One, two, three, four.

Get my shoes on at the door.

Five, six, seven, eight.

Feels great.

I'm gonna sign up to do and guys aren't gonna do about to do what they do.

Yeah.

Look at this guy with the beautiful color about the and just for me he's gonna share it with another I got to show to get.

I want to finish.

I'll take a look at that beautiful morning that turns to a beautiful evening.

Look at the big beautiful.

And if you want to see that, come along with me.

That's right.

Hey, I'm Irish, Dave, and welcome to experience Michiana.

This week, we have a very unique show with some unique ideas for things that you can do.

I'm here in downtown Elkhart's, and there's an event happening here on August 3rd that I think you'll want to know about.

We're also going to talk about energy healing this week on the show.

That's a unique experience.

But right now, let's go to Courtney.

She's in downtown South Bend and she is going on an architectural tour.

Now, many of us have had the chance to explore downtown South Bend, but maybe not necessarily from an architectural standpoint.

I'm really excited that the architectural walking tours out here throughout the summer.

And I have with us today our tour guide, Steve, as well as Kayley with downtown South Bend, to say a little bit more about what an architectural walking tour is.

Thanks for being here with us.

Oh, it's our pleasure.

Yes.

The importance of what it is to have those architectural walking tours here in the area, you know, bringing back and letting people know about the history behind South Bend.

Yeah, I mean, it's great to visit downtown, but it adds another level.

If you know the history that this town was built on.

And Steve does a really great job of making it fun because we all think of history class and all the dates that he takes you in on.

The 90 minute tour points out not only to the architectural styles of the buildings, but some of the histories of the buildings.

So, you know, you might go to dinner at LaSalle Grill all the time.

Now, when you go back, you'll know the history of the building and it just makes it mean so much more to know where we came from, to kno like then where where we are now and where we're going.

It's just it's it's great.

It's wonderful.

And when do these happen?

They happen the first Fridays of May through October.

And four of those six months, we are downtown on the 90 minute tour.

But then two of them, we take a tour of the West Washington historic district.

And that's a really special treat, too.

OK, now, Steve, you've been doing this for a while and the architectural walking tours have been happening since twenty ten.

So while there's always something new, I feel like to explore in downtown south.

Oh, there are.

And I mean, definitely with the new changes in new buildings coming up, a lot of times people will ask you what was there?

And that's the big question is what was at that site before this new building just g And it's kind of fun to go through the history of that and especially maybe even the way the streets are laid out and everything all happened because of what was here before And we were talking, you know, when I came to this intersection, which I've been in the area for 17 years, this was the first time I noticed the historical marker, maybe because I knew what we were going to be doing today Well, tell us about this particular historical marker and why it's so important.

Absolutely.

Well, that marker back there, the Lincoln and Dixie Highways.

This is actually the intersection, the first two national roads, each one being the Lincoln Highway, which went from the East Coast to the West Coast, the other being the Dixie Highway or Machine Road, which went from Michigan all the way to Florida.

This was the intersection right here where there were standing there.

A couple of others added later.

But this this was the first one, and most people don't even realize that that happened here.

That's amazing.

Amazing.

Now, Kelly, you've been on the tours before.

What's your favorite fun fact that you've learned from Steve?

Well, you can see our hair's blown blowing in here, I learned.

Yeah, actually, Steve, I learned the Washington Street here is the India Street in the city because they're all like, you'll remember, fuzzy.

It's uninterrupted, right?

Is it is under Premiere, but also the span of the street As you go further west and you go all the way to you take Washington all the way until we're dead ends.

You almost Bendix knows how wide the street is.

I mean, it's it's got a full year.

One hundred and twenty eight hundred and forty feet wide width.

And then as you come down town, everything comes closer and closer together, just like water in a pipe.

The smaller the pipe, the greater the pressure.

Same thing when it comes down here.

Here, we're very narrow.

So all that wind direction comes in and speeds up by the time it reaches here.

So this is not the place to be when a tornado comes through.

Right.

