97. How to Make Room for Happiness and Embrace The Simple Yoga Life / Corrie Bacasa

Written By Katie Kay
 

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"I let go to make room for more peace and happiness."

Corrie Bacasa, owner of The Simple Yoga Life, has studied human behaviors for over 20 years with a bachelor's degree in Exercise Science, master's in Education, Yoga Alliance 500hr RYT and 100hr meditation teacher. The Simple Yoga Life came to her over three years ago when she discovered self-love through yoga and meditation.  In her words, "It gave me the courage to stand on my own two feet and be a healthy role model for myself and my beautiful daughters by choosing happiness." She went on a mission to simplify her life by reducing the materials objects, relationships, mental clutter, time spent, and emotional baggage that was no longer serving a purpose in her life. 

Corrie's purpose is to share her knowledge and experiences to empower other women to let go and be their own authentic self through: Spiritual Self Balance, Health & Wellness Mentoring, Time Management, Relationship Mentoring, Professional Home Organizing, Yoga/Meditation

 
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Katie Kay Graham, Corrie Bacasa

 

Corrie Bacasa  00:00

You know, the only person you need to please is yourself. Everyone else is on their own journey. Everyone else is working through their own stuff. But it's like you're the only person in control of you, you know. And that right there's freedom itself.

 

Katie Kay Graham  00:40

Today's episode, we have Corey Bokassa, and she is the founder of the simple yoga life. Corey has studied human behaviors for over 20 years with a bachelor's degree in Exercise Science and a master's in education. Cory has such a wealth of knowledge, I'm so happy that she got to come on to the episode today, we dive into a lot of a lot of things in sludge and fears that we all faiths, and we all need to move through so that we can break free into living in our own alignment living in our own authenticity. And Korea's messaging is it gets to be simple. And it really is simple. And the more that we can let go of some of those, like taking out the garbage, taking out the trash, like let go of some of those things that we're holding on to that is really just creating more heaviness in our life, we can let go of that and create this lightness of being and what it really feels like to live in our own truth, and living and control living and choice. Cory is also a yoga Alliance, 500 hour, Ry T, and a 100 hour meditation teacher with other trainings, including Mindful Schools, trauma sensitive yoga, Human Design, and AI are Vedic. She is also a life coach and professional organizer certifications. So she has like all of this background of knowledge and wealth. And now she's stepping into the role of coaching through the simple yoga life. And you'll just tell her energy is amazing. And she really is on a mission to serve other women. She wants to help other women let go and be their own authentic self through spiritual self balancing health and wellness, mentoring, time management, relationship, mentoring, professional home organizing, and through yoga and meditation. So we dive into a lot of this today. And her own story of gaining back herself her own control her own power. And our journey is profound in that way and being able to open up and share through some of those fears and struggles like victimhood, which we dive into that as well today. So opening up your life, right, like letting go some of those patterns, so that you can arrive into this place of simplicity. That is what you really want to feel like what that feels like to live and feel more like yourself coming back home to your truth. And what does that feel like to live in a life of alignment? Before we dive into to today's episode, I just want to remind you sign up on that newsletter especially now because I have a special announcement that comes out on our 100th episode which freakin I can't even think about, like we've made it this far. 200 episodes so there's an offering I'm offering out to the only to the newsletter community so make sure that you sign up for that so you will receive that offering. Um, yeah, that's it. You guys, sit back, soak up the love that is Cory. And take a listen. Cory, thank you so much for being on body breaking free podcast today. Thank you, Katie. Kay,

 

Corrie Bacasa  04:34

I'm so excited to be here.

 

Katie Kay Graham  04:36

I'm glad we get to be in person sitting together. I always feel like in person, we get a new and different kind of energy. So I'm glad we get to be together today. And hear your story and talk about the simple yoga life, your beautiful business, that process of letting go and we'll talk about some fears some struggles that I know you can relate to listeners can relate to, I can relate to. So we all can relate to some of these, these points and blocks that we want to break through right body breaking free. We want to create that freedom, liberation in our life. So we're gonna dive into some of that today. All the all this stuff. I'm excited. Me too. Okay, let's start, Cory, tell us a little bit about yourself your own personal journey, what led you on this path to creating the simple yoga life.

