Messy Luminous Being Podcast

08/03/2024

Instead of working with your body the way you work with outer life…trying to make things happen, intervening to steer things in a specific direction…

we can shift our approach and simply “create the right conditions” for the body’s natural alignment, the body’s deep intelligence, the body’s innate wisdom to rise.

Working with the body the way we cultivate a seedling. Not by forcing our fingers into the soil or into the seed itself to find the seedling inside…but simply trusting the innate intelligence and potential of the seed that, when the right conditions come together, it will become a seedling a grow into its full potential 🌱

Create the conditions
Bring the right circumstances together
And the body will heal itself
And move with its fullest potential of strength & ease

☀️

This is Luminous Movement.

Want to try classes for a month? Working online means Luminous Movement can meet you anywhere ☺️ Tap link in bio for details or message if you want to chat about whether Luminous Movement would work for you. 💗

29/01/2024

Awaken the seat of your deepest physical and energetic strength

when we Awaken the Core we not only release back pain, improve our posture & feel more ease of movement. We also Awaken our Courage, our ability to move past fear and into Possibility.

Awaken the Core of You
a series of 20 min sessions to awaken physical & energetic core strength
5 - 9 February 2024
£25

Details 🌊https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/awaken-the-core-of-you

24/06/2022

Can the WAY YOU THINK cause enough stress to make you sick? Can changing the way you think about things RESTORE YOUR HEALTH?
These are powerful questions...

For those of you who feel run off their feet 🏃‍♀️
..who struggle to switch off from work & life worries 🙇‍♀️

😳 are having difficulty sleeping...
..wish work didn't make you so stressed 😣

🐒 feel constantly distracted & less able to concentrate...

This is the impact of long-term *stress* on the mind & body. (And it's not your fault.)

We humans are the only members of the animal kingdom that can switch on the stress response with *thought alone*. And we know stress (what we often now hear called Adrenaline fatigue) can make us sick.

🔥🔥🔥 So if our thoughts can make us sick...Can shifting the way we learn to focus our minds, changing the way we think about things *make us well*?

This is the week to get inspired & empowered...to learn HOW to get out of that stress cycle & into a Zen cycle!

Sign yourself up...you are going to be really glad you made time for this one! https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/stressfull-to-zenfull

22/06/2022

We feel this everyday don't we? That there's something not right about the way we are living. That the culture we're all living in now is running at full-speed. It's making our kids run at full speed. But we can't seem to fight the massive tide of our faster-more culture.

But each one of us that figures out how to step out of this cycle...

Each one of us that empowers ourselves to live differently...

Each one of us that learns how to redirect our attention so we get caught up in gratitude, abundance, joy and inner calm, rather than the intense but passing stresses...

Each one of us that steps into the ✨possibility of another way of living gives permission to everyone around us to do the same.

This is no small thing.

🌺 Stress-full to Zen-full 🌺
next week
27 - 30 June
a week of 30 minute mini-sessions

👉You're going to walk away from this week of mini-sessions with a whole new perspective on stress...and on POSSIBILITY of a more Zen-filled life.

Join me next week!
Tap here 🥰 https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/stressfull-to-zenfull

10/05/2022

I feel such joy in the boundless potential we have to create a Room of Our Own online... 🧡💜

Come have a little look at my shiny new website...
https://sarahbhunt.com

This room is full of resources for our inner journey.
Breadcrumbs that lead us back to our luminous selves. Meditation & yoga for those of us who feel the only way to practice is in messy real life.

(🙏Thanks to my wonderful team Charlie Flounders Photography & White Lion Creative)

21/02/2022

Today's download is this...

We can no longer afford to live like everyone else.

In stress. Overworked and too busy to enjoy our life.

We can see the path others are taking. Never stopping. Mistaking 'distraction' for rest.

But when our eyes are open, we can see where that path leads.

And we know in our gut that we can't afford to go that way.

To live in a way that gives us an uncommon experience — one of calm amidst the storm, one of energy, vitality, presence, gratitude, in love with our life — doesn't mean we have to work uncommonly hard.

It only means we have to do the simple but uncommon things.

You are precious. Your life is sacred. You carry your own luminous life force within you. This is who you are.

