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Ep 42. How Spiritual Wellness Affects Your Health, Relationships & Bank Account with Harmony Slater
Join us today with Harmony Slater, a distinguished spiritual wellness business and life coach, as she unveils the secrets to harmonizing Eastern philosophies with Western practices.
Harmony's insights are drawn from her extensive experiences in India and Thailand on integrating Ashtanga yoga and spiritual disciplines into daily life and business.
Whether you're struggling with entrepreneurial challenges or seeking personal growth, her innovative approach combining yoga and spinal energetics can help address deep-seated somatic and subconscious barriers.
Harmony delves into the power of breathwork, from pranayama to holotropic breathing, illustrating how these practices can rewire our neural pathways and shift us from scarcity to abundance. She even shares a short exercise on how to connect to one million dollars!
Harmony's exploration of physical and emotional release leads us to understand the profound impact of somatic practices on our healing journey.
By embracing methods like spinal energetics, we unlock the potential for cathartic release and a renewed flow of energy.
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Welcome to the Calm CEO podcast. I'm your host, amanda, a spinal energetics practitioner, business energetics coach, energy healer, fitness coach and, most importantly, a dog mom. That's right, my furry friend is always here for the good vibes. But today it's all about helping industry leading entrepreneurs just like you unlock the secrets to healing your nervous system and paving the way for more profit and peace and business, life, relationships and health. This podcast is your safe space where we're going to go beyond the basic business strategy and personal development. We're here to cut out the BS and create a life and business that you fucking love. Expect raw, unfiltered conversations and leave each episode with a toolbox full of tips, insights and a tribe of like-minded souls. Go ahead and hit that subscribe button and with that, let's dive into today's episode.
Amanda:Hello everyone, we've got Harmony Slater here today. What's up, girl? Welcome to the podcast. So, harmony, I'm really excited to have you here. She's a spiritual wellness coach for life and for business, which is super amazing. She spent over 25 years helping conscious leaders thrive in the world instead of escaping from it. So she blends Eastern philosophy and techniques with Western psychology which is probably why you're a spinal energetics practitioner as well and science to support my clients to shift um her clients sorry, I'm like reading word for word over here to shift unconscious blocks at the quantum level and transform from the inside out so cool. Welcome Harmony. How are you today?
Harmony:Thank you, I'm doing great. How are you doing, amanda?
Amanda:Amazing, amazing. So we just learned that we're both mountain girls.
Harmony:she's up in Canada the Rocky Mountain team here on the podcast today.
Amanda:That's right, guys, the Rocky Mountain chicks, let's go. Rocky Mountain high baby okay so, harmony, tell us a little bit about you. Where just more about your work, maybe your story? Let's just kind of dive right in. I'm so curious to learn more. Sure.
Harmony:Yeah, I mean it was interesting, it is very, I don't know. It felt like destiny to be drawn into Spinal Energetics and into this work, because I really resonated so much with Dr Sarah Jane and her story, because it felt very similar to my story as well. I did a degree in religious studies focused on Buddhism, did a degree in philosophy and even just before I I mean I graduated but I didn't go to my graduation I took off to India to go, live in India for four months. Then I moved to Thailand. Oh, you went to Thailand to go live in India for four months.
Amanda:Then I moved to Thailand. Oh, you went to Thailand. Yeah, where in Thailand? Where in?
Harmony:Thailand were you. I lived on Koh Samui.
Amanda:Oh, I love Koh Samui, so we went back twice, both for four weeks at a time to Koh Ping Yang, the island right above, yeah.
Harmony:I know Koh Ping Yang, oh, so cool. So I spent a lot of time in asia and then, from thailand, I could travel back and forth between india and thailand, because it's only a five-hour flight and the flights are cheap. So I'd go and spend, you know, six months, four months, six months, however long I could manage in india studying and practicing yoga and studying more philosophy and sans Sanskrit and chanting and pranayama and breathwork and everything.
Amanda:So cool, so please tell me if I'm saying this correctly it's Ashtanga yoga. Yes, ashtanga yoga, ashtanga. Okay, I'll work on that, but can you tell us a little bit more about what that is.
Harmony:Yeah, so I mean Ashtanga means eight limbs and it comes this word comes from the Patanjali Yoga Sutras, which is an ancient text on yoga written by Patanjali around the turn of the century. But this particular style of yoga that's branded Ashtanga Yoga even though you can't really brand something that because the terms already been used comes from Patabi Joyce, who was a guru or a teacher in Mysore, india. So he was there teaching, and now his grandson, sharath Joyce, is there still teaching classes and has an institute where you can go and study and learn and practice.
