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Speaker 1: On this Saturday morning. But joining us now live in studio,

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we have Terry Almquist from Wellness Hot Yoga. Welcome Terry.

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Speaker 2: Not nice to be with you.

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Speaker 1: I've been very excited to get you on the show because,

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as I've been telling people, and I was telling Jenny

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about this, You've got a pretty fascinating backstory and I

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want to get in all of that. But we should

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tell people up front too. So you're from Wellness Hot Yoga,

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which is in April, Yeah, April, Massachusetts. And for our

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local listeners in Manchester, it's not far. You know, you

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say Massachusetts, people think, wait, that's in another state, but

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it's right over the border. So I mean to get here,

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what did it take you a half hour?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like thirty minutes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's easy, you know, just a straight shot

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really on ninety three. So it's a wonderful place. And

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how long have you been there?

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Speaker 2: We've been in that location for two years. Two years

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we were in North Andover started over there in two

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thousand and eight. I opened a yoga studio and it

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was just yoga back then, and then of course COVID

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hit yeah, and a lot of small businesses. It was devastating,

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and I ended up having to close that business and

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thought that I wasn't sure I was even going to reopen.

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And when I decided to reopen, my first thought was

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I was going to open a very small space and

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just teach, you know, one or two classes a week,

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and that would be what I wanted to do. And

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then this space became available that had a beautiful locker

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rooms and asauna already, and I saw the vision when

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I looked at the space of opening a wellness center.

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So more than just yoga were available for all these

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other modalities of healing. And that's really the reason I

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opened the studio in the first place, because I think

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that the body is self healing and that we have

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lots of tools we could use, and the more tools

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we have available to us to be healthy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the better off we're going to be. Yeah. Absolutely,

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So when COVID hit, so so there was a there

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was a point where you didn't know if you were

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going to even continue.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a point where I knew I'd always

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teach yoga, but I didn't know if I wanted to

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reopen a studio or how that was to work out.

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Mainly because like a lot of small businesses. It was

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financially devastating, and I've been very lucky that I worked

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out that I've had people interested in investing in a

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way that allowed me to reopen.

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Speaker 1: Did did you at any point? You know, because a

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lot of people kind of took their businesses online and

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ways that at that time, in ways that they hadn't

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previously considered, including myself, you know, because I I'm a

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hypnotherapist and I had always kind of resisted doing sessions

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with clients online. I don't know why, looking back, I

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don't know why, because I've always been one to really

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embrace all the technology that's available. But I was late

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to the party on that and I kind of you know,

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and then COVID. Yeah, so terrible. But we have to

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always say, we have to find those silver linings where

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we can, right and and one of the silver linings

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is it kind of forced a lot of people. You know,

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we interview a lot of musicians on the show and

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they talk about it too, how it forces them to

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be more creative, or it did force them to be

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more creative and find waste to kind of work around,

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you know, the ways that they were used to creating

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music with other people and playing shows and whatnot. And

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so I found myself finally just sort of giving in

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and saying, Okay, I guess I can see clients online.

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Turns out it works pretty well, and people are used

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to it anyway, especially with you know, different therapies. People

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use services like doxy and you know, to do this

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to interact. So it turned out to be a good thing,

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a positive thing, learning to do that. But in your case,

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and I have seen people who kind of do yoga

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classes online. But is that something you considered or maybe

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you did implement some of that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we did. We were in a really interesting position

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because not only do I own a yoga studio, I

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have been a yoga teacher for now and almost twenty years,

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but then you know, over a decade, and I've mentored

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teachers from all over the world. So I've written a

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book on teaching yoga for the style of yoga that

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I teach, which is called Bickram Yoga, I've written a

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book on teaching, I've mentored teachers. I travel around the

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world to do seminars and webinars, and one of the

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things I do is a monthly webinar, and I've done

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it on Zoom, and I've done that since about two

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thousand and five. Sorry, that's the wrong date. Twenty fifteen. Okay,

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about twenty fifteen I started doing these monthly webinars for teachers,

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so I already had all the Zoom stuff set up

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to do that. And then when the first day we

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were closed from the yoga studio, we had morning classes

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and closed and our evening classes were online. And what

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we did is, because my manager and I have been

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doing these Zoom things for ages, we actually put it

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out to my larger worldwide community and said, listen, you

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can figure out how to do this too, but let

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your students know that they can kinder practicing with us,

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and we will help you set up your own stuff

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and then they'll transition back to practicing with you. Just

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to keep these businesses going. Of course, we all thought

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it was going to be you know, a couple of

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weeks wright when it started, remember, so our thought process was,

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you know, we'll teach them classes online. It'll be fine.

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The style of yoga I teach, I don't actually have

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to do the class when I'm teaching it. I just

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stand and I kind of tell people the directions. How

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, so.

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Speaker 2: It's just leading through a home practice. And actually the

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first Saturday that we were over, my Saturday classes are

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always busy. I remember having like four screens of zoom people.

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I had like seventy something people on line from all

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over the world taking classes.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: And we continued that. We also expanded out to this

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more idea of also mental health wellness, so we did

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a lot of community events online. So we did game

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playing that One of the most fun things we figured

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out how to do is how to do scavenger hunts

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in your own house. So we would say, like find

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an item and you have to you know, do you

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have a Harry Potter book and you've run and you

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go get the book and you bring it back, you know,

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Europe and I remember women from Hawaii. And we still

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have online classes so all of our classes, even if

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people aren't local, all of our classes are audio stream yeah,

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through the studio, and people still practice online because the

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sad thing that happened to during COVID is a lot

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of the studios that closed have never reopened, right right,

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so those students don't have a place to practice anymore,

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but we've given them a place to practice with us,

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and we think of them not just as students online

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but also part of our community. So we try to

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include them and a lot of things that we do

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by enabling to join online with us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's that's amazing, all right. So let's let's

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get to this. Because you so when you and I

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first met you, you kind of told me your whole

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history of of how you got here. And one of

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the things I noticed, and I think I even said

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this to you that day, it seems like like people

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who you know, if you want to use the term healer,

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people who are healers. So many of us we get

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to where we're able to help others because we started

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out needing, you know, not just necessarily wanting, but really

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needing a way to help ourselves. You know. That's that's

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how I got started as a hypnotherapist. Was you know,

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I started out I needed to help myself a had

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you know, tremendous social anxiety and a lot of things

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overcome that I felt were holding me back. So I

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learned self hypnosis and then I started, you know, and

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when friends would find out what I was doing, they

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would say, oh, can you hypnotize me? Turned out I

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was good at it. Then I went and got certified,

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and now I do it professionally. That's kind of the

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cliff Notes version of my story. But but I'm I'm

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interested in sharing your story because you yours is very

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emblematic of that too, where you started out needing to

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find solutions for yourself and that put you on this

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path that you're that you're still on today.

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Speaker 2: So absolutely, I tell people all the time the reason

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I opened to yoga studio is because I honestly believe

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no one should live in pain, and whether that pain

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is physical or spiritual, emotionally that the body is self healing.

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But so in the nineties, I worked in the mental

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health field and I worked in a lot of lock

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psychiatric facilities, and in one of those facilities, unfortunately I

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got injured. I had a client who was going off

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of medication and had become very psychotic. Wow ended up

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pulling me over backwards and landing on top of me.

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and sort of doing that, I thought I was absolutely fine.

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go the emergency room, said no, I'm good. And the

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next morning when I woke up, I had really struggled

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to get out of bed, that my legs didn't want

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to work, and I was a single mom with two

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young kids, which was very frightening. So I go to

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the emergency room and when had happened was seven of

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the dish in my neck had herniated in the process,

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and so I was put in neck brace. Told well

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this for a couple of weeks, we'll do some physical therapy,

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you'll be fine. Unfortunately, my neck, like a lot of people,

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when it healed, healed very frozen, and that frozen neck

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after the even after they took the neck brace off,

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I couldn't move. So there was physical therapy and that

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didn't really help. And then I went to see some

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neurologists and they suggested that I have surgery at some

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point to probably remove the disc from my neck and

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hold my head up. Over the course of several years,

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I was collapsing forward. But I had a wonderful neurologist

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at Mass General who said to me, go find anything

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else that you can do. Try chiropractic, try massage, try anything,

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your head up anymore, when you're that, we'll do the surgery.

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was a chance of being a quadriplegic. Any kind of

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massive surgery to your spine, especially your neck, can be problematic.

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H So he said, get your youngest out of school

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and then come talk to me again. So my daughter

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was getting older and I was at a place where

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I thought I'm going to have to do the surgery.

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I had lived with a headache for many, many years

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and unable to move, and so my sister said to me,

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come take this yoga class I'm taking. And I told

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her I've tried yoga, you know, with the ability to

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move my head and stuff, Yoga's really hard. I can't

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do it. She said, try this class with me. It's

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very different. So I went to the class, and at

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that time I had been in pain for over a decade. Oh,

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I was a packa day smoker. So people see me

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now and they think, you know, I don't want to

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say I'm very zen, but I'm that kind of I'm

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the yoga teacher you know, I try to live a

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healthy lifestyle. All of that. That was not where I started.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Can I just ask you to to interject when

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you talk about being in pain for over a decade?

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My god, what was it like? How severe you learn

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Speaker 2: People who live in chronic pain learn to function in

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chronic pain. So I was working and functioning. I had

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trained to be a sign language interpreter and actually couldn't

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full time do that job because it includes holding your

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arms up for long periods of time, which was not possible.

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teaching sign language interpreting, so I was able to still

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be in my field, but not having to put that

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Speaker 1: But you were in chronic pain.

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Speaker 2: It was a chronic prain I had. I quite literally

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had a headache for ten years. Wow. I remember. I

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used to say to people who were I was trying

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everything chiropractic and massage, and I always used to joke

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that if I could find someone who could get rid

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of my headache, I was going to give them a

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million dollars. I didn't have a million dollars, but acupuncture

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was something that I found. It did help with the pain,

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which was really helpful. I've tried so I've tried all

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these other modalities of healing, and in the beginning, chiropractic

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wasn't helpful for me. Later on, as I got better

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doing yoga, chiropractic has become an important part of what

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I do to keep myself well. So sometimes you try

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something in a moment and it didn't work, that doesn't

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mean you shouldn't try it again. It could work later.

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So my sister took me to this yoga class and

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you must be Kathy's sister. And I said, how did

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you know? And she said, because she told me you

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look like a turtle. My head had hutted so far

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forward because I couldn't really hold it up that I

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actually did sort of look like a turtle. And she said,

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don't worry, I collect turtles and all over her yoga

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studio with these little turtle statues. Oh really, So I

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really went in there, Like I said, it's a packadet smoker.

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get to sleep because I didn't want to take painkillers.

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I was not in good physical shape. And it was

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a ninety minute hot class, and ten minutes in I thought,

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how do I get out of here and go have

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a cigarette? But the teacher was great, and she had

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been teaching for a long time and she's still teaching.

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Diane teachers at Yoga for You. She set studio down

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in deada mass and we got to a posture where

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you had to roll forward and put your head down

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on the floor. And I said, She said, put your

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head on the floor, and I said no. And she

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said put your head on the floor and I said no.

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She said, do you trust me? And I said yeah.

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She goes, put your head on the floor. I put

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my head on the floor and we don't do any

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really versions, but it's just rolling forward touching the floor.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I felt something move in my neck that hadn't moved

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in all of those years. Really, and in that moment,

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I had that epiphany, and I think this happens to

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a lot of people who are in the wellness industry.

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I had the epiphany that I was going to do

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this yoga for the rest of my life, and I

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was going to learn to teach the sugar. Yeah, And

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so I started. I live in Haveral that studio was

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in West Roxbury, and I would go every day to yoga, yeah,

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to try to heal my own body, and I progressively

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got much better and a year later went to be

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a teacher.

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Speaker 1: Wow, when you said you felt something move in that moment,

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you felt something move like a god.

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Speaker 2: In a good way relief And yeah, well, like something stretched.

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Nothing had moved in my neck. Everything was scars. That's

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what it happened, with the neck brace on everything. And

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now I think they do less of that when people

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have neck injuries. Very rarely do you see people walking

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around with big collars anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think they know now moving it even

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a little is better than making it immobile. What happened

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was I just froze. All of that scar tissue just

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froze up in my neck and so that's what made

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me lose motion. Okay, but something stretched in the back

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of my neck that hadn't moved, and I'm talking about

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this was just a tiny movement. But I had that

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idea of this can fix it, This is going to

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fix it, and so I just have to do this

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for the rest of my life. And I started. I

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dedicated myself to going, still working at the college. And

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a year later I left my job at the college

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and went off to teacher training, which at the time

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was in LA And it was nine weeks. I left

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my family for a full nine weeks and it's over

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six hundred hours of training. Oh wow, to be a

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hot yoga teacher in the style that I teach the yoga.

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And came back and there was no studio in the area.

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Still driving miles to teach and take yoga. Yeah, and

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then open my studio in North Andover.

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Speaker 1: Wow, So you said, so to get to get to

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be Are you paying free now or.

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Speaker 2: I am pain free now? It was funny I last

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month I didn't take as much yoga as I normally take,

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and I said to somebody, boy, like, my neck feels

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like a little cliquie. If I go more than four

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days without a yoga class practicing, I can feel like

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it's well, it's not pain like I could feel that

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it's still tight. So it's not it's not a panacea.