💕 btw...I send little messages like this out on Mondays to my Messy Luminous Being mailing list. If you're not there but wish you were, here's the link to sign up: https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/messyluminousbeing

18/01/2022

What really motivates us? To keep up with our desire for change... To make a new practice last...

It isn't willpower. I know the much. Willpower gets to about mid-January.

But if there's something we want to invite in this year...something we still want to be doing for ourselves in September...then we need a new method of working.

New episode of the Messy Luminous Being Podcast is up & this one is all about our Motivation! 🌙

Listen to the MLB Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4U5kZWm894d3TtJ0b5o2a1?si=88dbd6610a8d48a4

Listen on Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/messy-luminous-being-podcast/id1477217106

07/01/2022

Not old — powerful
Not tired — full of vitality
Not so stressed — a little bit wiser

✨2022✨
These are not out of reach. They are at your fingertips. How much do you want them? And how much help will you accept to get there?

I'm running a YOGA MORNING CHALLENGE M-F next week. 20 minutes of movement and deep breathing at 7am. Whose coming?
👉👉👉 https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/awaken

04/01/2022

It's been on your radar. Maybe it's been an intention for a long time. You want to start (or re-start) a meditation practice. But you're not sure you can do it. You often struggle to sit still. Your mind is busy, distracted and restless. And finding the time feels like a constant battle.

If you've been thinking about starting meditation, listen to this episode!

Here's where to listen:
APPLE POD: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/messy-luminous-being-podcast/id1477217106

ONLINE: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/messyluminousbeing/id/21670559

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4U5kZWm894d3TtJ0b5o2a1?si=f3a401040c814226

09/12/2021

The most epic & transformational session I've ever created is coming up...

Have a little listen...and imagine what might happen in life if we lived from that place inside of us...where we are LIT UP. 🔥🧡

Anyone who wants to be part of this evening event head here...first 5 folks to come in get ✨£10 off!!
https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/lit-up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YbSwMHzTQs

Lit Up! — an evening of yoga, meditation & visioningSunday 19 December 8-10pm GMT / 3-5pm ESTCome re-tune your energy until you are LIT UP...and from that pl...

29/11/2021

So...five people talked to me about their back pain last week. All of them are under 50. And I know, if we are in pain...even if it's a niggly under-the-radar but constant 'discomfort'...it really takes away from our enjoyment of our life.

We are too young to feel old. No matter what age you are! I really believe that. Sometimes you just have to understand what's going wrong and what you can do about it.

I'm running a workshop THIS WEDNESDAY called The Art of Sitting...aka You are Too Young for Back Pain. Everyone who joins gets a free extra ticket to share with a friend (who would also like to FEEL as young as they ARE!)

Too Young For Back Pain — the workshop 😜
Wednesday 1 December 7.30-8.30pm GMT/ 2.30pm EST, £25
this hour will be a doorway to freedom for everyone dealing with a desk job!
https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/artofsitting

14/11/2021

4 Secrets to Practicing Yoga at Home...

Most of you know I have two wild boys at home. My house is not quiet! So when I had to take yoga out of the beautiful white studio & into my house with covid, I worried about a lot of things.

👉Would everyone be able to get the same level of calm when we were so close to my families, the laundry and our messy real life?
👉What would it mean to not have a teacher in the room?
👉How would we all find enough space to move & practice?
👉And what about that feeling of 'togetherness' I loved in group studio practice?

Here's 4 realisations I've had after 18 months of teaching & practicing yoga at home. They have surprised me in the best possible way.

😌 The first one is the biggest block I see to practicing yoga online. And I get it. Sometimes it's nice to escape the mess and the noise. If you have kids, it's a joy to practice yoga uninterrupted...and that may not happen at home.
BUT...
There's also a few quite amazing things we experience when we shift our mindset and practice going inward in our own home space. One is that we learn how to access inner calm despite the noise, despite the unfinished laundry. We learn how to prioritise ourselves over the dishes & chores. We learn a different way of reacting to noises so they don't bother us so much. We learn how to listen to the quiet inside of us no matter what's going on around us. We learn how to create our own inner sanctuary we can carry around inside of us. That's powerful practice! Because that's the kind of access to calm we really need.
AND...there's something else.
I used to work at Costa Coffee most days. I'd drop the kids off at school, drive to costa and by the time I got my coffee and sat down, I was in 'work mode' and could concentrate for ages. And I bet we've all had this experience. We've created neurological connections between a place & a mental state or feeling. That same thing starts to happen when you practice yoga at home. Over time, you create new associations between a calm, relaxed state and your home. It's amazing!

