[00:00:00] Emily Race-Newmark: Welcome to This is How We Care, a podcast where we look at what it means to embody care, not as an individual practice, but a collective one, and to see what kind of world emerges from this place.

[00:00:12] Emily Race-Newmark: Thank you for being here. I am your host, Emily Race.

[00:00:15] Emily Race-Newmark: Today we are joined by Amanda Young. 

[00:00:17] Amanda Young: Looking at our culture at large there are ways that we could redefine success. We could redefine prosperity, even redefine wealth that would be more supportive for us all. 

[00:00:30] Emily Race-Newmark: Amanda is an OG and pioneer in the current wave of goddess culture. She is the founder of Urban Goddess, where she's been a seasoned mentor and guide, helping the next generation of female leaders thrive by unlocking the wisdom of their body, helping them hear their intuitive guidance of their soul and reconnecting them to the power of pleasure. 

[00:00:50] Emily Race-Newmark: She currently is expanding her offerings to also serve men and couples as a natural evolution of her work. 

[00:00:56] Amanda Young: I've been working with women for over 15 years, and I do work with some men, but primarily my work has been with women.

[00:01:06] Amanda Young: It started off as nutrition and health coaching. And then there was a natural flow from that into working with women around goddess-centered spirituality. Because I recognize that all the women that I was working with around food, around body, and health had this deeper malnourishment which was of the female soul. 

[00:01:28] Amanda Young: That they weren't being nourished in this very particular way. That their feminine body, the feminine soul hadn't been really spoken to and addressed. And so a whole body of work came out of that.

[00:01:41] Amanda Young: Which is working with female goddess archetypes, embodiment practices, and a signature journey that I take women on. 

[00:01:50] Amanda Young: As I was doing this work, I was also a business owner. I'm a teacher doing this work, but I'm also someone who's running a business. What I discovered over time was that I had gotten to a place where my business was pretty successful and I was materially making a good living and at the same time I was getting burnt out. 

[00:02:17] Amanda Young: And I was also doing this work that was helping women to not be burnt out, but then I was burning myself out. I believe I was actually still a really good teacher all through that time and was able to really help women connect to their own femininity yet there was this part of myself that wasn't being nourished. 

[00:02:38] Amanda Young: It was in 2017, that I really came to a point of real awareness that something needed to shift for me. I really scaled down my business. I was in LA at the time. I spent a lot of time that year in Mexico. The beach, just living more simply, not doing as much work, not making as much money, but really nourishing myself in the ways that I felt I needed to nourish myself.

[00:03:08] Amanda Young: Primarily that had to do with slowing down, being in nature. It was also really opening myself up. 

[00:03:16] Amanda Young: When I had been so focused in my work bubble, I really wasn't having as much in my relationship life and my romantic and sexual life. 

[00:03:28] Amanda Young: During that time, it was just I really opened up to this incredible lover relationship, opened up sexually. There were all these ways I was being nourished that felt to me like true prosperity. 

[00:03:43] Amanda Young: In a visceral level, I could feel the difference between what it felt like to be making the money, but really not feel prosperous to actually be making less money, simplifying things, but feeling really filled up and prosperous.

[00:03:58] Amanda Young: Out of there really wanted to share that with women and felt like looking at our culture at large that there are some ways that we could redefine success. We could redefine prosperity, even redefine wealth that would be more supportive for us all. 

[00:04:16] Amanda Young: I started Prosperous Goddess. The first course I led was in 2018, that spring. And that was the result of that journey of that year. 

[00:04:26] Emily Race-Newmark: I felt called to interview Amanda as I was revisiting her Prosperous Goddess course, which we'll speak more about in this episode.

[00:04:32] Emily Race-Newmark: Through her guided exercises, I directly experienced shifts in my own life that all began with my nervous system expanding, softening, opening, relaxing, which allowed me to open up to an experience of prosperity that came from within; something that was far more sustainable than the definitions of prosperity that I had heard and had oriented around in the past.

