73: Bent Out of Shape: How Yoga Stretching Is Killing Us

Episode 73: The Dangers of Hypermobility and Pain-Free Yoga with Yogi Aaron – Mind Body Detox Podcast

In Episode 73 of the Mind Body Detox Podcast, host Kara Lovehart, a Mind-Body Psychic Medium and Executive Intuitive Business Coach, interviews Yogi Aaron, a leading Master Yoga Teacher and Muscle Activation Specialist, to discuss the dangers of hypermobility in yoga and how to eliminate pain through his revolutionary Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™ (AYAMA) method. This groundbreaking approach focuses on activating and engaging muscles instead of traditional stretching, helping yogis reduce pain, prevent injury, and improve strength and alignment.

Key Highlights:

💜 The Dangers of Hypermobility – Discover why excessive flexibility can lead to pain and long-term injury.
💜 The Most Dangerous Yoga Pose – Learn which pose you should avoid and why it could be harmful to your practice.
💜 Pain-Free Yoga Techniques – Yogi Aaron shares his AYAMA method for living pain-free through muscle activation rather than stretching.
💜 Boost Alignment and Strength – Explore how AYAMA can enhance your yoga practice by improving strength, stability, and alignment.

In this episode, Yogi Aaron unpacks his AYAMA method and explains how activating muscles can transform your yoga practice, making it safer and more effective for long-term wellness.

About Yogi Aaron:

Yogi Aaron is a renowned yoga teacher and creator of the AYAMA technique, designed to help people live pain-free by focusing on muscle activation rather than flexibility. He offers in-person training at Blue Osa Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica and provides online certifications through his AYAMA Certification Program. His platform, The Yogi Club, offers a variety of on-demand yoga classes for a global audience.

Connect with Yogi Aaron:

• Email: DareToLivePainFree@gmail.com
• Website: YogiAaron.com
• Instagram: @Yogi_Aaron
• YouTube: Yogi Aaron
• Facebook: Yogi.Aaron.yoga

Join us on the Mind Body Detox Podcast for an eye-opening conversation that could revolutionize your yoga practice and help you live pain-free.

Transcript

In this episode of the Mind Body Detox podcast, host Kara Lovehart, a Mind-Body Psychic Medium and Executive Intuitive Coach, interviews Yogi Aron, a renowned yoga teacher challenging conventional practices around stretching. Yogi Aron discusses his groundbreaking approach to yoga, focusing on muscle activation rather than stretching, which he argues can lead to injury and instability. Throughout the episode, Yogi Aron emphasizes the importance of activating muscles to live pain-free and elaborates on his personal journey, detailing how his yoga practice evolved from stretching to a more holistic understanding of body mechanics.

The conversation touches on the dangers of hypermobility, overstretching, and how commonly taught poses like child’s pose and hip openers can be harmful when not performed with muscle engagement. Kara and Yogi Aron dive into the connection between physical flexibility and personal boundaries, reflecting on how over-flexibility in the body often mirrors a lack of personal boundaries. Yogi Aron shares his experience dealing with chronic pain, leading him to discover muscle activation techniques that ultimately changed his approach to yoga and teaching.

This episode offers listeners insights into a safer, more sustainable yoga practice, aiming to shift the focus from stretching to maintaining stability and mobility through muscle activation. Kara and Yogi Aron’s discussion provides valuable perspectives for those interested in a deeper, more mindful approach to yoga and wellness.

 
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 Welcome back to the MindBodyDetox podcast.
 
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 I'm your host,
 
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 integrative intuitive medium,
 
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 Cara Loveheart.
 
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 And today I am here with Yogi Aron.
 
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 And today we're gonna be
 
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 talking a little bit about
 
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 stretching in general yoga,
 
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 but this is fascinating to
 
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 me because Yogi Aron came along
 
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 as a guest for our podcast
 
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 exactly around the time
 
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 that we were launching our
 
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 yoga studio and been
 
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 involved in yoga for years
 
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 and know myself as a hyper
 
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 mobile person know that
 
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 stretching is something
 
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 that can be detrimental and
 
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 so it was obviously the
 
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 universe's way to just drop
 
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 in my inbox hey there is a
 
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 person that wants to be a
 
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 guest on your show and this
 
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 is what they're going to talk about so
 
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 Yogi Aaron is a trailblazing
 
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 yoga teacher who is leading
 
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 a global rebellion against
 
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 the harmful practice of stretching.
 
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 So we will talk a little bit
 
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 that I'm hyper mobile.
 
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 I talk about this on my show
 
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 and also to students,
 
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 but I'm so excited that we
 
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 have someone else that's
 
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 passionate about this and
 
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 has way more experience than me.
 
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 Yogi Aran has pioneered the
 
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 groundbreaking approach to
 
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 yoga that shows people how
 
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 to live pain-free by
 
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 activating muscles through
 
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 applied yoga anatomy and
 
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 muscle activation.
 
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 So in a world where
 
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 conventional stretching and
 
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 flexibility practices are prescribed,
 
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 they're the prescribed norm for pain,
 
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 Yogi Aran's unorthodox
 
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 method provides a safer and
 
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 more effective permanent solution.
 
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 And I'm excited to talk
 
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 about that because that's
 
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 Amazing.
 
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 So what sets Yogi Aaron
 
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 apart is his wisdom, his infectious humor,
 
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 adventurous spirit,
 
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 and personal healing journey,
 
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 which I'm so excited for us to explore.
 
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 I listen to his journey personally,
 
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 which is, of course, my heart.
 
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 The authenticity rings true
 
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 for me and for you guys as
 
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 the listeners here.
 
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 And this distinguishes Yogi
 
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 Aaron as a beloved yoga
 
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 teacher in the yoga
 
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 community and at his Blue
 
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 Osa yoga retreat in, guess where?
 
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 Costa Rica.
 
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 So yay.
 
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 And that's where you're
 
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 coming to us from today, right?
 
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 Are you in Costa Rica now?
 
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 I'm in Costa Rica now,
 
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 but I'm not in Blue Osa.
 
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 I have a place in the city that I'm at,
 
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 but now, you know,
 
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 you have to get your yoga
 
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 studio to come to Blue Osa someday.
 
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 And let's make that a
 
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 reality for a yoga retreat.
 
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 I would love it.
 
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 I would love that.
 
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 And so that like retreats in general,
 
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 I feel like just traveling
 
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 in this world now and in this time is,
 
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 And traveling where there's
 
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 spaces with yoga
 
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 instructors or teachers or
 
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 facilitators that have
 
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 wellness in mind and have a
 
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 space of consciousness
 
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 which they've developed within themselves,
 
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 I'm all about that.
 
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 I just think that's the most
 
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 exciting thing in the world.
 
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 Well, I mean,
 
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 this is really starting back
 
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 at the beginning then.
 
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 Yes.
 
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 How did you become a yoga instructor?
 
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 First question.
 
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 Okay.
 
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 So I got into yoga,
 
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 I think like what most people,
 
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 or for the reason that most
 
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 people get into yoga, I was a very active,
 
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 youthful man, boy.
 
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 And I, you know, started to tighten up.
 
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 I got tight hamstrings and I
 
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 just kind of looked around and I thought,
 
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 you know, if I want to stay limber,
 
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 that's a good word, and mobile,
 
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 then I need to stretch.
 
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 And so for me, for many years,
 
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 yoga was really just a
 
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 practice to stretch and to
 
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 kind of open up my hips and
 
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 tight hamstrings and that sort of thing.
 
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 And so when did you make
 
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 that connection then that
 
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 yoga was more than just the
 
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 exercise for you?
 
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 What was the game changer?
 
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 It was kind of two points.
 
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 My first kind of awareness was,
 
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 so I suffered, still do, from ADD.
 
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 And my attention goes all over the place.
 
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 And
 
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 The first time I felt like I
 
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 could concentrate was from yoga.
 
