Let's Play: The Create Podcast

This week we are diving into the deep end! We are talking about shadow work and Natalie shares openly about some of her revelations. She discusses how our unconscious darkness and illusion can become projection and resistance in life. She also talks about the tools that have helped her love and dismantle the shadow, so that life can be more free, easy, and full of liberation. If you want to know more about this work, Natalie is teaching an 8-Week Course called “Melt the Resistance” and you can reach out to her at natalielynnroy@gmail.com to hear more!  

Or we could call it “Romancing Your Friends” for our male listeners. There is a great quote from Marianne Williamson that we love, it says “Make your friendships more romantic, and your romances more like friendships.” As you know, we love to romance each other, and we this week, we bring our friend Katie Dalebout into the love triangle. She was with us in Bali, where we recorded this episode, and we decided to do an episode swap. So this episode is releasing on The CREATE Podcast, and on her podcast “Let It Out.” We know that after you listen to this episode, you are going to be in the mood for some SERIOUS romance!!

It’s our first episode of 2020! And we are kicking it off with a tribute to our beloved Ram Dass who made his transition on December 22nd, 2019. We share some of our favorite quotes of Ram Dass and discuss what we’ve learned from him and how his teachings have affected our lives.

This week’s podcast is coming to you straight from Paris where the two of us met up for a little holiday chat! We had an interesting experience lately: we were across the country and found ourselves energetically in very different places. What was fascinating was when we met up and share our experience, we found that we had the same insights from opposite routes. "Oh yes!” we said to each other, “All paths lead to the Divine. It doesn’t matter which way you go.” If you are questioning your path or wondering which way to turn, this could be the podcast for you!! 

Around the holiday, when there is a lot of light and cheer, it is also easy to feel dark and heavy. The winter brings us inward and the gray days can led to deep introspection, and sometimes feelings of grief and isolation. Many people experience a melancholy this time of year. So this week, we talk about how to “see” light, even in the dark. We discuss how we can embrace and integrate our shadow, and allow it to transform us. We talk about the movement of energy, and how the dense feelings often have very important messages. 

This week we are talking to one of our favorite yoga and meditation teachers, Lucas Hall! Most mornings in NYC, you can find us at NY Loves Yoga! We talk to Lucas about his spiritual and creative road, as he opens up about his journey of owning his Truth: how he personally learned to discern what his is, to trust it, and to live by it.

Isn’t just so sweet how we want to get it right? We have such hearts for good! But often trying to “get it right” means that we are living by someone else’s rules instead of listening to our own hearts. There is a spirit inside of us that want to be expressed and it takes freedom to allow it. When we value the expression of our spirit over the ideas of “supposed to” we find ourselves infused with new inspiration, clarity, and joy. Here’s to the permission to experiment!!! 

Have you ever thought about the Light in You being yours to enjoy?? Like all that joy, love, beauty and fun being a gift to your very self!? This week we talk about how sometimes we get so busy giving it away, that we forget it was given to us as OUR OWN treasure. We also answer a listener's question about what to do with the Holidays. Natalie talks about why she loves the Light that is Christmas, and how to make the Holiday a gift that is for YOU as well!!

We did something fun the week! We opened up our journals and the notes on our phones and did a little jam session on insights that had recently come in. Have fun with us as we bounce through topics such as making choices, play and celebration, expectations, greeting disappointment, and being in our “heart space."

This week we are talking ABUNDANCE with the beautiful, glorious, and oh-so-wise Miata Edoga! Miata is an actress and creator of “Abundance Bound” — a financial education company for artists! Miata believes that all of us were meant to create lives that thrive — that includes our relationship with ourself, our art, and our finances. Listening to her talk about her journey is so inspiring, and she tells us how she has helped so many others develop lives of abundance. At the end of our conversation, Miata also has a special offer for all our CREATE podcast listeners! 

In yoga, have you ever noticed sometimes you can get INTO the pose easily, but it’s hard to STAY in the pose? You start to get shaky. Your muscles ache. You notice sweat dripping down your face. Sometimes the last thing you want to do is HOLD that fricking pose any longer! But recently our friend quoted her teacher, saying that “it's when you hold the pose that you build strength.” That’s right — it's the challenge that teaches us a deeper stability. Well, this week we talk about “holding the pose” in life. When things get shaky, when do we want to drop our arms and give up? Do we get reluctant to breathe deeper and go within? When we want to give up, what might holding the pose teach us?

This week we are talking about the ego and suffering!!! Doesn’t that sound like a good time!?!? But we talk about it in terms of dismantling these old identities, because there is something NEW that wants to be birthed.  What becomes exciting is that under the old identity structures that are being broken apart, there is a calling to remember we are all connected. We talk about listening for the movement, the expression, the calling, that wants to come to the planet through you. 

This week we got to hear the story of Rae Ireland — an internationally touring musician and dancer and speaker. She has an incredible story of how her path unfolded and how she came to re-claim her own artistic expression. Now she helps transformational leaders, entrepreneurs, healers, and artists align with their soul’s work. You can discover more about her at https://raeirelan.com/ 

Have you ever felt like there is too much drama in your life? Too much stress? Too many things clamoring for your attention and asking that they be fixed RIGHT NOW!?! Or ELSE!?!? Well, we have the funniest story that Life demonstrated to us about what ISN’T drama! Maybe there is another zone going on — one of peace and ease — that the Universe wants us to move into.

This week we had the great pleasure of having a chat with actress and filmmaker Alysia Reiner! You may know her as “Fig” on ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK. This powerhouse woman will inspire you with her passion for service and activism. She talks about why RIGHT NOW is the perfect time to create, and dives deep into her personal mission to tell stories that awaken more love & compassion on the planet.

Do you do it sometimes? We all do! Sometimes we make our experience hard without realizing that is what we are doing? We erect mental blocks and dwell on negative thoughts that create a barrier to an energy that is trying to be lived THROUGH us. Why do we do this? What do we get out of it?? Is there another way to live? What might be waiting for us on the other side of “hard?"

This week we are talking about how participation means RISK. That a decision to be involved in a relationship, a creative project, a new business all mean the courage to try something new — which includes the possibility of failure, loss, and confusion. Life keeps asking us to grow and expand, which means we have to be willing to put something at stake. Existence doesn’t want us to us to stay the same, but to ever be evolving. Our leading edge of growth is always at the end of our comfort zone. It takes bravery to be involved.

Have you ever felt like you were running around looking for answers? Well, have you ever considered that there’s a place inside of you that already knows? This week we talk about that INNER KNOWING and how so many of us get caught looking for the answers on the outside or over-valuing someone else’s opinion, when there is a part of us that knows how to direct us. That’s right! We have perfect inner guidance — a built-in GPS — and it’s just waiting for us to get silent and listen.

When was the last time you felt content? And you were aware of that contentment? And when did you last take a moment to sit and value that feeling of peace and contentment? Well, the great news is that contentment is INSIDE of us, it is available at every moment, and it has something to teach us. Here’s this week’s podcast. And a little Winnie-the-Pooh too.

Do you ever shame yourself for feeling lost, unclear, or confused? But what if there was intrinsic value in being lost? What if it was a necessary part of the process that teaches us the way? This week we focus on the importance of getting lost and found, and what it has to teach us about the nature of choice, learning, and intimacy with ourself.