THE REASON INTERVIEW with Samantha Paige

I am super excited and grateful today because I am sharing my second interview for my project THE REASON.

This is an interview with the extraordinary Samantha Paige Goldstone of Last Cut

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Samantha is by far one of my favorite people on the planet.

She is one of my best friends, one of my first coaching clients, a student of everything I have ever taught, one of my biggest inspirations and one of my greatest teachers.

I truly feel that meeting her in many ways was pivitol in me creating my Lifestyle Program VIBRATION TRANSFORMATION.

I am BEYOND proud of Samantha for the on-going, deeply committed, forever deep diving work that she has done on every level of her precious life to be an exemplary role model for us all.

She keeps me on my game.

She helps me to continuously be the best that I can be on all levels.

This is one of those friendships where there is no difference between the teacher and the student, where the student becomes the teacher and inspires me to continuously grow and evolve as a teacher and leader beyond where I could go without her presence, devotion, love and support.

She is by far the most courageous person I know and shows me every day and in every way how to BE BRAVE.

Sam’s courage and devotion to vulnerably share her challenges, trials, tribulations and breakthroughs, epiphanies and gifts is at the heart of why I now have the courage to do the same.

In the interview she shares about the power of living in alignment with your Purpose, Values, Message and Vision.

Sam was diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer when she was 21 and tested positive for the Breast Cancer gene 8 years ago when her daughter was only 7 months old. She decided to have a double mastectomy so that she would be healthy and well for her daughter. Then she got implants, and afterwards struggled with her health and well-being. A year ago she realized that the implants may be causing the health challenges and decided to remove them. Again, she did it so that she can be as healthy as possible to raise and be a positive role model for her daughter.

She and our other dear friend and another student, teacher and great inspiration of mine Lisa Field who is an incredible photographer decided to document Sam’s journey through a photo documentary project called LAST CUT, about the big life decisions that we all have to make to live an authentic life.

The project has evolved beyond Sam’s journey and she interviews and Lisa takes photos of other people who have had to make powerful life decisions to live in integrity with their authentic selves.

Sam was featured in Equinox Gyms campaign COMMIT TO SOMETHING.

It is perfect timing to share this interview with you during the Full Moon in Leo cycle that is happening until the New Moon on this coming Sunday.

The energy of this cycle is about:

Taking chances.
Being bold.
Trying something new.
Being unique.
Creativity.
Expanding beyond your perceived limitations.
Roaring.
Re-inventing yourself.
Letting go of needing to be perfect.
Empowering yourself.
Being confident.

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My vision for you is that this interview helps you get clear about THE REASONS that motivate you in your life and that it supports you in conjuring up greater COURAGE to openly and vulnerably share THE REASONS that inspire you to live in alignment with your Purpose, Values, Message and Vision with those you love and serve.

If you like it, then like it, love it, comment on it share it with those you love and serve and take some time to ask yourself these powerful questions about THE REASON why you do what you do and feel how you feel.

REMEMBER, THE REASON REVEALS THE WAY.

A Cup of Tea with the General Manager of The Universe

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Today I had the great pleasure of experiencing the most beautiful and delicately refined traditional tea ceremony hostessed by my dear friend Sara, a Master of connecting with the Medicine of Plant Spirits.

Drinking Tea, she says is one of the most powerful ways of connecting with the wisdom of the land, people and spiritual energy of the place where the tea that we are drinking grows and has the effect of awakening higher states of consciousness.

We first smelled and then sipped about 5 little cups of Oolong Tea that she acquired from a Chinese friend who travels all over the world questing for the finest organic teas.

Then we smelled and sipped about 5 little cups of a Pu-erh tea from China that had been aged for over 40 years.

Each sip we sipped awakened the part of me that is awake, aware, alive and deeply appreciative of each moment and I found my vibration continuously rising and settling into an embodied realm of sweet happiness, peace and calm contentedness.

Before she poured the last little cup of tea she said,

This cup is for a part of you, a loved one or anyone or anything that you would like to connect with more deeply.

During the last week of leading the Vibration Transformation Cleanse I found myself intensely aware of the part of me that I like to call The General Manager of the Universe.

I first heard that cute, funny and true term for the part of me that thinks I have all the answers, knows what’s right for me and everyone else and wants to control everything internally and externally while doing an Emotional Freedom Technique tapping session with my friend Kate.

During the Cleanse I discovered how deeply exhausting it is to be the General Manager of The Universe.

So I gave my 2 weeks notice and am currently going through the process of passing the responsibility of micro-managing the Universe back to, well, The Universe.

During the Cleanse the gift of a book arrived in the mail from one of my clients.

The book is called The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer and I have been listening to the book on tape and highlighting my favorite parts in the book every moment I can.

In the book he asks,

Am I better off making up an alternate reality in my mind and then fighting with reality to make it be my way?

Or am I better off letting go of what I want and serving the same forces of reality that has managed to shape the entire perfection of the Universe around me?

The answer to me is clear.

So when Sara went to pour the last cup of tea, I knew she was pouring it for the General Manager of the Universe.

I picked up the cup and before it even touched my lips, the General Manager of the Universe said:

I AM AFRAID.