🧘‍♀️ What about not having a teacher in the room? What if you're doing something "wrong"? This is a worry for a lot of people. And maybe in certain yoga classes and with certain teachers, it would be a real concern. But if you're working with an experienced teacher, if you're working from the INSIDE out, if you're being shown how to prioritise how something feels, rather than what shape you're making, then this isn't an issue at all.
For me, and the way I teach Messy Luminous Yoga, the only way you can do something 'wrong' is if you hurt yourself. That meant you stopped listening inward, stopped trusting yourself and your body as the wisest teacher.
Watching sensations in your own body, observing more and more clearly how a movement makes you feel, this is the most profound yoga anyway (and it's the only way to change habitual movement patterns and recreate alignment in the body!) We all have to learn to listen in for ourselves. No teacher can do that for you because no one else knows how you feel inside. This is the profound practice of learning to trust ourselves.

🏠 Space in your house is another mindset shift we can make fairly easily. Yes it's true, no one's house has the space of a open plan yoga studio. But then, how much of that space was really yours when you all crammed in? If we look at the space our yoga mat takes up, we find there are quite a lot of places in our house we can fit. End of our bed. Study. Living room. Kitchen.
Before I did my teacher training, I used to go to a class at the gym and would do most of my practice with my eyes shut. Otherwise I spent all my time fighting the tendency to compare the shapes I was making to my neighbours! And guess what? There's a real freedom is there only being You when you practice at home. Even tho you might be practicing at the foot of your bed, you can focus much more easily on the inner sensations & what you need from the practice, rather than trying to keep up with Bendy Betty next to you. You can close your eyes fairly often.
***You can keep your camera off while you practice on zoom. If you have wireless EarPods they can be a great way to create your own sound bubble. And think of all those good vibes you're feeding into your home.

👩‍❤️‍👩👩‍❤️‍👩 Are you going to miss that feeling of togetherness? That group yoga vibe? Seeing real live people? Well, some of you introverts aren't going to be too bothered by this because chatting before class wasn't your favourite anyway.
BUT...
I had this experience over the summer at a huge 3 day online event. I thought I was going to feel isolated, but throughout the days they had moments of showing all the different people participating from their own home. Every time someone realised they were on the 'big screen' they got excited and started smiling & waving. It was a huge energy boost and actually so wonderful to see normal people in their homes doing what I was doing. I felt closer to them somehow, than if we'd been at a conference centre.
That's what I feel like with online yoga. Waving to people before and after class, seeing them in their homes practicing, there is such a different closeness you feel with the people you're practicing with. It takes away all the striving for "perfection" and creates this feeling of real open-hearted authenticity that is honestly irreplaceable. 🥰

Want to test it out? Come practice with me next week. Every morning for 20 minutes at 7am GMT Monday-Friday. Find out if you secretly love practicing yoga at home too!
https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/awaken5

(anyone else who is practicing at home have other tips? Would love to hear how you've integrated practice into your "messy real life"! ☺️)

12/11/2021

Feels like this is something a lot of us need to hear.

Sound on lovely! 🎧🧡 This just might be a turning point to feeling better…

Get your momentum going here:
👉https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/awaken5

Then…
Tag a couple of friends you’d love to do the challenge with next week! 🥰

10/11/2021

☀️ MORNING YOGA CHALLENGE NEXT WEEK...☀️

Want to create some real momentum? Clear your head? Build up your core strength? Start the day with Energy?

Join me every morning next week at 7am (GMT) for 20 minutes of yoga movement, core strengthening and deep breathing.

Cost £20

Head here for details: https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/awaken5

Discover what happens when days of practice build on top of each other. Find out how awesome it is to practice at home. Experience ways a LIVE class gives you accountability to show up. This is how to create momentum for yourself.

Find more Energy — Core Strength — Deep Breathing — Mental calm. When days of practice build on top of each other. When you discover the joy of practicing at home. When you have accountability to show up.  This is how to create momentum for yourself. Cost £20 for the week. 

10/11/2021

What would it feel like if you were...Inspired by Yourself!

