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You said Paul is the fastest man on the planet. You can live your dream! Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Inside Success podcast. I'm your host, Jason Tyler, and I am joined here today by Chelsea and or Ava Elizabeth. Now, it's Ava to those that know her. I just met her, but I'm going to go with Ava for this one. So, you know, for the editors, just make sure you put Ava in her title card, all right? So Ava, do me a favor. For the people who are just now getting to know you, they're seeing you on screen now for the first time, give me kind of a synopsis about your sanctuary spa. Give me a synopsis on who's Ava, who am I joined here with today? Yeah, well, I do want to talk a little bit about the whole name thing. So Chelsea Elizabeth is the name that I was born with. It's my born name. But through the evolution of my own self-development and becoming who I am today, I feel like Ava fits me a little bit better. And why do you why do we have to keep the names that we were born with? Got it. Got it. Got it. So talk to me a little bit about your business, the sanctuary spa. I want to know what got you into it, what made you so passionate about it. And I know you and I spoke a little bit before the cameras were on about the differences between allopathic medicine and Western medicine. And we'll get into that in a little bit because I still don't know what allopathic means. But for now, walk me into how you started this business. Sayla Sanctuary is a boutique wellness spa that I've created. Sayla actually means pause and breathe in Hebrew. And sanctuary is a safe place of refuge. So I am an esthetician by trade. And I have created an integrative, which I can explain, medical spa that incorporates the whole person. So I don't just treat the outer appearance, but I treat the inner self. So you're creating like a whole experience versus just a simple service that you're providing, right? Everything from top to bottom, when people are walking into your space, you're treating them inside and out. Yes, we're treating the whole person. Mind, body and soul. Yeah, because, but we have the, all the technologies of that Western science has to offer. I'm under a medical director. Most med spas that you go to are very superficial. So you go in for your Botox, you go in for your lasers, they burn your face off, or freeze your face and you leave rejuvenated or frozen and looking great. But they don't really treat the inner self. And I believe as an esthetician and someone that focuses in longevity and wellness that the emotional state is really tied to your physical appearance. So at say, last sanctuary, we also care for the mind, the spirit, the emotions, as well as the physical. I would love to get your take on this. Actually, do you feel that our inner state of being has a direct correlation to our outward appearance, right? When you're feeling crunchy on the inside, you start to look a little crunchy on the outside. Do you find that there's a correlation between those? Oh yeah, it's science fact. I knew it. I knew it. All right, cut the show. That's it. I figured out everything here that I need to know. But talk to me a little bit because you mentioned Western medicine again. So I want to just do a deep dive here on the differences between allopathic and Western medicine. But first, I need a definition of what allopathic means. Allopathic medicine is the study of disease. So that's what we focus here in, that's what we focus on in the West is we focus on the study of disease. We don't study, we don't focus on the study of health. And health is wealth. And so when we're focusing on the study of disease, would you say that we're not focused? I have this thing that I talk with my friends about all the time that in this country or at least in the West, we have a weird relationship between cause and effect. Everybody treats for the effect and nobody wants to trace the effect back to root cause. What would you say to that? What's the process behind that? Well, in the West, if you talk to any nurse or anyone that has worked in the whole world, in the hospitals, they will tell you how backwards our system is. There is a saying, if I get it correctly, and it says that energy flows where attention goes. And so if you are always focused on disease, then that is what's going to be expanded. It's almost like, I don't, because I don't know that I'm sick, I'm not focused on being sick. And therefore the sickness ever becomes the focal point. Once my energy, once I know that I'm sick, all of a sudden all my symptoms are 10 X, right? All of a sudden all my attention is on, oh my God, I can't breathe through my nose. My nose, I went from, you know, I had a slight little bit of clog and one nostril and now I'm clogged all the way up. I had a little bit of mucus and now I'm just, I can't stop coughing. It goes to what you're talking about, in that you are, as soon as you start to focus on it and really put your mental energy towards it, now you're exacerbating the issue. Yeah, well I think it goes back to what we're taught and what we're educated on. I have a fascination with the body because it's literally endless. There's so much that we don't know about the body and even the brain that western medicine really hasn't even dove into, but we are taught with doctors to focus on disease. We're not taught how to focus on health and so that bleeds into just like our society and our culture and you can see everywhere with our food and lifestyle and it's not even diet. It's also our productivity and we're just not taught how to live in a healthful way, but it's not that the information isn't out there. So that's why I've dedicated the last four years I'm getting a bachelor's in alternative medicine just so I have like a rooted background on these things that I'm so passionate about. And so I've been kind of getting an umbrella overview and a look in traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine and they focus on preventative health. They dive deep into the circadian rhythm of the body and how the emotional state affects the physical state like we were talking about before. I mean you can even, I've seen within myself if I'm in an uncomfortable space or in an uncomfortable social space or in a photo shoot and I feel uncomfortable and I feel unsafe, my body, my nervous system, my sympathetic nervous system is going to rev up and then I'm going to either go into fight, flight or freeze. A lot of the times I go into freeze. So you'll see my face shot up or like try and hide and versus if you're in a relaxed state where you feel comfortable and you feel safe, your whole body relaxes and your parasympathetic nervous system is able to get into gear. And so it's very, very tangible how you feel versus how you look and it goes back to education. It goes back to the fact that we're just not taught how our bodies function and you would think we would be born knowing how to eat and how to sleep and how to function but all of these things are learned and being in a Western society we're just not taught. And we're also in an incentives driven society. There's incentives everywhere you look, right? The incentive behind providing treatment versus addressing root cause is that there's a monetary gain to be had and we could listen, I could go down the rabbit hole on this and talk about the pharmaceutical industry at length. But like there's a financial incentive there to all right, well you have this issue, you have this disease and I'm going to treat it with this medication and we're going to medicate to offset