 

Corrie Bacasa  05:34

My first class of yoga that I took was a course class in college that I needed to take. And I finished my undergrad with exercise science bachelor's, and I took on started teaching yoga, as soon as I came out of college and moved out here about a year later and worked in corporate wellness and got certified with yoga, teaching Hatha Yoga, which is very different than the yoga we're doing now. Right when I turned 40, I realized I was really unhappy in my life and looked back at what are some of the things that carefree quarry used to do. And I did a little bit of vegetarian in college. So I chose a pescetarian diet and came back to yoga. So those were the two really simple changes that I made. And moving into power, vinyasa style yoga, it was just really something that I was drawn to the physical movement, the breathing. And I was at a place in my life where I fully appreciated one hour to myself, without a phone without somebody needing me and pretty much became addicted. And a year or so later, I started practicing every morning, it was a balance with my kids, and I teach middle school. So it was perfect for me just to start my day and a lovely habit to get up into it. Have that over with for the day and be on my way. So. But yeah, it's to come out, you know, six years later. And just be in a wonderful place of gratitude and being at peace with myself and being happy in my own skin. I mean, it it's been therapy for me.

 

Katie Kay Graham  07:49

How do you think yoga, like showed up in your life was it? When was that moment that you were like, oh, I want to try this? When was it introduced to you?

 

Corrie Bacasa  08:01

So I first started it in college. So I it kind of flowed in and out in and out through my life for several years. And yeah, it was right before I turned 40. And it's like having that unhappiness that I knew I was the one that needed to make a change, like nobody else could make it for me. So it was that little inner voice that said go to yoga.

 

Katie Kay Graham  08:27

A lot of the time, it doesn't have to be something massive or really profound. And just as that little nudge. And you said that you were really unhappy. So in what ways was that unhappiness showing up in your life?

 

Corrie Bacasa  08:44

A lot of it was at home. And I felt like I wasn't being my true self. I wasn't being the best mom I could be. And I knew that I just kind of needed an outlet. And yoga was really great. Because I didn't really know anybody when I first went to the studio. So it was kind of my own little space that I could go in, do my thing and leave. And I just I loved having that time to myself. And I realized several years later, I mean, the whole concept of you cannot give to anybody else until you give to yourself first. Really. I mean, it's totally true.

 

Katie Kay Graham  09:34

Yeah, and then your words, you said that yoga. And meditation gave me the courage to stand on my own two feet to be a healthy role model for myself and my daughters. So how did it give you the courage to stand on your own two feet? Like tell us a little bit more More in depth what that felt like and what that was all about.

 

Corrie Bacasa  10:06

It felt amazing. I just really felt for the first time in my life that like I was in control of me, I think we're in a constant place of looking around us and making sure that we're doing the right thing. And, you know, not upsetting others. But it was really a moment of, I would say the biggest thing was during meditation teacher training, about three and a half years ago, the light bulb came on of knowing what self love was, and knowing what self love felt like. And it was very life changing for me.

 

Katie Kay Graham  10:52

So that's self love. Once you filled up your own cup, you felt like you could be a role model for your daughters, and how did that reflect back into motherhood and how you felt like that you showed up differently. As a mother,

 

Corrie Bacasa  11:07

I could show up as a much better person. And I felt like me, you know, it wasn't me worried about my perception of what the world thought of me or my insignificance. For the first time, I felt my own significance in the world. It was just magical, you know, everybody, every human being is significant. Self love really brought that out.

 

Katie Kay Graham  11:42

So let's dive a little bit into this authenticity and this state of self love that you felt because I felt I feel like when we talk about some of these concepts are very vague and very broad. And we don't really have this concrete idea of what are those patterns we're moving through to get to this place of light of alignment of my gosh, living and feeling like yourself, there is no better liberation, right? There's no but like you said, it just feels amazing. So let's talk a little bit about these blocks and fears that you went through, tell us some of those fears that you move through that allowed you to come into alignment within yourself.

