Sarita (00:02.638)
Hello and welcome back to another episode with Back to Here with Sarita. I'm so happy that you're here with us today.
And I have an amazing guest that I can't wait to introduce to you. We have another abundance chat series here. As you know, the theme for this year in 2024 is all about abundance. So our conversations are everything that has to do with abundance. So self -love, manifestation, spirituality, all the things we cover it all in these episodes. So today I have an amazing guest. I'm very excited to connect with her. This is Katie Kowalski and she's a master energy and
environment coach and the creator of Shakti Bomb Method. She helps smart, spiritual, driven, and highly motivated people create big breakthroughs so they can create more of what they want by connecting to their core beliefs, needs, and desires.
One of her biggest passions is including helping people break patterns, smashing boxes. love that. Step into bigger possibilities and embrace their true nature. And she is wild about watching beautiful souls who are ready for change come into their power. And then also for the last 13 years, Katie has helped people overcome their fears, heal trauma, restore power, create big breakthroughs with her signature method Shakti Bhaam and most creative and fun ways to
change and grow. Thank you so much, Katie, for being here with me today and everybody. Thank you so much.
Katie Kozlowski (01:33.134)
Hello! Hey everybody!
Sarita (01:37.027)
So Katie and I connected actually kind of last minute. This is not my style usually but I'm absolutely thrilled that she was able to connect with me so smoothly and it just goes to show that things can happen with ease. So I love that we are able to connect this way in a Facebook group and she's everything that I absolutely love when it comes to
well all things but when it comes to someone who's not only you know helping us understand certain processes and things in life but also living it and embodying it too. So Katie has an amazing story and I would love to hear more about the Shakti method my goodness because I want to I really want to share that with this audience like what that is and then before we go into all that
just to kind of set off your story. we're here talking about abundance and abundance, like the chats and stuff. And one of the things that I would love to hear from you more of, because I know this pertains to my audience, like being able to be in receiving mode and manifesting abundance and things like that. So that'll be kind of the theme of the overall episode. But for you, I would love to hear very like general question, but like, how did you get to be where you are
this moment right now with I know there's yeah yeah
Katie Kozlowski (03:01.806)
How did I become me, right? How did that happen? I always say we do the Cliffs Notes version because you know how some people have those like episodic like sagas. It's like my life is like the Lord of the Rings. It's very epic. Like it just keeps going and going, lots and lots of shit. It's like too much shit happened to talk about in one hour. We don't have time to cover all of the different pieces.
Sarita (03:20.407)
my goodness. Right?
Katie Kozlowski (03:29.378)
But in a nutshell, the very brief summary is I had a challenging childhood. I grew up alcoholics. My parents were great, but alcoholics and suicides on my father's side, my grandmother on my mother's side was in a coma. There was a lot of stuff going on. And obviously, I grew up in that environment, didn't really realize how much it affected me.
grew up to become this, I always knew I wanted to be an actress. So like I was like five or six years old, I dove into performing. I was a professional actress even as a little girl, pursued it in college, got to New York City, did the whole thing. And at the same time, I was really struggling emotionally with my self -esteem, my self -worth, it was hard career, really, really bad.
problems with men as well, lots of abusive relationships, emotionally unavailable men, men who would like love me and leave me. So it was a rough ride and sort of the claim to fame, like the big earth -changing, earth -shattering moment. was 29 and it feels like so long ago now. I got hit by a taxi and getting hit by a taxi was the thing that really set me on this path because
One, I was hit by a taxi, which is kind of a big deal. And two, it happened in such a way that really kind of woke me up and helped me see that I wasn't really valuing myself. wasn't treating myself like I wasn't treating myself with respect. I wasn't acting as if I mattered in this world. And so that was how everything started to change because I had been having such a hard time feeling good about myself and I didn't realize.
that it was affecting me in so many different ways. It was leading me down many, many paths that I did not want to go. So that's kind how it all started. That was it.
Sarita (05:33.449)
Wow, we have those like really defining moments. That's like very physically, I'm sure impactful, emotionally impactful, like all the things impactful. So that's ginormous. And one of the things when we were connecting that I really love that you were sharing with me is how...
you have come to believe and you were saying like when you were acting back in the day and that's like really getting into character and really getting into the embodiment of that person and feeling. So what I love about the word embodiment is it includes the word body, right? So it's like actually being in the body and you were saying that
Even the coat, like I don't know if it was one particular coat or you were just told multiple times, but it's like you weren't really in your body and you didn't really understand that until after, you know, this incident and you were going through your healing journey. Talk about that a little bit.