[00:04:53] Emily Race-Newmark: Fundamental to this experience and the work that Amanda's leading is this expansive perspective on what prosperity even means and how we can experience it, which is why I wanted to interview Amanda so she could share a bit more about how her work is contributing to this paradigm shift, which in many ways is a re remembering of something that we've already known for a long, long time.

[00:05:13] Emily Race-Newmark: As you may have gathered from this intro, Amanda's perspective is foundationally rooted in reconnecting and re relating with divine feminine energy. If this language is off putting to you at all, you are not alone. I get it. There's been times in my own life where I found it to be a bit jarring. And I'd encourage you to continue on and listen to this conversation from a place of openness and curiosity, to see what might open up for you regardless of how you identify or how you've related to quote unquote femininity in the past. 

[00:05:42] Emily Race-Newmark: And there is something to be said or to inquire around why, if this language is jarring for you, why that is. It could be rooted in our cultural conditioning around what femininity is. It could also be rooted around a desire to expand beyond binaries. But we discuss all of this with Amanda in today's episode, so again, I hope that you stay with this conversation, even if it brings up different questions within yourself.

[00:06:08] Emily Race-Newmark: I initially met Amanda back in 2016. I can't believe how long ago that is now. I had discovered a workshop she was leading at a bookstore down the street from my house.

[00:06:18] Emily Race-Newmark: It was called "Invoke the Modern Priestess with the Goddess Isis". This was the first time that I ever engaged with goddess archetypes or dove deep into any conversation around the divine feminine at all. But for whatever reason, I felt called to check this out and I'm so glad that I did.

[00:06:33] Emily Race-Newmark: At that time, I was feeling out of alignment in my own life and struggling mostly with feelings of insecurity and behaviors that were manifesting as things like an eating disorder or being with partners that weren't right for me or overworking. And I believe I was at place of wanting to go deeper into a spiritual practice, but up until that point, I was having a hard time connecting with spirituality in a way that felt authentic to my lived experience and had grown up really immersed in this idea that there's a Heavenly Father or this patriarchal God. I was also at a time of re examining what gender equality could look like without women just becoming more like men.

[00:07:14] Emily Race-Newmark: In this conversation, I asked Amanda to cover some of the basic definitions around her foundational work, so that regardless of where you're entering, there is some shared understanding of what she means by these terms, goddess, feminine, masculine, as they're being discussed.

[00:07:28] Emily Race-Newmark: I hope you enjoy. 

[00:07:29] Emily Race-Newmark: This conversation was originally recorded in August of 2023. 

[00:07:34] Emily Race-Newmark: What is the goddess? And what is urban goddess looking at? Just so folks, if they don't have experience with some of that terminology, can ground themselves in that piece. 

[00:07:42] Amanda Young: Way back in 2006, 2007, in New York City, I had my first Urban Goddess workshop, which was really just an exploration of what does it mean to be a goddess? Because when a woman would sit down across from me, when I was about to do a nutrition consultation with her for the first time, Even though it's, like, "Oh, we're here to talk about how to have more energy or lose weight or whatever." What I saw was like, "Oh my God, this woman doesn't recognize she's a goddess and I see it. I'm here to advocate for her to see that for herself."

[00:08:13] Amanda Young: Now I have to understand what does that really mean? So I started leading these workshops in a way as an inquiry for my own self.

[00:08:20] Amanda Young: I feel like now you go on Instagram and you're going to see a million people talking about goddess, divine feminine. But in those days, I just didn't really have any models for it. It was just all very much originating out of me. " Okay, I'm just going to follow these questions." And so I was studying these different goddesses and eventually that curriculum of these three primary goddess archetypes and these mythologies they take women through evolved. 

[00:08:45] Amanda Young: Essentially, what it means to me is a woman fully being in her power, and it means also understanding that we have to redefine our understanding of power as well. 