 

Corrie Bacasa  12:33

So for my personal journey, a huge fear going through was just not being good enough. And for some reason, I was born into the world, a very shy person very introverted. My mom always said people didn't even know what my face look like growing up, because I was always on the back of her leg. That really changed for me, because I am good enough exactly how I am. I think a lot of people are concerned that they're not seen or heard. But I was kind of the opposite of like, I didn't want to be seen or heard. Yeah, we were just talked about that earlier about it's, it's hard, you know, being vulnerable in front of people. So I'm afraid of doing something wrong in front of others, you know, or just, you know, myself of how I would feel if I didn't make the right choice or was doing something wrong. And I think a lot of that stemmed from lack of self love, lack of confidence, my own body image and simply being very introverted. Yeah. More of a hermit, you know. And a big thing too, is it kind of we all have it at some extent is people pleasing. And it's funny, as soon as I say people pleasing to people in a discussion, they don't even have to say anything I can tell. Because you see their shoulders curved in their head drops or gaze drops. It's just like, Oh, I do that, you know, we all do. And, you know, the only person you need to please is yourself. Everyone else is on their own journey. Everyone else is working through their own stuff. But it's like, you're the only person in control of you, you know? And that right there is freedom itself. Wow.

 

Katie Kay Graham  14:36

That's a mic drop, right? A lot what you said and what I attached on to is this doing something wrong, like constantly feel like we're doing something wrong in the eyes of other people. We forget that we're our own authority in the decision of if we're doing something wrong, and I can catch myself all the time, like sitting at my desk on my computer working on my website, I'm like, Oh, I shouldn't be like fixing my website like I should be doing something better than this. And, and then I have to remind myself, like, I'm in the perfect, exact place I'm meant to be right now. And that voice that's telling me I'm doing something wrong is not mine. I'm not sure whose voice it is. But it's not me. And I know my purpose. I know, my alignment, I knew, I know, I'm meant to be in this exact moment with this exact breath. And that ties in with that meditation and yoga, I feel like it does give us that space, what you just talked about Cory at the beginning, it was like my own time, my own space. So tell us about that connection that you made within yourself that the tools of meditation and yoga offered to you, and how How did meditation and yoga create that within yourself where you could start to build that own self love and feeling good enough and, and hearing that intuitive voice within?

 

Corrie Bacasa  16:20

When I went through my first 200 hour yoga teacher training, I remember the studio was doing a thing in October, where you put your name on the board, and it was you like, giving up something or some people took on journaling or giving up sugar, alcohol or whatever it was. And intuitive voice said doubt. So for 31 days, I observed doubt all throughout the day, and was blown away by the times, I doubted myself, just similar to what you were saying being at your desk like oh, that was very life changing for me as well. Because it's you telling you that nobody else is doing that. It's like, you're judging yourself basically. And, and that really changed a lot of things for me, because when I became aware of how much I was doing that, there was also awareness of, you know, is this real? Is this true? And so many times when we're doing that it's not, you know, we're telling ourselves, our own story, we all do it, and what yoga and meditation has done has given me that pause, practice it and practice it and practice it. And you know, things come into our lives, our lives evolve. So we need to evolve with it. And you know, meditation and yoga is that safe space of allowing us to do that, and be in ourselves and sit with ourselves even through the ugly times.

 

Katie Kay Graham  17:59

Yeah, the, like moving through these places of resistance. There's space for that there's like an availability to be with the discomfort and the freedom happens on the other side, right. So we have to open up to a healing process. If we're looking to move through, it's just like, we can't ignore it. We have to start that awareness like you did with the doubt, like every day, every moment noticing, like really becoming aware, this is the path to freedom. And there's space for lightness as well. Like there's space to really enjoy like each moment and be present and connect to that source energy. And we're it's okay to move through those darkness. It's okay and permission to notice the darkness and permission to be with the ugliness that you think is yourself and the weaknesses and the parts that you don't want to look at. Because once we start really looking at these parts, it's the, the their power is taken away, like these parts of us that we're so afraid to look into. Once we shine a light on these parts, really, we're taking our own power back. And one thing that you said, Cory, is that you started to feel in control of me, like in control of yourself, is that place of owning your own power and coming back into that place of choice. Like you have choice over your own life. This is so silly, but I just thought of this one thing where I had this dream of mine to still like bring out this soap box and put it in the middle of an airport and stand on the soapbox and be like, This is my life. Like I I get to decide my own life. I own my own life. That's such a weird thing to say. But

