Helen du Cros - A Space to Breathe

How does intuition show up in everyday life—not just for psychics or energy workers, but in parenting, teaching, and even customer service? This interview is with Helen du Cros from A Space to Breathe, a holistic health practitioner whose offerings include yoga, breathwork, reiki, meditation, and sound therapy.

Helen shares how intuition weaves through her life, and how something as simple as the breath can open the door to deeper self-trust. This episode explores the many ways intuition speaks to us - through feelings, sensations, emotions, and knowing - and how each of us can discover our own unique “intuition language.”

If you’ve ever wondered how to tune in to your inner voice, this conversation will leave you inspired, grounded, and ready to listen within. You can connect with Helen on facebook, instagram or her website (coming soon).

Transcript

Michelle: 0:00

Hello curious friends and welcome to Connect to Center, the podcast about learning to listen to trust your inner guidance to make your life easier. I'm your host Michelle from SunCloud and today I'm interviewing Helen Du Cros from A Space to Breathe. Helen is a holistic health practitioner whose modalities include yoga, breathwork, Reiki, meditation and sound therapy. Welcome Helen. Hi Michelle, thank you for having me. It feels fabulous to be here. It's so exciting to have you here and I'm really looking forward to hearing how you engage with some of the questions I'm going to ask about intuition. There's a standard set of questions that I ask all of the friends that come on this podcast, so let's get started. Great. The first one is, how does your intuition show up in your life? I think the most prevalent way that intuition shows up in my life is through parenting. I've got two gorgeous young boys and I am able to tune in on their energies and where they're at whether it be after school and I'm like okay you're tired or whether it's the rhythms of our family and it's the energy of, okay, I think we need to get out in some nature. Helen, I really like that framing about it relating to your parenting and that being the major way it shows up in your life. Because one of the questions that's come to me in thinking about who to invite onto this podcast has been around how I define intuition and how it shows up. And originally my idea was to interview people who overtly say that they use intuition in some kind of professional sense. So particularly people who are psychics or who do breath work or meditation. When I engage with those people, they often use the word intuition and say, yes, the intuition is the basis of my oracle card reading, for example. But then I We realize that all sorts of people who use intuition in all sorts of ways and just don't use the word intuition. So, for example, lots of light workers or energy workers like Reiki practitioners who work with energy may not say they're responding intuitively. They might say that they're just channeling energy through them. But in my head, I translate that to that, oh, they're being intuitive. So I've had to already start to think, okay, it's not just the psychics. And actually, it's not even just the energy workers, but actually, to some extent, anyone, because intuition really does show up in so many different ways. Yeah, thank you. And I really agree with that, that A lot of the time when I was thinking about intuition, and a lot of the time I don't use that as an actual word, probably in my vocabulary. Even in my business, even when I'm running breath work and yoga and different sessions, I'm naturally using my intuition, albeit not referring to it as intuition. And I'm reading the room, I'm reading people's wants and needs. breath brings to me a lot of space for my intuition to come through as well. But it's also a great indicator to show where people's energies are at. I can tune in and have a bit of a hunch as to, oh, hang on a sec, they're not feeling themselves today. And let's not do this original plan that we were going to do. It's probably, you know, a constant in my everyday life. I am a swim teacher of children as well. And I definitely use my intuition there. So I can often spot their fears, their apprehension, their excitement, doing a certain stroke or jumping in the pool by themselves, you know, without any assistance. for me and yeah it is just when I stop and do think about it it is a constant in my everyday life and yeah I'm quite an asset at times and I've always had roles in customer service as well so I've always been able to probably unbeknown to me that i was using intuition you know i've always been able to identify people unique wants and needs and therefore being able to provide a server to you know meet those needs as well so yeah listening to you makes me think about the range of words that can be used so perhaps at one end there's a a very obvious term like intuition and then there's other words like gut instinct or reading the room and then you get into really mainstream everyday words like feeling or being in tune it almost makes me want to say that just responding to someone is actually intuitive but then I want to reframe that as it's not actually responding to where they're separate it's a being in a place where there's that some perhaps interconnection. So in fact, you're engaging with that. It's a dance. Maybe intuition is when you're really dancing with someone. Yeah, it is a dance. And yeah, when you touched on there, the different language around intuition and go some like the more gross, doesn't it? So the more subtleties and the nuances. So yeah, it's quite a wide spectrum. I did want to pick up on, you talked about how the breath can be a really good way in for you. I was wondering if you could explain a little more about what you meant by that. Breathwork made quite a powerful entry into my life when I became a single mom with a newborn and a two-year-old. Because at that time, For me, intuition was my lifeline, navigating that tricky season of my life. And that's when breathwork entered. And the breath provides me with the space in my physical body, in my energy body. I am in my mind, in my soul, in every cell of my body to then be