#6 - Christy LeCuyer

Christy LeCuyer is a carrier of ancient healing practices. Her services are found at Body by Thai | Kambo by Christy. Christy provides Thai Massage one on one services, which is a unique form of bodywork that combines elements of acupressure, yoga and assisted stretching. She also facilitates Goddess Gatherings, Kambo ceremonies and other transformational workshops and retreats. Kambo is a non-psychoactive medicine extracted from the secretions of the Phyllo medusa Bicolor (giant waxy-monkey tree frog) And is often referred to as the “vaccine of the forest.” It is One of the most powerful natural antibiotics of the world. Kambo is used to reset the body’s natural ability to heal itself on a cellular level, and to radically cleanse and shift illness in the body. Kambo is SAFE-LEGAL-HIGHLY TRANSFORMATIVE! Contact Christy for more information.   

Christy holds space for radical self-transformation using modalities such as yoga, meditation, Vedic bodywork, folk medicine, empowerment workshops, goddess gatherings, sacred transformational programs and indigenous ceremonies. She facilitates non-judgment, acceptance and love as a source to hold space for deep healing within the container that she works in to ultimately help create a positive shift on the planet.   

Christy is a E-RYT 300, YACEP, mentor, Vedic Thai Yoga specialist and public figure. She is dedicated to her purpose and in that dedication is continually seeking out wisdom through the exploration of the yogic path, spiritualism and wellness.

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Chapters

• 1:36 Walking Away from Everything to Find What She Was Walking Toward
• 5:35 Beginning of Yogic Path
• 8:18 Taking A Risk
• 11:24 Makes Decision to Choose Self
• 13:32 Transition from Yoga to Thai Massage
• 15:41 Thai Massage Defined
• 18:38 Folk Medicine and Ayurvedic Practices for Healing
• 20:58 Goddess Gathering Events & Indigenous Medicine
• 23:04 Journal for Self Discovery, Inner Healing, Self Love, Trauma
• 25:12 Kambo One of the Most Powerful Natural Antibiotics of the World
• 27:32 Case Study of Stage Four Cancer in Remission
• 30:52 Remedies for Addiction
• 35:48 Christy's Fitness Routine
• 38:16 Benefits of Hot Yoga
• 41:06 Christy's Supplement Regimen
• 41:28 Amla Supplement
• 41:30 Black Cumin Seed Oil Gummies
• 41:32 Spirulina Cholrella Capsules
• 41:37 Maca Root for Women & Men - Stamina, Bone and Mood Support
• 41:39 Neem Oil Supports Skin, Immune, & Liver Health, Detox
• 42:48 Reverse Manifestation: How to Avoid Absorption of Unwanted Energy

Transcript

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This is Angela Grayson from the Loving Life Fitness Podcast. To help others in their fitness journey. It’s all possible. It’s time to wake up. Here we go. This is Angela Grayson from the Loving Life Fitness Podcast. Now, I'd like to introduce you to Christy LeCuyer. She is an E-RYT 300, YACEP, mentor, Vedic Thai yoga specialist and public figure. She is dedicated to her purpose and in that dedication is continually seeking out wisdom through the exploration of the yogic, path spiritualism and wellness. To unite community and hold space for transformation and healing is a passion of hers and a desired path that she is strongly rooted in. This is so beautiful, Christy. I am so in love with you. Welcome to Loving Life Fitness. So let's go ahead and talk about where you started with all this. So the absolute beginning of all of this was my first yoga class. I did a 21 day challenge, and I was kind of in more in Christianity at that time. And in that upbringing, we weren't allowed to do yoga. Like, all of that was kind of frowned upon. And I finally just came to a place and like, there's more, I know there's more. And I a friend of mine at work asked me to do a 21 day challenge with her. And so I thought, Huh, I'm going to try out this whole yoga thing. And at that time I was much different than I am now. And I was like going in there with my Lululemon and my hair makeup was done and I had all the perfect everything. And I was married at the time, had a big rock on my finger, and I was like, just one of those perfect wives. And I walked in and I threw my yoga mat down and I'm like, This is going to be great. And as soon as I hit Child's pose, something lit up inside of me, like my whole body heated up to 100 degrees. And I was like, I just of bawling the moment I got into my first child's pose. And I had done no yoga before this. I kind of made fun of it, actually a little bit. I was like, these spiritual foo foo weirdos, you know? And here I was in my yoga pose, like, Wow, this is I'm feeling something I've never felt before. And so I was the only one out of, I think, eight of us girls that actually finished the 21 days. And then I kept going for another, I don't know, maybe up to 30 days every day. And then after that, 30 days, I realized I just woke up to something that I that I didn't even realize I was sleeping to. And I went home to my huge house and I opened up my. I remember this so clearly. I opened up my window in my bathroom and I had a pool and a hot tub out there. And I just started throwing all of my Louis Vuittons and my purses and just dumping them in the pool. I really did this. And I'm like, This is not me. Like, this is not my life. And I divorced my husband at that time and I'm like this this is my path now. And I, I completely changed my entire life around. That's how I started. Wow. Total transformation. In a little over 30 days. Yeah, I couldn't help it. It got a hold of me, and I felt myself for the first time without any rules of marriage on me or any rules of yoga or I was allowed to think for myself because I finally quieted my mind enough to hear what I was really feeling. Instead of all of the outside voices telling me who to be. Okay. So from then that point on, you were taking yoga classes. Somehow you became a yoga