How To Manifest Your Dreams With Farhad Khan

I can see it. I can see us there. I can see us on

the beach in Okinawa, doing like a yoga meditation, or like a

walk, eating the food, seeing the arts, and I literally can

envision it. And that's for me is the manifestation, because

it's, it's already an action energetically, it's there. And

then it, and then it happens, you know. I wanted to create an

inspirational card deck. I've been wanting to that for so

long, and I envisioned it. I saw it happening, how it's gonna

look, the design, and then it happened, you know? Like, so I

really think just kind of like pretend like it's happening,

like envision it, see it, breathe it, feel it, embody it,

and then it just starts to happen and unfold and I think

that that for me manifestation means more like that type of

vibration is you know what is authentically calling you what

feels good what do you enjoy in your life and then can you

cultivate more of that in your life with just taking action

seeing it feeling and envisioning it and making it

happen.

Hello, my loves. Welcome to the new truth. I am

so excited for you to be graced with my one of my dearest and

longest friends of my life, a soulmate of mine, who I had on

the podcast the last episode of last year. We did an episode

called Your Most Magical Year Yet, and now we're talking about

how to manifest your dreams, because he and I have done some

epic manifesting together since we recorded that episode six

months ago. So very excited to share Farhad with you. This is

my bestie, old one of my oldest and dearest friends from

Vancouver. We grew up together, and literally everything Farhad

touches turns to gold. He is a sambal healer. He's a yogi. He

owned a yoga studio for many years. He does international

retreats all over the world. He's just developed his first

oracle deck, angel cards. If you don't know what they are,

they're magical. He talks about them at the end. He has a

wellness line. He's created so much success, and the coolest

thing about the success he's created is all of it has been in

alignment with his heart and soul. And I think that's why he

just keeps creating, and it keeps working, and everything he

does grows, and it all turns to gold. So he is such a magical

being, and if such a powerful manifester, and we have

co-created an epic, epic retreat together that's coming up, that

we tell you all about in this episode, too. So very excited

for you to hear it. Enjoy, and as always, spread this message

to every woman who you know needs to hear this message. Love

you so much, and we'll see you soon. Hello, my loves. Welcome

back to The New Truth. I'm so excited about this episode. Here

we are. Oh my gosh, it is literally the six month mark,

maybe one week after the six month mark from our last

episode, I have on a very special guest who I've been

manifesting magic with, and decided to have him back to talk

about, so if you remember Farhat, if you have not heard

the episode from right before New Year's Eve, just this past

year, your most magical year yet with Farhad Khan. Definitely go

back and listen, because that was the most epic episode. And

now we're going to talk about how to manifest your dreams,

because we on that episode talked about doing a retreat

together in Japan, and here we are six months later, and this

retreat is in full force. We're going, we're taking a group to

Okinawa and Kyoto on this deeply spiritual, deeply healing,

magical, deeply cultural journey to one of the most spiritual

places in the world that I'm learning more and more, Japan.

So, welcome back, Farhad.

Thank you. I'm so happy to be back. Thanks for

having me back. And yes, we are, we're doing Japan. I'm so

excited. We talked about it on the last episode at end of

December, and the dream of going back to Japan for me, the

culture, the beauty to go with Akiko, who's also going to be

our co-facilitator on this retreat as well, and having her

be there to facilitate knowing the land so well, because she's

from Okinawa, and I think that the magic between the three of

us and what we've cultivated, the whole itinerary that's going

to be available to all these amazing people to join is going

to be so immersive and beautiful, and I can't wait to

be there with you guys. He's so fun,

and me too. And you and I have been talking about

doing a retreat together for years, and it's actually

happening, and we're going to Japan. Like, I, I've never even

been to Asia, I. Her doing a retreat in Japan together is so

surreal, and I was actually, you know, it's funny. Last week I

was talking about how this - I was told in my astrology reading

I recently had with Amrit Sandhu, the big YouTuber. I had

an astrology reading with him on my birthday, and he said my next

year is about deepening significantly my spirituality

and growing more community, and here we are collaborating our

communities. We've got your community, my community, Akiko's

community, all going to Japan together, and I'm deepening in

spirituality by doing a retreat there with you and with other

spiritual teachers and healers. So, yeah, I'm very excited for

this magical journey, and also just trusting, like light, when

life is leading, everything's so much more magical. So today, if

you know me well, you know I don't love the word manifesting.

My clients are always like, oh, that's that's one of those words

Kate doesn't like. It's not so much the word, but it's more how

people talk about manifesting. And I think we talked a little

bit about it on the year of magic, but I feel like let's,

let's start deconstructing it, because you and I are like

unbelievable manifesters, and I think Akiko is too. It's like

everything that happens in my life is, and especially now it

feels like the veil is thinner, everything's coming quicker,

and, and so, what, what to you are the secrets to manifesting,

because I know you've curated a life that you love, that's so

aligned with your heart and soul, and so have I. So, it was

Akiko who, who couldn't be here with us today, because she's in

Japan, and her internet didn't work, so she was going to be

here with us, but it's just the two of us, so, so, so, tell me,

my love, what, what is like, what is your secret?

