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About Body Wisdom Academy - Subtle Body Work™ for Trauma Release
Body Wisdom Academy specializes in Subtle Body Work™, a comprehensive trauma release methodology developed by licensed acupuncturist Leslie Huddart. Unlike traditional talk therapy that addresses only the mental layer, our approach works with the complete mind-body-spirit system where trauma is actually stored.
What is Subtle Body Work? Drawing from Chinese Medicine, Vedic traditions, and modern somatic therapeutics, Subtle Body Work™ teaches you to decode your body's unique language. Trauma isn't just a mental experience—it's encoded in multiple layers of your subtle body system, creating persistent anxiety, imposter syndrome, relationship patterns, and emotional triggers that conventional therapy often can't resolve.
Who We Serve: Empaths, healers, therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, and spiritual practitioners who've completed certifications and therapy but still feel stuck. Our clients report releasing lifelong trauma blocks in months rather than years, experiencing lasting inner peace, clarity on life purpose, and freedom from generational patterns.
Our Programs: 16-week certification training, Coach Practitioner training track, individual coaching sessions, and community support for both personal healing and professional development. Learn repeatable techniques to dissolve triggers at their source—not just manage symptoms—using evidence-based methods rooted in ancient wisdom and clinical practice.
Empaths. Healers. Seekers.
You Already Feel the Call.
Healing is a sacred calling—and your subtle body may be the missing key to true transformation.
"Your subtle body is either your superpower or your biggest block."
Therapy, Yoga, Coaching…
Still Feeling Stuck?
You've done the trainings, certifications, and energy work—but something still feels off.
Most healing methods miss the subtle body, the system where mind, body, and spirit actually integrate. Without it, results remain partial.
Is This You?
You're not broken. You're ready for next-level transformation.
You've Done Therapy
And found it helpful, but it didn't quite get you to where you want to be
You've Done Training & Certifications
Life coaching, yoga teacher, nutrition, reiki... you name it, but are still struggling with some things
Your Life Looks Good From the Outside
But you feel like an imposter, like something is missing or not quite right
Real Transformations From Real People
150+ Verified Training Results from Therapists, Healers & Empaths
"I had tried therapy for over 10 years with no huge life-changing results... I finally, for the first time, feel free from lifelong issues that were holding me back."
Holistic Health Coach
"Now when triggers come up, I'm able to easily work through them and let them go, instead of it being the thing that I do for three days."
TEDx Organizer
"Leslie is a true healer... no one else can do what she does."
Client
What Subtle Body Work™ Does
Subtle Body Work™ helps you release trauma blocks faster and deeper than typical methods—so you can finally feel confident, calm and soul-aligned in your life.
Your subtle body is the technical side of how your mind-body-spirit system are wired together from an ancient eastern wisdom tradition lens. We are the intersection of modern science and ancient spirituality.
How Subtle Body Work™ Actually Works
A proven, step-by-step methodology for lasting transformation
Embodiment & Reconnection
You learn to safely come back into your body, feel and map your sensations, and work with your energy system so you can shift how you feel in the moment and no longer get stuck in endless spirals.
Getting to the Hidden Source
Once your system has some safety and skill, we guide you step by step into the deeper layers where your old patterns and triggers are held, and teach you how to release them at the root.
Integration into Real Life
We help you bring this into relationships, boundaries, work, purpose, and your actual day-to-day life so change is not just internal, but shows up in how you live and choose.
This isn't theory. This is real-life applicable work that creates measurable results.
Is Subtle Body Work™ Right For You?
✓ This is For You If...
- You're a healer, empath, therapist, coach, or spiritual practitioner
- You've done years of therapy but still feel stuck in certain patterns
- You want certification-level training you can use with yourself AND clients
- You're ready to go deeper than talk therapy or typical coaching
- You sense there's a missing piece in your healing journey
- You want measurable results, not just insights
- You're committed to doing real inner work
✗ This is NOT For You If...
- You're looking for quick fixes or magic pills
- You're not ready to feel and process emotions
- You want someone else to "fix" you without your participation
- You're in active crisis (we can refer you to appropriate resources)
- You're not open to working with energy and the subtle body
- You prefer to stay in intellectual understanding only
- You're not willing to invest time and energy into your healing
Meet Your Guide & Our Founder
Leslie Huddart, L.Ac., MAOM
Founder of Body Wisdom Academy & Creator of Subtle Body Work™
I am a natural health expert and spiritual guide who combines ancient healing wisdom, modern neuroscience, and mindfulness to get you healing results where other methods have failed.