Messy Luminous Being Podcast episode 099! ✨ This is one to listen to.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-099-inspired-by-yourself/id1477217106?i=1000541335015

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4U5kZWm894d3TtJ0b5o2a1?si=Vf_-VdzDTLKVedNR-QxrlA&dl_branch=1

**or find Messy Luminous Being wherever you listen to podcasts

19/10/2021

**New podcast episode is out**

How can we understand joy as our natural state?

How can we connect our individual meditation and yoga practice to the collective, so that we do less harm in the context of systemic injustice?

How can emotional sensitivity become a superpower?

These are some of the questions that arose in my conversation with Liz Getman. Liz is a yoga teacher, writer and podcaster who talks about our Big S self and why "my liberation is connected to your liberation". You are going to love this conversation!

Connect with Liz on IG and www.lizgetman.com

05/10/2021

You know that saying, everywhere you go, there you are?
In this episode I talk to Sarah Lang, creator of Mindful Mama with Sarah Lang, who has been living with her young family on a remote island north of Australia.

She shares her own journey with mindfulness and two small children away from family and friends.

We talk about following the breadcrumbs of what feels good, how small moments can be transformed into truly nourishing ones, and ways to shift our perception of Time so we enjoy more of it.

**You can listen to the Messy Luminous Being Podcast at all the podcast-y places including Spotify.

You can find Sarah on FB at: https://www.facebook.com/sarahalangmindfulmama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7UpDAk7gpg

29/09/2021

This week I've been thinking about the expectations we can bring to a single session of our practice (Yoga, meditation or otherwise!). So I wanted to write about my cold water swimming, and my thoughts about the 1% better mindset shift I'm trying out. It's all in this week's Messy Luminous Being newsletter...
https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/how-to-harness-the-power-of-1-better?e=[UNIQID]

It was cold this morning in Scotland! There was frost on the grass, I needed my coat to walk the kids to school... So about that cold water swimming I've been doing... Eeeekkkk. This is my new routine, getting in the river or the Loch every day. And it's teaching me so much about being back at the...

20/09/2021

We put up with a lot. That's what I see around me. People putting up with feeling achy. Getting used to having a stiff back or an achy shoulder. Thinking "that's just how I am now".

Maybe we're feeding into the myth about ageing...that this is a normal part of life.

It's NOT! (Or at least is doesn't have to be!)

I've been teaching yoga now for almost 15 years. I started doing yoga in my 20s because I felt great after the sessions. But as I get older, a lot of the fancy movements, the head-standing and pretzel-bending have become much less interesting to me than just FEELING GOOD...and feeling good ALL THE TIME. (Not just after class!)

What I know from working with so many people over all these years is...even if you're sitting at your desk most days, you don't have to have a "bad back". Just because you've past the 40 year mark, you don't have to groan when you stand up. And you definitely don't have to get used to a stiff shoulder or arm pain down one side.

The yoga classes I teach now are called MESSY LUMINOUS YOGA. They are based on two main beliefs.

One is — if we don't feel good in our physical bodies, if we are dealing with pain, or lack energy and always feel run-down, our lives don't work very well.

The other is — yoga is most effective when it doesn't just live at the studio but is incorporated into our real life. When it helps us feel good everyday.

So Messy Luminous Yoga still helps unwind all that shoulder, neck and back tension. It still builds your core strength, creates more ease in your movements. But the way we work towards these goals is different. It's about creating a feeling of inner wellness, vitality and energy flow. It's about working from the inside out. (Which is also why it's suitable for all abilities.)

And Messy Luminous Yoga's live, online classes can reach you wherever you are & teach you how to cultivate & maintain that lovely feeling of energy, space and ease in the body WITHIN YOUR REAL LIFE.

This way, yoga becomes something that helps us feel good all the time, not just one hour a week!

SPECIAL PRICE THIS MONTH (prices go up on 1 Oct)
Details are here:
https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/messyluminousyoga

(and if you've read all the way to the end...I love you. 💜 Tell me in the comments what you love about your favourite movement practice, whatever it is...)