I asked:

What are you afraid of?

The General Manager of the Universe said:

I am afraid that if I let go of control and do not micro-manage everything and everyone that everything and everyone will go out of control and chaos will reign.

I asked:

Is that True?

The General Manager of the Universe thought about it for a second and simply said:

NO.

And ever since then, the General Manager of the Universe inside of my head has had absolutely nothing to say about anything.

Haystack Rock

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I am here now.

At Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast.

I am loungerlating in an old school leather chair kicking back with my feet criss crossed on this matching ottoman and rocking with a cup of hot tea in my hands.

I am perched in a wood house that is filled with memorabilia from fishermen and a lifetime of ocean lovers on a hill top gazing out to Haystack Rock which is one of the most sacred natural displays of beauty that I have ever seen.

There are thousands of white seagulls flying around and resting upon Haystack Rock.

Just in front of my view of Haystack Rock there is copious amounts of Queen Anne’s Lace flowers wildly growing with dollops of pink roses here and there.

The surf is flowing in constantly…wave after wave of deep aqua blue power & the soundtrack of the sea is lulling me into what feels like an alpha wave inner state of calm and centered beingness.

To the left of Haystack Rock there are 2 surfers in the ocean in head to toe super thick wetsuits and they must be truly stoked because they are catching wave after perfect wave.
Up here on the hill I can’t see the expression on their faces but I would guess they are smiling ear to ear.
And I am truly hoping that they are staying warm out there in that frigid water.
And I kinda wish I had my surfboard here.

There is a big white fishing boat slowly trolling by in the distance and my wish is that they are catching lots of fish.

There are droves of people and dogs on the beach.

Some are walking.
Some are running.
Some are skipping.
Some are biking.
Some are sitting.
Some are happy.
Some are in deep contemplation.

I have a feeling we all feel really lucky to be here.

I feel really lucky.

Last night we took a long walk down the beach at sunset until we couldn’t walk any further.

This beach is gargantuan.

Super long and super broad.

I took so many photographs and will share them with you accompanied with inspirational messages for years to come.

The scale of Nature’s majesty here makes me feel incredibly tiny.

And this littleness feels really good.

There is one lone man who is sitting in a chair very close to the waterline with his giant camera set up on a tripod.
My fantasy is that he is doing a time lapsed photography session.
He has a big pair of binoculars and he is probably looking at everything I am looking at but up close and in detail.
Hey, here’s a telescope.
I can get in on that up close and personal detail should I choose to…or I can just stay in this perspective with the bird’s eye view.
Now there is a small group of 4 people talking to him and he has leant them his binoculars. They are pointing at something in the direction of Haystack Rock.

As I tune into their frequency I now find myself with tears rolling down my face for no particular reason.

And now it’s not just tears.

Its a big deep cry.

It’s one of those “God I am so blessed to be alive” cries.

Really cathartic.

And it is really quite simple why this is happening right now…

I am deeply touched by this place.

We all are.

How could you not be?

It is familiar to me and it feels like one of my homes on the planet.

I feel deeply held by Mother Earth here.

The energy is so huge here that I feel like a child in her arms.

I feel tiny and it’s a relief to remember this Universal Truth.

I am here in this home and in this sacred place because my dear friend, who is my soul sister has an amazing family who is part of my soul familia here on beautiful planet Earth.

I just naturally and easily love them and I am grateful to receive the love that they naturally flow to me.

And I am so blessed that they graciously invited me into their mystical world here in Cannon Beach and into their super sweet world back in Portland.

Like me, they are all beauty givers and nature lovers and artists and lovers of life.

They are sensitive and kind and gracious and generous souls.

And I can palpably feel the love and attention to every detail that has gone into emulating the pure perfection of nature’s majesty in this home temple on the hill that is giving me shelter and a cozy spot to rest and relax.

This place is part of their family’s legacy passed down from 4 generations back.

My soul sister’s grandparents have passed away but I can feel their Spirits here and I deeply appreciate everything they have created here.

And I am feeling so much Love and Gratitude for my parents and grandparents and their never ending love for the sea and all of nature and for always creating dwellings that bring the outside in and have always helped remind me that WE ARE NATURE.

I am doing my best to keep these traditions alive.

And I feel their spirits here with me now (especially my dear ole Dad) and know how deeply they would appreciate this awe inspiring place too.

It always amazes me that the deepest tears I cry are the ones evoked by Love and Gratitude.

The waves of tears have now subsided but I know they will come again and I invite them to visit me anytime.

Wave after wave will continue to flow throughout the tides of time during this miraculous life.

What will always remain amidst the ebbs and flows is this Heart centered Spiritual Soul presence that is as strong and powerful as Haystack Rock❤️

Life Long Dream Come True

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After a back to back morning of sauna, meditation, Yoga practice and several clients I took a mid-day break to head down to the beach and jump into the ocean.

I came back up to my house and did my last Skype coaching session of the day in my bikini with ocean water dripping wet hair :-))

Just as my session ended my friend texted me:

Ocean dip?

