Grounding Meditation & Nervous System Regulation for Midlife Women with Katy Sophia | Hot Flushes & Higher Self
In this episode of Hot Flushes & Higher Self, Soraya is joined by meditation guide, energy worker, and transformational facilitator Katy Sophia for a deeply grounding and restorative conversation.
Together, they explore what it really means to come home to yourself during seasons of overwhelm, emotional intensity, and midlife transition. Katy shares her approach to grounding meditation, nervous system regulation, and energy work, offering insight into how women can soften, slow down, and reconnect with their inner steadiness when life feels heavy or chaotic.
This conversation is a gentle reminder that healing does not always come from doing more, but from creating space to listen inward and allow the body to feel safe again.
🌸 In this episode, they explore:
✨ Grounding as a pathway to healing — why slowing down helps regulate the nervous system and create emotional clarity
✨ Energy work and meditation practices — how subtle shifts can support calm, balance, and safety in the body
✨ Overwhelm and midlife transitions — understanding how emotional pressure builds and how to release it gently
✨ The importance of sacred space — creating intentional moments for rest, reflection, and reconnection
✨ Returning to your centre — practical ways to reconnect to your inner voice when you’ve been running on empty
Katy brings a warm, calming presence to this conversation, sharing powerful insights into how women can regulate their nervous systems, clear energetic blocks, and reconnect with their natural inner wisdom.
This episode is especially for women navigating midlife, stress, anxiety, or a sense of disconnection — offering a supportive space to pause, breathe, and begin again.
🌿 Resources & Links:
Connect with Katy (Katy Sophia)
🌐 www.katykeel.com
📱 Instagram: @katysophiasoul
If this episode resonated, you're not alone.
So many women quietly navigate anxiety, burnout, people pleasing, hormonal shifts and the feeling of losing themselves somewhere along the way.
But your body isn't working against you.
Sometimes it's gently asking you to slow down, reconnect, and come back to yourself.
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Soraya: So today I'm so happy to be joined by Katie, an astrologer, energy healer, soul mentor, and creator of soul radiance. Katie's work weaves together ancient wisdom, energetic activation, intuitive guidance, and transformational journeys through sacred sites, supporting women to remember who they truly are beneath conditioning expectations and fear. What I love about Katie's approach is how she bridges both the mystical and the grounded, helping women understand their soul blueprints, clear old patterns, awaken their feminine power and align the path they were always meant to walk.
Soraya: And her work is deeply intuitive, beautifully held, and rooted in the belief that every woman carries a unique purpose and frequency ready to be expressed. So today we'll be exploring her journey, The Power of Astrology as a tool for transformation, how energy healing supports emotional and spiritual shifts, and the ways women can reconnect to their soul voice, especially during midlife and times of transition. Katie, I'm so happy to have you. Welcome to the podcast.
Katy: Thank you so much, Soraya. What a beautiful introduction.
Soraya: You're welcome. So Katie, um, share a little bit about your own journey and what inspired you to evolve into a soul guide, energy healer, and astrologer working with sacred sites and transformational retreats.
Katy: Mmm, sure, yeah. Well, it's been just an ongoing process for me my whole life, really, I would say. Um, because I started uh learning about astrology when I was a teenager, so I was always I was one of those kids that was always metaphysical and always like aware of something else, and aware of psychic phenomena and messages, and really um as an astrologer, I think of myself as a diviner because it's a form of divination, and I think this is something that you are some people are this in their soul.
Katy: So even as a child and a young person, I would see messages in the world around me, and I would read sign, I knew how to read the signs of the world, and I would just practice with it, and you know, like when you you start listening to your intuition, it gets stronger, and it's you start to realize that you really should listen, and a lot of times we don't, but then you know, the the more you listen to it, the stronger it gets. So I was always on that path, really, and um I started learning, reading about astrology as a teenager.
Katy: Um, also I taught myself the tarot. Um, I was very into numerology and Kabbalah and all kinds of hermetic wisdom. I was just um I felt very connected to all of those teachings, and then I I went on a journey through Indian mysticism. Um, I was within an Indian master and a Tibetan master, and it's been an ongoing process my whole life, and eventually I did my diploma in astrology, and I did a lot of energy healing training, holistic training, and it's it's like an unfolding process where I I learned to work with people, so I started as an aromatherapist and learned to connect with people's energy field and learnt to consult with them and find out what's going on with them, and then I realized I could pick up things through touch.
