The Wisdom & Wellness Podcast with Dr. Rachel Hill

Integrating Energy Healing, Aromatherapy & Yoga with Lynn Soulier

• Dr. Rachel Hill • Episode 4

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 If you’re a nurse or healthcare professional, chances are you’ve felt the weight of burnout, exhaustion, and disconnection from your true self. The demands of caring for others often leave little time or space to nurture your own mind, body, and spirit. It’s easy to forget who you are outside of your scrubs. 

But there is another way—a path that honors your wholeness and invites you to reconnect with your inner light and self-healing wisdom.

On this episode of The Wisdom & Wellness Podcast, Dr. Rachel Hill welcomes Lynn Soulier, a holistic practitioner whose work is rooted in energy healing, aromatherapy, yoga, and herbal medicine. 

Lynn’s journey began with a deeply personal experience, growing up with a mother navigating bipolar disorder within the traditional medical system. This sparked her lifelong quest for healing modalities that integrate spiritual guidance with holistic practice. Together, Rachel and Lynn explore how to tune out the noise of modern life, embrace nature’s medicine, and cultivate a profound connection to your soul’s purpose.

Their conversation offers powerful insights and gentle encouragement to trust your own inner guidance system. Whether you’re seeking balance, clarity, or a deeper sense of meaning, this episode invites you to explore healing as a dynamic, integrative process that nurtures your entire being. You’ll hear about the merging of science and spirituality, the value of energy healing practices, and the transformative possibilities available when you step fully into your own light.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

  • How personal and spiritual experiences can ignite a holistic healing path
  • Simple yet profound ways to quiet the mind and connect with your inner wisdom
  • The complementary nature of energy healing, yoga, aromatherapy, and herbal medicine
  • Insights on navigating health and wellness during challenging times like COVID
  • The empowering potential of trusting your own self-healing capacities and divine guidance

Connect with Lynn at https://www.gardensandcorestar.com/

Connect with Dr. Rachel:

SPEAKER_00

Hello, hello. Welcome to another episode of Wisdom and Wellness. This is my fifth episode so far, so I'm really excited about this. Wisdom and Wellness is a podcast that explores ancient wisdom, modern technology, and holistic practices in a fine integration to bring to the community. So I am happy to have Dominique Sierra with us today. Dominique helps women transform pain into freedom by identifying and shifting inner patterns through breathwork and somatic healing. Her work is rooted in lived experience and deep understanding of how the body holds memory, protection, and possibility. Her path into this work began with her own healing journey, navigating trauma, loss, and fear. Along the way, she learned that healing isn't about fixing what's broken, but about reconnecting what was never lost. When she became pregnant, that understanding became a conscious choice to heal rather than pass unresolved patterns on. That decision reshaped her life and clarified her purpose. Today, Dominique continues to support women who are tired of coping, managing, or holding it all together. Through breath work and somatic practices, she guides them back into their bodies where clarity, safety, and self-trust can emerge. Her work focuses on helping women recognize the inner patterns, shaping their reactions, relationships, and choices, and gently updating them so life no longer feels like something to survive. At the heart of her work, simple truth, you're not here to cope with life, you're here to create it. Dominique's approach is grounded, compassionate, and deeply embodied, offering women a way to move from survival into presence, from contraction into freedom, and from disconnection into authentic live power. Lastly, she believes that when women reconnect with their bodies and inner truth, they don't just change their own lives, they change the way they show up for their children, relationships, and the world. So with this, drumroll, I welcome you to Wisdom and Wellness Podcast. Hello, hello.

SPEAKER_01

Hello, Rachel, and thank you so much for having me. I'm super excited about our conversation. And yes, I'm all for it.

