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The Conscious Collaboration Podcast brings together entrepreneurs, changemakers, and thought leaders. We aim to highlight the people who embody the idea of aligned mind, body, and business. Each week, we share, discuss, and learn from the various experiences and ideas of our guest experts. Through our discovery, we find a path to aligned mind, body, and business.
The conscious collaboration brings together entrepreneurs, change makers, and thought leaders. We aim to highlight the people that embody the idea of aligned mind, body, and business. Each week, we share, discuss, and learn from the various experiences and ideas of our guest experts. Through our discovery, we find a path to an aligned mind, body and business.
Lisa:Hi, I'm Lisa.
Emily:And I'm Emily and we are the Conscious Collaboration Podcast. Hello,
Lisa:Lisa. Hello, Emily.
Emily:And today we have a guest with us who I am really excited to talk with. Her name is Adele Bridges. Adele was, introduced to me by a colleague and collaborator of mine, shout out to Brian. And Adele is an international yoga teacher and handstands teacher, health coach, and author who grew up in my neck of the woods. She's from Mississippi and is now based in the UK, traveling the world and applying her skills to, to have created her own methodology of yoga focused on, neurology, and the neurological aspects of yoga.
Emily:So I am super excited to delve more into that. Thank you for coming today, Adele. It's my pleasure. I'm happy to be here. Yeah.
Emily:So, can you expand upon kinda your background a little bit more for us? We know you're you're over there in the UK staying busy. What what are you up to these days with the neuro yoga? With with neuro yoga, I mean, yeah. It's, just kind of a
Adell:that's like an abbreviation really of functional neurology for yoga. And, yeah, I I run a training once a year, but in between those trainings, I'm just, just continuing to learn myself, about the brain and the nervous system and how I can bring it in particular to movement, but also, you know, beyond movement, of course, because we are more than just bodies. And, just bringing it to my own practice and teaching others, workshops and festivals, and I have my online studio, move with adele.com. And that yeah. That pretty much keeps me busy.
Emily:When did you when did you find yoga or become serious about it?
Adell:I think I was about 28. And I was, yeah, it was just kind of an alignment of the stars, I think. I was, like, just stressed enough and but also kind of, like, had enough free time and, yeah. Like, because I previous to that, I had made up my mind that yoga was, like, I don't know, something that, like, old hippies did, and it wasn't for me, and it was boring. And, yeah.
Adell:I actually found an app. I don't think that app exists anymore. It was, like, you know, iPhone 4 or whatever.
Emily:Yeah. Yeah. Old school Max.
Adell:Yeah. And, it allowed me to just practice at home before I even had a mat or I didn't have any of the proper clothes so I would just do it in my bedroom with the door shut because I had housemates. So I could just wear my underwear because I didn't have anything else to wear. Like, sliding around on my carpet because I didn't have a mat but it didn't matter because I knew nobody could see me and I think that, yeah, that that's, that that's where I really, like, fell in love with it because it was, like, that experience that I think so many of us have had where you're like, okay. Yeah.
Adell:I'm moving my body. Okay. This is hard. Oh, yeah. My hamstrings are tight, like, and then you get to shavasana.
Adell:And you're like it's like you experience being in the present moment, or you realize that you were in the present moment for, like, that whole hour or whatever and that the rest of your day doesn't doesn't bring that to to you, that level of, like, presence. And, yeah, I would just finish my savas and I'm like, wow, I feel amazing. I wanna do that again. And so that's that's really, like, where it started for me. Cool.
Emily:I can relate to that too. I I also started my practice, like, in a at home, very kinda, you know, haphazard, I guess, kinda way. So were you already interested in neurology and the brain, by the time you got into yoga?
Adell:Yes and no. I I did my degree in psychology. I remember being like, I don't know, 15, 16 years old and and thinking like, if only if if only I could understand, like, what is happening in my brain, then maybe I could, like, fix some of the the issues that I was having. Just, you know, normal, like, teenage angst. And and just kind of, like, yeah.