teacher. Now you decided to go down that path at that point, or was it a while later? Pretty much right away. I mean, I think in the middle of my divorce really, I started going to teacher training and I just knew I knew that this was my path and I was horrible. Like, you've never taken one of my classes. I was horrible in my teacher training. One of the teachers, the host of it, actually came over and was like, I don't think that this is going to be for you. And I was like, all like crushed about it because I was so into this. And then even when I graduated from my first, I've taken a lot of trainings out. But when I graduated from my first one, I graduated in Baptiste style. So I was teaching at this studio and I was begging the girl that owned the studio. I was like, Please put me on. I don't care if you give me a 6 a.m. cause I just want to teach. And she kept saying no, and she said, I don't know if this is for you. And so I begged her and begged her, and I just kept showing up. And then finally she was like, if you if you if I give you a class, will you shut up? And I was like, yes! So I taught my first class at 6 a.m. And I remember her saying to me this If you can get 15 people in this 6 a.m. class in four weeks, then you can keep it. And I was like, Ooh, challenge accepted. And my first class she was in and I was awful. Like, I bombed the class so bad, and I walked out and she just got and she goes, I'm going to honor my my word with you for the four weeks. But I mean, I hope you I don't lose clients over you. And I was like, okay, so I remember going home and being like, okay, there's somewhere where I'm not being authentic. There's somewhere where I'm trying to be a yoga teacher. You know? And because I was teaching exactly the way I was taught to teach, but it just was not me. And it was almost like another cookie cutter yoga teacher. And, you know, these things just kind of happened. And so I went back the next morning and I told myself, I'm going to be absolutely myself. I changed my whole playlist on I put some ghetto music on in the morning and I made like, little gifts, like I put I made like, little cards that had, like a word on it. And I placed them on everybody's mat that was in the class that morning. And I taught from I forgot everything that I was taught in teacher training and I taught from my heart and I was like, I'm already screwing this up. I'm already bombed it and nobody believes in me. I'm going to see how this works. And after that, three weeks later, it was like a Christmas. It was around Christmas. And I said, In four weeks, of course I'm going to do this in four weeks, we're going to do a little Christmas party at 6 a.m.. I had 29 people in that class. You know, Yeah. When we do things from our heart, it makes such a difference. Whatever it is that we're doing, when it flows from the heart, people connect with you. They want to be around you. They want to experience what you're trying to give them. Right? And it was scary. It was scary to open myself up and be that vulnerable and to be that real in class. And, you know, everybody says the same words in a yoga class, and I just didn't want to use any of those words. So I was very real when I spoke. And when I put people in and out of postures and I ended up managing that studio about a year and a half later, I had probably 70 to 80 people on my Tuesday night classes. And then something happened with the studio and the couple that owned it split. And she came to me and she's like, I want you to manage the studio. And I was like, Oh, cool, that's awesome. I remember when we first started and you were like, I don't think you're going to make it. And now I'm managing. And how long did you stay in that arena? Teaching and managing a studio. That's a lot of responsibility to where you are now. What was the past? So I stayed there for a couple of years and did that and I loved it so much and I was just thinking to myself, I must be kind of good at this. There's a lot of people showing up and so I got this crazy idea in my head that I was going to open up a yoga studio. I lived in Palm Coast at the time and this place was in Ormond So I took everything that I had, which was nothing. And I on a hope and a dream, I signed a lease with this woman to open five year, 5 to 10 year lease, and I had nothing at all when I did this. Like I had just gone through a divorce and lost everything. And I, I was going to lose everything for this because I believed in it so much. And it just felt the most real to me. And so, yeah, I ended up opening a studio. I left Blue Moon, I opened up my studio. It was a crazy journey to get there because when I opened I was like-$320 in my bank account. And somehow I paid actually on that studio, which this is such a beautiful story. About one year I paid on an empty building. I paid 1500 dollars a month on an empty building, not knowing how I was going to get the money to do the build out. I had nothing. I was teaching 16, 17 classes a week, managing the studio, teaching in a gym just to make an extra $20, to try to figure out how I'm going to pay for this one day. I just got on my knees in the place and it was like stuff hanging from the ceiling. It was a disaster. And I'm like, a year later my father comes to me and he was like, Honey, it's okay. Like, it's okay. You showed God you want this, and it's okay that if you don't get it too, it doesn't mean you failed. And I was like, All right, one last ditch effort to ask the universe. And I got on my knees in the studio, and I remember this so clearly. I’ gonna start crying. And I prayed. I said, If this is what you want from me, I am willing and I'm here and it's hard and I'm doing the best I can, but I don't have the means either. You're going to provide this for me right now or you're going to let me be able to let go and not be so upset about it, you know? And so the next day my ex husband, he's