Harmony Slater - Ashtanga Yoga & How 2 Minutes Can Make All the Difference
Harmony Slater is one of 10 certified Ashtanga yoga teachers in North America, as well as a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, with an expertise in guided clients to release unconscious blocks through emotional mastery & somatic work.
She is also a Mentor Coach for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, a Certified Quantum Coach, and I’m furthering my training with the Institute for Coaching Mastery.
As a reformed perfectionist recovering from eating disorders, depression and anxiety, I had to find a spiritual solution, a path to freedom, from physical pain and mental suffering, and I’d love to help you do the same.
You can find her at HarmonySlater.com
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::It's so great to have you here.
::We have a little bit of a relationship.
::We've it's gone back a few years.
::We're doing something else together.
::So tell us what you do, how you got started.
::All the things about it.
::It's kind of cool.
::Well, I'm super happy to be here and thank you so much for having me, Jill.
::I guess how did I get started?
::Got started so long ago.
::It's like where where to begin but.
::Basically, I'm focusing mainly right now on helping conscious leaders who are struggling with burnout.
::I help them design A customized spiritual practice that's unique to them that helps them restore their energy to fit into their lifestyle and also with their personality.
::Based on the Enneagram, also based on their Ayurvedic.
::So that they can confidently step into their next level of aligned service and action, help the people that they are in front of that they're here to serve and help.
::So I help them both personally and professionally to really connect not only to the people they're serving, which as.
::Coach, you know, and as helping coaches, you know, we get really stuck in the service mode where we're really showing up for our clients all the time.
::And we forget that we really need to connect within and to ourselves to a higher power or a higher self and and design A spiritual practice to help us stay well, right, help us create more Wellness, more balance, and then we can really show up and serve in the way that we want to.
::But all of this started many, many years ago, about 25.
::I've years ago I really dove into Buddhist meditation and then that led me to Ashtanga yoga practice and those two paths took me to China to study meditation at a several monasteries there.
::I was doing a degree in religious studies.
::And Eastern philosophy at the time.
::So I was studying with the monks in their monasteries and then went to India and lived in India for several years practicing and learning and studying Ashtanga yoga.
::And eventually traveling to over 30 different countries around the world, teaching workshops on yoga, meditation, personal transformation philosophy, how to connect with, yourself more deeply and really live your spirituality in your everyday life.
::So how to not just have, like a spiritual experience or one transformational experience, but how to bring that into everything that you do so that you can really be a force for change and transformation for others in the world so?
::That's sort of where it all began.
::When was with my own practice and my own journey, you know, into myself, but also into the Far East and then back home again.
::And you just came back from traveling around the world, and you're only one of 10 people in North America.
::Yeah, yeah, currently, yeah.
::A teacher of this.
::Currently I'm living in Canada, I am Canadian.
::So I was also born here, but I I'm the only certified Ashtanga yoga teacher from the Institute in Mysore, India in Canada and about 10 in North America.
::So between the United States and.
::And as far as female certified teachers, even less than that, there's only about three of us, so.
::I can imagine you can imagine so.
::You you've just been traveling.
::Doing workshops tell us about that.
::So I was, I just got back.
::I was in York in the UK teaching basically yoga workshop there where we were looking not just at postures though, but at sort of the deeper aspects of yoga.
::Yoga integrates with our lives.
::So we talked a lot about nonviolent communication and living.
::This ideal of nonviolence and how that really looks in everyday life, because what's interesting is we, you know, we have these ideals, or we have these.
::Precepts in a way, right, like nonviolence or non harming.
::But we're conditioned in our society to interact in a in a harmful way or in a way that incurs violence or puts people on the defensive, which then creates sort of an aggression or an attack, you know.
::And so learning how to even just change our language around how we're communicating with people can really help.
::Us to like live this idea of nonviolence or, you know, non harming in our lives and also.
::Help us communicate more effectively, of course.
::So if we're not communicating in a way that's putting people on the defensive or making them feel accused or, you know, making them feel like they have to defend themselves all the time, then it it allows them to open up to, you know, bring their defenses down, which creates an opening for real.
::Communication that happens.
