Yoga Magic

This week Ashley has a conversation with Maureen Pelton and Charlie Hartwell of ShiftIt Institute to discuss the business of investing in mindfulness and creating social impact on a large scale through mindfulness. Ashley, Maureen, and Charlie dive deep into the divine feminine, toxic masculinity and why so many businesses and systems are built using a masculine model, their collaborative effort to ignite expanded states of human consciousness in compassionate and practical ways, how they met and their journey to creating ShiftIt Institute, some of the apps they’ve invested in (Headspace and Insight Timer to name a few), navigating choices surrounding the wellness journey and where to start, the importance of expanders and connection in the self care space, and so much more.

Finding your voice can involve years of learning, striving, struggle and frustration after years of hiding and suppressing your true self if you grew up in a home where self-expression and creativity weren’t encouraged like Kirbanu. Kirbanu had dreams of being a professional singer as a child but the beliefs she’d learned about self-expression as a child limited her as she entered her teen and young adult years. She eventually left home and travelled the world where her music studies took her to Rome, New York, Boston, Sydney, and beyond. Eventually, Kirbanu’s 20 years of training experience, mindfulness practices and transformative techniques led her to creating her own voice training programs to help others find their voice and use it confidently, with power and impact in any situation.

In this episode, Ashley chats with Kirbanu all about how to heal and empower oneself through voice. Kirbanu shares on her journey to becoming a professional recording artist and voice coach, what it means to find your voice and how to find it, singing mantras, Why your relationship with the Divine is your choice and your choice alone, meditation music, self-expression, and so much more.

In this episode, Ashley and Leya chat about sourcing creative inspiration from within, why we need to give ourselves permission to ebb and flow both creatively and in life, morning pages, why we’re so often creatively blocked (hello, distraction), why creativity is an important form of self care, and how we all have the power to be creative.

In this episode, Ashley is joined by best-selling author, spiritual teacher, and intuitive healer, Nikki Novo. Nikki has always been in the field of communications and was once an editor for publications like Refinery29 and MSN amongst others however, it was unbeknownst to her that she would one day find herself in the spiritual healing space. Niki first sought spiritual guidance after a breakup and quickly found herself wondering if she could offer the types of services she was receiving at the time. She quickly found herself deep in researching spiritual modalities and growing her own intuition before launching Nikki Novo Co.

Ashley and Nikki go in depth on all things intuition including Nikki’s path to becoming an intuitive healer and where her career is at now, chakra balancing and its relation to intuition, ego addictions, why trust is the biggest piece of intuition, the necessity of finding alone time, how intuition and self-care relate, and why all the answers are truly within you (P.S. you don’t need a guru or shaman).

In this solo episode, Ashley hosts a Q & A based on questions you submitted! She answers questions like how her self-care has changed since having children, her thoughts on using acupuncture and Chinese medicine for self-care, the tricky area between commitment and discipline (and when we can use the term ‘should’ when it comes to self-care practices). She also dives into how she balances self care and being a full-time mom, where fear shows up in her life, how she removes herself from the space of fear, and so much more!

Before we come to our own passing of life on Earth, death will undoubtedly affect every single person yet it’s often considered taboo or uncomfortable to talk about but Chelsea London Lloyd is here to change that narrative. Chelsea is an actor, comedian, grief activist, grief support volunteer, and podcast host of Dying of Laughter where she shares her healing journey in growing up with two sick parents. Chelsea’s dad died of ALS after a 15 year journey and her mom currently combats stage 4 metastatic breast cancer for the second time.

In this episode, Ashley and Chelsea discuss Chelsea’s childhood and her personal experience of growing up with two sick parents and ultimately losing one at the age of 19, some difficult and challenging questions we can ask our loved ones when it comes to death, how she intertwines humor, comedy, and grief, why she started her own grief group, and some incredible resources for grieving and loss.

Alyse Bacine has been on a journey of self-discovery ever since she discovered breathwork at the age of 19 while working at a yoga studio. At the time she was struggling with disordered eating, body issues, and anxiety. Now she understands that these were all the result of not understanding her own gifts. Since then she’s discovered several other spiritual healing modalities and has stepped into her own power of guiding others through journeys.

In this episode, Ashley and Alyse discuss ascension and what it is, the power of breathwork and how it was the catalyst to her healing journey, why children are much more ascended than adults (and why they often say the strangest things), tapping into intuition while also being discerning individuals, akashic records and how Alyse uses them to vet truths, and why self-sovereignty and self-trust is the most important thing.