6 Essential Winter Solstice Practices to Support Rebirth and Renewal

SoloCast Topic: 6 Essential Winter Solstice Practices 

Hi everyone and welcome back to our Monday solo cast episode. We haven’t been doing many solo cast lately, but I am very passionate about sharing today’s particular topic, which is six key practices to do right here right now, which is in this winter solstice period as we come towards the darkest day of the year for those of us in the Northern hemisphere for supporting rebirth and renewal. I’m feeling this maybe more than any other year of my life. I’m coming out in a very interesting period right now from back-to-back book launches. I think maybe because my heart feels so wide open right now, I’m particularly tuned in to nature and this period, and it just feels very reflective. And I want to talk about this period because I think it’s a really powerful time for most all of us because…

 

Episode Summary:

In this episode, Kimberly discusses the significance of the winter solstice as a time for reflection, renewal, and inner work. She emphasizes the importance of creating intentional space for self-care, building resilience through heart practices, and nourishing the body with warming foods. Snyder shares six key practices to support personal growth and transformation as we approach the new year, encouraging listeners to honor the darkness and find their inner light.

 

 

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Episode Chapters

00:00 Embracing the Winter Solstice for Renewal
06:06 Building Resilience Through Heart Practices
11:55 Six Key Practices for Rebirth
18:11 Creating Intentional Space for Self-Care
24:11 Nourishing the Three Brains
29:45 Warming Foods and Keeping Cozy

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Transcript

Kimberly Snyder (00:00.452)
Hi everyone and welcome back to our Monday solo cast episode. We haven’t been doing many solo cast lately, but I am very passionate about sharing today’s particular topic, which is six key practices to do right here right now, which is in this winter solstice period as we come towards the darkest day of the year for those of us in the Northern hemisphere for supporting rebirth and renewal. So for some reason,

I’m feeling this maybe more than any other year of my life. I’m coming out in a very interesting period right now from back-to-back book launches. I think maybe because my heart feels so wide open right now, I’m particularly tuned in to nature and this period, and it just feels very reflective. And I want to talk about this period because I think it’s a really powerful time for most all of us.

As we’re moving towards the new year, sometimes we don’t think about the new year ahead, what we want to drop, what we want to let go of, what we want to create, what we want to manifest until we’re in the new year. And in many ways, New Year’s is a manmade time period, right? We just sort of decided this idea of January 1st. But from a natural perspective, the more we tune into our hearts, the more we come back into our natural

state, our natural potential, the true self, we tune in more to nature’s rhythms. And actually it is winter solstice, right? There’s summer solstice. There’s these really potent times in nature where there are shifts happening on a planetary, on a universal, on a cosmos level, which is really beyond these actual dates. And I remember when I was in Peru going to some of these really powerful structures.

And there were times for winter solstice and summer solstice when the light would come through and light up these structures at these very potent periods that would, you know, the ancient peoples would create rituals around these times and there were celebrations, right? So I think a lot of that is lost in modern time. And so the purpose of today’s show is to help bring you back to your natural power and connection with nature so that you can create the most amazing year going forward. That’s aligned to your deepest desires.

Kimberly Snyder (02:22.426)
your natural intentions, what’s waiting to be birthed out of you. But if we don’t take time for this period, if we don’t take time to really fully go into our hearts, we can just go straight into the new year following the same patterns, the same sort of reactions, the same ideas and concepts and energies. And we don’t really create something new and spectacular and dynamic and amazing, which I think is really the potential for all of us.

Now, I also want to share that these practices are for now, but starting very early in the new year, I’m very excited to announce I will be hosting an at home three day retreat, heart retreat that’s going to include a zoom to help prepare you. And then for the two days at home, I’m going to be guiding you through a total lifestyle retreat. You can do it from anywhere. It’s going to be recipes.

We’re gonna practice mono eating to rest your digestion and increase detoxification, elixir recipes, a very special at home heartwarming Kitchery recipe, which is gonna be a one pot meal with certain spices. There’s going to be our research around heart coherence, the heart aligned meditation focused on new year and tapping into the incredible wisdom of your heart and how do we use that to come up with the best solutions to manifest in the new year.