My specialty is helping fellow healers and empaths take the shortcut to personal success, soul alignment, true confidence, and freedom from anxiety and insecurity.
I know what it's like to struggle because I've been there myself. I grew up as an unguided empath struggling with family dynamics, an unbalanced relationship with food, and disappointing romantic relationships. All these struggles pushed me to dive into yoga, spiritual study, and the healing arts.
Over the past 20+ years of working with clients in my mind-body healing and natural health practice, I've developed a system of working with the subtle body that will amplify your healing to help you get to where you're truly meant to be.
"Together, we'll heal and release the issues stuck in your mind-body-spirit system that have been secretly holding you back."
Now, we're training a community of powerful healers to take this work into the world for themselves and others. Are you our next Soul Warrior?
Work With Us
Whether you're looking for personal transformation or professional certification, we have a path for you.
16-Week Certification Training
Our comprehensive Body Wisdom Academy program where you'll master Subtle Body Work™ and earn certification to use these techniques with yourself and clients.
- 16-week intensive training program
- 1:1 Coach Practitioner sessions included
- Weekly community practice calls
- Full 9-gateway Subtle Body curriculum
- Foundations Level 1 Certification
- Lifetime access to all materials
- Track 31 metrics across 8 life areas
Coach Practitioner Training
Advanced training for coaches, therapists, and healers who want to integrate Subtle Body Work™ into their professional practice.
- Advanced certification pathway
- Healing practice positioning guidance
- Client session frameworks
- Marketing and positioning guidance
- Ongoing mentorship
- Professional liability coverage guidance
1:1 Private Sessions
Work directly with Leslie Huddart or one of our master-trained coaches for personalized, deep healing work.
- Personalized one-on-one attention
- Customized to your specific needs
- Flexible scheduling
- Deep trauma release work
- Business and purpose clarity
- Relationship healing
Hear From Our Clients
Real stories of transformation from real people
Holistic Nutritionist
"I've paid for other stuff with other folks who kind of claim to help"
Acupuncturist
"Real healing from someone who understands the subtle body"
Yoga Teacher / Ayurvedic Practitioner
"Practical day-to-day tools that bring me back to alignment"
Nurse / Reflexologist
"Deep healing for practitioners who understand energy work"
Lana - Therapist
"Migraines, a different approach that actually works"
Anxiety Relief
"Finally free from anxiety that held me back for years"
How It's Different
"Understanding why this approach works when others don't"
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Not sure where to start? Book a complimentary advisory session to find your best path forward.
Healing Truths
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
Leslie Huddart L.Ac.
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
If you've been following me for some time, you will know that I am pretty hard on the NABS (shout out to Tom Kenyon, the sound healer, where I learned that term).
NABS stands for New Age Bulls.
In the realm of personal and spiritual development, there's a lot of NABS so this week's question comes from one of our community members and she asks:
"What are some new age-y spiritual tropes, bypasses and pitfalls to be aware and cautious of? As a beginner consumer of spirituality information in general, I want to develop my discernment as I find myself in conversations with new people (I fear being a gullible sponge), and of course to check myself.
-Anonymous
In this post, we're talking about:
How do you build discernment?
How to use the positive parts of open spirituality that move us out of everyday life (while still building discernment and keeping ourselves on track)?
The Gift of Open Spirituality
New age-yness is not all bad. You'll hear me be quite strong on it. It's true that there is some good in it—the gift of open spirituality that is a little bit hodgepodge here and there.
It can really help to be our transition into the more subtle aspects of life to kick us out of mundane reality and to start to think that there actually might be more going on here than we realized.
At some point, we want to transition into grounded discernment and just like everything else in life, we want to judge by results.
There are a lot of ways that we can get distracted and fall off track, but I'm going to give you two main guideposts to really focus.
No shade if you've been riding the new agey train, but you may want to start to think about where am I getting results and where might I be just doing a little to pick and choose hodgepodge for my own.
1. Who is it coming from?
When you hear a new age thought or someone who is spouting some new age doctrine or things that seem interesting, the first thing to ask as a guiding compass to build discernment is, "who is it coming from?"
Looking at that individual or source and asking some questions. How are they leading by example:
in their life?
in their conduct?
in how their words match with their action?
It's a big red flag when you are not able to trust the messenger. Ultimately, True spirituality (with a capital T) outside of religion and the essence of spirituality in all traditions is transformative.
Someone who is really living it will have increased capacity, increased presence, increased heart, increased equanimity of the ability to be present, to affect situations, and carry themselves in ways that show up and leave clues.
Notice if someone who just by the picture of their life says one thing but does another.
