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Speaker 1: Advertisers, and I know you have great advertisers on your

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yourself to sell you something. And so I can make

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your hair should be a different color, your thing. I

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can sell you something. I always telling my students, I

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want to make you feel good about yourself, so I

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can sell you something. And that's what I.

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Speaker 2: Do, right right, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.

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Speaker 3: Now what is so what is bickroom yoga and how

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is that different from I don't know if regular yoga

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would be the way to put it, but but what

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what is what is bigrom yoga?

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Speaker 1: Exactly sure, Bickram yoga has been around for a very

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long time. Bickram Chowdery is the guy who started it.

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He's a controversial person and so a lot of us

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no longer use the term Bickram yoga. But Bickrim yoga

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describes a very specific style of yoga. So we do

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a set of postures in a specific order every single class,

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so the class never changes. We also don't play music.

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The lights are on, bright, bright lights, yeah, the lights,

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the bright lights, no music, a teacher talking for ninety minutes.

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I talked for ninety minutes and just tell you what

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to do with your body. That lets you. There's a

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lot of philosophy to that, and we'll get to that,

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but that helps let you actually turn your brain off. Okay,

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it's hot and it's humid. When Bickram started teaching yoga

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to Western so Bickram's backstory as I know it is

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he went to the Ghost College of Yoga and Physical

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Education in India, grew up there and was a weightlifter.

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Actually he was into powerlifting and that kind of stuff.

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And he got injured and he asked me, you'll take

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me back to my teacher, my guru, and he'll help

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me get well because he understood that yoga could heal

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the body, and he became a yoga therapist. And in

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the process of being a yoga therapist. So if you

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were sick, mount you went to see Vishnu Ghosh, his teacher,

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and you said, you know, my shoulder hurts and my

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neck hurts, and he would say, okay, do this yoga

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pos and this yoga post. And Bickraam's going to teach

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you how to do. Bickrams started thinking about what if

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we took a group of yoga poses that no matter

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what was wrong with you, one of these was the

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right one to fix your body in yoga therapy. And

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he put together a series that's fit together so that

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every posture prepares you for the next posture, and every

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posture works to the entire body. So when you're done

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with the class, you have done one hundred percent of

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your body has been worked out. Okay, it's nothing, they say,

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inside out, bones to the skin. So every muscle, every organ,

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every cell of your body has had something done to

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it to help it improve its health.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: The room. When he went to Westerners try to teach

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it that he found they couldn't move, and so he

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added in heat and humidity. So there's a lot of

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hot yoga around, but not all hot yoga. All Bickram

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Yoga's hot yoga, but not all hot yogas yoga. Okay,

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other yogas have added in heat for the same purpose.

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The heat is designed for a couple of reasons. Our

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room is much hotter than a lot of other hot

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yoga classes. People freak out when they hear the number,

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but it's a undred and five degrees with forty percent humidity. Okay,

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but that's less than ten degrees over your body temperature.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So one of the things we know that happens is

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when you heat the body is that fasha, that connective

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tissue softens, so that makes you more flexible. Scar tissue

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is made out of that fasha, so you can start

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to stretch scar tissue. For me, that's what was happening

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that first time I felt something was I had heated

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my fasha, that scar tish with my neck enough that

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it actually started to stretch, okay, and it is that

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non stretching material that's kept me from being mobile.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So that's how the heat works. The heat also focuses

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your mind really quickly, so that people come in and

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they do their very first class in ninety minutes. They've

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thought about nothing but what's going on in that room.

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Speaker 3: Interesting.

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Speaker 1: There's no way to worry about your gas bill or

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whatever while you're in that room, because you become very focused.

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Speaker 3: And that's partly because of the heat.

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Speaker 1: That's partially because of the heat, partially because the are

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on bright and the teacher's talking the whole class. Okay,

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there's no room for sort of your mind to wander off.

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sitting and quiet in their mind is really really hard. Yes, yes, yeah,

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just have that racing mind.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: We talk at a I wouldn't say at a high

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rate of speed, but we don't stop talking the entire class. Yeah,

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and so there's sort of no room for you to

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separate outside the room from what's happening.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're doing you're doing a form of hypnosis.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we kind of o I mean, you.

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Speaker 1: It's creating this a thing to focus on, and meditation

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is having a single item to focus on and then

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losing that focus and then coming back to the focus.

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That is meditation, that's mindfulness. So we're teaching mindfulness in

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the process. But this Western idea of the light slow

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and the music on is a lot of distraction for

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the mind. Yeah, And people always ask me, add a music.

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I can't because I'm not going to distract you away

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from the most important person that you're working on. In

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that moment, which is you, and so that's what we do.

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There's a giant mirror in the front of the room,

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so you have to see yourself. Bickerm was once asked

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why is there a giant mirror in the room, and

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I loved his answer was, it's not enough that you suffer.

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Speaker 3: You have to see yourself.

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Speaker 1: But when you think about seeing yourself suffer, what is

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when we see suffering as human beings, our first response

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is typically compassion. So when you see yourself suffer, you

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become more compassionate with yourself, and then you become more

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compassionate with everybody else. So this Bickham yoga was said,

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it's this series of postures that are put together, done

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in a heated room with a specific set of directions,

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and it's designed so even if you can do very little,

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that every single posture is broken into tiny little pieces,

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and you never have to do the whole posture. You

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can do just just to the first step. And after

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you do the first step, if that's all you can do,

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six or seven classes in you're gonna find oh eight,

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do the third. So all these little steps that all

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the postures put together help you get there, because I

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have to tell people all the time, yoga's not about yoga.

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Yoga's about creating a better quality of life because you

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practice yoga. So what the postures.

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Speaker 2: Look like don't matter, Okay.

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Speaker 1: What matters is you're doing the work on your body

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and your mind to make your.

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Speaker 2: Life better, Okay.

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Speaker 3: And that's our interesting yeah, because I would imagine a

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lot of people who come to you they can't, like,

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well probably most people, they can't just do all the

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postures right off the bat, right.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever met anybody in my

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twenty years in this business who could do all of

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the postures in theories beginning to end.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, completely.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I imagine if you happen to encounter someone

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who's unusually flexible, you know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they could do it, but that's probably pretty rare.

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Speaker 1: But there's a balance of strength and flexibility. And so

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what I find is people come in the majority of

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people who come in are strong but not very flexible.

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They're looking for more flexibit. I love when people say

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to me, I can't do yoga, I'm not flexible. I

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tell them that's like saying you can't take French lessons

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because you don't speak French. If you don't speak frends,

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you should take French lessons if you want to learn

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to speak French. If you're not flexible and you want

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to be flexible, go to yoga to learn to be flexible.

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It's harder for students who are very flexible. Actually, and

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I tell my classes all the time feel bad for

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them when the flexible people come in, because it's easy

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to build more flexibility with your strength than it is

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to build strength with your flexibility. But the way our

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postures are designed, everybody gets what they need. So we

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don't have a beginner and intermediate and advanced class. Everybody's

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in the same class. Okay, so I've you have people

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who it's their very first class in the same room

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with people who have taken thousands of classes. You are

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people who are incredibly flexible in with people who are inflexible.

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You have people who are very young in with people

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who are very old. Your people in my studio, we

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have people who sit in chairs. We have people who

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have to sit on the ground for the whole class.

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We have amputees, We have hip replacements, knee replacements, people

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you know, and everybody's just doing what they can and

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that is an amazing experience of we all work together. Yeah,

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so it doesn't matter how much or little you do.

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We don't separate people into groups. Everybody's in there together.

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I had a class this morning. My younger student was

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probably a college student. We have an older woman and

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I'd love to talk about more. Her name's Elaine. She's

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eighty eight years old. She's been practicing for fifteen years.

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the she comes in class and we have thirteen year

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olds and her in the same exact class.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So everybody's just doing what they can do. The practice

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doesn't change, but you do.

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Speaker 3: So Elaine. So she's eighty eight.

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Speaker 1: She's eighty eight.

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Speaker 3: She's been doing yoga for fifteen years. Fifteen years, I

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would imagine. So she's probably a lot more flexible.

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Speaker 1: Than most eighty eight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she didn't come in flexible when she started. She

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had high cholesterol not controlled, high blood pressure also not control.

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Speaker 1: They wanted to put her in the hospital to get

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Speaker 2: To control her high blood pres Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Because she was struggling with you know, it's too high,

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was too low. It was going back and forth, and

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she was caring for her husband with dementia, and she

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didn't want to leave him the hospital, so she wasn't

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taking care of herself. She was taking care of him,

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but not taking care of herself. You don't get on

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the airplane, they say put your mask on first. Yep, exactly,

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got to take care of yourself first. But she wasn't

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doing that. Her kids convinced her to come and take

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three classes. She could not stand for the whole class.