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I didn't do a couple of yoga classes and don't

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need to ever go back for the rest of my life.

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I really honestly believe that I have to do this

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for the rest of my life to stay pain free

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and mobile. And I'm okay with that. And to be honest,

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I came back a week ago from being on vacation

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and not practicing for almost ten days, and so my

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neck was really stiff and really like bugging me. And

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then I've taken four classes in four days and it

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was fine. It's back to where it was before.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's great comes back. And what about So you

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mentioned too while you were still in pain, so you

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were a packa day smoker. Yeah, how did you quit?

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Speaker 2: That's three months of yoga practice almost every day. My

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first month I practiced yoga. I did over thirty classes

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in thirty days. So I was driving so far that

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I would stay at the studio and take two classes

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back to back. What was really fascinating was people are

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very frightened of the idea of especially if you live

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in pain. I think ninety minutes in a hot yoga

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room doing yoga sounds so overwhelming. You think, like I

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need to start with maybe a thirty minute class or something.

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But the way this yoga is designed is so that

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you are slowly warming yourself up and the heat helps.

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So what I discovered was if I did a ninety

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minute class. At the end of class, I started feeling like,

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oh wait, I feel mobile enough now that I could

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actually do a class. So I started staying and doing

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two classes back to back because the first class was

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just really all warming up for me and then the

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second class. The way the class is designed, the first

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almost well it's the ninety minute class, so almost the

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first hour is what we consider the warm up. It's

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and then you do yoga, which it's done on the floor,

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so you spend all this time warming up slowly. So

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I would do a whole class is a warm up,

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then do the warm up of the next class, and

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then do the yoga. And that's what really changed everything

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was to be able to I'm not advising that everybody

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do two classes, but with a severe injury, that was

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the thing that worked for me and people. But like

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I said, people are intimidated with this idea of a

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ninety minute yoga class in the heat. That's going to

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be really hard because I'm injured, I'm sick and whatever.

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But the way the class is designed, it's therapeutic. So

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you do the little bit that you can do, and

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then over time, as your body improves, you do more

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and more and more.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what am I?

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Speaker 2: Oh you asked about clinting spoken. Oh, you got three

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months into the practice. I had taken a class and

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then I took a second class. I used to go between.

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This is a terrible thing to admit. I used to

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go between the two classes. There's a break, I would

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go outside, have a cigarette, come back in and take

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the second class. I was quite literally at the end

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of two classes, sucking wind, laying on the floor, struggling

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to catch my breath. And I realized either I had

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to stop coming to yoga or I had to stop smoking. Wow,

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these two needed to go. I smoked. It was my

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daughter's birthday. As a matter of fact, I smoked my

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last cigarette, drove home, smoked a cigarette on my ride home.

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Never bought another pack of cigarettes. Yeah, yeah, and it

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was and it was fine. I made the yoga and

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the replacement. The other thing I think too, that three

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months was enough time for me to start to emotionally

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love myself again. And when you love somebody, you don't

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want them to smoke. When you love somebody, you don't

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want them to do these things that aren't good for themselves.

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I think that journey for a lot of people, and

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I've watched it over the last twenty years, watching the

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journey of people fall in love with themselves and stop

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doing those things that are harming themselves and easily not

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struggling to do it, making those habit changes because they

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love who they are, they love the way they feel,

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and so it makes it easy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's funny you're talking about like smoking

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between classes. It reminds me of a uh I remember

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in high school, like going to going to the gym

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with friends to lift weights and you seeing people like, uh,

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not not a lot, but every once in a while,

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you know, you might see somebody they get done doing

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a set and then they go outside and they smoke

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a cigarette. And I remember talking with my friends and

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about this and saying, you know, to me that that

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looks like it's like driving your car over a cliff,

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but deciding intentionally, but deciding to put your seat belt

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on right before you do it. It's like, you know,

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you either care about your health or you don't, and

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but you know, you obviously got to a point where

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you had to make that choice. And and I think, unfortunately,

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I think for most people, it's not it's not stark enough.

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I think people, you know, I see that's the number

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one thing that I see people for for hypnosis is

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to quit smoking. And I think for most people it's

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not a stark choice because the are not they're not

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staring it in the face. The problem. You were staring

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it right in the face because you got to that

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point where I either got to do yoga, which is

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helping me tremendously, or I can keep smoking. But I

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can't do both. Whereas most people it's like, Okay, well,

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I'm doing this terrible thing. It's going to ruin my

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health eventually, but today I'm okay, Today, I don't Today,

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I don't have lung cancer. Today, I don't have emphysema.

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You know, today I don't have heart disease that I

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know of. Right as far as I know, today is fine.

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So I'll just I'll keep smoking and then tomorrow comes.

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And it's like.

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Speaker 2: It's also addictive. It's also that physical addiction to it

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as well, and I think being in the yoga of

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sweating and all of that helped with me. I started

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playing even before I quit, I started playing these games

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of you know, I'm gonna wait till I I would

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drive from the yoga's yoga, I wait till I get

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to this point before I have a cigarette. I'll wait

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till I this I'll wait till I get in my

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car in the morning, instead of how having a cigarette

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in the morning when I get up. So it started sort

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of playing these games to put off how much I

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was smoking, you know, but but I hadn't really gone

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less than I was still a packa DA smoker. And

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it was funny because I was somebody I knew I

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was an addict. I knew I was an addict when

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I was quite young. I started smoking at thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Most people, most people do that. That's that's probably average. Yes,

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in my experience, I.

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Speaker 2: Always think if we could keep kids from smoking until

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after high school, then they're not going to be that

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many smokers because you have to get addicted young. And

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so it was. It was an addiction for me, but

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it was also a mental addiction. So I started playing

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that game. I started breaking that. But the sweating they

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getting in there doing something hard and knowing that I

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could do something hard, and that made it easier to

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quit smoking because in my head that was going to

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be hard right, And there's never really been a time.

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There's only once that I've I've had the urged cigarette,

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which was in a stupid moment when my daughter actually

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had been diagnosed with cancer. It was her first treatment

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at the hospital and I had stepped outside just to

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like get to marriage. Somebody was smoking and I thought,

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and I thought, I don't sitting outside of cancer center cigarette.

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But it's that sort of like it's still that somewhere

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in my head. It's still that crutch, sure, you know, somewhere,

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So I don't think it ever goes away. But you

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have all these coping techniques. And that's what all the

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wellness stuff that I offer is. It's just tools. And

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even about the book I wrote is called The Toolbox,

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Tools for Teaching Bickram Yoga. It's just tools you're putting

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in your toolbox. And I tell people, if you smoke,

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it's okay, come to yoga anyway. The smoking doesn't get

479
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in the way of the yoga. The yoga might get

480
00:22:38,799 --> 00:22:39,440
in the way of your.

481
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Speaker 1: Smoking, right, which is a good thing. Which is a

482
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good thing.

483
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's just another tool to put in your toolbox.

484
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So letting go of the blaming yourself and thinking I

485
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can't because I'm this, I can't be this. We are unique, each,

486
00:22:53,599 --> 00:22:56,400
unique and open human beings that can be lots of

487
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,799
things at once, not to open our minds. You can

488
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,519
be a smoker and someone who does yoga, right right,

489
00:23:01,559 --> 00:23:02,599
that's perfectly okay.

490
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Speaker 1: Well, the thing with smoking too is and you know, smokers,

491
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,079
a lot of smokers in my experience, don't like to

492
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:13,319
hear this because it takes away some of the excuses.

493
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:18,599
But it's it's the addiction part of it. Obviously, the

494
00:23:18,599 --> 00:23:21,519
physical addiction is real. Nicko geane is highly addictive, But

495
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:26,559
the psychological addiction is what's really the big problem. Because

496
00:23:26,599 --> 00:23:30,319
the physical addiction works itself out of you in a

497
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,519
relatively short period of time. Oh yeah, you know doing

498
00:23:32,559 --> 00:23:35,200
something like yoga where you're sweating, sweating out those toxins

499
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,440
and everything. The physical addiction you can get if you

500
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,000
can just get past that, that takes days. That part

501
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,440
of it. It's the psychological.

502
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Speaker 2: That moment of wanting a cigarette was I probably hadn't

503
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,759
smoked in twelve or fifteen years. Wasn't a physical addiction exactly.

504
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,039
Speaker 1: It was that something in your brain.

505
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,799
Speaker 2: It was something in your brain when like, this is

506
00:23:55,839 --> 00:23:58,039
how we relieve stressed, This is how we There's still

507
00:23:58,039 --> 00:24:00,799
that thing, yep, but it's just that it'stead idea of

508
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,079
in that moment of stress, also searching outside of yourself

509
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,880
for the answer as opposed to looking. And this must

510
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,119
be some of the stuff you teach in hypnosis. When

511
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,039
you have that anxiety, when you have that urge to smoke,

512
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,880
you can't go outside yourself for the answer. It's not there.

513
00:24:15,039 --> 00:24:17,400
That's what all those things are, and so you have

514
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,920
to go inside right to find it. And that's in

515
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,359
your mind and your body and your spirit and your soul,

516
00:24:22,519 --> 00:24:25,279
whatever that is for you. That turning. And I think

517
00:24:25,319 --> 00:24:29,160
we live in a world that turns us externally. Advertisers

518
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,359
and I know you have great advertisers on your radio show.

519
00:24:31,839 --> 00:24:34,519
Advertisers very often, especially if you pick up like a

520
00:24:34,519 --> 00:24:37,920
women's magazine, want you to feel bad about yourself to

521
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,720
sell you something. And so I can make you feel

522
00:24:40,799 --> 00:24:42,920
bad about you know, your lips should be fuller, your

523
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,119
hair should be a different color, your thing, I can

524
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,079
sell you something. I always telling my students, I want

525
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:49,920
to make you feel good about yourself, so I can

526
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,400
sell you something. And that's what I do.

527
00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 1: Right, right, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. Now what is so

528
00:24:57,759 --> 00:25:00,920
what is Bickram yoga and how is that different from

529
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,680
I don't know if regular yoga would be the way

530
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,519
to put it, but what is what is Bikram yoga? Exactly?

531
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Speaker 2: Sure, Bickram yoga has been around for a very long time.

532
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,920
Bickram Chowdery is the guy who started it. He's a

533
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,680
controversial person and so a lot of us no longer

534
00:25:17,799 --> 00:25:20,400
use the term Bickram yoga. But Bikram yoga describes a

535
00:25:20,559 --> 00:25:23,079
very specific style of yoga. So we do a set

536
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,559
of postures in a specific order every single class, so

537
00:25:26,599 --> 00:25:30,519
the class never changes. We also don't play music. The

538
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,680
lights are on, bright bright lights. Really yeah, the lights,

539
00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:37,359
the bright lights, no music, a teacher talking for ninety minutes.

540
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,200
I talked for ninety minutes and just tell you what

541
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,759
to do with your body. That lets you there's a

542
00:25:42,799 --> 00:25:44,319
lot of philosophy to that, and we'll get to that,

543
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,279
but that helps let you actually turn your brain off. Okay,

544
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,960
it's hot and it's humid. When Bickram started teaching yoga

545
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,279
to Western so Bickram's backstory, as I know it is,

546
00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:57,440
he went to the ghost College of Yoga and Physical

547
00:25:57,559 --> 00:26:02,359
Education in India, grew up there and was a weightlifter. Actually,

548
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,319
he was into powerlifting and that kind of stuff. And

549
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,599
he got injured and he asked me, you'll take me

550
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,759
back to my teacher, my guru, and he'll help me

551
00:26:09,799 --> 00:26:12,200
get well. Because he understood that yoga could heal the body,

552
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,640
and he became a yoga therapist. And in the process

553
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,039
of being a yoga therapist, So if you were sick

554
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,079
maunt and you went to see Vishnugos, his teacher, and

555
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,480
you said, you know, my shoulder hurts and my neck hurts,

556
00:26:22,799 --> 00:26:24,519
and he would say, okay, do this yoga pos and

557
00:26:24,519 --> 00:26:26,440
this yoga pos, and Bickham's going to teach you how

558
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,880
to do it. Bickrams started thinking about what if we

559
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,599
took a group of yoga poses, then no matter what

560
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,319
was wrong with you, one of these was the right

561
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,640
one to fix your body in yoga therapy. And he

562
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,039
put together a series that's fit together so that every

563
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,960
posture prepares you for the next posture, and every posture

564
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,079
works to the entire body. So when you're done with

565
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,119
the class, you have done one hundred percent of your

566
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:50,160
body has been worked out.

567
00:26:50,319 --> 00:26:52,079
Speaker 1: Okay, nothing, they.

568
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 2: Say, inside out, bones to the skin. So every muscle,

569
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every organ, every cell of your body has had something

570
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done to it to help it improve its health.

571
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Speaker 1: Okay.

572
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,559
Speaker 2: The room when he went to Westerners try to teach

573
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it that he foundly couldn't move, and so he added

574
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in heat humidity. So there's a lot of hot yoga around,

575
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,960
but not all hot yoga. All bickrim yoga's hot yoga,

576
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but not all hot yoga is bickerm yoga.

