Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome back to myyt where you
Speaker 1: are learning to level up here yoga teaching one masterful
Speaker 1: class at a time. Okay, I can't believe that I'm
Speaker 1: also sharing this here on the podcast, but I recently
Speaker 1: made this post on Instagram that I'm not joking. Felt
Speaker 1: like a full body blush. Before I clicked post, I
Speaker 1: was like, am I really doing this? There's no going
Speaker 1: back after this? Do I really want to be this real,
Speaker 1: this transparent, this vulnerable? Oh? I felt so nervous to
Speaker 1: share this post, but it created such amazing conversation and
Speaker 1: actually paid the path for friendships and just giggling and
Speaker 1: laughing and being like, this is real. This is real life,
Speaker 1: especially for women and all kinds of women, maybe women
Speaker 1: who have had children. So what I'm wanting to share
Speaker 1: with you is like my most embarrassing moment in my
Speaker 1: yoga teaching career. And I joke that it involves my
Speaker 1: very music mulabunda, my very vocal vagina. And you can
Speaker 1: just call me the quef and queen because that is
Speaker 1: who I have become since having my two beautiful yet
Speaker 1: big headed children who have completely obliterated my pelvic floor.
Speaker 1: And made it impossible to not queaf in public, especially
Speaker 1: when I go upside down. Okay, so I just had
Speaker 1: to start with that. If you already are like, Nope,
Speaker 1: this is not the episode for me, I just want
Speaker 1: to preference and almost give a disclaimer that the use
Speaker 1: of the word quef is just getting started. That is
Speaker 1: what this whole conversation is about. Is my story, the
Speaker 1: uncomfortable situation that is this, how I'm navigating it, how
Speaker 1: I'm telling my students about it. And then I also
Speaker 1: want to share with you in this episode the things
Speaker 1: that other yoga teachers posted and commented on this post,
Speaker 1: because I asked, Okay, that's my most embarrassing thing that's
Speaker 1: happened to me. What's the most embarrassing thing that's happened
Speaker 1: to you? And I'm telling you there's some gold in this.
Speaker 1: I was giggling to myself as I was reading some
Speaker 1: of these, and so, if anything, my intention is not
Speaker 1: to make you super uncomfortable. It's also not to give
Speaker 1: you TMI of my bodily functions and sounds. But I
Speaker 1: just want to make you laugh, and I also want
Speaker 1: to open the door for you to tell me any
Speaker 1: funny situation that's ever happened, anything embarrassing that has ever
Speaker 1: happened to you, or like a student, just the giggle moments.
Speaker 1: This episode is just shits and gigs.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so bear with me. I hope I'm not making
Speaker 1: you super duper uncomfortable, but I'll start. I'll tell my stories.
Speaker 1: So just last month, I was asked by some studio
Speaker 1: owners at a place that I teach at if I
Speaker 1: wanted to cover handstands, and I really wanted to, but
Speaker 1: I knew that if I was going to cover handstands
Speaker 1: that I would have to go in and make a disclaimer.
Speaker 1: So I basically showed up to teach a series of
Speaker 1: four classes at the studio, and every single class at
Speaker 1: the beginning I had to make this announcement, I had
Speaker 1: to tell people like, look, this is so embarrassing. I'm
Speaker 1: uncomfortable at the thought of saying this, and I'm sweating
Speaker 1: like as I say this, but I need you all
Speaker 1: to know not if, but when this happens the protocol, Okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna address it at the very beginning
Speaker 1: because since having my babies, I've really been struggling with quefing.
Speaker 1: And I basically just tell the room what quefing is.
Speaker 1: And if you don't know what quefing is, it's essentially
Speaker 1: like a lack of tone in the pulvit floor muscles,
Speaker 1: and it's exacerbated when you go upside down that the
Speaker 1: vagina captures air and then when you come down, said
Speaker 1: air escapes, making a similar sound as a fart, but
Speaker 1: unlike a fart, it's not like you can squeeze your
Speaker 1: cheeks and say not today, Satan. It's not something you
Speaker 1: can really hold back. It's like it's coming out, okay,
Speaker 1: And for me personally, it's not like a cute little
Speaker 1: it's like a like so loud, okay, so embarrassing. There's
Speaker 1: no way that these people would not notice it. So
Speaker 1: I just said. I was like, it's going to happen,
Speaker 1: and when it does, can we all just clap? Can
Speaker 1: we all just clap together and move on? And I'm
Speaker 1: recovering from a cough, So not only am I telling
Speaker 1: you a really embarrassing thing, but I also sound like
Speaker 1: a seventy year old lifelong smoker as I laugh. But
Speaker 1: I just had to say, this is what we're gonna
Speaker 1: do it. We're gonna clap, okay. And I'm Beatrett as
Speaker 1: I'm telling people this, and almost every single man in
Speaker 1: the room is just like averting his eyes, you know,
Speaker 1: he's like looking at anything but me. And all the
Speaker 1: women immediately pipe up and they're like me too, or
Speaker 1: that happens to me all the time. I haven't even
Speaker 1: had kids, and I struggle with that. Or they'd say
Speaker 1: thank you so much for just being a real person
Speaker 1: and saying that, And so it felt it felt scary
Speaker 1: to tell, but I also survived and it was not
Speaker 1: a big deal. You know, everybody handled it so well.
