Bonus - An Interview With Leah Hyne

Faye Casement Author

May 19, 2023 |

An Interview With Leah Hyne

Find Leah at https://www.lakorayoga.com/ 

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Faye Casement: Welcome, welcome, welcome, and well welcome to The Wellness for Women's Show. And tonight we have the lovely Leah Hyne in joining us, who is a yoga teacher and she's the founder of Lakora Yoga. Now, am I pronouncing that

Leah Hyne: correctly, Leah? Yep. Yep, that's right. Lakora Yoga. Core yoga. Perfect.

Faye Casement: And so, yeah, I'm very excited to have a chat with Leah tonight.

So I Leah and I have been in a similar world for a little while now, and was just saying just very quickly before we came on that I feel like I know Leah really well, but Yeah. I've never actually had a proper conversation with her.

Leah Hyne: Yeah. The online [00:01:00] world.

Faye Casement: Yeah, absolutely. And sort of seeing each other's posts and being in sort of a couple of groups together and Did a, a lovely yoga session in the Wellness for Women Group for me as well.

And so, yeah, I feel like I know you really well, but it's gonna re so it's kind of another unusual one cuz it was the same for my last guest as well, so, so yeah. So tell everybody though a little bit about you because they're perhaps not re revolving in a similar

Leah Hyne: circle. Yeah, sure. So my name is Leah.

And as Faye said, I'm the owner of Lakora and I am a yoga teacher that has been fully qualified for about three years now, I think. But I've been practicing yoga for a very, very long time before that, and. Yoga has been my, my safe haven for being a parent. So my initial goal with my yoga is to help empower parents to kind of get rid of [00:02:00] the, the overwhelm and stress that come with parenting and focus a little bit more on calm in the mind and helping the body.

So hopefully that fits well with what you do. Yeah, absolutely.

Faye Casement: I mean, I'm all for anything wellness, anything wellness based, that's, that's got its roots in holistic some kind of holistic therapy really, rather than anything restrictive. So yeah, a hundred percent fits. Yes. And one thing that I've always said or have said a few times now is that I absolutely love listening to Leah talk about yoga.

I think you asked in your group, Didn't you about, you know, if you, if you had to describe it and I was just like, I just love the way that you talk about yoga.

Leah Hyne: Yes. Yeah. Cause it sounded so

Faye Casement: natural and I, and I thinking, you know, I'd been somebody who'd tried yoga and been to yoga classes, but they don't kind of sit you down at the start of a yoga class and tell you what it actually is.

You, you know. No, I just got in there. Felt really insecure about not knowing any of the moves and [00:03:00] what it all meant and, you know, tried my best and then left thinking, you know, what, what did judges do? You know, whereas when you came in and did the takeover for us, you gave us a little bit of a, a talk about it as well.

So, I dunno if you wanna tell

Leah Hyne: people a little bit about that, because as I say, although people will have heard of yoga, have they really heard of yoga? Yes, definitely. God, I could talk about this all day. So, yeah, I think I felt the same as you when I first started going to yoga, it was all, you know what people recognize yoga as the stretching, the dynamo facing dog, the little funky sequences.

It wasn't anything else. And nobody ever explained to me why I was doing what I was doing. So, Even I mean, I got into yoga because of the physical side. So it was originally because I was very inflexible and I wanted to gain flexibility and I wanted to improve my physical body. And then I kept this up for years without, without understanding really [00:04:00] why I was doing it.

And then I had my daughter and that's when I started noticing that when I was practicing yoga, my mind was better. So that. That brought me more into the, okay, what is this? This magic that is like helping de-stress me? So then I went on to my yoga teacher training because I wanted to learn more about yoga.

My original attention wasn't actually to teach it, it was just, I just wanted to learn more about it. So I went to my yoga teacher training and even there. We got into the, the philosophy side of yoga and all of that, which I'll get into in a second. But it wasn't until a teacher, a couple years later, I did her online course and she went into so much detail about why we do the yoga and how it relates to your life.