There’s going to be an expand and release stretch video, which I taped in the forest on our lands in Hawaii, journaling prompts and more. So please join me and the community for this incredible retreat. There is information at mysaloon.com right now where you can sign up and get all the info. Okay. All that being said, let’s get into today’s topic, which is this natural, what’s happening in the collective. There’s natural.

moving of our energy inward, right? So think about summer where the days are longer and the sun is out and we feel inclined to naturally want to play outside, to spend time in the yard playing ball or games outside with our kids, whatever it is. This is nature’s way of saying, hey, we need to come inward and reflect and rejuvenate before we just pop out into the new year. And this is part of nature’s way of

Kimberly Snyder (04:42.35)
You know, when you see how seeds need to germinate, the garden looks very different right now than it does in the summertime or in the spring where things are coming up. This is the time for germination. This is the time for deep reflection and coming deeply into our bodies through some of our practices are going to talk about how we ground and re-center and nurture our bodily systems, including digestion and immunity right now. Before we just

you know, want to go outward. This is a time for coming in and building resilience and clarity. Now, so much of the heart practices and the heart coherence are really about resilience against stress, because what can happen is that we get so busy, want to rush ahead, want to rush from one thing to the next, we’re up in our heads. So we start to get very weakened by being so externally oriented, right? This is one of the qualities of the propelled heart.

the second heart stage, if you read the new book, The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts, this is where we become more vulnerable to getting upset, resistances when things don’t go our way, when the traffic hits, emails come in that we don’t like, projects get delayed, people say things that we don’t really want them to say. When we’re so externally oriented, we just feel like we’re being tossed in the waves.

And this creates so much weakness and breakdown and frustration. And the stress response is going all the time to varying degrees. We are in fight or flight. So now is the time to take some space, some really sacred space, and to create rituals and practices for building this resilience. This is absolutely key so that when New Year’s comes in just a few weeks, as we birth into

February, March, April, the spring. We have built these inner reserves. Right now, what I’m seeing a lot with friends and with the community and people around and the greater community is just rushing around. I know for myself, there are a lot of school events. There’s little sicknesses going around with my kids’ school. There’s a lot of preparation. There’s a lot of parties leading up to the holidays. And all of that is wonderful. But even in the midst…

Kimberly Snyder (07:05.708)
of great activity. It is essential that we remember that this is also a powerful time to take for ourselves, that we may fill our cup up so that when we are coming into the new year, we are not running on empty. We’re not feeling depleted. And that means we can be there even more for our friends, for our family. We can be even more coherent. We can be in this really powerful place where we’re so clear.

and we’re so loving and we’re so peaceful and we’re so calm. So that even in the midst of great activity and decisions that need to be made, whether it’s with our family or in our job or, you know, bigger life decisions or things that we need to do with our elderly relatives or whatever it is, we can come from such a stable place, right? This is the natural cycle of

the planet and the nature. There’s this time for flourishing and fullness and outward activity and the leaves are green and big. And there’s the time when the leaves shed and everything sort of pulls inward. You know, I’m looking out my window right now and our garden are just trimmed. Some of our trees, including this really big full eucalyptus tree is now really bare. And my kids pointed at it the other day and they were like, mama, look at that tree. It looks so funny.

And I said, you know, Arturo, our gardener brought to my attention that if we don’t help this tree cut back and shed, its branches will get so big, they will break. They’re actually, you know, there’s this potential to fall on our cars and damage our cars and damage the environment around them and hurt the tree. Right. So we think about when we get overburdened in life and this tends to build up.

over the course of the year. And then for many, like I said, there’s all these holiday events and shopping and preparing, and then we don’t really have that deep inner time. And so I’m not suggesting that you have to go away for a few days. Like I said, this at home home retreat, which we’ll be hosting in a few weeks is just going to be carving out this space at home, even in this period, this period leading up the practices I’ll talk about in just a few moments, you can take 20 minutes.

Kimberly Snyder (09:30.254)
half an hour, one hour to rejuvenate yourself and turn the energy inward. And we start to discover the light that is inside of ourselves, even as the outer light is getting less and less. And this incredible resilience and power that’s actually inside of all of us, we just have to learn to tap into it more and more. So one of the things that winter solstice has been traditionally known for is honoring the darkness. Now there’s a difference.

