METAMORPHOSIS

YOU ARE GIFTED ! Extremely gifted, even.Even if you don’t feel like it.Even if you’re not sure what they are or how to use them.Your gifts will be different to mineDifferent to everyone else around youAnd that’s how it’s supposed to be! How dull would life be if we were all carbon copies of each other… and yet somehow that’s exavctly what we spend so much time and energy trying to do! This episode dives into how to actually identify your unique, precious gifts, trust that you have them, hone in on them and actually amplify and use them!This world desperately needs us to stop trying to mimic everyone else's gifts and step fully into the power of our own unique magic.

“Just listen to your body”… but HOW?!! How many times have we heard ‘just be in the now’, ‘just focus on the breath’, only to be distracted literally one second later and feeling like there must be something wrong with us.The problem is that our monkey minds are sooo good at hijacking the show! And our bodies speak quietly, and not in words. We think we feel something, and 3 seconds later our mind is telling us a whole story about it that somehow ends up criticising yourself, writing a grocery list, judging someone else, commentating on the weather and reminiscing about the coffee you had yesterday morning.I’ve struggled with this my entire life, even with a consistent meditation practice! But lately I’ve discovered a beautiful tool that ancient cultures have always practiced, and it’s changing the game for me.I hope this episode helps you feel more seen, and gives you some beautiful tools to manage our monkey minds! The Youtube channel I was referring to is Gaiea Sanskrit 

I already knew this I already knew this 2 year Kalaripayattu diploma was going to be an adventure of a lifetime. So I decided to make it into an experiment to see how deeply I could tap into the disciplined, devoted, focused version of Rae. I committed to myself to attend every single training session, every single day.It’s been 3 months of this experiment now, and I have learned that above all else, my mind is THE most elaborate storyteller, saboteur and ultimately mostly a liar.And that ACTUALLY my body has the most extraordinary capacity, wisdom, resilience and tenacity.And that ACTUALLY most of the time my mind would tell me to ‘listen to my body’, my mind was tricking me and it wasn’t my body speaking at all.We have extraordinary, extraordinary power and magic inside of these bodies of ours, these temples of divinity. Our ‘microcosm of the macrocosm (universe), as Guruji always says.I’m so grateful for this practice, for my teachers, for the entire lineage, and most of all, for my body!

Life has this very beautiful way of giving us EXACTLY what we need to evolve to our next level. Sometimes we call these ‘tests’, and when we think that when we fail the tests we have to live them over and over until we ‘learn the lesson’. But in actual fact, it’s just progressive overload, exactly like when you go to the gym! We learn incrementally, and we’re given opportunities over and over to practice what we preach, to do a little better next time, to grow a little more. And this is why we get ‘initiated’ into the exact things we say we want to help others with! We can only guide people on the path if we have walked the path.So be grateful for all those old patterns coming back up, all those old triggers, old identities! They ARE your path forwards.

Waiting to feel ‘Ready’ is one of the most sneaky tricks our mind plays on us! It keeps us in a place of contrived ‘safety’, it feels productive to allow ourselves to just a bit more planning, just a bit more time, just a few more lists, just one more book, just a bit more savings.But as the wonderful Rumi said: “as you start to walk on the way, the way appears”.As we jump, so we find our wings! The longer you wait for ‘ready’, the more stagnant you become.Don’t waste years of metamorphosis waiting for your wings to magically materialise. Jump, and you will be carried!꩜Holding your cocoon and guiding your metamorphosis is my area of expertise and my great passion. There is an art to dissolving identity, reorganising energy, and rediscovering power. Most people rush this stage, which is why they repeat it over and over again. If you are standing at a threshold in your life, feeling the old self dissolving but the new one not yet fully formed, a safe, powerful cocoon will change everything for you. Reach out to apply for my private THE COCOON mentorship.

OK WARRIOR BABES! We all know that doing the same old thing as everyone else is doing, and doing the same old thing you've always done is not going to cut it for the kind of metamorphosis you're ready for.We all know how excruciating it is to keep circling the same old threshold over and over and over again, to start and then stop, to know you're made for so much more but somehow not quite able to get far along the path.SO LET'S BUILD YOUR WARRIOR COCOON TOGETHER! Warrior mindset, warrior character traits, warrior habits, a warrior body, warrior discipline, warrior focus.And then? The kind of metamorphosis fit for a warrior becomes inevitable.꩜Holding your cocoon and guiding your metamorphosis is my area of expertise and my great passion. There is an art to dissolving identity, reorganising energy, and rediscovering power. Most people rush this stage, which is why they repeat it over and over again. If you are standing at a threshold in your life, feeling the old self dissolving but the new one not yet fully formed, a safe, powerful cocoon will change everything for you. Reach out to apply for my private THE COCOON mentorship.