Amanda:Wow, and you've been doing this for 25 years, yeah, a long time, okay. So you know your shit, you know what's up.
Harmony:It's kind of been like my entire life.
Amanda:Amazing, amazing, and you teach it as well for other people to become this type of yoga instructor.
Harmony:Yeah, I used to do teacher trainings. I don't do teacher trainings so much anymore because I sort of have some other interests, you know like spinal energetics or kind of fill us in a little bit.
Amanda:What do you do now?
Harmony:Yeah, like spinal energetics, which I love, and I feel like this is a really healing modality. I think it blends really well with yoga.
Harmony:But also I do more like life and business coaching for spiritual entrepreneurs or, you know, women who want to build their business and kind of help them do that, because I used to own two yoga studios and then now I basically, when I do teach, I travel and teach internationally, workshops and retreats, so that's where you would find me teaching yoga. I have an online membership and then do coaching online as well. Wow, basically like both an in-person and online business.
Amanda:Okay. So it's interesting because I started out life and business coaching and now I'm doing more of like the healing work. Now I'm so curious, like doing both with it. Have you found that the missing link, especially for like entrepreneurs this is just from my own experience, like people that are struggling with mindset or just they're struggling to succeed and just grow their business that a lot of times it's more a somatic problem, perhaps something within the body, something they're holding onto subconsciously, something that they're wired. I'd love to hear from you kind of your take and like yeah, 100%.
Harmony:So the way that I mostly do coaching is very similar. You would love it because it's very similar to spinal energetics. You know where you're working with the layers. So we have sorry, we have our physical body and then you know an emotional body, a mental body, spiritual body, personal soul. Well, also when I like when I'm coaching, I use different tools. So there's like mindset tools this is more like questioning your thoughts or your beliefs. Emotional mastery tools, so that's like really tuning into the feeling, and mostly that happens through the somatic awareness, so like where we're holding pains in our body or different sensations. When you kind of go into a deeper meditative state and be with those sensations, often there's a message there for you or a memory or a feeling and then allowing that feeling, tapping into that feeling through the sensation.
Harmony:So using a somatic presencing to tap into the emotional body, to let the emotional body come through and then meeting it with essence or presence or love or acceptance, so that you can really let it kind of diffuse, let that energy move through the body and diffuse. Then the unconscious block or the upper limitation starts to go away and then your energy is clear and can move freely.
Harmony:So I find they work really well together, because with the spinal energetics you can do that without necessarily talking about it. Whereas with coaching. You're more talking about it and giving it words and language.
Amanda:Yeah, so true, I think they compliment each other so beautifully. I personally haven't coached as much because I have just found the spinal energetics just does it. It does the coaching for me sometimes. But there I feel like coaching still has its place for sure. That is so awesome and so comprehensive, like it just feels very complete. Just kind of tap into. All of. That kind of reminds me of how to manifest, right. It's not just uh in the mind, but getting into the body and feeling the emotion behind what it is that you want to create, right. I don't know if you do a lot of manifestation. Yeah, it's too.
Harmony:Yeah, totally, totally and I mean, what kind of drew me into this work was because I'd been in the yoga field for so long and worked with many students and teachers of yoga and very, very dedicated practitioners, even within myself. Because you do a really intense, because Ashtanga Yoga is quite an intense yoga practice. It's a dynamic kind of vinyasa flow-based practice, but it has a bit of a structure around it where you're supposed to do it six days a week. You follow the same sequence.
Harmony:It's quite hardcore, and so you yeah, so the students really dive into this practice. Often you would think that they'd be really connected to their body and their nervous system, but almost sometimes it takes them a little bit longer because of this sort of disconnect that's happening, this mind-body dichotomy, rather than this integration. It's like doing such intense things to your body and I don't know I haven't worked with any, like you know, athletes like marathon runners or like really active people, but it might be a similar kind of thing where you feel?
Amanda:like it is yeah.
Harmony:Yeah, so intense with your body that you you almost kind of have to dissociate a little bit from it because you can't allow yourself to really feel that deeper kind of vibration or that sort of level of trauma that you're inflicting on yourself to get the results you want.