::So we are.
::Talking a lot about that during this particular workshop.
::And then I was doing a retreat in Turkey, which was a two week transformational retreat.
::It was really wonderful.
::I had about 10 women who were there with me and it was just everything.
::We looked at your anagram type and how those unconscious sort of patterns play out in your life.
::We also did breath work.
::We did pranayama or breathing every day.
::We did an intensive hollow traffic breathwork session.
::Then we did asena and meditation and chanting and all the things plus had a lot of fun.
::Got to go on the beach and suntan and relax.
::Yeah, relax and have a vacation as well.
::Course shopping, right?
::Do you take people with you on these retreats or do you go to these retreat?
::Places and people meet you there.
::Did they come from all over?
::Where do where?
::Do your clients come from that?
::Yeah, basically my clients come from all over. I kind of with this retreat. It's been an annual retreat that I've been doing since 2017. And so every year I just kind of open up spots and say I'm having a retreat, you know, it's going to be from the state to this.
::You know, if you want to come.
::Get your deposit in.
::Save a spot either for a single room or.
::Card room and it tends to kind of fill up.
::So it's really nice, this particular retreat center is like a boutique hotel.
::So we take over the whole hotel and it's just for the yoga people and the people who are interested in doing this sort of deeper work.
::So it's really nice.
::But next year I have a couple of retreats I have.
::A2 week retreat in Tenerife, which is part of Spain, but it's close to Morocco, you know it's the Canary Islands.
::There and I have a one week retreat in Norway. I have my Turkey retreat. That will be one week next year and then also a retreat day retreat in Taba indie or Taba Egypt.
::So I'm really looking forward to that.
::That'll be so a new place somewhere.
::I've never been.
::Yeah, I'm really excited to kind of be.
::Focusing a bit more on the retreat aspect, because I I love that you know, it allows people to like.
::Immerse, get out of their daily life. You know, drop into some somatic practices like the breath work, the yoga asana or the, you know, body movement as well as go deep into into sort of themselves and allow whatever's been kind of suppressed there to start to come up to the surface.
::So I really I love that format.
::So we're doing a few more of them next year.
::That sounds really interesting.
::It's kind of nice to go to retreats because you're so isolated from everything else, and especially when you're traveling there because then you're just like your.
::Own little pod.
::Yeah, and you're.
::You're all doing the same things and you're working on kind of the same.
::And it's nice.
::I mean, there's like freedom, too, to kind of, you know, do your own thing and come and go.
::But there's also the safety of like having a group or people who are there.
::If you want to do something with people, you can connect with people there and and like, have a friend, you know, which is nice.
::I mean, especially as a single woman.
::You know, I travel a lot on my own and it's nice to kind of go to a retreat place and then you meet people and you can do things with those people.
::You don't have to like, right?
::Like necessarily always be on your own.
::You can, you know, have friendship too, while you're.
::And it's different when you're traveling alone, especially overseas, because everything is everywhere you go is slightly different.
::Yeah, people are all people, but everybody has kind of a different.
::Slant on things.
::Yeah, yeah, there's.
::I've traveled a lot in my life.
::And they're just, they're so interesting, but it's.
::It's not a good idea to be.
::Just going someplace by.
::Yeah, I think it's nice to know people in the place you're going.
::I don't know.
::That's how I like to go.
::I like to go to places if I know there's someone there, especially if I'm alone.
::If I'm with my partner, then yeah, OK, we'll go wherever.
::Right, right, you know.
::But yeah, when I'm traveling alone, I I like to go places where I'm going to meet friends or I know people in the area because also it's just more fun because people who are in the area or who live in the area know things that are fun to do.
::Right, like all.
::The cool stuff.
::Yeah, they can be like this is the best restaurant.
::This is where you wanna go for this.
::You don't have.
::To try it and experience good and the bad, just hopefully good.
::Yeah, you get, like, the colds notes exactly.
::So tell tell me a little.
::Bit about what makes.
::I'm going to.
::I keep wanting.
::To say ashwagandha because I love Ashwagandha but Ashtanga.
::It's an amazing, amazing herb.
::It is. It is a.
