BRING HEALING AND JOY TO YOURSELF AND

OTHERS! In Episode 64 of the Shining Brightly Podcast Show, titled “TranscenDANCE: A New Manifestation” please meet the magical and vibrant Avital Miller. She was a Microsoft Program Manager that overcame autoimmune diseases and got back up again via healing and movement. A four-time bestselling author speaks about Healing Happens. Real life was to self-improvement and joy. Lastly, we discuss her new project TranscenDANCE, a digital journal and get-away retreats for the mind, body and soul. Come listen, download, review and share this episode to help your vitality. Avital shares her inspirational quote at the end so stay tuned to the entire show.

Mentioned Resources -

https://www.avitalmiller.com/

https://www.healinghappensforyou.com/

https://www.instagram.com/avital.love/

https://twitter.com/AvitalMiller

https://www.linkedin.com/in/avitalmiller/

https://www.facebook.com/AvitalMillerPresents

https://youtube.com/@Thedanceintodivinity

https://soundcloud.com/healing-happens-avital-miller

Giveaway:

http://www.freegiftfromavital.com/

A free chapter from Healing

Happens or a month of Sit and Succeed linked above but also suggest listeners

to email me at info@avitalmiller.com

for access to the upcoming digital journal / book TranscenDANCE.

About the guest: 

Avital Miller, best-selling, and four-time award-winning author of the book Healing Happens: Stories of Healing Against All Odds and Practice: Wisdom from the Downward Dog, inspires people to experience boundless energy, absolute happiness, and true success to live the best life possible. She draws her wisdom from being a program manager at Microsoft, entrepreneur, yoga and fitness director and teacher trainer, and living in a yoga community. Today she is an award-winning international keynote speaker, corporate leadership seminar facilitator, healing breakthrough facilitator, and global dancer.

About the Host:

Howard Brown is a best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, and a two-time stage IV cancer survivor. He is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for corporate businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. Howard has co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He is a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Howard, his wife Lisa, and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan, and his happy place is on the basketball court.

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Hello, it's Howard Brown. It's the Shining Brightly

Show. It's a beautiful new year. And I have a magical guest.

She's incredible. And you're gonna meet Avital Miller

welcome, Avital how are you?

I am fabulous. Thank you so much. So glad to be

here and help with the shiny.

Oh, we're shine and we're gonna shine. I gotta

take care of a little business first here. So this is a little

new for me. But I have to give a shout out to some very cool

sponsors of the podcast. And so first of all, my book publisher

front edge publishing, read the spirit.org magazine. That's an

online magazine, a weekly, beautiful spiritual magazine

about faith, religion, health, and healing, and also want to

shout out to amplify you. They're my podcast house and

they finished the podcast so beautifully. And then lastly, my

alma mater, Babson College go Babboe number one school for

entrepreneurship in the world. So thank you for allowing me to

do that. Well, let me tell you a little bit about Avi tell She's

incredible. And we just met really, really only a few months

ago, but she's working on some things that matter. And she's

all about helping people. And I'm all about helping people as

well. So let me tell you about this fantastic woman. So I'll be

telling Miller, she is a best selling and four time award

winning author of the book, Healing happens stories of

healing against all odds, and practice. Then you have wisdom

from the downward dog, and then increase people to experience

the boundless energy and absolute happiness and true

success to live the best life possible. You draw on wisdom

from being a programme manager, we're going to talk about that

this is really interesting. At Microsoft, also an entrepreneur,

a yoga, yoga and fitness instructor, a teacher and a

trainer, and you live in a yoga community, and you're developing

some really cool stuff that we're going to share and

introduce to the world. Today, you are a award winning an

inspirational keynote speaker, corporate leadership, seminar

facilitator, healing breakthrough facilitator and

global dancer. We'll talk about that, too. So this is amazing.

You are a multifaceted, multi talented individual. And I'm so

glad you're here. And help me something we may not know about

you something interesting that that my audience needs to know.

I've never been stung by a bee.

Well, I did not see that coming. So I guess

that's good, right? It's good. You are never stung by a bee in

your life. Wow, how'd you come up with that one? Oh, way back a

long time ago, when you have to start playing two truths and a

lie. And by the way, I'm a really bad liar. And I've done

so many adventurous things and been out travelling and been out

camping and in the woods, and you kind of think I was stung by

a bee. But I started using that as I guess one of the truths and

the two truths and a lie, like 20 years ago, and I've just been

crossing my fingers. I can keep using it. And so far, it is

true. As far as I know. I'm someone that loves nature and

been out in nature as much as you have. I'm very surprised at

that. Thank you for sharing. Well, I alluded to it in your

bio intro. But what's up Microsoft, a former Microsoft

programme manager, you know, basically doing in the healing

world? How'd you get here?