When I was in my early 20s in Pittsburgh, I was dating someone who was really well connected in the Pittsburgh new age circle, which I was not really connected with. I remember being at dinner with a group of people and him saying, "So-and-so over there teaches classes on abundance, but she can't actually pay her bills."
This is not to judge people but it's to have discernment with anything, not just new ageyness.
The person who it's coming from, are they aligned?
Do their words match with their action?
Are they teaching something that they are also living?
Are they appearing spiritual and talking softly, but then being an aS$h0!3 behind somebody's back?
Use your discernment to trust the messenger as a way to have a heads up that the message that's coming through may not be grounded in the way that you wanted to.
2. Getting to Deeper Sources
If you are finding you are really craving more spiritual information, I would challenge you to send out a laser beam request to the universe and to state that you are ready for some more spiritual study.
Now that doesn't mean you have to join some religious order or pick a religious tradition. What I would say is that as you start to feel this thirst for knowledge, starting to find longer tradition-based things versus something that was just someone's psychic awareness that came down into a book that sounds good, but may or may not be grounded is not the best approach.
You want to start putting it out there that you are ready to engage with a more spiritual study. You are ready for teachers who are really aligned with your soul to show up in different ways. Then, you use step number one to judge and have discernment.
3. Bonus Tip
With anything you do, you want to always come back to judge by results.
With all of these things together, you'll start to build discernment. As you're along this path, you'll find lots of information and you can learn to trust yourself but especially at the beginning of our awareness, we want to double-check, check by results, see where it's coming from, who the messenger is, and is there a tradition of many wise and wise yogis, Bodhisattva's, saints, mystics and whoever it is along the traditional path who have also backed-up this information.
It makes it a little safer and a little more trustable in the wild and crazy realm of especially Western-based new agey development and spirituality.
--->RELEASE THE TRAPPED TRAUMA FROM YOUR BODY (WITHOUT YEARS OF THERAPY)<---
Disclaimer: This program is not intended to be a substitute for professional mental health or counseling services. No practitioner-patient relationship is established and the training content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and nothing here is intended to diagnose, cure or treat any disorders.
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Guide for Empaths
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
Leslie Huddart L.Ac.
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
If you've been following me for some time, you will know that I am pretty hard on the NABS (shout out to Tom Kenyon, the sound healer, where I learned that term).
NABS stands for New Age Bulls.
In the realm of personal and spiritual development, there's a lot of NABS so this week's question comes from one of our community members and she asks:
"What are some new age-y spiritual tropes, bypasses and pitfalls to be aware and cautious of? As a beginner consumer of spirituality information in general, I want to develop my discernment as I find myself in conversations with new people (I fear being a gullible sponge), and of course to check myself.
-Anonymous
In this post, we're talking about:
How do you build discernment?
How to use the positive parts of open spirituality that move us out of everyday life (while still building discernment and keeping ourselves on track)?
The Gift of Open Spirituality
New age-yness is not all bad. You'll hear me be quite strong on it. It's true that there is some good in it—the gift of open spirituality that is a little bit hodgepodge here and there.
It can really help to be our transition into the more subtle aspects of life to kick us out of mundane reality and to start to think that there actually might be more going on here than we realized.
At some point, we want to transition into grounded discernment and just like everything else in life, we want to judge by results.
There are a lot of ways that we can get distracted and fall off track, but I'm going to give you two main guideposts to really focus.
No shade if you've been riding the new agey train, but you may want to start to think about where am I getting results and where might I be just doing a little to pick and choose hodgepodge for my own.
1. Who is it coming from?
When you hear a new age thought or someone who is spouting some new age doctrine or things that seem interesting, the first thing to ask as a guiding compass to build discernment is, "who is it coming from?"
Looking at that individual or source and asking some questions. How are they leading by example:
in their life?
in their conduct?
in how their words match with their action?
It's a big red flag when you are not able to trust the messenger. Ultimately, True spirituality (with a capital T) outside of religion and the essence of spirituality in all traditions is transformative.
Someone who is really living it will have increased capacity, increased presence, increased heart, increased equanimity of the ability to be present, to affect situations, and carry themselves in ways that show up and leave clues.
Notice if someone who just by the picture of their life says one thing but does another.
When I was in my early 20s in Pittsburgh, I was dating someone who was really well connected in the Pittsburgh new age circle, which I was not really connected with. I remember being at dinner with a group of people and him saying, "So-and-so over there teaches classes on abundance, but she can't actually pay her bills."
This is not to judge people but it's to have discernment with anything, not just new ageyness.
The person who it's coming from, are they aligned?
Do their words match with their action?
Are they teaching something that they are also living?