577
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Speaker 1: Okay.

578
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,799
Speaker 2: Other yogas have added in heat for the same purpose.

579
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,000
The heat is designed for a couple of reasons. Our

580
00:27:22,079 --> 00:27:23,759
room is much hotter than a lot of other hot

581
00:27:23,839 --> 00:27:27,039
yoga classes. People freak out when they hear the number.

582
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,960
But it's one hundred and five degrees with forty percent humidity. Okay,

583
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,119
but that's less than ten degrees over your body temperature.

584
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: Okay.

585
00:27:34,799 --> 00:27:37,160
Speaker 2: So one of the things we know that happens is

586
00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:40,680
when you heat the body is that fasha, that connective

587
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,680
tissue softens, so that makes you more flexible. Scar tissue

588
00:27:44,759 --> 00:27:46,759
is made out of that fasha, so you can start

589
00:27:46,759 --> 00:27:49,119
to stretch scar tissue. For me, that's what was happening

590
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,359
that first time I felt something was I had heated

591
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,680
my fasha, that scar tish with my neck enough that

592
00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:58,480
it actually started to stretch. Okay, and it is that

593
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,759
non stretching material that's kept me from being mobile.

594
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: Okay.

595
00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:05,759
Speaker 2: So that's how the heat works. The heat also focuses

596
00:28:05,799 --> 00:28:09,079
your mind really quickly, so that people come in and

597
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,599
they do their very first class in ninety minutes. They've

598
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,079
thought about nothing but what's going on in that room.

599
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Speaker 1: Interesting.

600
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,839
Speaker 2: There's no way to worry about your gas bill or

601
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:22,160
whatever while you're in that room, because you become very focused.

602
00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:24,839
Speaker 1: And that's partly because of the heat.

603
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 2: That's partially because of the heat, partially because the lights

604
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,039
are on bright and the teacher's talking the whole class. Okay,

605
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,680
there's no room for sort of your mind to wander off.

606
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,480
We call it a ninety minute moving meditation. For some people,

607
00:28:36,519 --> 00:28:38,880
sitting and quiet in their mind is really really hard.

608
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah.

609
00:28:40,039 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 2: And you must notice through the hypnotherapy too, people who

610
00:28:42,559 --> 00:28:43,680
just have that racing mind.

611
00:28:43,759 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: Yep.

612
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Speaker 2: We talk at a I wouldn't say at a high

613
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,640
rate of speed, but we don't stop talking the entire class. Yeah,

614
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,640
and so there's sort of no room for you to

615
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,960
separate outside the room from what's happening.

616
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Speaker 1: Well, you're doing a form of hypnosis.

617
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we kind of off.

618
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Speaker 1: I mean, you probably don't call it. You don't call

619
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,960
it that, but that's definitely Yeah.

620
00:29:05,039 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 2: It's creating this a thing to focus on, and meditation

621
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,400
is having a single item to focus on and then

622
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,440
losing that focus and then coming back to the focus.

623
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,799
That is meditation. That's mindfulness. So we're teaching mindfulness in

624
00:29:18,839 --> 00:29:21,880
the process. But this Western idea of the light slow

625
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,200
in the music on is a lot of distraction for

626
00:29:24,279 --> 00:29:28,039
the mind. Yeah, and people always ask me, can you

627
00:29:28,039 --> 00:29:30,119
add a music I can't because I'm not going to

628
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,559
distract your way from the most important person that you're

629
00:29:32,599 --> 00:29:34,839
working on in that moment, which is you. Yeah, and

630
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,880
so that's what we do. There's a giant mirror in

631
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,799
the front of the room, so you have to see yourself.

632
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,599
Vickraam was once asked why is there a giant mirror

633
00:29:41,599 --> 00:29:43,200
in the room, and I loved his answer was, it's

634
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,519
not enough that you suffer. You have to see yourself.

635
00:29:46,359 --> 00:29:48,519
But when you think about seeing yourself suffer, what is

636
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,480
when we see suffering as human beings? Our first response

637
00:29:51,559 --> 00:29:55,079
is typically compassion so when you see yourself suffer, you

638
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,319
become more compassionate with yourself, and then you become more

639
00:29:58,319 --> 00:29:59,839
compassionate with everybody else.

640
00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: Yeah.

641
00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 2: So this bicram yoga was said. It's this series of

642
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,200
postures that have put together, done in a heated room

643
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,480
with a specific set of directions, and it's designed so

644
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,000
even if you can do very little, that every single

645
00:30:12,079 --> 00:30:15,799
posture is broken into tiny little pieces and you never

646
00:30:15,839 --> 00:30:16,880
have to do the whole posture.

647
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,279
Speaker 1: You can do just just to the first step, okay.

648
00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 2: And after you do the first step, if that's all

649
00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:24,200
you can do, six or seven classes in, you're gonna

650
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,759
find oh hey, I can do the second step. Okay,

651
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:28,799
Now I can do the third step. So all these

652
00:30:28,799 --> 00:30:31,839
little steps that all the postures put together help you

653
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,440
get there. Because I have to tell people all the time,

654
00:30:34,519 --> 00:30:37,720
yoga's not about yoga. Yoga's about creating a better quality

655
00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:40,440
of life because you practice yoga. So what the postures

656
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:41,279
look like don't matter.

657
00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: Okay.

658
00:30:42,119 --> 00:30:44,559
Speaker 2: What matters is you're doing the work on your body

659
00:30:44,599 --> 00:30:46,599
and your mind to make your life.

660
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,599
Speaker 1: Better, okay, and that's our goal. Interesting, yeah, because I

661
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,119
would imagine a lot of people who come to you,

662
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,640
they can't, like well, probably most people, they can't just

663
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,759
do all the postures right off the bat right.

664
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Speaker 2: I don't know that I've ever met anybody in my

665
00:30:59,039 --> 00:31:01,519
twenty years in this business who could do all of

666
00:31:01,559 --> 00:31:05,640
the postures in the theories beginning to end completely.

667
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,279
Speaker 1: I mean, I imagine if you happen to encounter someone

668
00:31:08,279 --> 00:31:10,960
who's unusually flexible, you know, maybe they could do it,

669
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,400
but that's probably pretty rare.

670
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,599
Speaker 2: But there's a balance of strength and flexibility. And so

671
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,960
what I find is people come in. The majority of

672
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,119
people who come in are strong but not very flexible.

673
00:31:22,519 --> 00:31:24,480
They're looking for more flexiblity. I love when people say

674
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,599
to me, I can't do yoga, I'm not flexible. I

675
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,759
tell them that's like saying you can't take French lessons

676
00:31:28,759 --> 00:31:31,720
because you don't speak French. If you don't speak French,

677
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,440
you should take French lessons if you want to learn

678
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,319
to speak French. If you're not flexible and you want

679
00:31:35,319 --> 00:31:38,359
to be flexible, go to yoga to learn to be flexible. Yeah,

680
00:31:39,279 --> 00:31:42,640
it's harder for students who are very flexible. Actually, and

681
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,200
I tell my classes all the time feel bad for

682
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,319
them when the flexible people come in because it's easy

683
00:31:48,359 --> 00:31:51,119
to build more flexibility with your strength than it is

684
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,200
to build strength with your flexibility. But the way our

685
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,240
postures are designed, everybody gets what they need. So we

686
00:31:57,279 --> 00:31:59,960
don't have a beginner and intermediate and advanced class. Everybody

687
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,799
in the same class. Okay, so I've you have people

688
00:32:02,799 --> 00:32:05,240
who it's their very first class in the same room

689
00:32:05,279 --> 00:32:08,039
with people who have taken thousands of classes. You have

690
00:32:08,119 --> 00:32:11,519
people who are incredibly flexible in with people who are inflexible.

691
00:32:11,559 --> 00:32:13,240
You have people who are very young in with people

692
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,559
who are very old. Your people at my studio. We

693
00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:17,680
have people who sit in chairs. We have people who

694
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,480
have to sit on the ground for the whole class.

695
00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:23,039
We have amputees, we have hip replacements, knee replacements, people

696
00:32:23,119 --> 00:32:26,680
you know, and everybody's just doing what they can. And

697
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,400
that is an amazing experience that we all work together.

698
00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:32,680
So it doesn't matter how much or little you do.

699
00:32:32,759 --> 00:32:36,160
We don't separate people into groups. Everybody's in there together.

700
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,240
I had a class this morning. My younger student was

701
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,519
probably a college student. We have an older woman and

702
00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:43,079
I'd love to talk about more. Her name's Elaine. She's

703
00:32:43,119 --> 00:32:46,000
eighty eight years old. She's been practicing for fifteen years.

704
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,559
She comes every single day. Yeah, and she was in

705
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,599
the She comes in class and we have thirteen year

706
00:32:51,599 --> 00:32:52,240
olds and her in.

707
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Speaker 1: The same exact class. Yeah.

708
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,079
Speaker 2: So everybody's just doing what they can do. The practice

709
00:32:57,079 --> 00:32:58,400
doesn't change, but you do.

710
00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: So Elaine. So she's eighty eight, she's eighty eight. She's

711
00:33:04,039 --> 00:33:07,680
been doing doing yoga for fifteen fifteen years, I would imagine,

712
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,319
so she's probably a lot more flexible.

713
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Speaker 2: Than most eight.

714
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: Yeah.

715
00:33:11,759 --> 00:33:14,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, she didn't come in flexible though. When she started.

716
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:19,279
She had high cholesterol not controlled, high blood pressure also

717
00:33:19,359 --> 00:33:20,200
not control.

718
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,319
Speaker 1: Oh and diabetes.

719
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 2: And she they wanted to put her in the hospital

720
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,720
to get her on medication to control her high blood pressure. Yeah,

721
00:33:28,759 --> 00:33:31,160
because she was struggling with you know, it's too high,

722
00:33:31,279 --> 00:33:33,400
was too low. It was going back and forth. And

723
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,640
she was caring for her husband with dementia and she

724
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,440
didn't want to leave him the hospital. So she wasn't

725
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,079
taking care of herself. She was taking care of him,

726
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,000
but not taking care of herself. You don't get on

727
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,839
the airplane, they say put your mask on first. Yep, exactly,

728
00:33:48,039 --> 00:33:49,880
got to take care of yourself first. But she wasn't

729
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,839
doing that. Her kids convinced her to come and take

730
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,119
three classes. She could not stand for the whole class.

731
00:33:55,279 --> 00:33:58,880
She couldn't kneel on her own knees, and she was

732
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,160
really struggling just to be in the room. And so

733
00:34:02,759 --> 00:34:05,000
the first class she came in, she did the breathing

734
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,319
exercise that we start with, and then she laid on

735
00:34:07,359 --> 00:34:10,159
the floor and just laid down for the entire class

736
00:34:10,519 --> 00:34:13,519
and did the breathing exercise at the end. And then

737
00:34:13,559 --> 00:34:15,840
her kids convinced her she had to do three classes

738
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,199
before she could give up. So she said she went

739
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:20,960
home even after just laying on the floor for an

740
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,880
hour in the heat, took a shower and she felt better, kidding,

741
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,559
And then she came back the next day, and she

742
00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:28,480
came back the next a couple of days later, and

743
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,559
I think that got her hooked. After she practicing a

744
00:34:31,559 --> 00:34:33,719
short time, and she's still not doing much of the class.

745
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,480
She's doing a lot of just laying down, which is

746
00:34:35,519 --> 00:34:37,840
perfectly fine. In our class. You can lay down if

747
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,719
you need to get some air. Stip out, get some air.

748
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:40,159
Come back.

749
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: She's getting the still getting the heat.

750
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 2: You're still getting. Yeah, this and I want to get

751
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,639
to like the studies on heat and depression are really fascinating. Really, yeah,

752
00:34:48,679 --> 00:34:53,360
how being in heated environment lifts depression for a lot

753
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,199
of people. But I want to finishing lad story. So

754
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,719
she started coming. We also did a little challenge where

755
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,440
we asked people to do ten classes in a row

756
00:35:00,519 --> 00:35:02,719
or twenty class row, thirty class and you got ten

757
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,159
dollars off her, twenty dollars off her, thirty off your

758
00:35:05,199 --> 00:35:07,199
next month. Yeah, And she said, I can't do it,

759
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:08,559
and I said, what can you do it? She said,

760
00:35:08,559 --> 00:35:10,920
I can do three. I said, okay, we'll do three

761
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,519
in a row. And then she did three, and then

762
00:35:13,559 --> 00:35:15,880
she did five, and then she did the ten. Yeah,

763
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,119
she did the thirty, and she decided she was going

764
00:35:18,199 --> 00:35:19,840
to keep coming because she was feeling so good.

765
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: Wow.

766
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,039
Speaker 2: So she did sixty classes in sixty days. She started

767
00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:26,960
yoga seventy two years old, and I tease her, now

768
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,960
I gave her and when she turned seventy five, we

769
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,679
gave her the gift of free yoga for the rest

770
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:31,199
of her life.

771
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:31,519
Speaker 1: Yeah.