Katie Kozlowski (06:31.948)
Yeah, yeah. I mean, like, yeah. So when I was in college, obviously I was working, I had all these teachers and they're very hard on you in acting school. And they're like, you know, they act like they can like rip you to shreds basically. It's like this, it's no wonder I had such trouble with my self -esteem, right? Cause they're really, really hard on you. But I got a lot of feedback. you know, you're so wonderful, but you're not really present. You're not really in your body. You're not this, you're not
Sarita (06:49.051)
It's breakfast.
Katie Kozlowski (07:00.492)
And I was always trying to figure out how to fix that, but I didn't really understand what it meant. And obviously years later I came to realize, okay, what it means is that I'm sort of like dead behind the eyes. Like I was so accustomed to, like I was conditioned to respond in very, very specific ways. So I was kind of like a robot, right? I was sort of like a Stepford wife, right? Which I'm actually from the land of Stepford wise. I live in Fairfield County. I grew up, that's where the movie.
That's where the guy wrote the book about the women who are like brainwashed to behave a certain way. So I think that I was just so good at putting on a facade, right? And I wasn't really good about feeling my feelings and being present with what I was feeling. I was very good at sort of pushing things off and presenting myself in a certain way. And that was even when I got hit by the taxi, know, I when I got hit by the taxi, he was going really fast.
I sort of don't know how I did it. I did like a Wonder Woman thing and I like turned into a superhero and I rolled in the street and I popped up and walked home that night. And I remember thinking, who does that? Who gets hit by a car? And it's like, I'm fine. And you walk home in high heels. Like, what? So I think that it was just interesting because I thought I was doing the right thing by presenting myself to be a certain way.
You know, we're just not really taught how to be with our feelings, our emotions. We're not really allowed to talk about what we're feeling. We're not... It's very confusing because you're not supposed to be a certain type of way because people don't like that. And then, yet they want you to be that way. And I just... I was very confused. I didn't know how to respond to my life. I didn't know what was right, what was wrong. And that was kind of the shift. Was then, obviously, I actually had an astrologer who told me that the... When I got hit by the taxi, she said to me, she
She goes, something happened to you when you were 29 that knocked you back into your body because you weren't in your body. And I said, I got hit by a car. And she goes, and something happened to you when you were two years old that knocked you into your body. And I said, yeah, I pulled a TV down and it hit me in the head. It cut my finger off. That was gruesome. And she said, yeah, so I've had these experiences. It was always like, get back in your body. Get back in your body.
Katie Kozlowski (09:24.192)
And I just think it's interesting because we don't realize it, but when you go through trauma, that's how we cope. That's how we survive, right? We disconnect, we disassociate, we do all these things. And so I was living my life outside of myself. Like I wasn't really in control, which meant that that's why I let so much of the abuse happen that happened to me, because I didn't really have any authority. Because I wasn't here. Like I was here, but I wasn't here. So there's nobody
Sarita (09:53.078)
I know, I love that. Wow, that really landed when you were talking, I mean the whole part, but really landed when you were talking about how you were kind of conditioned to react a certain way. Like I relate to that so heavily, especially.
I was raised by a single parent and so there is this very like conditioning of like, girls don't act like that, girls, like women, you don't talk like that, they don't sit like that, they don't like all these things. And then of course that is molded in school and that's molded in society and molded in all the other things. And so it's very fascinating how with this conditioning, we are, like you said, being detached more and more and more away from our true.
are true selves and who we end in that, like when we have these like very defining moments.
Even then, I mean, I'm thinking back on my life and stuff. I had, so for me, a big defining moment was a breakup that I had about three years ago. And that's been my whole healing journey and discovering myself and learning all the things about me that I thought that I knew, which has been crazy. Like it's just like rediscovering myself all over again, which has been a fun and a scary ride at the same time. But it's like those defining moments that bring us back so.
What if like, what if, okay, so if someone's listening right now and they have not had a defining like moment like that where they've hit by a car or had something really, really specific, right? I know yours is extreme.
Katie Kozlowski (11:27.308)
No, you don't have to have that happen. Please don't.
Sarita (11:29.35)
No, we don't need to, please don't get hit by a But something, yeah, something really like maybe not extreme in their life and they're thinking like, that's, that's, you know, I have just kind of an average life, like nothing really crazy happens. I haven't had any like, you know, huge, huge trauma that's happening. Like what, what about me? Like how do I need to have something like that in order for me to get back into self?
Katie Kozlowski (11:32.568)
Don't need
Katie Kozlowski (11:56.876)
Yeah, and I mean, no, you don't because that's why I exist. Because I learned for many of us, right, what happens when you're not in your body. You know, every single one of us has a different experience. Like we have different things that we're here to learn, that we're here to experience, right? And I think it's interesting because if you look at, I don't know if you know human design at all, but in my human design, I'm the left angle cross of confrontation too.