So it wasn't just a, this is yoga, this is what it does, it was a, this is yoga and this is how it's going to improve your life. And it [00:05:00] just blew my mind. One of the main things she said is, how we see ourselves on the mat is how we see ourselves in the world as well. So as an example of that, One thing is if you are going into the physical side of yoga and you're on your yoga mat and you are constantly wanting to kind of nail out all these amazing poses, you want to do handstand and headstand and flip upside down and stretch, you know, all the different ways, where else does that show up in your life?

Where else in your life are you trying to perform? Where else in your life are you thinking you have to do all these things? Thinking that you have to look cool, that you have to be the best, that you have to basically show off. And it wasn't until then that it made me think, oh, okay. So when I started doing my own yoga, after listening to this and I started noticing a few things about myself on the yoga mat, I started to notice that I [00:06:00] would push myself

very similar to that situation, thinking that I had something to prove. So when I got on the mat, I purposefully made myself slow down. I started taking slower yoga classes. I started doing the deeper breathing, not pushing myself unless I. Really wanted to. But there's, you know, there's the, there's the balance with yoga and I started noticing that that was showing up in my life as well then.

I was finding stressful moments in my life and I was thinking, right. Slow it down, do the deep breathing. So that for me was just mind blowing to yoga. That is how I thought this is. What I want to teach this, this whole thing here. So I think that's why I got into, whenever now someone asks me about yoga, I have to go into all the detail because I have to kind of explain to them and show them the magic that can happen on the yoga mat.[00:07:00]

So going back to the original, original question and like what yoga is, there's actually, if you look at the yoga philosophy, there's eight parts to yoga.

There's the physical side, which is just one little part. There's breathing exercises, there's how you treat yourself, how you treat others, and then there's four different types of meditation.

So like when you. Think about yoga. Most people just think physical. But actually just, yeah, maybe. Maybe to number two

Faye Casement: and then panicked.

Leah Hyne: That's it. That's it. There's all these different things, and if you actually do them in order from like, you know, these proper Indian gurus, they actually start with how you treat yourself.

So how you treat yourself is just such a big thing. And. The reason that most westerners will go straight to the physical is because we are used to go, go, go. We are not [00:08:00] used to being slow. So once we get on the mat, that's when we can then start figuring out about ourselves. So that's when that first kind of yoga limb comes in.

They're called the eight limbs of yoga, these eight things. So when you get on your mat, you can start figuring out more about yourself. Trying to figure out why you do what you do, trying to slow yourself down, or even give yourself motivation depending on what you find on your yoga mat. So shall I leave it there a minute first and see if you've got any questions.

Cause I feel like I'm blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Faye Casement: No, I mean, it's, it is lovely and like I say, I could listen to you for hours, talk about it, but I, there was lots going through in my mind and I was, and, and I was also thinking, oh, I wanna ask this and I wanna say this, but then I was also thinking like, I'm never gonna remember it, so I'll just see what happens.

But yeah, I mean the first, first thing that that came to my mind was how. And, and I said this before we started, I think about sort of the similarities. It doesn't sort of matter what we're doing. There's a lot of similarities in the mo, in the modalities that of the people that I'm talking with. [00:09:00] And I think that's the thing for me is that with what I do, it is about how you treat yourself first, and if you treat it, it is all about.

The love part and the self-love part. But I'm just doing, doing it more with the, the food and our relationship with food. And again, lots of similarities in terms of the fact that you were the, you were the apprentice. Became the master. Which is exactly what I said to my guests last week as well.

You know, that we've all come into our journeys and they are now doing, Becoming the teachers of the things that we've learned and that we've loved. And, and like you, you know, nowadays, if anybody even tries to have a conversation with me about food, it's all like food freedom, blah, blah, blah. This is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

You know? Yeah. Why didn't I know it 40 years ago? And all this kind of thing. And I just love the fact that we all have these similar journeys, really.

Leah Hyne: Yeah. Yeah, they are very, very similar. I've, I have noticed that actually in a, on a few of your podcasts, I listen to your podcast and we have, we have all got the same message and we've all just found it in a different [00:10:00] way and

that's what's so great. I think about the yoga stuff is, most people go into it for the fitness, and they're not actually, they know that they want to improve themselves because that's where they're working on their body, but it's not until they get on the mat. And they start looking more into the philosophy.

