The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Yoga”

Episode 95: Cherie Burton - Feminine Embodiment

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:15:00 -0400

How would your world change if you had an authentic, powerful connection to your body, to your soul, to the divine, and to others?
These times represent an embossed invitation with each of our names on it to go deep within to know ourselves more fully.

For most of our lives, we have been taught not to trust our bodies or our knowing. Therefore we learned to give our power to authorities such as educators, medical professionals, and those credentialed to “know better."

Reclaiming our own inner authority seems to be the message of these times as we learn how to unplug from the matrix and reveal our personal truth as chaos continues to swirl around us. This means that we also have to face the inner shadows of our human mess to feel into the truth that can only be found through our bodies and merging with our own physicality. Hello Fear!

There's an invitation to get intimate with the emotions and feelings that make us uncomfortable and learn to approach ourselves with love, compassion, and curiosity, and to befriend even the parts of ourselves that scare us.

Listen in as Cherie and I talk about what we are craving at a soul level and how these times beckon us to look beneath the surface and soul dive into our own inherent wisdom to discover our divinity through our beautiful bodies.

Cherie Burton is a mother of 6, author, international speaker, Women Seeking Wholeness podcast host, international business owner, and emotional restoration expert. She has worked in clinical mental health settings and now specializes in the science and spirituality of emotional healing and sensory integration, a "whole soul" approach. Cherie teaches the "new feminine leadership paradigm" – and has guided thousands of women worldwide to access their voices, creativity, power, and authenticity.

At the age of 53 and only within the past three years, Cherie came to understand how important embodiment is to her soul's journey.
Cherie was always taught that the body was a vehicle for temptation and to avoid her body at all costs.
She was taught that a woman's body is something to be feared, subjugated, and controlled.
Each person has the sovereign right to know themselves fully and to express themselves fully, even when their own truth isn’t aligned with yours.
Yoga and her love of knowing the divine feminine led Cherie to embrace her body and its wisdom.
Cherie shares personal stories of awakening and her love of helping to liberate women through the power of personal discernment, and to trust their bodies inherent knowing.

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Episode 68: Nic Frick - Career Alignment

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Gah! I love this this woman because she's so unapologetically herself! Tune in as Nic and I talk about how "the trance" shows up for women in our career and in our self care. You might be suprised to learn that by being the "work hero", you are actually demonstrating how the trance of unworthiness can sneak up on us in the most unexpected ways.

Nic Frick is a career coach, guiding women through the roller coaster of career transitions. Her holistic approach is a result of her commitment to discovering her own self-care practices and her career spanning tech, recruiting, customer service, and teaching yoga. Her programs integrate both career growth strategies and healing modalities to ensure work-life balance and sustainability for her clients.

She believes that you can have your dream job if you trust your own authority, start with your why, and lead from your values. Nic prides herself on being the best hugger anyone has ever met. She is committed to dismantling white supremacy, feels happiest on a surfboard, loves sending handwritten letters, and starts getting ready for bed at 8:15 PM.

Nic grew up in Wisconsin and has lived in Minnesota, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Peru. She is currently living with her hubby and daughter in San Francisco, California and they are obsessed with finding the tastiest food possible and avoiding winter as much as possible.

In 2017, before becoming a mother, Nic decided to name it “The Year of Nicole” to explore what self-love was really about. She learned, healed, and acquired many tools she now uses in her work with women.
Usually, women have to look at their careers in tandem with their self-care, because these are deeply connected.
Self-care means investigating your thoughts.
We have to nourish ourselves and then give to others from our overflow.
Women have been taught the mentality of scarcity mindset through the patriarchy, but it’s important to invest in ourselves, now more than ever.
Nurturing yourself can be taking a lunch break, which can mean a profound shift.
Women invest 90% of their income in their family and their community while men invest 30%.
Most women at work are facing burnout.
“It’s going to be hard to find a job if I don’t have a job” is a cultural lie that keeps us stuck.

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Episode 57: Rebecca Gold - Yogic Writing

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Rebecca Lyn Gold has been writing since the age of 6 when she found a floral cloth covered 5-year diary (with a lock and key) in her Christmas stocking.

