Sept. 16, 2024

A Plan to Physical and Emotional Freedom

A Plan to Physical and Emotional Freedom

So often we think of yoga as just another form of exercise. And in many studios that is correct. But the origin of yoga has a much deeper meaning and process and finding that process in a studio or online becomes a very focused and desirable project...

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So often we think of yoga as just another form of exercise. And in many studios that is correct. But the origin of yoga has a much deeper meaning and process and finding that process in a studio or online becomes a very focused and desirable project for those who want to take their physical and mental aspects to a higher level.
Rachel Friedman is one such individual who has shaped her yoga studio into a place of growth and development.
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who you've made better. It's about what you've given back.

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Denzel Washington, welcome to Inspire Vision. Our sole purpose is

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to elevate the lives of others and to inspire you

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to do the same.

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Rachel Friedman, welcome to the show.

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Thanks for having me, Doctor Doug.

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It's good to have a ya on the show. Where

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you located?

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I am right outside of Atlanta, Georgia?

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Okay, all right, not bad. You're you're about what an

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hour away from me or two hours? Are you Eastern

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Coast or central Eastern? Okay? All right? Makes sense? All right, Well,

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what I'd love for you to do is to share

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with the audience a little bit about who you are

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and you know the story behind. Was there an aha

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moment that brought you to this point or how did

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that all come about?

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I think it was a thousand aha moments that probably

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have brought me to the point I am at today.

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But yeah, so I guess, first and foremost, I am

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a mom. I always like to start that off because

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I do think that's the hardest job I probably have

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of all. But I am also a serial entrepreneur. I

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guess is what most people would say. I am a therapist.

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I am a somatic practitioner. I am a yoga teacher

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and a yoga studio owner, And currently I have a

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couple of different offers that I so different ways. I

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support people obviously, I support people in my brick and

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mortar in my yoga studio and helping people, you know,

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with their health and wellness, connect back with their bodies.

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We do you know, breathwork, meditation, all the things to

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improve human human life. And also offer a somatic therapy

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out of my studio. So a lot of people are like,

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what's a somatic therapist?

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Yeah, I was going to ask you the question.

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Yeah, it's really because I get it all the time.

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It's really just a mindfulness based therapeutic practice, meaning learning

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how to learn to listen to the wisdom that your

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body is offering and using that as a way we

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can say to heal to move forward. I like to

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say more than heal to move forward, right, instead of

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being stuck in old patterns and old behaviors. And then,

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because I've been in the yoga studio industry business for

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about fifteen years, in January, I launched what I call

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the Yoga Business Accelerator, and it's just really supporting yoga

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teachers and studio owners to help them grow and get

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their businesses, you know, making money so they can share

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more of what we all are, you know in my

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realm passionate about, which is helping people.

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Okay, why yoga?

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Why yoga? Such a fantastic question. So I got introduced

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to yoga in my twenties, my very early twenties, and

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it was the first time in my life where I

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think I actually felt my body, and it was the

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first place that gave me permission to not be perfect.

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It was I will never forget one of my first

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teachers saying this is a practice, this practice is a journey.

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We're not here to get any of this right. And

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I grew up as a gymnast and you were either

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perfect or you were not right. And if you didn't

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direct everything just right, you were not right. It was

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very black and white, and it was this like ie

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opening almost experience of wait a minute, I don't have

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to do all this just perfect to be accepted and

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to be okay. And I had really run my life

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a lot up to that point that way, if I

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didn't do it just right, if I didn't get the

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a I was very much a perfectionist, then my anxiety

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was like through the roof and all the world was

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crumbling around me. And yoga created a space for me

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where I, for the first time kind of felt free

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and I was like, oh my god, I don't have

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to be perfect.

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Well position to not be perfect. Yeah, as I think

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about yoga, I mean, you know, the few times I

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went to yoga, it was more of a I didn't

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get much of a philosophy behind it. It was just

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more of a movement. Or when we went to the

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hot yoga, you know, where it was really hot and

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we're sweating and doing all of that. But I know

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I have friends that go for yoga, and I think

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a lot of them go for the exercise and the

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strengthening and the agility. And yet you're talking about a

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philosophy here that I'm not sure many people understand is

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correlated with yoga, and I don't know how many yoga

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teachers actually incorporate that into their classes.

