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Bio Transformational Healing with AwareHouse SRQ Founders Steve and Oz Comer

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What if the key to transformation isn't found in endless analysis, but in deeper awareness? Steve and Oz Comer, founders of The AwareHouse SRQ, join Krystel to explore how our analytical culture actually blocks our ability to create meaningful change.

"If you're not aware of a pattern, a limitation, or the language that's limiting you, you can't change it," Steve explains, challenging our culture's obsession with analysis. After experiencing various self-development organizations that felt somehow "off," the Comers created a sanctuary where people genuinely feel they belong from the moment they walk through the door—a space built on integrity where visitors can suspend judgment and access true awareness.

Their approach goes far beyond typical "biohacking" (a term they admit can be triggering). While The AwareHouse offers cutting-edge modalities like specialized neurofeedback, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, red light therapy, PEMF, and ozone saunas, these technologies serve as foundation stones for deeper work. "We don't just let people say 'I came to do this' and jump in," Oz shares. "We sit down, get to know you, and consciously guide you to what's truly beneficial for your unique situation."

The conversation delves into how judgment creates psychological threat responses, activating our fight-or-flight system and disconnecting us from our evolved intelligence. Steve's background in interpersonal psychoneurobiology and Oz's 23 years as an energy medicine therapist create a powerful combination that addresses healing on multiple levels simultaneously.

Perhaps most compelling is their wisdom about breaking cycles: "If you're not in the process, you're in the pattern," Steve offers, while reminding us that "in this moment, you are enough and what is present with you is also enough." Their upcoming immersive programs will provide extended opportunities to experience this profound approach to wellness—one that might just change how you understand healing altogether.


Thank you for joining me today. Please know that this podcast and the information shared is not to replace or supplement any mental health or personal wellness modalities provided by practitioners. It’s simply me, sharing my personal experiences and I appreciate you respecting and honoring my story and my guests. If something touched your heart please feel free to like, share and subscribe. Have a beautiful day full of gratitude, compassion and unconditional love.

Speaker 1:

What's up you guys and welcome to this episode of Crystal Clear. I am super excited for our guest today. We have two guests the creators, founders, masterminds and inspiration behind a warehouse SRQ Steve and Oz Comer. So thank you so much for being here today.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, Crystal. It's a pleasure. We're very excited to be here. Thank you for having us.

Speaker 1:

I'm just so excited to be here. Thank you for having us. I'm just like so excited to dive deep into this conversation. It could probably be my longest podcast yet, but I will spare you today. Maybe we'll have to do part two, but just tell us a little bit about what is a warehouse, and I love that when I say it, they're like a warehouse.

Speaker 3:

What? Where do you?

Speaker 1:

where? Where's the where I'm going to? No, all where like awareness?

Speaker 2:

That is a common conversation we have with people, I'm sure it is.

Speaker 1:

So I've been and experienced your modalities. My husband's been and experienced your modalities. It's a magical place, not something this podcast is going to do any justice, but I would love to hear from you, like, what is your individual backgrounds? How did this come to fruition for you and you know, how has it kind of escalated and shifted and changed and manifested for?

Speaker 2:

you over the years. So I'll start with this idea of awareness, because I think that's fundamental to how this kind of became what it is today. I've been obsessed with this idea of how do you become aware of what you're not aware of, because I understood something that awareness is the foundation of any change in your life. If you're not aware of a pattern, if you're not aware of a limitation, a thought process, a language that you're using that's limiting, you can't change it. So that's the foundation. That's where it has to begin.

Speaker 2:

And in our world we're so mental, we're so in our heads, we're so analytical and analytical. The analytical mind is actually the inversion of awareness. So the more analytical you are, the analytical mind is actually the inversion of awareness. So the more analytical you are, the less awareness you have of what's actually going on. But we have a culture that continues to reinforce the analysis. I'm sure you've heard the term. Paralysis by analysis is a thing. We get overwhelmed, we have too much thought process and our world becomes smaller and smaller the more analysis we get into.

Speaker 2:

So that was really at the foundation of what the Aware House is. We want to invite people to open their minds and hearts, to increase their awareness so they can get more intentional about what they actually want their life to look like. That was really at the heart of it. And also we wanted to do it with integrity. That was a core foundation because in our own adventures and journeys we would attend to this retreat, belong to this, you know, self-development group, club, organization and we always ran into the same thing there would be this something was off, but you couldn't quite figure it out, you know. So as those things were exposed, we learned from those things and and I think between the two of us we kind of said what would it be like to really create something that does have that integrity, that is a space for integration, that people really, when they walk in the doors, feel like they belong. That's just the felt sense once they enter the space. So that was really at the heart of why we created what we created.

Speaker 1:

And you can really feel that when you walk in the door it's you know, like yourselves, all of the self-help books and the retreats and the self-development, the nervous system regulation techniques and it's really hard to find a space, even with a great network of people, that doesn't have some level of ego attached. And I will say that if that is something about both of you getting to know you individually and being in your space, it is very intentional and it has a ton of integrity and it allows you that safe space to break down those barriers, to allow your mind to just not go there. It's not a place of judgment, it's not you know who cares why you walked in there, or you walked in Like what can we do for you, how can we help you? And I think it really exudes that energy. I'm a very empathetic, feeler kind of girl, so I mean you feel it and you can feel it when you walk into a place and you're like I don't know about this, I'm out and I'm not afraid to do that at this point in time. So thank you for creating that space and I love that explanation because I think that, like you said, that being conscious of awareness, I mean whether it's your, like you said, your thought patterns, the things going on in your body. Unless we have that, we're not able to get to the root of anything. And you know it's.

Speaker 1:

It's funny, and uh, lil birdie told me the word biohacking is a little bit of a trigger, and I think it should be too, because guess what? We shouldn't be hacking into consciousness, we should just be there, right, right, it's like, it's almost like I look at it this way as like hacking the matrix of, like the outside sources that pull you into all of it. Like, yeah, you could be a part of, like this whole systematic, like go, go, go, success driven mentality. But like what is success? Like my husband and I both have been in this place where it's like, oh, you feel like on paper, everything looks like you should be the happiest, most fulfilled people ever, but it's like, why am I feeling so empty and neglected inside? It's because I haven't gotten to that space of awareness.

