colorado, probably four times when I moved to Guelph and I felt really called to just dive deeper into this modality. It's originated in Germany. The man was a genius, peter Mandel, that was the founder of this and, if anybody wants to go down a rabbit hole, because there's just not even enough near enough time in the podcast, so that was one of my first things that I did when I moved here and it's, it was really fascinating. So, but I've done so many different things. I went back to Vipassana and again, just why are we here and what are we meant to do? You know, just really following that gut instinct and then learning about human design.
Speaker 2:I used to think something was wrong with me, because I used to start a lot of things but I wouldn't finish a lot of things, and so I think it was during the pandemic. Actually, I took a master class from somebody that I met in a Dr Joe Dispenza group. So I've done I haven't actually had the opportunity to attend one of his advanced retreats, but I've done all of his other work. So he's got an intensive and progressive. You've done, dr Joe.
Speaker 1:I've been to a one day seminar.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, so powerful, so powerful, doing his breath work. I actually had a lenient activation one time and had I not known what it was, I probably would have called the medics because it was quite literally and it wasn't doing the powerful breath work, but I actually had a rocking of my sacrum. I was laying and in bed one night and I think it was actually during the pandemic and I thought we always so people use the word love in so many different ways and I really think that people have kind of bastardized the word and it's used out of context and there's so many levels to love. And I had watched a bunch of Dr Joe's I forget what it's called the videos that they do about their long, their week long retreats, and it was just showing all the things that the people do and and I was so because I was manifesting it, I wanted to live it and I wanted to watch it like I'm doing this right, like, so it's like being in the emotion and I remember going and laying in my bed and I thought I want to really evoke.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you say how many times maybe a day, we say I love you or but like to feel it, how many times do you feel that about yourself? And even to say I love myself to really sit and feel that feeling Love is a word and it just comes out your mouth but, like love, really comes from the heart. So I was laying in bed feeling love and I had to actually put a smile on my face to like kind of even bring that feeling in, and that was really all I did. And I did some breath work and I had this activation of Kundalini in my sacrum as I was laying and my body was rock, my legs were spasming and I was thinking, oh my God. But again, dr Joe has talked about this quite a bit and it went on for a really long time and I just kept telling myself you're okay, it's energy moving, it's, you know, stuff clearing out of your body and that was just quite a miraculous event.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it was. It was kind of crazy. And then I learned in the pandemic. Like I said, I was taking a master class. It was kind of a unique way that I met this gal. It was probably through Facebook and through a Dr Jo group, and I was in her group, and so one of the things she covered was human design. So that was my first exposure to human design and I discovered I'm a manifester, and so we were chatting a little bit before we came online, just about what is that Like? What is that exactly?
Speaker 2:And so a manifester is it's not somebody that makes people think, okay, let's manifest something. Well, it's actually it's. It's a title given to somebody who, um, we start, yeah, we start things. We're the ones that, um, we have an idea and we start things. And the interesting thing is there's all sorts of you can. You can, um, group everybody as a manifester, but then there's little divisions. You can group everybody as a manifester, but then there's little divisions. As you know, and everything's so complex, there's different aspects within, say, a manifester. Or you know there's a projector and you were saying you're a manifester.
Speaker 1:A manifester generator.
Speaker 2:yeah, you have a part of the manifester, but you're a generator, so you can go and go and, go and go and you have lots of energy, but you're a generator, so you can go and go and go and go and you have lots of energy manifestors. We start things and then we're done. Then we're on to the next thing. Do you need do?
Speaker 1:you need other people. Is that part of like? You manifest it and then you kind of like, go this is what we got to do and then kind of hand it off?
Speaker 2:yeah, and see, this is the interesting thing, when you're saved, when you're a manifester, and if you don't know, this is the thing that I think is so beautiful about all these other modalities shall we call them? Um? They really help you to learn about yourself, because I was burning myself out and I was wanting to do everything myself, everything right, being a single mom, really embodying the masculine right. Well, nobody's gonna do it for me, I was gonna do it myself, right? So it's like, oh boy, nobody wins, nobody wins, and so it was.
Speaker 2:I remember having this epiphany and I remember breaking down when I was speaking with this lovely lady and I so I'm a one three manifester. What that means is I'm an investigator martyr. So one is an investigator, three is martyr, one, and that is that is me. I confess I like information, I'm an information junkie, and and so I just I want all this information, so much information, and there's just so much to learn and all these different things. But what the trick is when you're one an investigator is to not require so much information that you think you need to have everything together before you actually start, because then you just never start. So that's you know. I'm like, okay, this is great, and three is a martyr.
Speaker 2:So I learned through trial and error. So this is when I look and my mom will say to me Chris, you've recreated yourself so many times I don't even know like what version it's like, so different than anybody in my family, because everybody's kind of you know got that job and then, for the most part, have stayed in it and I could write a book for you. Know all these different things. I could write a book for you. Know all these different things. But as I get older, I've learned to move toward what feels good in my body, and this is another thing that I'm really even learning. I was on a call the other night. I know I'm jumping around.
Speaker 2:And as my beautiful friend would say that I'm actually working in collaboration with right now. She's very much into astrology and even diving deeper into that has helped me to understand myself. So I'm a Gemini, moon and rising, and if anybody knows anything about a Gemini, we're very much in the head, so we're very analytical and, again, that's a masculine trait and so that I've been on this journey, I would say the past, uh, and I know there's something that, because you mentioned, you wanted to talk about it. My trip to egypt in november is one of the things that I wanted to embody is as well as kind of healing some you know, inner child things that many of us are here to do is to embody the feminine Because, because I'm a manifester and I have so much power and I really can, I can force a square peg into a round hole you know, it's like I'll say man, I'm working round hole.
Speaker 2:You know, it's like I'll say, man, I'm working with you, and it's like you're already off and you know doing this thing and and, uh, for any of those manifestors out there too, I know. I want one last thing I'll say about human design is working with a team. Um, so I organized a festival three years ago and again, it's just been such a journey and always learning about myself and before I talk about the festival too much, it was, we actually used human design as our um guideline, like our template, so that we can understand each other better and and say, okay, well, you're a projector, so you need to be asked. You know what? And and the manifesting generator, and so the manifester, which is I because I'm already onto the next thing and then the next thing I have to learn to inform people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, to inform people, and I think where a lot of people get the get things maybe misinterpret or whatever, they think that they have to inform people to get their, get, their opinion or their approval, and it's not. That's not the case. But you know, when you're working with people, it's kind of nice for them to know what the hell are you doing. You know, and we're part of this too, but so it's when you can learn to speak the language and understand who you're working with and what are their strengths, and so, yeah, it's all just so fascinating. But, yeah, the Gemini brain in me can kind of jump from one topic to another quite effortlessly, so you're pretty good to keep up there, nadine.
