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Rev. Rose Hope: Welcome everyone to another edition of When

Spirit calls today. Our guest is the beautiful simi latlip. Simi

is a functional medical coach and Ayurvedic medicine

practitioner, certified menopause coach and yoga

meditation teacher, blending modern science with ancient

wisdom. She helps clients restore balance vitality and

long term wellness. Born into a lineage of Ayurvedic doctors,

Simi carries forward this rich tradition with a holistic

approach that addresses body, mind and spirit. She empowers

individuals to understand the root cause of imbalance, make

informed choices and embrace prevention and self care. As a

menopause coach, Simmy supports women in navigating physical,

emotional and psychological changes, offering tools to

thrive during this transition, whether working one on one with

groups, her guidance inspires lasting lifestyle shifts, living

in the beautiful mounds of Canmore with her husband and

children, Simmy embodies the healthy, balanced lifestyle she

teaches, grounded in nature, connection and harmony.

Oh, hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of when

Spirit calls. You guys learned a little bit about our guest

already. The lovely Cindy is in the house. Welcome.

Thank you very much. I'm so excited to spend

the next few minutes with you.

Rev. Rose Hope: Oh, I am so excited too. You know, I

recently had the privilege of watching you speak at a retreat

day, and I I just loved the way that you explained things. I was

watching you on stage, and you could tell that you were just so

deeply passionate about this and had a really beautiful way of

simplifying. You know, you even gave us some exercises that I

thought were really fantastic and so simple, but yet shifted

so much. And I thought this woman is so fascinating, I need

to talk to her more. And so here we are. Here we are.

yes, well, thank you for inviting me onto

your podcast. I'm so excited to spend this time with you and

your guests.

Rev. Rose Hope: Well, I know you have so much wisdom to share

with us, so I want to dive right in and, you know, I would, you

know, as a typical when Spirit calls fashion, you know, we love

to start with some story time and sharing those stories that

kind of got us to where we are. And so I would love to know, you

know, what was it that led you to this beautiful healing work

that you do today? What was that historical past that shaped the

woman that you are. Would you share that with us?

Yes, of course, it'd be my honor. So I practice

some Ayurvedic medicine, which is the traditional South Asian

medicine that stated 5000 centuries ago, and it is a whole

encompassing holistic medicine that doesn't just treat the

symptom, but actually treats the whole person, so the body, mind

and soul are looked at as one person, as one unique being, and

we work to the root of the symptom, and that's where the

beautiful, true, deep healing begins, as opposed to putting a

band aid on the symptom, which is what a lot of allopathic

medicine does, we actually dig deeper and see, okay, is this

symptom a cause of something emotional, maybe something

mental, maybe something spiritual, you know, then we

work to the organ, you know, is it in the liver? Is it in the

digestive system? Is it an adrenal gland, and then we work

from treating the various roots, because a lot of times it's not

just one root, it's interconnected, and there's so

many different various facets. And that's how we start the

healing process, by really becoming curious and then

digging deeper to find out, okay, what's the root cause of

this symptom? And then digging through the layers, and then

finally, that's when the healing starts to happen. Is when you

dig through the layers, you work through the issues, you heal

those maybe traumas that might be stored in the tissues. You

work to purify the organs and bring balance back into the

glands. And and you know what? You start feeling like yourself

again. You've got to send yourself back.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah. Oh, I love this work. Okay, so what

happened for you that brought you to this medicine?