And you know, yoga teachers are always dropping these little subtle things into the class. And I think that starts to help them realize that actually they do need to go a little bit deeper than just the physical

Faye Casement: side. Mm. And it, that was the other thing that was sparking me from from, from when you were talking.

And I should say that my computer glitched out. If I, if you saw me pull a really weird, funny face at you in a minute, YouTube, people will see it. Anybody on the podcast wouldn't have missed the fact that my computer started doing something weird. But the other thing was that what, what you're saying about, and I've heard, and again, I've heard you say it before about what you see.

In real life coming out on the mat. And so for example, if you, you were struggling with balance in your life, you might struggle with balance on the mat. I've heard you say before. Yes. And I, I, [00:11:00] I like the idea of yoga, but one thing that I knew about myself is that I didn't have a lot of patience for the, the for for, for slow yoga and holding long poses.

And of course there's all sorts of different types of yoga that you can do. And I dunno what your thoughts are on this, but I kind of do. I kind of do yoga moves, but to loud music in my head, which is obviously perhaps not what it's about. Don't worry so much about the breath, but I just really like the flow of getting in some of the, you know, so like I'll start with like a sun salutation, but then make this little bop in

Leah Hyne: there or something like that.

So I call it yoga dance. Yeah. But

Faye Casement: I'm now wondering as to whether that's just me avoiding the. Slowing down part or the, the, the, the thinking, thinking, you know, having a limiting belief, I guess that I don't have the patience for what I think is true yoga, but again, I could be completely wrong as to what yoga is,

Leah Hyne: if that makes sense.

[00:12:00] I, I think there's, there's two ways that you can look at this. I think. First off, I think it's great that you've already noted that maybe you've got a bit of resistance there, but also everybody is different and some people are going to be more high energy and not be able to, or not, not necessarily be able to, but not need the, the karma and the slower pace.

So, Depending on how your natural personality is, I'm sure you've had people already speaking to you about personality types and things like that. Like, you know, all that plays plays a role for sure. But yeah, what I find a lot of the time is a lot of people will resist shavana, the last pose, the one where you, where you lay down and you basically let your body feel everything that you've done that.

Shavana itself is very, very important after you've done whatever kind of yoga class, because like when you go to bed at [00:13:00] night, your brain kind of rearranges everything that you've done in the day. Your body does that in Shavana as well. It's a really great time to release the muscles and let them feel the benefit of what you've just done.

It's definitely the hardest thing because normally your mind starts wandering off and it's, it's using your breath as an anchor to kind of. Keep focusing on your breath so that you don't think about anything else. And that is an extremely hard thing to do. But yeah, as you said, there are so many different types of yoga and I know myself, there are so many that I haven't done because they are very, very difficult.

For an example, I, I work at a yoga studio as well, as well as all my online stuff. And. There's a guy there who does rocket yoga. Oh, I haven't even been because I know, yes. I know how difficult that is, where you're just suddenly thrown into an arm balance. There's obviously hot yoga where you do it in a really hot room.

Yeah. There's so many different kinds. So I would say if anybody is considering it, maybe, maybe go on YouTube or [00:14:00] something, or to a local yoga, yoga studio and try out some different styles because they are all completely different And Another teacher that I've worked with before is so I, I love her.

She's so honest and open. And one thing that she said is she never wanted to do yoga. It was slow. It was for old people. It was stretching. That was it. And she went to the gym. And her gym class was canceled and the only thing on was yoga. So she thought, oh wow, I'll just go do it. So she dropped into this yoga class and the woman next to her was a very advanced yogi, and she did this on citation.

She just hopped up into like a scorpion handstand. So it's a handstand, but with your legs up and bent over you. And basically it was an extremely hardcore class. And then she thought, wow, this is what I want to do. Because a lot of people look at yoga and think, oh, it's slow. But it isn't, there is so many different, different kinds of classes.

