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(#31) Ayurvedic Wellness, Living Your Dharma, and Energetic States with Amayra Morales

February 28, 2024 Rae The Somatic Coach Episode 31
(#31) Ayurvedic Wellness, Living Your Dharma, and Energetic States with Amayra Morales
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(#31) Ayurvedic Wellness, Living Your Dharma, and Energetic States with Amayra Morales
Feb 28, 2024 Episode 31
Rae The Somatic Coach

Our next guest expert joins us today to share more about Ayurvedic health and wellness.

Amayra Morales is a corporate drop out who ended up in the hospital due to burnout. Amayra started to question every aspect of her life and realized that her time in the corporate world was over. She packed her bags and headed to India to fulfill her dream of becoming a yoga teacher and that was the beginning of the end. Amayra now helps millennial women holistically manage their rosacea naturally so they can glow from the inside out.

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Tune in to today's episode to receive: 

  • Listen to Amayra's story of finding Ayurvedic Health Coaching
  • Learn why living your dharma is important for overall wellness and health
  • Take the quiz below to discover your Ayurvedic energetic blueprint (Dosha)
  • Practical wellness tips to help with digestion based on your dosha
  • Why living a low-toxin lifestyle is important and how to take a few steps in this area

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Disclaimer: Please remember that the information shared on this podcast is intended to inspire, educate, and support you on your personal journey. It does not substitute for professional mental health advice. I am not a psychologist or medical professional. If you are experiencing any emotional distress, mental health challenges, or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified professional.

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Our next guest expert joins us today to share more about Ayurvedic health and wellness.

Amayra Morales is a corporate drop out who ended up in the hospital due to burnout. Amayra started to question every aspect of her life and realized that her time in the corporate world was over. She packed her bags and headed to India to fulfill her dream of becoming a yoga teacher and that was the beginning of the end. Amayra now helps millennial women holistically manage their rosacea naturally so they can glow from the inside out.

Connect with Amayra on Facebook
 
Tune in to today's episode to receive: 

  • Listen to Amayra's story of finding Ayurvedic Health Coaching
  • Learn why living your dharma is important for overall wellness and health
  • Take the quiz below to discover your Ayurvedic energetic blueprint (Dosha)
  • Practical wellness tips to help with digestion based on your dosha
  • Why living a low-toxin lifestyle is important and how to take a few steps in this area

Resources:

Opportunities to Work Together:

DM on Instagram

Subscribe & Review on Apple Podcasts
Follow & Rate on Spotify

Download Breathe Easy: How To Create Your Own Breathwork Practice

Get started with 1:1 coaching here.

Participate in Curious Convos. Share your questions and topic requests!

Disclaimer: Please remember that the information shared on this podcast is intended to inspire, educate, and support you on your personal journey. It does not substitute for professional mental health advice. I am not a psychologist or medical professional. If you are experiencing any emotional distress, mental health challenges, or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified professional.

Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Radiant Life podcast. I'm your host, ray the Stematic Coach, and I'm here to support you in healing your past, living in the present and creating your future so that you can become the most centered, embodied and happiest version of yourself. Each week, I'll be bringing you episodes to help you navigate life's challenges, ease stress and tension and learn more about holistic healing, spirituality and wellness. If you're interested in becoming the best version of yourself so that you can live the life of your dreams, then you're in the right place. Subscribe to the podcast and the monthly newsletter and follow me on Instagram and TikTok to know when new episodes are released each week. I am so happy that you've landed here. Let's dive in. Welcome back to the Radiant Life podcast. If you are new here, I'm Ray. I'm a Stematic Coach and Breathwork Facilitator and I help women with anxiety. And if you aren't new here, welcome back and thank you so much for tuning in to today's episode.

