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Published: Oct. 10, 2021, 10:35 a.m.

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Jenna is an intuitive healer, facilitator, teacher, artist, mother and musician.

She has joyfully led retreats, teen mentorship workshops, private healing sessions, lessons, camps, choirs, conferences, and classes for over 20 years.

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She loves sharing my joy of love, art, music and meditation by teaching how to build tools toward re-alignment, healing and cultivating creativity.

Connect with Jenna at https://www.acousticvitality.org/jennadalton .

Unknown Speaker 0:00
Your journey has been an interesting one up to hear you\'ve questioned so much more than those around you. You\'ve even questioned yourself as to how you could have grown into these thoughts. Am I crazy? When did I begin to think differently? Why do people in general appear so limited as Bob process? Rest assured, you are not alone. The world is slowly waking up to what you already know inside yet can\'t quite verbalize. Welcome to the spiritual dough podcast, the show that answers the questions you never even knew to ask, but knew the answers to questions about you is the world the people in it? Most importantly, how do I proceed now moving forward? We don\'t claim to have all the answers but we sure do love living. The question from time for another head of spiritual dub with your host Brandon Handley. Let\'s get right into today\'s episode.

Brandon Handley 0:41
Hey there spiritual Dude, I am haunted today with Jenna Walton. She is an intuitive healer, facilitator, teacher, artists, mother and musician. She\'s joyfully led retreats team mentorship workshops, private Healing Sessions, less than camps, choirs, conferences and classes for over 20 years. She loves to share her joy of love art, music and meditation by teaching how to build tools towards realignment, healing and cultivating creativity. Jenna thanks for being on. Thanks for having

Jenna Dalton 1:11
me.

Brandon Handley 1:12
Absolutely, I mean I think we\'ve been trying to put this together for like six months give or take Yeah, finally I\'ve been looking forward to connect and just having this conversation. So thanks looking forward to it so I was like to start this off with the whole idea that we\'re kind of vessels for source energy, right whatever that looks like to you and that you and I\'ll be having a conversation but whoever\'s listening they\'re like they\'re hearing something completely different right? They\'re not even hearing what we\'re saying like and this message can only be delivered through Jenna by source on this podcast to that person right now. What\'s that message?

Jenna Dalton 1:54
What is that message? Hmm? Love reigns. I mean that\'s that\'s kind of where I\'m where I\'m at right now is I just keep coming back to that to how can I cultivate more open heart How can I get deeper into love? I feel like that is my direct connection to the universe Great Spirit whatever you want to call it that that\'s that\'s my direct connection. So yeah, and then just all the fun ways to practice that all the fun ways to play with that. Well, while we\'re human beings here on this planet

Brandon Handley 2:33
every time I go to like any energy work session throws like your heart is really close off I\'m like I know right? Thanks this isn\'t news but it sounds to me like your heart might be a little bit more open

Jenna Dalton 2:50
because every time I get when they\'re like wow you need to close that up a little bit you\'re

Brandon Handley 2:55
you\'re taking it off for everybody like I saw that guy down the street his heart was like shut down and I\'m just gonna step in and fill that guy\'s you know fill that need so um, and you know, a little bit more to on you for the audience right I love the story you\'re just talking to a quick second before we got going here was that the whole idea of like, being born on a 355 acre spiritual community right for your first 14 years of life really into music and then like, packing up a u haul and going to the burbs I mean, I don\'t know if you specifically went to the burbs, but I mean, I can only imagine, right. Right. And like I\'m envisioning and you can tell me if I\'m right or wrong. I don\'t I\'m just making things up as I go along. But I remember going to a couple like rainbow family gatherings back in the day was anything like that? Or was it like somewhat different? Are you familiar with the rainbow family gatherings?

Jenna Dalton 3:48
Oh, yeah, yeah. It was a little bit like that, except that we had a farm that we had to run and it was somewhat self sustaining. So we had a lot of work to do. There were ditches to dig and cows to take care of and harvesting and planting and gardening and you know, there\'s endless work to be done. So, so that I would say that\'s the biggest difference than like, you know, when I would tell people Oh, I lived I grew up in a commune. everyone\'s eyes kind of glaze over like, like sexual.

Brandon Handley 4:19
I mean, that\'s the first

Saturdays

Jenna Dalton 4:28
I mean, that\'s that definitely happened. Yes. But more so at least where I was, it was it really was a group of people who were trying to separate from like patriarchal society, capitalistic society and try something else. And so it was a group of really cool people coming together, spiritually striving, and then trying to figure out how to get along together while we\'re collecting eggs and cooking you know, we had to cook meals for everybody. We had to feed everyone we had and where I was, there was no city within 80 miles in any direction. So we were in the middle of nowhere. So we really had to, you know, toilet broke, we had to fix it. There was a flood, we had to deal with it, you know, the pipes froze. We had to deal with it. And so there was a lot of hard work to that was cool. It\'s cool.

