Your Happy Hour - Listen Within

Episode Date: June 19, 2026

In this inspiring episode, we have a truly inspiring conversation with founder of Face Soul Yoga - Aurélia Delsol shares her journey from corporate life in the communications and marketing spheres to becoming a face yoga and wellness entrepreneur helping others embrace and enhance their bodies to gain alignment, find and follow their joy and live a fulfilled life.The Feels is all about having those honest conversations, the power of community for personal growth and taking those actionable steps towards being our authentic selves.Thanks for tuning in! Keep it raw and real out there xYHH is produced byswartkat.co - captured viariverside.fm & shared via rss.com.

It's the Friday feels and we're back with your first sip of the weekend. You're now tuned in to this week's episode of your happy hour. I'm your host Nicole Carmine and it's amazing to have you here. Joining me this week as we uncover the truths about being a human and a working professional. What are you up to this Friday? Well, whatever it is, this moment is just for you. And we're back with another feels podcast session on the Your Happy Hour series. And we are still talking about the theme, the surprise of self-care, which has been such

an interesting theme to unpack. It's always like a uncomfortable but yet really necessary topic to talk about. And it's really about being human. So it's a wonderful theme to kind of close off this season as we start planning for season that will start in December. And today I have a really special guest that I'm excited to chat to on this podcast. So a really big welcome to you, Orelia, I hope I'm saying that correctly, Dalsall, practicing my French accent.

And a really big welcome to the Your Happy Hour series and feels podcast and space. Thank you. Thank you for offering me your time to and to, I'm. I really look forward to this conversation. Oh, thank you. Yeah, and I'm so curious about sharing your journey, because we spoke a little bit before, but there's so much more about everything that you've told me.

So do you want to tell us a little bit about how you became who you are today and it's such an inspiring story? It's funny because, you know, it's always different perspectives. and for me it's only my journey and it's like a normal one but it's all about decision it's all about because i was not born to be like a i was when i was younger i was not dating myself i'm going to be like a i don't know who i am actually but it's like exactly because i i i love to do so many things and i love to wear different questions and uh yeah um I started as like a, I did like a double master in communication and marketing.

And then I had like, I was always questioning myself, but what is my purpose? What is my, what can I add to this world? What can I, in a humble way, but always like, okay, I've done these studies, but I need to have like a sense. I know I can do like stuff. I know I'm a good of doing, but if I don't put like a purpose or direction, I don't take any joy or nothing from it. Yeah, so I started like I doing my studies and then I travel a lot because my parents are expatriate.

So I learned to travel and to see the world when I was super young. So it shaped your reality in a way. And then I started to have got my first business in Paris called Schistemon. It was a place where you were able to come to take care of yourself. it was bien-manger, bien-bujed, it was bitter.

And then after that, I went to Australia because I had like some partnership issues. So, yeah, I decided to move to Australia for four years, three years,

sorry, two years and a half. There, I faced some health issues, skin issues, belly issues, inflammation, but I didn't know

what I was facing at the moment. I was like, just not feeling myself. I was tired. And you know when your body is screaming at you, and it goes onto your face, and you're like, okay, so I need to find a way to heal and to feel good in my own skin.

It all started. Like it was not all start, but it wasn't the start. So I didn't know what you do, and I went to, it's like, Chishe, but I went to Bali to do my first. But I was in Australia, so it was easy to go. And at that time, I was doing consulting, but I was not happy. And so I went to Bali, and I trained myself.

So I found a training, and I find an amazing teacher, Nicole. She's a yoga instructor and also Ayurvedic. doctor and there I just you know I didn't know how I was so tired and so like burn in but burn out I was like yeah I was not not the the person that I am today but I didn't know at that time I was just there and I was crying all day I was like just releasing everything and it was not the first time in my life that I was like, so the word maybe it's strong, but it's, I was destroying to rebuild. And I think that's one of my strength that I'm capable. I'm not afraid to lose and to rebuild and to dare. I think I'm here today because I dare to do

things that maybe I don't always think it's more like a impulsive but impulsive not in a not the way that we think it's like a intuition and then and it's my body that's who's telling me okay go for it because I feel it's like goosebumps everywhere in my in my body and in in Bali it was that I was like okay I can I say that it's like I was there and I was like either you resist and it's it's going to be super long and painful either you just jump into like this i don't know i didn't know i really was i was like i need to trust the process and then so i i was a yoga teacher uh i uvetic teacher and then i i start to you know i was i don't know how to say it in english but you know with the line i was like fishing day after that and i came back to australia.