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 I started to notice that I
 
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 was able to start
 
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 concentrating and then I
 
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 made the connection like, oh, yoga.
 
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 And, you know, that's a very general term,
 
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 like just to say like yoga fix me.
 
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 It was really the
 
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 combination of breathing.
 
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 And more specifically,
 
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 I think it was the vinyasa practice,
 
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 like truly integrating
 
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 movement with breath.
 
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 And that was starting to
 
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 unlock for me the power of
 
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 concentration in a very profound way.
 
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 And then the second time,
 
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 I had already started
 
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 teaching yoga at this point.
 
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 When I got into teaching in the beginning,
 
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 it was really just a way to
 
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 make some extra money.
 
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 You see this a lot in the yoga world.
 
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 People are like, oh,
 
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 I'm just going to get an extra side gig.
 
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 And so for me,
 
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 teaching yoga was really a side gig.
 
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 But two things kind of happened.
 
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 One,
 
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 I realized when I was teaching,
 
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 I was at home.
 
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 And so that's how one of the
 
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 reasons why I started becoming a teacher,
 
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 quote unquote.
 
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 But the real point was when
 
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 I took class with a very famous teacher,
 
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 at least he was, called Brian Kest.
 
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 And Brian Kest was sort of
 
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 the creator of power yoga, quote unquote.
 
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 And I was in his class.
 
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 I actually went down to Los
 
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 Angeles to take his class.
 
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 I'd been doing his...
 
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 VHS cassette tape.
 
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 Yes.
 
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 I have a few VHS leftover of yoga.
 
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 So yes, I still have mine.
 
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 We're on the same page.
 
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 Yes, we are.
 
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 I went and took class with
 
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 him and it just effing blew
 
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 my mind on so many levels.
 
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 But Brian was one of the
 
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 very few people in the yoga
 
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 world at that moment.
 
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 This is like 1995 or 96 or something.
 
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 that I had seen who could
 
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 marry or merge this idea of
 
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 how do we integrate yoga with life?
 
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 And at that moment,
 
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 my mind completely blew up.
 
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 And I was like,
 
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 this is what I'm meant to be doing.
 
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 And just kind of like,
 
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 I know I don't want to go too off topic,
 
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 but when I was a kid,
 
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 I grew up as a born again
 
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 Christian in a Pentecostal household.
 
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 And so as a child, like five, six, seven,
 
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 eight years old,
 
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 I always imagined that I've
 
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 become a preacher, right?
 
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 And when I saw Brian Cass teach that class,
 
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 it was like being at church on Sunday.
 
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 Instead of, can I get an amen?
 
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 It was like, can I get a downward dog?
 
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 That's amazing.
 
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 It was just like,
 
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 and there's so much crossover between,
 
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 I'm just going to say
 
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 religion right now or church and yoga.
 
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 And I think that both...
 
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 kind of, you know,
 
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 are on the same goal of we
 
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 want to become a better
 
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 version of ourself.
 
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 And I didn't quite align
 
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 with that tradition.
 
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 So the yoga kind of just
 
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 fell more into place.
 
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 And that has always kind of stuck with me.
 
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 The spiritual nature of going within,
 
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 in any of those spaces,
 
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 you have one that's,
 
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 they're both leading you
 
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 down a path and very different paths.
 
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 They look very different as far as,
 
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 but the outcome and the
 
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 goal ultimately is that piece.
 
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 So I love that you said that.
 
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 My partner and I,
 
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 we actually both have that
 
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 same thing where we
 
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 definitely like the,
 
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 the spiritual church sort
 
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 of leader thing wasn't our thing,
 
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 but you know,
 
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 ministerial work or almost
 
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 like carrying the archetype
 
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 of being a priest or having this speed,
 
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 this is who we are.
 
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 And we're like,
 
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 so yoga is one of those as
 
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 well for myself as an instructor.
 
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 But I think it's, there's more to it.
 
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 There's more to it.
 
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 There's so much more you
 
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 learn along the journey for sure.
 
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 Absolutely.
 
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 Yeah.
 
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 So my VHS tape that I had,
 
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 that I still have,
 
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 Kundalini Yoga with Guru Nanak.
 
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 Wow.
 
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 That's a collector's item.
 
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 Right?
 
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 So I still have it.
 
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 We still have our VHS player.
 
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 So that's fantastic.
 
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 Well,
 
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 I'm curious about when you shifted
 
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 your focus in yoga,
 
 00:08:20.649 --> 00:08:22.069
 your practice to more the
 
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 muscle strengthening versus
 
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 over flexibility,
 
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 because it wasn't until
 
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 years for myself being hypermobile that
 
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 And for those of you who are listening,
 
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 maybe Yogi Aaron can talk a
 
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 little bit more about that.
 
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 But for me, my joints,
 
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 like I over hyperextend my
 
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 knees and my arms and I
 
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 dislocate my shoulders easily.
 
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 And everyone was always
 
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 saying your whole life,
 
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 you're so good at yoga
 
 00:08:43.163 --> 00:08:44.524
 because you're so flexible.
 
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 It wasn't until later that
 
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 I'm aging and I'm going.
 
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 I don't think this is,
 
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 and I became a massage therapist.
 
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 So we're learning more about
 
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 the anatomy too and going, wait a minute,
 
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 this isn't actually okay.
 
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 So tell us a little bit
 
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 about that for your journey.
 
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 Where do you shift it?
 
 00:08:59.681 --> 00:09:01.182
 There's so much to it back there.
 
 00:09:01.202 --> 00:09:02.264
 I kind of want to bounce
 
 00:09:02.303 --> 00:09:03.625
 back to your story for a second,
 
 00:09:03.645 --> 00:09:06.369
 but I'm going to go back to mine first.
 
 00:09:06.428 --> 00:09:06.629
 So
 
 00:09:07.950 --> 00:09:09.009
 to keep things linear.
 
 00:09:09.049 --> 00:09:10.570
 So I got into yoga, as I mentioned,
 
 00:09:10.590 --> 00:09:11.671
 because I was really tight.
 
 00:09:11.951 --> 00:09:15.730
 And when I was shortly after I started,
 
 00:09:16.191 --> 00:09:17.052
 I'm going to just put this
 
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 in air quotes for people
 
 00:09:18.451 --> 00:09:20.552
 who are just listening, stretching yoga,
 
 00:09:20.971 --> 00:09:22.232
 because I refer to yoga
 
 00:09:22.273 --> 00:09:23.832
 more like stretching back then.
 
 00:09:23.932 --> 00:09:25.332
 For me, that's what it was about.
 
 00:09:26.153 --> 00:09:28.634
 And when I got into it shortly afterwards,
 
 00:09:28.673 --> 00:09:29.953
 and it wasn't in a yoga class,
 
 00:09:30.014 --> 00:09:30.754
 it was in my life,
 
 00:09:30.913 --> 00:09:33.014
 but I really hurt my back
 
 00:09:33.294 --> 00:09:34.575
 like in a bad way.
 
 00:09:34.595 --> 00:09:34.654
 And
 
 00:09:38.769 --> 00:09:42.230
 I thought, well, this is not good,
 
 00:09:42.390 --> 00:09:43.511
 so I should stretch more.
 
 00:09:43.631 --> 00:09:45.932
 So that kind of pushed me into,
 
 00:09:46.173 --> 00:09:46.994
 over the years,
 
 00:09:47.453 --> 00:09:49.456
 getting more and more into
 
 00:09:49.475 --> 00:09:51.897
 the yoga stretching part,
 
 00:09:51.976 --> 00:09:53.498
 or the stretching part of yoga.
 
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 And it's kind of just
 
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 something to put a pin in,
 
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 because you can relate to
 
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 this as a yoga teacher.
 
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 How many times have we stood
 
 00:10:02.062 --> 00:10:03.984
 in the front of our classes and said,
 
 00:10:04.524 --> 00:10:06.166
 yoga is not about stretching?
 