Adell:With my friends, my girlfriends, you know, talking about boys or whatever. Like, just just being like humans have some issues, like, maybe if I understand the brain then I can play some role in, like, helping us humans with our issues. And so I did my degree in psychology, And so so yeah. So I've always been interested in in that side of it, but some neurology didn't really cross my path until a few years after I started teaching yoga and that's when it was like just everything started to click for the first time.
Emily:Mhmm. And that so that's when you pretty much when you started to learn about neurology is when you made the connection that, hey, these these two things, work really nicely together.
Adell:I I think so. Just because, you know, my 200 hour yoga teacher training was very typical in that, like, the anatomy portion, like, we learned the muscles and the bones and, yeah, like simple biomechanics. Like, what is flexion? What is extension? And those kind of stuff.
Adell:And, and then in my 300 hour teacher training, it was like a this deep dive into the fascia and all of the fascia lines and everything, but I still was just like but I I don't it it was like I I still felt like there was this giant piece missing to the puzzle. And then when I started studying the nervous system, it was like that was the giant piece. I was like, oh, of course. It doesn't like, the the muscles and the fascia are under the control of the nervous system. How we experience anything is because of the nervous system.
Adell:So that's like that's like the source of of of a flowing river, if you will. Like, the fascia and the muscles are just like tributaries from that river or whatever. I don't know what analogy I'm trying to make up here, but hopefully it's sense to me.
Emily:I'm following. Yeah. I'm following. Okay.
Lisa:The word that came to me was, a decoding. So did it be a way, I think. Decoding.
Adell:Oh, okay.
Lisa:Yeah. Decoding is what came to mind to me. Is that, like like, an unlocking or a decoding to figure out in your system? Was that something that you tried with your yourself or with clients?
Adell:Yeah. That's a that's a good word for it. Like, like, almost, yeah, like unlocking a secret code or something because for sure, yeah, I think we we've all had little things here and there, whatever it is in our in our bodies or in our minds where you yeah. Like, for me, for let me just make this a little bit more tangible. For me, I always had, like, ridiculously tight muscles just on, like, the right side of my neck, the right side of my back.
Adell:It was always so tight, and I did all the stretching, all the side bending, foam rolling. Every time I went to, get a massage, I'd be like, get the right side of shoulder. And then, like, I'd have my massage therapist, like, going in there with their elbows and everything. And then I when I learned about the nervous system and the brain, I learned that the vestibular system, which is the part of the brain that tells that tells you which way is up, if that's slightly off, which it was for me, then you're what happened for me was I was ever so slightly tilted to the right because my brain thought that what was up was actually not quite up. So I was tilting to the right ever so slightly, and that meant that the muscles on the right side of my spine were having to work hard.
Adell:And and it was like, oh, that is that's the the cause of this problem. Like, no wonder I, like, I can just keep stretching all the time because that's that's not gonna solve the problem because then after I leave the stretch or I leave the massage, I'm just gonna go back to being slightly tilted to the right. Like, I need to train my brain to understand which way is up so that my right side muscles aren't having to work so hard.
Lisa:Slightly tilted. It sounds like a band name, I think. Good night, I'm saying. Band.
Emily:You are. Here's a question for you. So is the, functional neurology yoga combination that you teach, is this kind of its own yoga format? Is this more like movements and implements that you can incorporate into a yoga class that you maybe already teach, or is it something else?
Adell:It's it's very much the second one. So, for example, like, my people who like, teachers who have come through my training are all type of yoga teacher, and they don't have to change their style. So I've had ashtanga teachers. I've had people who do yoga therapy for elderly people, power yoga teachers, meditation teachers, people who mostly just work with private clients and they do, like, personal training on the side as well and just all sorts, like, because what it is yeah. It's it's not really a methodology, like, like, stop doing what you've been doing and do this instead.
Adell:Rather, it's like it's a supplement. It's like, okay, when you've got your client or when you're teaching a class and you're, you know, balancing on one leg, here's something that you can do or you can offer your students or your client to balance better, that sort of thing. It's, it's a supplement, really. And and the nice thing about it is that it's, well, there's 2 things actually. And and and I've just lost one of them because in my mind, I interrupted myself.
