Life In Harmony - A Musician's Path Into Spirituality

Wisdom Without The Guru

Flautist Yvonne McIlwaine, shares her journey from growing up in a vibrant musical household to navigating life through intuition, energy healing, and spiritual exploration. She faced challenges of motherhood, depression, living in a foreign country, losing her father and hiding her interest in spirituality for many years. She shares how music, motherhood, spirituality, and self-discovery have shaped her life, and how she now subtly blends coaching and intuition into everyday life and teaching.

• Growing up in a musical family.
• Unknowingly practising energy healing and using herbal medicine in childhood—long before grasping the labels of "spiritual" or "alternative."
• Gentle Rebellion - Leaving high school early and later returning, followed by a conscious decision to no longer be angry through curiosity and deeper introspection.
• First quiet explorations into tarot cards and eventually angel oracle readings
• The emotional and spiritual challenges of becoming a mother, dealing with postpartum depression, and the impact of stepping away from professional life temporarily.
• Discovering Reiki and Lemurian Reiki as a way to reconnect and heal.
• Moving abroad with her family and rediscovering community and spiritual practice while homeschooling and exploring holistic spaces.
• Becoming a certified coach and integrating coaching techniques subtly into her flute teaching, providing guidance and support for her students.
• Coming out of anonymity to share her intuitive Angel Card Readings.
• Why some spiritual practices don't work for her - individual preferences.

About: Yvonne McIlwaine is a flautist, coach, and intuitive angel card reader who blends music, mindfulness, and gentle spiritual insight to help others find clarity and calm. She shares insightful messages through her platform, Serena Starshine, and brings quiet coaching wisdom into her work as a music teacher.

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About me, Regina, if you're curious:

Alongside hosting this podcast with incredible guests, I share my experiences and practical tools, mainly focusing on the Languages of the Self (the Earth-based light language of the Ancients), I've been speaking since 2012. And just to clarify, I'm not crazy; even though I sometimes question my sanity!

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Musical beginnings (00:02:10)

3. Yoga, meditation, herbal medicine & energy healing as a child (00:04:05)

4. The gentle rebel (00:12:48)

5. Learning to heal anger with curiosity (00:15:47)

6. Discovery Tarot and spiritual tools (00:18:42)

7. Journey to Coaching (00:29:32)

8. From gigs to motherhood and depression (00:32:33)

9. Finding Reiki and Angel Oracle Cards (00:40:49)

10. Serena Starshine emerges anonymously (00:49:53)

11. Life in Singapore - further spiritual exploration (00:53:41)

12. Returning to the UK after living abroad (00:57:28)

13. Teaching and integrating coaching practices (01:03:26)

14. Current spiritual practices (01:07:00)

15. Spiritual practices that don't work for Yvonne (01:09:52)

16. The flute as a creator of beauty and magic (01:15:04)

17. Possible future practices - why sound healing (01:16:04)

18. Women's circle idea - creating community (01:17:42)

19. Advice for new mother's (01:18:50)

20. Angel Oracl Card reading for listeners - ascension into light (01:20:53)

21. How to connect with Yvonne and closing (01:24:12)