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Conscious But Grounded
Conscious but Grounded is a podcast about spirituality: high vibe living in the real world. I ask questions like: how do we connect to the magic, spirit, source, the universe - but with our feet firmly planted on the ground? How do we show up in a conscious way and harness that to make big paradigm-busting change in the day to day of our lives?
Conscious But Grounded
S1: Ep 8: How to make spiritual friends
In this episode I consider how to make spiritual friendship, and also why it's important.
You could make wonderful new spiritual friendships on my retreats. Links below.
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Hey! I'm Rachel! I am a qualified Holistic Life Coach and Mind Body Practitioner, Embodiment Coach, Yoga 500hrs (plus lots more extra yoga quals). I'm also an award winning content creator and have 20 years' experience in digital. I'm a mum of 3 kids and I live in the Peak District - oh and I have ADHD and I am sober. My passion is helping midlife women turn meltdown into magic!
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Hello everybody, so I have a car journey ahead of me, and having just left a yoga class, feeling nice and high vibe I thought I would record and I wanted to talk today about, How to make spiritual friends is a big subject. And I have a few things that immediately popped into my mind that reflect my own experience with this. However, first and housekeeping go follow me on Instagram at Rachel Brady yoga. That's where I am. That's. a quick message here or there or leave me a voice note. I also have my website, rachelbradyyoga. com. That's where you can do yoga with me. Come on, retreat with me. I have four seasonal day retreats coming up. They are going to be awesome. They're in the peak district where I live, very accessible via Manchester and Sheffield. And I also have. Two residential retreats coming up. One is called the Wild Connection Retreat. That's in Edale, again, in the Peak District. June 2nd through June 5th. And then November 9th to the 15th, we're going to Cornwall for the Embodied Queen Retreat. And that is luxury, baby. The other one is too, actually. They're both awesome. I'm trying to differentiate them both. They both have a different vibe, but at the end of the day It's all about delicious food, hanging out with our soulful sisters alcohol free, very high vibe, cacao, Ooh, just yumminess, yoga, walking, wild dips. So yeah, go and check those out. And if you want a payment plan and it's not on there, I've put a couple of payment plans on there, but if you're like I want to share a room and I want to do a payment plan and it's not on there, just talk to me about it. Just reach out. I want you to come. So I'm always going to try and accommodate. Yeah subject, how do we make spiritual friends? It can feel really lonely when you embark on a spiritual path and also I would say the type of like spiritual awakening, let's call it that sounds a bit grandiose that though, doesn't it? Oh, I've had a spiritual awakening. But just becoming aware of spirituality, and like it enters your consciousness, you start to become more conscious, more aware, thinking about the soul, thinking about different elements of spirituality, you start to be drawn, maybe you go see an energy healer, maybe you've been going to yoga. Although I will say this, there's a little sidestep here. I was just talking to the incredible gorgeousness that is the teacher who just taught the class. And afterwards I was chatting to her and we've connected on Insta. And I'm gonna hopefully interview her for this podcast. But we were just talking about like how so many yoga classes are. Like yoga for exercise so don't necessarily think that you're gonna meet other kind of spiritual sisters there, because it really depends on the class that you go to, the studio that you go to. So that, I just wanted to caveat that there,'cause that is an obvious one, but it really depends on where you go. So how to make spiritual friends. Yeah, so it normally. The kind of spiritual awakening, let's call it that, for brevity and ease of understanding. And just yeah. So it often happens after a tricky time. And so the tricky time could be very personal to you. So it could be a struggle with addiction, it could be the death of a loved one, it could be something massive happening to you. And that's happening to you, right? It's not happening to your circle of friends, it's a collective, it's happening to you. You might have gone through the other side of cancer or something as I know my spiritual coach had cancer twice and that really I think she was already spiritual but I think that was like that next level to her spiritual awakening if that makes sense. So I think it's happening to you first and foremost. And so it's you that's going to go through this. And unless your friends happen to have been through similar things, then they're probably not going to be in the same spot as you where this is happening. So often