SPEAKER_00

Sounds good. And I do have to let the audience know that I first met you through Instagram. And through that, it led me to Take Your Breath Work program. And it was amazing because it came at a very needed point in my life because a bunch of healthcare providers and community people out there have a lot of stress. And a lot of us forget to breathe, even though we practice different things, and even though oxygen is readily available to us, we don't know how to use it properly. And that's one of the things that I ran into with my patients. Is I'm just like, just breathe. They're like, but I don't know how. So you came at a time where I was doing a big certification application process. I had tension all in my body, a lot of stress, and I felt like there was a lot that was riding on that application. And then at the same time, I was taking your course, and it was just a constant reminder. And you have such a peaceful presence. So I'm glad that the world gets to meet you through my podcast. And one of the questions is the birth of breath work for you. You discovered the transformative power of breath during childbirth itself. So can you walk us through that experience and what was happening in those intense moments where you realized that the breath was what was sustaining you?

SPEAKER_01

Thank you. Yes, it all actually started a bit earlier than the birth experience itself. So I was always very interested in psychology. It was also the field I really wanted to dive into. But at the same time, I was also very dysregulated. I was still carrying a lot of unresolved trauma. And when I got pregnant, by surprise, I knew that I, under no circumstances, wanted to pass this on to my daughter. And she was my gateway to self-love because I don't know if it wasn't for her, if I would have gone on this whole journey of healing. But when I got pregnant, I knew I had to change because I wanted for her to experience childhood through just the beautiful eyes of the kids, like without worrying, without needing to take care of me, but fully being able to be present, enjoy life, enjoy the experiences you can get when you are like a child and everything is still forming. And while I was on this journey, I also knew that our first traumatic experience comes from birth. And that's what's officially being said. I don't fully agree with this because I also believe that every single moment, once the embryo is growing into a baby in a mother's womb, is where it is exposed to trauma as well. Because everything a woman goes through in her pregnancy is unfilteredly passed on to the baby. Like every emotion you as a mom carrying a baby in you is just being passed on. So I believe that also trauma could happen even before birth, but like officially that's what is being said. Like the first traumatic experience we as humans have is with birth, and that's also why I wanted to make this a really beautiful experience for my daughter. And when I was looking into nature, it is just so interesting because we are the only beings making such a fuss out of it. Like here in Switzerland, the caesarean rate is over 55%. And it seems like birth is something rather unnatural for us. That's the story we are building around it here in at least Switzerland and also other places here in Europe. And when you look at other animals and how peaceful they can be, it's just not that nothing ever happens, but like in general, it's a peaceful act in a very close, beautiful, shared moment between a mom and it's cup, or so that really made me look into the possibilities because that's what I wanted for my daughter. I wanted her to come here to Earth and feel held and safe because it's already a very impressive change, right? So you're coming from a mother womb where it's like dark and it's fluid and you feel held and it's all safe and it's warm, and then you come into life on earth and it's cold and bright and it's new and the smells, and there's so many different factors coming into play. So it was really important for me to do the best I can to provide an experience that makes it as smooth as possible for her to arrive here. And when I started my search, I stumbled across hypnobirthing for the people who haven't heard of this yet, is a way of conscious, connected breeding, how you are not pushing your baby out by force but by connection. Like you're together with your baby, you are like connected and you are breeding in teamwork and you're moving your baby out without the additional stress in chaotic environment. A lot of cesarians are coming when you are like in a chaotic environment, when stuff is not happening as it should be supposed to, when people are stressed, then you are getting into this hyper state, and then things start to go wrong. But if you are relaxed and the baby is in the right position, and there are very little factors when you are regulated that can interrupt when the baby is in the correct position, nothing is wrong that actually requires you to have a cesarean. So when I did hypnobirthing, I still felt birthed. It's not that I would have almost missed it by any chance, but it was a very beautiful experience, like the delivery was so smooth and it was just a very beautiful moment, and it really gave her, I hope, a nice start into life, and that's sort of how the whole journey like started to unfold.

SPEAKER_00

Can I ask you a quick question? So when I think of hypno-birthing, hypnohypnosis, is there any hypnosis in it or the hypno, where does that come into play?

SPEAKER_01

Yes, that's because you can, for example, train with music, some sort of music, and then you start to prepare with your breath. So you would really like practice this before so that you would get into this state of you're not really hypnotized then, but you are in a very relaxed calm state.