Which basically means like I'm designed to go through challenging situations in order to like figure shit out. So I'm the person who was like, okay, I'll do some trauma stuff, right? I'll go through like a whole bunch of, me all the trauma and I'll figure out all the different pieces so I can help people heal from trauma so that they don't have to have the big pieces. And it's interesting because,
Even when I talk to people, you know, of all the things, like when I look at my life and there's been a lot of things that have stuck with me, like traumatizing memories, some of them getting hit by a taxi was not on the top of my list, right? and even my, I had a couple sexual assaults as well. And so those happened later on in life. But the things that really stuck with me was like when I was a little girl and
My parents took me on a roller coaster and I didn't want to be, I didn't like it. And I was upset at my parents because I felt like they had, you know what I mean? It was stuff like that. was like being bullied by kids. So we don't have to have these life shattering sort of physical experiences. And I would say it's actually, it's preferential to not. So you don't have to go through
The other thing is that what most of us do is, you we have an experience, we kind of ignore it. We have an experience, we kind of ignore it. We have an experience, we kind of ignore it. So the more you ignore it, the louder the signals get. And I just really wasn't listening. Or I didn't know that I needed to listen, or I was so conditioned to not see it that I just didn't know that I needed to see it. And so I feel like there were multiple times that could have been that taxi moment, but they just weren't them because I
Katie Kozlowski (14:21.654)
and then it had to be something really like, bam, okay, so we're gonna hit you over the head with it, right? We're gonna like really get ya. So if you actually start listening and looking for the patterns in your life, you won't have to go through something like that. Like you don't have
Sarita (14:28.018)
on.
Sarita (14:40.935)
Thank you for clarifying that because I know some people listening would probably have that kind of question and Huge human design fan. I I love it. I'm across of the Maya. I'm a three five generator I talk about human design on that on the podcast a little bit Love it. It's been such a great way to understand myself and my friends a lot better. Actually. I just did a human design
class for all my close girlfriends so we could all understand each other better is such a great way. But I love that clarification, thank you, that we don't necessarily need to have those moments and that we might not be paying attention to and being able to see or recognize certain loops and cycles that happen. I've noticed that especially in the past for me when it came to men that I was dating, I was like, I feel like I've been in this relationship before.
familiar because certain things are unfolding and coming together sort of the same way as they were in the past. I'm like, no, I don't want that to happen. And I know for me, for my own personal experience, just kind of relate to you where you had this defining moment. For me, my kind of earth shattering moments that I realized or what I could not ignore was that I was a became an insomniac due to all the things that we're just talking about, which was like ignoring the
not paying attention, know, having feeling like I had to show up in life a certain way required of me, you know, with my corporate job, like things like that, where I felt like I was so far away from myself that my body brought me back to my body through extreme insomnia. And so there were, I would go like three days, you know, 72 hours only sleeping like five hours. So it was just awful. And so my body started breaking down and
Katie Kozlowski (16:04.664)
Mm -hmm.
Katie Kozlowski (16:28.876)
No?
Sarita (16:32.66)
of course that led to a lot of other things so it's like these moments can be our body speaking to us so yeah so for you and you know the work that you do and we'll tie this into like abundance and things like that because i want to start like on the on the side of where what are some maybe what are some because
outside of like a defining moment, right? Or maybe we're not paying attention, but what are some like indicators in somebody's life that might be a way for them to see like, that's something that I need to pay attention to. Like, I wouldn't say a diagnosis, but you know, some level of indication in your life. And we're mostly like talking about, you know, my, a lot of my,
I should say not crowd, like audiences, women, but this is for anybody. any type of, know, indicators that someone could look for.
Katie Kozlowski (17:36.994)
Yeah, well, think that whenever I talk to people, I ask them, what's the sand in your bathing suit? You know, that's the thing that never goes away. It just keeps coming back. The stuff that really grinds your gears, the stuff that really, really bothers you, you want to start to pay attention and look for the patterns. So you'll start to see there's repetition.
Like exactly what you're saying. This is actually a familiar thing. It's interesting because the patterns themselves, like the energies, the unresolved energies will shape shift and morph. So we'll take an experience and we'll work on say, I don't know, I worked on men, right? Okay, so I got my issues with men worked out, but then I took that same insecurity and neediness that I had in relationships with men and I transposed it into my business.