Adell:But, it'll come back. It'll Yeah. Here's the one that I do remember that I was gonna say which is just that, for me personally, yoga is is such a natural practice to bring these things into because we so much of what what like these, like, quote, unquote brain drills that I teach, What they are is helping the brain kind of learn. Right? Learn a new way to do something, whether it's, you know, get greater range of motion or balance better or just feel more calm, whatever it is.
Adell:We want the brain to learn. And the brain learns better when we are mindful and we're doing things with intention and when we feel in a place of calm and safety. And I think that yoga already does that so naturally. And so, in fact, that is the practice of yoga already is to be mindful and be moving or breathing with an intention. And everything about the yoga practice sets the students, the practitioner up for being in a place of calm.
Adell:Right? And so we're we're already engendering, like, the perfect environment for the brain to go, right. Cool. New things. I'm gonna learn these things like neuroplasticity, pow pow pow, as opposed to maybe other movement modalities where there's, like, lots of noise around or there's competition or all sorts of things that can that can potentially be more threatening for the brain.
Adell:Mhmm.
Emily:So you just dropped a a fun word, neuroplasticity. Can you, give maybe the listeners who aren't aren't sure what that concept is about a little bit of the cliff notes?
Adell:I'll try. It's like my Roman Empire right now, though. Oh, cool. Cool. Because there's lots of different types of plasticity.
Adell:So plasticity just means, long lasting change, and neuroplasticity refers to long lasting change in the nervous system. So it's if you think about habits, like your habits, you do things easily without having to think about it because your brain has already created those those neural pathways, to do that habit. And it's maybe difficult to change that habit, but it is possible too because you're not stuck. That is what plasticity that's how I like to think of plasticity is, like, you're not stuck. Even as hard as it may seem to change a habit, you absolutely can.
Adell:And just as as I'm sure anybody listening can can, you know, I'm sure everybody can think of an example in their mind when they had to work hard at something, but, eventually, it got easier and easier and easier, and that is neuroplasticity. It's just the the nervous system rewiring itself. And, so, yeah, that's it. Just change, basically. Long lasting change.
Adell:Awesome.
Emily:So I could tell that you and I could probably sit here and go on and on and on about brain and nervous system and fascia and yoga for hours and hours and hours, and we would just have a blast. But for the people who maybe aren't as geeked out on all those types of subjects, but who might have some interest in, say, seeking out a yoga teacher who has some knowledge in this subject. What can you, what could you, say to these people that maybe,
Lisa:would
Emily:explain to them the benefits that they could extract from from math learning to master their nervous system.
Adell:So do you mean, like, a a yoga practitioner just looking for
Emily:Just an everyday person. Yep. Mhmm. Yeah. Like, if I were to listen to this podcast and say, okay.
Emily:Like, this sounds interesting. This sounds like something I might wanna learn about. You know, how would you how would you convince them that it would be valuable to find somebody who had some knowledge in, in functional neurology and brought it into their yoga class? Like, what benefits could the could the practitioner get from taking a class like that?
Adell:For sure. I think it's just that there's so many. But just to put it simply, the the nervous system, like, like, we talked about, like, that controls everything. And so for me, at least, I I guess I can only speak to my own experience as a yoga teacher. But for me as a yoga teacher, like, before I learned about the nervous system, and began implementing all these, like, brain based approaches, I could I was kind of just regurgitating what I'd heard other people tell me about how to stretch a muscle or how to become more flexible or, how to get stronger or, how to get over the fear of falling out of an arm balance or whatever.
Adell:Like, all of that is just a neck down approach. Right? And, and there it was like, if you had grilled me before I got into neurology, if you had grilled me yeah. But why? Why does that happen?
Adell:Yeah. But why? But why? It wouldn't take long for me to be like, I I I it just does. Okay?