When we’re talking about the dark heart, which is the first stage, a stage of incoherence, when we don’t really see the light, that’s different than the external darkness, which is this moving us towards stillness and calmness. And again, just urging us to move away from so much external activity into periods of inner stillness. So darkness, from the dark heart perspective, is when there’s so much

looking outward and being in the world and being tossed around in fears and overthinking and confusion and ideas versus this natural darkness that’s settling in the world around us that’s asking us to metaphorically and figuratively and maybe quite literally light a candle and to tune into our own inner light. So this is actually a period where we can create great leaps and bounds.

through reflection, introspection, working on our heart coherence tools, like the heart align meditation. This is where we can step into more of that steady heart energy, which really does build our health and our vitality as it reduces stress, as it slows aging, because now we’re finding security, safety, confidence from inside of ourselves. So this period is so potent and so magical. It’s been honored by the ancients for many

years. There’s these beautiful holidays such as Diwali and I’m actually going to be speaking at my child’s, my children’s school. There’s two parts of the school, the preschool aspect and the grades where my older son is about Diwali and they have this beautiful practice where they talk about all the beautiful holidays such as Hanukkah, such as Kwanzaa, such as Diwali leading up to this part of the year and this festival of lights.

Kimberly Snyder (11:54.778)
I’ll share about it briefly and then we’ll go into the practices. Came about when Rama, Prince Rama went into the forest with his wife Sita and his brother Lakshman for many years, not dissimilarly to how Prince Siddhartha left his kingdom to go seeking meaning and to learn about life. Prince Siddhartha would go on to become Buddha. And Prince Rama was in the forest

for 13 years and he had many adventures. He came across sages and learned more about meditation and spirituality and life. And along the way he met a talking monkey. Remember this happened many years ago. Who knows what was happening thousands of years ago. And the monkey’s name was Hanuman. And right away Hanuman recognized the light of God inside of Rama and wanted to follow this little

crew, again, Sita, Rama, his brother Lakshman, and serve and help and do whatever he could. And along the way, there was a period where Rama and Lakshman were looking for food and jealous demon Ravana came down and abducted Sita and took her to his palace in Lanka, which is now known as modern day Sri Lanka. And she dropped her bracelet as a clue.

to the direction in which she was going.

And so the story goes, Hanuman found her bracelet and realized he had to go help her. So he scampered over the bridge to Lanka and stood outside Demon Ravana’s palace. And at that point he froze and he said to himself, wait, I’m just a little monkey. How am I going to rescue Sita from all these guards and this big palace and this big demon and I’m just a monkey? And at this moment, the King of the Wind,

Kimberly Snyder (13:59.204)
Hanuman’s father started singing this Hanuman Shalisa to him, which is basically this mantra, 108 verse mantra, which many people today in India and different parts of the world listen to. This powerful mantra that’s really about remember who you really are. You’re not just a monkey, there’s this power of God, spirit. The light is inside of you.

So it’s this call to remember who we really are, the true self. And so at this moment, so the story goes, Hanuman was filled with divine inspiration and lit his tail on fire and ran around the palace and lit the palace on fire. There was smoke and there was commotion and he was able to grab Sita and rescue her and take her back to Rama.

And so there’s a lot more that happens in the story, but at this point Rama said, all right, thank you so much Hanuman and it’s time to go back. So as they came back after 13 years, the beloved Prince Rama would become King Rama. And there were thousands of candles lit out of this dark forest, out of this incredible.

You know, metaphorically, we can say the confusion and the overthinking and our lack of purpose and lack of knowing who we really are, right? Believing all the lack of the mind and the candles were lit. And that is part of the Diwali celebration today, which is to signify the triumph of the light over the dark on a societal level and an individual level, a collective level, all these different levels. So what it means for us individually,

is through the busyness, through all these moments and periods where we get really down and overwhelmed and fearful and we feel like maybe our life doesn’t have that much meaning or on the wrong track or we messed up again and our self-esteem is low. The light is always there to be connected with.

Kimberly Snyder (16:16.148)
in our community, in our practices here, which are so potent now, and the research shows this, we can connect to that light through the power of our hearts, which is where this love emanates and radiates out, which is where there is a heart brain with 40,000 neurons, which can start to put into harmony the input signals to your brain up in your head and can start to harmonize your thoughts with a different perspective.

So we want to nurture this inner light right here, right now, so that we come out of any darkness internally and we start to bring forward more light into the new year, whether that’s towards our health, our vitality, our relationships, into new projects, birthing into a whole new potential in our work, in our home place, with our families, in our perspective and finding more inner peace, whatever happens to be.

So six key practices to nourish this rebirth and this inner potency, even though it may not look like a lot’s happening externally, we need this germinating of our inner resilience, this inner seed, so to speak, that we’re cultivating right now so that we can have a very different type of new year. So the first practice is to really create intentional space. We need that space to rest, to…

revivify ourselves to do the other practices I’ll talk about next, but we need space for stillness to be able to listen to our hearts in the first place. So how do you do that? So it’s taking a practical look at your schedule. So for me, I have to create space often in my day where I’ll literally block it off in the schedule. I’ll tell my team, I’ll write it into my calendar, 30 minutes.