Speaker 1:

So when you get there, then you're like all that other stuff doesn't matter and it makes it more free-flowing and just you get back to having that regulated nervous system, having the peace of mind, having that you know a place where you can go and things that you can do on a regular basis that are just part of your inner knowing and your being, rather than externally seeking things from the outside all the time is a huge, huge proponent and true healing.

Speaker 3:

Not like performance healing. There's a lot of that going on too.

Speaker 1:

that's a whole other conversation, absolutely the biohacking.

Speaker 2:

I want to honor the space because it did kind of give us the power, put the power back in our hands to explore and be a little more scientific and look at what's happening at a cellular level. So I want to honor that. But yes, uh, we don't want to get stuck there either. So it's like biohacking and beyond, because a lot of the technologies the red light, the hyperbaric, I mean we have those available for people, but for us it's only to help them have the energy, decrease inflammation so that they can actually expand, feel safe enough to have the awareness that's going to shift their perception and lead to a bigger life.

Speaker 1:

It's like biotransformational. Yeah, it's just one of those trendy generic terms we throw on things like slay my nanny says slay all the time what, it's a christmas, but anyway so awesome. Um, so how did like when did it come about? Like when did you guys first open? What were your first modalities? Like, when did this of all the dream really start to come to life for you?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it goes back way, way, way before. It started in 2009, maybe 2008, 2009 when we first met. But I was running my own course, I was in my own journey and I was. My vision was I find myself like working with the clients every day and saying the same things over and over, over and over, and then I realized so there has to be a more efficient way of giving this information. And then we created a school and it went really fantastic. Actually, that's one of our favorite projects and, um, it also opened up a space that, like people will understand. People would understand what we're trying to create in a very deeper sense, and our practice went very deeper than that and it was great.

Speaker 3:

It was fantastic when it was time to move back to States, because in Europe, the line of work that we're doing is received way better than and I don't want to make comparison, but that's a real life observation in my professional experience so how can we bring that consciousness here? Because we decided to come and live in this beautiful town, beautiful space, which is pristine and beautiful, but how can we bring this information over here? That was the challenge, right, that we faced in the first years. But, like short answer to your question. It started way before, okay and um warehouse was created, uh, right after covet, because I couldn't stay in the house and I couldn't look at the computer anymore. I mean, you're like all I was bringing, all the rules thinking, as we were in Florida during that time.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that was a true blessing. Yes, I need to get out.

Speaker 3:

I need to get out and I need to be. Even if it's just doing our online work, I need to be somewhere else. And then, yeah, that was the beginning of it, this is how it's created, but normally we work with human mind and human heart Right, and Steve always has been searching what can serve in that process, and so this technology started to pop up and evolving in our lives and we started deep diving in, like what can support us in that realm? And then do you want to take over?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, what can support us in that realm? And then, do you want to take over? Yeah, so my background is very nervous system centric and brain optimization. So I've done courses with Daniel Amen, I've been through his trainings and this is the crossover where Matt and I actually met. So I would take clients, would get brain scans, would look at the spec scans, would look at what areas are overactive, underactive, etc. And regardless of what presented on the scan, the therapies would be very similar. You would do neurofeedback, you do hyperbaric oxygen and then we've expanded to include red light, pemf, etc.

Speaker 2:

So that was really where it started was with this specific type of neurofeedback, and I was actually at the Amen Clinic in Atlanta asking them because I was so interested in neurofeedback. We're thinking about a physical space in Sarasota. What would you guys recommend? They didn't hesitate. They said you need to look at IASIS, microcurrent neurofeedback. We're seeing amazing things faster results, people are responding like in ways that we haven't seen people respond before. There's less overstimulation. Check it out, it's like the new kid on the block kind of.

Speaker 1:

Thing.

Speaker 2:

So I didn't check it out. I started doing the research. Then COVID hit. So we didn't go anywhere or do anything. And once COVID started to slow down and things opened up again, we talked about opening up the physical space so that we could connect again with our clients. We talked about opening up the physical space so that we could connect again with our clients, you know, individually, in person. And when that happened I said I want to do this neurofeedback. That's how it all started and things continuously, you know, genuinely expanded from that place.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and I love the like synchronicity here because this podcast kind of started because five years ago, matt and I decided to get brain scans and I found from a Dr Amen's spec scan that I had complex PTSD. And I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, I'm always happy, I'm super active, I don't have PTSD, but when I sat in the stillness of my shit during COVID I started to recognize what are my patterns. You know, how am I? Am I really regulated? Am I really, you know, nurturing my body when I'm going and exercising three times a day, or am I really running from, like the tiger that's in the back of my mind chasing me from my childhood, you know? So it's really, and obviously I'm one of those people that just really dive deep into all the things to understand, like the science of human health and behavior, and I've always been intrigued, since I was a very young girl, about this. So it's, I love the synchronicity there. Um, and I was able to by diving deep into these modalities, like you're talking about the neurofeedback and they actually prescribed, matt and I both the hyperbaric chamber and all of these things, like when you're leaving somewhere and you're talking about the neurofeedback, and they actually prescribed, matt and I, both the hyperbaric chamber and all of these things, like when you're leaving somewhere and you're getting prescription for something that reoxygenates your brain rather than you know a handful of medications.

Speaker 1:

It's so rewarding on a different level and I really feel like that was the purpose of the pandemic is to shift us all up, shake things up, to help us reevaluate our lives. You know, if we have to find something, I'm one of those people that try to try to find the you know, the growth, opportunity and all things. I don't want to sort of say the positive, because sometimes it doesn't feel so positive, but the growth and all opportunities. It's like I feel like there are so many more people that really were able to take more of a intentional version of like control for lack of a better word of their health and their life and how they want to approach this new chapter when the world opens back up, like what am I going to put out there? Like it's my responsibility? Like I can go gung ho and do all the things, but like how do I want to? And meanwhile, we had three adolescent children and a newborn at the time, so it's like we needed to shift and change some things and it was not easy at all and it still comes to work. So I just I love that because, by doing all of these different modalities and really get in touch with my awareness and what was going on inside, I did the scan a year and a half later and I had no longer had the diamond powder, ptsd, and it's like this really works right. And so when I got those results, it was like I have to talk about this, I have to share this, like this.