Speaker 1:I love it. Yeah, there's nothing linear about a conversation, really is there.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:We can try our best, but like, yeah, it's not unusual to jump around and I think also we start. There's the interconnectedness of all things and you're obviously in a place in the last few years where, like you say, there's things that have come full circle and so you start to see those links between like past experiences and what's happening now, even though, like at the time, it doesn't seem necessarily like it's relevant to anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah've had those aha moments. It's like, oh, wow, you know, now I see why I've done all of these things. And then these um skill sets can be used over here and yeah, it's really just been um, so, so amazing and uh. And then, of course, gene keys and uh, richard, god, I'd love to meet richard. Richard, if you're out there he's on my.
Speaker 2:He's on my podcast wish list, oh, okay, let's just, you know, manifest that for you. He's just such a oh my gosh, he's just such a divine light and, uh, his wisdom and his knowledge and, um, yeah, I absolutely love, love, love, love, love. The Gene Keys, what was the one that we did together?
Speaker 1:The Pearl Retreat.
Speaker 2:The.
Speaker 1:Pearl, the Pearl, yeah, when you entered into the Pearl Retreat, how sort of into the Gene keys were you at that point? And like had you? Because I thought that you had been doing human like, following human design, for a long time, because you seem to really have embodied those parts of yourself and I'd love to talk a bit more about that, that kind of like finding that alignment. But let's start. Let's start with your Pearl Retreat experience and what was going on for you when you did that, so excited to do that.
Speaker 2:I have loved the Jean Keys for a long time and I don't even remember how I heard about it, but I have all the books, of course, and uh, when I started, it was, it was, it sucked me in. It sucked me in hard, like I was. I always had my nose in that book. And, uh, what I love is I got the big book that has all the 64 keys, but then I got the smaller books that go along with it that, of course, talk to you about whether it's the Venus or the Pearl or what have you, and, wow, like, talk about learning about yourself and just you know what you're. And I've kind of been away from it a bit because, again, you're pulled in all these different directions because there's so many things.
Speaker 2:But yeah, the Pearl Retreat was really amazing. I had never done the online retreat and it's really interesting to just be in conversation as well about it, because it's one thing to read the content and, you know, do your own self-inquiry, but then to be in conversation and to hear how other people take that on and and you know how that changes their perspective or their outlook and, um, you know whether it's the lessons or their actions or what have you and I just um. Yeah, I'm a huge, huge fan of the gene keys, and it also brings in it's human design. And is it the Tao? Yeah, the Tao Te Ching.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, yeah, so human, yeah, it's kind of like. I think Richard calls it like a modern day I Ching, right, yes, but he's obviously drawn on his experience. His background was in human design originally. Yes, that's right, he's obviously drawn on his experience. His background was in human design originally. Yes, and he's done body work and had his own mystical experience. That sort of helped with that. You know that entire revelation of the gene keys. It is amazing. What I love about it is that it's just written in such a way that, like sometimes you can only read a sentence and then you're like I don't know, but it's written in. Yeah, he's a poet, but it's written in a very simple language. Sometimes the I Ching, I find, is like just a little bit too cryptic.
Speaker 2:Yes, hard to interpret, yeah, where Richard makes it and he's just. And I get the week, you know, the weekly keys delivered to me and uh, wow, he's just. And the neat thing is, you know, when you look at the three, when you look at the shadow and the gift and the city, um, and so for, I guess for anybody who's on here who doesn't know about the gene keys, so there are different aspects in our lives that, um, you know, we all know that there's lessons that we have to learn in this life and so there's all sorts of lessons, particular to your, your birth date and time, um, that we come in with, and then there's a gift within that and then the city, it's, it's a, it's um, sanskrit, the sanskrit, not city, it's city S-I-D-D-A-Y, which is like the enlightened. Once you know you get the gift, but some of them you look at and they can seem kind of harsh and you think, oh, wow, like that's me, like I have that, but the way he words it, you know, it's kind of.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's no judgment right, it's like you're not a bad person. We all have the shadow, but within that shadow there's always a gift, and it's and like.
Speaker 1:I feel, with my experience of it, the beauty of it has been that contemplation, because it's like you don't have to do anything, you just have to like. What does that all mean for me? And you start to see changes in your life, right, when you do accept those parts of yourself and look at things from a different perspective. It's not like you have to do a sort of step-by-step approach. It's like an awareness thing, and that has that connection with um joe dispenser as well. Like that, you know, when you're aware of your internal dialogue and you can kind of look at it from from a different, like from the outside, almost looking in on what's going on, there's like there begins to be an evolution. It's, yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 2:Recognizing it's just recognizing. It's there and it's like sometimes, well, you look at even you know somebody who's an alcoholic.
Speaker 1:It's like the first step is recognizing you're an alcoholic yeah, right that the awareness just create awareness around it, right yeah, so that was, that was a real gift.
Speaker 2:That was a real gift. And you know, human design is just so deep, so deep. I always say it's like the excel program on a computer. If you've ever worked like you can do a little bit, but there's a lot like there's just so many things, so many things that you can do, you know, but yeah, it's really really fascinating.
Speaker 1:I feel with human design and the Gene Keys, it's almost like you well, interestingly, when you say coming home and that's. You know, you've had the Coming Home Festival, which we'll talk about very soon, and your current project, coming Home to Heal. But human design and gene keys are like coming home. Right, you can look at your chart, your body graph or your profile on the gene keys and you can read things and you can go yep, I know that's me, even if you're not quite living it yet, I know that's me. There's just a yeah, that coming home feeling, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Interestingly, when I started the podcast, I was talking to a friend who's in Canada and she was my first guest and we were talking about the themes and it was like journey back to self and it's really yeah, that coming home journey back to self. They have and my, at that point in my life, actually the journey back to self was you know, I've got two young children. I started late in life and it was like refinding who I am, redefining who I am or rediscovering who I am now that I'm a parent and mother. But it's just gone a whole lot deeper in the last few years, but now you have these other aspects of you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that you didn't even know you had yeah, so it's really interesting, it really is.