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Yeah, unfortunately, not nearly enough in my opinion. So right,

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I agree in our culture in this in our Western world,

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yoga has become kind of this fitness. It's been put

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in the fitness category, which there is an element of

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it that, yes, it will build muscle, increase flexibility, you know,

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more range of moent, it does all those things. But

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it's an eight limb practice, and unfortunately a lot of

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teachers I don't know if it's out of fear, because

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if you go through yoga teacher training, you should be

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taught all eight limbs. If they don't incorporate it out

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of fear that their students won't want to learn these

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pieces or what. But to me, it was very important

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when I became a teacher that every single one of

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my classes I bring other elements to this practice, the

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philosophy piece as much as the awesome. And don't get

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me wrong, I own a hot yogas to do. That's

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power yoa and it will kick anyone's butt. I mean,

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it will humble you, but it will also leave you

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always thinking about something and how am I going to

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apply being out of, for example, my comfort zone in

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this post to when I'm out of my comfort zone

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at the next meeting I'm at or whatever. And yoga

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and it's hard. Is that's what it's all about, right, Like,

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it's connecting mind and body. That's what the word yoga

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meute to yoke, to bring together. And so I think

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because my background as a therapist, I was so drawn

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to that part of the yoga and it was the

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part that has kept me on the map for twenty years.

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It's not the I mean the physical I love, it

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feels good, but it is this whole experience of how

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it does not just fuel you know, my muscles, but

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it fuels a piece of my soul because it's so

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much more than just I don't know, for me, it's

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so much more than just a physical practice.

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Well, and you mentioned you we're a therapist, what type

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of therapists or practitioner.

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Were you, Yeah, I went to school, I got my

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msw at NYU. So I was a clinical social worker

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and I worked in lockdown facility before I actually got

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into the overworld working with adolescents and yeah, psychotherapist.

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Okay, So I'm curious how did yoga? Where did it originate?

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And really what is the philosophy is beyond just the

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physical part of it. What is the philosophy of yoga?

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And again I'd love to know how it originated? Where

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did it come from?

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Yeah, I mean it originates from India thousands and thousands

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of years ago. And again it was it started as

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I mean, there's different schools, right, just like anything that

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we'll talk about different origins. But at the heart of it,

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it is this practice that is here to guide you

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on this path to what they call samadi and sabodi's

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basically turning on the lights enlightenment. And for me, it's

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the practice is it's taught in an eight limb path

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traditionally in now there were other how do I explain it?

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There were other branches or styles, but the most classical

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style is this eight limb path, and it's really learning

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how to be more present in your life, right, and

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more mindful of the interaction between mind and body and

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how we show up in the world.

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As you talk about the eight limb path, what are

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what are the each of those limbs?

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Yeah, so the first two limbs, Yeah, I love this

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is not at all when usually people interviewing, So I

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love this. So the first two paths are kind of

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ways of living. So we call them the Niamas and

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the yamas, and these are made up of how's they rules,

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but kind of like guidelines on kind of like the

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ten commandments on how to live an honorable life right,

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like don't steal right saucha, which is cleanling and is

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keeping your mind and body clean. So these are these

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first two paths, or the first two limbs. The third

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limb is actually awesome of the pastures, and that's keeping

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the body strong and supple the poses. Then we move

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into the upper limbs, which are about learning how to

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control pranayama, your breath. So breath work is a really

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huge piece of this eight limb path. And then it's

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learning how to hone in on your senses, right, so

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being able to kind of almost disconnect from this three

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D world and start to tap more internally right and

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quiet some of the chitter chatter, and then we're working

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towards meditation, which is where that the fluctuations of the

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mind were able to observe right and kind of step

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aside from them and see them, which then reaches us

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to this final space of what we call somebody, which

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is where you know they call enlightenment.

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And again that last one is somebody.

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What's it called sabodi?

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And what does it mean?

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The word somebodi means enlightenment, enlightenment, Okay, and I just

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think of turning on the lights.

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Well, and as you talk, as you talk about this,

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what is reminding me of to some degree is you know, Hinduism, Buddhism,

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some of those types of things.

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Yeah, And a lot of the origin origins of yoga

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they do come from Buddhism, Hinduism. Like you know, we

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study when you go through a two hundred hour training,

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you study the bag of Boga bogda, some of these

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tax right that helped to guide this path is where

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a lot of this originated from.

