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Dec. 31, 2024
Wisdom and Manifesting: A Practical Guide for the New Year
In this New Year’s Eve special of the Finding Harmony Podcast, Harmony Slater brings together two incredible women to explore the transformative power of rituals and intentional living as we prepare to welcome 2025. Joined by trauma-informed yoga teacher and life coach Lara Land, and manifestation coach Julia Martin, this episode dives deep into practical ways to reflect, reset, and manifest your goals for the coming year.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Reflection and Change: Lara shares insights on how rituals can help process trauma, honor life’s transitions, and align with your core values.
- The Manifestation Basics: Julia walks us through the ABCs of manifestation—Ask, Believe, Receive—and offers accessible tips to create a fulfilling life.
- Practical Rituals: Discover small, manageable steps to sustain change and prevent self-sabotage.
- Embodied Intentionality: Learn how to connect deeply with your values to create goals that truly resonate.
Key Topics Discussed
- The importance of closing out the year with gratitude and self-reflection.
- How thinking about life’s impermanence can bring clarity and purpose.
- Why setting small, actionable goals leads to long-term success.
- Julia’s simple manifestation technique using the Wheel of Life exercise.
- The role of gratitude in becoming open to receiving abundance.
Featured Guests
- Lara Land: Trauma-informed yoga teacher, death doula, and author. Lara shares how rituals and mindfulness practices can help create sustainable change. Learn more at laraland.us and listen to her podcast Beyond Trauma.
- Julia Martin: Manifestation and business coach, Julia simplifies the process of manifesting your dreams with actionable tips. Learn more at juliamartincoaching.com.
Lara Land
Bliss Book: https://laraland.us/product/bliss-book/
https://www.instagram.com/laralandyoga/?hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/c/LaraLand
https://threeandahalfacres.org/
Julia Martin
Wheel of Life Exercise: https://elegant-forest-485.myflodesk.com/wheel
https://www.instagram.com/dreamyourlifenow/
https://www.dreamyourlifenow.com/
Take the Next Step
As you set your intentions for 2025, consider these questions:
- What values will guide your decisions this year?
- What small, actionable steps can you take daily to align with those values?
- How can you create rituals that make this process fun and meaningful?
Let’s make this new year one of purpose, presence, and possibility.
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Chapters
00:00 - Introduction to Finding Harmony Podcast
00:43 - Reflecting on the Past Year
01:30 - Conversation with Lara Land: Trauma and Change
04:02 - Setting Goals and Values for the New Year
07:27 - Practical Tips for Achieving Goals
19:41 - Manifestation Basics with Julia Martin
23:29 - Balancing Life's Key Areas
24:35 - Identifying Areas for Improvement
25:07 - Manifesting Your Desires
26:22 - Writing Down Your Goals
26:42 - Specific vs. Non-Specific Manifestation
27:49 - The Power of Belief
33:05 - Clearing Limiting Beliefs
36:51 - Gratitude and Receiving
44:03 - End of Year Reflection
46:27 - Closing Remarks and Gratitude
Lara Land
Trauma Sensitivity Trainer, Coach, Author
Lara Land (she/her) is a deeply compassionate L2 Authorized Ashtanga yoga teacher, somatic life coach, death doula, consultant, and yoga teacher trainer specializing in trauma sensitivity. Her work is in helping to heal trauma both subtle and significant and train others using trauma-sensitive yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and breathing practices. Lara has spent the last 25 years studying Ashtanga yoga and sharing yoga asana, chanting, meditation, and philosophy directly from her teachers in India. Her commitment is to honor the traditions of yoga by responding to the needs of each individual, using a unique combination of practices and techniques that are appropriate for their personal growth. Some of her many certifications include trauma-informed mindfulness, life coaching, therapeutic fasting, and mindfulness in nature.
Lara is the owner of Land Yoga, Executive Director of Three and a Half Acres Yoga a non-profit that has been training yoga teachers in trauma sensitivity and placing them in partnerships with community organizations that serve trauma survivors for the past ten years. She is the co-producer of SOULFest Yoga Festival a yoga and wellness event dedicated to celebrating diversity in yoga. She is the author of My Bliss Book and The Essential Guide to Trauma Sensitive Yoga (Shambhala Publications), has a podcast, The Beyond Trauma podcast, and has been featured in and contributed to New York Magazine, Huffington Post, Yoga Journal, Apartment Therapy, and on Fox5, CBS, NY1, and SiriusRadioXM.
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