A little backstory, backstory, okay,

behind the scenes, because Microsoft does an amazing

company. And how many of us really know at age 20? What

we're meant to do in life. There I am with a BS in mechanical

engineering. I did get a major in dance because I love dancing,

but not just like for my main career. And I'm working at this

place looking around me going like me. And I was brought up to

be there, so I didn't know what to do. So I took off, I quit.

And I travelled the world for a year 20 years ago, through the

region that I'm in right now in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico.

20 years go by how much change happens right in the world and

in our own selves. But it was that shift in paradigm that

started to instil the next direction. There's many twists

and turns to this journey. But I grew up as a gymnast and a

dancer so I started leading yoga and health and healing and

fitness programmes and I'm a teacher trainer and a fitness

director and I'm teaching 25 to 30 classes all over town known

as the Energizer Bunny. And then I started having fatigue, called

the Energizer Bunny. So this was a hit to my ego. You might think

about like, what are you known for and then that stops and

you're also wondering what's going on? My hair was falling

out. My muscles returning to fat I was becoming weaker than my

students. I did what most of us would do. Do I went to the

doctor? The doctor diagnosed me with an autoimmune disorder

called Hashimotos as well as hypothyroidism gave me a handful

of medicine and then sent me out the door saying that's it for

life. You just on this thing got this discomfort and that's it.

No. Okay. I guess I've just been given an arranged marriage here.

Well, I better learn how to live in the best way possible with

this partner that I had apparently no choice on. Single

I started reading books, going to different types of health and

healing practitioners and just changing all the things in my

environment in my mindset, my diet, and I studied one on one

with an ayurvedic doctor in India. And these things are

starting to level me out, which is the first miracle when you're

on a hormone medicine. Then I started meditating, and really

getting deeper and more regular with my meditation. You've

meditated, Howard. Alright, a lot of us have meditated and

makes you feel good, right? Usually, usually, I started to

not feel well. I went to the doctor and she said, Well,

you're overdosed on your medication. I lowered my dosage,

started to feel better, meditative, more started to not

feel well, again, back to the doctor, you're overdosed on your

medication. So it was like I was going from medication to

meditation. This was like ding ding, ding, Huh, interesting.

Something is happening beyond what I'm being told here. And

you know, the reticular activating system, sort of that

idea of when you see when you hear about something you hear

you notice it everywhere. So now you're starting to hear other

stories of people healing beyond what they're being told by their

medical professional, going, Okay, if this is happening, this

much more people need to know about it. Thus, my journey

started diving into studying in more depth, interviewing all

these different health and healing practitioners for my

book healing happens, and sharing programmes around the

world. So I live this life now where I can climb up fourteeners

and travel and dance like a store men have that Energizer

Bunny buzz again. So I love that you shared that background

story, because what it tells me and this is what shining

brightly is all about is that you did get knocked down, and

you had to figure out how to get back up again. And it was

challenging, misdiagnosed medications too heavy, you had

to go through some self Aqua actualization and Realisation to

get you to that point. And you and I have you know, I had non

Hodgkins lymphoma in 1989 auto immune, okay, it's cancer of my

entire lymphatic system. So, you know, I was very autoimmune

problems. And I've had hypothyroidism, you and I share

that in common. For the rest of my life. I am taking, you know,

pills for that. But you learned from that and you got educated.

And now I love the fact that not only did you lift yourself up,

you lift up others, and that's my tenant of shining brightly is

to lift yourself up first, get yourself on solid ground, and

then go lift up others. And this is what you do. And this is why

you're here today. So Alright, so now you're educated. Let's

dive into the book because the book has helped a lot of people

and it's going to help a whole lot more. So you wrote this

book. And I'm not sure what when did you write the healing

happens? The the stories of healing against all odds? Yeah,

it was launched in March 2018. So we're coming around the

corner with is that six years? Five years? Oh, yeah. Almost six

years and 24. Wow. Okay, so it's been out there. Great. It's

awesome. So tell me, you the book and you pack so much

information. I've only flipped through it. I apologise, but

don't need to read it. Yeah, well, one of the the things in

general is to realise that there's 18 chapters in the book.

So mine and then 17 Other Health and Healing practitioners. They

are all different types. So I'm not throwing the baby out with

the bathwater kind of theme. I'm not rejecting one path because

it doesn't seem proven enough.