::Good for the.
::Grew some one year.
::In my yard.
::In my garden.
::No, it's really good.
::Really good for your immune system.
::So yes, Ashtanga, that's right, yeah.
::It's an adaptogen that helps your.
::It helps your adrenal glands.
::Yeah, yeah, I should get back on that.
::I have a standing order with Amazon.
::Like the monthly program.
::Yeah. What makes?
::Say it again, ashatnga yoga, different from, say, any other forms of yoga.
::So basically the any kind of form of yoga today that uses Vinyasa.
::So this is a term that many people know Vinyasa, which is movement and breath together.
::So flow yoga, power yoga, vinyasa yoga.
::I don't know Shakti yoga like there's all these different types of yoga, but any type of yoga that's really using like a sun salutation as its basis.
::And you're combining breath and movement together, has it is like an offshoot or has its roots from Ashtanga yoga?
::So Ashtanga Yoga is the original Vinyasa yoga.
::It's the traditional form, and teachers back in the you know, Seventies, 80s, early 90s, came and learned.
::Shanga yoga from Pattabhi Joyce who is my teacher in Mysore, India.
::And it has a set sequence of postures, but it uses this breadth movement system and then many of these teachers like that are very popular today.
::You know, Sean Corn, Shiva ray, pretty much anyone that's teaching any kind of vinyasas style of yoga.
::Branched off and created their own sequence of postures, right?
::So they stopped using the Ashtanga sequence of postures, but they kept the vital.
::That's a aspect of it.
::And so then they rebranded it and named it something else.
::And So what makes it, I think, unique and also very powerful is the use of breath with the movement of the body.
::So with upward movements, you're doing inhales with downward movements, you're doing exhales.
::So you're really toning.
::And rebalancing the nervous system as you're going through the postures.
::And so it's also very dynamic.
::So people like it cause you're kind of getting a workout while you're doing your yoga.
::There's a lot of push-ups, you know.
::And so yeah.
::Yes, I know.
::It's a little bit of a, a little bit more vigorous style of yoga, so it it attracts people.
::I think you know typically that are a little bit more maybe you know a type personality that also kind of wanna like have a bit of a challenge, a little bit of a workout or a little bit of a.
::A more vigorous style of practice.
::I mean, it doesn't have to be practiced that way, but that's typically the way that it's taught, especially in the public.
::The way that I teach is I do teach led classes that have that component to it, where we're all doing the same movements together.
::But I also teach in the original way that it was taught, which is called my source style, and it's named after the city Mysuru.
::That's the practice comes from.
::That's where Patty Joyce lived and taught.
::And so in a my source style teaching situation or setting.
::The students come in and they get taught by the teacher, 1 by 1, and so everyone comes in and eventually you kind of know what to do.
::So you practice on your own, so it's like a held space where students are coming in and practicing, and then when they get to a place where they need help, the teacher is there to assist them and help them.
::Or if they're brand new, they get taught.
::Directly from the teacher in a one-on-one situation. So it's kind of like having a private lesson within a public setting.
::And so it really cultivates independence.
::So the student takes ownership of the practice and starts to remember it and learn it, and then they can do it by heart, and they know they have their practice and it's theirs.
::So it's always the same routine.
::Sticks used to say.
::Or is there a?
::Group of routines?
::Or is it just one routine?
::So it's always there's a set sequence of postures, but there's primary series and intermediate series and advanced A and advanced B there's.
::So there's four different sequences, and most people will not pass intermediate series like the postures.
::Get really hard.
::So to be a certified teacher, you have to have at least completed advanced A and be sort of working into Advanced B, which I was at that time when I got certified.
::But the awesomeness themselves, they're quite long. The sequences are quite long, like 52 postures or.
::Things like that.
::So it takes a while to develop them all and you don't necessarily do them all at once.
::So you might come in and just do maybe 10 postures.
::And then do sort of some closing postures and then slowly overtime your practice grows and so that you're growing your stamina, your flexibility, your strength, all as at the same time that you're growing the length of your practice. So you don't just get like slammed with 52 postures all at once.
::Because some of us will die.