772
00:35:31,679 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 2: I had known she was going to live this long

773
00:35:33,039 --> 00:35:37,559
and might have waited till she was eighty, but she's

774
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,360
still coming. And so then she started just coming almost

775
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,199
every day. She's seen up and downs in her life,

776
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,679
through COVID, through you know, illnesses, through the death of

777
00:35:47,679 --> 00:35:50,519
her husband, through you know, just things that happen in life.

778
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,280
The yoga has been the thing that she can come

779
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,159
back to over and over again. Wow, that grounds her

780
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,519
and yeah, she's she's independent, she's strong, she's flexible. Good

781
00:36:00,559 --> 00:36:03,880
for her, and she really does. We talk a lot,

782
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,719
We spend a lot of time together, and she will

783
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,039
tell you a lot of it is too, is the

784
00:36:08,079 --> 00:36:10,159
community that we have. That's why it was important when

785
00:36:10,199 --> 00:36:12,280
we were on Zoom for me to have the community.

786
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,280
We know that there are people who struggle with mental

787
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,559
health issues. Yoga is very helpful and then to lose

788
00:36:17,639 --> 00:36:21,079
that in the process of a pandemic and lockdown, to

789
00:36:21,119 --> 00:36:23,880
give them still this community to come back to and

790
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,920
be part of, even if they can't practice yoga online,

791
00:36:27,079 --> 00:36:28,960
to be able to come and check in with somebody

792
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,039
and say I'm here. I think one of the greatest

793
00:36:32,039 --> 00:36:36,000
diseases in the United States and the world is actually loneliness.

794
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,880
And when you look at overeating, smoking, all of that, Yes,

795
00:36:40,559 --> 00:36:44,000
the depression, loneliness is a huge part of that for

796
00:36:44,039 --> 00:36:47,320
a lot of people. Yes, and so by having everybody

797
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,760
in the same room, you have a community that we

798
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,880
start building, people of all different ages, all different We

799
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,320
have doctors that practice next to janitors, Like it doesn't

800
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,440
matter when you're in the room in a little outfit wedding.

801
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,559
It doesn't matter what you do for a living, or

802
00:37:03,559 --> 00:37:06,000
what your education is, or what your income level is.

803
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,480
It's kind of a great equalizer. Elane spends a lot

804
00:37:09,519 --> 00:37:12,280
of time going out for breakfast after class or whatever

805
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,480
with people of all different ages, and so she's kept

806
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,360
that social group going even at the loss of friends

807
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,960
and who are her age. I think that happens to

808
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,599
a lot of older people. They lose their social group

809
00:37:24,159 --> 00:37:27,159
and then they have no way to rebuild it. So

810
00:37:27,199 --> 00:37:30,000
we have people that range in all ages and they

811
00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:33,400
all work together, which I think is really helpful. So

812
00:37:33,519 --> 00:37:35,639
much of what we're doing in yoga is not about

813
00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:39,239
the physical postures that we do, and so having that

814
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,960
community is really important and having people of all different

815
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,039
ages and stuff. We know that there's a lot of

816
00:37:45,079 --> 00:37:49,480
studies that have studied the depression and going into saunas

817
00:37:49,519 --> 00:37:52,079
and going into heated environments, and there was actually a

818
00:37:52,119 --> 00:37:54,639
Harvard study. I wish I had more information than I could,

819
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:59,920
but people can. Just if they googled Bickram yoga Harvard

820
00:38:00,119 --> 00:38:03,800
Depression study, it'll come up. They had people doing two

821
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,519
classes a week and they self reported huge changes that

822
00:38:07,599 --> 00:38:11,119
they were far less depressed during yoga, even compared to

823
00:38:11,159 --> 00:38:14,920
people who are taking medication. We not only offer yoga, though,

824
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,000
we also have other modalities of healing, so we have

825
00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:20,840
float tanks, we have a sauna, we have red light therapy,

826
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:25,639
massage therapy, we're adding in skincare, we do meditations, and

827
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,320
all of these things work together. So some people just

828
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,800
coming into a sauna it can be really helpful for

829
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,280
helping depressions.

830
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,079
Speaker 1: That's particularly interesting to me because I probably haven't told

831
00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:38,880
you this. Some of my listeners know because I'm pretty

832
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,760
open about this stuff. But you know, I've by entire

833
00:38:42,679 --> 00:38:45,079
adult life and probably going back to when I was

834
00:38:45,079 --> 00:38:49,960
a teenager, I've struggled with depression unmedicated because I'm stubborn

835
00:38:50,079 --> 00:38:53,039
and terrified of side effects. But it's definitely and I've

836
00:38:53,039 --> 00:38:55,840
never been formally diagnosed, but I believe it's, you know,

837
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,559
just it's clinical depression because you know, I can get

838
00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:00,840
depressed for no reason, so that's probably you know, I'm

839
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,360
pretty sure it's a chemical imbalance, and it's definitely in

840
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:07,880
my family. But I love My favorite time of year

841
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:11,480
is summer, and I actually like the heat, like when

842
00:39:11,519 --> 00:39:15,239
it's ninety degrees outside, you know, and people are you know,

843
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,679
i'd prefer a dry heat, but even the humidity doesn't

844
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,480
really bother me. You know, I'm running around well, you know,

845
00:39:20,519 --> 00:39:24,000
you've seen me pop in at your place in Havel

846
00:39:24,039 --> 00:39:26,079
when it's you know, ninety degrees and I'm out running

847
00:39:26,079 --> 00:39:29,400
around all sweaty, but I'm fine and bother me. And

848
00:39:29,599 --> 00:39:33,360
I always I've always kind of assumed that part of

849
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,000
why I like summer so much, it is my favorite

850
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,679
time of year is because there's more sunlight, and I

851
00:39:38,679 --> 00:39:43,719
think the more sunlight helps alleviate depression. But I wonder

852
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,280
too if maybe maybe the reason I like the heat

853
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,960
it's not just because I'm weird, because people think it's weird.

854
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,920
Really it's ninety degrees and you don't mind. I'm like, no,

855
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:51,599
it's fine with me.

856
00:39:53,519 --> 00:39:54,559
Speaker 2: I don't mind the heat either.

857
00:39:55,039 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, maybe it's because it's actually helping

858
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,280
me maybe yeah, mentally.

859
00:40:00,159 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it probably is. They know that heat. They don't

860
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,360
know why, but they know that being in heated environment

861
00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:09,119
does help people with depression. The float tank that we

862
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,440
have we put in an open float tank. A lot

863
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,760
of float tanks and there's some great float places up

864
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,599
here in New Hampshire. They have cabins and they have

865
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,760
pods which have covers and for some people that's very

866
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,800
claustrophobic and it's very difficult for people with mobility issues

867
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,800
often to get in and out of them. So we

868
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,400
put in a large open float tank that has a

869
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:31,239
side that you can sit on. It has a metal

870
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:34,320
grab bar that allows people with mobility issues to get

871
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,800
in and out, but also for people who are claustrophobic,

872
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,480
they can come in and use it. There's been studies

873
00:40:39,519 --> 00:40:42,840
where they've studied floating compared to medication for anxiety for

874
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,960
mild to moderate, not severe anxiety, but mild to moderate

875
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:50,199
anxiety compared medication to regular floating, and the people who

876
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,800
were floating regularly saw more improvement than people on medication

877
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,119
and no side effects. I love Western medicine. I think

878
00:40:57,159 --> 00:40:59,719
Western medicine is great. There are a lot of people

879
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:03,440
in the world, all this industry that detagrade pharmaceutical companies on that.

880
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,360
I think if you have an acute injury or illness,

881
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:10,039
Western medicine is a great solution. If your appendix ruptures,

882
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,239
go have a surgery. If you have pneumonia, please take

883
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:17,079
an antibiotic like there are, but it comes with side effects.

884
00:41:17,519 --> 00:41:20,440
What the Western medicine hasn't been able to do as

885
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:25,800
well is chronic illness, chronic injury. You know, immune thing,

886
00:41:26,119 --> 00:41:30,559
the autoimmune disorders, chronic depression, chronic anxiety. When you have

887
00:41:30,679 --> 00:41:34,880
those chronic illnesses, Western medicine has tools in their toolbox

888
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,800
are pills and surgery. They are so good at diagnosis

889
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,480
though they have X rays and cat scans and functional

890
00:41:41,639 --> 00:41:43,480
MRIs and all blood tests and all these things they

891
00:41:43,519 --> 00:41:47,239
can do to diagnose what's wrong. But their treatment toolbox

892
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,800
is really just pills and surgery. And for some things

893
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:53,800
that's great, like say your pendix ruptures, please have it

894
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:57,519
taken out. That doesn't work for chronic illness, that doesn't

895
00:41:57,559 --> 00:41:59,639
work for chronic injury. And I was so blessed to

896
00:41:59,639 --> 00:42:02,079
come across a doctor when I got injured who said,

897
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,599
go try all these other types of healing to see

898
00:42:05,639 --> 00:42:08,639
what works. And what I've found is and working for

899
00:42:08,679 --> 00:42:12,119
twenty years in wellness lots of my students have found

900
00:42:12,559 --> 00:42:16,320
finding the other monaalgias is how you treat chronic illness.

901
00:42:17,159 --> 00:42:19,960
You can't really treat it with western medicine because who

902
00:42:20,039 --> 00:42:22,840
wants all those side effects. But you find the other

903
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,639
things that work, and then you have to incorporate them

904
00:42:25,679 --> 00:42:27,920
and make them part of your lifestyle, even when that's hard.

905
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,159
One of the hardest things I think for people with

906
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:34,199
depression is to make that consistent to keep coming. We

907
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,480
have students that I have said to me, I struggle

908
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,559
with depression. So when I don't show up, I'm probably

909
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,039
And I said, I asked them, do you want me

910
00:42:42,079 --> 00:42:43,719
to call you? Do you want me to call you?

911
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,559
And just like give you a little nudge. I don't

912
00:42:45,679 --> 00:42:47,840
like to chase students, but I'm happy to give you

913
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,079
a little nudge and say, hey, you're doing okay. Why

914
00:42:50,079 --> 00:42:51,880
don't you come in and you know, commit and take

915
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,320
a nap on the floor. Commit. And once they're in

916
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,480
and they're with the people again, it helps. It's not

917
00:42:57,519 --> 00:42:59,360
going to fix it, and they not fix it for

918
00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:02,519
this is the The good news is it helps. The

919
00:43:02,559 --> 00:43:03,960
bad news is you have to do it for the

920
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,719
rest of your life. Bad news is you're not going

921
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,679
to be able to do. It's not a one and done.

922
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,639
It's like brushing your teeth. You have to do it

923
00:43:10,639 --> 00:43:14,559
consistently to keep healthy. And so it's that idea. You

924
00:43:14,599 --> 00:43:17,159
have to show up for yoga two to three times

925
00:43:17,159 --> 00:43:20,360
a week. If you're injured, come more. If you're feeling good,

926
00:43:20,519 --> 00:43:22,320
go to the beach. Don't go to yoga that day.

927
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,639
You know, the red light therapy that we do is

928
00:43:25,679 --> 00:43:28,320
designed to excite the mitochondria in your cells and makes

929
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:32,599
people feel better, but it also heals injuries faster. There

930
00:43:32,639 --> 00:43:36,199
was a recent study done. It is funded by the

931
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,239
company that makes red light therapy panels. So I always

932
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,800
like to premise it with that full disclosure. It doesn't

933
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,400
make it in a bad study. It just I like

934
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:48,559
to disclose where the study came from. That they found

935
00:43:48,599 --> 00:43:50,920
the people who regularly use red light therapy, they're not

936
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,559
sure why it decreases inflammation in the body. They're not

937
00:43:53,599 --> 00:43:55,760
sure why it does these things it does, but they

938
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,440
know it works. So they found an increase of healthy

939
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,039
gut back here and people who were regularly doing red

940
00:44:02,119 --> 00:44:06,039
light So it may just be that increasing your gut

941
00:44:06,079 --> 00:44:09,039
bacteria that's healthy. Having we know that having a healthy

942
00:44:09,039 --> 00:44:12,079
gut makes your whole body feel better. Yes, so the

943
00:44:12,119 --> 00:44:15,039
red light therapy and it's been used as a treatment

944
00:44:15,079 --> 00:44:17,320
medically for people with crones and colitis for a long

945
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:17,679
long time.

946
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:18,199
Speaker 1: Interesting.

947
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they know that it's good for your gut

948
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,639
and their gut stuff helps the whole body feel better.

949
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 1: Yeah.

950
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,639
Speaker 2: The sauna is more heat to like hang out and

951
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:30,679
just relax. It loosens the muscles, but also helps with depression,

952
00:44:30,679 --> 00:44:33,559
helps with mental health issues. The float tank, the massage,

953
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,920
all of this works together with the yoga to get

954
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:40,440
people moving and stronger and more flexible, not only in

955
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:41,760
their body but also in their mind.