Katy: You know, you can pick up a lot about someone's life through touch when you do a massage, and then I went more into the energetic methods of healing, the energy healing, and astrology. You know, astrology is very much about the psyche, so I really love astrology, it's like a universal language, and I find it tells you so much, it really can tell you everything. You know, it's the most high-level personality indicator that we have, and it's a lot more than just the personality, it tells you about the soul, it tells you about your soul path and your highest potential in this life, and also your your hidden blocks and obstacles, your karmic lessons.
Katy: So it can tell you all of that, which is why I love to do soul path readings, and I also combine it with energy work because I'm suited to working energetically, that's just what I it feels natural for me to work that way. So, astrology is very intuitive because you learn the structure and the framework, and then your intuition works within that. So I'm always connecting to the person and their soul and their soul path when I do the readings, and so energy work just flows naturally with that. So the the nasal chart is like a map in a way, and it tells me everything I need to know about the person, and then it might come about that they maybe they need healing with certain issues, so then I could recommend them some energy healing, trauma healing, emotional healing, those kind of things.
Katy: Um, or the Akashic readings is for people who are interested in their their soul path, their spiritual path, and past lives. So that's how I tend to work, and then that all led into running the retreats. Um trying to think how it started, really.
Soraya: I why Egypt? Because you said that you had the master, the Indian master, and so you studied that a while. Why did you go to Egypt? I know you do your retreats in Egypt, which I'll you know it's amazing, you've been doing it for 10 years now. Um why Egypt? Tell me.
Katy: Yeah, that's a good question. I think when I was a teenager, when I was at the beginning of the path, I I was interested in Egypt, and then I just went into the whole Indian and Tibetan teachings, and I think we go through different soul learnings at different times in our life, and you know, when I finally got to Egypt, I was doing a lot of energy healing, I was doing an energy healing training where you go into theater every day, all day, and it was about three weeks we were doing this course, and so I went to a really high state and I was healing past lives, and I started going back to Egypt and seeing an Egyptian life, and then I kind of became obsessed with going there.
Katy: I thought I have to go to Egypt, and I think about it every day, and I couldn't stop thinking about it. And then I kept meeting people who said, Come to Egypt. You know how it just comes into your life sometimes, and so I went there and I felt an instant connection with it, and everything's just unfolded since then, you know. My destiny is there, and many many stories have unfolded there for me, and this is in the last more than 10 years now. Um, so I firstly, for me, uh, all teachings are universal, so I believe that all teachings and religions come from one universal source, so I don't really see any separation, but I believe that we each have our our deepest, like our root soul connection, if that makes sense.
Katy: My deepest connection is with Egypt, and it's not something you can really explain, but when I go to the temples and the places and and also when I read the um if you've ever read any of the Book of the Dead or those those magical verses, there's just something about them it just takes me somewhere, it's like it's it's it's really impossible to explain, but it's it's like a kind of remembering, you know, remember something where your soul feels at home. And I find that um when people decide to come on a retreat in Egypt or a sacred journey, they have something calling them there, and something in their soul is calling them there because they know part of them belongs there, or they have some story there, or some gifts that they need to reveal.
Katy: So it's it's something like that. It's very I I believe it's a place of the origins, you know. That's just how I feel about it.
Soraya: But yeah, okay, interesting. Um, and you bring together astrology, energy healing, spiritual mentoring, and sacred journeys. How do you weed the practical and the mystical into your approach when you work with your clients?
Katy: Practical and the mystical. Well, um, because I I work with the person on all levels, so the the practical is always gonna be there because you know you have your physical life, your mental and emotional life, and then your spiritual life. So you the reading is on all levels, so there could be practical tips for um changing your life, for example. But really, I like to focus on the psyche and the soul path. Um, and the people that come to me, that's what they want to look at because it all comes from the soul.
Katy: Once you connect to your soul, it's like the soul guidance is gonna start filtering through and transforming your life, and then the the practical things in your life will eventually change. That's how I see it.
Soraya: So that's a good explanation. Um, and for listeners who may not know, what what how would you describe the role of astrology and energy work and personal transformation? How would I describe the sorry the role of astrology and energy work and personal transformation?
Katy: Right, yeah, well, it's I feel it's it's very important um because it's it's all about transformation. So everything is energy, and even for people who don't believe in anything metaphysical, it's scientific facts that everything is energy because we know it's all atoms and electrons spinning around, and it's it's a lot of empty space and a lot of spinning, and so everything is energy, nothing is actually solid, nothing is actually what it appears to be, and everything is frequency and vibrations.
