Transcript

Brian
Hi, and welcome to the Somatic Coaching Academy podcast. Here we are for episode 124. Ani, how are you today?

Ani
I’m good, thanks.

Brian
How are you? I’m doing well. Looking forward to our podcast today. We’re kicking off a new series that we have been thinking about for a little while, and it’s called Insider Information. We have several programs going on at any given time here at this Somatic Coaching Academy. We realized that a lot of people ask us, what programs do you have? What are the features? People often ask things like, well, when are they running? When do they happen? How much they cost? And all that stuff. Well, people who are not inside of the programs, the information that they don’t get is the transformation that actually happened inside of the programs. We connected with and asked the participants that are in the programs right now or have recently just happened, if they had some inspiring words for people who weren’t in the rooms with them, who weren’t in the programs with them, what would they say to people who have not yet chosen to take the courageous and brave actions that they’ve taken in their life to be able to do some deeper work for themselves? We asked What would they say? They gave us some great ideas, some great teaching, some great inspiring words for folks that we thought we wanted to share with you.

Ani
Yeah, so you can understand a little bit more what’s happening in there. Today, we’re going to talk about two programs.

Brian
Yeah, we have several programs running. We’re just going to share two of them with you. Actually, the time of the recording right now, just to give you a timestamp, is early, very early February. This podcast won’t come out until March sometime. So the first program we’re going to talk about is a program we ran in January, just a few weeks ago at Kripalu, a Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in the Berkshire’s. And it was a program called Tapping into Endless Confidence, Awakening your Authentic Authority or something like that, right?

Ani
Yeah, your authentic self. And that was a week program. So it was a retreat-based program. People came and they stayed at Kripalu. They learned with us for the majority of the day. There was morning practice in the morning, so somatic practices and meditations and things like that in the morning, and then class. And because we’re at Kripalu, there’s an opportunity in the evenings to participate or not in an evening program, like a yoga class or a sound healing bath or informational session, different healing modalities in the healing arts center. So it’s really comprehensive and also wonderful reset for people.

Brian
Yeah. So the program, Endless Confidence, was really based on going back through, developmentally speaking, someone’s energetic chakra system. So we talked a lot about chakras in that program. And chakras as a developmental experience. And we’ve talked in other podcasts about chakras more specifically. So you go back and listen to those things. How we talk about the science of chakras, the anatomy of chakras, the physiology of chakras, and how our personas, our ideas, even our beliefs, get structured at very early ages, and they correspond to levels of development through our chakra systems. Different chakras have their own personalities. They have their own strengths, and they have their own challenges. And so each day during the Endless Confidence program, we went through and we worked through these different levels to help people find more balance, to release excess, and to help build on any deficiency sees in these chakra systems that were associated with the way that they perceived and showed up in the world. And really, the idea is that when we can take the blocks out of the energetic system and people can tap into the source of energy that lives around us and through us all of the time, that confidence then naturally flows through us.

Brian
And that’s how we tap into that endless source of confidence.

Ani
So to bottom line, what Brian said, when you remove the blocks from your energy system, you naturally have confidence, bada bing, you’re going to go live your life and meet your goals. And that’s what we did for a week with people. And so we’re going to share some voices here from people who were in the program. Brian. Well, let me share Daria’s experience here. I was looking for something specific, but I can’t find it. This program explained everything I’ve been trying to figure out for the past three years. It changed everything for me. I finally experienced my roots feeling grounded rather than floating through my life like a balloon. One of the things that Daria is saying here, this program explained everything I’ve been trying to figure out for three years. It could have been three years, it could have been 30 years, 15, 20, whatever. The The program, a lot of people will tell you, puts things into words they understand because they’ve been trying to figure out why I don’t work, why my goals aren’t working, why I can’t step into the things that I want to. And we explain things practically. So there’s class where we explain things practically.

Ani
And then there’s tools so people are doing things to actually get their energy system reset and pumped up with energy so that they can go and do the things that they want to do in their lives.