 

Corrie Bacasa  20:07

I hear a future podcast at the airport coming from Katie, why

 

Katie Kay Graham  20:13

is it in an airport? Like, that's so weird, but there's this sense of like, I want people, people to know, or something that I'm really taking ownership over my own life, because for so long, I did not feel I did not feel my own life was my own life. So what I want to ask you from that quarry is, what do you think made you feel a lack of control previous to that time where you said, I'm in control of me?

 

Corrie Bacasa  20:48

Wow. I mean, I think for one, like, I let other people be in control. You know, I remember talking to somebody a few years ago, it just, you know, so many things stem from our childhood, and I'm like, I had a great childhood, it was very simple, like loving parents surrounded by, you know, loving people. And, but I'm like, I've just always have this like, shyness awkwardness, like, I like man time. And that I am like, I going back to like that feeling of being insignificant in life, you know, and it's just, I felt like, Yeah, I'm kind of like the last person chosen for the team, which I put that on myself. And around was just like, you really shoved yourself into a hole in the ground? And I'm like, Yeah, you're right. I did, you know, we do that to ourselves. And what you, you know, just some of the things you were just talking about is, we can choose to be the victim for as long as we choose to sit in the victim seat, you know, and for some people, I mean, they sit there for their entire lives, you know, and I think are kind of missing out because they're not living in their true authentic self. And I think another part of that is, it does take a lot of work. It is a lot of sitting in that stillness, ugliness, heaviness, darkness. But you continue to do the work. And you get out on the other side, and it's like, wow, my husband underwater for a long time, you know, and it's like breathing for the first time, you're just, it's wonderful, you know, then you, you come across more people like that, and are just able to bring in more of that, you know, like simply what you're doing with body breaking free, and having these discussions with people and then other people can relate. And, you know, it's just, we're all one big connection.

 

Katie Kay Graham  23:05

I'm so glad that you brought up that topic of victimhood. I think it's so pervasive, we're so hidden to it. And it's really hard to shine our own light on our own victimhood. And its ugliness. But it's beautiful ugliness, right, because we get a look at the ugliness and turn it around. It's so beautiful Korea, that you did that for yourself in your own life, because it is so easy to put the blame on other people. And it's our first reaction. And it's the reaction from the ego. And we're doing it in a form of protection. So it's, it's actually not ugliness when we look at it like that, because it is we're just protecting ourselves. But when you look at having an argument with your spouse, or a friend or something like that, are you attaching yourself onto what they're saying? And what their beliefs are and their judgments? Or are you able to say, it's not about me, right? This isn't about me, I can drop this and release our codependency on what the other person is doing. Come back into self and not put the blame anywhere, but just say, where do I want to hold my own energy and authenticity and what's really here and that's when we can gain our own power back is saying, like, oh, like I don't need to be attached on to the other person and I don't have to put my blame on that. And that's just taking my own energy, right like I I'm choosing to put the blame on them or the blame on myself or whoever it's unhooking from that pattern for me has given my freedom back like, I don't, I can choose where to put my own energy, right? There's so much freakin power and that statement that, like, if we can draw that into ourselves and really understand, we get to decide how we react in any moment, we get to choose, like, some of us stupid as arguments with my spouse. And I'm like, I, if I get the clarity of I can step back and pause and take the clarity of saying to myself, is this really where I want my energy to be? And is this going to matter in a week? And how do I actually want to react even with all the anger that I can carry inside? I can transmute that anger out, release it and be like, Wow, there's so much freedom and letting this go. And whatever he said, it's actually not about me, it's just about him and his wounds. And you know what, like, he has some shame, and he has some, like wounds and needs that I'm seeing, and I can be really compassionate towards him. And it's like this whole other legs, flip one at where then I'm like, wow, I really gained back my power. Like, that's true power. So I know I went on a tangent that whole like victimhood and blame, but there's so much there. Can you relate to Cory, anything I said about that whole conversation around? Absolutely.