I got a long, beautiful voice note from a very dear friend and past client of mine last week reflecting on the episode about the 4 stages of metamorphosis, and one thing she shared really touched my heart because I have felt it so much too! There is often a lottttt of loneliness in certain stages of the metamorphosis journey, ESPECIALLY in the cocoon and in the dissolution. Even though this obviously doesn’t feel nice at all, it is generally a sign that you are on the right track, because you’re doing things differently to the way you used to do things, and the way people around you are doing things.The problem is that this journey is so often glamourised (on social media, and especially in movies!), and so when we feel lonely, when we feel like everything is falling apart, when we feel challenged, we take that as a sign that ‘this is not working’. BUT ACTUALLY IT IS!!! This episode dives deep into how to navigate being misunderstood or judged on your journey to metamorphosis, how to embrace it and how to find strength in your cocoon!꩜Holding your cocoon and guiding your metamorphosis is my area of expertise and my great passion. There is an art to dissolving identity, reorganising energy, and rediscovering power. Most people rush this stage, which is why they repeat it over and over again. If you are standing at a threshold in your life, feeling the old self dissolving but the new one not yet fully formed, a safe, powerful cocoon will change everything for you. Reach out to apply for my private THE COCOON mentorship.

Birthdays are always a reflective time, and I've turned 36 at the start of a new 36 year astrological cycle, so that prompted me to connect to 72 year old Rae! At 36 I am the strongest, most disciplined, most connected to myself version of me that I have ever been in my entire life, and this feels like only the beginning! There is one very specific mindset that MUST be deleted from our collective consciousness, it will genuinely change your life if you can replace it with a new one celebrating growth and aliveness - we want all of our 72 year old selves to be full of life and strength and vitality.꩜Holding your cocoon and guiding your metamorphosis is my area of expertise and my great passion. There is an art to dissolving identity, reorganising energy, and rediscovering power. Most people rush this stage, which is why they repeat it over and over again. If you are standing at a threshold in your life, feeling the old self dissolving but the new one not yet fully formed, a safe, powerful cocoon will change everything for you. Reach out to apply for my private THE COCOON mentorship.

How do we know when it is the right moment to go deeper into the cocoon, and when is it the right time to fly out and experience more novelty?! How to combat this collective vortex of a feeling that we are running out of time and need to be a mad rush to squeeze everything in?! How to trust the flow between novelty and the cocoon, understanding that they can only exist with the other in a perfect yin and yang.Dive into this episode to come along for the ride exploring these topics, as inspired by one of you gorgeous listeners! ꩜Holding your cocoon is my area of expertise and my greatest passion in life. There is an art to dissolving identity, reorganising energy, and rediscovering power. Most people rush this stage, which is why they repeat it over and over again. If you are standing at a threshold in your life, feeling the old self dissolving but the new one not yet fully formed, a safe, powerful cocoon will change everything for you. Reach out to apply for my 6 month private Metamorphosis mentorship.

There comes a moment when your old life no longer responds to you. The strategies that once worked stop working, the roles you once played feel false. The performance becomes unbearable.This is the threshold - the very first phase of metamorphosis.Most people get stuck circling this point again and again, because they want to skip the next two phases: the cocoon and the dissolution.But metamorphosis is never complete without them. The old identity must dissolve. And the cocoon must be strong enough to hold that dissolution.Only then can something new emerge.On the other side of this process lies a radical self-trust — and the kind of transformation where the boldest, most audacious dreams become possible.Because you are no longer the person you once were.꩜Holding your cocoon is my area of expertise and my greatest passion in life. There is an art to dissolving identity, reorganising energy, and rediscovering power. Most people rush this stage, which is why they repeat it over and over again. If you are standing at a threshold in your life, feeling the old self dissolving but the new one not yet fully formed, a safe, powerful cocoon will change everything for you. Reach out to apply for my 6 month private Metamorphosis mentorship.

I get lots of questions about how I organise my day and life around training 5 hours per day - studying a 2 year diploma of Kalaripayattu in India.Here's a walk-through of my day starting at 4am every morning, exploring the things I do to support my body, what I eat, how I train, and some big lessons for me along the way! There have been some big challenges, a lot of lessons and a lot of beautiful discoveries about the capacity of my mind and body.꩜Holding your cocoon and guiding your metamorphosis is my area of expertise and my great passion. There is an art to dissolving identity, reorganising energy, and rediscovering power. Most people rush this stage, which is why they repeat it over and over again. If you are standing at a threshold in your life, feeling the old self dissolving but the new one not yet fully formed, a safe, powerful cocoon will change everything for you. Reach out to apply for my 6 month private 'The Cocoon' mentorship.

Someone asked me after the afternoon kalari class the other day: "Does it ever get easier?!". And funnily enough, I had just been thinking during that class 'wow it really doesn't get easier'. The best thing about the fact that it doesn't get easier though??? You get STRONGER! You get more flexible, more focused, more resilient, more capable, more fluid, more powerful.This episode explores some different angles of understanding why this is actually an extraordinary thing, and not an off-putting one. Here's to your metamorphosis! *Disclaimer: I googled about the 80kg swords and can confirm it must be an urban legend haha!꩜Holding your cocoon is my area of expertise and my greatest passion in life. There is an art to dissolving identity, reorganising energy, and rediscovering power. Most people rush this stage, which is why they repeat it over and over again. If you are standing at a threshold in your life, feeling the old self dissolving but the new one not yet fully formed, a safe, powerful cocoon will change everything for you. Reach out to apply for my 6 month private Metamorphosis mentorship.