SPEAKER_00

That makes sense. That state of hypnogogy where you're like in that state of relaxation. Okay, what's the difference between hypnobirthing and lamas?

SPEAKER_01

I don't even know that one. No, I have you ever heard of Lamas?

SPEAKER_00

No, classes are they were big. I it's been so long since I've had kids, it's been 30 something years, but they offer a Lamaze class before babies are born with moms and the dads so that they can help the woman before birth. And the Lamas is basically about different patterns of breathing. There's like during short contractions, you might breathe slow deep breaths. During more painful contractions, it's more of a shorter breathing and things like that. I always ended up throwing it out the window when I had kids, but I always went through the motions. It's like a or something like that. You'll have to look it up. I will, thank you. And in my ignorance, I just thought everybody around the world did it took Lama's class or something like that. So now I know. So, what was your first experience with somatic work and what made you even look in that direction?

SPEAKER_01

I ignored it for a very long time of my life. In Switzerland, it is accepted that you are going to a talking therapist. But that's what we know here, but working more on a somatic level has been at the time like been more seen as woo and like hypnotherapists, it was all a bit like in like different waters, so that was not something that we would really like tap into as a first choice. I did do a lot of talking therapy, and it certainly helped to some degree, but it didn't help me resolve the issues I had. For example, I had bulimia, I also had I really struggled with the impact of the relationship from my dad and myself and early child abuse, and it was just like I talked about it, but it felt back then I didn't know, like I was just always reliving the same thing, it didn't bring me out of the cycle. And when I started to look into somatics, which happened once I gave birth to my daughter, because of this very powerful, beautiful experience that was also very intense, I was just hooked and I was so eager to dive into this more that I would just get my hands on anything really I could get. So I was going to different workshops, I consumed whatever I found on the internet, like I read books, I did all I could. And then with time, like threat work really led me into this. So that was my gateway to just understanding that everything that happens to us, every single emotion we have ever lived through, every single experience, it's also stored in our bodies, and with talking about it, it will shift awareness and it's very often required to start your healing journey, but it doesn't solve it in a sustainable way because if you had a traumatic experience, the way to bring it out is through the body as well, because we're just holding on to it, so like talking it to that and back will not resolve it per se. You may understand a couple of more things, but often like it's not fully resolved. And diving into the somatics of this really helps me to get out of it, move through it, and understand that really no matter what happens to you, and that may trigger a lot of people, and I understand this, I would have triggered me too a couple of years ago. But no matter what happens to you, like you decide of where it goes from now. And if you outsource the power of the now to stuff that happened to you earlier in life, and keep on blaming and keep on keeping yourself in victim mode, you are really your future. So it's about really like looking at the experiences that happen, looking at the traumatic events, but then also working through it and start to own where you know it goes from now. Even if you may never have conversations with other people who harmed you or had an impact on the traumatic things you had to go through.

SPEAKER_00

So when you talk about the power of now, you're talking about being present, correct? Yes. There's a lot of people that I talked to, like just today, I had a bunch of patients who are waiting for apologies. They can't move forward because X, Y, and Z happened. And I get it, but how would you tell someone who can't move forward how to get present in the now? What would be your advice to them, or how would you explain the process of even what the benefits of being present would be?

SPEAKER_01

That's such a nice question. Yes, many people, and again, let me trigger a lot, they wish for they they say they want change, and to a certain degree they want change, but they're not willing to pay the price for the change. Meaning that a lot of people, their identity is made of what happened to them at a past point in their life, and if they would stop holding on to what happened back, then who would they be? Like that would be a struggle they would need to face because they would need to get themselves a new identity. So for a lot of people, it's actually easier to just stay in this mode and keep themselves tied to whatever happened and shaped them instead of taking ownership of okay, that happened to me, okay, that sucked, okay. I'm gonna give myself the self-compassion. That's the most important part. It's really holding the space for you. It's not about neglecting and and you know, shuffling stuff under the rug, it's about holding your own space, working through it, but then also sorry for the expression, but get your ass up and own where you are now, and that's uncomfortable. Working on yourself is uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, definitely a process because it's like that getting your ass up is about that moment when it clicks where you get tired of being tired. When you talk about identities, I was just thinking about all my identities that I've had. Single parent mom was an identity, sexual abuse survivor was an identity, things that I just held on to that I played like a song until I just one day could hear what I sounded like. I was like, I don't want to sound like this anymore. So I totally feel what you're saying. Yeah, it's scary because it's like, what happens if I let go of that piece of me that I've known? Even though you don't like being there, it's just I don't like being this, but what happens? What's the great unknown out there? And it always ends up to be so much better.