 

Corrie Bacasa  26:47

That was just wonderful, what you said. And I just had a discussion with my daughter last night about that. And, you know, it's like, you are not someone else's anger and sadness, and everything. A big thing I tell my girls, anybody else is, you know, when somebody is unhappy towards you, or saying things about you, it often stems from their own insecurities and their own happiness. So all of our relationships that we have with other people are simply reflections of ourselves. When we're in the victim seat, we're going to blame, we're going to point the finger at other people. And when we're able to step back, like what you were just describing, that you can do with your husband, taking that pause, we simply are the containers, we're holding space for the other person, we're able to listen, instead of being in that reactive mode of jumping in and what better gift is to be able to truly listen and hold space for one another. Yeah. Yeah.

 

Katie Kay Graham  27:59

And I feel like we often forget of how immense our own power really is, and how, deciding how to take ownership over our own energy. This can change the energy of other people as well. I think that's beautiful. Because if I'm being this, like, oh, I can release this, I'm compassionate. Like I release my anger. There's still a little voice that's like, well, what is he gonna do to better this situation? But guess why, like my power, if I can remember, it's so freakin immense and powerful, that that energy can transform other people as well. I mean, we we were both attending and Sergeant's Full Moon ceremony the other night, and she was talking about, I heal, you heal. And when you heal, we all heal. That if we can keep that in the back of our minds, it's like, each step forward and doing this work. You're doing this work for the collective. And I know, Cory, you said earlier, like, it's work, like we need to show up, we need to do the work. And what a beautiful way to look at this as it's like, I'm doing this for me, I'm doing this for my relationship. I'm doing this for everybody in the collective sense. So cool when we think of it like that. But let's talk about doing the work because you and your coaching business, you're offering people an opportunity to step into transformation, like what a powerful opportunity and, and creating a space for people to step into their own power. So tell us, Cory, about the simple yoga life what is your mission behind your coaching?

 

Corrie Bacasa  29:56

So what I am doing is is helping women mentoring women with basic tools to simplify their lives. So, you know, we always think we need to have this new exercise program or diet program, or we need this, we need that. And my approach is the opposite. It's letting go. So I have five main areas. So spiritual self balance, D junking a lot of What's weighing you down, you know what we carry in our so called luggage with us. That's not just in our own lifetime, but the generations before us, when you really look at it, we're carrying many generations back their luggage as well. epigenetically very simple health and wellness, it doesn't need to be all fancy. And I need to be on this special diet and everything else. It's about feeling good in your own skin. So simplifying, health and wellness, you know, I had a co worker the other day was just like, I need to run, but I hate running. And I'm like, why are you going to do it, you know, like, you're not going to stick with it, you hate it, it doesn't make you feel good doing. So it's like, Do what makes you feel good. You know, there's so many other ways to have movement. And time management kind of goes back to the people pleasing. So how many times? Are we saying yes, where we really want to say no, you know, it's like, oh, I have to go do this, I have to go do this. And it's like nobody's making you do that. You're the one that keeps saying yes, over and over. Like, you're the one that saying that you feel bad. If you don't, that's like, Go do what makes you happy. Put your time there, put your energy there, like you were just saying, we just do things without a purpose. So focusing more on places where it's like, everybody has 24 hours in the day, it depends on where you choose to spend it. Relationships, simplifying relationships mean, you were born into that family, you know, you may have had been in relationships, friends, whoever it is, for 2030 years, it doesn't mean that it's healthy. So it's also looking at your relationships. Who are you spending your time with? Are they positive, uplifting people? Are they other people that like to sit in the victim chair and, like, let's sit and gossip about people or Ooh, look at that, you know, and it's, that's not healthy. So really looking at all kinds of relationships in your life. And again, it's like, where are you spending your time, who are you spending your time with. And the other part of it is your physical space. So people hold on to relationships and junk, our emotional baggage that we carry along with us. And people have a zillion kinds of health equipment and everything else at home. But the other component of this is your physical space. And being able to do junk, I mean, I have a very organized mind. I live it's very organized. And that is simply how I am so I come in and I help you kind of de junk erode physical space so you know you're able to like live and not have to manage junk. So and then along with that yoga and meditation