Usually after my school drop, I take my time to do longer meditations before school drop getting into work. Why? Because the evenings, I’m making dinner, I still take a shower, and I still will do a brief meditation. But I’m with my kids, I’m with my husband, I often go to bed around the same time. So I don’t really have a lot of free space in the evenings.

Kimberly Snyder (18:36.546)
the afternoons, there’s a lot of playtime, there’s a lot of events, there’s school events right now, there’s holiday parties. So you have to really practically look at what makes sense for you. And it may look different for other people. You know, last year when I was writing The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts, I was getting up at 330 in the morning to write the book and my stillness space was really in the early mornings.

I’m in a different mode right now because there’s so much happening in the evenings. I’m not able to go to bed as early. So for me, my intentional space time for myself is in the day. Now, sometimes it’s only 30 minutes. Sometimes I can take an hour, an hour and a half, right? So don’t get into your head that it has to be a certain amount of time, even if you just have 10 minutes, a pocket of 20 minutes, and you can sit and you can get off your phone.

and you can just maybe come into your meditation space where you do your heart aligned meditation or just close your computer. Or, you know, maybe for you it’s taking a longer bath or whatever it looks like, make it be intentional and let people know if you need to, whether that’s your work colleagues or your partner or your roommate or your friends or your kids, you know, I’m taking space right now. And these moments again, building up

to the new year are going to be really powerful. So I encourage you to do whatever it takes to block those off. And again, it may just be a few minutes here and there, and maybe on the weekends or certain times you can make more space, but do be intentional and do put it into your calendar. Number two, we want to use those times with this space. Sometimes it’s just resting, but right now you can really direct the energy in these spaces and in these times.

to listen to your heart. So many times the heart is drowned out. There’s a section in the book where I talk about is your heart speaking or is your ego speaking? And sometimes it’s really difficult to discern unless we allow more space so that we can really feel the difference and it’s experiential. We need to hear what the heart is saying to us. So this means doing your heart aligned meditation, doing these other heart coherence practices that are in the book.

Kimberly Snyder (20:55.598)
such as the heart align steady in life. Sometimes we need time to digest and metabolize big emotions, overwhelm, busyness, hurry, stress, a little bit of resentment or anger that builds up so that we can really come more into this radiance, the fullness of the heart, which is wanting to be burst open. The stillness is wanting to be expanded. So first thing I do after I get back from my school break or school drop is I go into meditation.

And to me, it’s the best time spent. And after that, if I have time to reflect, to journal, journaling for me isn’t just writing. I go back and I read prior journal entries and I reflect and I think about what bothered me that day or some real big realizations I had. Right. So this is part of the inner work is not just moving along in this very linear mental way, but taking time to pause and reflect.

Why did that bother me so much the other day? What did I learn from this? How can I get stronger from this? How can I become more aware? What did my body feel like? How will I not let this get me next time? Or hey, the other day I was in the shower and I had this really big realization about, know, whatever, more independence or not giving my power away with time and attention. You where am I putting my time and attention right now?

Let me not just let this big realization pass by. How can I incorporate this more into my life today and tonight and tomorrow and going forward? So we make space for the intentions and then we use the space that we carve out with our will and our intelligence and intention to really listen inwardly to the heart. And the more we practice this, the easier it becomes

and the more we’ll come from it. These incredible guidance, the intuitive guidance that will carry us into the new year. And again, there’s going to be very specific journaling prompts for our at-home retreat, which I encourage you to sign up for now so that you’ll get a spot for January. It’s gonna be really powerful. And I love the community aspect of it.

Kimberly Snyder (23:20.91)
But in the new heart aligned meditation, which I recorded for this retreat specifically, after we become more coherent, using that coherence, using that deep inner harmony and alignment to tap into what’s really wanting to be birthed, what’s wanting to be expanded, what’s wanting to be let go of.

And sometimes from a mental place, we can get confused, we can do the same old thing, we can fall into expectations, what other people want us to do, what we think we should do versus the truth. And what’s so alive right there underneath the surface, underneath the surface thoughts, underneath the surface patterns and behaviors, right? So we need to listen to our hearts more. Number three, we want to support our three brains right now, right?

inner resilience, inner strengthening, so that we go into the new year as resilient as possible. And the three brains are your gut, your heart, and the brain up in your head, known as the mind. So these are the three brains that are really running the show. They’re running so many different systems in your body, including detoxification and your endocrine system and your nervous system and your digestion and your immunity and your hormones and so many different things.

