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Each week, Amanda Campbell interviews amazing people, who will share their inspiring stories of resilience. Amanda dives deep into 40-minute DNM’s with guests, exploring their stories of how they have overcome adversity in their lives professionally and personally.
Welcome to the Bend Like Bamboo podcast, where
we will explore the incredible power of resilience,
mental strength and adaptability. In each episode,
I'll be sitting down with inspiring guests
from business leaders and entrepreneurs to celebrities
and everyday heroes. We'll dive deep into their
personal journeys, uncovering the secrets behind
their ability to bend without breaking in the
face of life's challenges. Join me as we learn
from these remarkable individuals and discover
practical tools to enhance our own resilience
and wellbeing. Together we'll explore how flexibility
of the mind, body and spirit can help us to
reach our full potential in all areas of life.
Get ready to be inspired, enlightened and empowered
on the Ben Like Bamboo podcast. Asher Robinson,
welcome to the Ben Like Bamboo podcast. Asher,
thank you so much for being with me this morning.
Thank you, Amanda. Thanks for having me. My
absolute pleasure. So I found you in Hawksburn
initially at your one of your gorgeous stores,
State of Grace Collective. You've got a gorgeous
crystal shop with loads of crystals and healing
apparatus, bracelets. I send many of my clients
down to you. to get their miracle bracelets.
I wear many of them every day. Beautiful. Because
it helps my clients to remember their homework
and it's just a prop that helps them to check
in and be present. And yes, I had the privilege
of attending one of your other stores in Moonee
Ponds where you have a wonderful harmonic egg,
which we're gonna talk about today. Yes. Yes,
I absolutely love the harmonic game. We've only
had it for four months. It's a bit of story
how I found it. So I've had the stores for three
years now, and I was just, I'm always listening
to podcasts. And so I was listening to a podcast
and when I'm finished and then I tend not to
choose the next one, Spirit just naturally sort
of lets the next one come on. and chooses one
for me. And I was listening to this lady girl
in, in America, talking about this harmonic
egg. And I wasn't really paying attention, but
she said something about 10, 15 minutes into
the podcast. Yes. And we went, oh, this is,
I've got to listen to this properly. This really
caught my attention. So I sort of went back
to the start and listened to it. And it just
spoke to me and my spirit team, which I listened
to all the time, was just whispering in my
ear. you need to bring this into the store.
And I was like, wow. And then my ego was saying,
you need to try this. This is a... So, what
I did was I looked up and tried to find a harmonic
egg in Australia and there wasn't any. The closest
one was in New Zealand. So the next week I
flew to Auckland, hired a car, drove two hours
out to where the harmonic egg was. was speaking
to Michelle who had that. She was the harmonica
guardian. And as soon as I sat in there, the
music wasn't even playing. I felt the frequency
and I knew, and I just went, wow, this is big,
this is huge. And then I had my session and
some really beautiful, amazing things happened
for me around healing and managing pain. And
I just knew that this was so, so powerful.
And I've done a lot of healings. Yeah. And every
healing has, you know, its benefits and it's
place and it's so beautiful, but this was just
a beautiful combination of everything. And
so, so a week later, I sort of commissioned
the first one to come to Australia in Melbourne.
Yeah. I totally agree with that experience being
a very holistic approach. Cause let's explain,
like, I want to talk about the harmonic egg.
It's a sacred geometry, light color and sound.
Technology Healing Chamber, which surrounds
you with a custom tailored immersive wellness
egg experience by containing and amplifying
the sound resonance within the chamber, you
receive a 3D sound session that is precisely
controlled, consistent and repeatable. The
auditory relaxation holds you to a place of
deep calm and rest, allowing the listeners
highest attention to flow through them, creating
beautiful shifts in consciousness. And that
was my experience as well. It elevates your
vibration, doesn't it? It does. So initially
when I sort of went to the egg, I thought, oh
yeah, light and sound, I've experienced that
before, I know how powerful it is, but it wasn't
until I sat in the sacred geometry chamber.
So it's made up with 12 sides and it's almost
like the, and it's also lined with wood, okay?
