Unlocking Holistic Healing with Teresa Summer

Key Takeaways:

• The connection between physical and emotional/spiritual health
• Teresa's holistic approach to healing, combining modalities like hypnosis, energy work, and Family Constellations
• The role of intuition and presence in Teresa's healing work
• The transformative power of practices like breathwork, meditation, and body awareness
• Teresa's passion for helping people awaken to their true nature and purpose
• The significance of mindfulness and consciousness in personal and collective evolution
• Teresa's new projects, including a menopause-focused yoga course and a training for professionals

Where to Find Teresa:

• Instagram: @Tessysummer
• Facebook: Teresa Summer, Tessie Summer
• Websites: HealingWithTesy.com, ThePowerOfYoga.at
• Email: [email protected]

Transcript

Teresa Summer  0:00 

If somebody's feeling disconnected and struggles with self-love and doesn't trust the process of life and cannot breathe life in properly, what's going to happen is our breathing pattern will change, which means that we are not getting enough oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body, which also means that the organs in certain areas. For example, here will be the thymus gland, the lungs and the heart will take strain. And if those organs take strain, then we tend to get high blood pressure. We get sticky fascia tendinitis in the shoulder. We get all these physical problems. And this is my passion, to take it from a very gross level, which is the physical body. It's the lowest vibrating density of energy, and I'll take it to the highest vibration, to the most subtle part. So, the gross part is the body, then more subtle are the thoughts and the feelings and the emotions. And then let's go even further into what is our purpose, and that's my passion. I love to help people to wake up to their true nature, who they really are.

Amy Hageman  1:11 

This season on the living out love podcast, we are focusing on you, who you are, what motivates you, what you're here to contribute, and how you can expand. We'll be utilizing my leadership skills and spiritual connection diving deep into the Enneagram and astrology listen every week to become intimately aware of yourself. Only then can you heal and grow. Let's get to work. Loves, hello. Loves. Welcome to the living out love podcast. I am, as always, thrilled to be here. This week, we have a very special guest. She is a friend of mine, Teresa and I, we met on a class I've talked before about how I've taken classes at Arthur Findlay College, and it was so funny, because it was a group class, and she just caught my attention, you know, on the zooms. But at the time, it was honestly negative, friend. I'm so sorry to say there was something about like you were flustered or stressed or something, and I was just like, before I noticed that you were flustered, you had on this purple sweater, and you were just vibrant. And so, I was drawn to you, but then you were flustered, and it annoyed me. And so, then we get to the breakout groups, and I was like, I'm gonna be paired with that woman. I know this is my stuff. And then we got paired, and I immediately was like, this is the coolest person I've ever met in a zoom breakout group. Like I just immediately, it was just your energy and honesty. And one of the things that you and I have in common is that we have a lot of wisdom about a lot of things, and then there's areas where we're novices and we are completely able to own I don't know anything about this, you know? And so, it was really fun to be in this situation of we were doing what the class told us to do, and pulling the cards and all that, but starting to learn the amount of wisdom that you have in your body of work. I haven't even begun to discover, you know, but just starting to learn what all you had to offer. I was so intrigued by you so audience, listeners. I've since Theresa and I have traded sessions, and I've done two or three different healing modalities, things, processes with you, Teresa, and I've since recommended you like I don't even know what to say about them, other than I keep wanting them and I refer you to people. So, I'm really excited for you to tell people, what is it that is your magic? What is it that's your wisdom? You know, I feel like you bring, I'm so sorry. It's such a long introduction, but I feel like you bring this sort of combination of hypnosis and energy healing and Family Constellation, and I don't even know what else, like you bring all these things together when and if they're needed in your own beautiful way. And I don't even know what else is in that pot, so I just can't wait to hear what it is that we should know about you, what you want to share, what you want to teach. Just Welcome Hello friend. I love you, and I'm sorry for the long intro.