So the best thing to do is to, to go and try loads of different ones. And one thing that [00:15:00] I love to do is I teach vinyasa and yin. Because they're, they're really great for balance. So it's basically the yin and the yang. So the yang side is the vinyasa, that's like the suns. And doing the Chaturanga, like press-ups down to the floor.

And then the yin side. You are holding the poses for around five minutes each, so it's very slow. But you can still be feeling a really deep stretch. Yeah. So it's really great to have, have both of these balanced. But yeah, there are so many different, different kinds out there. Yeah,

Faye Casement: and I think, I think that that was the thing.

It's like you say, it's not only perhaps testing out the different types, but drifting, testing out the different people as well, isn't it? You know, like you say, you know, I, I've loved anything that I've caught of yours. And if I, if I is one of those where, again, you know, limiting beliefs in terms of time, you know, but if I was looking for a yoga teacher, I know that you would be the first person that I genuinely would, would, would come to.

Whereas actually the thought of kind of going to a. A, a gym class now [00:16:00] and doing that after I've seen what, what you do and how you do it. I think I would be a bit, you know, I'd, I'd be wary of that cuz I'm like, well actually I'm picking half the deal over there. Really?

Leah Hyne: Thank you.

Faye Casement: Yeah. Or to be fair to them, like you say, they, they haven't got the, it is not, when I say it's not what they're there for, like, say it's, that is more about the physical side, I would've thought in a gym. Yeah. Rather than if you went to a yoga center, like where you work or your, your online membership. Cuz you've got online membership. Yeah. And you are as well gonna drop a, a link for us, aren't you? With regards to I think it was

Leah Hyne: a balance.

A yoga Yeah. Yoga for balance workshop. Yeah. Which so in that workshop we, we look at the physical side. Then we do a bit of journaling and talk about. All of this kind of stuff. And then it's meditation. So it is a bit of, well, it's balance. It's the vinyasa yoga, and then it's the meditation, which is the slowdown.

Yeah.

Faye Casement: And I do do love that. Maybe that's where maybe I, I've thought, oh, well, I don't need the[00:17:00] the meditative side of it, because I do journal and I do do mindfulness and, and, and different things, you know, but actually it's making me think now as to whether I say next time I get on the mat I'll be a little bit more observant with regards to what's what's coming up.

Not entirely sure that I'll be holding poses for five minutes yet, but I did give myself like a little plank challenge once. Yeah.

Leah Hyne: This, this is the thing. It can be really, really strong, but it's also. Again, one of the hardest things is to adapt it to your own body. So as well as your mind thinking, like you said maybe resisting some of the slower stuff.

It's also Yeah. Adapting it to your body and using props and slowing down when you need to. And the main thing with yoga compared to kind of like other fitness things is. In my opinion, other fitness things, it's like, right, do this, do this, do this. You know, do 10 squats or whatever. In yoga, it's a, I invite you to do this thing.[00:18:00]

If you don't want to do it. If you don't feel it, it's right in your body. You don't do it, you, you adapt. And this is why it can be so different when you go to a yoga class, you might notice everybody doing completely different things. But that's normal. It's because they're all adapting to their own body, and when you're doing it online, again, it's great because you're not comparing yourself to anybody.

You are just feeling what you are feeling.

Faye Casement: Yeah. And I, and the thing I say, what I really love about it and love the idea is, is sort of, it's almost the artistry of it. It is this flow part of it. I, I aspire to live in a flow state. Yes. And just sort the, the, the. It can be quite graceful, just sort of as you move through the poses and again, you can really put a flourish in it.

And again, maybe this is the perfor. Maybe I have got this inner performer in me that I never really thought about. I like a little bit of a flourish when I do this sort of move or, or whatever it might be. You know, I'm going into a BO pose and it's like, [00:19:00]

Leah Hyne: definitely, definitely with it. Yeah. I do this a lot in my membership, so in my in my workshops and my stuff on YouTube, it's a little less flowy.

So a little bit more about the yoga and Kind of like an introduction and I explain a lot. So it's le it is less flowy because I'm talking a lot and we're holding the poses a little bit in my membership cuz I know that the parents that I work with, you know, they're there to relax. They're there to have fun and do something for them for that half hour.