Well, I feel like, yeah, I mean, the word

manifesting, I mean, it doesn't, it resonates with me absolutely,

I think, because there's so many ways to look at it. What it

boils down for me is I have, of course, experienced so much like

trauma and grief, as many of us do on this life path, and I, as

I got older, I realized, like, how to make my life better,

like, what things bring me joy, what I want to surround myself

with, what do I want to do with my life's purpose, like, my

career, my job, my day to day, and I was like, you know, I love

yoga. I love meditation. I love nature. I love food. I love

travel, like all the things. I'm like, how can I cultivate more

of that in my day-to-day life and make it like realistic to

like earn a living, right? Like, how can I pay my way through

life? Because you got bills, so I thought, you know, what I want

to share this with other people, all the things I love to do, I

want to learn and deepen my knowledge around all these

cultural things, whether it be through yoga philosophy or

traveling different countries, the practices have taught me so

much for my mental well-being, my nervous system, and I'm like,

I want to share that with other people and build this community

and container of like-minded people to know that we have

tools that we can access that can bring us all these amazing

feelings of joy and bliss and purposeful excitement, fun and

playfulness, and that's been like my, I guess, manifestation

is continuing to do the things I love in life and working towards

creating opportunities that can embrace other people to welcome

them into these things that I enjoy and love. So it comes from

like an authentic place, and I often think, too, like when I

have an idea or a dream or a vision, like for us, like Japan

or the retreat, I kind of already see it happening. I'm

like, it's already happening, I can see it, I can see us there,

I can see us on the beach in Okinawa, doing like a yoga or

meditation, or like a walk, eating the food, seeing the

arts, and I literally can envision it, and that's for me

is the manifestation, because it's, it's already an action

energetically, it's there, and then it, and then it happens,

you know? I wanted to create an inspirational card deck, I've

been wanting to that for so long, and I envisioned it, I saw

it happening, how it'll look, the design, and then it

happened, you know, like, so I really think just kind of like

pretend like it's happening, like envision it, see it,

breathe it, feel it, embody it, and then it just starts to

happen and unfold, and I think that, that for me, manifestation

means more like that type of vibration is, you know, what is

authentically calling you, what feels good, what do you enjoy in

your life, and then can you cultivate more of that in your

life with just taking action, seeing it, feeling, and

envisioning it, and making it happen. So, yeah, like, I don't

know, like, what's what's your. Take on manifestation, like I

know I talked to you about, and you're like, I don't love the

word, but I'm like, but then you, there's parts of it you

love, and what is that for you?

Yeah, I love what you just said, and I feel like

that's a huge piece of it, is the like, because Abraham Hicks

always talks about how it's like you think it's the thing that

you want, but it's actually the feeling that it's going to

activate inside of you that you desire, and so we're chasing all

of these things to feel a certain way, and so I think that

part of the reason why I'm not a fan of how traditionally how

manifestation has been taught more mainstream is because what

I think, and it's actually interesting that I'm living in

Africa now, because I experience like the Western culture,

especially North America, is like always trying to get

something or get somewhere, and it's like, oh, I just need that

thing, I just need that thing, so, and it feels like what's

underneath that is, it's not nothing's ever enough, and

what's under new, and I noticed that when I, when I meet even

Americans or North Americans in at the farm, or in Nairobi, like

there's this sense, like Africans are so they're so

grateful for what they have, because they don't have - not

that they all don't. I live in Nairobi, so there's a range,

but, but a lot of Kenyans that they come from villages like

they don't have very much, but you see kids playing with the

tire, rolling it down the street, and they're over the

moon happy, and then you give someone a book as a gift, and

it's like the greatest thing they've ever seen, and they cry,

and it's so meaningful because they're coming from deep

appreciation, because they don't have that much, whereas in the

Western world we have too much, so there's this, there's this

chasing thing. So, what I've noticed, like, when the secret

came out, manifestation became more mainstream, I noticed that

it just became this, like, women being like, "I'm trying to

manifest love, I'm like, "Gotta manifest my partner, I'm gonna

manifest this thing, and it really feels like control to me,

and I think that's why I don't like it. And, of course I teach

women how to stop trying to control their life, the scripted

life, and actually, because often we're even manifest,

manifesting, trying to control the storyline going how we've

been programmed to believe it's supposed to go, and it's not

even a soul, so it's interesting, so that's why it's

out of alignment to me, because often it's just the scripted,

conditioned ego self trying to control the reality, and then

even if it works, even if you get the thing, it's never going

to be enough, because underneath that is the part of you that

doesn't believe that she or he is enough, and we're always

chasing the thing to fill in a void that can't be filled,

because it's like coming from your wounded self, not your

soul. So I think the reason I love what you said, so much is

because it's really, and well, this is what Japan is. I mean,

you and I are so compatible, 88% according to some system we read

a long time ago, but we're so compatible, we've known each

other forever, and we like have the same sense of humor every

time we're together, it's like no time has passed, so playful

and so deep and so meaningful, and it's like we've had this

like dream, so how to manifest your dreams. We've had this

dream for a long time, like every time we're together, we're

like we have to collaborate, since we've both been in this

industry, which I mean, I've been in it for almost 20 years,

and I think you have too. So we've, in we've said over and

over again, we have to collaborate, we have to

collaborate, and it's been a dream that was kind of like me

wanting to live in Europe one day. I used to be like, "Oh, one

day I want to live in Europe, one day I'm going to live in

Europe, and I kind of let go. I would be excited by this dream,

but I let it go. And then at the divine time, when I was meant to

live in Europe, so I think this is also the piece to

manifesting. It's like things have to come in divine timing.