SPEAKER_01

So it does. The other thing that we are keeping ourselves in a loop in is our nervous system. We are not wired in a way for actual safety. We're wired in a way that we hold on to the known. So even if whatever that's why it's not a surprise that, for example, women who had fathers who were abusive in any ways, really, they go for the same kind of men when they're adults, not because it's actually safe, but because their nervous system signals safety because it's known. And that's why a lot of people are afraid of change, is because the unknown bears the risk of it being even more terrible than what you're experiencing now. While it's 99% of the time if you can let go of the now, like even like I would say it's hundred, but you know, it's gonna be so much greater because you're not gonna tie yourself to a big stone that is just tearing you down and keeping you low, but you're actually getting yourself the wings, and you're like you can fly and you can the world is can be both, it can be beautiful or it can be a disaster.

SPEAKER_00

It depends on how you look at it, or absolutely, and it's like what you're saying makes perfect sense. And some people because it's so simple, sometimes people have a hard time just saying, is it that easy? Is it that easy? And then the science part of it, the reticular activating system, people wonder why does the same thing keep happening to me? Why does the same thing keep happening to me? Can you tell someone out there why they keep getting the same kind of relationships and things based off of their childhood?

SPEAKER_01

Yes, so it's simple, but it's not easy. It's when we are moving through what happened to us, like we're making the same experiences over and over again, and actually they're getting like if we're looking at the things we consider as bad things happening to us, they will continue to get worse the more and the longer we ignore them. So every time like there's an invitation from the universe out there, like everything you're triggered by, or everything that doesn't go your way, or every traumatic experience invites you to fed your skin and evolve to the next version of you. So if you are just keeping a blind eye on the things that are happening to you, and you don't learn your lesson from it, you will just revisit the same experiences with different people over and over again until you've learned your lesson and then you move on. But it's not possible to escape, it's not possible like you can run away from your relationships, you can like can run away, but it will catch up with you in different people. Like there's only so much running you can do until it like hits you again. So stop from starting to look into it, and it's gonna be so uncomfortable, and you're gonna be wishing to run away over and over. And if you can just sit through it, there's gonna be light at the end of the tunnel.

SPEAKER_00

Right, it's okay. That relationship that you've been in way too long, and you keep thinking about leaving, but you just stay and you stay. It's just like, what happens if you leave and everything? I'm sure there's a lot of people in the audience that are probably resonating with what you're saying. It's like there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Another question I have for you is for someone who's never experienced transformational breath work, can you explain what's actually happening in the body during a breath work session and what a session's like?