 00:10:07.125 --> 00:10:07.926
 Um, and,
 
 00:10:08.267 --> 00:10:09.846
 and it's about listening to your
 
 00:10:09.866 --> 00:10:11.327
 body and I think there's
 
 00:10:11.388 --> 00:10:13.629
 just so much to unpack in that statement.
 
 00:10:14.089 --> 00:10:16.951
 Um, and in that sort of visual,
 
 00:10:17.091 --> 00:10:19.091
 but I got deeper and deeper
 
 00:10:19.111 --> 00:10:21.253
 and I would go to yoga teachers and.
 
 00:10:22.614 --> 00:10:23.995
 they would say, well, Aaron,
 
 00:10:24.015 --> 00:10:24.738
 you have back problems
 
 00:10:24.758 --> 00:10:26.039
 because your hamstrings are tight.
 
 00:10:26.059 --> 00:10:26.980
 We need, well,
 
 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:28.504
 I am stretching my hamstrings.
 
 00:10:28.543 --> 00:10:30.647
 How much more should I stretch them?
 
 00:10:31.227 --> 00:10:31.508
 Right?
 
 00:10:31.969 --> 00:10:33.851
 So over the years,
 
 00:10:33.932 --> 00:10:34.933
 I ended up dealing with a
 
 00:10:35.033 --> 00:10:36.155
 lot of chronic pain.
 
 00:10:36.517 --> 00:10:36.596
 I'm,
 
 00:10:37.845 --> 00:10:40.548
 serious chronic pain, you know, hip pain,
 
 00:10:40.967 --> 00:10:41.668
 lower back pain,
 
 00:10:41.708 --> 00:10:43.591
 my back would constantly go out.
 
 00:10:44.591 --> 00:10:44.751
 Um,
 
 00:10:45.513 --> 00:10:47.115
 and I would just stretch and I would
 
 00:10:47.134 --> 00:10:49.136
 think like that was the solution to it.
 
 00:10:49.197 --> 00:10:50.118
 And then of course I would
 
 00:10:50.217 --> 00:10:51.698
 sneeze one day and my lower
 
 00:10:51.739 --> 00:10:52.600
 back would go out.
 
 00:10:53.341 --> 00:10:53.681
 So I,
 
 00:10:54.662 --> 00:10:57.283
 I also dealt with severe neck pain.
 
 00:10:58.302 --> 00:11:00.623
 In fact, some nights I would wake up,
 
 00:11:00.802 --> 00:11:02.063
 it would feel like someone
 
 00:11:02.083 --> 00:11:05.063
 was stabbing a knife into my scapula.
 
 00:11:05.605 --> 00:11:07.445
 So clearly at the time I
 
 00:11:07.465 --> 00:11:08.144
 didn't realize this,
 
 00:11:08.205 --> 00:11:09.625
 but I was dealing with
 
 00:11:09.705 --> 00:11:11.145
 nerve damage at that point.
 
 00:11:11.505 --> 00:11:12.005
 Oh, wow.
 
 00:11:12.505 --> 00:11:14.586
 And so 25 years later,
 
 00:11:14.626 --> 00:11:17.369
 it was about when I was 45,
 
 00:11:17.369 --> 00:11:18.710
 I ended up in the emergency
 
 00:11:18.769 --> 00:11:21.350
 room of a hospital in Costa
 
 00:11:21.370 --> 00:11:22.552
 Rica with an orthopedic
 
 00:11:22.572 --> 00:11:23.572
 surgeon telling me that I
 
 00:11:23.591 --> 00:11:24.513
 was probably going to need
 
 00:11:24.552 --> 00:11:27.014
 a spinal fusion in my lower back.
 
 00:11:28.134 --> 00:11:29.956
 And so there was like a huge
 
 00:11:30.056 --> 00:11:33.037
 wake-up call because I
 
 00:11:33.136 --> 00:11:34.538
 thought I had been doing
 
 00:11:34.597 --> 00:11:35.337
 everything right.
 
 00:11:35.499 --> 00:11:36.379
 I'd been, you know,
 
 00:11:36.999 --> 00:11:38.059
 I'd worked with several
 
 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:39.279
 movement specialists.
 
 00:11:39.380 --> 00:11:41.881
 I was, for all intents and purposes,
 
 00:11:41.922 --> 00:11:43.042
 a movement specialist.
 
 00:11:44.062 --> 00:11:44.263
 And
 
 00:11:46.272 --> 00:11:47.232
 I thought I knew what I was
 
 00:11:47.293 --> 00:11:48.573
 doing and I didn't.
 
 00:11:49.014 --> 00:11:50.375
 And so that was kind of like
 
 00:11:50.395 --> 00:11:51.658
 the big light bulb moment
 
 00:11:52.238 --> 00:11:55.481
 where I had to kind of suck it up.
 
 00:11:56.445 --> 00:11:59.528
 with some humility and ask the question,
 
 00:11:59.687 --> 00:12:00.509
 what don't I know?
 
 00:12:01.350 --> 00:12:03.851
 And so that kind of over
 
 00:12:03.892 --> 00:12:05.774
 time led me into muscle
 
 00:12:05.933 --> 00:12:07.294
 activation technique.
 
 00:12:07.514 --> 00:12:08.556
 So muscle activation
 
 00:12:08.615 --> 00:12:11.379
 technique is a system of
 
 00:12:11.438 --> 00:12:13.740
 muscle activation that was developed by,
 
 00:12:14.061 --> 00:12:16.163
 or is still being developed
 
 00:12:16.182 --> 00:12:17.124
 by Greg Roscoff.
 
 00:12:17.144 --> 00:12:18.905
 He has a school outside of Denver,
 
 00:12:18.946 --> 00:12:19.466
 Colorado.
 
 00:12:20.567 --> 00:12:22.089
 And so I decided to start
 
 00:12:22.149 --> 00:12:23.450
 doing those courses.
 
 00:12:23.769 --> 00:12:25.230
 And that was when I started
 
 00:12:25.311 --> 00:12:27.192
 putting a lot of pieces of
 
 00:12:27.212 --> 00:12:28.173
 the puzzle together.
 
 00:12:29.234 --> 00:12:30.315
 One of the pieces was I
 
 00:12:30.495 --> 00:12:32.417
 really realized that I
 
 00:12:32.437 --> 00:12:34.458
 didn't really know anything about anatomy,
 
 00:12:35.779 --> 00:12:38.121
 which was very humbling to me.
 
 00:12:38.142 --> 00:12:40.524
 I didn't understand muscle function.
 
 00:12:40.864 --> 00:12:41.725
 I certainly didn't
 
 00:12:41.764 --> 00:12:43.787
 understand the biomechanics
 
 00:12:43.846 --> 00:12:45.988
 of why muscles tighten up.
 
 00:12:47.048 --> 00:12:48.429
 And I also didn't,
 
 00:12:49.210 --> 00:12:50.090
 and I also started to
 
 00:12:50.190 --> 00:12:54.331
 understand what is the real secret behind,
 
 00:12:55.912 --> 00:12:57.932
 you sometimes call it, when I say you,
 
 00:12:57.993 --> 00:12:58.952
 I mean yoga teachers,
 
 00:12:59.893 --> 00:13:01.813
 you would call it maybe flexibility.
 
 00:13:02.173 --> 00:13:03.874
 I prefer the term mobility.
 
 00:13:05.274 --> 00:13:06.914
 And so I just kind of want
 
 00:13:06.934 --> 00:13:08.196
 to say one more thing that
 
 00:13:08.375 --> 00:13:09.875
 my teacher Greg often says,
 
 00:13:09.916 --> 00:13:10.657
 and this is a kind of
 
 00:13:10.777 --> 00:13:12.236
 circle back to something you said,
 
 00:13:12.817 --> 00:13:14.817
 when you only have flexibility, you
 
 00:13:15.538 --> 00:13:16.698
 or when you have flexibility,
 
 00:13:16.719 --> 00:13:17.599
 he doesn't say only,
 
 00:13:17.678 --> 00:13:19.639
 when you have flexibility,
 
 00:13:20.100 --> 00:13:22.421
 you always have instability.
 