Yeah, they want a little bit of, of flowy. So we do go over like some really fun sequences like going, jumping from one pose to another. Not literally jumping, but going from one pose to another. And yeah, we just, we just have a little bit of a laugh with it. And sometimes I will throw in like a really difficult pose.

One because. Like, I just want them to experience something new and something fun, but two, because I wanna make them laugh because once, once you laugh as well, your body relaxes and you can actually gain more [00:20:00] flexibility in things like this as well. But it's just nice for them to try something new. And also sometimes they kind of shock themselves into, oh wow, I just did that and I didn't think I could.

Yeah. And again, it's trying to get across to them that, do you know what? You are capable them more than you think if you just give it a go. So again, it's kind of that yoga on and off the mat, showing them what's possible.

Faye Casement: Yeah. Yeah. And again, I, I absolutely love that. And next week's episode of the, of the show actually is about finding joy, because that is a big part of.

What I want for people through food and life freedom and what I'm offering is to find more joy if people are working on weight loss, to find more joy in that process. You know, it's been such a years of restriction and feeling miserable about ourselves, our bodies, the, the food diet and everything really.

Let's face it, you know? And I just want, want to help people to find more joy, cuz that is possible. And also, as you say, you know, in doing so, you find so much more. About [00:21:00] your yourself, you then look for more opportunity and like you say, you're stretching them on and off the mat, isn't it? You know, because sometimes we can have a tendency to close down and think that we can't do something, can actually, you know, just sometimes it takes that little nudge to Yeah.

To, to, to start you off in the right direction, to be able to see those opportunities and those possibilities.

Leah Hyne: Definitely. Yeah. And I, I, I also, just to add to that as well We, I have heard so many people say, oh, I can't do yoga. I'm too big, or I'm too old, or I'm too inflexible. And you know, all of this stuff is all in your mind because it, it really doesn't matter.

Yeah. To do yoga or to do any of this, you just have to have the right mindset. It all comes down to that and yeah, it really doesn't matter about anything else. Yeah. And just

Faye Casement: to, and like you said, just to be prepared to. To, to try, because I think it's a similar thing with, or can be a similar thing with weight loss in, in the [00:22:00] sense of that, you know, I'm sort of the thoughts of I'm too, I'm too old or, you know, it's in my genes or, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm never gonna be able to, you know, all those things because the, the, the beliefs that we've built up over the years because of the, the histories that we've, that we've had, isn't it?

And and like say that will come out for, for people who. May contemplate working on yoga. Yoga as well, but, but like say it is such a Such a, a forgiving activity as well. I think, like you say, you can, you can adapt, you can have props. Yeah. You don't necessarily, you know, if there's a particular move that you can't do for.

So like when I, when I had a larger body, I struggled with my knees and I struggled with my back. And so there were certain yoga moves that I couldn't do because I would, I found that they hurt my knees and my back. Whereas now I know more about sort of adapting to, to my body and having that flexibility to be able to do that.

And that, and that's again, is just like kind of that [00:23:00] freedom on the mat as well,

Leah Hyne: isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. And I, I wish more people would use props as well. And I do this in all my classes. I will grab a blanket for my knees, I will use my blocks to put my hands on. It's all about making it easier for your body and

you're trying to kind of relax into the pose and be fully present with what you're feeling. So if you are in, say, say, on all falls and your knees are hurting, you know that's not being in tune with your body. You need to, well, it is to feel that. So you need to go and grab a blanket and put it underneath your knees.

And I just, I use them so often. To also prove to other people, you know, I've been practicing yoga for over 10 years now. I will still grab a blanket for my knees and use the blocks and use the strap. And it's only gonna help your practice. Yeah. Rather than, you know, oh, I'm, I'm, I've been doing this for years.

I don't need the props. It's completely not about that. [00:24:00] I've seen the most experienced yos, they all use props.

Faye Casement: Yeah. And also as well, let's face it, you're not gonna be able to consistently do something if you do yourself a mischief in

Leah Hyne: some ways. Exactly. Form. Yes. I,

Faye Casement: yeah, I've actually, I I do. You'll be please to know I do have props.