Brian
Yeah. And that feature of being rooted and grounded is a really powerful foundation, I guess, no pun intended, of the program itself. And Daria is making some really brave and courageous transitions in her life. And it was really inspiring to hear her say this and to know what she’s doing in her world. It’s really, really amazing. You know, Another one of the students that was there, Renee, said, you call this program endless confidence, which it is, but it is so much more than that. And really what she was explaining was how we go deeper into these developmental systems to really understand what is holding us back in our lives, to look at what those core limitations are that we’re experiencing, those core limiting beliefs that are getting in the way of us really having and creating meeting and living the lives that we really want. And so the result of it is confidence when you take those blocks out of the way. But the way we get there, she said, is just so much more comprehensive and so much robust than the title makes it sound.

Ani
So again, like Brian was saying, one of the reasons we’re doing this series is because we try to describe the courses to you. But hearing what people who are in the programs are saying helps you to gain more context about what’s happening inside. So as we were talking about the Endless Confidence program and encouraging people to come join us, one of the things I was saying is you can come and you can coach with us, and you can do one of our group programs. And even if you’re in a program, you’re in a group program, you’re in a private program, it’s coming and spending a week with us in basically any of our programs, but specifically with this program is really going to shortcut your progress and help you to take three years off, was what I was saying, getting to the goals that you were trying to achieve. And Dawn shared her experience, and it put context to what I was trying to tell people they were going to achieve in the program. So Dawn said, I’ve experienced professional success and participated in many professional development and wellness programs over the years, but this was different.

Ani
Brian said a number… I’m sorry, Dawn said a number of things, Brian, but I want to point to one thing specifically here. What surprised me the most was how quickly I could apply what I learned. The somatic practices helped me to identify long-standing blocks to confidence and productivity, not just intellectually, but physically and emotionally. Within weeks, I established a daily practice and began seeing goals I’d held for years finally take shape in my life. That’s what we were talking about, right? That’s actually what happens in this program and a number of different programs that we run is you have these ideas for a long time, and then you finally learn the body practices. And that’s what she’s saying. Yes, I had the intellectual knowledge, and I had the body skills to be able to then start my own practice, and things really started coming to me. Dawn says that we made complex topics accessible and created genuine connection for the participants. That is one of the things that I would say, specifically, is your zone of genius, Brian, is making complex topics easily accessible and easy to understand. As you were going on about the development of the chakra system at the beginning of the podcast, which is a little bit difficult to talk about, especially when you only have 30 seconds to say what you’re trying to say over the course of five days, three hours at a clip or whatever it was for the content portion of the program, you’re able to take this massively complex topic of bioenergy and chakra development, and this almost could be etheric content concept of energy, and then bring it down to why it really matters, how it works.

Ani
And that’s what Dawn was talking about. She said the energy in the room was transformative. And how could it not have been with the way that the course is structured between being able to intellectually understand the information and then embodying the tools like you feel it, and you start to really start to connect with the other people around you and connect with yourself in a different way. And As the week went forward, we saw people coming out of themselves and into their authenticity more and more. She says, So much so that we created a group online to stay in touch and support each other. I also check in with my new friends one on one from the program, and we’re supporting each other as accountability partners to stay on track. I mean, you have this common experience with people. And for some people, I think it’s a pretty common experience, actually, that you share In our programs, you share a depth of experience with folks, and then nobody else gets it in your life except for the people who’ve been through that. And you feel really bonded in such a special way that you say, these relationships are the relationships I’ve really been trying to form on my life for years.

Ani
I’ve been trying to find relationships where I can connect on a deep level with people like that. And that’s what Dawn is describing there. Yeah.