956
00:44:42,639 --> 00:44:44,639
Speaker 1: I feel like all of this too, you know, because

957
00:44:44,639 --> 00:44:48,599
when you're talking about Western medicine and what it addresses

958
00:44:48,639 --> 00:44:53,719
well and not so well, I think it's it's probably

959
00:44:54,639 --> 00:44:57,039
I assume you have people who who come to you

960
00:44:57,119 --> 00:45:01,840
who are perfectly healthy the want to be healthier, because

961
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:06,119
I feel like, and maybe maybe I shouldn't say Western

962
00:45:06,199 --> 00:45:09,880
medicine so much in this context. Is it may just

963
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,920
be a broader just societal issue that we have in

964
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,719
America where there's there's not enough. We were talking Jenny

965
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:18,280
and I were talking about this recently on the show,

966
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:24,800
there's never enough emphasis on preventative medicine and and just

967
00:45:25,039 --> 00:45:27,760
taking care of yourself up front. It seems like our

968
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:32,960
whole way of doing things culturally is you address these

969
00:45:33,039 --> 00:45:36,360
problems when they occur, but you don't do enough. And

970
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:37,920
it kind of goes back to what I was saying

971
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,760
too about smoking. When you know a smoker who says, well,

972
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,320
I'm okay today, there's no cancer today, you know, and

973
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:47,719
then I'll address the problem when it kind of arises.

974
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,639
And smoking is an extreme example of that, of course,

975
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:55,039
but but I think most people, yeah, they're just like, yeah,

976
00:45:55,199 --> 00:45:58,559
you know, when when something happens, I'll address it, but

977
00:45:58,679 --> 00:46:02,800
until then, I assume I'm fine, when in reality, you know,

978
00:46:03,119 --> 00:46:07,920
it's We had someone on the show, doctor no Who

979
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,719
from Portsmouth who was on the show with us one day,

980
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:16,039
and I said to him, the the easiest thing in

981
00:46:16,079 --> 00:46:19,239
the world for any of us to take for granted.

982
00:46:19,519 --> 00:46:21,519
The number one thing that people take for granted, I

983
00:46:21,519 --> 00:46:25,960
believe is their health. And he said to me, not

984
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,199
only is it the easiest thing to take for granted,

985
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:32,320
it's the hardest thing to get back once something goes.

986
00:46:32,119 --> 00:46:35,280
Speaker 2: From Dolly Lama. I think it was who said he

987
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,719
has found that people will give up their health to

988
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,639
chase money, and then when they get old and they

989
00:46:41,639 --> 00:46:45,039
need their health, they'll spend all their money. And yes,

990
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:47,960
that quote, so I may not have got the quote

991
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,239
perfectly right, but that's to just yeah, that idea that

992
00:46:51,679 --> 00:46:55,920
we things, that we monetize things in a way that

993
00:46:56,079 --> 00:46:58,960
will chase the money, but we'll give up ourselves in

994
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,480
the process. And again, yoga is about finding a balance, right,

995
00:47:02,519 --> 00:47:05,119
so that balance of go and work but also take

996
00:47:05,159 --> 00:47:08,000
care of yourself. So in our classes too, there's a

997
00:47:08,039 --> 00:47:10,679
section of the class on the floor, the last part

998
00:47:10,679 --> 00:47:12,320
of the class, but we do a posture and then

999
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,280
we lay down and rest. But we do a posture

1000
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,239
and we lay down and rest. We do a posture,

1001
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,719
we lay down and rest, and we do back and forth.

1002
00:47:19,039 --> 00:47:21,239
And there's some physiological things going on there, but I

1003
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,840
all think it's important you're learning in that moment. Like

1004
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:25,559
you have to work, but as much as you work,

1005
00:47:25,599 --> 00:47:28,960
you have to rest. You cannot constantly go go, go, go,

1006
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,599
go burn the candle. That both ends at some point

1007
00:47:31,679 --> 00:47:34,239
you run out of candle. That's the problem. So you

1008
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:38,280
have to create that balance of work and rest. And

1009
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,760
it's all about balance, and that's what we're trying to

1010
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,119
teach people. How to find the balance in their life,

1011
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,960
in their strength and flexibility in their work, and relaxation

1012
00:47:47,559 --> 00:47:49,840
in their mind and their body. How do you find

1013
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:53,119
the balance. It's not that you're going to be perfectly balanced.

1014
00:47:53,119 --> 00:47:54,920
Your right arm and your left arm will be equally

1015
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,519
a strong and flexible. That's not the balance we're talking about.

1016
00:47:58,159 --> 00:48:01,239
But it is that idea that you figure out how

1017
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:02,840
to live in your body in a way that you're

1018
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,719
not abusing yourself. And again that always goes back to

1019
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,840
that idea of falling in love with yourself. Right to

1020
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,599
look in the mirror over and over and over again

1021
00:48:10,639 --> 00:48:13,000
when you come in classroom your beginner is hard. And

1022
00:48:13,039 --> 00:48:15,760
if I struggle to watch those students who are really

1023
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,599
struggling to see themselves, I jokingly off and say look

1024
00:48:18,639 --> 00:48:20,760
in the mirror, and if you see yourself, I'll give

1025
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:23,480
you extra points. Because we can look in the mirror.

1026
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,320
Many of us look in the mirror every single day

1027
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,400
to get ready to go out the door, but we

1028
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,679
don't see ourselves. So to spend ninety minutes seeing yourself

1029
00:48:31,079 --> 00:48:33,960
that's who you truly are, is an amazing thing to

1030
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,239
watch people create that balance to get their health back.

1031
00:48:37,639 --> 00:48:39,920
But we do have a lot of people who are fine,

1032
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,199
they're healthy, and they're coming to relieve stress maybe or whatever.

1033
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,440
They just want to Often it's something that goes with

1034
00:48:45,519 --> 00:48:48,360
the other activity they do. They golf, but they need

1035
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:52,559
to get that flexibility. They run, so their hamstrings are tight,

1036
00:48:52,599 --> 00:48:54,039
so they need to do the yoga. And they lift

1037
00:48:54,079 --> 00:48:56,679
a lot of weight, so they need to do the yoga.

1038
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,599
So often these are people who are athletes, professional athletes

1039
00:48:59,639 --> 00:49:01,840
and stuff. I had one hundred mile marathon. If he

1040
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:03,800
used to come all the time, I think, when you

1041
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,159
discover what's big and hungry and chasing you, please let

1042
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:08,840
me know and we'll take care of you. But he

1043
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,800
just loved to run, but he needed that. His hamsprings

1044
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,360
have started to be a problem, so you balance it

1045
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,159
out with this other stuff. You can never measure what

1046
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:21,079
didn't go wrong because you've taken care of yourself, right,

1047
00:49:21,159 --> 00:49:24,559
that's the thing, right, I can't measure that. So I

1048
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,519
often say to people, I don't know where I would

1049
00:49:27,519 --> 00:49:31,760
be without the yoga my life. And my manager, who's lovely,

1050
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,440
he always says, oh, you'd be dead by now, And

1051
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:36,360
I think he's probably right. I probably would have been

1052
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,239
dead by now. But he just believes that, you know,

1053
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,400
the smoking and the drinking and the chronic pain would

1054
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,159
have led me down a dangerous slope. Yeah, and I

1055
00:49:44,159 --> 00:49:46,360
think he's right. Once my kids were no longer my

1056
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,400
responsibility to take care of every day without the yoga,

1057
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,440
I don't know what that would have looked like.

1058
00:49:51,519 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: But you can't measure that interesting, Yeah, because once the

1059
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:59,639
kids grow up, then you know, I don't have any children.

1060
00:49:59,639 --> 00:50:02,519
I'm not a parent, but I assume and partly I

1061
00:50:02,559 --> 00:50:04,559
hear people talk about this too. There's that sense of

1062
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,760
what is my purpose now? My purpose was to raise

1063
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:09,760
my children.

1064
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,079
Speaker 2: And that purpose in combination with living in pain, because

1065
00:50:13,119 --> 00:50:14,960
when you don't have that, when you live in that

1066
00:50:15,079 --> 00:50:18,320
level of pain, and for some people like me, that

1067
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,280
was physical pain. For some people that's emotional pain. For

1068
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:23,719
some people that spiritual pain. It's chemical pain, it's that

1069
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:27,360
brain chemistry, whatever it is. When they don't have that

1070
00:50:27,519 --> 00:50:29,880
reason to get out of bed in the morning, it

1071
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,679
gets easier and easier to not to stop taking care

1072
00:50:33,679 --> 00:50:36,679
of yourself, to stop, you know, it's painful to drive

1073
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,519
the car and turn my head to try to back

1074
00:50:39,519 --> 00:50:41,800
out of my driveway. I'm just going to stop doing it.

1075
00:50:42,599 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 1: Right.

1076
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 2: I have to do it because I have to bring

1077
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:47,239
the kids to school. But once they're gone, yeah, you know,

1078
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,360
and I think that's and watching people age like that,

1079
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,199
it's sad for me because I see Elaine who made

1080
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,519
a different choice. Yeah, and we have lots of students

1081
00:50:55,519 --> 00:50:58,719
in their sixties, seventies from almost sixty, myself in their

1082
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:02,559
seventies eighties. We're about to celebrate Elane's ninetieth birthday in

1083
00:51:02,639 --> 00:51:05,440
just a few years, so well, you know, there's no

1084
00:51:05,519 --> 00:51:08,119
reason to she started at seventy two. There's no reason

1085
00:51:08,159 --> 00:51:12,320
to think I'm too old to start, right, because I

1086
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,719
think she had. She don't tell people the reason I

1087
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:16,199
can come every day is because I started. I was

1088
00:51:16,199 --> 00:51:20,280
already retired. Interesting, I could come every day because I

1089
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:21,960
didn't have a job in kids and stuff.

1090
00:51:22,119 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had.

1091
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:25,079
Speaker 2: She learned to take care of herself, which made her

1092
00:51:25,079 --> 00:51:28,119
better take care of her husband. Yes, yes, so it all,

1093
00:51:28,199 --> 00:51:29,480
you know, it all works together.

1094
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,599
Speaker 1: I always assume Mick Jagger, you know, he's in his

1095
00:51:32,679 --> 00:51:35,760
eighties now, but if you see recent video of him

1096
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:37,920
on stage, he's still you know, he runs around like

1097
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:41,199
he's twenty years old and he and he uh, you know,

1098
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:44,320
he doesn't seem to get winded. You know, he's singing

1099
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,320
and running around on stage.

1100
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 2: And I know he hasn't always had the healthiest lifestyle.

1101
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,079
Speaker 1: Right exactly. We all know that exactly. So I just

1102
00:51:52,159 --> 00:51:54,000
assume I don't know this, but I assume he does

1103
00:51:54,079 --> 00:51:55,039
yoga something.

1104
00:51:55,599 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 2: And yeah, and I think you can't abuse yourself a

1105
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,360
fair bit in your twenties and thirties. I think with

1106
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:04,119
anyone over thirty would agree like you could abuse yourself

1107
00:52:04,119 --> 00:52:06,079
a fair bit. The body recover is better and all

1108
00:52:06,119 --> 00:52:08,679
of that. Once you start getting in the thirties and forty,

1109
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,320
you don't bounce back. And it's that idea. Objects in

1110
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,960
motion stay in motion, Objects at rest, stay at rest.

1111
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,440
Your one job in this world is to take care

1112
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,599
of yourself. I asked this question in class. If I

1113
00:52:19,639 --> 00:52:22,239
told you, at sixteen, you learn to drive a car,

1114
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,079
and I'm gonna give you a car, you can have

1115
00:52:24,119 --> 00:52:26,639
any car you want, but you can only have that

1116
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:28,639
car for the rest of your life. How are you

1117
00:52:28,679 --> 00:52:30,719
going to take care of that car? How often are

1118
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:32,840
you going to wash it, change the oil, to take

1119
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,280
care of it, all that stuff. Most of us would say, oh,

1120
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,280
I would take such good care of that car, knowing

1121
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:41,639
that's the only one I'm getting. You get one body, yeah, birth,

1122
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,239
and it's got to take you from beginning to end.

1123
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,559
How are you taking care of it? And that's not

1124
00:52:46,599 --> 00:52:48,480
for a place of guilt because you can't abuse yourself

1125
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:49,480
a bit for a while.

1126
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:51,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get away with it when you're young.

1127
00:52:51,519 --> 00:52:53,639
Speaker 2: Smoking, the drinking and all of that. You know, you

1128
00:52:53,679 --> 00:52:55,679
can get away with all of that until some point

1129
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,440
where you can't anymore. And the problem is you've created

1130
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,400
the habits and the lifestyle, the patterns, the patterns that

1131
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,719
make it difficult to transition to something new. So you're right.

1132
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,400
We are hypnotizing people when I have these conversations while

1133
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,719
they're in class, sweating and I'm saying these things to

1134
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,360
them in class, I'm brainwashing. But I tell them I'm

1135
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:15,239
up front, it's not a secret. I'm going to brainwash you.