You can't control it.

We can embody it, we can be in the frequency of it. I can live

in Vancouver as if I'm living in Europe and start to feel and

cultivate how that would feel, and would that have an effect on

it coming sooner, perhaps. But there's also the divine timing,

so like I moved to Europe, not because I controlled it, not

because I made it happen, because I couldn't get on an

airplane during Covid, and it was like a divine moment of like

reorchestrating everything, and then I moved there, and my

parents moved me out of my apartment, I didn't even go

home, and so with this retreat, same thing, right, like we

talked about it forever, we had this dream, and some, it doesn't

mean it takes a long time always, but like that was meant

to take time, you and I were both meant to build our

businesses and build our communities and our and the

people that we work with and build our retreats and you know

do our things so that we could come together at the perfect

time and then Akiko pops into my life I only knew her so I've

only known her since November I had a healing session with her.

I told her she was supposed to do a retreat in Okinawa because

she told she was sharing the culture with me, and I was like,

this sounds magical, can you do a retreat and I will attend it?

And then all of a sudden, two weeks later, she's like, I want

you to do it, and you and I had just had our first try at the

podcast, and it was like, I want Farhad to do it, and then all of

a sudden we. All came together at the perfect divine time for

this dream to realize or actualize, so I think the key to

what you were saying is the spark inside of the soul versus

the like trying to control a reality, and so I think that to

me that's the key is like following those sparks.

I totally love that, and so, yeah, with the

word manifestation, there can be many ways to look at that, and

the perspective that you, that you don't love is definitely a

perspective that I think gets, gets misguided or misused a lot,

so yeah, we can look at, like, a lot of words in our society are

can be triggering, you know, like for people like self care,

for some people is selfish. Where I'm like, no, that's self

care, you need, you deserve that. Go and go and get that spa

treatment, go and go on that retreat. It's self care, it's

not being selfish, right? It's actually, it starts within

authentically giving yourself that to give it outward, but

start here first. And so one point you made about

manifestation that you brought up, because you talk about

relationship a lot, and it was about, you know, I want to find

love, I want to manifest the love of my life, but hey, let's

manifest within, like self love, fill that self within first.

What brings you joy? What excites you? What is your

playful creativity? What is your nurturing? What is all those

things for yourself in manifestation? And I think

through that, then the other thing might come, but let's not

expect it, like you're saying the manifestation that I feel

like referred to is more of like we're always trying to attain

something outside of ourselves, because we don't have enough,

and we're without it, we think. So it's always like I'm wanting

to be happier, I want to be richer, I want.. it's like we're

already all these things. I did an event last night, and I took

a moment to just take a moment to welcome him in tension

setting, or moment of gratitude, and I said, in that moment, I

said, you know, I gave some examples, and I said, one

example might be you want to cultivate more love in your

life, you already have it, but you might want to open up more

love, welcome more love, more peace. You already have peace,

you are peace, but you might want to open up more vibrational

peace and welcome more of that. So it's like we are all those

things already, and trying to understand that we don't lack,

we, we have it, we have all of it within us already. The same

light is in you that's in me, and I love to teach that,

because it empowers people to know that, oh, we all have these

wonderful tools and gifts accessible within ourselves.

Sometimes we need a teacher, a friend, someone to show us that

which is already within ourselves, and to help unveil or

unravel that, and what I love about us going to Japan

together, too, is we get to weave in Akiko, yourself, and my

modalities of our all of our over 20 years worth of

experience and knowledge and wisdom and practices in this

amazing sacred land of Okinawa in Japan, and we get to offer a

variety of experiences that will resonate with many, some won't,

but they'll be pieces where people can rediscover parts

themselves, and all I ask is just remain open, open to

experience, because you never know what just might be that

inner spark, like, oh, and you know, when you're in places like

away from your home, your bubble, your environment, your

day-to-day kind of life, something shifts, you're more,

you're more open, you're more like, wow, you're seeing flowers

differently, you're seeing footsteps on the on the sand

differently, you're tasting new foods and things, and you're

hearing they might have heard you say something five times

already, but they'll hear it differently when they're there

in that environment and that setting.