like, calls me, I'm pacing the house, I'm not sleeping. And he goes, I'm going to give you just enough to to do the just the inside the floors and the ceilings and the heaters. And that's all you're getting because I didn't get anything in the divorce. And I said, thank you. And so he came in and he did just that. And then the place was wall to wall, it went off the hook. And how long did you have that studio? So I had it for five years. And I'm sure you helped so many people in their path. Yeah. Yes, for sure. The whole basis around that studio is to create a safe space for people to come, and I really believe that I did that. I silkier things for people like that was, you know, that that studio helped me get through places in my life. I didn't think I could get through and it was beautiful. But then after about five years, it started getting like taking a toll on me because I was the only one. I was the owner. I was the face of the company. I was doing all the the money aspect, which I'm not amazing at, at all. And like, my heart is so big, it's like, Oh, you can't afford it will come in anyways. And then a lot of that broke and of being to a place where it was just I was too big to be small and too small to be big. So I either needed to open a bigger space because we were just walls who all slammed or I needed to be okay with letting it go. And I just thought one day when I went in and I was like, Oh, I miss my practice. I miss the time I spend with myself on my mat. Because when you own a studio, you really you go in there, you can't really just get on your mind and have time to yourself. I decided to choose that. I decided to choose myself over opening a bigger space and then going through all of that. It took my love of yoga away for me, which was it was everything to me. So I had a choice to make. And so I let it go. That was very difficult for me, but I'm glad that I did, and I don't feel that I made a mistake. Yeah, sometimes when we get to a point where we're feeling over work, we can't do for others what we had originally set out to do. And that was your original goal to set out to help the people that came into your studio. And through those five years, I know that you must've done amazing work for so many people. Yoga transforms lives in the year where their teacher and that's beautiful. And I'm sure that when it was time for you to let go because you could no longer serve them the way you want it to, it was okay. You know, they, I'm sure, found other places to go and other people to lead them. And like you said, you still hear from people about all the wonderful things that she does. Yeah, I learned so much about myself doing that. I really think as much as I helped everyone else, that they saved my life. It helped me to become the person that I am and to understand life the way that I do at this point, to know the capabilities of what I can do. Because I didn't think I could do any of that. I mean, I'm all over the place and and I did that and I succeeded at it. So. Okay. So from there. Christy From that turnaround, tell me what came next. So I told her a tiny bit and then I realized that it's this funny because it all kind of ties together. I do Thai body work or Thai massage, we call it, And I got into that. I went to a whole summer program at this place called the Shala that my teacher, Ariella, she teaches the Thai, Thai Yoga Massage and the folk medicine programs. And so I was like, okay, I think I still love yoga. I just want to address it in a different way, and I want to maybe do more one on one instead of like 1 to 70 million. I went and took her course and took her course and took her course and just kept retaking it. I loved it. I absolutely loved it because it was the foundation of our Vedic medicine, which I live by, and it was the yogic path, which I live by. And then it was it was a lot of one on one. And I could still help people and not be completely drained because now on I'm helping people in their bodies in a deeper way than just running a yoga class. So it was a gift for me to not feel bad that I no longer was doing this thing. You know, sometimes I think we get stuck in who we are as who we are, and it's going to be like this forever. But we get to change and we get to go with the tides and the seasons. And that was a good a good gift from God for me to be able to do that and actually be kind of good at it too. So and that I've been doing that since. I'll never give that up. I love the intimacy of the Thai body work, the way that it does transform the body and it takes a lot of emotions and moves them in a loving way. And you just get to go really deep with another person and experience why we're really here. So, Christy, I've experienced Thai massage with you. It's absolutely amazing many times. But a lot of people out there, when I tell them Thai Massage, you've got to call Christy. They want to know what Thai massage, you know. So let's talk a little bit about that to me. And I'm going to say this in a non textbook way because that's just what I do that would not be here. Okay. Well, yeah, I just went out and did the whole textbook. I mean, I could do it. I have the book over there, I could sneak it, but I'm just not going to. To me, it's an energetic process. You start at the feet of the body, you work the energy lines up and through the body. So it's not just like doing body work or giving a massage. It's more that you're going into this person's absolute being. I mean, your heartbeat becomes their heartbeat and vice versa, and you're really connecting with the person so that you can move things through the body and create a lot of blood flow. So if we're going like a little scientific, it creates a lot of blood flow in the body that actually alleviates pain and mental and physical. To me, it's like a moving meditation. It's like I'm doing yoga to you in a meditative way and moving blockages that are in the body that you might not know is there and it just kind of moves on its own once you start going with the practice. I mean, this practice is so ancient and it originates in Thailand. Yes. Millions of years ago. I don't know how many years ago, but yes, it originated in Thailand. A couple of cool things that I heard. Don't totally quote me, but I'm going to keep them because I love it. They did it on the kings and queens in Thailand. That's how special it was. They found it on the walls in hieroglyphics, A yoga teacher that was teaching back then. I don't I'm really bad with names. I don't remember his name. I should. I'm so sorry, Ariella. If you're listening. Bad student. He kind of took it and pushed it out into the world so that we could all experience it. Now, when you've done Thai massage with me, what is so different to me, besides everything that you just said is the way you twist me and turn me and stretch me and pull me while you're massaging and trying to get out anything that you feel. I know you feel it. I don't even have to tell you where it is or what it is. You can find it, but it's not just the massaging like an ordinary massage. No, it's stretching and moving. And I guess the best way to explain it is I'm doing yoga to you on the ground and stretching your body with stretching is the most important thing that we can do with our lives. We have to move the body and create space, and that's what we do. We create space. Well, you were the only one who was able to get this kink out of my neck that would not go away with physical therapy, with stretching, with yoga, with doctors, with orthopedics. Christy came to my rescue and she twisted me and pulled me and massaged me. And she was able to get that shoulder feeling better again. That was of the best. YES! And now I'm addicted to her Thai massage. Okay, So let's talk a little bit about your folk medicine. So that goes the same in with the Thai, the folk medicine cards. So in the Ayurvedic system, we try to get people off of pharmaceuticals because we actually don't need it. We can we can heal our bodies through so many different modalities that there are definitely a time for pharmaceuticals, but not as much as is being used whatsoever. So with a folk medicine, it's basically the teachings and learnings that have been passed down from generation to generation. So it's not really in a book and it's different ways to take care of your body to either prevent things from happening in the future or if you do get sick, it's ways that you can heal yourself. Like there's this one cool with the eyes you make like a little kind of pouch around the eye, and then you put ghee inside of that pouch around your eye. And then when you open your eye, it doesn't burn or anything. It's the weirdest feeling. You allow the ghee to go into the eye and lenses it out. And it just creates such a healing effect for the eyes. So that's just like one of the tiny bit of things we do cupping and there's just so many different things. But for me, the way that I look at it, it's giving us the tools to not have to go to the doctor to take care of ourselves before the doctor happens. Yeah, because unfortunately we know that when we do end up at the doctor, nine times out of ten, all they want to do is give you some sort of medication that's going to have some kind of a side effect. Might fix what you're what's ailing you at the moment, but the side effects could be ten times worse than what the medication is doing already. And it is. And then you're this medication to that medication. And another example is you can just take honey and turmeric mix them together. You take a tablespoon of it every day, and it is an antibiotic, a 100% workable antibiotic. It just, you know, we just learn all those little tidbit, some things. Yeah, that's good. The other thing I want to talk about, I know you have different kinds of workshops with groups of women. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about why you do it, how it comes to be, where and how you feel about that, how they feel. Give me all that information. So that's what is gathering. Yeah, This is my favorite thing that I do, is this is all I did every single day. If I woke up and I created these or I or these women came over and we did what we do, it's I'll talk about it. And then they spent a few days here and then they left. If I did this every day of my life, I would be in heaven. I absolutely love this. I think that it is extremely important that women get together and be able to be authentic with each other. Yeah, I started doing this the way that I do it now. I got into a little bit of indigenous medicine, which we can talk about last. And within that I saw how much that women needed healing and then I realized around that healing physically, that mentally, the biggest issue that all of these women had in common and this is going to be really funny, is they didn't love themselves. That's it. So all of these illnesses that created in the body, they all came from a bottom line of some thing that they're judging within themselves and that they're not being authentic and they're not speaking the truth and they're not being honest with themselves because you can't be honest with anybody else unless you going to be honest with yourself first. And we we walk the planet not even recognizing that this is happening. So I bring awareness to it in the most fun, playful, beautiful temple like way. We have a group of women now that we all do our own modalities. For instance, a couple of months ago, I had about 30 women at my home and we had I did the body work. I had Anastasia do a Chinese tea ceremony. We had another woman come in and do a sound bowl healing for us. And then we had a girl that brought in some cacao. A woman that was pulling cards. And then one other that did some energy work. And I have my downstairs as you could see, it just looks like