RIPPLES IN THE MATRIX®: The Podcast

SIMONE MARIE-ELISE
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The RIPPLES IN THE MATRIX® Podcast is a space for curiosity, connection & full expression while questioning the limits we’ve inherited, the ones we’ve created & what might exist beyond them when we really decide to play bigger in this game of life. Hosted by Simone Marie-Elise (founder of the Registered Yoga School YOGkiSOMA™), this is where Yogic philosophy meets real life: personal development for Self-Actualization, creativity & aliveness, energetics & somatics, identity & expression, human potential & relating while navigating the messy experience of living as God IN-Body.. on & off of your mat. This is a space to get curious, question... everything, play, go deeper, challenge the way we’ve always done it & explore what becomes possible when we come back into connection with our center, our power & our ever-evolving truth. Make waves. Create ripples. INSTAGRAM: @ripplesinthematrix

Episodes

  1. Oct 30

    You might wanna sit down for this one...

    I have some huge news. After 12 years, I’m leaving Las Vegas. LA raised me, Vegas made me, and now my soul is calling me somewhere new. Here’s the decision I’ve been sitting with, why I almost talked myself out of it, and what comes next. One month into 40, and the portal I walked through when I jumped out of that plane has only kept opening. In this episode, I make it official: after nearly 13 years in Las Vegas, the city where I built my name, my classes, my yoga school and so much of who I am, I’m moving to Texas. First San Antonio to be closer to my family and my niece, then Austin. I share the house with the pool that fell through, the moment I realized Vegas wasn’t it anymore, telling my students at the start of a root chakra class, and the flashback I had to the version of me who first walked into a yoga class feeling like a complete fish out of water. We also get into: Asking yourself: is this growth, or am I just self-sabotaging?How safety and familiarity can quietly keep you smallAncestors, family, and why connecting with the next generation mattersWhen your energy outgrows your space (and your city)Delusional devotion: back to KOBEkanye energy from Episode 1How the people around you shift when you choose yourselfWhy it’s time to let the ripples turn into wavesAnd the question I’m leaving you with: Where have you decided that you can’t move, can’t change, that this is just how it is? Because everything is figure-out-able, and your soul won’t stop calling until you listen. I’m teaching in the studios through the end of December, then heading to Texas in early January. Stay close, because I’m bringing you along for the whole journey. Join me: YOGkiSOMA Yoga Teacher Trainings, mentorship, and ASCENSION CODES: The Egypt Initiation spiritual excursion in January: linktr.ee/ripplesinthematrix Follow: @ripplesinthematrix | @yogkisoma Chapters 00:00 – Big news (and why it's not an IG Live) 00:30 – One month into 40: walking the portal 01:17 – Clarity, direction, momentum 01:54 – The huge decision I had to sit with 02:44 – Outgrowing my apartment 03:12 – The house with the pool that fell through 04:11 – Maybe Vegas isn’t it anymore 04:34 – My niece, my family and the ancestors calling 05:25 – Why Texas, and why Austin 06:27 – Out of alignment with my vision for YOGkiSOMA 07:35 – It’s official: sending the emails 08:14 – Telling my students in a root chakra class 11:03 – Flashback to the first yoga class I ever walked into 11:32 – LA raised me, Vegas made me 12:26 – When safety keeps you small 14:02 – The Zillow house that almost kept me here 15:27 – Your girl needs water (and real grass) 16:48 – Comfortable, complacent and a bit uninspired 18:01 – My energy is too big for this space 19:25 – The rest is still unwritten 19:50 – When your soul won’t shut up 20:38 – Delusional devotion: back to Kobe Kanye 20:59 – Rooted, but not fully rooted 21:18 – Telling my parents 22:57 – The timeline: Egypt, San Antonio, Austin 24:12 – Leaving my name behind 24:56 – Not just for Vegas: letting the ripples turn into waves 25:27 – What happens next 26:02 – Doing this alone (and not crying) 27:03 – Where have you decided you can’t move? 27:28 – Everything is happening in perfect order 28:38 – Stretch your edges and amaze yourself 29:01 – When your growth rubs up against other people 29:42 – Come join me around the world

    You might wanna sit down for this one...

  2. Sep 30

    Alive & Alone

    On my 40th birthday, I jumped out of a plane 13,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, alone. But the story doesn't start at the jump. It starts a week earlier, having a total breakdown at home because I felt forgotten, unchosen and lonely. On Friday, September 25th, 2026, I turned 40 and went skydiving for the very first time in Oceanside, California. Solo. And the strangest part? I wasn't scared. In this first episode of Ripples in the Matrix, I take you from the airplane door to the free fall, the moment I finally let go of the harness and opened my arms, and the words that kept pouring out of me: I am so alive. Then we go back to where this story really begins: the week before my birthday, when I felt alone, discarded and not chosen. I share the emotional purge I'd been resisting for months, the friend who held space for me, the unexpected invitation that showed up in the middle of it, and the moment I realized no one was coming to create my birthday for me. I had to choose myself. We also get into: Why I wasn't craving adrenaline. I was craving feeling alive.How life turns into a to-do list instead of a to-feel list when we disconnect from our practicesLiving as God in body, and what Kobe Bryant and Kanye West taught me about delusional self-beliefThe limits I'd been treating as facts, and which ones are actually mineFear vs. faith, and why I'm more afraid of not fully living than of dyingWhy integration matters as much as the experience itselfWhy this podcast existsThis isn't an invitation to jump out of a plane (unless you've been feeling that nudge, then go!). It's an invitation to ask: Where have you stopped feeling fully alive? Where are you waiting to be chosen? And what limit have you agreed to that was never yours? See THE JUMP video here Chapters 00:00 – Turning 40 and my first skydive 00:56 – Waiting for the fear that never came 03:01 – An unexpected connection: skydiving over the pyramids 03:58 – The door opens 06:04 – The jump and the free fall 09:44 – "I am so alive" 10:48 – Where this story really starts 13:42 – Feeling unseen, unchosen and lonely 15:04 – The emotional purge I'd been resisting 18:17 – An invitation in the middle of it all 21:06 – Finding evidence of support 22:03 – Choosing myself 23:35 – Craving aliveness, not adrenaline 24:24 – A to-do list instead of a to-feel list 25:19 – God in body: Kobe, Kanye and delusional self-belief 29:00 – The limits I'd been treating as facts 30:47 – Let go and let God: what if you fly? 31:54 – Life is a game, and I'm not afraid of dying 34:51 – The beach: why integration matters 37:23 – The old Simone and year 40 39:03 – Why this podcast exists 41:07 – Your invitation

    Alive & Alone
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The RIPPLES IN THE MATRIX® Podcast is a space for curiosity, connection & full expression while questioning the limits we’ve inherited, the ones we’ve created & what might exist beyond them when we really decide to play bigger in this game of life. Hosted by Simone Marie-Elise (founder of the Registered Yoga School YOGkiSOMA™), this is where Yogic philosophy meets real life: personal development for Self-Actualization, creativity & aliveness, energetics & somatics, identity & expression, human potential & relating while navigating the messy experience of living as God IN-Body.. on & off of your mat. This is a space to get curious, question... everything, play, go deeper, challenge the way we’ve always done it & explore what becomes possible when we come back into connection with our center, our power & our ever-evolving truth. Make waves. Create ripples. INSTAGRAM: @ripplesinthematrix

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