So interesting story. I love sharing this

story. It was in the year two. 1000. When my daughter was born,

I was working for a financial institution. So I was working

for Sumitomo Bank of Japan, so a huge international bank, and I

was working for them for 12 years. So I had a lot of, you

know, seniority with them, and, you know, I was given a lot of

big projects with them and such. And it was a very masculine

world. You know, it was all about finances. It's a bank, so

it's all about money. It wasn't very people oriented. It was all

about the bottom line and how much money I could bring each

year and increase revenues, etc, etc. And so when my daughter was

born, something shifted in me, and the universe started to

speak to me and said, You know what, you need to change your

path, otherwise, something's going to happen health wise,

right? So I knew if I continued on my path of thinking of

finances and working in this masculine, dominant field, that

something would happen with me in terms of health. So I jumped

off that, and I decided to go back to school, and I that's

when I got my degree for Ayurvedic medicine, and I

started practicing so totally different, you know, so very

feminine, very compassionate, very intuitive, very healing. It

was exactly what my soul needed. And then, of course, as I dig

deeper and find out that I had four generations of Ayurvedic

doctors in my family, and I knew of two for sure, because they

were relatives, and they were close, and they were teaching me

without me actually knowing that transmission was happening. And

then I dug deeper, and there was actually four generations and

even past lives, I found out I was a healer in my past life,

and a very renowned healer on my past life. And so it's just

interesting how things start to manifest, right? And then, know,

you found your path and your calling When Everything Feels so

effortless, everything just happens and comes to you without

a struggle, and then you're on the right path.

Rev. Rose Hope: Okay, so I love this, and what I want to ask is

this, because most people don't listen to that nudge of the

universe or God or source when you know there's a knowing.

Oftentimes we push and we push, and so most people, when they

finally make a decision to shift their path, they've either had

some sort of major health scare or, you know, they've been

through some turmoil, but you caught it before it fell apart.

I want to know how you were able to make a decision to leave a

secure, highly perceived, successful career and not

question that, because I think most people who are in those

positions of leadership and power and money and wealth have

a heck of a time letting that go. Can you talk about that? Or

was it easy for you? Was it just like, No, I know that I need to

do this. You just had a knowing. Or was there something that just

helped that process?

Well, I guess it was twofold. So one, I did

have a knowing. I did listen to the universe, the divine God

saying, You know what, you have to make the shift. And the

Ayurvedic medicine is all about prevention, right? It's about

listening to the whispers of your body so that your body

never has to scream. And I didn't want to wait for the

scream, because, you know, I intuitively, I knew the scream

was going to come if I didn't make a shift. And I think having

my daughter at that same time, and that female energy was also

something that caused the shift, right? It was telling me to find

my feminine, to get, you know, eliminate or reduce the

masculine, the yang energy, and come into that true Yin energy.

And then, of course, I had support from the family. That's

a big one, right? My husband was a big one to support me along

the way. And it says, Yes, you need to leave. Because, you know

what? He could feel it, you know, getting those phone calls

late at night, because in Japan, it was, you know, work time. And

for me, it was like three o'clock in the morning, but I

would give those phone cards. Oh, wow. So, you know, he had,

he was there, he felt it all, and he was like, okay, yes, you

know, supportive wise, I think it's time for you to make that

change.

Rev. Rose Hope: Wow. Okay, so there was a few things that

showed up for you, and I love that you brought up the fact

that you did birth a baby, and that can change a lot too. And

what a beautiful gift that your daughter gave you in that

because, oh, I kind of wonder if you hadn't had that child at

that time, maybe you would have kind of kept lugging along in

that career. And so how beautiful that she came in and

was able to bring in that femininity and show you that you

didn't want to be in that masculine, dominant world

anymore. I love that, yeah, yeah. I really admire the fact

that you had the knowing as well, and you listened to it,

because that listening part is so hard for most of us. And of

course, having the support of your family really makes a

difference, because not everyone has that, but what an invitation

for those people that are. Listening to this recording

right now, and they're in that spot that you were at of like,

Hey, I'm being redirected to another path. So for those of

you listening, if you are in that crossroad place, let this

be your sign. Let this be a reminder that you can choose and

it's gonna be okay, even if you don't have the support of your

family, even if you're worried about the money to remind you

that if you allow your heart to lead you, your intuition to

guide you, you'll find your way. And yes, I love that.

Yeah, I agree with that wholeheartedly. Yeah.

And I do teach, um, women, and sorry my clients not just women,

but I do teach my clients to really listen to the whispers of

their body, so that the body never has to scream. And the

first thing I always say is you have to stop the going and the

doing and the chaos. You have to come into a place of stillness

and silence and really just ask, and you will receive the

answers, but you have to find that stillness first in order to

receive and listen, because if we're too busy going and doing,

we don't have the time to listen.