a temple. And I have a sauna down here. And then when you go upstairs on the deck, we have some I put a couple of clawfoot tubs up there and we try to do ice baths in them. And then there's just a station for oils and just like places to adorn each other and basically when we bring everybody together, we just try to try to allow these women to come into a space and feel safe enough, which you can't help but feel safe in the place that we create because it's so frickin beautiful. And like it's everybody's dream to be in a space like this because it's so feminine for them to just be 100% authentic. And however that shows up, it just doesn't even matter to us how it shows up. And we we bring that to the attention first, like just be exactly who you are no matter what that looks like. And all of us are here for the same reason, because we all really want that ultimately. So when you can gather a group of women and give them a safe space to let their guard down and be 100% who you are, you see, when they come in there, this one person and when they leave, they're an entirely different person. I'm like, Yes, there you are. And there you were, too. But that's not you. And you know that when they first walk in, I just love it. And I'm going to be real for a second. Like you see the eyelashes start coming off in, the fake hair starts coming off, and then all of a sudden they're changing into comfortable clothes. And it's just amazing. Yes. And I'm definitely go sign up for one of those classes I made to be myself. Yeah. There's so many different leaders here also that when stuff does come up, if stuff does come up because it does in these settings, because we're going very deep with each other, like, for example, we'll do this thing I forgive myself for and I'll just say I forgive myself for and I'll go deep into it. The first one, like very deep. And this like, wow, she just said that and she said it with confidence. And then the next person goes and the next person goes, and there's no talking about it. There's no explaining it. There's just saying like, I forgive myself for and just say it out loud. You can hear it come back to you. And you're like, I do forgive myself for that, don't I? Is this very powerful, Beautiful? How often do you do that? Yeah, I try to do it every couple of months. Yeah, we just had one. We had a sitar player come in. It was really beautiful. We're about to plan the next one, so that idea. Okay, so on this long list of things that you have that you do to help people in your life, where would you like to go next with our conversation? I would love to talk quickly about Combo, if that's okay. Yes, that's okay with me. That's okay with you. Okay, Perfect. I want to talk about this just because in the spiritual world there's a lot of like indigenous medicine, a lot of medicine coming up, ayahuasca is getting more obtainable and all these different modalities in the medicine world are starting to come into play. And it can be confusing and scary because you know that you're opening up yourself to something like pretty big. So I want to talk about Kambo because I've done most of the medicines that are out there and this is the one to me that is the most healing because it goes into the body and it removes the physical ailments that are causing you to be sick. It removes those so that the mental can come into play and you can be more yourself. So Kambo comes from the Amazon. It's a secretion from a frog and it has over 200 peptides in it. So when you do a little burn on the skin and you put the the Kambo on the body, it goes in through the lymphatic system and it basically goes in through all of your organs and it I'll, I'll like dumb it down a tiny bit. It's like it squeezes out all of the toxins in your body and it kind of dumps it into your stomach. It's a little bit of a rite of passage because it's difficult because you're going to purge, because you're getting toxins out of your body. But it's only goes for 20 minutes and it's when you come out of it and you rest for a minute, it's like, did that just happen? Did that detox just happen? And then I tell people they think of the moment in your life that you've been the most clear minded, the healthiest when you've had no toxins in your body, when you've taken care of yourself the absolute most, you're the most joyful when you wake up in the morning, you pop out of your bed and you're like, I love life and you're so focused and driven. That's what this does for you. It brings you back to the essence of who you are. And we stay on that. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yes. Yeah. And I got into it. A friend of mine was in stage four cancer, and it was a very difficult path for me to get on because of I me coming from Christianity and then going into shamanism. That's like a huge absolute, you know, it just kept calling to me, calling to me. She had stage four cancer and she did one round of ayahuasca and she did three rounds of Kambo back to back in a row. I'm sure. Don't quote me on that, but went back into the doctor and got her blood work drawn because she's like, I feel different. I know I'm different. They told her she wasn't going to live to see 50. She went back in and got her bloodwork drawn and they came back in to doctors. They said this isn't the same person, this is impossible. The bloodwork was completely healthy, completely different than the first one of her very sick. So after that, after seeing that and witnessing that and realizing that this is a real thing, that this isn't just some fufu spiritual thing that people are doing, that this is something that really can help shift and save lives medically as well. I mean, you've got all these ailments in the body that sometimes doing all the right things doesn't push it out and you need something a little bit more radical. But yeah, it saved her life. She's in the best shape of her life. She is not sick at all. She had lupus. She doesn't take any medication, not one thing, and she just does Kambo Maybe once or twice a year. And that's it. Just as maintenance. That's amazing. Yeah, it's pretty spectacular. I've watched it do some pretty amazing things and I like it because it's not psychoactive and I'm kind of finished with all of that in my life. I, I love the psychoactive. I love the tool that it gives. I love I love all of these different ways that you can kind of wake up to certain things. But I don't believe that you absolutely need them. I think I think sometimes the psychoactive can confuse you even more a little bit and put you down a spiral path like Alice in Wonderland. But this one does not it's not psychoactive. So you're not tripping or even going into your mind like it's very different. Yeah, it doesn't alter your state of being. It's more it just put you back into your spirit and the essence of who you actually are because it's removing toxins out of the way. Mary And arresting it is very interesting. At the end of our show, everybody will be able to go down to the show notes to get a hold of Christy. If you'd like to get more information about all these processes that she does do to help others get back to their real selves. How beautiful is that? Come to me. Women's events. That's the spectacular one. That's a good place to start, right? So amazing. They're there from age 14 to age 75. It's absolutely the life. Yeah. Yeah. When you first started talking about that, I was thinking to myself, That would be so awesome for younger women to do, because so many younger women these days, they're, they're all worried about being judged and what their peers are thinking of them dressing a certain way or acting a certain way just because of pressure, you know, just to realize you can be yourself and how much how much better you'll feel on a daily basis. And when you when you when you come from your true self, others will accept you because there's nothing but beauty. There you are. And you'll actually inspire people versus being a follower of people. I mean, which would you rather do, inspire people or follow people? I don't know. I think it's pretty clear. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. So do you know about anything with remedies for addiction? Yes, I know people are going to want to hear about. Meditation is probably the most effective. Beautiful. Yeah, I know. It's crazy because I can tell you Combo. Absolutely. Of course it's going to help completely ayahuasca. Sure. If you're deep in addiction, do this medicine. It's going to wake you up. But at the end of the day, they're all they're all just temporary fixes as well, because you want to get to the root of why there is addiction. So the root is only going to be shown to you and you can be quite enough to listen. And meditation is foreign to a lot of people. So you say meditation and people right away, you know, they think they're just going to be sitting there waiting for something to happen and nothing happens. And that's the end of it. Right? How do people get into meditation to help them to quiet their minds and be able to listen? It's a process. Do you teach that? I do. I try to simplify it because it's really you can be taught it, you can be guided through it, you can go to meditation classes, but at the end of the day, it's it's you choosing yourself. It's you saying to yourself, today, I'm going to sit and I'm going to feel whatever comes up and it's okay. And I forgive myself for anything that's coming up that makes me uncomfortable because you'll go through all of them and you'll realize that we're all in a journey and none of it really matters, you know, even though it seems like it very much does the sitting and, you know, there's nothing that's going to come to you. You just you've just got to sit and be with yourself. And that's the process. The process is how how can you find a way to be with yourself and then feel comfortable in that You just have to do it more. It's like anything else. Like I just started cross and I socked out and I'm like, This is bad. But the more that I do it, the more I can do it. So it's like anything you start doing it and then you become better at it. And then you realize when you're sitting with yourself that you really don't hate yourself as much as you think you do. Meditation is a beautiful process. I meditate every single morning. It helps me to get my mind and perspective. Like you say, you listen to your body and mind and what it's saying and accept that. Go with it and meditation also as a way of me for setting goals for the day so that my day can be a beautiful day, not only in the way I'm feeling, but in the way I treat others and being open for the day to see what comes my way. Those are all things that sound like cliches, you know, You hear that all the time, but it's really a beautiful thing if you can get to that point every day, thinking about it every morning, it's an everyday thing. And you have to remind yourself every day, no, I need to do this thing that I know is good for me, that I don't really want to. Sometimes I sit down and like, Oh, I got have time for this. I don't really want to sit here. I just don't. And then I sit with that like, why? Why don't I just want to sit here? We're taught in society so much that this is a doing world. Do you, do you do The more you do, the more you have the the more that you like keep at it, the better you'll be. And that's all bullshit. We got taught completely wrong, actually. The less you do, the more you are, the more you have, the more comes to you. And that's such a foreign outlook on life. Because we're not taught this. We're not taught it because it actually works. And some kind of weird something up there. It doesn't want us to know our awesome we are when we're just being we're not supposed to we're not supposed to think that we need to be all