Stay Young and Fit with Flexibility Training by Stacey Nemour

Shelly Johnson
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This is Women Road warriors with Shelly Johnson and Kathy Tucaro.
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From the corporate office to the cab of a truck, they're here to inspire and empower women in all professions.
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So gear down, sit back and enjoy.
Kathy Tucaro
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Welcome.
Kathy Tucaro
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We're an award winning show dinner dedicated to empowering women in every profession through inspiring stories and expert insights.
Kathy Tucaro
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Kathy Tucaro
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I'm Shelly and this is Kathy.
Kathy Tucaro
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Everybody wants to be healthy and youthful and continue to do what they always have without the aches and pains that seem to come along through the years.
Kathy Tucaro
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Too often people aren't able to move around the way they used to when they get older, that impacts quality of life.
Kathy Tucaro
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International flexibility guru and martial artist Stacey Nemour shows people how to take their power back.
Kathy Tucaro
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She says flexibility is the key to longevity and is what truly determines how healthy and youthful we are.
Kathy Tucaro
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Sitting all day is very bad and poor posture is a modern day epidemic.
Kathy Tucaro
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For over 30 years, Stacy has custom designed flexibility injury prevention and recovery programs for top Olympians, established established actors, UFC champions, figure skaters, pro athletes, gymnasts and Cirque du Soleil performers.
Kathy Tucaro
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Stacy's been featured on Fox Sports, the Sky Channel, Kung Fu Magazine, Power Rangers, Lake Arrowhead magazine and many other publications.
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She has online masterclasses in flexibility makeovers.
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Stacy's been on our show before and we were wowed by her then and can't wait to share her knowledge again with our listeners.
Kathy Tucaro
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Welcome back, Stacy.
Shelly Johnson
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Hi, Stacy.
Shelly Johnson
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I'm laughing already.
Shelly Johnson
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I just feel the love of you too.
Shelly Johnson
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You guys are the best.
Shelly Johnson
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Well, thank you.
Kathy Tucaro
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Oh gosh, Stacy, you are a wealth of knowledge and what you do, like I said, it's amazing.
Kathy Tucaro
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I know Kathy had a private session with you on flexibility for releasing trauma.
Kathy Tucaro
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Take your power back.
Kathy Tucaro
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Before we talk about that, I wanted to have you give our listeners a brief background of all that you do and how you got started.
Kathy Tucaro
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You really practice what you preach.
Kathy Tucaro
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The flexibility you have is just astounding.
Kathy Tucaro
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You can bend in ways I never thought possible in places where I think I would break.
Shelly Johnson
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You know.
Kathy Tucaro
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You bring some tremendous life changing techniques to your clients.
Kathy Tucaro
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Tell us more.
Shelly Johnson
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Okay.
Shelly Johnson
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When I was a child, I realized it now more and more.
Shelly Johnson
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I had an innate knowing of how to get myself flexible.
Shelly Johnson
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I had this neighbor and we would do gymnastics all day long on the grass and we had a race to see who could get the splits first, a back bend or in a straddle stretch, you know, with your chest flat down.
Shelly Johnson
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And I Saw the steps of how to get there then.
Shelly Johnson
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And so as I got older, I saw people practicing kung fu.
Shelly Johnson
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I got.
Shelly Johnson
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I got asked to teach advanced kung.
Shelly Johnson
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Kung fu students flexibility.
Shelly Johnson
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So flexibility kind of found me.
Shelly Johnson
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I was in the martial arts.
Shelly Johnson
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Well, I got pulled in the martial arts when I got asked to show advanced kung fu students how to do.
Shelly Johnson
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Be more flexible, to do all the tricks in their sets.
Shelly Johnson
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And I got goosebumps when I saw them practicing.
Shelly Johnson
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And I knew it would be my life path, so I went on the path of martial arts.
Shelly Johnson
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But what's interesting was I could do the splits on the floor, but I couldn't kick straight up.
Shelly Johnson
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That didn't translate.
Shelly Johnson
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So within me was born a new system.
Shelly Johnson
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I was guided.
Shelly Johnson
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Even though I was taking privates from the great Chinese masters, I was guided how to integrate the flexibility in every way possible to have a better range of motion and to recover faster and to do it without pain.
Shelly Johnson
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So I've been doing this over four decades, and what has stayed with me, which I think really has helped me now kick higher than I ever have and jump higher, is I read a book by Deepak Chopra, Ageless mind, timeless body.
Shelly Johnson
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And he always said to have a meditation age where you sit in that age and ignore your.
Shelly Johnson
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The years that are flying by.
Shelly Johnson
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Because I decided not to believe in decline in any way, shape, or form, because I work so hard to get this level of physicality.
Shelly Johnson
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And I wanted it to be an example to everybody else that we don't have to fall apart when we hit 50.
Shelly Johnson
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Because I noticed people expect to fall apart.
Shelly Johnson
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They expect their hair to turn gray and to get tight.
Shelly Johnson
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And then later on, it's always talked about, I fell and broke my hip, and I had to have hip surgery.
Shelly Johnson
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And there's a deep fascination around that with older people.
Shelly Johnson
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If you go to old folks homes, they're fascinated with all their medications.
Kathy Tucaro
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Oh, yeah.
Kathy Tucaro
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This.
Shelly Johnson
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This fall that people break their hip is actually due to two things.
Shelly Johnson
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One is a tight calf muscle.
Shelly Johnson
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The foot in the calf, is it stretched?
Shelly Johnson
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And the other one is the posture, because people now lean forward and they get that rounded back, and so the center of gravity is pulled off and you're being like, pulled forward.
Shelly Johnson
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So with a tight calf and that being pulled off and not walking in alignment, you just need to just hit a rock or miss a step and you fall.
Shelly Johnson
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So it's about opening your body through stretching, and that gets the energy flowing, and that clears up the posture, and then you can walk straight.
Shelly Johnson
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So that's some of it.
Kathy Tucaro
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Okay.
Kathy Tucaro
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Yeah, I remember As a kid, my mom always said, you know, sit up straight, posture, posture, you know, I kind of had that pounded into my head.
Kathy Tucaro
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And when you think about it, a lot of people, like you said, it's mindset.
Kathy Tucaro
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You hear people expecting, well, I'm not as young as I used to be.
Kathy Tucaro
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They're setting themselves up.
Kathy Tucaro
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And I like the idea of thinking, you know, young.
Kathy Tucaro
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You know, just put yourself in a particular age.
Kathy Tucaro
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So essentially, if we want to be 21 in our heads, that will influence us, won't it?
Shelly Johnson
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Well, yeah.
Shelly Johnson
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When you meditate or sit and center yourself, there's an energy, there's a you.
Shelly Johnson
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We're all energy.
Shelly Johnson
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And if we have a frequency of decline, an old person, Archie, our energy is not flowing.
Shelly Johnson
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But if you go and you set a meditation age, that feels right to you, maybe when you are at that very height of your being in every way and you sit in that, what you do is feel the energy of what that felt like and you carry that frequency.
Shelly Johnson
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And the body is a map of the mind and what you believe.
Kathy Tucaro
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I like that.
Shelly Johnson
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And also these days, like, like we mentioned, sitting is called the new smoking and there's a epidemic.
Stacy Nemour
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I didn't hear that before, but I like it.