So I think that there's such an amazing opportunity to open

ourselves up to whatever it is you want to manifest, or you're

manifesting more of the love, more of the play, more of

laughter, and I know we have so many fun things that we've

talked about, the three of us that we're going to be doing,

and I'm just so excited to share space with you both and the

community that joins us to just explore, and it's not just yoga,

it's not just somatic, it won't just be food, it'll be cultural

experiences and surprises that will be like, okay, we're doing

this, and you just go into it and see what comes through and

what. Opens up, and that's what I'm really excited about, is

collaboration on this level, is just so beautiful and magical,

and sometimes once in a lifetime it really is. So these moments

in time are so precious, so I'm just so excited to be able to do

this finally with you both, and make magic. It'll be great,

I say, once in a lifetime, I'm like, that's what

I said about coming to Kenya. So, once in a lifetime

experience, and then, like, first time was two weeks, second

time was five weeks, third time was nine weeks, and then I moved

here, so I might be moving to Japan.

I, yeah, I honestly think, yeah, day by day, for me,

like once in a lifetime means like we only have this moment,

we only have that moment, we just have this moment.

Yesterday's happened, we don't know what the future holds, we

only have this breath in this moment. So, for me, it's like I

hold such sacredness, it's going to be such a beautiful moment in

time that will be treasured and remembered and imprinted in my

soul, in my heart, and but I already can envision it, right?

I already see it, and it's happening, so it's gonna be

really cool. Yeah,

it's the once in a lifetime thing, too. I was

thinking, like, that configuration of people will

never be together again in that place, in that way, in that

time, you know, even the astrology at the time, like

everything, every time we have any experience, even if we have

it again, you know, another time, it's totally different

every time, because we're different. I think of the

immersion, I've been leading the immersion, my experience in

Greece, my intensive in Greece, I'll call it, for 10 years, and

I just did the 11th one, and it every single time is so

different, even though we have the same logistics master in it,

like we tweak it every time, but every group is so different. I'm

so different every year. The experience it changes, even

though it's the same overall structure, it changes so much.

I think it's so beautiful bringing people

together too, because well, we all, we learn from each other,

even we as facilitators, we're learning from the people we're

within the group, and I love that we can actually shift our

plans and ideas based on who's there, what's happening. We feel

the frequency and vibration of each being and the land, and

that creates the experience, like it's not so planned, and I

love that, because that's more exciting, and it's more

adventurous and playful, so I love that we can shift with each

group and each person's imprint and experience. I feel like

we're all universes walking around, you're a universe, I'm

universe, and we're all like universes colliding in that

moment. It's cool.

Yeah, and also I think, like, I feel like this is

in your on onto this for sure, because you've created a

boutique wellness travel business around this, but I

think this is the new paradigm of travel. It's like, my, my, my

women in my community, we call them heroines. The heroines of

my community come to so many retreats with me, like we were,

we do Greece, and then we do Kenya, and some are coming to

Japan, some are coming to Egypt, some are coming to Ojai this

summer, and we're always doing these different experiences

together, because it's like, okay, I'm already going to

invest in travel this year, I love to go on adventure, but you

can go on an adventure, and you know, do a tour with a bunch of

strangers, and have, like, a, you know, relatively

surface-level adventure that might, it might be lots of fun,

but you can have an adventure and a cultured experience, and

have transformation, and healing, and growth, and

evolution, and I think this is totally the new paradigm of

travel, and as you were talking earlier about just Japan, and us

doing this, and what we've manifested in the, the, the

experience that's being co-created between Yumi and

Akiko in the universe, I want to unpack, like, one of the most

important keys to manifesting, so, and again, it's not the word

that I don't like, it's how it's, it's how people perceive

it, it's the ego getting a hold of it, and then thinking, like,

well, I'm going to manifest and control my reality, versus when

you're co-creating with the universe, the universe life is

going to bring you a much greater life plan, I could have

never pre-decided I was going to live in Africa, I never even

knew I was going to come to Africa, let alone fall in love

with it, and be obsessed with Kenyan people, and be obsessed

with Kenya. And like, I'm so in love with this place, and I

didn't even know that I was going to ever travel here in my

lifetime if I wasn't co-creating with life. Same with Japan, like

I was curious about Japan. I love sushi, and I've heard great

things about Japan, but like, I would never think I would leave

it, lead a retreat there, like that is so.. I mean, we even had

to have a talk after I committed, because I was like,

what am I doing? This is because it's so outside of what I know,

and even what I've done so far in my work in the world. So,

like, life has such a better plan in store, but if we're not

connected to our. Spirituality, I think that's such an important

piece to manifesting. If you're just in your human trying to

manifest, that's the controlled, scripted part, right? But if

you're connected to your divinity and your

interconnectedness with life and with the quantum field and with

the magnitude of what this planet and the universe and the

galaxies beyond, beyond, beyond, like we're so programmed to

think small, to live small, to be small, to be in fear, to

stay, and that's an option, and lots of people live their whole

entire lives in that place, but what's actually available to us,

like I feel like you and I live these epically magical lives,

and we've barely scratched the surface, like there, and I'm so

excited to see what comes and where we go, because the deeper

you go, the deeper you go. The more is available, the more

expansion is available, the more opportunity is available. And so

retreats like Japan is such a great example of a place to

actually, if you are not spiritual, which I work with a

lot of women who aren't, or they want to be, but they don't quite

know what that means. They haven't connected with that part

of themselves yet. Like, this is one of the greatest ways to do

that.

