What does it mean to be human? To navigate a Soul? To learn to heal from Life & its experiences? How can we come to be fully present in our bodies and trust ourselves and our paths? These are question that my guest this week, Kyla Gagnon, is deeply acquainted with. She is a strong advocate for Feminine empowerment and inner strength combined with peace. She wants women to speak all the way up about anything +
everything & to know what safety in their body feels like, safety in partnership feels like and safety in FULLY living feels like. Kyla aims to inspire women to disengage from mediocre and step into their wildness.

On this Guest episode Kyla tells us about her journey work as a trauma release breathwork facilitator and empowerment coach for women.
We discuss her mission to help 1,000,000 women reclaim their power and amplify their lives and how we can all be apart of this mission. She shares about how After a 15 year career as a fitness coach, competitor, model and writer, yoga instructor and retreat leader SOMETHING ws
missing. There was a DEPTH I was craving, and fitness felt limiting and superficial. I found Breathwork in 2019 and everything changed for me , literally overnight. The depth I was seeking was within ME and it took a breathwork journey to open this up for me. I burnt my business to the ground and dove head first into somatics, trauma training and breathwork. Now 6 years later I am HOME, and get to support others in finding this magic within them everyday.

BIO:

Kyla Gagnon is a somatic Breathwork facilitator and embodiment and empowerment coach for women. She is also a retreat host, and the host of Reclaimed, the podcast. A podcast dedicated to supporting women in reclaiming their power. Kyla's work is rooted in trauma informed nervous system regulation and emotional regulation through a somatic lens (body based vs mind based).

She is the founder of Breathe With Kyla, a somatics and BREATHWORK membership for women, and School Of Breath Medicine a breathwork and somatics teacher training program. After 16 years in the fitness industry, it became crystal clear that there had to be something more, something deeper and it’s been through conscious connected Breathwork that she has found this depth both within herself and within her clients. It was an immediate and intuitive knowing that this was the direction to take, and after one session she began the process of closing her business of 16 years and stepping fully into somatics and Breathwork.

LINKS:

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I'm back again with another NEW solo episode and I plan to keep them coming! Today I want to share a little more about the grief & loss experience, some insights into Virgo season, a head up for the approaching Eclipse season, and some thoughts on letting things kill you. Yes. To welcome experiences that lead to an internal death; death meaning ending, transformation, passing over into a new experience. That what you feel almost killed you may have actually just killed the part of you that would tolerate the experience that hurt you. And isn't that a gift?

I hope this episode offers some guidance and helpful insight! If you have any requests for topics of future episodes please reach out and let me know!

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Every single Woman in this World deserves to feel beautiful. Because they are, truly! Yet so often we question whether we really can be sensual, sexy, attractive, stunning, a bombshell! Which is important to know because confidence comes from knowing your OWN unique gifts and inner Goddess. That's where Boudair can help! Boudoir is a sensual photoshoot for the everyday woman. It will leave you feeling confident and beautiful so you can celebrate your body, relationships, and life! Getting to feel confident and look gorgeous, what could be better?

My guest this week is the Queen of Boudair, Liz Hansen. Based in Chicago, Illinois, Liz began her own boudair photography studio in 2018 and hasn't looked back since. Liz shares about her journey to boudair and how a boudoir photoshoot can help to build self assurance. Together we discuss why nude activities (in the right context) can help women find power & freedom and we have way too much fun talking about all things body embrace & acceptance, the gifts that keep on giving, and owning the heck out of YOUR unique sexiness. Liz shares her love for boudair & how beautiful portraits empower women to gain confidence and recognize their own beauty. She has been a professional photographer since 2011 and truly believes that boudoir is for everyone, regardless of age, size or shape.

Bio:

Liz Hansen is the owner and photographer at Chicago Boudoir Photography, a boutique studio that empowers women to feel confident in their bodies, relationships and lives. Liz opened her commercial studio in 2018 and has since photographed more than 2,000 women. She has been featured on the TEDx stage, on National Public Radio and with the Association of International Boudoir Photographers. Liz holds a BA in Art and an MA in Education. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and two teenage daughters.

Website:

https://chicago-boudoir.com/

Social Media links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chicagoboudoir

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chicago.boudoir/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-hansen-9aab35173/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChicagoBoudoirPhotography

Free e-book:

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