Leah Hyne: Yeah, I do have blocks and I do have a

Faye Casement: strap. And also I quite like using this strap because it's, you can get a deeper stretch, especially if I'm sort of sitting stretch lying down and sort of stretching my legs out and that kind of thing. Yes. So, Yeah, definitely also just have that, that, that support, but

but again, thinking about sort of what you, what we were saying earlier about, you know, relationships on and off the mat, I'm somebody who for years would've struggled to Struggled to show weakness again. I did a, a show on this a couple of weeks about ago about not showing emotion and the sort of being a recovering perfectionist and not wanting to be able to admit that I couldn't do something.

So that would make sense as to why I would be somebody who would then perhaps think that I couldn't use props because it might, [00:25:00] like you say, it's a sort of a lot of face almost. Yeah. Whereas actually we all need support in life from time to time. Isn't it? You know, we all need help and that's, that's okay.

Some of us aren't, haven't been used to doing that over the years.

Leah Hyne: Exactly. Yeah. And on that note as well, like with showing emotion, that kind of stuff can help with yoga because it's not. I dunno, anybody listening how everybody's knowledge is of the chakra, but we've got energy points in the body and when we open our body in these yoga poses, it can kind of release these energy points and it gets your emotions flowing and everything like that as well.

So it really can help you to understand more about. Your emotions and how you're feeling. And sometimes you can like do a pose on the mat and all of a sudden be like, burst into tears or something because there's this, this emotion that's been stored in you and then all of a sudden it just comes out.

And it, it [00:26:00] can be so powerful, but it can also be scary if you've never experienced anything like that at all. It, it really can teach you so much about yourself and Yeah, that's, I just love explaining all this, especially in my classes. If anybody ever comes to my classes, you'll know that I explain all of this.

As we do it. Because I think why do something if you don't know why you're doing it? Yeah.

Faye Casement: Yeah. And like you say, there is far more to it than just we're doing it to stretch this part of our body or what, whatever it might be, which I say I think would be possibly most people's experience with.

With yoga? I would've I would've thought so. Yeah, it's, it is absolutely fascinating. And I think as well, just sort of briefly, cuz I don't want to keep you too long, cause again, I could talk for hours with people. It is sort of as a, as a parent as well, you, you know, I, I can see the, the, the benefits of that, not only for finding a little bit of you time, but as you say, you know, there's a lot of.

A lot of tension that you can hold in your body and that, you know, we can get [00:27:00] emotions trapped in our bodies. And that mind and body connection is a, is a, is a big thing. And if we want better relationships with, with others ourselves and also be able to handle situations that come up, we do need to get in tune body, body, mind, and soul.

Which is again, a big part of, a big part of what I do. And I know it's a big part about what you

Leah Hyne: do as well. Yes, definitely. It's definitely had a major impact on my parenting for sure. And a lot of people that I've worked with and just as an example, we are having extremely hard bedtimes right now, and bedtime is a real struggle.

She doesn't wanna go. She'll fight it and fight it. Fight it. And I get extremely wound up because, First off, I think especially doing the yoga and everything else that I do, I've figured out my triggers is, you know, if she goes to bed early, I get my time. If she doesn't, I don't. So straight away I'm like, wound up thinking I need my time now, go to bed.

So straight away my, my [00:28:00] emotions are running high. And then you, you look at the, the yogic techniques and everything that we've learned and it's like, okay. I can feel that coming up in my body now like you would do in a yoga pose on the mat. So let's slow it down, close down the eyes, maybe deep inhale, deep exile, slow down the heart rate.

Okay. I feel better. I feel like I can deal with this better now. So, yeah, it just, it does all relate. It's, it's all ups and downs, isn't it? But we learn as we go. And that's the whole thing. It's, it's a yoga practice because we are constantly practicing. None of us is gonna be perfect and. Although everybody gets this idea of yoga teachers being all calm and living this, this wonderfully graceful life, we're not, we're all crazy because we are all learning as we go.

