Feeling Overwhelmed? Finding Balance Through Body & Natural Rhythms | Teresa | S2E33

In Season 2, Episode 33 of Igniting Inspired Inquiry, I speak with Teresa about what it means to find balance in a world that often leaves us feeling rushed, scattered, and disconnected.

We explore body posture and inner posture, honoring menstrual and seasonal cycles, and learning to listen to the natural rhythms that guide us toward rest, reflection, and alignment.

Through her own lived experience and years of working with the body, Teresa shares how slowing down and reconnecting can bring us back to a deeper sense of peace.

We are here to open the door to reflection, resonance, and revelation — and this conversation does exactly that.

Connect with Teresa:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shantitherapytraining
Website: https://www.shantitherapytraining.com/

Join us — and step into a space where real conversation is felt, not just heard.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Welcome to Exciting Inspired Inquiry, a space for real conversations with incredible humans. I'm your host, Jay, and I'm here to open the door to reflection, resonance, and revelation. If you have a moment to like, share, subscribe, or review, I would deeply appreciate you sharing the love.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

This is a space for truth, trust, and the kind of insight that comes from simply being human. Thank you for being here. Let's begin.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Here we are. Today I get to have a beautiful inquiry with a friend I've actually known for a very long time and I love reflecting on how we met and the weave in which we just appear at times, which is so special. So today I have a beautiful guest who she'll actually share where she is, but she's dialing in for this conversation. I'm really, really grateful. So I'm gonna hand it over to you, beautiful Teresa. If you could share with us, and thank you so much for being here. Share with us who is Teresa.

SPEAKER_02 1:11

Thank you so much for having me. Amazing that you started this podcast. Well done. I'm Teresa Tamara Shanti. And I'm joining you from Wahiki Islands, and that's my hard chosen home. I'm originally from Germany, and yeah, I found New Zealand through considerations. And yeah, my mission, my passion is really to support people, to bring them back into themselves, into their heart, and support more holistic, coming from the sport therapy. At the same time, worked a lot and with rehabilitation. At the same time, I dive into energy work that we really have the full picture, and in this way we come back into balance and to inner peace.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

Yay! That's why we're aligned. We love that. So, first question, which you know, the common thread. What is for us to hear today, one moment, belief, or experience that changed the way you see the world?

SPEAKER_02 2:24

Yes. That's for me 2016, a moment. It was my birthday, and I received a call from my dad, and he said, I'm sorry, I cannot come to your birthday lunch because I'm into Vienna with my brother, my older brother, and because he had an accident, he jumped from a river from a bridge into a river to dive on a summer day to refresh himself, and he was having crater plaquey like from the neck onwards, semi-paralyzed and into a sweat. He just came straight to the exit to the hospital and get surgery and everything, and yeah, for one year in the hospital, and this whole journey with my brother gave me definitely like a wake-up call. Like, what do you want from your life or in your life? What do you want to experience? And that was so game changer for the whole family. That all the small fights between like my parents are separated, everything was gone, everything is not important anymore. Everybody is coming together, like, okay, we need to be here. When where is someone at the hospital with him? And yeah, I keep going every Thursday, I went to him, and then I would had two jobs, like in a rehabilitation center and uh in a physioclinic, and helped my grandma helped the other old lady for cross-seat shopping, and was training the girls with dancing and the workouts and everything. And then after six months after the accident, I broke down, like I couldn't go anymore. My body, my muscles, they blocked. I couldn't train anymore, like I normally do, and I had full burnout. Like from the physiotherapy clinic, they sent me home and said, like, you need time for yourself. I was just crying at work. And my partner to this time said, You really need your me time. And he broke up with me in this hardest moment, and then I said, Okay, I take like I cried at first, but this helped me to really say, Okay, I take charge of my own life, I take self-responsibility, and luckily I had an amazing manager, and she gave me the right books, the right questions to really start my journey, like to see what do I want, what do I feel like, what what is out there? And then I remembered I was 27 to this time, and when I was 17, 18, I would love to go like as a nanny overseas and all this stuff, but but I was in a long-term relationship, and then it was really the desire to see the world, like what else is possible, and to say, okay, yes, I want to live fully, which means for me the full world, the whole world is for me. I'm curious and I'm I want to see it.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

Wow, what a beautiful journey, a really challenging one, yeah, and so many facets, and I hear like the universe clearing space for you even when you don't want it, but it's needed. Yes, yeah, and then for you to find those answers and to be where you need to be when you need to be there, and then also to take what you need when you can, yeah, and let that be sort of the wind beneath your sails, right? Wow. Yeah, and with that now, how do you think that changes the way you view the world today? With what with I mean, I know that there was a lot that you shared there, but just with you know, in a in a nutshell of that experience and and you who's come out the other side of that.