Brandon Handley 5:21
You have running water? Yeah, I mean, I remember so I remember growing up. And my mom had some brands that I would go stay the summer with. And like, we had the pump the water, there was no indoor plumbing and what not so I mean, you\'re kind of living the life of luxury. Yeah, really? It\'s pretty cool. Okay. And then and then, um, and then you can you talk to me, like, the spiritual, what the spiritual community looked like, I guess, from then perspective, right, as a child to kind of like, your lens back on it. What are your thoughts?

Jenna Dalton 6:03
So growing up, it really was just kind of like a playground? I don\'t remember there. There definitely was we had a meditation class for kids where they would actually bribe us with little chewable vitamin C\'s if we sat still for long enough, which I thought now looking back, I find that so funny. So there was there was it was like a playground for me, when I was growing up looking back, I can see Wow, I really embodied a lot of I just kind of like got spiritual teachings in my DNA by being there, which, which I\'m very thankful for. And I feel like that\'s a that\'s the gift I like to pay forward into the world is that it\'s not it\'s never been like a struggle for me to have like a spiritual connection. Or I\'ve never wondered if there\'s a God, I\'ve never had that. Like, it\'s just always been there. And so that I feel, I know that I was just the gift that I got from that place. Growing up. I never talked about meditating, or we just did it. We just did yoga, we just did meditation. And it was just part just like we cooked meals or we went to the bathroom. It was just another thing that we did. So it was kind of demystified for me in that way. And it was actually weirder when we came up here and I saw that not everybody did that. That was that was what was weird was when I was 14 looking around going Oh, okay, I am really different. But I didn\'t really realize it until then.

Brandon Handley 7:32
Yeah, I mean, talk about that, right? Trying to go from this self sustaining spiritual commune, where you know, there\'s a little bit more togetherness, a little bit more of us as a whole. And then coming into I\'m sure like, there was plenty of like materialism to of sorts within that commune. But like, and then kind of seeing on mass with like hyper commercialism and all this other stuff. Prager you wasn\'t like sensory overload. And then like me having to go to school, I might have been mad.

Jenna Dalton 8:13
I was very angry. And angry You came up here. I mean, ironically, we came up here because there was no High School out there. And the closest High School was 80 miles away. And my brother, my older brother, like, took the bus there everyday left at 5am. And I just did not want to do that. I didn\'t want to be homeschooled. I think my parents were wise enough to recognize that I needed music and theater in my life. So in that way, I was very thankful that we came up here because I, the cultural piece was very lacking out in the middle of nowhere in Nevada. So that piece was really wonderful for me, but yeah, it was, I think the biggest shock was that, even though like you said these things existed, maybe like humming underneath the surface, it was my first experience with like, sexism, racism, homophobia, just flat out hating somebody for no reason. But that kind of disconnection. I did not experience that in the first 14 years of my life I just didn\'t experience that. Even in the ranch kids that I was friends with. We they would just that just wasn\'t there. And so that I think was what was most shocking for me. And I think that\'s where my anger came from, was that it was like suddenly I realized wow, this world is not the utopian amazing place that I thought it was because that\'s what my life has been for. For the first 14 years.

Brandon Handley 9:40
Yeah, for sure. So me I gotta imagine a lot of that was romanticized. Right and just kind of came tumbling down. Right. And I also think that too, you know, you\'re out here you\'re 80 miles away from any city and you don\'t have the air And I don\'t know to be honest with you, I mean, you know, what\'s the electricity situation like out there for you know you have running water so I don\'t know like, you know what\'s like the Wi Fi TV situation like but like, right so I mean, I gotta imagine, right there\'s like no electromagnetic brain interference right? Right maybe that\'s why all the teams are mad. Like maybe he\'s mad because like there\'s a lot you\'re like you\'re just kind of like energy passing through you and it\'s everybody else\'s shit.

Jenna Dalton 10:29
Right? Right and it\'s getting more intense because we have more and more data.

Brandon Handley 10:35
Yeah. gotta turn it up. Yeah. Yeah, yeah Interesting. Interesting for sure.

Jenna Dalton 10:42
I didn\'t go you know I went to school there are only 30 people in the entire school grades one through eight granted, but not a single person had ADHD, or autism or nobody. And, you know, as a teacher now I\'m like, I wonder how much of it was the fact that they were out? shoveling shit and working with cows instead of playing video games and watching shows you know that that I wonder how much of a difference that makes? Sure well,

Brandon Handley 11:11
I mean, you know, I\'ve got a I\'ve got a nine and 11 year old boy, right? And I too, was once a wee lad, that they\'re like, you need to sit still. I\'m like, Well, I don\'t really think right that we as humans were meant to sit still behind a desk at a young age for like six to eight hours a day. Yeah. And then and then and then the whole idea to have like, oh, and like you\'re not gonna let them you\'re gonna take away recess you\'re gonna take away this and now like, you\'re not gonna live and burn off all that energy. Right? Who came up with this plan? Yeah.