I kept studying yoga in Byron Bay for one year, like 1,000 yoga hours of school, because it was a school who delivered a visa to stay in Australia. So I didn't want to do like a, you know, like it's a business, the visa in Australia. I didn't want to do like an English school just to get a visa. and I found this cool and I was like, yeah, that's, but 1,000 of yoga, porn, it's long, but it was, it was interesting. Not on, like, not on the workshop. Like, the workshop were okay, but it was more about what I was going through.

So, and then I trained myself to become like a facial, a facialist. and then it was like okay just yeah moving into this new new chapter of my life and becoming like a face yoga I created in Australia facial yoga which is my business today an online platform where you can just take care of yourself through the face it's not just don't stay on the face it's like for me the faces the door to so many information to, yeah, to take care of yourself, the posture, the breathing, the meditation, the facie. So for me, it's everything, it's interconnected. So, so yeah, I launched my business beginning of COVID and it was like booming. And then I came back to friends and I kept traveling because I always wanted to have like a job working that I can do

everywhere and not to be like forced to be like nine to five in space I know I did that my first job was at orange and then mazarin it's too big company in France and I was like I'm going to I can't I can't it's not me so I I figured out and I created my own job. So at that time, like, yeah, it was not, it was a lot of platform. Like, you could have found, like, a lot of training platform or you can find, like, Pilates, but it was the beginning.

And now, and with the COVID, it boomed a lot. It was, like, going bigger and bigger. And today, it's like, it's still on because, but people still go online platform. But I also do retreat, travel wellness, because it's so nice to put people together and see what. Today, I'm back in Europe. I still travel.

I'm still traveling, sorry. And yeah, for me, I think my mission is to show, it's to trans, what do you say, in English? it's to create a space either online or during massage or doing the retreat so people can just come back to themselves and feel good in their own skin and to be like joyful because for me like joy it's it's my men it's my guide oh i love that so much i don't know if i answer your question you did you did and you took us on your journey which i appreciate thank you for sharing all of that And, you know, my mantra in life is also follow your joy.

I put it on everything. And it's also where a lot of what I do today started. It was like this thing that came up in me going, I need to follow joy because I was in corporate before. And I understand the switch, you know, it's important to live a life which is aligned with who you are. And sometimes that looks completely different to what society kind of has structured. And it's always the case.

It's always completely different that what society told us to be or to do or to, if I had listened what the society or what I thought the society wanted from me, I will be stressed. And still, like, I'm an entrepreneur and in France. And it's, and it's, and it's. It's a journey and it's sometimes you're like, what am I doing? There's so many components. You have to be super centered and it's like for me to be an entrepreneur,

it's like to be an athlete. But not the sprinter, the marathon. And you have to train your body, you have to try and you have to train. For me, joy is not like coming like that. It's like my coach, Cyril, always told me you have to train the muscle of your joy muscle. And it's for me, it's like, yeah, it's not like one time. And there's no magic pill. There's no like a quick way.

And I love, for me, joy, it's fine in the process. And it's like the process and being present. And being an entrepreneur, it's weird because you have to stay present, but you are also to understand what happened and to look forward to be a visionary. And it's, yeah, sometimes you're like, you freeze sometimes.

I can't anymore. And then I've got a couple of tips to come back to my body, to buy, to my age. yeah my joy like really joy it's like being the flow and I love that part of that because it looks different for everybody so there's no like box that you know someone can find joy working in a 95 and maybe that is their joy you know and or be an entrepreneur and yes I echo what you're

saying it's definitely a marathon and we have to you know know, we have to build resilience for that. And I think sometimes people think that joy is this kind of, like you say, quick fix. It's like a feeling of happiness in the moment, but it's not that. It's a long, enduring experience of life, I think, and of yourself. So I love that you did that. And you were kind of talking earlier about destroying to build. And I had this vision of, you know, how we shed. Because we don't realize. how much of our energy bubble we take on a lot of things. And then that goes and sits in our bodies.

And like you say, it comes in through our face. So I find that really interesting because I used to struggle with acne a lot. And it was really only once I realized that Louisa Hay talks about this in her books, you know, how the body shows you what's going on inside. And I realized I was not, I wasn't self-accepting, you know, I wasn't loving myself. And once I could see, oh, actually, oh, there's a pimple. But let me understand what this space of my face is about, where it's sitting in my body, maybe what is triggering this in my life.