Teresa Summer  4:37 

Great. Thank you so much. Hi, Amy and all your listeners there. Thank you very much for having me on this podcast. It's actually my first podcast. Oh, I'm super excited. No idea what's going on and what to do, but I'm just, we just chatting together. So that's quite nice. Yeah. So, I'm so happy to hear that you had such cool experiences in my sessions. I really am and. I guess, if I had to pinpoint it, what it is that I do, you ask, like, what is the magic behind what I do? I guess you know what? I'm just super, super passionate about understanding something properly. I'm a very head-based person, but I'm also very heart based. I'm not very much of an airy-fairy kind of personality. But because of my head based, you know, and I don't mean that derogatory the airy fairiness, because there is something to it as well. But in my head-based personality, because I like to understand things. The biggest thing I really like to understand is metaphysics. What is this energy healing? How does it work? Why does it work? Where's the science behind it? You know, and because of my curiosity, I've done many trainings. I've done many trainings in yoga, different kinds of yoga, also in yoga, psychology. I also have done trainings in energetics, in quantum constellations, in hypnosis, and my first my hunger for knowledge just never gets saturated somehow, and because of all that, you know, and my inquisitive nature, I've made a lot of experiences, and I've been doing this kind of stuff for more than 25 years now. So, if you're doing only this, this is my full-time job. It's not a hobby, you know? It's not that I go to work and come home and do that in my spare time. That's all I do. Is this. So, if this is all you do, whatever you do you become good at, whether it's a soccer player, whether it's a therapist, whether it's a yoga teacher, it doesn't matter if you're constantly doing this, you have the potential to become really good at it, right? Yeah. And I guess what I do is I would actually say, well, of course, I'm gonna have to say that it gets channeled through me what what's needed. I have no idea what my recipient needs or wants at that moment, but it's a tuning into the present moment and in the present moment, that's quite clear, that all the answers are always there, and that I'm 100% convinced of, and I'm even happy to explain that. Why I say this, you know, so if I'm tuning into the present moment and you tell me your story, there's just a flow that happens like you know, it's just a flow, and you'll know it from your mediumship, you'll sit there uninterested in what's coming your way, or not uninterested, but not, not knowing what what's coming, and you just tune in and the things start flowing. And that's one direction. And with me, there's various directions. Maybe that's just the difference. I would say, yeah.

Amy Hageman  7:40 

I mean, I think that we, we all, you know, we all have different tools in our tool belts, like I have the leadership background and the emotional intelligence background. And so, when people come to me, sometimes that sort of thing will come out in a reading, it's like, oh, we, we need, we need to practice this skill. And because I have awareness of it, it's really easy to channel versus, I'm not a trained medical intuitive, so if somebody was to ask me, I don't know the difference between zinc and magnesium, you know. So, it's like, if somebody's asked me about a supplement, I could tell you what I hear, but I'm not going to hear glutathione or some other thing I've never heard of. Like, I'm not a trance channel, so accessing something that's not already in my brain somewhere. It's not something I'm going to be able to do. So, I think in your case, I'm really drawn to your tool belt as a whole. There's a couple of reasons I'm obsessed with Family Constellations. I've had on a constellation’s facilitator before. I think that's such amazing, deep, beautiful work. It's very and to me, it's very linked to parts work, internal, family, systems, all of that. And also, I really value hypnosis. And the first time that you and I did a session where that I was under hypnosis, so to speak, it was the most, I think that's the thing that I come back to, that session, the very first time, where I was truly under hypnosis. That's the most, I want to say malleable. I've been in my relationship to spirit and in my relationship to my own psyche, and it was the most, um, I think sometimes when we think of psychological healing, where we expect, like the thunderbolt, or like the yanking of like, oh, I'm gonna just take that trauma out of there, and you're going to be a whole new person. But a lot of times it's actually much more gentle than that. And it's not that there can't be tears and it can't be significant, but this was such it was deeply profound, and it was huge, but it was also gentle and soothing. Mm. Yeah, and it was unlike any other hypnosis experience I've had, any other psychological experience. I've psychological healing experience I've had, and it was unlike any other past life experience or past life regression I've had, and all three of those things were a part of it. And so, I think there's this magic in the different tools you've put in your tool belt, like hypnosis is one of the things that's on my bucket list. Like, someday, I'm going to invest in learning how to do that for people, but just the way that, because the tools that you have studied, the way they come together, to me, is one of the most healing in terms of, if you're going to work with an individual healer of some sort, that was one of the most healing sessions I think anybody could have

Unknown Speaker  10:53 

that's amazing. It's really, really lovely to hear

Amy Hageman  10:55 

and not to knock what I do, but it's just not, it's not the same to have that past life regression combined with the Family Constellations combined with the hypnosis so that you're really, I mean, most people are experts in one of those three areas, but your ability to put them all together creates this deep moving experience. I'm going to stop talking now.

Teresa Summer  11:28 

You're very right. I mean, I can only confirm this because I deal with a lot of people, and I have sessions with a lot of people, and they all pretty much say what you're saying as well, that they found this to be such a unique experience and such a huge shift, you know, and but what I'd like to add to what you're saying, you know, whether there's Thunderbolt and lightning in a session or not, it doesn't really matter. That's actually often just a personality thing. Some people are drawn to Thunderbolt and lightning, and they think that something only works when they freak out and start crying and roll all over the floor. It's not just that way. There's a time for that, maybe, but it's not everybody's personality. You know, there's other some people are very head-based people. So, because they're head based people, and because I'm an intuitive, I'll pick up on that, and then I'll guide them accordingly in that one direction. If somebody is a dramatic, heart-based person and wants some drama, I can lead them into the drama and into the catharting thing. Not a problem, you know. So, it's really about tuning in to somebody properly and seeing what's needed right now, and then guiding it from there and just being really empty in the present moment. The thing is, I don't work by the book. It's not like I have a manual and say, okay, I'm going to use this technique, this hypnosis technique, for this kind of story. I'll use that hypnosis technique for that kind of story. This is where intuition comes in. But a lot of therapists might not work so much with intuition. A lot of them may, but I'm not sure you know. Normally, you go into training as a psychologist, as a coach, as a hypnosis therapist, and you learn a certain structure, and you follow that structure, and you'll even have your script to follow while the person is hypnosis, and you read the script. This is what it was like in my training in hypnotherapy, and I always struggled to follow those notes. I just didn't want those notes. I just wanted to watch the person, feel the person, breathe, the person and say my own things. You know, my teacher kept saying to me, please follow the script. Okay, for the training purposes, I follow the script. But eventually, you know, it's just about really being in the present moment. And you know, we must also maybe just consider, you get millions of hairdressers, but not all of them are good. You get millions of therapists, not all of them are that good. I mean, it's not a bad thing. It's just, there's, there's a person for everybody. You know, there's a person for everybody.