Adell:You know? And that that kind of answer because I didn't I didn't know, and that's because, like, the the knowledge stops. Like, you you could only understand so much about why things happen, why things evolve and change, like, why one person can master a handstand within 2 weeks and another person works on it for 10 years. If you don't if if you're only looking at the other systems besides the nervous system, the brain is behind everything. So there's, one one one thing that I always like to explain to people is that so if the brain feels safe about something happening, then it will allow it to happen.
Adell:So if you're working on your forward folds and your brain feels safe about you doing that forward fold and your hamstrings lengthening and your sciatic nerve being stretched and everything, all good. Those traditional neck down approaches are gonna work for you. No problem. But tissues don't adapt or change if the brain doesn't feel safe about that. And so that's why you get those people who, like, they've been going to yoga for 10 years and they still can't touch their toes or whatever.
Adell:Right? It's like they can try all the drills in the world, and if the brain is not happy for them to do that thing, then it's not gonna happen. And so sometimes, like, these these neck down approaches, they work for people. And so it's easy to be like, but, oh, look, these drills, they they work. See?
Adell:They worked for me and they worked for these people over here. But there's always gonna be those people, and sometimes in some instances, you're gonna be that person. Like, we all have those things where we're gonna go we're gonna be hitting the brick wall. We're gonna be going, hang on. I need something else because all these, like, these tissue based drills are not working.
Adell:And that's where neurology can come in because it's about making the brain feel safe. Like, that is that's neurology 101. Like, if you don't take anything else away from understanding the nervous system, understand that your brain's number one job, the only thing that it really cares about is keeping you safe right here, right now. And if if it doesn't feel safe about you kicking up to a handstand away from the wall, then it doesn't matter how how many drills you do for strength or for flexibility. Like, you're not gonna feel like, you're not gonna be able to get that handstand.
Adell:If your brain doesn't feel safe about you pushing up to a wheel pose, then it's not gonna let you do it. Right? So rant over. That's that's what I would say. I
Emily:I don't know if you can tell. I'm, like, jumping out of my chair here because Lisa and I just had a very similar conversation yesterday in the text of strength training and achieving ranges of motion in strength training. And so I'm just like, yes. Yes. Yes.
Emily:To everything you're saying. So that was great. That is great. What do
Adell:you think?
Lisa:Yeah. There are no accidents, and I and I think sometimes our system binds us when we need it the most. I love that you created this system and are able to translate it for others to adapt it into their own practice no matter what it is. And do you feel that that translates over into other areas? Do you feel that translates into your entrepreneurship?
Lisa:Any other any I mean, probably anything where you're trying to create sustainable Relation.
Emily:Yeah, achieve.
Adell:Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Because that was that was, like, the biggest moment for me whenever I learned that the brain only cares about keeping you safe because that you can see that everywhere. You can see it in other people and you can see it in yourself all the time.
Adell:Like, yeah, the, yeah, like, oh, I had I had a chance to ask my crush out. I I had, like, 4 chances today, and I still didn't I still couldn't bring myself to just ask him for coffee or whatever. Right? And that's because your brain feels this is trying to keep you safe. Then, like and this is the thing is, like, your brain doesn't want you to thrive.
Adell:It doesn't want you to live your wildest dreams. It doesn't want you to reach all of your goals and be super duper happy. No. It wants you to survive. Mhmm.
Adell:And survival does not always look that glamorous or pretty or nice. And so recognizing, like, okay. So the reason that I wasn't able to follow through with, like, let's go along with that analogy, asking my crush out for coffee was because my brain is trying to keep me safe, then I can translate that to, okay, but I am safe. Like, what's the worst that can happen? He says no.
Adell:And then my life goes on. Okay. I got this. And then I can go do the thing. So, like, in my business, and in, yeah, in every aspect of my life, if if I'm like, hang on.
Adell:Why am I getting stuck here? Most of the time, not all the time, but most of the time I can just go, what part of my brain or what part of this does my brain not feel safe doing? Like, what part of this is making my brain feel threatened? And how can I mitigate that?