::Yeah. Yeah, that's happened.
::That is really interesting.
::So it's a unique way of teaching yoga.
::It's I think it's actually very unique to the Ashtanga method, this this style of teaching where students come in and maybe if you're just a beginner, you're just going to do some citations and then go home and come back the next day.
::And then you're going to do the sun salutations again, and maybe you'll learn a few standing postures, and then you'll go home and come back the next day and you'll repeat.
::And so you're growing your practice over time as you also you're remembering it.
::Yeah, it sounds a little bit like martial arts.
::Yeah, I think the two are very similar.
::Or Tai Chi as well, I think is talking in a very similar way, yeah.
::My dad does Tai.
::I think it's done wonders for him.
::Over the years.
::Again, another, like breast movement system, right.
::And so I think it's really good for rebalancing the nervous system and just centering and calming and like connecting with that deeper power within.
::So yeah, amazing.
::And he's like 87 now and.
::Yeah, I'm gonna move it to Tai Chi next.
::I'm at the age.
::I think I need to practice Tai chi.
::Right.
::We should all just start practicing Tai Chi.
::Yeah, if we if we do.
::It now then we can learn all the things that we need.
::To know so.
::That when we're really not able to do some of these other things.
::Yeah, I'm a Daoist in my heart, so I.
::Feel it's very aligned with my.
::So tell us.
::Tell us about.
::The things that.
::You offer and then.
::Yeah. So right now I have a few things that I offer online. So I have something that is called an inner circle membership where basically is some yoga classes.
::I have one weekly yoga class that you can come to as well as a monthly conference where we talk about.
::Philosophy and all of these things, we have these beautiful conversations.
::There's also a monthly breathwork class.
::And a monthly business class as well for yoga teachers or, you know, Wellness entrepreneurs who want to just talk about like, you know, business ideas or how to create students or clients, different things like that, how to market themselves.
::So it's kind of a little combination of all the things that I enjoy doing.
::And then I have a breathwork course that's called ancient breathing 2.0 that offer twice a year online, and it's an online course that really teaches you how to breathe.
::And reset your nervous system using the ancient practices from this yogic text called the Hotel PREPA and how to translate sort of these ancient practices for the modern world.
::And so then you get direct one-on-one teaching from me as well as like an entire online course to go through week by week.
::So it's really, really.
::In-depth program that's talking about not just sort of the ancient teaching, but also the modern science.
::What people are studying and learning about the breath now today.
::And that's really a passion of mine is using pranayama which is the ancient Sanskrit word for, you know, breathing or breathwork practices.
::So prana being this.
::Energy this life force, but also our breath, and then ayama which means extensions.
::So the extension of our life, but also the extension and expansion of our breath.
::And so using, you know these ancient practices to help us in modern times because we need it now more than ever.
::Yeah, for sure.
::Yeah. And then I also do one-on-one coaching where I'm helping, you know, conscious leaders or Wellness entrepreneurs or yoga teachers or just women who are like, I need to reconnect with myself and create a space and and deal with this, like chronic fatigue and burnout.
::What I'm dealing with?
::How do I get my energy back?
::Because it's always about nervous system, right?
::And so using these practices like yoga or breath work or meditation to reset our nervous system is absolutely essential when you're dealing with that kind of burnout and fatigue and feeling like you just have no time for yourself.
::Or for you know anything in your life anymore and you're overwhelmed with everything.
::It's like a red, red flag that it's time to recite the nervous system.
::And so how to cultivate that little sacred space or that time in your life where you can just.
::You know, drop in and it doesn't have to be long and I think that's where we get a little overwhelmed sometimes is we think, Oh my God, I don't have two hours to practice, you know, yoga and meditation and breathwork or all the things to do my self-care practice.
::But you can break it up into little 2 minute chunks and we all have two minutes during the day.
::You know, we're waiting in a grocery line.
::For two minutes, we're sitting at a traffic light for two minutes.
::We're, you know, watching Instagram for two minutes, probably longer.
::So we all have, like, time in our day where we can integrate little practices.
::Little moments to reset our nervous system, and so I help people do that.
::That's really fascinating.