Jenna Dalton 11:48
As a Waldorf teacher I started every day with jumping rope for half an hour. We just did we just moved partially because of that because I didn\'t feel like I could ask anybody to sit down in a chair when they\'re young and exuberant and what they want to do is move and so we would Okay, we\'re gonna do math with jump roping. We\'re gonna do spelling with jump roping and then we\'ll go in and sit down let\'s exhaust you

Brandon Handley 12:10
brilliant I mean we\'re jumping so we\'ll do that jump rope to do yeah. So when you talk about spirituality like kind of always being a part of life and always being feeling can see what I mean. Quick, easy answers like what\'s what\'s spirituality mean to you? Right? What\'s that look like for you internally? And how are you expressing that?

Jenna Dalton 12:29
Um, I think that it\'s kind of it\'s a hard question to answer but for me it\'s just such a feeling of home it\'s just such a feeling of I\'m here I\'m comfortable in my skin I\'m in a I feel in alignment. Like I feel like I\'m in alignment with I don\'t know what is that with just the flow or just with like, my life is flowing and I\'m flowing with it and there\'s maybe something bigger and I\'m a part of it and just that connection and the play between those two things I don\'t know how else to to describe

Brandon Handley 13:05
that that works right? So I mean, right? And I think that\'s where the challenge comes for most people you know, someone\'s like, well this is what spiritual to me. It means right? And somebody else is like, No, no, no, no, no, you\'re wrong, right? Like, you can\'t be wrong that\'s that\'s that\'s your inner inner inner presence and if you\'re in alignment and if I read your story, I would say that you are like you\'ve had such a really cool cool life and I and you have found the places at least you know from reading your bio that you can able to express who you are in alignment with who you are for life that is pretty good, right? Yeah. So I mean let\'s move forward right from so you got a you got a high school, you\'re big into music, you know, what does that look like for you kind of going through the high school thing coming out of coming out of the commune and moving us forward?

Jenna Dalton 14:03
Well, you know, initially it was there was a mixed thing there was there was the part of me that was 14 and just ready because when you\'re 14, your world is expanding, right? And so my world expanded and I loved that piece. I was really excited to live in an apartment complex. The idea of that was like so amazing. They\'re just little things like that. We have a swimming pool, you know, stuff. And then I discovered choir and theater and just like completely dove into that and discovered the artist in me that was really thirsty. That was something that didn\'t get a whole lot of playtime out on the farm. And so that was amazing. And and then there was a lot of, you know, I also just really loved like the counterculture. I of course was very attracted to the counterculture kids and, and enjoyed adventuring in that way. So School was just a big, it was a big adventure, I got in a lot of trouble. And you know, just really, really, I really pushed it a lot. But one of the things that I had in my life was this, this nest of like 30 adults who had known me since birth. And were holding space for me even though I was you know, even though it wasn\'t physically on the farm anymore, they still knew and loved me. And I had and I reached out to them a lot with, you know, because I was pushing my parents away, which is what\'s normal to do when you\'re 14 to 18 years old. But I still had all these adults that I could gain that I could gain insight from and my dad connected me with a woman here Jane sad to see her she\'s amazing yoga teacher, oh, my God, that saved my life in high school. Just deepening my yoga practice. And so finding those connections was really, really awesome appear to so that so it wasn\'t, my adolescence wasn\'t as hard as it might have been. I you know, in some ways, it was a lot easier because I did have this, like I said, I had this support network, I had this village, that was kind of at that point, because the farm had kind of dwindled a bit, everybody was all over the country. So there was kind of a network of support there. That, that it definitely felt, I definitely felt that and thank goodness for that. I think it probably saved my saved my butt several times.

Brandon Handley 16:32
Now, you know, jotted down takes a village, right? You literally had a village supporting you. And to have gotten in trouble a lot after again, after coming from this culture of where you were to this other thing I can only imagine like, What do you mean, that\'s the rule? That doesn\'t make any sense?

I thought this was the smoking corner. Right? I can\'t, I can only imagine some of the conversations too. And just trying to try to wrap your mind around it. Right. Coming from, again, probably something that was a little bit more free, in terms of at least your ability to express yourself as you were in, in a in you know, sounds like the supportive people. Right? Yeah. And then and then go on also from a school of 30 in total, to probably like, I don\'t know, 30 per class, give or take, I mean, yeah. And then a quick question, too. So like, what were your parents done? Like, did they so they they came from the farm, and now they\'re doing what at the apartment, like working?

Jenna Dalton 17:46
My mom became she\'s, she\'s always been a teacher. So she taught there and she taught here. So it was more for her, it was probably less of a shock because it was just more kids to teach. My dad, however, was pretty much for lack of a better word, the guru of this spiritual community. He was the one that led classes led meditations, and he got a job at Nike. So he really had he had quite a hard time you know, that that also might have been part of the me acting out is that my parents were not super there because they were in survival mode. They weren\'t just like, after 16 years for them of living on a farm they were suddenly in the city and trying to survive how do we pay rent? What do we do? You know, all of the What do you mean we have to have insurance for that? What do you mean we have to pay for Jenna to do this in school? And you know, all of that stuff? So they I\'m sure. I you know, my mom the other day even was describing it, how she we\'ve made it through this day. We made it through today. Okay. You know, like, that\'s kind of where they were at. It was a big, it was a big jump for them.

Brandon Handley 18:57
Yeah, especially, I mean, going from guru to, I don\'t know, analytics, or whatever it was. Right? Just being like, I\'d be mad. I\'m mad now. Yeah. So then, you know, you kind of make it through. And you you kind of you start doing some adventuring? Right, let\'s talk about some of the adventures because I think you got some adventuring stories that Yeah, like I was saying earlier, it sounds like you just kind of flowed from like one spot to another doing your thing. I\'m sure there was like some sure there was some stress involved in there somewhere. But for the most part, you\'re just kind of going with it. So what what do you travel next?

Jenna Dalton 19:44
You know, the way I looked at it is that so you\'re 18 it\'s like you want to you want to initiate yourself. We don\'t have a village that initiate us anymore. And so I self initiated by doing all sorts of things. One of the big things I did was get into Tom Brown\'s tracker war. And I actually dropped out of college and lived in the woods for about three months with one other person. We killed a deer and use the tide we like we did the whole thing we were like living off the woods, we made moccasins out of the deer hide that we, you know, like it was, we ate squirrels, we really did. And so that was amazing. That was an adventure. And then I came back and found a really cool college to go to that that resonated with me. And that\'s when I started when I was out in the woods, we went on a week and, and, and teach children how to be in the woods. And that was the seed for me wanting to teach. So yeah, and that was kind of the beginning of that when I was when I was 18. And then that seed just continued to grow and grow as my adventures unfolded. And I, I felt like I was getting an opportunity to touch on a lot of different spirituality, Native American spirituality came in really strong. In Wisconsin, I had white, there was a shaman there. And there was another Lakota woman who taught us a lot of things. And so I felt like this is where I feel like the universe is in touch with me because I was in the flow of the universe. And then suddenly, just all these teachers came out of the woodwork all over the country, literally, I was traveling on Greyhound all over the country. And an African man would start talking to me on the bus and blow my mind spiritually. And then I\'d get off the bus. And then there\'s this Lakota woman who\'s ready to teach me Native American arts and crafts. I mean, it just really I get goosebumps now just thinking about it. Because I really was like, the universe was just saying yes to initiating me into the world of, of look at how much spirit there is, look at all the different walks of spirituality there are and how they all go to great mountain or great spirit or when light men or whatever you want to talk about. So it was quite, it was quite an adventure full time.

Brandon Handley 21:59
Would you say that you were aware of it being an initiation at the time and feeling that way at the time? Or is this a reflection?

Jenna Dalton 22:06
No, it was just adventure at the time. I go, Oh,

Brandon Handley 22:10
I see what was happening. Right. Okay, now that\'s got me, that\'s cool. It\'s good to know, right? Because again, as we\'re going through it, and we\'re young, and we\'re just adventuring. We don\'t kind of really catch all the things that are happening, right? And as we look back, we\'re like, Well, that was really cool. I can\'t believe uh, for me, I\'m like, I can\'t believe I didn\'t die. On a list of bad ideas, a whole bunch of them. And wow, you know, something somewhere was looking out for me, right? A lot of times, but so I wanted to hit on the school that you found for yourself that you\'re able to just kind of have kind of this alternative education, you want to share your school a little bit, right. And I wouldn\'t even know to look for it.

Jenna Dalton 23:00
Yeah, so this is Prescott college. It\'s an Arizona, I literally felt this, I found this college because I was with a friend who was looking up conservatories, or something and this book fell off the, into my hands and literally fell off into my hands when she was looking at other things. And it said, How to make a difference in the world college guide. And I was like, Oh, my God, they have this, you know, it was like kind of, it was one of those things. And it was in there. And this place was amazing. Because they let you write your own degree plan. You write a contract for what you want to learn for every class and you hand that into your teacher. So you\'re saying, This is what I want to get out of your class, and then your teacher looks at it and goes pretty good or no, I\'m going to actually be teaching this. How do you feel about that? So you\'re entering into a contract, and a conscious contract every time with your teacher, every class had 12 students or less, every class had an experiential option. So if you\'re learning how to teach, you spend over half that time in the classroom teaching, so I had like four years of teaching more than an average bachelor\'s degree in education would have because of the way they did it at the school. There were I mean, I took African inspired gem and dance or all these different courses that were offered. I took a course called environmental perspectives and whitewater rafting. That was my because I have this fear of water. I was like I\'m facing my fear of water. I am going to go whitewater rafting for 30 straight days. And it was awesome. By the end of it. I was captaining rapids so it was like, Yeah, okay, we\'re gonna do this. And so it just there wasn\'t a second of that of my education that I regret. There\'s so many people look back and they\'re like, What a waste of time college was. And I did not feel that way. I felt like I joyfully pay off my student loans because it\'s because it was every second that I was there. was unfolding. There was a, there was a spiritual element, an emotional element, a mental element, an academic element to every course. And it was a life changer. It was an absolute life changer. I can\'t say enough about that place.

Brandon Handley 25:16
That\'s I mean, it sounds awesome. Yeah, sounds awesome that you were able to find something like that, again. follow your bliss, for lack of better terminology, right? Just kind of follow your path and keep on stepping into something and things kept showing up for you. Yeah, that you were able to do that, right? I mean, being able to skills and spiritual living double minor music, right? Like, I mean, just, it\'s all of who you already were. It\'s like, oh, here\'s a place where I can continue that versus like, Alright, well, I guess, business admin, II, or, you know, this other thing that I\'ll never use. But these are all things that helped you to the integral and you\'re becoming?

Jenna Dalton 26:00
Absolutely. And that\'s where I discovered Waldorf education was at that I was studying alternative methods. And that was one of some older was the one method that openly talks about the spirit of a child, the Solomon child, and how you educate that.

Brandon Handley 26:14
Let\'s expand on that, right? I know that I mentioned for a moment that, you know, that\'s something that we looked at ourselves for our kids, because the last year we had an out of school, which to me was like, that\'s, that was awesome. Thanks, pandemic, and we\'re setting them back. And look, the school systems have changed since I\'ve been there, they\'re a little bit better. But at the same time, it\'s like, to your point, I don\'t know that they explore the spiritual aspect of that.

Jenna Dalton 26:42
Now, well, they\'re not allowed, you\'re actually not allowed to even talk about that openly, you get in trouble if you openly talk about that in, in public schools, that separation of church and state. So that means you can\'t even talk about the spiritual aspect of a child, you get in trouble. So I

Brandon Handley 27:00
mean, what\'s it look like at a Waldorf school, then in one word, education, at another

Jenna Dalton 27:05
school, you\'re required to meditate, if you\'re a teacher, it\'s part of your it\'s part of your what would you call it, your job description is that you hold the children in meditation, and you hold them in sacred space every day. That\'s part of the job description. And that\'s huge to me. That\'s why I chose that route. You know, it has its shadow side, because it\'s a private school. And so it only serves people who can afford the tuition. And that ended up becoming too much of a problem for me for my self. As far as like being in the, in the whole institution of it was hard for me, because I really wanted, I just, I\'m always looking for ways to make whatever I\'m offering available to anyone who wants it, regardless of especially regardless of their economic status. So that\'s the shadow side. But the wonderful side of Waldorf is that they teach through the arts. And in my opinion, the direct pathway to to the divine is through the arts, it\'s so easy to access. That feeling that I was talking about that feeling of flow and connection and contentment with just what is when one is doing art. And so it\'s integrated all day, every day, you\'re doing it all day, every day in the curriculum, and I loved teaching that way I felt, I felt really, I also feel like it was one of the few places that really understood children and how a day should be morphed for them. So as you were saying, sit down, be quiet, have a pencil in your hand at the desk, there\'s very little time that they spend in their desk at another school if if the Walder school is doing it, right, in my opinion, so there\'s, in fact a lot of places even have mobile classrooms and the first and third grades where they literally don\'t have desks, they have these benches that they turn upside down. And they act as you know, balance beams for most of the day. And then when you need to write you have a flat service but other than that, you know, it\'s it\'s pretty, it\'s a pretty awesome program of really honoring the child what I\'ve noticed is that now that my own children are 16 they are looking back going God you you like protected us so much and they\'re mad at me about that now as teenagers so with that, check them out. I\'m just keeping them keep maintaining their childhood so that so the Waldorf education is a lot about like, trying to keep the media out of out of a young child life trying to keep a TV out of the living room trying to make baking and, and rhythm of the day a big priority in the end. And so it\'s really beautiful. To a teenager, it\'s stifling, and horrible, you know,

Brandon Handley 29:51
oh, no, no, no, I get I get it now. And you know, absolutely. I mean, so I grew up and so Some backwards places in Virginia that I was very very remote and not being able to I don\'t know go hang out with all the kids and all the places or even have like a TV at some point it was I was like what the hell is this right this is this is bullshit and and and of course now looking back I\'m like wow how lucky was I that was absolutely gorgeous and man who what why don\'t want to give to like go back there right and have some more of that and and yeah don\'t you know you don\'t appreciate as a kid right? One of the things Who am I gonna play with

Jenna Dalton 30:40
greener The grass is always greener yeah

Brandon Handley 30:43
of course yeah i mean you know you\'re kind of on your journey then like even like take off like you get go out singing around the world, like you know. And you keep you keep going all this stuff. I mean, we probably talk a lot in this area. But one of the things I wanted to draw attention to was the fact that how you and I connected was through this lantern healing. We connected with Liliana. How do I say her last name? I don\'t know. Zola? Yeah, so we connected we connected through her through I think somebody that worked with her before. And so here we are, but I wanted you what, what kind of work are you doing with Lotus lantern? You know, what brought you to the podcast today. Outside of this? You know, this has been a fun conversation, of course. And, you know, what\'s up? What are you doing?

Jenna Dalton 31:33
Well, for now, I\'m doing a lot, the most, most of what we do at Lotus lantern is energy reading. So you can come here, have us look at your energy system, and look at what\'s blocked and clearing. So that\'s that\'s the magic of what we do in a very, very tight nutshell. And then what I also love about Lotus mentors, we have all these offerings, these workshops, so we have writers retreats, we have a Defense Against the Dark Arts class that\'s really fun Harry Potter inspired. I do a team group that\'s kind of like what I was talking about. I want to be that human in somebody\'s life who can hold space. And so we have a teen group that teens can come and do. Just kind of learn these skills. Liliana has this amazing abcdefg program that really is kind of foolproof and not woowoo which I love having grown up in as woowoo you know it\'s just really nice to have she really starts with the foundation of grounding, tapping into the earth aligning your energy and having that be the foundation for your spirituality instead of going for that enlightenment or going for that goal of oh she\'s like it\'s right here all the juicy and you know all the juiciness of life is right here and we\'re working with it and so those are the some of the things that we offer and it\'s it\'s really really fun working for her she is she is dynamic she\'s this amazing Latina woman that\'s just like really vibrant and she brings a humor and a joy to spiritual practice that that I absolutely love and adore that. Yeah, I did it for a while I was like in a Buddhist community or a yoga community and it\'s so serious and for me I just can\'t I can\'t do it I\'m too much of a goofball and she is a goofball. And so together we create ridiculous workshops where basically we\'re like laughing the whole weekend and then we realize oh my gosh, I feel really connected and awesome afterwards so

Brandon Handley 33:40
that was a you know, that was one of the things that when I first saw some of her work she was doing I think the the in the car medium readings or whatever I was like this is so great, right? This is just just like it\'s fun it\'s entertaining she\'s doing her thing and it\'s really legit at the same time and like this This man is just like it\'s fun. Right and I don\'t know if you checked out spiritual like the website or if you checked it out she\'s like, saying like I\'m so over like this is the spiritual thing and it\'s super serious and like heavy saturated and like be like sometimes I like the curse I like swear like to do all sides sometimes there\'s some things I like to do that they may not even be spiritual at all right? Or like they may not even like relate to what I\'m doing but like I don\'t care like that\'s not that\'s not the point of it. The point of it, I would say is like to find that connection to yourself like you were talking about where is that place that you can connect with within yourself that you call home? Yeah, right. Where is the place that you can go to with somebody like bully II and yourself. You can have fun and feel connected, right? Not like where you\'re like, we can\'t talk right now because I\'m connecting to God.

Jenna Dalton 34:56
Right?

Brandon Handley 34:57
This is not a good time for me.

Jenna Dalton 35:00
One of my favorite things about the first class, I pick up the leather shoes like I love troublemakers, that I was just like,

Brandon Handley 35:06
that\'s me, I totally.

Jenna Dalton 35:09
And that\'s what I love about Lotus lantern healing arts is it\'s all about whatever\'s coming up for you, that\'s what\'s supposed to come up, whether so let\'s say you\'re going totally unconscious, you\'re even listening to what I\'m saying. Awesome. You know, and that\'s, and that\'s how I\'ve always taught when I teach. That\'s how I just love. I love working with what\'s right here. And so that\'s really, that\'s great. Liliana is so inclusive, she is so inclusive, like whatever is coming in, she just greets it with, yes, that\'s awesome, we\'re gonna work with that, that\'s great. And to me, that\'s true spirituality, if you\'re, if you\'re saying I can only meditate when it\'s dark, and quiet and soft. But it is easier sometimes to meditate like that. But if that\'s the only time you can touch God, you\'re gonna be in trouble. Because we live in a loud, crazy world. And if you can touch God, while you\'re in the loud, crazy world, you\'re gonna be better off,

Brandon Handley 36:08
what are some ways that you found that you\'re able to do that,

Jenna Dalton 36:13
um, I think one of the biggest ways so she has all the, we have all these wonderful little tricks. So grounding room, I\'m going, I\'m walking into a room, and it\'s crazy, it\'s a party and as an empath, I could walk into that room. And then like you said, I\'m gonna have to fill in everybody\'s heart spaces that have holes. And that\'s really bad and dangerous and yucky for me to do energetically, right? So I just go into a room and I grabbed the corners of the room, and I ground it down into the earth, and I just set that intention. And so now I can be in the room. And maybe I\'ll just like reground, myself, I just set that intention before I go into the space. And now I can go in and have a party and be with people and I\'ve protected myself and I\'m mingling and going through and having fun and sharing my joy with people. And in that moment, I\'m feeling my feet on the ground, I feel aligned, I can feel spirit running through me. And I\'m aware of all of that. And I can use that to just totally be present in a conversation and give the gift of my presence. And those are the skills that I\'ve learned through Lotus mentoring. So that that\'s kind of what we teach is how to how to be a person and how to survive those moments. When you\'re like, overwhelmed. Okay, I have this toolbox that I can go to. So those are some of the tools. Yeah,

Brandon Handley 37:35
yeah, no, that\'s great. So I mean, I guess when you\'re grounding yourself, is it almost like a lightning rod? For you, were you letting the energy kind of pass through you versus kind of holding on to it is that sounds working for you? Yeah. And I feel it like

Jenna Dalton 37:51
going through like I like to, I like to imagine it coming out from the earth. Going up to the front of me, I like to imagine something coming down from and going down the back of me, and then just keeping that going, like, that\'s what feels good to me. And again, I think for other people that maybe you have something else that works for you, but that\'s the one that works for me, because I am a goer and a doer. And I like I like it to be moving. more towards

Brandon Handley 38:18
you got like a vortex kind of running. Okay. So I love that you\'re sharing what you\'re doing through Lotus, and through Lilya. But I\'m sure that you brought some things of your own with you, what are some of the things that you\'re owning that you do like that you brought to this? Like, I\'m because my guess is she doesn\'t just take anybody on and be like, Oh, you can just train with me? Maybe she does. But I\'m sure that there was something that you brought, which is like, I need to have you with me, what are some of those things?

Jenna Dalton 38:49
I mean, I think you\'d have to ask her, but my guess is that, that there is a connection that I have with children and a connection that I have with teenagers. That is very special. A knowledge that I have of where children are at spiritually and that\'s that\'s pretty rare in this day and age to have like a there\'s a lot of people that have like pedagogical understanding of children, but to have an understanding of where somebody at spiritually developmentally is a that\'s kind of my specialty. So that\'s something that and then the other thing she says I love is and this was also this is just the artist in me and also the Waldorf training is that I tell stories, I tell stories all the time. So when we\'re doing a workshop, I\'ll be like, that\'s just like grandmother spider who blah blah and then all of a sudden we\'re all in a kindergarten class listening to storytime. And so that\'s also something that I like to bring. It\'s the musician and me the artist in me that like likes to spice anything up with with a picture with an image with an imagination and kind of making life more exciting. That way, I\'m not really big on lectures, you know?

Brandon Handley 40:05
I mean, it\'s, uh, you know, I\'m a great storyteller by any stretch of the imagination, but I understand how it\'s supposed to work. And the deal is you, you don\'t tell him, you show him, right. And so because storytellers creates that visual and shows shows the story. Teen Spirit, right Sounds Like Teen Spirit 100 Alex, what\'s that look like for you and being able to kind of suss that out. And being able to tell where where the teams are in their journey, or

Jenna Dalton 40:41
my work with the teams has been magical. I feel like they\'re teaching me way more than I\'m teaching them. Basically, what I\'m doing is like holding space and being sometimes the only adult in their life is not telling them what they have to do. So that\'s my gift that I give them is like, here\'s a big open space, you\'re allowed to swear you\'re allowed to tell me how depressed you are, you\'re allowed to be anxious, you\'re allowed to tell me how much you hate your friends. Like anything goes here. So that\'s my and then if they\'re giving to me is holy cow. It\'s really hard to be a teen in the world today. And I am like, I feel like every day I\'m meditating and asking for more advice from my guides and my, my inner wisdom of how to help with that, because it\'s, it is a very intense world to be a teen, if you imagine your own adolescence, and then amplify it by having your social network be there 24 hours a day, seven days a week on several platforms.

Brandon Handley 41:43
Yeah. First of all, I\'ve never get anywhere after that, right? It\'s like, I mean, I don\'t know about you, but and my wife and I was talking about the fact that like, if we\'d had that shit growing up, like dunzo, right, like, I mean, I can only imagine the stupid stuff that would have posted too late, you know, it\'d be just like, any, any anybody else that does it on like, spring break, right? You know, you\'re like, Oh, right. So, so glad that I didn\'t have that. Yeah, yeah.

Jenna Dalton 42:15
So that\'s what I\'ve been. And, and again, I feel like Like for instance, his last group that this last girl\'s group, the teen empowerment group that they did, what they just kept asking about was how do I deal with toxic relationships? How do I deal with toxic relationships? How do I deal with toxic relationships? So we just really started digging into like, what is that and you know, I teaching them how to be strong enough in themselves that whatever comes at them, they can just go Wash, wash or wash? You know that that\'s what I\'m teaching them. And then they\'re bringing to me like okay, this time it didn\'t work. So what do I do then? And so then we talk about it in the circle, okay, what would you do? What would you have done?

Brandon Handley 42:57
Just kind of explore the scenarios with them and just, I guess, you know, again, sounds like you\'re you\'re giving them support and encouragement and the empowerment and Wonder Woman Yeah.

Jenna Dalton 43:11
Yeah, we play a lot of games too, which lightens it up so that it\'s not oh my god my whole life\'s over because that one friend doesn\'t like me anymore. Okay, well, let\'s let\'s make that into a game and let\'s face let\'s play around with it, that person\'s going to roleplay your friend and now you have the power to make her say whatever you want. And then they you know, so there\'s only things that we do that we play around with that kind of helps lighten the mood to because that\'s and that\'s the gift that I learned from Liliana too is just that you can have a darkest craziest stuff coming at you but if you breed it with a big smile, it\'s got no power it\'s got no power

Brandon Handley 43:50
so that\'s great. That\'s great. So if you know somebody checking in and checking checking in today right let\'s do this first we\'ll do I was liking this to spiritual speed dating somebody checking in on the podcast today. They\'re looking for the next spiritual speed date, right? Jenna could be you. Bachelorette number one. Let\'s have spiritual questions. What are we thinking today? What are we thinking today? Oh, you know what? RDS at one? Two? What\'s the key? Nope, don\'t like that one. What would you consider to be two major turning points here let\'s go with the

Jenna Dalton 44:32
E major turning points in my life. First one was moving from the desert to the city major turning. Another major turning point was becoming a mother. That one knocked me on my ass the way in a way I could not even imagine I fell. So in love. I fell so in love. I my whole definition of love changed the second my

Brandon Handley 44:59
absolutely Right. I mean, that\'s a game changer. game changer. I think that, you know, you\'ve already learned you know, love, you know, love, you know, love. And then you know, you get in your relationship, you know, love, then the kids show up you\'re like, Oh, this is a whole soft, soft mouse. Right? There\'s a what you thought it was love was like a puddle. Right now you\'re now you\'re in a vast ocean? of it? For sure, for sure.

was asking myself this earlier today? I don\'t know that I\'m still seeking. Or that I found these Gee, would you consider yourself a seeker? Or do you think you found what it was that you\'re looking for? And you\'re just continuing to explore that space? Where are you out of that?

Jenna Dalton 45:52
Yeah, I do. I think I\'ve found and I think what my journey is right now is to is to have a daily practice of touching into that found place. But that\'s my work right now. It\'s like, I have all the all the tools that I need for being happy. And now I have to use them. That\'s, that\'s where I\'m at right now. And in the journey. Yeah, that\'s it.

Brandon Handley 46:21
That\'s awesome. What do you think, is one or two of your most recently found tools,

Jenna Dalton 46:29
sitting at the base of a tree. That one\'s been really big, I used to do it a lot when I was little, like, I would just do it. And maybe it\'s just from living in the city and being kind of confined to our house during COVID times. But I found I need sometimes to just get out and actually be touching, physically touching a tree. I don\'t know what it is about that. But I just need that reminder of something that\'s got its roots way down deep, deep in the earth. So that\'s, that\'s been one. And I guess the other one is just I don\'t know how this has happened. I feel like it\'s an it\'s an after effect of a lot of spiritual work. But I just don\'t take things very seriously anymore. And so when stuff starts coming at me, it\'s just kind of like wonderful growth opportunity, as opposed to Oh, my God, I\'m gonna die and my life\'s over, you know, so. Right. And I again, I don\'t know exactly how I\'ve cultivated that other than it just seems like the only options.

Brandon Handley 47:36
For sure, for sure. Right? Like, I mean, alright, well, here we go again. Yeah, at least I don\'t have to wait in line for this ride. Awesome. So this I mean, bend, bend, blast, I think that you\'ve got a lot to share, who, you know, in marketing world, right? And you know, you\'re always posted a fire niche, or Who\'s your ideal customer who you really trying to reach out to Who do you feel like you would serve best? At this point,

Jenna Dalton 48:03
I think the person that I would serve best is a pert the person who really wants to take the next steps to connecting to a to a spiritual practice, or a spiritual world. That person that\'s experiencing stuff and feels like they\'re going crazy. I\'m that person who can say actually, you\'re not crazy. It\'s just let\'s just look at things a little differently. And then you\'ll see that you\'re actually really powerful. So I really love I mean, I love working with all people anything you give me a love, but I really love it when people are just taking that first step or a new step into something into the next level. Or maybe it\'s their first step ever into like, I think I\'m gonna start a meditation practice or something. I love that I love working with that person who\'s who\'s ready and willing, like I had an experience. I know there\'s something out there. I want to dig a little deeper. Can you tell me more? And I bet Yes, they yes for me.

Brandon Handley 49:04
So you\'re setting them up, right? That\'s perfect. You\'re setting them up. So they don\'t crash and burn. There\'s at least like a little bit of a it\'s almost like you\'re setting up the big fluffy bed cows where they just dive into it. Right? All right. Awesome. So I know you\'ve you\'ve got the lowest you\'re at the lotus lantern site, where should people go specifically to connect with you?

Jenna Dalton 49:27
I have a website that\'s acoustic vitality.org. So that\'s where you can get direct contact with me. And yeah, that\'s it. You\'ll see I\'ve got my music on there, my art and then all that. If you want to do a healing session or if you want to do a session with your team, I can do all that kind of stuff. So

Brandon Handley 49:49
So I was wondering, do you do any of the energy work remote?

Jenna Dalton 49:55
Yeah, I do all of it remotely. Right. And that right now? Yeah, we don\'t monetize. We\'re

Brandon Handley 49:59
gonna take the fix. This broken for sure for sure how do we you know I think he wrote something that was really good too that I enjoyed was to something about you know, rounding the edges right versus you know just kind of will say that it\'s almost like the skulls of Michelangelo when he\'s doing the the marble work it\'s already all there it\'s just you know, refining it so yeah,

Jenna Dalton 50:27
rubbing off those cabinets those rough edges that we\'re always doing. Yeah.

Brandon Handley 50:32
Well just so so much fun to have you here. I love the work that you\'re doing glad that we had the opportunity to connect. Thanks for you know, sticking with the long way. I know like I said that it\'s been a long time, but I\'m really glad that we\'re able to connect today and

Jenna Dalton 50:47
thank you so much. You\'re awesome. I

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