Emily:You know who else, talks about this all the time is Steve, our favorite YouTube tarot reader. Steve, he always says, like, the brain is just there to keep you safe. The brain, you know, the brain, the thought, the ego is loud versus your intuition, which is quiet and subtle, and the brain can often, like, out out talk the the intuition, so to speak, and and he says, you know, never think about something for too long because if you think about anything for too long, you'll find you'll find enough reasons not to do it. He says, if you were to sit there and think about getting in a car for too long, like, you'd you'd find plenty of re you'd find too many reasons just not to do it.
Adell:Yeah. I love that. Thanks for sharing that. I just wanna ask you, like, does Tara's Steve have any more words of Oh,
Emily:he's got tons and with your can we just get him in here? Yes. Yes. And Brian Brian knows about Steve too. Yes.
Emily:And let's manifest let's manifest, a Steve guest in here. That would be awesome. And he is very, as well, he likes to like, you were kind of mentioning in our pre chat about, you know, combining the more, woo woo side of things, right, with with the more scientific, aspect of it. And he's he's constantly doing that with concepts like karma and manifestation and and things that might seem a little woo woo to some people, but bringing them together, in a in a more scientific and logical way. So I think you would really be into that.
Adell:Well, I I would say if you sit around and think long enough about what science is, you'll see that science is actually pretty woo woo. Right. Right. Right. Science is religion.
Adell:Yeah. Yeah. Right.
Emily:It's all Electricity is invisible energy. So, like, why do we believe in electricity, but we have a hard time believing in chi or whatever. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
Emily:Yes.
Lisa:Love it. Yeah. I mean, a couple couple of things come to mind to me as we were talking, and you know my background in feng shui. So I very much resonate with the aspect of, desiring to be in places and spaces internally and externally where we feel safe and comfortable. And, really, that's the, like, recipe for success, but also in my practice and as Emily and I learn in each and every episode together and talking with our guests, just, you know, the harmony and the balance.
Lisa:So just as there are days that are easy and abundant, there's also, like, the shadow side of things that's very necessary in a lot of ways. So how does that concept of, you know, the the yin and the yang and, the good days and the bad days, how does that fit into your practice? And how does that factor into the language that, you train your instructors to guide people through those times when they're, like, you know, ready to throw it all away because of 1 or maybe even a bad week, a day, a month?
Adell:Well, I think just to kinda keep it, yeah, I I purely on that those basic functions of the brain and, you know, how it it only wants to keep us safe and everything. Like, another aspect of that is, like, it's it's all the brain is, like, super zen and that it is in the here and now. Like, it is not living in the future. That part of your brain, that scared little part of your brain, you know. And so it's not thinking ahead.
Adell:It's not thinking like, well and and obviously, we do have our prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain that allows us to think ahead, but I'm talking about the old brain, that lizard brain, so to speak. Right? That is unable to think ahead. It's not the part of the brain that allows us to plan ahead. And so just, I mean, it's more I guess, like, it it kinda ties in with, the good old, like, Buddhism 101.
Adell:Everything is temporary. Right? Just remember reminding people that, nothing lasts forever. And, and and very often I mean, I know for me that's that's that's a big, one of my one of my number one tools for when I'm feeling worried or scared or anxious is, like, well, this is just not gonna last forever. It just won't.
Adell:Like, as much as it may feel right now that it will, it won't. It's it's gonna be sunny again. It's gonna be, yeah, easy again. And and also that, like, going back to neuroplasticity and the way that the brain changes, the way that we can, adapt and become more resilient, the way that we become stronger, all of that is through stress, you know. We we know that we have to stress our muscles like we literally tear our muscle fibers to get stronger muscles.
Adell:You know, I am really big on reminding yogis that balance. Like, if you really if you wanna work on your balance, like, then if you go through a yoga practice and you're not wobbling at all, you're not working on your balance. You're not gonna get better at balance if you're never wobbling. Like, you have to do difficult things. And, and and, like, I yeah.