So. It's like the frequency is coming at you
because you're in the middle and it raises
the frequency inside the egg. So you can actually
tangibly tell the difference outside the egg
to inside. You feel that frequency shift and
it's a very high vibrational shift. And so
that means all of your fields, so your emotional,
your mental, your spiritual and your physical
body are just so much more open to receiving.
the frequencies of the music and the lights.
So that's why it's so powerful. And it's hard
to describe to people. It's a lot easier to
show them and they sit in the egg and they feel
that physical difference in their body. And
they feel the lightness and the high vibration
and all of their stress and tension literally
melting off them very quickly. And it's a slow
build as well. So over those 40, 50 minutes
you're in there, you just build up and then
You float ass usually. Yes. I remember I was,
I mean, cause I've had many healing sessions
myself and being a healer and a kinesiologist
every day. You know, when you say speaking to
spirit, I'd love to touch on that as well as
what, what that means to you. Cause what that
means to me is every morning, I like to have
a ritual where I am connecting to my higher
self and elevating my vibration. so that I
can access more elevated emotions of love, joy,
compassion, resilience, letting go of fear,
anger, worry, guilt, grief. And so when I'm
in this more elevated state, I'm more open
to connecting to something higher, something
that helps me to download information that
I need to share with my clients as I'm working
on them as a kinesiologist. So being in the
chamber. Just like if I was working with a client,
a new client, the first thing I need to do
is I need to regulate their nervous system.
And then from there, the journey is from that
more relaxed state, which is what bending like
bamboo means as well, is with the power of
flexibility, and you can only become flexible
when you're more relaxed. You can be more open
for healing. And that's a very, a journey about
the heart opening again, often from shutting
down in protection. And I find the harmonic
egg is like that on steroids, like exactly
what it is. Yeah. Cause you said to me, this
is going to be like 10 healing sessions in
one. And I was like, Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Let's
see. Cool. And you warned me that I may experience,
um, some headaches afterwards, and I might feel
really tired and just to look after myself,
allow the integration. And I was like, Oh yeah,
no, well, I never ever get headaches. We'll
see. And I get lots of healing sessions all
the time. We're right. I had a headache. As
soon as I got home that afternoon I was like,
oh there it is. And it felt like I needed a
lot of water as you said to help the integration
with electrolytes and that one you gave me
afterwards really helped. So I continued that
for the rest of the day and then I fell asleep
on the couch after dinner. You know when you
have those moments where you're so asleep you
don't mind if you just stay there on the couch
because you've dissolved. And I had a really
deep sleep and I was feeling quite queasy as
well. Hmm. Um, but then when I woke up the
next day, I'd already come back from a holiday
of, um, for eight days and, um, and I was feeling
quite relaxed, but back in work mode that day
when I saw you, which was my first week back
and I had some meetings, I had some things to
do, but then I had the egg session. And when
I woke up the next day, it felt like I had been
on holiday in Greece for a month. Yeah. And
I just felt such a deep relaxation that I could
feel on a cellular level in my nervous system,
like all of my fascia and brain and spine, all
the tissues and ligaments and every physical
and biochemical aspect of my body had. all the
stress had been massaged and oozed out and
how that would feel if there was just such a
reduction in stress and therefore a bliss state
came over me. Yeah. No, what you described is
common for a lot of people. And while everybody's
experience in integration is different, you
know, I think I've only had one person who
I've spoken to afterwards who said, Oh no, I
didn't have any integration like symptoms or
things happen, but they still felt amazing.
But most people do get, you know, some people
get headaches. Most people get tired. A lot
of people do feel like different emotions,
like what we perceive as negative emotions being
released. And they're literally being released
and you're just feeling as they're exiting your
feels in the next couple of days. but it is
a full detox because what the egg does is it
provides you with all of the missing frequencies
that we've lost through fear and trauma and
stress and all of those things that life throws
at us. Yeah. But in order to receive those frequencies,
we've got to let go of the gunk. Okay. Yeah.