Speaker 1:

That's what this podcast, how it came to fruition and you know it's evolved from there and you know, sometimes it's an empowerment, sometimes it's, you know. So every episode is completely different, but all really based on the intention of hey, you're in control and you're responsible I like is a better word than control You're responsible for your healing, for how you show up in the world, how you show up for yourself, and that, I feel like, is a big deal, because what we're doing by ourselves, for ourselves, in a world now where everything's put out there so much, we can look a certain way online, but how are you really showing up for yourself? And so you guys have created a space where people can go and show up for themselves. We've been traveling a ton and had a lot going on this summer and I got to go and just treat myself to amazing modalities last week and it was the best reset I could have asked for. Like I a hundred percent feel so much more regulated and grounded and just more patient and able to like take on.

Speaker 1:

Now we have back to school coming up and that's a big deal because you know, five years ago Crystal would have just pushed through and had a coffee and kept going, no, no, no, none of that anymore. So thank you for creating that space and, you know, really a place where people can honor their energy, and you brought in more practitioners and so tell us a little about the modalities you offer. You know it started with neurofeedback and hyperbaric and you can even kind of get into what that is. We mentioned hyperbaric and I'm sure you can explain a little bit better than I can. Um, but it has been life-changing and transformational. Um, my husband actually ended up buying his own but that's how he met. You guys started out there and it's been huge and it's like such a great recovery tool and you know he's like at the point he's like I can really tell when I take a break, yeah, and I can tell when I need it again.

Speaker 2:

So yeah, that is what happens. You start to tune into your own body, you listen. Once you start noticing the difference, then it's, you know, with hyperbaric specifically we call it front loading you want to get the 30, 40 sessions in initially, and then by that point you really understand how it's benefiting your physiology.

Speaker 2:

So then you can go into more of a maintenance you know kind of once a week, once every other week or whatever that looks like for that person. But it's a phenomenal therapy when we have more oxygen in the system, everything works better. It's one of the primary ways we can decrease inflammation as well, and we all know that inflammation is one of the primary drivers of all disease. One thing that's important we don't tend to focus on the modalities so much like go to the website, check it out, because it can be a little overwhelming because there has so much available at this point. But you touched on something I kind of want to jump back at, because you're talking about how it's not easy and how growth needs to be the intention?

Speaker 2:

Um, it was Carl Jung and he said you. He said people will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. So, really, that's what the aware house is about is helping people have a safe enough space where they can start that adventure, that journey. Um, all the other things are just to support them in that process. So neurofeedback, hyperbaric, uh, different types of red light, infrared light, um, pemf, both low energy and high energy, and go into the science and the mechanisms of action of all those things uh, we have a ozone sauna called the hawkett amazing.

Speaker 2:

Oh, it's my new fave yeah, it's, I think I booked like four more sessions.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's great uh, the flow, presso. So we're looking at the body, how it all connects right, both mentally, emotionally and physically. And so, at a physical level, once things are flowing, uh, we're structuring and and helping the body understand how fluid we are, how water is important, how light is important. Then we can start to really have the energy, the safety to address the harder stuff, the emotional sticking points, the abandonment, the. You know, we're all addicts to something, whether it's TV or guilt or whatever it is or health modalities themselves.

Speaker 2:

I think it's some of us, just part of the journey. We get addicted to trying to fix or trying to solve or trying to rescue or heal. Maybe it's in ourselves, maybe it's somebody else. But to just take a step back and look at those patterns, I say often if you're not in the process, you're in the pattern, so let's take a look at it. What I say often if you're not in the process, you're in the pattern, so let's take a look at it. What are the patterns and can we objectively look at that so that we're not identifying with it?

Speaker 3:

And that's the hardest thing to be able to look at yourself from a very objective place, because we tend to just jump on the judgment, and that changes the whole energy so that you don't see the truth when you're in the judgment, and that changes the whole energy so that you don't see the truth when you're in the judgment. So this is the skill set that we um align within ourselves, within our little organization, so that everybody who walks in is just entering to that energy of being non-judgmental and being more objective and see what is over there and then just work with it I'll add to that because the judgment is such a huge piece.

Speaker 2:

We've been in italy doing seven day workshops where all we do is clear judgments. Yeah, and it's phenomenal, like people's lives were forever changed. Yeah, but the thing people don't understand about judgment is that you can feel judgment right if I'm judging cause for whatever reason. You can feel judgment right If I'm judging Oz for whatever reason, she can feel that and that is a threat psychologically to her. It's not a physical threat, but the brain processes it the same way. And if you're perceiving there's a threat now you're going into your fight or flight sympathetic nervous system and the system starts to close down and you're less connected to the evolved intelligent part of your brain. So, helping people understand those types of dynamics and to give them tools so they can regulate because you can't regulate unless you recognize you're not regulated Right, exactly, very fundamental principle right. But then you have to have tools to be able to increase regulation, because once that stress chemistry comes down, then you see the world without the distortion, then you can make intelligent responses rather than reacting from some past experience.

Speaker 1:

You know, it's really interesting that again the synchronicity of that coming up because realizing you know I get this PTSD diagnosis. But yeah, I grew up with my grandparents. I had some crazy stuff going on in childhood. However, the way I learned to cope with that was through discipline and exercise and being super judgmental of myself and having these very rigid boundaries on how I should look and what I should eat and how often I should exercise, and all of these things that I think made me feel safe, pseudo safe in a way, that were actually keeping me in those patterns. So, like when I really started to unravel from the inside out, it was like, you know, A realizing everyone's stuff from childhood was their own stuff.

Speaker 1:

It was me holding on to my own patterns of how, at one point, it may have helped me be safe and disciplined and stay out of trouble in high school and college, but you can let go of that now, and so having the courage and the emotional availability to let go of that, I mean it's still something that will still pop up daily. It's a constant. It's never like I don't think there's any certain thing. It's like healed. It's all about the awareness, right, it's being aware of even.

Speaker 1:

We've had a lot of recent travels, so there was one day on our trip in the uk where I slept in until like 11, right, I didn't get up and I didn't do my morning walk by myself and I didn't do my my morning. Like ritual, it's like yeah, but however, you are like five hours difference and show yourself some grace and compassion and let it go. Yeah, you have all day long to walk around, you have all day, but it's like on, on. I got immediately switched to that. Oh my gosh, I, I. And it's like no, it's fine, it's all fine.

