Breathe & Dance - with Our Founder Niraj Naik & Your Host Wilma CB

Niraj Naik, Soma Breath's founder, joins Wilma CB for a live breathwork and dance session. After nearly three years and almost 300 weekly Sunday sessions, Wilma announces she's stepping back from hosting. The 11-minute guided breathing practice flows into a dance journey set to Soma Breath music.
Questions this video answers
August 19, 2024
About 11 minutes
About three years (she says she is stepping down after three years)
Almost 300 lives (Wilma: "after almost 300 lives later")
Medicine Festival in the UK; he referenced about 10,000 people.
Chapters
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Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, and welcome, community to Soma Breath. I hope you're all well. Invite you all to Please, please turn on your cameras. We'd love to see your shiny happy faces. And how can we dance together if we can't see you? So we need those cameras on, please. I think I turned on one person's. I turned off somebody's camera because you were just on your own on our screen on YouTube. So I just turned it off. I think it was Marco. So, Marco, I'm just going to ask you to start your video now, please, and admit more people into the Zoom Room. Great. Brilliant, Marco. Sorry about that. You were just protagonist for a few minutes on our YouTube channel. So anybody who is actually watching us on YouTube, how can we see you dancing if you're over there? So please, Amber, my helper has dropped the link for you over across on YouTube. Please just click on that and I will let you in as soon as I see you inside our waiting room. And I'm just gonna. Wow, more people coming in. So let me just let them all in. And so, yes, so come and join us inside our Zoom Room. And also if you can think of anybody, you just heard that music, right? That music was absolutely amazing. Okay? And that music is all made by us, produced by Soma Breath, with all the talented artists that we work with. So if you think, you know of somebody who could do with a bit of moving and grooving and shaking and just being with us, a vibrant community, share that link with them as well. And I will let them in. It's completely free. So tell them to come on in, join us. The more the merrier. You know, that phrase, it really does mean something. So let them all in. And let me admit there's more people in the Zoom Room. Just making sure that I have everybody in the room before I start making announcements, etc. Okay, more people coming in. Let's just let them all come in. They're probably all over rushed over from YouTube. Okay, I see now very few people in YouTube. And that's the way we want it today because we want you all in here. Okay, let me just check if Neeraj is also in the room yet. Yes, he is. So that's brilliant. So. And one more person coming in again. Brilliant. All right, so I think we're ready to. To start. Everybody's waving at me. Just give you all a on a big wave and let's get this show on the road. Okay, so As I always start. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, community. Why do I start like that? Because we are worldwide. We are all over the place and there are people joining us in their pajamas. There are people who've had to work on Sunday, have just come back. People who are eating, just had breakfast. Please don't eat too much because we need you to now move around and breathe with us. Okay, More people coming into the room. Let me just let them all in again, right? Let me just swap over screens again. Right, so today's Breathe Together is a Sunday with a twist. Okay? Today we come together to breathe, dance and heal. After all, this is where it's at. And today, this weekend, I asked my question, what is it? Whenever Wilma says, this is where it's at, what is it? So for me, and I think for this whole community, it is love.
Love.
It is growth, it is empowerment and it is manifestation. It's everything you want it to be in order to be happy and to feel you're moving towards your purpose in life. Okay, so what is that? It is Soma Breath. This is where we raise our level of vibrational energy. All right, so let's all see you guys in the zoom room making that heart. Already starting as we mean to move forward. This heart stands for a lot in our community. It is to raise our level of vibrational energy and everything else I just mentioned. Our love, our growth, our empowerment and our manifestation. Before I continue, let me let more people who are coming into the room to come on, come on in. Okay, so let me just flick screens again. Right? So I wanted to say something. I've already told you to share the links. So please share the links with anybody that you can think of now who should be with us here today. It's free. Let them come on in. Okay, YouTube guys, I've already told you, please come on in. The link is in the comments. I invite you all to turn on your cameras, be present and to interact with us. Okay? Make sure you have water nearby because once you start moving, you are going to need it. And also, please, you've heard how amazing our music is. I've told you, it's made by us in collaboration with super talented artists. So plug in some amazing speakers, get your headphones on because our music will massage your brain whilst you allow the rhythm of the music to dance with your breath. I came up with that all on my own and I'm quite impressed with that. So now today's live has two more purposes. One is to celebrate our founder, Neeraj Naik. His birthday, it was last week. But hey, any reason to get together and party with the big man and this amazing community? You know, we're going to be on it. So we're going to celebrate that. That, and secondly, to take a deep breath to announce this for anybody who doesn't know, after three years, this is my last breathe together Sunday hosting for you guys.