Speaker 2:It really is wow, and yeah, that's a unique way to look at it, right, but uh, I think that the old also the older we get. But the world is waking up.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, so again there's thatness. It's like how much of it is me and how much of it is because of that, like bigger, bigger thing that's going on.
Speaker 2:It's really interesting because now, you know, after the creation of the festival I didn't realize. I guess it's like that thing. It's like you want to buy a red car and then you know you see all the red cars, but like, so you really I recognize, whether it's in music or spiritual readings or whatever. Yeah, coming home, and for me it just has such a a resonance, like it really does. It's almost like when you say it it almost makes you stop. For me, it makes me kind of stop in my, in my track a little bit. Um. So yeah, I know that we spoke about that, uh, initially, and so I guess I can lead into the story of the festival yeah, so the pandemic, of course.
Speaker 2:Um, that the world is familiar with and it was like. I think it's like the bible, it's going to be referred to. You know, like people say, bc like before christ, it's going to be like before covid. I'm going to coin it, but well, because the world is so vastly different.
Speaker 2:It just woke people up, it created all this division, it did all of these things. So I'm trying to think how to start because it's just, it's so much. When all of that happened, covid was such a trying time for so many and for myself. When it happened, you know, summertime came and I have always gone to festivals. I'm such a music lover and I used to participate, and sometimes I would just attend and sometimes I would go and offer workshops, and so there was a particular festival in Guelph that I, it was my lifeblood and I loved it and it was a weekend long and I really looked forward to it and I'm a hippie, I'm a hippie at heart and it was just like a big hippie fest.
Speaker 2:And so I chose to not follow suit and I did not get the vaccine. I and uh, you know, and a lot of people in my circle didn't either, and I don't care if people did or didn't. It's like getting the flu shot, like, did you get it, didn't you get it, and but for the first time in my life and in all of our lives, all of a sudden it mattered. It mattered. Does any has anybody ever asked you before in your life did you get the flu shot. Did you get this like other than going to school? Certain schools demand that you have certain vaccines, but I think that's kind of changing these days.
Speaker 2:But all of a sudden I couldn't go and I, because of my and I thought, wait a second, I what, I was kind of, I couldn't believe it. So at the end of the day, I'm a rebel and I just thought you know what? Well, it really angered me and I couldn't believe what was happening, because this festival that really promoted unity and oneness, and I'm thinking you're buying into all of it and you're separating people and it's wrong, it's wrong. So I thought I'm going to create my own festival and actually it came to me in a meditation. I was meditating and it was just the feeling that I felt. And I remember when I told a couple of friends of mine and they're like oh my God, christine, just the energy of you even talking about it. So I have a lot of musician friends and both you know, even myself I've done holistic healing, different modalities, and I also work with sound, that's. You know, I can talk about that after. That's something I really have gotten into more now.
Speaker 2:But I felt bad too because I thought, okay, so, so what, I can't go, and you know, offer a workshop or I can't go and listen to some great music and have food and you know, support the artisans and things like that. But you know, I have some friends who are musicians or artisans, who have beautiful wares, and they were literally cut off at the knees because they couldn't go either because of their decision, and I thought that's not cool. So I kind of did it as a bit of a knee jerk reaction to what I thought was a bad situation. Well, it was a bad situation, and so that's how coming home evolved. And you know, your status didn't matter and and people at that time? I mean, we're humans and we are here, we need human connection, we need that, we need that so much and we needed it even more then.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, the festival was born and it was, it was beautiful and, uh, it was a lot of work. It was a lot of work and you know, in lot of work, and you know in your mind you think, okay, we'll have a few hundred people and we'll do this and we'll, but of course it's not a one man show. And so I had some amazing people step up. And so the first year was, you know, I didn't even know, I didn't know how to book a band, I didn't know how to do anything, know how to book a band, I didn't know how to do anything. I'm like okay. And so the first year it felt like it was in August and my birthday is August 1st, and it was in for me. I remember being there when it was actually happening and I thought, oh, my god, this feels like a big birthday party for me because it was just this combination of beautiful people and it was.
Speaker 2:It was, it was a, it was um, there's some lovely landowners. So I play african drum, I play jimmy and I I've taken it for many years and I love it and it's medicine and of itself, when you play the drum, it changes your changes, your dna. It really just changes you on a cellular level, and so we were having illegal gatherings at this beautiful property. These landowners had stewarded the land for over 25 years and it was glorious and it was on a cedar, they had a big beautiful hill and they had a pond and then they had a cedar forest with a river running through, like it was just, it was heaven. So anyway, yeah, I asked these people who had become friends and I again, I wouldn't have met them if it wasn't for the pandemic and like illegal gatherings. So I just kind of it was kind of cool and so we did that for three years.
Speaker 2:The first year was, like I said, more of the knee-jerk reaction, but then it was like, okay, what does this want to be? Because, as with anything, everything grows. We grow it's. You know, even on earth, everything is always expanding and retracting, and so it kind of wanted to be something a little different. So over the years it really evolved to just be a healing festival and so we ended up actually coining it a three-day music and wellness festival.
Speaker 2:And we made an impact and it was. It was small, like it was intimate, it was grassroots, it was, you know, just maybe 200 people and but the second year I the emails that I got from people, bands, that had heard about the festival, that wanted to come and play, and that continues to this day and it really it was really kind of starting to gain some wonderful momentum and just to see what you know, the things you just think about festival, it's like, okay, people get together for three days and it's like one big family. And then there's these intimate moments and had amazing. We had workshops and we had musicians and in the evenings and we had like a bonfire, like a jam that we would, and the artists would be there as well, and we had holistic healers and we had, like I said, artisans.
Speaker 2:It really, I guess, for me, when I did it, I didn't realize the impact it was going to have. For one thing, I didn't realize the work it was going to be. I didn't realize the impact. And when I look at the ripple out effect, it's literally like dropping a pebble in the water. You know it's like festival is the pebble hitting the water and then the ripple out effect, the, the, whether it was friendships, businesses, partnerships that happened communities that kind of grew out from that. You know, the landowners had, um, a number of people back to their property and they offered, you know, workshops and the lady is she loves to do ice plunges and things like that. That. That community like grew and so, and you know there are people that went into business together because they met there. We have people now who are lifelong friends because they met at the festival and it's just like it's freaking cool, like that's kind of cool. You know you don't think about those things when you're, when you're doing that, and so I'm I'm really, really grateful that for all of that and this year is the first year, so in three years coming home is a beautiful memory Our hashtag on Instagram was coming home to heal, and so we've coined it.