She is now an author, editor, writing coach and the founder of Yogic Writing-- a practice that utilizes the philosophies and disciplines of yoga, meditation and journaling for writers of all levels to break through resistance, uncover memories, and find story nuggets buried within.

Her books include: "Till There Was You: An Adoption Expectancy Journal," "A Wizard Called Woz: a biography of Stephen Wozniak," "That's Why We're Here: Stories from passionate James Taylor fans," "How To Write It Funny" with author/humorist Amy Koko, and "A Friend Named Sunny Skies: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Music of James Taylor."

She is currently writing: "From Your Mat to Your Memoir: Creating a yogic writing practice to find and write your life stories."

Rebecca believes that writing is a spiritual practice, much like yoga or meditation. It takes courage to forge ahead, even when you have no idea where you are going.

You step on the mat, you greet the page, you meet your resistance, and then you Let. It. Go.

Rebecca has 3 children (who live in 3 different states-- although she tries not to take that personally), three grandchildren, and a 4th on the way. She lives with her husband Osvaldo and their dog Brownie in Providence, Rhode Island (for now).

She leads workshops, retreats and online programs using Yogic Writing as a tool for women to find and write their life stories.

Rebecca has a deep connection to the music of James Taylor due to a healing she experienced through his music, and would turn to music and storytelling as a way to comfort and connect to herself when she felt depressed or lonely.
Rebecca was 13 when she experienced a traumatic event that forced her to keep secrets. it’s also when she discovered journaling as a tool to access her deeper feelings process her emotions, and taking back her power.
Rebecca teaches her Yogic Writing Method that allows women to first connect to their body to access its deeper wisdom, and then to write from that deeper place.
If 100 Women were surveyed and asked if their lives dream were to write a book that at least 85% would share the desire to tell their story through a book.
Every woman has a story to tell, they just need to believe that their story is worth telling.
Initially Rebecca was doing a lot of surface level writing until she discovered yoga and began combining the practices of Yoga and Writing, and what she found is that the two were beautifully suited to one another.
Yogic writing helps women to break through to deeper levels of story-telling, and to stand in the center of their story as survivors and thrivers, vs, victims.
Breath practices, prompts, and yoga poses are all part of her writing retreats given throughout her programs.
Women who have experienced trauma ( and many of us have) are able to use this method because it’s gentle and self-guided, but also very effective at moving the stuck or trapped emotion through and helps women tap into deeper insights that come through in their writing.
When the pandemic started, Rebecca and many others found solace and comfort when she created a group called “The Corona Chronicles” on facebook and each day she would write a prompt and the group members could share what they had written.
From your mat to your memoir is a workshop Rebecca offers a few times a year, and she keeps it to a small and intimate group so that they can share their writings with each other and get the individualized attention to their writing.

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Episode 54: Coral Brown - The Biology of Belief

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Coral Brown was one of our top podcast episodes of 2020, so I thought it fitting to invite her back at the close of what has been an incredibly challenging year for most of us. Today we talk about The Biology Of Belief and how our beliefs shape everything, including what we perceive, how we live and move in the world, and how our beliefs even biologically impact our health.

I want to mention that being with Coral is also like sitting in a hub where you experience a whirlwind of connection points that simultaneously come together. I often leave our conversations feeling as though I have shifted on a cellular level. I feel more expansive, aware, and tuned-in to deeper wisdom about what’s happening in the world that, I am convinced more than ever, is happening not to us but for us.

Coral Brown is known and loved in her local community and around the world. She is a mother, a dharma dweller, and a teacher of teachers. She is known for her integrative, lighthearted approach that fuses vinyasa yoga's vibrant, creative energy with her experience as a holistic counselor.

Coral is a licensed mental health counselor and draws on twenty years of experience in yoga, philosophy, and holistic counseling to provide fertile, open space for the processes of healing and transformation.

Coral’s teachings are fueled by the desire to reveal and cultivate the essence of our individual and collective dharma and instill it into every aspect of our being. Coral leads worldwide teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops. She is a regular contributor to Yoga Journal and has featured classes on YogaGirl.com.