And then all of a sudden I was like, you know, having the same problems in my business life that I had had and, you know, I was doing the same thing. So an example, when I was dating all these men that were liars and they were noncommittal and they were flaky and they were, you know, all these different things. And then I get into business and I start having issues with people being noncommittal and flaky and, you know, and I'm going, wait a minute, I figured this out, right?
I dealt with that. Well, I dealt with it in one aspect of my life, but I wasn't aware of the fact that that same thing, because I didn't resolve it on a core level, right? I just resolved it in this one aspect of my life. I was going to keep experiencing it. And I've seen this happen. It happens with everybody. It happens with every single one of us. We have our, I call it the foundational flaw, right? So it's like the thing, the core wound, the thing that you really came here to learn, to heal. And for me,
It was, I mean, it was a bunch of different things, but it was self -acceptance and self -worth, right? It was permission to be who I am. It was permission to speak up for myself, set boundaries. Like I had to really learn how to value myself, respect myself, because in every aspect of my life, it was the same thing, the same problem, right? Well, I didn't really respect myself, so I was having a hard time having a healthy relationship. Well, I didn't really respect myself, so was having a hard time building a business.
Katie Kozlowski (19:57.088)
I didn't really respect myself so I was having a hard time with my diet and fitness, right? It's like you'll start to see there's themes and I always ask people, what's the, you know, what are the common themes for you? What's the thing, the core pattern that keeps coming back? You don't need to be hit by a car to know that you struggle. A lot of times too we know it's there. Like I always knew that it was there in a very subtle way and also it's sometimes
one of those things where I don't really love the word triggered, but I remember when I was dating, a couple of, you know, doing my dating thing and there was one time I was dating one guy and I was really convinced that like, you know, was really like, he's good guy, right? And everything's fine. And he went off, he joined the FBI and he like went and did this thing
And then I didn't know what was going on and the relationship was like up in the air and I'm like, I don't know. Well, he said he hopes that I miss him. And my sister's partner had this friend, she was like very direct. And I remember she said to me, she was like, what's going on with this guy? And I was like, well, she goes, does he say that he's your boyfriend? Has he said that he wants to be in a relationship with you? And I'm like, no, well, then you're not, right?
He didn't say it and I got so, I was like devastated. Like, hmm. And so it's kind of those types of things too, where like if someone says something to you and you feel that gut reaction of like devastation or a really big emotional response, what that says to me is, okay, so there's something underneath this that you really wanna look at and then you'll see that that same thing is connected to lots of different areas in your life. So you're looking for themes, patterns.
Sarita (21:43.846)
themes and patterns. I love that. And I relate to this very heavily exactly what you're talking about because last year, 2023 was a really defining moment for me in the dating and money area, actually. And it was fascinating to me, and we'll get into this with like abundance and manifesting, was that there was this...
huge tie between how I related love and money and so one of the things that was very interesting was last year the biggest aha moment that I had was that I was seeking validation outside of myself seeking validation through dating or men and even I noticed within
posting on stories and this podcast and things like that, just seeking the validation outside of myself and not looking from within to actually get that validation and love and worthiness and all that. And then it was interesting because of that.
Because of that operation style, I went into these dynamics, these relationship dynamics, completely overflowing and giving, giving, giving, giving, giving. Love me, care for me, want me, desire me, you know, just overkill, right? Just like a floodgate. And I'm sure, I'm thinking about myself, like if I was getting that, it would be overwhelming for me. So of course that's overwhelming for that other person.
what happens to that. They retreat, they retract, you know, and it's interesting how that happens in manifestation as well when we're like super like holding on to something. It's like it's crazy how the energies happen like that and so
Sarita (23:28.238)
it happened with money as well where I was like throwing spaghetti, know, throwing money at stuff and like just being like, okay, like, no, no, I'm worth it, but not really feeling worth it and spending large sums of cash. it just was, it was, the correlation was really interesting. And so I saw how exactly how you're talking about, I saw how the two, how I showed up in both dynamics and I was like, wow, this is interesting how this shows up. How else is this showing up on business, relationship with my mother? my goodness, I could keep going, you know, so it's
Fascinating. I love that. So looking for patterns and cycles and things like that. So then when somebody has come to that, you know, realization, what comes next for them?
Katie Kozlowski (24:14.12)
So the key is, this is sort of my philosophy on this, is when you understand, right, okay, so this is my core pattern. This is what I'm repeating. I'm repeating this cycle, right? I'm very big on, I said breaking patterns, breaking cycles, right? We need to understand that it's sort of like driving, I always use the analogy, it's like driving in a roundabout. You're like driving in your car and you're driving in your roundabout and you're like, well, I wanna go over there. So you wanna make an exit, you wanna get somewhere else.