SPEAKER_02 6:49

I definitely like the aspect of I can create my life. That came later, but that was the I would say. It comes with the experience that like to step by step, like reading more books and listen to more people, and oh wow, there's a different lifestyle, there's different ways of being and being now self-employed, having my own connection to my body, to my woman cycle, having less clients when I'm bleeding, and having more clients if I'm ovulating, like finding my rhythm and not external rhythm. Yes, I think that is the nutshell. Like, this is like the moment my brother is in luckily still consciously alive, and like he can speak and he he activates his arm, he has a handpipe, which is amazing. Before it was everything still, and in this way, in one moment, everything can change, and I'm grateful for my body. I can move, I can dance, and this is for me the best. This appreciation for my body, um, I think that is the game changer in the creation of your own life.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

Yeah, yeah, so true, and so powerful. Yeah, thank you for sharing. Here we are in question two, which is in the moment. So you don't know this question, and it actually comes off the back of something you shared at the end of question one. And the reason why I ask is because we're literally just talking about that this morning and last night, and you know, when we're in the conscious weave of life, this is the way it works, right? Conversations ripple and things start to open up, and the universe is like, you need to explore this, which I love. Um, where I'm going with this question is can you share more about what you've learned about working with your cycle and learning about your natural rhythm as a woman? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 8:59

Honestly, that was so so beneficial for me, like so insightful. Honoring ourselves, our body is just the biggest gift we can give ourselves. For me, it's the information came through Charlotte from Queenstown or Kenoke. She had different workshops, and she offered as well a combination of the moon cycle with the um yoga, like having understanding the moon, like rising energy, full moon, full energy. If the moon is getting smaller, like slowing down, and then the new moon is like cozy, it's gentle. And in this way, is our cycle as well. And so this time, my cycle was in sync with the moon, it was amazing. Like having the new moon and bleeding, it's like for me amazing. Like to honor the stillness and as well honoring the powerful journey. Like, if you were overlaying, like okay, then run workshops, okay, go out and going to festivals and all this stuff, like being out there. And if you're pleading, you go inward, and you allow the time to journal, to allow the time to be cozy in bed in the morning, a long slow, long, slow morning. It will is really beneficial, and reflecting on it to have the emotion as well, like uh, to see the own patterns, the own emotional patterns, the eating habits, like oh, I'm craving more uh for hot chocolate to this time or cacao, but this time I don't want any cacao, and I feel like I I need more proteins and I need more of this, or I need more beetroot, and yeah, like it's super interesting to allow the time and space to to reflect with yourself and with your cycle. That's definitely a game changer for every woman.

SPEAKER_01 11:15

Yeah, I completely agree, and it was it's really beautiful to hear well, a lot of similarities and and what's aligned for me. And I love working with the moon, I love teaching in alignment with the moon, but also what I didn't under, well, what I underestimated was like I think that tuning into your cycle and tuning into your body is what ignites your intuition. And and like you said, about like listening and and being in the listening of what we need and when we need it and being and not necessarily being regimented because there's nothing wrong with you if it's the new moon and you feel like you're full of energy, but could it that may not be every time. However, it's like really tuning into how it flows for you and how it works with the cycle. And that's why I wanted to bring that in because this concept of because there's a lot of conditioning around routine and and like having it everything as it is, and which I get, but I think for a woman, that routine is in a 28-day cycle, not a seven-day cycle or a or a daily cycle. Yeah, and that's what I was sharing with one of my clients yesterday because she was like, I and and she was talking about how she went to the gym because that was what it was on the schedule, even though she was bleeding and and her body was like, no, and she felt really flat afterwards, and but she was looking like and that's not a mistake because she won't forget that and now she knows, you know, and it was understanding like there's times to work out and and your body wants that and it feeds off it, and there's times to not do that. I remember sort of working with cycle, and again, you your cycle does, or for some people does move, but for me, with all of this learning, it's like when my which just happened actually on the first new moon of the year, like I got my bleed on that same day, and I'm like, it just feels so special, but I feel like it's also the same with the seasons, like it's the seasons of the cycle, but it's the seasons within our year, and within and and where I really disconnected with that was with when I was traveling a lot, and I actually had like seven summers in a row, which back then felt amazing, but my body was like, I don't understand.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