 00:13:22.860 --> 00:13:24.361
 And when you have instability,
 
 00:13:24.741 --> 00:13:25.721
 there's always the
 
 00:13:25.902 --> 00:13:27.962
 opportunity for injury.
 
 00:13:28.884 --> 00:13:30.783
 So that's why I prefer to
 
 00:13:30.884 --> 00:13:32.764
 use the term mobility,
 
 00:13:32.804 --> 00:13:35.145
 because with mobility, real mobility,
 
 00:13:35.225 --> 00:13:37.307
 which comes from proper muscle function,
 
 00:13:37.966 --> 00:13:39.628
 we will never be in pain
 
 00:13:39.707 --> 00:13:41.469
 and we'll always have stability.
 
 00:13:42.818 --> 00:13:44.681
 What I found really curious, and again,
 
 00:13:44.721 --> 00:13:46.082
 this is not across the
 
 00:13:46.123 --> 00:13:46.744
 board because I haven't
 
 00:13:46.803 --> 00:13:48.586
 touched everybody on the planet,
 
 00:13:48.645 --> 00:13:50.729
 but people who are hypermobile,
 
 00:13:50.769 --> 00:13:51.789
 a lot of the personality
 
 00:13:51.830 --> 00:13:52.870
 types that tend to
 
 00:13:52.931 --> 00:13:55.014
 correlate with a lot extra
 
 00:13:55.094 --> 00:13:56.836
 connective tissue being loose,
 
 00:13:57.376 --> 00:13:59.639
 the personality sometimes,
 
 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:00.980
 I'd say like 90% of the
 
 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:02.163
 time is what I work with.
 
 00:14:02.623 --> 00:14:04.845
 They are hyper mobile,
 
 00:14:04.884 --> 00:14:06.846
 hyper flexible in their personalities.
 
 00:14:06.866 --> 00:14:08.889
 So they are not that
 
 00:14:09.548 --> 00:14:10.429
 necessarily very good with
 
 00:14:10.450 --> 00:14:11.530
 having their own boundaries.
 
 00:14:11.850 --> 00:14:12.892
 And then the opposite seems
 
 00:14:12.932 --> 00:14:13.893
 to be true with people who
 
 00:14:13.913 --> 00:14:14.874
 have a lot of rigid or
 
 00:14:15.014 --> 00:14:16.254
 tight connective tissue or
 
 00:14:16.274 --> 00:14:18.037
 they're really just really stiff.
 
 00:14:18.397 --> 00:14:19.418
 They're holding on to so
 
 00:14:19.437 --> 00:14:20.458
 much in their body and
 
 00:14:20.499 --> 00:14:21.740
 maybe mentally and physically.
 
 00:14:22.379 --> 00:14:23.140
 There tends to be a
 
 00:14:23.201 --> 00:14:24.282
 correlation there between
 
 00:14:24.302 --> 00:14:26.143
 the body types and the personality.
 
 00:14:26.703 --> 00:14:28.485
 And what you said with that
 
 00:14:28.565 --> 00:14:31.167
 lack of flexibility, the over flexibility,
 
 00:14:31.187 --> 00:14:32.048
 there's instability.
 
 00:14:32.548 --> 00:14:33.749
 And that's the same, I think,
 
 00:14:34.068 --> 00:14:35.490
 in our personal lives, too,
 
 00:14:35.530 --> 00:14:36.652
 with we don't have boundaries.
 
 00:14:36.692 --> 00:14:38.332
 We have this instability in our lives.
 
 00:14:38.393 --> 00:14:39.913
 So I just find that interesting.
 
 00:14:40.073 --> 00:14:40.975
 I just wanted to share that.
 
 00:14:42.596 --> 00:14:43.277
 So, yeah.
 
 00:14:44.753 --> 00:14:45.894
 You want me to comment on it?
 
 00:14:46.855 --> 00:14:47.056
 No,
 
 00:14:47.275 --> 00:14:48.977
 I was just curious about my
 
 00:14:49.379 --> 00:14:50.240
 over-flexibility.
 
 00:14:50.259 --> 00:14:52.302
 That was kind of my journey to myself.
 
 00:14:52.442 --> 00:14:54.303
 I had to learn how to have
 
 00:14:54.364 --> 00:14:55.525
 more stability and
 
 00:14:55.725 --> 00:14:58.149
 anchoring in body awareness and then,
 
 00:14:58.448 --> 00:14:59.571
 of course, my personality.
 
 00:14:59.610 --> 00:15:00.991
 And that helped with
 
 00:15:01.293 --> 00:15:02.313
 understanding how the body
 
 00:15:02.693 --> 00:15:04.355
 is formed too and the anatomy.
 
 00:15:05.037 --> 00:15:07.158
 But I know that your kind of
 
 00:15:07.198 --> 00:15:09.240
 tagline is that stretching is killing us.
 
 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:09.759
 And of course,
 
 00:15:09.940 --> 00:15:11.000
 when I'm working with
 
 00:15:11.421 --> 00:15:12.761
 stretching and mobility and
 
 00:15:12.841 --> 00:15:13.783
 working out and I'm like,
 
 00:15:14.123 --> 00:15:15.303
 why is my neck still
 
 00:15:15.384 --> 00:15:17.385
 hurting me for years?
 
 00:15:18.025 --> 00:15:19.267
 I'd love to have you go more
 
 00:15:19.326 --> 00:15:20.727
 about and talk more about
 
 00:15:20.888 --> 00:15:23.570
 this stretching is killing us notion.
 
 00:15:23.629 --> 00:15:24.009
 Yeah.
 
 00:15:24.409 --> 00:15:25.370
 And in that answer,
 
 00:15:25.390 --> 00:15:26.532
 I just want to circle back
 
 00:15:26.652 --> 00:15:28.393
 to a point because I said
 
 00:15:28.994 --> 00:15:30.274
 any kind of flexibility.
 
 00:15:30.294 --> 00:15:30.375
 Yeah.
 
 00:15:31.576 --> 00:15:33.618
 And so whenever we have any
 
 00:15:33.697 --> 00:15:36.500
 kind of flexibility, and so, you know,
 
 00:15:37.802 --> 00:15:40.104
 when we focus on flexibility,
 
 00:15:40.163 --> 00:15:42.647
 we're always going to create instability.
 
 00:15:42.767 --> 00:15:48.033
 So anytime we start to push a muscle,
 
 00:15:48.052 --> 00:15:48.153
 right?
 
 00:15:48.904 --> 00:15:51.186
 you know, beyond its end range of motion,
 
 00:15:51.285 --> 00:15:52.865
 beyond its capacity.
 
 00:15:53.346 --> 00:15:54.866
 If we take that tightness
 
 00:15:54.947 --> 00:15:57.288
 and we try to stretch it out,
 
 00:15:57.748 --> 00:16:01.708
 we're going to always create instability.
 
 00:16:01.808 --> 00:16:03.190
 And now I'll give you the answer why.
 
 00:16:03.690 --> 00:16:05.470
 So the answer why is because
 
 00:16:05.570 --> 00:16:06.750
 whenever we stretch
 
 00:16:07.650 --> 00:16:08.931
 So let's back up one second.
 
 00:16:09.432 --> 00:16:11.971
 Your brain or your central
 
 00:16:12.011 --> 00:16:13.432
 nervous system is connected
 
 00:16:13.552 --> 00:16:14.753
 to your muscles.
 
 00:16:15.273 --> 00:16:17.173
 And one of the biomechanical
 
 00:16:17.214 --> 00:16:18.874
 words is proprioception.
 