1136
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:17,079
And if I have trouble brainwashing, that's when we turn

1137
00:53:17,119 --> 00:53:19,920
the heat up because it makes the brainwashing easier. But

1138
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,320
my goal is to brainwash you. Someone said to me,

1139
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,679
you're brainwashing. I said, we have a cult, and I said, no,

1140
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:26,639
we're not a cult. Cult wants to tell you what

1141
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:28,400
to do all the time and what to think all

1142
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,360
the time. I want you to stop thinking for ninety

1143
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:35,679
minutes and fall in love with yourself, because that's my

1144
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,079
evil plan of yoga, is to make people fall in

1145
00:53:38,119 --> 00:53:41,960
love with themselves, right, because that makes the whole world better? Yes, right, yes,

1146
00:53:42,039 --> 00:53:44,760
And that's the same when you're hypnotizing somebody and they

1147
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:47,920
stop smoking, you probably see it. They change how they

1148
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:51,000
feel about themselves. They care about themselves in a new

1149
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,079
way that getting them to stop smoking gets them to

1150
00:53:54,119 --> 00:53:56,159
eat better, to go for a walk, more than you know,

1151
00:53:56,679 --> 00:53:59,239
whatever it is, you see those changes. When you start

1152
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:03,960
just making those small steps to start being better to yourself,

1153
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,840
it builds and then it builds and it builds, and

1154
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:08,760
all it takes is one step. I tell you, all

1155
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:10,400
you have to do is walk in the door. We're

1156
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,400
going to help you do the rest, but you have

1157
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,119
to walk in the door. I can't come to your house.

1158
00:54:14,679 --> 00:54:16,599
I wish I could. I see people in the grocery

1159
00:54:16,599 --> 00:54:19,480
store and I go, excuse me with me. I would

1160
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:21,199
like you to come with me for just for an

1161
00:54:21,199 --> 00:54:23,800
hour and a half and see if we can help

1162
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:25,880
you out, because it makes me sad to see people

1163
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:30,400
who physically are struggling. And then you see people physically struggle,

1164
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:32,519
but you never you can't see what's going on for

1165
00:54:32,559 --> 00:54:35,280
the people who are not physically struggling, but struggling in

1166
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,519
lots of other ways. If you're a human being, you

1167
00:54:37,519 --> 00:54:41,559
have trauma, you're struggling in some way, and so being

1168
00:54:41,599 --> 00:54:44,760
able to help get that out of your way so

1169
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,519
that you're not struggling to go through life.

1170
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,840
Speaker 1: Every day and it feels so good. It's it's like

1171
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,000
to me, I mean, it's got to be the biggest

1172
00:54:54,199 --> 00:54:56,840
endorphin rush in the world to be able to help

1173
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:01,679
somebody get better, you know, it's I mean, that's what

1174
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:05,480
you know. To me, hypnotherapy is addictive because I just

1175
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,360
love helping somebody make make positive change, you know. It's

1176
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:10,000
it's uh.

1177
00:55:10,079 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 2: Someone asked me what my return on investment was in

1178
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,280
my business, but when we were transitioning from the smaller

1179
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:19,960
studio closing financially not in a good place, to reopening

1180
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:23,960
in a much bigger space with all this under wellness modalities,

1181
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,639
they were like, what's your return on investment? Well, it's Elaine,

1182
00:55:28,119 --> 00:55:31,519
my return investment. I was a student who had kidney

1183
00:55:31,519 --> 00:55:35,480
failure and wow, I couldn't get hi a kidney and

1184
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:39,199
somebody another modality, a chiropractor or an acupuncturist, had said

1185
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:41,199
to him, you should maybe try this. I met this

1186
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,400
woman who teaches sweaty yoga. Maybe you should go do

1187
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:46,760
that and like sweat, maybe that'll help, right, And and

1188
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,800
we talk about detoxic and hot yoga. You're not toxic.

1189
00:55:50,079 --> 00:55:52,920
It does help remove metabolic waste from your body and stuff.

1190
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,000
But the students walk in, you're not toxic. You're not

1191
00:55:56,039 --> 00:55:58,840
sitting around toxic. This guy was toxic, like he didn't

1192
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:01,119
have functioning kidneys to clean out his system.

1193
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:01,639
Speaker 1: Wow.

1194
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 2: And we progressively watched him get better back because I

1195
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,000
asked him. I said, so you've had a kidney transplant.

1196
00:56:07,079 --> 00:56:09,400
He said no. And I said, so you're not on

1197
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:12,119
dialysis of kidney failure and you didn't get a transplant.

1198
00:56:12,199 --> 00:56:13,880
I said, how does that work? He goes, basically, I'm

1199
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:17,760
just waiting to die, okay, but I want to feel better.

1200
00:56:18,039 --> 00:56:19,800
I think maybe this will help me feel better.

1201
00:56:20,039 --> 00:56:20,320
Speaker 1: Okay.

1202
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 2: Come eleven years later, he finally got a kidney transport.

1203
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,320
Oh my god, yeah, and he did it. Actually, he

1204
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:28,960
was saying the show the birthday of that place where

1205
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,880
Jennie Show is. This weekend is Saturday. My birthday is

1206
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,559
on Saturday. He got his kidney on my birthday, which

1207
00:56:34,599 --> 00:56:35,280
was really exciting.

1208
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:35,800
Speaker 1: Wow.

1209
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 2: But I watched him progressively get better and better and

1210
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:40,079
better and better and better and better and better over

1211
00:56:40,159 --> 00:56:42,840
years and years and years. Yeah, just doing hot yoga

1212
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,360
and Western medicine is a funny thing because he went

1213
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:48,800
to his doctor, his neprologist with the kidney doctor, and

1214
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:50,920
they said to him, you look great.

1215
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:51,599
Speaker 1: What are you doing?

1216
00:56:52,079 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 2: And he said, I'm doing hot yoga.

1217
00:56:53,559 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1218
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,119
Speaker 2: And the doctor said, oh, I don't know if you

1219
00:56:55,159 --> 00:56:58,119
should be doing that. Oh really, But He's like, but

1220
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:00,480
you just told me how good. I look look good.

1221
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:02,760
My numbers look good, and I look good and I

1222
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,159
feel good and I'm living of a good quality of life.

1223
00:57:05,679 --> 00:57:07,360
Why would you tell me that's not the thing I

1224
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,800
should be doing. It's funny that Western doctors just have

1225
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:13,320
this idea and also this idea of what yoga is.

1226
00:57:13,519 --> 00:57:15,320
I think most people think yoga and they think down

1227
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,480
dog and updog and I did too. Yeah, I can't

1228
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:19,760
do that. I have a neck injury, I have a

1229
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:22,599
shoulder injury. Whatever. And we don't do any of that.

1230
00:57:23,599 --> 00:57:26,880
It's really accessible to everybody with injuries because that's what

1231
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,280
it was designed for. It was designed for injured bodies

1232
00:57:29,679 --> 00:57:31,960
to bring them back to health and then to let

1233
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:33,960
them maintain that good health into.

1234
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: I'm curious, and if you're just joining us, we're talking

1235
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:42,119
with Terry Almquist from Wellness, Hot Yoga and Haveroyl. Yeah.

1236
00:57:42,119 --> 00:57:43,800
I was curious to ask you. You may have already

1237
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,400
answered it with what you were just saying, but maybe

1238
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:50,480
there's something else, like misconceptions, Like what is the biggest

1239
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,159
misconception people have about yoga.

1240
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,559
Speaker 2: I think the biggest misconception people have is that you

1241
00:57:55,599 --> 00:57:57,000
have to be flexible to yoga.

1242
00:57:57,119 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you don't.

1243
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:00,719
Speaker 2: I was so in fire. I hadn't moved my head

1244
00:58:00,719 --> 00:58:04,119
in thirteen fourteen years, so inflexible. It wasn't until I

1245
00:58:04,119 --> 00:58:06,880
actually started doing yoga that we realized I had all

1246
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:08,880
this problems with my shoulder too. I think in the

1247
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:12,039
same injury, I had probably torn a rotator cuff. When

1248
00:58:12,079 --> 00:58:13,960
you go to an emergency room and you can't move

1249
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,639
your legs because your spine is injured, no one asks

1250
00:58:16,679 --> 00:58:20,159
you how your shoulder feels. It's not high up on

1251
00:58:20,239 --> 00:58:25,760
the list. And so when you have those kind of injuries,

1252
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:29,000
you think, I can't do yoga because I'm injured this

1253
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,239
and that may be true of and I found that

1254
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,880
true for myself. And I'm not denigraating other styles of yoga.

1255
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:36,840
I think all yoga is good yoga, and not all

1256
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:40,039
yoga is made for all bodies. Right, So if you're

1257
00:58:40,079 --> 00:58:43,079
an injured body, you're not You shouldn't be going into

1258
00:58:43,119 --> 00:58:44,679
a class with the first thing they start with this

1259
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:45,400
ham stands.

1260
00:58:45,719 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: Right.

1261
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,079
Speaker 2: If you've ever done yoga and you go into a

1262
00:58:48,079 --> 00:58:49,880
class and they're starting and you have a spine injury

1263
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:51,159
and they start with headstands, you're in.

1264
00:58:51,079 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: The wrong yoga class.

1265
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:57,119
Speaker 2: Because ours is designed from a therapeutic yoga standpoint, was

1266
00:58:57,119 --> 00:59:00,480
done as yoga therapy. Every single post is designed for

1267
00:59:00,519 --> 00:59:04,039
people who have almost no mobility. The first step of

1268
00:59:04,079 --> 00:59:05,880
a lot of the postures when we're standing is stand

1269
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:08,039
with your feet together, and for some people that's it.

1270
00:59:08,119 --> 00:59:10,880
That's hard enough. Yeah, bring your arms over your head.

1271
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:14,400
There's nothing we do that's really crazy. There's nothing we do,

1272
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,480
first of all, in this particular style of yoga that's

1273
00:59:16,559 --> 00:59:19,880
outside the natural range of motion for the adult human body. Okay,

1274
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:23,599
And we do no weight bearing exercises on non weight

1275
00:59:23,639 --> 00:59:26,039
bearing joints, meaning we're not standing on our head or

1276
00:59:26,079 --> 00:59:29,840
our hands, we're not doing All of the poses we

1277
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,320
do are designed to work with the way the human

1278
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:36,199
body is actually designed to bear weight. Okay, So and

1279
00:59:36,239 --> 00:59:38,079
you could just do that little bit. So people, I

1280
00:59:38,119 --> 00:59:40,440
can't sit on my heels, can't. I can't get up

1281
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:42,000
and down off the floor. I hear that a lot.

1282
00:59:42,039 --> 00:59:44,519
That's a common misconception. I can't do yoga because I

1283
00:59:44,519 --> 00:59:46,360
can't get up and down off the floor. And in

1284
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:50,239
some yogas that's true. They're doing down dog up dog chataranga.

1285
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,199
That's a very traditional set of postures that are done

1286
00:59:53,239 --> 00:59:56,239
in vidyasa in different styles of yoga. Yeah, we don't

1287
00:59:56,239 --> 00:59:58,880
do that, So there's no up and down.

1288
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: You're up standing up for the first.

1289
01:00:00,599 --> 01:00:02,519
Speaker 2: Part of class, and then we get on the floor

1290
01:00:02,559 --> 01:00:04,320
once and we stay on the floor till the end.

1291
01:00:04,559 --> 01:00:06,039
Speaker 1: Oh, so you only have.

1292
01:00:06,039 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 2: To get up once and down once. That's it.

1293
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 1: Oh okay.

1294
01:00:10,199 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why it's really a different it's a different

1295
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,840
conception concept of yoga than a lot of yoga that

1296
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,119
people are sort of conscious of.

1297
01:00:18,159 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: It yeah, yeah, and do do do kids do yoga?

1298
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 2: We kids as young as eight can do this yoga.

1299
01:00:25,559 --> 01:00:27,840
Kids do the only do the portion on the floor.

1300
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:30,079
They're already flexible. They're just made out of rubber band

1301
01:00:30,079 --> 01:00:32,679
in bubble gum. Yeah right, And they don't have the

1302
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:36,239
muscle strength to hold We only hold the postures twenty

1303
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,840
thirty seconds. But some of them that's the challenge, Like

1304
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:41,920
it's difficult to hold that posture for twenty to thirty seconds.

1305
01:00:42,039 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1306
01:00:43,199 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 2: For children who don't have that muscle strength, what happens

1307
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,800
is they can get very deep into postures and they

1308
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:51,239
can't hold it. So we don't have them do And

1309
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:53,559
they don't need to warm up the heat all the

1310
01:00:53,559 --> 01:00:55,519
first part of class is warming up and the heat

1311
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:57,880
to get ready for the yoga practice, which happens on

1312
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:00,719
the floor. Kids don't need to warm up. They're already warm,

1313
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,159
they're already limber, they're already all those things. So I'm

1314
01:01:03,199 --> 01:01:05,199
seeing less and less. I'm seeing more and more younger

1315
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:08,760
kids who have less flexibility. I think they don't run

1316
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:11,679
around like we used to do. Oh interesting to they

1317
01:01:11,679 --> 01:01:14,800
don't have gym like we used to. So I see

1318
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:18,199
kids who have less flexibility, but they come in for

1319
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:21,719
the back half of class, so they usually they're usually

1320
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,199
coming because their parents come and they're interested, and they

1321
01:01:25,239 --> 01:01:27,960
start coming because of that. So under the age of

1322
01:01:28,119 --> 01:01:31,880
fourteen thirteen fourteen, they just do that last part of class.

1323
01:01:32,079 --> 01:01:34,440
Once they get old enough to sweat efficiently, that's the

1324
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:36,239
other problem. You don't want to put a kid that

1325
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:40,360
age in the heated room for ninety minutes because children don't.

