Ask Your Guides - Live - 8/11/24

Ask Your Guides - recorded LIVE - 8/11/24 - An unscripted collaboration among teachers, addressing questions from the Insight Timer community. This was recorded LIVE and might have some background noise.

The following teachers were in this LIVE session: Maporoco, Janne Guttormsen, Joanne Catherine Barker, Polly Hearsey, Simone Clement, Stephanie Dalfonzo, Taylor Holliday. Please check out their profiles on Insight Timer and follow them!

Host teachers: Melanie Underwood and Violet 108

Please join our Insight Timer Group "ASK YOUR GUIDES" to continue interacting with the teachers and the community.

Transcript

So we have an amazing group of teachers here today.

I'm so excited to get started.

And as you know,

Our format is to let you ask whatever questions you want of this beautiful panel that we have here for you.

And Melanie,

Who is an amazing moderator and an amazing friend is going to take over from here.

And again,

I may,

You know,

Jump in every now and then just to make up for the fact that I couldn't talk the other day and,

Uh,

You know,

Have to make up for lost time,

But I'm going to do my best to contain myself and I'm going to let Mel,

Oh,

Well,

Actually,

First I'm going to introduce everybody and then I'm going to let Melanie take it.

So Simone,

We are going to start with you.

Please share with everyone who you are and what you do.

Hello,

I'm Simone and I'm a tarot reader and astrologer based out of Madrid,

Spain,

And I'm originally from the United States.

Awesome.

And Polly,

We're going to move on to you.

Myself,

Remember to do that.

Um,

So I I've been on insight time since 2019 and,

Uh,

That time on business.

So I'm one of the few people who have that as their main focus.

And I look at energy and natural principles in business,

Particularly thinking around things like rewilding business,

Um,

Following the elemental cycles and just trying to get people into a space where they are finding a more natural way of business.

Thank you.

Froze.

Oh,

Might well have done my back again.

Yes.

Okay.

Right.

Yeah.

I don't know why I didn't bypass me if I freeze.

So,

Yes.

So I,

I work exclusively on business on insights.

Excellent.

Thank you.

And Stephanie,

We're going to move on to you.

There we go.

Thank you for including me on this today.

I'm so happy to be here.

Um,

I've been an integrative hypnotist and intuitive healer for 20 years.

And my focus is stress and anxiety relief and learning how to sleep better.

All of that without pills,

Potions,

And gurus,

Because I truly believe that we are our own best inner guru.

It's just,

Nobody ever taught us that nobody ever taught us that we can rewire our brains,

Let alone teaching us how to do it.

And trust me,

I have rewired my brain to drop and keep off over 50 pounds and to end a nightly alcohol habit.

And if I tell you,

If I can do this,

You can too,

Hand to God.

Um,

I've got a live this afternoon at five 30 Eastern.

Goodbye,

Anxiety.

Hello,

Freedom.

I'd love for you to join me.

I will be there.

I'm so excited for that.

All right.

And Joanne.

Hi.

So thank you for inviting me.

This is my first,

Uh,

Ask the guides.

So my name is Joanne and I'm an interviewer radio presenter.

I see myself as a creator and facilitator of change.

I help people to embrace their superpowers and really help them to open up on spiritual journey.

So thanks.

I love that.

Thank you.

JP,

My friends,

And I should specify it's Mapo Rocco.

I keep calling you JP because I know you as JP.

Well,

Yes,

Actually that's my,

Well,

My name is Juan Pablo.

So JP.

Yeah.

Thank you,

Violet and everyone.

This is also my first time collaborating with you guys.

And I'm very excited because it's been a while since I made my last,

Uh,

Broadcast on inside timer.

I basically focus on two things.

One teaching people how to use the law of attraction and energy work in general.

And I also help with spiritual guides because I have developed a very interesting bond and communication with my,

So nice to meet you all.

Lovely to have you.

And Taylor.

Hi everyone.

Violet.

Thank you so much for creating the space.

I've been so excited to join.

Um,

I am a first and second grade teacher and on insight timer,

I have been sharing that I'm a feminine embodiment coach,

So I really love supporting women in deeply connecting with their bodies,

Um,

Reclaiming all parts of themselves.

Um,

And of course the meditation teacher as well.

So yes.

Yeah.

And I,

Uh,

I scoped Taylor out cause I happened to catch one of her lives and loved what she was doing.

And a lot of you come to me through different ways.

Sometimes I just watch other teachers because I want everyone to get to know teachers that maybe they don't know already.

And if I see somebody like Taylor,

I'm like,

Please join us because I want other people to see what you do.

And Janet you're next.

Hi.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you for sorting all of this out.

I'm really in awe of all the tech that you do.

Cause yeah,

I know how hard it is,

So thank you.

So yeah,

My name is Janne.

I am from Norway.

I am a meditation teacher in the making.

Um,

I have only just started this whole spiritual awakening,

Um,

After having gone through burnout a few times.

And then I started to study meditation,

Uh,

In depth.

I'm currently taking a two year study.

And,

Uh,

During that study,

I decided to come off the antidepressants that I have been on for seven years.

I have stopped taking my,

Uh,

Birth,

Uh,

No,

What do you call it,

Hormonal birth control pills.

So I'm just like reconnecting with the true self and I am,

Uh,

Kind of sharing my journey and hoping to connect maybe with some of you who are on the same journey as me,

And I am still not sure where this is journey is going to take me.

So I am,

Um,

I'm quite fresh in this whole thing and so appreciating to be part of this.

Delighted to have you join us all of you.

And I was just looking through some of the comments and I see people saying that a lot of the teachers here were not known to them and that that's what I love.

I love introducing people to new teachers,

You know,

Through my love of technology,

Because as you all know,

When I got on,

Uh,

Insight time,

I had no idea what I was going to do.

I just knew I wanted to be a part of this.

And I had a thought in the shower one night,

You know,

I was hearing like,

Ask your guides and I said,

I call,

I texted Melanie cause I will text Melanie at all odd hours.

And I was like,

What do you think about this idea?

Is it silly?

And she was like,

Try it.

So I was like,

Okay,

I don't know what we're going to do,

But let's just try it.