I'm looking at what is our understanding in general of how

to go about the path of healing. And as I delineated all of this

out, and pulled out the success strategies used, I also

realised, oh, well, I use that for business like I use that

for, you know, success in like learning a new language and

learning a new dance form. So these strategies can be applied

to other areas of life. That's also part of what pulled me into

leading a lot of business and corporate leadership programmes

is these four Full bodied success, mastery strategies, and

using that as a starting point to bring that around to other

areas of life as well, and expand the concept of the

ability to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges. It's

absolutely incredible. And then you wrote another book, right?

If this is your first order, that was the order, gosh, like I

don't even have track anymore. But because we're about to

launch another one, but so I have a chapter in practice

wisdom from the downward dog. Right. And that was really fun.

There were about 50, yoga practitioners asked to turn the

table around on us, because we're normally they're giving

advice to other people who need the support. And it was to say,

what's your struggle? Where do you struggle? What's

spirituality to you today. And I was really deep process when I

lived in a yoga community for almost seven years, to create my

own understanding of spirituality. And it felt

traumatic in a way as I was going through it. So that was,

was my big story, you know, at the time that felt relevant to

go into that book.

I love it. Also, by the way, my book has 18

chapters, your book has 18 chapters. In Judaism, the number

18 stands for the word chi, which equals life, L I F E. I

just think it's coincidental. But it's it to me, I chose 18

chapters, and 360 Pages for that reason. I don't know if you just

kind of came across it and just

No, I am. So I'm not like, like, oh, I need to be

by the book. And my editor was, and she really wanted it to be

17 chapters. Because logically when you only print books,

because it was like I had a section with only one chapter.

She's like, you can't do that. Like, that's not a chapter like

that's like an introduction or something or like, it was so

fun. And I was like, no, like, there has to be 18 chapters. And

like, I don't need to go by the book. It's all good. We could

call that one a chapter.

Your book, my book, too. So I actually had a

ticket down from like, 24 chapters and cut some things

out. But I wanted 18. And I got 18. And I got 360 pages as well.

So again, we're in control, right? So tell me about some of

the profound impact, because you've really seen some real

transformation in people. And that's what people really want

to know. They, you know, again, I tell people that you know, all

these new year's resolutions are coming out, and people like I

want to lose 75 pounds. Well, you're not going to do that in

two days. It takes time. It takes work, it takes effort. It

takes dedication, it takes intentionality. So tell me about

some profound changes that you've seen in people going

through your process.

Yeah, yeah. So one of my clients was, she

contacted me, and she said, I'm gonna have fibroid surgery. And

so I need a new diet. And I need to know what to eat. And my

doctor said, I have to basically be a little bit more vegan. And

I was like, Okay, well, how do you feel about that? Like, what

are your habits right now and how you choose food. So this is

we don't always realise and as you're creating this new year's

resolutions, you're like, Okay, I'm just gonna change my diet,

but you have a relationship with the food you eat with the

pattern things. There's something inside you that draws

you to eat in a certain way. And sometimes for good reason. And

some sometimes for awareness of where it transformation is

calling forth to shift. So we went through that whole mind

body spirit connection, to help her understand how to shift her

diet and create enthusiasm around that really talked about

a lot of other areas of life that bring in that natural joy.

So she has a natural tendency and inclination to want to eat

differently, with all the way to going to the grocery store with

her and visually seeing how do we shop. This is what was fun,

because she went back in a year about a month later for her

checkup before surgery. And they looked at what was going on and

they said, you don't need surgery. fibroids are gone.

That's incredible.

I know. I know. I had another client who had

anxiety attacks, and emergency bill up the wazoo from emergency

room. And he had had trouble can Connecting with people socially.

Like it just wasn't flowing, people didn't really resonate

with him, he would just get very nervous and didn't quite know

how to read people. And he didn't really like what he was

doing for work. And we started working together. And he very

quickly learned how to stop having anxiety, and no more

emergency room, that is bills paid off, changed his job twice,

to improve the excellence. He used to spend a lot of time with

me, and in a lot of the social programmes that I was creating.

And then he had such a huge social life that I didn't get to

see him as much vast part thing I think is so beautiful, is the

gal that he is dating and where that relationship is taking and

how amazing that this person is. And we work together for like a

year or two. So this was like, you take one step and the next

step and the next step. And this is why I love working with

people over long term like in my programme students succeed.

Because it's not just one thing, there's so many layers of the

onion to peel away.