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Okay. So having gone through a yoga class that had

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none of this element to it, which makes me.

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Kind of sad, but you know it's okay.

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How do you how do you go about incorporating this?

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Because your your classes are what an hour long? Two

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hours long?

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Most of them are an hour Saturdays and Sundays we

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have seventy five minute passes, but yeah, most of our

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sixty minutes.

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Okay, So how do you incorporate these eight limbs? Great

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question in that practice?

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Yeah, and I'll be honest, I can't usually incorporate all

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eight limbs necessarily. Well that's not actually true. I probably could,

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but I don't always go to My goal isn't always

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to incorporate all eight limbs. So I start every single

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class with what we call an intention so asam kopa,

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like what is the focus of today's practice? So, for example,

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this past week, I've been talking about mosha mokshaw. The

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word mosha means liberation, and that's a huge like at

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the core of what this yoga is all about is

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we're trying to liberate ourselves, right, And so I will

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start the class and be like, okay, so this week,

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this month, we're talking about moksha and the word motion

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means liberation, and then I might introduce the theme that, like,

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how do we really free ourselves, and a lot of

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how we conferre ourselves is starting to be more mindful

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of those limiting beliefs we put on ourselves. And so notice,

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while you're in the postures, is your mind telling you

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you can't do it, You can't hold it any longer? Right,

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start to become more present to what is happening inside

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your mind as your body is being physically challenged. So

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that's one way. Literally just start the class with a theme,

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bring in a piece of yoga philosophy. From there, I'm

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encouraging throughout the entire practice different breathing techniques. So in

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our studio in hot Yoga were Vinyasa yoga, we use

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to regulate the nervous system. So I'm teaching that throughout

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the entire practice. At times, I might be talking about

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this idea of coming inward a little bit more right

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and spacing out from the outside world and honing in

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more right. So it is a skill set that I

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think I've been teaching for fifteen years that it takes practice,

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but I do get a lot of teachers that go

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through my two hundred hour training, and what I'll tell

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them is, we're just going to start start with what

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I call a dharmatalk, two to five minutes of just

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introducing something that's going to give them something to think

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about as we're moving with the breath.

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Well, and it sounds like, you know, as you talk

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about the eight limbs, it almost reminds me of a ladder.

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and then moving up and moving up and moving up

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to the point where you're reaching meditation. How do you

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do meditation? And obviously from there you get into the enlightenment.

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But how do you get them to do meditation in

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the course of a yoga session?

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into a meditative state. My hope is that when we're

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using breath and movement that it becomes almost like a

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moving meditation right where we're starting to become more aware

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because all meditation, the goal of really meditation is is

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to become more aware of your thoughts and to not

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get lost in them. So I keep bringing them back

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to this idea throughout the prime so we might actually

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not do in a sixty minute class. I'm not going

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to apply a seated meditation. In all truthfulness, I teach

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meditation classes separately, but we're not going to do a

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seated But I mean, there's only so much time in

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sixty minutes, right, And the truth is is most people

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come to the yoga studio, especially a hot power, for

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the physical. But I just want to make sure they're

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leaving with more than that, because otherwise I'm no different

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than the cycle bar down the street and the pilates

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studio and the spin studio. And as a business, it's

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so important to as a brand, right to set yourself

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as different well.

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the physical, and that's what we were talking about a

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little bit. You know, most people come for the physical

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part of it. But how many people have you met

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that actually had some sense that there was a healing

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process to yoga and that's why they came. And if so,

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do you have any stories that might be a value? Yeah?

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people that have come for the physical, but what keeps

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them coming back is the healing properties that they have found.

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Like myself, right, I came for the physical originally, and

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some of the stories are like, I mean, I have

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clients that I've been with me ten years that'll say,

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I don't have the anxiety that I used to have.

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I don't yell at my kids as much anymore. I'm

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not in as much pain anymore.

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I've had people that fry during Savasna during the end

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part and are like, I feel like I just let

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go of ten years of you know, anger. And of

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course most of the most of it's not that drastic, right,

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most of aren' aren't that big. But it's like those

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one percent shifts where you show up consistently and then

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you look back and you're like, whoa wait a minute,

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I almost don't even recognize myself anymore.

