THE WANDERLUSTERS MIND PODCAST

Abby Lewtas 26/6/18 Abby Lewtas 26/6/18

Sora Surya No - Travelling intentionally, uncovering rituals and leading sacred circles.

Sora Surya No is a sacred space holder, strategy alchemist, transformative business coach, international retreat leader, inspirational speaker, fire igniter, heart whisperer, and world traveler. She works with sovereign awakened women entrepreneurs to incorporate the art of feeling sacred into their business through rituals, ceremonies, and the divine feminine. Sora loves to sit in ceremony with sisters and share the art of holding circle. She leads women through powerful experiences in her mastermind, on retreats, and from the stage. Sora blends real world experience with mystical transformation, ritualistic practices, inner reflection, and deepening community to help soulful feminine leaders create great impact while priestessing their life. She is a believer of sisterhood and living a life that is wild, free, and calm. You can find out more about Sora and her work at www.sorasuryano.com.

Sora Surya No has always been a traveller at heart. She was called to hold circles and now travels the world leading sacred ceremonies for her sisterhood.

About Sora

Sora Surya No is a sacred space holder, strategy alchemist, transformative business coach, international retreat leader, inspirational speaker, fire igniter, heart whisperer, and world traveler.

She works with sovereign awakened women entrepreneurs to incorporate the art of feeling sacred into their business through rituals, ceremonies, and the divine feminine.

Sora loves to sit in ceremony with sisters and share the art of holding circle. She leads women through powerful experiences in her mastermind, on retreats, and from the stage. Sora blends real world experience with mystical transformation, ritualistic practices, inner reflection, and deepening community to help soulful feminine leaders create great impact while priestessing their life. She is a believer of sisterhood and living a life that is wild, free, and calm. You can find out more about Sora and her work at www.sorasuryano.com.

“Being nomadic and travelling a lot...it’s a lot of energy you’re constantly on the go and you’re constantly mindful of your awareness of things around you.”

— Sora Surya No

When coming home...

Emotions Sora faced - Boredom, Cave in and turned into an introvert, Sometimes the best thing to do was to travel again.
Challenges Sora faced from travel - Living in a location is more challenging than travelling through, recognising herself being judgemental of people when she was travelling.
How Sora supported herself - Learning about her own cycles, finding community and friends, learning to create new experiences of travel whilst at home, creating intentions for travel, creating rituals, finding ways to feel grounded, do the things that helped prepare her to have a good routine (find the good coffee shops, yoga classes, health food shop). When Sora has a desire or frustrated about home she realised it is time to go somewhere new.
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock

We are all similar in our worries and our fears….this gives us the opportunity to feel more connected.
Deeper understanding of self and that you can be closed off and to recognise that you need to be open for the greatest gifts to occur.
Feeling a deeper respect for herself and her connection to earth - learning about the medicine of earth.

Advise to herself for returning home - Honour and be grateful for your experience and travels, acknoledge the lessons you have learned and apply them to your everyday life.

“What do I have to learn from the land and its people and can I do it with a lot reverence so that I am feeling that I am learning and getting more out of it than ticking a box.”

— Sora Surya No

Natalie Roberts-Mazzeo - Leaving the corporate world for the Mediterranean, India and a spiritual journey.

Natalie left the corporate world and set off for Europe where she immersed herself in the Mediterranean countries of Turkey and Greece. For six months she lived in a treehouse, swam in the ocean, ate delicious food and learned about the local culture. She then headed to London to start a working holiday visa which didn't quite go to plan. She found herself packing up again and heading to India where she spent 6 months in Rishikesh practicing yoga and planting her spiritual seeds.

Leaving the corporate world to follow her calling to Europe and India, Natalie returned home to pursue her life of adventures and helping Miracle Mamas.

About Natalie

Natalie Roberts-Mazzeo is the founder of Miracle Mama, an online sanctuary that empowers and inspires mothers who are raising special needs children. Through coaching, community and connection, Natalie’s mission is to create a space for women to reconnect with themselves and what is most important to them.

Natalie is also a writer and speaker, based in Melbourne, Australia. She love’s a good chai, mojito and getting out into nature. Natalie also has a background in corporate, and is a qualified yoga and meditation teacher.

What Natalie is really known for is gathering, soulfully supporting and holding space for women who find themselves raising a child with conditions from mild to severe, to life-threatening. She supports them to find purpose and peace in their extraordinarily challenging circumstances, so that they can bring that love and compassion not only to their own families, but also to themselves.

“That sense of adventure and connection to mother nature has just been woven through my life.”

— Natalie Roberts-Mazzeo

When coming home...

Emotions Natalie faced - Unsettling time, the challenge was in merging her two lives together, it was a hard thing to work through.
Biggest stress - Felt like she was starting from scratch again, like her foundation was gone, Finances, pressures from society.
How Natalie supported herself - Get out and explore the cultures she had experienced in Melbourne. Tried to keep her sense of adventure. Yoga and Meditation.
How her thinking changed - learned to keep an open mind and push herself out of her comfort zone.
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock

Adaptable and Resilate
Appreciating different cultures and making the most of your time travelling
Getting out of your comfort zone

Advise to herself for returning home - keep your mind open and keep living your life on your times and enjoy the ride.