Speaker 1:

For today's episode, we have our next guest expert, amira Morales, and she's going to be sharing with us all about Ayurvedic health. She's going to talk a little bit about living a low-tox life and I learned a lot from the conversation. I had a great time connecting with her, and I hope that you enjoy it as well. I'm excited to bring to you our next guest expert, amira. We were able to connect through a Facebook group, and so I'm excited to just bring to you her and her work in the world. So, amira, thank you so much for being here with us.

Speaker 2:

Oh, Rachel, thank you so much for connecting and, yeah, really looking forward to sharing this wonderful medicine of Ayurveda with your audience.

Speaker 1:

I would love to hear just more about you, where you're from.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so I was. Well, I'm coming to you live from the Sacred Valley, corsair Baru, which is an amazing and pleasing place to be in, so I happily got stuck here during the lockdown. So I grew up in Peru but then went to live in Australia hence my accent and then came back here in like August 2019 to kind of reconnect with my roots and got stuck here and I've been here ever since and, yeah, just really loving my time here in Peru.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that sounds amazing. I've always wanted to go to Peru and visit. I've been to a little bit of South America, I've been to Argentina and Brazil and Chile, but I have yet to be to Peru. Sorry, I need to visit. That's amazing. Okay and yeah, thank you for sharing just a little bit about where you are and how did you become an Ayurvedic health coach? What was that journey like? Tell us a little bit more about that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. So I don't know anybody that comes into the world of Aveda because of perfect health. Now, usually a lot of us arrive here because we kind of had to go through our own challenges. No, then to come out the other side, heal and then share our knowledge with other people no. So for over 10 years I was kind of like busy climbing the corporate world in Sydney until I hit a really low health point and I ended up in hospital due to burnout. And I don't think there's a bigger wake-up call in the world than staring at the ceiling of a hospital room realizing that I had no one to blame but me. I had kind of pushed my body to its absolute limit and there I was.

Speaker 2:

And then, after I was released from hospital, I went from specialist to specialist really trying to find answers to what was going on. No, but of course I didn't get very far and the only solution at that time seemed to be prescription medication. No, but kind of like I became increasingly frustrated and I kept thinking to myself surely there's another way of doing this. No, but this is when I realized that we're kind of outsourcing our health to other people and really they know better than we do no. So I just kind of said well, you know, this is probably the card that I've been handed in this lifetime and my result, my blood results, you know, they came back fine. Everything seemed to be normal or within range. Maybe it's genetics, maybe it's age, so all of these kind of terms kept being thrown around. No, and it wasn't until one day I had a chat with my friend and I was expressing how frustrated I was feeling, no, and he said well, babe, it's kind of on you. No, because I doubt that every specialist is going back to their bond. I mentioned overlooking the water, eating dinner on their very own plates, thinking just like gosh, how can I help a myomeralis a little bit more? No, you're just a number to them. And that kind of sent a shock through my body. And that's when I realized that I had been outsourcing my health to other people. No, and it was time for me to kind of get educated on what was happening. And you know, and I ended up like doing a little research and keto kept coming up, intermittent fasting, kind of what diet? Others would say no, like vegan is the answer. So I felt a little bit overwhelmed and confused about, like, what to do so. Then I decided okay, I'm just going to go to India to do my yoga teacher training and then see where life takes me. No, and I don't know if you've ever been to India, rachel, but India really has the power to like change and do this whole transformation. And I didn't know it at that time. But that flight from Sydney to Bangalore would actually change my life forever and would actually set me in this path of wellness.

Speaker 2:

No, so after I got sick, after I finished my yoga teacher training, I got sick again, I know, but this time it was different. I was in a different country, I didn't speak the language, I didn't know what was going on. So then, through a series of fortune events, I ended up at a Avaidic clinic. So I had heard about Avaidic in my yoga teacher training course, but it just seemed a little bit woo-woo. But I thought what have I got to lose, kind of thing. No. So within an hour, this Avaidic doctor put pieces of the puzzle together for me and said to me like I know exactly what's going on with you and I'm sure that I can help you. No, I just need reassurance that you're in this. No, because it's not going to be easy. It's not like Western medicine where you're just taking tablets and then hopefully, everything will change. No, it takes a lot of work from your partner. But I was like, wow, he actually knows and is willing to get to the root cause of these things. No, so I was super excited.