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really struggling just to be in the room. And so

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the first class she came in, she did the breathing

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exercise that we start with, and then she laid on

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the floor and just laid down for the entire class

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and did the breathing exercise at the end. And then

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her kids convinced her she had to do three classes

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before she could give up. So she said she went

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home even after just laying on the floor for an

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hour in the heat, took a shower, and she felt better,

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and then she came back the next day, and she

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came back the next couple days later, and I think

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that got her hooked. After she practicing a short time

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and she's still not doing much of the class. She's

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doing a lot of just laying down, which you're perfectly

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Speaker 3: She's getting the still getting the heat.

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Speaker 1: You're still getting yeah on this and I want to

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really fascinating, really yeah, how being a heated environment lifts

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depression for a lot of people. But I want to

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finishing laid story. So she started coming. We also did

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a little challenge where we asked people to do ten

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off for thirty year off your next month.

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Speaker 1: And she said, I can't do it, and I said,

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what can you do it? She said I can do three.

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I said, okay, we'll do three in a row. And

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then she did three, and then she did five, and

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then she did the ten. She did the thirty, and

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she decided she was going to keep coming because she

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was feeling so good.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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yoga seventy two years old, and I tease her, now

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I gave her which charged seventy five. We gave her

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the gift of free yoga for the rest of her life.

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Speaker 1: I know she was going to live this long and

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might have waited till she was aiding, but she's still coming.

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And so then she started just coming almost every day.

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through you know, illnesses, through the death of her husband,

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through you know, just things that happen in life. The

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yoga has been the thing that she can come back

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to over and over again.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that grounds her.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, she's she's independent, she's strong, she's flexible. Good

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for her, Yeah, she and she really does. We talk

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she will tell you a lot of it is too,

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is the community that we have. That's why it was

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important when we were on Zoom for me to have

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the community. We know that there are people who struggle

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with mental health issues. Yoga is very helpful. And then

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to lose that in the process of a pandemic and lockdown.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, to give them still this community to come back

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to and be part of, even if they can't practice

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yoga online. Yeah, to be able to come and check

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in with somebody and say I'm here. I think one

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of the greatest diseases in the United States and the

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world is actually loneliness. And when you look at overeating, smoking,

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all of that, Yes, the depression, loneliness is a huge

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part of that for a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: And so by having everybody in the same room, you

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have a community that we start building a people of

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all different ages, all different We have doctors that practice

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next to janitors, Like it doesn't matter when you're in

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the room in a little outfit sweating. It doesn't matter

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what you do for a living, or what your education is,

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or what your income level is. It's kind of a

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great equalizer. Eline spends a lot of time going out

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for breakfast after class or whatever with people of all

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different ages, and so she's kept that social group going

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even at the loss of friends and who are her age.

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way to rebuild it. So we have people that range

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in all ages and they all work together, which I

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think is really helpful. So much of what we're doing

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in yoga is not about the physical postures that we did,

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and so having that community is really important and having

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people of all different ages and stuff. We know that

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there's a lot of studies that have studied though depression

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and going into saunas and going into heated environments, and

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there was actually a Harvard study. I wish I had

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more information than I could, but people can just if

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they googled Bickram Yoga Harvard Depression Study, it'll come up.

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They had people doing two classes a week and they

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self reported huge changes that they were far less depressed

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during yoga, even compared to people who are taking medication.

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modalities of healing. So we have float tanks, we have

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a sauna, we have red light therapy, massage therapy, we're

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adding in skincare, We do meditations, and all of these

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things work together. Some people just coming into asauna can

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be really helpful for helping depression.

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Speaker 3: That's particularly interesting to me because I probably haven't told

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you this, some of my listeners know because I'm pretty

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open about this stuff. But you know, I by entire

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adult life and probably going back to when I was

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a teenager, I've struggled with depression unmedicated because I'm stubborn

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and terrified of side effects. But it's definitely and I've

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never been formally diagnosed, but I believe it's, you know,

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just it's clinical depression, because you know, I can get

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depressed for no reason, so that's probably you know, I'm

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pretty sure it's a chemical imbalance, and it's definitely in

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my family. But I love my favorite time of year, summer,

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and I actually like the heat, like when it's ninety

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degrees outside, you know, and people are you know, I'd

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prefer a dry heat. But even the humidity doesn't really

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bother me. You know, I'm running around well, you know,

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you've seen me pop in at your place in al

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when it's you know, ninety degrees and I'm out running

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around all sweaty. But I'm fine, And I always I've

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always kind of assumed that part of why I like

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summer so much, it is my favorite time of year,

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is because there's more sunlight, and I think the more

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sunlight helps alleviate depression. But I wonder too, if maybe

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maybe the reason I like the heat, it's not just

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because I'm weird, because people think it's weird. Really it's

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ninety degrees and you don't mind. I'm like, no, it's

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fine with me.

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yeah mentally.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it probably is. They know that heat. They don't

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know why, but they know that being a heated environment

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does help people with depression. The float tank that we

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have we put in an open float tank. A lot

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of float tanks and there's some great float places up

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here in New Hampshire. Yeah. They have cabins and they

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have pods which have covers and for some people that's

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very claustrophobic.

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Speaker 1: Very difficult for people with mobility issues often to get

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in and out of them. Okay, so we put in

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a large open float tank that has a side that

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you can sit on. It has a metal grab bar

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that allows people with mobility issues to get in and out,

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but also for people who are claustrophobic they can come

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in and use it. There's been studies where they've studied

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floating compared to medication for anxiety for mild to moderate,

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not severe anxiety, but mild to moderate anxiety. Compared medication

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to regular floating, and the people who were floating regularly

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saw more improvement than people in medication and no side effects.

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I love Western medicine. I think Western medicine is great.

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that detagrade pharmaceutical companies on that. I think if you

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have an acute injury or illness, western medicine is a

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great solution. If your appendix structures, go have a surgery. Yes,

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if you have pneumonia, please take an antibiotic like there are,

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but it comes with side effects. What the Western medicine

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hasn't been able to do as well is chronic illness,

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chronic injury, you know, immune thing, the autoimmune disorders, depression,

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chronic anxiety. When you have those chronic illnesses, Western medicine

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has tools in their toolbox are pills and surgery. They

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are so good at diagnosis though they have X rays

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and cat scans and functional MRIs and all blood tests

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and all these things they can do to diagnose what's wrong.

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But their treatment toolbox is really just pills and surgery.

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And for some things that's great, like say your pendix ruptures,

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please have it taken out. That doesn't work for chronic illness,

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that doesn't work for chronic injury. And I was so

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blessed to come across a doctor when I got injured

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who said, go try all these other types of healing

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to see what works. And what I've found is and

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working for twenty years in wellness, lots of my students

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have found finding the other monologies is how you treat

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chronic illness. You can't really treat it with Western medicine

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because who wants all those side effects. But you find

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the other things that work, and then you have to

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incorporate them and make them part of your lifestyle, even

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when that's hard. One of the hardest things I think

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for people with depression is to make that consistent to

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keep coming. We have students that I have said to me,

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I struggle with depression. So when I don't show up,

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I'm probably And I said, I asked them, do you

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want me to call you? Do you want me to

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call you? And just like give you a little nudge.

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I don't like to chase students, but I'm happy to

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give you a little nudge and say, hey, you're doing okay,

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why don't you come in and you know, commit and

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take a nap on the floor. And once they're in

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and they're with the people again, it helps. It's not

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going to fix it, and I may not fix it

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for and this is the good news is it helps.

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The bad news is you have to do it for

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the rest of your life. Bad news is you're not

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going to be able to do It's not a one

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and done. It's like brushing your teeth. You have to

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do it consistently to keep helping. And so it's that idea.

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times a week. If you're injured, come more. If you're

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feeling good, go to the beach. Don't go to yoga

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that day. You know. The red light therapy that we

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do is designed to excite the mitochondri and yourselves. It

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makes people feel better, but it also heals injuries faster.

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the company that makes red light therapy panels. So I

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make it in a bad study. It just I like

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to disclose where the study came from that. They found

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the people who regularly use red light therapy, they're not

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sure why it decreases inflammation in the body. They're not

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sure why it does these things it does, but they

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know it works. Okay, So they found an increase of

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healthy gut bacteria and people who were regularly doing red

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light So it may just be that increasing your gut

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bacteria that's healthy having. We know that having a healthy

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gut makes your whole body feel better. So the red

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light therapy and it's been used as a treatment medically

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for people with crones and colitis for a long long time. Yeah,

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so they know that it's good for your gut and

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their gut stuff helps the whole body feel better. The

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sauna is more heat to like hang out and just

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relax sends the muscles, but also helps with depression, helps

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with mental health issues. To float tank, the massage, all

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of this works together, but the yoga to get people

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moving and stronger and more flexible not only in their

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when when you're talking about Western medicine and what it

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addresses well and not so well.