Maybe I didn't say something. Maybe I did say something to compromise myself or whatever it might be. But I find that fascinating. I love what you're doing. And so do you work with people one-on-one and kind of help them discover that for themselves? I do. I offer a lot of videos on the platform so it's not one-on-one, but I do when I do massage, it's 101-ception and I open space before and after the massage. Because I share a lot with the fingers. When I massage, it's like there's a dialogue.

Sometimes you don't need to process everything in your head. Most of the time, actually. Yeah, and I talk to the body, but yeah, I've got a group, a WhatsApp group with a lot of people that are on the platform. And we share, I share what I can. But what I want to offer is a way to look at yourself, not in a, not something you have to fix or to, to be like against it it's like okay your face is showing you something your skin is talking to you and maybe just the start is to listen and not to see just everything that you have to change or you're like everyone is unique and everyone is on duty and so many people come

on the platform or come to me and say oh I want to fix that I want I've got Joel I got like wrinkle and I want to get rid of them and they start and a couple of days or or a week right to me actually you know what I hated my smile I hated my forehead and now I I love what I see in the the mirror and I feel good in my own skin and my posture looks different. I get more confident. The power of the touch, the power of the conscious touch for me, it's something. It's like something that's not like woo-woo stuff or it's vital. And you know like only five minutes per day at the beginning because so many people they are like, I can't, I don't have time. No, you don't take the time first. It's like if you change the sentence,

it's like, no, it's just not your priority. And first you have to have it. But if you want to change something, you have to do the work. When I say change, it could be just the filter. You see things and yourself and stop trying to fix everything. It's like exhaust. You, for sure, there's on the face, there's stuff that you don't want to see like pain or, you know, heavy, heavy feelings on your face. And you can, with the massage, with the face you go, with the breathing, the posture, you can make them smoother and maybe they get rid of them.

But it's not about like it's a privilege to have like wrinkles on your face because you had laugh, you had like moments, you have like a and it's just changing the perspective and say, okay, I'm not against like doing stuff on your face as long as you know why you're. you are doing that. Because I wanted to get rid of like, I don't know, something that you see and nobody see for example. Like putting a bandage on your, on a deep

scar. It's not going to fix anything. And I think it's going to get worse as the time is going on because it's, you don't go to the roots of what you think you see. It's super and so many people,

they are crying when I do massage on them. They're like laughing or they just release so much, so much emotion. And for me, it's all about that, allowing yourself to release, not to hold on stuff. That's why we're aging faster and we feel tired and we, it's because we don't let go or just accept release and to say okay it was the past and and I have to accept that it's it has to stay in the past actually and yeah it's for me so much deeper than just staying on the face it's like it's it's a deep work

That's my way of seeing that. There's a lot of people there on the internet and doing face yoga and stuff, just to really fix something. And it's working. But it's not, you have to take the whole picture. Yeah. I agree. I agree.

And I think it's like, you have to have the courage to love yourself. I know it sounds contradictory what I'm saying. But we as humans, we kind of. taught to, yeah, like you say, fix. And from a young age, people were like, oh, let's fix your teeth. Let's do this. Let's do that, you know, or whatever it is. But there's something extremely freeing about accepting, first of all, where you're at with your body.

And then saying, okay, well, if I would love this or that, then I can work on it, like you say. And so I noticed that as I was traveling and I was shedding a lot of old stuff in my life as well, too, I was looking younger and younger younger and it was just so interesting because, you know, and like even my eye color changed, which was fascinating for a period of time. And so I feel like we're so disconnected sometimes from our bodies, but it is so much of who we are as energy beings. So I really appreciate that you doing this in the world, and we just love your feels for that.

And I also, I want to do like a little section that we always do on the podcast called the James, talking about gratitude and something that you might have experienced this last week that brought you joy or maybe that you learned. And for me, it was, I guess, also just understanding that there was, there are certain seasons in life. And this last week has really been about opening up a new chapter. and kind of seeing in myself where I was holding back before and where I wasn't allowing joy into my life, you know. And so it's just been wonderful to have that fresh energy and also having compassion with my body in the adjustment process,

knowing that sometimes when you have that fresh energy, you want to do all the things, but you just have to do. And then you burn out or burn in. I love that term, burn in. So anyway, that was it for me. What was it for you? Oh, last couple of weeks were, like, challenging. It was, yeah, because, but I loved that season.