Sarita (24:40.65)
Right.
Katie Kozlowski (24:42.296)
but you're driving and you're driving and you're not really paying attention, you're going too fast, you're whatever, and you keep missing the exit. Because you're like clueless, right? You're not really paying attention. So when you're going around in circles like that, you can't actually catch the exit, right? You can't actually make it where you want to go. So the next part is you start to understand, okay, so this is what's happening. This is my pattern. I'm stuck in this loop.
And then you need to figure out the steps that are gonna help you actually get from inside that pattern to getting yourself through to the other side. And that's where someone like myself comes in and also awareness and the embodiment work and all of these different pieces because the name of the game is you wanna become more aware. It's almost like, it's not hypervigilant, because hypervigilant means you're on high alert and you think, you
Someone's gonna like, you know come and attack you so you're like waiting. It's not hyper vigilance, but it's it's Awareness its curiosity It's an openness to learn like all of a sudden I I describe it like being a detective So all of a sudden you're watching yourself. You're observing yourself. You're like, wow, look at that I just did that and like wow, I'm this is happening right now you become more aware the more aware you become the more skilled you are and
you can make a choice to actually change, to take the exit. So all of that in like, know, scientific terms, it means you're actually creating new neural pathways, you're creating new, you know, cellular healing, things like that. All of these different pieces are going on in the background, but the way you do it is by bringing focus into what you're doing, how you're doing it. And the question I ask everybody,
is what's your motivation, right? That's what I would have asked you. You're throwing money at something. You're desperate. I just had a client yesterday, sort of same story. And she's like, I'm chasing men. Like, I'm clinging to them. I'm desperate. And I don't know why I'm doing it. And I said, well, just think about it this way. You look at your past, right? You go back to the beginning. You see all the dynamics. You figure out why you would be doing that. What's your motivation? Where's that coming from? And if you weren't naturally given love as a child or you were taught that you're not enough or this or
Katie Kozlowski (27:04.172)
It makes perfect sense that you would think that you have to work really hard to get love or that you would have to over give or you know, it's not like we do it on purpose and it's not like we're bad people. It's just very simple. And what I said to her and what I say to just everybody is we have to remember that our first of our subconscious is like six years old. We're like little puppies. We really are. We're like little puppies. And I said to her, so if you were a puppy and you went to your owner and your owner hits you in the head with a newspaper because you wanted to play, what would you do?
She's like, well, I would leave, of course. I said, have you ever seen a puppy get hit with a newspaper and walk away? No, the puppy. She goes, I would work harder. I would try again. And I said, yes, exactly, you see? So we have to understand what's your motivation. What do you think you're going to get? What are you trying to achieve? Then you can actually really understand it and change it very simply because you're like, wow.
See, I think by giving more, I'm gonna get more back, right? I believe that I have to over give in order to get somebody to love me, but if I actually believed in myself and love myself, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't work so hard. I wouldn't take it personally. I think your lesson is the same lesson that I had to learn, which is the same lesson that most of us are learning, which is we shouldn't have to work so hard to be loved, accepted, successful. We shouldn't have to work hard for validation. We should seek it outside of ourselves.
We have to learn how to self -validate, right? We have to learn how to like give ourselves what we need so that we're not so desperate to get it from somebody else because that's a recipe for disaster. Like you'll never make it out of that. You'll never make it out alive. You'll always be desperate.
Sarita (28:46.25)
Yeah, love that. Great explanation. That's awesome. That hits now in the head for me definitely. So let's loop that in or bring
when it comes to receiving abundance, right? Because we were talking about the cycles and the patterns and basically the indicators and things. And so now, when it comes to receiving abundance, and abundance can be anything. It can be love, it can be money, it can be opportunities, can be a trap, anything that you really want it to be. And so when it comes to receiving abundance, and you can bring in the body and embodiment in there too, because I know that's your jam.
But when it comes to all that, I don't want to say how, but for the experience of someone who's become aware of these things, and they want to attract more abundance, and they're seeing, okay, validation's not with somebody else, it's within me. Let's loop that in with how do they receive and be more open to receiving abundance.
Katie Kozlowski (29:50.668)
Yeah, so I think that the first thing is learning how to be present in your body. That's the first thing I always teach people. I used to give away this free gift. It was called the Five Minute Fix. I have another version of it now that I give away. I have two. One is called Move, Roof, Meditate. The other one's an embodied meditation practice. You can find those on my website. But basically, in a nutshell, that's the first thing I think you need to do is you need to learn how to get back into your body and be present with
So you need to understand that you're not really in your body or you're not, you're disassociated, you're disconnected, right? You need to learn how to be with yourself because that's the first thing that breaks down. So learning how to do that, what does that mean? Well, very simply, it means you come back into your body, you call yourself in, you learn what it feels like to be present. Most people don't even know what it feels like to be present with their feelings and their emotions. We're numb, we're desensitized, we're conditioned to control our feelings.