I'm sure you can agree, after having a yoga studio for so many

years and doing retreats around the world, and you do your, your

ones also, your local ones as well. I'm sure you work with a

lot of, like, seekers that are longing for more meaning in

their life and longing to feel something else, like they could

have all the money in the world, all the success in the world,

but if you're not connected to your divinity, life is pretty

bland.

Yeah. No, I think that you know it's what you're

talking about is the expanded, unscripted person, right? The

expanded, it's about expansion and opening up yourself to new

things, because when we do that, we allow in perhaps what we

call, could call spirituality, divinity, you know that, and

that could mean different things too, just like manifestation. It

could mean like laughing, belly laughing, you know, being in

nature on a hike, and that's spirituality. I remember when I

was in Africa on safari, and seeing the sun rise and the sun

set and the red dirt on my face. I'm like, I literally felt like

God, like I felt God's presence, a spiritual presence of that,

you know, when I wake up on my retreats, and we do morning

meditation, and the sun is rising, and there's quiet

stillness, like there's a moment of spirituality there, and you

just drop into it, you know, we're chanting, or we're singing

a song, we're eating an amazing meal, we're living as a human

being, we're in this experience, and that in itself is spiritual

and spirituality, and maybe letting go of some of those, you

know, paradigm shifts of or ideology, like ideas around like

what spirituality has to look like and be, because it can be

unique to the individual, to the experience. It could be

gardening, planting things in your yard. Sometimes I say that

about yoga, like yoga is not just a physical practice, you

know. When I took a group to India last year, beginning of

this year, like you said, there were kids playing in the dirt,

playing with things that made them so happy, and they were all

blessed, and but they were very poor and living on the streets,

and there was joy there, and in the culture, and so when we were

there in India too, it's like the yoga was just being in the

streets and walking and seeing the cows and the way of life and

culture, there was was a spiritual experience that was

the yoga that was sometimes a meditative experience for

people, and they received this moment of reflection and

gratitude for what they had, of course, back home, you know,

what they were seeing brought joy in these little moments as

well, and that was an awakening, which yoga, I think, does a lot

too. Right? We get really embodied in something, a

discipline practice, in order for us to elevate and meditate

and find this bliss state in any moment of neutrality, and I

think that with these moments of travel, culture, food,

teachings, you're just like I mentioned at the beginning, like

just be open, be open to receive what might come through, what

resonates, some will, some won't, but it's just being open

and living life, you know. We got one, and this is it. And I

think that when moments like this happen in life, three of us

coming together, it is a once in a lifetime opportunity, in my

opinion. And I think that it's just going to be expansion. Of

love, unscripted, even though we have a bit of a plan, but it's

such a playful plan that I'm like, it's gonna be so, and I

think we're just gonna all have fun together doing daily things,

and immersing in cultural experiences, and, and, and some

spiritual experiences that will allow people to explore

different types of spirituality in different ways and modalities

through art, through food, through practices, through

singing and dancing, and many things, connection,

unity, yeah, connection. I was thinking the

same thing. It's yeah, if you are longing for more community,

you're longing for deeper connection, you're longing for

adventure, and you're longing for life to feel easier, because

I think when we desire to manifest, it's like usually

that's when we're in the struggle, right? Like, when we

design, because I feel like now that my life is so expanded, and

it's not to say it's in every moment, of course, I still have

contractions, I still have, you know, hard moments, and, and

whatnot, but for the most part, like, because I, because I

follow my heart in everything I do, my life is so expansive, and

I love my life, and I love where I live, and I love who I'm

around, and I love my community, and I love my clients, and I

love my life, like every every facet of my life, my work, my

all the things, and and when I used to want to manifest, it was

because I was so far away from my soul. I, when I, when I used

to want to manifest my dream partner, because I like now,

when I'm single or in a relationship, I always say this

on the podcast, I don't feel single, and I don't feel I'm

just me, and no matter what, I'm the same version of me in both

single and relationship. I'm not like, when am I going to find

love? It's just like I am love, and I bring it everywhere I go,

like you said, and you know. And then there's moments where, bam,

then I'm experiencing love with another person and deepening in

it. Wow, this is amazing. And because it's always there

inside, and so when I was in the place, I, yeah, I never thought

to say this before, but when I was in the place of wanting to

manifest relationships or wanting to manifest my purpose

or manifest something, it's because I was out of alignment,

it's because I was in the struggle and life was hard and

just in that sort of human self without the connection to the

soul and the spirit, and so I just think this is such an

invitation, whether you know, actually, you check out, we'll

definitely link your website below, but I'm just Japan, if

anyone listening to this conversation feels a call or

curiosity about Japan, we'll lead a Zoom call for all those

that are curious, we'll link it below this episode as well, and

I'll have it on my Instagram and my website, but you can sign up

to do the Zoom call with us. Meet Akiko, meet Farhad, have a

conversation with us. And if you feel sparked to go deeper, let's

see. Let's explore the possibility of you joining us.