Are they appearing spiritual and talking softly, but then being an aS$h0!3 behind somebody's back?
Use your discernment to trust the messenger as a way to have a heads up that the message that's coming through may not be grounded in the way that you wanted to.
2. Getting to Deeper Sources
If you are finding you are really craving more spiritual information, I would challenge you to send out a laser beam request to the universe and to state that you are ready for some more spiritual study.
Now that doesn't mean you have to join some religious order or pick a religious tradition. What I would say is that as you start to feel this thirst for knowledge, starting to find longer tradition-based things versus something that was just someone's psychic awareness that came down into a book that sounds good, but may or may not be grounded is not the best approach.
You want to start putting it out there that you are ready to engage with a more spiritual study. You are ready for teachers who are really aligned with your soul to show up in different ways. Then, you use step number one to judge and have discernment.
3. Bonus Tip
With anything you do, you want to always come back to judge by results.
With all of these things together, you'll start to build discernment. As you're along this path, you'll find lots of information and you can learn to trust yourself but especially at the beginning of our awareness, we want to double-check, check by results, see where it's coming from, who the messenger is, and is there a tradition of many wise and wise yogis, Bodhisattva's, saints, mystics and whoever it is along the traditional path who have also backed-up this information.
It makes it a little safer and a little more trustable in the wild and crazy realm of especially Western-based new agey development and spirituality.
--->RELEASE THE TRAPPED TRAUMA FROM YOUR BODY (WITHOUT YEARS OF THERAPY)<---
Disclaimer: This program is not intended to be a substitute for professional mental health or counseling services. No practitioner-patient relationship is established and the training content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and nothing here is intended to diagnose, cure or treat any disorders.
Watch Leslie Huddart L.Ac. YouTube Videos
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Dating for Empaths
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
Leslie Huddart L.Ac.
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
If you've been following me for some time, you will know that I am pretty hard on the NABS (shout out to Tom Kenyon, the sound healer, where I learned that term).
NABS stands for New Age Bulls.
In the realm of personal and spiritual development, there's a lot of NABS so this week's question comes from one of our community members and she asks:
"What are some new age-y spiritual tropes, bypasses and pitfalls to be aware and cautious of? As a beginner consumer of spirituality information in general, I want to develop my discernment as I find myself in conversations with new people (I fear being a gullible sponge), and of course to check myself.
-Anonymous
In this post, we're talking about:
How do you build discernment?
How to use the positive parts of open spirituality that move us out of everyday life (while still building discernment and keeping ourselves on track)?
The Gift of Open Spirituality
New age-yness is not all bad. You'll hear me be quite strong on it. It's true that there is some good in it—the gift of open spirituality that is a little bit hodgepodge here and there.
It can really help to be our transition into the more subtle aspects of life to kick us out of mundane reality and to start to think that there actually might be more going on here than we realized.
At some point, we want to transition into grounded discernment and just like everything else in life, we want to judge by results.
There are a lot of ways that we can get distracted and fall off track, but I'm going to give you two main guideposts to really focus.
No shade if you've been riding the new agey train, but you may want to start to think about where am I getting results and where might I be just doing a little to pick and choose hodgepodge for my own.
1. Who is it coming from?
When you hear a new age thought or someone who is spouting some new age doctrine or things that seem interesting, the first thing to ask as a guiding compass to build discernment is, "who is it coming from?"
Looking at that individual or source and asking some questions. How are they leading by example:
in their life?
in their conduct?
in how their words match with their action?
It's a big red flag when you are not able to trust the messenger. Ultimately, True spirituality (with a capital T) outside of religion and the essence of spirituality in all traditions is transformative.
Someone who is really living it will have increased capacity, increased presence, increased heart, increased equanimity of the ability to be present, to affect situations, and carry themselves in ways that show up and leave clues.
Notice if someone who just by the picture of their life says one thing but does another.
When I was in my early 20s in Pittsburgh, I was dating someone who was really well connected in the Pittsburgh new age circle, which I was not really connected with. I remember being at dinner with a group of people and him saying, "So-and-so over there teaches classes on abundance, but she can't actually pay her bills."
This is not to judge people but it's to have discernment with anything, not just new ageyness.
The person who it's coming from, are they aligned?
Do their words match with their action?
Are they teaching something that they are also living?
Are they appearing spiritual and talking softly, but then being an aS$h0!3 behind somebody's back?
Use your discernment to trust the messenger as a way to have a heads up that the message that's coming through may not be grounded in the way that you wanted to.
2. Getting to Deeper Sources
If you are finding you are really craving more spiritual information, I would challenge you to send out a laser beam request to the universe and to state that you are ready for some more spiritual study.