Shelly Johnson
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Yeah, it's interesting they're calling that now.
Shelly Johnson
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Isn't that funny?
Shelly Johnson
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That posture is an epidem and I work with clients from age 7 to 90 plus.
Shelly Johnson
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And what I'm seeing now is children with spines of an 80 year old.
Shelly Johnson
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Oh, rounded.
Shelly Johnson
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Because every.
Shelly Johnson
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Everybody's on their phone all day.
Shelly Johnson
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Rounded on their computer, video games.
Shelly Johnson
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And then there's also something called tech neck.
Kathy Tucaro
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I was going to say tech neck.
Kathy Tucaro
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I've heard of that.
Shelly Johnson
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Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
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So they're all connected, but it's just when your posture goes, you can't breathe as deeply.
Shelly Johnson
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You breathe in fight or flight mode.
Shelly Johnson
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Up in, up in your upper, above your chest there.
Shelly Johnson
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And that's kind of a nervous energy.
Shelly Johnson
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We want to breathe all the way to the bottom of our stomach.
Shelly Johnson
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And that brings homeostasis to the body and clears asthma and certain things like that.
Shelly Johnson
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So it's all about the breath.
Shelly Johnson
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So when you're rounded, the energy isn't flowing.
Shelly Johnson
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And energy is what keeps us young.
Shelly Johnson
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It's our life force.
Shelly Johnson
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And that poor posture is linked to anxiety, poor sleep, a pot belly.
Shelly Johnson
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So the more you can sit up straight, the more energy you will have, the more oxygen goes to your brain.
Shelly Johnson
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There's so much to it.
Kathy Tucaro
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Wow.
Shelly Johnson
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Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
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So.
Kathy Tucaro
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Well, when you think about it, we weren't designed to sit like we do, and people Good.
Kathy Tucaro
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Majority of them sit all the time.
Kathy Tucaro
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They have to for their work.
Kathy Tucaro
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They're in front of computers.
Kathy Tucaro
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Children, of course, are sitting in classrooms.
Shelly Johnson
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And you're.
Kathy Tucaro
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You're right.
Kathy Tucaro
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People are stuck with their devices.
Kathy Tucaro
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And we weren't designed to do all of this.
Shelly Johnson
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Yeah, yeah, we're all.
Shelly Johnson
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Now, you know, most of us are designed to get the dopamine, dopamine hit from looking, you know, Scrolling online.
Kathy Tucaro
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Oh, man.
Kathy Tucaro
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Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
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Other than the endorphin high of going outside and, you know, like.
Shelly Johnson
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Like when I was a kid, all I did was play outside.
Shelly Johnson
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Me too.
Shelly Johnson
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Now kids are.
Shelly Johnson
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You know, it's great.
Shelly Johnson
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The wave of technology and how the next generation has hit the ground running and know all of that, but it's.
Shelly Johnson
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It's needs to be in balance.
Kathy Tucaro
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Yeah.
Kathy Tucaro
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Well, I've been amazed in my neighborhood how many kids are not outside.
Kathy Tucaro
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You know, kids are always making noise, and I love that sound.
Kathy Tucaro
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Where are they?
Kathy Tucaro
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They're inside.
Kathy Tucaro
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They're not outside running around.
Stacy Nemour
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They're in front of their games.
Kathy Tucaro
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Yeah.
Kathy Tucaro
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And the last place I wanted to be as a kid was stuck inside.
Kathy Tucaro
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You know, me too.
Kathy Tucaro
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In Michigan, when it was winter, I didn't like winter so much, but summertime, I was out there running around, constantly going, going, going.
Kathy Tucaro
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I was the ever ready rabbit, you know?
Shelly Johnson
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Exactly.
Shelly Johnson
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Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
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And I think that's why there's so much anxiety and depression in.
Shelly Johnson
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In kids up to adults, you know, there's more things than we ever heard of, you know, you know, with ADHD and, you know, all these different things and all these different medications that people are starting on so young and staying on through life.
Shelly Johnson
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Not to say that sometimes it isn't necessary, but it's also about getting back in the body and your natural flow of life.
Kathy Tucaro
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Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
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You know, and.
Shelly Johnson
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And finding your passions and not comparing yourself to everyone on social media.
Shelly Johnson
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And what my flexibility system does is put you back in your body.
Kathy Tucaro
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I love it.
Shelly Johnson
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Back in control of your instrument.
Kathy Tucaro
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Mm.
Kathy Tucaro
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That makes sense.
Kathy Tucaro
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I mean, we're stuck in these bodies.
Kathy Tucaro
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We need to take care of them, and we need to listen to them, and the body needs to work with us, too.
Kathy Tucaro
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Stacy, your insight is terrific.
Kathy Tucaro
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You have so many benefits with all of your training, like the one that you did with Kathy.
Kathy Tucaro
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Flexibility for releasing trauma.
Kathy Tucaro
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Take your power back.
Kathy Tucaro
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That's on video, by the way.
Kathy Tucaro
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Kathy, what was that like?
Kathy Tucaro
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I mean, I've seen some of the snippets of the video.
Kathy Tucaro
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It was amazing what Stacy was able to do with you.
Stacy Nemour
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Yeah, well, I wasn't really sure what I was going into like, I know Stacy and I mean, looking at her videos and all that she does, I'm thinking, oh my God.
Stacy Nemour
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My main goal really was to do the splits.
Stacy Nemour
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It's been a lifelong dream of mine.
Stacy Nemour
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I said I got to be able.
Shelly Johnson
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To do the splits.
Stacy Nemour
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So I've always, you know, I've tried and tried and I do yoga and, you know, sitting in equipment for 13 hours a day and only getting out once or twice a day to stretch.
Stacy Nemour
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And literally just when I say stretch, it's climbing down the stairs, going to the bathroom, climbing back in and having a nap, right?
Stacy Nemour
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So when I do that for 14 days a week, it's really hard on my body.
Stacy Nemour
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I mean, I'm 55.
Stacy Nemour
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The older I get, the harder it is.
Stacy Nemour
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I mean, the equipment's rough.
Stacy Nemour
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So I had recently started.
Stacy Nemour
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Well, last year I started actually when Covid hit because we weren't allowed to the gym.
Stacy Nemour
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I had started doing yoga in my room and I'd never really done yoga before.
Stacy Nemour
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So I found the difference in how I felt on a day to day basis from just doing a basic 20, 30 minute yoga stretch in the morning or in the evening, all depending on what shift I'm at, made a huge difference, not only in my posture but in how I felt.
Stacy Nemour
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And it helped my, my mental clarity, it helped my mental health.
Stacy Nemour
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It just, it just was beneficial all around.
Stacy Nemour
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So after we had Stacy on our show the first time around, I, I happened to move to la and she close to LA or in Lake Arrowhead, which is on top of the mountain behind Los Angeles.
Stacy Nemour
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So I'm like, hey, I always want to go to that lake, so let's.
Shelly Johnson
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Go check it out.
Stacy Nemour
00:13:01
So I made an appointment at her, at her house and man, like, I just thought maybe that it'd be a simple stretching session, right?
Stacy Nemour
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But no, no, no, no, no, no.
Stacy Nemour
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What Stacy was able to accomplish with not only my body, but more with my mental approach to flexibility went on a deep internal level.