We've got to let go of the fear and the stress
and the toxins and all of that stuff that weighs
us down that's so heavy. And these things, you
know, because of our lifestyles, we think that
that's normal. We're living in this life of,
you know, highly anxious, you know, energy
and stress and- Rush, clutter, Rush, yeah. Achievement.
We're not in rest and digest, and we don't
even know what rest and digest means anymore
or what it feels like. Exactly. So I often
get people coming in going, oh yeah, I'm not
that stressed. I'm, you know, I ask them what
their stress level is when we have a chat. And
then afterwards they go, oh my God, I just
feel open and blissful. I'm like, I don't wanna
do anything. And it's because all of their
stress has left their body. And they just didn't
even know they could feel that way. And it's
so beautiful. And their faces change. They actually
look different when they come out of the egg.
Like they're a different person. And the more
stressed they are, the more different they
look, obviously. I had a lady in the egg just
this week and she's like, I'm in a pretty good
place, you know, cause she had just come back
from holidays and stuff. Um, and so we did
a session and then she came out and she goes,
Oh my God, I'm in bliss now. Like she was already
relaxed, but then she came out and she was in
just total bliss and she didn't know that she
could feel like that. Yeah. Cause that's, there's
something about it. It really takes you to
that place and when we are more relaxed and
our hearts open, Let's talk about those benefits.
Cause I talk about this religiously constantly,
but let's relate it to the egg because just
like, you know, with kinesiology, I'm moving
the energy and identifying what the blocks
are to healing, but also optimal performance.
And for us to achieve our goals. And when we're
more openhearted, we're kinder, we're more compassionate.
We can see from other people's perspectives.
We can, um, perform when we are on top of our
game and all good things are happening. And
it's a fast paced environment. So there are
just so many benefits of changing the energy.
You know what I wish, I wish I knew about the
egg three, four years ago, when I wasn't in
such a good place, when my mother and my dog
passed away very close together and my frequency
obviously dropped, cause I was in grief. And
a wonderful way to help elevate people's vibration
when they are going through a significant difficult
time. Yeah. I think that the egg would just
really help to process those emotions and just
to elevate energy is everything. Yes, it is.
It affects your healing. It affects what we
attract, you know, how we can overcome our
challenges. Energy is everything. Yeah. So what
I find the egg does is like, we'll be bouncing
along energetically like here, and then the
egg will give you these big shift of energy,
okay, releasing all the lower vibrational stuff.
And you come up here and then you bounce around
and you find a new normal, but it's always higher
than before. Yeah. And it does take a couple
of weeks to do that. Um, and you know, as spiritual
beings, we're supposed to be living through
our heart space, but most of us don't, you know,
even I, you know, I will live through my ego.
Okay. And it's a practice to come back into
heart, back into heart, back into heart. But
when we're living life from our heart space,
which is also what state of grace collective
is all about, bringing people back into that
heart space, reminding them that the flow,
that the beautiful divine connection, that you're
gonna find your purpose and living your dream
and being on the path through your heart space,
because the ego's job is designed to take the
past and project it into the future, right?
So this happened in the past and it hurt and
it might happen in the future. And the ego serves
a purpose, it's there to protect us but it's
not supposed to run the show. It's not supposed
to dictate our every decision and reaction.
So, you know, the egg helps us to come out of
that ego mind and really get into our heart
space and connect into our third eye, you know,
our pineal gland, having those work together
and then you become very powerful from within.
You have, you know, the more you practice this,
you have access to that inner guidance. You
know that you're actually never alone, that
you're, I call them my spiritual team. There's
a lot of them. Yeah. I'm in at different times
and I need different things, you know, but they've
always got my back. They're always giving me
guidance. They're never telling me what to do
because I have free will, but they're always
just giving me that gentle guidance and gentle
nudges and to say, this is the best path. And
sometimes I choose the ego path and then I get
slapped in the face. And I go, okay, and I'll
go back to the spiritual path. And they show
you signs as well, if you ask. Yes. Yeah. And
you can ask for signs, you know, and the more
you talk to them and the more you connect with
them and ask for their guidance, the stronger
those signs are. Like it's a practice. Yeah.