Now that doesn't mean you have to join some religious order or pick a religious tradition. What I would say is that as you start to feel this thirst for knowledge, starting to find longer tradition-based things versus something that was just someone's psychic awareness that came down into a book that sounds good, but may or may not be grounded is not the best approach.
You want to start putting it out there that you are ready to engage with a more spiritual study. You are ready for teachers who are really aligned with your soul to show up in different ways. Then, you use step number one to judge and have discernment.
3. Bonus Tip
With anything you do, you want to always come back to judge by results.
With all of these things together, you'll start to build discernment. As you're along this path, you'll find lots of information and you can learn to trust yourself but especially at the beginning of our awareness, we want to double-check, check by results, see where it's coming from, who the messenger is, and is there a tradition of many wise and wise yogis, Bodhisattva's, saints, mystics and whoever it is along the traditional path who have also backed-up this information.
It makes it a little safer and a little more trustable in the wild and crazy realm of especially Western-based new agey development and spirituality.
--->RELEASE THE TRAPPED TRAUMA FROM YOUR BODY (WITHOUT YEARS OF THERAPY)<---
Disclaimer: This program is not intended to be a substitute for professional mental health or counseling services. No practitioner-patient relationship is established and the training content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and nothing here is intended to diagnose, cure or treat any disorders.
Watch Leslie Huddart L.Ac. YouTube Videos
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Chronic Pain
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
Leslie Huddart L.Ac.
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
If you've been following me for some time, you will know that I am pretty hard on the NABS (shout out to Tom Kenyon, the sound healer, where I learned that term).
NABS stands for New Age Bulls.
In the realm of personal and spiritual development, there's a lot of NABS so this week's question comes from one of our community members and she asks:
"What are some new age-y spiritual tropes, bypasses and pitfalls to be aware and cautious of? As a beginner consumer of spirituality information in general, I want to develop my discernment as I find myself in conversations with new people (I fear being a gullible sponge), and of course to check myself.
-Anonymous
In this post, we're talking about:
How do you build discernment?
How to use the positive parts of open spirituality that move us out of everyday life (while still building discernment and keeping ourselves on track)?
The Gift of Open Spirituality
New age-yness is not all bad. You'll hear me be quite strong on it. It's true that there is some good in it—the gift of open spirituality that is a little bit hodgepodge here and there.
It can really help to be our transition into the more subtle aspects of life to kick us out of mundane reality and to start to think that there actually might be more going on here than we realized.
At some point, we want to transition into grounded discernment and just like everything else in life, we want to judge by results.
There are a lot of ways that we can get distracted and fall off track, but I'm going to give you two main guideposts to really focus.
No shade if you've been riding the new agey train, but you may want to start to think about where am I getting results and where might I be just doing a little to pick and choose hodgepodge for my own.
1. Who is it coming from?
When you hear a new age thought or someone who is spouting some new age doctrine or things that seem interesting, the first thing to ask as a guiding compass to build discernment is, "who is it coming from?"
Looking at that individual or source and asking some questions. How are they leading by example:
in their life?
in their conduct?
in how their words match with their action?
It's a big red flag when you are not able to trust the messenger. Ultimately, True spirituality (with a capital T) outside of religion and the essence of spirituality in all traditions is transformative.
Someone who is really living it will have increased capacity, increased presence, increased heart, increased equanimity of the ability to be present, to affect situations, and carry themselves in ways that show up and leave clues.
Notice if someone who just by the picture of their life says one thing but does another.
When I was in my early 20s in Pittsburgh, I was dating someone who was really well connected in the Pittsburgh new age circle, which I was not really connected with. I remember being at dinner with a group of people and him saying, "So-and-so over there teaches classes on abundance, but she can't actually pay her bills."
This is not to judge people but it's to have discernment with anything, not just new ageyness.
The person who it's coming from, are they aligned?
Do their words match with their action?
Are they teaching something that they are also living?
Are they appearing spiritual and talking softly, but then being an aS$h0!3 behind somebody's back?
Use your discernment to trust the messenger as a way to have a heads up that the message that's coming through may not be grounded in the way that you wanted to.
2. Getting to Deeper Sources
If you are finding you are really craving more spiritual information, I would challenge you to send out a laser beam request to the universe and to state that you are ready for some more spiritual study.
Now that doesn't mean you have to join some religious order or pick a religious tradition. What I would say is that as you start to feel this thirst for knowledge, starting to find longer tradition-based things versus something that was just someone's psychic awareness that came down into a book that sounds good, but may or may not be grounded is not the best approach.