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 3: It's it's probably I assume you have people who who

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come to you who are perfectly healthy, they just want

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to be healthier. Yeah, because I feel like, and maybe

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maybe I shouldn't say Western medicine so much in this context.

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Is it may just be a broader just societal issue

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that we have in America where there's there's not enough

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this recently on the show. There's never enough emphasis on

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preventative medicine and and just taking care of yourself up front.

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It seems like our whole way of doing things culturally

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is you address these problems when they occur, but you

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don't do enough. And it kind of goes back to

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what I was saying too about smoking. When you know

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a smoker who says, well, I'm okay today, there's no

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cancer today, you know, and then I'll address the problem

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when it kind of arises. And smoking is an extreme

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example of that, of course, but but I think most people, yeah,

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they're just like, yeah, you know, when when something happens,

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I'll address it, but until then I assume I'm fine,

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when in reality, you know, it's We had someone on

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the show Doctor No who from Portsmouth who was on

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the show with us one day, and I said to him,

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the easiest thing in the world for any of us

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to take for granted. The number one thing that people

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take for granted, I believe is their health. And he

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said to me, not only is it the easiest thing

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to take for granted, it's the hardest thing to get

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back right once something goes.

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Speaker 1: FROLLI Lama I think it was who said he has

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found that people will give up their health to chase money,

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and then when they get old and they need their health,

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they'll spend all their money yeah and get healthy.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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but that's the gist, that idea that things that we

479
00:22:26,279 --> 00:22:29,480
monetize things in a way that will chase the money,

480
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,200
but we'll give up ourselves in the process. And again,

481
00:22:32,279 --> 00:22:35,400
yoga is about finding a balance, right, so that balance

482
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,920
of go and work but also take care of yourself.

483
00:22:38,279 --> 00:22:40,599
So in our classes too, there's a section of the

484
00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:43,279
class on the floor that the last part of the class.

485
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:44,839
But we do a posture and then we lay down

486
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:46,880
to rest. We do a posture and we lay down

487
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,880
to rest. We do a posture, We lay down and

488
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,519
rest and we do back and forth, and there's some

489
00:22:51,559 --> 00:22:53,920
physiological things going on there, but I a'll think it's

490
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,519
important you're learning in that moment, Like you have to work,

491
00:22:56,559 --> 00:22:58,279
but as much as you work, you have to rest.

492
00:22:58,839 --> 00:23:02,000
You cannot constantly go go, go, go, go burn the candle.

493
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,680
That both ends. At some point you run out of candle.

494
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,799
That's the problem. So you have to create that balance

495
00:23:07,839 --> 00:23:11,920
of work and rest. And it's all about balance, and

496
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,240
that's what we're trying to teach people to find the

497
00:23:14,279 --> 00:23:17,559
balance in their life, in their strength and flexibility in

498
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,079
their work and relaxation in their mind and their body.

499
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,039
How do you find the balance. It's not that you're

500
00:23:24,079 --> 00:23:25,960
going to be perfectly balanced your right arm and your

501
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,279
left arm will be equally strong and flexible. That's not

502
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,880
the balance we're talking about. But it is that idea

503
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,160
that you figure out how to live in your body

504
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,599
in the way that you're not abusing yourself. And again

505
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,720
that always goes back to that idea of falling in

506
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,079
love with yourself. To look in the mirror over and

507
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:43,559
over and over again when you come in class from

508
00:23:43,599 --> 00:23:46,680
your beginner is hard, and I struggle to watch those

509
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,920
students who are really struggling to see themselves. I jokingly

510
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,519
often say look in the mirror, and if you see yourself,

511
00:23:52,519 --> 00:23:55,119
I'll give you extra points because we can look in

512
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,759
the mirror. Many of us look in the mirror every

513
00:23:56,799 --> 00:23:59,000
single day to get ready to go out the door,

514
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,000
but we don't see our So to spend ninety minutes

515
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,720
seeing yourself that's who you truly are, is an amazing

516
00:24:05,759 --> 00:24:08,720
thing to watch people create that balance to get their

517
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,920
health back. But we do have a lot of people

518
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,279
who are fine, they're healthy, and they're coming to relieve,

519
00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:16,759
press maybe or whatever. They just want to Often it's

520
00:24:16,799 --> 00:24:19,519
something that goes with the other activity they do. They golf,

521
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,599
but they need to get that flexibility. They run, so

522
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,680
their hamstrings are tight, so they need to do the yoga.

523
00:24:25,759 --> 00:24:28,200
They lift a lot of weight, so they need to

524
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,680
do the yoga. So often these are people who are athletes,

525
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,680
professional athletes and stuff. I had one hundred mile marathon.

526
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,440
If he used to come all the time, I think,

527
00:24:35,599 --> 00:24:37,799
when you discover what's big and hungry and chasing you,

528
00:24:37,839 --> 00:24:39,440
please let me know and we'll take.

529
00:24:39,319 --> 00:24:39,640
Speaker 2: Care of you.

530
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 1: But he just loved to run, but he needed that.

531
00:24:43,079 --> 00:24:45,759
His hamstrings have started to be a problem, so you

532
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,599
balance it out with this other stuff. You can never

533
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:53,039
measure what didn't go wrong because you've taken care of yourself, right,

534
00:24:53,519 --> 00:24:57,720
that's the thing, right, can't measure that. So I often

535
00:24:57,839 --> 00:24:59,680
say to people, I don't know where I would be

536
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:04,880
without the yoga, And my manager, who's lovely, he always says, oh,

537
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,519
you'd be dead by it, and I think he's probably right.

538
00:25:07,559 --> 00:25:09,559
I probably would have been dead by now. But he

539
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,440
just believes that, you know, the smoking and the drinking

540
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,160
and the chronic pain would have led me down a

541
00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:17,160
dangerous with yeah, and I think he's right. Once my

542
00:25:17,279 --> 00:25:19,720
kids were no longer my responsibility to take care of

543
00:25:19,759 --> 00:25:22,720
every day without the yoga, I don't know what that

544
00:25:22,759 --> 00:25:24,480
would have looked like. But you can't measure that.

545
00:25:25,279 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 3: Interesting, yeah, because once the kids grow up, then you know,

546
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,519
I don't have any children. I'm not a parent, but

547
00:25:32,559 --> 00:25:35,720
I assume, and partly I hear people talk about this too.

548
00:25:35,759 --> 00:25:39,559
There's that sense of what is my purpose now? My

549
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,839
purpose was to raise my children.

550
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 1: And that purpose in combination with living in pain, because

551
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,039
when you don't have that, when you live in that

552
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,400
level of pain, and for some people like me, that

553
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,000
was physical pain, Yeah. For some people that's emotional pain.

554
00:25:53,279 --> 00:25:55,960
For some people that spiritual pain. It's chemical pain, it's

555
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,119
that brain chemistry, whatever it is. When they don't have

556
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,680
that reason to get out of bed in the morning,

557
00:26:01,799 --> 00:26:05,559
it gets easier and easier to not to stop taking

558
00:26:05,599 --> 00:26:08,400
care of yourself, to stop. You know, it's painful to

559
00:26:08,519 --> 00:26:10,400
drive the car and turn my head to try to

560
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,799
back out of my driveway. I'm just gonna stop doing right.

561
00:26:14,799 --> 00:26:16,000
I have to do it because I have to bring

562
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,279
the kids to school. But once they're gone, yeah, you know,

563
00:26:19,519 --> 00:26:22,400
and I think that's and watching people age like that,

564
00:26:22,519 --> 00:26:25,279
it's sad for me because I see Elaine who made

565
00:26:25,319 --> 00:26:27,680
a different choice. And we have lots of students in

566
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,920
their sixties, seventies from almost sixty, myself in their seventies eighties.

567
00:26:32,279 --> 00:26:34,839
We're about to celebrate Elane's ninetieth birthday in just a

568
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,319
few years, so you know, there's no reason to if

569
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,720
she started at seventy two, there's no reason to think

570
00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:45,519
I'm too old to start, right, because I think she had.

571
00:26:45,599 --> 00:26:47,200
She don't tell people the reason I can come every

572
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,599
day is because I started. I was already retired. Interesting

573
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,799
I could come every day because I didn't have a

574
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,480
job in kids and stuff. Yeah, I had repent. She

575
00:26:55,599 --> 00:26:57,359
learned to take care of herself, which made her better

576
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,240
take care of her husband. Yes, yes, so it all,

577
00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:01,519
you know, it all works together.

