Barrie points out that it’s perfectly fine and there is value in simply doing yoga for exercise. In fact, she says that most people go to class to move their bodies, and in the West, that is how we know yoga, as an exercise program. In working with her though, she explains, “I’m a yoga teacher that incorporates some of the principles of yoga philosophy into postural practice.” This is helpful for anyone who has an interest in understanding what yoga truly is and how it can apply to life.

These early experiences and erroneous beliefs about who she should be became a part of Megan’s personal story. She acknowledges that today these outdated stories are being examined and dropped by the collective. She says, “I think the weight of our expectations is collapsing, what we thought was appropriate.” In her case, there was a family creed that it was best to hide your sadness and not process your emotions. Megan says the thing to do was to look happy even if you weren’t. But following that narrative proved traumatic for her, and that trauma eventually manifested as addiction, eating disorder, and depression.

It wasn’t long before she was receiving so many requests for readings that she couldn’t keep up. She put together a training program in which she mentored others in developing their psychic medium abilities in order to help handle her growing volume of clients. This helped steer her to where she is today, combining her entrepreneurial skills with her mediumship abilities. She thinks the role she signed up for in this lifetime was not just to be a psychic medium but to take the information and disseminate it and share it on a bigger scale.

Julie says she notices there is more interest in art and sharing these days, more of a focus on creative outlets and creative expression. It’s one blessing to come out of the pandemic pause, she explains, because it allowed many people the time to focus on the creative ideas they always wanted to explore. She says there is an opening for each of us to ask ourselves, what am I being called to? What does that look like? How can I help to uplift humanity? How can I shine my light?

Krista, who has a biology degree, did not start her career in finances. But now that she’s there, she feels at home. She credits Five Rings Financial for this because “she fell in love with the culture of the company, which has a very education-forward focus.” She adds, “They want to help people feel good about their money.” Another draw for her is their focus on women. They recognize “women think differently, feel differently, talk differently when it comes to money.” The company is made up of sixty-three percent female agents. Of women, Krista says, “We’re nurturers by nature. We want to make people happy.” She doesn’t see these attributes as keeping women from having earning power. Just the opposite. She says, “Women are creative. Women can find darn creative ways to make big money.” However, not all companies have a women-first attitude.

However, it’s inner guidance—her spirit guides and the angelic spirit guides—that Suzanne values and identifies with most. She says of this guidance, “We might think of it as having a team or a family that are here to support us.” She explains how this is not unique to her. “We all have guidance and that guidance is part of us,” she says. “It’s part of our intuitive wisdom. It’s part of our spiritual connection.” She describes these intuitive inputs as pieces of the gifts we have and says they are ours to own.

She credits the process—which she says was like the opening of a lotus flower—as the impetus for her ultimate awakening. She says, “It all has been tied together: my creativity, my finding my authentic spiritual self, and my authentic voice, both physically and emotionally.” She adds, “I think music has been the vehicle for me to go through my awakening process, to find myself, to discover my true essence, my true nature.” Of the journey, Mary Lydia says it was often painful. She had to face both the light and the dark aspects of her life. However, she adds, it was all beautiful.

When the time came for her to transition away from teaching high school to making yoga therapy her primary work, April approached the process in her usual way. She went with the flow. She explains, “It was like I was in a current and it just moved me.” She says it’s been that way for her all her life, she trusts that inner feeling, allowing it to guide her forward. In creating her own practice, April explains the feeling like this: “It was a force of nature that moved me on.” She says she hasn’t really faced much resistance from others for her life decisions. She explains, “I’m a red-headed Aires.” Once she decides what she’s going to do, she just does it. Like the inner feeling that guides her, April too is a force of nature.

In flow with the universe, when the opportunities come, Claudette takes them. She follows the thread, devoting her time to her creative projects as needed. She points out the importance for each of us to stay open to guidance and the need for saying yes to what shows up in our lives, even when we can’t envision the outcome. She explains it like this, “Going with the flow, when something is right in front of you that looks like the next step, taking it, and not knowing where it’s going to go, but it always goes somewhere.” She is proof that staying in flow with the universe leads to the next step in the journey.