Okay.
It's going to be quite difficult for me, so I wanted to breathe and dance with you all today. I think I'm going to find it difficult to talk right now. So I'm going to hand it over to the man who started this whole community. The brain, the pharmacist, the dad, the father, the musician, my friend and dj, our renegade pharmacist, Niraj Naik. So, Neeraj, I have to look for you in this huge space that we have right now. Let me just find you. And you're gonna have to take over because I don't think I can speak right now. Okay, let's just look for him.
There you are. There you are. And you're not muted, so you can. You're not muted.
All right.
How did you unmute yourself? I think today I forgot to mute everybody, actually, because I was just so nervous.
Let me just find Niraj so I can just bring him onto the screen with us. Niraj, welcome. Sorry, I had a moment there. I couldn't hold myself back, back. But yes, it's a breathe and dance to celebrate you. And a little bit, let's celebrate me as well. So dance myself out of here. Yay.
Wow. All right. So it's been three years.
Yes. Yeah. Since you saw that raving lunatic on Facebook. Right?
She's definitely a raving. A little bit of a lunatic for sure. I say that.
That.
Yeah. Well, well, it's final dance for a while for. Not forever.
I know. I. I thought after, maybe we'll just pause it. Should we just say it's a pause? It's a pause. Yeah, it's a pause.
Okay.
So.
So I mean, it's a lot of. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of commitment being here every Sunday, being present, it takes up a lot of time. You know, there's. There's a lot goes into this. So, you know, it's fully understandable. It's a big, big job. And obviously the entire community and everyone here right now, on, online, I'm sure all has the same. You know, they're all going to feel the void. They're going to be missing you and will feel the shared same love, you know, that you've brought to the community. So let's use this dance to, to bring that and amplify that together into Wilma's heart. That's what this dance is all dedicated for.
Thank you. And I really want to thank all the people that wrote to me and said oh no, I can't make it, they're traveling or whatever. And I've actually seen you all come into the room just now so that, that just really warms my heart and the messages I have received.
Are just overwhelming and I just want to thank you all. I haven't got around to responding to you all but, but it means the world to me. Only one person is really happy that I'm leaving. That's my 10 year old because he's like got mom back on a Sunday.
So you know, well, that's an important day to be with the family. That's an important day to the family.
And it is, you know, I've always said to everybody, Sunday, it's not, it's not a thing that you have to do. It's something that you want to do and you come here. But yeah, behind the scenes, all our events, like my husband, I would have to say to him we can't do this until after, after I finished the live.
Right.
Our appointments, everything was moved. So we were actually very grateful when you moved it to, to 12:00pm because that was neither lunch nor dinner where I am.
So.
Okay, very good. So bear that in mind with whoever comes next. But yes, thank you everybody for your great messages and I will get round to. To responding to all of them them.
All right, so let's all send a lot of love to Wilma right now. We're going to dedicate this entire dance to, to her and I think we should just get, get into it.
I think so. I think so.
Let's do it. We can talk and everyone can share, you know something at the end, I'm sure. So.
Let'S all get, let's all get.
Into a really comfortable position.
Okay. And.
We'Re going to start with a breathwork track. One of almost every track is. Has been a request from warmer today. So we're going to start with.