these things. And meditation helps you realize that that's that's all a lie. You really are here to do is experience ourselves and who we are on this planet and then figure this out and then be able to give it to those who haven't figured it out. And this is what meditation does for you. And in that when you can really love yourself and figure that out, there is no addiction. There is no there is no suffering, there's none of these things, because you realize that even in your suffering, you're just not accepting something because you have this outlook on how do you think that it should be in some attachment to the outcome of how it should be? And if you could just realize that, let it flow, and if it's going to be this, it will. And what if it's not going to be this? It's not. And that's okay, too. And then you kind of live them way more blissful life. People like, how are you so happy all the time? Say, because I just go with the flow. It's how to be something. Then I'm not. And I just I love myself and I love everything that comes into my space, even when it's difficult and hard for me. I mean, we're living in this world. We're here to experience it all. But when it's difficult, I tend to want to look at now and say, okay, how can I have gratitude for this? What is it teaching me? And wow, I have more wisdom now. This is amazing. More wisdom for me to teach somebody else so maybe they don't have to suffer as much. Yes. Okay. I heard you say something about boot camp now. Okay. So, you know, this is all about health and fitness, right? So, Rusty, tell us about your program for staying fit and healthy. I sit in my sauna every day. It's infrared. It's so important. It's huge. The amount of the anxiety that it takes off of you. I know everyone gets anxiety, right? You've gotten it before. Yeah. See how it takes it from you instantly. That's one of the things that I start with in my day. I try to meditate every day. Yoga every day. I don't go to classes as much as I'd like to, but I try to do put it in my body every day and move. And then I've been I've been going to CrossFit lately. I switched it up. Wow. I've been going across Valley because I'm realizing how much that helps me get out. All of the energy that stuck in my body. And sometimes it's like, you know, we're women, we're not allowed to be rageful. Sometimes it feels good to be a little rageful and they take it out on your kettlebell. There you go. Getting stronger, getting stronger through all the different movements. Do you do the kickboxing at all? No, I you're so it was so funny. You just said this is a third time. It came up today. I actually send someone a message like, I want to learn how to box. And then somebody I had lunch with was like, I just started boxing and now you've said it. So I guess that's my next thing. All right, be fun. You'll get it. You'll really get all that out, you know, with kickboxing or regular boxing, whatever you decide to choose. But yes, out of your body. That's it. It doesn't matter what you're doing. You've got to move your body like you do ballroom dancing. That's amazing. It's amazing. It's joyful. I haven't had this much fun in my life in a long time. Just going and going with the flow and doing the steps and listening to the music. It's it's just beautiful. It's an hour, sometimes 2 hours, sometimes, sometimes longer than that. Just being out there on the dance floor. And when you love what you're doing, the fitness just comes along with it. You're not even thinking about it 100%. That's how I feel. Like when I'm in a yoga class and it's 100 degrees, I'm like, This is absolutely amazing. I don't even feel like I'm working out because I love it so much. So you do hot yoga, too? Yeah, I do. If I'm doing yoga, it has to be hot for me. I'm crazy. Like I want hot vinyasa flow. I want all over the place. I want my body to shake because I just have a lot of high energy. So but then on the end of that, I'm like, I know I need a gym class video. So hot yoga compared to regular yoga in a regular air conditioned room. What is the difference for you? What does hot yoga do for you? So it warms up the muscles enough for you to really be able to kind of stretch deeper than you would in a cold room. You can just move more with heat versus cold. Can I be super honest? The regular yoga term for me is just a little bit boring. I need a challenge. So it's like you don't want something super challenging and and, you know, heart pounding and sweat everywhere. Then hot yoga is not for you. Then the cold will be much better. It's more zen and beautiful. But I like something that's very intense. So work. And I've done hot yoga before and it is definitely intense. Yeah, but it helps your body a lot. The infrared heat. I don't know if you looked up the benefits of infrared heat. It's unbelievable. It's everything. Everything you can think of. Infrared. He is good for, like, sitting in a sauna for one hour. You burn 600, almost 5 to 600 calories sitting just sitting in a sauna. So imagine when you're in a hot room, and I've done it on my watch before and maybe about 450 500 calories doing yoga in a hot room because it goes into the muscles, it's moving the blood flow all over the place. It just it's pretty spectacular. It removes free radicals from your body. It takes toxins out. It's pretty amazing. You heard it from Kristy, all of you who hate sweating Ang, it'll bring some goodness to your body and you'll get rid of all those calories. Yes. Your immune system will go up through the roof, too. It lifts the immune system. So there's just about there's probably a million more that I'm not thinking of in this moment. But the infrared, he is spectacular. I first started using infrared heat because when I opened my yoga studio and I had infrared heat in my yoga studio specifically because I used to get really bad migraines starting at like age ten. And there would be the