Speaker 2:So if you go to coming home to heal hashtag, you'll see it's, it's mostly our stuff and, um, yeah, this past year, you know, in any festival and anytime you're organizing something to, you know a bigger scale like that, there's all sorts of dynamics that come into play, and you know volunteers that don't show up, or just you know different dynamics that have been flowing. That's more trying than others. This past year, I think at the, there was something that happened with me in the middle of the festival where there was like a switch that turned off and it was like my heart's not in this anymore. That's your manifesto switch. Huh, yeah, and it was yeah it was a real energetic shift.
Speaker 2:And actually I had a beautiful girl who had contacted me who wanted to do sound facilitation for and she wanted to hold space for the space holders. She's a beautiful, her name's Lauren and she um, we had beautiful men's circles and women's circles and all of this stuff that's kind of bubbling up in the earth right now and it's beautiful. I had to go, I had a session from her because I just needed some equilibrium. I needed to maintain some equilibrium because you know, you're calling all the shots with the earpiece in walking, doing the one. And then I just had this big shift and I was going to release who are, who are. Headliner was for this year, because I already had that in the works and I was like I don't want to, I'm not going to do it, I'm done, and so that was in august.
Speaker 2:And then manifestors they must go into deep hibernation after they work on a massive project. Uh, our manifestor energy is very cyclical, so we have highs and lows. We're not an engine that we can kind of keep going like those generators. And so I've learned over the past couple of years that, uh, you know and you're on, I mean, you're talking, I'll speak in first person. I'm talking to all of these people all the time leading up, leading up and afterwards and then closing out everything, and I was just, I really hermit, I hermited, quite, and I just respected and see. Again, I learned through these practices that this is normal. Again, I learned through these practices that this is normal.
Speaker 2:This one, I think, lasts a lot longer, and my partner and I actually decided to go on an epic journey. We went to Egypt in November and spent three weeks on a spiritual journey with a group of the most amazing humans and when we got there and it was kind of cool because one of the gals who led the trip it was a neat story she lived half an hour from here, so she was canadian, was studying the divine feminine, and I learned about many feminine goddesses, including sekhmet, who I really resonate with, and I was born the year of sekhmet. 2025 is the year of Sekhmet. Sekhmet is all about destruction. So, yeah, she's powerful, she's powerful, she's, uh, the one with the cat head right not the sphinx, but so this gal.
Speaker 2:She went to um, to Egypt, to learn more about Sekhmet and when she was there she actually met her, a fellow who was actually doing tours she, he's egyptian, and he was doing a sounding in one of the chambers and they had a remembering of one another and like within days or weeks, they were like married and anyway. So they come together. He's an astrologer and he's an Egyptologist and his grandfather was a very famous Egyptologist. So they were running this spiritual retreat and it was a no brainer. It's like I'm going, like I don't know where I'm finding the money. I'm energetically. I was in the shower and you know, water is it's a generator right.
Speaker 2:So a lot of times, sometimes people will get these visions when they're in in the water, in the shower, and so I was like, oh my god, I just energetically bought the ticket, I'm going, and uh, so my partner ended up, I think, with my excitement. He was later on.
Speaker 2:He's like I think I want to go too and he's new to all of the spiritual, spiritual journey and, um, so we went and we, it was great, we had astrological readings before we went, so it was timely and, and because of the astrological aspect, she timed it, um, as far as what, what temples we were going to and when, right, so, oh, wow, it was, it was life-changing. And I have to say that, uh, you know, I, I don't think the dust has completely settled, even from the trip, because, um, you know, we, we spent days on the nile and, uh, that was, I think, my favorite part and it's quite, the waters are electrically charged. You can almost see gold particles in in, like in the sand and and, uh, it was great for my hair, like, wow, great, I love it. Um, but, wow, you know, we went to these temples and, um, you know the king's chamber.
Speaker 2:I think we had a private viewing in the king's chamber, in the great pyramid, and, uh, we were there at three in the morning and so it had this feeling, even going at three in the morning, right, um, and and the way that the pyramids were built, you know, um, were up there and we were even told, because you have to climb these very, very narrow, you know staircases all the way up, up, up, up up and they're a generator there. You know they're aligned with Orion's belt and you know the three stars that form the belt. And when we're up there, it's cool, cool up there but it's generating your body heat because it how they explained it is, it creates a zero point axis, the way that it's built and where it is, so your body is just hot from the inside out and it's rather interesting. And um, when we actually I'll backtrack a little bit. When we first landed, I was, fortunate enough, this fella, who is the Egyptologist, his aunt is a very, very powerful healer, so I learned an alternative healing modality.
Speaker 2:That was, I think, three or four of us who spent three full days downtown three full days downtown, um, uh, sorry I'm, my brain is just totally lost right now right right at the pyramids, um, so we could almost touch the pyramids when we were downtown cairo sorry, cairo because I was thinking giza, there's the plateau. And I remember just getting there, getting off the plane and thinking how am I? I'm sitting and I can almost touch it. And the energy I remember the gal saying to me before we went. She said just so, you know, you know if you're in. She says, I already know you're very in tune with energy when you get to Egypt. She says you have to be very intentional with your energy. And she said said, when I came to Egypt, she said the energy was so powerful I just wanted to go home. It was because it does. It just, it's you, it's kind of you, you can't even explain it, it's a very for me, I found it a very grounding energy. So I spent three days on um, this beautiful woman's balcony, balcony and and, like I said, and the pyramids were right there. So I learned an alternative healing modality. It's called um, the isis touch, and it's like. It's like it's like bio touch, it's like um and it's it's where you use the two fingers. Okay, but you'll see jesus, jesus and budd Buddha in a lot of the portraits. They're doing this and that's what it's for. So this is an ancient technique. So I mean, we started and right away, you know she's reading you and she just could tell you know she had me pegged in and tears probably within an hour of meeting her. So this was kind of our lead in.