So you can't really start to manifest. Like if you think about it just in terms of, I don't know, like a bell or a Tibetan singing bowl, right? And the job of the vibration is to help you manifest. So we have energy, I teach Shakti, right? So we have energy that flows through us. Shakti is creative life force energy, right? That's our power to manifest, create, connect, all the things, right? That energy flows through us.
in the channel of the spine, right? It's Kundalini, it goes up the channel. And if you're not really present, if you're all tense and controlling, right? If you were to be that singing bowl and you sort of went to strike the bowl, it wouldn't ring, right? It wouldn't, nothing would happen. It would just be like,
So in order to manifest, we have to be present in our bodies so we can vibrate, so we can actually call stuff in. Because receiving, in my opinion, is about magnetization, which means that you have a frequency inside yourself. When you embody that frequency in an authentic way, it vibrates like a magnet. And then the things that you're manifesting are actually created outside of you, out in the quantum field, and attracted to you.
Katie Kozlowski (32:04.364)
So it's the law of attraction, magnetization. But if you're not present in your body and you're not giving yourself permission to feel your feelings and feel what you're feeling so that you can create the space to have what you want, if you don't know how to do that, you can have a hard time manifesting or receiving anything because you're like this, So it's opening, it's coming back into your body, it's learning how to regulate your nervous system because we need that frequency for it to
Sarita (32:31.107)
Right, ooh, beautiful explanation. I really like that bowl analogy because that really goes home for me. And I'm very familiar with the Tibetan bowls and how they sound and how you can actually feel the frequency. But I didn't really think about myself as being like, well yes, of course I've thought about myself as being, I understand that I am an energetic being and so of course I'm giving off energy and I have a vibration, but that just, I don't know, there's something that really landed with me well. So thank you so much for that.
So then the question I have is, so for somebody that, and even myself too, where it's like, what if we are having, you know, we're doing, we feel like we're doing the thing, right? We feel like we're taking the steps and doing the things that we need to do to be able to feel more grounded and feel more in the body. However, we're having, it appears to be a disconnect with like,
receiving the actual abundance, right? Receiving the thing that we actually want. Like it's close. And I'm a believer if we can see it in our reality, meaning maybe somebody else has it or something that's verification that it's number one possible, number two, that it's close by. But then also like, maybe there's some kind of disconnect. What in your experiences could be happening there?
Katie Kozlowski (33:55.39)
So in a nutshell, trauma, right, goes back to trauma. It always goes back to trauma and conditioning because if you're if you're shutting down, if you're disconnecting, like if you're not really present in your body, things like that, basically what happens is you're here, right? You're in your body. You set the intention. You order the thing up in the quantum field. It's trying to make its way to you. Right. So you're like, this is me. This is what I want. It's like, got it. Great. And then you start to doubt yourself or you sort
you sort of shift a little bit or shut down or worry or beat yourself up or whatever it is, feel unworthy and you start to collapse or you do whatever you do. The thing that was on its way to you can't get to you anymore because you just think about it like I have all these analogies for things, right? The plane can't land, right? It's like trying to come down the runway and you're shutting the runway down. So it's like making its way to you and now all of a sudden you've completely either.
shut yourself down, which means that the runway is shut off, or you've sort of changed the frequency, which means that the universe is like, okay, wait, I was sending you this, okay, send it back, wait, what, A lot of people do the ordering the food from the kitchen type thing, so you order a cheeseburger, you're like, one cheeseburger, and then you're waiting, and you're like, wait, I'm not worthy of a cheeseburger, I'm fat, I'll have a salad, and they're like, okay. And the frequency gets messed up. So it's what we're thinking.
how we're feeling, all of
Sarita (35:23.423)
that. I love your analogies by the way. I speak in analogies whenever I can. So I love those. Very simple and easy explanation. So that's amazing. Okay, let's talk about Shakti bomb.
Katie Kozlowski (35:36.952)
My cat, hang on. Hang on, Leia, stop. She's being so naughty. She's like, my mommy's trying to do something important right now. I'm going to ruin her chair while she's not looking. You cut it out. Her name is Princess Leia. She's a rebellious teenager. Yes. So ask me again. Shockey bomb, right?