You want to start putting it out there that you are ready to engage with a more spiritual study. You are ready for teachers who are really aligned with your soul to show up in different ways. Then, you use step number one to judge and have discernment.
3. Bonus Tip
With anything you do, you want to always come back to judge by results.
With all of these things together, you'll start to build discernment. As you're along this path, you'll find lots of information and you can learn to trust yourself but especially at the beginning of our awareness, we want to double-check, check by results, see where it's coming from, who the messenger is, and is there a tradition of many wise and wise yogis, Bodhisattva's, saints, mystics and whoever it is along the traditional path who have also backed-up this information.
It makes it a little safer and a little more trustable in the wild and crazy realm of especially Western-based new agey development and spirituality.
--->RELEASE THE TRAPPED TRAUMA FROM YOUR BODY (WITHOUT YEARS OF THERAPY)<---
Disclaimer: This program is not intended to be a substitute for professional mental health or counseling services. No practitioner-patient relationship is established and the training content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and nothing here is intended to diagnose, cure or treat any disorders.
Watch Leslie Huddart L.Ac. YouTube Videos
Facebook. Instagram Youtube Website
Spiritual but Not Religious
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
Leslie Huddart L.Ac.
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
If you've been following me for some time, you will know that I am pretty hard on the NABS (shout out to Tom Kenyon, the sound healer, where I learned that term).
NABS stands for New Age Bulls.
In the realm of personal and spiritual development, there's a lot of NABS so this week's question comes from one of our community members and she asks:
"What are some new age-y spiritual tropes, bypasses and pitfalls to be aware and cautious of? As a beginner consumer of spirituality information in general, I want to develop my discernment as I find myself in conversations with new people (I fear being a gullible sponge), and of course to check myself.
-Anonymous
In this post, we're talking about:
How do you build discernment?
How to use the positive parts of open spirituality that move us out of everyday life (while still building discernment and keeping ourselves on track)?
The Gift of Open Spirituality
New age-yness is not all bad. You'll hear me be quite strong on it. It's true that there is some good in it—the gift of open spirituality that is a little bit hodgepodge here and there.
It can really help to be our transition into the more subtle aspects of life to kick us out of mundane reality and to start to think that there actually might be more going on here than we realized.
At some point, we want to transition into grounded discernment and just like everything else in life, we want to judge by results.
There are a lot of ways that we can get distracted and fall off track, but I'm going to give you two main guideposts to really focus.
No shade if you've been riding the new agey train, but you may want to start to think about where am I getting results and where might I be just doing a little to pick and choose hodgepodge for my own.
1. Who is it coming from?
When you hear a new age thought or someone who is spouting some new age doctrine or things that seem interesting, the first thing to ask as a guiding compass to build discernment is, "who is it coming from?"
Looking at that individual or source and asking some questions. How are they leading by example:
in their life?
in their conduct?
in how their words match with their action?
It's a big red flag when you are not able to trust the messenger. Ultimately, True spirituality (with a capital T) outside of religion and the essence of spirituality in all traditions is transformative.
Someone who is really living it will have increased capacity, increased presence, increased heart, increased equanimity of the ability to be present, to affect situations, and carry themselves in ways that show up and leave clues.
Notice if someone who just by the picture of their life says one thing but does another.
When I was in my early 20s in Pittsburgh, I was dating someone who was really well connected in the Pittsburgh new age circle, which I was not really connected with. I remember being at dinner with a group of people and him saying, "So-and-so over there teaches classes on abundance, but she can't actually pay her bills."
This is not to judge people but it's to have discernment with anything, not just new ageyness.
The person who it's coming from, are they aligned?
Do their words match with their action?
Are they teaching something that they are also living?
Are they appearing spiritual and talking softly, but then being an aS$h0!3 behind somebody's back?
Use your discernment to trust the messenger as a way to have a heads up that the message that's coming through may not be grounded in the way that you wanted to.
2. Getting to Deeper Sources
If you are finding you are really craving more spiritual information, I would challenge you to send out a laser beam request to the universe and to state that you are ready for some more spiritual study.
Now that doesn't mean you have to join some religious order or pick a religious tradition. What I would say is that as you start to feel this thirst for knowledge, starting to find longer tradition-based things versus something that was just someone's psychic awareness that came down into a book that sounds good, but may or may not be grounded is not the best approach.
You want to start putting it out there that you are ready to engage with a more spiritual study. You are ready for teachers who are really aligned with your soul to show up in different ways. Then, you use step number one to judge and have discernment.
3. Bonus Tip
With anything you do, you want to always come back to judge by results.