[00:08:59] Amanda Young: When you look up a synonym for power in the dictionary, you're going to see manly. And all these words like Herculean, and these things that are very much associated with more masculine, traditional definitions of power.

[00:09:13] Amanda Young: And when we hear goddess stories, we start to understand what power looks like in other forms. When we get connected to our own bodies, we get to feel what power feels like in our body, because we haven't had a voice. 

[00:09:28] Amanda Young: We weren't the ones writing these definitions, so the definitions came from what it felt like in a man's body to feel power. 

[00:09:36] Amanda Young: When we come into our own bodies and we understand and hear stories about goddesses, this divine power that's feminine, we start to understand power in a whole other way, which I think is revolutionizing for our culture. Because we start to understand power as something that is about receptivity instead of simply assertion. 

[00:10:00] At some level although this sounds maybe crude I think that this just breaks it down, if we talk about the primary biological differences between a man and a woman is our sexual organs.

[00:10:12] Amanda Young: Men are built as penetrators. It's an organ that penetrates. And so when a man is feeling in his visceral power, there's a way you penetrate into the world, insert into the world, right? 

[00:10:26] Amanda Young: And for us as women although we birth, that's one form of our power. We also, we soften, we moisten, we open, we receive, we allow in. Our sexuality and our visceral sense of our power in our bodies is so different. 

[00:10:47] Amanda Young: Just those two pieces right there start to point us towards these different forms of power. 

[00:10:54] Amanda Young: As women, when we grow up in a culture that has these definitions that have all been defined and voiced by men, and we grew up in religions that have all been voiced and defined by men, I'm like, "This is what divine power is like. This is what God is. This is what power in the worldly way is." It can be very contracting and confusing for us because we'll take on those forms, and then we'll also feel this deep sense of something missing and that is the thing that leads to burnout, in so many cases.

[00:11:27] Amanda Young: And so for me it's a whole world that has opened up through connecting to God as goddess, as power, as divine feminine power. Not exclusively these, just inclusively allowing that to come in and giving emphasis there because it's been so missing for thousands of years in the conversation. 

[00:11:53] Amanda Young: I believe that the feminine, the masculine exists within all of us. So as we bring in the divine feminine, this is something that's really meant to be supportive for men, because as we shift these narrow definitions of what is power, that actually allows a man to have access to these other forms of power that have to do with softening and vulnerability and opening. 

[00:12:20] Emily Race-Newmark: Totally. 

[00:12:21] Emily Race-Newmark: I also want to say from a personal lens, when we first started working together, that was the beginning of my own journey of reclaiming my own relationship with my feminine power and seeing that as a source of vitality and creativity and all of these things and really finding myself restored into balance.

[00:12:37] Emily Race-Newmark: And I've since now feel myself at this point of tension where in the world, there's a lot of conversation around like getting away from the binaries. I wanted to hear your perspective on how can we hold both of these things perhaps, and still hold the wisdom that looking at things through divine masculine and feminine perhaps can offer us?

[00:12:54] From where I sit, I don't really see that there's a conflict between how I hold these concepts of the divine feminine/masculine and non-conforming gender.

[00:13:08] Emily Race-Newmark: In the spiritual path that is about divine immanence which is what I believe the feminine path is, which is that we're coming more fully into our bodies and through our bodies, having awakening of heaven on Earth here and now. Meaning that we're unifying the spirit into the physical form. In the material world, there are binaries.

[00:13:30] Emily Race-Newmark: Right.

[00:13:31] Amanda Young: It's like a spiritual bypass in a way to be like, " No binaries exist." Well, they do. 

[00:13:37] Amanda Young: There's an interplay of opposites. There's day, there's night, there's masculine, there's feminine, there's white, there's black, there's all the shades in between. 

[00:13:45] Amanda Young: But it's like that initial duality is out of which all the multiplicity of existence.