Speaker 2:So we traveled around in Egypt and and visited various temples and, um, my favorite was was Sekhmet. She again is this powerful being, I, she. It was closed to the general public when we first went and, um, you know, they're doing all of these everywhere you look they're, they digging everywhere and they're just constantly finding things everywhere and so some of the temples they've actually taken apart and like restructured and it's just beyond fathomability what they're doing. And so in Luxor, luxor was beautiful, it was very lush, and Cairo was, you know, high pollution, tons of people. The food was great. You know, the culture is wonderful, we were totally safe there. Luxor was just like, wow, it felt like an oasis. It was lots of green and it was much more lush and clean. It was much more lush and clean.
Speaker 2:And when we went to see the temple of Karnak is where, where Sekhmet is, and so that is the only temple that they will not redo because of the fear of what we'll do if they move her, if they her and uh, anyway, so, yeah, and and it's uh, you know, we actually um, you know, we did some little ceremonies and things like that, and so there's there's kind of a two-part where we we had to go into the temple of pata, which is her husband, and, uh, we had a sounding in there to prepare us to go into her temple. Because it's just, and you know, you walk in and you're just like whoa, it just hits you, her, her power, and I'm so thankful. I for me, if I could have just went over and just saw her, I would have been really happy, but yeah, it was. You know, you can see Egypt through the lens of a camera, on in pictures and on your computer or whatever, but it's really nothing compared to when you're, when you're there in person, and it's just, you're speechless and it's just, it's so powerful, speechless, and it's just, it's so powerful and um, you know, however, these pyramids were built. Some feel that they, you know that humans were much more enlightened back then and they had a way to actually work with gravity. They found a way to kind of alter gravity, that they were able to maneuver and put these stones into place and and like that. And I mean some people say humans and you know, were there beings like who knows? Who knows right, we're not here alone anyway. So, but it was pretty amazing.
Speaker 2:And then I had a really unique experience where I it was our last we were at the temple of Isis and she's on it's, it's on an island apparently. They told us that they've they moved it and it's just again the manpower it must take, because these are not small temples. And um, so it was a full moon, it was the end, and we actually got to swim, um, where there was her old temple, which is now underwater, and so we got to swim. It was a little special treat, and so they had these big, beautiful pillars coming up out of the water and we got to walk out with the full moon and what we were actually standing on was the top of the temple, which is now submerged under the water, and just the feeling of doing that. It's almost eerie but so powerful.
Speaker 2:And then in the evening we went to the temple, and so we would always do these beautiful rituals and the fellow who led them, he was just lovely, he, um, he was amazing. And so outside of the isis temple again, it was a private. So we go to the island and there was a big rock outside and inside of each temple I think it's each temple they call it the holy of holies, so when, if you look at the opening of a temple and you'll see doors, and then you'll see the doors go smaller and smaller, kind of that's the holy of holies, it's like the power center of the temple and that's where a lot of the rituals and things took place. We went to the temple of isis and, um, we laid and did some breath work individually on this, um, stone, and then we went inside individually so we had to be taken by the arm because it's pitch black, and so we get let in and and individually. And then there was a stone that we were, you know, to put our hands on and to give you different things to visualize, and we were supposed to go out.
Speaker 2:It was kind of all about rebirth and leaving certain things behind and walking straight out and for some reason, when I chose to okay, whenever you're ready, and again pitch black. You couldn't see your hand in front of your face. So you're just kind of like you can hear where people are, though, like, and it was only our group of maybe eight people, I think. And so I started walking out, but for some reason, instead of going straight, I turned right Because I could feel I was just going intuitively, and I could feel this wind on my face, and I went out there. The moon was out there, so I laid out there and I was just in this beautiful space. But then, after a while, I thought where is everybody, where is the rest of my group, where are they? And so I kind of and I'm barefoot, you know, you don't have your cell phones, and we all wanted to feel the ground on. Like every temple we went in, we were barefoot. So I've got no shoes, no cell phone.
Speaker 2:I am on this Island, you know, at this massive temple in the dark, but I mean the the moonlight is there, and so I kind of go walking into the temple and I'm going, hello, I'm thinking where are you? So, anyway, I started having a moment and, and in my mind I'm thinking, am I being punished? Because, energetically, you start thinking what's on is. Are things getting leveled out here? But anyway, I found my group.
Speaker 2:I ended up walking around behind the temple and around, and so we had. We had free time after our, our um rebirth, so to speak, and they saw me but thought that I was on free time. They thought that I had already made it through. Uh, oh, you know what mean. When am I going to come to Egypt again? Like we had done these methodically and intuitively, in a certain order, in a certain fashion, and I thought so. I said to one of the guides, I said so obviously I went out the wrong door. Can you take me back in so I can do it right? So he brought me in again into the dark by myself, like what a cool experience it was eerie.
Speaker 2:Yet it felt like home like I have to say. And then I, finally, and I did it right. I did what I was, you know, intentionally supposed to do and I walked straight out instead of going to the side see, this is me.
Speaker 2:I gotta take the scenic route and and when I walked straight out, it was breathtaking. It was, you know, you had the moonlight and you're in this big open courtyard and there's these big, massive pillars running down the sides and so, again, it was like, almost like being literally rebirth, like you know. So, yeah, it was, it was, it was quite an quite an experience. And, uh, you know, we were saying to our group when we were over there how, how do we answer when people say how was your trip? Because it doesn't even not a trip. It was, quite literally, it was a journey, a soulful journey, yeah, so it was, yeah, and and I mean, and then I came home and like life quite literally kicked me in the ass, like, and I knew that, I knew the girl who was running the trip. She said you're going to go home to a lot and you know, I had a friend who had a lot of spiritual friends and my friend said well, you don't expect to go and visit a sacred land like that and be in front of these you know powerful beings and in these powerful centers and expect to go home and have your life be the same.
Speaker 2:And why would you want the same? Why would we do these crazy things? You know so, yeah, it's really powerful and the neat thing is which will lead into, I guess, what I'm doing now the the very first sounding I received was at the temple of tea in sakara and I had no idea what to expect. I've done sounding lots, lots and lots again, a spiritual community here and and holding space, because that kind of thing can really move energy for people and you need people to be able to hold space and let them know they're okay, and I've done lots of that and facilitated. But in there, he he, there was a certain space where the divine feminine used to go and do ceremonies, and so Hakeem had me just come and stand in this particular spot and he sang over my abdomen, like over my womb area and my heart, and there was a fella I think it was Tom Kenyon years ago who used to sing and like almost channel the Hathors, and that's what it sounded like to me.