Rev. Rose Hope: So these this is really important, because I

think this is one of the key points that you're trying to

make for us as human beings, for us to be willing to slow down,

to be willing to be in stillness. You know, you know we

talk about rest, and you know the reality is that rest is

actually even more productive than the doing. Would you agree

with that? Now, yes,

yes, yeah, I

Rev. Rose Hope: didn't believe that for the longest, and now

that I create the space for more rest for myself, I get

information and Enzi that blow my mind, so I'm not spinning my

wheels over thinking, so that I have clarity around my

decisions, and it has made such a difference for me. So do you

have any techniques around creating that rest or creating

that stillness? Like, are you a meditator? What are the things

that you do?

So I love to meditate, but I've been

meditating for a long time, so it comes easily to me, but for

someone who hasn't meditated, I would love to say and offer the

invitation of going out in mother nature. So sometimes,

when you're in mother nature and you're walking in the woods, or

you're sitting by a stream and you're just listening when you

receive signs. And sometimes the signs are you don't even realize

that what what the universe is saying to you. And you know,

don't be afraid to ask, like, What are you saying to me? Or

don't be afraid to even ask your question and say, I would like a

reply. And you know, you want, usually 100% you'll receive some

sort of reply, yes, you were in that place of stillness, and you

were in that place of receiving, which is so important as well.

Then the universe starts to talk to you.

Rev. Rose Hope: I love that. It's like to me, when I'm in

stillness and I'm in that rest phase, it's almost like I'm

adjusting the dial on the receiver so that I can have

clear flow of channeled information to myself. If we are

like, busy thinking about this and doing this and rushing all

over the place, we're not adjusting that dial to the

frequency in which we can receive the information, that's

right. So I love, I love that that's a key piece for you and

helping us. And you said something really important too,

before you said, I help people to listen to the whispers so

that they don't have to hear their body scream. And I think

that we have been taught in society to go, go, go, so we

haven't been able to hear those whispers. And then the scream

comes, and then we're thinking, oh my gosh, now I have this

thing to deal with, or this thing to deal with, when the

body has been trying to tell us the whole time, right exactly,

what else would you really love to share with us in terms of our

health and wellness that that you think make all the

difference in the world?

I think a lot for women especially, is

vitality. Is energy. You know, we tend to give so much of

ourselves to everybody that we forget to keep a little peace

for ourselves. And so lately, I've been doing beautiful

somatic therapy, and I love this, because when I teach it in

my class, or teach people how to come into their body, they can

feel the difference between the side that we've worked on, so a

side that's released, that has this juiciness, this

spaciousness, this flow, whereas the other side is dull, and

they're like blown away, because they feel the difference in

their body. And I think when you bring them into that feeling

body, and they can feel how one side is vibrant and flowing and

spacious, and the other side is hard and dull and stiff and

tension. They're like, it's an aha moment for them. It's like,

okay, I get it. I need to do more of this so that my body can

really feel vitality and flow.

Rev. Rose Hope: I really love that you. Can do part of the

body and not the whole body, so that we can compare Exactly.

That is the tough part for many of us, because we're like, we go

to sound bath, or we go and do some meditation, and then we

say, Oh yeah, I feel good, but we don't really have the

comparison. It's kind of like if we're doing a weight loss

program and I don't weigh myself at the beginning, I don't know

where I'm at at the end. And so I love that there's that ability

to do that. Can you explain to our audience what somatic means?

Just in case they're wondering, like, what does that even

entail? What does that mean?