::Yeah, I love that.
::Did you still give the free breathwork?
::Yes, yes, I have a 2.
::I actually took that and I loved it a lot.
::Yeah, I have.
::You can download on my website.
::UM, if you just go to harmonyslater.com, it's right there on my homepage. How to reduce stress in 2 minutes?
::There's a 2 minute breathwork practice that you could just download.
::It's an audio guide and you can use that throughout your day and then, yeah, and then I have a course that gives you a great discount on.
::On a course is like a, usually a $200.00 course, and I think you get for $38 or something, which is like a little mini course.
::That's all about 3 essential practices that you can do 2 breath work practices and a meditation, and it's broken down.
::You can like chunk them out and download just the meditation, or just the breathwork practice.
::This or do them all together and it's only 15 minutes, so that if you just did that alone every day, it would completely change your life.
::Just finding 15 minutes to.
::Get centered and focus on.
::Just being rather than thinking than doing.
::Yeah, it's amazing.
::It really works.
::Yeah, it really works.
::So hard when you're like.
::Stuck in the doing mode and stuck in this.
::This feeling like you have so much to do and your list keeps growing and you're not getting anything done, and you're like how I don't have time to do it, but you really do.
::You really have 15 minutes.
::It will create time for you.
::Let me let me give you an example of what happens when you stop doing that even for a short time, your body will get sick and it will remind you here.
::Let's make some time for you.
::You can't do anyway.
::So just meditate.
::Yeah, it's so true.
::It's so true.
::It does happen.
::I know it it.
::Happens even to me too.
::I just I got laid on my.
::Back all weekend.
::It was just.
::The worst, but I know it's just.
::Because I had been.
::Burning the candle at both ends all week and I was really stressed out about some stuff and instead of just taking, you know, 15 minutes and.
::Getting centered and focused and just, you know, letting it be for a.
::Little while. Just.
::The letting it be and not thinking about it and you can get, you know, stuff comes to you when you're when you're quiet.
::You need to.
::I mean, that's the kind of the tricky thing is you need to.
::Kind of shift down.
::You need to relax in order to be creative in order to be productive, you have to enter into that relaxed space.
::And I think so much of our life is, like, really stressful.
::And so it's hard because a lot of the stress comes from like I need.
::To create right.
::And so it's like, how can?
::I relax so I can create so I don't get stressed out.
::About not being able to create.
::It is the conundrum.
::By meditation, I think is the answer to that.
::The meditation is essential.
::Yeah, even just 5 minutes of meditation.
::We'll do wonders.
::And the yoga, the movement, I think in meditation, yeah.
::From what I've.
::Learned about yoga, which is about that much.
::My fingers are like half an inch apart, if that it, it's just it's.
::Moving through the postures.
::With intention and and being set and breathing properly.
::As you go through each.
::Movement and posture.
::It's not so much about, you know, how many you do, it's about.
::Enjoying the process of doing each one.
::And it's it's really feeling into your body too.
::And I think that's the thing.
::When we get really stressed out, we're stuck in our.
::Mind and our brains going and our you know, we're just like, thinking, thinking, thinking and we're kind of starting to disconnect from our bodies.
::And so when you do the asanas or the postures and especially when you combine them with the breath, it moves you really in a very strong tangible way back into your body.
::And so now you're having a whole somatic experience.
::Now you're feeling like more grounded and you're feeling the sensations in your hands and your fingers and your feet and your hands.
::Strings and your hips and your back, and so that alone helps you to release the stress.
::Right. It's, it's.
::It's actually like helping you to let go and, like, move into the body more, which makes you very present right when you're feeling your hamstrings.
::You're not thinking about like all the.
::Things you have to do.
::You're just really like, intently thinking like, whoa.
::Wow, that's intense.
::That's an intense sensation right now, so.
::They might even call it pain.
::So we don't want to scare anybody off.
::It's it's, it's helpful though, right?
::Because it brings you into the present moment, which helps you to let go of all the pattern that you get stuck in, which is the thinking pattern.
::And taking control of your thoughts is, yeah.
::A whole nother.
::Yeah, it just wonders for you.