I feel I felt that way, because the immense pride

you're sharing that you were able to launch him into such a

different positive space workspace, it took two tries.

Relationship space. Okay, and and now you're seeing him last,

because he doesn't need you as much. And so that that's just a

beautiful story. The other story about the weight loss, and the

fibre, fibre tumours or whatever the cysts could be, you

mentioned the word natural joy, and fun. And that discipline. It

doesn't seem like work if it actually is fun. And if it's

joyful, if you make weight loss, joyful, but you have to have

dedication and discipline, maybe mental toughness, physical, you

know, consistency. But boy, yeah, I mean, imagine going to

the doctor, no surgery needed. I mean, it's incredible. For a guy

that's been through a lot of surgeries, chemotherapy is

radiations. That's a good thing. If you can heal yourself through

the body and its own its own ways. Well, I want to ask you,

okay, so I have a chapter in my book about finding your happy

place, okay. And I define a happy place as a stress free

zone. Now, people that know me know that I love basketball. And

I find my stress free zone on the basketball court, the boys

are talking trash, I'm sweating, the endorphins are going,

whether I'm playing good or bad, it doesn't matter, I'm in my

place, your happy place is dance. Tell me a little bit more

about your dance and why that's placing, and what types of dance

to because I've seen you on your website and different social

media posts all dressed up and in different costumes and things

like that.

I know from around the world. I know it is.

And I have had a lot of photo shoots with me in in various

respects. And when people see the downside, it's like light,

it's freedom, like it's emptiness, it's space. I

actually say to that one of the things is that it's often our

mind, that's kind of our darker side. And in a way the mind

tries to protect us. It also puts us down. And when we're not

in the mind, then there's a greater sense of freedom. So if

you also meet somewhere like this happened with my mother,

where as she was passing away, like, like the mind turns off,

it's just, I think, part of one of the medical things that

happens in the process. I had never seen her so joyful and

light like this young person, when you get into something that

gets you in the heart. So it could be dance, it could be

singing, it could be some other form of art, right, but it's

often something artistic or expressive through motion of the

of the body, then that mind relaxes. So I think that's one

of the reasons I do just personally love movement. I love

the creativity of it. It also creates space to channel and

move emotions. It's a great form of expression. And this This is

something I remember at the yoga community I lived out they

talked about this with singing, that sometimes like singing

would go further than a talk. And I've heard this with dance.

Because when you speak words, people have created definitions

of those words in their mind, and then created neural pathways

of their emotional response to those words, and we have

judgments over those words. Words and we're trying to sit

there and assimilate and translate and go go through this

whole mental process. When you're dancing, you can't do

that. There's, you know, nothing of pre definition, depending on

how somebody is dancing, they might be dancing and specific

moves you've seen before on, you know, right. But for the most of

the time, it's his very authentic moment and authentic

expression, and is that way for most people, and it's just a

pure energy transmission without the mind being part of the

process. So I love to just little surprise people, and do a

little dance performance is one of my talks, you know, when the

stages is set. And at this point, I love improvising more

than doing something choreographed. I'm also

incorporating energy healing through doing that through being

a little more in the moment with with what is happening, and how

do we integrate and process all these things that she just said.

But also surprising people with just bringing movement into like

the for full body, there's for the for full body success,

mastery strategies from healing happens, there's a movement that

you do with each one of those tips. And that helps integrate

the understanding into the body as well. Thank you for the depth

there.

I love it. And my bottom line is for goals and for

resolution, go find your happy place, okay. And it could be

nature, it could be the beach mountains, movement, incorporate

movement, it can be cooking, it can be art, whatever it is, it

can be sports for me. So go find your happy place. Now this I did

this for a reason, because I'm so excited to learn about your

new project called transcend dance. So please share what you

got going on. It's amazing. And you're you're getting ready to

do a full launch. But tell me about it. What's going on with

transcend dance.

I know. And I love that you asked about dance.

And I had to create a movie poster for a technology class of

all things. And I spelt the word wrong. And I'm sitting there

staring at it going as the spell right is the spell right? I

happen to be visiting my dad. And he walked up and he goes, Oh

Tran sin dance. I was like, oh, good mistake. And because why

work is what helping people transcend. But it's really like

a dance. Yeah. And one of the key things that this transcend

dance is tuning into is the art of manifestation. And the reason

is, is because a lot of us are at a stage where we've learned

all the manifestation techniques and the law of attraction. And

we've been doing it and we're like, why don't we have what we

want. So what I wanted to do was break through and say, Okay,

here's why. Here's your new path of manifestation or talking

about a new manifestation, I would almost love to erase the

word manifestation from our vocabulary. And create a new

word, if you want it to be transcend dance, you can.