Speaker 1:

And so it was a really actually great conversation on a car ride between my husband and I to be like, wow, I really allowed old stuff to take over there, like I really allowed the resistance of just what was happening to interfere with just being regulated and enjoying myself. So it's really about understanding where your patterns lie and how to you know, in a lot of things like and you all know this more than anyone like you could have all these different modalities, but honestly, breathing, sunshine, grounding, there are so many things to us that are free that we can do on a daily basis, like taking a deep breath and putting our feet on the ground, connecting to the earth somehow, you know, nurturing our body with good choices and food. And you know, it's just, we take that stuff for granted sometimes and we we kind of skim over it. Like we said in the very beginning of living in such a like we got to do this, we got to do that and it's like well, let's just take a break. I learn a lot from my five-year-old.

Speaker 1:

Let's just stop and look at the caterpillar. You know, let's take a little. I think having a son 10 years I mean we have there was 13, 11 and 10 years apart from our older ones has given us the biggest opportunity to reparent ourselves and rewire ourselves, just taking it slow.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you've hit on some very important parts. I think becoming parents can be one of the faster ways to enlightenment, if we can call it that.

Speaker 1:

That's a great way to put it.

Speaker 2:

And it does continuously give you the invitation to practice compassion towards the self. At the core of my background in neurobiology, so interpersonal psychoneurobiology it's a lot of words, but that's my education. And at the foundation of that is integration. And what does that actually mean? Well, the external manifestation of a brain and nervous system that has a high level of integration is compassion and kindness. So by prioritizing those setting that intention, you're actually increasing a level of integration in your system. Or if somebody has done a lot of work or is very integrated, you will just see that naturally as the expression of how they connect with other people and themselves.

Speaker 2:

So to practice that with oneself, as you're mentioning, it's such a key, foundational. We have to be gentle with ourselves. I tell people often it's not your fault you're messed up. It's such a key, foundational. We have to be gentle with ourselves. I tell people often it's not your fault, you're messed up. It's your fault if you stay messed up, exactly Whatever. Messed up means right. But we can find a way out. It has to come from a place of more intentionality, more consciousness. Otherwise, by default, we're just stuck in the same patterns.

Speaker 1:

When it takes the courage to see the ugly parts. If we want to call it ugly, but we should really look at it as observing the parts that need nurturing. You know, if we want to shift that, like the ugly parts or the shadow side, we can say that that's thrown out there a lot, but really it's observing those parts of us that need nurturing that maybe we didn't receive it or maybe maybe it was shifted a little bit through throughout life or whatever. But that's the way now, you know, I regulate and talk to myself of. You know, what is this bringing up for me? What is my opportunity in this? What does this go back to? Because usually it has nothing to do with the situation at hand.

Speaker 1:

It's like what's what's really manifesting here that I've either ignored, intentionally or unintentionally, or I'm just afraid to dig up, because sometimes that's a factor too, and knowing that, we all have that.

Speaker 1:

And I think that, again, another one of the intentions of this is just to put all of this information out there, to make people know they're not alone, because we've all had those moments where we're scared to see ourselves or, you know, face things in life that lead us to those big openings of awareness and there's so much freedom in that, once you've tasted it and you've felt it and you, you know, you almost seek more of it.

Speaker 1:

And I think that that's probably a lot of what draws people into a warehouse is knowing that like hey, there's a place here where I can continue this growth and I can continue this clarification and awareness and awakening. And I really feel like there's a big shift going on. I know there's a lot going on in the world, but I don't really watch mainstream news so I kind of stay in my little bubble. But I do feel a like intentional, cosmic, universal, conscious shift going on where people are really wanting to get to the root of like, who am I, what does that really mean and what does it feel like and what do I want that to look like? And you know this generation of breaking cycles, whether it be like physical things or emotional patterns or you know so, when you guys, like you, offer retreats and things like that as well and you all kinds of stuff going on there, we do?

Speaker 3:

Um, we are starting to do immersions now, which is going to be three and a half days, almost four days, and I mean we're really devoted to deep, intentional work Right, not just on the surface work, right, and it requires a lot of intention and devotion and takes a lot of energy and also dedication, takes a lot of energy and also dedication.

Speaker 3:

So, um, for that, to be able to bring people into that space, we need to spend a little bit of time with them, right?

Speaker 3:

So those immersions we are, um, our intention is just to create that and, like, spend as much as time as possible and look at things from many different perspectives, many different aspects. It's not just from the physical but, like, my background is energy medicine. I listen to frequencies, I listen to people, I listen to the voices, but I tune in to the heart's frequency, because your energy never lies. Sometimes our mind is just playing games with us. So just to be able to hear both is just playing games with us. So just to be able to hear both, right and um, to be able to bring those people to that space, first, they need to feel safe and they need belonging, and this is what we're just starting to implement at a warehouse, because we have been doing retreats for many years, right, but we take people to some beautiful spaces in a beautiful nature, in different parts of the world. But, like it's, it needs to be more practical and it needs to be more into daily life.

Speaker 3:

And we need to prioritize that. That's what we're trying to implement now, and I think it's going to be amazing.

Speaker 1:

I love that because it's equipping people with the tools to have these shifts in mindset and that's just it. It's because you know, as much as we would love to like, life isn't always a retreat, like I've had like retreat hangovers where you go like for the last three years, I've taken myself on a like a solo Miraval retreat and done all the things. Then I come back and I'm like, okay, I still have four kids and I have like life and I have you know, and it's, it's shocking talking about something that will like shock you. So it's finding those tools and ways to just do it consistently on a daily basis, like what are the daily practices, what are the daily things we can do? And so I'm curious, um, and I know how sometimes it can be a little energetically draining if you are hosting things and doing this all the time, but I think if you create the right balance with it, it can all live in perfect harmony. But what do you guys do for yourselves to maintain your own awareness and physical well-being and what are kind of your go-to things that you do? Because I think that that's something that's interesting.