You can do just Okinawa, you can do just Kyoto, you can do both.

But this, if you have a call to go to Japan, if you feel

something in your body, follow that, and get curious about it.

You could come to one part, you could come to both parts, but

this retreat is like three spiritual teachers, and we are

going to be going to this incredibly Okinawa. I mean,

people say it's a Blue Zone, but Akiko, who's not here with us

today, but she'll explain this on the on the Zoom call, that

Okinawa is an a deeply spiritual place, and it's deeply

activating. It's the Hawaii of Japan. It's like super luscious

and super ancient, and there's there's lots of activations

available there. And Kyoto is the home I just heard of Reiki

energy healing. I'm a Reiki master, not practiced, but I'm a

Reiki master, and and so that these places, they're so

spiritual, there's so much, and they have such special customs

and traditions, and they hold their traditions so deeply, and

there's such devotion, and I feel so excited, even just from

this conversation, to have this experience.

So, whether you feel drawn to Japan or not, I mean, and far

ahead, or me, or anyone, like, there are so many spiritual

teachers out there, but, like, go do. I started my day today

with a sound bath. It was a sound bath outside in a horse

paddock with horses, and there were Pumbas there, because I

live in Africa. There were Pumbas, are you know, Pumba from

The Lion King, they call them Pumbas, warthogs. They're so

cute. They're a bunch of warthogs. They're a bunch of

horses. We sat in a circle. We did a sound bath with Reiki

healing, and the horses came over to, like, give

us extra healing, because they have these magical hearts. And

we were the woman does equine therapy, and it was really,

really special. But, like, there are so many resources out there.

If you are in your struggle self and you're longing to manifest

the life of your dreams, connect with your spirit and your

divinity and your soul, and like, follow, like you do those

beautiful retreats. I'm not sure if that's just once a year, but

the ones you do in Vancouver Island, yeah. Yeah, well, I'm

doing, I'm doing a soulful silence retreat in October this

year. I'm doing one in Salt Spring in October, which is

going to be amazing. It's so beautiful. A lot of it's going

to be introspection, like going inward journaling. There'll be

some practices, there'll be some spa experiences, and Ayurveda

treatments, and really nurturing self to open up a creative side,

opening up some of the chambers of the mind, and when we go

quiet, we really have that opportunity in this, in the

right setting to expand. Actually, it's wonderful if

you've never tried a silent retreat, and it's not all

silence, but there's a lot of silent moments scheduled where

it's intentional for certain reasons, and I will be playing

with some of these topics to reflect on and journal on in

these moments of silence, which allows yourself to just think

outside the box, if you will, and approach things differently

than you would have in your day-to-day life, which opens up

different thought wave patterns, repatterning. Perhaps I did want

to mention one thing that you brought up, and I think a lot of

it is with the ego, right? We get, we get, we go into the ego

mind a lot, and takes us away from the heart, heart-mind

connection, and ego gets a bad rep a lot of the time, and you

know, the ego is so valuable to us. We were gifted this

brilliant ego mind, and if it's used in a way that doesn't

control or consume us, so there's a lot of teachings

around how we can work with our ego. The ego is very beneficial,

it's going to tell you, you touch that kettle on the stove,

and you burnt yourself last time. Don't do that again. The

ego will remind us of those things. So, that's very

valuable. But if we don't know how to control the ego mind, it

really takes us out of the heart mind experience, and we can get

trapped in that ego thinking, like, I lack this, I don't, you

know what I mean. It takes you into the what you're thinking of

that maybe superficial manifestation is, or whatever.

But I think when we can learn more about this ego as our

friend and build a beautiful relationship with it, it really

softens and connects into the heart space, and then the two

work together in a beautiful harmonious balance, and that's

truly the Bodhisattva, the neutral self, right? And there's

so many spiritual teachings around that, and how people can

learn to become friends with the ego mind and retrain or

re-pattern it in a somatic way, in an open, curious, playful

way, and it allows us to drop some of the stories and really

lead from a heart-centered place, and that becomes a bit

more spiritually free and expanded, and a lot of the times

we are in our own way and feel stuck because of that. So I

think then just kind of reshaping or reframing how we

view the mind and the ego, and actually that's my friend, and I

can shift that relationship. I have the power to control it.

Meditation does teach us a lot of that, and mindfulness

practices. So, I think, yeah, like working with that, allowing

yourself to like take that leap of faith in that risk, take that

journey and be playful. Come to Japan with us, have fun, be

open, bring the ego and the heart, and we'll make them hold

hands and and have a new experience. Right.

