Finding Harmony Podcast

How to create your desired reality - Manifest your DREAMS

With Special Guest, Julia Martin!
In this episode,  I’m diving headfirst into the topic of manifestation with my guest, Julia Martin — an expert in the field!
We’re looking at how to develop a manifestation ritual and how it can be used as a spiritual practice. You’ll find out how you too can use 5 simple steps to achieve anything you desire whether it be a life dream, a business success, or a financial goal!
I’m asking Julia about her own personal experiences with manifestation, which are super interesting! And I know it’s hard to believe, but Julia convinces me to declare one of my own personal manifestation goals on air!
Be sure to listen to the end when you'll learn the importance of finding the balance between focus and surrender as Julia describes her own manifestation method: DREAMS
This acronym spells out the five most important steps for your personal success: Declare, Reframe, Envision, Act As If/Align, Make Moves, and Surrender.
We can't wait to hear what you manifest for the end of the year and into 2024!
Tag us on Instagram @findingharmonypodcast to share what you call in so we can celebrate with you and share in the excitement!
Show Notes:
00:01 Introduction and Welcome
00:21 Understanding Manifestation
01:03 Introducing Julia Martin: Manifestation and Business Coach
03:49 Invitation to Mini Mastermind
04:55 Conversation with Julia Martin Begins
05:26 Julia's Journey into Manifestation
10:15 Manifestation as a Spiritual Practice
26:33 The DREAMS Method to Manifesting
32:44 Introduction to the Concept of Limiting Beliefs
33:12 The Process of Reframing Limiting Beliefs
33:42 The Power of Affirmations and Possibilities
34:01 Overcoming Limiting Beliefs: A Personal Example
37:43 The Role of Visualization in Manifestation
42:29 Acting As If: Preparing for Your Manifestation
44:25 Aligning Your Energy and Making Moves
48:23 The Importance of Surrender in Manifestation
01:02:04 Final Thoughts on Manifestation and Co-Creation
More about Julia
Julia Martin is a Manifestation & Business Coach whose mission is to help women ignite the fire & passion in their lives & careers.  After a successful 12-year career in Business Development at Google and Twitter, Julia realized it was time to start sharing what she knew about manifestation with the world. She combines her deep understanding of the power of mindset & intention with proven business strategy to help her clients transform their lives & catapult their careers. Julia's main focus today is on helping motivated and passionate women manifest their own flourishing & soulful coaching businesses. Julia practices what she preaches: as a mother of 3 young kids, she embodies everything she's learned about the Law of Attraction to create a life of balance, abundance, love & happiness. She believes that we all CAN achieve this with the right tools, practices & mindset! 
You can find more about Julia by checking out her Instagram, Podcast (Dream Your Life: Manifest A Life You Love), and website.
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Unlocking Abundance: Step out of lack and Find True Wealth with Sarah Walton

In this episode of the 'Finding Harmony' podcast, host Harmony Slater interviews abundance coach and dear friend, Sarah Walton. They're talking about ways to reframe our understanding of money and abundance, addressing the limiting beliefs we have around money, and how we can shift from a mindset of scarcity into one of abundance.
Sarah emphasizes that our sense of self-worth is the origin of true joy and abundance. And it can only be found within!
Often we look to money as a saviour figure, but it's actually a currency of energy, just like joy or love!
Sarah shares some helpful strategies for managing money and creating wealth. She also recounts her journey from growing up very poor to becoming a super successful abundance coach.
Harmony and Sarah discuss the importance of empowering women financially, because they believe that when more money is in the hands of women, it's beneficial for families and communities.
You'll feel so encouraged listening to this conversation and motivated to start cultivating a deeper connection to the abundant energy within!
Chapters:
0:00:00Introduction and Podcast Theme
0:00:28Understanding Money and Abundance
0:01:24 Introducing Guest Speaker: Sarah Walton
0:01:42 Reframing Our Relationship with Money
0:03:23 Promotion of Upcoming Online Retreat
0:04:46 Beginning of Conversation with Sarah Walton
0:05:08 Discussing the Pressure of Consumerism
0:07:59 Abundance, Freedom, and J.K. Rowling
0:18:37 The Importance of Self-Trust
0:27:40 The Power of Women and Money
0:33:33 How a unitard taught Sarah about scarcity
0:36:41 The Reality of Money Flow
0:38:12 The Paradox of Abundance
0:41:38 The Healing Power of Money
0:47:20 Breaking Down Limiting Beliefs Around Abundance
0:52:21 How you can keep learning from Sarah
0:55:47 Why you and Elon Musk are more alike than you think
0:56:25 A somatic trick for cultivating abundance
1:00:44 Harmony’s takeaways and reminder about the upcoming online retreat!
About Sarah Walton:
Sarah Walton is a business coach and sales expert who’s been featured on The Today Show, speaks at women’s conferences all over the world, and has helped hundreds of women start and grow businesses they LOVE.
She works with a handful of 1:1 clients, runs The Sales Mastermind, and leads her exclusive Abundance Academy for women in business.
She’s the voice behind the Game On Girlfriend Podcast and the face of “Sarah Un- cut” on YouTube - making her the go-to source for no-nonsense business coaching and real-life, mind-blowing abundance.
Through her successful coaching business, which she designed to put more money in the hands of more women, Sarah’s transitioned from being “just another coach” to being a change-maker.
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A Spiritual Practice For The Holidays