So when it comes to your gut right now, you wanna eat lots of fiber. You want to have your SBO probiotics. The saloon ones are amazing. So that your microbiome is strengthened right now. So you don’t go into the new year off kilter, depleted. You’re not digesting your nutrients as well. You are bloated, whatever it is, right? The digestive enzymes are very powerful. They’re catalysts that you eat.

before or you take before you eat so that you’re able to create more of that spark inside of you for better assimilation. And this is a period for assimilation, assimilating lessons, assimilating what it is that you want to let go of, assimilating through this dark period. What am I transforming into? What ideas do I really want to live? Not just know about, we don’t want to just know about the heart stages.

Kimberly Snyder (25:38.34)
We want to live the teachings and the tools so that we start to awaken more and more this light. You become the light, the source. You become the source of the joy. You become more magnetic. So more opportunities are drawn into you. So again, the gut work is critical. The digestive enzymes, all of this is powerful. And then from the brain, the mind, we can support the mind right now by being off screens more.

by not allowing ourselves to be subjected to so much violence and incoherence, all these loud commercials and violent shows and the news so much. Let the brain start to quiet down so that the heart and the heart practices can be nourished and rise up. Now, there are herbs and foods which are really powerful to support your three brains. And one of them is Amalaki.

I’m a huge believer in these powerful greens and foods. Amalaki is the star ingredient in our glowing greens powder, which is why I designed it. Right. Go back and listen to my podcast with Dr. or Vidya J. Vidya means doctor in Ayurveda and Sanskrit. So Amalaki is one of the main rejuvenative herbs or the most one and it supports heart, brain and gut. So drink it every day. Do it with intention.

Make other beautiful warm drinks for yourself. Drink your hot water with lemon. Take time to breathe. Take time to chew. And remember, you’re doing internal work, which will later manifest outwardly. Number four, nourishing soups and stews. If ever there was a time for one pot meals, stirring in with intention, ingredients and herbs and love, right? This is a time I’m making lots of soup for the family.

Soup and rice is our favorite. Sometimes they don’t like the quinoa. So we have soup, white rice, brown rice, whatever. Lots of veggies, lentils, ginger. This is a time for veggie soup, just warming the body. This is not a time for just having lots of cold salads. The salad can be part of a meal, but the warming foods are just gonna keep warming up, bringing this internal light.

Kimberly Snyder (27:55.96)
And then number five, also drinking warm elixirs. I mentioned amalaki, right? Which you can have in room temperature water. You can also have hot drinks, hot ginger. There’s also an incredible elixir recipe, which I’ve been drinking every day. That’s part of our at-home heart retreat. I’m very excited to share it with you soon. For now, listen to your heart’s intuition for your body. Do I need more of a milky drink?

Or do I need something that’s kind of like a peppermint, a water-based? And these warming drinks prepared with love are just a wonderful way to keep that warmth going in your body, which leads me to another great way to deliver nutrients in an efficient way. And number six, keeping your body warm. The darkness outside can feel cold.

and it can turn into isolating feelings or too much vata, too much air. We wanna ground into the body right now with warmth and this will help your heart realizations. This will help you to feel really supported and deeply resilient. This is not a time for cold plunges. This is not a time for cold showers, right? That can do a lot to aggravate your nervous system right now. This is a wonderful time for saunas. This is a wonderful time for warm baths.

and using essential oils and doing your Abhyanga, your warm oil massage treatments. This is a time for Agni, Enhancing digestion, whether that’s through emotional digestion, your journaling, your practices, bettering your food, keeping your body warm, you’re wearing scarves to cover your neck. We don’t want the air and the wind to aggravate and to be distracting.

And to the coldness right now isn’t bringing us into our center. So the more we can get really warm and bring this energy towards heart, again, heart, brain, gut, we wanna center ourselves. Centering is a really important quality of this winter solstice energy. The light is at your core, right? The light of truth, the light of what will serve you, the light of your energy, the light of your true vitalities right here inside of you. You are the source of love.