1326
01:01:40,639 --> 01:01:42,239
Part of the reason we have the heat is to

1327
01:01:42,239 --> 01:01:45,639
make you sweat, and that sweat helps you efficiently.

1328
01:01:45,079 --> 01:01:47,159
Speaker 1: Cool your own body, okay.

1329
01:01:47,119 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 2: And so we want you to be heated up so

1330
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:54,360
you're limber sweating so you don't overheat, which sounds counterintuitive,

1331
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:56,360
like if I make you hot and sweaty, you won't overheat.

1332
01:01:56,559 --> 01:01:59,920
But as the sweat is evaporating, your body is staying.

1333
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:03,599
It's normal for temperature. The room is hoppy, you are not.

1334
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:07,400
Children can't cool themselves like that because they don't have

1335
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:11,880
mature sweat lamps. Children can overheat much more quickly than adults.

1336
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:15,199
So we don't want little kids in the room. Yeah,

1337
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:17,079
we don't want little and they can go from being

1338
01:02:17,159 --> 01:02:20,679
fine to being not fine and just really fast with

1339
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:23,119
a delta takes a little longer. So as teachers, the

1340
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:25,719
part of the training we have we're looking for certain signs.

1341
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:29,639
If somebody's overheating, if they stop sweating, if they you know,

1342
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:32,280
there's certain things we're looking for. A certain color of

1343
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:35,159
the skin, they get paler or they get pinker. I

1344
01:02:35,199 --> 01:02:36,880
always tell my teachers if you have a little a

1345
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:39,400
younger person in the class and they start looking like

1346
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:41,000
they have a bit of a sunburn on their face,

1347
01:02:41,199 --> 01:02:43,079
they need to go outside and cool off for a minute.

1348
01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:46,039
They're not cooling themselves. Same with adults. We have a

1349
01:02:46,039 --> 01:02:48,199
delta will turn Some adults just turn very red. They'll

1350
01:02:48,199 --> 01:02:50,599
tell you I turn red. You know. Some people are

1351
01:02:50,639 --> 01:02:53,559
just ready like that. But we're looking for certain signs.

1352
01:02:53,639 --> 01:02:55,880
The teacher stands at the front of the room. We

1353
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:58,760
stand on a podium. I wear a headset and I'm talking,

1354
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:01,320
but I'm looking at everybody all the time, so I'm

1355
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:05,880
watching to make sure everybody's okay. Kids who are thirteen fourteen,

1356
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:09,000
they start sweating, they can come and try the whole class.

1357
01:03:09,159 --> 01:03:11,559
I ask parents who want to bring their kids to class.

1358
01:03:11,719 --> 01:03:14,280
Does your kid wear deodorant every day? Or did your

1359
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:16,920
kid wear deodorant to the school dance. So if they're

1360
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:19,800
still just wearing deodorant, if they only really need it

1361
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:22,880
for the school dance or something very physical, they're probably

1362
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:26,960
not sweating efficiently enough. Yet a kid who needs deodorant

1363
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:30,119
every day to go to school, they're probably.

1364
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: Sweating efficiently okay.

1365
01:03:31,719 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 2: And then if you practice enough and you come a lot,

1366
01:03:35,559 --> 01:03:38,360
then you don't need deodorant at all, because your sweat

1367
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:39,039
is very clean.

1368
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 1: Okay, it's fascinating. Yeah, yeah, oh that's very interesting. Yeah,

1369
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,199
the subject of deodorant came up recently on the show too.

1370
01:03:46,199 --> 01:03:50,119
I forget who we're talking with, but how it's really

1371
01:03:50,159 --> 01:03:54,960
not great for you, Like this, the regular store brand deodorant.

1372
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:57,639
Speaker 2: Stuff is fine. To not smell is good. Yeah, we

1373
01:03:57,679 --> 01:03:58,679
live in a social world.

1374
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 1: But there's like like or but you are.

1375
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 2: Designed to sweat to cool yourself. Sweat is actually a

1376
01:04:05,119 --> 01:04:09,199
natural reaction to either temperature or change phys a logical

1377
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,119
change in your body, like stress and that kind of stuff.

1378
01:04:11,199 --> 01:04:15,079
And we all know stress sweat spells different than just

1379
01:04:15,159 --> 01:04:19,159
like every day sweat, and if you sweat regularly, this

1380
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:23,440
is like way too much information. The spell is actually

1381
01:04:23,519 --> 01:04:25,440
bacteria that's growing on your skin.

1382
01:04:26,559 --> 01:04:28,119
Speaker 1: Oh, that's what the spell is.

1383
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:32,039
Speaker 2: And if you sweat regularly, that bacteria is it's cleaned

1384
01:04:32,119 --> 01:04:36,800
up there. And so I have to be like too

1385
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:38,800
much information about me. I don't think I've won the

1386
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:42,800
yodor In in fifteen years. Except to fly. I don't like

1387
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:44,760
to fly. I'm a nervous flyer. Maybe I should get

1388
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:48,039
a little hypnosis. I doing a retreat in Thailand. It

1389
01:04:48,079 --> 01:04:50,639
may I'm gonna have to fly to Thailand. I usually

1390
01:04:50,719 --> 01:04:52,800
fly with my manager, which I refer to on the

1391
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:56,199
plane as my emotional support. I'm going by myself on

1392
01:04:56,239 --> 01:04:59,360
this trip. Maybe a little hypnosis will help.

1393
01:05:00,079 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 1: I have helped people that specifically I do fly.

1394
01:05:03,119 --> 01:05:05,559
Speaker 2: I'm not afraid of flying. I'm just I don't. I

1395
01:05:05,719 --> 01:05:08,280
just I'm nervous on the plane. Yeah, but where to

1396
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:10,800
Yoda because that's nervous sweat. It's not my every day.

1397
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:13,159
Oh but I go in a heated room several times

1398
01:05:13,159 --> 01:05:14,159
a day and sweat.

1399
01:05:14,239 --> 01:05:14,440
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1400
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:17,679
Speaker 2: And I haven't won Toyoda in the years. And you've

1401
01:05:17,679 --> 01:05:20,639
been around me. Nobody's been playing so far, No, everybody.

1402
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:24,880
So that constantly sweating is good for your skin and

1403
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:27,559
your body too. Like we talked about detoxing if part

1404
01:05:27,559 --> 01:05:27,840
of that.

1405
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:32,679
Speaker 1: Is that idea that yeah, yeah, yeah, that's interesting. Yeah.

1406
01:05:32,679 --> 01:05:34,880
I have helped people with that fear of flying. I

1407
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:37,559
have my my only issue with see, I don't mind

1408
01:05:37,559 --> 01:05:39,639
being Like being in that big metal tube in the

1409
01:05:39,679 --> 01:05:42,000
air doesn't bother me at all. I don't like airports.

1410
01:05:42,239 --> 01:05:46,199
Airports are stressful. Well like that Manchester. Have you ever flown?

1411
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:47,559
Speaker 2: I love flying out of man.

1412
01:05:47,480 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 1: Manchester is awesome. That airport is so it's so small,

1413
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:51,679
it's easy.

1414
01:05:52,039 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 2: I think for me, it's on the plane. I call

1415
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:56,000
it big in the tube. Just being in the tube, Yeah,

1416
01:05:56,039 --> 01:05:58,119
I don't it's a really uncomfortable thing for me.

1417
01:05:59,199 --> 01:06:01,920
Speaker 1: Although physically that it can be hard for me because

1418
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:05,360
my ears, especially on the descent. You know, people get

1419
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:07,920
the ear popping. I get the pressure in my ears

1420
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:12,760
sometimes gets really bad, like I've I've had I've been

1421
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:17,159
in intense pain. Intends to happen on the descent. Not

1422
01:06:17,239 --> 01:06:19,119
every time I've flown, but a couple of times.

1423
01:06:19,199 --> 01:06:20,480
Speaker 2: I was a sick kid and I had a lot

1424
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:21,519
of chronic ear infection.

1425
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:23,840
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, We're talking about that the other day.

1426
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:27,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so I actually understand that too much pressure

1427
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:30,519
flying is better for me now though, unfortunately, because of

1428
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:33,719
I had COVID and I flew during while I had

1429
01:06:33,719 --> 01:06:36,239
COVID and I had problems with drugs, I ended up

1430
01:06:36,239 --> 01:06:38,639
with tubes in my ears that are pretty permanent. Yeah,

1431
01:06:38,639 --> 01:06:40,440
but now I don't have that pressure change because I

1432
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:40,880
have tubes.

1433
01:06:41,519 --> 01:06:42,159
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good.

1434
01:06:42,239 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 2: Yeah it's good, but it's not good, you know, I'd

1435
01:06:44,559 --> 01:06:45,639
rather not have the tubes.

1436
01:06:45,639 --> 01:06:50,760
Speaker 1: And yeah, of course, of course we should talk about too. Uh,

1437
01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:52,920
you've got the big open house. You've got a big

1438
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:55,079
event that starts tomorrow.

1439
01:06:54,639 --> 01:06:58,679
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, So our capp is tomorrow. So as I said,

1440
01:06:58,679 --> 01:07:02,000
this coming Saturday to fourteenth is my birthday, and every

1441
01:07:02,079 --> 01:07:03,840
year for my birthday at the yoga studio, what I

1442
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:07,360
do is gift other people yoga because the greatest gift

1443
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:09,599
you can give me for my birthday is to take

1444
01:07:09,639 --> 01:07:12,000
care of yourself and learn and learn the tools to

1445
01:07:12,039 --> 01:07:14,960
do that. Put those tools in your toolbox. So we

1446
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:18,239
have an open house all next week, kick off tomorrow

1447
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:21,239
from seven to noon. We're gonna have healthy snacks and

1448
01:07:21,519 --> 01:07:25,079
some healthy beverages and come and see the float tank,

1449
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:27,760
try out the red light, take a free suna, take

1450
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:31,320
a free yoga class. All next week yoga is free

1451
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:34,199
all of our yoga classes, so we teach primarily this

1452
01:07:34,239 --> 01:07:37,679
Bickram hot yoga. We also have several Yin classes a

1453
01:07:37,719 --> 01:07:41,320
week in the evening. Yin is a slower yoga class.

1454
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:46,199
Deeper stretches held for long, postures are held for long

1455
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:49,679
periods of time. Oh wow, it's a nice compliment to

1456
01:07:49,719 --> 01:07:53,039
the hot yoga. Yeah, not, it's therapeutic. Good. All yoga

1457
01:07:53,119 --> 01:07:56,000
is good and therapeutic. But if you're really badly injured,

1458
01:07:56,199 --> 01:07:57,519
the hot yoga is the one you want to do,

1459
01:07:57,599 --> 01:07:59,960
and then the yin is good for creating more flexible

1460
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:05,480
once you are generally healthy. Okay, So all our classes

1461
01:08:05,519 --> 01:08:08,480
are free next week, also all month. For my birthday,

1462
01:08:08,519 --> 01:08:12,280
we're doing twenty five dollars float therapy sessions. So it's

1463
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:14,920
usually seventy, we're doing twenty. We're pragnically giving it away.

1464
01:08:15,119 --> 01:08:16,920
Come and float for an hour. In case you don't

1465
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:20,279
know what float is, it's a tank filled with saline solution.

1466
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:23,800
There's one thousand pounds of Ebsen salt in this tank,

1467
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:27,199
so it's high in all those minerals and magnesium. Most

1468
01:08:27,199 --> 01:08:29,119
people know like an Ebsence salt bath is great if

1469
01:08:29,119 --> 01:08:31,399
you're injured, if your muscle's hurt. It's also good for

1470
01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:33,399
people have trouble sleeping. It's good for anxiety.

1471
01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 1: Okay.

1472
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:36,800
Speaker 2: By getting in a tank full of salt water, you

1473
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:39,640
become weightless. Yeah, So it takes the pressure off the

1474
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:42,960
nerves and the muscles and the joints. So people with

1475
01:08:43,119 --> 01:08:49,560
chronic illness like fibromyalgia, oh arthritis, bad backs, pregnancy, pregnant

1476
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:52,479
women can float. We actually have a prenatal yoga class

1477
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:54,680
that we do once a week, and we have prenatal

1478
01:08:54,720 --> 01:09:00,439
massage float and massage float and.

1479
01:09:02,239 --> 01:09:02,840
Speaker 1: Not the sauna.

1480
01:09:03,159 --> 01:09:05,119
Speaker 2: I can't remember what the other thing is. I'm so sorry.

1481
01:09:05,199 --> 01:09:06,479
Speaker 1: Well, you got a lot going on.

1482
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:08,159
Speaker 2: I know, we got a lot going on. We do

1483
01:09:08,319 --> 01:09:10,880
postpartum Oh, that's what I'm saying. Postpartum. The red light

1484
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:13,319
therapy is good. But no red lighte therapy during pregnancy,

1485
01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:16,119
just because there's never been any studies and nobody's going

1486
01:09:16,199 --> 01:09:17,680
to take that risk to try and study that.

1487
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:18,119
Speaker 1: I'm sure.