Amy Hageman  14:02 

So, one thing that we haven't talked about yet is yoga. And was yoga your entry into the world of healing? Or how did you find your way into helping to heal others? And tell us about that?

Teresa Summer  14:18 

Oh, I love that. Yeah. So, it did start with yoga for myself, because I used to have panic attacks and anxiety in my early 20s. And of course, I got onto the path of yoga and breathing. And I was a practitioner for quite some time, for quite some years. And at some point, in time, I went for a special breathing course, you know, and that was so life changing for me, it changed my whole life. And from there, I never turned back. I just went forward and forward and forward. And I teach yoga in Austria and in Switzerland and online as well, of course, you know. And because of all my different modalities and trainings, I have come to understand yoga in such a way. Day that it has reignited my passion to such a high degree. And I see how all this fits in together, you know. So, for example, just the other day, I had this realization, if you think of like this water bubble, you know, those little soap bubbles, you blow soap bubbles, right? And then there's this little soap bubble floating in the air. And you look at this thing, and you see there's a separate entity from you, and that's the soap bubble. And then it pops. And it seems like it's no longer there, but it is. It's still there. The whole information of that soap bubble is still in the space, and the molecules that it's made of is still in the space. The only difference is you can't see it now. And this is what I now relate into my yoga practice. You know, I understand that we are a spiritual being in this physical form, which one day will die, but our essence will still be here, just like that soap bubble. The essence of the soap bubble is still in the space. So, this physical form has been given to me to explore life. And through this physical form, I explore life, through all my trauma, my drama, my anxieties, my conditioning and so on. And over time, I've come to understand, if I have anxiety for a long period of time, which organs it's actually going to weaken inside my body, which Meridian from the traditional Chinese medicine? Does that affect? And how can I release that through yoga or massage techniques to actually particularly massage a particular area of your body. So, for example, this is my way I teach yoga. I don't just teach normal yoga. So, I'll take a topic, let's say shoulder pain. You know, shoulder problems. And so many people have shoulder problems. So, I'll talk about shoulders, about the problems, and I'll also talk about the heart chakra and the throat chakra, and explain to them what the relevance here is, you know, what are we? How can we not breathe life in properly? Which aspects of life are we not breathing in properly, not accepting? Which aspects of life are we not feeling connected to? And what are we not voicing? You know, the spirit, the soul. I mean, the soul in our body has been given this physical body to express itself through sound, and this is the throat chakra. So, I bring in a lot of these kind of not even metaphors. They're absolute realities. For example, if somebody's feeling disconnected and struggles with self-love and doesn't trust the process of life and cannot breathe life in properly. What's going to happen is our breathing pattern will change, which means that we are not getting enough oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body, which also means that the organs in certain areas, for example, here, will be the thymus gland, the lungs and the heart, will take strain, and if those organs take strain, then we tend to get high blood pressure. We get sticky fascia tendinitis in the shoulder. We get all these physical problems. And this is my passion, to take it from a very gross level, which is the physical body, it's the lowest vibrating density of energy, and I'll take it to the highest vibration, to the most subtle part. So, the gross part is the body, then more subtle are the thoughts and the feelings and the emotions. And then let's go even further into what is our purpose, and that's my passion. I love, to help people to wake up to their true nature, who they really are, and to break down all those old barriers and all those old obstacles that actually inhibit us to do that. So how do people that was quite emotional?

Amy Hageman  18:54 

So how so you and I have always we've traded sessions, and so that's been my familiarity with you. But if somebody is real, like people come to me and ask me my What is my purpose in life? And me giving you two or three sentences on your purpose is very different than working with the healer, helping you to unlock it and then start to experience it in your energetic being, you know. So, if somebody is really struggling with purpose and taking in life, and they want to work with you. What does that look like? Is that just you're doing one session or three sessions. Is this like a mentorship like, What's that process? And I guess it's different for everybody, but