And it literally has taken on a life of its own.

So I am thrilled and excited.

And with that,

I am going to let my awesome cohost,

Melanie,

Take it away.

Thank you guys for joining.

And don't forget if you have questions to drop them in the chat,

I know some of you guys have been sending them to me,

So I am going to kick it off with the first question that I got,

Which was what is your biggest gift you don't offer on Insight Timer,

Joanne?

Yeah,

I actually don't offer numerology.

So I absolutely love life path numerology and I used it to get out of a job I hated and move house.

So numerology and a little bit of birth chart reading as well.

I find it absolutely fascinating to use that information and help,

You know,

Plan a new direction.

JP?

Thanks.

So what I would say in general one-on-ones,

But I also leverage guidance from my spiritual guides to answer questions,

Which I usually don't try to get into what is going to happen kind of question,

You know,

But more like guidance.

So those are the things that I cannot do here.

I practice hypnosis and have for 20 years,

And there's so many myths and misconceptions about it.

So it's not something I do on IT,

But for 20 years I've been playing in the field of rewiring our minds.

And it's just so powerful.

And you know,

It has changed my life.

I'm just going to throw in there today,

Stephanie,

That in my life,

We talked about rewiring your brain relating to cooking because people walk into it and say,

I can't,

I can't,

I can't,

And there's so much power in what you said.

And it's completely doable in any aspect.

Well,

If anybody remembers the quote from Henry Ford,

So the guy who,

You know,

Made the first car said,

You know,

So this is like a hundred years ago,

Whether you think you can or think you can't,

You're right.

Choose your thoughts wisely,

Huh?

Simone.

Hello.

Um,

One of my,

I don't know if it's really a gift,

But it's one of my obsessions and that is off-grid living.

So I don't talk about it on Insight Timer,

But,

Um,

Because I focus more on tarot and astrology,

But I love all things of have gotten solo panels in our house and I'm really like interested in collecting rainwater,

Although there's not a ton of rainwater because we're in Spain,

It's very hot here,

But,

Um,

And I'd like to eventually build my own garden with,

Uh,

Hydroponics and lights.

So I'm kind of a nerd about it.

That's awesome.

And Simone,

Since you're still here,

We,

I got a question specifically for you about what,

What led you and how did you start being tarot?

Of course.

Yeah.

Well,

My journey with tarot and astrology began during a really,

Really difficult time in my life,

Which was right after the birth of my first son.

And I was navigating like a very serious postpartum depression,

Um,

That I now realized was a very unmanaged neuro divergent.

So I'm undiagnosed ADHD and off.

And when I was in that lowest point,

I was earning like no at all.

I would earn maybe $200 or 200 euros in an entire month.

And I was really ashamed about it because I couldn't seem to find my purpose.

I couldn't seem to find what I was supposed to do.

And I started one day in Etsy shop,

And it was just this little thing that I thought about,

Like,

Why don't I try it?

Cause it seems like you can make some side money like that.

And I got my very first ever tarot client through Etsy and their name was sign in with Apple user.

So I didn't even know their real name.

And,

Um,

I did that first tarot reading about four years ago now.

And ever since then,

I have dedicated my life because of how well it's gone.

Thank you.

Did anyone else want to answer the question about their gifts?

Okay.

So Jessica asked,

What is one new thing that you want to learn more about?

Everybody's thinking violet.

I would love to learn more about tarot because I love tarot cards.

I love Oracle cards and I love crystals,

But I am far from being an expert on any of those topics.

However,

I have about,

You know,

600 crystals in the house.

I have about 45 card decks.

A few of them are tarot,

And I want to learn more about that.

Yeah.

So I would like to learn more about astral travel.

That's a topic that really fascinates.

I want to hear more about that.

But Samoa.

Oh,

I'm sorry.

I did not even realize my hand was me,

But I'll tell you guys anyway.

I really like to learn about how to take better care of my fish tank.

Um,

So I want to get more fish and it's really hard like aquariums.

I don't even know.

So that's my next goal in life,

But that was okay.

That's it.

Taylor.

I,

Um,

Recently,

Like,

I think maybe last month started getting into,

Um,

Ancestor work and it's been really beautiful and interesting and I've already had some,

Some very kind of spiritual moments,

Um,

With my ancestors.

And it led to me spending time with my parents and going through old photographs and I found a picture of like my great,

Great,

Great grandfather that I actually have like behind me on my ancestor altar.

Um,

And so it's,

Uh,

Yeah,

I just am curious to see how that's going to unfold and,

Um,

How it might inform,

Um,

Some of the offerings that I'm thinking of creating and Taylor,

Since you're on,

Someone did also ask me,

What is your favorite tea because you do mindful teas too.

I do mindful tea.

Yes.

You know what?

I've really been going hard with my cacao lately.

That's been my new morning ritual.

Um,

And I'm trying to think that there's a brand of tea that I love.

And every time I try to think of it,

I can't,

Um,

I can't,

I can't think of it right now,

But I would say my favorite,

There's a,

Um,

An Earl gray,

Like a vanilla Earl gray that I really,

Really have been liking.

Um,

So yeah,

I need to get back into,

Into my tea game,

But cacao it's been really taken over.

Yes.

I,

I would love to learn more about how to connect with our guides,

Spirits,

Whatever we decide to call them.

That's the,

What I'm trying to work on in the,

In the,

In the present.

And,

Uh,

Yeah,

That's for me.

Anybody else?

Okay.

So BD asked a great question.

What is an unexpected positive side teaching on it?

And Violet,

What do you have to offer?

I tell people all the time,

The confidence that this has given me is amazing.

Most of,

You know,

I tell everybody I am definitely an introvert.

I tend to keep to myself.

I work remotely from home,

So obviously I'm not surrounded by people all day.

And I didn't even like being on camera initially.

So I joined to sort of step outside my box and give myself that,

That courage and that confidence.

And I live by that,

You know,

Quote,

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

So for me,

The confidence and the belief in myself,

Cause I've gone through a lot of imposter syndrome.

I'm not good enough to be a teacher.

There's people on inside timer that no more that are better.