 

Katie Kay Graham  33:39

Yeah. So valuable I get so attracted towards coaches that are offering a letting go like a simplifying because often we see this more like more external more do this, this this, like more attachment. And for some reason our ego likes really likes that part, right really likes to like, add more and do more because we're used to doing like shiny new objects. And it's the truth, like the ego really likes to try and more and like if we're doing more, we're gonna like succeed more, we're achieving more, right? But there's something that's so resonant when you're talking Korea that our soul just knows the truth of what you're saying of this process of simplification can be scary to the ego, but when we sync and we know like the soul resonates with that truth, and I can resonate personally I'm so like so much with what you're saying. Because when I've moved through the transformation, and certainly the podcast has helped me kind of like warp speed, like moving into my own personal transformation. what I've realized is it is, and it becomes simpler and simpler and simpler the truth, and the authenticity and the alignment, it just becomes simpler and simpler and simpler. And it's things like love, like the presence of love in your life, and that source energy, whatever resonates with you with that, like, connecting with something bigger than just ourselves. And in that there's this like, beautiful, ah, and just space to be in the curiosity of life and to be present in each moment. And it's a, it's a letting go, if we're wanting to be present, and connect with love and be open in each moment to what is available, we got to let go of some of that baggage that we've been carrying, right. And what you talked about was like lifting some of this, the heaviness like lifting some of that way, it's such a beautiful analogy, we start to feel lighter within our bodies, and our own sense of self. And so much freedom and expansion and possibilities and hope and dreams that get a birth from that. It's truly limitless. I mean, in the present moment, it's truly like we can't liberate in the past, and we can't liberate in the future like we can only liberate in this present moment. And the more that we open up to this moment, like the more freedom we'll find, and I invite the listeners to listen from their soul and not from the ego, not from the doing it's like, what if it didn't have to be so hard? Right? Like, what if, like, I could feel freedom? And what would that feel like in my body? And asking yourself quality questions that get up like, open you up to more possibilities? Like, what if I started doing coaching with Cory and I started to release some of this stuff that's not serving me? And what it what would it feel like to be in a place that I could feel more like myself? Just as like asking those questions can open you up to so much more possibility for what's next?

 

Corrie Bacasa  37:39

Just like what you said, like it's endless, you know, but we need to declutter all of that we needed to do junk that and, yeah, let the ego go and let our true self shine.

 

Katie Kay Graham  37:55

And so what makes you so passionate about offering this to people like, it's a one point in our journey, right, we're focused on ourselves, we're moving through transformation. And then you've crossed over to this place of like, I want to help other people, what, what made you arrive at this place of like, I want to offer this out.

 

Corrie Bacasa  38:21

I think that's the ultimate kind of place of our journey. And transformation is being able to provide service to others. It's like that light inside you, you know, it's like, I just have this passion that I want to be able to share it with others. And being a mom of two beautiful girls, it's like, life doesn't need to be that hard. But it's like, everybody needs a toolbox. And I would love to eventually, someday, have my own curriculum for adolescents. And I want to call it go f yourself dot dot, dot, but it's go find yourself working with 550 middle schoolers every day, it's you to see these kids struggling. And really, that's what they need. They need to find themselves and they need tools to do it. You know, we see a lot of adults that are sitting in the victim seat. And they just simply don't have the tools. But I think we're in a whole different place than we were at few decades ago. And there's a lot more research and studying been done on mindfulness. And we're just in this whole other place of approach right now. And we have a lot more tools than we had before. But a lot of it comes down to the basics and our ego it's it's gonna want more, what more want more stuff, you know, and we don't need that to be happy. Like all of those things are free. They're available to us all the time. Love is all Always there, nature is always there, you know, connections with other people. It doesn't matter if they're sitting across from us, or we're totally by ourselves, we're always connected.

 

Katie Kay Graham  40:14

So what do you want somebody to feel like when they go through your coaching? Like, what do you want for them at the end of the process.