578
00:27:02,039 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 3: I always assume Mick Jagger, you know, he's in his

579
00:27:04,759 --> 00:27:07,839
eighties now, but if you see recent video of him

580
00:27:07,839 --> 00:27:10,000
on stage, he's still you know, he runs around like

581
00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:13,319
he's twenty years old. And he and he you know,

582
00:27:13,519 --> 00:27:16,359
he doesn't seem to get winded. You know, he's singing

583
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,119
and running around on stage. And I know he.

584
00:27:19,079 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 1: Hasn't always had the healthiest lifestyle.

585
00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 3: Right exactly. We all know that exactly. So I just

586
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,039
assume I don't know this, but I assume he does

587
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,039
yoga something.

588
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think you can't abuse yourself a fair

589
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,480
bit in your twenties and thirties. I think anyone over

590
00:27:33,519 --> 00:27:36,640
thirty would agree, like, you could abuse yourself a fair bit,

591
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,839
the body recovers better and all of that. Yeah, Ony,

592
00:27:38,839 --> 00:27:41,200
don't you start getting in the thirties and forty you

593
00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:43,759
don't bounce back. And it's that idea. Objects in motions

594
00:27:43,799 --> 00:27:46,559
stay in motion, Objects at rest stay at rest. Your

595
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,759
one job in this world is to take care of you. Yeah,

596
00:27:49,839 --> 00:27:52,200
I asked his question in class. If I told you,

597
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,519
at sixteen you learn to drive a car, and I'm

598
00:27:54,559 --> 00:27:56,440
going to give you a car, you could have any

599
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,960
car you want, but you can only have that car

600
00:27:59,039 --> 00:28:00,839
for the rest of your life. How are you going

601
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,839
to take care of that car? How often are you

602
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,119
going to wash it, change the oil, to take care

603
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,319
of it, all that stuff. Most of us would say, oh,

604
00:28:08,319 --> 00:28:10,319
I would take such good care of that car, knowing

605
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,680
that's the only one I'm getting. You get one body, yeath,

606
00:28:14,519 --> 00:28:16,279
and it's got to take you from beginning to end?

607
00:28:16,319 --> 00:28:18,599
How are you taking care of it? And that's not

608
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,519
for a place of guilt, because you can't abuse yourself

609
00:28:20,559 --> 00:28:21,559
a bit For a while.

610
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 3: You can get away with that young.

611
00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: Spoking, the drinking and all of that. You know, you

612
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,720
can get away with all of that until some point

613
00:28:27,799 --> 00:28:30,440
where you can't anymore. And the problem is you've created

614
00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:33,640
the habits and the lifestyle patterns, the patterns that make

615
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,759
it difficult to transition to something new. So you're right,

616
00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:39,440
we are hypnotizing people when I have these conversations while

617
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,799
they're in class sweating, and I'm saying these things to

618
00:28:41,839 --> 00:28:44,400
them in class. I'm brainwashing. But I tell them I'm

619
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,279
up front, it's not a secret. I'm going to brainwash you.

620
00:28:47,319 --> 00:28:49,119
And if I have trouble brainwashing, that's when we turn

621
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,000
the heat up because it makes the brainwashing easier. But

622
00:28:52,039 --> 00:28:54,400
my goal is to brainwash you. So instead to be

623
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,720
your brainwashing us we are a cult, I said, no,

624
00:28:56,799 --> 00:28:58,680
we're not a cult. Cult wants to tell you what

625
00:28:58,759 --> 00:29:00,440
to do all the time and what to think all

626
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,400
the time. I want you to stop thinking for ninety

627
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,079
minutes and fall in love with you because that's my

628
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,880
that's my evil plan of yoga is to make people

629
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,119
fall in love with themselves, right, because that makes the

630
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:12,880
whole world better.

631
00:29:13,039 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 2: Yes, right, yes, And.

632
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,599
Speaker 1: That's the same when you're hypnotizing somebody and they stop smoking,

633
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,640
you probably see it. They change how they feel about

634
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,759
them They care about themselves in a new way that

635
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,720
getting them to stop smoking gets them to eat better,

636
00:29:26,759 --> 00:29:29,119
to go for a walk more than you know, whatever

637
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,000
it is, you see those changes. When you start just

638
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,000
making those small steps to just start being better to yourself,

639
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,720
it builds and then it builds and it builds, and

640
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,839
all it takes is one step. I tell you. All

641
00:29:40,839 --> 00:29:42,440
you have to do is walk in the door. We're

642
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,480
going to help you do the rest, but you have

643
00:29:44,519 --> 00:29:46,200
to walk in the door. I can't come to your house.

644
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,640
I wish I could. I see people in the grocery

645
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,519
store and I go, excuse me with me. I would

646
00:29:51,559 --> 00:29:53,240
like you to come with me for just for an

647
00:29:53,279 --> 00:29:55,519
hour and a half and see if we can, you know,

648
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,640
help you out, because it makes me sad to see

649
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:02,440
people who physically are struggling. You see people physically struggle,

650
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,599
but you never you can't see what's going on for

651
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,359
the people who are not physically struggling, but struggling in

652
00:30:07,359 --> 00:30:09,559
lots of other ways. If you're a human being, you

653
00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:13,640
have trauma, you're struggling in some way, and so being

654
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,839
able to help get that out of your way so

655
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,839
that you're not struggling to go through life every day.

656
00:30:20,039 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it feels so good. It's it's like, uh

657
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,079
to me, I mean, it's got to be the biggest

658
00:30:26,279 --> 00:30:28,920
endorphin rush in the world to be able to help

659
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:33,680
somebody get better. You know, Yes, it's I mean, that's

660
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,279
what you know. To me, hypnotherapy is addictive because I

661
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,720
just love helping somebody make make positive change. You know,

662
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:42,079
it's it's Uh.

663
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,519
Speaker 1: Someone asked me what my return on investment was in

664
00:30:44,559 --> 00:30:47,799
my business when we were transitioning from the smaller studio

665
00:30:48,039 --> 00:30:52,079
closing financially not in a good place, to reopening in

666
00:30:52,079 --> 00:30:56,000
a much bigger space with all the other wellness modalities.

667
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,319
They were like, what's your return on investment? Well, it's

668
00:30:59,319 --> 00:31:03,160
eline my return investment. I have a student who had

669
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:07,559
kidney failure and I couldn't get him a kidney, and

670
00:31:07,839 --> 00:31:11,279
somebody another modality, a chiropractor or an acupuncturist, had said

671
00:31:11,279 --> 00:31:13,279
to him, you should maybe try this. I met this

672
00:31:13,319 --> 00:31:15,599
woman who teaches sweaty yoga. Maybe you should go do that,

673
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,000
and like sweat, maybe that'll help. Yeah, right, and we

674
00:31:19,039 --> 00:31:22,240
talk about detoxic and hot yoga. You're not toxic. It

675
00:31:22,279 --> 00:31:25,000
does help remove metabolic waste from your body and stuff.

676
00:31:25,319 --> 00:31:28,039
But the students walk in, you're not toxic. You're not

677
00:31:28,079 --> 00:31:30,640
sitting around toxic. This guy was toxic, like he had

678
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,599
didn't have functioning kidneys to clean out his system. Wow,

679
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,920
And we progressively watched him get better back because I

680
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,079
asked him, I said, so you've had a kidney transplant.

681
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,440
He said no, And I said, so you're not on

682
00:31:41,559 --> 00:31:44,200
dialysis of kidney failure and you didn't get a transplant.

683
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:45,920
And I said, how does that work? Because basically I'm

684
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,839
just waiting to die, okay, but I want to feel better.

685
00:31:50,119 --> 00:31:51,920
I think maybe this will help me feel better.

686
00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 2: Okay.

687
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: Come eleven years later, he finally got a kidney trips.

688
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

689
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he did it. Actually, he was saying, the

690
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,720
show the birthday of that place where Jennie Shell is

691
00:32:01,759 --> 00:32:04,559
this weekend is Saturday. My birthday is on Saturday. And

692
00:32:04,599 --> 00:32:07,319
he got his kidney on my birthday, which was really exciting.

693
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 2: Wow.

694
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,039
Speaker 1: But I watched him progressively get better and better and

695
00:32:10,039 --> 00:32:12,559
better and better and better and better over years and

696
00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:13,160
years and a year.

697
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

698
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: Just doing hot yoga and Western medicine is a funny

699
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,519
thing because he went to his doctor, his necrologist with

700
00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:23,000
the kidney doctor, and they said to him, you look great.

701
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,400
What are you doing And he said, I'm doing hot yoga.

702
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:25,799
Speaker 2: Yeah.

703
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: And the doctor said, oh, I don't know if you

704
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:27,880
should be doing that.

705
00:32:28,359 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 3: Oh really, But He's.

706
00:32:30,039 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: Like, but you just told me how good I look.