Amanda:Yeah, you definitely have to create safety first right Like it's. It's, I think, dissociation, that free state. I mean I had two clients this morning who were both thawing out from a free state and feeling for the first time in their feet and their hands. They're like, oh, I didn't know that sensation. Was there Interesting?
Harmony:Yeah, yeah, interesting, yeah, yeah, and it's so interesting to see, like to see that sort of awareness drop into the body at deeper layers and levels.
Amanda:That's incredible. That's incredible, okay. So I don't mean to like cut you off on your story, so kind of like going back. So so you went to India, you became an Ashtanga.
Speaker 3:Ashtanga yoga teacher.
Amanda:Um, back in, it looks like 2006, and then you began traveling and teaching internationally. Tell us about what's. What else has been going on since then? Yeah, so you told us about the workshops and the retreats and stuff yeah, so that's mostly.
Harmony:What I'm doing now is traveling internationally between like 2006, when I received authorization there's sort of authorization which is level one, and then certification, which is an even more in-depth process of having to spend at least 10 years practicing at this specific institute under the the sort of mentorship or lineage of patavi joyce or charotte joyce now um, but I went and moved back to canada and moved to the west coast and opened a yoga school there and gave birth to my son. So that was like a whole journey into motherhood and running a business, a brick and mortar business, and teaching, and you know that's where we were doing a lot of the teacher trainings and different.
Amanda:What was that like? I'm not a mother? Well, I have dogs, but that doesn't count. Some argue yes to that. Thank you. I just never want to offend like a mom. So I'm like so what was that like building a business and being a mother? I mean, you seem like a jack of all trades because you do the yoga, you do breath work to retreat spinal energetics, coaching, life like everything. You just do everything. What is?
Harmony:that like yeah, I'm kind that like putting it all into one, one thing now like a holistic kind of package to help people but yeah, I mean being a. I mean, oh man, it's a. It's a paradigm shift. I don't know how else to explain it.
Harmony:You know, you think that you're selfless, or you're spiritual, or you know you're on the path to enlightenment, and then all you have to do is have a child and reality hits you in the face oh god yeah, you realize like, oh, the world doesn't revolve around me, and even though I didn't think that I thought the world revolved around me, I really know now that it revolves around this other little being, because it feels like your heart is existing outside of your body. You know? So you just you kind of? Start circling the orbit of someone else, which is beautiful because it really is the most purest form of love and selfless service and just like devotion really, and so how has motherhood taught you in business?
Harmony:Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think running a business and being a mother is challenging, but also it gives a lot of energy to your business because you're not just doing it for yourself now. Apartment and you know eating rice and beans and avocado and just like obsessed about my own. You know spiritual practice and development, trying to create the conditions of a monastery as best as I could.
Amanda:You know I swear, my dogs live better than I do. I get it. You want, yeah, you want to have that place for your loved ones, yeah.
Harmony:Yeah, yeah. But when you have a family or a child or you know dependents, then you know they need things. You can't really just like expect your son or your daughter to live in a monastery when they're 10 or 12 years old and want to explore the world and do activities, and as a parent, you really want to give them those opportunities too, right? So it gives a different kind of fuel and passion to the work that you're doing.
Amanda:Real quick. I'd like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all the listeners of this podcast. Your support means the world to me. As you're aware, a stellar rating plays a vital role, not just for the podcast success, but also in our collective mission as change. Makers. By awarding us five stars, you empower us to continue spreading love, knowledge, support and guidance to people worldwide. Please take a brief moment to give this podcast a five-star rating. Thank you immensely Cool. Yeah, I love that you're saying that because I feel like that's a beautiful perspective being a mother, because I used to hear a lot of how I never have time, I have no energy to be working on my business, and you took the opposite approach to it and it fueled your business. It gave you that energy to succeed because he was your reason from what it sounds like.
Harmony:Yeah, totally yeah, yeah. How old is he now? Now he's almost 14. Oh my God. Wow, that's incredible so it shifts and it changes too.
Amanda:Yeah, when they're.
Harmony:when they're young, it requires a lot of kind of intense focus, and then, when they get older, you have your life come back to you in its own way.
Amanda:Amazing, amazing. So you do breath work as well, and can you tell us a little bit more about what type of breath work that is?
Harmony:Yeah, so mostly I started off with a pranayama practice and can you tell us a little bit more about what type of breath work that is?
Harmony:Pitwari practicing pranayama, which is long, slow breathing with retentions, either at the top or the bottom of an inhale or an exhale, and practicing learning the traditional methods that were passed down through his teacher and his lineage, which is at the Kavalyadam Institute in La Navala, india, and that's mostly what I use to help people regulate their nervous system.
Harmony:But in the last five years I've been diving a little bit more into holotropic breathing, which is the fast pace, either three-part breath or just in and out, which I like to also use. I think it goes really well with the spinal energetics. So I like to incorporate a little bit of that at the beginning of a session, especially online, because what it does is it actually shuts off the prefrontal cortex. Yeah, so it like down, regulates the prefrontal cortex. You move more into your body and into your energy and so, even though it's not a practice that I personally would recommend doing every day, because when you're breathing that fast inhalation and exhalation in and out of your mouth it can actually it causes like a little bit of stress in your body, right, but it's good stress, but maybe not if you're doing it every day. Then it might become cumulative stress every day, then it might become cumulative stress, so it's good for a
Harmony:little like a little kick in the butt, exactly, exactly Like a little reset like a little nervous system reset or a kick in the butt, or yeah, like a little intervention you know, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah.
Harmony:But then on a regular basis. I would recommend doing more of the pranayama breathing which is, you know, people now, I think, are more familiar with this type of breath work. You know, alternate nostril breathing or box breathing, or just inhaling and exhaling and lengthening the exhale resonance breathing. There's many different types of sort of long, slow breathing exercises that are really helpful for regulating the nervous system.
Amanda:Amazing and I saw here like you can use this breath work to access connection to abundance.
Speaker 3:Yeah, how do you do?
Amanda:that Talk to us. I'm sure everybody's like ears are peeled peeled right now like tell us, how can we use this breath, breath work.
Harmony:Wow, I can't talk tonight yeah, I love your light language, thanks, but yeah, I think it's you know. I think what happens is we get stuck in those patterns in our brains, right?
Amanda:Our neural networks get fixed and we know this right.
Harmony:Like the scarcity patterns, no-transcript neural network, and it opens up your perception to see alternate perspectives and alternate things you know that you wouldn't see normally or you wouldn't be open to normally.
Harmony:And so when you are doing either a pranayama practice regularly, which is really tapping into your prana or your life force, your energy, and starting to become quite acquainted with it in your body, or you do even holotropic breathing, is that intervention?
Harmony:It shuts down that part of your brain that is used to being in a particular pattern and moves into more of the limbic system and the nervous system, the part where you know the autonomic nervous system, and starts to wake it up a little bit and bring in some fresh you know circulation or create new neural networks, new neural connections, so that when you finish and then you're integrating, there's like more flow happening, more things are being connected at a neural level but also even in your energy. But also even in your energy and that's why people you know in spinal energetics or after a breathwork session will feel like so expansive because their mind has literally been open right, like things that didn't connect before are now connecting and so there's that greater sense of awareness and the patterns that maybe the brain was stuck in have been disrupted, and so there's more opportunity. More possibility is just right there, like physically, in manifestation as well, because manifesting is really to me, it's really just being open to see what's already there.
Harmony:And the problem is, we don't see it you know we don't see it, because we only see what we're expecting or what we're used to seeing, or what we're predicting to see. And so the more we are able to kind of recognize that time is an illusion, space is also an illusion, you know, physical beings are also an illusion, physical things are also an illusion, that it's all just energy, then we can like feel that connection and draw things towards us or move towards them more easily.
Amanda:So well said, and I love how you brought the science in. I mean, if that doesn't prove the St Lulu, I don't know what else is.
Harmony:I mean, I'm not a scientist, but I do. You know, I'm like a pseudoscientist. I like to study neurology and neuropsychology and things because, it's so interesting.
Amanda:Oh, it's so powerful, it's so good. I mean, it's so true, though, on every level, everything that you just shared, and it feels very similar to how spinal energetics works. Right, because I feel like a lot of perspectives shift and rewind and re-listen to how that actually works within the brain and the nervous system and the body is one and yeah, so powerful. Really, essentially, the brain is opening up from what you're sharing here.
Harmony:Yeah, I read something today too, that the spinal cord transmits messages at a speed of something like 268 miles per hour. Huh, like the how fast the neurons move really those electrical impulses from our brain to our spinal cord. That's like, yeah, it was, it was insane, I was insane, I was like that's crazy to think about. We have like nerve impulses moving through our spinal cord at that speed. Woo, yeah, it's amazing.