 00:16:18.913 --> 00:16:20.394
 So there's this proprioception,
 
 00:16:20.434 --> 00:16:22.255
 this connection between
 
 00:16:22.336 --> 00:16:23.615
 brain and muscles.
 
 00:16:23.735 --> 00:16:25.756
 Your brain kind of knows
 
 00:16:25.797 --> 00:16:27.476
 where your body is in space.
 
 00:16:27.996 --> 00:16:30.138
 And the space obviously is your body.
 
 00:16:30.618 --> 00:16:32.239
 But when we stretch,
 
 00:16:32.818 --> 00:16:36.120
 we basically sever that connection.
 
 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:38.922
 And so when I say stretch,
 
 00:16:39.101 --> 00:16:40.563
 let's give an example of that.
 
 00:16:41.104 --> 00:16:42.725
 There's a couple of examples, but one,
 
 00:16:42.745 --> 00:16:44.106
 this is one of my favorite
 
 00:16:44.187 --> 00:16:45.707
 ones because your listeners
 
 00:16:45.768 --> 00:16:47.529
 can probably visualize this,
 
 00:16:47.629 --> 00:16:48.671
 is if you're lying on your
 
 00:16:48.711 --> 00:16:50.393
 back and you're doing a
 
 00:16:50.452 --> 00:16:52.554
 yoga stretch called Supta
 
 00:16:52.815 --> 00:16:54.096
 Parangusthasana.
 
 00:16:54.155 --> 00:16:57.038
 So like grabbing the leg or
 
 00:16:57.099 --> 00:16:58.701
 it's like a hamstring stretch, you know,
 
 00:16:58.740 --> 00:17:00.042
 you bring one leg up and
 
 00:17:00.557 --> 00:17:01.339
 and you're lying on your
 
 00:17:01.379 --> 00:17:03.120
 back and you grab your foot
 
 00:17:03.259 --> 00:17:05.182
 and you pull your leg towards you.
 
 00:17:05.221 --> 00:17:07.124
 Now, some of your listeners are thinking,
 
 00:17:07.183 --> 00:17:08.244
 I can't grab my foot.
 
 00:17:08.265 --> 00:17:09.085
 I have to use a strap.
 
 00:17:09.105 --> 00:17:10.046
 So use a strap.
 
 00:17:10.567 --> 00:17:10.886
 Okay.
 
 00:17:10.906 --> 00:17:11.928
 So grab a strap,
 
 00:17:12.448 --> 00:17:13.409
 wrap it around your foot
 
 00:17:13.489 --> 00:17:14.630
 and pull it towards you.
 
 00:17:14.650 --> 00:17:15.391
 And there's all of these
 
 00:17:15.431 --> 00:17:18.472
 kind of gimmicks on social media.
 
 00:17:18.492 --> 00:17:19.913
 You can find like how to
 
 00:17:20.055 --> 00:17:21.635
 improve it and blah, blah, blah.
 
 00:17:22.276 --> 00:17:23.477
 But either way,
 
 00:17:24.464 --> 00:17:26.846
 And that is stretching the hamstring.
 
 00:17:27.105 --> 00:17:27.365
 Okay.
 
 00:17:27.385 --> 00:17:29.146
 I think we can both agree with that,
 
 00:17:29.267 --> 00:17:30.987
 that the idea is to stretch
 
 00:17:31.047 --> 00:17:31.748
 the hamstring.
 
 00:17:32.847 --> 00:17:33.607
 The question is,
 
 00:17:33.928 --> 00:17:36.808
 and something I find at least with myself,
 
 00:17:37.630 --> 00:17:39.390
 but also in the 25 years
 
 00:17:39.490 --> 00:17:41.851
 leading up to me landing in
 
 00:17:41.951 --> 00:17:42.932
 the emergency room,
 
 00:17:43.051 --> 00:17:44.991
 not one teacher ever came
 
 00:17:45.071 --> 00:17:46.313
 up to me and said, Aaron,
 
 00:17:47.844 --> 00:17:49.086
 Your hamstrings are tight.
 
 00:17:49.546 --> 00:17:50.988
 The tightness is a symptom
 
 00:17:51.449 --> 00:17:52.670
 because muscles are not
 
 00:17:52.809 --> 00:17:54.152
 contracting properly.
 
 00:17:54.673 --> 00:17:56.895
 The opposite muscles are not contracting.
 
 00:17:57.115 --> 00:17:58.998
 So the difference between
 
 00:17:59.057 --> 00:18:00.119
 what I'm teaching and
 
 00:18:00.721 --> 00:18:01.981
 traditional quote unquote
 
 00:18:02.001 --> 00:18:03.443
 stretching is I would say,
 
 00:18:03.624 --> 00:18:04.505
 come onto your back,
 
 00:18:05.336 --> 00:18:06.416
 but don't grab your leg.
 
 00:18:06.477 --> 00:18:08.718
 Just bring the leg up as high as you can.
 
 00:18:09.538 --> 00:18:12.421
 And then hold it there for a few seconds.
 
 00:18:12.721 --> 00:18:14.903
 So typically in muscle activation,
 
 00:18:14.942 --> 00:18:15.884
 we hold things for six
 
 00:18:15.923 --> 00:18:19.006
 seconds and then do it six times.
 
 00:18:19.326 --> 00:18:21.307
 And so the question then is, well,
 
 00:18:21.508 --> 00:18:22.568
 why is the hamstrings tight?
 
 00:18:22.588 --> 00:18:23.990
 Because the quads aren't
 
 00:18:24.230 --> 00:18:26.391
 activating properly, the hip flexors.
 
 00:18:26.951 --> 00:18:28.833
 So coming back to my back problems,
 
 00:18:28.913 --> 00:18:29.374
 by the way,
 
 00:18:30.054 --> 00:18:30.233
 Like,
 
 00:18:30.534 --> 00:18:31.875
 it's no wonder why I had back
 
 00:18:31.934 --> 00:18:33.155
 problems because I was so
 
 00:18:33.296 --> 00:18:35.017
 focused on trying to
 
 00:18:35.176 --> 00:18:36.857
 elongate my hamstrings.
 
 00:18:36.958 --> 00:18:38.078
 I wasn't really dealing with
 
 00:18:38.159 --> 00:18:39.519
 the real problem.
 
 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:41.119
 Real problem was my hip
 
 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:43.061
 flexors weren't working at all.
 
 00:18:43.622 --> 00:18:45.663
 And the major hip flexor is the psoas,
 
 00:18:45.762 --> 00:18:47.804
 which its main job is to
 
 00:18:47.963 --> 00:18:50.026
 stabilize the lumbar spine.
 
 00:18:50.925 --> 00:18:53.528
 And so it's no wonder why I ended up,
 
 00:18:53.728 --> 00:18:54.607
 you know, there.
 
 00:18:54.968 --> 00:18:56.788
 But when you are lying on
 
 00:18:56.808 --> 00:18:58.410
 your back and you bring your leg up,
 
 00:18:58.570 --> 00:18:59.090
 you're now...
 
 00:19:00.281 --> 00:19:02.282
 engaging you have to engage
 
 00:19:02.363 --> 00:19:03.482
 all of your hip flexors in
 
 00:19:03.542 --> 00:19:05.564
 fact some people don't like
 
 00:19:05.624 --> 00:19:07.663
 doing that because you know
 
 00:19:07.683 --> 00:19:08.884
 because they try so hard
 
 00:19:09.144 --> 00:19:10.565
 and that starts to make
 
 00:19:10.605 --> 00:19:13.326
 their quads cramp um and so
 
 00:19:13.365 --> 00:19:14.786
 cramping is another sign of
 
 00:19:14.846 --> 00:19:16.606
 muscles not working properly
 
 00:19:17.487 --> 00:19:17.567
 Uh,
 
 00:19:17.767 --> 00:19:20.429
 so bringing the leg up and just doing
 
 00:19:20.489 --> 00:19:21.829
 that, you start to,
 
 00:19:22.210 --> 00:19:23.871
 there's a hundred percent accountability.
 