Katy: So this is why energy healing works and why it's so powerful, and also with sound healing, it's also it's all about frequencies affecting you, and that's also why you know EMFs uh are harmful to people because it's these frequencies that are affecting us, but we can't see them. So energy work is very powerful, and the power of the mind is something that's been documented. The mind has a power over matter, and also our mind affects our physical body, our mind and our emotions, and it's it's much more powerful than people might think, you know, which is one of the things I always talk about actually.
Katy: Um, and astrology is very helpful for people on the path of transformation because it's all about cycles, it's all about the cycles of life. So you have your natal chart, and this shows you the cycles that were happening at the moment of your birth, and we can read a lot into this. Um, but one of the main reasons why astrology is so useful is something called transits. So the planet's always moving, and we look at your natal chart and we look at the current transits and other methods of forecasting which show you the cycles that you're moving through, different influences, different cycles of life.
Katy: And there are several major life transits that everybody has. There also there's a couple of uh midlife transits which I wanted to uh talk about a little bit because I think they're quite relevant to this discussion.
Soraya: Yeah, well, I'm gonna ask you that a bit later, but yeah, definitely.
Katy: Yeah, so it's it's when you understand astrology, it helps you to understand yourself and what your soul is wanting to do in this life. So when you become more clear on your your soul path, and then you see the challenges that you need to overcome and the strengths that you need to develop, it it helps you to transform yourself, and also you know, you may be going through a very challenging time, you may be having Pluto transits, which are one of the hardest um transits that we can have. Because people don't want to go into despair, you know, when things are very when they feel like they're blocked at every turn, or there's they can't understand why certain things are happening, even just understanding that it's it's the influence of Pluto, and it's all about letting go, and it's all about sometimes things are removed from your life because they're actually they're not for your highest good, and that just helps people to to feel more faith and more trust in the direction of their life.
Katy: Yeah, because when you're on the spiritual path, let's face it, it's not easy, you know. The minute you decide to transform, the minute you kind of raise your vibrations and let in more light, the darkness comes up more strongly. So there's always going to be challenges, and the challenges keep getting bigger and bigger. So the more understanding we can have of why things are happening the way they're happening, it just helps us to navigate these challenges and to maintain that internal balance.
Soraya: I had just had a visual of navigating stormy waters in a little ship, little boat.
Katy: Oh my nice.
Soraya: Yeah. Yeah. No, that makes sense what you're saying. Yeah, it's it's good, like it's like seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, knowing that there is a you know, you will something bigger will come out of it.
Katy: Exactly. Yeah, that's exactly what it is, because it's you have to see the future and know that uh everything passes and you're going towards something new and something better. So yeah, I'm for sure.
Soraya: Yeah, and so why is working with the body's energy, the source patterns and the um astrological field so important in healing and growth?
Katy: Hmm. Well, so the human body is uh the human body is actually a whole universe. So we have the human body, we have the solar system, the galaxy, the universe, these are all larger and larger bodies. The the galaxy is made up of stars, our body is made up of cells and atoms, and so the body is like a universe, and one of the magical laws is as above, so below. So if we understand the the microcosm, we can understand the macrocosm. So the stars have something to teach us, they have an influence on us, and understanding our own body and our own energy system is very important because we're not just a physical body, we have a chakra system, we have an energy body, we have our astral body, our mental body, our spiritual bodies, and our soul.
Katy: And the more you understand that, the more you can find your place in the in the in the cosmos, I suppose, you know, in the greater cycles of life, because people today, one of the major problems that people have today is this thing of being divorced from nature, and everything is so artificial, and uh we don't feel that connection to nature. Usually, if we live in cities or there's so much artificial stuff, there's so much stress, there's so many toxins in the environment, there's this constant electronic uh you know, technology, and it's it's cutting us off from our natural state, and our natural state is to be at one with nature.
Katy: This is how we've always lived to be at one with nature, to be under the stars, to be at one with the elements, and this is what you know. If people could spend one night under the stars, that they'd feel so much better, you know, because nature is healing, and just understanding yourself and how you you fit in, what what your place is in nature and the cosmos is very healing.
Soraya: Yeah, I mean, I definitely feel that when I'm on the beach for the day in the sea, I feel so much better, and you sleep so much better as well. And you go home after the fresh air, the salt from the sea, that even the sounds, all of that, it is it's got a real healing quality to it that we don't get in the city and day-to-day, like you said.
