Happy Podcast Day, everybody. It's Nicole here. How are you? It is good to be with you today.

We are entering Spring. Spring of 2019, a very exciting time. A time when the consciousness of our planet is rising and

growing and shifting and I feel it, I hope you feel it too because it's pretty spectacular. I got to tell you, it's making space for work like mine.

It's making space for people to lay down their fear and their doubt and their defensiveness and understand that we live in a mind-body system and if they really want to be well, they might have to open their minds and adjust their willingness and realize that

there are ways to heal that they may not have been able to accept in the past. Maybe they haven't had these tools, had this information but I'm feeling really positive lately. I'm feeling like the winds of change are shifting and the messages like mine are going to be more accessible to huge groups of people and that makes me feel really positive. So I'm grateful for that today.

Before I get to the meat and potatoes of this episode, which is going to be an interview I did in New York City last week with the lovely Shoshana Bean, Broadway actress, and you'll hear all about her story when we talk.

I wanted to take a moment to answer some frequently asked questions about my Omega retreat this summer because I'm getting a lot of emails and I feel like the best way to answer questions that are coming in so regularly is to take a forum like this where a lot of people can hear it and answer them.

I'm also going to probably take the time to do a YouTube video about this because so many people are asking me and I know not everybody is listening on every platform so you may see me there as well.

But in any case, let me just say in case you've never heard of this, my Omega retreat is a five day total transformation retreat that I am headlining up at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and that is this July 21st through the 26th.

This summer in upstate New York in Rhine Beck, New York.

So the first question I've had from people because people are getting in touch with me from all over the world is they're scared of coming to New York, which is really cute because I understand New York is a very intimidating place but not New York state.

New York state is not intimidating at all. New York City might be for those people who are not city folk and are not confident in navigating a city on their own, but I just want to be clear because people are coming from all over that New York state, meaning Rhine Beck, New York, which is a couple hours north of New York City is not a difficult place to navigate.

It's basically the country. It's beautiful rolling hills and small towns and quaint sort of countryside beauty. It's not the bustling city. So although the retreat is in New York, it is not a New York city.

It is up in Rhine Beck. Check out. I think it's called, I think their website is eomega.org, but you just can Google the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and you will find their website and you will be able to see pictures of the retreat space.

It is not New York City. It is a beautiful park like setting with cabins and a dining hall that we all meet at for meals and beautiful organic food and walking trails and a lake and yoga and meditation. It's a very peaceful place. So that's the first question I've been getting a lot of.

Second question I've been getting a lot of is what exactly is this retreat because I think I I tend to be naive, I tend to be a naive person that I think if I understand people, I mean something that other people will understand it and I apologize for that because I guess that's a little bit self centered. I didn't mean it, but I think I'm like that.

So I say, you know, mega retreat and I figure people understand what that is and I've gotten a lot of questions about the specifics of the retreat. So obviously I need to be more clear. So thank you guys, all of you who have asked me those questions.

So here is how my omega retreat will go. I don't I can't speak for every one of them, but it's five days and so it begins on Monday morning and it ends on Friday at noon.

And like I said, it's July 21st through the 26th. I am going to be present at the entire thing. So except to go to the bathroom, I will not be leaving the room. So a lot of people see that I have other guest instructors joining me and they say, but Nicole, I want to come study with you. I don't want, you know, I don't want these other people. How much am I going to be seeing you in the room? And the answer is 100%.

The reason I'm bringing guest instructors is because you cannot sit and listen to me, drawing on for five days morning afternoon, even though you might say you could, I don't have enough to say for five days straight and everything that I do is to bring in the best practices for every mind, body, spirit, aspect of life.

So I will probably be opening every day with a couple hours of direct interaction with me, me on the stage, me talking, answering questions, you know, giving, giving lectures and us interacting. It's going to be very intimate. I have no idea how many people are going to come.

If it's 10 people, we're going to sit in a circle. And if it's 100 people, I'll be standing on a stage and using a mic, but it doesn't matter. I'm going to be so present and so accessible and so with you the entire time. It's just going to be a big, you know, a big group of us being together.

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