10/09/2021

What a beautiful way to kick off season 3! Join me and the amazing Caz Hitchcock of The Gravity Technique as we discuss the 'process' of setting up a wellness routine, the biggest misconception we have about how our bodies work, and the myths we mistakenly believe about ageing.
Connect with Caz on IG The Gravity Technique

(You can also find the podcast on Apple, Android, Spotify, GooglePlay and online at Libsyn.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvpqwCnq0E0

29/06/2021

I keep having the same conversation with people — how busy life has suddenly gotten again. But we don’t have to let the outer momentum of life around us determine our inner momentum.

Here’s the challenge…for the month of July, let’s practice 5 minutes a day to Harness Your Inner Momentum. I’m running the challenge and daily support through the Messy Luminous Being Podcast (so you don’t even have to get on social media to join in!)

The meditation practice we’ll do is super simple and much more powerful than it seems. We’ll do it standing…so you can practice anywhere. And I’ll teach you how to create a “bridge” from the busy momentum of outer life to our inner life that we get to control.

☀️I’ll share that and all the practice instructions and challenge details thru the MLB newsletter. So sign up here if you haven’t already.
https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/messyluminousbeing

Whether you feel the speed of life ramping up and you’d like to do something to counteract that…

Whether you feel like you can’t meditate because your mind is way to busy (but you wish it weren’t)

Whether you have no extra time, trips planned for July… but you’d just love to get re-inspired…

Harness Your Inner Momentum is for you ☺️💕

I can’t wait to spend a little bit more time with you this coming month! 💛

➡️➡️ sign up for details here https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/messyluminousbeing

15/06/2021

**NEW PODCAST EPISODE IS UP! **

In this episode I talk to Lisa Valentine Yoga about her journey from self-taught yoga and meditation lover to a yoga teacher and studio owner immersed in Yin and Scaravelli yoga. Lisa shares a lot about the process of giving herself permission to make her yoga practice her own. She has some beautiful words of wisdom on how to explore the different ways of practice that feel right to you and how to allow your practice to change and evolve over time.

Listen now on...

Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-086-follow-your-own-inner-teacher-w-lisa-valentine/id1477217106?i=1000525472085

Online https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/messyluminousbeing/id/19472969

**or search Messy Luminous Being on Spotify, GooglePlay, or your Android Podcast app!

09/06/2021

I'm so glad I didn't know in advance how complicated moving house would be!

But I also know that in every challenge is an opportunity to put my inner practice to the test, see if what I've been practicing actually works in "messy real life"...

The past seven months we have been in the process of selling our house and preparing to move up to Scotland. It's been a big journey...and so far we still haven't actually moved an inch. 😆

In the latest episode of the Messy Luminous Being Podcast, I wanted to share the four big lessons I learned about the mind during the big Move. There's also a metaphor I've been using of a kayak on a river that has absolutely saved me in this process, helped me on so many occasions to shift my mindset, relax and let things unfold.

I often find that personal situations give me the biggest lessons. So whether you're going through a move yourself, or some totally different (but equally challenging and 'out of your control') situation, I hope these mindset shifts are both helpful and inspire you to remember your own immense inner capacity. 🧡

You can listen on...
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-084-mindset-on-the-move/id1477217106?i=1000524634344

Online at Libsyn:
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/messyluminousbeing/id/19397657

**or search Messy Luminous Being on Spotify, GooglePlay, Android Podcast app etc.

17/05/2021

This past year has really shaken us all up. We’re exhausted. So many things have changed...and been lost.

But when I look back, I also want to know this was a moment I took stock.

That I stepped back, thought about what was really important to me and realigned myself with the life I wanted to be living.

It’s too easy to stay busy and forget the really important questions and miss the really important moments. It feels like this is one of those moments.

Time for a pause. A step back. And a question —how do I want to live?

How do I want to go Forward From Here?

The Forward From Here virtual summit is 💯 FREE and includes speakers who will inspire you to think about this question from all different angles. Speakers will be delivered directly to your inbox and the summit runs from 24-28 May so grab your spot now 💜

https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/forwardfromheremay2021 (link is also in my bio)

17/05/2021

In this episode, I talk to yoga teacher Monique Fryer about her favourite mantra — you're doing better than you think.

We talk about how time management and putting down our phones and social media can be part of our spiritual practice. She also shares ways to shift out of assumptions about our ageing bodies and what is considered inevitable (but shouldn't be)! This is a million-and-one mini mindset shifts in one inspiring conversation. 💛