Touchful Podcast with Aloha Magdalena
By Aloha Magdalena
Touchful Podcast with Aloha MagdalenaApr 08, 2022
SPECIAL - I am glad that you were born
Beloved, I am so glad that you were born!
A birthday poem by me.
How to learn to feel good (inspired by lomi lomi)
I had lomi lomi session with a new Client the other day. After the session, the only thing that she kept repeating was: wow... wow... this is... I feel... wow!
Yes, I know. The power of lomi :)
This situation, as well as the talk we had later, inspired me to record a podcast episode about exactly this. About wowness, and how to practice it. How to learn to feel good. Not only after lomi lomi session, but daily :)
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Today is the day
I have a sweet little voice note for you, sharing a little practice that makes my days better, makes my days perfect, full of ordinary magic, full of reasons to be grateful, full of little miracles.
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✨ If you would like to get in touch with me, send an email to hello[at]alohamagdalena.com
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Loosen your grip
Where in your life are you holding on to something so much, that it actually limits you? Where are you trying so hard that it hurts? Loosen the grip and enjoy the melody of your life more beautiful than ever!
This microcast episode is inspired by me learning the violin :)
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✨ If you would like to get in touch with me, send an email to hello[at]alohamagdalena.com
✨ To find more about me, lomi lomi sessions and trainings I offer, visit www.alohamagdalena.com
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If you like this episode, please share it with the world! Thank you :)
You can also buy me a coffee.
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How to feel your (difficult) feelings?
If I could say one thing to the whole world, it would be: it is okay to feel your feelings! It is safe to meet yourself and hold yourself in your emotional waves!
Having said that, I know that it is NOT EASY. Most of us were not lucky enough to learn how to navigate emotions from our parents and other significant others when we were children. So now, to mature and grow up, we need to learn how to swim in the waters of feelings. How to navigate these waters. What to do when a wave of emotions takes us.
In this episode I am sharing some of my ways to feel my feelings, as well as stories of my lomi lomi Clients.
All events mentioned in this episode are true :)
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✨ If you would like to get in touch with me, send an email to hello[at]alohamagdalena.com
✨ To find more about me, lomi lomi sessions and trainings I offer, visit www.alohamagdalena.com
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If you like this episode, please share it with the world! Thank you :)
You can also buy me a coffee.
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Are you ready to die? (in lomi and in life)
In this episode I am talking about death - metaphorical and literal. Death in the context of lomi lomi as a rite of passage. Death as the end of the old, of the life as you know it - and start of the new. Death as a brave step to the Unknown. But also - a very literal death of physical body, end of a journey in this human form. I am sharing some powerful practices and personal insights.
This episode comes with a trigger warning. If you are dealing with the topic of death right now in your life, please decide for yourself if you want to listen to it now or not - for your own care and wellbeing ❤️
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✨ If you would like to get in touch with me, send an email to hello[at]alohamagdalena.com
✨ To find more about me, lomi lomi sessions and trainings I offer, visit www.alohamagdalena.com
✨ To receive updates about new episodes as well as other inspiring content, subscribe to my newsletter.
If you like this episode, please share it with the world! Thank you :)
You can also buy me a coffee.
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Deep dive into self-kindness (my very personal story)
I did not plan this episode at all, but... life happened. Couple of days ago I experienced a very transformative, intimate and healing deep dive into self kindness. I want to share this personal story in hope to inspire more kindness, compassion and love in your life.
If you would like to get in touch with me, send an email to hello[at]alohamagdalena.com
To find more about me, lomi lomi sessions and trainings I offer, visit www.alohamagdalena.com
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If you like this episode, please share it!
How I cultivate gratitude and connection - and why it changes EVERYTHING
I am diving deeper into gratitude, understood as a feeling of true appreciation for everything that brings meaning to our lives. But also, gratitude understood as a conscious, deliberate practice, a training that results in more meaningful connections with ourselves, others and the whole world.
In order to do that, over the last few months I've been training my gratitude muscles and observing how attitude of gratitude has changed the way I experience life. I share my practices and observations in this episode.
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A song that I mention in the episode: "Thank you".
A book that I mention: "Atlas of the Heart" by Brene Brown.
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"My life has now more meaning". Talk about Aloha Spirit, lomi awakening and massaging family - with practitioner Ásgeir Baldursson
What a historical moment for my tiny podcast! For the first time I am with a guest! And what a guest it is! I invited my dear student, friend and lomi lomi practitioner Ásgeir Baldursson from Mahalo Massage Therapy Reykjavik, to talk about lomi and life. From a stressed businessman in chronic pain to a massage practitioner helping his family and clients - Ásgeir's story of life in the Aloha Spirit has touched and inspired me deeply. I hope it will touch you as well.