I totally hear you like with the season, with the warmth I felt with with training. Like I was training when I was younger, like 10 years ago, a lot more. Now I'm not training anymore so much because my body just is a bit more gentle for my to my body, and don't want to work out hard and sometimes, but it then it's fun, but not all the time. And and with the summer and winter season, definitely. I'm going currently the last three, four years, I'm going every so New Zealand winter to German summer. As well, this year I'm on and off. Do I want to go? Do I don't want to go? Because my yes, last year my body's felt like I need a winter. I don't like winter, but winter.

SPEAKER_01 14:33

I hear you. I hear you. And that was that was my thinking around these constant summers, and also my thinking around like I don't like it in winter. And I and and I'll be honest, I I don't I get really low if I have a whole winter. So I love to have like a vitamin D injection, like some I let it go somewhere in the middle of winter, especially like the New Zealand winter. But and I did that last year, but I also embraced the fact that it was still so that even though I traveled, I embraced the fact that it was winter and that my body needs slowness and my body needed quiet. Yeah. And that it is, it's that feeling, isn't it? It's coming with, but also that hibernation and and letting things come up. Yes. And I think that, do you feel like that's something that because people get really blue in the winter at blue, you know, they feel really a little bit depressed, and and and there's a there's a lack of vitamin D. But also, I think that we're meant to have that inward time, and it's not necessarily bad, it's just that there's things that are coming up that we didn't necessarily expect or maybe don't want to look at, but we can, and we get to, and I I think that's what winter or that quiet, so the bleed time or new moon, that's what that's about. Yes, looking inward, no matter what comes up.

SPEAKER_02 15:54

Exactly. Looking inward, this is exactly what I feel like because if we have the winter and all the noise is slowing down, it's getting darker earlier, we come home earlier, we light the fire, and fire is so meditating or like so giving us the space as well to really reflect and uh listen deeply. And we can journal, we can reflect so much about ourselves, about the situation, about the cycle, like where I was last year in this time, in this phase, and and having really like for me just into the plea, like just starting on the first two days, like I have so much to journal. Like I need in this time as well. I got so many insights. I was like, Yes, yes, yes, yeah, wow, yeah, it's not like what is the first step, what is the smallest action I can do from this reflection? Like, yeah, it's it was I'm really grateful for this time now because embracing our bleed, I'm embracing our cycles, and then not hiding it anymore. Because before I feel everybody was like having their period, but it's just like yeah, it's hide hidden, but now everybody I'm on day two, I'm sorry, like I'm not going yeah, sure. Make yourself, do you need anything? You know, like we embrace it, we express it, we we speak with each other, and in this way we can share more raw vulnerable and openly, and we understand, okay, if she's a bit crumpy, or if she's a bit more euphoric and she's she wants to travel the world in one day, like okay, like we know she's in a relation. If she wants to hide and don't want to speak a lot, then okay, and maybe she's in bleeding and and honoring and respecting their space and time from each and everyone. Yes, some people use clothes. Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

And also, even just for a deeper understanding of self, so knowing that when you aren't with that much energy or that you are feeling lower and slower, then that's naturally your body doing what it needs to do. And the sooner you listen, the sooner the energy comes back in. But it's when we push through that, despite what we're hearing, that we spend what we don't have. It's like spending all the money into your savings account, right? It's like again, it's cyclic. Yeah, it's so special. And what I also hear and love to reflect is the power of reflection.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

Like, and and you'll see this in your own life, but also in the work that you do. It's like, how do we know the the way we want to move forward without looking back? And that doesn't mean dwelling, there's a very different thing in as in holding stories or dwelling on and like being in the victim, but it's like actually reflecting on where am I at, how am I placed, what do I want, where am I moving with and what's coming, but also not even that. It's like what's coming through for me. It's such a powerful tool that I think gets underestimated, but I understand that with the noise of the world, or also maybe not as many resources on board, it isn't as comfortable to sit with self, but it is a practice that you can build, and then it's just like the best thing ever.