You need a cocoon!! Because otherwise in your process of transformation and metamorphosis, you end up as a caterpillar dissolving into a thousand little puddles of goo in a thousand different places - which is exactly what you don’t want. What you DO want is an extraordinary sense of self-gravity, an unshakeable knowing of your own self and an unshakeable sense of trust in yourself. And to do that, you need containment within a cocoon. Containment within a few very specific practices that allow you to meet yourself every day, day after day, for a long time.In a cocoon, your life will change so drastically in ways you cannot possibly fathom!꩜Holding your cocoon and guiding your metamorphosis is my area of expertise and my great passion. There is an art to dissolving identity, reorganising energy, and rediscovering power. Most people rush this stage, which is why they repeat it over and over again. If you are standing at a threshold in your life, feeling the old self dissolving but the new one not yet fully formed, a safe, powerful cocoon will change everything for you. Reach out to apply for my 6 month private 'The Cocoon' mentorship.

Anyone who has been in my world for a hot minutes knows I am obsessed with Kalaripayattu - the mother of all martial arts! I discovered this beautiful Indian sword-fighting martial art 2 years ago while I was living in Sri Lanka, and never imagined then that I would commit to doing a 2 year diploma to dive deeeeep into this practice. 5 hours of training per day, no days off , living in India and organising my whole life around this ancient martial art.Here's the story of how I ended up here, on the adventure of a lifetime! ꩜Holding your cocoon is my area of expertise and my greatest passion in life. There is an art to dissolving identity, reorganising energy, and rediscovering power. Most people rush this stage, which is why they repeat it over and over again. If you are standing at a threshold in your life, feeling the old self dissolving but the new one not yet fully formed, a safe, powerful cocoon will change everything for you. Reach out to apply for my 6 month private Metamorphosis mentorship.

We are all absolutely drowning in information and advice, jumping frantically from one 6 week course to the next, one podcast to the next, one book to the next. Our phones full of screenshots of advice from social media, recipes, workouts, astrology tips, supplements and on and on endlessly.Maybe this other person will have the answers? Maybe that new book, maybe that retreat, maybe that guru? We are all absolutely STARVING for our own wisdom. We have lost our trust in ourselves, lost our ability to tune into our own self for answers. Forgotten what it feels like to be safe and calm within our own self, undistracted and uncluttered. Forgotten the extraordinary power and wisdom of our bodies, our outrageous capacity for strength and devotion.Metamorphosis is a place to turn inwards to your own cocoon. To disengage from all of the noise and learn to start hearing your own self again, your own ‘knowing’. To actually learn to stay in the cocoon, not running from one thing to the next endlessly. To learn to sit with dissolving and rebuilding, even though it is uncomfortable. To transform, to be reborn, to grown your own wings and know that you can fly.Here’s to our metamorphosis! ꩜Holding your cocoon is my area of expertise and my greatest passion in life. There is an art to dissolving identity, reorganising energy, and rediscovering power. Most people rush this stage, which is why they repeat it over and over again. If you are standing at a threshold in your life, feeling the old self dissolving but the new one not yet fully formed, a safe, powerful cocoon will change everything for you. Reach out to apply for my 6 month private Metamorphosis mentorship.

Let me say straight off the bat - Chat GPT is obviously an extraordinary tool. And this episode is just purely my own observations of my own self and my own life, so take it all with a grain of salt and an opportunity to reflect on something almost completely habitual nowadays!But in a world of endless ‘optimisation’ and homogenisation, it was a surprise and a pleasure to re-discover the joy of brainstorming within my own brain, making messy lists on random scraps of paper, letting things percolate in my mind over time and gently contemplating things without being in a rush to get to ‘the answer’, coming up with recipes by imagining different flavours together instead of putting random ingredients in a chat bot.Like everyone else, I got caught up in how easy and effortless it made everything! So much time saved, so little energy expended having to put words together and brainstorm things.And then I stopped using it altogether. I went to a yoga teacher training in Goa and didn’t use my laptop AT ALL other than for my client calls. And I got to completely break the habit of endlessly double-checking my ideas with ChatGPT and feeling that weird and slightly uncomfortable dopamine hit of contrived validation.I’ve had the most hilarious conversations with clients and friends about what they use Chat GPT for, from getting it to create personalised journal prompts for them AND THEN FILL THEM OUT because they didn’t have time, creating lists of qualities that they want in a man, writing texts and letters to their boyfriend, so so so many things! But there are a few glaring issues with this! And I am soooooo so bored of having an inbox full of email newsletters so obviously written by Chat GPT and seeing an endless stream of homogenous, lifeless content on social media.As a collective society that already has so many problems with self-trust and confidence, it is a tool that is completely eroding our ability to take action without checking with someone else (Chat GPT) first! We’re almost reverting back to being children having to check with our parents before we do anything for validation or advice - this is exactly the OPPOSITE kind of proof that you want to be giving yourself that you are a competent, intelligent individual that has more than enough life experience and inner wisdom to figure things out for yourself.It’s a sad thought that we’re giving away our ability to creatively think, and our ability to synthesise information and come up with our own creative answers. It’s sad to think that we give so much importance to the answer a chat bot gives us, forgetting that the journey and struggle and lived experienced of getting to an answer is 100 times more valuable than the end result itself.And it is a beautiful thing to expend time and energy creating beautiful, unique things that have come from the depths of our own being, an artwork created brushstroke by brushstroke over time. I’m definitely not saying to never use it again, and I’m sure I’ll return back to it at some point. I see people using it in powerful ways, in a collaborative style to create an extraordinary depth of exploration. But this episode is a reminder to myself to never lose the magic of being a totally unique human being with totally unique life experiences, to never forget that we all have all of the answers within us anyway and to always expend energy and effort into living creatively - it’s this which is the delight of being alive!Love you,Rae x