Kimberly Snyder (30:15.276)
You are the source of peace. You can be this beacon of light more and more. The more coherent you become, the more powerful and incredibly important you are in your inner, in your circles. And just by being in the world, right, all the heart fields intersect. As we’ve learned from the science of heart coherence, your heart field will strengthen from these practices. This is embodied work. Yes, the heart aligned meditation is critically important, but also taking care of yourself.

So back to the warmth, you wanna bundle up cozy blankets. I’ve been putting these extra cashmere blankets on me and the kids at night. My husband still roams around. So he’s on the other side of the bed, but the blankets feel so good. I just got two new coats, which I love. And I’m just wearing them all the time, even though I live in, you know, my heart goes out to you guys on the East Coast where I grew up. I know how cold winter can be in New York.

and Pennsylvania and those areas. So just keeping yourself so warm and then adjusting your exercise routine. If you do go outside, which is wonderful, make sure you bundle up, wear a hat, wear those gloves. Don’t let your extremities get so cold that energy is leaking out. Wear those cozy socks all the time. Arirvada and traditional Chinese medicine talks about the kidney meridian on the bottom of your feet, which is a really important part of your vitality. Your feet are cold, energy is leaking out.

Right? If your belly’s cold, you’re wearing your jacket open all the time. It’s not great for your agony, not great for your digestion. So just lots of warmth, bundling up, cozy time. When we’re cozy now, we can relax and then let that light start to emanate.

I remember living in New York and noticing how hunched over many people would be. Maybe their coats weren’t warm enough or maybe it was just so cold, but this hunching, feel what it’s like if you do it your body right now energetically. Sort of this contraction of the heart energy and sort of this rigidity, the shivering, this feeling of outer protection. We wanna get out of that survival mode. We wanna move into this thriving energy. And of course, sometimes it’s freezing outside and we can’t control it.

Kimberly Snyder (32:30.66)
But when you can, back to intentional space, go inside, make a fire, light a candle, make that warm elixir, cop your hands around the cup and know that this heat is available to you, this warmth, right? Pause before you eat, before you chew your food, pause, give warm hugs, like all the different ways we can bring warmth in. Use your heart’s intuition to really tune into this.

So I hope you’re really excited as I am for this powerful period. May we shift our perspective instead of like, gosh, this sucks. There’s not enough light outside. You know, this time of year is so depressing. Sometimes I hear people say this. No, this is a period for inner work and inner deep self care and germinating these incredible seeds, which will birth forward in the next few weeks, months to come.

So number one, create that intentional space which is so needed right now. Whether it’s 10 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, a couple hours, give that intentional time to yourself. And then don’t fritter it away just scrolling on your phone. Use that time to listen to your heart. Just get out of your head, do your heart align practices, journal, listen. Number three, support your three brains right now. Heart, brain, heart, brain.

because this inner resiliency will serve you so much in clarity and focus and energy into the new year. So take your digestive supplements, take your SBO probiotics, drink your glowing greens powder with your Amalaki, take your digestive enzymes, turn off screens more, get off the news more, just take time to rest, whatever feels nourishing to you and your nervous system. Number four, nourishing soups and stews. If ever there was a time for wine pot meals, it is now.

just putting all that love and intention into these warming foods, drink warm elixirs. There’s lots of great recipes on our website, mysaluna.com. If you’re interested in ideas, number six, keep your body warm. Don’t just go through these mental ideas that, you know, supposed to do cold plunges. I’ve read all this research around cold showers, da da da da. I’m going to exercise the same way. No, the intuitive. There’s a seasonal.

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fluctuation that is so highly intelligent. Stay warm. Maybe stay cozy and do a yoga practice at home instead of having to bundle up and go to that one, you know, CrossFit class you always do. Maybe go towards the sauna more, get cozy, get some blankets that feel really nice. Just this natural way of

just warming and feeling the radiance inside of you is going to feel really beautiful and wonderful right now. So I’ll mention again that over at mysaloon.com, you will get information for signing up for our at-home retreat. doing the Zoom on January 3rd. You can watch the playback if you can’t make it. And then we’re going to be using all this incredible research and ancient wisdom around the heart.

to direct it into clarity and finding the solutions from within yourself to manifest what you want in the new year. I sincerely hope you’ll join us. It’s gonna be an amazing community event. I will also be back here Monday or Thursday as always for our next Q &A show. Please keep your questions coming. If you love the show, please share it with someone that you think would benefit. Please leave us a review as well on Apple, Spotify, wherever you listen. It’s a wonderful way to support.

I will see you soon. also on social media at TundrScore Kimberly Snyder, sending you much love from my heart to yours. Namaste.

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