Teresa Summer  19:35 

it is. It's different for everybody. It normally starts with one session, but that one session often leads to more than one session, because not because I tell the clients to do so I don't, you know, I leave it completely open in their hands, in the space. And we can resolve a lot in one session, but they will experience, they often experience something in that one session where they think, wow, I actually want more. I want to know more. I want to know more. And then the. Come back on the on the, you know, by themselves for a second session. That's normally what it would look like. But that's the question those clients I love the most. You know, what is my purpose in life? Wow, I love helping people like that, really, because it's, it's all in there, and I'm, I will never put myself in the position, really, to tell them what their purpose is, very, very seldom, but I will get it out of them where they will get even more excited about it. And that empowers the people. That empowers them. Because if I can sit there and tune in as well and say, Okay, this is your purpose, I can do that too, but I prefer because it's too easy for them, they go home with the package, with a little gift and say, Yeah, somebody told me what my purpose is, but I want them to know what their purpose is, because they have the answers,

Amy Hageman  20:47 

yeah. And it needs to, it needs to resonate within their own body. And we that's a different it's a different experience when we, just as you were speaking earlier, with using the voice, it's like, if you're the one to voice it and say, oh, in this lifetime, my purpose, one of my purposes, is to be a mother or whatever like. It's so different for me to say one of my purposes in this lifetime is to heal my relationship with motherhood, versus you saying, Yeah, Amy, one of the things you came here to do you know. So, I totally agree and respect that about your process of really empowering the client to find it for themselves, and if they find it for themselves, they know 100% that it's true and they're not having to trust somebody else.

Teresa Summer  21:46 

That's true, you know. But I must also add to that, there's also two different scenarios. There's the client that comes to me, one on one, I would work differently with that client than I would with the group setting. In my teacher training programs, you know, in my teacher training programs, there's a very deep dive where I start explaining about life and God and our existence and how we were, how we came to be. You know, then I take them on a journey with that. So, I don't just tell them, I take them on a journey, and I put them through certain meditations where they can tap in and tune in to what it is that I'm actually trying to convey to them, and if they're lucky, they might have that experience. And that's the whole big difference. When you have the experience of something, there's a huge shift happening. But if you just hear and listen and have somebody speak over you all the time, you've got no power, right? And at the end of the day, just to bring it into a nutshell, the purpose of life, actually. And we all have the same purpose. We all have the same purpose. And the one purpose is to find the divine source which we came from. That is our purpose. And in finding and connecting, reconnecting to that divine source, whatever it is for many people. Many call it God. Many call it Allah. Many call it source or universe. It doesn't matter what you call it. It's all the same. And that is our one purpose. But it's not just a purpose. It's a purpose with a purpose. So, the purpose is, God said, you guys go down there. You all aspects of me. You're all part of me. Go down there, incarnate in a physical body. I will gift you this body. And while you have this body, you have a very important job to do. You need to experience everything. Because only through your physical body do I get to experience and I'm a little bit bored up here, you know. So not up here, but everywhere. So, God gave us this body to go and experience everything. So, what is everything? Everything? Are all the archetypes. It's all the archetypes. It's not only being the mother, it's being the healer, it's being the fool, it's being everything else you know so, but we limit ourselves to one certain role and one certain identity, which limits our sense of consciousness. But if we start doing the work on ourselves, we can explore all these different aspects of ourselves, and we will find, ah, wow, I could actually be an artist, if I want to, and that's one of the archetypes. And then we become more whole and more complete. And it's the connecting with the people and nature which makes us even most complete. And that's all the Divine is waiting for. For all of us to come up together, ASCEND together, not one alone. Otherwise, we have to come back and repeat the class until we pick up our friends and all ascend together. That's what it's about. I

Amy Hageman  24:49 

feel like that collective consciousness is we're just at the we're at the beginning of that idea coming to fruition. You know what I mean, the idea of at least in the United States. We, I'm in such an individualistic culture that that idea of the collective, it's almost one that I feel many people in in my society couldn't even get their heads around that we all have to do. It's, yeah, it's definitely, I think it's not that it doesn't exist now, because it exists, but we don't have an awareness of it now. And so that awareness, I believe, is starting to be born more broadly than it was before. And one other thing you wanted, you said that I wanted to comment on, as you were talking about, we're here to do all of it, and we're here to experience all of the archetypes. And I was going to say, in terms of our collective consciousness, I think that we are understanding more so that we change all the time. I think people, they want the simplicity of, I'm a mother, I'm a woman. I'm in my 40s. My name is like, we want that it's simple and I don't have to live in a question of it. But it's so easy to outgrow those things. We're designed to continue to grow in a basis. And so, we're, I think it, you know, in Western society, it all starts with production. So, it started with jobs, like, we've come to the point of, oh, I don't have to say, have the same job my whole life. I can be a songwriter, and then I can be an engineer, and I can do this. So, it started with jobs, and now it's going to identity and pronouns, and well before that, it was sexuality, and so it's we're coming to this idea that we're not a static being, and we're seeing it more so in the outer tactical experience of the world. But I think it's also that idea of embracing just the question in and of itself, of like, what is the purpose? It's like, well, who are you today? Today, let's talk about it, and then come see me in two weeks, when you are a different person, and we can't talk about what's going to be in two weeks, because that's not even real until we're there. So yeah, just very