It’s an uncomfortable sensation, the feeling of being ‘bad’ at something. And I especially have never loved the feeling of being ‘bad’ at meditation! It has been something I’ve been endlessly curious about, ever since reading The Power of Now in my early teenage years. I became obsessed with the idea of the present moment, and finding what seemed like it should be a feeling of emptiness or a vacuum inside of my mind, an absence of thoughts, freedom from feelings, a sense of nothingness.But it never really ‘worked’, it never really clicked and it especially never really felt delightful in any way. It felt like hard work, it felt counter-intuitive and somehow lifeless.What I’ve been exploring the last few years is what I wish I knew all the way back then - that there is an extraordinary force of aliveness within us to connect into, that it is dynamic and creative and ALIVE, that it is so, so, SO loving, that it doesn’t feel like emptiness but instead feels like extraordinary freedom and delight!This episode is a free-flowing exploration of my own experience, some of the magical insights I had inside the Matrimandir in Auroville, the journey of navigating my own inner life and the joy it has created. I hope you enjoy it, and I hope it might encourage you to go off the beaten path of how we are ‘supposed’ to do things, and create your own extraordinary adventure!Love you!Rae x

One of the most delightful parts of travelling so much is that I get to meet a lot of new people! And some of those new people I meet have a very inspiring, illuminating approach to living life.Julien is one of those people! We met in Auroville where my brother and I were staying in the same guest house for 5 weeks or so, and the three of us got to share lots of coffees, dinners, meditations in the Matrimandir and beautiful conversations over that time. Some people might see meditating for 6 hours each day, changing careers more than once (let alone 5 times!) or travelling often as unconventional—or even extreme. But for others, staying in one place, in one career, or in one relationship for a lifetime can feel like forgetting how much Life and freedom we truly have! How limitless we actually are, and how many extraordinary experiences and connections are out there waiting for us to get brave enough to take the leap.Born and raised in France and spending the last 20 years living in Australia - Julien is a master of reinventing his life, reinventing himself and being incredibly open to change and exploring new things. We explore how to create an extraordinary amount of freedom in your life, the vital role of meditating and going inwards, and why discipline and doing things scared are key.I enjoyed this episode so much, it’s a precious thing to spend time with people so full of joy for life, living with curiosity and playfulness and going all-in on what they are truly passionate about! I hope you enjoy this conversation too!Love you,Rae xx

Have you ever picked a theme ‘word for the year’ around the new year time? Maybe something fun like ‘growth’ or ‘transformation’ - and then been dismayed to find that you can barely catch your breath between challenge after challenge?! This episode dives into why this happens, and how to navigate it with more playfulness and with a healthy sense of humour ;)Because we DO always get what we ask for! It just sometimes looks nothing like what we thought it would (and sometimes thank goodness for that, in hindsight!) And sometimes it feels like the complete opposite of what we asked for, and we get upset about that.But we forget that it’s a collaborative process, a dynamic, evolving creation with Life itself. We forget that things of exceeding value require energy and effort. We forget that transformation and growth require change and evolution, shedding of the old to make space for new, destruction to create space for creation.Life is always helping us grow, pushing us towards more freedom, more capacity to hold more of Life, more openness, more softness.And the better we get at seeing these ‘lessons’ in real time, the more vibrant of a experience of Life we get to explore.Love you!Rae xx

I was not expecting to get so emotional in this episode! But this is one that is very near to my heart, very real and veryIt’s an awful, lonely feeling to feel unsupported by Life. To feel separate, to feel isolated, to feel like we have to figure everything out on our own, to feel suspicious when too many things are going ‘right’, to feel personally attacked when things are going ‘wrong’. To have to apply so much force to try and get what we want, and to feel so confused and hurt when nothing ever works out elegantly in our favour. When we’re disconnected from the ancient wisdom of our bodies and we’re also disconnected from the ancient rhythm of nature and Life, we end up completely trapped in a chaotic world of rumination, stress, worry and struggle. And of course the only thing to do in that chaos is to ‘survive’, so we hold very tightly to things and people, we hoard things that are ‘mine’, we fall into exhausting patterns of selfishness and tension and separation.I know all too well the suffocating quicksand of those feelings, but am so, so eternally grateful to have found a pathway out of the quicksand into a very luscious oasis of trust in Life. Not a passive, frail ‘surrender’ where we get to lay back and do nothing, but a very dynamic, very peaceful, very alive relationship with nature and connecting to the rhythm of Life deep within the essence of our Being. Not a state where there are never any struggles or hardships, but where we get to learn to navigate them in a different, softer way.It shakes me to the core to feel so loved and so held and so cared for, I hope this episode reminds you that you too are completely loved, completely held and completely cared for - Life is just waiting for us to pay attention, and to soften into Her embrace.Love you!Rae xx

This is a delightful conversation with Konrad, a good friend of mine that I met in my first few weeks in Hiriketiya at the start of 2023! We ended up getting to reconnect 3 seasons in a row in Hiri, and we had a surprising amount in common - both raised in strict Christian religions, both with an endless curiosity for philosophy and spirituality as a way to make sense of the world coming out of a religious paradigm, both with a big fascination for optimising our health and creating freedom in our lives, for reading, for experimenting with life and for travelling. We spent countless hours discussing these things, often with Konrad arguing the more rational, logic-based side of the coin and me trying to convey the more ‘intuitive’, felt-sense (as any friendship between a Pisces and Taurus always ends up!).He has recently published a beautiful book about his journey and discoveries - in his own words ‘Satori is your guide to authentic self-mastery-a raw, transformative journey toward genuine inner freedom.’You can find his book here - or connect with him on social media @ konradgraf