Sarita (35:40.944)
you
Sarita (35:49.758)
Cute, cute, cute. Lover of animals over here. Yes, I want to hear about, I know my audience is very intrigued about this. I'm intrigued about it. I love the name. Tell us about Shakti Bhaam because I've been hearing, you know, and intertwined in saying this is how I help, this is where I come in. So please tell us about this amazing program you have.
Katie Kozlowski (36:11.042)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, so basically in a nutshell again, like I'll give you the abbreviated version. People are always welcome to like reach out, find me on Instagram, you know, go to my website. If you're interested, like try the meditation. That's the great way to see if it's a good fit for you, if you like it. But what I ended up doing is I was in spiritual communities, energy medicine, energy healing.
And then I also trained in neuro -linguistic programming, which is a little bit more about, you know, behaviors, mindset. And I took the two and I put them together and I built this system that allows you to use your body, your emotions, your senses to heal, transform, create, manifest. So it's like, if you've ever done NLP, it's sort of like NLP on crack. And it's very similar, meaning like,
You know, it's like NLP plus all this quantum cool shit playing with timelines and using your imagination and things like that. It's also very similar. A lot of people follow Joe Dispenza. It's a lot like Joe Dispenza, but it's actually.
even like one step further if anybody has ever done any of his stuff, like he does mind movies and so he'll say like, let's make a mind movie and watch the movie. And I'm like, why would we make a mind movie when we can make the energy frequency in a energetic hologram and download it into our bodies? Don't waste time watching a movie. Go create it in the quantum field and download it into your body and live it. Like you can live the mind movie. So it's all
teaching you one, how to be present in your body, two, how to create the space to manifest what you want, and three, connect with these higher energies, higher frequencies, the quantum field, and actually bring it into your body so that you can live it. So the embodiment piece is sort of taking that amazing recipe that you're cooking up and
Katie Kozlowski (38:11.914)
and living it, like living it in your cells, in your nervous system, and then the magnetism happens, right? Because you are it, like you become it. It's really fun. It is by far one of the most creative, and I've seen a lot of healing tools, practices, because I've been around a while. There's nothing else like it out there. There really isn't. People are like, who else does this? I'm like, nobody is crazy enough to think this up. But I did, right? I made
And also the acting background comes into play because that's your imagination, your senses, sense memory. I borrowed a lot from believe it or not acting school because acting, right, when you're acting you're learning how to be present in your body, how to react to your emotions, you know, like respond. It's all the same stuff. It's amazing.
Sarita (38:58.071)
sounds so cool. So then is there like is there movement and things in it like like like dance and things?
Katie Kozlowski (39:03.362)
There is movement and some, well sometimes, yeah, I mean it depends. So depending on the person that I'm working with, right, some people might be a little bit less like big movements. Some people, we might just use our hands, we might use the body a little bit, you know, it just depends on what we're doing. But it has a lot to do with like feeling what you're feeling in your body and making shapes and
Things like that because the body you know, there's the book the body keeps the score which means the body is kind of In control of a lot of shit, right? It's very powerful. It's also a direct reflection of your subconscious So I'm giving you tools that teach you how to actually work with your body to Access your subconscious so that might mean moving like I'm Doing a certain movement that triggers emotion, right? We're looking
to actually activate the emotion. Again, it's like very, most people say like, we don't wanna feel the negative feelings. Not in my world. Like we're gonna get inside those feelings. gonna like open them up and we're gonna feel the shit out of them. Because if you have anger, we're going full on anger, baby. Because I want you to release that. You can't release it just talking about it. I'm so angry. Okay, well show me how fucking angry you are, right? Let's get a pillow, let's punch it,
tell me what happened and sometimes people will like, like, you know, I've had people in workshops, I said, okay, now make a sound. And they're like, mm. I go, no, make a sound, make a sound. And then one time this one guy was so great. He's like, He started screaming and then everybody started screaming and like banging on the ground and I was, yes, because it's real. That's what you're feeling inside. Do you know what I mean? So feeling what you're feeling.
Sarita (40:51.65)
Yeah.
Katie Kozlowski (40:56.448)
all the things, sometimes dancing, sometimes not, sometimes just taking up space, how you take up space. I do a lot of timeline healing, so like walking a timeline. It's wildly, it's very
Sarita (41:11.285)
That sounds amazing, Katie. my gosh. So then people can connect with you at I am Katie Kowalski at Instagram and then you can, I'm Katie Kowalski, okay, and Kowalski.
Katie Kozlowski (41:14.071)
This was
Katie Kozlowski (41:19.97)
Yep, yeah, my at I am Katie Kozlowski. Yeah, and like even if you went there, there's a link tree or there's like a, it's not called milkshake, but whatever. There's a URL, right? You click that link and there's all kinds of treats there. There's the meditation and all the, anything you could ever need.