Actually I think it's better since I didn't mute everybody. Can I just mute everyone just so that somebody doesn't let me on mute and then I'll unmute you in a second. Okay.
Let'S just get back to you. Let me mute everybody.
Okay. And then can you unmute please? Niraj?
Yeah. So we're going to start with.
The.
Breathwork session that will then go into a beautiful.
Dance. But the whole point is just to.
To.
We're not gonna. I'm not gonna guide much, I'm not gonna say much. It's just gonna be lost in the music, taking you on a journey until we finish at the end. All right? So because I'm actually at my mum's house at the moment, I'm in the UK and I don't have all my fancy gear to. To really do, I normally would. So I'm going to. We're just going to go in, into the. The music journey with the breath. Starting with the breath. Is that good? Okay, so if everybody gets comfortable. So just to make sure you're all doing the breathwork session first correctly.
What.
We need to do is.
Either do that lying down or sitting. It's only going to be 11 minutes, so it's probably best to just sit comfortably. You don't need to.
You know, lie down for this session. But then the. The music will guide the rhythm of your breath. You can be breathing in through your nose and out with a very relaxed exhale through your mouth.
You can also relax and exhale through your nose as.
With a long exhale. And you're going to breathe in, so you're breathing in through your sphincter, breathing in.
So contracting up your pelvic floor as you breathe in and then letting go on the exhale.
As you breathe out.
Okay.
And you're going to be doing that.
For several minutes, rhythmic breathing in through your nose, out through your mouth, your nose in a perfect rhythm of the music. And then you're going to breathe in when I tell you, breathe all the air out and then hold your breath until you have no air in the lungs. And you're going to then hold your breath to your maximum effort until you can't hold it any longer. And at this point you can extend this breath retention phase. You can take a little sip in, breathe back out, go longer until I give you all kanoa the signal to breathe in.
And then we release with humming hum.
And then we go into the dance. Okay, so that's the journey. And we're going to start this whole off journey off with, I think, Wilmer Smith's favorite breathwork track so far and probably quite a few others.
And.
So get ready. And there's the only contraindications, really. We're not doing anything intense. It's only if you're really worried about your health, if you can't Even move. You can't dance. This is probably not for you, but this, generally this session is going to be for everyone. There's very little. Like, we're not doing any heavy breathing in there. It's like more of a meditation.
Okay.
A meditation of dedication.
So.
Let me just.
Get this all set up.
So can you hear me okay? Yep.
Is my voice okay? Yes.
Sounds good.
And now how's my voice?
Good.
So bring your awareness.
To the sound.
As you close your eyes and just tune in to that sound.
The sound of my voice is be your guide on this journey.
That's right. And notice as you tune into that sound.
The voice in your head that worries about the future in the past gently fades away, drifts away.
So you become more and more present with this sound.
Get lost in its presence.
That's right.
And any thoughts.
Any voice in your head right now, imagine you can gently push it to one side as you become present.
With this moment.
That's right.
Going into that. No mind states.
As that anxious part of the mind just quietens down.
As you become present with the sound.
That's right.
Shooting into every last detail, every element of the music as we get ready to breathe.
With the music.
In that perfect rhythm and harmony.
That's right.
Bring your awareness to your breath.
Imagine breathing in every note right now. The sound.
That's right. Breathing out.
Every melody.
As you breathe in and out. Watch the turn in your breath. It goes from your inhale to exhale. Exhale to inhale. That moment just as it turns.
That special moment.
As life.
Takes another turn.
In a new direction.
As they inevitably shower from left to right, right to left.
That's right. Breathing in that rhythm.
Breathing with that rhythm.
That's right.
Five.
Eight. In two, three, four.
Two, three, four.
Six, seven, eight.
2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Ourselves.
In two.
Yes. A long smooth inhale and exhale.
Breathing in the sound.
8, 2, 3, 4.
The sound of a new.
Turn. 7, 8. In a new direction.
Breathing into how that feels right now.