Stacy Nemour
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And what I mean by that is that as we were progressing, how long was I there, Stacy?
Stacy Nemour
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An hour and a half?
Shelly Johnson
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Yeah, about an hour and a half.
Stacy Nemour
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Yeah.
Stacy Nemour
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So it sounds like nothing, but it's something.
Shelly Johnson
00:13:42
Oh, yeah.
Stacy Nemour
00:13:43
So from the, from, from the time I walked in just to doing the simple door stretches to just everything basic, well, I started feeling a more relaxed inner state of mind or inner peace, I guess I could say that just enabled me to stretch a little bit further and reach deeper into myself as I'm working with her to allow myself to open up.
Stacy Nemour
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And when I say open Up.
Stacy Nemour
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It wasn't just allowing my muscles to stretch further, but it was allowing my inner core, the deep inner core of Kathy, just to open my wings a little bit more and extend.
Stacy Nemour
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And we did the before and after pictures, and I still have it on my favorites list because I keep that picture as a reminder.
Shelly Johnson
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Like, oh, my God.
Stacy Nemour
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From the before, trying to do the splits and to that, the very end, at the hour and a half.
Stacy Nemour
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Well, son of a gun, I can't even begin to tell you how good that felt.
Stacy Nemour
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And it's not like it was painful or it's not like it didn't require any extra.
Stacy Nemour
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It just required a shift in my own personal focus.
Stacy Nemour
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And, yeah, I learned so much in that.
Stacy Nemour
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And so since then, I've been using that approach, that internalization approach to every time I do yoga.
Stacy Nemour
00:15:04
And I feel phenomenal.
Stacy Nemour
00:15:06
Like my body has gotten leaner, I guess you could say.
Stacy Nemour
00:15:10
And I feel a lot more balanced, if that makes sense.
Kathy Tucaro
00:15:16
That's phenomenal.
Kathy Tucaro
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One wouldn't think that you'd accomplish all of that in an hour and a half.
Shelly Johnson
00:15:22
I know, right?
Stacy Nemour
00:15:23
And I'm not.
Stacy Nemour
00:15:23
I'm not saying this just, you know, to butter Stacy up, and, you know, it.
Stacy Nemour
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This really happened.
Stacy Nemour
00:15:28
If anybody watches the videos, like, I'm sitting there.
Shelly Johnson
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So when I shoot courses, I want to make them real life.
Shelly Johnson
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I don't rehearse with anybody.
Shelly Johnson
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I have just walk in cold.
Shelly Johnson
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So whoever's doing the course will get the same experience.
Shelly Johnson
00:15:44
You know, the time it takes to figure out something or put on the stretch strap or the posture strap, and it's all in real time, and it's not.
Shelly Johnson
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Not edited out or anything.
Shelly Johnson
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So they're getting that same experience.
Shelly Johnson
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And you watch with each course.
Shelly Johnson
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If I have a guest, you watch them transform before your very eyes.
Stacy Nemour
00:16:05
Yeah, it's remarkable.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:07
And so with Kathy, I showed her the reason it wasn't painful is my system.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:13
Well, it's spiritually channeled.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:15
I get shown pictures of what the client needs, and I work on a very high energy frequency that produces an instantaneous healing.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:23
I almost override their consciousness.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:25
And I see them as completely well and the way exactly they want to be, which is their real self.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:31
And there's a certain order to do stretches in.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:35
People try to stretch and they go right to their hamstrings and they're like bouncing.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:39
They're like, oh, it'll never happen.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:41
And they give up.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:42
But you have to do a certain sequence.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:44
So by the time you get to the deeper areas, it's.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:49
It's like a Different experience.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:50
It's very, very easy once you open your back and your hips in your cat.
Shelly Johnson
00:16:55
And what happened during our session, too is Kathy mentioned in the afterthoughts that she had done a lot of inner work, but this was the first time she felt it leave her body physically.
Shelly Johnson
00:17:09
So this flexibility wrings out the stored trauma in the body, so it can finally leave even if you released it on different levels.
Shelly Johnson
00:17:18
And it always goes to our weakest area.
Shelly Johnson
00:17:21
And a lot of trauma is stored in the hips.
Shelly Johnson
00:17:23
So that's why a lot of people have a lot of lower back and hip pain, which then leads to knee pain and all kinds of other things.
Shelly Johnson
00:17:32
So the other thing is, is at 54, she was almost flat in her splits, which was so exciting.
Shelly Johnson
00:17:39
Yeah.
Kathy Tucaro
00:17:40
Oh, man.
Kathy Tucaro
00:17:41
Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
00:17:42
In that course, she was wanting to train for handstands.
Shelly Johnson
00:17:45
So remember we did a handstand segment.
Shelly Johnson
00:17:48
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Shelly Johnson
00:17:49
Walked up the wall and worked on that to also just stretch your power back.
Shelly Johnson
00:17:56
I know she was doing boxing, so we added some short boxing drills.
Stacy Nemour
00:18:01
Yep, that's right.
Shelly Johnson
00:18:03
And how to breathe in time.
Shelly Johnson
00:18:04
It's not difficult.
Shelly Johnson
00:18:05
Anybody could do it.
Shelly Johnson
00:18:06
And you can do it empty hand and add weights and get an upper body workout.
Shelly Johnson
00:18:10
So you're kind of working everything, mind, body, spirit, your muscles, your core and clearing your posture and releasing trauma, and you just feel much younger and lighter.
Shelly Johnson
00:18:23
And what's interesting with the client, and it happened with Kathy, when I'm working with somebody, I can feel all of a sudden in my body.
Shelly Johnson
00:18:31
I'll either feel like I'm going to cry or I'm going to laugh.
Shelly Johnson
00:18:33
And I feel waves and I look down and the same thing is happening to the client.
Shelly Johnson
00:18:38
And they actually, you know, get that euphoria or feel giddy or sometimes tears come out because something's that was buried so deep that they weren't ready to face yet can just lift out.
Shelly Johnson
00:18:51
So it's different with every person, but there's always something magical and transformative that happens.
Stacy Nemour
00:18:59
It was magical.
Stacy Nemour
00:19:00
It was a transformation.
Shelly Johnson
00:19:05
Stay tuned for more of women road warriors coming up.
Shelly Johnson
00:19:12
Dean Michael, the tax doctor here.
Shelly Johnson
00:19:14
I have one question for you.
Kathy Tucaro
00:19:16
Do you want to stop worrying about the irs?
Kathy Tucaro
00:19:18
If the answer is yes, then look no further.
Shelly Johnson
00:19:20
I've been around for years.
Shelly Johnson
00:19:22
I've helped countless people across the country.
Kathy Tucaro
00:19:24
And my success rate speaks for itself.
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00:20:21
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00:20:30
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00:21:03
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00:21:06
Stacy Nemour got her start teaching flexibility to Kung Fu students.
Kathy Tucaro
00:21:09
She knew it was going to be her life path.
Kathy Tucaro
00:21:11
She knows the absolute importance of a good posture and flexibility.
Kathy Tucaro
00:21:16
When you have poor posture, you're set for a decline.
Kathy Tucaro
00:21:19
Stacy studied the martial arts and learned the science of expanding range of motion.