[00:13:52] Amanda Young: The triangle, from a sacred geometric perspective, represents spirituality in human form. And what I mean is the union of the spirit and the body. Why that is, is that it is the shape that shows the connection between non-duality, the one point of the triangle, that goes into the two. So non -duality, on a spiritual level, is a non-dual. Like when we're not in a body, there's no separation, right? I am you, you are me. It's important on a spiritual level to have connection to that.

[00:14:29] Amanda Young: When we start to access that through the heart space, the sense of oneness of all. 

[00:14:35] Amanda Young: Yet at the same time in the material world, you're you and I'm me. We have these separations. So the triangle shows us actually how we can have both of those things together. 

[00:14:46] Amanda Young: I bring that forth to say that's just the nature of life is that there are these binaries, there are these opposites, and words and concepts will always be imperfect. We can never perfectly capture what we're trying to talk about. But in order to communicate our human experience and try and find commonalities to speak from, we reference these.

[00:15:09] Emily Race-Newmark: Mm, yes, several things that really spoke to me, one just the power of archetypes, that you work heavily with, where you tap into these different energies within ourselves. But if that energy has been suppressed or watered down to be this very surface level thing like, "This is what it means to be feminine.," and that's our cultural understanding of that, then we're really missing out on the spectrum within feminine energy. 

[00:15:29] Emily Race-Newmark: Like Kali, for example, was a goddess for me that I was like, "Ooh, I didn't even realize feminine energy could be expressed in this way." Because I've been culturally conditioned to think of it as like a very like princess type, close your legs and like (laughing)..

[00:15:42] Emily Race-Newmark: And, I think folks, could check out your work, of course, and dive more into this if they have an appetite to learn more. But I just wanted to hear your take on that. And I really appreciate you diving into that complexity. 

[00:15:52] Emily Race-Newmark: The other thing I wanted for you to define, is how do you define prosperity? And you touched a bit on that in your intro, but yeah, what is prosperity? 

[00:16:01] Amanda Young: On one basic level is simply a nervous system in relaxation mode. And I know that sounds overly simplistic, but it's a state of being. 

[00:16:14] Amanda Young: One of the ways that our culture is off the mark is this idea of always having us look outside ourselves, needing to get more, do more, prove more. " If I reach that level of success, or if I have that thing, or if I have that, then I'm prosperous." 

[00:16:33] Amanda Young: If we go to the heart of what I think that we all desire is really a state of being, an internal state of being, a feeling that we've been taught we're going to get when we get the thing. 

[00:16:46] Amanda Young: Ultimately, we just focus on the feeling we want to have, which is a feeling of contentment, a feeling of enoughness, a feeling of satiation. And that doesn't necessarily require all of those things. It's a sense of being able to take a deep breath and really be present in our bodies and in the moment we're in. 

[00:17:15] Amanda Young: I want to parallel this with also saying in our present day culture, money is a piece of prosperity, for sure. Because if you don't have enough money to pay your bills, keep a roof over your head, eat well, take care of things, you're also not going to be in that prosperous state, right? You're going to have a harder time. Your nervous system is going to be on overdrive.

[00:17:38] Amanda Young: We want all of our needs to be met, but there's an empowerment that resides in understanding that it's a frequency, it's a vibration, it's a feeling state.

[00:17:48] Emily Race-Newmark: Sure.

[00:17:49] Amanda Young: Because I do know, people that are very wealthy, truly upper echelon, who run around, can't sleep at night, frantic. The money isn't going to give you that...

[00:17:59] Emily Race-Newmark: And it's necessary. 

[00:18:01] Amanda Young: Yeah, it's like it's necessary on a certain level in our culture, but it's not going to guarantee that. It's not going to guarantee it either. 

[00:18:07] Amanda Young: What we do have control over generally is our state. And no matter what is in the bank account, being able to come to that inner state and to understand from there, we will also magnetize more prosperity in various forms, right? One of them being potentially money, but also the other forms of prosperity, which are community, connection, nature. Those are the primary ones actually for me that come to mind. 