On the river flow, drones down here, either it's doing good.

And it's funny, you also pointed out our tallest building in downtown, right on what is also a little slogan.

It may maybe the question of whether or not that was the right move for the tallest building.

See the full breadth of that wind coming from the West.

Yeah So you definitely need your walking shoes because the architectural tour is about an hour and a half.

And I know you loved it there.

All the great things about it.

So plan to be walking for a while.

Yes, but what are some of the places that you get to explore?

Because there's over like 20 buildings that you share.

Oh, yeah.

You know, it's not just the particular sites or stops along the way.

It's going to be whole blocks.

We're talking about the whole block.

And they will point out certain architectural features and certain unique buildings, as we certainly have, are one of the main buildings here, one of the single existing building with designs like no others that we have here downtown.

So, I mean, we're going to be going everywhere from talking about the Morris.

Performing Arts Center we talking about Lasalle gril, of course, are we talking about Farmers State Bank, the tower building, there's just so many different ones.

So we do like to talk a little bit about the the materials, everything and went into them, because you could tell the difference between something that's built before and some that's built now because of the materials that were used.

And you have such great experience on that.

I love hearing these stories and I'm sure everyone does, too Who participates in these and how many people do you usually have come on the tours?

Usually about 25 in the city when we fill up.

So sometimes we've had as much as 50 with asthma.

Yeah So it's yeah.

And it's really fine because like you said, you didn't notice that sign.

You're driving downtown, you're busier going from point A to point B..

This gives you a chance to really slow down and take notice of the details.

And then you'll always remember that later and then you can be really cool.

And when you're with your friends walking, no course notice over there.

I think that bad person, you know, and there are a lot of those of little fantham clues there.

There's design aspects to will sell grool, for example, between that and the Griffin and why there are things there that you would know if you didn't know what those buildings were used for.

I don't want to ruin any surprises.

Oh, I see.

There's there's two or three very great little things about tidbits about that building in the design that's still liard.

That leads back to what it was originally used for.

And I think we're going to check out some more of those But Kailey, how can people sign up for this?

Because you do want them to preregister.

Yes.

And it's you can sign up on our on our website downtown South Bend dot com or you can call our office and we say you'll pay when you get here.

It's only five dollars to get all of Steves knowledge.

It's amazing that I feel cheap.

Not, when you have 30 people.

Well, thanks so much, Kelly.

I think we're going to go check out some of your favorite places.

Yes, we are.

All right, let's go.

Let's head on out.

All right.

So we're working our way west on this architectural walking tour.

And now we've landed in front of one of the biggest monuments in downtown South Bend.

Tell us a bit more about that and why it's so important.

Well, this particular monument is actually the soldiers and sailors monument commemorating our soldiers from St. Joseph County that were lost in the Civil War.

Kind of a unique thing.

I mean, first of all, the the statue itself, the monium itself, specially designed and built by the same folks that did the statuary in downtown Indianapolis Circle Center.

OK, I've seen that one before.

It's exactly the same effect, the same artist.

But it's also important because this was moved to the original location.

This was around the front side here over on main, where the entrance to the the jail and courthouse.

Now, the unique thing about this is, is is you got to when you look at it, you'll notice that there's a slight flaw in it.

And it's clear when it was originally.

Let me see if I can guess what the fliers.

Yeah, OK.

I don't know.

You have to tell me.

Okay.

All right.

You know, it's in your face.

The direction in which the the soldier is pointing.

He's actually kind of pointing out like the Northeast.

Exactly Obviously not the direction they're new marching toward the civil war, and actually it was spun when it was moved and it's kind of one of those people question every time.

Was I was that done on purpose or not?

We do not believe that that was done on purpose.

We were that was actually a mistake.

That's not the way that everyone would have been marching at that time, would have definitely been on the south to fight the war.

Definitely not heading to Michigan.

So.

OK, very good for the walking tours.

Like you said, we still have one coming up in August, September and October.

And there's two different kinds of walking towards the ones downtown.

South.

Absolutely.