Speaker 1:

Um, sometimes, when we create spaces like this and, um, like I was saying earlier, I I've been in fitness and wellness and coaching for a long time, but I was in a place where I wasn't being very nice to myself, so it was like I was kind of being a little hypocritical there because I could do it for the people, but who's the person to be doing it for the most? So when, as I realized that and I realized the power behind that shift, you just you level up to a different level of authenticity and it becomes like true and genuine, and for me that was a huge shift. So I'm intrigued as to what you guys kind of do for yourselves as far as this goes.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, for all of us that's a big shift. I mean, we all get stuck there. I always say you got to attend your own workshop. So if you're facilitating the workshop, you also have to be engaged and participated, and if you do so, you're getting just as much out of it as you're putting into it. So it is a generative energy, let's say, and that's what we all enjoy. Dr Sienna joins us in this process because she's bringing a completely different background and lens into the equation and there's just a beautiful coherence between us all. So the way that that kind of unfolds, I think, is going to be a lot of fun. For myself personally, it's not about what.

Speaker 2:

I do do. It's about what I don't do first of all because I I'm just my nature is I like to explore.

Speaker 2:

So, um, I will try a lot of different things and just tune into my body and see how I respond, and then my protocols come from that place. So I'll try everything once kind of thing and just really tune into, like understanding, the mechanisms of action, the science behind it. So I think for me the key is really understanding that the way my body harmonizes with life, nature, working with my biology instead of against it so you get back to those basics that we've already kind of mentioned.

Speaker 2:

Light, waking up in the morning, getting direct sunlight into my eyes, that's a foundational part of my routine every morning. I love silence, right, so, whether you want to call it a meditation, I've taught meditation for many years. For me, it's more about connecting to that unknown, getting beyond all the noise, right, so that's always part of my daily routine. And then water, very intentional and conscious about the water we're drinking. That's a whole other conversation.

Speaker 2:

We can take a deep dive into that that's the whole podcast in and of itself at least. But we try to be very intentional clear water, structured water, water that's going to support the biology again right.

Speaker 2:

And just paying attention to circadian rhythms. I am in the hyperbaric chamber all the time. I do neurofeedback on myself. At this point, I've had so many sessions that I know when my system's requiring it and how that would help balance or regulate me. I'm using RRT, which is rapid release technique for fascia connective tissue. I need to get into the flow press some more.

Speaker 1:

That's one thing I need. I loved that. That was amazing.

Speaker 2:

It's such a parasympathetic. It gets things moving. It's phenomenal. What else? One of my favorite therapies at Thea Warehouse is called IHHT. It stands for intermittent hyperoxia hypoxic therapy. So, like the hyperbaric chamber, it focuses on the increase of oxygen, but where the chamber only increases oxygen through hyperoxia right, so you have an abundance of oxygen available to your body. This actually increases your capacity or tolerance for low oxygen environments.

Speaker 1:

Yes, Tori was telling me that, yes so you're increasing your CO2 tolerance.

Speaker 3:

Right.

Speaker 2:

And CO2 is what actually drives oxygen into the cell.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so the higher the.

Speaker 2:

CO2 tolerance, the more efficiently you're going to metabolize oxygen. So it's a beautiful combination and I'll go back and forth, like, if I'm feeling strong and energetic, I'll challenge myself with the IHHT, if I'm feeling I didn't sleep that well, or feeling a little drained, fatigued, I'll jump in the chamber. Beautiful combination. But that's become one of my favorite therapies that I'm doing on a pretty regular basis at this time because I see VO2 goes up and VO2 is directly correlated, as you know, to overall lifespan and it's a phenomenal way to just increase detox, support the body in a beautiful way. So those are just a few things that come to my mind right in this moment. Um, so again, try a lot of things and the things that really move the needle and really I resonate with me, then I create my protocols I love it and keeping an open mind about it and this is something I've really learned is like what works for me.

Speaker 1:

This week may be completely different than what works next week and I learned this the hard way with cold plunging. I cold plunged at the wrong time and I I was like it was like a nervous system shock to this and I was like, okay, well, that wasn't the time of the month.

Speaker 3:

It wasn't the time of the day, it wasn't the time of the week and I learned my lesson with.

Speaker 1:

That Doesn't mean I'm never going to cold plunge again, but it means that, like just honor, that it's forever changing, like it's an evolution of what's going on internally. Externally, you know, if I know I'm throwing a big kid party, I'm not going to go and do all these other crazy stimulating things. It's more of like rest and relaxation, barefoot in the grass. Silence is huge for me. I very much need my quiet time or the birds chirping and a quiet walk, and you know all the things. So what about you? Uh?

Speaker 3:

actually, I think that's what separates us, like makes us a little bit different than the other places, because we don't let people to go and just, oh, I came to do this. Um, first we need to sit down, we need to get to know you and you need to consciously guide you. See, um, are you sure that that's the best thing for you? Like, okay, you might have heard it from a friend that it worked amazingly well for them, but is it really?

Speaker 2:

gonna work for you.

Speaker 1:

It's gotta work we need to explore everything.

Speaker 3:

I understand, but it needs to be a very conscious process, at least in our place. That's my intention, that I want it to be a conscious process, right, and not a bad thing or not something you know, very fashionable. Go and do it instead, like those things are really supporting our biology. But let's support the biology, right, okay? Um, uh, in addition to everything steve said, like we have so many things, as he um, like, repeated for me, I love to um, just track myself during life, like what is my relationship with life, with the life force? That means I track my relationships and I really want to see what's triggering me, what's happening, what's coming up, and because the more I work with myself, the more I just bring this to a space that I'm not me anymore, right, I come into a pretty much nothing space. I cannot help anyone and I'm a therapist, so I just need to create that space for the people who are coming to just work with us.

Speaker 3:

And, yes, the technologies that we have vibroacoustic therapy it's an amazing tool Because our cells, even people with the busiest mind, when I put them with the PTSD, even like they're having like physical reactions, like Poth syndrome that they have high, like their heartbeats is not just so. I put those people onto vibroacoustic table for like 10 minutes and you have to see the shift. You have to see the change. 10 minutes and you have to see the shift. You have to see the change. So that's an incredible tool that I love to use on myself as much as I find time, because it calms my biology.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it gives me a space of like this is how it feels like to be me right um, I love neural therapy. I am excited to learn.