Kathy Tucaro
00:21:24
She's custom designed flexibility injury prevention and recovery programs for top Olympians, established actors, UFC champions, figure skaters, pro athletes, gymnasts and Cirque du Soleil performers.
Kathy Tucaro
00:21:36
Stacy doesn't believe in decline in any shape or form.
Kathy Tucaro
00:21:40
We don't have to fall apart as we get older.
Kathy Tucaro
00:21:42
Flexibility is key to youth and vitality and to preventing falls.
Kathy Tucaro
00:21:47
Many falls that result in hip fractures are due to a tight calf muscle, according to Stacy, and a poor posture with a rounded back that throws your alignment off.
Kathy Tucaro
00:21:56
It needs to be corrected along with our mindset.
Kathy Tucaro
00:21:59
We need to make it a youth mindset.
Kathy Tucaro
00:22:02
Stacy helps people do this with her online Masterclass series of flexibility makeovers.
Kathy Tucaro
00:22:07
She's changing lives and giving people a new lease on life and a vitality they never thought that they would have.
Kathy Tucaro
00:22:14
Her training also helps rid our bodies of trauma.
Kathy Tucaro
00:22:17
She's been sharing some of her incredible Wisdom with us.
Kathy Tucaro
00:22:20
You know, Stacy, when you're talking about trauma, there have been books written that the body basically has a memory.
Kathy Tucaro
00:22:27
It stores trauma.
Kathy Tucaro
00:22:28
We may forget about things, but the body remembers.
Kathy Tucaro
00:22:31
So what you're doing, you're not only providing the flexibility, but you're freeing people of maybe some of the things that have happened to them in their lives.
Kathy Tucaro
00:22:38
And I find it interesting.
Kathy Tucaro
00:22:39
You said the hips store a lot of trauma.
Shelly Johnson
00:22:42
Yes, they do.
Shelly Johnson
00:22:43
And when we get upset, you'll notice it always goes to your weakest area.
Shelly Johnson
00:22:49
Wherever you have your chronic pain, it gets amplified because it is stored in the body.
Shelly Johnson
00:22:56
And it is your body talking to you, needing attention, needing to breathe into that area, needing to send love into that area and to bless it and release it and let it go.
Kathy Tucaro
00:23:09
So your courses, you work with all kinds of people.
Kathy Tucaro
00:23:13
You've worked with celebrities, pro athletes, all of that, and beginners like me, right?
Kathy Tucaro
00:23:18
Yeah, yeah.
Shelly Johnson
00:23:19
A wide range.
Shelly Johnson
00:23:20
I love it because everybody needs it.
Shelly Johnson
00:23:22
I work with a lot of children that are on the path to becoming, you know, Olympic figure skaters, gymnast, prima ballerinas and what.
Shelly Johnson
00:23:34
Another thing that I've seen in the sports world is they're still in the cave ages when it comes to flexibility.
Shelly Johnson
00:23:41
It's an art and science within itself.
Shelly Johnson
00:23:44
And it's not ordinary stretching that needs to be done.
Shelly Johnson
00:23:48
There's a new way to do it.
Shelly Johnson
00:23:50
Like I mentioned in the sequence and learning how to use the breath properly.
Shelly Johnson
00:23:55
So there's a huge imbalance going on with all the athletes, especially in children.
Shelly Johnson
00:24:00
I'm seeing all of these patterns of misalignment and they're already in pain.
Shelly Johnson
00:24:06
So they raised the bar so high.
Shelly Johnson
00:24:09
You know, we're always evolving.
Shelly Johnson
00:24:11
In every.
Shelly Johnson
00:24:11
In every art, in every perform, in any report form of performance, we're always evolving.
Shelly Johnson
00:24:18
So you've noticed they've raised the bar higher and higher every year.
Shelly Johnson
00:24:21
When you see America's Got Talent or the Olympics, they're always going somewhere new.
Shelly Johnson
00:24:28
But there has to be the flexibility going somewhere new to keep up with it.
Shelly Johnson
00:24:33
So what's happening with these?
Shelly Johnson
00:24:35
A lot of these poor girls that I work with are being like forced into splits and, you know, forced to do take their leg this way or that way without preparing the body to do it.
Shelly Johnson
00:24:49
And that drives me crazy because I want to Presley the person because it's forming their spines to twist and really come out of alignment because they're trying to force their body to go to this new level to keep up so they'll get the next audition or be in the show.
Shelly Johnson
00:25:07
Or get, you know, get accepted and stay with their troop.
Shelly Johnson
00:25:12
So I work to clear that up and show them how easy it is and put them in touch with their instrument too, so they have better control and perform with precision and not get hurt.
Shelly Johnson
00:25:25
So that's one aspect of my business with the athletes, is bringing that in.
Shelly Johnson
00:25:30
And I've saved so many people that were about to quit their sport of any age because they thought it was over because of the pain.
Kathy Tucaro
00:25:37
This is marvelous.
Kathy Tucaro
00:25:39
Also, I would think there's some people I know who were in gymnastics when they were young and now they have all kinds of issues, probably because they didn't have your kind of training.
Kathy Tucaro
00:25:51
And essentially what they were doing and forcing their body to do at a young age created problems, didn't it?
Shelly Johnson
00:25:57
Oh, yes.
Shelly Johnson
00:25:58
And then when you stop moving, it all gets tighter and tighter and tighter.
Kathy Tucaro
00:26:03
Yeah, so.
Shelly Johnson
00:26:04
And that's the thing too is when you get injured or you're in pain and you just stop moving, everything starts to atrophied and you want to keep the circulation and the energy going.
Shelly Johnson
00:26:19
So it's always good to try to train around injuries and look it as an opportunity to come back stronger.
Shelly Johnson
00:26:28
There's always an opportunity in every injury.
Shelly Johnson
00:26:30
Maybe it's to seek the right modality to clear what's going on underneath the injury as well.
Shelly Johnson
00:26:37
But the body temple can heal anything with the right mindset and treatment.
Shelly Johnson
00:26:42
None of this has to be a life sentence.
Shelly Johnson
00:26:45
I also worked with people who've had cancer and serious diseases too.
Shelly Johnson
00:26:51
And miraculous things have happened.
Shelly Johnson
00:26:54
People coming into hardly able to walk because of burning pains, radiant down legs and they're almost out dancing that night.
Shelly Johnson
00:27:03
And the most of them have told me they've tried every healing modality and then, then they see me and it just clears.
Shelly Johnson
00:27:10
And I really believe it's one.
Shelly Johnson
00:27:13
The frequency that I work on, the energy of instantaneous healing and, and being guided to wring that out of their body.
Shelly Johnson
00:27:23
And then sometimes I'm guided to be very esoteric and I mean, but I'm also guided with certain people.
Shelly Johnson
00:27:32
You know, we have the dancers and Olympians and that's one thing.
Shelly Johnson
00:27:35
But the people that have really are messed up and have a lot of trauma, had divorce, had deaths, had life stuff happen, their childhood.
Shelly Johnson
00:27:43
I literally do spiritual surgeries where I cut the trauma cord from them to the trauma and trauma to them, or if somebody has an abusive ex husband after them and they're looking over their shoulder, I cut the energetic ties and both sides and the person feels a great relief.
Shelly Johnson
00:28:03
And what's interesting is you can, you cannot cut unconditional love.