And the confidence has been incredible.

Like I I'm still working on it.

I'm still learning how to take compliments and,

Um,

You know,

I'm getting there and I,

Who I am today versus two years ago is amazing.

So great question.

Thank you for asking.

Okay.

I'm going to try.

I'm going to try to see if I freeze.

I'm really sorry.

It's just so glitchy anyway.

And it's telling me I'm unstable.

So it's telling me I'm unstable.

Um,

Can you hear me?

Okay,

Cool.

So I think the biggest unexpected side effect was relaxing.

You know,

When you're on,

On other social media channels,

You will be sort of like,

You kind of get quite nervous or quite,

Um,

Your adrenaline comes up when you're live on insight time or when you're offering anything on incentive,

It's like all of a sudden it's like the nervous system just relaxes and that I was not expecting.

So,

Um,

I really love being both live.

I love offering stuff on insight time,

But I like the peace that comes with it,

If that makes sense.

And I wasn't expecting that.

It's really beautiful.

Love that.

Thank you.

Um,

I always say this,

Uh,

Insight time warehouse really changed my life in two super important ways.

And the first one is the fact that it has taught me,

I started as a user and I was just in awe of the,

Of how many amazing people,

Teachers there are and insight and the value of what they're teaching.

Um,

So I've been a member even before I was there,

But as a teacher,

It's also permitted me to focus my bit on my business,

100%,

So I'm full time as a teacher,

A tarot reader and an,

And an astrologer,

And I have insight time are really just for that,

Both of those things.

Joanne?

Yeah.

So I would,

Um,

Say confidence for sure,

But the biggest,

Most surprising part is me opening up,

Um,

More confidently about my spiritual journey.

That's really kind of pleasantly surprised me.

And that's because of the connection that's because of the love and support and connection that I've had.

It feels so right for me to start sharing my story.

Hence saying,

I want to encourage people to embrace the superpowers because I always shied away from it.

So I'm so grateful.

It's been wonderful.

Yeah.

For me,

The,

Of course the confidence as well.

And just that even if it's online,

That it's that I'm possible to feel the warmth of the audience,

Even if we're spread across the globe and it's just so.

Amazing.

And there's been so many numerous times where I've just not had a good day or it's just been off,

But once I go live and just be me and I just come off it just like a different person almost like,

Yeah,

It's truly magical.

So I just want everyone to know that that's the impact you have on us teachers as well.

It's not,

It's not one way.

It's always both ways.

We're all teachers and students.

And I also have learned so much from the chat in the lives and,

And I'm just in awe of this whole community.

And,

Uh,

Thank you for allowing me to just be me and that that is enough.

So that's my biggest taking.

So thank you to everyone.

Very good.

I do agree with you that an insight timer to worry about judgment from Taylor.

Wow.

What you just shared.

Yes.

Everything was yes.

Um,

Yeah,

I agree that I wasn't sure.

I was terrified when I first started,

Um,

My first live,

But it's been,

Uh,

I think a year and a half now.

And it's been so beautiful and powerful.

And like a lot of you were saying,

Truly changed my life.

Um,

Help me with my self-confidence,

Believing that I can start moving towards being full-time in the mindfulness space,

Um,

Having my weekly live events made me want to dig deeper and work with people one-on-one.

And so it really moved me into,

Um,

Embodiment coaching.

So it's just really,

You know,

My personal life professional.

And just like we were saying,

Meeting such beautiful people,

Um,

Who truly allow you to be so open and vulnerable.

I feel like I get to be the most myself,

Um,

On my lives.

And that is something I did not expect at all.

And I'm so,

So grateful for,

So any of you that join mindful tea,

Thank you for changing my life.

Yes.

Well,

Mostly a couple of things.

The first one is that I should never underestimate,

Uh,

How much impact we can have on some people.

Uh,

I'm not gonna read a message or anything,

But,

Uh,

I was really shocked,

Gladly shocked by feedback of one of the people that,

Uh,

Joined my lives that,

Uh,

That person was thinking about leaving early and,

Uh,

Then decided not to,

And the life of that person changed 180 degrees.

So I felt so humbled,

Excited,

And also intimidated by the power that we have,

Because some people actually believe in what we say and we need to be very careful.

But also it's beautiful to be able to be part of a community of people that are kind of on the same page with you and want to learn and be more spiritual.

And developed so many beautiful aspects of the human nature.

And the other thing is that I wasn't expecting,

Uh,

For example,

Every now and then when I was,

Uh,

Conducting a meditation,

That my guides would ask,

Would ask me to repeat some things.

And I assume it's because someone specifically needed that.

So those are the two things I was not expecting.

Really,

Really pleasant.

So my first career,

I was a celebrity radio DJ.

And so I sat in a room all by myself,

Played records and talked to thousands of people.

But I did not have any interaction with them.

And there was a song that I played on the radio when it was brand new.

This is,

Um,

You can tell it's been a long time ago,

Looking for a reason,

Looking for my place in this world.

And I played that song when it was brand new and I got to meet Michael W.

Smith,

Who was this,

You know,

I mean,

He's a big celebrity and here I am 40 years later,

And that song just keeps running through my head because with Insight Timer and These Lives,

I have found my place in this world,

An opportunity to not be Stevie Knox,

But to just show up and be me so that when I am me and I'm vulnerable and all of the things giving you permission as well,

And you give that back to me,

It's this feedback loop.

And it's like,

We're lifting all of each other up.

We all come from these varied places with these varied gifts and it's a real community.

And so I,

I don't think that I really understood that until I got in here.

It was like,

You know,

Come on in the water's fine.

And then I got in and was like,

Ooh,

It really is.

I agree.

And I want to add to that because I,

I mean,

Many people know I was on another culinary platform and it,

And it was the same people could actually,

Though I could see them,

They could be in what was called the chef's team,

But it never felt this way because for me,

There wasn't,

People weren't buying into the mindful cooking piece,

So there wasn't that connection.

They were really just interested in the cooking.