Noticing the turn in every moment of your breath that Change the direction.
6, 7, 8. In.
Out, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. In 2.
Noticing as your breath changes, everything changes.
As it always has changed. Breathing in.
And then breathing out.
Hold your breath after full exhalation.
Going deep within your own mind.
So the answers you shall find.
As life is a series of inhales and exhales. Press pause on breath. Press pause on life. Allowing the thought files to reassemble.
Symbol.
Clearing the clutter. The unconscious mind. That's right.
Going deeper when you can't hold your breath any longer.
You get that big urge to breeze.
Override that first big urge to breathe.
And then.
Breathing in all that sacred life force energy within.
Sending the energy all the way up. That's right.
Send it up like a spiral of light.
That's right. Send that energy all the way up. And hold that energy up.
Top of your head.
Illuminating you.
And then releasing the tone.
Ha.
That's right.
And then when you're ready.
Bring your awareness.
Back into the body.
Scanning your body right now for any areas of tension.
Any areas you feel, feel.
Resistance.
And scanning any areas of your body where you feel good feelings, good sensations.
And now standing up onto both your feet.
That's right.
Getting both your hands and rubbing your hands together.
Now putting one hand, your right hand on areas where you feel tension.
And the left hand on areas where you feel pleasure.
Where you feel good feelings.
Just put them there right now.
That's right.
Tune into those feelings right now.
Yes.
That's right.
Sam.
Sa.
That's right. Tune in to how you're feeling. Start to move the rhythm.
The rhythm.
Your body wants to move to right now. Make it really soft. Let go of all the tension in your body. And just imagine you're floating of water in a tank of water. Right now. Imagine you're moving as though.
Body right now is just floating. That's right.
Like water.
On a cloud in heaven.
Allow all the tension to come from your body.
Imagine you're floating on that cloud.
Sa.
One.
Word.
She.
Sam.
Come on.
Sam.
It.
Sam.
Nawaz.
Sa.
You.
It.
Sam.
Seek you.
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All right. Now breathe.
Ha.
Breathe in.
For the spirit.
Within you. In you, around you.
Right now.
Fearless presence.
Yes.
Your presence right now.
As we come up from heaven into the earth. Integrating.
This energy, this love, this vibration.
Sensation.
Ready to integrate.
Sa.
Get ready.
Make you want to wind up your waistline.
Take time. Breathe.
Move your body and we take fly.
Stay high.
Elevate the energy we raised by playtime. Whether it's the night or the daytime. Healing when you raise your hand to the ceiling. Feeling, communicating without even speaking. Tweaking for the rhythm. Harmony, Peaking, Breathing.
Bring the heat.
No matter the season. No need for chemicals. Dances the ecstasy. Wine for me. I can feel the heat when you're next to me. You got the ingredients? I got the recipe. The body is the temple. Sure how you're blessing me. Drop it down low. Take your body to the floor.
More.
Don't stop moving. Give me more. Give me more. Don't think let your body move keep it bro everyone's a winner but you got a top score Singing.
Now I don't want to see nobody stand still no I don't want to see nobody stand still no I don't want to see nobody stand still Shaking fast like there's ants in your pants still I don't want to see nobody stand still no I don't want to see nobody stand still no I don't want to see nobody stand still Shaking F in your pants still while out feel the spirit rise as we move it style out Feel the spirit rise as we move and ride out in the chat shift when we grooving vibe out energy shift when we grooving mind out cuz they keep a mosh and they mushing time out if you need to dip and keep it popping rise now Energy infinite never stopping lights out fade to the rhythm ain't no problems bust a little dance in the corner Bust a little dance in the corner Bust a little dance in the corner.
Bust a little dance in the corner.