[00:18:43] Emily Race-Newmark: Now that I've entered this stage of my life as a new mother, I'm realizing that I'm living in so many ways my dream. I feel like I have everything I could have ever wanted a couple years ago. And yet there's times when my nervous system is not at ease. And so I realized that I'm not in that frequency of prosperity. 

[00:19:01] Emily Race-Newmark: Something is disconnected and there's practices that you share with people on how we could access that frequency within ourselves and start to prioritize that in the ways that we spend our time. 

[00:19:13] Emily Race-Newmark: I wanted to share how helpful it's been to re engage with this work as a mother, because I feel like that's another area where you see that it's rewarded to be running on empty. And it's like, "Wait a minute, we don't have to perpetuate that idea that that's what it means to be a good mother is that you're doing it all and you're running out of fuel."

[00:19:31] Amanda Young: I'm hearing you say, you check the boxes of what you had desired and wanted. But then within that, there's a feeling state that wasn't allowing you to actually feel the state of contentment that you imagined because you're running on that empty, overdoing.

[00:19:47] Emily Race-Newmark: Exactly. 

[00:19:47] Emily Race-Newmark: If you're enjoying Amanda's perspective, there's more great content from her over at our Patreon. Every contribution, no matter the size, is a massive help to fund the production of this podcast. You'll receive extra bonus content as a thank you, such as: 

• Why some of us may feel unsafe or feel like it's forbidden to connect to our sexual energy, and the role that our sexual center plays in our creativity and vitality.

• More on Amanda's experience with spirituality from a young age and where her curiosity for the feminine emerged along the way.

• The cross cultural element of Amanda's work, and the ways in which the feminine and masculine appear in different cultures, along with the role that patriarchy has played.

• And playing with different elements of the masculine and feminine polarities within ourselves, regardless of our gender.

Truly, thank you so much for being a part of this community, for sharing and supporting conversations like this one. Let's get back to Amanda as she shares her take on the problem of our time, as well as her vision for the world. 

[00:20:46] Amanda Young: From my perspective from the work that I do, I would say one of the biggest challenges we face as a species or as a culture is a disconnect to the body. That energy is so much in the head. And what that creates is a kind of a numbness and a disconnect to the feeling state. And what that creates then is conflict. I think it creates a disconnect to the environment, caring for the world that we live in, caring for other human beings. Because literally, we're not in our heart space, we're not in our gut, in our womb, in our belly. We're not feeling. 

[00:21:29] Amanda Young: When we're not in our bodies, we're not feeling. And when we're not feeling, we're not caring in the way that we could. That's what I think is at the core of war and conflict and destruction of the environment and the havoc that's reaped by overconsumption and all of these things. It's the disconnect to the feeling state of the body.

[00:21:51] Emily Race-Newmark: If you were to shift it to a dreaming space of anything is possible and the world as you would love to see it exists, how might that look through the lens of the work you're doing? 

[00:22:01] Amanda Young: Yeah. Yeah. I can try and imagine a world without conflict and war and a world where we really come together in community. 

[00:22:14] Amanda Young: Part of the human experience is we're going to have a little bit of conflict. But I can imagine a world where there's more caring for one another, more sense of community. I feel like there's this baseline of everyone believing that it's like, "I live in my own little box, so separate from my own neighbor." In some belief, that underlies that it's like kind of me against the world, having to forge my way on my own against the world and reach in our own little box trying to do that.

[00:22:45] Amanda Young: A world that I would like to picture and imagine is a world where we are more knitted together as community and feeling more interdependence and care. If we move into the body and into the feeling place and into the heart, into this place of care for one another and away from this idea of having to fight for ourselves, I just see a thriving community of children being brought up in that and and people feeling in their vulnerabilities and in their challenges that there's someone that has their back, really. 