able to actually lean into my intuition from my breath and, okay, I'm breathing quite shallow at this moment. What's that meaning for me? So I find that the breath for me is this window. And so it enables me to look on in into my inner landscape and to then be able to really listen to my intuition. Well, that seems like a good segue into the second question on how do you receive intuitive messages? So you've already talked a bit about knowing and perhaps there's some answer there around physicality of your breath, but other people hear things or see things. How does that information come to you? more often than not, it comes to me in physically and emotionally. So physically, I can often feel like tingles throughout my actual body. And I often feel like they're in every cell of my body sometimes. Often I can feel a sense of warmth. Then emotionally, I feel emotions. So still on the feeling, I guess, teary and sad. So I can feel a whole range of emotions. So again, I feel quite deeply a lot of the time. I'm always interested in my own reactions to people's answers to this question. Listening to you talk about feeling it in every cell of your body makes me feel so jealous. I'm like, wow, that would be so cool to be able to feel it so deeply. That's kind of one of the reasons I started this podcast because when I've talked about how I feel intuitions, which is more about hearing and seeing and some feeling and knowing. I've had people say that exactly back to me. Oh, wow, I wish I could see the way you do in your mind's eye. I really wanted everyone to understand, well, we all do it actually. And our own ways of doing it are very special and unique. The beauty is finding out how it does happen for us, just celebrating that. The next question was about how your intuitive ability has evolved throughout your life. Intuition was always there. It showed up in my childhood in feeling emotions more deeply than others and often being known as the sensitive one. So it felt, when I was younger, it felt like too much and could often feel a little bit isolating. So I was the only one that could read a room. But then as I started reading, a lot of my job roles in customer service. It soon became, you know, I could externalize this. And especially when I came to Australia and ran a hostel for 10 years, we used to have lots of guests from all around the world coming to stay. So when they'd walk in, I'd probably be able to pick up on their wants and needs before they'd even speak. That's when I started reading unspoken needs. and being able to make decisions or help guide them during their stay at, say, like the hostel. I'd know which reef trip to send them on, who to send them off on a road trip with. Yeah, that's just when I started realizing this, my intuition started having value. I think it's really interesting at what point awareness of our intuition really comes into our life. I suspect just about everyone does exactly what you're doing in some way, in some aspect of their life. But at some point for some of us, it becomes conscious and then we can really value it and enhance it and maybe use it a little more consciously as well, or even try and teach it to others. Absolutely. What's been really big part for me was becoming a single mom. I really had to tune in or or listen to to almost what felt right even under pressure because when I was going through court I tuned in all the time to my intuition what felt right for the boys and Well, it got me through it. You know, all those experiences have brought me to what I do today. And that's with a space to breathe. And that's how I decided on the name of my business as well. That guides me into offerings in my business. And ah, light bulb moments or reflection moments. Oh, okay, I'm not going to do this. This doesn't sit right with me. Even through my yoga, my breath work, my Reiki, my sound healing. They're all... a weave. So each session is unique. whether it be a one-on-one session and I may then weave in a different meditation or I may use different sound bowls because I can tune into people's energy lines, like their chakras. And in a Reiki session, that might be, hang on a sec, I'm going to play the root chakra bowl and the crown chakra bowl. And that's just what my intuition is guiding me to do. That will also guide the actual meditation. meditation to begin with, or let's bring something, you know, some breath work into this session. That also seems to lead well into the next question about what would you recommend as a starting point for someone wanting to explore their own intuitive path? Funny enough, Michelle, for someone starting their intuitive journey, start with the breath. Especially when life is full and it can be intense, whether it be with work, children, and all parts of the human experience that we dance with. Just taking, even start by taking a few minutes a day, whether that be through some gentle movement, I do quite a lot of swimming as well. So yeah, that's a good place to start in the water. Just starting gentle and making those few minutes a day. Just see what feels good for you each day and that will shift. But I suppose the foundation of all those tools that I have in my toolbox is the foundation of coming back to the breath. Maybe observing, being curious just throughout your day. Maybe just taking a moment to, ah, where am I breathing from right now? You'll find your own intuition language. You'll find your own intuition language. That's a divine way of putting it. So if people would like to engage more with you in finding their own intuition language, Where can they find you and what kind of offerings or events might you have coming up? You can find me at www.spacetobreathe.com.au and that will tell you all the latest events and ways to connect with me and also Facebook, Space to Breathe, as well as Instagram. Fantastic. And as always, I will look forward to continuing to connect with you in a whole range of ways. I'm always delighted to have that session with you and put myself in your hands and trust that you will help me find whatever I need to find in myself. It's always been a delight. Thank you so much, Michelle. Thank you for having me. Yeah, it's been amazing.