Teresa Summer  27:24 

true, very true. But you're very right in saying that there's so much diversity and so much change, and people are starting to realize that they're not static. So yes, that's one thing which is happening, but that is also very dangerous if we're not conscious beings, yes, yeah. So being conscious mindfulness is key. Is absolute key to successful life. Becoming aware and mindful, that's the key. I believe that every human being should do mindfulness training of some sort. Yes. I mean, I think every human being, I think

Amy Hageman  28:04 

the ability to evolve and grow and not be static is dangerous, if, if you're not mindful, but I think choosing to stay the same and not evolve and grow is just as dangerous, you know, just in general, not being but that's the comfort, yeah, it's the comfort zone. But if you are, if the whole world is driving Porsches, and you're still riding a bike on the highway, because you don't want to change and grow into the Porsche, you know, then that's really dangerous. So I think just in general, it's anything that's out either completely out of sync with the collective and what's the actual rhythms of energy that's happening, and then also anything that's not, I kind of want to say sleep at the wheel, but I also just kind of want to say not taking care of self, like we have to learn how to take care of ourselves.

Teresa Summer  29:10 

Very true. But you see in that which you're saying, which is really very true what you're saying. But there's also some you know depends how you look at things, how one looks at things, right? You're right. If we don't go with the flow of what's happening in life, we're going to fall behind and so on and so forth. But you also can't just flow with what's really going on sometimes, because there's a lot of madness going in this world, and you sometimes need to stay behind, especially if you want to take care of yourself, then it's advisable that you start growing your own vegetables, and you go organic, and you get your piece of land, and you live in a community. Now, one could see that as staying behind, but one could also see that as that's

Amy Hageman  29:53 

a mindful decision. Where do you draw the line? But that's a mindful decision. That's what I was trying. Trying to say is, like a common example would be like racism, if somebody who grew up my dad grew up in a homophobic household, and so what he knew was homophobia. So, if he didn't choose to grow and he just chose to keep his head in the sand, his conditioning would be very harmful in today's world, that that's sort of what I mean. It's like, very correct. It's if you're mindfully choosing to go off grid and grow your own food, that's just countercultural. But I'm talking about just like asleep at the wheel, staying in the past because you're not being mindful.

Teresa Summer  30:41 

Yes, yeah, yeah. Well, you can see that a lot with a lot of elderly people. The elderly generation nowadays, they lost with social media. They don't know what's going on in the world. They think the world's gone mad. They are actually anxious, because they think the world's gone mad that they don't have a place in this world anymore. And for older people, it's often very difficult to change, you know, to adapt to new ways. It's very difficult for older people, but in my opinion, it's because we were never taught that we were never guided in the right way. Schools didn't teach this, parents didn't teach this, you know. And now it's moving very fast, and now it's moving super-fast, and people struggle to

Amy Hageman  31:21 

keep Yeah, I went to a yoga retreat, and I don't know the research that he cited, because this was months ago, but the instructor cited some research that showed that when we're young, our brains are designed to take risk and to ask questions and to go and try new things. And the older we get, the more our brains are designed to know things and to be cautious, and they're not designed to ask questions. And so biologically, we're not geared to learn at older ages. But yet, we live in this world where tech, where technology is moving all the time, and so it's like the human form, the human brain hasn't evolved to the world that we're living in. It can. It's solely possible. Our brains are so malleable, you know. But to your point, I it is hard to be an elderly person in this world, especially in Western society, where we don't have the same respect for elders as some other cultures do. So, you add that

Teresa Summer  32:27 

that is very true. Yeah, very true, yeah. Well, I can only say the opposite for myself. You know, the older I get, the more I want to learn, and the more active I become, and the more I want to do crazy things like immigrate and this and that. So, I don't know where that research comes from, but it's

Amy Hageman  32:46 

looking at the biological age of the brain like it was coming from brain studies. But I would point that those research studies are based on a mass of people and averages and the I don't think they factor in people that are mindful and people that make different choices.

Teresa Summer  33:10 

Yes, yes, yeah, no, you're quite right. I agree with you, yeah, definitely, yeah. That's wonderful. It's really wonderful. And I feel also, you know, being able to work with people and help people to become more conscious and aware and just support them in their path of healing. I don't think there's a more satisfying job, right? I really don't know. I really don't we were the most satisfying job.