Adell:I I've been, like, really thinking on this a lot lately. Like, why is our universe organized in a way that we have to do difficult things to grow and learn? But, whatever the answer is, it that is that is the way that things are. And so, for sure also just, just remembering that, like, that that yin, the darkness, the the mystery, the the colds, like, we are conditioned to believe that those things are bad, but they're also the feminine. Right?
Adell:So just just from a sort of, like, that point of view, like, are they really so bad? It's the feminine. But but that's where growth comes from. Right? It's like it's like if you see a tree, a dead tree that's decaying.
Adell:That decay is actually also new life. Right? And so it's it's, it yeah. I I don't know where I'm going with this. This is like a very waffly answer to your question.
Adell:No.
Lisa:I think it's a great answer. I think it puts a lot of things into context, but I'm sure that shines through in whatever your, you know, your guides are to your practitioners that are adapting, neuroplasticity and that type of, training into their practice for their clients, especially if they're feeling like, well, I'm having a little bit of a time of suffering or a setback or, you know, so I think that was really beautiful, but it makes me wonder, like, who were you when you started this journey and how different are you today than you were when you started? Like, physically, mentally,
Adell:believing? That's a good question. I don't know. I mean, I can tell you for sure for sure I'm definitely stronger physically. I've worked really hard on my strength.
Adell:I continue to work really hard on my strength. Just physical strength. But, I think, yeah, I'm definitely more at peace if that doesn't come across as too braggadocious. But, yeah, I've learned to let go of a lot of things. I think I used to be much more of a control freak and I still catch myself being a control freak, of course.
Adell:But I have learned to let go of a lot of things and letting go is almost like, like it's so pleasurable once you realize like how how much easier it is to go through life to just go okay. I don't have control over that.
Emily:Let's let's
Adell:just let's just let that just go to some higher power to deal with because I can't deal with it instead of trying to hold on to things. Yeah. But I don't know because I also look at my younger self sometimes. Like, I'll read journal entries or captions that I wrote or whatever. And I'm like, who was this person?
Adell:I need to get back to that. I need to get back to that person in some way. Yeah. Yeah.
Emily:How does this Yeah. I love that. Especially, like, well, because that that is the medicine right there. You just you just said it. Yeah.
Emily:I I think I think we kinda came full circle and and really answered that question that I had before about, like, what what as a practitioner am I gonna get from, you know, learning to manage my nervous system better? And that inner peace, I mean, that's that's it. That's the golden ticket right there. I I think if you if you zoom out on kind of everybody's individual goals in life, I mean, that that's really at at the heart of it all because, you know, it's a lack of inner peace that is, you know, the excess stress and anxiety that are, in essence, you know, causing all the chronic disease and that that we're suffering from today and and, you know, decreasing our quality of life, earlier and earlier. So I I think that's it right there is is learn to manage your nervous system better and learn to create your own inner peace.
Emily:Not that you don't care about these things that are stressful, that are happening, but you do have a choice, you know, in terms of how how stressed you're gonna and, of course, that's not to say you you shove away and you don't get to feel emotions, right, about a particular thing, but but you can choose not to carry that stress with you, throughout life. And that that, to do that in a productive and effective way is all about the nervous system, in my opinion.
Adell:Yep. Yeah.
Lisa:Michelle, do you feel like you stand straighter today than you did when you were on a tilt?
Adell:Oh, I mean, I probably do. You have to understand, like, it wouldn't have been, like, super obvious. My mother would notice it because mothers, you know, it's one of those things, like, mothers notice it. But, like, nobody else noticed. But, I don't know.
Emily:I haven't thought about it.
Lisa:Yeah. I wonder as we talk about alignment.
Emily:You know? She's gonna start creeping over there now that she's thinking about it now. I was I I tried it. I don't know. I looked
Lisa:at myself. But, you know, like, leaning into your right, I mean, I know it doesn't correlate to the sides of the brain, but leaning into your right, perhaps leaning more into the masculine as you're trying to have more strength and presence and looking for your sense of self. And now you've created this system and, this inner peace. It is more than just feeling, like, chill, but it's feeling, like, empowered or emboldened to be yourself and just stand still instead of scattered. I wonder if your tilt's, like, a lot more aligned or centered now.