I don't want to see nobody stand still Shaking like this and senior but still pace slime make you want to wind up your waistline take time, remove your body and we take flat stay high elevate the energy we raise by playtime whether it's the night or the daytime healing when you raise your hands to the ceiling feeling communicating without even speaking Tweaking for the rhythm harmony peing breathing bring the heat no matter the season no need for my walls dancers the ecstasy right for me I can feel the heat when you're next to me you got the ingredients this I got the recipe the body is the temple shah how you're blessing me Drop it down low take your body to the floor don't stop moving give me more, give me more don't think, let your body move keep it raw everyone's a winner but you got a top score Singing plus a little dance in the corner plus a little dance in the corner oh what's a little dance in the corner? Stay on the dance floor getting our corner plus a little dance in the corner.
Yeah yeah.
It.
When you're feeling all right when you're feeling healthy you'll feel like dancing when you're feeling all right when you're feeling healthy you feel like dancing.
Feeling all.
Right till the day after you play twice this kind of song will make you feel nice.
Sam.
Do you want to shake down love? I will give you more and more I will never waste your time I Want to make you mine. I'm feeling some type away Like I want to.
See anything that you like. Just make your move.
Ready to mash up the place with the R on the deck. Let's celebrate. When you're feeling all right. When you're feeling healthy, you feel like dancing. When you're feeling all right, when you're feeling healthy, you feel like dancing. Shake your budget in the morning right.
Do it.
You're feeling all right till any day. If you play twice, this kind of song will make you feel nice.
If you want to shake it down now, you can shake it all around. Come on and shake it down now.
Ra.
Sam.
It.
Sa.
It.
It's Sam.
Breathe in and let it go.
Breathe in.
Just let it go.
Sam.
Now celebrate.
New positive future.
Create that image in your mind right now as you dance this final.
Ram.
Oh.
Sa.
Sam.
Bring your awareness back into the sound. Into the heart, into the rhythm, into the spirit.
Back into the heart from where it came. The sound.
The love, the blessings.
That's right. Feel that spirit right now. Moving through you, into you, around you.
Inside you.
That's right. Feel it.
Into the heart.
New dawn rising.
As a new dawn rising.
Sam.
A new day rising.
Now. Bringing yourself into the rhythm.
Breathing in 2, 3, 4. Out 2, 3, 4. In 2, 3, 3, 4. Out.
Of sam.
Four. In two. Out two, three, four. In two, out two, three, four. In 2, out 2, 3, 4.
Now taking a deep breath in.
Hold.
And then breathe all the air out.
Hold your breath after full exhalation.
Sa.
Yes.
Yes.
Because you are amazing.
Miracles of life.
When you can't hold your breath any longer situation. See how deep you can go.
And then when you're ready.
Let the.
Breath all the way in. Sending the energy up and up and up.
Setting it up into the mid grain.
Holding it tight. That's right.
Yes.
Release.
With a hum.
Ram.
Radio satan.
Some new light emerges.
Ha.
I've been falling in to peace and quiet breath.
I was going round in circles now.
Now I just breath.
Fall.
Into dream.
Ha.
Ha.
Sam.
Dream.
Star.
Sa.
Ra.
Ha.
There are.
Child in me.
I've been trusting in my love to soul.
Angel.
See.
I've been navigating with the star.
Child defined in me.
Making a giant bubble of love. Right now every one of you together.
Love.
Raise that love up.
Imagining right now.
Sending that straight in as a transmission to the heart of Wilma.
As you see her.
Open that gate to a new reality.
Transmit that love as you see her.
Making that bold move, that bold step.
To a new future into the light.
That's right.
Much love.
Positive energy.
From everyone in the center of Earth community.
The core team.
My heart to yours.
Valuable.
Unforgettable.
Incredible.
Support.
Caring.
Effort.
Deliver the Soma vibe to the tribe.
So that eternally grateful.
As you go into the light.
So I'm going to invite anyone who wants to.
Send a few words.
Raise your hand. There's going to be a hard time to talk.
For either of us.
So if anyone wishes to right now.
I think thank you so much everybody for what you've said and all the messages and everything you put together. Niraj used a lot of tracks that I used when I first came into Soma Breath so it brought back a lot of breeze and.