Amy Hageman  33:38 

We were. We being me, my family. We were staying with my in laws for a time, and while we were there, we got, I got an email or a text message or something from a client who'd had a reading a while back, and something came to pass, and something big, emotional thing happened, and they sent me a lovely letter that that basically said, You changed my life, which is not something, I mean, I've heard that more than a handful of times, and my husband is, this is not his world, the like, I'm a psychic medium thing, that's not his thing. But he's like, you know, I he goes, I help people for a living too, but I never get notes like that, you know. And it is. It's so rewarding. And I think for me, I'd be curious for your take on this, but for me, part of what's so rewarding is I feel like I'm not actually doing most of the work. You know, with Spirit, God, source, give it the name, it's like I'm just allowing that energy to come in and do so. I don't have to have the intelligence of what needs to happen here, you know, I just have to allow that. You

Teresa Summer  34:47 

You actually just said it, you've just said it. You allow yourself to be a vessel. You know, many other people, and I'm, I'm not saying they, a lot of all of them do it, but I'm sure you do get those. But they thrive on the idea of them being a healer or them being something or they need a statement about themselves. You know, they don't even consider that they are just a vessel and that there's grace that's flowing through this body, and some people are more equipped or talented in communication, maybe, than others. And it's okay. Like I said, not every hairdresser's the same, you know. So, it just depends. I mean, I find the more natural one is, this is my take on it. The more natural you can be without too much mind clutter, the more the grace and the energy will flow, and you'll always know what to do. And you were mentioning earlier on even about these medicines, you know, the intuitive medicine, even if you don't know names of a certain medicine. But if the boxes were in front of you, and you just tune in and put your hands, yeah, you'd also know which one. Usually, you don't even have to know what it's for and what it's called.

Amy Hageman  36:02 

You can tune into the energy. Yeah, yeah. I'll do readings, and I'll be like, you know, the first one or the second one, or just give me three initials of something like, just give me a way to tune into the energy. And yes. So let me ask you, because it's been a while since you have, and I have had an actual conversation. And last time, one of the first times we spoke, we were talking about a book that you were maybe working on that has been years and years and years in the making, that's probably going to be years before it comes out. And then since then, you also mentioned that you had some something that was wanting to be birthed, something that was wanting to be given a voice coming through you. And so, I, I want to invite you to bring that forward, whatever that is, introduce that to me what's happening

Teresa Summer  36:55 

that's super exciting. This has been a journey of mine for quite some time now, internally, as you clearly mentioned it, I've been feeling something is wanting to be birthed and come out. And it's really been very intense, that sensation and that feeling has been very intense, and has also caused me a lot of disease, not disease. But this is internal, you know. And you know, I tell you, the universe is just so amazing and so magical. It gave me the opportunity through hardships with my daughter. We were living in Europe, in Austria, as you know, and my daughter was having a really rough time, then got into some bad scenes, to the point where I had to take her out of the country immediately, and it was her choice. She said, I want to get out of here. I need to get out now. I came back home to South Africa, where we originally from, and I've spent three months here. And in these three months, I've had so much time for myself and introspection, and it's been amazing. I had a plan that I would work on my book. Him, well, you wish the book. But what I did do, I went with the flow. First of all, I experienced a lot of loneliness, which is a feeling I've never known before. But I sat with this loneliness, and I allowed it to be there, and I welcomed it, and I inquired into it, and I endured it. And out of that loneliness, something very special and sacred was born. It's actually a kind of love, a divine love, was born peace and acceptance of this very present moment, really and truly. And from that, what was birthed, I created a whole new course for women during menopause. It's a Yoga Fix for menopause course, and it's for the English market, because up until now, my market has been the German speaking market, because that's where I've been living. But this one, it excites me so much, because it's back, it's in English, again, my first language, well, for many years, you know. So, it's a course which incorporates yoga, acupressure, EFT tapping, hypnosis, techniques, relaxation, knowledge, the psychology of what's going on with us when we age and getting into menopause. So, it's a beautiful all-around course, and it's really, it's so doable for everybody to do. Whoever struggles with menopause, there's breathing techniques to cool down the system from within. And one doesn't have to be an experienced Yogi to do this. Course. It's for all levels. So, this was born while I was here. That's just one project which was born. The other project, which is in the birthing still, and I'm working on it, is a whole new training, a training for professionals, yoga teachers, therapists, anybody who's interested in the correlations of psychology. Yoga meridian. And techniques to work on these meridians, to release the blockages in the meridians. You know, as we know, the meridians are the channels where the energy and the vital force flows through, so that our organs can be nourished and nurtured, so that we have enough vitality and healthy bodies. So, I'm working on that course, and I'm like, halfway through, and this will be a training which I'll be offering my students back in Europe when I go back. Wow, the whole training accredited, but that's been amazing, magical. And, yeah, my really, it's been amazing. I've loved this time. It's in solitude, alone, a lot of introspection, studying, doing more studies. What I enjoy doing, you know, and putting together content, yeah, courses, trainings, workshops.

Amy Hageman  40:51 

I am blown away at your menopause course. I really am. I think Women's Health is just now coming to the forefront. Number one. Number two, I think we don't, I don't think we know, as we said earlier, we don't really know what to do with our elders, and so I think menopause and post-menopausal women, we don't know what to do, what to do with that, both in terms of how to support and in terms of what is it that we're revering about this like we know what to revere about young, fertile women, you know, but what is it that is so magical? What is the wisdom and so am I love that that's the offering that you have. But within that offering of its breath work, it's psychological, it's EFT. I'm like, this is everything. This is what offers are supposed to be, which is why, coming to the beginning of this episode, I'm so obsessed with your combination of skills.