707
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,920
My numbers look good. My numbers look good, and I

708
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,000
look good and I feel good and I'm living of

709
00:32:36,039 --> 00:32:38,559
a good quality of life. Why would you tell me

710
00:32:38,599 --> 00:32:41,680
that's not the thing I should be doing. It's funny

711
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,119
that Western doctors just have this idea and also this

712
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,799
idea of what yoga is. Like most people think yoga

713
00:32:46,799 --> 00:32:48,759
and they think down dog and up dog and I

714
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,640
did too. I can't do that. I have a neck injury,

715
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,279
I have a shoulder injury, whatever, and we don't do

716
00:32:54,319 --> 00:32:58,359
any of that. It's really accessible to everybody with injuries

717
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,359
because that's what it was designed for, designed for injured bodies,

718
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,000
to bring them back to health and then to let

719
00:33:04,039 --> 00:33:05,839
them maintain that good health into it.

720
00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:09,519
Speaker 3: I'm curious, and if you're just joining us, we're talking

721
00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:14,160
with Terry Almquist from Wellness Hot Yoga in haverl Yeah.

722
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:15,240
I was curious to ask you.

723
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 2: You may have.

724
00:33:15,599 --> 00:33:17,519
Speaker 3: Already answered it with what you were just saying, but

725
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:22,000
maybe there's something else, like misconceptions, Like what is the

726
00:33:22,039 --> 00:33:25,240
biggest misconception people have about yoga.

727
00:33:25,359 --> 00:33:27,599
Speaker 1: I think the biggest misconception people have is that you

728
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,079
have to be flexible to yoga.

729
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:30,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you don't.

730
00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:32,839
Speaker 1: I was so infired. I hadn't moved my head in

731
00:33:33,079 --> 00:33:34,200
thirteen fourteen years.

732
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:35,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, so inflexible.

733
00:33:35,519 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: It wasn't until I actually started doing yoga that we

734
00:33:37,559 --> 00:33:40,400
realized I had all this problems with my shoulder too.

735
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,759
I think in the same injury, I had probably torn

736
00:33:42,799 --> 00:33:45,359
a rotator cuff. When you go to an emergency room

737
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,880
and you can't move your legs because your spine is injured,

738
00:33:48,119 --> 00:33:51,519
no one asks you how your shoulder feels. Right, it's

739
00:33:51,519 --> 00:33:56,720
not high up on the list. And so when you

740
00:33:56,759 --> 00:33:59,079
have those kind of injuries, you think, I can't do

741
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,240
yoga because I injured this, And that may be true

742
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,319
of and I found that true for myself. And I'm

743
00:34:04,319 --> 00:34:06,759
not denigrating other styles of yoga. I think all yoga

744
00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:09,639
is good yoga, yeah, and not all yoga is made

745
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,079
for all bodies. Right, So if you're an injured body,

746
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,719
you're not. You shouldn't be going into a class where

747
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,480
the first thing they start with this handstands.

748
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 2: Right.

749
00:34:18,039 --> 00:34:20,119
Speaker 1: If you've ever done yoga and you go into a

750
00:34:20,119 --> 00:34:21,960
class and they're starting and you have a spine injury

751
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,559
and they start with headstands, you're in the wrong yoga class, right,

752
00:34:25,039 --> 00:34:29,159
Because ours is designed from a therapeutic yoga standpoint, was

753
00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,519
done as yoga therapy. Every single posture is designed for

754
00:34:32,559 --> 00:34:36,119
people who have almost no mobility. The first step of

755
00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:37,679
a lot of the pastures when we're standing is to

756
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,079
stand with your feet together, and for some people that's it.

757
00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:42,960
That's hard enough. Yeah, bring your arms over your head.

758
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,440
There's nothing we do that's really crazy. There's nothing we do,

759
00:34:46,519 --> 00:34:48,559
first of all, in this particular style of yoga that's

760
00:34:48,599 --> 00:34:51,440
outside the natural range of motion for the adult human body.

761
00:34:51,599 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 2: Okay.

762
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,639
Speaker 1: And we do no weight bearing exercises on non weight

763
00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:58,119
bearing joints, meaning we're not standing on our head or

764
00:34:58,159 --> 00:35:01,920
our hands, we're not doing. All of the poses we

765
00:35:02,039 --> 00:35:04,679
do are designed to work with the way the human.

766
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,599
Speaker 2: Body is actually designed to Okay.

767
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,599
Speaker 1: So, and you could just do that little bit. So

768
00:35:09,639 --> 00:35:11,599
people think I can't sit on my heels. I can't.

769
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,400
I can't get up and down off the floor. I

770
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,519
hear that a lot. That's a common misconception yoga because

771
00:35:16,519 --> 00:35:18,360
I can't get up and down off the floor. And

772
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,119
in some yoga's that's true. They're doing down dog up

773
00:35:21,159 --> 00:35:24,960
dog chataranga. That's a very traditional set of postures that

774
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,639
are done and yasa in different styles of yoga. Yeah,

775
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,960
we don't do that, So there's no up and down.

776
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,480
You're up standing up for the first part of class,

777
00:35:33,559 --> 00:35:35,079
and then we get on the floor once and we

778
00:35:35,119 --> 00:35:37,639
stay on the floor till the end. Oh so you

779
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,039
only have to get up once and down once. That's it.

780
00:35:41,079 --> 00:35:43,039
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah, that's why.

781
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: It's really a different it's a different conception concept of

782
00:35:46,599 --> 00:35:49,440
yoga than a lot of yoga that people are sort

783
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:50,320
of conscious of it.

784
00:35:50,519 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and do do do kids do yoga?

785
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: We kids as young as eight can do this yoga.

786
00:35:57,639 --> 00:35:59,920
Kids do the only do the portion on the floor.

787
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,159
They're already flexible. They're just made out of rubber band

788
00:36:02,159 --> 00:36:05,760
in bubblegum, right, and they don't have the muscle strength

789
00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:08,960
to hold We only hold the postures twenty thirty seconds,

790
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,800
but some of them that's the challenge, Like it's difficult

791
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,320
to hold that posture for twenty to thirty seconds for

792
00:36:15,519 --> 00:36:18,159
children who don't have that muscle strength. What happens is

793
00:36:18,159 --> 00:36:21,159
they can get very deep into postures and they can't

794
00:36:21,159 --> 00:36:23,480
hold it. So we don't have them do and they

795
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,880
don't need to warm up the heat all. The first

796
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,920
part of class is warming up in the heat to

797
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,360
get ready for the yoga practice, which happens on the floor.

798
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,000
Kids don't need to warm up they're already warm, they're

799
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,480
already limbered, they're already all those things. So I'm seeing

800
00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:37,840
less and less. I'm seeing more and more younger kids

801
00:36:38,199 --> 00:36:41,199
who have less flexibility. I think they don't run around

802
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:41,880
like we used to do.

803
00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:44,119
Speaker 3: Oh interesting, Like they don't.

804
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 1: Have gym like we used to. Ye, So I see

805
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:50,280
kids who have less flexibility, but they come in for

806
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,840
the back half of class. So they usually they're usually

807
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,280
coming because their parents come and they're interested, and they

808
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,920
start coming because of that. So under the age of

809
00:37:00,199 --> 00:37:03,920
fourteen thirteen, fourteen, they just do that last part of class.

810
00:37:04,119 --> 00:37:06,519
Once they get old enough to sweat efficiently, that's the

811
00:37:06,519 --> 00:37:08,280
other problem. You don't want to put a kid that

812
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,400
age in the heated room for ninety minutes because children don't.

813
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,280
Part of the reason we have the heat is to

814
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,400
make you sweat, and that sweat helps you efficiently cool

815
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,320
your own body, okay, And so we want you to

816
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,920
be heated up so your limber sweating so you don't overheat,

817
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,599
which sounds counterintuitive, like if I make you hot and sweater,

818
00:37:27,679 --> 00:37:31,280
you won't overheat. But as the sweat is evaporating, your

819
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,719
body is staying. It's normal for temperature. Yeah, the room

820
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,199
is hot, but you are not. Children can't cool themselves

821
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,440
like that because they don't have mature sweat glands. Children

822
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,920
can overheat much more quickly than adults. So we don't

823
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,239
want little kids in the room.

824
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 2: I don't know that.

825
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't want little and they can go from

826
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,599
being fine to being not fine and just really fast. Yeah,

827
00:37:52,639 --> 00:37:55,119
with the delta takes a little longer. So as teachers,

828
00:37:55,119 --> 00:37:57,199
the part of the training we have, we're looking for

829
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,480
certain sides. If somebody's overheating, if they stop sweating, if

830
00:38:00,519 --> 00:38:03,519
they you know, there's certain things we're looking for. A

831
00:38:03,519 --> 00:38:06,119
certain color of the skin, they get paler or they

832
00:38:06,199 --> 00:38:08,400
get pinker. I always tell my teachers if you have

833
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,760
a little a younger person in the class and they

834
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,480
start looking like they have a bit of a sunburn

835
00:38:12,519 --> 00:38:14,519
on their face, they need to go outside and cool

836
00:38:14,519 --> 00:38:17,800
off for a minute. They're not cooling themselves. Same with adults.