I don't think I'm going to be able to do this today. I had actually written something to read out to you guys but I don't think think I can do it. So I will drop it in Facebook and if you would go over and read it, read it because it was meant for you.
Yeah. Miriam, you have your hand up so invite you to speak. Please, if you can unmute, please.
Hi there.
So I'm crying with you.
I know your value and your contribution and all that I've been going through that in addition to all that that Mirage and his blessed team does. You definitely contributed with your insights and your love. Your tears are pure evidence of the genuine love that you have for this community and for your role. And what I can kept feeling as we were all dancing together and Mirage welcomed you into the light. I felt us all in the light with you. And you're not alone. You won't. We'll still be with you in spirit and with heart as you go forward.
In whatever you do. And you'll always have a special place I know in my heart. So thank you and thank you, Niraj. This was beautiful. The music was amazing. I really needed it. I moved through a lot of things that were on the table for me emotionally and I was grateful. I even felt that pure spirit that you were calling in, moving through me and comforting me. And you, your presence you exude that you take us into this reassurance, this, this depth, this comfort, this anchoring that I feel like we all need a lot of times in this life. So thank you for being here. You Happy birthday.
Much love. Really appreciate it.
Beautiful.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for that. Sorry I didn't spotlight you. I just cannot see proper. Cannot see the screen properly right now with the. With the tears. But really appreciate you and very much enjoyed watching how these sessions just helped you move forward as well as you spoke of the progress you were making. So thank you so much for that.
Absolutely.
Let me just get everybody in place now.
Okay.
Just put near our chair me here, then I can spotlight people who are coming in. Leanne, please join us here. Hi, Leanne. Thank you so much. You're in Australia and she's always joining us and she said she will definitely be here today. So thank you so much, Leanne.
I wouldn't use it, like, goodness me. I hope you can hear me properly. It's been a long journey. Like, we've all had a. An amazing ride with Niraj, created a baby and you nursed the baby along and you've created this wonderful love amongst the community and I'll be forever grateful.
Thank you, Leanne. Thank you. Got a friend in you? We've become friends ever since I interviewed her and that was three years ago and we keep in touch. So hopefully we will meet each other one day in person. That's got to.
That's got.
I'll get across the. The pond one day and I'll come visit.
Thank you so much, Leanne. Thank you.
Best of luck with whatever you.
You.
You go and do. I know you'll go and kill it.
Keep you updated. Don't worry. Thank you, Leon.
There'll be no worries. Love you.
Bye.
And happy birthday, Niraj.
Thank you.
I usually read out all the comments, but I think I have to ask Amber to do it because I don't think I can. So, Amber, are you okay to read out the comments, please, from this amazing community? We'll just get. Get you to get ready to read them and get Freeman to. To join us here. Freeman. Hi there, Freeman.
I. I am so upset that I didn't get to present this guy on a Breathe Together Sunday. You have to invite me on just to present you on Freeman because he's got an absolutely amazing voice and I've always wanted to hear him on a track. I've told him to get on and pass so we can have you in the app as well. And thank you for coming today.
Oh, you're muted. We can't hear you. No. Oh, no. And you are. You're actually unmuted, but we can't hear you.
I'll mute you again and I'll.
Mic's gone.
Try again. Prima.
No.
Oh, this means. Look, what I can say is right. Freeman couldn't get to have his say. I don't think we can hear you still, although you've unmuted so Freeman didn't get to have his say and Niraj did not really dance. Okay. You didn't really get up and dance. We're gonna have to do this again.
I couldn't really do it. It's bad for my back. There's nowhere high to put my computer.
That's no excuse.
I'm still dancing.
This is just telling us that we do have to at least come again, come together again one day. Definitely. So, Freeman, I'm so sorry, but thank you so much for. For joining us. Thank you.