Speaker 3:

I love it it's just one of the most like she was explaining, yes, and like it's a gift that, like you know, dr cn is bringing us, bringing in to the house, um, all the european biological tools and, um, it's just it's, it's just incredible, like I feel like how the body responds to the scar therapy and, um, those ivs, the homeopathic remedies. I think this is my favorite because I just feel the change in a very dynamic way and it works okay. I work with the human energy field. There's so many layers. This kind of therapies is working with all the layers, right with your mind I mean mind the less, um, but all the other etheric fields and the body responds to it in a such a dynamic way. I love to watch it with our patients and clients. I love to watch it myself. So that's my love to watch it with our patients and clients.

Speaker 1:

I love to watch it myself, so that's my favorite. Yeah, I'm excited to try that. So update after I try it because I'm super excited. Yeah, I was like well one. It has to be kind of nice for you too, because you get to treat yourself to it.

Speaker 3:

You don't have to like do it well, I'll give you a secret treat yourself I'll give you a secret that everybody thinks that we're doing this to help people. Yes, but if you look at this from a like a bigger space, I just I'm doing it for myself, in a very selfish way, of course, because I love the way I feel when I am doing it for other people, right, and the resonance of me. This feels very, very like aligned when I'm doing it.

Speaker 1:

And it is I mean you're combining your life experiences, your passion, your purpose, your intention, and also knowing firsthand how it makes you feel more connected to yourself, and then sharing that gift with other people. And I think when you come at starting any type of business, for that matter, in that way, the abundance, the flow, the whatever you want to call it, will gravitate to you in a way that just it really really can't go wrong when you have that side of alignment. It flows, it allows it to flow, and when I was there, I actually did the flow presso and then I did the ozone sauna and I think that's my new favorite.

Speaker 1:

Back to back, and I will say I had literally just got back from an international trip that week, say, I had literally just got back from an international trip that week, the day before, and I had so much to catch up on, so much back to school, so much life. My mind was just, I was done. I think I fell asleep listening to the affirmations. It was total stillness and for me I have to work for that, I have to really put myself. But I went in with the intention, like, listen, this is your three hours or so to spend on yourself. And I was to really put myself. But I went in with the intention like, listen, this is your three hours or so to spend on yourself.

Speaker 1:

And I was just really proud of myself for honoring that and just letting my mind just go and I felt so detoxed and like truly relaxed because I could as easily have been thinking about oh well, dan's orientation is this day and this day, you know, it's like all the other things I had to be doing, which sometimes happens if I go to take my mindful walk and I've learned to just leave my phone at home. I try not to take any technology with me when I'm walking. Sometimes I have to, if my daughter's with my little guy, you know but then I end up like, oh, let me send this email, let me do it, and it's like, no, you know, set your boundaries and set your intention, because it makes all the difference, setting that intention for yourself, whether it's a little bit of breath, work or going in to treat yourself to a day and we're out.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, well, there's a reason why you like it so much and it's helping you. I mean, you just fall into this space very easily. Um, because the order of what you're trying with. Just first, flow presso is an incredible tool to just really, um, bring you back to parasympathetic. And then, when your body feels safe, the body is now ready to let go. And when you go into the ozone sauna, everything that your cells now are ready to okay, let's dump this right.

Speaker 2:

So that combination is my favorite yeah, and this taps into our creativity, because these protocols that we're creating based on how you responded. So I would add Juvent, get you in front of the red light panel.

Speaker 1:

I did that first. Yeah, I did that first. I forgot about that, perfect.

Speaker 2:

So you do IHHT before that. So now, when you go into this CO2 tolerance state right Hypoxic state what happens is the toxins that are in the cell actually get released because of this process. So now you get on the Juve and the toxins are moved in the interstitial space. So now they're in the bloodstream, now you're getting in the flow press, so you mobilize everything and sweat it all out in the sauna. There's a whole science and there's so much evidence behind all of these steps, so you can see, wherever the person is, that we can start here or we can expand to include this and include this in the sequencing, and it's a very creative process and it's also a very intuitive one.

Speaker 1:

And.

Speaker 2:

I think we all really kind of enjoyed that and seeing it as well, like she gets in there and she says, okay, well, let's look at this one. And that's also super fun, because when you see people responding to something and they've been to this doctor and they've tried this and they did this product, whatever right, but when you set up that space and have that intention, it can be really really okay.

Speaker 1:

Well, looks like I'm going to add some stuff to my next session are you listening to the story? Hey, you know what I'm down, I will clear my day for it. Um, I love that, and you just had a guest speaker, a workshop that you had last week last week was us okay, it's just like a fire.

Speaker 3:

Okay, fireside chat, like we invited everybody from the community, if they have any questions.

Speaker 3:

Yes, we love to invite people in and, just, you know, listen to the community, like what they need and how we can support them. But we invite people from all over guest speakers, as much as we can, because I am, as coming from an international background, I have so many people that I love that I want to come and introduce my people, so we are really prioritizing that. Now it's summer, it's going to be more often in the winter, and then immersion we talked about this Immersion is coming up. What else did we have?

Speaker 1:

I mean we're educators of our heart and I love that, because that's such a pivotal part of it is educating. I guess you can put all of these things out there, but educating people on why and how it's huge.

Speaker 2:

And just as important is, the education is what you unlearn in the process as well, right? So when people come to the immersion, for example, it's a very unique way that we create the space or the format for, because we'll have these little workshops within the immersion. Right so people will gather together and we will have a theme. There will be an educational component, but the education is just setting up a deeper conversation about what we could let go and how we could process this mentally or emotionally, so that there's more space to choose something different. Right? So it all is very multi-layered. We're looking at how it all connects and then we play around with different biohacking technologies and have you ever done this before?

Speaker 2:

and just also, I think we all enjoy just helping people experience, explore, kind of get out of their little world to try this and try that. Because it does require courage, and you mentioned that and there's no change without courage. You just have to get out of the familiar and you got to get better at getting at being comfortable in the uncomfortable.

Speaker 1:

I'll say it that way, you know, and that actually something just came up for me when you were saying that you know, when you're doing these different experiences and you're really releasing things on a cellular level, and I'm sure you guys have run into this and just curious as to how you address, like you know, say, I would have come out of one of those modalities and I'm like, oh my God, I am just so I can't. Like if I'm, if I'm dysregulated, if I'm having a moment, if something's coming up and I'm not ready to physically face it or mentally face it, like how and where? Like how would you implement that? Like would you just like you, coming from your energetic therapy side, you know, reel them in and have a chat Like how does that kind of process work? Because I would assume it happens.