 

Corrie Bacasa  40:26

It's just, it's what you were just showing on your face when you're describing when you're able to let go. And then it's like, wow, I have this huge space now that I can put in what I want. You know, I've had a lot of visualisations this year of just like, kind of that luggage, you're talking about the airport, like that luggage that you're rolling in with you. And it's so overstuffed and so over packed. And I've had this visualization several times of bringing in my ancestors, and it's like, just everybody coming in with their roller luggage, and just asking everybody to release it. And like, help me carry one small single piece of luggage to carry forward. And those are the values that I want to bring forth with me that are going to reflect on to my kids and their own children. But you know, really simplifying things, but it's, we have to let go of all of that before we can get there getting to that place of liberation and freedom. And, like, we just we don't need all this stuff, you know?

 

Katie Kay Graham  41:46

Yeah. And what would it feel like to not have to have all this stuff?

 

Corrie Bacasa  41:51

Yeah. It's magical. All

 

Katie Kay Graham  41:53

right. Because once we release something, we have space to bring something else in. And that could just be a different kind of energy. Or maybe we just want to feel more self love. Yeah. And so what would that feel like to let go of something you've been carrying? And bring in a little bit more love? Like, just, or whatever resonates with you, you know, peace, happiness, freedom choice? Like, what would that feel like?

 

Corrie Bacasa  42:30

And you can see it on people's faces when they go through things. And then it's like, all of a sudden, oh, wow, you're carrying this glow? You're walking lighter, you know, you can tell they're just like, be mean, and, you know,

 

Katie Kay Graham  42:47

yeah. And it's like, they are the only one standing in their own way. Like, that's really what it is. It's Oh, my gosh, I spent so long not realizing that. And then once I started to realize it, how it opened up to so many more possibilities. It was like, Wow, this life really is. Whatever I want to make it like whatever I want to step into. And, like, what the podcasts, like the success of the podcast is how much I'm open to receive, like my own capacity. It's all self work, it all comes back to being in that receptive mode, like the universe responds to the energy that we're putting out. So we're not waiting around for things to change. Like, we really need to put that mirror and reflect back within and change our own energy. And then the universe responds to that energy. Like this. This concept sounds very, like woowoo. And like, what it's saying, like it's scientifically, the energy like the vibration, it does shift and I mean, they're studying all of all of this stuff, but it's truly like so much potential and. and Korea, you're opening up the door for people that have the cart, like the people that have the courage, it really does take somebody else. I mean, we can each do our own self work. But when we get to a point where we're like, I'm really like, we try enough on our own and we can only go so far until we really need somebody else to reflect back to us what we cannot see. Yeah, like I went to this. At my breathwork graduation, there is this energy healer that came in and she taught us some techniques about boundaries and and she was talking about like, if you're on this path of facilitator, like make sure you have a team of coaches and enter energy healers of your own because that is how you're going to move forward and help others. And she was like I tried, I tried for years to just do it on my own. And she's like I was I didn't get anywhere. And I came back to my team. And that's how we move like we invest in those coaches, so that we can invest in ourselves. And then we can start showing up differently in our life, and it'll come back, like it all circulates back, it all comes back. And I thought that was a really, really powerful message. So thank you for doing your work.

 

Corrie Bacasa  45:36

I agree with what you're saying, like you collect your tribe, you know, and you're talking about energy, like you, you evolve around people that are uplifting, and that are going to do that to you. It's kind of a bounce back and forth. We do it for each other. And a lot comes from that. Yeah, a lot does. So we do it together.

 

Katie Kay Graham  46:02

We do it together. Yeah. You don't have to do it alone.

 

Corrie Bacasa  46:06

No, we weren't meant to carry the load alone. You know, a lot of times, we just simply need to take that pause and step back and offer it out there to the universe like, Hey, can you help me carry some of this? And it's like, oh, that's the energy you sent out. And that's, it's accepted? You know?