And you can do journaling, meditation. But when
I was in the egg, it reminded me also of the
closest feeling I've ever experienced too. That
time when I... was in the middle of an acupuncture
session and I went into such deep rest that
I was able to connect to my higher self on
a deeper level than ever before. And whilst
always as a child and now as an adult as a
kinesiologist, I'm, I do, I don't hear voices
but I have these downloads of premonitions
or something that I, just information that flows
through me. That. helps to guide me and helps
to guide my clients. And so I tapped into that
in the egg on a high level. And so just with
some of the elements I was experiencing in my
body, I was able to just touch my body and
go, okay, what do I need to know about this?
What do I need to know about this? And simply
when we're just relaxed in meditation and when
we're journaling rituals like that, and obviously
a huge top up with our monthly egg sessions
that I think we should all have. And you know,
this is a way that we can practice connecting
to our higher selves because we want a combination
of intellect and intuition as we're navigating
life. Yeah. Well, the egg provides that space
that raises because it's a higher frequency
and a higher vibration. So it lessens the gap
between, you know, yourself on this three-dimensional
plane and your beam on the fifth dimensional
plane. So the gap is smaller. So it's much easier
in the egg to receive that guidance. Yeah.
Um, those intuitive hits, whether you, you know,
however you receive guidance, some people it's
visual, some people actually hear things, some
people it's telepathic, some people feel things.
So whoever that works for a person in the egg,
all of that is heightened. So you can start
to get those messages a lot clearer and quicker.
And once you, you know, once you actually are
able to have that. you kind of go, oh, I can
actually do this. It opens up another doorway
and you have that belief in knowing that you
can do it. Yes. So it's really beautiful. And
you know, the thing about the Eggers as well
is that there's like at the moment there's
45 different tracks we can use and 16 different
colors. So, and Gal Lin, the inventor is, you
know, adding to the tracks all the time and
each track focuses on different things. So
we really tailor the energy and the lights for
a person's specific needs at that particular
time. And I always have a chat with them and
check in, what do you need? What do you wanna
work on? What's your intention for today before
we go into the egg? And every egg session is
different. Like when you come back, you'll have
another session and it'll be totally different
again, because energy's different, your needs
are different, and the music and lights will
probably be different. And so, So many people
reports like everything can happen in the egg.
We've had people like you who really tap into
their higher self and get those beautiful guiding
messages. I've had people say to me, I felt
my mother here, my father here who had passed,
you know, giving me guidance and messages and
beautiful words of wisdom and love. Some people
feel things, they just feel tapping on their
body. I call them the spiritual doctors and
they're definitely present in the egg coming
when you have a physical illness. Um, people
feel the energy, especially going into old injuries.
So say if they've got, um, like a knee injury
or a shoulder injury, they'll feel the energy
go into that spot in their body. Um, they'll
feel things being released and taken out. They'll
feel tapping on their forehead. some people
come out of the egg and they say, does the chair
vibrate? And they go, no, the chair doesn't
vibrate. But they feel their energy fields just
shifting with, you know, with the egg as to
what they need. Cause vibration, as you probably
know, is a form of release. It's a type of
purge. So when we shake and when we vibrate,
it's releasing. And that's really prevalent
in the drumming tracks that we have. So we have
a lot of tracks for releasing heavy metals,
you know, releasing things from our liver, releasing
trauma through shamanic drumming. So that's
just some of the tracks we have. And depending
on the sort of track, depends on the sort of
energy and how it works, but it always meets
you where you're at, and is exactly what you
need. So as people go into the egg, especially
the first time, I say to them, look, I don't
know what you're gonna experience in here. You
might just go to sleep. You might feel this,
that, the other. but whatever you do experience
will be perfect for you. Yeah. Okay. So, and
I truly trust that. Yeah. Yeah, it's incredible.
I wanna know more about you and your journey.
