The Alchemy of Action

Tonya Dawn Recla: 

Hello, everyone. And welcome back to The Science of Superpowers. I always love that you join me here in these conversations. And today’s is going to be an extra special treat for you, very yummy, very delicious. The energy in this space already, as you can feel, it’s already activated because our guest today is a beautiful example of being this work in the world, of doing the things that we talk about. And that’s so powerful right now. We all know what happens when we find out that people that we appreciate their guidance aren’t doing that, aren’t embodying that. And of course, we all slip up and we all have our failings. And it’s so empowering when you just know, when you just get that feeling of, “Yes,” right?

It allows us to lean into our own guidance and to trust in that. It says there’s hope for something different, dare I say something better, that we can be better. And so even though we’re very clear that we might miss the mark from time to time, we don’t lower the mark, right? We’re going to keep that mark where it’s at. We’re going to keep walking toward the light. And we’re going to look for others along the way who are also lit up and doing that. And our guest today is absolutely no exception to that. Adora Winquist is joining us today. If you’re familiar with her work in the alchemy space, it’s just beautiful, beautiful weaving together of traditions and of influences. And there she sits in the center of it, which is exactly what we all appear like when we are in our own creative fields and when we’re doing our own work.

And so this conversation’s going to be really, really fantastic. And so sit back, relax. We’re going to talk today about the alchemy of action. And for those of you who are wondering, “How do I get back into the world, and what’s this look like, and does everybody else know more than I do, am I the only one who feels left out,” we’re going to of talk about that stuff and what you can do to gear back up again and to step back out into the world in a way that feels good for you. So welcome to the show Adora Winquist. Thank you so much for joining me.

Adora Winquist:

That’s so true. Definitely, it was certainly not in vogue, certainly not commonplace. But I’ve always enjoyed the idea of pioneering and the idea of innovating and the beauty of new experiences. And so when I first got into this field, even the term reiki was not very well understood. And I started my first business and my healing practice in the nineties. I think it was 1998 that I officially started my first business, started the first brand, and my healing practice the same day, in fact, June of ’98. But my study time in those fields started in the early nineties.

And I was very much interested in nature. Nature was my, I would say, sanctity. It was my salvation. It was my solace when I was young and experienced a great deal of discontent, disharmony, and disappointment in my family of origin, in my environment. And so finding the solace of nature and communing and listening to the plants and the trees was so comforting to me. And when I graduated from high school, I went to California and had my first experience with a medicine man. And it was at the time of the equinox, fall equinox. And having this ceremony with the local shaman reconnected me with the power and magic of nature. And so that reawakened something that had been lying dormant for many years of my life.

And so of course, as we know, when we start the process of awakening, when we’re waking up there is something more beyond us and things start to seem very quizzical yet connected, those points started to connect for me. And I found herbalism, and through the process of working with teas, to cure my bronchitis, which I had every year as a child and adolescent and then teen. Eventually, I found essential oils, which became an incredible passion and are the focus of my life’s work to date. And I also found energy healing.

And after I had my first reiki attunement, I started to see these colors around people and was amazed, not only that I could see these colors, but how they are modulated based on someone’s emotional experience, their emotional feeling. And I thought for myself, someone who had been really challenged with anxiety and depression since adolescence, I thought, “Wow, there’s really something powerful here. I want to know more. And I want to know what would happen if I combined vibrational healing, energy medicine with essential oils.” And so then that really became the focus of my life’s work, or as I like to say from one of my past brands, my Opus Gaia, right, my magnum opus.

Tonya Dawn Recla: 

Beautiful. Well, we’re going to dive into that more here as we come back from the break, folks, and talk more about the alchemy of action. Adora, where can people go to find out more about you?

Adora Winquist:

Sure. They can go to adorawinquist.com. And if you sign up for our newsletter there, you’ll receive all sorts of information and alchemy and inspiration, and also all of the complimentary events that I offer both weekly and monthly. And of course, YouTube for recorded meditations and Instagram and all of the social platforms, @adorawinquist.

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