Speaker 2:

Of course it happens. Let me say this First of all, we have an ace in the hole. Dr Sienna has almost 20 years experience in emergency medicine, so we have this, like you know, safety behind us as well right.

Speaker 2:

Because, you don't know, there's certain risks with everything. That's why it's so important to really tune into the residence of the person and find out what their needs are, what their goals are. Um, and we are very experienced in holding space for people, regardless of their level of regulation or dysregulation. We've been in workshops where, um, we're running a process and several people are going into that process in real time, and to ground them, to be present with them, to bring them all back. I mean, so you know 50 people and let's say five, ten of them are in process at the same time. So to have those types of experiences and to know that, if you're grounded enough, you're the continual invitation for them to come back to the space to be present with you.

Speaker 3:

So I don't know that many, many experiences with this. All our, every technology that we're using, they're very, very safe. I need to repeat that? Oh, of course, absolutely. But yeah, it brings up Because, yes, as you said, we're working on cellular levels and, like all the stuck energy of emotions, they come out during the floor, preso session, and it's great and that's why we go into those devices to be able to help us with that process, right?

Speaker 3:

Well, I've been a therapist for 23 years, so that's my background, so I am there. If there's something happening, I know what to do.

Speaker 2:

Steve knows what we're doing and this really differentiates us because, for example, somebody wanted to get in the hyperbaric chamber a couple weeks ago but there was this fear, right and claustrophobic, whatever subconsciously was happening. To get in the hyperbaric chamber a couple weeks ago, yeah, but there was this fear, right and claustrophobic, whatever subconsciously was happening. We never got into the hyperbaric chamber, but we processed all the fear that the hyperbaric chamber brought up. Not very many hyperbaric chamber facilities or whatever, are going to take the time or even understand how to process through that experience and that's why it's so important to have this multi-layered approach, because it's new technology and there's a lot going on out there.

Speaker 1:

So it's like, is it legit, Is it not legit? There's so much of finding trusted and um, you know, honorable practitioners that are willing to sit down with you to get to know the true you, Cause I mean, let's face it, we all walk into somewhere new. You're meeting a representative.

Speaker 1:

you know I'm not going to sit and tell you my entire life story and all of my history and what's. I can't be like you know, nor is it necessarily appropriate, but I want you to know enough about me, my history, my background, my body, my physiology, my mindset, to know how to guide me. But again, not everyone knows that that's important. It's just like, okay, I'm here, this sounds cool and you know so. The fact that you take that approach, I'm sure in a way that they don't even know that that's what you're doing, which is amazing because it's the way it should be. You know that genuine connection and how to reel it in and understand. And you know, it's funny.

Speaker 1:

My daughter's 15 and she's going into her sophomore year of high school and it's been very interesting, you know, having mom and stepdad who have this kind of awareness approach to life and listening to some of the challenges she faces with just peers and normal teenage stuff and, like gosh, I wish I had this level of awareness at her age. I think she's very old soul yeah, older than I am. I feel like she raised me half my life until we had our little shift. But it's very interesting though and it's like wow. You know, we really do have that in us if we're taught at such a young age. So it's, you know, I just see what you guys are doing and how it's even going to trickle into younger generations, and like we don't have to be in our thirties and forties before we go try these modalities and try these things.

Speaker 1:

So what if you know somewhere we're to have, like you know, a super athletic teenager that you know living, and I feel like it's such a push pull for me as a parent, knowing, like, yes, I know how important athletics and how influential it can be for life. However, I know how influential that coach with the old school mentality can be too, can be too. So like have finding that balance between, like, taking care of our bodies, having the awareness, but also fitting into this society as we know it. We're all having the human experience in the world that we live in. So how can we have this conscious experiments and and kind of guide that into? Um, you know the human experience as well, but in a healthy way? So like, do you guys accept or welcome like teenagers, younger children? Is it more adults? Like with open arms.

Speaker 3:

Okay, I love it with open arms because, um, that generation needs help, like it's very different than our youth. Yeah, like as you could. So, um, there's a lot, of a lot going on out there. I like, do I start with the? With the chemicals, the toxins or the messed up dopamine access, with all the like technologies and screens that you're using? It's very different world. I'm not saying it to judge it, because it is what it is, but it's terrifying.

Speaker 3:

I know, I know, and it's heartbreaking, I know it really is yes, well, there has to be something for them, because this is what it is right. So they need help and they need support, and sometimes it's just like it's the age of anxious youth, anxious teenagers.

Speaker 1:

Because, like you said, the constant. Their brain chemistry is very different than ours was at that age, and it's considered normal.

Speaker 3:

I mean, those young people try to live life with that, but that's not normal. My personal aim is just to have them the the experience of what like non-anxiety, or with like a stage of being that there's no anxiety and the body can calm down and they don't have a reference. Okay. So I love to just welcome them, to just have them explore the ways that they can drop into that, so they can experience it and they understand. Okay, I need to prioritize that. You can still flow with life. Those things are not going to change. We can change the environment, but they can create an awareness about, like when it's too much, when it's they can tolerate it anymore, because then it goes to something else. Right, so they can come and take accountability and just do the work, right. I mean, I would love, in an ideal world, that could be implemented in schools. And you know every dream, yeah, right.

Speaker 1:

And and we may get there, you know, and I, and I hope we do.

Speaker 3:

I think some places are like it's opening.

Speaker 1:

Like I said, I think this generation that are having children right now are very much more open to getting back to our roots, like let's go outside and play in the dirt. Like I was so thankful I found a school for my young son, who's five, you know they start their first couple hours outside. They have composting and meditation and breath work as their centers they have. Because I was at a loss, like I love him but I'm not the homeschool type. I can't, I don't have the capacity for that. So I was like where's a pot I can sit and wear, you know, but getting back to those, just just having the, the old school center, sensory stuff, like you said, that is, you know, the, the lights and the screens and the, the constant stimulation and the three seconds of this and three seconds like I, I personally can't deal with it. Like it's actually kind of funny.

Speaker 1:

I started reading fiction novels for the first time ever I've always been like more of a real-time health and wellness type reader and it's interesting because I listen to more of those, because I like to listen. But I started actual reading fiction novels.