Speaker 2:It was this again, it was almost an eerie but familiar sound and when he was singing and you know, I guess if you've ever had energy work done, if I ever have energy work done, I know I have energy moving through me, I, my eyes. If my eyes are closed, my eyes will kind of hurt and I remember doing that and all of a sudden I just had all this rush of emotion and I was crying and it was. It was, and when I opened my eyes, the lights went out in the temple. While he was doing that, over my, over my center, and I again it's that I felt like I was home. It felt so familiar.
Speaker 2:It was not the first time I was in that temple. I know that for a fact, and it wasn't the first time it was in that temple. I know that for a fact, and it wasn't the first time. It was almost like he was channeling beings right. So afterward I was really kind of feeling like I needed my own intuitive space. And I guess anybody and any of your listeners and, I'm assuming, yourself, when you do any sort of energy healing, when you have these shifts, it's really important to integrate and I also learned that with the festival. Like you know, you can't have people doing all of this work and then just going, going, going, like no, you need time to it's that expansion and retraction, like you needed to take that time to come back to yourself and just sit and just be and kind of maybe even do some contemplation, right, or just sit.
Speaker 2:So I was kind of feeling really separate from the group after that happened because I was just like what the hell just happened? And Hakeem came over to me and I almost I really wish I could have recorded it, but I was in, I was a sobbing mess and I was just like wow. And he said to me um, you know, just doing what he should do like a leader of a group and are you okay? I wanted to touch base. And he says well, I want to share something like a vision that came through when, when we were in the temple, and he said you need to be doing sound healings and you know sound facilitation.
Speaker 2:And I said I know, I know this.
Speaker 2:And he said you are so powerful.
Speaker 2:He said I did. I wanted to actually come and talk to you, but I didn't want to talk to you in front of the group because I just didn't want them to feel, you know, left out or jealous. But he said I do these tours a lot and he said I don't see like this often. But he said Do you know how powerful you are Because you don't and this was a lot of my inner child work that I was doing when I was there it's that not, am I good enough? Imposter syndrome, like that we all you know. And he said, no, like they want me to tell you like one in a million, like that's how. And he says, but you need, you need to stand in that, you need to know how powerful you are. And it was just, I just lost it. So that was how I started, after learning this healing modality, with his aunt having this boom, and then I ended it with being left alone at this temple and so you can't, yeah, you just you can't even imagine, like what all of that?
Speaker 2:And so so, coming home, coming home coming back to Canada, life kicking me in the butt and just so questioning so many things in my life. And what am I doing? And I almost, I almost talked myself into doing the festival again, but again being I'm in the, in the human design world, so I'm not only a one three manifester, um, and I I'm um, like a heart-centered manifest or no, sorry, an, an ego manifest or something like that. What that means is I don't feel something in my heart, I can't do it. So it's like it's how you make decisions, so you know how you make. I don't know if you know what what yours is like Some people are.
Speaker 1:What's your channel? What channel have you got?
Speaker 2:I just remember that I'm an ego-centered or something like that, and I remember when I went down the rabbit hole of it, it was like how do you so? It's how you make decisions, and some people, depending on what your numbers are in the human design world, make decisions right away, and some need to have certain facts. Well, how I operate is I need to feel it oh, yes, yes, yes so it's like you can have an emotional manifester.
Speaker 1:That needs to kind of wait, yeah yeah, or you can have splenic well, I've got, I'm emotional yeah so I've got the solar plexus center?
Speaker 2:you have to feel it in your gut. Is that the thing like, yeah, that gut condition, yeah, I have to?
Speaker 1:wait. So I like might be really excited about something today, yeah, but like and go, yeah, yeah, definitely I'm gonna do it, and then tomorrow I go. Oh, I don't actually want to do that. So I kind of have to wait until I'm not in a real high or a real low.
Speaker 2:So that's the emotional yeah, yeah, like when you can learn these things about you, know everyone and about ourselves, it just helps us move forward and and so now I I'm so excited because I actually started um a website before we went to Egypt and I was like oh.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I think I want to go this route, but I don't know. And, of course, learning of all my astrology stuff, it's like, well, the answers aren't going to come yet the aren't? The answers aren't going to come. You wait till you go to Egypt and let the dust settle and then so one of the things that I that weren't my favorite parts about coming home were like I know I'm a manifester and can make things happen, but like the day of or the weekend of, I'm not there enjoying myself. I'm walking around like a crazy woman with the earpiece in and working with my lead team and calling shots with people. And I think last year I went to one breath work session, you know, and I love like, just like what we're doing today, you know, just sitting and really getting having deep, beautiful connections and conversations with people. And so I there's a beautiful friend that I met, her through um coming home festival and she is just an astro. She like lives and breathes. I think if you her blood somewhere, there's got to be astrology in there somewhere, because she's amazing. Her name is kayla and, um, right, so rising tides, astrology, um, her and I, uh, so I'm now going with coming home to heal. So coming home to heal. So coming home to healcom is is my new website. I do have beautiful, a write-up about coming home festival, because it can't just die, because it was so beautiful and big and and you know we have built a beautiful community of followers and um, so with that now I'm kind of taking that the, because I'm still all about we are here to heal and we know that all the things that are happening on the planet, everybody and their brother are talking about healing in one way, shape or form. I don't want people to take healing quote unquote so seriously, because there's a part of me don't get me wrong. I mean, I know we're here to do work, but it's like we're not also not broken, right. I think that's so important, like we really are perfect and beautiful, just the way we are. But, um, you know, I've even gone down the past few months, the Kabbalah rabbit hole and it's it's changed my life. It's it's just spiritual concepts and basically they say that each of us chose to come in under these different astrological signs and, depending if you're like air, earth, water or fire, there's a tycoon that you're here to clear, which is, you know, like I'm a Leo. So it's about like hatred and jealousy, and I know, you know. So it's about like hatred and jealousy and or or no, you know, yeah, and it's, it's all just so fascinating so it's, it's, it's um, and you know, I guess people can take what resonates and what doesn't, and and uh, but this is something that resonates with me. So coming home to heal has officially been birthed. Um, I do have a past events page that speaks about coming home festival and kind of what, what it encompassed.