So the first two, which are going to be August and September, are going to be the downtown or towards me, 90 minutes down here where you started the cloc over at a right of the corner of Washington and Michigan.

And that will be just down here, just in the the square, like three blocks or four blocks.

Now, obviously, on these walking tours, it's noisy in downtown Southend, but you do carry a microphone and you have a microphone.

If people can hear a little speaker on me so people can hear me.

And I do love.

We spend a lot of time interacting because a lot of the folks that come on the tour have a personal time.

You know, I was fortunate feel this last or we were on West Washington.

We had one of the folks that's a docent for commercial.

So we're going there.

I allowed him to add a few things that I didn't know and a few things with his expertize.

And we have a lot of folks who have local ties.

So someone has something to add.

We'll go ahead and we'll check it before I use it.

But sometimes we'll incorporate that later on in the tour as well.

Does any of the new information we get is going to be right?

And how is the tour downtown South Bend different from the one that goes to West Washington?

Because that one's happening.

The last one in October, that one reasserted people's church, which is in Washington and Lafayette.

And we're going to head west, go all the way down, cop show home down to show black and make the turn and then come back on along the south side there.

So in that one is going to be different because we're to talk more about the houses in particular when they were built of who live there.

That, to me is fascinating.

Little more of the history of that story now is developed and that sort of thing.

Well, thank you so much today for showing us a little bit of that.

So I know there's plenty more fun facts.

So you got to join the team or you can get the tickets there.

Just five dollars cash, very, very low cost.

And it's something that you can enjoy.

And like Haley said, you know, it gives you the opportunity to be the one in the group when you're walking around.

Tell me a little bit about this building.

So great opportunity to learn more about what makes downtown South Bend South Bend.

So thank you.

All right.

We're here in the beautiful stevensons of Elkhart, and I'm here with Danny Reynolds.

Danny, what is going on on August 3rd?

We're really excited.

Dave, thank you all for coming out to have you all here We're we're so excited to be preparing for the second annual calendar girls.

Beautiful wellfield gardens, right.

ALCA up north Main Street, Elkhart on August 3rd.

Yeah.

And Wellfield is an absolutely beautiful locatio that we've highlighted several times here, experience Michiana So tell us a little bit specifically about calendar girls for anyone who doesn't know anything about it since it is its second year.

Yeah.

And all of the experts in production tell a little bit more about the theory behind calendar girls.

But it started last year with a performance of the play Calendar Girls.

And what happened this year?

Well, as we all know, a lot happened this year in this world we're in.

And we suddenly realized that there's a more meaningful version of calendar girls that can happen.

The performance is going to be completely different and an amazing Erma Bombeck performance.

We're going to hear more about that from somebody who knows more than I do in a minute.

But the idea here is that we are recognizing and celebrating some true calendar girls in the form of local heroes.

So we've got 13 Michiana area ladies that have been recognize by loved ones, coworkers, you name it, for things that they've done to make a difference in their community over this past year.

We're excited.

We're going to feature them in the calendar And we've got a special surprise makeover for one of the guests.

That's going to be courtesy of Hello, Gorgeous.

So all I can say is it is going to be an action packed, fun filled, entertaining event for people of all ages.

Nice.

We're going to learn more about how you can get tickets for the event, which happens on August 3rd, and that you're an actress that is going to be in calendar Girls for anyone watching has never heard a calendar girls, the actual show.

What can they expect from this?

Well, the show that we're doing this year is called at Wits End, and it's a one woman show about Erma Bombeck.

So I am playing Erma Bombeck, who, of course, was a columnist and book writer and speech giver for many years, humourist, about being a mom, about being a woman.

And that's what she did.

And she what she did was to lift up and value the ordinary.

But, you know, the moms, the women that you see around you every day.

Nice.

Show.

It's about exactly jumping in to Dave.

It's a perfect performance because what we are doing is recognizing people that may on the surface look like some ordinary Michiana residents, that behind the scenes are doing amazing things.