SPEAKER_01

Yes, so when we talk about breath work, what a lot of people only see is the screaming and crying and the intense outburst of emotions. And that's what at least I hear a lot when I get into contact with people. Yes, that's one aspect. Like we there are different angles to breath work. So breath work by definition is conscious connected breathing. So it doesn't mean fast or slow or anything, like it's just being connected to your breath and feeling it. So we all breathe throughout the day. Yes, obviously, otherwise we would not be alive, but we are not connected to ourselves, we're just doing this very passively, very subconsciously. And when we start to pay attention to our breath, is when there is such a great invitation for things to change and to come to the surface. So there are a couple of different breedings you can do. There are the breathwork sessions, the workshop you just mentioned, which is an intense workshop where you can like one or two hours and really deep dive. You have these accelerated breeding techniques, they build up on each other and they really let you dive deeply into your own self so that a lot of sorts of trauma and experiences can move. Go off, and yes, this can show through bursting out to tears, laughing, screaming, but everybody's different. So, for some people, they're also not very visible on a physical level, it's more a release on a mental on a mental level. That's what happens in a breathwork session. So you have a compressed um hour or two, and with very intense breathing, it's also um super exhausting, and you move through a lot. This is not daily life, you can do this like in a distance of a couple of weeks, or you know, you feel into it whenever you need this if you can go into such a session. But conscious connected breath work also starts by being lift throughout the day. So, what I teach in the breadwork master class is how you actually regulate yourself, how you get more energy, and how you get to a state where you are so relaxed that you fall asleep very easily. The reasons for why this master class has been created is I looked for this course myself and I just didn't find it. And I wanted to create something that was giving exhausted, anxious, burned-out people who are disconnected to themselves a tool to connect with themselves. So while breadwork as a session is great, like I really recommend for people to start with learning to regulate themselves. One thing is through breathing, like it's the fastest gateway to connect your mind and your body. That's like a fast track into getting to a regulated state because it only takes you two to three minutes, depending on how dysregulated you are. You take your breath with you, it doesn't matter where you go, it's always there. So breathing is like a super tool, but also grounding and spending time sitting with yourself, so other tools, like it's not breathwork, it's not the only single solution, like there's a holistic approach where many different factors come into play, and breathe just happens to be the one you really carry with you at all times, and it's one you can just tap into no matter where you are.

SPEAKER_00

Absolutely. It's as you speak, I think about the clients that I see every day. Then I also think about my profession, the nursing profession. I have a lot of colleagues who feel like, I don't have time to use a restroom, I don't have time to take a lunch break, I don't have time, I don't have time when you're seeing patients. There's a lot of nurses in the United States who are going on strike right now. I don't know if you have seen that in social media where they're striking for safer conditions for safer patient ratios, but I think about the trauma that they have, workplace violence and things, and just not being able to regulate themselves. The nursing suicide rate is going up higher. How do you see breath work improving the lives of nursing professionals? Because I would love for them to explore this with you or with another breathwork program that's available to them just to help them to regulate.

SPEAKER_01

You don't need hours, it's not about carving out an hour or two per day to actually get into this state. Depending on how connected or disconnected you are, it takes you from a half a minute to two or maximum three minutes. So when you take the elevator, when you have to wait in line for like in the cantina or when you are literally on the toilet. Like I tell people, like, if you don't have time, like who cares? Do it, do it when you're on the toilet. No, nobody cares. And if somebody like so what? Literally, and the most effective way for me, and obviously it's it's for like different people, like it depends on how much you rely on the outside world. Like, I love to close my eyes for this, and I don't really care where I am, just close my eyes and turn inwards because yeah, like everybody has their thing. So let other people think what they want, they don't think about you that much, anyway. We often think that we are the center of attention for everyone, but nobody cares, like, literally, nobody cares. Everybody's busy with their own life. So, yeah, do it in the elevator, do it when you wait for stuff being prepared, or when you even when you walk somewhere, you can just pay attention to your breath, like you have long hallways, you can just focus on breathing while just walking. Like, ideally, you would take really like a nice moment for yourself. Like, toilet is a much better place to do it because it's silent say and you have your own box, so that's a safe environment. But you can literally do it wherever you go, and just trying it for everyone who's listening, just trying for one or two minutes. So it's that's the small instruction part. So as you go and you try, so inhale through the nose, slow inhales. You count on you count to four. So inhaling one, two, three, four through the nose, and exhaling to the mouth, six, five, four, three, two, one. Doing this for one or two minutes, you will feel a difference. So, like for everyone who's watching, please and try this, please comment on if you felt a difference. And if not, we are super happy to support you on tapping into this because you really don't need to go out there and buy all the gadgets and buy all the external stuff they sell in order to be regulated. Regulation is an intrinsic job.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. $500 electronic devices that you can pay that will help your heart regulate and all these things. There's a lot of expensive stuff out there. You hit on something really important. I think people think that in order to do breath work and stuff, they need to be in a special room, no noise, a pillow in the corner, and you may not get that opportunity if you're a nursing professional or a school teacher or something when you've got lots of kids and stuff. So thank you for sharing that because that's a important distinction. People think that they need to be in like a day spa in order to relax or meditate or a yoga class, and you just take it with you. It's intrinsic, definitely. You had mentioned something on your website about carrying trauma for years. How do we carry trauma for years in our body? How do we know?

