I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudette. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow-mo.

This episode is part of the silver lining theme in which I will try to explore

some of the bright side of the COVID-19 crisis with some of my wisest friends.

Today I'm speaking with the amazing Raj Shri Patel. Rajshri is an international self-awareness coach, a teacher, a Speaker, and the author of the Power of Vital Force.

She has taught hundreds of thousands of people the power of meditation, mindfulness, breath work, and other tools for accessing

the innate source of energy, creativity, and fulfillment within us.

Rashri, thank you so much for being here.

It's such an honor and a privilege.

It is the same for me. My pleasure and my honor.

Thank you so much. So I want to start by asking you about the current time I mean we're in the last few weeks of hopefully last few weeks of the lockdown I know you live in LA so the west of the US you know has been a bit

challenging let's say how has this experience been for you being locked down the

challenges around the world it may sound a little off-putting I supposed to say but really

for me it has been the opportunity to connect with myself to spend some time with myself

to dig deep and to go in, because I find that life

for me was full of distractions. So on the one hand, we run. I find I run all day long from one thing to another, one event to another, and their momentary

pauses as much as I meditate and so on.

But this was really the universe, collective consciousness saying, okay, there's two sides of this coin

How are you gonna show up with it? And so for me it's been really about connecting and reaching to other people as well doing what I can to make a difference and as a result

connecting back to deeper essence of me and yet I cannot deny the suffering and

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