It's, I feel like I'm alive because there's more light and, but also I found myself that I was struggling to let ghosts of some of, um, um, past relationship. I was like holding on. Yeah, and it was like, they're not, I don't know how to say that. It was like, I thought it was okay. And then, you know, I was reacting to,

with other people with the, with old pattern, with like, with all relationships. I don't know if it's clear, but, you know, I was like, And it was, I realized, yeah, like those past few weeks, I realized that I had like pattern that it was, that it were coming back. Like every four months or, and this one was like super painful to come back. And before I was like, yeah, I was, yeah, it's going back.

And it's, but those, I was like, okay, it's enough. I don't want to be sad for something in the past or to do. be like bother by something I was holding on in the past. So I decided to do like ritual just to cut this and to and I wrote a letter. I burn it. And I was like, okay, I need to allow myself to be fully in the presence. And I thought, you know, even me who are doing a lot of work and healing work and and I'm super aware.

I was still like holding stuff. So I, so I was super honest with myself and I say, does it serve you or it or not? And so I like, I have to let it go. And it was with the moon or whatever.

Sometimes I'm connected with the moon and sometimes not at all. And I was like, I think it's time. So I visit it. And I was super happy. and proud of myself to just, okay, just get rid of that. And because in order to move forward, you have to create space. And when at the beginning I say, I'm super good to destroy and to rebuild. And it's, yeah, and I, I think for me it's that you can't move forward with like a backpack full of stuff.

you have to empty it sometimes and sometimes you don't have to empty it to empty everything but a little bit and and yeah was like holding stuff that I don't even knew I was holding and so I was like okay get rid of that so I love that I'm so grateful for you that you could do that and I do feel that there's been energy in the air maybe it is connected to the moon or other things that has been bringing up a moment where we can just release, you know. And I think, like, it's important that you mention, like, we're always doing that. It doesn't just stop. And then, like, that's it, you know, like, we're always having to, you know, evolve and change.

Yeah. It's like you brush your teeth every day. It's like, yeah, you don't say, oh, I brush my teeth. So it's like a ritual or habits. And to do it, look. And regularly, it's, it's, uh, I love that. Thank you.

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to fill the space. And yeah, I really just appreciate the space that they've created. So I want to give them a shout out and say, we love your fields, guys. And I only have one more question for you, Orelia. And that is what is in your stack? So that's our reading list. And all the books that get recommended by the guests are on our website for people to check out. So maybe it's a book you've read and like to recommend, or maybe you're still seeing it on your case and looking forward to reading it.

You have a book recommendation for us that's in your stack. Yeah, I work at books. because I love to read and I'm not like I'm super sad when I don't have something on my desk or like near my bed and yeah I've got this book that I was that I found on the RER on the on the on the seat I was like it was literally waiting for me it's called la Prophesy des Andes James Redfield and it's not like the best. book that I read but it's that I read yeah but it's there's a sentence that I love it's it's it's it's about a manuscript and it's a it's a journey from a guy with like looking for the nine

lessons but there's a sentence that I love and it's and it keeps running into my head it's like we don't meet people by accident or by Azar. By chance, yeah. Because, like, you don't meet someone by chance, because otherwise this person will have taken another road. And I love this sentence because it's, yeah. For example, a lot of people ask me for the retreat, for the dinner that I organize with my partner.

How do you pick people? Oh, do you choose people? And I'm like, I don't. Everything is perfect when you, like, you know, everything is perfect. And when you sit at a table near to this person or another one, it's not by chance. I love that. Oh, we're definitely going to be adding that to the stack. And I also don't believe in coincidence.

There's no such thing. It's just like all one beautiful. orchestrated mess, you know, in somewhere. That's my belief. And that's why when I hear something, when I say something, when I meet someone, I try to be super receptive or open. I love that. That's a great recommendation.

Thank you. And I also just want to say thank you so much for coming on and sharing so openly your story, your journey, your heart. And for everyone listening, I wonder what you're feeling and thinking about how are you looking after your body. First of all, how are you listening to your body, accepting your body, loving yourself? And we'll make sure that everyone knows how to find you and engage with. I'm definitely keen to learn more about what you're doing.

And yeah, just thank you so much for being here and for your presence and light in the world. Thank you very much. you for holding the space and I look forward to listen other podcasts and yeah you can find me on on internet and if people need advice or just to find a safe place I will be happy to connect love that amazing amazing With all the beautiful lights and love to you and everyone out there, happy feels. Thank you. If you haven't just yet, follow Friday Feels on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and LinkedIn.

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