YES! It’s friggin hot and I want to get back in that cool dream scene!
It’s time for round 2 dippety doo.

I cruised down the hill and met her and we caravanned back down to the beach.

As we drove I was oodling at how much fun I was having.

I am following one of my best friends as she revs through the twists and turns of Montecito in her new super foxy black Porsche and I am wearing nothing but my leopard print Brazilian bikini, freshly made green juice in hand singing along with Pharrell as he raises the vibration of the planet with HAPPY.

I was blissing.

We parked down at the same beach where I had just been swimming hours before, walked down to the seashore and the first thing I see is a dolphin leaping out of the ocean.

I looked at my girl and said:

I am going to go swimming with those lil pippins.

I threw down my towel, kicked off my sandals, flung off my sunglasses and ran into the sea and swam as fast as I could out towards a small pod of about 6-8 dolphins who were leaping and playing.

I have been swimming with wild dolphins many times in the Bahamas but this was the first time that I have ever been this close to our lil Pacific babies

Whenever I swim with the dolphins I talk to them in a high pitched tongue enhanced squeal that they seem to love.

People have always called me the Dolphin Girl when I am around the dolphins because they are always drawn to me and swirl their love mojo all around my everything.

Shortly after getting into the Sea I started my lil dolphin call and a stand up paddle boarder who could see the birds eye view of what was happening said:

They like you and they love that sound you are making and they are coming to play with you.

And then they were right there with me…jumping and frolicking and sparkling their high frequency LOVELIGHTBLISS all around me.

I played in their aquamarine playground with them for awhile and then they cruised up the coast and I started to swim in.

And when I was about half way in they came back and did a few more flips around me.

When I came back to shore and was laying out in the Sun a few people came up to me and said:

We were watching you play with the dolphins…we have never seen anything like that before!

And I said I have never had that experience before.
It’s a lifelong dream come true for me to play with dolphins in my home town.

As the crow flies, that beach, my beach, that I go to all the time is about 1/2 mile from where I grew up in Montecito.

Right here in the bay where I grew up swimming out the raft and hanging out at my God Parent’s beach house and sneaking into the Miramar Pool and getting chased out by Jacques the Miramar bicycle guardman and kayaking in the ocean with my dear ole dad.

Right here.
Right smack dab in a regular day doing what I do all the time when I am here.
Magic.
Pure magic.
Today a big ole dream came true that I have dreamed about my entire life.
It happened right here.
Right where I am.

So remember to dive into this moment.
Swim after your dreams.
And don’t give up.
There is so much LOVELIGHTBLISS for you here

(This photo was taken of me swimming with one of my fearless radical lover dolphin friends in the deep blue sea off the coast of Bimini.)

Calling in the Condors

Calling in the CondorsA rare of wondrous blessing from the Condors of Big Sur who circled around us flying just above our heads over and over for over 10 minutes. Feeling deeply connected to, loved and supported by Great Spirit ♥

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CondorsWe are in total awe after a rare & wondrous sighting of the condors of Big Sur…

We considered stopping the journey up the coast to check them out but decided to carry on…

And lo & behold they decided to chase after us!

Such an incredible metaphor that we do not need to turn around so that we don’t leave anything behind…if anyone or anything wants to soar to the highest heights, they will rush to find us & rise up to meet us ;-))

As they flew right by our chariot we pulled over & they circled back around soaring right above our heads… not once but 3 times…encircling us over & over again.

We knew that we were being blessed with a supreme blessing & when we read the symbology of the Condor our Spirits truly soared:

Condors prefer to live in the high mountains, to fly in the skies above the cordilleras. They symbolise the highest elevation, above limitations and obstacles. They are, above all, the symbol of the transpersonal; they integrate the wisdom of those who have died, those who have no ego. They are the symbol of spiritual ascension, of communication with the spirits, with what is subtle.

The condor is the symbol of creative power, the incarnation of timeless philosophy; his majestic flight suggests the process of life itself, of creative eternity, whose ever-living works are made up of births and deaths.

The eagle is the symbol of the sun, but the eye of the condor is the sun; it symbolises the hidden light of the great emptiness. It is the master of weather, of thunder and lightning, of wisdom, of new vision, of prophecy, of illumination.

The condor is without doubt the king of the skies, but ultimately he is a servant, a simple gardener, the instrument of the art of renovation, of cleanliness and purification; new productions need new spaces, which are fertilised from the disintegration of the old, of the spirits of the dead. Wisdom, prudence, calm, reflection, discretion, intuition, vision, prophecy, messenger of the divine – these are the attributes of the bird.

Slow down for LOVE

1017704_10151720591533908_598238833_nA friend recently asked me if she thinks that I have held back with the advancement of my career because of my relationship with my man.

And I said,

YES.

For sure.

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Shooting Star

UnknownYou know it’s going to be a poignant Memorial Service when you are sobbing amidst waves of emotion while you are writing your notes and are crying again while officiating the service…

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ONE DAY AT A TIME

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Today is one of those days️.

I WOKE UP super early with my man who was off before the break of dawn to go fishing.

I WOKE UP with a slogan in my Heart and in my mind that they say in Alcoholics Anonymous:

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