SPEAKER_01

Often, when you do not sit with yourself, when you don't take the time to work through your issues, you don't know. But you're just walking around being triggered by a lot of things, and you are confused of why stuff triggers you. Or every trigger is an invitation to look into the why and the how. So, whatever triggers you is something that reminds you of something that happened earlier in your life and that wants to be presented and worked through. A lot of people don't turn inward, so they actually really don't know. Like for the people who are doing the work or starting to doing the work, everything we ever experienced. I would say starting from mother womb, but let's say for scientific sakes, when you are like on planet Earth as a newborn baby, from that moment on, every experience is getting imprinted on your like somatic means bodily level and in your mind. So whatever you have experienced is something you're carrying with you, so nothing just happens and fully goes. So that it's the summary of all the experiences you are carrying with you as you go through life. So we all have smaller or bigger traumas we have had in our lives, and it's not about avoiding death by all means, and that you are not supposed to have had any traumatic experiences. That's actually what is shaping us, shaping our value system, shaping our experiences and how we perceive certain things. So it's not about trying to not have any experiences at all, but about how we are taking them with us and how they continue to influence us. And by really looking into what happened, I don't like to use good and bad because it's all like a matter of perspective and they all shape us, but for ease, I'm labeling them as good and bad. It's not about avoiding everything that happened to us that was bad, but just about seeing it as an invitation to work through it and to evolve and to help it shape us in our desired form of how and where we want to go.

SPEAKER_00

I remember just from my own personal experience, I thought it was bad to cry because I was always told, you better stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about from childhood on. So there's a lot of people that boys don't cry, women cry, just the way society has groomed us and everything. And so I'm curious with your daughter, how do you help her explore her emotions and be okay with everything that comes through her space so that she can embrace things and she doesn't have to relearn things at 30, 40, 50 years of age, like some of us over here.

SPEAKER_01

First of all, I'm not perfect, I'm also moving through things and I'm also reflecting every day. I try to take time to reflect to see on how and how I reacted and then shape and adjust. And I think that's really a very important factor is to hold our own space and to be compassionate with ourselves. So it's not, and I like started with the wrong foot there when I just started to become a mom. I was all about perfection, like I thought I had to make everything perfect, and I was very harsh on myself when I didn't perform the way I thought I had to show off, and I had to learn that self-compassion is a very big part of it to actually you know acknowledge that I'm a human and I will do mistakes, and my job is to do the very best I can and to learn from whatever I feel I didn't do as well as I could and improve from there. And the way I practice this with my daughter is I really give my best to walk the talk, meaning that I um sometimes I'm not very connected to myself, but usually like I really try to carve out time for myself. I get up very early in the morning, and the first thing I do is I breathe because that helps me to just some time for myself getting into regulation, ensuring I can hold the space. But I also live through my emotions. I cry and I say when I'm disappointed, I'm giving my emotions space, but it's also about how am I putting it on her and like in the right form for her age. So when I went through some heartbreak while she was a small kid, she would see me crying. I would not have explained to her in the details of what it was, but I was labeling like yes, I'm sad at the moment, and she sees that obviously, and now I'm labeling this as well. She sees that this is a safe space. I'm not trying to hold it down, I'm also not trying to make it bigger, I'm just letting the emotion arise. And she is such a compassionate person, like she would like whenever she sees me like sad, she would hold me, she would hold this. It's so nice how she dies now. Oh wow, yes, so she really is very empathic, and she really lives the same, so she knows it's a safe space to live through your emotions and to really dive into this and to label them. It's really important to label them and to also make it okay to live through them. Obviously, there are certain rules, and it's not about just dive into every single emotion a small kid can have, like there are tantrums in the supermarket, etc. Right? But you want to adjust so you're holding a safe space, you are giving your kids options on how to react and how to tune in with themselves. For example, ever since my daughter is, I think, two, when she was two years old, I practice breath work with her. So I would literally when she has tantrum, and sometimes I would also then be triggered because I was not allowed when I was a kid to be loud, to vocalize, to be have an outburst, or so that's also triggered to me. So what I had to learn is to really just sit on the floor then and just close my eyes and just breathe. And she would see this and she would start doing the same. And now we are at the point where she really likes she regulates herself, she knows because she practiced that breeding helps her, and when she feels that it's too much out of reach, she would come to me and she would be like, Hey mom, hold my hands, breathe with me, and then we would breathe together, and that would bring her back. Also, sometimes it doesn't work, but most of the time this works, and it works because she has seen me doing this and regulating myself. I'm not talking to her, hey, you have to regulate yourself. I'm showing her, and that's how kids learn the most, not by us talking to them and telling them what to do, but by actually watching us and seeing that this works, and it makes them want to do it too.