Speaker 2:And now I'm focused on healing but organizing more intimate events. So Kayla and I were actually at a beautiful property not so far from here last night. We stayed in a lovely carriage house. So we want to do something more along the style of a retreat, like much more intimate. Have people doing the work, like, let's face it, if you're at a festival, small or large people, some people are going to a workshop, some people are over exploring over here, some people are sitting at the music, some people so there's very individual experiences happening, and so we want to kind of bring people together so that they can actually have a very intimate, unique, intimate experience, shared experience together. And so between Kayla and I, we've got. We've got some pretty awesome tools and we want to. We don't just want people to go away and have a great weekend Like. We want to change people's lives. We want to give people the tools that they need to bring back into their life and that may even.
Speaker 2:So, right now we're in the process of doing the programming for four different events and I guess the one thing I'll share because we've been so secret about it but we've got so many people saying what's happening. What's happening, you know, tell me, because I want to know it's going to do something with the elements. So, again, kind of coming back to our uh, like our ancestors and our innate nature and working with the elements. So they will be on full moons. So the first one will be august 8th to the 10th, so it'll still be a three-day weekend. Um, much smaller gathering, um and um. That is the leo, so that it's a fire, so we're calling it stepping into the fire and it's going to be work like we are going to. We are going to massively, it's our intention to massively positively impact people's lives and um, but have fun in the process, you know, and that's our.
Speaker 2:Our thing is, when I think again of coming home, we all go, we think we want to do these things, like we're talking about gene keys and human design and all of these things that are outside of us, right, but really we can turn those teachings and that wisdom around, that the whole point of them is to turn us back around to look inside, right, right, to contemplate. And who are we and how do I operate and how do I navigate. And that's what I think is the beautiful thing. I don't know if you'd call it my tag, my tagline, or whatever is. You are the medicine, you are the medicine, you know.
Speaker 2:And same thing with with sound, which is something that I do as well, and sound baths, and you know when I use the voice and singing bowls and a gong and a spirit drum and a shruti and all the tools and that kind of goes inside. And so for someone to actually create that opportunity for themselves where they would go and receive, because we're always doing for others, and so that's why I love the sound healing, because it is so powerful, no words needed, not one word, not one insight or contemplation, just just receive and let the music go inside. And our, and same thing, our ancestors, anytime that they did you know there was a rite of passage or there was something special in, you know, the life? There was always sound, whether it was drumming or chanting, or you know.
Speaker 2:And again, I feel like we've just lost so much of this that is such powerful medicine, and so we're going to work with the elements and, like I said, starting, starting with fire, and then, of course, in november it'll be water, and then we'll move into um air and then finally earth. So, and there's going to be a very sequential people can come for one, or they can, or they can come for all four. We'll probably offer a special package for four, but, um, there's a beautiful man that we spent some time with and um stayed on his property and it had to be the right property, you know, yeah, they'll have beautiful, nutritious meals and they'll connect with the earth and each other and, more importantly, themselves. So I'm so excited, so excited, bet, yeah, oh my clock just said 10, 10.
Speaker 1:I'm getting a lot of numbers in the last, just sorry, I just that. That made me think that I've been getting a lot of numbers. And you said 11, 11, and that's the number that like pops up the most for me.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I I've always had numbers are huge. And then I, and then there was I remember that that lady that I spoke about, that was the nurse that was the first person, um, certified in in color puncture. The nurse that I told you about that had the store in Sarnia, the beautiful metaphysical store. I remember being in there and she, of course, had all these amazing books and I I used to see the ones were just crazy, 1111. And I, it was this book and it had on the front of it 1111. And I just remember picking it up and I looked over at her and I looked at the book again. She goes you see ones too, and I went, yeah, and of course, again now it's like they're coming out of the woodwork, but, um, it's fascinating. But then, unfortunately, she said to me, oh yeah, and she said now you see numbers all the time that add up to 11 and I'm like oh no, you're gonna be you know it's uh, there's been a lot, a lot of symbolism, and even this.
Speaker 2:We were with um last night. We were talking a lot about numbers, numbers, four. Four is a really powerful number as well, and even new, and that is something also that um kayla and I are bringing in.
Speaker 2:So we are collectively in a year nine yep and I'm personally in a year as well, I'm a five. But and this is what I thought was kind of cool, because it's like, okay, what do the people need? What are? What are people doing right now? What are people energetically, where are they, you know? Because if you want to do something that for the people, we're not just doing it because we want something to do or we want to create an impact and where's the value?
Speaker 2:And nine is about what no longer serves, serves you, sh um. And nine is about what no longer serves you shedding. What isn't it shedding? Shedding well, it's like the snake. It's like get rid of the old stuff, because next year's a year one, you know. So the other two, so the first two of our sequence, will be under a year nine, and so we will also bring some aspects of the nine into those elemental um gatherings and then in the new year we'll bring the one. So it's like let's help people get. We have two sessions, two weekend sessions, to get rid of the old and using all these amazing tools. And I'm excited, I'm so excited and at the time is really it really is is ripe for turning inward.
Speaker 2:I really believe that that was on my website and I have a friend who his name's Bob Zima. He's a beautiful musician and he was going to be our headliner for Coming Home Festival and his music I highly recommend. It's really music is medicine. That is another project I'm working on. So he's in Florida and and I'm in canada. It's a little distance there but, uh, we've become friends, we've seen him in person and, um, his music just has such a powerful message to it and I'm in the process of booking him a music and myself I'll probably I might do some sound bath, mini sound baths as part of the, but I want to book him a music as medicine tour. Oh, cool, in Ontario. So I have my newsletter ready to go. I've got a couple of really cool spaces for him to play and, yeah, like a yoga studio and there's a metaphysical store as well, and we're just looking for some really cool places for him to play and so if he's coming up to Canada, let's make it worth as well, get his, you know.
Speaker 2:And then I remember when I said to him I think I'm going to call it the music as medicine tour, and he's like I like that, and it was actually my friend, bob, when we were talking about some ideas and I was initially I was going to say coming home to heal. It's time, because it is last year. It's time was my motto for the year. Right, what about? You are the medicine, and I'm like, yes, that's it, that's the magic right there, because we are, but we're somewhere along the line we forgot lost. Yeah, it's been lost.
Speaker 2:We think outside of us, but it's okay to have these tools that guide us back to us, and that's the thing. But but it's us and it's not you know, necessarily. You know plant medicine and this is that's a topic of hot conversation too, you know, and I love that people are doing it. This is a conversation that we had, but it's it's not something to do all the time. I'm not for myself, that's not the right choice for me, but I, I, I know so many people who are doing these things. But you see people who are constantly going to ceremonies and it's like.