Okay, so I like to define somatic therapy as

mind, body, spirit connection. So again, as I had said before,

you work deeper into the tissues of the body. And so in somatic

it brings you into the deep layer of tissue, connective

tissue, fascia. It brings you into your circulation, your

lymphatic flow, your blood flow, your chi, your life force, your

prana, all that. So you can really feel what the body's

saying to do, and you can really feel where you're stuck. And

this is where you dig deep into where you are stuck. So for

example, if the digestive your digestive tract is feeling

harder, there's not as much spaciousness as you'd like,

well, what are you holding there? And this is where the

curiosity comes into place. So what's held in your digestive

system? Why is it stuck? Why is it there's more tension or

tightness there? How can we work on relieving that tension and

that tightness? And then somatic actually brings you into and not

all of somatic is trauma, but a lot of somatic is the sort of

the lens of trauma. So what's being stored there? Is it

something that's, you know, this life, past life? Is it something

that's emotional? There's something that's mental. What is

it spiritual? What's Why is it stuck? Why is it not moving? Why

is there not flow? So that whole essence of somatic is bringing

flow into the body and really feeling in your own body where

there's some stickiness. Where is it stuck? And where do you

need to move things to encourage that flow? Yeah, because as we

get older, we get stiffer, and when we get stiffer, we don't

have the flow. So that's our body again, whispering to us,

right? So if we're stiff and we don't have the flow, you don't

want it to get to, you know, lymph nodes, or you don't want

it to get to, you know, cancer cells. You want it to again, to

keep the flow in the body. Because the flow is that

vitality is the prana, the Chi, you happen. It's something we

have to work out, but we don't really talk about it, because we

just don't. It's just, right, yeah, you don't, yeah. Don't

think about, Oh, am I slowing today?

Rev. Rose Hope: Right? It is interesting. And I think that's

an important question to start asking ourselves. So this whole

concept of flow, I think, is so powerful, because, you know,

even as I'm aging, I am noticing, you know, after

sitting in my chair, it's like, oh, okay, I feel that a little

bit. And so what do you suggest to get the flow moving. Are

there some simple tricks or things that we need to know that

will help us with that flow?

Yeah, I love that question, because yes, I'm

all about sharing my somatic journey with everybody out

there. So I did create a YouTube channel, and I'll share it with

you so you can let your listeners, you know, log into

the YouTube and everything is there from encouraging flow

throughout the whole body. And as we know, you know that when

the body is in flow, the brain is in flow, right? When you're

sending oxygen to your body, the brain is receiving that oxygen.

So for women who are ever concerned about brain fog or

dementia or Alzheimer's, if that's in the family and you

want to be preventative. You do need to make sure the body, the

mind and the soul are in flowing.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah, yes. And so would a trick of like just

taking some breaths, you know, like, Can I be in flow, just

taking some breaths, or are there movements that I felt with

that,

yeah, both for sure, rouse it. But breath work

is huge. Pranayama is so important, as well as the

somatic movement therapy, both those combination together is a

game changer for anybody who wants to make sure that they age

gracefully and they age with Vitality,

Rev. Rose Hope: beautiful. What else would you love people to

know about how they can help themselves along this health

path?

Thanks for asking. Yeah, like just I

created a biohacking menopause. There's a lens of Ayurvedic

medicine to help women as they transition through menopause.

And one thing I've found in my research, as I've been working

with women in menopause, is for some reason here in North

America, we have a sense of fear around menopause, and I honestly

believe that's more media created than anything, whereas

women in Europe and. Women in Asia do not have a sense of fear

of menopause, not at all. They just think it's part of life,

and they go through it easily, because they don't even have

hormone replacement therapy in Europe or Asia, there's no such

thing. So you go through it naturally, and everybody goes

through it, and they come through at the end with just

finding that wisdom, that beautiful wisdom and gift of

being a woman that you are as you come to post menopause,

whereas in North America, we've had a we've created a different

lens, unfortunately. So women, even before they come into

menopause, are worried about what's going to happen to them

as they are transitioning. And it's that excess fear that we

self create which isn't always the best for us, so I'm really

working hard to navigate that. And, you know, let women know

that they don't have to be in fear. It can be a very easeful

journey, and they can thrive during menopause, and they can

come to find that wisdom at the end, and also that liberation,

right? Liberation, we don't have to cycle every month anymore.