Shelly Johnson
00:28:08
That's really the only thing that's real.
Shelly Johnson
00:28:10
That's what we are.
Shelly Johnson
00:28:11
But you can cut away cords and connections to people.
Shelly Johnson
00:28:16
We can all do it ourselves when we meditate.
Shelly Johnson
00:28:18
So, so you all know out there you can just visualize it, but you can cut cords that bind you to people or situations, and it's not only good for you, but for the other person.
Stacy Nemour
00:28:34
I did in treatment something similar to that and they called it, it was just a one time session that a pastor had come in the very first day I'm in treatment in 2009.
Stacy Nemour
00:28:44
And he called it Soul Tie.
Kathy Tucaro
00:28:47
And.
Shelly Johnson
00:28:48
Very good.
Stacy Nemour
00:28:49
Yeah.
Stacy Nemour
00:28:50
And what it, what he had us do, he prayed over these random stones and you had to pick a stone that you felt was attached to whatever your biggest pain was.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:03
And so I picked five big stones.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:06
I had five major traumas.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:08
And so with that, he gave us a cloth.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:12
And then you had to tie each stone in, in the cloth with, with some simple thread.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:19
Right.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:20
And so I, and you had to lock that sucker in there.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:22
So I made sure I tied like 13, 14 knots.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:25
I said, this sucker is never coming out.
Kathy Tucaro
00:29:26
Right.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:27
So my, my little piece of cloth.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:28
And then we had to write words of, of how we wanted to heal those pains.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:33
So here's the interesting thing.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:36
So in order to cut that cord, cut the, that tie, cut that pain from us, he had us do something different.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:44
He had us put that, that, that cloth with all our individual pains underneath our pillow and sleep on.
Stacy Nemour
00:29:51
And he said, when you're ready, because now you're in recovery and when you're ready to address that particular problem, he says, I can guarantee you that stone will be, will have untied itself.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:02
And I thought that was the biggest crock of bologna.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:05
Yeah, right.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:06
So I did it anyway, because I'm curious.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:08
And so every morning I'm making my bed and I'm looking at.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:11
Yeah, no, that's still under my pillow.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:13
It's all good.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:13
Well, as I progress in my therapy, when I was feeling ready to like unconsciously thinking, okay, well, you know, I'm looking at this and this.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:23
I kid you not, Stacy and Shelly, that one morning I go to make my bed and that there's a stone that was, was free.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:34
It had untied itself from my 13 knots.
Kathy Tucaro
00:30:37
Wow.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:38
And it was the one addressing the abandonment from my father.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:42
That was the first one I looked at.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:43
And I'm like, oh my God.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:45
But it's, it's interesting because what it did it gave me permission to say, well, you know what it's ready to look at.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:52
I could do this.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:54
So it's as.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:55
It was a mental thing.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:56
Right.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:57
Whether how it came undone, I have no idea.
Stacy Nemour
00:30:59
But I addressed it and I was able to cut that tie.
Shelly Johnson
00:31:03
It.
Stacy Nemour
00:31:03
It liberated me.
Stacy Nemour
00:31:04
So as.
Stacy Nemour
00:31:05
So my program was a year.
Stacy Nemour
00:31:07
So every time as I'm going along, another rock would come undone and another one until all five of my stones had undone themselves by themselves, without me taking or helping them along.
Stacy Nemour
00:31:19
True story.
Kathy Tucaro
00:31:20
That's amazing, right?
Kathy Tucaro
00:31:23
Wow.
Stacy Nemour
00:31:23
And so the ties were cut.
Stacy Nemour
00:31:25
The bond, like the attachment to my own pain was able to be released.
Stacy Nemour
00:31:31
Isn't that something?
Kathy Tucaro
00:31:32
Yeah, yeah.
Shelly Johnson
00:31:33
The addiction to the pain that's like, becomes.
Shelly Johnson
00:31:36
We normalize that state of being.
Shelly Johnson
00:31:39
And what's interesting is, well, when the student's ready, the teacher isn't, will appear.
Shelly Johnson
00:31:44
And there's no one way to do anything.
Shelly Johnson
00:31:48
That person, that blessing that showed up in your life was exactly perfect for you at that time.
Stacy Nemour
00:31:56
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Shelly Johnson
00:31:58
In the exact way you needed it at that time.
Shelly Johnson
00:32:01
And when you have experiences like that where you can't unsee the evidence of the result or the miracle, you know, it.
Shelly Johnson
00:32:11
It changes you and opens you up to all the other unlimited possibilities and all the miracles available to us.
Shelly Johnson
00:32:20
So it is said a miracle is something that's already true on the spiritual plane that we've allowed to manifest on the physical plane.
Kathy Tucaro
00:32:29
I love it.
Stacy Nemour
00:32:30
Yeah.
Stacy Nemour
00:32:30
No, that makes sense to me 100%.
Stacy Nemour
00:32:32
Yeah.
Kathy Tucaro
00:32:33
So, Stacy, what you're doing with clients not only improves their physical health, but their mental health.
Kathy Tucaro
00:32:39
And when you think about it, that's a symbiosis.
Kathy Tucaro
00:32:41
You really have to have both, don't you?
Shelly Johnson
00:32:43
Yeah, that's why they say mind, body, spirit.
Shelly Johnson
00:32:46
And it's.
Shelly Johnson
00:32:48
We're in a time now where the.
Shelly Johnson
00:32:52
The frequencies of the earth are raising up and there's a big awakening going on on the planet now.
Shelly Johnson
00:32:59
And it's time for all of us to return to love and come from the higher heart, space within ourselves, within the community, with humanity and reverence for all things that have life.
Shelly Johnson
00:33:14
But that starts with the self, because everything in life is a mirror of the self and different aspects of the self.
Stacy Nemour
00:33:21
And we're all one and we're all connected.
Shelly Johnson
00:33:24
So what I.
Shelly Johnson
00:33:25
What I love to do is give people back to themselves, who they really are and who they really wanted to be, and help people get to where they want to go very quickly.
Shelly Johnson
00:33:40
And I cut years of frustration and delays out of their journey.
Shelly Johnson
00:33:47
So people like I've mentioned who tried every modality come to me and all of a sudden they're crying and it just happens very quickly.
Shelly Johnson
00:33:55
So when the person is ready, they'll find me if they're ready to shift quickly and let this all go.
Shelly Johnson
00:34:00
It doesn't need to be years and years and years and years if you, if you've done the work and you're really ready to make the shift.
Shelly Johnson
00:34:08
So what's most astounding about my work, if you look at my before and afters on my flexibility private session page, is it's astounding that I even had people about 80 years old, men that could not touch their toes when they were a kid, and they touched their toes in one session with me.
Shelly Johnson
00:34:28
Well, like, people would call that impossible.
Shelly Johnson
00:34:32
But again, I always say miracles is my natural state of being and a means of saving time.
Shelly Johnson
00:34:39
So I like to get, you know, get to the root of everything with every person on every level.
Shelly Johnson
00:34:48
And so I think people associate stretching just, oh, doing some stretches and stuff.
Shelly Johnson
00:34:54
But this flexibility training is a whole new art and science that addresses everything on every level.
Shelly Johnson
00:35:01
And I tailor it to whatever the need is.
Shelly Johnson
00:35:05
And also just we're, a lot of us are filled with so much fear and anxiety these days.