Speaker 1:

I like kind of like mystery, psychological thrillers because there still has to be some level of like suspense in there, but I've found that like I can't listen to that because it feels silly, but I like to read it, but it's an escape. It but it's an escape. It's like a time away from the screen. You don't really like to watch TV because it's, like you know, again, it's the screen. I know that I get dysregulated with that, so I would love to even explore this with you guys at some point in time, like doing a little workshop with young like teenagers or something, giving them some of these tools, like exposing them to some of these really cool options. You know, obviously I don't think they can drive themselves to the hyperbaric all the time you know.

Speaker 1:

so tailoring it, though, because it's so important, they don't need it. Just knowing when to put their phone down and walk outside and take a walk If you're, you know my daughter called me last year and she's like I'm just, I'm just taking a walk right now.

Speaker 1:

I need to walk. Yeah, like, okay, what's going on? You know I'm trying to be casual about him but she knew she needed to get out of the house. She didn't take breaths. You need to sunshine, you need to walk, and still very much like going to the beach and putting your feet in the sand. It's like, absolutely you want to go to the beach with your friends. Go to the beach with your friends because it's better than sitting at home on the phone or on the tv or on the computer. And you know so, just a big proponent and just getting back to nature. And you know we're so blessed to live in such a beautiful place for that, and Sarasota is just so great to have all of these different, you know, outlets for that. It's so funny, I feel like lately it's like oh, how are you hot? And it's like, well, it is order, it is kind of nice.

Speaker 2:

Don't you like to sweat Like I don't know.

Speaker 1:

I like it. I'm the only person that likes the heat, so it's kind of funny in that realm. But you know, if you had to or had the opportunity to share a few things that you value most, I'm sure it's all of it, both personally and professionally, about your experience thus far and how you kind of see a warehouse moving and transitioning and, you know, flowing. What would that be for each of you?

Speaker 2:

I still anchored in my intention for integrity, because if this was about making money, we wouldn't be doing this. It was never the priority money, we wouldn't be doing this, it was never the priority. Um, integrity has always been the core. So the way that it's grown, how it's grown, it had to be authentic and it had to, like, still resonate at that core. So the people that work with us, that joined the team, um, they do so because they carry the capacity for that vibration. So it's not about expanding, it's not about taking over the world, it's not about any of those things. It's about staying true to that authenticity and as long as we are grounded and rooted, I'm really not that attached to what it actually looks like as long as we're still creating the space to support the community, um, and also people coming in from all over the world.

Speaker 2:

You know it's fun to interact with them, see, with their backgrounds, how that uh creates different challenges, limitations etc. Um. So that's kind of where I'm at in relationship to the warehouse. It's more about just maintaining that uh, integral integrity and authenticity and helping people, because not everybody gets it right. Right, you get it, you walk in there, you feel it, you resonate with it and it's absolutely okay. There's a very specific intention there, so it's wonderful for us. When people do get it, though, you know, what I mean.

Speaker 2:

That's what makes it all worth it, because, yeah, maybe not for everyone, but everyone could benefit, because we're going to meet people wherever they are.

Speaker 1:

Right and I love that and I think that that's something so important and I've said this very often, like I'm not for everyone and that's okay, and but for the people who are in alignment and I'm a firm believer that, like, what's meant to be for you will always be, regardless of you know it will come into your life. It might be like a little sign. You see, here and there it might be, you know. You see, here and there it might be. You know something I'm sure this is. You guys have seen this a lot and you're like little synchronicities here and there, and so people will be led to you for whatever intention or purpose and whatever's driving them there, and I think that's something very beautiful about having such a great open, like well-rounded space.

Speaker 3:

I think what I want to add to Steve is like, have that vibration yes, the bad side Always like work on that vibration. That's what he means by integrity. That because when we resonate with that people who resonates in the same intention, we're always going to end up somewhere. We're going to find each other. That's the way we yeah, I think that's the way how I want things to just evolve and in a natural way, it's just resonance and the most of the work that we're doing is frequency work and, yes, there's supplements, there's so many things that we can offer, but at the end of the day, it's the frequency our frequency make us feel.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you know, and that, I think, is the biggest thing. How I explain it to people who are like what do you mean by frequency? What do you mean by vibration? It's like, okay, we've all entered a room or sat next to someone that we're like, oh you know, that's frequency, that's vibration. Or we've all been somewhere and someone comes in and they're just like bubbly and light the room and it's like, wow, that's frequency, that's vibration. We've been somewhere where it doesn't feel good. We've been somewhere where it feels so right, so I love that.

Speaker 1:

That's the space you're creating and you, you, you know very intentional about it and you know much like the different areas of life that I dab serve me like it did at all. You know community outreach like it feels so good at one point to just attend all the events, be out there. That doesn't feel that great anymore, you know. So it's. It's learning to balance your passions and your motivations and see what feels in alignment with you in the now. And I think sometimes, when we talk about anxiety and things is we're so, you know, sometimes we look back and compare to things before we're looking ahead, to anticipate things ahead, and it's like if we can just be in our now and learn to be in our now, right in this moment, a lot of that stuff just kind of falls away and our frequency and our vibration can align perfectly if we allow ourselves to be in our moments.

Speaker 2:

So, yeah, the only thing I would add to that and I agree with everything that you're saying is to realize that in the moment you are enough and that what is present with you in the moment is also enough. If not, if we're plugged into scarcity there oh, this should be that way. There's not enough of this. We're already in our minds, we're already in scarcity, we're already in survival and it was lost. So he says the man or the woman that knows when enough is enough will always have enough. But it starts here. You have to know that you're enough and in this moment everything is available, everything is possible.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I'm like teary and I have chili bumps.

Speaker 2:

I love that.

Speaker 1:

And I feel like this has just been such a beautiful intentional conversation. It was great to get to know you guys more on this level level here and um I will plug it in.

Speaker 1:

But a warehouse, sarasota, beautiful space to visit um. You guys are doing such beautiful work. I look forward to having more of your practitioners and modalities and things like that introduced um on the podcast in the future and trying them myself. I think you've become a part of my new routine this season and I'm so excited. So thank you both so much for being here Absolutely a pleasure.

Speaker 2:

Thank you so much. Thank you for inviting us.

Speaker 1:

Thank you,