With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas coming up around the corner, I wanted to share some helpful tips for how we can use spiritual practices to help us through the holidays.
Did you know that research has shown that a single act of gratitude can produce an immediate 10% increase in happiness and a 35% decrease in symptoms of depression. Gratitude also increases positive neural pathways and helps to strengthen the immune system! (and that's something I think we can all get behind at this time of year!)
But there are other mind-body based practice we can do to help us have the kind of relationships and experiences we want during the holidays.
Cultivating spiritual wellness can have a profound impact on our lives.
Practices like yoga and mindfulness not only alleviate stress but also contribute to a stronger immune system and overall better health. Scientific evidence suggests that a calm mind can positively impact our body's cellular function and immune response.
Visualization is another powerful tool. Many scientific studies indicate that when we vividly imagine a situation, our brain processes it as if it were real. Athletes often use visualization techniques to enhance performance, and this principle applies to achieving success in every area of life whether personally or professionally. Visualizing goals and strategies can stimulate the brain to work towards achieving them in an effortless way!
In the fast-paced world, incorporating these practices—meditation for clarity, acknowledging the mind-body connection, leveraging visualization for goal attainment, and harnessing the power of sound vibrations—can lead to enhanced creativity, better decision-making, and a more resilient mindset, fostering success in both professional endeavors and personal fulfillment.
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Why Asana Isn’t Enough…

Many of us come to the practice feeling broken and struggle with an underlying sense that we’re just not enough. We seek validation by looking outside ourselves. We seek to do things right, to learn the “correct method” and toe the party line.
But when we truly slow down to feel what’s underneath all our striving and the patterns of perfectionism, we begin to see that it’s the system that’s broken, not us.
Worthiness is an inside job.
Once we get this.. I mean truly get it… It turns the game around. We can feel empowered within our lives and in our spiritual pursuits.
From the moment we’re born we’re trained to buy into the illusion that once we receive some kind of external validation, we’ll finally feel happy and complete.
Society teaches us that self-worth is determined by external factors such as our achievements, possessions, or how we are perceived by others.
The problem is our perception.
We keep projecting outward the love we wish to receive.
We're not broken, but our thoughts about ourselves are.
When we realize that no amount of praise or postures will ever be enough, we can start to transform our lives and they way we approach our practice.
We discover a new freedom in the practice yoga when we recognize that we’re already perfect, whole, and complete; there’s no where to get to, nothing to do, and nothing that needs to be any different than exactly as it is.
We can begin to practice on our own terms and authentically choose how we want to create a fulfilling life based on awakening to the fact we already have everything we need.
Remember, you are worthy, enough, seen, accepted, and loved just as you are.
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Ashtanga Dispatch with Peg Mulqueen

Today I’m speaking with the O.G of Ashtanga podcasting. The woman who started “Ashtanga Dispatch,” the first podcast dedicated to Ashtanga yoga teaching, (long before most of us even knew what a podcast was, let alone had a library of them stored on our phones).
That’s right. I’m sitting down with the lovely Peg Mulqueen to talk about the benefits of having a mentor and how it’s different than being in a student-teacher relationship.
We offer some simple exercises to help you become more aware of your unconscious patterns, beliefs, and thoughts. We also have a fun debate over whether or not the physical asana practice is necessary to actually experience the benefits of yoga or not.
You’ll also hear our personal insights around some of the ways we’ve learned to deepen our own experiences yoga, both on and off the mat.
Peg writes: “Yoga is a path that returns us to wholeness, leading us home to what is our true nature. And it’s this sense of belonging and balance, along with a feeling of kinship and support, we hope you will find here. For while yoga may ultimately be an individual journey, you don’t have to walk it alone.”
And this is exactly what we’ll be exploring today in this beautiful conversation between friends. I hope you take what you need and that it supports you in your personal practice + spiritual growth.
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The Only Time Is Now… with Luke Jordan