SPEAKER_00

Absolutely, and it's nice to have something that you have practiced before the actual trigger or trauma. You know, a lot of people learn things after the fact, and then sometimes they don't practice it, but he's grown up with this. I think children are at an advantage when they can grow up with it. That way they know automatically, okay, when this happens, let's just get into it. And they're so much more receptive and so fluid, and their neuroplasticity, they pick up on this five years of age, she's closer to spirit than we are. So I'm sure it's pretty easy. There's this Bible passage about a child to be like a child and just have that innocence and that openness to the breath is just amazing. So she's blessed to have you, and I'm sure you're blessed to have her too.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah, she's my biggest teacher, and she's such a beautiful human. I'm really blessed. Yes. Another just one thing I wanted to mention is don't be afraid to say sorry. That's something I had to learn. I didn't necessarily grow up with this, that we all make mistakes, and it's okay. And that's really important. It's okay to make mistakes. And if whenever I don't act the way I want to hold myself accountable for, I also turn to her, get on the same height with her, and then tell her I'm sorry. Like I'm sorry for what I did or how I did or how I talked or whatever, and try to explain and give a little bit more context, to give a bit of understanding, but really to show up in that way because that lowers the barrier of also her like not trusting me. Because if she knows that we are talking about mistakes, we both make them, and it's a safe space to work through those things. This is so much trust. We don't need to be perfect as parents, but we need to build that trust with our kids so that they know whatever we say is whatever we mean, and showing, for example, like not being showing to not be sad when you're actually sad, and when your kid asks you, hey, what's up? and you're just oh nothing. Like this diminishes the trust your kid has in you in the long run because it can see your face, it can see that something's off, and it cannot label it at this moment, but it will start losing trust in themselves because they're no longer trusting the feelings they have, and the whole trust goes down the dream.

SPEAKER_00

So especially that energy. I wrote a blog article about nurses saying, I'm fine, I'm fine, everything's okay, I'm fine, and not really being honest with what's going on mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. So I'm curious as far as when people come to you to do work, are they coming because they want to relieve stress? Are they coming because they're ill? Are they coming because they want to connect to their spirituality? What do you see the most in the clients that come to you? Is it all of the above?

SPEAKER_01

I work in a corporate environment and on a personal level with people. So I also support companies and their teams with being more regulated, better handle stress, and to boost performance. And I also work with individuals on a level where they are just sick and tired of reliving the same and want to start in a different route but don't know how. I also sometimes work with sick people, so there's a whole range of people I work with, like mostly at the moment I work with women, just given the nature that we've just built a new community platform where we are like solely holding the space for women, but in general, it's all age groups and different settings and different genders.

SPEAKER_00

Can you elaborate now in the last minutes that we have as far as your breath work practice? The platform that you have for women, can you share that with us and talk about it a little bit and what your mission is for the future of breath work and somatic healing and things like that?