So in 2014, you seem to appear to be living
a perfect life on the surface, I read a bit
about you, and you found yourself struggling
with an overwhelming sense of emptiness and
disconnection. As an empath, you experienced
intense challenges managing the energies around
you, leading to sleep paralysis, insomnia, and
declining mental health. Tell me about this
time and how that transformed for you. So there
are a few things happening at one time, which
is usually the way when you're heading towards
the rock bottom. So like I was in the perfect
job, I just received a promotion. and everything
on the surface was great, but you know, because
I am very empathic, I was, and no one teaches
you how to manage energy, like you don't pop
out the womb with the manual, oh you're empathic
and you need to do this, this and this. So
I think the combination of the energies of the
planet, you know, she's raising her vibration,
which means my empathic abilities were opening
up as well. I was working in a masculine sort
of environment in a corporate world. So dealing
with all of that. And then, so I'd had sleep
paralysis as a teen and in my early twenties.
And I didn't really know what it was. Yeah,
that's scary. Looking back on it now, I think
I used to astral travel but I didn't know what
that was at that time. And the way I would describe
sleep paralysis to people is it's like you've
got one foot in this three dimensional realm
and one foot in the fourth or fifth dimensional
realm. So you can kind of sense energies that
you wouldn't normally, you know, in your waking
life. And so that started happening more regularly.
So it was usually, you know, it started off
as once, once a month or then once a week and
then once, once a night and then a couple of
times a night. and I did, I felt very out of
control. And so when you're not in control
of something, it's very frightening. But also
because it was happening at night, I was scared
to go to sleep. Yeah. I couldn't sleep much.
And then that in turn affects your mental health.
Yeah. So all of these things, plus I had a bulging
disc injury and the pain of that. So that wasn't
really going away. All of these things now,
I look back and it was a culmination. to bring
me to a point where I would either destroy myself
or I would choose a different path. So thank
goodness my sister saw the downward spiral that
I was on and she booked me in for a Reiki session
for my birthday. And I wasn't really into any
of this stuff at that time. So she said to
me, I booked you to a Reiki session. I'm like.
what the F is Reiki. She goes, you're an idiot,
just go. So I went and I met this lady Julie,
who was a Reiki master, but she's also got
other beautiful psychic abilities and she saw
my energy coming. She saw, you know, the causes
of the sleep paralysis, what was happening with
me energetically. So I had the energy healing,
but also she gave me tools to use to protect
my energy. And there were simple tools like
having a salt bath and, you know, calling an
Archangel Michael and cutting off cords with
people at the time and having these daily rituals
to protect my energy. You know what? It started
working. It wasn't a silver bullet, but it started
to work and the sleep paralysis was lessening,
felt my power increasing. I felt, um, they more
in control. And within a couple of months,
I looked back at that person before the reiki.
who realistically that person, you know, was
at their wit's end and was looking for a way
out. And I just go, I don't know who that was.
I can't even recognize that person beforehand.
Yeah. So just having that inner power, you
know, strengthening my energy, my aura, knowing
how to go within, having the tools, you know,
start to manage that energy. Yeah. It was so
important for me. And so that led me down a
path of, you know, Reiki, and I learnt a few
different healing modalities. And then, you
know, eventually I started a little side business
selling crystals and jewellery at markets and
slowly backed away from my corporate job. And
then suddenly here I am now, I've got three
stores and a harmonic egg and beautiful staff.
And yeah, it's all just happened. Yeah. And
your stores are stunning. So beautiful. Your
stock is incredible. It's just an experience
going to the store. What's the difference between
the lift egg session at the Hawksburn store
versus the egg harmonic egg which is a larger
version of that in Moony Ponds? So the harmonic
egg is, it's got the two different light settings.
So we can have two different colors for the
person. It's got a zero gravity chair that you
sit on that you would have sat on. So when
we put the foot rest out and we tip it back
until you're comfortable. So the harmonic egg
feels like you're floating in there. Yeah. And
the harmonic egg also has more of a sacred
geometry. It's designed with more sacred geometry.
Yeah. And harmonic egg has got about 45 at
the moment, different tracks that we can use.
Yeah. And the sessions in the egg run for 50
minutes. So there's 40 minutes with the music
and then 10 minutes with silence to really
start that integration period. Yeah. The lift
is a smaller version of that. It's actually
designed for the home or like an office situation.