::Like let it go.
::Yeah, but it's hard.
::It's hard to let it go when your brains, like stuck in that that cycle right where it's like stuck in that.
::Oh my God.
::I have so much to do and it's just going through like that same tape.
::And it's like, how do you push pause or how do you disrupt that that pattern?
::And it's like you have to do something very different.
::So that's where I think somatic.
::Exercises like yoga, I mean, but even going for a run or jog or getting outside and changing your scenery, being in nature can be helpful because it helps to, like, cause that disrupt.
::And so always for me, I know for myself when I'm, like, stuck in front of my computer, just like feeling.
::Like thinking of all the things I should be doing.
::Right.
::Like, I don't even know where to start.
::Your house is calling to you.
::It's like almost more productive to just leave the house, like, go outside and do something else and be like, OK, I'm going to come back after I.
::I used to.
::Have fresh a fresh eyes and fresh mind and fresh body.
::And sometimes it's better to.
::Just do that and get it.
::Over with, then sit there and stare at your computer and.
::Yeah, 100 percent, 100%.
::And let the.
::Loops run when my kids were little.
::I I heard from someone when it came to like it, it has to do with discipline.
::But it was an interesting take on discipline I have.
::I have three boys, but two of them are much younger than the older one.
::So when the two boys were young.
::They're very rambunctious.
::They were boys.
::And they would, they would get going.
::With each other and you know, the fight would start, yeah.
::So we used to do exercises.
::I can't tell you how many.
::Times we would be in Walmart and.
::They would be doing push-ups.
::I'm so smart.
::But it breaks.
::The thought patterns.
::And makes them focus on their body.
::And you know young boys, their bodies are growing and changing.
::And they.
::Need to like get some of this energy out and it's either going to come out through, you know, physical altercations with each other.
::Or perhaps or perhaps?
::And so we.
::Went with push-ups.
::Yeah, that's so smart. That's so good. I love it. It's also I have a young boy too. He's 12 1/2 and it's also kind of my philosophy.
::It's been my philosophy with him too.
::He's just like.
::Run him till all the.
::Energies out and then he's.
::Just so well behaved.
::Hey, jump ropes.
::You know, you get out of the car.
::Jump the rope, you know 35 * 40 times whatever. And then and then we can go in cause you.
::Know you, you might have gotten some.
::Of that excess out.
::It's really good.
::That such a good tip.
::It was a great tip.
::It's not original to me.
::Somebody told me that when they were really young.
::Dropping. Give me 10.
::I was just like, oh, that's genius.
::I love it. People would laugh, old people would laugh at me because I was old. I was 44 when my last child was born. So.
::And she's 19 now, so.
::When they were little.
::I was still old.
::You know the the old.
::People would come by and they'd be like, yeah, yeah, that's the way to do it, Nana.
::Yeah, that's so funny.
::You're like, no, I'm just.
::I'm just doing it.
::Yeah, we're just doing it.
::It's good. I love it.
::I'll be fine here in a few minutes.
::So what's the one thing you want people to take away from this?
::I guess the one thing that would be great for people to take away is that it doesn't have to be hard.
::And I think also this idea of like creating you know balance in your life or greater health or healing, to me it's an inside out job and so you gotta kind of go in.
::And like connects more deeply with your.
::Self in whatever way that looks and that itself is going to start to balance your nervous system.
::You know there's been amazing scientific studies on even just the effects of gratitude and what gratitude can do for not just your mind, but your entire life and your and also your physical body and your affect and you know.
::All, all the things.
::And so just cultivating that deeper interconnection, which I like to call a spiritual practice, you know, a gratitude practice is a spiritual practice.
::I mean, what are you being grateful to or for?
::I mean, the universe life, the matrix of, of consciousness, whatever you want to call.
::Ballet, but it's an inside out job, so you gotta go in.
::You gotta create that time and space.
::Even 2 minutes a day.
::2 minutes can do wonders for you, and so it doesn't have to be hard.
::It doesn't have to be overwhelming, but it can be something really simple and meaningful.