Speaker 1: They were so nice about it. When it happened, we
Speaker 1: all just laughed and clapped. And I'm telling you this
Speaker 1: so that whatever thing you think is like too embarrassing,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna It just depends on how you lead
Speaker 1: yourself through that moment, how everybody else follows your lead.
Speaker 1: And I remember when the studio owners were asking me,
Speaker 1: do I want to sub this class? I almost said no.
Speaker 1: I was like, I really want to, but I'm terrified
Speaker 1: of queafing in public, like that would be mortifying. There's
Speaker 1: no way I want to do that. So am I
Speaker 1: going to say no? And then I just thought of
Speaker 1: all the people who were looking at the handstand class
Speaker 1: on the schedule and they are scared of the class,
Speaker 1: you know. I thought of how people are facing their
Speaker 1: fears just by coming. So that inspired me that the
Speaker 1: students were doing that and just showing up, and so
Speaker 1: I felt like, I'm like, Okay, I need to get
Speaker 1: over myself. I need to get over this and I
Speaker 1: don't want to let this one thing hold me back
Speaker 1: from doing something that I love and potentially from giving
Speaker 1: me the opportunity, opportunity to be a real human with
Speaker 1: real body sounds. So I just got over it, That's
Speaker 1: what I said, and I just showed up loud and proud, literally.
Speaker 1: So that was my story, and that is what I
Speaker 1: shared on social media, and now here with you on
Speaker 1: the podcast. Oh my God, might delete later. But the
Speaker 1: beautiful thing that happened is all sorts of comments came
Speaker 1: on on this reel and I wanted to read some
Speaker 1: of them to you because I pose the question and
Speaker 1: the prompt at the end, like what's the most embarrassing
Speaker 1: thing that's ever happened to you? And this is what
Speaker 1: some of my followers said. And I also want to
Speaker 1: extend the invite for you to tell me, dear podcast listener,
Speaker 1: something funny that's maybe happened to you, because it's so
Speaker 1: easy to just get caught up in our teaching career
Speaker 1: and think we're the only ones. And it just feels
Speaker 1: good to connect on some of this. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to keep them anonymous because some of them are pretty good.
Speaker 1: So let me see, let me see, let me see. Okay,
Speaker 1: So one woman said, OMG, this happened to me too
Speaker 1: for a few months after giving birth. Luckily, the studio
Speaker 1: I teach slash Practice in plays the music loud in
Speaker 1: every class, sixty eighth percentile Noggin on my little boy, Yes,
Speaker 1: I feel you right there. My kiddos both have massive heads.
Speaker 1: And Finn, my first son, the labor that I had
Speaker 1: was twenty two hours long, and I think that long
Speaker 1: labor was really what did it of just that extended
Speaker 1: period of time of pushing. So yeah, long labor and
Speaker 1: big heads. And Finn also had his hand over his
Speaker 1: head so his elbow did some damage on the way out.
Speaker 1: Another person said, Wow, I didn't even know that was
Speaker 1: a thing. Bless your heart, Like lucky you for not knowing.
Speaker 1: Another person said same girl, saying I about died. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's just absolutely the worst, but good to know that
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one who's doing that. And then
Speaker 1: this one's pretty funny. Somebody said, well it wasn't me,
Speaker 1: but when I was at a festival in Tahoe with
Speaker 1: like three hundred people, there were teachers going around doing
Speaker 1: adjustments to all the students, and one teacher was adjusting me,
Speaker 1: and I looked up to see that her pants were
Speaker 1: on inside out and visible period stains. No, it's been
Speaker 1: fifteen years and I still think about how awful it
Speaker 1: must have been to strip those leggings off at the
Speaker 1: end of the day and realize what happened. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be mortifying. I would be so embarrassed. Just the
Speaker 1: other day, actually, I went in to teach, and the
Speaker 1: one of the other teachers who works the front desk,
Speaker 1: she was like, Mackenzie, your pants are on inside out.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, my gosh, thank you for
Speaker 1: telling me, because I get ready in the dark and
Speaker 1: oftentimes one of my babies is in the bassinette next
Speaker 1: to the bed, so I'm trying to be very quiet,
Speaker 1: and I'm so glad that she told me that my
Speaker 1: pants were on inside out. But I definitely had that
Speaker 1: thought in my mind of like, oh God, I hope
Speaker 1: there's not any embarrassing, just like stains on the pants.
Speaker 1: And I was so glad that she told me before
Speaker 1: I went in there, so that has almost happened to
Speaker 1: me now. The next one that's pretty funny is someone
Speaker 1: said I slightly peded myself when I was coughing so
Speaker 1: hard and trying to keep it quiet during a yin class.