SPEAKER_02 19:49

There's like having time and space to be quiet and to reflect to to just write whatever is coming and what is present. For me, this is luxury. Agreed. This is luxury to to allow and to tune in, and yeah, the reflection is a gift to ourselves, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:15

And then I hear it's like, how do you know where you want to go without really understanding where you've been? And many facets of that, which is just so special. Thank you for sharing your insight on it. Is there anything else that you feel like is a key sort of piece of your own tools or resources that helps you tune into your cycle?

SPEAKER_02 20:50

I think at first being patient with ourselves to not having every day reflection time, having day every day like I I need to track everything, like slow down, like it it's a journey over years that some months I'm I'm writing more and reflecting more. And sometimes it's it was just the new moon and the full moon was like I was reflecting, like, oh, how I feel, and then more and more like be patient with yourself and have the acceptance that like yeah, maybe your work life is not in sync with this your own cycle, because you have in a way is a work life which is not adjusting or not that easy to adjust, or having children and everything. Have your own time and space to figure out how you s can start in a small step to tune in. Just when you're bleeding, write down. Just start with one small thing and not the whole cycle because I agree.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Well, it's also not something that you can force figuring out. You actually just need to be in the listening of it. So I love what you're saying because slowest is the fastest way to get there. Because just and that's why I also say that too. It's like just start tracking your cycle. And they're like, and I was like, just start paying attention to it. And then you'll start to notice things. And then you'll notice what you notice. And then that intuition will start to because it's not something that that you get right or pass a test. It's like just being in the listening of your body. And that swings back to what you said right at the beginning. It's like just the greatest gift. And I believe this too is that the relationship we have with ourselves, but also understanding the more we care for this vessel, the more it guides the way. Yes. Yes. So good. So my love, you have in reflecting light, question three. You have a question for me. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

I have a question. You had the idea of the podcast one day. How many years ago? How many years ago? I had the first idea.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

Yeah, the first idea? Oh. The first idea. I think it probably started brewing in like mid no early 2025.

SPEAKER_02 23:25

Beautiful. Yeah. And like when for me is the question, when did you get the idea? And what was the journey to make it happen that you said, okay, no? I commit. I learned what it takes about technical stuff and do everything and uh finding my people and everything. What was your journey with really say, okay, I'm doing a podcast, I commit, I show up, I support the people with your beautiful uh guidance, with your beautiful wisdom, and sharing with other people together the wisdom.

SPEAKER_01 24:01

Yeah, so cool. So I love that you asked when I had the idea, and then I get to share. Like, so now that I know myself more and I'm a projector, so you let things just simmer until it's like go time, right? And for projectors, it's like self-care, self-care, self-care. I've got lots of energy and there's an idea. So I had the idea, but the thing was that earlier in my in my entrepreneurial days, there was a lot of people coming at me. You need to have podcasts, you need to have a podcast. This is what you should do. And I was like, Well, I really don't want to do it then. I'm not doing it because I should. I don't want that. But then I started to really work with my clients and see some patterns and some rhythms. And then I started to meet really beautiful people like yourself and some dear friends. And we'd get to like we'd be deep in conversation, or we'd get to the end of like, you know, really beautiful transmission, so to speak. And I would think to myself, man, I wish other people could hear these combos. And so that's that's what inspired it. And that was still like in the brewing phase of it. And then it's funny because this goes back to the second question, right? And then I knew that I needed like a winter away. I needed, in order to create and in order to see what wants to come through for me, and the podcast wasn't necessarily in my mind, but um, what needs to come through was to not work, not do any uh events or any clients. So I took myself up for winter up very far north in a house set and just made space for myself. And I was like, just whatever needs to come through, but I'm gonna embrace this winter and I want to be in the hibernation. And then it just kind of the seed that the podcast seed just started brewing. And then this is the way it works for me, and it's probably around the full moon, I think it was, but then I just wake up in the middle of the night and I'm like, holy god, and I start writing stuff down, and then the next day I just I did the whole thing. So, like, and that's what I mean. Like, and when I turn into my projector energy, it's like when the idea is right there, it happens in no time at all. So it's not as though we're lazy or we go slower than others, it's just like we have a different way of doing it, right? And so, yes, and that's literally what happened. I just I was so laser focused. Like eight hours later, I had it all set up, I had the invites ready, and I was sending it out because I started with my person who was working with me in digital marking because I wanted to flip the script and I wanted to work with someone behind the scenes rather than looking for the flat. I was like, I want these people who I'm having these deep corridors to start, and then I invited my friends and it just went from there. But the other mission around it was wanting to celebrate all these beautiful people I know that do such incredible work, and I wanted to celebrate that the wisdom is within us if we just open up to that inquiry and we just open up to that conversation, and I I just that's what I wanted to share. So it feels really special to share that and to understand that I just trust myself when I get to that point, which is just so powerful. So, you know, it feels full circle sharing that because it's about being in the deep listening, it's about trusting the cycles, it's about and and and the deep listening, but also trusting self. So that's what I love about human design. And I haven't dived in a whole lot, but just understanding my design and how I make decisions and how things come through for me has been really helpful. And I talked to a beautiful human, John, and I'm hoping he will come back on, but a little bit about more of the human design. I actually had a session with him too, because I think it's a powerful place to understand self. Do you feel that much?