And one thing that I've recognized about all these ladies is that they don't really they're not comfortable being recognized.

They're the doers, not the not the attention takers.

They're the doers.

So I think it's a perfect tie.

And I also think the greatest leaders and the greatest heroes never have to say that they're that, you know, they just are they just are that example, you know And Dave, for you and for the civic theater, how important is it for you to be involved with this night?

Well, this started out as a it's well, it still is a cooperative venture with hello, gorgeous.

And it was a great way to meld the arts, the performing arts, which is what Elfriede Civic Theater is all about with the services and the support that hello gorgeous gives to women going through cancer.

So it was just a nice marriage.

You know, the tie in last year with the play.

But the but the the the fact that we were able to kind of make this work with the calendar and with a live performance, and being in the in the wellfield, of course, is it's kind of great exposure for both Audy, both organizations.

And just so we're we're we're glad to be there as well.

So it's a it's a really wonderful event.

Hopefully it won't rain, but under a tent.

So it probably doesn't matter.

You know, it's a beautiful mission and it's a beautiful location.

And it sounds like it's going to be a really great time I know, Danny, you're the emcee on the night as well.

Don't tell them that they won't come.

No, they'll definitely come.

You're hilarious.

I've seen you do shows before for Stevensons.

If people want to get more information about this or get tickets and supported it, how can they get involved?

Well, I know Give Grove is the organization that we are using for people to be able to donate, get tickets, that kind of thing.

I think we're going to have characters hopefully under me, above me somewhere on the to letting people know.

I think if you just point to the spot, they can put it right there.

Right there.

Oh, just right there.

Okay, there you go.

Dave may know website wise.

A better way for people to get an idea.

Well, yeah.

The website where you can go to give Grove, give Grove dot com forward slash e21, or you can also call the Bristol Opera House, which is our theater at eight four eight four one one six area code five seven four.

And we ca get you tickets that way.

Online is very easy.

Some people just for.

For her to do it by phone and we're happy to help you with that as well.

Now this is a fund raiser.

Where's the money going?

So I'll jump in here.

I think as Dave kind of alluded to, this is a collaboration between two very worthy events.

And the cool thing about this is one thing we're doing is bringing Elkhart and St. Joe County together in this Hello Gorgeous has been primarily based in Singapore County, obviously the Pacific Theater here in Elkhart County.

And what a great way to bring to amazing communities together We're going to be raising funds for the theater and their mission and helping showcase all the talent and the amazing productions that this place doe on an annual basis.

And then also, hello, gorgeous.

They do great things for those going through cancer.

They provide so many makeovers each year for people nominated by loved ones who are going through a tough time and need a little boost to their esteem.

And they do that.

Partnered with salons all over the world.

So all the funds raise that at the event are going to be split evenly between those two organizations.

Nice.

I like it.

My wife keeps telling me that I need to up my game when it comes to my style.

And Danny, you're the most stylish guy that I know.

So I think what we should do while we're here at Stevens is any chance you can give me a makeover?

Oh, you're like Dave.

I haven't had my coffee yet.

I'm not as long as my.

OK, so I tried this last week, myself and Corney, I really want you to try and OK, the but because, you know, I've been having a lot of back issues lately, and we've kind of talked about like, how can I get this better?

Yeah.

So I want you to get up on the bed, OK?

Do you need help?

It's a pretty hot bed.

I'm not sure.

No, no, no, no.

Hold.

Oh.

See, this is my issue with the back, right?

I've got to climb up here, OK?

OK, now which way do I go now?

We have three pillows here and you have one job.

You really have to ask yourself, which way do you live with all the pillows down this end?

OK, well, OK. All right, here we go.

Oh, just a bed.

They look like just I look like I have a microphone pack on my back, OK?

That's better.

Now, these pillows, do you normally sleep on three pillows I sleep with one.

OK, so we want you to be just as comfortable as you would be if you were going to go to sleep.

OK, and take one pillow.

I have to admit, last week when I did this on my own, it took me about 15 minutes before I really felt relaxed.