Katy: Yeah, that's so true. Yeah, the sea is so powerful, and all the magnesium that you get from swimming makes you feel so relaxed, doesn't it?
Soraya: Yeah, and then unfortunately in the city, unless you're actually seeking the tree, the nature, you know, we we really don't have much. Most of us sit at our desks and put the TV on or on our laptops or on phones.
Katy: Yeah, and it's constant, it's connect it's not just the young people, it's now people just constantly on their phones and on their social media, and it's almost we feel like we can't tear ourselves away, but we have to have those breaks and detoxes and resets, they're so important, aren't they?
Soraya: Yeah, definitely. Um so, in your experience, how do themes of purpose, soul, voice, and alignment show up when you work with clients?
Katy: Purpose, soul voice, and align alignment. Yeah, purpose is very important because everybody's looking for their purpose, their purpose, their soul path, and sometimes it's not just one thing, but it's important to have a sense of purpose. And I feel like the more you look at your astrology and you work with energy healing, the clearer you get on your purpose. So if you're following your purpose, it's going to be something that that fits in with all of the souls that are coming through that have a spiritual purpose, and if everyone's working on their purpose, we're we are going to change the world, and that's what we're here to do to bring about that positive change and work together.
Katy: So I find often there's purpose, it's like a shared purpose, or there's once the person becomes more clear on their purpose, they'll meet a soul group, and other souls will come in, and there's something they can build together. So I'm very interested in that, you know, this kind of soul group, community building, because I think it's very much about that at this time.
Soraya: Um, like the soul collaboration, Katie. A little plug there.
Katy: Soul collaboration, sadly, and um the the soul voice, yeah. The voice is very important. Your voice is your energy. So once you start healing the chakras and aligning your energy body, you you get to the point where you can speak from the heart and you can speak your wisdom, speak your truth. And this is very important, especially for women, because women have had a like a collective blocker, the throat chakra from having our voice suppressed in the past. We there are many past life memories of things happening with the throat and the voice, and it's taken a lot for us to get to this stage where we're starting to reclaim our power and our voice, and so yeah, the voice is so important.
Katy: Um and it's all about coming into alignment because illness and disease and frustration, all these things come at about through not being aligned, not being properly aligned for whatever reason, because there are blocks or breaks or disconnects. So when you fully come into alignment with your soul and your purpose and your vision, and you'll find that things just go up again. Have so much more energy available to you because it's like the blocks have been released.
Soraya: Yeah, and you you're able to flow, right? It things come more easier, and I I find there's more synchronicity is people come when they're supposed to into your life, and you follow your intuition more, don't you?
Katy: Yeah, absolutely.
Soraya: Yeah, that's that's the state we're supposed to be in.
Katy: It's like you go to a higher level and you get a lot of more opportunities, and exactly you're in the flow, yeah, the flow of abundance, and that's how we're supposed to be, but we blocked ourselves. Yes, that's it. That's it, exactly. So it's all about coming more and more into alignment and more and more into flow.
Soraya: Sounds nice and magical. Yeah, we are, we are magical. Yeah, we are. No, I we I I say that and just but we actually we are, I do believe that. Um we have that innate ability, but we just we have to find ourselves again. That that's what it is. So, how does working with energy astrology or sacred journeys engage the nervous system or deeper emotional bodies differently from other conventional approaches?
Katy: Nervous system and the emotional body. Um well, sacred journeys are a very experiential thing to go through. Um, you experience it with your whole self, your energy and your emotions, and when you go to a powerful land like Egypt, the the vibrations in the land are very ancient, and it starts to work through your energy body, it's like a vibration. So sometimes people find it works through their chakras, they start opening their chakras, and they may get emotions rising to the surface because these things are being suppressed, and the energy is kind of shaking them loose.
Katy: So emotional healing is very important. Um yeah, it's something that you experience on a very deep level if that makes sense.
Soraya: Yeah. And so, what are some ways your clients might uncover and release deeper patterns or limiting beliefs that they may not be consciously aware of?
Katy: Um well, it the astrology can highlight things. One of the things about astrology is that um it can show you childhood patterns and relationship patterns, and there sometimes you get this aha moment where everything kind of clicks and they they see something which they didn't see before, or they make a connection that they didn't make before, so that can help bring the subconscious to light. Also, with energy healing, it's all about clearing out the subconscious because we have subconscious beliefs that may be steering our life and we don't even know what they are, so it's all about bringing the darkness to light, shining more light onto what's in your unconscious, your subconscious, and becoming more conscious for sure.