Brian
And that happens. We actually mentioned that the first day of that program saying, You’re going to be here together for five or six days with each other. And oftentimes, what happens is people say, I know people more deeply after five or six days than people I’ve known my entire life after a program like this because of that really powerful shared experience that Ani is describing. There’s one more little bit that Dawn shared that I really liked. She said, For anyone who wasn’t there, here’s what matters. And she just broke it down. She said, Confidence isn’t just a mindset. It’s embodied. And that’s really the whole point of what we’re talking about. Confidence doesn’t live between your ears. It lives in your body. She says, When you work with your body, not against it or despite it, change becomes sustainable. And for her, the biggest shift was realizing that she didn’t need to overthink the process. She just needed to begin the process. And that the most courageous decision is simply to take the first step to enroll, and then to keep showing up and to let herself be supported by the faculty of the program.

Ani
I think one of the things that a lot of our clients and students work with in all of the programs is this idea of allowing things to be easier in their life because a lot of people have patterns of making life harder than it has to. So it takes a level of self-awareness to realize that we’re doing that in the first place because otherwise, we think life is actually harder than it has to be. There’s also these patterns that people are unraveling about making life harder than it has to be. And so the ease factor, which Dawn is describing, is, again, difficult to talk about unless people who are inside are telling you how it works. So Dawn’s saying, I just had to get started. That’s really, really important. And then the process acts like a kite. Once you run with the kite a little bit, and then the wind takes it. Then you’re flying the kite, and it’s pretty easy. You just have to tug on the rope a few times, and that speaks to that. Veronique was saying something similar, Brian, in what she shared. She says, The program brought a lot of clarity around why I’d been struggling to do certain things.

Ani
So the struggle was happening. The clarity wasn’t happening. Why is this hard? It’s again, coming up. And it helped me to understand myself on a deeper level. I realized that I had I’ve never estimated how much my lack of confidence was holding me back. That realization is so huge for people because we think we have a problem with confidence or stress or whatever it is. And then once we gain a little bit of understanding, it really opens up like, wow, it was really impacting so much more of my life than I thought. Yeah. Veronique says, Through this understanding, I was able to let go of guilt around thinking I was not doing enough to get where I wanted to be. This realization made me feel lighter and liberated. I also very much appreciated the practical tools the program offered. They give me the opportunity to continue building my confidence even after the course has ended. Even during the program itself, I noticed my confidence beginning to rise. That small shift already has had a big impact on several areas of my life. Continuing to build my confidence now feels easy and in flow. One of the benefits of spending a condensed amount of time with us at the Somatic Coaching Academy, is this idea that I can make a small shift that impacts many areas of my life.

Ani
Because what I’m saying is the difference with spending a condensed amount of time with us. If you’re listening and you’ve worked with professionals before, whether it’s therapists or coaches or whatever, you know that you meet with them, you work on something, you meet with them, you work on something, even the best coaches When you have hourly calls or whatever, let’s say once a week or whatever, you talk to somebody once a week, every other week, once a month, you make these incremental progress steps. And then when you come to a program that has more condensed time spent with us, you get this really distilled experience where you can take the information you learn and it just ripples out to all different areas of your life. And that’s what Veronique was talking about. Yeah.

Brian
If we segue then into what Cathy says. Cathy said that, Since the endless confidence experience, I feel like I am more connected with my body and continually access my energy centers, to be aware of my physical state as well as my thoughts. I am taking massive action, both in my business as well as personally, and am already seeing results. The universe is supporting me, which is so great. Again, to what she’s speaking, the same thing that Varenic was talking about is that at the retreat, in that immersive experience, helping to open up the energy channels in the body, release the blocks, the How? Open up the flow of energy. That kicks off the process. And then Cathy has taken that process, brought it into her life in a really powerful way, and is taking really powerful action in the world. One of the things One of the things we did regularly during that week was we went back again and again and talked about the formula to tap into the endless flow of confidence. Yeah, we’re not getting it. Part one is becoming aware of what’s in the way. Part two is enhancing the flow of energy.