Adell:I don't know because I've it was, apparently, from what I understand, like, I was way worse as a child because when I was a baby, I had meningitis, and I think that it kind of Yeah. Messed with my vestibular system a little bit. But, but, yeah, for sure, like like, you know, going back to how I had this, like, big moment when I first started learning about the brain where I was like, oh, everything comes down to safety or threat. And just putting that into practice on a daily basis, like, just, you know, having these little moments where I'm like, oh, there it is again. My brain's trying to keep me safe, and that's why I'm acting like this.
Adell:And and just being the geek that I am and being able to go like, oh, well, I don't know what is happening here, and then letting go. Just letting go of so many things going, oh my gosh. I'm holding. I'm gripping on so tightly to this thing and I don't need to. I can let it go.
Adell:Yeah. That's it's I mean, I yeah. I don't have any kind of, training or education whatsoever. Only only a very deep interest in, like, the quantum of things and I think that's more your area, Lisa. But, like, I've I'm excited about maybe where science will will go, in in the years to come with quantum everything and Yeah.
Adell:Linking it with, yeah, with things like that that
Lisa:I'm not
Emily:gonna do quantum.
Lisa:Virtual, but I I just, heard there's quite a few international conferences right now that are rushing the Dell, healing along with quantum. So there's a lot of science there are scientists that are involved. So I think we're just like at the precipice before they're gonna start being able to put these studies, in more context. This could be beyond 25 participants. I think it's been going on for a while.
Adell:It's yeah. It's, there's it's I think that there there's been an interest in linking, like, spirituality with quantum physics for a while. Because I have I read this amazing book and I think it was written, like, I don't I don't know, not recently at all. It's called the Tao of Physics. It's so good.
Adell:And he basically just, like, gives you a rundown of quantum physics versus Newtonian physics and then gives you a rundown of, like, Buddhism, Zen, and Taoist philosophies. And then just starts going like, he's like, okay. Now you know what these are. Let's look at all the different ways that they are basically the same thing. And, yeah, I love it.
Lisa:That's so exciting. Yeah.
Emily:Can also kind of make the analogy, or at least I did in my head, and caveat that I really know nothing about quantum physics. But the quant what I do know about it and about how people talk about it is that it seems like the quantum field and, like, the dark web of energy in which all of that stuff happens is, like, the nervous system of the collective or of the earth in a bit in a way. Like, it it is it, you know, a a network that come connects everything. Connects us.
Lisa:Yeah. I've never heard anyone say the dark were what did
Emily:you say? The dark web of energy?
Lisa:I've never heard
Emily:That's a Steve that's a Steve, well, it's he didn't make it up. That's that's a a scientific concept, a scientific understanding, that we have now, but Steve taught me about it.
Adell:Oh, gosh. Steve. Shout out to
Emily:you, Steve. We have no idea what his last name is. We have no idea anything. Yeah.
Adell:He's just Steve.
Emily:No. He's he's he's got a hand. Yeah. He's got a hand and some cards and a and a parrot.
Lisa:All the elements of the universe.
Emily:Yes. Very
Lisa:Adele, when are you headed back? Is is you're still you're in the States still today? Are you headed back?
Adell:Yeah. I'm here for 2 more days, and then back to the UK. Yeah. Yeah. That's what
Lisa:are you looking forward to going back to?
Adell:You're there?
Emily:Do I
Adell:have what?
Lisa:Do you have a yoga studio there?
Adell:No. I teach, I teach a weekly class at one of my friend's studios, But no. Because I'm mostly online. I mostly do things online.
Lisa:I love that.
Adell:Yeah. Yeah.
Emily:What's next what's next for Adele and and functional neurology yoga?
Adell:Well, I've got a retreat in Morocco next month. Oh. So that's that's my next thing. Wow. Yeah.
Adell:And then and then it's the new year, and I don't know yet. I love it.