It was truly a ‘dream life’! A gorgeous little surf town in southern Sri Lanka, sunny and warm almost the entire year round, living 15 seconds walk from one of the prettiest beaches I’ve ever seen, with a cafe serving delicious coffee looking straight out to the ocean, a community of lovely people and a daily routine that I had settled into like a well-worn glove.It was a life so lush that if you’d told me in 2021 that that’s how I’d be living, I would maybe have cried. Or fainted. Or both. I definitely wouldn’t have believed it. So why would I change anything?! But slowly slowlyyyyy, there were lots of little bread crumbs from life that it might be time to move on to the next thing. That I might have stopped growing, started stagnating...And if there's one thing that never bodes well in Life and nature - it's stagnance! So here's how to do a plot twist, before the plot twist does you.Love you!Rae xx

We head into our first Saturday morning class after a busy, intense first week! We’re all expecting a relaxed partner yoga class, so what could possibly make us all leave crying?! There are around 20 gorgeous women as part of the Ashtanga-Vinyasa YTT I joined in May (I did my training at Sampoorna in Agonda (Goa, India) and enjoyed it SO MUCH), and it was such a precious experience to spend a month soaking in this beautiful, feminine energy.There were a few key moments during the training where I really realised how starved we are of genuinely being seen and perceived by a group of people that appreciate us, and having them express openly and authentically the impact that we’ve had on them - this podcast episode is a dive into those experiences and they affected all of us! This episode is an invitation to be much freer in expressing these things in our own lives with the people we love and appreciate, we have no idea how powerful our words are, how profoundly moving it is to be seen and appreciated and have someone put it into words.It requires a specific vulnerability to be able to express freely, and it requires a specific vulnerability to accept graciously: these are two life-changing skills to learn and practice! Sending you love and warmth, and the most sincere delight at having you here listening!Rae xx

As adults, life sometimes gets very serious and heavy - we have so many responsibilities and ‘important things to do’. And somehow we forget that life can also be so fun and free and joyful! So how on earth do we add these things back to our lives again?! Nicky is one of my gorgeous friends from Hiriketiya, she’s a yoga teacher, rollerskating and surfing extraordinaire always with a sparkle in her eyes and a big smile on her face! But as she shares this episode, life didn’t always feel so free and so fun. And so we dive into her journey from therapy and discovering hatha yoga, to travelling and living in Melbourne, the life-changing realisation that “we often forget as adults that we’re still allowed to have fun!!!”, starting rollerskating and unlocking a lot of joy through fun and lightness and learning to live life to the FULLEST. Nowadays Nicky travels freely running her glorious yoga-rollerskating-surf retreats around the world, sharing her passion for connecting to your body and your joy and your femininity through yoga, somatics, dancing, shaking and the pure enjoyment of moving your body with different activities.I loved this conversation so much because we recorded this just before I headed into my own yoga teacher training, and it was such a delightful way to explore more of what we spoke about. You can find her on IG at @rollerskatingyoginiI hope you enjoy this chat as much as I did!Rae xx

“Why would I ever go slow when I can go fast?!” That has been my mantra for my entire life. I grew up as an insatiably curious child with a lot of energy, throughout my 20’s every spare minute that I wasn’t studying or working was jam packed to the brim with socialising, rock climbing, salsa dancing, running and travelling.I’m sure this probably sounds awfully familiar to a lot of you. And the bizarre thing (in hindsight) is that this was such an enormous part of my identity! I really prided myself on how much I could squeeze into one day, my impatience was one of my key qualities and my relentless pace meant that I could fit so many things into my day to day life.But then, why was I doing all of these ‘nervous system regulation’ healthy habits and hacks, but still feeling like a tightly coiled spring? How could I have a life so life jam-packed full of wonderful things that were really important to me but not be able to sleep at night? And why on earth would I ever ‘do less’ or ‘walk slowly’ when I could obviously squeeze everything in?Let's unpack this life-changing discovery together!Rae xx

Hello my love!I’ve had a ridiculous amount of resistance to recording this episode. There was so much excitement around changing the name of the podcast, and then I headed into my Ashtanga Vinyasa YTT in Goa and wanted to give my full attention to that, so I took a break from social media for a while and then it ended up feeling so good that it’s been surprisingly challenging to get back into it.But if I’m truly honest with myself (and with you!), it’s because I’m secretly terrified of what the podcast name change means for me. It means getting far more vulnerable and sharing far more of myself than I’ve ever shared before. It means sharing things that are very real and very precious for me, that I’ve discovered and explored on my own journey but that I don’t necessarily have the “proof” or scientific reasoning for. So let's dive right in! Rae xx

This was a BRILLIANT chat with the circadian rhythm queen Sophie @iamsophiekate about how syncing your daily habits with your body’s natural clock can completely transform your energy, mood, and vitality! We're two beach + sunshine obsessed gals that love spending lots of time outside, so we dive into practical tips for living in alignment with your circadian rhythm, boosting your natural energy throughout the day (without relying on caffeine), and setting yourself up for deep, restorative sleep. It was fun to unpack how to optimise all of these things while still maintaining a thriving social life, relationship, work/life balance, and training for a marathon in Hawaii! ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