Amanda:Lightning. That's incredible. I did not know that. Thanks for the fun fact.
Harmony:I just read it today I was like that's really that's going to take me a bit to wrap my head around.
Amanda:I love it. I love it.
Harmony:Okay, so even for you, like in your work with people and clients, I mean, I think it's so amazing when you are working with someone on the, you know, on a table or wherever, on the floor, on a couch and and they're having like those tremor shakes and they're in a deep, altered state of you know what might be meditation or sort of different brain waves and they're so tuned into their body but their body's also releasing in quite an intense way and after there's like a visible shift in how they look, how they feel like yeah, I mean like what?
Harmony:how? How do you describe that? How do you explain that to people?
Amanda:I'm just thinking of a client this morning like just kept getting stuck in the solar, like over there in the lower part of the spine, and then we just lifted her hips up and then literally, I mean, you know how you can feel the energy in the room and like, if it's, you know, good vibes, bad vibes it was just like all of a sudden. It was like instant relief. I was like, ah, like, and you could just see it like all their muscles just relax, everything just looks like it's flowing again, and even like the subtle changes in their expression, in their face, it's almost like a little smile or all their facial muscles are just like, ah, yeah, yeah, it's like a sigh of relief, almost Totally.
Harmony:Yeah, yeah, and I have some. I mean mean and this is just a theory, but it's like a curiosity around these patterns of releasing and how, like our bodies also get stuck, just like our brain gets stuck thinking the same thoughts over and over and over again, but our bodies also get stuck holding the same kind of like movement. It's conditioned that way.
Amanda:Yeah, depending on what one's been through. I see it all the time in spinal energetics client on the table and you find the tension pattern being stored in the body and then they you know, in spinal energetics you're pushing the energy from anywhere in the body to that fixation point, to that tension pattern, and while you're trying to move that energy to that point, they will resist. Their nervous system, if you will, is conditioned to think that's not safe, it's, it's, it's's like I don't know about that, amanda, like I don't know. This is just too much, right. It just it's, it's, um, the unfamiliar right where we tend to resist because we don't know what's on the other side of it, and but it ends up feeling very cathartic, right. So, yeah, I see that resistance all the time.
Amanda:And so then it's like interesting, right when, when somebody can, when that energy finally moves and shifts and that tension pattern clears, yeah, it opens up like an entire different flow of energy oh, yeah, yeah, it's like a light bulb goes off too, like it's just all these activations are happening on a cellular DNA level and I see it like sometimes I can actually like see the energy happening and it's just like lights going off inside the body, just like ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Hello, abundance, baby, let's go. Yeah, yeah.
Harmony:Because it's really about flow right and connection, and I think that I mean that's so much of what we're trying to do inside of ourselves. This connection Is just create more connection, create more flow create more you know less of this like heading and blocks and tension patterns.
Amanda:It is Well. I feel like that's what healing is all about. Right, healing, I feel like, kind of gives us this idea of like you're releasing so much stuff, but really it's about connecting, reconnecting with your highest frequency, your truest self, your authentic, your gifts, your power, everything about you. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Harmony:Yeah, and I mean it's. I love this because I think that's also what coaching does. You know, just like through language is with a client. They I mean as a client or with a client. You know we have places in our lives and our thoughts and our feelings, either with ourselves or in our relationships, where we're disconnected.
Harmony:Go into, you know, the, the assumption of why someone is going to be the way they're going to be, or you know those are all places of disconnection and so when you can work with someone to uncover and have them like, bring what is unconscious because all these assumptions are unconscious and all of these ways of being and all of these stories that we believe about ourselves or others in the world are mostly sitting in our unconscious mind. We, when we can bring it forward into the consciousness, then we can see it and examine it or feel it and be with it, and then we can create integration and connection with it and then, instead of it being a place of disconnect, it gets brought into the whole and then we have greater connection within ourselves or in our relationships or in our lives.
Amanda:Yeah, it changes everything around you Everything. Yeah, I'm curious, since we're on the topic of abundance and how to use breathwork to access that connection Do you get clients that come to you like my goal in business is to, I don't know, make a million dollars this year. What would be your step-by-step beat when it comes to this kind of work?
Harmony:Yeah, give me the 411. Well, I mean, I guess, if you wanna create a million dollars, my question would be well, why? What's your motivation? Yeah, do you want me?