And although I knew this was going to be great because I had used Insight Timer for such a long time,

I actually had no idea how great it was going to be because who said it,

But I think Jana,

You said it,

I'm learning every day from people and I definitely feel like that's something as a great teacher that we all experienced,

It's a two way street,

But also a community that I actually didn't expect,

The teacher community,

Because the teacher community is really amazing and supportive of each other.

And I have found that to be incredibly beautiful and uplifting,

Something that is truly,

I feel so blessed to be a part of and know all of.

Molly,

Did you want to add?

Yeah,

That was just something I wanted to say because sort of like feeds on what everybody else has been saying,

And that is that in this space,

In the community,

There's a huge amount of vulnerability and honesty.

So when you're interacting with people,

You're having a real genuine interaction.

In the work that I do when I'm not on Insight Timer,

There's a lot of putting the front on things to feel like you're doing better than you actually are.

But when I come onto Alive,

People are genuine and honest with me.

So I'm able to meet them where they are.

And I don't think I expected that when I started,

But I love it and I treasure it because it means that I can really help people make some movement and do that from the place where they are actually at,

Not the place that they feel that they can say that they're at,

If that makes sense.

Did you want to add something?

I definitely can't reiterate enough to people in the audience and to the teachers that it's so spot on what everyone said.

It is so beautiful.

I don't know,

Taylor,

If you had a chance to read the chat while I was going through,

But I just,

A lot of people said,

Thank you for what you do and that you are an exquisite chat facilitator and that mindful tea has changed our lives.

And that's just one person saying that to you.

But I happen to know that all of our lives change,

Change many people's lives,

Then that's why they're there.

Thank you for sharing that out there.

Yeah.

And that was really sweet.

I'm sorry that I didn't write down who said it,

But thank you for sharing that.

That was really a beautiful thing to share.

Okay.

This is a great question.

Came from Jessica.

What is your favorite or your most impactful routine,

Violet?

So this morning I was feeling a little tense and a little anxious because,

You know,

Friday,

The tech was not working for me.

So my husband has built this beautiful area in the backyard.

He's building a fire pit.

He has built steps to it so I can get up there,

Put a chair up there for me.

I went up there and I sat in nature and I listened to an insight timer,

Um,

Actually James Anthony Walker's forest bathing.

And I stood up and I was touching trees.

And I tell you that it completely changed my mood.

And every morning when I get up,

I play something on insight timer.

I like my incense.

I don't always go outside,

But I mean,

I do after actually after breakfast,

I go outside with my puppy.

But now that he has made this amazing spot for me,

I told him I'm going to be there every day in the winter.

I don't care.

So I'll be out there all the time.

And that just,

Just being able to ground myself like that is incredible.

So I love that question.

Thank you.

Yeah.

So I actually,

The thing that I do is I do a seven day plan in advance of the week.

And what that does is that gives me some sort of structure,

But I make sure I've got,

Um,

Flexibility for creativity.

So I make sure I've got my insight timer stuff in there,

My daily routines.

And then one other thing that I do is I actually put house music on and it's like,

If there's like all this retrograde going on,

I'm like shaking it out to house music.

And I've only just realized it's like the beat of your heart.

I used to,

It used to annoy me,

But now it's like,

I found that rhythm inside of myself because I'm growing in confidence with insight timer,

But seven day plan is really good if you're working towards some goals.

Okay.

Let's give it a whirl again.

Um,

So I,

There's lots of things I do and I I'm with Violet,

I'm outside.

That is an amazing and impactful aspect of,

Um,

Keeping yourself in a good space.

Um,

But I think my,

The thing that is most impactful for me,

And I forget to do it sometimes is to always follow the energy.

So to tap into the energy of what I want to do and really follow that tells me how to do it.

So I'm following those cues so that I am honoring that energy in a way that means that I can create and I can innovate because I'm responding to the energy.

And that means I'm not stuck with a,

Oh,

This is how things are done.

So it it's,

It's impactful for me because it allows me to step outside of the limits that exist in my world.

Um,

You know,

In business,

There's like,

This is how you do it.

It's like,

Well,

I want to say,

No,

That's not how you do it,

But I have to follow the energy to do that.

So that is definitely tapping into that energy,

Feeling the frequencies,

And then responding to those frequencies is definitely the most impactful thing that I do,

I have several different things I like to do,

But,

Um,

I just had a live about lessons from nature.

So absolutely going outside.

I love to walk around without my shoes on,

So I can really ground that immediately,

Ooh,

Changes the energy.

It's like magic every time.

Um,

And then I also have really gotten into a movement practice.

So when you were sharing that,

I was like,

Yes,

Shake it out.

Um,

I have,

I mean,

I'm dancing all over the place and it is just so joyful and freeing,

And it always makes me think about my first and second grade students and how we take brain breaks and they're just letting their bodies just move.

And I thought,

Oh my gosh,

Once again,

Learning so much from them because they naturally know this is what my body needs.

Um,

So moving has really changed my life.

Yeah.

Um,

After I came off my antidepressants and I was just in such a horrible place from all the withdrawal symptoms and everything,

I was just destroyed.

Basically.

That's how I felt.

I started obviously doing meditation,

But for,

To wake up my physical body again,

My mentor taught me these,

Uh,

Tibetan,

Tibetanian,

I'm not sure how to say it.

Tibetan from Tibet,

These rites that you do this,

Uh,

It's seven exercises that you can do,

Uh,

Every morning and it's just like,

It's awakened my body and connected it to my soul and,

Uh,

And everything.

And I was thinking maybe one day I'll do a live with them.

Maybe we'll see when I'm ready for it.

Oh yeah.

Some people are nodding.

So maybe that's a sign.

Thanks.

One day,

Not yet.

But one day.

I just want to say this to teachers.

I don't know if you guys all saw this.

I once wrote a piece on going live because I've been doing all kinds of lives for almost 30 years.

So I feel very comfortable with lives.

And I had written something in our group on Facebook,

And I just want to remind everybody that you can end a life.

If you're in it and you're uncomfortable,

You can say bye guys.

We know that everybody will be okay with that.

And,

And also it's your life.

Just remember that you are in control.

I think that's important.

Simone asked a question.

I know that some of you guys put this in the chat,

But I actually want everyone to sort of just unmute and say,

What is everyone's Zodiac sign?