Speaker 2:

I then went on to do his 21-day detox and within 15 days I started to feel so much better. I started sleeping more, I had more energy, I was digesting food properly, my skin cleared up and overall, I had this sense of calmness in my body. No, and that was really really like I hadn't felt like that before. I know this connection to the body. As you know, you're a somatic practitioner, so being connected to the body is really key and I was able to do this through food, through sleeping, through breath, work, like what, what you know?

Speaker 2:

So after I finished his detox program, I kind of hung around India a little bit more because I felt really connected to that country. And then I went back to Sydney and then I started really absorbing on everything to do with AUVADA podcasts, books, webinars, you name it. I was all over it and I came across this AUVADA school that was offering a certification program that really focuses on digestion and nutrition and that really spoke to my soul. So then I enrolled in AUVADA school and while I was kind of learning all these things, I started posting on my personal Facebook.

Speaker 2:

No, and people were like, oh my God, I have that, I'm gassy, I'm bloated, I can't sleep and I've got skin issues. And I was like, wow, so many people are going through this, why aren't we all talking about it, kind of thing? No, and that's kind of like how I became an accidental AUVADA health coach, because then a friend of mine said to me, why don't you turn it into a business? And I was like, huh, people pay for this information. I had no concept of a health coach or anything. No, so, yeah, that's how I became an accidental AUVADA health coach.

Speaker 1:

It just sounds like such an empowering journey definitely some bumps along the road, but all kind of everything kind of aligned that brought you to this moment. And, yeah, thank you for sharing just so transparently about your journey of finding Ayurveda. I have yet to be to India. I would love to go one day.

Speaker 1:

It sounds very transformative and it is so interesting because, like you mentioned, in the Western culture you would receive a pill and it would be a lot different or you might jump around to different specialists, but it sounds like what you were experiencing was really tailored to your personal body and how your body may have been responding to food or I'd love to hear more about that process, but that sounds like it was just really tailored to you and what was coming up for you, and so that seems like maybe what set it apart, rather than kind of like this one size fits all, here's a pill, take this, It'll make it go away. I'd love to hear more. Yeah, like what exactly is Ayurveda? What exactly is Ayurvedic medicine? Is it all food based or yeah, tell me a little bit more about that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I love this question, Do you know why? Because I'm hearing it more often, you know, and this question excites me because I'm an Ayurveda geek, you know, and I'm finding out a lot of our practices. Now we're going back to ancient cultures and looking at the way that they were doing things now, whether it's traditional Chinese medicine, ayurveda but I feel like it is having a comeback now and maybe some of your audience members are actually practicing Ayurveda and they may not even know about it. So Ayurveda actually come from two Sanskrit words Ayurved meaning life and Veda meaning knowledge. So in Ayurveda it really means like the knowledge of life. So it originated in ancient India about 5000 years ago, and I believe that Ayurveda is one of the most sophisticated and powerful health systems in the world now. And if I could kind of sum it up, it would really be in one sentence and it's to create balance between the body and the mind, you know if that's the most kind of simplest terms now. So in the West we're kind of so fascinated with diet, but in Ayurveda it says that's just one fifth of the equation, because Ayurveda also looks at lifestyle, mindfulness, practices, relationships.

Speaker 2:

Are you living your dharma, your purpose? So when all these questions were thrown to me in my initial consultation. I'm like what do you mean? Like I have a job. And he's like, no, that's your job, that's not your purpose. I'm like and I really battled with this idea of dharma purpose no, and I was like, hang on, because I don't know what my purpose is. That is related to my digestive issues. And he's like, yeah, it can be. And I was like, what? Okay?