SPEAKER_01

Yes. So the community platform is called Sacred Circle, and it's a platform we have established with women in mind, not saying that men wouldn't need it just as much, but women in women-only spaces show up differently. It's just if a space is held by women only, then there are like less masks a lot of women feel they have to wear. And in this community, it's all about finding your inner voice, finding deep connections also with other women in the space, and connecting with your true authentic self again. Meaning that a lot of women, a lot of people in general, but we're talking about the platform now, have lost touch with themselves because we are so driven by everything that happens externally that we are just not in tune with ourselves anymore. Like 100-200 years ago, the story was different. We didn't have so much stress, we didn't have our mobile phones with the internet and so many things scheduled. Like you would work all day, you would be super exhausted, but you would not have that many different sources of stress at the same moment of time. So being regulated was more easy because you were more connected with yourself, and the more we have access to all technology and all the things we feel we have to accomplish and do and make and etc., the more we are losing connection with ourselves. We often carry a lot, and we often feel like we are outsourcing our sense of being the creator because we have to hold the space for so many other people and impacts on us, right? And this is really a platform that helps women to find their voice again and find their inner power by not falling into victimhoods and going down the whole rabbit hole of self-pity. Like there is space for everyone to work through their things, and the journey of self healing also requires a certain, you know, sometimes a certain level of being sad, and sometimes you need to point the finger on someone else before you can are in the position to actually get up and start your healing process. But it's not about going further down in the rabbit hole, but actually to understand. That you're the creator of your life and to lift you up and to feel empowered and embodied to your feminine energy and move from that power of source.

SPEAKER_00

What types of things would they find on that space that you have provided for women? What would they see if they walked into the room?

SPEAKER_01

We have different spaces there. So every type of women is welcome. We have women who show up silently, who don't want to have or contribute in a lot of conversations, and we have people that are more accessing their voice and want to be more heard and felt. So there's like an open space for all of them. Everybody's welcome. It's not about performance, but about really like feeling held. And what you find there is again there are different spaces. So one space, for example, is where we hold our meditations, where we have guided practices, where we have self-reflection exercises, where we have connection to breath exercises. So it's all about different practices and how you can use them and access them. Other spaces are for deeper connection with yourself, where you just you know dive deep into special themes and content, and others are for really like gathering all together and have conversations in that safe space. And we also hold life events where we really bring women together from all over the world, and where we are just celebrating us showing up, and where we create this safe space that no matter where you are on your journey, your health and your rights here.

SPEAKER_00

So, how many different countries are represented in your space all over the world? What have you seen?

SPEAKER_01

I will need to check the exact numbers, but yes, we have people from the United States, from Canada, from Switzerland, from all over Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India, Africa. Whoever speaks English, that's a must is that to speak English because that's how our shared language or tool of communication is. But other than that, all different races, ethnicities, ages, moms, solopreneurs, we are all on our healing journey, just in different stages. Beautiful, beautiful.

SPEAKER_00

I've had a sneak peek of that community. I think it's awesome. And I'd love to be able to provide our viewers with a link to participate or join.

SPEAKER_01

There is for everyone who's gonna be watching that podcast. I'll send you a link to sign up and they'll have access to it.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, alrighty then. Is there any advice that you give the viewers out there just about anything breath, life, whatever you have on your heart to leave us with?

SPEAKER_01

Turn inward. Like for a very long time I ran after external gadgets and courses and all possible things because I thought that I would find healing and self-connection outside of myself, while it's actually there's no way of escaping, there's no way of others healing you. You will need to push through this, it's gonna be work, but you have to push through it by yourself with help from others, but you're gonna do the work. Just connecting with your breath is a starting point. I would have wished to know earlier. It's really going a far away.

SPEAKER_00

Time flies when we're having fun. It's been an honor to have you, and I'm glad we finally got a chance to meet face to face, and maybe hopefully one of these days we'll get to meet in person.

SPEAKER_01

Oh wow. Yes, I would absolutely love to.

SPEAKER_00

Anyway, such an honor. Thank you for being here in this space and everything. I so appreciate the light you are in the world and everything. I'll look forward to the links and things to provide the community so that they can connect with you and get on this journey of Hilly.