Speaker 2:You know a fellow that I spoke to today. I think he's done a plant medicine twice and he said that's, you just need that nudge back to yourself and then, otherwise you've kind of missed the message. But I think, if we can all remember, it's just like our body knows how, like coming home to heal, quite literally. Think about it. When you know, when you cut yourself, or when something, something do you have to maybe keep it clean, throw a band-aid on it or whatever, but, like your body just knows, yeah, it's creating that space in that container so that it can do what it's meant to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, amazing yeah, amazing, it all sounds fabulous. I wonder if you could just take a few moments to talk a little, to sort of close, about trust, because I just think you know what you're doing is really powerful. Well, we know it is and you've obviously, you know, journeyed through this experience and you've had to make some tough decisions. Closing off the fest, you know, finishing up with the festival, starting something new, and the fear can you know that imposter syndrome, you know, finishing up with the festival, starting something new, and the fear can you know that imposter syndrome that you mentioned? That can be something that, um, is really challenging for people. Um, yeah, so, like, can you talk just a little about trust and that inner knowing, and like, what kind of guides you Just a little question to finish.
Speaker 2:It's a timely question that you ask, because I've gone through lots of times in my life, even up till even recently, it's like that. I don't trust you know, because I think, oh, you know, I've tried this over here and this over here and that didn't work. And then it's like, so, do I do it again? Do I start over again? Or do I again rewinding and saying how beautiful that we have these tools outside of us, saying how beautiful that we have these tools outside of us. So I know that this is what I'm here to do, and when, when I learn about my journey, it's, it's like I think something in my chart said you know, if at the end of your life someone isn't wanting to write a book, then you haven't lived it how you're supposed to, because it's all about just following your gut. So I think what I'll, how I'll answer, that is um body, and the body never lies, okay.
Speaker 2:So so many caught up in the mind and there's so much stimulus out there and, um, you know there's people who've perfected um muscle testing using a pendulum. You know, I have a pendulum and we were just talking about this. I have a sacred. There's a divine feminine, um women's group that I'm on on one of the apps and we were just talking about this and I said I don't trust myself when I use, when I use my pendulum, and I thought what do I do? Because I can be attached to an outcome and all of a sudden my pendulum's swinging the way I want it to.
Speaker 2:Well there's a really cool exercise that we were doing the other night in this Divine Men and Women's group and it's called directionality, and I'm so going to use it and I invite you and your guests to try it, because it helps us to get out of the mind. And so it's a you can just stand, you can just stand, um, just stand, you can just stand, um, take some deep breaths and come into your body and drop in and almost kind of mentally kind of imagine your energy going down from your mind and into your solar plexus and into your heart. And so if you have a decision to make, whether it's a small decision or a big decision, this side over here is you can say, okay, this is me moving forward with that. And then this side is me, you know not. And so you stand and you turn in that direction. You can have eyes closed and just imagine yourself You've made that decision, that's, you've made it. And then how does that feel in your body? Right, so your body might move forward, it might swing back, you might feel a hot flush, you might feel you know whatever's heaviness, and then you kind of come back to middle again, kind of recalibrate, and then turn the other way, and then you're making. You know, well, you maybe you're not moving forward with that or maybe maybe it's two separate decisions. It could be a yes or no, or it could be doing this or this.
Speaker 2:So doing that, and I've done it a couple of times and it works and it's it's a really neat way, you know. They say to people well, you can take this vitamin supplement and hold it up against you, and then you know, you'll feel it and it's like no, I for me personally, um, I'm too much of a person. That's up in my head. I need a different tool. This is something that's been introduced to me just recently and, uh, like I said, it's a and I'm not sure where it came from, but I've done it, uh, already a couple of times, and a couple of other people were saying, yeah, it really works.
Speaker 2:And, um, I think, once you start doing those things because our body is always, always talking to us, yeah, and we just don't listen, and that's where you know health things come up. It's like you know, it's like right, and that's like, and then it's like like you're not listening, and so, yeah, and I think it's just making that a conscious choice and even, you know, maybe even when you wake up in the morning and I'm going to again go back to first person Like when I wake up in the morning, I want to be in the habit now of saying you know, hello, body, you know, thank you, thank you. Like we so take our bodies for granted, exactly yeah, oh. And thus we have something happen and we think, oh, man, I wish I would have been.
Speaker 2:You know it takes being sick or having something, you know that and just say, uh, you know, yeah, I'm gonna listen to you today. And, um, you know, it's like you look at that bag of potato chips and you think, man, I'm gonna eat that, and then your body's gone. Uh-uh, you know what happens when you eat that stuff or whatever. And then you do and it's just like so you can stay like that little hamster in the wheel, or you can try something new, and I invite you to try the directionality great little amazing.
Speaker 1:That's a great tip and if you do, let me know if it works. Yeah, cool, it's interesting. You said that because I had a guest on I can't remember who it was, but they were talking about that. Um, yeah, if, if you're making a decision and and the directionality like feeling it in your body kind of it connects with that, if you're making a decision and your head starts going chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, you're not going to make the right decision. You need to feel it. You need to feel it in your body. Yeah, how does it feel?
Speaker 2:exactly, yeah, exactly how does it feel, not rationalizing it away here.
Speaker 1:Should I, shouldn't I?
Speaker 2:yeah, when that's going on, it's like not the truth basically, yeah, and eventually I think that that trust will just maybe you don't need to do that directionality thing after you do it for a bit and you're like, oh okay, so this is where I'm feeling it in my body, yeah, and maybe then you just learn to do that without actually standing and doing the actual physical exercise, be like, oh, there's that feeling in my body again, or right, yeah, so we got this we got it, but it's a journey right.
Speaker 2:There are layers and layers like peeling the onion, yeah, peeling the onion. You peel the onion and you go oh shit, I didn't know that was in there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so oh, that's what that was all about exactly.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, so amazing, I'm so thankful.
Speaker 1:Oh, thank you so much for joining me. I'm so glad that we finally got our chance to have a good chat me too, me too, yeah.
Speaker 2:So yeah, if anybody's interested in kind of what you know what, what I'm doing, we are the media coming home to heal and the website coming home to heal dot com, and who knows what will evolve, but really just all encompassing coming home to heal, and that can take many shapes and forms, and so who knows what the collaborations will turn into.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly. I wish you all the best of luck. Thank you so much for joining me.
Speaker 2:It's been wonderful right back at you. Blessings to you, bye.