visual disturbances and the whole left side of my body would go numb. I wouldn't be able to speak. So it was debilitating for my life and debilitating for my life. And when I got when I was out and I was getting them a few times a week and it's like, I cannot live like this, somebody told me to go in infrared heat. So I started doing yoga at Blue Moon. They had infrared when I first first started and I slowly stopped getting the migraines. And now that I'm in the infrared, he all the time, I do not get these migraines ever. I notice they come back when I stop doing either the sauna or my yoga practice in infrared heat. There's a lot of women out there with migraines. I'm telling you, ladies, go where men to go. Go to the infrared heat. Well, you know, make infrared heated studio because some of that forced hot air has a lot of a lot of things in it. You want to breathe in. But with the infrared, it's much more holistic. So you're a high energy person, Kristi, Where do you get all this energy from at the. Oh, man, I don't let myself get too depressed. I don't let anything kind of bring me down. And I do a lot of supplement type of stuff too. I do. I can't lie. There's nothing wrong with that. Yeah, I teach, like, certain things, like. Amla, black cumin, spirulina chlorella. I can never say that word. Celtic salt. What else do I take? Maca every day, neem oil. Like just a lot of these things that I take. I think they help. Well, it's doing great things for you. You're one of the peppiest people I know. Love yourself. That's really what does it. I just decided one day I love myself and then here I am. One more question I have for you. I know a lot of people who do body work that after a while of doing it, they stop because they feel like they're absorbing all the negativity from other people. It's hard for them to do that because then they have to find a way to let it go so they can be happy in their life. So how do you manage to tune into others with their aches, with their not only physical aches but mental? Because when you're doing your time massage, a lot of people talk, you know, and you hear a lot of what's going on in their lives. So how do you deal with that part of what you do, just in case there's anybody listening that's thinking of going into massage time of silence. So, yeah, I had trouble with this in the beginning. Funny you say that because that you do. It's energy and it's science. You do take on a lot. I call it is going to sound so funny. I think I've only said this out loud once. I call it reverse manifestation. So, you know, when you manifest something, it comes to you because you're thinking of it. So when people are, I call it dumping, which is totally normal human trait, and I love it. I don't judge any of it. I have nothing but love for all of it. But also it's not mine. So I don't even allow it to take on. I have compassion and empathy and no judgment, and then I just let it go because it's not mine. I'm not going to take it home with me at the moment. I'm with you. I absolutely care completely. I'm with you. I am you. At that moment, I feel I will cry with you. But then when we're separated like this is your path and your stuff. And these are these are the things in your body that sometimes, yes, I can. It will just pull out of them and I can feel it sometimes. Go in through my hand and up into my elbow and start trying to rise up into my body. Which is so odd to say, because I never used to believe in all of this, but it's a real thing. I feel it and I it back out. I just say no, because we are the we are the controllers as a bad word. We are the controllers of our universe. Like we create our universe and we have to be able to set boundaries with ourselves daily. And so I do a lot of that. I don't know if you've noticed, every time I start, I usually start at the feet and I place my hands on your ankles because I'm praying for you to release whatever needs to be released. But then I'm also setting a boundary that I won't take it on that I'll take it with me through you and I'll take it with me up until me. But at that moment, I'm not going to give it back to you either, but it's just going to go wherever it goes, do whatever it does. I don't care. You don't care as long as it's gone. That's beautiful. We we all need to be able to set boundaries in our everyday life with all the people that we're involved with in our lives. And the fact that you do that professionally on a daily basis throughout the day, one client after another, that's amazing that you're able to keep that going. Yeah, my part or truly wanting to see people be at their highest, it's really helpful because I have such a drive for that that even when sometimes I might take something on, I accept it for a moment and say, You know, I have so much compassion and love. Like I feel like the love takes whatever it is and it's like, poof, disappear. And that's why we're doing this today. Our conversation today to pass your love on to others and hopefully inspire their lives in some sort of way. You're involved in so many different things that make people feel wonderful and beautiful. So I really appreciate, Christy, you coming on today and talking with me on Loving Life Fitness. And if anybody locally or common to visit into our town here, maybe you'll give Christy a call or send her an email or give her a shout out and try to get involved with her in some kind of way, whether it be through time massage or one of her goddess gatherings. She's got so much to offer. Thank you, Christy. Thank you so much. It's so cool to really get into depth about everything that you do. Makes me want to be around you more and sign up for one of those gathering here. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Christy. This is Angela Grayson from the Living Life Fitness Podcast. To help others in their fitness journey. It’s all possible. It's time to wake up. Here we go.