All right, Amber, you're gonna have to clear your throat and please read the messages because I don't think I will be able to do it and I don't cry pretty so I'd rather Amber just read them out, please. Amber, you could join us. For anybody who doesn't know, Amber's my daughter and she, she will be looking after you once I step away. Amber, if you can unmute, you.
Can you hear me now?
Yes, we can. Thank you, Amber.
Yeah, there's so many beautiful comments. I'll just read out a couple of them.
Please do.
Yeah. Tammy, one of our instructors, she's written such a beautiful day filled with the purest form of love war. Your belief in me gave me the courage to believe in my wings.
Another one from Ashley. So much love on your new adventure. You'll be very missed. Love to you. Hope to still see you on some. Some of the sessions.
From another member. My first time here. What a wonderful group. You're a beautiful soul. There's loads of beautiful messages coming for you and also wishing Neeraj a happy birthday.
Thank you, Amber.
Thank you so much.
Anyone else want to come on?
I think a lot of. Yeah, they've written in the box. I will, I will leave my message to you guys inside Facebook. Oh, Simon, Simon wants to say something.
Go for it.
Hi Simon, could you like to unmute please?
Hey, that was awesome. Thank you. Navaj and Wilma, we've spoken. You are. You have been my face of so much since I've joined. Every Sunday. I know we've talked. You are awesome and amazing and whatever you do in the future, I know you'll be awesome at.
Thank you so much, Simon. Thank you. It's great connecting.
Simon. Looking well mate.
Get alive very soon. You're going to do Sunday very, very soon. Amber's got you down so make sure I. I come to that. Thank you, Simon. And yeah, everybody, I will leave my message to you guys inside Facebook. So Amber, if you could please, this is the moment to Join Facebook. If you haven't joined, do one more. My plug for, say, for sober breath, this amazing tribe. Please do. Please do.
Join it. And I will leave my message there. I'm looking to see if I think if I can read it or not. I'm not sure if I can, but we'll see. Should I try?
Yes.
I said yes. Okay, I will. I will. I will try. Okay. But if I. I will stop when, when I. When I can't do any more, and then I'll continue on on Facebook. But basically I just. I just put something down because a lot of you wrote to me. You were asking me, some. Some of you, and you were asking me how I got into this, this. Others were just, you know, sending me your love and everything. So I just wanted to know how, what this ride has been for me. And like, I started today, you know, it's been a wild ride with you guys. And I was like, I said to Niraj, a raving fan just like you all, like all of this amazing community. And Neeraj spotted me and he invited me to look after some of these smaller Facebook groups.
Groups.
And it wasn't enough for me. That wasn't enough.
Right.
I. I just, I had too many ideas. I was bursting with too many things. I had more to give connections to, make testimonials together.
So I eventually progressed to the big Facebook group. Couldn't believe it, and to our internal work channels as well, and started to meet the team. And I became your community manager. And my dream was to mold a community with the members and our fabulous instructors and just get you guys closer together. And I got to know you all and have made some lifelong friends worldwide. And as much as you say I have supported you and nurtured you, I want you to know that I also feel very, very loved by our community. And our community is thriving from where it was when I, when I came to it three years ago. I was then invited by a co founder, Gary, to host the Live. And our connection grew even stronger. We became closer and bigger and we got, as a company, huge compared to where we were before and compared to where the guys were in the island in Thailand where it all started. And as our community grew stronger, we never lost our bond in that growth. And that's, I think, what's magical about this, that is that we stayed and we've grown from strength to strength. Following that, I got an invitation to manage our incredible membership program. From the first day it launched, I began to tailor it, listen to your feedback, came up with the Concept of power hour, Move togethers brought in qigong and theme discussions. I then wanted to make sure you practiced often. So I offered a live every other day with movement in between so that you never, ever lost that Soma Breath effect, that magical effect. And again, I made some incredible connections and connections that will always be there. And I want to thank Gary and Niraj for putting their trust in me to handle this baby which was the membership that would one day grow up and become our incredible app. I wanted to wait until that app was launched. Such a proud, proud thing that you've done, Neeraj, and I hope it just grows from strength to strength. And the thing that some of you have been putting in the comments and Simon just said with being the face of Soma Breath, I mean, that touched me so much because.