Shelly Johnson
00:35:12
So it's important to heal that because you can be flexible, you can be healthy, but you also want to have a peaceful state of mind so you can enjoy each day fully and feel your own light.
Kathy Tucaro
00:35:27
I would think your training would be absolutely marvelous for someone who has pain, has to be on medications.
Kathy Tucaro
00:35:36
This would free them.
Kathy Tucaro
00:35:38
I mean, you're emancipating people.
Shelly Johnson
00:35:40
Yes.
Shelly Johnson
00:35:41
Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
00:35:41
Like, if you go to a doctor, they're always going to suggest surgery or medications because it's all about, you know, the pharmaceuticals wants you to get hooked and don't want you to ever get cured.
Shelly Johnson
00:35:53
And it's just the beginning of the end when you get buried in all of that and you just start to feel so helpless.
Shelly Johnson
00:36:01
So, yeah, there's a whole other way to do it where you can get off all that stuff and take your mind back and your body back and your health back and also be able to get back in touch with our inner knowing, with our intuition and back within our passion.
Shelly Johnson
00:36:20
We all need to get in touch with our purpose and our reason for being here and let our gifts and our light shine.
Kathy Tucaro
00:36:28
We lose that as we go through life, don't we?
Kathy Tucaro
00:36:31
A lot of people lose their purpose.
Shelly Johnson
00:36:33
Yes.
Shelly Johnson
00:36:33
Yes.
Shelly Johnson
00:36:34
Disappointment after disappointment brings us down.
Shelly Johnson
00:36:38
And yes, sometimes we do go through a dark Night of the soul.
Shelly Johnson
00:36:43
Sometimes we've risen so high spiritually that there's still stuff in our subconscious that needs to go back and be cleared.
Shelly Johnson
00:36:52
And we have the energy to do it then because we're.
Shelly Johnson
00:36:55
We need to have a new frequency to prepare us for where we're going to go beyond where we've ever gone before.
Shelly Johnson
00:37:03
And it does not matter what your age is, that you can rebirth yourself and find your passion again and go to new heights.
Shelly Johnson
00:37:13
It's never.
Shelly Johnson
00:37:14
It's never over unless you say it's over.
Shelly Johnson
00:37:18
And if you get into the flexibility training the right way, you can do your beloved passions, golfing, gardening, running much longer, usually until you leave the planet.
Shelly Johnson
00:37:32
But flexibility is the highest starting point because then you can do all the positions in yoga easily or whatever it is that you want, how you want to express yourself physically.
Shelly Johnson
00:37:45
But it's funny because you'll see, now everybody's just going for Botox.
Shelly Johnson
00:37:52
Yeah, it's just like this.
Shelly Johnson
00:37:55
Quit.
Shelly Johnson
00:37:55
I don't judge any of it.
Shelly Johnson
00:37:57
I do go for, like, laser IPL and infrared skin tightening, you know, to be the best I could be.
Shelly Johnson
00:38:03
But I want my skin to earn it, you know, and not have anything unnatural put in there where, you know, everyone kind of starts to look weird.
Shelly Johnson
00:38:12
And all the same with the.
Kathy Tucaro
00:38:14
Oh, man.
Kathy Tucaro
00:38:14
Well, their faces don't.
Shelly Johnson
00:38:16
Your face.
Shelly Johnson
00:38:17
You got to lose your face.
Shelly Johnson
00:38:18
I mean, your face.
Shelly Johnson
00:38:20
But what I am saying is how you walk, stand, talk, and carry yourself is what is youthful.
Shelly Johnson
00:38:29
So if you have good posture, which is the posture of confidence and not of a victim, your energy's flowing and you're aligned with who you truly are, you literally glow and you.
Shelly Johnson
00:38:43
You just take back.
Shelly Johnson
00:38:45
The years just fall away.
Shelly Johnson
00:38:47
When you are able to be flexible and pick up something easily, reach to a top shelf and walk in a youthful way with a spring in your step.
Shelly Johnson
00:38:58
Botox is, you know, all these other new things that we have, you know, there's another way to do it where you can actually feel youthful from head to toe.
Shelly Johnson
00:39:08
There's nothing wrong with Botox, but I'm just saying we're all so obsessed with staying young.
Kathy Tucaro
00:39:14
Oh, yes.
Kathy Tucaro
00:39:15
Especially in the United States and more in North America.
Shelly Johnson
00:39:18
Yeah, yeah.
Shelly Johnson
00:39:19
But you could have this Botox face, but they kind of hunched over and holding their fucking.
Shelly Johnson
00:39:24
You know, so there's.
Shelly Johnson
00:39:26
There's so much more available now in that way to do that.
Stacy Nemour
00:39:31
You know, yesterday I was volunteering at.
Shelly Johnson
00:39:37
At the.
Stacy Nemour
00:39:38
At the seminar that I attended all weekend, my spiritual seminar that I go to every year with ECKANKAR and I was a volunteer at the tent, so we had thousands of people coming in and I'm helping with the luggage, and I'm just kind of, you know, because people drop their luggage before they go to the airport.
Stacy Nemour
00:39:54
There's a fellow who was watching me go along and, you know me, bubbly personality, and I got light despair and energy and love and laughter, and it's just coming oozing out of me.
Stacy Nemour
00:40:04
This man from another country, he comes up to me, he says, you know, I've been watching you.
Stacy Nemour
00:40:09
And he says, I have to say, you have the most beautiful power I have ever seen.
Stacy Nemour
00:40:14
I'm like, huh?
Stacy Nemour
00:40:16
He says, you have beautiful power.
Stacy Nemour
00:40:18
And I've never been told that before.
Stacy Nemour
00:40:21
And I thought that was really interesting.
Shelly Johnson
00:40:23
And now that you've heard that.
Stacy Nemour
00:40:25
Thank you.
Shelly Johnson
00:40:27
Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
00:40:27
That's an example of what you're.
Shelly Johnson
00:40:29
Is being mirrored back to you.
Shelly Johnson
00:40:31
Because a lot of people, you know, they'll tell you you glow because you do, because you.
Shelly Johnson
00:40:38
You're connected to your soul's purpose and your love for yourself and everything and everyone around you, and it radiates out.
Shelly Johnson
00:40:46
And then people start to really gravitate to that and they want to know that's the highest thing we can do, is to go to the.
Shelly Johnson
00:40:57
To be who we were born to be with our soul's purpose and be filled with.
Shelly Johnson
00:41:02
With our own light and our love and think independently of circumstances, you know, of what's going on in the world.
Shelly Johnson
00:41:08
You want to help the world.
Shelly Johnson
00:41:10
Raised yourself up and it has this ripple effect that goes out into the ethers and others pick that up and start to wake too.
Kathy Tucaro
00:41:20
Absolutely.
Shelly Johnson
00:41:21
And.
Shelly Johnson
00:41:21
And that's.
Shelly Johnson
00:41:23
And just by doing that and being a living example of what's possible changes everything as it goes out into the world.
Kathy Tucaro
00:41:33
Yes, it does.
Kathy Tucaro
00:41:33
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Shelly Johnson
00:41:35
Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
00:41:35
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Shelly Johnson
00:41:41
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Shelly Johnson
00:41:53
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00:41:58
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Shelly Johnson
00:43:21
Welcome back to Women Road warriors with Shelly Johnson and Kathy Takara.