Soraya: Yeah. So it's kind of as a as you know, I'm a hypnotherapist, so we kind of work also the subconscious, but we do yeah, through hypnosis, we're working to go deep down into the subconscious, but you do it with the energy healing.
Katy: Yeah, it's something you can definitely do. Yeah, it's it is related to hypnosis, actually. They do have a crossover point, so yeah, it's it's very powerful, as you know, subconscious work.
Soraya: Yeah, of course. Is that you do more of the meditation work that you do?
Katy: Meditation, yeah. I've also done something called theta healing where you you you work at reprogramming subconscious beliefs, and yeah, Nimi was on that.
Soraya: She was the last guest I had, and she's coming to the retreat, and she also is a theta healer. She's explaining to me how theta healing works. So, yeah, yeah. But for listeners who listen to this episode, please explain what's the healing.
Katy: Um, so the theta brain wave, it's one of the very deep meditative brain waves that we have. Um so it's about accessing that brain wave and accessing hidden beliefs in the subconscious that are creating unwanted results in your life and changing them, um changing them to positive ones. There's there's many, I mean it would take a long time to explain the whole thing, but it's it's very much about reprogramming your beliefs and clearing out past trauma and changing your whole consciousness, really.
Soraya: Yeah, got it. Thank you. Um, and now now going on to midlife, you we touched on earlier, you were going to so now I'd like to ask you about that, and Katie. So many women in midlife experience shifts in identity, purpose, energy, and body. How can the work you do support someone navigating a life transition or awakening phase?
Katy: Hmm, so yeah, I would love to talk about that. Um, there's a lot talked about the physical symptoms of menopause, perimenopause, and they're very real and very important. Um, but I think the work that I do is more focused on the mental and emotional aspects of going through these transitions. Um the mind is very powerful, as we were saying, and I feel like there's a lot talked about the midlife transition, about menopause at this time, and and that's a very good thing, but it's also like a double edged sword because you know it's good that it's more there's more awareness around it and there's more um solutions for people and more ways they can navigate this time, but also I feel like you're you're mental state is very important and there's there's things that people don't talk about like maybe at this time there's there's like a there can be like a hidden grief that maybe you're losing your fertility you're losing your youth and your beauty and you know as women we know that we are a lot of the time women are valued for their youth and their beauty and we know that it shouldn't be the case but it it doesn't seem to be getting any less you know it's still the case so there can be this this grief at what you perceive yourself to be losing and then you think well what's what's next what's after this you know I've I've lost the the things that that make me valuable as a woman so I prefer to think of it as as what are you becoming you know and in the past you know in in days gone by and in pre-Christian times when women went through the change of life they became the oracle so they were entering the age of the oracle and they were the wise women and the seers and the oracles and that's very powerful.
Katy: So instead of thinking what am I losing it might be good to look at it as what am I becoming I am becoming the oracle I am becoming wiser and becoming kinder and becoming more beautiful you know more everything I am becoming so that's that's one way we can reclaim our power because that's another thing with the patriarchy you know it's all about taking away women's power and we're entering a very powerful time of life so it's important to keep your mind in a good place and look at what you are becoming so the work I do is very much with the psyche the the mind and the emotions um and so with astrology there's certain transits which are quite significant at this time um one of them is the what's called the Uranus opposition so this happens to everyone at around the age of 42 um so Uranus is a slow moving planet it takes 84 years to go all the way around the zodiac so at age 42 it's exactly opposite where it was when you were born now so this planet it's the planet of change it's the planet of awakening and transformation and it also has a very kind of unpredictable quality to it has a shocking quality it has a you know this feeling of sudden change and things might suddenly shift and you never know exactly what's going to happen with with when Uranus is affecting you so when you get to this age and it's it lasts about two years so it might be from 41 to 43 or somewhere around that time you have this opposition and opposition is like a a head on challenge so it's challenging you to seek freedom it's very much about freedom changing your life transforming your life so it really depends on what the the person's life is like if they're stuck in a situation that doesn't serve them then they're going to feel this this urge for change in a very radical way so maybe they're they're very unhappy in their job or their marriage or the situation is very stuck then they might just suddenly want to break out of the box and do something really crazy and this is actually where the whole idea of the midlife crisis comes from it comes from serious opposition but at this particular age like 42 43 you're saying um and if you're already quite at home with following your truth and doing your shadow work and then it will be less of a shock but you'll still feel the urge for freedom and transformation so that's a very important age to really just go with these impulses you know within reason obviously but just see where it takes you because it will take you somewhere completely new because it is about expanding and transforming and changing