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass,The world is too full to talk about... Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense.” - Rumi
This is the metaphorical field where we join our dear Irish friend, Luke Jordan, in conversation today. 
This conversation is delicious. It left us craving for more. There’s simply is no good place to stop when souls join and dance together out beyond the world of ideas and language. So, we simply hit record and sank deeply into Luke’s vibe… and let time slip away.
We sure hope conversation delights you in the same way. Drop a comment and let us know. We would love to hear from you.
It’s such a treasured experience to connect with someone so self-aware, so thoughtful, and so ready to deconstruct every presumption, every belief, and even reality itself.
And, yet, our desire to hang to these fleeting moments in time, is simply one more attachment obstructing our freedom and the experiencing of allowing and letting go.
What happens when yoga practitioners get mixed up and mistake the practice of yoga as the thing that’s going to liberate them?
What happens when you realize you’ve given up the opiate of the world and only to become addicted to the methadone of yoga?
Yoga is a base, a foundation for spiritual growth, for the exploration of WHO AM I?
A clue to help us answer the questions: What is life? What is love?
No Guru can tell you what is the truth of your own inner voice because that exists for your ears only.
So… question every thought. Question Every Belief.
Because beliefs, as Luke tells us, are the basis of violence.
Yoga is the undoing of the endemic, unconscious ways of being in the world. But, don’t get caught up doing yoga, my friends… that only leads back to blindness and keeps you stuck in the same old unconscious patterns you were trying to escape from in the first place.
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And Don’t Forget To Breathe… With Nick Heath The Breathing Diabetic

Did you know that how you breathe can help to regulate blood sugar levels, improve insulin sensitivity, and reduce the risk of complications from diabetes?
But that’s only a fraction of what a conscious slow breathing practice can do for you!
Today, we dive into the fascinating world of breathwork and its profound impact on managing diabetes, reducing stress, and enhancing our overall health and well-being, whether you’re a diabetic or not!
Nick Heath, famously known as The Breathing Diabetic, joins us today to share valuable insights, not only from his own personal experience, but also from his extensive research in the area of breathing and how it effects us on every level.
Stress reduction is a critical focus point for almost every person alive on the planet today. Stress can have a significant impact on our health and is an underlying cause for many physical and mental health conditions.
Nick dives into the science behind why it’s so important to develop a breathwork practice, how it helps to activate the body's relaxation response, lower stress hormones, helps us sleep better, and promote a greater sense of calm.
We talk about some of differences between mouth breathing verses nose breathing and the natural affiliation a conscious breathwork practice has with mindfulness meditation. We learn the science behind why, when we focus on our breath, we effortlessly increase our ability to concentrate, and this changes how we perceive the world.
More often than not, we take for granted the fact that we’re breathing.
But HOW we breathe significantly influences our mental, emotional and physical health and developing a regular slow breathing practice can change our physiology, increase our ability to focus, modulate emotional states, and regulate our nervous system.
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On Top of The Mountain with Elizabeth Kadetsky

Today we explore the epic yoga battle between the Iyengar school and the Ashtanga school, as we sit down with author, yoga practitioner, three-time Fullbright fellow to India, researcher, editor, and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Penn State University, Elizabeth Kadetsky!
Elizabeth’s took up the study of yoga when she was a teenager (back in 1984, but who’s counting?) and she continues to practice yoga today. After twelve years studying in Iyengar studios, she finally met BKS Iyengar at a talk he was giving in New York City in 1996.
You may have hear of her very popular book, First There Is a Mountain (published in 2004). This book was intended to be the original “Eat, Pray, Love.” As early yoga students, it was the first of it’s kind.
This book chronicles a year where Elizabeth worked directly with the great Yoga Master, BKS Iyengar, while she was researching his role in the history of Indian Independence and the complicated dance between East and West.
Later her practice evolved to include many forms of Hatha Yoga and also Ashtanga yoga, which is how she first met Russell, while practising with Guy Donahaye, in New York city.
Today, we’re learning about her research around the authenticity of the origin stories we were told about the yoga practice and how yoga’s being weaponized by the Right-Wing politics of India. We look at how the idea of anything as a “Pure Tradition” can become a toxic premise upon which racism festers.
The world has always been a global place and we should celebrate the continuation of cultural exchange. Building bridges instead of walls.
We’re also diving into her current and ongoing research about a set of stolen goddess sculptures from India, and the great debate around whether these recently found stolen works of art should be returned back to their place of origin or not.
What is the difference between a temple, a church, or a museum?
Should great works of art belong to a more universal collective or to a particular group or person?
Does the repatriation of art, actually right a colonial wrong? And what happens to these works of art once they are returned back to their native land? What kind of transparency and accountability is required of a government who takes back their stolen works of art to the rest of the global community?
If you’re ready to examine the intersection of politics, art, and yoga and what’s our responsibility is as conscious leaders and yoga practitioners… This is the conversation for you!
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Dancing In My Dreams with Dr. Ralph Craig III