Because I'm really into the Zodiac,

Which probably a lot of people don't know.

I am a Scorpio.

Gemini.

Aquarian.

Sagittarius.

Libra.

Virgo.

Virgo.

You're a Virgo.

I have a Scorpio moon and Aquarius rising.

Another fire sign Sagittarius here.

Oh my gosh.

I love it.

I'm,

I love those things.

Okay.

So another question that's sort of tapping into,

I just actually wanted to say this about our rituals and what we do.

I,

Um,

I obviously go in nature like many of you,

But part of what I do is trusting my intuition,

Which is sort of tied to what I think Polly was saying and many people,

I trust myself a hundred percent.

I trust myself more than anybody.

And that's what sort of guides my entire existence.

And if I feel like I'm not sure I sit with it and wait.

And for me personally,

Cause I'm a doer.

If I,

Violet knows if I say this is done,

But if I'm sitting with something,

That's an immediate cue to me,

I need to hold off.

There's something that I'm either not sure about or something's going to come to me and it's going to be better.

So I always try to really encourage people to follow their intuition.

And Laura asked,

Who's a Sagittarius.

Stephanie said she's a Sagittarius.

Uh,

Okay.

So here's the question.

Where do you want or see your journey going?

That's a tough one.

It requires a little bit of thought.

Uh,

JP.

Well,

Honestly,

I don't have a specific,

Let's say path.

I'm just,

Uh,

Since I started a,

I would say a nomad lifestyle by the end of 2023,

I just have general goals,

Which are to travel,

Make friends and,

Uh,

Be able to help more people with what I have learned.

So I'm not sure if I see myself going there.

I'm just trying to flow.

And,

Uh,

Actually it's been great because everything that I have needed in order to continue has presented at the right time.

So I'm just,

Let's say letting God,

The universe or synergy dictate when and how.

Because,

Uh,

I already said what I want and I'm just trusting that it's unfolding in the perfect timing.

Um,

Where do I see my journey going?

Can you actually see me?

But I not,

I'll write my videos.

There we go.

Um,

I have this massive vision and I don't know how I'm going to get there.

And it's coming back to what Melanie was saying about trust.

It's like trusting that I will find my way towards it.

And that vision is really to,

For businesses to become part of our ecosystems,

Not take us from our ecosystems,

But part of our ecosystems.

And when that first came to me,

I was like,

I have no idea what that means,

So I pushed it to one side.

So in terms of where do I see myself going?

It's been learning to say,

I don't know,

And I don't have the answers,

But I'm okay with that.

So I'm happy to find out on my way.

So it's like,

I kind of know where I'm going,

But I don't know what it's going to look like.

Yeah.

Well,

Um,

Like I always have a lot of plans,

So I won't tell all of them because that would take a long time.

But I like to actually,

I love making this part of my Virgo brain,

I guess.

Um,

And I,

One of the things that is a really exciting goal for our family is that we'd like to move to an off piece of land and form a homestead.

And this is one of our goals because we'd like to have more animals,

Do more gardening and breathe less city's air and be more connected.

And also so the children,

Yeah.

So that's our big,

Like overarching goal right now.

And my husband is,

Um,

Hopefully we can retire.

My husband can be a stay at home dad.

Well,

That's,

Those are all our goals.

Yeah.

So I'd love to do more interviewing.

I'd love to do more panel work.

Um,

I'd like to get into TV.

That would be really cool.

Really exciting sort of digital space TV and do more work,

Rest and play in equal balance would be really good,

But I've got this really big dream that I really want to be able to open doors for shared wealth,

My backgrounds in fundraising,

Uh,

Community fundraising,

And I just see the more of the digital space that perhaps we can have more shared wealth and that really excites.

Um,

Right now I'm working on kind of calling in my one-on-one clients for embodiment coaching.

But down the line,

I'd love to kind of form like a women's circle where we can,

Um,

Of course,

Meditate journal,

Do rituals together,

Embodiment practices.

So,

Um,

Yeah,

I'm,

I'm trying to,

Uh,

Let go of timelines.

And like you guys were saying,

Just let things unfold as they need to.

That's very hard for me.

Um,

But,

But yeah,

I,

I see that in my future.

So we'll,

We'll see.

Yeah.

Um,

I have no idea where I'm going,

So I,

But I am practicing being patient that it will unfold.

And actually right before it was like my turn to talk,

The word community came to me.

So maybe something with community who knows,

But I'm practicing patience that it will,

It will unravel as we go as I have to keep telling myself it's early days for me yet with all of this,

And it's hard to be patient,

Very,

Very hard.

I just want the answer like yesterday,

But,

Uh,

I'm going to sit with it and see what happens.

So I just want to add that I'm going to continue to go with the flow literally and listen to what the showers tell me,

Because that's how I came up with this.

Well,

That ties in perfectly to actually what April asked.

And I feel like because of what I said,

April said,

How do you develop trust in your intuition?

And I think it can be complicated.

I was very lucky that my parents just reinforced that I was always on the right path.

And my parent,

My mother in 1970,

An engineer,

And she broke all barriers.

She worked with 60,

59 men and 60 people.

She was the only woman.

She made more money than my dad,

Who was 10 years younger than her.

And that might not seem like a big deal today,

But in 1970,

It was a big deal.

And so my mom,

I know trusted herself and I think that was something that she really led me to do.

But I understand that most people haven't had that experience.

So I think trusting yourself with your intuition,

Your feelings,

First you have to listen to yourself and you have to tune out all the extreme noise.

There's so much noise around us telling us what we're supposed to do,

Who we're supposed to be.

It has nothing to do with you.

And so I actually very rarely listen to that noise because then that's going to just impact me in a very negative way because I know what I need to do.

So listening to yourself,

But then also knowing,

You know,

I have a farm in Virginia,

It's called falling forward.

And that's because when we make a mistake,

I never think of it as a mistake.

I literally think what's next,

How do I move forward?

And so I know I trust myself enough to know,

Okay,

I was going here.

It didn't happen like I thought,

But you know what,

It's here now.