So not that I should tell her, but I think you should concentrate on your breathing.

OK, so, Colleen, I need you to explain to me what exactly is Reiki?

Energy, energy?

Reiki is a Japanese word, and it's really beautiful.

It means like the higher spirit coming down.

And, yeah, there's a lot of little things that it means, just the spirit of the down and the there's a little steam pot in the in the caricatures.

And so it's like it's this integration of probably mind, body and spirit, mind, body and spirit.

So when people come here to you, what are they looking for?

Stress relief, OK?

They want they want to relax or they can't sleep or they're they're in pain and they're tense and they're frustrated or they've been through trauma That's another one where they're traumatized and they're walking around like a deer in the headlights and they don't know how to do it or they're Cañada divorce or, you know, there's know there's issues there if there's presenting traumatic issues that are interfering with their ability to enjoy their life.

So once you feel the energy over the person and you say, OK, I can feel like there's something going on here.

What do you actually do then?

Like as a Reiki master?

What is your job after that?

It's not just assessing.

You actually then try and do something about it.

So what are you doing that?

Here's the thing.

When when we scan, I'm going to scan Kourtney.

Is that right?

Yeah.

OK.

So we scan over and we find hotspots.

Hmm.

And anyone can do this.

This isn't there's no crazy magic here.

Anyone can do it.

You just who had everything to do it right.

You know, you want me to scan your other side.

Oh, yeah.

You you wanted to learn how to be a Reiki master.

So I think I would like to do.

Yeah.

So I can just I can feel like a subtle, subtle buzz.

Anything that I feel is something that you're workin on.

I don't really believe there's bad energy or stock, really, because it's always moving energy, always moving.

And by definition, it's always moving.

So so if I feel it, it means it's moving tightly where it's our natural state to be at homeostasis.

It's like a chemistry equation.

So everything is nice and smooth.

And then a disturbance is entered and everything goes chaotic.

That's when they come here.

And then and then I help them bring it under control to their natural state, their natural rhythm.

And when you're in your natural rhythm, your body functions.

Fully OK, if you're not a job, is to get the body's energy back to its natural.

Right.

Right.

Just to help it return to its own rhythm.

So I don't really rate your energy therapies, don't really do anything.

We can't take something away, but we can help you first identify what it is going on.

And sometimes that's half the battle.

You didn't know that it was restore our childhood trauma center in our thighs and we didn't.

And they may be they might be traumas or they might be just disturbances in your rhythm.

It doesn't have to be a trauma.

It doesn't have to be anything big.

It could just be you know, you learned a rule in your childhood that worked out great then.

But now that you're an adult and you're you're repeating this, you know, people like tumor.

And I mean, you might learn humor is a survival skill, though, because it might have gotten you out of some time.

This is probably very true for me.

I oh, I'm so excited.

We're going to learn so much about Cordani.

So.

All right.

I am feeling something here.

And here's the thing.

What's funny is I can feel I can feel it like heating up as you're going over those portions.

I can feel that on my arm when I did it to some people.

Some people can really feel it.

Yeah.

And they can feel the warmth.

But so I'm going to guess that you learn somethin in your childhood and I say lea because it's on your right side, which means it's going to be your left brain experience, which means your masculine energy, the the linear energy, the the putting yourself out there, that kind of a thing So you might have, as a cute little girl, put yourself out there and they said, girls don't do that.

And so you smiled your way out of it.

Right.

So that, you know, we repeat these patterns and, you know, worked out great when you were three or despoiling our way out of situations.

I think I don't.

That's amazing.

You just did it.

This is so ridiculously accurate.

It blows me away every time I do it.

I still just it just amazes me because people it's.

So how does this different or how does it differ from like modern medicine techniques?

Because this is really a holistic, I think modern.

I think medicine modern medicine does stuff.

They take stuff, they manipulate stuff.

We don't manipulate anything, OK?

We just we just serve you with with the high frequency energy and we help you return to your own natural state so you can your own body can process, OK?