1488
01:09:18,239 --> 01:09:22,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, But postpartum red light therapy helps the body heal faster,

1489
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:25,039
which is good for nursing mothers. It's very good. So

1490
01:09:25,079 --> 01:09:29,039
we offer a lot of that stuff. So the massage

1491
01:09:29,119 --> 01:09:33,239
and the float therapy are on special all month, Okay,

1492
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:38,079
ninety nine dollars for one hour massage and twenty five

1493
01:09:38,119 --> 01:09:41,279
dollars for one hour float nice, and the float therapy

1494
01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:44,520
is I want people to do yoga because I think

1495
01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:46,159
you have to do the work to make yourself well.

1496
01:09:46,239 --> 01:09:49,119
You can't. You were talking about medicine. Can't taking medicine

1497
01:09:49,119 --> 01:09:51,560
instead of taking care of yourself because one is passive

1498
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:54,039
and one is active, and it's so easy to just

1499
01:09:54,159 --> 01:09:56,680
do the passive thing. And I think Western medicine and

1500
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:59,560
pharmaceutical companies have sold us on this idea of you

1501
01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:02,319
don't have to care yourself. It's better living through chemistry.

1502
01:10:02,319 --> 01:10:07,119
Remember those commercials, Yes chemistry. So they've sold us on

1503
01:10:07,159 --> 01:10:08,439
this side of the here that we don't have to

1504
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:11,079
do the work. We offer both. We have the passive stuff.

1505
01:10:11,079 --> 01:10:12,560
You could sit in the flow tank, you could sit

1506
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:14,239
in the red light. But doing the work and the

1507
01:10:14,319 --> 01:10:17,359
yoga is so important because all this other stuff that

1508
01:10:17,359 --> 01:10:21,600
we offer was put there to help support the work

1509
01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:24,439
you're doing in the yoga practice. Yeah, but everybody's welcome.

1510
01:10:24,479 --> 01:10:26,039
You don't have to do yoga to come and use

1511
01:10:26,079 --> 01:10:28,439
the other stuff. Just you don't have to be a member.

1512
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:31,319
That's often a misconception, right to be amember the yoga studio. No,

1513
01:10:31,479 --> 01:10:33,760
anybody can walk in and do a float. Anybody can

1514
01:10:33,800 --> 01:10:36,439
walk in and get a massage. We have five massage therapists.

1515
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:38,960
We offer massage seven days a week. Wow, it's hard

1516
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:39,399
to find.

1517
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:42,319
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, that is. Yeah.

1518
01:10:42,359 --> 01:10:45,119
Speaker 2: So we do days and evenings and weekends and we

1519
01:10:45,159 --> 01:10:49,359
are open as a center and sixty five days a year.

1520
01:10:49,520 --> 01:10:49,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1521
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 2: We actually have yoga classes on Christmas and Thanksgiving and

1522
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:54,399
for a lot of people those are the days they

1523
01:10:54,439 --> 01:10:57,000
needed either, because loneliness is a major disease.

1524
01:10:57,119 --> 01:11:00,399
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. Oh so you actually offer that, yeah somethings.

1525
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:03,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, And some people really have said to me, I'm

1526
01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:05,479
so grateful that I can come to my yoga before

1527
01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:08,039
I spend the day with my family, because the family

1528
01:11:08,039 --> 01:11:10,399
can be stressful, and families can be messy and they're

1529
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:12,359
you know, but when you're taking care of yourself and

1530
01:11:12,399 --> 01:11:14,680
you come from a messy family, sometimes that's hard to

1531
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:17,479
back in there to be able to come on Christmas

1532
01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:21,239
morning and then go spend time with people that you

1533
01:11:21,239 --> 01:11:23,880
know and be okay in yourself and yeah, calm and

1534
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:25,399
okay in yourself.

1535
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:27,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, that's all.

1536
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:29,680
Speaker 2: We're messy. We clean them up right right.

1537
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:31,800
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. So the open house

1538
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:34,239
starts tomorrow and then it goes through. It's for the week.

1539
01:11:34,439 --> 01:11:36,640
Speaker 2: The whole week. The whole week is free yoga, and

1540
01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:39,520
the whole month for the float and the massages on sale.

1541
01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:41,720
And to cap off the end of the week, which

1542
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:44,079
is my actual birthday, we'll have free yoga next Saturday

1543
01:11:44,119 --> 01:11:46,920
as well, but also in the evening the community because

1544
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:49,920
we do community events. We're doing a riverboat cruise down

1545
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,600
the Merrimack that goes from behind the tap in downtown

1546
01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:55,399
heybral and then afterwards this cake back at the studio

1547
01:11:55,479 --> 01:11:56,399
and anyone's talking.

1548
01:11:56,239 --> 01:11:57,840
Speaker 1: Oh cake, very cool.

1549
01:11:58,000 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we're more than just you know, it's really

1550
01:12:00,079 --> 01:12:02,560
community and that's that idea of loneliness is really hard,

1551
01:12:03,039 --> 01:12:05,560
but we create a community. So especially, I think it's

1552
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:08,239
hard to make new friends when you're an adult, and

1553
01:12:08,279 --> 01:12:10,960
it's hard to a lot of people lost a lot

1554
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,680
of their community during COVID and they're not working in

1555
01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:16,199
the office anymore. They've stayed home to work. So if

1556
01:12:16,199 --> 01:12:18,319
you're somebody who's feeling a little on the lonely side

1557
01:12:18,359 --> 01:12:20,680
and think you need a community. Come and check us

1558
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:23,119
out just to meet some people and make some new

1559
01:12:23,159 --> 01:12:25,640
friends and find a space where you can come and

1560
01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:28,560
be chilled out and relaxed and be with people. Yeah,

1561
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:30,560
and you don't even have to be that social. We

1562
01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:32,079
come in for an hour and a half class. You

1563
01:12:32,119 --> 01:12:34,960
don't have to talk to anybody with them.

1564
01:12:35,039 --> 01:12:38,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would imagine this. There's probably some people who

1565
01:12:38,039 --> 01:12:40,319
it's their first time, maybe they're a little shy or whatnot,

1566
01:12:40,359 --> 01:12:43,039
and then they you probably see it right. Over time,

1567
01:12:43,079 --> 01:12:45,840
people kind of open up and they they become more

1568
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:46,760
social if we.

1569
01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:48,640
Speaker 2: Try to help that along. One of the things we

1570
01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:50,600
do at the studio is when you come in your

1571
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:53,039
first time, or we make an effort to introduce you

1572
01:12:53,079 --> 01:12:55,199
to somebody who's been coming for a while, just to

1573
01:12:55,199 --> 01:12:57,880
say like, oh, by the way, hey Matt, this is Elaney.

1574
01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:00,479
Lane comes every day and people come down when they

1575
01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:03,479
meet a link because she's she tells yoga every day.

1576
01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:06,479
But she absolutely looks like an eighty eight year old lady,

1577
01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:09,399
Like that's you know, that's what she looks like. And

1578
01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:12,079
you started to go like, oh, she can do this,

1579
01:13:12,159 --> 01:13:15,399
I can do this, and just didn't have somebody else

1580
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:18,000
there that you know their name, you know, And I

1581
01:13:18,079 --> 01:13:19,680
always tell people we do a posture where we put

1582
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:21,279
our arms out to the side and say say hello

1583
01:13:21,279 --> 01:13:22,920
to your neighbor, and if you don't know your neighbor's name,

1584
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,520
please introduce yourself after class. Yeah, that's how we take

1585
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:28,000
a class and make it a community. We have people

1586
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:31,079
that are members of our community that do not practice yoga.

1587
01:13:31,199 --> 01:13:33,399
We have spouses, some people who practice to come to

1588
01:13:33,479 --> 01:13:35,800
our potlucks and our other events. We know them, and

1589
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:37,520
we know them. We feel like we know them well

1590
01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:40,039
and they're part of our community. So you don't have

1591
01:13:40,119 --> 01:13:42,439
to practice yoga to be part of that community. You

1592
01:13:42,479 --> 01:13:43,439
just have to come in the door.

1593
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:46,279
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's really cool, especially you know, we

1594
01:13:46,319 --> 01:13:48,439
live in an era where you know, there are there

1595
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:50,840
are online communities, and I think I think for some

1596
01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:56,119
people that's interacting with online communities and social media has

1597
01:13:56,199 --> 01:13:59,680
kind of supplanted what was at one time more actually

1598
01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:02,079
going out and seeing people. So I think it's I

1599
01:14:02,119 --> 01:14:04,479
think what you're doing when you talk about community, I

1600
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:05,560
think that's really important.

1601
01:14:06,079 --> 01:14:08,880
Speaker 2: And I think a lot of community is built around that,

1602
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,399
going out drinking and eating and all this stuff, and

1603
01:14:11,399 --> 01:14:13,680
if you're struggling with those things in your life, to

1604
01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:16,920
have another place that isn't that it's it's often very hard,

1605
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:19,680
especially for people, if you give up smoking and drinking

1606
01:14:20,439 --> 01:14:23,520
that what do I do? That You often sometimes lose

1607
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:28,920
your social group. Yeah, and I think that in recovery,

1608
01:14:28,960 --> 01:14:31,680
a lot of people find loneliness. They come from families

1609
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:35,399
that have drinking or drugs as part of their social interaction,

1610
01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:38,359
and you know, and so to find a place where

1611
01:14:38,399 --> 01:14:40,880
you can feel like you fit in. I'm not saying

1612
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:42,600
you have to give up smoking and drinking to come

1613
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:44,960
to yoga either, but it's a new place to go

1614
01:14:45,039 --> 01:14:48,880
that isn't the old patterns. And it's all focused on

1615
01:14:49,119 --> 01:14:51,479
being good to yourself and feeling good about yourself as

1616
01:14:51,479 --> 01:14:55,199
opposed to hiding how you're feeling and hiding who you

1617
01:14:55,239 --> 01:14:57,760
are and hiding all that stuff. Come and be exactly

1618
01:14:57,800 --> 01:14:58,520
who you are.

1619
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 1: Right right. No, I think that's wonderful. I think that's wonderful. Well,

1620
01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:06,840
so before we run out of time, Oh, the website.

1621
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:11,079
Speaker 2: Website wellness hot yoga dot com. We just got a

1622
01:15:11,119 --> 01:15:13,760
new website. I hope everybody enjoys it. All the information

1623
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,439
about the open houses on there, as well as anything

1624
01:15:16,479 --> 01:15:20,920
about our other services that we offer. You're always welcome

1625
01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:23,279
to call the phone number nine seven eight six eight

1626
01:15:23,399 --> 01:15:26,000
nine nine six four two. I tell people what rings

1627
01:15:26,039 --> 01:15:28,439
through to my cell phone, so you know, if somebody's

1628
01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:30,319
there to answer the phone, somebody will try to answer

1629
01:15:30,319 --> 01:15:34,119
the phone. And just stop in. It's at thirty four

1630
01:15:34,199 --> 01:15:37,760
Miramax Street in downtown Haveril, in this beautiful new Harbor

1631
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:41,960
Place building across from the big giant new coming parking garage.

1632
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:43,560
Right now they've taken down the parking garage. We have

1633
01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:45,880
quite a bit of construction going on across the street.

1634
01:15:46,079 --> 01:15:47,920
But come by and just stop in. We have a

1635
01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:50,000
lovely meditation You and I have sat in the meditation

1636
01:15:50,119 --> 01:15:54,119
area chatted. We always have tea back there. People can sit,

1637
01:15:54,279 --> 01:15:56,319
Anyone can wander and have a cup of tea, talk

1638
01:15:56,359 --> 01:15:59,800
to us, find out what we're offering. There's no obligation

1639
01:15:59,880 --> 01:16:00,000
to do.

1640
01:16:00,199 --> 01:16:04,039
Speaker 1: Anything, but yeah, yeah, absolutely no. I think it's awesome.

1641
01:16:04,079 --> 01:16:06,520
I think it's awesome. Well, I'm glad. I'm glad you

1642
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:08,279
got here early because I knew we'd have a lot

1643
01:16:08,319 --> 01:16:11,680
to talk about. This has been wonderful, so thank you

1644
01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:14,199
Terry and I also want to remind people too before

1645
01:16:14,199 --> 01:16:17,680
we go. Of course, this coming Friday night, John Poussette

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01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:20,199
Dart will be at the or actually the John poussett

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Dart Duo will be performing at the Rex Theater right

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here in Manchester. And if you miss it, John called

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in at the top of the second hour and really

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enjoyed talking with him. And of course don't forget also

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one week from today and we'll talk about it. Of

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course next Saturday, but September fourteenth, from four to eight

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pm on Hannover Street, the Mosaic Art Collective proudly presents

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their annual full Circle the Speed of Light as they

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celebrate their birthday as well. And Jenny has one of

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one of her amazing paintings hanging up there. So proud

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of her. And she'll be back next week. She's a

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little under the weather, but she'll be here with us

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next week and we'll uh, we'll close out with a

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song in a moment, but Terry, thank you again so much,

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and we will uh, we will leave you with this.

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I haven't played this in a while. This is a

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song called Reconnection from Eons Encoded and uh, this is uh,

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this is a great way to uh to end the show,

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I think, but uh, Terry almquis Wellness, Hot Yoga and haverl.

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Absolutely thank you and if you missed any part of

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today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit

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w mnhradio dot org and my website Matt Connorton dot com.

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I'll talk to you a little bit later. Bye, everybody,