 00:19:24.291 --> 00:19:25.512
 You're working your quads
 
 00:19:25.893 --> 00:19:27.894
 and I guarantee you by the sixth time,
 
 00:19:28.054 --> 00:19:29.795
 probably by the fourth or fifth time,
 
 00:19:29.875 --> 00:19:31.375
 but definitely by the sixth time,
 
 00:19:31.836 --> 00:19:33.458
 you're going to notice something a,
 
 00:19:33.498 --> 00:19:34.397
 your range of motion
 
 00:19:34.459 --> 00:19:36.259
 improves because your quads
 
 00:19:36.299 --> 00:19:37.079
 start working.
 
 00:19:37.520 --> 00:19:37.760
 Well,
 
 00:19:37.980 --> 00:19:39.842
 what do we know when a muscle starts
 
 00:19:39.902 --> 00:19:41.282
 contracting properly,
 
 00:19:41.363 --> 00:19:45.125
 the opposite muscle relaxes or elongates,
 
 00:19:45.145 --> 00:19:45.486
 right?
 
 00:19:45.746 --> 00:19:47.727
 So the hamstring tightness
 
 00:19:47.767 --> 00:19:48.988
 disappears and your range
 
 00:19:49.028 --> 00:19:50.868
 of motion improves and
 
 00:19:50.909 --> 00:19:54.971
 you've got 100% stability
 
 00:19:55.633 --> 00:19:56.992
 as you're doing that movement.
 
 00:19:57.113 --> 00:19:58.453
 So that's the kind of
 
 00:19:58.493 --> 00:19:59.855
 difference between what I'm
 
 00:19:59.934 --> 00:20:02.237
 teaching and then traditional stretching.
 
 00:20:03.481 --> 00:20:04.603
 I think it also goes along
 
 00:20:04.623 --> 00:20:05.522
 with a lot of things that
 
 00:20:05.542 --> 00:20:07.525
 we educate our clients with
 
 00:20:07.785 --> 00:20:08.865
 massage therapists when
 
 00:20:08.925 --> 00:20:09.726
 we're telling them about
 
 00:20:09.986 --> 00:20:11.227
 therapeutic aspects to
 
 00:20:11.287 --> 00:20:12.528
 working instead of just, you know,
 
 00:20:12.567 --> 00:20:13.868
 like a spa-based massage.
 
 00:20:14.249 --> 00:20:15.829
 But that's, I think, a very common thing.
 
 00:20:15.869 --> 00:20:16.891
 Like so many people are
 
 00:20:16.971 --> 00:20:18.791
 sitting at desks shortening
 
 00:20:18.832 --> 00:20:20.553
 their psoas and their hip flexors.
 
 00:20:20.953 --> 00:20:22.375
 They're just sitting all day.
 
 00:20:22.914 --> 00:20:23.836
 And I'm curious if you've
 
 00:20:23.915 --> 00:20:24.895
 experienced with your
 
 00:20:25.297 --> 00:20:26.958
 clients for yoga these
 
 00:20:27.458 --> 00:20:28.778
 chronic postures or these
 
 00:20:29.398 --> 00:20:30.579
 everyday postures we're in
 
 00:20:30.619 --> 00:20:31.820
 and how those are affecting
 
 00:20:31.941 --> 00:20:33.001
 the muscle activations.
 
 00:20:33.021 --> 00:20:33.301
 Yeah.
 
 00:20:33.560 --> 00:20:34.622
 Yeah, absolutely.
 
 00:20:34.741 --> 00:20:35.903
 But so here's the
 
 00:20:35.962 --> 00:20:38.305
 interesting thing about the psoas major.
 
 00:20:39.465 --> 00:20:42.368
 So muscles always work in pairs, right?
 
 00:20:42.989 --> 00:20:45.431
 And so when one muscle is shortening,
 
 00:20:45.491 --> 00:20:46.593
 an opposite muscle is
 
 00:20:46.653 --> 00:20:49.154
 contracting and vice versa.
 
 00:20:49.654 --> 00:20:51.497
 And so the opposite muscle
 
 00:20:51.596 --> 00:20:54.378
 to the psoas is the glutes, right?
 
 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:56.480
 and if the glutes aren't
 
 00:20:56.641 --> 00:20:59.501
 shortening properly or are
 
 00:20:59.561 --> 00:21:01.103
 shutting down so the glutes
 
 00:21:01.222 --> 00:21:02.403
 you know the the they just
 
 00:21:02.462 --> 00:21:04.084
 basically shut down they
 
 00:21:04.124 --> 00:21:06.005
 stop working the opposite
 
 00:21:06.065 --> 00:21:07.865
 muscle which is one of one
 
 00:21:07.885 --> 00:21:08.965
 of the major ones is the
 
 00:21:08.986 --> 00:21:10.987
 psoas the psoas will what
 
 00:21:11.007 --> 00:21:12.267
 does it do tighten up
 
 00:21:12.928 --> 00:21:14.288
 muscle tightness is always
 
 00:21:14.327 --> 00:21:15.249
 the response of the
 
 00:21:15.469 --> 00:21:16.608
 opposite muscle or
 
 00:21:16.669 --> 00:21:18.569
 synergistic muscles not
 
 00:21:18.650 --> 00:21:20.411
 working properly and when I
 
 00:21:20.451 --> 00:21:22.291
 say working you know
 
 00:21:23.250 --> 00:21:24.311
 Muscles should be able to
 
 00:21:24.412 --> 00:21:26.413
 contract and contract on demand.
 
 00:21:27.213 --> 00:21:29.255
 It's kind of like a light switch, you know,
 
 00:21:29.935 --> 00:21:31.696
 and I do a lot of muscle testing.
 
 00:21:32.517 --> 00:21:33.678
 That's how I know whether or
 
 00:21:33.718 --> 00:21:35.019
 not a person is strong or
 
 00:21:35.098 --> 00:21:36.700
 weak is I can test a muscle.
 
 00:21:36.859 --> 00:21:39.182
 And then if it's able to work,
 
 00:21:39.923 --> 00:21:41.723
 it contracts immediately,
 
 00:21:41.784 --> 00:21:43.404
 like it shortens immediately.
 
 00:21:43.964 --> 00:21:45.645
 So the tightness in the
 
 00:21:45.665 --> 00:21:48.608
 psoas is often a response to the glutes,
 
 00:21:48.628 --> 00:21:49.288
 right?
 
 00:21:49.561 --> 00:21:50.823
 not working properly.
 
 00:21:50.843 --> 00:21:53.806
 And to go back to your point, like sitting,
 
 00:21:54.006 --> 00:21:55.106
 yeah, sitting, yeah,
 
 00:21:55.147 --> 00:21:56.469
 you're shortening the psoas,
 
 00:21:56.509 --> 00:21:57.690
 but you're not actively
 
 00:21:57.789 --> 00:21:58.830
 shortening the psoas.
 
 00:21:59.250 --> 00:22:02.034
 What's really going on is that your glutes
 
 00:22:03.403 --> 00:22:05.026
 are not working because
 
 00:22:05.066 --> 00:22:06.487
 we're sitting down so much.
 
 00:22:07.708 --> 00:22:09.750
 I think one of my teachers
 
 00:22:09.829 --> 00:22:10.790
 told me one time,
 
 00:22:11.211 --> 00:22:12.272
 studies have shown that
 
 00:22:12.292 --> 00:22:13.653
 your glutes actually start
 
 00:22:13.673 --> 00:22:16.497
 to atrophy after 30 minutes of sitting.
 
 00:22:17.377 --> 00:22:18.238
 Oh my gosh.
 
 00:22:18.298 --> 00:22:19.400
 So, ergo...
 