And it really is effect.

And you've done it yourself, right?

This is how you kind of got started in it.

Yeah.

Yeah, I was stressed out.

I never knew what peace was.

I never knew growing up.

And I was just I just grew up in a tense environment.

And then I repeated the pattern and married into a tense environment that I was a participant.

And not saying I'm not trying to claim responsibility.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

But once I realized that and I realized my role in this situation, now the whole family situation has healed.

So, I mean, and it was not pretty, but, you know, so I was able to take that intense situation using the energy therapy and turn it into a wonderful, loving family and supportive of him for so wonderful.

It got intense for a while.

I had two of them that that got addicted to heroin.

And so, I mean, and there were suicide attempts at heroin and, you know, drugs and anger.

And, you know, it was it was a train wreck.

It really was a train wreck.

And now they're supportive and loving and know sure, they still have their issues, but not like not like that.

OK, so it was the energy therapy that was able to to help everybody.

You know, I do holistic restoration for the mind, body and spirit.

And you need all three to to become complete energy therapy.

Nice.

And that helps you relax.

But you got to have a healthy body.

So we have supplements that we do.

And then the for the the mind we teach.

So as I'm telling you, explaining things to you, then people are like, oh, that makes sense.

And then they're released from the fear and the bondage of it.

And they're like, oh, I understand now.

I see now And so they were able to to process that.

And they're not they're not held captive by it anymore, which is stress related.

So what are you feeling from her now?

How did you know how I am feeling?

Something around your ankle here.

So ankles are about having fun, having fun.

So this is, though, about feeling fun.

OK, so there's there's might be fear, because I'm feeling on the inside of your ankle and there's a synthetic Chinese medicine to study the meridians and they all have an emotion.

And so this kidney over here is.

Is lighting up right now.

I really feel that there's some fear, there's some fear of of letting go.

I'm going to guess.

Oh, interesting.

Tell your secrets now.

I know, right?

And I feel like I'm in therapy session now.

It is.

And how long are the sessions?

How long do they usually last?

It just depends on what you're looking for.

I mean, you might come in you after you're tuned up and you've done this for a while.

Like I say, my 15 minutes and I'm out in 15 minutes.

Feels like a good night's sleep.

Thirty minutes.

Feels like a long weekend.

An hour.

It feels like a week's vacation.

Oh, OK.

He's one of those.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So the ideal is to go on to have a session before you go on your vacation and then you get two for one.

And I never when I get back from vacation.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The vacation and and I actually came when I came last week for this.

I was here for about an hour.

I'm really chatty.

So that was like double.

But the session was an hour.

And then that night I actually slept for eight hours uninterrupted for the first time.

And I can remember, I swear, since I was younger, the only way I could describe it was I woke up feeling like when you're a child, when you wake up, that like I felt like a child.

Yeah.

It was like we're fresh.

But also not thinking about anything or not thinking about stress or I just woke up feeling like a child, kind of like empty minded.

Yeah.

Then after we do the reading, then we then we go through the body and we just we just place our hands.

And depending on how long the session is, because we can do 15, 30, 60, up to two hours, really And I know we were kind of talking about it, too.

You know, there wasn't a lot of Reiki masters in this area and Michiana until recently.

That's it's been just, you know, a few years.

So they've been here.

But it used to be becoming much more private.

I feel like I've been hearing it a lot more people are talking about it now becaus they're not as afraid of it.

They were afraid of it.

They didn't understand it, and they were afraid of it.

And that's that's been my my focus is to make it I bring it in more mainstream, connect the mainstream to it.

That's why I call it energy therapy therapy, because I speak English and kno we don't need to speak a different language.

We don't need to say chakras.

We can say energy centers, because that's what they are.

Thank you so much for doing this.

It was great to kind of get to experience it and show people what it actually looks like and for everyone to look at my nose the entire time.

During this time, I have to lie down on camera because I'm pretty signing off.

So, yeah, why didn't.

You know, Corti has actually been a lot more relaxed since we tried Rakhi.

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