You can find more about Ásger and his lomi lomi practice here: https://www.facebook.com/mahaloasgeir
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Contact me: hello[at]alohamagdalena.com
What you know doesn't matter (if you don't embody it)
Knowledge is power... or is it? How about: knowledge is useless unless you practice it, implement it, EMBODY IT? After all, we more-or-less KNOW how to be healthy, happy and at peace... So why are we not FEELING IT? Well, because the BODY doesn't care about theory - only about practice.
This episode is all about knowing versus doing. When it comes to health, wellbeing and self-care, we might know much, but if we don't embody it... then all this knowledge is for nothing.
I look into four areas of my life (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual) and invite you to do the same. Together we look for all these little, everyday things that we can EMBODY TODAY to make a difference in how we live life.
This episode is a part of my #selfcareoctober (more about it in the episode!)
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📧 Contact me: hello@alohamagdalena.com
When life feels RIGHT: how I embody the Hawaiian concept of PONO
My favorite Hawaiian word is PONO. On the surface level, you can translate it as goodness, uprightness, morality or excellence. But I like to dive deeper into even more profound meaning of pono. When something is pono, it is as it should be, naturally, gracefully. In perfect order. At ease. Reflecting the true nature of things.
In this episode I use the word pono as an inspiration and a doorway to speak about living life from deep embodiment of truth, righteousness and ease.
I hope you will enjoy listening to it!
With love,
Magdalena
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Tips on receiving lomi lomi massage
In this episode I am sharing with you ten tips on how to deepen the time of receiving Hawaiian lomi lomi massage. You will learn simple, practical things that you, as a receiver of this massage (and, honestly, any bodywork in general), can do before, during and after the session to allow more relaxation, more letting go, more healing, more rest.
Thank you for you and enjoy the episode!
With love,
Magdalena
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Life is about crystals and soap bubbles
This episode features: road trip with my bestie around Iceland, Kurt Vonnegut, my sister and all the little moments when life is okay.
Enjoy!
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Four ideas that changed my life
Some say, "The world is what you think it is". In this episode I share with you a bit of MY world - what I think it is and what are four big things that I believe in - because they shape every aspect of my life. I hope they will be inspiring and thought-provoking! Enjoy :)
Aloha,
Magdalena
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The book that I mention in this episode is "Humankind: A Hopeful History" by Rutger Bregman.
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MORE THAN JUST A MASSAGE: Hawaiian lomi lomi from the perspective of receivers and practitioners
I often (like, really, really often) hear from my Clients that lomi lomi is more than just a massage. I get it, because it is also much more than just a massage to me. So much so, that I actually feel the massage part of lomi lomi is almost... accidental ;)
This episode is co-created with my Clients, subscribers of Aloha Newsletter and fellow lomi practitioners. I asked them: what makes lomi more than just a massage for you? What is this "more"? I am sharing their answers and my personal stories and insights around lomi.
Thank you for you and enjoy this episode!
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My personal practices for embodied, integrated, touchful life
At first, I wanted to name this episode "Offensively simple practices" - because what I am sharing with you today is very simple. But don't be deceived! Simple is powerful. Most of the practices and ideas I am talking about, you can try right away. Enjoy!
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Pleasure, joy, bliss, ALIVENESS!
Hitchcock said that a good film should start with an earthquake and be followed by a rising tension, and this episode is a little bit like this. I start with a confession and then take you on an embodied journey into pleasure, understood as more LIVE flowing through you in every moment. I share my path of pleasure of life, what it means to me and how I practice it.
Enjoy!
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QUITTING SOCIAL MEDIA Part 1: Why?
In this episode I am getting honest, raw and real about mu relationship with social media. From "love forever" to a really unhealthy one. How did this relationship started and grew, what "went wrong" along the way and how it is now? And, most importantly, why I don't want to be in this relationship anymore? Here's part one of a breakup story. Enjoy!
Resources that I recommend:
- "The Social Dilemma" movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0
- Cal Newport's TED Talk "Quit Social Media" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E7hkPZ-HTk
- Leonie Dawson's blog post "Why me and my business don't do social media anymore" https://leoniedawson.com/nosocial/
- The Minimalist' Podcast about digital clutter" (with Cal Newport) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxr85CKSZNQ
- Betsy and Iya about their business quitting social media: https://betsyandiya.com/pages/quit-social
Contact: hello@alohamagdalena.com
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Silence
Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. - Rumi.
So... what happens, when there is no noise? No external stimulation? Nowhere to run, nothing to hide behind? Just you, naked in the silence? How does it feel, how can it touch you and affect you?
This episode is paradoxical - I break the silence to talk about the silence. I share my experiences of absolute silence, of silent retreats, of travelling alone. And, of course, of healing silence during lomi lomi sessions.