 00:22:21.080 --> 00:22:22.761
 the whole article that came out,
 
 00:22:22.801 --> 00:22:25.262
 I think it was around 2014 or something,
 
 00:22:25.324 --> 00:22:25.523
 you know,
 
 00:22:25.564 --> 00:22:26.763
 you started seeing all of these
 
 00:22:26.923 --> 00:22:29.346
 articles like sitting is killing us.
 
 00:22:29.605 --> 00:22:30.926
 And that's why.
 
 00:22:30.946 --> 00:22:31.926
 Get the standing desk.
 
 00:22:32.327 --> 00:22:32.688
 Yeah.
 
 00:22:32.748 --> 00:22:33.768
 Get a standing desk.
 
 00:22:33.807 --> 00:22:34.009
 Cause,
 
 00:22:34.308 --> 00:22:36.049
 cause the glutes literally start to
 
 00:22:36.109 --> 00:22:36.769
 shut down.
 
 00:22:37.550 --> 00:22:37.730
 Um,
 
 00:22:37.951 --> 00:22:40.491
 and so if we want to get rid of tightness,
 
 00:22:40.711 --> 00:22:41.012
 again,
 
 00:22:41.032 --> 00:22:42.713
 we need to start looking at what
 
 00:22:42.854 --> 00:22:44.494
 muscles are not working
 
 00:22:44.575 --> 00:22:46.915
 properly because listen,
 
 00:22:46.996 --> 00:22:48.517
 when muscle tightness is
 
 00:22:48.576 --> 00:22:50.137
 always a response, um,
 
 00:22:50.577 --> 00:22:52.679
 to it's like a protective
 
 00:22:52.719 --> 00:22:54.378
 mechanism you know the body
 
 00:22:54.439 --> 00:22:56.460
 doesn't feel stable so it
 
 00:22:56.519 --> 00:22:58.141
 sends out an sos message
 
 00:22:58.401 --> 00:22:59.540
 tighten up tighten up
 
 00:22:59.701 --> 00:23:03.863
 tighten up and so with it's
 
 00:23:03.903 --> 00:23:05.263
 kind of like walking on ice
 
 00:23:05.344 --> 00:23:06.544
 you know if you step out on
 
 00:23:06.723 --> 00:23:07.824
 ice what does your body do
 
 00:23:07.904 --> 00:23:09.664
 it tightens up it freezes
 
 00:23:09.805 --> 00:23:11.306
 up so it's a protective
 
 00:23:11.346 --> 00:23:13.246
 mechanism in the body to
 
 00:23:13.487 --> 00:23:17.127
 compensate for um to
 
 00:23:17.188 --> 00:23:18.769
 compensate for muscles not
 
 00:23:18.808 --> 00:23:19.709
 working properly
 
 00:23:21.194 --> 00:23:21.375
 Now,
 
 00:23:21.494 --> 00:23:23.957
 in your work with muscle activation
 
 00:23:24.037 --> 00:23:25.877
 and checking for weak muscle tissue,
 
 00:23:25.897 --> 00:23:27.378
 you know,
 
 00:23:27.419 --> 00:23:28.419
 this is something that you can
 
 00:23:28.439 --> 00:23:30.421
 do private with one-on-one with people,
 
 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:31.621
 like really target their
 
 00:23:31.641 --> 00:23:33.061
 specific individual body type.
 
 00:23:33.563 --> 00:23:35.243
 Do you see from the more
 
 00:23:35.263 --> 00:23:36.544
 mind-body perspective
 
 00:23:36.663 --> 00:23:38.365
 connection between the
 
 00:23:38.484 --> 00:23:39.965
 psychology of the person
 
 00:23:40.026 --> 00:23:41.567
 and the areas that are tight or weak?
 
 00:23:41.686 --> 00:23:43.749
 I would really love to hear about that.
 
 00:23:43.769 --> 00:23:44.229
 Yeah.
 
 00:23:46.412 --> 00:23:47.232
 Not so much.
 
 00:23:47.473 --> 00:23:50.557
 I kind of steer away from,
 
 00:23:50.577 --> 00:23:53.041
 I'm just going to call it,
 
 00:23:53.583 --> 00:23:54.724
 refer to it what you said,
 
 00:23:54.744 --> 00:23:57.749
 the psychology part of muscle tightness.
 
 00:23:58.430 --> 00:24:00.313
 But what I can say about it is that
 
 00:24:03.028 --> 00:24:04.849
 from a psychology perspective.
 
 00:24:04.890 --> 00:24:06.630
 So let's back up one second,
 
 00:24:07.269 --> 00:24:08.451
 three things that really
 
 00:24:08.490 --> 00:24:11.530
 shut down muscles, stress, trauma,
 
 00:24:11.612 --> 00:24:12.311
 and overuse.
 
 00:24:12.392 --> 00:24:13.291
 And so you just,
 
 00:24:13.412 --> 00:24:15.252
 let's just distill it to stress.
 
 00:24:15.492 --> 00:24:15.813
 Okay.
 
 00:24:16.452 --> 00:24:18.333
 And so the biomechanical
 
 00:24:18.393 --> 00:24:20.213
 response to stress is
 
 00:24:20.394 --> 00:24:21.934
 inflammation and
 
 00:24:22.015 --> 00:24:23.654
 inflammation has such a
 
 00:24:24.115 --> 00:24:26.215
 negative response on all
 
 00:24:27.195 --> 00:24:28.656
 our nervous system you know
 
 00:24:28.757 --> 00:24:30.057
 and this is the domain that
 
 00:24:30.176 --> 00:24:31.538
 I run in I don't I'm not
 
 00:24:31.857 --> 00:24:33.157
 like I call myself a muscle
 
 00:24:33.198 --> 00:24:34.979
 specialist which I am but
 
 00:24:35.118 --> 00:24:36.339
 my job isn't to try and
 
 00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:38.220
 make your muscles bigger or
 
 00:24:38.300 --> 00:24:39.701
 anything like that I want
 
 00:24:39.721 --> 00:24:40.500
 to improve the
 
 00:24:40.560 --> 00:24:41.741
 communication system
 
 00:24:41.781 --> 00:24:43.923
 between you know your brain
 
 00:24:44.163 --> 00:24:45.343
 and the muscles so that's
 
 00:24:45.363 --> 00:24:47.183
 where I step in why is that
 
 00:24:47.263 --> 00:24:48.765
 communication system being
 
 00:24:48.865 --> 00:24:51.226
 compromised it's because of stress
 
 00:24:52.385 --> 00:24:53.426
 the results of stress is
 
 00:24:53.487 --> 00:24:54.327
 inflammation so the
 
 00:24:54.428 --> 00:24:56.650
 inflammation gets into by
 
 00:24:56.690 --> 00:24:58.171
 the way I'm I'm talking
 
 00:24:58.471 --> 00:25:00.353
 like seriously here I'm not
 
 00:25:00.472 --> 00:25:01.653
 trying to be glib or
 
 00:25:01.753 --> 00:25:04.336
 metaphoric here like it
 
 00:25:04.457 --> 00:25:05.678
 literally gets into the
 
 00:25:05.758 --> 00:25:07.199
 nervous system and starts
 
 00:25:07.278 --> 00:25:09.141
 disrupting that neuro
 
 00:25:09.320 --> 00:25:11.563
 impulse right and so any
 
 00:25:11.722 --> 00:25:13.144
 kind of time we create
 
 00:25:13.223 --> 00:25:14.644
 stress uh we're going to
 
 00:25:14.704 --> 00:25:17.347
 cause problems and so you know the
 
 00:25:17.827 --> 00:25:19.449
 What I kind of address more
 
 00:25:19.509 --> 00:25:21.829
 is the physiological aspects of stress,
 
 00:25:21.890 --> 00:25:22.609
 like stretching.
 
 00:25:22.730 --> 00:25:23.890
 Stretching is a stress.
 
 00:25:24.490 --> 00:25:26.250
 And so we want to diminish that stress.
 