Yes, yeah, I love that, because, yeah, the I call

it the saboteur in my work, but the saboteur ego mind is always

going to be there. That's the thing, it's like was hired to

protect you, and going to be trying to protect you only till

you die. And so to be in relationship to it is the

greatest gift you can give it, and you, because then it won't

be in charge anymore when you actually have a loving

relationship with it, but also know that it's not the truth,

it's not the stories that it, it tells you, and, and all the

things that tries to protect you from. It's, it can't be the

leader, I think, is the most important thing. It can't be in

charge anymore.

We can be in charge, we can be in charge.

Yeah, we can be in charge. Absolutely, and I think just

learning how did that happen, and how do I change that

relationship or shift it from more of a heart, heart-centered

place. Yeah,

yeah, exactly.

I think the land in Japan, too, like being in

Okinawa, going on like hikes, and the waterfalls, there, you

know, those, those experiences too, just really like it's

almost like when I do a sound bath, it's like that wave washes

through you a frequency of healing sound waves, it's like,

like I think that the waterfall, like the bathing self and

shedding and releasing and letting go of some. Things I

think that because we're in Okinawa, and taking that

opportunity to go to those places when we're there

together, and being in the water, and the waterfall, and

those beautiful nourishing hikes, and stuff, I think that

that's also going to really allow us to drop into the state

of the heart and expansiveness more easily as well that

environment,

oh my gosh, and all the like, there's just so many,

yeah, I'm so excited, I feel actually more excited after this

conversation, I've been excited, but like the more we

intentionally drop into to the exploring it, so this is also

something to know about manifesting, is like as you

start to get into alignment with your soul desires, and life

brings you the opportunities you co-creating with life, and

creating a life you love. In my experience, and also with all

the women I've worked with over the years, is every time we

manifest something, like every time something, Japan's a

perfect example. It's like my soul's meant to go there. It was

a.. it's a yes in my body, that your saboteur ego mind will try

and, quote unquote, protect you, because it's new, and every time

we go into new territory, that part of that survival part is

going to try and stop you, right? Because it essentially,

when we were children, we were very expanded, and we were shut

down from that, and you know, restricted, and, and, and

repressed, and all of these things through all the systems,

the family system, the school system, all the, and this is the

new truth, you already know this, but this is an opportunity

to be aware that every time you go to open a new door, if it's

new, that part of you is going to get really loud, and your job

is to love that part and acknowledge that part and let

that part express, but don't follow it, right? It's like,

open the door anyways. That's a.. I said this on my call

earlier today. Thank you, Nike. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

It's like the thing that excites you the most will also scare a

part of you the most, and so to learn to, it's so important for

your manifest your dreams to actually like go through the

finish line and allow yourself to receive the thing that you

desire, like the love or moving to a new country or starting a

new purpose, new career. It's like to actually get there and

create it. You have to move through that fear, because

that's going to be a part of it too. So, I think that's such an

important part of this conversation, is have the tools

and practices, which, of course, I teach on the new truth, you

teach in your work, Akiko does in her healing sessions. There's

so much support around this, but just know and expect that to be

true, and that's actually an indicator that you're moving in

the right direction, because if it scares the shit out of you,

it's actually your next level of self, it's your next level of

your life. Of I've met that this, this little fearful part

of me over and over and over again, and it's like, if it's

not before I moved here, I mean, I've been to Kenya three times,

and I was obsessed with it, and I would be laying in bed the

night before, or like a week before. Oh my god, you're crazy.

Like, what if something bad happens? Like, and the

fear-based ego mind would kick in and tell me all the stories

of why I should not even come here or move here. And, and I

would say, I love you, I see you. Thank you for trying to

protect me. Put my hands on my heart, like, no, this is the

right direction, because those stories are there, because the

fear is trying to stop me.

I love it

absolutely. And I imagine, like people coming on

retreat with you, like going to India, you know? I imagine a lot

of them are like super excited, and then they feel terrified

after, or coming to Japan, super excited, then terrified.

They were terrified in the beginning, and I

remember, you know, we had Zoom sessions and stuff, and then

coming there, they were just so grateful, and the experiences,

and it was just so beautiful, and they're like, "When's the

next one? When are we going? And I said, "That was going to be my

last time going to India, but it's definitely not going to be.

I love it, like, you know, I was like, it's such a beautiful

place, and there's so much to see, but yeah, no, it's, it's

exciting to show people things for the first time, seeing it

through eyes, and I just get joy out of that, and showing them

all the great things, and you know, we're foodies, we love all

the hikes, we love all the beaches of practices. So I'm

like, I just.. it feels like we're all just gonna be a bunch

of friends exploring fun things together. So I'm excited.

Yeah,

yeah. Thanks for allowing me to be a part of this

journey with you,

allowing.. I mean, you, you made it happen. Japan,

sure. Yeah. Oh my gosh. So Farhad has a new this. So last

time we talked, this was almost complete, but it wasn't ready

yet. Whispers for the heart and soul. This is Farhad's Oracle

deck. So if you don't know what oracle cards are, they're kind

of like tarot cards, angel cards for guidance. You shuffle them,

and then a card jumps out. It or you, you, there's different ways

to pull cards, but they're an amazing spiritual tool. So,

those of you who are, I mean, those of you who are used to

oracle cards, they're magical. I pull them every day, and just

for guidance, you can ask a question. And so, Farhad has

created his own beautiful deck, he's designed them himself. He

has, how many artists were involved?