your life in some way that's very important and yeah just to stop you for that that's when actually when I started training to do my my training as a therapist when I shifted that that makes sense I was about 42 43 when I decided I was like I don't I there's more to life than me just being a mum and obviously being mum is amazing but that wasn't my identity so I wanted to do something that I felt you know really resonated with me and was who I wanted to be which is why I started you know learning more about hypnotherapy in the subconscious so yeah that's funny yeah that's a great example exactly you felt a calling to do something different and you followed but now here you are you're in a better place because you've honored that within yourself you've honored your truth yeah so it was exactly what you described Katie I actually just felt like something has to change you know I just had my youngest and obviously I was very happy but I felt frustrated I thought there should there has to be something else for me so yeah that what you said really resonated so I had to just stop you sorry Katie you can carry on thank you thank you it's yeah this is good because it it shows how if you understand these transits and why you're feeling the way you're feeling then you're less likely to think oh am I crazy is there something wrong with me why aren't I satisfied why do I feel the need for this but actually it's just a very natural cycle that you're going through and you're becoming aware of it um the other major one which is some people say it's the biggest transit of anyone's life and it affects people at the age of 50 pretty much at the age of 50 this is the Chiron return so sorry what was that sorry Chiron Chiron it's the biggest asteroid uh known as the wounded healer and Chiron returns to the position it was in when you were born around the age of 50 so Chiron being the wounded healer um if you know about the the myth of Chiron he was a well he was a centaur in Greek mythology and um he was uh he was like an illegitimate child so he was sort of disowned and then he was adopted by Apollo the sun god and he was taught the arts of healing and he became a very brilliant healer and he became famous and renowned and so he he learned to shine in his own right but then throughout the course of his life at one point he was wounded by an arrow in his leg and at that exact moment um the great god decided to grant him immortality so he was given immortality but he also had this wound that never healed because it was like an immortal wound so it was all about he's this amazing healer but he couldn't actually heal himself so this is what Chiron represents it's about that core wound which you find really difficult to heal.
Katy: It doesn't mean you can't heal it but it's that thing that if you could really get to the root of it you just become invincible and when you have your chiron return it actually comes back to that point and it it can bring back all the the wounds that you thought you dealt with or you thought you'd healed or you'd forgotten about them it can bring them back into your awareness not a very happy time Katie I prefer the other one yeah it's the it's it's it's an initiation you know all these things are life initiations and we walk through them and we become more powerful or we just reclaim our inherent power because it's you you revisit these wounds and that's when you have the opportunity to release them once and for all right so there was a midlife crisis which we've talked about and this one now is a Chiron return and this is all about like wounds coming to the surface and we have to face them.
Katy: Yeah it's about when you turn near near 50 so before like 48 49 50 yeah I think around 50 it's exact you may feel it just coming up to it before then it depends on how it it's it shows in your individual chart as well but so for people would experience it differently but it's an amazing opportunity to just heal everything and have done with it and just fully step into your power and it's not like those things didn't happen but it's just that you decide they're not going to affect you anymore and so it's all part of this ongoing work with energy healing and trauma release and working with the shadow and transforming the psyche and just becoming becoming more you just getting closer to the essence of you and we get to that to yourself basically yeah we we get to these through these life initiations you know and they make us more humble and more more you know kinder I suppose more attuned to because we go through loss everyone goes through cycles of loss and rebuilding and then eventually you realize that nothing can really be taken away from you.
Katy: Yeah oh that's a lot to think about Katie um and in your retreats and mentoring journeys what recurring themes or breakthroughs do you witness in women who move through change was that at the midlife crisis kind of that 42 and that Chiron return um yeah I feel it can be a very empowering time for people for clients and for people especially when they get together you know meet other women other souls in groups doing the group work the group retreats it can be very healing and empowering because firstly you know there's a lot of shared themes and similar stories and so there's that sisterhood feeling that comes about and you know I feel like we we all have so many gifts that we can share and then when we get together with others who've gone through similar things or they're going through similar transitions we just share all these this knowledge about herbs and oils and drumming and astrology and it's like we're becoming superhuman this is what I feel like yeah we have so much available to us and such a pool of resources that if we really dive into it we can all just really go to the next level and we're we're very blessed actually because I don't think it was like this we're the first generation that's really at this stage do you know what I mean because in the past it was not it was not quite the same.