Speaker 1: Absolutely terrible. My goodness, Yeah, I bet that would have
Speaker 1: been hard to keep it together. One time I got
Speaker 1: this is my story, so Mackenzie, not something that somebody posted,
Speaker 1: but one time I got the church giggles in a
Speaker 1: y in class. And what I mean by church giggles
Speaker 1: is where you just something tickles you and you just
Speaker 1: cannot get it together, and it's like absolutely the most
Speaker 1: inappropriate time to be laughing. It's like as if you
Speaker 1: were giggling at a funeral and you're like, I know
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be laughing, but for some reason, I'm so
Speaker 1: tickled pink and I can't stop. That happened to me
Speaker 1: one time in a en class. All right, another person said,
Speaker 1: I teach you in Okay, so a lot of you
Speaker 1: are teaching in. I haven't had this issue teaching. But
Speaker 1: one of the reasons I teach you in though, because
Speaker 1: I hear you on the giant headed babies causing the
Speaker 1: old Kief issue. I was the same. I don't notice
Speaker 1: it much now, but I've only had one big headed baby.
Speaker 1: And then this particular person said that they had a
Speaker 1: lot of pelvic floor physiotherapy after because of bladder prolapse,
Speaker 1: so that helped too. Well. You are lucky to only
Speaker 1: have one organ prolapse. I have a double whammy situation
Speaker 1: going on of both bladder and uterine prolapse of almost
Speaker 1: knocking together like little balls and then slipping down. It's
Speaker 1: terrible and it causes the most like beautiful pocket of
Speaker 1: air to get trapped in. Hence why mine are so
Speaker 1: loud and vocal and musical and beautiful. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Another person said, I farted in the middle of class,
Speaker 1: so embarrassing and I scared everyone. Wow, I must have
Speaker 1: been really loud. I have had so many students fart
Speaker 1: in classes, and how many times have we had to
Speaker 1: listen to that and just keep the train rolling and
Speaker 1: just like not let it deter us and not laugh
Speaker 1: and proceed on. So this almost feels karmic in the
Speaker 1: sense that for so many years have been teaching yoga
Speaker 1: and I've heard so many of y'all fart, and so
Speaker 1: I need you to the one time that I'm standing
Speaker 1: up here and not farting, but kind of just not
Speaker 1: make me feel embarrassed about it. And this one might
Speaker 1: take the cake. This comment made me laugh. And this
Speaker 1: this comes close to beating my story. This person said, OMG,
Speaker 1: I've posted mine before, but I had a I had,
Speaker 1: I had a tamp on in and I guess I
Speaker 1: also had a tiny hole in the middle of my pants,
Speaker 1: so when I was in Goddesses, my string had just
Speaker 1: enough space to pass through and pop out. So I'm
Speaker 1: over there demonstrating goddess squats with my string just dangling down.
Speaker 1: What are the odds, what are the odds of that happening?
Speaker 1: Slim to none? Oh my goodness. Okay, what else? Okay?
Speaker 1: And then one other person just posted saying that she
Speaker 1: has had no babies yet. I queath very often in
Speaker 1: the middle of a yoga class. Queen queen over here too.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of just clapping and moving on.
Speaker 1: That idea makes it feel much less potentially embarrassing. One
Speaker 1: hundred percent queafing queen, says another person. Yes, our bodies
Speaker 1: are pure magic. Thank you for bringing awareness to this topic,
Speaker 1: and thank you for being brave and giving other permission,
Speaker 1: giving others permission to also be brave and handstand class.
Speaker 1: And then another teacher said, I used to have an
Speaker 1: eyingar teacher who would routinely announce in class that women
Speaker 1: weren't farting when they come down from inversions, in an
Speaker 1: effort to normalize this. I love that. So that, my friends,
Speaker 1: is the topic for today musical Mulabunda's vocal vaginas and
Speaker 1: queafing queens. So that is the most embarrassing thing that
Speaker 1: has ever happened to me and my yoga teaching career.
Speaker 1: You've heard from other teachers now of just like what
Speaker 1: are the odds type things things that have gone down?
Speaker 1: Now it is your turn to add your voice to
Speaker 1: this prompt. So what has happened to you that was
Speaker 1: absolutely embarrassing? I'd love to know. Please reach out to
Speaker 1: me on Instagram at master your Yoga Teaching, and thank
Speaker 1: you for just being a part of the podcast, not
Speaker 1: just for the serious talk, not just for the tips,
Speaker 1: the techniques, the business strategies, which you know is part
Speaker 1: of the conversation, but also just for the fun, just
Speaker 1: for the laughs. And I hope you enjoyed this more lighthearted, casual,
Speaker 1: somewhat gross conversation of just real stuff that we encounter
Speaker 1: in the yoga room and how we can potentially lead
Speaker 1: the experience with a little bit more leadership and a
Speaker 1: little more grace and be brave ourselves so that we
Speaker 1: give our students permission to just be bodies, and bodies
Speaker 1: do all sorts of disgusting things. So anyway, all that
Speaker 1: to say, thanks for being here. I hope you had
Speaker 1: a laugh to another yoga teacher friend just to let
Speaker 1: them know that you were thinking about them. Or help
Speaker 1: them remember that one time they farted in class. Whatever
Speaker 1: they've got and until next Wednesday, no mistay.
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