Amanda:to answer that yeah, Freedom right. I think freedom is a big one for most people because they want the financial freedom, thinking it's going to give them ease and calmness, like more peace. They won't have to worry and stress about money as much and enjoy life more.
Harmony:Yeah, okay. So freedom, peace, calmness is. Is the the reason why, or the essence of why, you want a million dollars? Okay? So then I'd say and you can do this right now because you asked- Okay, let's do it. Yes. So if you just close your eyes and just take a nice deep breath and as you exhale, just relax, just feel your energy, your attention, where in your body you can experience freedom right now, when might there be a sense of peace?
Speaker 3:Maybe it's just in your pinky finger, maybe it's in your big toe, maybe it's in your heart center, and just breathe and allow that sense of freedom or peace Just expand and grow, just move from cell to cell, so you feel as if your whole energy is surrounded, just being held in a bubble, a beautiful bubble of freedom, peace, and it's emanating from within you and also you're receiving it around you. You feel that in your body.
Amanda:Oh yeah, I feel good, baby, yeah well, now that you feel that yeah, you, you're free I
Amanda:mean, maybe, maybe you want a million dollars, but you don't need it yeah, oh, my god, I talk about this all the time on the podcast, how it's like I've hit so many different big financial milestones in my business but it never felt like enough, right. And then I really tapped into like okay, well, why? And it's like, oh, because I want to fly first class or I want to travel the world more. I want the freedom, I want to be able to buy things without looking at the price tag. And it's well, why do I want all that? And it's that feeling of freedom, it's that feeling of peace. And it's like well, why can't I feel that now? You know, anybody can feel that now, anyone has access to the feeling of freedom, calmness, security, right here, right now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nothing's going to change.
Harmony:It's your essence, it is it's who you are, yeah, and so the more we can like get into that space of who we are, then it's easier to create from that place too, right?
Amanda:Oh yeah.
Harmony:Because the goal isn't out there. The goal is already present here, and so then we're free. We're truly free to go for it if we want, but we also can go for it with a sense of playfulness or lightness, knowing that it doesn't really matter and we don't need it to be happy or to be free, or to experience peace because, that's already who we are, and we can experience that anytime we want.
Amanda:Yeah, I swear I make the most money when I'm having a good time.
Speaker 3:I know right, and then we forget and we're like oh, it's so hard.
Amanda:I know why do we? Yeah, it's like I hate that. It's like one of my worst favorite sayings of like oh, business is so hard, it's so difficult, so difficult. I'm like that's a perspective you can have. Fun. Business is fun. Business can feel easy. Uh, like we're selling our house right now. We just closed the other day and I don't feel stressed out at all and I've sold many houses in my days and this is the first time after doing so much nervous system work where I it's, I feel good, I feel excited, I feel free, like I'm just like I don't know, I'm not like worried about having to pack my whole house this week.
Speaker 3:We're good, yeah yeah, you can do it.
Amanda:Yeah, I have no idea where we're gonna live. Like I'm like you know what everything's gonna work out, I don't know. It's just a really cool sense of just feeling confident and assured.
Harmony:Um, I feel like this is the same, yeah testament to the work that that you do and that you're doing for yourself, and also the work that you're offering other people as well, because we're always co-regulating too right. So yeah our clients come and they co-regulate with us, but we also create that space for the co-regulation. So we have to kind of be in that essence in order to facilitate. So yeah you know it's the work you're doing on yourself, but also holding the space for your clients, too, is yeah also helping you to.
Harmony:You know, step into that yeah and own it.
Amanda:I just had a vision of like everyone listening to this episode right now. They're gonna come back to you, harmony, in a year. We're like, hey, I just had a million dollars because they just did that exercise every day.
Speaker 3:Good send me a testimonial. Yes, send the testimonials.
Amanda:Let let's go. You'll be hearing from me too. Let's rock and roll.
Harmony:Amazing Living in Montana.
Amanda:Yeah, we'll see what happens. Yeah, as of right now, we're not going to Montana, but I was joking with Harmony at the beginning of this. We're going up there for a couple of weeks to go hunting, my husband and I, and we keep joking like we may not come back. But but you never know, yeah, you never know. Uh, wow, okay, so so you do retreats? Oh wait, okay, 10 silent. Vipa sauna, vipashna, oh God, wow, somebody put me in yoga class please it's the sanskrit.