::And it can make a big difference in not just your stress levels, but also your physical health, your mental health, and then also your sense of spiritual connection and spiritual well-being, which is really the root, I think, of both physical and mental health so.
::Connecting with that energy, that is.
::That you know, whether it's you call it prana, which is the Sanskrit word, or you call it chi, which is, you know, the Chinese word.
::It's the same, right?
::There's the life force that is undeniable.
::Even if you just call it life, right?
::It's breathing, the trees are breathing.
::We're all connected by this breath.
::This, this, this life that's moving between us and.
::And so yeah, cultivating just some sense of awe, some sense of connection, feeling integrated into a greater whole, like realizing.
::You're not alone.
::You're not in this by yourself, I think is really essential for our physical and mental and emotional.
::Well-being so, yeah.
::This is going to be a weird question for you.
::This is something that I do practice.
::You ever lay really still?
::And try to sense where your body end.
::And the air around you begins because their molecules are always exchanging electrons, so you're not actually as solid as you.
::Yeah, all the time.
::Think you are?
::Yeah, I know.
::I love that.
::I love that.
::I do that all the time.
::And even when you think like, you know, with the chair you're sitting on, you're actually not really sitting on the chair.
::You're actually like hovering because the molecules are just creating that energy force.
::That feels like we're sitting on things, right?
::So when you really like kind of tap into that space that.
::You're talking about.
::Where you're like.
::Like, really feeling that it's amazing because you can kind of drop in to a very subtle energy realm of yourself.
::And yeah, it's amazing that itself is a spiritual practice.
::It is and it's.
::Just it it's a 2 minute thing.
::You just sit there.
::For two minutes and.
::Feel it or.
::Focus on it and it's just like it's.
::An experience you can experience it for 2 minutes.
::Yeah, and it's and.
::It has a healing effect and that's I think The thing is, is these little shifts in perspective and shifts in what we're focusing on.
::Has a really calming healing effect for us.
::Another one you might like because of what you just said is sometimes like feeling yourself in the room you're in and then expanding your awareness to see if you can feel like the walls like opening that sort of aperture of consciousness to feel the space around you and all the.
::The four walls and then.
::And then you're just like in this this vast space, right, this little particle?
::Looks like light I.
::I envision it.
::As light comes in and then it goes out and then it grows and grows all around you until you're like filling up.
::The whole space.
::That you're in.
::Even though you're still in this space here, that you're really in that space there.
::You can you can.
::Occupy whatever space you want.
::Yeah, it's amazing.
::It's a, it's just like a beautiful all these little mind experiments, but they're really like experiments and awareness, right.
::And consciousness and our consciousness isn't trapped inside.
::Of our body.
::And that's sort of the interesting.
::And you can transfer your consciousness through intention, yes.
::And there's a lot of science behind that.
::I've talked about my, the intention group I was in.
::Yeah, and other podcasts.
::But I hit my thumb with a pneumatic nail now.
::Then it hit the.
::Yeah. Oh, God.
::Bone and it.
::Hurts so bad, but I went to this intention.
::Group and they did an intention for me that it would heal and be, you know, fine.
::And at the end of 20 minutes, it was perfectly fine, as though nothing had happened.
::Ohh so it's like.
::A personal experience I've had with the power of people that aren't even in the same room with me making something happen.
::And I've seen lots of.
::Stuff like that.
::Through the intention group that I was in happened, it was just.
::Yeah, that's amazing, because also it's similar to they've done studies as well about the power of prayer and like people praying for a specific thing or specific.
::Person and just like.
::All of that energy and all that intention, right, it's the.
::The intention that makes a difference and.
::Same kind of, yeah.
::That you know, they've gone.
::Through hospitals and they've prayed for certain people and those people get better versus people.
::That, and they don't even know.
::Who was prayed for and who wasn't?
::So it's really interesting.
::Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of mystical things out there that we don't know about exactly how it works, but we're all connected.
::We're all connected in our hearts and our minds and our energy and our conscious.
::This and so I believe that too that that kind of intention, that conscious intention you're putting your consciousness or your energy, you're sharing it with someone else and so.
::And you can.
::Travel with it.
::They they've done remote viewing experiments.