And I still trust myself enough to know that I'm going to figure it out.

And for me,

That's how I have developed trust in myself.

I think I've said this in some of my own lives,

I have cancer that was not diagnosed and,

But I knew something was wrong and I trusted myself enough to know that and I kept pushing back until I got an answer and that's just,

Again,

Learning to trust yourself and knowing that you know better than anybody else about you.

JP,

Thank you for listening to me.

So I would say in the way I see things and what works for me is more than trusting me,

I trust my wishes.

And I try to focus the most in defining exactly what I want.

And once I have reached a conclusion,

Then I I've seen that if I do not give myself permission to give up,

It will eventually happen and probably 99% of the times it's going to happen way more satisfyingly than if I would have chosen the path,

The how,

Et cetera.

So that's what I do.

And well,

Learning to trust yourself or your instincts or your guides,

Which for me are the same thing,

By the way,

It's just a matter of having a little bit of faith and just giving yourself the opportunity to just trust those little thoughts and see how it plays out.

And once you decide to do that,

Maybe with little stuff,

Then you will see,

You will identify the difference between when something is inspired and when something comes from a place of fear or a negative emotion,

And that will build up your confidence and will attune your recognition of those genuine impulses that you can follow.

So I will always,

Always,

Always recommend anyone to follow that gut feeling and to give it a shot.

Because again,

In my experience,

No matter how bad things look,

There's always a way to turn the wheel towards the opposite direction.

So might as well just do it.

True.

Thank you,

Stephanie.

I love that JP.

So I had to pull this off my wall.

I have this above my computer screen to remind me every single day to do a trust fall and not,

Not the trust fall that I did last summer.

I literally jumped out of an airplane last summer.

That was the ultimate trust fall.

But you know what?

I realized I've had this intuition my entire life,

But,

You know,

Get your head out of the clouds,

You know,

All the messages that we get as,

As children of,

You know,

And I,

But I still listen to it.

I mean,

I look back now and it's like,

Oh my gosh,

I really did listen to my intuition,

Which took me into amazing areas.

And then I heard,

I love David G here on inside timer.

Oh my gosh.

His voice take a long,

Slow,

Deep breath.

And I mean,

He gets me every time.

He's the one who introduced me to the quote from Hafiz about being the hole in the flute and I was like,

What does that mean?

It's simply allowing the breath of God to come through.

And that for me is my,

Not just daily,

But,

You know,

Minute by minute trust fall is realizing if I step out of the way and I let that breath of God come through me,

Miracles happen.

Those definitely happen.

Taylor.

I just love everything that was shared.

I'm just like soaking it up over here.

Um,

Uh,

For me trusting my intuition,

First of all,

My mom always taught me from a very young age to listen to that inner voice.

And I think it's probably saved my life more times than I know.

So I kind of have come from,

From that.

Um,

But also for me finding stillness being in nature,

Meditating,

Of course,

Completely changed my life as far as really noticing what was going on within me.

Um,

And like some of you mentioned getting rid of some of the distractions,

Right,

Noticing what fills me up and makes me feel inspired and good and joyful and what doesn't,

Because I think there's just a lot of extra stuff that gets in the way of us really listening to our intuition.

Um,

And really for me with my embodiment work now,

Just listening to my body.

What is it telling me?

Cause our bodies are always letting us know what we need.

And it's just a lot of the times we're not listening because we're so busy with other things.

So yeah,

Just finding that stillness.

And,

Um,

Like someone else mentioned,

I think starting small when we're listening to our intuition,

Right.

Doesn't have to be a big decision,

But what feels right?

What's that immediate answer that your body's giving you?

Cause usually there's an immediate answer and then we start to think about it too long and we lose our intuition.

So yeah,

Those are some of the things that have really helped me.

Um,

To come back to that.

Cause I do believe that's our true nature is to listen to our intuition.

We just have gotten removed from it.

So it's really a return back to the natural way.

And Taylor,

I think that's something that we all forget about because growing up on a farm,

My granddad was incredibly intuitive because he had to be,

It was gardening.

He was farming.

And that's something that,

Because we've gotten really removed from nature that we have sort of gotten removed from our intuition,

Joanne.

Yeah,

I would,

Um,

Second,

All of that for me,

It's been about,

Um,

Finding my formula,

Finding my flow,

You know,

It's kind of what feels right for me and really finding a space to self express.

And that's why the radio and insight time has been really valuable for me.

And also just learning to grow,

Grow through all of it,

Even what perceives to be failures to just growth,

It's just really accepting all of it and just starting to find your flow,

Find your formula,

See what works,

See what doesn't work,

And that's all I've ever done.

15,

16 is just trying to find my flow.

Simone.

Thank you.

Yes.

Um,

One of the things that I actually pulled some tarot cards when I was,

Um,

A child,

Like I never,

I know,

Like Melanie,

You were saying that like people,

Uh,

Encourage you to use your,

Your intuition when you were young,

But that was not the case in,

In my growing up in a sort of a specific environment that,

That I was never encouraged to my intuition.

So what Taylor said about starting small is exactly what I did.

And I would just choose like what color pen I wanted to write with that day.

And it was just that tiny,

Like,

Oh,

Red feels right.

So I would get the red one.

And that's how I began.

Just like how you mentioned.

And I think,

Look at this card I drew for it.

You can see that.

Is it on this?

Oh,

There we go.

There we go.

Yeah,

It's the ace of swords.

So again,

Like underlying this,

This feeling that,

Um,

Starting small,

The aces are all about starting new things and about the truth,

All about little truth that you sometimes have stifled and adding some playfulness around it as well,

As the page talks about,

We all need a little bit more spin the clutch and feeling like the world is on us,

But we can still take those little tiny actions that are like tiny rebellion.

Polly.

I mean,

I'd like to echo a lot of what other people have said.

It's about like,

As Taylor was saying,

It's in your body.

Your body is your,

Is your wisdom.

Your intuition speaks to you through your senses.

So learning to,

To re read those senses is an important part of learning to,

Um,

Trust your intuition.

Obviously getting out into nature that reconnects you to your senses.

So that's,

Those are all really important parts of developing your intuition.