You're this new woman, yeah, this new woman that can take

care of yourself and care for yourself, as opposed to always

giving to others. You can give back to yourself. So all that is

so important,

Rev. Rose Hope: it's a really sacred transition. But I think

you're right, you know, I think even growing up, you know, I

heard the mumblings and the grumblings about, like, Oh, hot

flashes, oh, I'm going through this. Oh, I'm menopausal, and it

was always in a negative light. So there's a lot of negativity

around it. Can you give us one biohack that we should know to

help us through that transitionary time?

And you know, most of my, I'd say 90% of my

biohacks are all free, so there's no there's no money that

you have to invest. It's about doing the things that will shift

the body. So one of my favorite biohacks, and the one I

encourage for everybody, is early morning light. Go outside

as soon as the sun rises, or during the first hour of

sunrise, and that resets the Pituitary and the Pineal Gland.

So no sunglasses, no sunscreen, you're getting your vitamin D as

well your natural rays. You're not staying out for a long time

because it only you only need 510, minutes, but you're

actually resetting your whole endocrine system just by that

first morning light. And it doesn't even have to be

sunlight, it's just natural morning light. So wherever you

live in the future, in the summer, doesn't really matter if

it's cloudy, if it's rainy, doesn't that you're still

getting that natural morning light. And that resets naturally

the pineal and pituitary glands, and that's your seat of your

whole endocrine system. All your hormones are there. So it's just

magic, if you can remember to do that.

Rev. Rose Hope: It is so simple. Simi, this is so great because,

you know, I think that we often forget that to heal our bodies,

to nurture our bodies, it doesn't need to be complicated,

that it can actually just be really simple habits that we put

into our daily practice, and I've never heard anyone tell me

to go into the light in the morning when I wake up. And now

I'm going to do that, I'm going to do that, I'm going to create

that's going to be part of my morning routine now, because

knowing that I can go sit outside in natural light for

five or 10 minutes, and the benefit of that, of resetting,

whoa, and not even have a clue of and I think this is the same

for most of us. We don't even have a clue of what these simple

things can do for our entire being, yes. Oh,

and I'll throw in another one too, for your for

your beautiful listeners, too, as a gift when you're outside,

to if you can walk in bare feet, so if you can, especially the

morning dew of the grass, because that morning dew has

that moon, so that female essence of the moon, because the

moonlight on the morning dew of the grass, and that changes your

grounding. So that helps just make sure that you're fully

grounded and rooted, and that balances also the brain, so you

get rid of that excess mind chatter and that anxiety and

worry that we all have in mind just by walking bare feet in

that morning dew of The grass,

Rev. Rose Hope: the morning dew. See, you know, I oftentimes will

tell my clients, yeah, go ground in the grass. You know, go put

your feet in the grass. But the knowing that there's something,

an extra quality that you get in the morning dew. So Morning Dew

and sunlight, that's our medicine.

Oh, that is, that is,

Rev. Rose Hope: Oh, beautiful. And I know you have tons more

biohacks, so we're going to make sure that that's in the show

notes, so that all of you listening just have to click on

those links in the show notes to access more of Simi. Simi's

magic, in her wisdom, Simmy, it has been such a joy to have you

on today's show. Is there anything else that you want to

share? Anything. You would like people to know in terms of what

you offer, in terms of your services, so that we can find

out more about you?

Oh, sure, I would love to work with your

listeners, and I do virtual so anytime if you'd like to book a

virtual consultation, and again, the link will be there for your

listeners to be able to to click on, and they can book an

appointment, and then we could do one on one. So again, digging

deep into their root cause of their symptoms and how they're

feeling

Rev. Rose Hope: beautiful. And in the meantime, we've got

YouTube, which there's a bunch of free resources on there as

well. For people, there's no shortage of wisdom and

information that you cannot access from Simi. Simi, it's

such a treat to be with you. Thank you so much for coming

onto the show today and sharing your wisdom and your passion.

You can love what you do, and you you are on purpose in the

work that you do. So thank you so much for listening to the

call of spirit. Yay. Thank you so much as well. I enjoyed it

very much. Thank you so much. Thank you. And to all you

listeners, I hope you got some great golden nuggets, some new

insight today, some simple hacks to help you along your house

journey until next time. Be well. Bye for now.

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