the negative aspects of this disease but we're not going to treat the root cause actually. Because root causation, if I were to treat that then you don't need to come back here again. Yeah, it's not even that simple though. It's the fact that we go to doctors for answers and there's definitely a place for Western medicine and for those pills and like diabetes and even things like thyroid that it is really good to have that sort of support but when it comes to root cause there's not just one root cause and it might be multiple factors and multiple things and there's multiple, there can be multiple so in traditional Chinese medicine they don't think about, they think about disease differently. It comes out as I want to say aspects or yeah different ways of manifestation and so these manifestations can't like multiple manifestations can equal one certain disease so it's just it's not, it's we go to doctors wanting to get answers when they don't have the answers and so they're doing the best that they can with the resources that they can but at the end of the day they're not taught either. Are they just kind of using and you know my dad's a doctor but he's a psychologist and so the way that he puts it when I first got out of high school my first job was as a mechanic so I worked as a mechanic for about four years and the big part of my job was providing diagnostics so I would, there would be an issue, a client would bring their car to me and the car would have an issue and I would trace that issue back to wherever, this is where I get the idea of root cause but I would trace that issue back to like if it was an electrical issue and you know your your check engine light was popping and it was popping a code for an O2 sensor that's rooted back towards your exhaust then I would go check that O2 sensor and then if the O2 sensor was still good then that would tell me that somewhere between the O2 sensor and the ECU, the electronic control unit there's a miscommunication happening here and so now I have to trace my way through that system to find where that miscommunication is happening and it's very similar to how we practice medicine at least here in the west in that you go to the doctor and you tell them your issue and then they the doctor might have a slew of questions for you based on how you're feeling, what's your diet like, how much sleep are you getting, X, Y and Z and then they're going to use deductive reasoning to try and give you a solution based on what you know their best evidence is based on their training right? How do we make that system better? Yeah so the thing is is that a lot of the times the doctors don't have the answers and so they do the best that they can with the resources that they can to help but what I create space for is that I think that our bodies have the wisdom and our bodies are always talking to us so something that I teach is I call the language of the body and so just like when you're in a relationship and there's red flags popping up everywhere and you choose not to see the red flags and then the relationship blows up and you're in a state of depression for a year that's not necessarily needed if you're able to see those red flags and same with the body. The body is always speaking to you. It might even show up as heart palpitations, shortness of breath, anxiety. It manifests many times its pain and so when we're able to give the body space and we're able to listen to the body then you will start everything that you need is within yourself and so when we slow down and kind of create the space for people to tap into themselves to be able to listen to their body for that kind of natural guidance and wisdom. There's not a container for or a system for people to be allowed to listen to their body for a long enough period of time to affect the kind of change that they might need like let's say for example you know you're working an office job and it's really hard on your nervous system right and so you're you don't have the ability or the time working nine to five going home you sleep you don't have that enough time in the week to just regulate or regulate your nervous system and when your nervous system isn't regulated you have trouble concentrating you have trouble you know you're not eating correctly because you're eating once a day because you think that's the right thing to do and all of that compounds and then we don't have a container in society to be able to say hey hey for the people who are experiencing this thing a misregulated nervous system like we have a thing for that you guys you know there should be a system by which you can take a take a sabbatical and we're going to put you in somewhere like your sanctuary and this is a place where you can go specifically to regulate your nervous system yeah get into your body stop slow down breathe for a second and then come back properly you know in your body right and another thing that I'm very passionate about is um learning how to feel our emotions and the concept of numbing and a numbing free lifestyle so that's another thing that we're not taught which I think is really important is learning how to feel through hearty emotions a lot of times let's say you work a nine to five and you are overexerted and feeling burnt out it's normal to feel tired all the time it's normal to feel fatigued most people dissociate right they spend eight hours a day in a dissociative state right which is not good yeah and actually those feelings those hard feelings that we don't want to feel they are teachers and they are areas of growth and so that's something else that um I do within the art of aging is kind of create these containers where um you can be vulnerable about how you're feeling and you can be witnessed in how you're feeling and we can kind of learn to move through these emotions so that we're not suppressing them and actually you know if you are on a healing journey there's you know if you are familiar with you know somatic awareness and the fascia that we hold our experiences within our body and so if you are you know in your 30s and you start to um realize that you're holding on to things and conditioning from your childhood and you and you start your healing journey right and um there's times when you have to feel these emotions that have been suppressed and it's not easy and so um you know it's very easy to numb and that is something else that I kind of do is make space and room for that and um also as you're saying stopping pausing breathing coming back more rejuvenated right it's more of learning safety within the body how to feel safe because that's how the body like really thrives through that feeling of safety for everybody that's out there listening and for our audience where can people go if they want to learn more about you well instagram of course shout out everybody's favorite social media I am say la which is s e l a h underscore integrative underscore med spa it's a lot of underscores yeah ladies and gentlemen but I'm gonna make sure that we have that on the screen for you guys and my website and um I'm located in charleston south carolina but also do online containers got you got you so guys if you are still watching at this point and you're wondering you know where can I go uh see more of ava's story how she got to this place make sure that you guys are gonna go check out her episode of women in power I can't I personally can't wait to go see it I'm probably gonna be the one editing it but who knows who knows what the future holds but again this is inside success tv I'm your host Jason Tyler joined by ava and we will see you guys in the next one