Speaker 2:

So it was really really, really interesting to hear from their point of view and, as you mentioned, everything in Ayurveda is catered to that particular individual. So, naturally, you know what you require, rachel, may be very different to what you know is working for me. So that's why we have to be really mindful when we're giving information out. Like everybody should be drinking, like Claude Green smoothies, and it's like, no, not everybody should be having that. No, some people can and some people won't know. So this is why, like, what works for you may not work for me, and what works for me may not work for my next door neighbor. So this is the beauty of Ayurveda, and so it's based on bio individuality.

Speaker 1:

I love that message so much. I think it's so important that we do explore, like, what is aligned for us personally, and there is so much influence out there, and so I think it is important to have that awareness around. Wait a minute, let me pause, let me check in. Is this really for me? Does this feel good for me, my body, my mind, my spirit? And that's so interesting to hear that Ayurveda is so comprehensive. It's including all these different parts that I didn't know. I thought it was just food, so I'm learning already. This is pretty cool.

Speaker 2:

Dhadama is just you've come here with a particular, a soul's mission kind of thing. No, so quite often when we don't know what our purpose is and we're just kind of flowing through life, just working here, doing a job here, but not really passionate about it, that will kind of build up in the body because you're not really passionate about your. I don't know. I don't want to offend anybody here, but about the insurance job, like that. Insurance industry is not a passion of mine, but I'm just doing it because it's paying the bills and I realize that some people have the luxury of going out there and building businesses and thriving and other people feel stuck in this job. So that stuckness, that stagnation, can actually build up in the body and come out as digestive issues or emotional issues. So, yeah, so that's your dharma, but your dosha is actually I believe it's kind of like the gay weight drug of Ayurveda, because it's initially kind of hooks people into Ayurveda and the dosha can be described as energy types, just to make it kind of super simple.

Speaker 2:

No, so Ayurveda actually takes into account the five elemental forces that surround us and are within us each day. No, so it's ether, air, fire, water and earth, and then they come down to make the three doshas. So this is Vata, pitta and Kafa. And so when you actually start to practice Ayurveda, one of the first things that you will discover is your actual unique constitution. So your dosha? No, so you might be primarily Vata with a little bit of Pitta and then maybe in balance in Kafa. So once you start to see practitioner, they will actually be able to tell you and say right, so it seems like your Vata is out of balance. So this is the one that we need to bring back into balance. No, and some of the reason these doshas come out of balance is due to diet, due to stress, due to lifestyle reasons and movements. So too much movement or lack of movement.

Speaker 1:

As an Ayurvedic health coach, you're helping someone what sounds like really fine balance in their life and really help them kind of find that place of equilibrium, that which, myself included, I think we often seek when things feel out of balance. We're like, oh no, what's happening? So it sounds really supportive and really based on their energy, their purpose and all those other aspects that you mentioned earlier. So what are some Ayurvedic practices or lifestyle changes that might create the biggest impact for someone if they were interested in wellness?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so kind of like the focus of a Vata is really digestion. So for me, hands down, we really need to focus on digestion, and it's not just about kind of the food that we're digesting, but we're also digesting emotions, events, you know. So we've got unresolved issues as well. So you could have the most amazing diet you could have maka coming from like the Andes of Peru, salt from the Himalayas no, so you could have the most amazing diet if you haven't processed emotions no, and I'm not dealing with them then that's going to have a ripple effect on your digestion as well. So, kind of like what I mentioned before no, in the West we look at a one size fits approach when it comes to diet. No, but Ayurveda says, ah, no, this is, we're all unique individuals. No, so we really need to focus on that. So for me, it's really like working out what your dosha is, so your unique constitution, and then tailoring a diet that is in accordance with that. No, that is going to bring you back into balance. No, so, for example, if you are Vata dominant, it may mean that you are experiencing too much wind in the system. No, so maybe racing thoughts, maybe insomnia, maybe just having too many like projects that you want to do but not being able to execute them no. And in the body, this can come across as indigestion, so too much gas, bloating, constipation, no, so too much air in the system. Cracking joints is another one no. So with this particular dosha, we need to really focus on grounding. No, having root vegetables, because quite often Vatas are living in the head. No, so we need grounding. So maybe something like sweet potato, carrots, those are kind of things. No, foods that are really warm and nourishing and easy to digest. So we wouldn't really go for like a cold kale, green salad kind of thing. No, we would go for like a soup or a curry, you know, something that is going to really help them digest food properly. And if you are the pitadosh, it means maybe you have too much fire in the body, so this can come across as acne, irritation, anger, frustration. No, so we need to cool you down. So maybe think about like coconut, coconut milk, watermelon, cucumber. So all of these practices, no.

Speaker 2:

And then if you are the third dosha, which is the katha dosha, it means air on earth. So you are too maybe grounded. No, so too stagnant. So maybe think about spices that are going to like invigorate you no. So cayenne, pepper, ginger, tumeric no. And having light foods like tofu no, because if a katha person goes and has like pasta and really difficult to digest foods, it's just going to make them more lethargic. So really focusing on the digestion is absolutely key, and digestion actually takes about 70 to 80% of our overall energy. So we really need to work on making things super easy for the digestive system. No, and a common question that people ask me is like well, how do I know if I have a weak digestive system? And I'm like well, if you have a weak digestive system, you may be experiencing gas, bloating, indigestion, you may have a white coating on your tongue. No, you may have irregular bowel movements or you may even have like low energy after meals. So really the key is working on the digestion.

Speaker 1:

If someone were completely new to Ayurveda, what might be like one to two tips or practices that they could do to incorporate into their life pretty easily?

Speaker 2:

So I think, like one of the first things and one thing that I always go back to is warm water in the morning, first thing in the morning. No, so we've got Ayurvedic practices. Maybe we're doing some tongue scraping, we're doing some oil pooling, and then people like, may reach out for a cold coffee, no. Or a cold green smoothie no, because essentially, you know, one of them is going to give you energy or the other one you perceived it to be quite healthy. No, but in Ayurveda we like to say, okay, let's step back. No, so we like to think of, like, the digestive system as, like, the kitchen sink. No, if there's some, like if you're kind of clogged, if your kitchen sink is clogged up, the first thing you're not going to put is icy cold water. Right, you're more than likely going to put warm water just to clear that out. No, and it's exactly the same in the digestive system. No.

Speaker 2:

So we want to really incorporate warm water in the morning and maybe you want to add some, you know, some salt, some Celtic salt or something, or some lemon or some turmeric. No, because if you think about it, if you've had a really good sleep, you have really not had anything for, like you know, let's say, eight, nine hours, no, so naturally the body is going to be dehydrated. No, so we want to bring it back into a state of hydration. So that's my number one tip, I guess. And number two is really start to familiarize yourself with spices. You know, spices in Ayurveda is really really key. No, and they're not just there to give you taste. No, a lot of these spices are there to help you digest food. You know, they help you to create enzymes in the body so you can really digest food properly. So, yeah, those are kind of like the first two things that I would think about.

Speaker 1:

I love cooking with spices. My husband last year had to cut me off. He was like no more shopping for spices, the cabinet is full and I'm like, but I need I want to be a baby practitioner in my baby's life To come in and just look at the cabinet. It's stacked, it's fully stacked. We have so many spices in there.

Speaker 1:

I got that from my brother when he was, when we were all living at home at my parents at one point. He always cooked with spices so I kind, he kind of took me under his wing a little bit and taught me a little bit about everything. And then we had a swami that was living with us for a little while. So we were like cooking for the swami and taking care of him and all this stuff and so we had we learned a lot about spices during that time. But that sounds, that sounds really nice. So yeah, I'm one of your favorite spice, my favorite. I love the smell of like cardamom. Cardamom to me smells like so nice. I put it in my oatmeal, it's so good, Amazing. So I know a little bit about your journey and it sounds like the digestion has been really important and you've kind of branched out and found yourself in, like skincare and rosacea. Is that right? Do I have that right?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So now, like, that's one, that's a huge kind of like passion of mine. Cause, when I was going through all these health challenges, one thing that I couldn't really work out is like my inflamed skin, cause every time I would go to the doctor, they would give me prescription medication. Or when I would go to the dermatologist, they would say, okay, you just need to put these cream solutions and potions, and I was like, okay, and they may have worked for a little bit, but then my rosacea came back with a vengeance now, and I felt like banging my head against the wall, cause I didn't know. No, I didn't know what else to do. No, and then, once I actually discovered Ayurveda, my doctor said rosacea is actually not a skin condition and I was like, what, what do you mean? It's on my skin, it's staring at me every day in the mirror, kind of thing. And he says, no, like in Ayurveda we treat it as a gut issue combined with a nervous system issue, and that actually, like seemed so bizarre to me because no medical professional in Sydney was like, yeah, let's actually, let's examine your gut and let's see what's going on. They're just taught to give out medication.

Speaker 2:

So once I actually started incorporating a diet that reduced my inflammation, that really made you know, having warm and easy to digest meals. I was doing some meditation, I was working on my sleep. Boom, like my rosacea started to clear up and I was like, wow, like crazy, like no pills, no creams, no lotions and nothing like that. So it was really about learning my triggers, learning about the emotional side of rosacea because one thing that can set it off is anxiety or nervousness or anything like that or like a major event that has happened in your life. And I started practicing more mindfulness in every day and really focusing on the sleep. So really like we've over complicated a lot of things in modern life and it's really about Aveda really teaches us to step back and be like it's super simple, let's begin in the gut, kind of thing. So I didn't realize that I had so much inflammation in the body until I saw my Avedic doctor.

Speaker 1:

I could understand why what we eat does affect like our skin and how important the nervous system is, and practicing mindfulness and it's really this whole like comprehensive approach to wellness. It feels like really inclusive of all the important aspects of feeling balanced. And I know something else that you've also mentioned is living with like low toxins. Like that seems to be something that you've talked about more. Can you share a little bit about that?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, super interesting. So when I was in India and I saw my doctor and he's like, okay, so let's, let's have a look at like what you're going to be doing in your skincare, because really in Ayurveda we really rely on oils, and I'm like I physically felt like I was putting like 20 bottles in front of him and he was like what's all this? And I'm like this is my skincare routine. And he was like I don't even know half of this stuff, but you will need to throw them out. And I was like I spend so much money on it and you know, this cleanser goes with this, and then this, this serum. And he's like you don't need all of that. So like he goes a bit okay, tell me like, first of all, how do you pronounce this? And I'm like I don't know how to pronounce that. And he's like what is it? I'm like I don't even know what that is. So instantly he started to guide me and like, tell me like you don't need all this stuff.

Speaker 2:

No, and our skin is actually our largest organ and 80% of what we put on our skin gets absorbed into our bloodstream. So this means about like two to three kilos of toxins gets accumulated through exposure of toxins in our skincare, in our sunscreen, in our makeup, in our shampoo conditioner and all sorts of things and obviously that goes into our bloodstream and then that has a ripple effect on our overall health. And a study came out about two or three years ago I think, where it found that women are putting around 168 chemicals on their body per day. So that's that's quite a lot, and I realized that it's very difficult to live a load kind of like a no tox life. There is still some toxins in our food, in our water, in our air, in plastic and wherever, but it's actually living a low tox life is actually a little bit more simple than people think about. So if we can start reducing the toxic load by making the right choices of what we put on our skin, that's going to have a ripple effect on your overall health. Because right now I don't know if you kind of I geek out on all this stuff, but women right now are having so many hormonal issues and fertility rates are through the roof and there's just so much going on and a lot of it has to do with what we're putting on our body.