we feel quite, we can feel quite lonely in our spiritual path. Now this is slightly different to if you were raised in the church and you go and the church is part of your community. And I'm talking about something slightly different here. I'm talking about maybe a non religious spiritual awakening. Although I don't want to be too granular about it. Everyone's experiences are so different. But I'm thinking more along the lines of what happened to me. Which is I grew up, I had to My friends who all went to Catholic school, and maybe if you asked one or two of them to believe in God, they'd give slightly different answers. But spirituality wasn't a shared interest of ours. It wasn't something we ever talked about. It's something I'm very much going through. And that's okay, but it can feel quite lonely. And so I have naturally made new friends in this kind of And that's come through getting sober and becoming part of a sober yoga community. And then also through doing, through things like training in Reiki being attuned to the Reiki energy. I've done that several times and I've met people through that. I also sought out coaches who were spiritual coaches. And so I've got to Excuse me. And I've met people so through joining the spiritual coaches that I've got and I've interacted with, through joining their other offerings, their group offerings, I've met people through that. And then I've vibed with that person and they've offered something and then I've gone on their event and I've met them. So yeah, that's where this thought process is coming from. And it's like, how do you, where do you go to look for these people? So I've got some. Practical ideas. And there was one for you already. So it's like work with a spiritual coach, access group programs or group offerings. Maybe for example, I don't know, like an embodiment experience or group experience or reparenting experience, or again, training in Reiki, something like that. Go towards a group program and that is spiritual in nature. You don't have to understand why you're going towards it. Like for me, the follow the breadcrumbs is really important. And they say that sometimes it's in spirituality and in sobriety. It's like just keep following the breadcrumbs. you wrong, that the universe will just drop breadcrumbs. I keep hearing about Reiki. What's that about? I keep, I keep seeing signs for this thing. What's that about? Just don't question it. Just follow it. You don't have to have a plan. A lot of people are tuned in Reiki or do yoga trainings and go I actually don't even know why I'm here. I don't even want to be a yoga teacher. I don't want to be a Reiki practitioner. I'm just Following the calling or maybe you'll train in like crystals or something like that. If it appeals to you and it's starting to speak to your heart, then follow that because you will meet like minded Queens in those spaces. Go to cacao ceremonies. So I've noticed I put my retreat on Eventbrite the other day. Oh, I've not got anything from it at all and maybe I just didn't do a very good listing. But I find a lot of, There's a lot of stuff on those things, on those I think there's a lot of those like event listing websites, also on Facebook, like Facebook events. Just like search, cacao ceremonies, women's circle, crystals anything that you are being drawn towards, start to go to those places. And also if you are sober, don't rule out meeting spiritual friends in AA as well because I've spoke to quite a few women recently in my sober circle that were Very resistant to AA and they're giving it a try and they're actually meeting people at those places. And also, go to Sober Circles online if you're sober curious, you know there's so many great sober communities, oh there's so many, I'll list them in the show notes below because there's so many, and I've dipped in and out of them and sometimes I don't Necessarily stay in the community. It's not,'cause I didn't, Dalton didn't like it. We only have so many hours in the day. So go to one way. You feel the vibe is most suited to you and that tends to be for me, the ones like that are around yoga and things like that. So yoga, I think if you can find a real yoga studio in your area, you're very lucky. And if you can't then go online and find a yoga teacher that you resonate with, that's doing the real yoga the full spectrum yoga that talks. about yoga philosophy, but isn't just about the asana practice. The asana practice is really important and I love it. I don't want to do it down, but there is so much more to yoga than that. That is a preparatory practice to get into the state of yoga. And so find yoga communities. Even if you don't know what half the things are on their schedule, like just show up with an open heart and an open mind. Don't be afraid to talk to people. I think often in yoga studios, I'm really chatty, even though I'm an introvert. I'm a complete paradox. But what I've found is I go to a city center yoga studio and sometimes people don't talk and I'm like, Oh no, we should talk. Because that's the