There's a lot of challenge also with thinking that we have the

full understanding of what the path is. And kind of our human

side, we're like a person in the maze, we don't necessarily see

the whole maze from the forest sight and what's going to be

around each turn that's and what direction each turn is going to

take. So that's kind of like something the universe, God's

Spirit, you know, whatever you want to call, it helps design

for us in a better way than we might ourselves. And we're not

all on the same path. It doesn't take us all the same length of

time. And we're not all on like the path is also not the same

length. So the speed we go about it and the length, could you're

going to see somebody else being successful. You're like, Well,

I've been doing all the things like Why aren't I there yet?

Well, because your path and your journey to potentially that same

place is different. It's kind of like if you're in a high rise

building, and that person could get off on the 20th floor, but

you have to go all the way to the penthouse. So that's just

one of the tips of understanding manifestation in a different

way.

I love it and it's good to take some format of a

book and have classes Correct.

Yeah, I'm letting it evolve and see what it is

this term that transcend dance, I just love calling a lot of

things that but I am about to launch this close to launching

my first interactive digital book. So this is going to be a

fun experience. I have been making it as I've been

travelling here in Mexico. So you get to see the real video

clips and live experiences and it is based a lot around the

experiences that I've been having and where it might seem

traditionally like I wasn't having good manifestation. So we

want to have a different understanding to say maybe I

have been the perfect manifester the whole time, and how do you

get to be that perfect manifester? But speaking of

Mexico, I would say it was last May. So we're in January says

quite a few months ago, the idea started to come out of me

leading yoga around the world. And I just had a meeting

yesterday to put together the first yoga healing, relaxing

spiritual cultural experience. And a town called San Miguel de

Allende is a little bit north of Mexico City. And coincidentally,

the dates that worked well for me to do it. This is March 2025.

Okay, so we're planning ahead of time. But of course, those who

tuned in now get the early bird rates, but they are having a day

long, huge Dance Festival in that town. So there'll be a

sprinkling of dance as well as part of this programme to mix in

with the yoga and the spirituality, but get to do to

Mezcal cacao, but really just take that concept of the

manifestation of the Transcend dance of what do we want to

manifest and intend we'll work through breeze through be during

this experience, and helping through various programmes to

get there with fun along the way.

So I'm so excited for the video journal. And then

we'll definitely have the event in the show notes and on socials

for the end of March so you can get down to Mexico for you. But

now I want to actually change over to the shining brightly

spotlight. So if you have shades, we're going to put them

on or you don't have to There you go. You got your shades. So

we are shining so brightly that we want to actually to please

tell my audience how to get a hold of you. You have a free

gift, share that with them, and then share some inspiration and

kick off the kick the show back to me.

Yeah, absolutely. All right, free gift from

Avital.com. I had mentioned the sit and succeed programme as a

way to continually grow on our journeys and tune into what I

call the beyond the edge cutting wisdom to do so in a wonderful

community. So what I'm always looking at is what's your

challenge right now? Is it losing weight? Is it having more

energy? Is it taking the next bold step in your career, and

creating new understanding around the concept as well as

incorporating some form of meditation of neuro linguistic

programming to create a practice in a way to help seal the deal?

At free gift from Avital A V and victory? I T as in talented

AL.com, you get one month of sit and succeed.

Oh, that's beautiful. And the best way to

get a hold of you. How do you want people to contact you?

Avitalmiller.com or email info@Avitalmiller.com

simple and I'm gonna have this all in the show

notes. And on all the socials. You've got lots of places to get

a hold of you all over the place. So we'll make sure that

they can. So let's I always close my show with inspiration.

So please share with me some of your wisdom.

Sing yours sweet song.

Wow.

You're sweet.

Wow, this is great. Well, this has been the

Shining Brightly Podcast show. And I'm Howard Brown and you can

always reach me at shining brightly.com Learn more about

the podcast learn more about motivational speaking. And also

the book you can actually look and learn about book but also

more importantly about my advocacy, my advocacy in the

world of Babson College and entrepreneurship, my work in the

interfaith world of knowing the other especially in these times

there's so much hate spewing everywhere it's just that's that

ruffles me up but get to know somebody else and understand who

they are. makes the world a better place and as well as the

cancer world that I serve and advocate for as well. And again,

thanks for being here. It is an amazing high energy show. And I

wish you all the best and I'm looking to become transcend

dance. Very good.

Thank you