But I think it's really important to work out how your intuition speaks to you because it's quite specific to every individual and when you've worked that bit out,

Then you'll be able to go,

Oh,

That moment that I had all those years ago,

That was when my intuition was speaking to me,

And once you start to see the patterns,

You start to go,

Oh,

Right.

So my intuition has always been there.

It's always been talking to me,

But I had not necessarily been listening to it.

So I think that's really important.

And I was just,

As everyone was talking,

I think it's really interesting because when I,

Since I've been on this journey,

Every single time coming back to a question that was asked earlier,

What would,

What else would you like to learn?

Every single time I have gone,

Oh,

I'd really like to learn about tarot,

Or I'd really learn to like to learn about arrow cuts,

Every single time that has happened for me,

I have hit a wall.

It's like,

No,

You're not supposed to use tools.

And that,

That is what I get.

And learning to trust that message was really,

Really hard because of course everybody had all these tools and it was like,

Oh,

Do I douse?

Do I do this?

Do I,

And it was like,

No,

You have to come back to yourself and the gift that you have.

Now,

The gift that I have is reading the elements.

So,

And that makes a huge amount of sense to me,

But it doesn't necessarily always translate into making a huge amount of sense to other people,

But it's actually completely shaped how I approach my entire journey.

So I think that's learn how your intuition speaks to you.

And then you will start to actually unravel the messages that it's bringing you.

Um,

And I can,

I can give you an example of how it hit me because I'm Claire cognizant and I had always,

You know,

Had these impressions of what that meant.

Um,

You know,

Other people's experiences,

But your experience is completely unique to you.

And I had one day where I just,

I didn't even have,

It's very hard to explain,

But there was no thought process to do with something.

It's an action that I took.

And when I researched the action that I took afterwards,

It was like exactly what I needed,

But there was no thought.

When I realized that my intuition communicated to me without any thought process,

Then I was able to identify where it was so then I could trust it more.

Well,

It's hard to believe that this has been one hour because I feel like it's been one minute.

And I really appreciate everyone's participation and for sure everyone's wisdom here.

So I'm going to have you guys just wrap up.

If you could share how everyone here can support you,

Tell us what you do.

If you have live courses,

Whatever it is.

And of course,

I hope everyone follows everyone on here.

Violet has everyone's links.

You can for sure find out.

So I'm just going to follow my screen.

Taylor,

Do you want to get started?

Sure.

Yeah.

Um,

I do a weekly live event called mindful tea on Saturdays.

Um,

Where we get to excuse my dog.

I don't know if you can hear him in the background.

He's having a moment,

Um,

Where we can of course,

Have a delicious drink.

Um,

I do a guided meditation that involves some embodiment and then also,

Um,

I give journal prompts.

So you're welcome to journal if you'd like,

Or you can just share in the comments.

It's a really beautiful community that I am just so grateful to be a part of.

Um,

So I would love to welcome you there.

Also,

You can look on my link on insight time or to find other ways to,

Um,

To connect with me,

But yes,

I would love to see you.

Yes.

Um,

I have a lot about calmness and these kind of topics here on insight timer.

Um,

Um,

From the Sámi indigenous culture.

So they only exist in Norwegian and I translate on the spot.

I see my internet is unstable,

But I'll keep going if nobody says anything.

So,

Um,

And if you would like to support me,

I have a course out called,

Uh,

How to enhance focus to cultivate productivity and calmness,

I'll put it in the chat.

And I would love for you to have a go at it.

And of course,

Let me know what you think.

If you have any feedback,

Thank you for joining us.

And I just want to add,

Cause I'm a big proponer of this.

I feel that when people leave feedback,

It's very helpful much more than just Much more than just leaving a star,

Because if you leave one or five,

It's great.

Five,

Not so much one,

But if you tell us why,

No matter what,

It's very helpful to all of us as teachers,

Because a star doesn't really mean anything about why it resonated.

So I encourage everybody just to drop a quick note,

You know,

Why it resonated with Polly.

Okay.

I'm so sorry about the fact that I've had to have my camera off most of the time.

Um,

So I'm live every other week.

Um,

So,

Um,

And I run lives,

Which are focused on different aspects of business.

So that might be nature and business.

It might be specific things that you need to develop in order to support your business.

So those,

Those happen every two weeks.

I've got some courses as well,

Which are actually all supportive of that process and the way that I work.

Um,

And a static load for meditations and,

And some podcast readings as well.

So,

Um,

Just go and dip in and see whether or not anything takes your fancy,

If,

If you have got a business or are thinking about starting one.

All things stress and anxiety relief and learning how to sleep better.

That is truly my focus because I struggled with it.

So,

You know,

We teach what we need to learn.

And so I've got 25 plus years of researching all of this.

Um,

I would love for you to join me in just a couple of hours,

Five 30 Eastern on Sundays.

I do goodbye,

Anxiety,

Hello,

Freedom,

And it's simple strategies.

And if I can just real quick,

Um,

I saw about the donations,

Violet,

You're so sweet.

You're so sweet to take these donations and donate them to our precious four legged,

You know,

For a pause.

Um,

And I was thinking about,

I'll make this really brief,

But about these energy exchanges this morning,

As I was watching,

I sent you this in a message,

Um,

Violet that we have a woodpecker who has come and taken over our hummingbird feeders.

And I was watching them this morning and I thought there's the energy exchange.

You know,

Insight timer is all based.

These are donation based classes and the donations,

Financial donations are great,

But there's also energy exchanges too.

Those hummingbirds give me so much back when they come and enjoy what I'm giving them.

So hit the hearts,

Uh,

Give the teachers good reviews.

Uh,

That's how we do the energy exchange.

So thank you so much for letting me be a part of this.

Yes.

So I have just started a live series Mondays at 2 PM UK time embrace your superpowers and I'm very much about,

Uh,

Practical alchemy,

Practical strategies,

Uh,

Goal setting,

Getting you to,

From where you are,

Where you want to be.

And I'm starting to share,

Uh,

The meaning of healing through trauma.

That will be a premium track that I'm just about to get approved.