837
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,039
We have a deltable turn. Some adults just turn very red.

838
00:38:20,039 --> 00:38:21,159
They'll tell you I turn red.

839
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 2: You know.

840
00:38:22,079 --> 00:38:24,800
Speaker 1: Some people are just ready like that. But we're looking

841
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,000
for certain signs. The teacher stands at the front of

842
00:38:27,039 --> 00:38:29,199
the room. We stand on a podium. I wear a

843
00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:32,679
headset and I'm talking, but I'm looking at everybody all

844
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,119
the time, so I'm watching to make sure everybody's okay.

845
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,679
Kids who are thirteen fourteen, they start sweating, they can

846
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,199
come and try the whole class. I ask parents who

847
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,320
want to bring their kids to class, does your kid

848
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,239
wear deodorant every day? Or does your kid wear deodorant

849
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,480
to the school dance? So if they're still just wearing deodorant,

850
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,639
if they only really need it for the school dance

851
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:56,360
or something very physical, they're probably not sweating efficiently enough.

852
00:38:56,519 --> 00:39:00,360
Yet a kid who needs deodorant every day to go

853
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,199
to school, they're probably.

854
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 2: Sweating efficiently okay.

855
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: And then if you practice enough and you come a lot,

856
00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:10,400
then you don't need deodorant at all because your sweat

857
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:11,079
is very clean.

858
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 3: Okay.

859
00:39:12,599 --> 00:39:13,159
Speaker 1: Fascinating.

860
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:17,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh that's very interesting. Yeah, the subject of deodorant

861
00:39:17,119 --> 00:39:18,719
came up recently on the show too. I forget who

862
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:22,960
we're talking with, but how it's really not not great

863
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,800
for you like this, the regular store brand deodorant stuff

864
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:27,159
is fine.

865
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,079
Speaker 1: To not smell is good. Yeah, we live in a

866
00:39:30,119 --> 00:39:30,719
social world.

867
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,760
Speaker 3: But there's like like organic but you are.

868
00:39:33,519 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: Designed to sweat, Yeah, to cool yourself. Sweat is actually

869
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,840
a natural reaction to either temperature or change. Is a

870
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,760
logical change in your body, like stress and that kind

871
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,760
of stuff. And we all know stress sweat smells different

872
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,440
than just like every day sweat. And if you sweat regularly,

873
00:39:51,159 --> 00:39:55,159
this is like way too much information. The spell is

874
00:39:55,199 --> 00:39:59,480
actually bacteria that's growing on your skin. Oh, that's what

875
00:39:59,559 --> 00:40:03,159
the spell. And if you sweat regularly, that bacteria is

876
00:40:03,599 --> 00:40:08,159
it's cleaned up there. And so I have to be

877
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,599
like too much information about me. I don't think I've

878
00:40:10,639 --> 00:40:10,880
won the.

879
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,039
Speaker 2: Yoda in fifteen years, kidding.

880
00:40:13,199 --> 00:40:15,559
Speaker 1: Except to fly. I don't like to fly. I'm a

881
00:40:15,559 --> 00:40:18,480
nervous flyer. Maybe I should get a little hypnosis. I

882
00:40:17,679 --> 00:40:21,159
have doing a retreat in Thailand. It may I'm gonna

883
00:40:21,159 --> 00:40:23,760
have to fly to Thailand. I usually fly with my manager,

884
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,239
which I refer to on the plane as my emotional support.

885
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,440
I'm going by myself on this trip. Maybe a little

886
00:40:30,519 --> 00:40:31,440
hypnosis will help.

887
00:40:31,599 --> 00:40:33,079
Speaker 3: I have helped people.

888
00:40:33,159 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, specifically, I do fly.

889
00:40:35,199 --> 00:40:37,639
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of flying. I'm just I don't I

890
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,239
just I'm nervous on the plane. Yeah, but I'll where

891
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,800
Toyoda because that's nervous sweat. It's not my every day,

892
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,280
but I go in a heated room several times a

893
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:46,119
day and sweat.

894
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:46,519
Speaker 2: Yeah.

895
00:40:46,559 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: And I haven't won Toyoda in years. And you've been

896
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:54,239
around me. Nobody's ben plain so far. Everybody so that

897
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,639
constantly sweating is good for your skin and your body too.

898
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,960
Like we talked about detoxing. If part of that is

899
00:41:00,079 --> 00:41:00,519
that idea?

900
00:41:01,079 --> 00:41:04,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's interesting.

901
00:41:04,519 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 2: Yeah.

902
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 3: I have helped people with that fear of flying. I

903
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,559
have my my only issue with see, I don't mind

904
00:41:09,599 --> 00:41:11,679
being Like being in that big metal tube in the

905
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,880
air doesn't bother me at all. I don't like airports.

906
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,239
Airports are stressful. Well like that Manchester. Have you ever flown?

907
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,639
And I love flying out of man Manchester is awesome.

908
00:41:20,679 --> 00:41:23,039
That airport is so it's so small, it's easy.

909
00:41:23,679 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think for me it's on the plane. I

910
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:26,280
call it big in the tube.

911
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.

912
00:41:28,559 --> 00:41:30,159
Speaker 1: It's a really uncomfortable thing for me.

913
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 3: Although physically that it can be hard for me because

914
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,400
my ears, especially on the descent. You know, people get

915
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,880
the ear popping. I get the pressure in my ears

916
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:44,760
sometimes gets really bad, like I've I've had I've been

917
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:49,159
in intense pain intends to happen on the descent. Not

918
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,119
every time I've flown, but a couple of times.

919
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:52,519
Speaker 1: I was a sick kid and I had a lot

920
00:41:52,519 --> 00:41:53,519
of chronic ear infection.

921
00:41:54,039 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, we're talking about that the other day.

922
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I actually understand that too much pressure

923
00:42:00,039 --> 00:42:02,519
flying is better for me now though unfortunately, because of

924
00:42:03,519 --> 00:42:05,719
I had COVID and I flew during while I had

925
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,280
COVID and I had problems with drugs, I ended up

926
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,719
with tubes in my ears that are pretty permanent. But

927
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,920
now I don't have that pressure change because I have tubes.

928
00:42:13,559 --> 00:42:14,199
Speaker 3: Yeah that's good.

929
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good, but it's not good, you know, I'd

930
00:42:16,599 --> 00:42:17,679
rather not have the tubes.

931
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,760
Speaker 3: And yeah, of course of course.

932
00:42:20,639 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 4: We should talk about too.

933
00:42:22,079 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 3: Uh, you've got the big open house. You've got a

934
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,079
big event that starts tomorrow tomorrow.

935
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 1: So our kickoff is tomorrow. So, as I said, this

936
00:42:31,079 --> 00:42:34,280
coming Saturday, the fourteenth is my birthday, and every year

937
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:35,960
for my birthday at the yoga studio, what I do

938
00:42:36,119 --> 00:42:39,360
is gift other people yoga. Yeah, because the greatest gift

939
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,639
you can give me for my birthday is to take

940
00:42:41,679 --> 00:42:44,039
care of yourself and learn and learn the tools to

941
00:42:44,119 --> 00:42:46,920
do that. Put those tools in your toolbox. So we

942
00:42:47,079 --> 00:42:50,280
have an open house all next week, kick off tomorrow

943
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,119
from seven to noon. We're gonna have healthy snacks and

944
00:42:53,599 --> 00:42:57,119
some healthy beverages and come and see the float tank,

945
00:42:57,559 --> 00:42:59,760
try out the red light, take a free suna, take

946
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:03,599
a yoga class. All next week. Yoga is free, all

947
00:43:03,679 --> 00:43:06,679
of our yoga classes, so we teach primarily this Bickram

948
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,960
hot yoga. We also have several yin classes a week

949
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:14,360
in the evening. Yin is a slower yoga class. Deeper stretches,

950
00:43:15,679 --> 00:43:19,119
held for long postures are held for long periods of time.

951
00:43:19,559 --> 00:43:22,400
Oh wow, it's a nice compliment to the hot yoga.

952
00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 3: Yeah.

953
00:43:23,079 --> 00:43:24,199
Speaker 1: Not, it's therapeutic.

954
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:24,559
Speaker 2: Good.