Sarita (41:37.426)
Amazing, amazing. And I love, just again, I love the name and I love what you're doing. I love how you are, not only, again, that was one of the first things I said, is that you're living it, you are actually living it, and you're also teaching it too. And I love that. That's so important to myself to connect with people like that and also to share members of other audiences that are doing that exact same work. So I love that.
Katie Kozlowski (42:02.476)
Yeah, well, yeah, and you know what? I would say if you want someone who's like who you can really trust, you should go with the person who's actually experienced it themselves. Like a lot of people read books and it's funny, like I had this conversation with myself about trauma informed because there's all these like, I'm trauma informed. I'm like, well, what does that mean really? Okay, so that means like you're trauma informed. You learned about trauma, but I am.
I have trauma experience, right? Like I've lived inside trauma. So there's a difference between someone who's like a manifestation informed and someone who's actually had to use that. Like I had, I was $85 ,000 in debt, right? I had to manifest the shit out of my own money so that I could get out of debt and like move into a house and do all this, you know, like I, everything that I teach I built because I needed
sort of build the tool for myself to get where I wanted to go. So that's how I know that it works because like I was the one that I was my lab rat. And also I did it because everyone else was just talking about, you know, all these different things. like, but have you ever been inside it? Have you ever had this problem? Do you know what it feels like? No, I don't know what it feels like. I just read about it in a book or I got a certification. you go away. Let me talk to someone who actually understands.
Sarita (43:26.276)
I fully agree. Yes, I saw that right off the bat. You you can tell. Honestly, it's crazy. It's crazy and magic. So don't want to, I want to remove crazy from my like lingo when it comes to like energetics because it is, it's magic, but it's very magic how technology, I mean, how energy surpasses technology that I
Katie Kozlowski (43:26.55)
I appreciate that. You appreciate that.
Sarita (43:48.23)
I could feel that vibe from you, right? Just by what I was taking in, not necessarily seeing, but like taking in by the energy of your page and things like that. So that is immensely important to me. So I love that. Final question, final question of the day that I always ask everybody is what does abundance mean to you,
Katie Kozlowski (44:00.824)
That's cool.
Yay.
Katie Kozlowski (44:12.546)
I mean, at this point, I think abundance means being fully supported in every capacity. Like, it's that simple. Because abundance to me is health, wealth, relationships, time, space, like having what you need, being nourished. It's like very, I don't know, I was gonna say unctuous. Like, it's just like a, it's like a whole
It's not just about money for me anymore. And I think I used to think it was like abundance. need more abundance. But then I realized I am incredibly abundant and I'm very good at manifesting. I just have to remember that I'm worthy of having whatever it is that I need. My desires and needs being met. And that could be money. That could be health. That could be whatever. But it's more it's like a deeper sense of satisfaction for me. Like I would put abundance on sort
in my core sense of self, like full nourishment.
Sarita (45:17.645)
I love that. Ooh, that's so beautiful. Love it, love it, love it. Well, thank you so much again, Katie, for this amazing episode. I love the energy you bring. What's your astrological sign, by the way?
Katie Kozlowski (45:29.134)
I'm well, I'm a Sagittarius, but I'm actually a Fuchan. So if you know about the 13th sign, I'm a Fuchan. Me and Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift, Bette Midler, Britney Spears. It's a vibe. Yeah, look at the Fuchas. If anyone was born, I think it's like, gosh, I forget what the date is in November, but it goes until December 20th, I think, something like that.
Sarita (45:43.951)
Yeah, there's a couple out there. Yeah, totally is. Okay.
Katie Kozlowski (45:56.558)
Then there's this 13 sign, it's Ophiuchus, and they're like magical and creative and seductive. I'm like, that's so me. Like super just like, what is that person? And I'm a generator too, six two.
Sarita (46:04.067)
it yeah I love it awesome 6 -2 amazing amazing and fire energy in the house I'm an Aries Aries rising Aries Sun Pisces moon so yeah lots of lots of fire in the house thank you so much girl yeah wake up I love it I love it
Katie Kozlowski (46:22.196)
yeah, and I got a Leo rising too. you know, like, it's like, my hair is usually like a little bit more, it's a little tame today, but you know, it's usually like, my name.
Sarita (46:33.495)
I love it, yes. You definitely have the vibe. Thank you, Katie, so much. I can't wait to share this episode with everybody out there. Again, thank you so much for joining us today and back to here with Sarita. Again, as always, keep being the amazing you that you are. See you next time. Take care.