Kathy Tucaro
00:43:30
Stacy Nemour's flexibility program puts us back in our bodies.
Kathy Tucaro
00:43:34
When you're in pain, everything starts to atrophy.
Kathy Tucaro
00:43:38
When you train for a sport, you need to train around injury.
Kathy Tucaro
00:43:41
Stacy says there's always an opportunity around every injury.
Kathy Tucaro
00:43:45
The body temple can heal anything with the right treatment.
Kathy Tucaro
00:43:48
Much of this comes with flexibility.
Kathy Tucaro
00:43:50
That's where Stacy comes in.
Kathy Tucaro
00:43:52
She heals people.
Kathy Tucaro
00:43:53
She helps people release trauma, including emotional trauma that keep us stopped in our tracks.
Kathy Tucaro
00:43:59
Stacy improves the mind, body and spirit.
Kathy Tucaro
00:44:02
She has custom designed flexibility training, injury prevention and recovery programs for top Olympians, established actors, UFC champions, figure skaters, pro athletes, gymnasts and Cirque du Soleil performers.
Kathy Tucaro
00:44:15
Stacy doesn't believe in decline in any shape or form.
Kathy Tucaro
00:44:19
We don't have to fall apart as we get older.
Kathy Tucaro
00:44:22
She tailors programs for people of all ages, even in their 80s, to increase their flexibility and take their mind, body and health back.
Kathy Tucaro
00:44:30
This is so liberating and contrary to popular belief about what happens as we get older.
Kathy Tucaro
00:44:36
Stacy, you do training with people online.
Kathy Tucaro
00:44:40
Could you kind of walk us through some of the things that you do with people?
Kathy Tucaro
00:44:44
Because I think that you're going to be a major godsend for people.
Shelly Johnson
00:44:48
Yes.
Shelly Johnson
00:44:48
So wherever you are in the world, I love you.
Shelly Johnson
00:44:51
I got your back.
Shelly Johnson
00:44:55
I have clients in in Ireland and Australia and almost every country.
Shelly Johnson
00:45:00
Many people travel from all over the world to work with me in person and do an intensive.
Shelly Johnson
00:45:05
But for those who can't do it, I do Skype and Zoom sessions.
Shelly Johnson
00:45:09
I also sell Stacy posture strap I custom designed as we've talked so much about posture.
Shelly Johnson
00:45:14
It instantly opens your heart and chest, takes Pressure off the neck you put on the posture strap.
Shelly Johnson
00:45:20
Kathy?
Stacy Nemour
00:45:21
Yeah, yeah, I have, I have it at work.
Stacy Nemour
00:45:23
You bet.
Shelly Johnson
00:45:24
Yeah, it really just.
Shelly Johnson
00:45:25
It protects your shoulder.
Shelly Johnson
00:45:26
So many people have frozen shoulder rotator cuff stuff.
Shelly Johnson
00:45:29
So I have flexibility products and a stretch strap I custom design to help you go further than you could go on your own.
Shelly Johnson
00:45:37
So it's like, like I'm there spotting you.
Shelly Johnson
00:45:39
So yes, I do the privates, I do in person and then I also with the privates you get all the online courses so you can log in anytime and they don't expire or you can do the courses on your own and just buy the courses and the posture and stretch strap and log in from anywhere, anytime.
Shelly Johnson
00:46:00
So the thing is, is you can stretch anytime, anywhere.
Shelly Johnson
00:46:04
And I set it up so you can use wall space and create your own little flexibility gym with just a few things and space to support you.
Shelly Johnson
00:46:12
So you don't need, you know, a lot of equipment.
Shelly Johnson
00:46:14
You could do it in a hotel room, wherever you are.
Shelly Johnson
00:46:18
And for those who need it, you know, I address whatever their special needs are if they also need energy, work or any spiritual surgeries or anything that's included.
Shelly Johnson
00:46:28
But every, it's not a one size fits all.
Shelly Johnson
00:46:31
Everyone has a completely different system and you know, in different areas where they have a resistance of letting the light in and the good end.
Shelly Johnson
00:46:41
So it's all very customized.
Kathy Tucaro
00:46:43
I like that it's tailor made rather than when you go to a doctor, they're working with baselines and you're being.
Shelly Johnson
00:46:49
Paired with everybody else or reading off a script.
Kathy Tucaro
00:46:52
Uh huh.
Kathy Tucaro
00:46:53
Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
00:46:54
So yes.
Kathy Tucaro
00:46:56
What are some of the comments people have made that have come to you for whatever their reasons, maybe pain management.
Kathy Tucaro
00:47:01
They want additional flexibility so that they don't fall.
Kathy Tucaro
00:47:05
I mean that is a huge thing.
Kathy Tucaro
00:47:07
And a lot of people end up in nursing homes just because they.
Shelly Johnson
00:47:10
Yes, I have people too that I.
Shelly Johnson
00:47:12
One man walked in, he was like the Tower of Pisa speakers on my website of it like he tried to touch his toes and one arm was way out front, other arm was way.
Shelly Johnson
00:47:23
It was all twisted and in one session that got evened out and he touched his toes.
Shelly Johnson
00:47:28
He was 78.
Kathy Tucaro
00:47:29
Wow.
Shelly Johnson
00:47:30
People are usually like, they usually say wow, they're in shock, they feel euphoric and just everyone's usually so grateful and are in shock because they always gone further than they ever thought they could even go.
Shelly Johnson
00:47:48
It goes beyond what you thought you could ever do.
Shelly Johnson
00:47:52
That's, that's what happens.
Shelly Johnson
00:47:53
It always works with every client and it.
Shelly Johnson
00:47:55
Because it seems who shows up to me is ready, ready to receive.
Shelly Johnson
00:48:01
That is their soul.
Shelly Johnson
00:48:02
You know, it's their soul's calling.
Shelly Johnson
00:48:05
And they found me at the right time.
Shelly Johnson
00:48:08
And you know, a lot of them are just really giddy.
Shelly Johnson
00:48:10
A lot of people cry because they're so happy.
Shelly Johnson
00:48:13
And I, I'm working with like a 12 year old dancer and online and she's so cute because they start dancing now like at 2 and in 1 session, you know, got all her splits, her back bend, everything and she goes, I've been wanting this since I was two years old.
Kathy Tucaro
00:48:30
Wow.
Shelly Johnson
00:48:32
Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
00:48:32
And so yeah, it just.
Shelly Johnson
00:48:35
And then also another big thing is children need it.
Shelly Johnson
00:48:38
All you sports parents out there, they really need it, boys and girls, for during growth spurts because their body hasn't caught up to all the changes and they lose all their flexibility and balance and coordination.
Kathy Tucaro
00:48:51
Oh gosh, I remember that I grew six and a half inches in one year when I was 16.
Shelly Johnson
00:48:56
Oh my gosh.
Kathy Tucaro
00:48:58
Yeah.
Kathy Tucaro
00:48:59
And you don't realize you're longer.
Shelly Johnson
00:49:01
Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
00:49:02
And you feel so awkward.
Shelly Johnson
00:49:03
So they really, really need help.
Shelly Johnson
00:49:05
You know, that's a whole other subject too, about the sports world and sports parents and pushing their kids.