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Contact: hello@alohamagdalena.com
Lomi lomi sessions and trainings in Iceland: www.alohamagdalena.com
Po polsku (in Polish): www.alohamagdalena.pl
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Physical, emotional, mental, spiritual: layers of reality and layers of lomi lomi
Four levels, layers, elements in life and in massage. Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. None of them more important than the other, all of them intertwined and connected.
This topic of layers, levels, elements, components originally started as a purely "massage" topic. Talking about four elements of massage was my way of explaining lomi lomi to my Clients and Students. But, since lomi is not just my job but my spiritual path and greatest teacher of life, soon enough I realized that "as within, so without" and that exactly the same layers that I see in massage, apply to every life situation.
In this episode I am deconstructing, decomposing reality into these four layers and I am giving you ideas and inspirations of how to balance these four elements in your life... and not just on the massage bench ;)
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Contact:
hello@alohamagdalena.com
Lomi lomi massage and massage trainings in Iceland:
www.alohamagdalena.com
How to hold space for yourself and others
"Holding space" - yyyy what is it? And more importantly - how to do it? How to be truly supportive for yourself and others? How to show radical compassion? What are the dos and don'ts of truly showing up for others... and for you?
This episode is all about space holding. Because to me, holding space is an essential part of living a touchful life. When we as humans can show up for ourselves and each other in radical compassion, in truth, in vulnerability, when we can witness each other not only in our best moments, but also moments of despair, fear, grief - miracles happen. World changes. Hearts open.
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Contact:
hello@alohamagdalena.com
Massages and trainings in Iceland:
https://alohamagdalena.com/
MASTERCLASS How to hold space for your Clients in massage:
https://alohamagdalena.com/product/masterclass2/
BE THE CHANGE: living in integrity, truth and responsibility
"Be the change that you want to see in the world" is a famous quote attributed to Gandhi. And even though this is not exactly what Gandhi said, these words inspired me to talk about what it means to live in integrity, in truth and responsibility. I believe that nobody is going to save us - we ourselves need to birth the world that we want to live in.
Grounded spirituality in massage and in life
This episode is all about the divine and mundane. Can you be very spiritual and very down-to-earth at the same time? What it even means to be spiritual? Is lomi lomi some spiritual woo woo stuff or real physical therapy? What is ordinary magic and how to experience it? And why, as always, balance is the key?
Contact: hello@alohamagdalena.com
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My fears in biz & life
Fears thrive in the shadow. That's why I want to talk about them! By putting our fears on the table, in full light, we have a chance to take a good look at them... and maybe, to realize, that they are not so scary? Because... what if the scariest thing is the fear itself?
In this episode I truthfully talk about things that I am afraid of in my biz and life. Things that bring up shame. But talking about them brings freedom and empowerment!
Contact: hello@alohamagdalena.com
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If you want to let go... BREATHE! In massage and in life
Life is in the breath! Because conscious, free breathing makes you feel more present, more relaxed, more alive. So, in this episode I breathe a lot! I explain why massage is touch + breath and how they can't be separated. I share my first memory of conscious breathing and what in changed for me.
Also: why I breathe so loudly during lomi? How to use breathing to feel and to heal? How to let go of physical and non-physical tensions? Why we don't want to breathe? And why is the exhale more important than the inhale?
Breathe in, breathe out and enjoy. Thank you for you, thank you for listening to my Touchful Podcast!
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Contact: hello@alohamagdalena.com
Massages & trainings in Iceland: www.alohamagdalena.com
YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST YOUR GIFT (honest talk inspired by "Encanto")
I'm so sick of pretty, I want something true... don't you? In this episode I am talking about pressure of perfection and about being more than just your gift. What does it even mean in practice? Who are we when our "gifts" are taken away? And what is THE ONE THING to remember no matter what?
This talk is personal, honest, raw, unscripted, totally imperfect, sometimes chaotic and always authentic. Also, in this episode I am singing, even though I can't :) And I tear up a bit, but I have every reason to.
Contact: hello@alohamagdalena.com
Lomi lomi therapy and trainings in Iceland: www.alohamagdalena.com
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The day I was born again
In this episode I am talking about my life before and after Hawaiian lomi lomi. About all the changes and challenges that this practice brought to my life. About the prophetic dream that I had. About what it means to REALLY touch somebody. About what is standing between me and love. About why I am not so sweet anymore. And about how I changed a country... a little bit :)
Enjoy!
Contact: hello@alohamagdalena.com
Lomi lomi massage in Iceland, individual massage trainings: www.alohamagdalena.com
If you like what I do, you can buy me a coffee!
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/alohamagdalena