Brian
Then the other parts are things like basically taking action on the thing that you feel like you have been afraid to take action on thing. Then you have to take action, you have to collect results, and then you You have to claim your change. You have to really be able to speak your change, claim it for yourself, and have that reflected back to you as a part of your community. So we talked about that a lot during the course of the program. We did that several times during the course of the program. And then people now are taking that kickstart part and taking it back out into the world like Cathy. She’s taking this massive action in her world. So she feels more motivated to reconnect with these practices that she used to do on a regular basis. And And she had lost touch with them because she was living so much in her head, and now she’s more connected to the body. And she’s following through on these commitments that she’s made to herself since the time at the retreat together. And frequently reflecting on the memories and the sensations from the transformative experience that she had together to help continue to propel her forward with that ongoing flow of confidence.

Ani
I think that’s one thing people are really… People struggle with a lot is that follow through from things. A lot of programs you go to, you go, and then you go home and there’s this drop off, and you just can’t make it work from there. And so people say things like, How do I take this home with me? But we structure programs like this so that you actually bring it home with you in a real way. You don’t just leave and it goes away, which is what Cathy is touching in on. Did you want to say something? No. Did we mention Linda?

Brian
We didn’t, but let’s go ahead and wrap this part of the program up with Linda.

Ani
A good one. She says, I’ve never felt that way or that good ever in my life. And what we noticed is it was like watching the light go on behind Linda’s eyes during the course of the week. Her eyes were brighter and she was engaged and obvious enthusiasm. And even if we weren’t going to talk about how confidence has anything to do with that one where bright and magnetic people just can’t help it be drawn to us. And good things happen from there. So we’re so glad you had such a great experience, Linda. Yeah.

Brian
And it’s so cool when you see people’s eyes light up and then be bright for extended periods of time after in these programs. For us, that’s a surefire sign that energy is moving through the system in a way that it hasn’t been moving through in a long time for people. It was so beautiful to see that. So there’s the voice of the people who are at Kripalu with the Endless Confidence program. So if you have questions about that program, just reach out to us and we can give you the idea of, Hey, when may it be happening again? If that’s something you’re interested in doing with us. We have one more program we want to chat about for the insider information. This is going to the other side of the spectrum. That’s what I was going to spectrum in terms of programs that happen here at the Somatic Coaching Academy.

Ani
The Endless Confidence program was a one-week intensive retreat that some people we had never met before, who we were meeting for the first time, and they spent a week with us. Some people who came to that are doing other things with us, like getting coaching at the Somatic Coaching Academy or part of mastermind programs and group programs at the Somatic Coaching Academy or even certification programs at the Somatic Coaching Academy. And then at the opposite end of the spectrum is people who have been studying with us for a long time.

Brian
Yeah. So we’re going to talk about the next program. It’s called Laws for Life. And so our Laws for Life program is really an advanced container of living with, mastering the natural laws. It’s really an alchemy program, Ani. How else do you explain that? It’s really a program about creating alchemy in your life in a really profound in an important way, really changing, transforming on a deep level.

Ani
That is totally true. And I don’t think that’s what people are scratching their heads at the end of their night going, I wish I could find alchemy, though. The thing that I think people are thinking about when they think about a program like this is where are my people who I feel really connected with, who can have deep and meaningful conversations with me, who we can talk about the mysteries of the universe and how they work. And by the way, I’d really like to know how that works. I want to have a community of people who we talk about those things, and I want to do practices that help me feel at home and aligned with myself and with others in the natural world that help me feel more at peace and more motivated and excited about life But I also want that community to talk about what we’re growing in the world for ourselves as individuals and as a collective and how I can be a part of making the world a better place for the microcosm in my life and my community, my family, but also the macrocosm for the world at large.

Ani
Making an impact matters to me, and I want to be able to talk about that and what I’m growing, and how I’m doing that. And I want to make sure that I’m really aligning with myself and with the laws of creation and with ease and flow to be able to do those things. That’s alchemy.

Brian
That’s a better way of saying alchemy.