With all of these things together, you'll start to build discernment. As you're along this path, you'll find lots of information and you can learn to trust yourself but especially at the beginning of our awareness, we want to double-check, check by results, see where it's coming from, who the messenger is, and is there a tradition of many wise and wise yogis, Bodhisattva's, saints, mystics and whoever it is along the traditional path who have also backed-up this information.
It makes it a little safer and a little more trustable in the wild and crazy realm of especially Western-based new agey development and spirituality.
--->RELEASE THE TRAPPED TRAUMA FROM YOUR BODY (WITHOUT YEARS OF THERAPY)<---
Disclaimer: This program is not intended to be a substitute for professional mental health or counseling services. No practitioner-patient relationship is established and the training content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and nothing here is intended to diagnose, cure or treat any disorders.
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The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
Leslie Huddart L.Ac.
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
If you've been following me for some time, you will know that I am pretty hard on the NABS (shout out to Tom Kenyon, the sound healer, where I learned that term).
NABS stands for New Age Bulls.
In the realm of personal and spiritual development, there's a lot of NABS so this week's question comes from one of our community members and she asks:
"What are some new age-y spiritual tropes, bypasses and pitfalls to be aware and cautious of? As a beginner consumer of spirituality information in general, I want to develop my discernment as I find myself in conversations with new people (I fear being a gullible sponge), and of course to check myself.
-Anonymous
In this post, we're talking about:
How do you build discernment?
How to use the positive parts of open spirituality that move us out of everyday life (while still building discernment and keeping ourselves on track)?
The Gift of Open Spirituality
New age-yness is not all bad. You'll hear me be quite strong on it. It's true that there is some good in it—the gift of open spirituality that is a little bit hodgepodge here and there.
It can really help to be our transition into the more subtle aspects of life to kick us out of mundane reality and to start to think that there actually might be more going on here than we realized.
At some point, we want to transition into grounded discernment and just like everything else in life, we want to judge by results.
There are a lot of ways that we can get distracted and fall off track, but I'm going to give you two main guideposts to really focus.
No shade if you've been riding the new agey train, but you may want to start to think about where am I getting results and where might I be just doing a little to pick and choose hodgepodge for my own.
1. Who is it coming from?
When you hear a new age thought or someone who is spouting some new age doctrine or things that seem interesting, the first thing to ask as a guiding compass to build discernment is, "who is it coming from?"
Looking at that individual or source and asking some questions. How are they leading by example:
in their life?
in their conduct?
in how their words match with their action?
It's a big red flag when you are not able to trust the messenger. Ultimately, True spirituality (with a capital T) outside of religion and the essence of spirituality in all traditions is transformative.
Someone who is really living it will have increased capacity, increased presence, increased heart, increased equanimity of the ability to be present, to affect situations, and carry themselves in ways that show up and leave clues.
Notice if someone who just by the picture of their life says one thing but does another.
When I was in my early 20s in Pittsburgh, I was dating someone who was really well connected in the Pittsburgh new age circle, which I was not really connected with. I remember being at dinner with a group of people and him saying, "So-and-so over there teaches classes on abundance, but she can't actually pay her bills."
This is not to judge people but it's to have discernment with anything, not just new ageyness.
The person who it's coming from, are they aligned?
Do their words match with their action?
Are they teaching something that they are also living?
Are they appearing spiritual and talking softly, but then being an aS$h0!3 behind somebody's back?
Use your discernment to trust the messenger as a way to have a heads up that the message that's coming through may not be grounded in the way that you wanted to.
2. Getting to Deeper Sources
If you are finding you are really craving more spiritual information, I would challenge you to send out a laser beam request to the universe and to state that you are ready for some more spiritual study.
Now that doesn't mean you have to join some religious order or pick a religious tradition. What I would say is that as you start to feel this thirst for knowledge, starting to find longer tradition-based things versus something that was just someone's psychic awareness that came down into a book that sounds good, but may or may not be grounded is not the best approach.
You want to start putting it out there that you are ready to engage with a more spiritual study. You are ready for teachers who are really aligned with your soul to show up in different ways. Then, you use step number one to judge and have discernment.
3. Bonus Tip
With anything you do, you want to always come back to judge by results.
With all of these things together, you'll start to build discernment. As you're along this path, you'll find lots of information and you can learn to trust yourself but especially at the beginning of our awareness, we want to double-check, check by results, see where it's coming from, who the messenger is, and is there a tradition of many wise and wise yogis, Bodhisattva's, saints, mystics and whoever it is along the traditional path who have also backed-up this information.
It makes it a little safer and a little more trustable in the wild and crazy realm of especially Western-based new agey development and spirituality.