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So are you? Are you taking them through a process

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where they start to analyze that they're failing, frustrated or

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anger or whatever that happens sometimes, do you? And so

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in the course of that, Yeah, yeah.

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I mean I do want more of that work one

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on one with people if they want to do, like

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the people that sign up to do somatic therapy with me,

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that's more of what happens. We'll we'll like, actually, lets say,

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sit in the frustration, but we'll get to know it

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in a class. It's it's more like just micro like

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spotting of it. But it adds up even if it's

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just in a class and you're getting just a little

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bit each class. I mean a fair amount of people

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come three, four, five times a week, so they're getting

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this repetition of the message, not just the physical the message.

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So it starts to sink in.

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Okay, okay, And when you talk about the sematic techniques,

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you know we're talking about touch and some of those things.

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Can you explain what are some of the sematic techniques

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that people use that you use in particular to help

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people to get rid of some of that subconscious trauma?

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a lot of movement because most of the time I

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just tell them to come to yoga because I know

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we'll move through it in the class. So when they

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come to me one on one. A lot of what

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we're using is we do use dialogue, which is somatic.

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People don't think of their voice, but it is, so

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we use voice. We will use a lot of breathwork.

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Sometimes sometimes we use visualization. Sometimes we will use like

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I don't know how to explain it. Other I guess

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it's a form of movement, but like like punching or swaying.

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we are having something holding on in the body will shake.

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that is movement based. I think in movement, I think

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more pastures, but there is movement involved. We might yell

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and scream, we might make noises. It definitely looks a

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little weird. Probably if you are like a bug on

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the wall watching a somatic a therapy session, you'd be like,

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that does not necessarily look like Sometimes it looks like

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a traditional therapy session. Sometimes they might be like, what

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the heck is going on in there?

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Well, I was. I was talking to someone the other

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day and they were mentioning that they use e f T.

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Do you use that?

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I don't. I'm not an e f T practitioner. That

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is a somatic tea technique that I actually have clients

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that use. I will sometimes refer people to my friend,

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my client, my client, colleague who is an EFT. Pressure's

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not something that ever connected with me that really spoke

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to me. So it's just not a technique I used.

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Yeah, but as you're doing the touching and you know,

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and so forth, in a way is kind of a

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similar type of thing.

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Is it is we're doing more of like like it's

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more energetic, like right, Like, so tapping has got very

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specific meridium points that you're working on and saying very

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specific words, whereas we might be more it's like more

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of like a cleansing like I just need to wipe

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this off of me type of thing, or I need

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to like I call it cutting the cords, where we're

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gathering all the crap and then we're like cutting it.

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It's more symbolic, I guess is the word that kind

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of comes to me.

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So how do you help people to tap into that

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subconscious element in their lives? Because we know the studies

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have shown that, you know, basically our life experience is

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based on our personality, which is based on those beliefs

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system whether they're conscious or unconscious.

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Yeah, I find for me, the most effective way to

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get to the subconscious and the fastest way is actually

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through the body. So the body will almost always be

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speaking if we slow down and create the time to

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listen to it. So most people come to me for

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like anxiety. Right, they'll come to me because they're overly anxious,

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or you know, maybe they've been trying to think of

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a client right now. Yeah, I would say anxiety is

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probably the biggest thing that most people come to me,

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and so I want to get to know their anxiety.

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I want to get to know that experience for them,

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and it is through that experience that I'm going to

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be able to help them understand what's happening underneath the layers,

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if that makes sense. It's one of those things that's

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kind of hard to put into words sometimes. But as

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an example, if someone's like telling me, oh, I'm really anxious,

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you know, my kid is coming home and they were

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you know, this is a client I'm thinking of. Their

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kid was away in a treatment facility and my kid

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is coming home and they haven't been home for six months,

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and I'm really nervous they're going to go back to

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the way they were and not you know, be doing better.

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So I'm going to go into the body and I

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want to get to know what does that feel like?

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What does that anxiety feel like? Well, it feels like

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ten cups of coffee, right, And I'm like, okay, So

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described to me like I want I'm going to get

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to keep getting to know that, what does ten cups

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of coffee feel like? Well, my heart's racing like one

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hundred miles per hour, and we're just going to keep

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going and going to stay with those feelings, with those

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sensations and really get to know them, because the body

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is experiencing something and I believe it has wisdom that

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we need to maybe integrate, not necessarily get rid of.

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Often it's something we maybe even need more of in

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our life in order to cause the body's holding on

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to that sensation.

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So do you find you do a lot more one

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on one with people who really have those deep issues

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versus trying to do it generally in a yoga class.

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Yeah, I can't get deep like that in a yoga class.

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I can introduce concepts and ideas and philosophies and I

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will give them things to think about. But if someone

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wants to go really into their personal subconscious, that requires

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me to hold a very sacred space for them where

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we're going to like get to know their personal experience,

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which is only theirs.

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And do you have any stories of significance where you

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have seen people where you've worked with them one on one. Yeah,

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and you've seen some dramatic changes take place that you're

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willing to share.

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Yeah. Yeah, I mean I have seen people literally go

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from drinking borderline you could say, some people would probably

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say they were an alcoholic to basically being able to

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sit around and have a drink and not need now

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to have six more From this work.

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Was what was the initial causation of that near alcoholism

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where they need to just drink and drink.

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Yeah, using that alcohol because it was the only time

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they felt free. It was the only time they felt

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like they could really be themselves. Otherwise they were always

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putting on basically a mask for everyone around them in

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the world because they didn't feel safe being basically in

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their own body and being able to show up as

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they were and they.

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Are what is really causing that internally and subconsciously. I

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have a number of friends. I have a number of

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friends that you know, the only place to get together

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with them is at a bar at night, and they

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just And that's why.

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I mean, that was like just one of the examples

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I feel like a lot of people can relate to.

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It can be different things, Like I mean, it depends

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on the person. This person has had a fair amount

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of trauma in her life and you know, has has

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lost both parents. I don't want to obviously share all

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of her indim deals, but I guess yeah. I find

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for a lot of people, it's shame. It's shame from childhood,

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and it's shame about that. It's internalized shame. So it's

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things that they were once said and now they've taken

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it on to be their own and it's nothing they

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actually need to be shameful of. So there was a

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piece of themselves that they have disconnected from because for

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whatever reason, someone told them they shouldn't be that way.

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So have you identified beyond just you know, drinking, have

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you identified behaviors that are counterproductive that really if someone

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observes that that's what they're individually doing, that they could

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say to themselves, Okay, I realize now that there's some

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subconscious stuff going on here and I really need to

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get some help. What are some of the other behaviors

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besides say drinking alcohol.

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Drinking obviously drugs, shopping. For a lot of women, they

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will disconnect by just online shopping these days. In all truthfulness,

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social media makes it so easy, like if you're scrolling

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all the time. I can almost guarantee there's something under

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that if you're constantly absorbed in that world. What are

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other things? I think panic, you know, anxiety. Of course,

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it's a big one that I see a lot. This

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one has shown up recently in a client. Is apathy?

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00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:59.880
This this like not I don't want to say, it's

468
00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.920
like a form of depression, but not depression where they're

469
00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:05.519
like not able to get up, Like she gets up,

470
00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:08.720
she goes to work, she's attorney, has a great job.

471
00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:13.279
But under to the outside world everything looks perfect, but

472
00:27:13.559 --> 00:27:21.079
inside there's almost excuse me, this loss desire of I

473
00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:23.160
don't even know how to describe it other than apathy,

474
00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:28.279
but this loss desire for like wanting more right and

475
00:27:28.440 --> 00:27:32.119
really feeling even energized in her life. Like you know,

476
00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:36.359
weight gain is a sign. A lot of times people

477
00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:39.279
hide behind excess weight.

478
00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:44.599
So when you talk about breath work, you know, I'm

479
00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:47.680
familiar a little bit with different types of breath work,

480
00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:50.160
but it sounds like you use different types. Could you

481
00:27:50.200 --> 00:27:52.720
could you explain a little bit more about what are

482
00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:54.920
the different types of breath work and how are they

483
00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:56.680
applicable at what point?

484
00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:00.880
Yeah, of course, yeah, there's there's so many, but the

485
00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:03.319
main I would say, if I head to arizontal three

486
00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:06.240
three main ones that I tend to lean towards and

487
00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:09.160
use is you know, honestly, one of the best ones

488
00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:13.720
is just simple box breathing. It's in for for ouse,

489
00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:17.119
for for out, for for pause, for fur, and that

490
00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:20.960
just slows everything down to give you a moment before

491
00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:24.799
you react. We tend to be a very reaction Reactionary

492
00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:28.559
is even a word society. And I know I used

493
00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:30.279
to be marrying. That's why I say that. I used

494
00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:32.720
to be like jump down someone's throat, like if they

495
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:35.359
send me an email, and I didn't even take the pause,

496
00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:37.799
like take a moment, like how do I want to respond?

497
00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:44.519
So box breathing is fantastic. A style of breath work

498
00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:48.200
that I use a lot personally and in my classes

499
00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:52.559
with science. It's called Naughty show Ona. It's alternating nostril breathing,

500
00:28:53.640 --> 00:28:57.720
and it's to help bring balance, they say, equilibrium back

501
00:28:58.759 --> 00:29:01.680
into the body because you're breathing up one nostril down

502
00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:04.960
another nostril, and then you're circulating the breath that way.

503
00:29:05.079 --> 00:29:10.079
So it's the belief is that it brings oxygen back

504
00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:11.799
to the right end, the left side of the brain.

505
00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:15.519
I personally, I don't even one hundred percent understand it

506
00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:18.839
other than it works really good for me. I use

507
00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:21.160
that every morning just to kind of ground myself.

508
00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:24.279
Okay, I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to

509
00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:26.599
bring in one nostril, blow it out the other.

510
00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.559
Show you close it off. So you would close off

511
00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:35.240
you start closing off the right nostril, and you inhale

512
00:29:35.400 --> 00:29:39.240
up the left nostril, and then you close off both nostrils,

513
00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:43.000
and then you open the right nostril and exhale down

514
00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:47.480
the right nostril, and then you'd inhale up that same nostril,

515
00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:51.799
close and then open and then exhale down. So you

516
00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:53.519
keep doing rounds like that.

517
00:29:54.119 --> 00:29:56.559
Oh interesting, all right, So you've got the box, You've

518
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:00.000
got the alternative nostril. What's the third one you were talking?

519
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.079
The third one is called ratio breathing, and it can

520
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:06.599
get quite complex, but the most simplest version would be

521
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:11.480
mean you just extend your exhale longer than your inhale.

522
00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:14.640
So if you breathe in for two, breathe out for four.

523
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:17.799
And this is a really good one. If anyone is

524
00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:24.039
listening experiences anxiety because when we a lot of science sistion,

525
00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:28.319
when we extend the exhale, it helps to take that

526
00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:30.240
nervous system just down and ouch.

527
00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:34.839
So those three, have you found one is more effective

528
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:35.599
for most people?

529
00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:39.559
No, because just like you know, there's no same shoe

530
00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:44.880
size and no exact same hair, you know, just everybody's

531
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:47.519
different and different things resonate with different people. And then

532
00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:50.640
there's I mean there's probably a dozen more, but those

533
00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:51.640
are the three main ones.

534
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:55.359
My three go tos, all right, So I want to

535
00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:59.519
go into the physicality for a minute here, because hal,

536
00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:02.160
for instance, I would love to be more limber, but

537
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:04.759
every time I've tried to do yoga and I try

538
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.160
to sit back, my knees go crazy on me because

539
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:09.880
of my tennis for years and all these type of things.

540
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:14.079
How does a person that not necessarily very physically fit

541
00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:18.519
or a little bit older get into the yoga practice

542
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:20.599
where it can be a value to them, not only

543
00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:25.359
physically because obviously stretching and so forth is so important,

544
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:28.799
but also you know, obviously mentally if they find the

545
00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:31.240
right person that's doing the class.

546
00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:34.799
Yeah, there's a couple different ways. If someone is like

547
00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:37.720
on the I shouldn't even say elderly, but like feeling

548
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:41.559
that there don't have the ability to get up and

549
00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:45.079
down right off the floor. I would say, chaerir yoga

550
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:47.400
is a really great place to start. And there's a

551
00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:50.599
lot of people these days that offer chair yoga. I

552
00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:53.039
do not, but I actually have a client in my

553
00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:58.640
business program that offers chair yoga really and she has

554
00:31:58.680 --> 00:32:03.599
an online portal, so cheer yoga online. You can find

555
00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:08.759
it on YouTube, I'm sure too. Aerial yoga, or it's

556
00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:12.759
called trapeze yoga is also really good for people who

557
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:19.319
are I would say, I don'ld say like needing more

558
00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:24.519
mobility and needing some more assistance, because the trapeze basically

559
00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:27.759
holds your body, so it's just it's great traction. It

560
00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:30.519
helps you get into postures with a lot more ease,

561
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:35.480
and it it supports the body in a really beautiful way.

562
00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:37.920
I have another client that she has a trapeze studio.

563
00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:42.079
So there are like all these different styles. The other

564
00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:46.920
one would be yin yoga. Yin yoga is tends to

565
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:50.960
be mostly seated on the ground. So long as you

566
00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:53.400
can get to the ground, you'll be okay, and then

567
00:32:53.519 --> 00:32:56.839
it's going to have you holding postures for three to

568
00:32:56.960 --> 00:33:00.000
five minutes, and it works not just on muscle life,

569
00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:03.039
but it also works on the connective tissue layer, which

570
00:33:03.079 --> 00:33:06.000
is extremely important as we age.

571
00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:10.119
And which one do you use mainly in your practice?

572
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:13.279
The only one of those two I use is Yen.

573
00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:17.559
I do a Vignasa style yoga, which is a more active,

574
00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:25.039
vigorous practice. It's definitely for the people that have some flexibility,

575
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:29.440
some mobility in a fair amount of strength. Okay, But

576
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:32.000
I also do practice in yoga because I believe in

577
00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:33.799
balance and.

578
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:35.839
The end is where once you're on the floor, you

579
00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:39.319
just get into different that's right situations.

580
00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:42.759
In our studio, I would say we have a fair

581
00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:45.519
like the classes that we had today at five, that's

582
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:47.519
a Yen class, and a fair amount of people who

583
00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:51.319
are in their sixties, seventies, eighties, that's the class they'll

584
00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:55.119
come to. Oh interesting, they don't tend to come to

585
00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:58.200
the Vinyasa classes as much, although some do, but they

586
00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:01.519
tend to be more wanting more just you know, the

587
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:05.359
flexibility and the mobility, not as much as the you know,

588
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:10.320
the vignasa it requires, it requires the flexibility and the mobility,

589
00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:12.599
so it's almost like you need the end sometimes to

590
00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:13.599
do the vinasa.

591
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:17.719
Yeah, and any other stories that come into mind that

592
00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:21.440
are dramatic that you have seen people literally have their

593
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:24.599
lives changed through the yoga practice.

594
00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:27.599
So many so it's like hard to like even I'm

595
00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:30.440
trying to remember. I mean, I've had people who've said

596
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:32.599
that it felt like I mean, i mean not even

597
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:34.639
done one on one work with that just you know,

598
00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:38.480
came to practice week day after day, a week after

599
00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:42.039
a week, who I mean felt like They have said

600
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:45.920
that they were like almost like someone unzipped them and

601
00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:49.280
then they were able to zip themselves back up. It's

602
00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:52.280
almost like they were unzipped, everything came out and then

603
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:54.880
they zipped themselves back up. I've seen people lose weight.

604
00:34:55.920 --> 00:35:00.679
I've seen people like change relationships but the relationship but themselves,

605
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:02.960
and then I've heard stories about how that's improved the

606
00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:08.280
relationship with their partner. Yeah. I have seen a lot

607
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:10.679
of stories over the years. They're not all like these

608
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:14.119
big drastics things, but they're like, you know, the day

609
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:15.960
to day things where they're like I'm not yelling at

610
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:19.199
my kids as much. You know, I'm more efficient at work,

611
00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:22.280
I'm more focused and to me that's the gold.

612
00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:25.599
Well, So for the audience that's listening and some that

613
00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:27.920
might say, right, I want to go try a yoga class,

614
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:31.760
how do they determine that it's going to be a

615
00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:35.599
high quality yoga that's going to actually take them through

616
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:39.679
some of these eight limbs exercise?

617
00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:44.079
Yeah, that is really just like I think anything, it's

618
00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:46.079
just you have to go out there and just try

619
00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:48.239
out a bunch of different places till you find the

620
00:35:48.239 --> 00:35:51.960
one that really resonates and speaks to you. Of course,

621
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:55.280
all my classes are also online, so you can always

622
00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:58.480
practice with my studio and most of my teachers I

623
00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:02.440
would say, but one she's not as strong in it.

624
00:36:02.519 --> 00:36:05.400
But part of our brand is every class will start

625
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:08.760
with an intention. In every class, that intentional we weaved

626
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:11.800
throughout the practice. So whether it's me or one of

627
00:36:11.800 --> 00:36:14.880
the Stephanie's or Aaron, you will get more than just

628
00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:17.000
an Austin a practice at my studio.

629
00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:20.119
And you do it online. How do people find your online?

630
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:22.679
Well, we don't have a lot of people that find

631
00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:28.960
us online outside of either my programs that you know

632
00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:35.000
they've met me, but podcasts. But other than that, most

633
00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:38.000
of it's just for our clients who when they're traveling,

634
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:40.239
they still have access now to their membership, and it's

635
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:43.159
just honestly, it's it doesn't really cost me anything. I

636
00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:45.519
just turn on an iPad and stream the class. So

637
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:47.920
it's not like it's not we don't have extra classes

638
00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:50.559
for people online. It's just they can join as if

639
00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:53.280
they were in the room with us. We have a

640
00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:56.519
special membership for people that are just online because obviously,

641
00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:58.920
you know, it's a little different than if you're getting

642
00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:01.800
into the space. You're not getting quipe the attention that

643
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:04.559
you would get if you were in our space, but

644
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:05.519
it's still something.

645
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:08.360
So do you do the three? Do you do the

646
00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:11.079
different types, or do you do the yan yoga or

647
00:37:11.159 --> 00:37:14.840
is it mainly the more active online No, we have.

648
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:17.199
A pretty good balance of the I mean, we have

649
00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:19.719
definitely more of vinyasa classes, but we have a fair

650
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:21.960
amount of the yen classes on our schedule too. I

651
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:27.880
think we have one, two, three, four or of them,

652
00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:28.239
I think.

653
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:32.599
So how do they find you online?

654
00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:37.559
Yeah? The studio is called Soma Power Yoga because everything

655
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:41.960
I believe is Soma somatic, which just the word Soma

656
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:42.639
means body.

657
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:47.960
Okay, good, that's good to know. So as we close,

658
00:37:48.039 --> 00:37:51.360
up today. What would be a message that you'd like

659
00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:52.519
to share with the audience.

660
00:37:53.679 --> 00:37:56.920
Start to learn to listen to your own body, whether

661
00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:03.440
that's through yoga, meditation, a mindfulness practice. But there is

662
00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:06.159
so much wisdom that our bodies hold.

663
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:09.400
Okay, so just start to listen to your body.

664
00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:12.559
Start to learn how to list slow down enough that

665
00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:15.039
you can actually hear what your body is trying to

666
00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:15.519
tell you.

667
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:23.639
All right, Well, Rachel, this has been fascinating. Yeah, I'm

668
00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:25.800
gonna have to go find a yoga class now, and

669
00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:28.400
definitely again, definitely.

670
00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:31.239
Finally, definitely you can come join me. I'd love to

671
00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:31.639
have you.

672
00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:34.880
Well, I may come. I may go online and check

673
00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:37.800
that out, because I think, you know, in many cases

674
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:40.519
it's nice just to do that type of stuff online.

675
00:38:41.079 --> 00:38:42.920
Yeah, I mean the comfort of your I'm so easy

676
00:38:42.920 --> 00:38:44.800
in the comfort of your home. Just right there, roll

677
00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:46.960
out of map behind you, and off we go.

678
00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:50.199
Okay, So the main the main side is the Sema

679
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:51.719
power yoga. Is that right?

680
00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:52.719
Yeah?

681
00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:56.280
Okay, sounds great. Well, Hey, thanks so much for being

682
00:38:56.320 --> 00:38:57.719
on the show. I really appreciate it.

683
00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:01.440
This this has been absolutely a super super fun Doug,

684
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:03.159
and it's great to be able to actually talk a

685
00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:06.840
little bit about yoga and beyond just you know, the

686
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:08.719
physical of what it has to offer.

687
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:12.239
Yeah, and I think that's so important. So anyway, thanks

688
00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:16.599
so much, absolutely, folks, thanks for listening. Hope you enjoyed it.

689
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:19.760
So does doctor Doug, saying, have a wonderful week and

690
00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:22.440
no mistay, no mistake,