Harmony:It's the sanskrit, and um no, I I mean that was another thing that I really resonated with, uh dr sarah jane with was. She's also a vipassana meditator and did a lot of Vipassana silent retreats. So it was. It just felt like such a fit because when you're sitting there for 10 days without talking to anyone, without speaking, without writing, without reading, just meditating for 10 hours a day.
Speaker 3:Oh, it is silent silent.
Harmony:Yeah, and not even eye contact or any like physical contact, like no communication at all with anyone else.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Harmony:And you're just doing yoga, you just sit and meditate, that's oh, you sit and watch your breath, so that's called anapana meditation. And then you observe your energy through subtle sensations in the body.
Amanda:Oh whoa, oh man.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Amanda:I'm already thinking like do I, could I do that?
Speaker 3:You totally could.
Amanda:Well, I've worked my way up. I was one of those meditators that 10 seconds I'm out. I'm much better now. Yeah, like I can meditate for hours now, but 10 days.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Harmony:Wow yeah you go real deep.
Amanda:Oh, I bet what's the experience like, for so you teach this or you used to host these types of retreats.
Harmony:Mostly I've just sat them, I mean. I do teach some Vipassana meditation and I offer moon day meditations, full and new moon meditations in my Finding Harmony community. But, yeah, I don't do. I don't typically offer the silent retreats because it's a, it's a lot for people Is it Okay.
Harmony:And also I mean I feel like there's a whole institute called the Vipassana organization and they have so many centers around the world and it's all donation based and I mean they just do such a good job. I just send people there. Go sit there for 10 days if you want.
Amanda:Oh my gosh. Okay, so, out of all of these modalities that you have under your tool belt, what is your favorite? Are you allowed to share a favorite Like what have you found maybe to be the most helpful, most impactful?
Harmony:I mean, what's interesting I think about them all is they're all really somatic practices. Yeah they're all really about regulating the nervous system, but also tapping into energy and observing the subtle energy body, and so I feel like you know, with the yoga you get so far where you kind of are like oh yeah, subtle energy body.
Harmony:I kind of get that, but you're moving and you're breathing while you're doing it, so the mind can only get so refined. And then with the pranayama it gets more refined because now you're sitting in one place and you're just using the breath, so you get to go more deeper into it. And with meditation again, especially if you're doing a 10 day meditation, not just 10 minutes your mind gets really concentrated and so you really get acquainted with the energy body. So I think it's just different levels and layers and depending on where a client is or where a student is, you know they're going to want to kind of either go deeper or be like oh, this is good for me, I'm good up here with the yoga right.
Harmony:But typically I think at some point you start to want to go a little bit deeper into the pranayama or the breath work and then deeper into the meditation and the subtle energy body, and I think spinal energetics is a beautiful way for people who maybe, you know, don't have 20 years to devote to, you know, doing yoga and breath work and meditation and doing all of these somatic nervous system, you know, regulation practices. I think it's a really effective way to shortcut the process, because it's I don't know you just drop into that meditative state and your body, you can't, I don't know. For me, in my experience as a client, you can't help but notice the subtle energy body, and I think all of my clients, even if they're just like, oh, I feel really spacious. I mean, that's your subtle energy body, you know. So the more you kind of are able to tap into it, the more acquainted you get with it, and I think it's, I just feel like it's so powerful. So, yeah, kind of my new favorite.
Speaker 3:I love it.
Amanda:I love it. I love it. Yeah, I mean it's. It's definitely my favorite, and there's nothing against any of the other modalities. They all have their place Right. And I think it depends on the client too, because, you know, depending on what level they're at in their healing journey or what you know where they are in their journey, maybe breath work is the better option right now, Maybe yoga is the better option right now. You know, I don't think there's any right or wrong or better modality than the other, but I mean for me right now and obviously for harmony you can tell what our favorites are
Harmony:yeah, well, and I think it's. I mean, there's something too like yoga you could do every day and yeah, you know, pranayama or breathwork you can do every day. And because they're self kind of administered, say, right, like you're, you're doing a practice to create a level of regulation or a feeling of calm or connectedness in your body. But I think with and even meditation, right, you could do it every day. But with the spinal energetics it feels like a deeper kind of release is happening or a deeper sort of integration is happening.
Amanda:It goes deep.
Harmony:Yeah, it's a bit like holotropic breathing. Maybe you don't want to do it every day.