“I’ve always liked to test my personal limits my limits have always been at the edges of full on fear.”

— Natalie Roberts-Mazzeo

Ways to move through Reverse Culture and Re-Entry shock

Its that common feeling so many face, after returning home from the trip of a lifetime you arrive back home and, as if in a blink of an eye, it feels like your entire life has changed. Initially there is that excitement phase of seeing family and friends moves pretty fast and all of a sudden you thinking to yourself ‘what next?’ For sure everyone around you is asking ‘so, what are you going to do now?’

6 common things people to do help them move through reverse culture and re entry shock.

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

— Ibn Battuta

Ways to cope with moving home.

Its that common feeling so many face, after returning home from the trip of a lifetime you arrive back home and, as if in a blink of an eye, it feels like your entire life has changed.

Initially there is that excitement phase of seeing family and friends moves pretty fast and all of a sudden you thinking to yourself ‘what next?’ For sure everyone around you is asking ‘so, what are you going to do now?’

After working with and speaking to travellers who had experienced this feeling of Reverse Culture shock, I found a common theme of things they do to integrate back into their home country. Of course with everything, there are pros and cons, take what you like and leave the rest. The 6 most common things, that I have found, people use to move through reverse culture shock are.

6 things you can do to move through reverse culture and re-entry shock

Plan the next big trip.
Get back into routine.
Talk to family and friends.
Get involved with the community and attending events.
Move cities.
Seeking professional help

Mindset - Why its important for travellers.

Mindset is a ‘way of thinking’ and opinions. This way of thinking predetermines your response to and interpretation of situations. How you perceive things.Travelling exposes you to an extensive array situations, people and circumstances that helps you to broaden your way of thinking and approach life with a more open mindset.

Make a choice to achieve something, commit and stay consistent and manifest your success by focussing on your mind.

“Change the way you look at things and the way you look at things change.”

— Wayne Dyer

What is Mindset?

Mindset is a ‘way of thinking’ and opinions. This way of thinking predetermines your response to and interpretation of situations. How you perceive things.

Travelling exposes you to an extensive array situations, people and circumstances that helps you to broaden your way of thinking and approach life with a more open mindset.

Upon returning home its easy to see how much you have changed as many of those around you still have a similar mindset to your old one.

But it can also be difficult if you experience the reverse culture shock, to build a mindset that really supports you through the transition and thats what Im going to be talking about today.

3 steps to creating your mindset

Make a choice of achieve something (a goal) and get clear about what that looks like for you.
Commit and stay consistent.
Manifest your success by focusing your mind.

What emotions you will face when returning from long term travel.

The top 6 emotions people face when experiencing Reverse Culture Shock. Unease, unsettled and sadness, empty, Excited and happy, Lost, trapped, confused, At first it's nice to catch up with friends and family, Dull and boring, flat, mundane.

The top 6 emotions people face when experiencing Reverse Culture Shock.

Top emotions you can expect to face

Unease, unsettled and sadness, empty
Excited and happy
Lost, trapped, confused
At first it's nice to catch up with friends and family
Dull and boring, flat, mundane

Tips to work through these emotions.

Unease, unsettled and sadness, empty.

Tip: journal write about this, talk to those close to you, seek help, other things you can do.

Excited and happy.

Tip: embrace this feeling and emotions and really step into it. Start to find a focus that makes you want to get up for every day career, project, hobby, relationship, lifestyle.

Lost, trapped, confused.

Tip: determine where this feeling is coming from may be through Journal write, meditation, turn inwards for answers. What area of your life do you feel this way career, finance, relationships, health.

At first it's nice to catch up with friends and family.

Tip: don’t let this be the only place. Meet them where they are at and don’t expect that everyone will relate and understand your experience. Be interested in what they have been doing in their life whilst you have been away.

Tip: know that some relationships will change, continue to seek new relationships and friendships with like minded people, it is something you would have done on your time abroad so keep embracing it. Know that you too have changed a great deal so some relationships will change. It’s ok to let go of relationships that no longer serve you.

Dull and boring, flat, mundane

Tip: find a focus, seek newness in your own home, how can you bring inspirations from your travels into your home life, adventure every day.

Pip Honour - A wellness journey and a travelling adventure.

Pip Honour is a Wellness Coach and Meditation Teacher. She works with women 1:1 and in groups to help them create more Confidence, Clarity and Calm in their worlds. Her work is grounded in the belief that transforming your mindset will create positive and lasting change.

Pip went on a six month adventure spending 2 months in Europe - Italy, Croatia, France, Germany and Hungary, 1 month in South Africa, 1 month in India and 1 month in Sri Lanka before returning to Australia to grow her life coaching business.

Creating a confident body image, mindset and setting up her own business during her travels through Europe, South Africa, India and Sri Lanka.

About Pip

“What I’ve experienced is to be treasured by me.”

— Pip Honour

When coming home...

Emotions Pip faced - Excitement and nervousness although felt ready to return home. Deflated. Frustration.
What had changed - Her work and work environment from corporate to her own business. Not having a regular monthly pay check.
How Pip supported herself - She got a puppy and took time to be appreciative for everything she had.
How did her mindset change - Gained perspective. She didn't need a lot to live life.
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock