SOULSPEAK WITH ALEXIS SHAMANAH RHIGAS (Healing Arts Practitioner, DJ and Musician)

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Who is Alexis today? It’s someone who is in service of this thing that is much bigger than anyone of us and that we are all a part of. Through my expressive medium this is what I do. I’ve been living life like this for 12 years now and that’s it… I wake up and I share. I keep sharing the message of love and uncovering anything that veils that love from you, believing that you are something separate. 

My day is pretty much split in half. I work with private clients and that is also in conjunction with healing. Del Ray Beach, where I live, is a tremendous community for people who are in rehabilitation for many kinds of addictions. I work with rehabs throughout the week and I also share all tools that I’ve learned through yoga and the healing arts over the past twelve years myself. The other half of my day is writing and composing music. I’ve been doing that for about 6 years now. I spend time in the studio and I go around and teach yoga or anything I’ve learned from myself that’s help me and just pass it on and work with private clients that way.

I saw different creatures, bugs… think about a bug that’s much larger. Almost like you’re dealing with a prehistoric bug. It has great meaning as a kid to encounter such bugs because you immediately recognize your power. I really am looking to remind people and myself everyday how powerful we are. This is what I learned in the jungle.  How powerful we are, what we are from, what we have been, and we will be. We are powerful.

WHAT MOTIVATES YOU?
Every way we express this thing called LOVE, and finding no purpose in suppressing any of it. I can say music and pinpoint certain things but it’s really all of it. Everything — When there’s a conversation in the bus, whether its talking to a loved one, or a family member, it’s really extracting the grace and the blessing as much as I can remind myself to do so. I would say everything, and nothing at the same time.

YOUR GREATEST MENTORS.
I would say apart from growing up in the jungle and being in that environment, my mom and dad. Just for my little sister and I. Just coming to our authentic selves without really fearing, suppressing, trying to command or dictate what they taught. Obviously there’s always a little of that its hard for a parent to completely surrender themselves to the idea that the child is God’s child and not their child, and that they are here to guide us, and they are not here to do anything else but that… To love us. To see show us love instead of fear. That’s it as far as being a little kid.

When I came to the States later on I went to a boarding school in Pennsylvania for four years. It was a military boarding school. In that environment I was inspired by myself. To be there and really show myself that anything that’s being presented to me in the form of a medal, a school grade, I could achieve, and I did. I inspired myself along with all my peers. Everything inspired me… This has been a common thread in my life to really look to see this inspiration.  I could consider myself as an artist , but I think we all are. The artist within myself feels more than it sees the sense of inspiration through many things.

I’m in a coffee shop now prior to plugging in and I’m having two, three beautiful conversations. It’s really embracing the now and the moment. It’s about being inspired.

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM YOURSELF LATELY?
Life is my guru. Guru meaning “from dark to light”. In how many places in your life, whether it is the past or now do you see the light that at some point in your life you could not see? How many places in yourself , in the deepest darkest crevices of yourself, can you really shine that light? Places that you oftentimes don’t really want to explore. It’s about taking the flashlight there. So what have I learned? I’ve learned that absolutely everything and realizing that at the same time I don’t know anything.

WHAT HAVE YOU UNLEARNED?
Everything that really doesn’t resonate with the aspect of feeling. I am not entertained anymore by the rights and the wrongs, the goods and the bads, I’m truly embracing and loving the non dualistic aspect of things. If you and I are in a conversation and we have our own opinions, my job today is to see the similarity in your opinion. You might have a “different” opinion but its to see the oneness in it. Not the two. I want to recognize your being, not who Juno is , that’s what I’m looking to do today. It’s always a growing and ongoing process to see more And more similarities. To dissolve in that, I find great bliss in it. I really do.

For me to be right about something, it’s really short lived. It’s just like buying a pair of shoes, I’m not consumed by materialism… What’s the “matter” in it all? I’d like to change that into what’s the “spirit” about it. Because matter I can see in front of me in this realm of existence, but the subtle energy we cannot see with the sight. You can feel it, and be in touch with it, and that’s that.

IF YOU COULD TRANSPORT YOURSELF ANYWHERE, WHERE WOULD YOU BE RIGHT NOW?
To the God’s honest truth, not even mine,  it’s talking to you right he, right now. Nowhere else and I am not wanting or wishing to be anywhere right now. I am full in this moment, feeling tremendous love for connecting with you and just being here, being present. I’m not thinking about what I have to do next or where I was five minutes ago. And it’s not really my answer, it’s the one I am in servitude of.

YOU’RE FACE TO FACE WITH YOU AS A LITTLE CHILD, WHAT ONE PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF?
I would tell that little boy this “Your job here on earth is not to love, because you are love. The only job you have is to unveil anything that obstructs that love.”

IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT THE WORLD WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Some of the great teachers out there they talk about not changing anything but yourself. Keep working on realizing this and you will see it on your perceptive world, on the outside. I used to be more consumed with politics and economics and how the world was. I still hold the same passion, I’ve just shifted the energy of passion towards other things that aren’t involving me so much into what I think is wrong or what’s happening in the world. I think that the universe is taking care if itself. I think that everything that’s crumbling down, old paradigms, old beliefs, they’re happening so fast that we can see it in our own lifetime. I think its all for the light and love in it and not for the sake of it being better or good, I think we’re moving to a unifying world. So what do I wanna change? I wanna change the ability for others including myself to just be , on a daily basis, reminded of what this whole thing is about, not being so caught up in the evil, which is an illusion. It’s a fearful thing that is part of our consciousness but is by no means the governing agent of our consciousness. It’s very hard for people to see that they are part of this.

But honestly I don’t really want to change anything because I trust the universe, if I can see it happen for my own pleasure and satisfaction I would say I’d like to see it happen faster.

A friend of mine this weekend said to me “do you think we’re gonna see these changes now, and how fast do you think it’s gonna happen?” And I said to him I think it’s pretty good right now. Really good. And that’s out of pleasure and wanting. Otherwise I don’t want anything to change.

WHAT WAS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE WITH SOMEONE YOUR HELPING?
I would say thousands. Thousands memorable experiences of not just mentoring but being mentored to by just means of remembering. I never really considered myself a teacher more so than just a good listener. Someone who just allows the healing. Just really allow it, because you might get the affirmation from me but the true healing is happening for you and in you. You’re just maybe learning my trust and confined in that for the time being. Trusting another ultimately leads to trust in oneself. The healing is being created and continuously happening. You want me to trust in that and be in the flow of the universe or you want me to trust in something I could created that you think could fix you? No, I trust the universe. I flow with it. I’m also gonna allow you to do that for yourself. I’m just going to point and not judge towards things that aren’t ever the truth. I might ask you to see where that’s coming from.

Those memorable moments happen all the time. I would say oftentimes, many times during the day.

WHAT IS LOVE?
Exactly what you are right now. The awareness of oneself and the ability to feel. They say love is not activated until it is shared or given away. If you really think about it this feeling that you have when you say that you’re loving, we don’t recognize that feeling until you give it away. This is exactly why we say we get it from our moms. I can firmly say I learned love in my mother’s womb because she was emitting that feeling to me and I felt it. I knew what this feeling was. Knowing that you are love. It’s nothing but that. You’re perfect, full, and complete right from the beginning. The before looks like I’m holding this light outside of me but in living now I know its been with me all along, it never has to be seen outside of oneself.

YOUR DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS
I think it’s just continuing on what we’re doing now, I live in a beautiful community a lot of people sharing a very similar message. A lot of healing arts. A lot of artists. So I’m in a good place, vibrationally amazing. I’ve made tremendous connections since I’ve moved here three months ago. Just really continuing on…  And to keep illuminating myself so I can illuminate the world. I’m allowing the soul to take me where it takes me.  I have a vision of  and clarity and continuation but in front of that I’m just riding it out.

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR WORK WITH MUSIC.
The music I write is deep dance electronic music, non commercial. I’m a part of  friskyradio.com which is a huge online community. The biggest Internet radio for this specific kind of music, which is progressive music. It’s been a fantastic ride for the last 8 years. I really listen to this music, I’m writing and composing, also DJ and the whole point of this is particular music is the cohesion of many songs together in a synchronized flow that takes you on a journey.

I chose this medium years back in my college days because I was deeply involved into the electronic music rave culture and still to this day, my most yogic music (yoga meaning ‘union’ , ‘of one’) they happened on the dance floor. It happened as numerating souls we dance deep into the night , early into the morning to this music. Part of the music is to give it back and share  with people.

YOUR ONE MESSAGE TO THE WORLD.
My one message is to love. Actually, it’s not to love, but to unveil anything that covers up love. They say that anything that’s real stays, and anything that’s unreal goes. Anything that obstructs it, that is non peace or non atonement or not in harmony with you, remove that. Have the courage and the will to look through that and go there. Remove that fear, because once that fear is seen and acknowledged it goes away.

Reveal anything that covers up who you are, you are love.

(Interviewed via Skype on May 2012)

2013-01-13 18:50:53

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