Soraya: No I mean I remember my mum was very much into kind of like holistic stuff and all of this but it wasn't the mainstream whereas now I feel that there's much more even like the younger generation are into it as well so like you said it's coming it is much more talked about and people are much more open to it.
Katy: Yeah exactly and there's so much more information available to us because of the internet and travel and I mean if you go way back then there was there was like indigenous knowledge and tribal knowledge and that's different but if you look at the the last few decades we we're now at a point where we can share much more information and yeah you're right and also I think there's so much research going into it as well there's a book even like why we works it was written I can't remember the name I think it was um I I can't remember he actually looked at the scientific reasons why like Reiki like energy healing crystals you know all the different alternative stuff actually is effective which I you know I think is great because I do believe in it anyway but there's some people who are still very skeptical yeah there's a place for explaining how things work and it it they definitely can be explained so yeah there's some people are on the borderline aren't they and they're interested and then if they can understand how it works then maybe they'll you know just but it's it's good that they are are interested as opposed to closing it off that's I think it's just some people need more proof evidence in order to understand it which is fine.
Soraya: I think everyone's on their own journey right exactly yeah that's it I mean if somebody's not interested it's it's best to leave them because there's no point trying to explain it to them but no of course but I think you know it is I I think it's a great way to look at it we are so much more than just our vessels we we are all souls right yeah just in these vessels and and that's all there is to it there's much more to us that it life is so expansive yeah that's it and there's so many possibilities and this is all about releasing yourself from the mental prison isn't it because there's so much more that we can't even imagine you know we only see what's in front of us but we don't really open up and I think like doing this work being able to go beyond ourselves and to see what we actually can do.
Katy: Yeah it's just about being more and more open-minded isn't it open-minded open hearted and opening to the possibilities yeah which is why the idea for the retreat was that very reason for people to try different tips different types of modalities somebody who might not experience something that you do like channeling the Egyptian goddesses that's great that they can come to retreat and try that they can try you know the other different types of things going on as well so I think that's important as well.
Soraya: Yeah sure would you agree? Yeah yeah so and going back to your retreats um what kinds of transformations have you witnessed in those containers when you've been in Egypt because you go you go for um three weeks is it how long is it not a week you go um the journey that I do is is around two weeks.
Katy: Two weeks okay yeah I see people um you know being very affected by the energies it may bring up emotions for healing um they they may get a glimpse of a past life and start to connect to those particular soul gifts um in fact one one of my friends um she came on one of my journeys it was seven years ago now and we went to the temple of Hathor in Dendera and we went into one room and they said this is the oil room this is the room of the sacred oils and she was in that room and she received a message from Hathor telling her to work with the sacred oils and she came home and since that time she went on a mission to source oils from all these places around the world and find the finest sourced oils and she created her own range of healing oils and sacred oils and she designed all the packaging and she learned to work with them and she's actually created that and it's part one of the many things that she does but this was originally from a message from Hathor so that's just an example of something that can happen and I guess that's guiding you towards your soul path you know yeah there's there's many many ways that people can transform when we go to the Isis temple it's very much about the heart chakra the heart vibration and when you open your heart you you see things in a different way you connect to the love frequency and you can maybe find more understanding of people and more forgiveness forgiveness is very important isn't it if you're looking at healing relationships healing costs releasing letting go mm-hmm yeah exactly so there are many many things that can happen it can also help you um develop your psychic gifts and your your extrasensory perception because the energy is is very powerful you know certain temples activate the third eye for example um yeah just many many transformations and people go home it's not just on the retreat they go home and the the energy continues to ripple out for for weeks and months to come and even years to come and you know maybe they go and they meet Sekhmet for the first time the the lioness goddess of transformation and they go home and then they might find some people find that she shows up for them in meditation she keeps appearing and she helps you to be really strong she's like the fierce goddess of healing so some people they go on a journey with Sekmet and they continue to work with her and they continue to transform their life so that's just a few of the things that can happen.