Ani
That’s more like what you might be thinking. So the way that a person gets into this community, by the way, is through another program that we’ll talk about another time we’ll give you some insider information on. But what you do is you will take our Mindset for Manifestation, your long mastermind program, because you’ve got to learn stuff before you can really be a rich and co-collaborative community member to talk about some of this stuff. You’ve got to learn it first. So you spend a week… That was the last program. You spend a year learning about all the foundational things about living and embodying the natural laws in the Mindset for Manifestation program, and then to continue the journey and really deepen your work and have this rich community. Then you join the Laws for Life program, and that’s what this is. Yeah.

Brian
The Laws for Life program, we meet monthly in that group to integrate, talk about a topic of the month. Then there’s also to two somatic practice sessions that are led by either Ani or myself that, again, help to integrate that material, help people become very present. We do- Internal change, a lot of interchange work. Yeah.

Ani
We do special, really alchemy meditations as part of that program. There’s a function of accountability in that program to be able to build community and help yourself develop accountability in wonderful ways instead of accountability that It feels like a drag. And we have a lot of deep insight that happens in the program. And Barbara, who gave us a number of different ways to talk about what’s going on in the program, has pointed towards some of the things that we do here. She said… Well, I’m going to do the last point here first for a second. To look for drift, what is to look for evidence. So one of the things that we do in the program is we I call people weekly to be looking for evidence that their intentions and goals and manifestations are already in their life and coming to them. And so she says to look for driftwood, to look for evidence where things are happening that are aligned with my intentions, where they’re already present in my life, I really am sharpening that lens to strengthen the habit of looking for what is actually happening, but also developing an eye for what I want to see.

Ani
And we need community to be able to do that. We need the foundational understanding, but then we need community to be able to really hone our focus. Barbara says, It’s so easy to be stuck in the story of my limiting beliefs, and that it’s very easy to miss that there are actually changes in my life, that there are actually things happening and going in the right direction. And that’s part of the beauty of this community program, because there’s other people there and because of the way we in the community, you’re able to see things that otherwise you’d miss. She said, Otherwise, I might not notice them. Yeah.

Brian
And the thing I also love that Barbara is speaking to as the Laws for Life community is she’s saying, one of the things she’s definitely noticing now that’s making a really big difference for her is that she’s really taking time to pause and really, truly engage with and integrate the learnings beyond the monthly content calls. And the program, the entry of the program for this, again, Mindset for Manifestation, there’s a lot of information that happens in that program to help get people reoriented to how to live with the natural laws, how to really make them a part of your life. And then in this Laws for Life community, what Barber is pointing out is we’re actually taking more time to digest that material now, really integrate it, soak in it, experience with it, apply it on a much deeper level. So she says, and sometimes those content calls, which are great information, feels like you’re drinking from a fire hose because there’s so much really transformational new information to try to wrap your head around. A lot of the information in the programs, it’s just so foreign to how we’ve been taught to think about the world and how to think about reality.

Brian
It takes a little bit of time to reorient to it. But really slowing down for her has made things really blossom and change in a really powerful way for her this year.

Ani
Right. So Barbara says that she’s really noticing what makes a big difference is to pause and truly engage with the content beyond the monthly call. And that’s really how we’ve structured this program is. In contrast a little bit to that year-long program with Mindset for Manifestation, which is really about making sure people learn and integrate that content. But this program really is about pausing and engaging beyond beyond just the information. And there’s so much more than just the information in the Mindset for Manifestation program as well. But this program is really designed to digest, to become. And Barbara is really utilizing it that way. It’s wonderful to see how she interacts with the group and brings the information to life. It’s so much fun as a facilitator, if I can have an opinion about what it’s like for a second, because the information that we talk about in Laws for Life is really the deepest, most mysterious, wonderful, amazing stuff that the universe is a part of and that we have learned over the years and done ourselves. And then to bring the information to a group of people who can Really, then at first it feels like you have your mind blown.