Lisa:Day by day in the moment. Yeah. Well, I really have enjoyed getting to know you today. I've heard so many good things about you through Emily and through, my way of Brian. But really inspiring to listen to, and I know you you'll probably collect a lot more in your experience in your travels to weave in to your practice.
Lisa:Is there anything, like, you would like to leave our listeners, the changemakers, the thought leaders, the entrepreneurs, anything that you would like to leave them in terms of wisdom, a tip, or insight?
Adell:Sure. Yeah. Well, you called them change makers, and so my geeky little brain went to neuroplasticity. And Yes. Just reminding people, I guess, that, yeah, we we can help people change for the better when they are in a place of safety, feeling safe.
Adell:And what I see so much, and I'm guilty of this myself, is, I guess, it's easy for us to get caught up in our emotions and and get kind of, yeah, just dictate, like, how you should change, or or whatever and just, yeah, meet people where they're at. I don't know. But, like, your audience, they know that. They know that. But, yeah, just, like, stay
Lisa:perspective to bring to it. It's like, I don't know. Instead of change makers, it feels like, I don't wanna say, like, shitsters, but, like, disruptors disruptors in your field to change and to chart a new path. I don't know if there's a better word. I think that's what we know.
Lisa:Hell raisers. Hell raisers or, you know, fine tenders.
Emily:Just trying to spice it up a little.
Lisa:But I love it's just really, you know, what you said. It's so perfectly aligned with what we're talking about in terms of entering into the age of Aquarius and times of revolution. And so as we're inviting in change, we're gonna have to find ways to bring ourselves back to center and to feel safe, to do these uncharted things.
Adell:Yes. We act more powerfully from a place of calm.
Emily:Mhmm. I think, to just attack on a little a little piece to the to that golden nugget, maybe we can utilize that understanding that the brain is just always trying to keep us safe, also to improve our empathy to others. You know, maybe when they're acting in a kind of foolish way or not. So, you know, when we when we tend to get frustrated with other people, coming back to that understanding that, you know, their their nervous system is is just trying to keep them safe too.
Adell:Yeah. I think that's what I was trying to get at really is like when you're talking to somebody that maybe you feel very strongly that if they did things differently, then they would be happier. The world would be a better place or whatever. Yeah. But they're they also have a brain that is gonna try to keep them safe and may get very defensive.
Adell:And then you don't you do more harm than good and yeah. Empathy.
Emily:Love it.
Lisa:It's so great. Well, this is just beginning of our relationship, Adele. We do have a closed and private Facebook group that we'd like to invite you to join if you're ever on Facebook. If not, we invite our listeners to continue this conversation inside of that closed and private group. You can ask us questions and we can pass it along to Adele.
Lisa:Adele, how can people connect with you easiest? Is it through Instagram?
Adell:Yeah. I'd say Instagram or yeah. Yeah. Instagram's easier.
Lisa:What is your And we'll we'll put
Emily:up your links in the show notes too.
Adell:Okay. Is
Lisa:it under your name, your Instagram?
Adell:Yeah. It's just Adele Bridges.
Lisa:Adele Bridges. Okay. Perfect. Beautiful. Well, I so very much enjoyed this conversation, and I think, you know, if we ever the opportunity to have Steve here, we should invite you back.
Lisa:Yeah.
Emily:I would love
Lisa:that. So much.
Adell:Yeah. Let's manifest that. Yeah.
Lisa:We'll put you into that YouTube channel so you can start helping us manifest that. Cool. Alright. Any last words, Emily?
Emily:No. I think I think I said a lot of words. Words. This is awesome. Yeah.
Emily:This is
Lisa:awesome. Thank you so much. Yeah.
Adell:I really enjoyed it. Thank you.
Lisa:Yeah. We'll see everybody inside of the group, and we invite you to connect with us on Instagram and all the different ways. And we're so grateful for you all subscribers and for sharing with your friends and leaving us a a review. And that's why we still exist. That's why we show up every week.
Lisa:Alright. Well, we'll talk to you in 5.
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