This is SUCHHH a hot topic, whether you're the most woo-woo person out there or the most rational ISTJ, we all want to be able to have beautiful experiences in our life intentionally! We all want to be able to create beautiful experiences and connections, we all want to be able to enjoy miraculous places and friendships and passions and purpose!So how do we do it, beyond just saying a few affirmations in the mirror and beyond 'raising our vibration'? How do we become a good collaborator with life, a good friend to Life? How do we build enough self-trust to know that we can?! How do we become potent, powerful creators of our own reality??? Let's dive right in and explore this magic together! ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

You always love nutrition-related podcasts and this one was an utterly DELIGHTFUL and very inspiring conversation with the brilliant Miriam (@everybodybliss). She is a Functional Medicine Dietician absolutely bursting with passion for helping people create health on a cellular level - because if you want to be healthy and full of life, then your CELLS needs to be healthy and full of life! I know this sounds lovely in principle, but it's so easy to get confused and overwhelmed with all of the information online - this episode is packed with actionable tips, anecdotes from our own journeys with our health and ways to keep it very simple and FUN to be glowing with vitality from the inside out! You can find Miriam at @everybodybliss on Instagram.***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

When things come up in conversations often, whether with people in town here, with clients or my gorgeous online community, I always know that means I need to turn it into a podcast episode! And this topic is EXACTLY that.I discovered when I was 30 that I don't want children, after the end of the long relationship of my 20s and moving back to Melbourne straight into the pandemic. My life COMPLETELY turned upside down, and as a part of this reinvention (or crisis haha) I got to explore these strange feelings I was getting that I was 'running out of time'. We're still living in a time where it is very much expected that all women want to have children, so I'd love to offer an alternate perspective - that it is TOTALLY fine to not want them! And to know that you don't, and to want to live life exactly the way you want to live it! I feel very comfortable discussing this with people I meet, and other women my age are often surprised by my clarity and contentedness with my decision, so if this episode helps even one of you feel a little more comfortable living life on your own terms then I'm happy! ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

The gorgeous Sarah from @consciousearlylearning interviewed me for her podcast The Conscious Early Learning Podcast, and we had the most delightful chat about living a life of vitality and energy when you're a multi-passionate mama! Sarah was a client of mine around a year ago, and a lot of the work we did together was centred around understanding that putting herself first (prioritising her food, movement and FUN in her life) was actually NOT selfish, it was the missing piece of the puzzle to creating a lot of vitality and energy so that she could feel good and so that she could pour all of that back into her gorgeous family!This episode is packed with lots of powerful, easy ways to optimise your movement, nutrition and self-care as a busy mama - because you DO deserve it and it is SO important! ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

MY LOVES it is time for a spicy chat! The most POTENT portal to your next level?? That juicy next evolution of you, that is able to create exceptional things in her life, that is able to make incredible new connections, who can comfortably take big risks, who has an insane level of self-trust?The portal is this: EXACTLY the excuse/s that you're using not to do the things you know you should be doing.'Not fit enough to run', 'not flexible enough for yoga', 'too distracted to meditate', 'just not an athletic person', 'not a risk-taker', 'too shy to start conversations'. THIS IS EXACTLY YOUR PRACTICE!!!! Your excuse for why you can't do the thing is EXACTLY why you need to do the thing! And if you can't do it now, then the 80 year old version of you is in trouble! If the 35 year old version of you is too stiff for yoga, what sort of existence is the 90 year old version of you going to have?! I can be so blunt about this because it's a pep talk to my own self haha, so just in case you need this spicy reminder too! ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠Love you!Rae xx

This is a beautiful conversation with the delightful Samir, a friend I made in Hiriketiya last year who came back for a month in March.He has incredible devotion and dedication to his daily movement and meditation practices, and we wanted to explore how to create an 82-year old version of us that is still as full of vitality, energy, passion and function as the present-day version of us.And if creating an exceptional 82 year old version of us requires daily commitment and devotion to our practices from TODAY (and every day moving forward), how can we actually fall in love with these things so that they're something we LOVE and enjoy instead of an annoying chore? And on top of that, how do we navigate changes in lifestyle, hobbies, living places over those years with the right balance of discipline and flexibility?! I love these conversations so much, I hope you enjoy them too! ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

We're in a very interesting time at the moment astrologically (but no matter when you're listening to this, it is ALWAYS RELEVANT!).The reason that we aren't getting what we want in life is because of ONE THING: we haven't taken the time or effort to get CRYSTAL CLEAR on what it is that we actually want to create!!! There are always lots of reasons why this happens, it's obviously a completely terrifying thing to do to admit what we deeply, truly desire for our lives because so often what we're currently doing and living looks NOTHING like that! Which means that we're going to have to make some pretty drastic changes and take some risks and to get outside of our warm, fluffy comfort zone.But if we're not careful, our comfort zone can have us living the next 20 years of an 'ok' life, and that's not what we're here for! Instead, get sooooooooooo so SO clear on hundreds and hundreds of things you want to experience!!! This way, Life knows EXACTLY what sort of people, places, things, experiences, 'chance encounters' and magic to bring to us so that we can actually create what we want, because WE ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT IT IS! ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

