How I learned a Susan Hyatt “secret,” first-hand...and then discovered one of my own…

Susan in all her glory 

When I first started following Susan Hyatt, she was just a friend of a friend and Facebook suggested her. Not gonna lie, it was a scary proposition to normalize Susan Hyatt grandeur into my midwestern-Catholic-raised-white-bread mind. I mean, she was producing so much encouraging, thought provoking content all the time while embodying an openness and freedom and total lack of inhibition. It was both captivating and terrifying. In retrospect of course the terror stemmed from me seeing SUSAN in all her glory, which stirred the internal fear of being ALL OF ME and what that would mean. Scary or not, I felt super attracted to all this energy.

I was so slow on the uptake and so resistant to change that there were periods of time where I completely stopped following her for a hot minute because it was just too much of a leap for my brain. But when it comes to things that I want in my life, I tend to be a bit of a stalker, so I kept circling back for more: more energy, more inspiration and invitation to live a life filled with more pleasure. (That last one was the hardest to swallow for this churchgoer. I mean, aren’t we supposed to suffer? Praise Jesus-and thank the Buddha- NO.) 

After years soaking in the glow of Susan’s solar system on Facebook watching her and the people in her world create lives they loved and have all the fun, the message from the universe hit me between the eyes: become a life coach. There is that old saying that fits here, “First you make your friends and then your friends make you.” All this influence has made me a totally different person than I was 7 years ago, more open and freer, and way less inhibited. I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of Susan’s programs and even stepped up to her fabulous “On the Six,” a couple of years ago. All were magical, life changing experiences. Now I am living the life that I love.  

But what’s her secret? Well, she makes no secret at all about putting PLEASURE at the top of her to do list. Still her level of badassery is mindboggling, could this pleasure principle be all of it? She seems to have ALL THE ENERGY :-) And, like the beloved icon, Dolly Parton, she is no bigger than a minute. She is a mom, a wife, a fashionista, a weightlifter, a runner, podcaster, YouTube sensation, hedonist, author, feminist and an inspiration to multitudes and still manages to create time for exquisite rest and Fun Fridays. She is a powerhouse. What does all of this have to do with “a Susan Hyatt secret?” 

I’m getting to that. A couple of months ago I was walking daily on my treadmill for several days in a row because: Indiana weather + Covid… I was reading books and listening to music to distract myself from the monotony. I really love to walk my dog outdoors, but the cold and rain were usurping my normal habit. You see, I’m a walker, a yogi, a meditator. That’s my speed. Then, all of the sudden one day on the treadmill, my body simply started running. That’s right, I didn’t think, “Gee, I think I’ll run now,” my body simply started running. 

No one was more shocked than me. I’m the person who always said, “If you ever see me running, something is chasing me.” The secret? My energy has gone through the roof. I am a super positive energetic person naturally, but this runner’s high is the real deal. It’s so interesting to me that doing something like running actually generates more energy. It is likely that everybody else already knew this fact except me, including Susan who has been running for years. I had been holding running at arms-length, acting as if people who did it were slightly insane. Perhaps because as a yoga teacher for the past 13 years, so many people would come to me to be put back together after a running injury, only confirming my suspicions that runners are actually off their proverbial rockers. 

52 years young. I have discovered a new-to-me key to unlock all this energy and I love that at age 52: I am now a runner! Something I NEVER imagined being. Had no idea I could do this, and weirdly, not really even a desire. It feels like a magical badass gift from the Universe. It also feels like I understand Susan Hyatt just a tiny bit more.  She makes it her mission to be an inspiration. She fills the world with seemingly boundless energy because she generates it, through everything she does.

It’s Timey-Wimey. Now that I am tapping into this extra energy from running, I’m learning that much more is possible! I have more time in my day now. I thought that was only a paradox of yoga, where spending the time practicing yoga invites you to think more clearly and move more mindfully and subsequently you are more productive, so it winds up appearing that you actually have more time. Running is doing the same thing for me. My time is multiplied. My energy is multiplied. WIN WIN!  

Now for my secret. It just might be intertwined with all of Susan’s teachings. I mentioned she is a hedonist, right? My latest revelation, my secret? It happened on the treadmill a couple of weeks ago, (yes it was raining again,) I suddenly started to feel something way more interesting than just a runner’s high… I could hardly believe what was happening. Let me introduce you to another unexpected gift from the Universe, the coregasm. 

Thank you Susan :-) for singing the praises of pleasure! You have helped grow my world view, and my whole life experience in ways I never would have imagined. Thanks for encouraging me as a life coach, a podcaster, a mom, a woman, a wife, a yogi, a runner, and now a GENERATOR. You are an AMAZING inspiration! XOXO