And then I'm going to start,

Um,

Sharing a lot more of my story and,

Uh,

Help other people out there that it's true.

And JP,

I saw that you,

I think you answered that question in the chat.

Someone says what?

Okay.

Yes.

Someone was asking me what my protocol means.

It doesn't mean anything.

It's just a nickname that my aunt gave me.

So,

Yeah.

Okay.

So thank you,

Um,

For inviting me.

I had an amazing time.

It was nice to see all the people that join and also meet new teachers,

Fellow teachers.

Um,

I feel blessed because I was amongst,

Uh,

Female teachers and I love the female energy because I'm a Libra.

So,

Um,

I have four courses in English here.

Two are about the law of attraction.

Another one is about how to remember that you are a creator and not a chaser.

And I have the latest one about unstoppable affirmation.

So if you want to check them out,

I also have more than 100 free audios in my library and probably around 20 premium audios.

And if anyone wants to reach out to me,

You can just send me a message through the app.

Um,

Just to be aware that sometimes I don't get notifications and you may not get notifications about my reply.

So you will have to just check periodically,

Periodically to see if I reply.

Thank you again.

Lovely energy that this group has.

Thank you,

Violet,

For inviting me.

And I hope you convince your mom to listen to those Spanish meditation.

Thank you,

Simone.

Hi everyone.

So,

Uh,

Yes.

Thank you so much.

Especially to our organizers,

Violet.

We really appreciate it.

It was very awesome to do this.

And I'm,

And obviously to everybody listening and all my,

Thank you.

Cause I feel like we're creating something really cool with this space.

Um,

My work all around mindset and building safety around money from,

You know,

My own personal,

I think it was Stephanie said,

Right?

We all are,

Um,

Teaching what we need to learn.

And so that's what I teach now and through the lens of tarot and astrology.

So if that sounds like you,

Then feel free to send me a private message.

That's the best way to really,

Uh,

Get my eyes on and even parts if necessary.

Um,

And,

Oh yeah.

And I have a course too,

If anybody wants to find out more about their intuitive gifts,

You can check out the Claire gifts course,

C L A I R Claire gifts,

Which will walk you through all of the different Claire gifts,

Their audience,

Claire,

Cynthia,

And even Claire Gustin.

So all of them.

And,

Um,

That will help you to figure out if you have them and whatever you have them.

So if people are interested in that kind of thing,

I teach that.

Thank you everybody for a wonderful live.

I really appreciate it.

Thank you,

Simone.

And probably you guys know,

I do mindful cooking and intuitive baking because I really want to teach how to develop people's curiosity,

Compassion,

And connection through food.

It's,

It's something you have to do every day.

It's a great way to tap into something that is already there for you.

I just want to thank again,

All the teachers and everybody participating and Violet turning it over to you.

Thank you.

And what you can do to support me is those teachers that you come across that maybe are not so well-known or maybe are well-known,

But not to everyone.

Please send them my way.

Send them to my link because I love having teachers come on here that I haven't met.

Maybe,

You know,

I mean,

There's 20,

000 teachers.

I obviously don't know them all.

So please send them my way.

The link is in my teacher's profile,

Violet108.

Com.

Everything they need to sign up is there.

They're welcome to message me.

I'm happy to explain it.

A lot of people will message me and say to me,

Hey,

You know,

Invite this teacher,

Invite that teacher.

It's easier for me if you invite them,

Because it's sometimes hard for me to find them.

Sometimes hard for me to find the time too,

Because I have a full-time job that I love.

What I do on Insight Timer,

I do totally for free and I spend a lot of time on it.

It lights me up.

I love it,

But it's a huge help to me if people send people to my link rather than asking me to reach out to 20,

000 teachers,

Because unfortunately I just don't have that amount of time.

And,

You know,

Like I said,

I do this for free.

I don't make money on Insight Timer.

It's been really healing for me.

And that's where I get,

Where I feel I'm being paid.

The healing,

The confidence,

The community,

The people I've gotten to know like Melanie,

Who I met back in January on Insight Timer.

I showed up at her house because she invites people to get together over food.

And that was terrifying for me as an introvert,

But I pushed myself to do it.

I met this incredible person.

We have become friends.

We talk every day.

I think I talk to her more than my husband and he's in the house.

So he can attest to that.

So please,

That's how you can continue to support us and follow these teachers that come on,

You know,

These lives.

I love hearing people tell me,

I never knew this person,

Or I don't know the people that you have on today.

And now I'm following them.

That makes me so happy because honestly,

I feel like that's been my gift is connecting everybody through technology because I had no idea what I was going to do on Insight Timer and it just,

It found me.

So thank you everybody for being a part of this.

Thank you to these teachers who have given up their time today to be a part of this.

You know,

This means a lot to me.

This really makes me happy.

And I know a lot of people don't believe I'm an introvert because I talk so much when I'm here.

But I always say when you're around the right energy,

It lights you up and it comes out.

And that's what happens for me.

So I've gotten in touch with a side of myself that,

Who is this person?

I don't even know this chatty girl on camera who never,

Who would join Zoom calls and never turn on her camera,

Would never talk.

And here I am,

Like,

You know,

You can't shut me up sometimes.

So thank you everybody so much.

This energy is incredible.

You know,

The rest of my day,

I will feel amazing because every time I do this,

That's how I feel.

You know,

I'm lit up.

So thank you so much for that.

I'm just looking through your chat,

Your comments.

Thank you so much.

Your comments mean so much to me.

Your donations mean a lot to me because I do love my furry people.

I live in the woods.

And even though Woody Woodpecker is out to get me,

I forgive him.

That's another way you can support me.

Send vibes to Woody Woodpecker.

There are nine million trees around me.

Go pick one of those.

Stop putting holes in my beautiful house because it costs a lot of money to get that stuff fixed.

We did it two years ago.

We're going to have to do it again.

So thank you,

Everybody.

We're going to end the live.

Thank you,

Lori.

Thank you.

Thank you,

Everybody,

For your your beautiful comments.

I mean,

They they give me so much confidence and it keeps me coming back.

We have scheduled these through to the end of February.

Tell the teachers that,

You know.

I and thank you for that.

Melanie.