Unknown Speaker  41:58 

You've just hit the nail. Circle me

Speaker 2  42:00 

now, I'm like, Oh yes, yes, you're right. That's what it is. It is that this whole person bringing things together. Yes, yes,

Unknown Speaker  42:09 

I think,

Teresa Summer  42:12 

yep. Because you know, not everybody can relate to this technique or that technique or this technique. So why not offer a variety of techniques? For example, I have a meditation course, which I haven't seen anybody do. And this meditation course, I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I've not seen anybody do it is, you know, I don't know if you've spoken to a lot of people, people tell me I can't meditate. No, everybody

Amy Hageman  42:39 

tells me that. Everybody says that, and

Teresa Summer  42:42 

you know, and you know what I say. I say, what do you do? What do you mean? You can't meditate. What do you do? I know, I sit there, and I've tried to think of a concentrate on my breath, or I just can't still the mind. You know, I said, well, you're fighting too much. You're trying too hard, and maybe that's not for you, because certain people, like my daughter, she can meditate much easier if she chants. Another person will meditate when they do a deep breathing practice, another person will meditate better if they're lying flat on their back guided, another person will meditate better if you're doing all sorts of hold a certain mudra. Mudra is a gesture, hand gesture. So, we have so many little things to help us to meditate, but we need to find the right tool for the right person. It's like at school. Not everybody's made to sit at the desk for so many hours and listen to somebody talking. Some people learn better when they stand up, when they're walking around, when they're hearing music. So, we need to accommodate the individuals, individually, and be able to grab the whole group in a group setting and accommodate them all. And that is the key, yeah. So, for me, that for that you can't work by the book. For

Amy Hageman  43:57 

me, I've learned just since we're talking about it, that for me, meditation is about receiving in the sense of energy and sometimes, and it's just basically because I'm allowing myself to be still, and whether, even if that means I'm out for a walk, I'm just focused on the idea that all I'm doing in this time is receiving, and sometimes what I'm receiving is stillness on a quiet mind, but sometimes what I'm receiving is something else. And it could be a content download. It could be I'm feeling an energetic healing. I could be, for me, it's just like if I'm going to sit and meditate, what I do is I open myself up to receive. And then the way that I get out of my own way is allowing energy to move. So sometimes it looks like chanting or breathing, and sometimes it's like I sway my body, but I'm for me personally, I feel like we, we don't live in. The static universe, energy is moving, and that's my way of finding meditation, is, how is the energy flowing through me at this time, and how does my energetic body want to relate with that energy at this time? So, I often, I'm, I'm often like a swirly meditator, because I'm just like this energy, you know, and it so, anyway, we were talking about it, and I just, I was one of those people that was like, I can't meditate, you know. And I know I get into meditative states when I swim laps or when I you know, but as soon as I really started going all right spirit, I just want to receive and I don't know what I needed in this moment, but I know that you're going to give it to me, and I'm going to sit here and open up to you that that was the game changer.

Teresa Summer  45:46 

That's amazing. You know, I believe a lot of people think they cannot meditate because they have a preconceived idea of what this meditation should look like, and now they're not achieving it, and they're getting frustrated. This is the biggest thing with meditation, if people really understood meditation, because meditation actually means the art of doing nothing, not something. And those people that are trying to meditate to achieve something, there's something they're trying to aspire to, and that's already doing something, that's effort that's putting effort into something meditation is literally effortlessness, and to be okay with that is very difficult for many people, because we also geared to be productive, active, achieving understanding one plus one equals two, etc., etc., Yeah. Meditation can be done, like, right now, like, right now, I'm actually meditating while I'm talking to you, because I'm aware of what's going on. I'm aware of my breath. I'm in harmony with whatever is here right now. I'm aware of my space around me. If anybody were to walk into my room, I wouldn't get a shock. I wouldn't get a surprise, because I'm aware of it. I'm aware of my space that I'm sitting in. I'm aware of my breath and what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, and I'm aware of you all at the same time. So, this is meditation for me. It doesn't have to be on and then that's it. So many forms, yeah,

Amy Hageman  47:21 

a meditation course. So, is that course in German, or do you have it in English?

Teresa Summer  47:25 

That one's, well, I teach that one in German, but I don't have that one online. It's in the making. That will also be done in English, but that I teach live in German. So, it's been in German, yes.

Amy Hageman  47:38 

So, you'll have to keep us updated when you have that ready to go in English, definitely. I might have some German sneakers on my list, but if I do, I don't know about them. You never do know.

Teresa Summer  47:51 

You never know. Yeah, no, You never Yeah, definitely. Well,

Amy Hageman  47:55 

Teresa is there anything else that you want to say or add or leave a question before we kind of wrap up.

