Episode 41: Welcome to Heal Into Happy, I'm your host Lark Allen. Today I am so excited to introduce you to my guest, Charlyn Papaccio-DiLorenzo to share her vision of what heaven on earth is to her. Charlyn is a lifelong instructor in the performing arts world, specifically the genre of Acrobatics for the last 42 years. She loves to impart and cultivate a strong love for this art of acrobatics in her students full spectrum, from instructing technical skills, creating choreography, costume design and creating sets that are taken to both entertainment and competitive stages. Ready? Listen in…
• Yeah, well, at first I said to myself, What's the meaning of heaven? The meaning or interpretation of heaven can be different for everyone, so what first came to me was heaven to me is an inner and outer experience. Like my inner heaven and my outer heaven, my internal and external… So, I'm going to start with the external meaning, like sensory experience. So, a time I experienced heaven on earth was back in 2008, we were in Costa Rica, and this experience in my life immediately springs to mind. It's like the most beautiful experience, we were at the Arenal Volcano, which is a pretty relatively speaking, pretty young volcano, that was, at the time in 2008, it was active. It's only 7500 old. And if you Google this place, it's called the Tabacón hot springs in Costa Rica. These waterfalls and hot springs are heated by the lava… And I'm going to go so far as to say that the majority of people that are listening to this that want to actually see what I'm talking about would agree that this is literally and figuratively heaven on earth. I mean, it has levels or waterfall steps, emanating this beautiful ethereal Mist from the water, which is heated from the volcano, it doesn't get better than that. (09:11)
• I'm not going to forget to mention all the beautiful full moons, the blood moons, the strawberry moons, the blue moons that I've seen and just stood down on or looking up. One shooting star I saw a few years back just took my breath away, oh my God, the sunsets also. I want to say right now, my daughter's 21, she's a junior in college, she's studying to be a veterinarian, she just... with all the exposure to animals with her dad and myself, you can't miss, you're just going to love animals. Just witnessing her thriving and being happy in her college experience right now, I feel very, very... It feels like heaven. Because when your child is struggling and it's Okay, believe me, she's had her struggles too, she goes through it very well, it feels heavenly to me. It feels like heaven on earth to see her thriving and balancing out her life with her studies, with her athletics, and you know, having fun at the same time, so it was a full spectrum experience from her. So that really makes me happy. (13:36)
• Getting to know me, getting to know myself feels heavenly because like exploring natures terrains. There are so many levels. Dig Deep. Dig deep, dig deep. You know, you see the dirt, you keep digging deeper. Wow, there's a crystal cave underneath here and there's a selenite cave. I feel like that's what I'm discovering. So for me, it's heaven on earth. And it's not easy work. It's pain. I'm not going to make like it's all great, it is. The end result is, but it's not easy work, it's painful, it's messy, it's sometimes a bitter pill to swallow, but since I'm unlocking me, and it's where I put right now, where I put my biggest investments, both in time and monetary, energetic exchange. Getting to know me more and more has been heaven on earth, and through that getting to know me more, I'm unlocking my soul's purpose. (14:56)
• Okay, so heaven on earth. To me, one of the biggest things is helping other people truly see that they are divinity, and I struggled with this. I don't know if it's the idea, the concept, the truth of it, I didn't understand it, and I finally do understand it, and I know there's a lot more that's going to unfold with that. But especially like with my students, that's pretty much when I work with, but the Moms, you know the families, the trickle down effect of that helping others see the divinity, the oneness, and that they are a masterpiece. And look at a painting, you look at the bottom right hand corner, or on the back were the artist signs, this is number 22 of 348 copies of this. Every single one of us go inside, turn around, you're one of one, not to ever be repeated again. (18:21)
ABOUT CHARLYN PAPACCIO-DILORENZO:
58
Leo
Mother of Ali (who’s 21)
Lover of :
: all things beautiful
Holistic wellness
Essential oils
Crystals
Yoga
Sound baths
Meditation
Breathwork
Energy work
Nature, animals
Creating natural art projects
Finding yourself through movement
The sun and the moon and the stars & the cosmos……
She has been a lifelong instructor in the performing arts world, specifically the genre of Acrobatics for the last 42 years. She loves to impart and cultivate a strong love for this art of acrobatics in her students full spectrum, from instructing technical skills, creating choreography, costume design and creating sets that are taken to both entertainment and competitive stages.
She has been involved in very deep inner work and personal development intensely for the last three years. She is
in the process of creating a program in her Acrobatics performing arts classes ( She teaches balancing , contortion & tumbling & partnering ) where she brings more than just teaching technical skills.
She will be bringing more…
✨Breathwork
✨Energy work
✨Heightened awareness
✨Holistic modalities ( essential oils, etc)
✨ Realization of students divine one of one~ness ( this can be easily forgotten in the performing arts world where a young child , & younger persons self esteem can suffer when they are not the “ front & center star” onstage …. Dealing with students stage moms & not getting the skills as fast as the person who has more natural raw talent ) yet , being mindful & finely balancing to not to allow the fact that we are all special already ( “ everyone gets a trophy “ mentally ) as an excuse to not fulfill their highest potential.
She is in her creative process and that’s exactly what led her to this very now moment here with us today.
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