When Tina Turner, often dubbed the “Queen of Rock ‘N’ Roll,” died at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, on May 24, 2023, what many did not know is that Ms. Turner had practiced Soka Gakkai International Nichiren Buddhism for the last 50 years.
Nichiren taught that chanting the title of this scripture in the form of the mantralike phrase “Nam-myoho-renge-kyo” was the way for all people to reveal their inherent potential for awakening and attain buddhahood.
Turner explained: “As I began studying Buddhist teachings and chanting more, it led me to take responsibility for my life and to base my choices on wisdom, courage, and compassion. Not long after I started chanting, I began to see that the power I needed to change my life was already within me.”
Russell had proposed titling this episode “Big Wheel Keeps on Turnin’ with Dr. Ralph Craig” but this title works better as our guest today is the the eminent author of a new spiritual biography of Tina Turner.
So it is with great humility and delight that we sat down and discussed all things yoga, growing up Louisiana, and Mick Jagger’s appropriation of Ms. Turner’s Dance Moves.
“Moves like Tina Turner” should have been the damn song, but alas, yet again our African American progenitors miss out on their due.
But not today, Lord!
We’re talking Ashtanga yoga, philosophy, and the importance of discipline in attaining true wisdom from your spiritual practice.
This is basically a class in history, philosophy, Sanskrit and culture all wrapped up into one delicious conversation that we know will enrich your lives!
Our guest, Dr. Ralph H. Craig III received his BA in Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, where his studies included comparative theology and Yoga Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Stanford University, where he specialized in Buddhist Studies and in American Religions. His dissertation explored medieval representations of Buddhist preachers across South Asian Buddhist literature. He is also the author of Dancing In My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner, which will be released in November 7, 2023 by Eerdmans Press in the Library of Religious Biography Series.
Other interests include philosophy, metaphysical religion, religious experience, African American religious history, and religion and popular culture.
Be sure to order your copy of Dancing in My Dreams!
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Love Your Body, Love Your Life with Anna Surrey

Today we’re diving deep into the secret feelings of guilt and shame we often carry -- but don’t dare to speak about or admit… not even to ourselves.
We're sitting down with Anna Surrey, an Intuitive Eating & Positive Body Image Coach to openly explore some of the very deep patterns we carry around eating, dieting, and food.
Anna grew up in Germany and moved to Australia at the age of 20, where she taught Pilates and was seemingly a beacon of healthy eating, with the body to show for it. But, there was still some secretly lingering patterns of anorexia and binge-eating that lurked in the shadows, cloaking hidden feelings of self-loathing and shame.
One night, she had a breakthrough (disguised as a breakdown, which they often are) when she became fully present to the hellish experience tangled up inside her relationship to food, to her own body, and all the behaviours associated with it.
This moment led her on the deepest spiritual journey of her life and brought her to the work she’s doing now. She began the process of excavating and facing her deepest fears and insecurities — and realizing that this unconscious body shame is actually here to be a profound teacher in our lives.
Anna teaches a non-diet approach to overcome food challenges such as binge, over- and emotional eating. She assists women to re-learn how to trust their bodies to make food choices that feel good- without self judgment or shame.
Anna struggled for 20 years with a wide range of disordered eating behaviours, health & weight obsession, exercise addiction and body-dysmorphia.
This all changed once she discovered how to trust her body through the freedom of intuitive eating.
For the first time, she experienced confidence, well-being, and feeling truly at home in her body like ever before.
Since then she has been working with women in her 1:1 mentorship program: Food Freedom Solution.
Anna combines a wide range of techniques and tools to help her clients overcome their own personal food and eating challenges- without dieting or food restrictions.
If you’ve been struggling with your relationship to your body, food, or exercise obsession, then this is one conversation you won’t want to avoid.
We’re exploring how these sneaky, self-destructive patterns can show up in unconscious ways that slowly erode our confidence and sense of worthiness, stealing joy from all areas of our lives, and some specific things you can do to free yourself from this trap!
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