It was actually from our face to face communication online that I became that I was, I was. I just realized I was never on a graphic. So that. Or on a photo or, or on, you know, on any of the lives and, and announcements. So just feeling that love from you and seeing that I represent presented this amazing, amazing company and their mission and what it was to grow together with them. I mean, it just touched my heart and I will take that away with me and wish you all as well the best. You are my tribe, so I'm not going to go anywhere too far. And the company is evolving and growing and that always brings changes. This year was a little bit quiet for me, me and I know I'm just not someone who can keep still. So although I am a busy mum of three kids and a wife, you know, I have all this energy and drive and to. And passion which I like to put into something and let's find out what that something is going to be. But like I said, you are always my tribe and I will love you always. We will always stay connected. And so after almost 300 lives later, I have to say decided to step away, I would like to say temporarily. We'll hit that pause button, Niraj. I believe the door will always be open, right, Niraj? That's right.
Yes, yes.
Good.
So much love to you all. I really, really, I'm gonna miss you guys and miss. Miss this energy and vibe that we have every Sunday. I managed to read it. It was good. I'm proud of myself for that. Thank you everybody for all your love and wishes. I will get back in touch with you.
You.
All right? Wow. It's an end. End of an era.
Start of a new one.
Yes, indeed, indeed.
So, you know, everything Changes. That's the nature of the game. As opp.
I might become the raving fan on Facebook again.
Yeah.
Might have to make a separate profile so you don't know it's her.
You can still do that if you want.
That's.
Me to do that.
Awesome. I love it. All right, well, this was great gathering and thank you everybody for showing up.
I think the music came out. It was a good blend of the old and new.
That's right. It was beautiful. I really loved it. It's amazing. The music is the thing. The magic, the icing on the cake. Everything, you know, and everywhere I go, Neeraj, I cannot do a gym club class without wanting to go and change the music. It's like, this is not the music. I cannot do yoga anymore in. Outside. I have to do it myself without music.
So. Wow.
Maybe I will become that instructor and just take it out there, you know?
That's a good idea.
Very good.
There you go. New calling, I think.
I think I've already got level one and two. I know it all, so I think. Yeah. Yeah. I actually had to stop going to the gym for a while because I just could not. I couldn't cope with. The music selection was awful, the guidance was awful. And I was like, you need Soma Breath here.
Well, that's it. That's what we're about. Well, I went to a big festival yesterday called Medicine Festival, and It's in the UK and it's something like 10,000 people, all very similar. But it was amazing how many people. People know Summer Breath who. Coming up to me randomly. And, you know, there was. There was a lot of. A lot of buzz around it, so. And that's, you know, really not what I expected, so I couldn't even.
I'm surprised. You're surprised.
I couldn't go from one spot to another, like, without somebody soften me. So that's pretty cool.
Like, very cool, actually. Yes. We do have one thing in Spanish is pendiente. One thing. What does that mean? One thing left to do. And that's for me to one day be on the stage with you. And I will. I will present you one day on. On a huge stage in English or in Spanish, and we'll make it happen for sure.
Yeah, that was.
That was my. I haven't ticked that one off my list.
Okay.
We got.
We did a. We did it a little bit in.
In Ivy, though. A mini rehearsal. Yeah, there was no rehearsal for that one, actually. But anyway. Yeah, no, that was great. So thank you. Thank you for everything.
Thank you so much, Wilma, for all your hard work, effort, everything you've done. It's not an easy job. So, yeah, onwards and upwards. And to the future.
Raise that level of vibrational energy. Always, guys. Always. Okay? Remember that. Love you for the magic within. You know you will find it. Okay, take care everyone. Bye.
Yeah, love you all.
Peace.
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