The mystical aspect of you that KNOWS somewhere that we all have a collective mission, to birth the spirit into the world for the evolution of humanity. The things that tell you otherwise are old programs, and some of them outright lies.” - Maria Colleen

Podcast Transcription

Namaste everyone and welcome to the Jai Bakhti Yoga Podcast where we share information on all things yoga, Ayurveda, and well-being lifestyle. I am excited to share these resources, insights, interviews and so much more as we grow together on this wonderful journey of well-being. I am your host, Christina Andrini, founder of Jai Bakhti Yoga Foundation and JBYU School of Yoga and Ayurveda. I'd like to invite you to subscribe to our blog on Tumblr as well as to follow us on Instagram and YouTube and Facebook and all the fun social media channels where we share some of the tips and insights and resources from our podcast and vice versa on here.

Now let's go ahead and begin with today's episode. A continuation of wrapping up our series this week with the surviving the story within. And in doing so, we are working today on paradigms and how they block the freedom to enter into enlightenment and we are going to be joined by guest Maria Colleen to really dive into more and explore this experience that some of us struggle with accepting. And Maria Colleen's background is with yoga and shamanism, health and she's a mystical artist. She's provided gifts for practicing many different healing modalities and she focuses on a journey back to the wholeness from the original spirit. And we open up this week with something she's contributed to this week's blog that will be posted later on this afternoon. And she speaks about and just to quote her, consider for a moment, so those of you that want to take a moment to just close your eyes here and listen to this comment that she wrote, consider for a moment if we are in fact healing out of vistic ancient wounds. And I'm going to definitely repeat that. So consider for a moment if we are in fact healing out of vistic ancient wounds and we take into account that trauma and she kind of has a little quote, a little quirk here that says any adaptation the body and DNA made to survive an overwhelming situation and there's many and it's true because there's many that we've adapted to. So this is stored in the genes to continue, which are essentially coiled little information packets and epigenetics says we can up-regulate and down-regulate this information. So just sit with that for a moment while I invite my girl on. It literally felt like there was stuff that was uncoiling within my own DNA. That's the best way that I can say it. What I saw was a bunch of starving people. I didn't understand why... I mean, I did actually. I understood. I pieced it together. I've only pieced a lot of my experiences together with my own research. I still haven't... I'm still piecing it together. I saw a lot of starving people. When I did a lot of research on that, I knew that both sides of my family had experienced starvation. That's actually why they left Ireland, was because they were starving. There was a big famine. I think it was true with the Eastern European ancestry that I have as well. I think about that. How does that show up in our lives now? I think about that as if you always have this anxiety over lack. There's a lack. You don't understand. You have everything that you need. But there's still this creeping sensation in you that's like, I'm not enough. I have a lack. It can really, truly be traced back to something that happened to your ancestors that they had to adapt. That changed the genes. Peter Leveen talks about this. There's a couple other trauma therapists that are really working into going into how our genes are changed. Then they kind of coil up. Sometimes our life experience will then unveil that stuff because it's time to be healed now. That was what I saw. Then it was interesting I went through a two -year period of having an eating disorder.