Speaker 2:

So when I actually start working with my clients. I get them to have a look at their, their skincare products. What are they washing their clothes with? And you can have the most amazing diet, but if you're spraying for breeze in your house, think about all these chemicals are going into your system. So, yeah, that's something that I'm really passionate about, and it's really about simplifying a lot of things. In a VEDA, we tend to rely a lot on just oils oils to cleanse, oils to put on your body. There's just a lot of emphasis on oils.

Speaker 1:

That makes perfect sense. And if someone wanted to maybe just take one step towards the living, a lower tox life, what might be one thing that they could do? Would it be just kind of like taking inventory of their materials, like of their skincare, like what would that look like?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, exactly, this is. One practice that I do with my clients is like look at all your skincare, do a Google search on each item, like if you can't pronounce it or if it has numbers on it, it's more than likely. Like you know a coloring or a fragrance or something like that. So really educate yourself, go through each thing. Maybe not in one day, but maybe just focus on I don't know body wash today and have a look. Is there a better solution? Is there a better thing that I can be using?

Speaker 2:

Because I don't know about you, rachel, but when I look at my bottles, like the writing is just getting smaller and smaller, not because they're putting so many other ingredients in it. So I'm like, quite often and I'm 40, right, so it's not like my vision is pretty bad, but quite often I have to take a photo of the product on my camera and then like enlarge and be like okay, so how do you spell that? You know that word has like 20 different letters on it. I don't even know how to pronounce it. So really it's about educating yourself. You know doing like you're saying. You know like go in, have a look, do a Google search and, you know, find out if there's better products.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, there's a quality there of like really living with intention and being really mindful of what you are putting on your body and what you do bring into your house, and if you're really looking to yeah, live more of an Ayurvedic lifestyle and a more balance and really get in tune with your wellness. Before we kind of close out here, I have two more questions for you. If someone wanted to connect with you or work with you, what does that look like?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so I'm a little bit old school, so I'm still hanging out on Facebook, so come and hang out with me there. I'm Ira Morales, so I actually have a three month program called cleanse, nourish, glow. So I will take you through, like how to cleanse the body, how to cleanse your products and then how to bring things back into your diet. So it's a nourishing part, and then the glow, so we take a look at the skin. So, as you mentioned, I particularly work with women who are undergoing rosacea. So, yeah, you can work and find out through. Yeah, myra Morales.

Speaker 1:

I love that, yeah, and we'll put all of that information in the show notes for anyone that wants to connect with myra. And my last question this is something that I ask all of our guests that like to join us on the podcast is what is one thing it could be anything, a book, a song, a person, a place, thing that is lighting you up and inspiring you right now in life?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so my inner herbalist is coming out, so I've started like making my own oils at home. Like my kitchen right now is a complete mess, like I've got herbs everywhere things are drying like so I've got herbs infused in oil. So this kind of thing is like really lighting me up at the moment. No, so I'm like trying to work out how do people make soaps and creams and all of these things. And in two weeks I'm actually starting a course here in Cusco with this beautiful man who knows how to make essential oils and soaps and, you know, hand creams and all that stuff. So I'm definitely going to be geeking out with him and I've got so many questions for him, because right now I've kind of been like winging it, just like, oh yeah, I've been looking at some YouTube videos, but I really like want to deep dive into like how, how to do all of these things properly.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that sounds beautiful. Like so much fun. Some plays, some creation, amazing. Well, thank you again, amira, for joining us. Thank you, rachel, have a beautiful day. Thank you so much for tuning in to today's episode. If you were moved or inspired, please share with me by leaving a reading and review on Apple Podcast. It means the world to me and I am so appreciative for your support in helping my podcast grow. If we aren't already connected on social media, head over to Instagram and TikTok and follow me at Ray the Semantic Coach. Make sure you check out the show notes of today's episode for links to freebies, opportunities to work with me and ways we can stay connected outside of the podcast. I'm so happy that you're here and I can now eat to talk with you on our next episode of the Radiant Life Podcast.

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