Come along with me on this stream of consciousness that I've been exploring so much lately - I am obsessed with thinking about the connection between the life force INSIDE of us and the life force of the entire universe outside of us.OF COURSE they're actually the same thing, the same energy, but as a mental experiment it can help us connect to them more to make the distinction between inside and outside, and it can help a lot in the sense of connecting to our own sense of VITALITY within our body and amplifying that more, and from this place seeing how we are intimately connected to nature, the divine, and the powerful synchronicities of Life.In fact, we ARE nature. We ARE the divine. We ARE a powerful synchronicity of Life! Come along for the ride, let me know what you think! ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

This podcast episode was the gorgeous Shannon Rose interviewing me for the first guest episode on her Substack - THE ALTAR. We explore what it means to live with reverence for your body, how to deepen our devotion and commitment so that we can ACTUALLY implement the practices that allow us to experience the vitality that so many of us are craving!We also explore lots of easy ways to create tangible increases in your energy levels and connection to your body - which is ultimately what leads to true EMBODIED vitality.You can connect with Shannon over on Instagram @iam.shannonrose, and check out her Substack at:https://shannonrose.substack.com ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

Sue is a gorgeous friend of mine who also lives in Hiriketiya - a fellow Pisces babe, Rocket yoga teacher and vegan baking extraordinaire! This was a beautiful chat about creating your "dream life" in a tropical paradise and navigating all of the mess and all of the magic that comes with living abroad - all the way from home renovations with giant monitor lizards falling through your ceiling to creating a gorgeous courtyard space where you can teach your own spicy rocket yoga classes and everyone can enjoy coffee and freshly baked banana bread afterwards! (This is one of my HIGHLIGHTS of Hiri!)We dive into why it is good to do hard things on purpose, how to use physically challenging yourself as a powerful self-discovery tool and how magical life gets when you get audacious about making your dreams a reality.***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

Somehow the first thing we do when we feel 'stuck' or when we're looking for answers is to sit down and try and figure things out.And of course that normally feels overwhelming and stressful! We end up having the same conversations over and over in our mind, or with our friends, we make endless lists of pros and cons, we agonise over making the right or wrong decision...Want a much more fun, playful alternative?LET LIFE THINK FOR YOU!Here's how! ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

I had my first taste of this sense of reverence a year ago, the first time I started my Kalaripayattu training in Auroville.Before that moment, I'd had no real concept of reverence in my life in general, no real sense of awe, of great respect, of great devotion to the things in my daily life That first trip to Auroville planted the seed of my fascination with reverence, an obsession that has been fuelled more every single time I've been back - and this time it was magnified even more at the Maha Kumbh Melah and in Varanasi.This episode dives into my exploration of adding more reverence to my daily life - my movement practices, my friendships, my body, my room, my environment, my relationships - and how this has changed my life.***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

I spend a lot of time thinking about, talking about and brainstorming different ways of radically transforming life and optimising how beautiful our experience of our life can be - for myself, with my clients, with friends, with family, all the time! And one very interesting thing occurred to me the other day: all of the biggest, most unpredictably magical, wonderful changes in my life have always come from ONE THING.HAVING INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS WITH INTERESTING PEOPLE!So if that's the case, then we can reverse engineer this!We just need to have more interesting conversations with a lot more interesting people.This episode explores exactly how.***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

Camilla is a GORGEOUS friend I made in Hiriketiya in December, we met through mutual friends while jamming on the beach and we spent a lot of time together before she went back to Italy! We have an enormous shared passion for latin dance (bachata and salsa) that reignited my own dormant passion for dancing, and we spent a lot of time talking about health, wellness and the traditional 'hospital' environment (she is a doctor).We both found it ironic that the hospital environment itself is so detrimental to the health of doctors and other staff (not to mention the patients!), and shared our experiences of trying to navigate a more traditional medical job with wanting to have a much more balanced, free and healthy lifestyle in a more optimal environment, how to balance travel and work, how to work with people that actually care about their health, how to balance hobbies and passions and work and play!I hope you enjoy this fun little chat! ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

I had a fun moment leaving the kalari pits in Auroville where I said hi to a friend as he rode off on his really noisy dark green Royal Enfield motorbike and I thought to myself 'damn that would be so cool to have a noisy dark green motorbike like that'...Which set me off on a train of thought of pure curiosity about what that version of me would be like! What would Rae with a badass motorbike be like? How would she walk different? What habits would she have? What different choices would she have made to have that motorbike and be living wherever she is living to have a bike like that?! What would her hobbies be? What new friends would she have? And THEN that got me thinking that OF COURSE we are always creating that next version of ourselves. So if we know where we want to go, we get to reverse engineer it so easily!And most importantly, how can we get SOOOO CURIOUS to meet that next version of us, to love them, to know them, to respect them?! Let's go! ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

I recorded this episode off the back of the most delightful client call - this gorgeous girl has been completely reinventing her life and we've been uncovering and exploring what her true passions ACTUALLY are!Not what she feels obliged to do, not what her 9-5 is, not what everyone else is doing, but what actually lights her up more than anything else!Throughout this process we've discovered that she has an incredible gift that she didn't even realise was a gift, and the more we tap into this, look for evidence of it in her life and amplify it with levity, playfulness and humour, the more absolutely wild opportunities are unfolding in front of her so quickly and in the most beautifully synchronous ways!There are so many other ways to create magic in this life other than the traditional 'hard work' way we're conditioned into - try using levity instead and see how much fun it is.Let's dive in!***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