The harmonic egg can only be used once a week.
So you can't have more than one session a week
because you really need it. It's that strong.
It needs that week to really integrate the frequencies.
Yeah. The lift can be used every day because
the lift has one light. It has less sacred geometry
components in there. So it is made with the
cylinder and the hexagon on the floor. And it's
got so the one light on the bottom. And you
just sit in a normal chair or on a floor cushion.
So you can either do like a meditation pose
or sitting on a chair in the lift. You don't
lie back in the lift. And the lift has got
16 music tracks. So it's a smaller version.
So it's sort of designed for people who love
the egg but really want to have that at home
or want to buy it for their business so that
all this stuff and their friends and family
can use it on a daily basis. Yeah, wonderful.
So may I ask you, what does resilience mean
to you, Asha? Ooh, resilience for me has changed
over the years, sort of, you know, prior to
being on this spiritual journey. I would have
said resilience is just hardening up, okay?
Just, you know, moving through it, taking it
on the chin and still moving forward. Yeah.
But now after doing this work, oh my God, resilience
is so much more. Resilience is being able to
access my consciousness, to see the wisdom
and the learnings of all of my experiences.
So instead of... you know, reacting to a situation
from my emotions and from my ego, I'm able to
rise above that and go, okay, why is this happening
to me? What is my lesson here? What is this
situation going to teach me? Okay. Beautiful.
And this is, you know, this is hard. I say it
like it's easy. This is not, this is a practice
because we've been reacting to situations and
life is happening, you know, to us for such
a long time. But I find when you really embrace
the lessons, you are able to see that life
is happening with me and actually for me, and
I'm co-creating life through my responses to
everything around me, because I choose to see
the wisdom of the situations. That's beautiful.
I absolutely agree. And when I'm elevated in
that higher vibration, there's a wonderful
lady. Carolyn Meese who has a gorgeous analogy
of the penthouse. And when she's on the penthouse
of the building, metaphorically, you know, that's
where you can see all the streets, you can
connect all the dots and things happen for you,
not to you there. And that's where we can connect
to our higher self. And I placed my self there
at the end of my meditation. Beautiful. Carolyn
Meese is just amazing. Her wisdom, her guidance.
Yeah, she's a beautiful, beautiful teacher.
Yeah, I totally agree. I totally agree. She's
very healing. And, um, when I was going through,
um, some, uh, grief in my life, I experienced
some eczema, which I'd never had before, uh,
right across my neck. And I tried various different
healing modalities and nothing was shifting.
So I had booked to see Carolyn Mies live and
went along. And she explained that analogy
of, you know, when we're on the ground floor
of the building, that's where we sit when we're
stressed, a very limited perspective, accessing
lower frequency emotions of guilt, fear, anger,
worry. And when we can elevate to the penthouse,
it's just such a different experience of our
perspectives and our ability to elevate our
vibration connecting to high vibration emotions
of love, joy, compassion, resilience. And so
the next morning I woke up and it had... It
had gone. Yeah. And I love that story because
it just goes to show sometimes these things
that we perceive as negative happen to us to
really prompt us to go and do the healing.
Like go and read the book or look for a different
solution, get outside of our comfort zone,
and then as soon as we actually do that spirit
goes off, I've heard, and then the thing that's
happened just magically disappears. It's amazing.
Yeah. Spontaneous healings can happen. Yeah.
I'm so passionate about sharing wonderful stories
like yours, Asha. Thank you for everything
that you do. It's you're incredible. Your journey
is incredible. I'm sure so many people are
going to be inspired by your journey and how
listening to your guidance has led you to a
wonderful, fulfilling career, helping others.
Thank you. Oh, my absolute pleasure. My absolute
everyone has to go and check out the state of
grace collective.com.au. And you've got Facebook
and the same Instagram handle, State of Grace
Collective. Asha, thank you so much. I can't
wait to see you again for my next session. No
worries. Thank you, Amanda. We look forward
to seeing you soon. Thank you for joining us
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