 

Katie Kay Graham  46:32

One thing that keeps traveling back into my mind is this. Also want to highlight one thing that you said Korea is this ancestral, holding on I say, ancestral trauma. But I mean, it could be a lot of different words for that. So even if we don't know, like, what's wrong, or what we're holding on to, or we've asked why a million times, and talk therapy, and still don't really understand, like, sometimes it's not even our garbage, like, are holding on to, it's not created from us. And in that it's so beautiful, because we get to move and heal through ancestral trauma, like, what our grandparents were holding on to, that we've now held on to like, we get to heal for us and for them, whether they're still with us or not. And I think that's it, like it was an important part that you brought into the conversation is, you recognize that and you're available to help others heal from that as well. So I wanted to just like know, on that, yeah, it's

 

Corrie Bacasa  47:39

not only patterns that we have within ourselves, breaking those patterns, and our bodies breaking free. But it's also generational patterns, too. And, you know, every one of us carry something that our parents carried our grandparents and on down the line, you know, but that we can be the chain breakers, any one of us, you know, identifying it, and being able to, I don't want any more this, you know, yeah, it takes work, though. And, you know, it all just comes down to practice. You were talking about earlier, when you were having these discussions with your husband, that's like, if I remember to, I mean, everything we do, it's simply a practice, you know, all of the work that I want to put out there and be able to bring to other people, it's a daily practice, you know, it's not like, somebody comes to you for a one time breathwork session, and it's like, oh, they're magically cured, you know, or coming to me, and I'm working with them and mentoring, it's, you know, you might leave this space, like a little more light, but it's a daily practice, or you're going to reset back into those cyclical behaviors again, over and over. So everything we do, it's why they call yoga practice, you know, we have to practically I really

 

Katie Kay Graham  49:11

like this, like re remembering over and over and over again. And the practice the work that we do here though, it's so rewarding, like, that's the cool part about this work is it's so like, juicy like, each step is like wow, like I got to untangle that little part and like, you re like you're remembering over and you're learning these new things and you're releasing and it feels so good. And like you said, you get to like feel lighter each time. You come back and and so I want to make like note that it's like, yeah, it's doing the work. But this work feels and will resonate so differently into your life. Like your soul is like craving, like good Hi, I'm like, craving this and once it gets it, it's like, oh my gosh, yeah, you know, so yummy. And that way,

 

Corrie Bacasa  50:10

I think the biggest parts, the most rewarding part of we call it the work is we're doing it ourselves. Yeah. You know, it's, it's not something that you can take a pill and then it's like, oh, everything's all better. You know, it's, it does take time. It takes a lot of patience, it takes a lot of either sitting in silence, or sitting and heaviness or darkness, or whatever you call it. But we continue to do it. It's like, we just keep getting lighter and more open. And it's like, wow, I just did that. You know, it's like, such an amazing feeling. Yeah.

 

Katie Kay Graham  50:52

Yeah. Perfect note to end on. And before I let you go, Cory, tell us what do you do in your own daily practice.

 

Corrie Bacasa  51:05

I begin my day with a little meditation. And then I go to yoga. Mostly in the studio. Sometimes at home, though, I enjoy a little self practice, and all kinds of stuff, you know, those are kind of my two biggest habits that I make sure I get in every day. And I kind of like doing this little integrity check in to see where I am in alignment and where I am not. And when I find myself in a place of let's call it discomfort, or, you know, it's looking back and, you know, some some things that it's like, okay, I know this is going to happen. It's, is the timing right? Or, maybe if something doesn't happen, that no, the time isn't right? Or no, it's not meant for you, you know, we we focus on things and we think we really want it and later on in life, we find out now that's not really what I want, it's a good thing that didn't have it. You know, I mean, a lot of it is just being awareness you had brought up boundaries is another huge one. You know, it protects ourselves. It shows other people, you know, kind of where they need to be as well. So, it's, it's using all the tools really, lots of habits of using tools.

 

Katie Kay Graham  52:32

Beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing, and then tell us where we can connect with you and the simple yoga life.

 

Corrie Bacasa  52:40

So you can go to this simple yoga life.com. And there's lots of information on there. And you can get a hold of me at this simple yoga life@gmail.com.

 

Katie Kay Graham  52:53

Perfect, perfect, and I'll put all of that in the show notes, so people can just click on the link. And thank you, thank you for sharing your energy and your wisdom and offering this beautiful space for people to step into.

 

Corrie Bacasa  53:12

Well, thank you, Katie Kay, I always love being with you. It's a treat.

 

Katie Kay Graham  53:18

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