--->RELEASE THE TRAPPED TRAUMA FROM YOUR BODY (WITHOUT YEARS OF THERAPY)<---
Disclaimer: This program is not intended to be a substitute for professional mental health or counseling services. No practitioner-patient relationship is established and the training content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and nothing here is intended to diagnose, cure or treat any disorders.
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The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
Leslie Huddart L.Ac.
The Problem with New Age Spirituality (NABS)
If you've been following me for some time, you will know that I am pretty hard on the NABS (shout out to Tom Kenyon, the sound healer, where I learned that term).
NABS stands for New Age Bulls.
In the realm of personal and spiritual development, there's a lot of NABS so this week's question comes from one of our community members and she asks:
"What are some new age-y spiritual tropes, bypasses and pitfalls to be aware and cautious of? As a beginner consumer of spirituality information in general, I want to develop my discernment as I find myself in conversations with new people (I fear being a gullible sponge), and of course to check myself.
-Anonymous
In this post, we're talking about:
How do you build discernment?
How to use the positive parts of open spirituality that move us out of everyday life (while still building discernment and keeping ourselves on track)?
The Gift of Open Spirituality
New age-yness is not all bad. You'll hear me be quite strong on it. It's true that there is some good in it—the gift of open spirituality that is a little bit hodgepodge here and there.
It can really help to be our transition into the more subtle aspects of life to kick us out of mundane reality and to start to think that there actually might be more going on here than we realized.
At some point, we want to transition into grounded discernment and just like everything else in life, we want to judge by results.
There are a lot of ways that we can get distracted and fall off track, but I'm going to give you two main guideposts to really focus.
No shade if you've been riding the new agey train, but you may want to start to think about where am I getting results and where might I be just doing a little to pick and choose hodgepodge for my own.
1. Who is it coming from?
When you hear a new age thought or someone who is spouting some new age doctrine or things that seem interesting, the first thing to ask as a guiding compass to build discernment is, "who is it coming from?"
Looking at that individual or source and asking some questions. How are they leading by example:
in their life?
in their conduct?
in how their words match with their action?
It's a big red flag when you are not able to trust the messenger. Ultimately, True spirituality (with a capital T) outside of religion and the essence of spirituality in all traditions is transformative.
Someone who is really living it will have increased capacity, increased presence, increased heart, increased equanimity of the ability to be present, to affect situations, and carry themselves in ways that show up and leave clues.
Notice if someone who just by the picture of their life says one thing but does another.
When I was in my early 20s in Pittsburgh, I was dating someone who was really well connected in the Pittsburgh new age circle, which I was not really connected with. I remember being at dinner with a group of people and him saying, "So-and-so over there teaches classes on abundance, but she can't actually pay her bills."
This is not to judge people but it's to have discernment with anything, not just new ageyness.
The person who it's coming from, are they aligned?
Do their words match with their action?
Are they teaching something that they are also living?
Are they appearing spiritual and talking softly, but then being an aS$h0!3 behind somebody's back?
Use your discernment to trust the messenger as a way to have a heads up that the message that's coming through may not be grounded in the way that you wanted to.
2. Getting to Deeper Sources
If you are finding you are really craving more spiritual information, I would challenge you to send out a laser beam request to the universe and to state that you are ready for some more spiritual study.
Now that doesn't mean you have to join some religious order or pick a religious tradition. What I would say is that as you start to feel this thirst for knowledge, starting to find longer tradition-based things versus something that was just someone's psychic awareness that came down into a book that sounds good, but may or may not be grounded is not the best approach.
You want to start putting it out there that you are ready to engage with a more spiritual study. You are ready for teachers who are really aligned with your soul to show up in different ways. Then, you use step number one to judge and have discernment.
3. Bonus Tip
With anything you do, you want to always come back to judge by results.
With all of these things together, you'll start to build discernment. As you're along this path, you'll find lots of information and you can learn to trust yourself but especially at the beginning of our awareness, we want to double-check, check by results, see where it's coming from, who the messenger is, and is there a tradition of many wise and wise yogis, Bodhisattva's, saints, mystics and whoever it is along the traditional path who have also backed-up this information.
It makes it a little safer and a little more trustable in the wild and crazy realm of especially Western-based new agey development and spirituality.
--->RELEASE THE TRAPPED TRAUMA FROM YOUR BODY (WITHOUT YEARS OF THERAPY)<---
Disclaimer: This program is not intended to be a substitute for professional mental health or counseling services. No practitioner-patient relationship is established and the training content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and nothing here is intended to diagnose, cure or treat any disorders.
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