Ani
And then because they’ve done so much background information, really go like, Oh, I can now take that and do something with it in my life. And this is how this law plays in. And I see this law, and it It’s just like watching all of these light bulbs go off for them and all of these connections being made for them. And we’re bringing really deep knowledge in that group. And so because they’ve done the foundational work, they can get to the place where they’re soaking in that deep knowledge, and it’s so super fun to facilitate.

Brian
Yeah. It really is also really fun to facilitate people who’ve been together for a little while and have a common knowledge of information. Then they’re just meeting and stepping upon that common knowledge of information and sharing and masterminding on a different level. It’s just really amazing to be a part of that experience.

Ani
To develop those relationships and develop the working knowledge of the material. And that’s one of the reasons why this program is so fun. Nathan says that working with the laws has given him a conscious framework for working with his subconscious mind. And Nathan being a person who really appreciates being in insightful, and working with and getting better and being the man he wants to be in his life, the dad he wants to be in his life, the leader, the business owner he wants to be in his life, the friend he wants to be in his life. And the laws have given him a framework to be able to do that. And then the community allows him to continue to work it so that he can really bring that to life. And he says that he loves the natural law questions as a next level of working above body awareness. And that’s the thing about having done this work for some time. It’s funny because you could be asked the same question before you’ve done any of this work, and you’d have an insight. But then you take that question after you’ve done a lot of this work, because these people have been in programs with us for a while, and ask that same question, the depth of the insight is so much deeper because the depth of awareness, the depth of embodiment is so much deeper.

Ani
Nathan has been able to see that also through the use of the natural law questions in this program. So he’s saying it’s rising above the level of awareness to real depth.

Brian
Yeah. So just amazing insights from our students and participants in these programs. And I have such an honor, and I’m so grateful for the courage that people have to not only step into these programs and really work on transforming their own lives. So so that they can really let that transformation spill out to everybody in their immediate lives and at the world at large. But I think it even takes another level of courage to share their inner experience that they’re having in these programs with you. To share them with us so that we can share them with you, that’s an even step up in courage. And the powerful thing about that, Ani, and you’ve talked about this before, is claiming their change. How important and powerful is that to be able to claim the change that they’re making in their life?

Ani
Part of the reason that’s so important is because we don’t see ourselves change. It’s like if you watch a child change and you don’t see them for six months or a year or two years and you go, Oh, my gosh, they’re so much bigger. We change as adults, especially when we’re in programs and communities like this, we change. And if we’re not getting our change reflected back to us, we can miss it. And so we don’t have to wait to get the change reflected back to us, we can miss it. And so we don’t have to wait to get the change reflected back to us. Speaking our change and really thinking about it, taking the time to do it, putting it into words, putting it into the framework of the program and how things have changed here in the program, and then speaking it out, gives us a chance to proactively claim that change, to be able to see the growth that we’ve made. Being able to do that anchors in the fact that you’ve done something powerful powerful and allows you to then go do something else, even more powerful or many more things that are powerful because you’ve been able to do that.

Ani
So it’s one of the reasons why it’s important to us to do these Insider Information podcast so that we give our students and our clients opportunities to claim their change and be able to share their voice, because that’s what’s happening for them. For every single person who has shared information today, they’re able to claim their change in an even more powerful way. So if you’re listening and you’re a part of a program and you haven’t gotten a chance to share your voice and claim your change, we encourage you to send us an email info@somaticcoachingacademy.com. Of course, you know that, or in Mighty Networks, which is where we have our virtual community. And let us know because we’re going to be doing more of these podcasts. And we know a lot of program participants and clients and students are listening to the podcast, and you may just not yet have had the opportunity to reach out and share your changes, and we want to be able to give them voice. So please let us know because we want to do that in the future.

Brian
Yeah. So thanks so much for listening today, listeners, and taking a look, a little insider information about what’s going inside of the programs. And again, I’m so grateful to everyone who’s chosen to share their voice and inspire others. And I’m inspired every time I hear someone’s amazing experience that they have.

Ani
Yeah, we’re inspired by you. Thank you, and we’ll see you next week. Bye for now. Take care. Bye-bye.