::The military does use remote viewers, but they've done.
::Experiments with remote viewing.
::That were just like innocuous episodes where, you know, somebody was going to a park or something and another person was remote, viewing them at the park, and they came back and they would talk about what the person who at the park saw what it was they saw.
::But it was the.
::Person who was remote viewing would tell them.
::What they saw, and it was so accurate.
::And people that can have their eyes covered, they're totally blind, but they can read.
::Yeah, yeah, yeah.
::It's really interesting when you get into it, isn't.
::It all of the.
::Fascinating to me.
::And The funny thing is, like in in the ancient yoga text, the yoga sutras, they talk, there's a whole chapter on, like, sort of mystical powers like through the practice of yoga, developing these types of sort of things we're talking about, like, you know, being able to become very, very small, like the size of an atom or very, very large or, you know.
::Being able to see through other peoples eyes, things like that.
::And so it's I.
::Mean these types of sort of more mystical.
::You know abilities.
::Have I think it's existed for a long time.
::It's probably always existed.
::It's just that people have become.
::Afraid of it?
::And labeled it as something that's wrong.
::Right.
::When in reality it doesn't.
::It doesn't have a right or wrongness to it, it just hasn't.
::It is to it.
::Yeah, that's it.
::Things that are exist.
::Yeah, they're they're morally neutral.
::And it's interesting because it's, I mean.
::It's not like everybody gets these sort of, you know, mystical powers, but I mean, some people in yoga, they always say if you're giving these gifts, it's because of work you've done in a past life, you know, so whether you believe in reincarnation or not, it's you.
::Know it's just what they say.
::I actually do.
::I I know.
::Like three of my past lives.
::Really. Wow. That's amazing.
::One of them is really impacting this life.
::Yeah, yeah, that could happen.
::I fell off.
::I fell off a horse.
::We were we.
::Were riding, it was on a Cliff. I think it was in England. Yeah, but we it was a girl and I it was probably like the 17 or 1800s that we went off a Cliff and then we died the horse and died. Died. But to this day, I'm terrified of heights.
::Oh my God.
::I don't like roller coasters.
::Like Cliffs that don't.
::Have like protection on them.
::It makes me.
::Physically ill like I.
::Yeah. Interesting. Wow.
::And I'm pretty sure it was because of that.
::Yeah, yeah, yeah.
::I mean, those things they can get passed down, yeah.
::For sure I mean.
::They've done a lot of experiments with people, young kids who remember things from in the past.
::Yeah, yeah, I know.
::That they couldn't know.
::I think kids have more access to it.
::But they'll tell you stuff and it's like you couldn't have known that unless.
::You were there for that and then?
::That's how they.
::They kind of are coming to the conclusion that.
::Past lives are thing.
::I mean, it's interesting, this idea of consciousness and consciousness carrying on in different ways in different forms.
::So yeah, yeah, it's and you're.
::Weaving in and out of this.
::And that there are other beings around us all the time too.
::Yeah, that's scary, right?
::You're not alone.
::You might think you're alone, that you're.
::Not going to sleep.
::Yeah, I know these other rounds.
::What, what to do about them?
::Like, so you gotta chant the mantra is like, hey, we want the good, the good juju, not the bad juju.
::How can people get a hot in touch with?
::You one more time, yeah.
::Please head on over to my website harmonyslater.com and you can download my 2 minutes breathing exercise and then we'll be in touch. You can also e-mail me harmonyharmonyisolator.com and you can find me on Instagram.
::Harmony Slater official so.
::Those are kind of all the main places.
::I'm sure there's a few others that pop up on YouTube and such and ohh.
::And you can listen to my podcast, the Finding Harmony podcasts, and that's on all the all the places.
::So if you're thinking, how can I find harmony, just look up Finding Harmony podcast and you'll find me.
::Well, we'll be listening to the.
::Finding Harmony podcast too.
::Yeah, yeah, we have great, great interviews on there as well.
::So, yeah, I'm sure people will enjoy it.
::Thanks so much for joining me.
::It's been a.
::Great chat with.
::It was really fun.
::It was really wonderful.
::Thank you so much for inviting me.