whole point. One of the thing, points of yoga is like connection. So in my classes, I make sure that, if you come to my in person class or on online class, we always do a check in. I try and establish that for community connection. So where else can you meet spiritually like minded individuals? So there are quite a few famous big spiritual thought leaders. Gabby Bernstein, Sahara Rose, they're two that I really vibe with. And there are so many more is it Rebecca Campbell? Kyle Gray, the angels guy. Oh, I had tickets to go and see him in London and then I was sick. So my next suggestion is follow the big hitters and then see what events they're doing. Go to the events and sit next to people and just like talk to people because it is lonely being spiritual sometimes. If your whole family and your whole friendship group, as much as you love them and adore them, they might, they're not on the same journey as you necessarily, maybe they are, but for a lot of people they might not be. It's okay to start talking to someone who's sitting next to you and say can we swap numbers? Or are you on Instagram? Or I think a lot of the time when one light worker or when one like spiritual soul meets another, they can be super excited and happy to meet someone else on the path. That's been my experience. And if you don't get that vibe, like it's not the end of the world. Don't take it personally. Don't be too upset or hurt. Another way I've just thought of actually. There's like dating apps and stuff where you know, you can actually go on them to meet friends. I've done that before. I've gone on and I and actually the person I met wasn't particularly spiritual, but like we really hit it off. And so you could absolutely go on Bumble, set it to the friend setting and put in I'm spiritual. I'm like, I want to go to yoga classes with people. I want to do women's circles and whatever put it on there and go. Sober not sober, don't have to be sober spiritual women. Because the likelihood is they're looking for friendship and sisterhood too. The other things you can do is be more proactive in your spirituality. Explore it in a creative way. Maybe start a sub stack. Maybe start a podcast. It's so easy to start a podcast. Maybe start a YouTube channel. Maybe post more stuff about it on your socials. If you've been hiding it a little bit, maybe I to be more open about it because then maybe your friendship circle that already exists will be like actually I want to come to that too, like I feel drawn to that too because I really feel like there is a collective awakening happening at the minute. I feel like we all miss elements that the more like church based communities and things like that used to offer. We, as we head towards this more apparently more secular society, I still feel, I feel like it's the missing piece. It's We need to sit in circle. We need to go on nature walks together. We need to do these things. We need to take cold dips at the beach, it's no wonder that these things are getting more popular. Like the pubs are closing, the churches are closing. We need places to gather. That's another great one actually. Even if you don't live near the sea, get in your car or get on the train, go to the coast. Google like cold dip groups. They are the friendliest groups. I was once walking on the beach in Abersoch. I love that part of Wales. And I wasn't really into my cold dipping then. I'd done it a couple of times. I was like a cold dip baby. And the Abersoch cold dipping group was there. That's not what they're called, but. And they were like, Oh, why don't you join us tomorrow? Yeah. Come and join us. They're always like a bunch of eccentric women with bobble hats and like red raw legs, flasks of coffee. And they're always like. Is a bit mad, aren't they? People that jump in the ocean when it's freezing, but they're the type of people that you want to meet join walking clubs and things like that. Not every activity has to be a spiritual activity as such, but you're going to you're more likely to meet those types of people in those environments, I think, rather than the pub or the club, just my opinion. So I'm gonna leave it there. I'm probably gonna think of 10 other places that you can meet spiritual people now, But I just wanted to, after like just chatting to the teacher. for the first time after the class then and it really made me think gosh it's so nice to meet another high vibing sister and be like yay exciting and they're always really open hearted people as well and it's valentine's day as well today so that just that reminder that like it always doesn't always have to be romantic love right it can be like sisterly love and we can love on each other because relationship love like romantic love can be complicated and have and it's sisterhood, and especially in spirituality, spiritual sisterhood can be the most beautiful thing. So let's all go out there and get some more of that. Okay, I'm going to leave it there. Love you guys. Until next time, leave a review. It really helps my podcast. Okay. Bye.