[00:23:19] Emily Race-Newmark: And I would love to connect that because that's such a theme is this role of community and the interconnection. And then for whatever reason, sometimes it feels so challenging for us to get there. To your prosperity and the embodiment piece? I'm wondering if there's a dot to connect between those things and the community care piece.

[00:23:35] Amanda Young: Absolutely. 

[00:23:36] Amanda Young: Okay. So, the other thing you want presence here that we haven't really talked about is the fact that there's a lot of trauma in people's systems, on various levels of the spectrum of that, which is part of what keep people disembodied. It's like nervous system dysregulation that everyone has as part of this that's being fed also then by this cultural belief that it's like, "Me on my own against the world." It's almost like there's a trauma narrative that everyone's in that has their systems disregulated. 

[00:24:01] Amanda Young: And as we do embodiment practices, all of the practices that I share are a form of regulation for the nervous system that then allows us to come into a state of really taking that deep breath, feeling our full system, being fully in the moment—right here, right now. 

[00:24:18] Amanda Young: And from that space, being able to breathe in and receive: (a) the prosperity that's already present here. Gosh, gosh, we're like so prosperous compared to so much of the world, most of the people that are probably listening to this podcast right now. 

[00:24:33] Amanda Young: Having a nervous system that is in relaxation and able to feel contentment, starting to have understanding that prosperity is not this thing that comes from outside that we're going to get out there if we fight for our piece. 

[00:24:48] Amanda Young: Then we start to come from a place of care and connection within community. And from there, there's also a sharing of resources.

[00:24:59] Amanda Young: So to me, it feels like it's all one. 

[00:25:01] Emily Race-Newmark: Oh. Oh. Yeah. Because you're also reminding me from that trauma space that some of us bond with one another from that place. And so there's a deeper connection available, but there's also times when we need to tend to ourselves in solitude and like, create our space to do that. And then there's times when actually doing that in community, in a group, really serve us because we may see a reflection of what we're going through in someone else. 

[00:25:24] Emily Race-Newmark: And I know you work in group settings also so maybe you can speak to the role that community may play in this process of getting to nervous system regulation. Is there a connection there?

[00:25:36] Amanda Young: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. 

[00:25:37] Amanda Young: I'm someone that I definitely like my alone time to like, kind of bring myself to a certain place so then I can show up in a certain way with people. And I think that there's a place for that, absolutely, for everyone to have their own practice. 

[00:25:50] Amanda Young: We are wired as human beings for connection. And there is co regulation, that is what takes place when we're in community and we're hugging each other, our arms around each other, looking into someone else's eyes and feeling their eyes meet yours and feeling seen, these are all ways that we regulate our nervous system too.

[00:26:09] Amanda Young: And one of the issues is this sense of separation that technology creates for people where it's, " I'm just going to sit and watch Netflix in my own little bubble and then be on my computer and be on my phone," and not getting that person to person co regulation. 

[00:26:22] Amanda Young: I do one-on-one work, which is really powerful, but I love doing my programs for women in groups too, because there's that permission that you get from the sisterhood and that growth that comes from being together.

[00:26:34] Amanda Young: And one other thing I wanted to say around prosperity, in connection with this, this is something that I would really love for people to be able to take away and remember, is that if we're to redefine what is prosperity, one of the behaviors that's associated with that would be generosity. 

[00:26:51] Amanda Young: Because that presupposes fullness, right? True generosity that's coming from a full tank. That generosity is like, "Hey, my door's open. Come over. Like I'm going to serve you dinner. Be here with me. Or do you need something? I'm going to show up for you." Generosity in some ways is where prosperity meets community, if that makes sense. 

[00:27:11] Emily Race-Newmark: Oh, my gosh, it's totally makes sense. And again, the other G, which is gratitude. These are things that we can access within ourselves. 

[00:27:18] Emily Race-Newmark: And I want to acknowledge that perhaps those walls built up out of fear that we may be afraid to do that first of the work becomes like, "How do we start to soften those walls or start to look at what we need in order to open up?"