955
00:43:24,639 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: All yoga is good and therapeutic. But if you're really

956
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,440
badly injured, the hot yoga is the one you want

957
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,400
to do, and then the yin is good for creating

958
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:36,960
more flexibility once you are generally healthy. Okay, So all

959
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,880
our classes are free next week. Also all month. For

960
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,079
my birthday, we're doing twenty five dollars float therapy sessions.

961
00:43:43,679 --> 00:43:46,400
So just it's usually seventy, we're doing twenty. We're probably

962
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,400
giving it away. Come and float for an hour. In

963
00:43:48,519 --> 00:43:50,519
case you don't know what float is, it's a tank

964
00:43:50,599 --> 00:43:54,159
filled with saline solution. There's one thousand pounds of ebbs

965
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,679
and salt in this tank, so it's high in all

966
00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:00,119
those minerals and magnesium. Most people know, like an some

967
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,559
salt baths is great if you're injured, if your muscle's hurt.

968
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,760
It's also good for people have trouble sleeping. It's good

969
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:05,400
for anxiety.

970
00:44:05,599 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 2: Okay.

971
00:44:06,599 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: By getting in a tank full of salt water, you

972
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,679
become weightless. Yeah, So it takes the pressure off the

973
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,000
nerves and the muscles and the joints. So people with

974
00:44:15,159 --> 00:44:21,840
chronic illness like fibromyalgia, arthritis, bad backs, pregnancy, pregnant women

975
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,599
can float. We actually have a prenatal yoga class that

976
00:44:24,679 --> 00:44:27,239
we do once a week, and we have prenatal massage

977
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:31,880
float and massage float and.

978
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 2: Not the sauna.

979
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,119
Speaker 1: I can't remember what the other thing is. I'm so sorry.

980
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 3: Well, you got a lot going on.

981
00:44:38,559 --> 00:44:41,159
Speaker 1: I know, we got a lot going on. We do postpartum. Oh,

982
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,599
that's what I'm saying. Postpartum. The red light therapy is good,

983
00:44:43,639 --> 00:44:45,920
but no red light therapy during pregnancy, just because there's

984
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,559
never been any studies, and nobody's nobody's gonna take that

985
00:44:48,679 --> 00:44:49,719
risk to try and study that.

986
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:50,159
Speaker 3: I'm sure.

987
00:44:50,599 --> 00:44:54,119
Speaker 1: But postpartum red light therapy helps the body heal faster.

988
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 3: Okay, it's just good for nursing mothers.

989
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: It's very good. So we offer a lot of that stuff.

990
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:04,199
So the massage and the float therapy are on special

991
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:08,519
all month. Okay, ninety nine dollars for one hour massage

992
00:45:09,199 --> 00:45:11,199
and twenty five dollars for a one hour float.

993
00:45:11,519 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 2: Nice.

994
00:45:12,079 --> 00:45:15,760
Speaker 1: And the float therapy is I want people to do

995
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:17,320
yoga because I think you have to do the work

996
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,320
to make yourself well. You can't. You were talking about medicine.

997
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,320
Can't take me medicine instead of taking care of yourself,

998
00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:25,159
because one is passive and one is active, and it's

999
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:27,320
so easy to just do the passive thing. And I

1000
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,639
think Western medicine and pharmaceutical companies have sold us on

1001
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:32,800
this idea of you don't have to take care of yourself.

1002
00:45:33,079 --> 00:45:36,719
It's better living through chemistry. Remember those commercials, Yes, chemistry.

1003
00:45:38,199 --> 00:45:40,239
So they've sold us on this idea that we don't

1004
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,119
have to do the work. Well, we offer both. We

1005
00:45:42,199 --> 00:45:44,159
have the passive stuff. You could sit in the float tank,

1006
00:45:44,159 --> 00:45:46,119
you could sit in the red light. Doing the work

1007
00:45:46,159 --> 00:45:48,960
of the yoga is so important because all this other

1008
00:45:49,039 --> 00:45:52,920
stuff that we offer was put there to help support

1009
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,480
the work you're doing in the yoga practice. Yeah, but

1010
00:45:55,639 --> 00:45:57,760
everybody's welcome. You don't have to do yoga to come

1011
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,880
and use the other stuff. Just you don't have to

1012
00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:02,000
be a member. That's off in a misconception, right to

1013
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,519
remember the yoga studio. No, anybody can walk in and

1014
00:46:04,639 --> 00:46:07,159
do a float. Anybody can walk in and get a massage.

1015
00:46:07,199 --> 00:46:09,719
We have five massage surface. We offer a massage seven

1016
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:11,400
days a week. It's hard to find.

1017
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, that is Yeah, so

1018
00:46:14,559 --> 00:46:14,800
we do.

1019
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: Days and evenings and weekends and and we are open

1020
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:22,440
as a center five days a year. We actually have

1021
00:46:22,559 --> 00:46:25,320
yoga classes on Christmas and Thanksgiving and a lot of

1022
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,519
people those are the days they need it either, because

1023
00:46:27,639 --> 00:46:29,000
loneliness is a major disease.

1024
00:46:29,199 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 3: Oh that's interesting. Oh so you actually offer that for something.

1025
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1026
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 1: And some people really have said to me, I'm so

1027
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:37,559
grateful that I can come to my yoga before I

1028
00:46:37,599 --> 00:46:40,199
spend the day with my family, because the family can

1029
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,800
be stressful and families can be messy. And they're you know,

1030
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:44,679
but when you're taking care of yourself and you come

1031
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:47,239
from a messy family, sometimes that's hard to back in

1032
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,920
there to be able to come on Christmas morning and

1033
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,960
then go spend time with people that you know and

1034
00:46:54,119 --> 00:46:57,400
be okay in yourself. Yeah, com and okay in yourself.

1035
00:46:57,559 --> 00:46:57,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1036
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely we clean them up right right there you go,

1037
00:47:02,559 --> 00:47:04,519
there you go. So the open house starts tomorrow and

1038
00:47:04,559 --> 00:47:05,239
then it goes through.

1039
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 2: It's for the week.

1040
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,599
Speaker 1: The whole week. The whole week is free yoga, and

1041
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,440
the whole month for the float and the massages on sale.

1042
00:47:11,679 --> 00:47:13,760
And to cap off the end of the week, which

1043
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,119
is my actual birthday, we'll have free yoga next Saturday

1044
00:47:16,159 --> 00:47:18,960
as well, but also in the evening the community because

1045
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,960
we do community events. We're doing a riverboat cruise down

1046
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,639
the Merrimack that goes from behind the Tap in downtown

1047
00:47:24,679 --> 00:47:27,480
Hayral and then afterwards this cake back at the studio

1048
00:47:27,519 --> 00:47:28,960
and anyone's welcome. Oh cake.

1049
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 2: Very cool.

1050
00:47:30,039 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, So we're more than just you know, it's really

1051
00:47:32,079 --> 00:47:35,000
community and that's that idea of loneliness is really hard. Yeah,

1052
00:47:35,119 --> 00:47:37,599
but we create a community. So especially I think it's

1053
00:47:37,639 --> 00:47:40,239
hard to make new friends when you're an adult, and

1054
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,960
it's hard to a lot of people lost a lot

1055
00:47:43,039 --> 00:47:45,599
of their community during COVID. Yeah, and they're not working

1056
00:47:45,639 --> 00:47:48,079
in the office anymore. They've stayed home to work. So

1057
00:47:48,079 --> 00:47:50,079
if you're somebody who's feeling a little on the lonely

1058
00:47:50,159 --> 00:47:52,519
side and think you need a community, come and check

1059
00:47:52,599 --> 00:47:54,920
us out just to meet some people and make some

1060
00:47:55,039 --> 00:47:57,480
new friends and find a space where you can come

1061
00:47:57,599 --> 00:48:00,559
and be chilled out and relaxed and be with people. Yeah,

1062
00:48:00,679 --> 00:48:02,599
and you don't even have to be that social. We

1063
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:04,119
come in for an hour and a half class. You

1064
00:48:04,159 --> 00:48:06,079
don't have to talk to anybody, right, you could just

1065
00:48:06,159 --> 00:48:06,920
be in them.

1066
00:48:07,119 --> 00:48:10,079
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would imagine this. There's probably some people who

1067
00:48:10,079 --> 00:48:12,360
it's their first time, maybe they're a little shy or whatnot,

1068
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,079
and then they you probably see it right. Over time,

1069
00:48:15,159 --> 00:48:17,880
people kind of open up and they they become more

1070
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:18,719
social if.