Katy: Yeah that's cool and so for the upcoming retreat when you're coming it's this this weekend um what may women expect from your session from your unique style of guiding so I will be leading a guided meditation um this is something it's important to connect to the earth because we live on the earth it's important to connect to the center of the earth to Mother Gaia and connect to the universe the cosmos the great central sun because we exist between the earth and sky so it's very important to have that balance as human beings we are a conduit between earth and sky so when you meditate it's important to connect to the earth the great central sun and activate your column of lights your chakra column so we'll be doing a chakra meditation and also bringing in some of the goddess energies which are amazing for feminine empowerment and shifting stuck energy opening up to new energy calling in your intentions what you wish to heal what you wish to transform in your life
Soraya: do you have a personal ritual habit that helps you stay grounded and connected to your own higher guidance
Katy: yes I have a meditation that I do um something that I find very powerful is always to connect to the earth to imagine my energy anchoring down to the center of the earth and connecting with the core of the earth the core of Mother Gaia and drawing the earth energy up imagine like a light flowing up from the center of the earth through the layers of the earth up through your legs and your feet into your heart and then breathing that energy into your heart and then connecting with the the starry light flowing down from the cosmos the great central sun flowing in through the crown chakra into the heart and then you're you're breathing in the earth and sky energy into your heart visualizing a flame in your heart and that's very powerful when you continue to breathe in and out in that way.
Soraya: How long would you recommend that kind of meditation for how long
Katy: you can do it for about ten minutes or so and you're you're focusing on the flame in your heart and the light expanding into your energy field and it's it helps you to be balanced and grounded and also a lot of people really need to ground and connect with the earth because a lot of people don't have a strong earth connection so even just connecting with the earth in that way it's it's very powerful because you can release stuck energy down into the earth and then also you're getting that power flowing up from the center of the earth if you just try it for a few moments it'll probably make you feel better more energized.
Soraya: So you would you do that any time in the day or for a specific time?
Katy: Any time of the day
Soraya: okay that's a great tip thank you and um what's lighting up most in your work right now
Katy: What's lighting up in my work um well uh thinking about next year and all the new energy that's coming in and the new new ideas new plans because next year is a one year in numerology and it's also the Chinese year of the fire horse so it's a very dynamic energy it's the beginning of another cycle of nine years so the the idea of letting go of the old with the the ending of this year and then stepping into a completely new cycle so it's like taking the lessons from the past nine years and moving forwards and creating something completely different with it.
Soraya: Wow exciting yeah yeah so it's a good time to start new ventures then next year then definitely
Katy: yeah there'll be a lot of new beginnings and a lot of things are closing and then new beginnings new cycles um yeah it's it's a good idea to start thinking about you know making the changes that you've been wanting to make some time and starting new chapters new projects yeah new beginnings
Soraya: Soraya: and if you could leave women listening with one message about reconnecting with their power voice and purpose what would it be ?
Katy: well I would say trust yourself and trust your heart and what you feel is probably correct so the more you trust yourself and just accept yourself exactly as you are because we have to be our own best friend don't we
Soraya: agree advice Katie I agree so I always like to ask this is a podcast tradition now I've got two questions so number one what's something your body or intuition has been teaching you lately
Katy: something my body or intuition has been teaching me lately um just to really take notice of every every sign or intuition that I get because you know I'll feel it sometimes it's I don't even know where I feel it's almost like a breeze or something just suddenly I'll just have this sense of knowing and I know if I don't listen to it it's it's it's not things are not going to work out well so about sometimes sometimes you have a knowing and you think oh I should disconnect from that person or I should not do this and then that's when sometimes you want to question it think oh but I'm sure it'll be okay and then you go against it it's just not it's not worth it so yeah just following that as much as I can
Soraya: your inner guide, your in ner compass is that right? okay and what does living as your limitless self mean to you right now?
Katy: wow I love that! living is my limitless means that I'm a supernova yeah yes yeah it's about uh embodying more and more lights and radiating more and more light that's what it makes me think of. Yeah I love that
Soraya: I love that visual that's a great visual yeah okay thank you so much Katie for today and I really look forward to seeing you on Saturday this Saturday at the retreat
Katy: yeah I'm so looking forward to it yeah thank you so much soraya I've really enjoyed it and yeah
Soraya: me too see you soon Katy bye take care bye Thanks so much for listening to Hot Flashes and Higher Self. If something in today's episode spoke to you and you're getting ready for deep support and put a one to one session with me. I work with women around the world to help them shift from stuck to self led. You can reach me anytime at [email protected]. I'd love to connect. Take care of you. Fill that cup of yours and remember your next chapter is already unfolding.
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