SPEAKER_02 27:56

I'm a two-four emotional protector. Yes. Something is bubbly, but like not really, nah, not yet, nah. I don't feel like it. I stay in bed, and then one morning you wake up and you just need to make it happen. And then oh, and yeah, some generators they they're amazing, emma always like on the go. Amazing stamina.

SPEAKER_01 28:34

Yeah, so true. I think another one that I learned about myself is that I'm a three-five, so I'm meant to experiment, right? And that was really powerful for me because I had the lens and the conditioning of like you keep trying these things and they don't work out, and that means you're failing. And I was like, no, no, I've learned like that's actually what I'm supposed to do. And I and there's so much that I learned, and I don't see it as a failure, but in that pivot, like of trying it and then being like, nope, and trying that, and nope. But it doesn't mean that when I tried those things that I'm not going forward with, that I didn't gather what I needed for what's gonna pop out next.

SPEAKER_02 29:10

Totally, totally, yes. I'm a two-for, like a hermit and opportunityist, because that yeah, follow like my life in New Zealand. Like I always traveled where I see the most potential, where I see the biggest opportunity, I go there and I live there and work there, and I feel okay, where's the most alignment right now? And it works so far for me. Yes, I love it. It's so necessary, definitely.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

Yeah, yeah. It really and my for me, like learning more about the projector really helped me understand myself as an introvert and as like needing to like draw energy in, and and that that's how I work, and it's not a bad thing, I'm not lazy or a lack of it. There's always just this is way to generate energy, which I love. So you've traveled to Waihiki Island, and I think you work online as well. So, what I wanted to end with, and what I would love for you to share with other people is how do you how do people work with you? How do people find you and and what are you offering at the moment that people can connect with?

SPEAKER_02 30:29

To work with people to support them to walk their own journey. Like I run different workshops, like I run one-on-one on Wahiki Island. There we do body posture in inner posture, which means like it's body work, energy work, and as well personal training to see the posture, how can we align from the physical world, physical body into ourself, or what is there in the mindset, in our values, or in our inner posture to align to ourself, and the inner posture and the I can do it as well online. My Instagram is Shanti Therapy Training, and Instagram, Facebook, and the website, and it's really it's a pleasure to sometimes there's just like the people are so scattered in this world, in this society of like it's getting everything too much, and we need to retreat and we need to understand ourselves again, and because that that is my pleasure to support in this way. And yeah, and and with the workshop is vision board workshops to really ambition as well our future, and as well for highly sensitive people. I'm going more and more into this field because I'm highly sensitive. I felt weird in this world, and I feel we don't need to feel weird, we need to just find our people, we just need to find our tools to be in the present moment, to retreat, to to find our way of living, and that's why I'm building more and more community to for empaths, highly sensitive people, and that is my vision with my podcast in in one day. Yeah, that is that is uh my my heart uh is calling.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

I love that. Well, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and connecting with me, and I'm just so grateful. I already, as you were sharing about your work with inner and inner posture, I'm like, oh, she needs to come back and talk about that. And we will. Yeah, I just want to say thank you. And for all of those who are listening, we're open to you connecting with us. Reach out if you have any questions about what we shared, about the work that we do. We're we're here for that, we're here for the combos, and we love to hear from you, or support you through something that may have awakened a curiosity. So I love that. And I just Teresa, thank you so much for being here.

SPEAKER_02 33:35

Thank you so much. Listening to your guidance and making it happen. Thank you. Yes.