Janelle is a gorgeous soul I connected with in Hiriketiya in 2023 - a women's empowerment coach with a passion for drinking too much coffee, surfing and living life with an open heart!We met through a mutual friend and had a coffee together, and then ended up spending almost every minute of the next 2 months of rainy season together before she moved back to New Zealand.This episode is a beautiful chat about navigating life as a woman in your 30's: how to manage other people's expectations of what your life should look like, how to be open to love again after being hurt, exploring ease/flow versus discipline, and finding the balance between spending reflecting and spending time actually living life and trusting the magic!You can find the gorgeous Janelle on Instagram at @janelle_wanderlust***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

I'm having the most magical time in India, exploring so many things and having so many interesting conversations!This is something I've been thinking about and talking about A LOT:Why are we so obsessed with everything saving us energy, obsessed with spending less energy and things being more 'convenient'?Especially when the most beautiful connections, experiences and opportunities in our life often require us to be the best version of ourselves, which naturally requires energy and effort!So if that's the case, how can we get SO GOOD at making sure that we always have a lot of energy? How can we prioritise our movement, nutrition and self-care practices?Let's goooo!***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

What if instead of being on a wild rollercoaster of hormones, mood swings and emotions that somehow take us by surprise every month - we knew EXACTLY what kind of mood to expect to be in exactly which week of the month?! And what if we could use the energy of that mood to support our life, our productivity, our socialising and work and relationships?!! Cha has been living in alignment with her cycle for the last 7 years, exploring and refining this process for her own life. In this episode, she shares how to harness the magic of our own hormones and their cycle so that we can work WITH this miraculous system instead of against it!I learned so much in this episode, I hope you love it too xYou can find Cha at the following links:⁠⁠substack⁠⁠ blog ⁠⁠events⁠⁠: sunday women's group -- ⁠⁠get FREE tickets on Eventbrite⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠ ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

The fastest and most beautiful way I've discovered to learn more about myself is this: to meet as many new people as possible and to connect with them as deeply and with as much curiosity as possible!We human beings understand things through CONTEXT, so the more different types of context you give yourself in the form of other human beings, the more chances you have to explore all of the fascinating, wonderful facets of yourself.My favourite way to do this is through travelling and living in lots of different places, and this episode dives into all of the different ways to explore and amplify this in your own life.***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

Lorena is a soul-sister I was lucky enough to connect with and spent lots of time with in Hiriketiya, she’s so passionate about Human Design and shares so much pure gold in this episode!Human Design has been one of the most life-changing discoveries for me over the last few years, an INCREDIBLE tool for self-discovery and self-understanding! I find it to be so validating, and such a powerful way to learn how to live in alignment with our gifts and energy so that we can flow smoothly and freely through our life! This episode is a fun intro to human design if you’ve never heard of it before, and explores some fun nuances of your design if you’re already familiar with your chart.You can find Lorena's beautiful writings and insights at @spirits.whispers on Instagram and Tiktok.I’m a 1/3 Sacral Generator and Lorena is a 6/4 Manifesting Generator, let’s dive right in!***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

We're living in a world that has become so homogenised - where we're all becoming more and more similar (sometimes intentionally, sometimes automatically). We're all doing similar kinds of jobs with similar skill sets, with similar hobbies and interests, similar world-views, similar outfits and lifestyles ...And what's so wrong with that? Nothing other than the fact that when you're trying to be like everyone else, fit in with everyone else, go with the same flow as everyone else - YOU SMOTHER YOUR OWN UNIQUE MAGIC AND GIFTS! We each have our own zone of genius, our own special, unique gifts that are so precious and so SO NEEDED in this world! So if instead of trying to do the same 50 things that everyone else does (and badly, because of course we can't do 50 things well!) we just focused on our own zone of genius and our own unique magic, our life would become so much more free and passionate! And not only that, but the world desperately needs more people who are in their own lane, amplifying and sharing their own magic and celebrating their own uniqueness.This episode explores some of the favourite tools I use to explore this within my own self and my own life, and how to start living your life from your zone of genius.***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx

I don't know about you, but I certainly would LOVEEE for 2025 to be an absolutely exceptional year (I already feel that it will be!) And given that we are all such creative powerhouses in our life, we get to CREATE an exceptional year! These are the top 3 things I'm focusing on in 2025 to amplify my creative power, my ability to follow the breadcrumbs of life and to TRULY, WILDLY, MADLY enjoy myself so much along the way:- VITALITY (this goes without saying haha! our energy) - OPENNESS (the magic)- INTEGRITY (the thing that keeps us grounded)The more we can tap into and deliberately cultivate these 3 things, the more exceptional life gets!The more serendipity comes into our life. The more energised we feel, the more passionate we are, the more present and calm and grounded we are! The more self trust we have, the more self-friendship and self love. The more love, the more freedom, and the more effortless flowing with life.Who could say no to more of that?So let's go make 2025 a year of pure magic! ***Your VITALITY is the key to creating your truly extraordinary life!You are on the verge of a breakthrough.Your wildest dreams are waiting where elite wellness meets radical life creation.Let’s unlock outrageous energy, radiant health, and the truly limitless version of you!Apply here for private coaching with me: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/mY9JpB⁠⁠Love you!Rae xx