Teresa Summer  48:07 

Well, I guess maybe what I'd like to share, if I may, to all the listeners. So, if you're listening, I can highly, highly, highly recommend to just take a few minutes, five minutes a day, even three times a day, if you can just lie down or sit still and just breathe into your belly and into your chest a few times, into your belly and into your chest a few times. And the key is to slow your breath down. Slow your breath down. If you can slow your breath down, the yogis say, the slower you breathe, the longer your life, the faster you breathe, the shorter your life is, and fast breathing means the majority of the people breathe way too fast, because we're in our heads always thinking and thinking and thinking and overthinking. And let's remember that all our thinking and our thought patterns are all based on our past. They're all based on some programming in the past. Everything you think in the way you think now comes from your program, programming from the past, and to actually break free from that, and sometimes we feel a bit of turmoil coming up. Take a seat. Take a lie down. Just take a few gentle, deep breaths, very slowly, and notice how instantly something shifts inside you. And if that isn't proof enough that you have the power to heal, then I give up my job, because you will see everybody will see this. Everybody will see this. You just do that for a few minutes, and you'll see how you have the power to shift something inside you. So, use this power that has been given to us as a gift. It's for free. You have it with you everywhere you go. You don't have to make any appointments for that. You. Settle, lie down, breathe, slowly, gently and easily and just keep going, loving yourself and learning about yourself.

Amy Hageman  50:11 

A mindful breath is far and away different than automatic breath, a mindful Let me breathe that into my belly and rise up to my chest and I love, I love what you said about just get on the floor. Because I love a moment when I choose to actually just lay my body on the floor, not on a bed, not on furniture, just get on the floor and let your full body just be there's something, I think, because whether it's concrete or whatever, but having that supportive energy, that Solid Energy, across your whole physical being, you could just fully let go, you know, and just, it's amazing,

Teresa Summer  50:57 

yeah, very I love that. And it's also very good for the spine, you know? It's very good for the spine, yeah, to lie on a hard ground, it sort of helps the spine to get its natural curve, you know. But if you're lying on a mattress, then you're following the mattress, and it's just not so therapeutic like it is lying on a hard floor. I'm not saying sleep on a hard floor, but definitely lie on a hard floor sometimes to just sort of recalibrate and allow the spine to just realign a little bit.

Amy Hageman  51:27 

Yeah, yeah. Well, Theresa, where do people find you? I will put links in show notes and when I send this email out, but tell everybody where to find you. Are you on social? Are Do you have your website like give us all those details? Yes.

Teresa Summer  51:42 

Wonderful. So, I'm on Instagram as  tessysummer. I'm on Facebook as Teresa summer or Tessie summer, both of them. So, my name is Teresa, but a lot of people call me te. So, I've got both these names. I've got an English website up and running now, which is called healing with Tessie. And then I have my German website, which is the power of yoga. So, when you see tessysummer, you'll also link it to the power of yoga, because my modality is very vast and mixed, and the base is yoga, basically, or started off that way. So yeah, Facebook, Instagram, website, Teresa summer, healingwithtesy.com Yes, and you're everywhere, I guess. Find me. If you need me, you'll find me. If you're looking for me, you'll find Right,

Amy Hageman  52:30 

right? And I cannot to just all my listeners. I cannot recommend her enough. I can't predict what working with her would be like, because it's different for everybody, and it's different every time, because she's intuitive, and she uses whatever tools at her disposal that meets the energetic need at the time. But I will say that if you were in search of some support for either building your own awareness, your own reflection, or and or healing something. If you've been struggling with something and you're like, I when am I ever going to give up this poverty consciousness or whatever it is, the thing that is keeping you up at night or annoying you about yourself, you know, the thing that makes you scared to look in the mirror? I highly recommend booking a session with Teresa. I mean, I don't know what it's going to look like, but I recommend it anyway. So, Theresa, thank

Teresa Summer  53:31 

you are so much. Maybe my email address is, yes, maybe my email address if people want to reach me with info at the power of yoga.at, and, you'll put that in the I

Amy Hageman  53:42 

will. We'll put it all in there. So, thank you so much, Theresa for coming on. And what if, what a lovely conversation just about the state of things and our energy and healing and just everything. And I love that it's come full circle back to your offerings of being so on such a full spectrum offering. You know, we're going to look at the body. We're going to look at the energetic that is in the unseen, and we're going to look at the tapping and the meridians. I mean, just so beautiful, but also very grounded in the now, menopause is a very real, physical human experience. It's not, it's not will. So, I'm just, I'm so no,

Teresa Summer  54:27 

definitely, definitely. Thank you so much. Amy, I really, really appreciate this invitation and the opportunity to introduce myself to your listeners. They're very blessed to have you as a guide, you know, as a podcaster with a lot of knowledge and information and yeah, wish you all lots and lots and lots of love, everybody and lots of luck, lots of land, looking forward to remaining. Yes. Thank you, my love.

Amy Hageman  54:59 

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