But it is a great thing, like you said, to take into your life, not just for parenting and your kids as well, but. Everybody else in your life ev all of your relationships. Yeah. Yeah. And

Faye Casement: then like you say, it's seeing that parallel, isn't it? Certainly. What I found on my weight loss journey is things that were coming up [00:29:00] for, and especially the method that I teach, you know, you can use that across the whole of.

A whole of life, you know, sort of gathering that awareness and then taking action. You know, sometimes, you know, a bit more on the mind and the cognitive side of it, but it is still about then dropping into your body and using your intuition towards it is as well. And just, just taking time to, like you say, figure.

Figure yourself out and figure out what comes up for you. You know? And it was a big shift for me, maybe not through yoga, but a similar thing where I had some coaching about how I wanted to parent as my daughter was heading towards teenage years and I was dreading these teenage years, you know, like say I've got this belief that, that that teenage years were gonna be absolutely horrendous and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

I mean, I used to joke when she was a. Younger child that she was gonna be pregnant at 12 with an asbo. I mean, it was one of those things I'd completely got it in my mind that this was gonna be horrendous. And I had this coaching and it was like, well, how do I, how do you want to show up? And it was, I want to show up with compassion, [00:30:00] compassion for her, because whatever she does, you know, she'll be living life through her, her lens.

And I, and so as soon as I started, as soon as I embraced that and was mindful a a about her, it it's completely changed, completely changed our life, you know, and it, and it's, it's, it's there's a lot of people who perhaps would go through and never do any of the work that you and I do, and it's just so beneficial.

Leah Hyne: Definitely. Definitely. And like you said, you can do it through so many different things. There's so many different ways to, to learn this about yourself because Yeah, it's. Although it's parenting and it's about them, it's about changing you and the way you

Faye Casement: are. Yeah. You've only got control over yourself at the end of the day.

You can't control others for sure. You can't control situations. You can only control your control yourself and control your own emotions. But in doing so, as you say, you know, if you are taking that breath and taking that pause and then [00:31:00] approaching your daughter, you're gonna be approaching her in a very different way.

Exactly. And if you hadn't took that, that, that breath and pause and, and that me time that like say you crave, then you'd spent it in judgment over the fact that I should have done this better or differently. Exactly. Isn't it? Whereas like they can move on quicker as well which gets the beauty of it.

And again, what I love is that again, everything that we, we all do it is about finding your own path. Again, a big thing for me is finding my path, you know, and taking the bits from. From all of the bits that you learned along the way, isn't it? You know, so you might find somebody who would like work with me and work with you and then take a bit of something else from over here and, you know, it's about like, say, trying all these things and just finding what works and fits for you.

And maybe you learn a little bit about yourself from this modality and another little bit about yourself from over here. And then like, say like, Describe it as a jigsaw donut. So it's about, well, getting all the jigsaw pieces out on the table and then trying to put it all together. So

Leah Hyne: that's it. Yeah.

We're, we're all gonna resonate with different people, [00:32:00] aren't we, with different things. So it is about finding, finding those pieces. Yeah. I mean, you'll ne you'll never

Faye Casement: have a, a one size fits all for, for everything, isn't it? You know? There is no one stop shop for a, for, again, when, when you're trying to figure out life, when it's so,

complex and glorious. And at the

Leah Hyne: same time, isn't it only it was that easy. I know, right. Magic wand. That's it.

Faye Casement: But yeah, but I'm very grateful to have had you on the show today, Leah, and obviously we'll have to have you back again cause I'm sure like, say we've only, no, we've only touched , the tip of the ice.

But that's, but yeah, it's been an absolute pleasure putting a, a proper. Proper moving face and conversation.

Leah Hyne: Thank you, you so much for having me. No worries at all. And

Faye Casement: anybody who is listening on podcast or catching it on the YouTube, check out the descriptions cuz it will be popping Leah's links on there.

And so make sure that you go check her out and grab her free goodies for you and we'll [00:33:00] see you soon. Bye for now. Thanks for listening, and don't forget if you want to boost your life and weight loss the Triple-A-Way , check out the relevant links for today's show in the description. Speak soon.

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