[00:27:31] Emily Race-Newmark: I just actually think about in the female body, the sexual organ softening and being able to open up to receive, like that was a huge learning for me at some point in my life where I was like, "Oh, to actually receive, there has to be trust there." 

[00:27:44] Amanda Young: Yeah. Number one, is working with our own nervous system. Because when we're in that dysregulation, we're not going to be able to trust. We're not going to be able to discern like, "Is this something I can trust or not trust?" 

[00:27:58] Amanda Young: Doing practices, doing embodiment work with breath, with the floor work that I share, like those kinds of things that allow your system and in certain cases, I want to just also presence in this conversation we're talking about trauma that there's a spectrum there. 

[00:28:11] Amanda Young: We all have some level of trauma. At certain levels of deep trauma, you would want to be working with a somatic practitioner. 

[00:28:18] Amanda Young: The practices that I share are going to help open up a bit, but you may want someone there holding your hand, taking you all the way through it — if you've got deep trauma. Which is starting to open up and allow the body to soften. A lot of emotional, a lot of feelings could come up. 

[00:28:33] Amanda Young: But as we allow our own system to become more regulated, we soften and like right now, as I'm speaking, I'm feeling my own body soften and my sexual organs opening. 

[00:28:43] Amanda Young: And this really is a piece of the prosperity because our sexual life force energy in some ways is one of our greatest assets, but forms of prosperity. Essentially, it's our life force energy, right? It creates new life. It's what sources our inspiration from. When we are sourced there and we start to feel that energy moving through our system, we feel we are more the embodiment of prosperity on our own. We feel: (a) it's safer from that space, like we just feel safe in our own body. And there's also a level of discernment that happens when we come into our body. 

[00:29:24] Amanda Young: When we're in our mind and the breath is really shallow and we're not in the body, it's very hard to discern when something's coming to us. Is this safe or not safe? Our gut instincts and our body is really online, viscerally, we can very much feel the energy that's coming to us, whether it's safe or not.

[00:29:43] Emily Race-Newmark: That's a really great thing for people to be aware of. 

[00:29:46] Emily Race-Newmark: And on that note, I'd love to transition us to practices that people may walk away with. If folks were to just pause this podcast or take an action right now that would help bring about this world that you're envisioning for us, what might that be?

[00:30:00] Amanda Young: Mhmm. Well, one action someone could immediately apply right now would be the practice I started us on. 

[00:30:12] Amanda Young: That's such a foundational practice, which is just dropping awareness into the lower parts of the body. Those places that we were actually told by a lot of religions were like, "That's not safe. Don't go there." But that's actually safe. When we're not there, it's easier to manipulate us because we don't have that discernment. We don't have that sense of safety in ourself. 

[00:30:29] Amanda Young: So start to find safety in your own body and your own nervous system. One of the quickest ways to do that is by dropping awareness and breath down into those lower parts so that you're rooted like a tree. It's like your tree roots.

[00:30:43] Emily Race-Newmark: Well, Amanda, thank so much for being here with us and opening the channel, hopefully for our listeners a little bit. And I hope that folks, if you heard something in this that really speaks to you, that you please seek out Amanda's work; it's been life changing for me and I'm grateful she got to introduce some of that to you today.

[00:30:59] Amanda Young: It's been great being here, Emily, and just, I'm so happy to stay connected with you after all these years. 

[00:31:04] Emily Race-Newmark: Yes. Thank you.

[00:31:06] Emily Race-Newmark: Thank you for listening. If you're inspired by this conversation and want to explore working with Amanda, you can check out her offerings at her website, urbangoddess.life. Mention this podcast to receive a 10 percent discount off of any of her offerings.

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[00:32:02] Emily Race-Newmark: This episode was produced by me, Emily Race, co produced by Kimberly Anne, with audio by Andrew Salamone, and music by Eric Weisberg.