So, there's four artists. One is me, one of my,

my artwork as well is in it. And then three other beautiful

women, who are also students and friends of mine, and they're

artists. And I'm like, you know what, let's all collaborate and

do all the artwork for these. And it turned out wonderfully.

There's 77 cards in the deck, and really, it's just you pull

one a day, or whenever you need to, and it's a word and a

beautiful message of gratitude, or reminders, just to, like, you

know, daily positivity and inspirational messages, which I

love. So, I'm just going to shuffle through. We can take a

moment, close our eyes, take a deep breath in, and a breath

out, and whatever is meant to come through will come through

in this moment. So, okay, how about you tell me when to stop,

and I will pull the card out.

Stop

right. So the card is all look at the beautiful

picture. The message is beginnings, beginnings. Every

sunrise brings new possibility. Start where you are with what

you have seeds of intention, allow growth. Trust the first

step into the unknown. Let your heart lead the way forward.

Beginnings. Oh,

how perfect is that? Let your heart lead the

way forward. That was exactly so. This episode is all about

manifesting your dreams, living the life of your dreams, having

it, having what you desire. It's like your heart has to lead. If

your mind is trying to lead, like, how do you know it's your

heart leading? Because it feels amazing, like you have sparks,

you have excitement, there's like this activation inside of

your heart, inside of your body, and that is the perfect card for

manifestation, that like I believe I live a life of

manifestation, but it's because it's I spend so much time in my

heart and following my heart, and that to me that's the key to

manifesting anything you dream of, or the life of your dreams,

that's so beautiful. What an amazing car.

Yeah, I can't wait.

So excited. So, do I wait? I think I think it'll be

too hard to get it to me here. So, and I'm gonna be home in a

month, so I'll just wait to get my deck, we

ship exactly everything. We can ship it to

you, but if you want to wait, I'm going to see. We have a

little date planned, so I'll have your deck ready.

Perfect. I can't wait. And so, if those of you

who want a deck, we will link the cards below this episode as

well, and you can also go to your. what's your website, Love

Farhadcon sound.com

Farhad Khan sound.com which will be linked

below the episode. We'll link everything below the episode,

but definitely get yourself a deck of cards to connect with

your divinity and your dreams, and let it's also like

remembering or being guided, and you're like, we are not alone

when we. I just think like every time I'm, I'm feeling hopeless

or struggling, it's because I'm forgetting how connected I am

and how supported I am by angels and guides, and, and the spirit

world, like, we're so guided, and so that's what I love about

cards, I feel like it's our spirit, I mean, animal totems

are the same. I get to see lots of animal totems living here. I

saw some Pumbas this morning. I did yoga the other day. I do

yoga at this woman, Sue's house on the porch. It's so magical,

it's like all trees and birds, and.. and I did yoga last

Sunday, and there was a grasshopper sitting right in

front of my mat, staring at me the whole time. And then I did

it again on Tuesday, and there was a snail, beautiful,

colorful, magical snail sitting in front of my yoga mat. So,

there's like messages in animals, there's messages in

these cards, there's messages all around us, but if we're just

in the mind and you're disconnected like that, I mean,

that is connecting to our divinities everything, so

whether you join us in Japan, which we would love, at least

join us on the Zoom call, because we're gonna, the Zoom

call is gonna be magical and deep, like we're gonna all

share, and you can ask any questions you have. Akiko will

be there, get to meet her and her magic, she's a medicine

woman, healer, one of the most magical. Healers I've ever met,

I've had, I had like six sessions with her in the span of

two months, and she, she's very, very gifted and a deeply

beautiful, deeply spiritual woman, and is Japanese, and her

mother's from Okinawa, her grandfather's from Kyoto, so

she's kind of the representative of where we're headed, and

Farhad, as you know, now you've had two episodes with him, is

pure magic and love, and just like everything you touch turns

to gold. That's how I describe you. He literally, like, just

you are constantly co-creating with the universe the most

amazing things. Like, it's mind-blowing to watch you next

level. Like, I feel like you should actually teach a course

on it, because you're so.. it's just.. it's just how you live

and breathe, so yeah. We're gonna have a lot of fun

together. So, june 8, we're gathering on Zoom. Would love to

see you. The link is below to register for that call to get

the link. 8am Pacific, we're gonna gather and talk about

Japan, and no pressure.. like it's like you just come, and if

you have any inkling, any spark, any curiosity, join us. Check

out Far Heads cards, order them for someone for their birthday,

order them for yourself. They're so magical, and, and, and just

like, keep, keep diving deeper into your soul and your

divinity, because that's where the life of your dreams lives

there.

Thank you, Kate. I love you, and I can't wait. I'm

so excited. Thank you so much. This was fun.

Love you. Being on again,

love you.

We'll see you soon.