Amanda:Maybe you want to leave like a few days in between maybe you want to leave like a few days in between, yeah, so, yeah, yeah, you gotta space it out a little bit more, yeah, yeah, well, you, you went and got certified in toronto, yeah, um, and it's a four-day class and I've done it a couple times now level one, level two and then I also helped train level one amazing, and that's my, my dream.
Amanda:A lot happened. Yeah, ooh, we should talk more. Okay, it's a lot in four days when you go to those Cause, you know, usually you do 20 minutes of spinal energetics and then you're good for a week or two before you can have another session.
Harmony:When we get trained, like you, yeah, You're in there for like six hours eight hours just like in the energy in the field of focus. And yeah no, it was a lot, but I loved it I felt I was like I just want to stay in this little bubble here.
Amanda:I know it felt like home. It felt, yeah, everything was amazing with it. Um, but hey, maybe we can create our own. Maybe we can create our own four day retreat and our own yeah, Filled with it That'd be amazing.
Speaker 3:Do it more often.
Amanda:Okay, cool, we're already collaborating. Let's go. Yes, let's do it. Amazing, okay. So anything else that you want to share, anything that you want to leave the audience with before we close this conversation.
Harmony:I don't know. Just keep doing your work. I don't know.
Harmony:I think, sometimes we want all the answers, or we want to know the right way or the right direction or the right thing to do, and you know there just really isn't a right way. There's lots of ways and lots of directions and lots of things to do, and so, just I think, the more you can tune in to your essence, to your heart or your mind, you know to, to those centers of knowing in your body, your gut, the more the you know. The bread comes up here. You can just follow the steps. You don't need to know. You know a hundred steps ahead. You can just keep going step by step, and and you'll keep moving forward, if you're if you're tuned into doing your work and staying true to yourself.
Amanda:So I love that. I I think a lot of people can resonate with that and like being in alignment with what you want to do, because I think it's really easy to fall off and be like oh well, becky says I should do this or I should do that, that's how I should make a million dollars. But how you make it is going to be completely different from how somebody else makes it right. You might be more aligned with twerking or something. I don't know I do. I literally have a business friend. She was my mentor and then we worked together a couple of times. She like her, her jam was twerking, she kills it and business, but that's just who she is and she shares that on social media.
Amanda:She works her booty and that works, you know know.
Harmony:So find what works for you yeah, if it's aligned, if it's aligned for you, then it will work if it's not aligned, it won't work yeah, and and it's even like making money. I mean, you know, sometimes I think we have these numbers in our head like I need to make a million dollars, but maybe you don't need to make a million dollars, maybe what you really want is to have time freedom or travel freedom, or and you don't need to make a million dollars.
Harmony:Maybe what you really want is to have time freedom or travel freedom, or, and you don't need to have a million dollars for that, you know.
Amanda:Yeah, so true, so true. Yeah, I think I see some of the richest people in the world are the ones with no money and they're traveling the world and living their life and they figure it out as they go, versus having a million dollars cash in the bank Exactly Incredible share today. Thank you, harmony. I feel very harmonized now. I think everybody here got harmonied, so thank you, thank you, thank you.
Harmony:Beautiful. Well, people can find me at.
Speaker 3:Harmony.
Harmony:Slater official on Instagram and they can head over to my website, harmonyslatercom, and I have a free spiritual entrepreneur archetype quiz that you get, a branding inspiration kit and some other fun things.
Amanda:So if you're interested?
Harmony:yeah, they can head on over there. Cool it looks like you have.
Amanda:Do you still have your five-day breathwork challenge as well?
Harmony:And I do have your five-day breathwork challenge as well, and I do have a five-day breathwork challenge, and there's also a two-minute free breathwork exercise you can download as well. So oh for immediate stress reduction exactly uh hello, let's go and it really works yeah, I'm. Myself. I'm like, oh, I'm going to listen to that, even though I know what to do I was like, let me just test it.
Amanda:Everybody's got two minutes Like come on, if you're feeling stressed right now or if you need to go grab that from her, we'll leave the links below for you all. Harmony, thank you so much for coming today. Oh, we got the dogs here. Hello, puppies, welcome. Yes, all right, harmony, have a beautiful day, thank you.
Harmony:Thank you so much, Amanda. It's wonderful to connect with you.
Speaker 3:Bye.
Harmony:Bye.