Shelly Johnson
00:49:11
There's a lot of abuse that goes on with the coaches.
Shelly Johnson
00:49:14
But if they think that coach or teacher is the very best in the world, they put up with it a lot.
Shelly Johnson
00:49:20
A good coach is one that also supports the child's well being and makes them feel safe.
Kathy Tucaro
00:49:25
Stacy, I think that your techniques at an early age could really set the stage for healthy people that are not in pain in their lifetime.
Kathy Tucaro
00:49:36
I mean, it just makes so much sense.
Shelly Johnson
00:49:38
I'm so glad that you said that because that's exactly what I'm doing, is putting them in touch with their instrument.
Shelly Johnson
00:49:45
And it's a lifelong skill.
Shelly Johnson
00:49:46
Skill.
Kathy Tucaro
00:49:47
Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
00:49:47
Whether they stay with their sport or dance or not, they're in their body, they can breathe through things.
Shelly Johnson
00:49:54
They know how to breathe to get a release through the body because there's a specific way of breathing.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:00
And I'll leave you with, this is what I have, my clients do, is breathe in through their nose, all the way to the bottom of their spine, their sacrum at the very bottom.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:11
And if you're an adult, before you go, this is right before you stretch, you hold your breath for a few beats, the longer the better.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:18
And then you exhale and go into the stretch.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:21
The body completely lets go.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:24
But you also, when you breathe into your low back, I'm giving you the biggest free tip ever.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:29
So listen carefully.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:31
You mentally tell your back to let go and your whole body that it's okay to let go.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:36
And then you exhale and you go into the stretch and you never force it, push it, or bounce.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:43
That's outdated.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:44
If it feels like, oh, this is too much, you come right, right up out of it.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:47
And guess what?
Shelly Johnson
00:50:48
Your body processes what you just did.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:51
And then you go back into it and it's able to go further.
Shelly Johnson
00:50:54
And if you're doing one side and there's another side, you go to the other side and then you come back to the body because it's new, it hasn't done it.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:02
You know, like if you're stretching in a new way.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:05
So.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:06
And the magic happens on the repeat, but we give up right away and learn to do it in the right sequence.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:11
That will make stretching shouldn't be painful, rather what my clients say it is.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:16
It's a deep Discovery Channel day of their body.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:20
So we're going to places that have been asleep, laying dormant.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:24
Dormant and waking up the parts of ourselves and that haven't been utilized.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:29
So when you go to work out, you.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:32
You feel thinner, longer, and you have a better range of motion.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:35
You burn more calories and you do everything.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:38
And you also just feel so much lighter.
Kathy Tucaro
00:51:41
That's wonderful.
Kathy Tucaro
00:51:43
Stacy, where do people reach out to you?
Shelly Johnson
00:51:46
Oh, okay.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:47
My website is stacynemour.com so I'm sure you'll have a link that's to find out about my privates.
Shelly Johnson
00:51:54
You can email me for a free consultation about which course or which program and I'll tune in on that.
Shelly Johnson
00:52:03
Or if you want to go straight to the courses, is flexibilitymakeover.com and that's where the courses is.
Shelly Johnson
00:52:08
There's one with our wonderful bright light, Kathy.
Shelly Johnson
00:52:12
Yeah, yeah, Kathy.
Shelly Johnson
00:52:14
Radiant superstar Kathy.
Shelly Johnson
00:52:18
So amazing called flexibility for releasing trauma.
Shelly Johnson
00:52:21
Take your power back.
Shelly Johnson
00:52:23
And that I explained, you know, we go through all the stretching and that one has a handstand training, splits training, a little bit of boxing.
Shelly Johnson
00:52:33
And then I finish at the end with a meditation for exactly how to call your power back.
Shelly Johnson
00:52:39
So there's that, too.
Kathy Tucaro
00:52:41
And I'm also on all the social.
Shelly Johnson
00:52:43
Media and Instagram, so I would love to connect with each and every one of you wherever you are.
Shelly Johnson
00:52:48
I'm sending out a lighthouse that I hear, and the prayer is this reaches anybody who needs to hear it.
Shelly Johnson
00:52:56
And, you know, and so much love to you both.
Shelly Johnson
00:53:01
You guys are such superstars and congratulations on this trajectory that this show.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:09
Thank you.
Shelly Johnson
00:53:10
Yes.
Shelly Johnson
00:53:10
We just want to.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:12
We have several awards now.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:13
We're really excited.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:14
The most Recent one People's Choice Podcast award.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:17
So, yes, we're super excited about energy.
Shelly Johnson
00:53:19
The energy of you too is what's bringing in this, you know, moment, amazing momentum.
Shelly Johnson
00:53:26
It's just going to go up, up, up, up, up.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:28
That's what we're hoping.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:29
Yes.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:30
We want to help more people.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:31
And Stacy, you are just a bright light on the world.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:36
Yes.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:37
And people spell your name.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:39
S, T, A, C, E, Y, N E, M O, U, R.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:44
That's exactly correct.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:46
Okay, so people can reach out to stacynamour.com and what is the other one again?
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:51
The other website?
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:52
FlexibilityMakeover.com that's FlexibilityMakeover.com Very cool.
Kathy Tucaro
00:53:58
And there they can find out how you can help them.
Kathy Tucaro
00:54:00
Terrific.
Kathy Tucaro
00:54:01
You're going to help people in so many different ways.
Kathy Tucaro
00:54:03
And I love the fact that online everyone has access to your brilliance.
Shelly Johnson
00:54:08
Yeah.
Shelly Johnson
00:54:08
That's what's so beautiful about this day and age.
Shelly Johnson
00:54:10
Especially if you live in the most remote area, you won't.
Shelly Johnson
00:54:15
Don't have any kind of access to anything, you know, that you're really interested in.
Shelly Johnson
00:54:19
You know, we can connect instantly.
Stacy Nemour
00:54:23
Awesome.
Kathy Tucaro
00:54:24
This has been inspiring.
Kathy Tucaro
00:54:25
And I've been sitting up much straighter while I was talking.
Shelly Johnson
00:54:31
Yes, yes, straight.
Shelly Johnson
00:54:33
Put on that posture strap.
Kathy Tucaro
00:54:35
Thank you so much, Stacy.
Shelly Johnson
00:54:38
Thanks, Stacy.
Shelly Johnson
00:54:39
Thank you very, very much.
Shelly Johnson
00:54:40
I love you both so much.
Kathy Tucaro
00:54:41
Love you too.
Kathy Tucaro
00:54:42
This is terrific.
Stacy Nemour
00:54:43
Oh, 100.
Stacy Nemour
00:54:44
Love you back.
Kathy Tucaro
00:54:47
We hope you've enjoyed this latest episode.
Kathy Tucaro
00:54:49
And if you want to hear more episodes of Women Road warriors or learn more about our show, be sure to check out womenroadwarriors.com and please follow us on social media.
Kathy Tucaro
00:55:00
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Kathy Tucaro
00:55:04
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Kathy Tucaro
00:55:07
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Kathy Tucaro
00:55:10
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Kathy Tucaro
00:55:20
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Kathy Tucaro
00:55:29
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Kathy Tucaro
00:55:33
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Shelly Johnson
00:55:37
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Shelly Johnson
00:55:43
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