*Show Notes: *

Our belief system is shaped by our families, society, culture, education, and religion.
Awareness is the beginning of everything.
If you don’t believe it, you don’t perceive it.
We live in a dualistic world: right or wrong, heaven or hell, black or white, but there is a whole spectrum of experience and intelligence we miss when we perceive the world in this way.
We have been in a collective triggering of sorts, and many of us have lost friends and family members due to our beliefs. The higher your level of emotional intelligence and empathy, the more you can feel the collective pain.
Emotional Intelligence is just as important as intellectual intelligence and is more critical than ever as we navigate relationships and connection at a deeper level.
Often, we experience a contraction before an expansion, which is happening in our world right now.
Awareness of our beliefs is where our work is, and fealizing (feel + realizing) what we are feeling in each moment and choosing our response from a place of compassion for ourselves and others.
Conducting an inventory of beliefs is a great place to start noticing what your belief system is.

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Episode 30: Coral Brown - Mythos and Meaning

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:00:00 -0400

I’m thrilled to Introduce Coral Brown, who is known and loved in her local community and around the world.

Coral is a mother, a dharma dweller, and a teacher of teachers. She is known for her integrative, lighthearted approach that fuses the energetic, creative energy of vinyasa yoga with her experience as a holistic counselor. Coral is a licensed mental health counselor and draws on twenty years of experience in yoga, philosophy, and holistic counseling to provide fertile, open space for the processes of healing and transformation.

Coral’s teachings are fueled by the desire to reveal and cultivate the essence of our individual and collective dharma and instill it into every aspect of our being.

Coral leads worldwide teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops. She is a regular contributor to Yoga Journal and has featured classes on YogaGirl.com.

Listen in as we talk about yoga philosophy, chakras, the nine faces of the Goddess, Hindu mythology, our basic human needs, the principals of Shakti Shiva, and what’s happening in the world now, and so much more.

In this episode, Coral shares more about her extensive studies in philosophy and yoga which have allowed her to access a layer of healing that goes beyond traditional methods. She explains that she was “blessed with depression,” and how this experience helped her to more deeply understand and embrace her own dharma.

Coral shares her own dharma statement (statement of purpose) reflecting the values she holds:

Truth, Compassion, Reverence, Commitment, Considerate, Ethical, Generous, Service, Respectful, Humility, Resilience, Perseverance, Mindful, Integrity, Loyal, Purposeful, Empathy, Faith.

“I strive to mindfully live in alignment with my authentic self and to risk discomfort if it serves my personal evolution.
In dealings with others, I will act with integrity and goodwill. I will be graceful, fair, conscious, and truthful.

I will tenaciously continue to develop my skills and use them with humble confidence to raise the collective consciousness toward healing, fortifying, and integrating body, mind, and spirit. I will live what I love.”

As a licensed holistic counselor, Coral is interested in supporting and enhancing the mind, body, and spirit of each client. She holds space and provides guidance and support that leads to personal transformation and integration. She believes that while this process takes courage, it can be lifesaving and life-changing. Her ideal client is someone who is ready to take the risk to fully embrace their strengths and their vulnerabilities in order to live a meaningful life.

Aurobindo: "If there is to be a future, it will wear the crown of feminine design.”

Show Notes:

The Search for MEaning + Dharma and Shraddha - the understanding of our purpose.
Shiva/Shakti and the integration of the masculine and the feminine.
Mythos - the story of the people.
The shadow side of our human experience can be integrated, healed, and whole when we can look at our imperfections objectively and give ourselves permission to embrace all aspects of our Self.
The nine nights of the Goddess which include both masculine and feminine principals.
Using the Gods and Goddesses as archetypes to understand aspects of the self.
The Long Bag We Drag
The Meeting of East and West
Yoga as a practice to integrate the masculine and feminine within us.
Start where you are.
Yoga helps us tap into our parasympathetic brain where we can regulate and relax, where we feel safe, effective, inspired.
Resources and Reference from Coral PDF

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