1071
00:48:18,639 --> 00:48:20,519
Speaker 1: We try to help that along. One of the things

1072
00:48:20,599 --> 00:48:22,440
we do at the studio is when you come in

1073
00:48:22,519 --> 00:48:24,960
your first time, or we make an effort to introduce

1074
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,079
you to somebody who's been coming for a while, just

1075
00:48:27,199 --> 00:48:29,239
to say like, oh, by the way, hey Matt, this

1076
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:31,880
is Elaine. He Lank comes every day and people calm

1077
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,880
right down when they meet a link because she's she

1078
00:48:34,519 --> 00:48:36,880
tells you don't get every day. But she absolutely looks

1079
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,840
like an eighty eight year old lady, Like that's you know,

1080
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:43,480
that's what she looks like. And you start to go like, oh,

1081
00:48:43,599 --> 00:48:46,119
she can do this, I can do this, and yeah,

1082
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,599
just didn't have somebody else there that you know their name?

1083
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:49,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.

1084
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 1: And I always tell people we do a postu where

1085
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:52,880
we put our arms out to the side and say

1086
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:54,280
say hello to your neighbor. And if you don't know

1087
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,159
your neighbor's name, please introduce yourself after this. Yeah, that's

1088
00:48:57,159 --> 00:48:59,440
how we take a class and make it a community. Yeah,

1089
00:48:59,519 --> 00:49:01,639
we have people that are members of our community that

1090
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:04,599
do not practice yoga. We have spouses, some people who

1091
00:49:04,679 --> 00:49:06,880
practice to come to our potlucks and our other events,

1092
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:09,000
know them and we know them. We feel like we

1093
00:49:09,119 --> 00:49:11,480
know them well and they're part of our community. So

1094
00:49:11,599 --> 00:49:13,400
you don't have to practice yoga to be part of

1095
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:15,440
that community. You just have to come in the door.

1096
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1097
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 3: I think that's really cool, especially you know, we live

1098
00:49:18,559 --> 00:49:20,599
in an era where you know, there are there are

1099
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,239
online communities, and I think I think for some people

1100
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:28,400
that's interacting with online communities, and social media has kind

1101
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:32,079
of supplanted what was at one time more actually going

1102
00:49:32,159 --> 00:49:34,360
out and seeing people. So I think it's I think

1103
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:36,679
what you're doing when you talk about community, I think

1104
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:37,599
that's really important.

1105
00:49:38,119 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of community is built around that,

1106
00:49:41,079 --> 00:49:43,440
going out, drinking and eating and all this stuff. And

1107
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,760
if you're struggling with those things in your life, they

1108
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:49,000
have another place that isn't that. It's it's often very hard,

1109
00:49:49,079 --> 00:49:51,679
especially for people, if you give up smoking and drinking

1110
00:49:52,519 --> 00:49:55,559
that what do I do? That You often sometimes lose

1111
00:49:55,599 --> 00:50:00,960
your social group. Yeah, and I think that in recovery,

1112
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,679
a lot of people find loneliness. They come from families

1113
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,400
that have drinking or drugs as part of their social interaction,

1114
00:50:07,599 --> 00:50:10,320
and you know, and so to find a place where

1115
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,920
you can feel like you fit in. I'm not saying

1116
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:14,639
you have to give up smoking and drinking to come

1117
00:50:14,679 --> 00:50:16,880
to yoga either, but it's a new place to go

1118
00:50:17,119 --> 00:50:20,880
that isn't the old patterns, and it's all focused on

1119
00:50:21,159 --> 00:50:23,480
being good to yourself and feeling good about yourself as

1120
00:50:23,519 --> 00:50:27,199
opposed to hiding how you're feeling and hiding who you

1121
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,800
are and hiding all that stuff. Come and be exactly

1122
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:30,159
who you.

1123
00:50:30,199 --> 00:50:31,199
Speaker 2: Are, right right.

1124
00:50:31,519 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 3: No, I think that's wonderful. I think that's wonderful. Well,

1125
00:50:35,039 --> 00:50:38,840
so before we run out of time. Oh, the website.

1126
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:43,079
Speaker 1: Website wellness hot yoga dot com. We just got a

1127
00:50:43,159 --> 00:50:45,280
new website. I hope everybody enjoys it. Yeah, all the

1128
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,960
information about the open houses on there, as well as

1129
00:50:48,039 --> 00:50:52,639
anything about our other services that we offer. You're always

1130
00:50:52,639 --> 00:50:55,079
welcome to call the phone number nine seven eight six

1131
00:50:55,159 --> 00:50:57,679
eight nine nine six four two. I tell people it

1132
00:50:57,760 --> 00:50:59,920
brings through to my cell phone, so you know, if

1133
00:51:00,119 --> 00:51:02,039
somebody's there to answer the phone, somebody will try to

1134
00:51:02,079 --> 00:51:06,039
answer the phone. And just stop in. It's at thirty

1135
00:51:06,039 --> 00:51:09,280
four more Rex Freet in downtown Haveril in this beautiful

1136
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,639
new Harbor Place building across from the big giant new

1137
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,440
coming parking garage. Right now they've taken down the parking garage.

1138
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,320
We have quite a bit of construction going on across

1139
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,719
the street. But come by and just stop in. We

1140
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:21,519
have a lovely meditation You and I have sat in

1141
00:51:21,559 --> 00:51:24,840
the meditation area chatted. We always have tea back there.

1142
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,639
People can sit, anyone can wander and have a cup

1143
00:51:27,679 --> 00:51:30,320
of tea, talk to us find out what we're offering.

1144
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,320
There's no obligation to do anything but come in and

1145
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:33,599
be you.

1146
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:35,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely no.

1147
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 2: I think it's awesome. I think it's awesome.

1148
00:51:37,119 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 3: Well I'm glad, I'm glad you got here early because

1149
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,440
I knew we'd have a lot to talk about. This

1150
00:51:42,519 --> 00:51:45,079
has been wonderful, so thank you, Terry, and I also

1151
00:51:45,119 --> 00:51:46,960
want to remind people too before we go. Of course,

1152
00:51:47,199 --> 00:51:50,719
this coming Friday night, John Poussett Dart will be at

1153
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,880
the or actually the John Possett Dart Duo will be

1154
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,400
performing at the Rex Theater right here in Manchester. And

1155
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,440
if you miss it, John called in at the top

1156
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,000
of the second hour and really enjoyed talking with him.

1157
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,519
And of course don't forget also one week from today

1158
00:52:04,559 --> 00:52:06,000
and we'll you know, we'll talk about it. Of course

1159
00:52:06,039 --> 00:52:10,159
next Saturday, but September fourteenth, from four to eight pm

1160
00:52:10,559 --> 00:52:15,519
on Hanover Street, the Mosaic Art Collective proudly presents their

1161
00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:19,239
annual Full Circle the Speed of Light as they celebrate

1162
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,320
their birthday as well. And Jenny has one of one

1163
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,679
of her amazing paintings hanging up there, so proud of her,

1164
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:27,960
and she'll be back next week she's a little under

1165
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,639
the weather, but she'll be here with us next week

1166
00:52:31,079 --> 00:52:34,199
and we'll we'll close out with a song in a moment.

1167
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:37,920
But Terry, thank you again so much, and we.

1168
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:39,280
Speaker 4: Will we will leave you with this.

1169
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 3: I haven't played this in a while. This is a

1170
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:45,039
song called Reconnection from Eons Encoded and this is this

1171
00:52:45,159 --> 00:52:47,079
is a great way to end the show, I think.

1172
00:52:47,159 --> 00:52:52,000
But Terry almquis wellness, hot yoga and haverl. Absolutely thank you.

1173
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:54,239
And if you missed any part of today's show, it'll

1174
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,559
be up in just a little bit wmnhradio dot org

1175
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,159
and my website Matt Connorton dot com. I'll talk to

1176
00:52:59,199 --> 00:52:59,920
you a little bit later.

1177
00:53:00,159 --> 00:54:49,159
Speaker 4: Everybody la breathing at me.

1178
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:56,679
Speaker 3: The road last upside down.

1179
00:55:12,559 --> 00:55:13,079
Speaker 2: You can.

1180
00:55:44,599 --> 00:55:51,159
Speaker 4: Not make it the more.

1181
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:57,639
Speaker 1: Remember, but.

1182
00:56:04,760 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 2: You want a friends. I'm not to run this offer.

1183
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:07,400
It just on n.

1184
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: Y start.

1185
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 4: Us of.

1186
00:58:27,039 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 3: The user can set you.

1187
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 2: Nothing.

1188
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:41,519
Speaker 3: This just thet.

1189
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 2: There's no nor under.

1190
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:50,159
Speaker 4: In aial thing.

1191
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 2: That his up the count.

1192
00:59:00,039 --> 00:59:07,679
Speaker 4: Oh, it's my style, it's my line.

1193
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 2: I love.

1194
00:59:12,159 --> 00:59:14,599
Speaker 3: You, just one lot of ball.

1195
00:59:16,719 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 2: I'm long a girl. It's my heart. On the other