 00:25:26.651 --> 00:25:28.152
 You had mentioned earlier sitting.
 
 00:25:28.372 --> 00:25:30.413
 Sitting is another stress.
 
 00:25:30.772 --> 00:25:32.653
 But we also can have emotional stress.
 
 00:25:32.733 --> 00:25:33.953
 Like maybe we get into
 
 00:25:34.094 --> 00:25:35.295
 arguments with our partner.
 
 00:25:36.134 --> 00:25:37.955
 Maybe we are just worried
 
 00:25:37.996 --> 00:25:39.655
 about something in our life.
 
 00:25:40.076 --> 00:25:41.096
 Maybe there was a past
 
 00:25:41.176 --> 00:25:42.877
 trauma that something...
 
 00:25:44.557 --> 00:25:45.917
 pushes a button within us
 
 00:25:46.259 --> 00:25:48.459
 and and activates you know
 
 00:25:48.499 --> 00:25:50.279
 that memory and then our
 
 00:25:50.339 --> 00:25:51.720
 breathing patterns change
 
 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:52.779
 and you being a yoga
 
 00:25:52.819 --> 00:25:54.480
 teacher know and understand
 
 00:25:54.540 --> 00:25:55.601
 like as soon as our
 
 00:25:55.641 --> 00:25:57.161
 breathing pattern changes
 
 00:25:57.500 --> 00:25:58.801
 that's going to affect our
 
 00:25:58.862 --> 00:26:00.061
 stress levels and we can
 
 00:26:00.221 --> 00:26:01.422
 actually reduce our stress
 
 00:26:01.461 --> 00:26:03.063
 levels by you know
 
 00:26:03.163 --> 00:26:04.323
 breathing differently by
 
 00:26:04.383 --> 00:26:05.564
 breathing one-to-one or
 
 00:26:05.624 --> 00:26:07.023
 diaphragmatically so
 
 00:26:07.801 --> 00:26:09.423
 That's what I would say about that.
 
 00:26:09.482 --> 00:26:09.643
 Like,
 
 00:26:09.722 --> 00:26:12.084
 that's the link there with the
 
 00:26:12.124 --> 00:26:14.284
 psychology versus, you know,
 
 00:26:15.505 --> 00:26:16.444
 you hear this thing about
 
 00:26:16.484 --> 00:26:17.806
 like we store emotions in
 
 00:26:17.865 --> 00:26:19.105
 our hips or we store
 
 00:26:19.125 --> 00:26:20.326
 emotions in our body.
 
 00:26:20.767 --> 00:26:22.067
 There's no evidence to
 
 00:26:22.126 --> 00:26:23.167
 really support that.
 
 00:26:23.288 --> 00:26:24.847
 But where I would step in
 
 00:26:24.928 --> 00:26:26.949
 and say the link is, you know,
 
 00:26:27.128 --> 00:26:28.849
 and how how are we?
 
 00:26:29.747 --> 00:26:31.189
 changing our state of being
 
 00:26:31.709 --> 00:26:33.411
 through you know creating
 
 00:26:33.471 --> 00:26:35.613
 our own stress through you
 
 00:26:35.653 --> 00:26:37.035
 know our own emotions or
 
 00:26:37.095 --> 00:26:38.916
 whatever so definitely
 
 00:26:38.957 --> 00:26:40.298
 that's where yoga steps in
 
 00:26:40.317 --> 00:26:42.980
 and creates like a great um
 
 00:26:43.721 --> 00:26:46.986
 uh a great you know connection for that
 
 00:26:48.345 --> 00:26:50.126
 I like the three simple ways
 
 00:26:50.446 --> 00:26:51.748
 because we can all relate to that.
 
 00:26:51.887 --> 00:26:52.528
 And I think it's the
 
 00:26:52.568 --> 00:26:53.709
 individual experience when
 
 00:26:53.729 --> 00:26:55.191
 people talk about storing
 
 00:26:55.230 --> 00:26:56.131
 emotions in their hips.
 
 00:26:56.171 --> 00:26:57.132
 It's more of a subjective
 
 00:26:57.192 --> 00:26:59.753
 experience if people have those, oh, wow,
 
 00:26:59.773 --> 00:27:01.516
 I was doing this pose and I
 
 00:27:02.076 --> 00:27:03.136
 had these memories come up.
 
 00:27:03.196 --> 00:27:04.397
 When people talk about that
 
 00:27:04.458 --> 00:27:06.180
 somatic release or something like that,
 
 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:07.200
 that's something that does happen.
 
 00:27:07.941 --> 00:27:08.801
 But I think it's so unique
 
 00:27:08.821 --> 00:27:09.722
 and individual because it
 
 00:27:09.742 --> 00:27:11.183
 would probably make sense
 
 00:27:11.243 --> 00:27:12.664
 if depending on where you
 
 00:27:12.724 --> 00:27:14.145
 had muscle tightness
 
 00:27:14.227 --> 00:27:15.287
 because of a trauma or a
 
 00:27:15.326 --> 00:27:16.407
 car accident or something,
 
 00:27:16.729 --> 00:27:18.089
 what muscles were holding on to it,
 
 00:27:18.130 --> 00:27:18.390
 you know?
 
 00:27:19.151 --> 00:27:20.652
 So I've always find that I
 
 00:27:20.692 --> 00:27:21.432
 love that stuff.
 
 00:27:21.452 --> 00:27:22.634
 I love the mind body connection,
 
 00:27:22.673 --> 00:27:24.055
 but I think that in general
 
 00:27:24.515 --> 00:27:26.176
 for myself and a lot of the
 
 00:27:26.477 --> 00:27:28.057
 listeners who are either
 
 00:27:28.118 --> 00:27:29.539
 tight or over flexible, um,
 
 00:27:31.181 --> 00:27:32.383
 What are like particular
 
 00:27:32.423 --> 00:27:34.886
 yoga postures that you
 
 00:27:34.946 --> 00:27:36.910
 think are more risky that
 
 00:27:36.950 --> 00:27:38.092
 we should maybe avoid?
 
 00:27:38.112 --> 00:27:42.298
 Because I think that there are like,
 
 00:27:42.598 --> 00:27:43.701
 is there any that we should
 
 00:27:43.881 --> 00:27:45.663
 be mindful of or avoid altogether?
 
 00:27:46.137 --> 00:27:47.459
 Well, some of your listeners might,
 
 00:27:47.578 --> 00:27:48.298
 might not like me,
 
 00:27:48.338 --> 00:27:49.459
 but can we circle back to
 
 00:27:49.499 --> 00:27:50.579
 that in just one second?
 
 00:27:50.680 --> 00:27:51.539
 Cause I feel like it's
 
 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:52.621
 worthwhile mentioning,
 
 00:27:52.721 --> 00:27:54.080
 like there's just so much
 
 00:27:54.121 --> 00:27:55.602
 that we don't know about
 
 00:27:55.662 --> 00:27:57.603
 the nervous system, you know,
 
 00:27:57.863 --> 00:27:59.243
 and that we don't understand.
 
 00:27:59.304 --> 00:28:00.263
 I'll just tell you a very
 
 00:28:00.324 --> 00:28:01.183
 quick story and then I'll
 
 00:28:01.223 --> 00:28:02.125
 answer your question.
 
 00:28:02.244 --> 00:28:04.986
 But my teacher, Greg Roscoff.
 
 00:28:05.632 --> 00:28:07.192
 I, we were talking one day,
 
 00:28:07.272 --> 00:28:08.794
 I caught him in between, you know,
 
 00:28:08.814 --> 00:28:09.874
 the classroom and the
 
 00:28:09.953 --> 00:28:11.414
 bathroom one day and I just
 
 00:28:11.674 --> 00:28:13.215
 stopped him and I said what I said.
 
 00:28:13.256 --> 00:28:14.195
 And then he,
 
 00:28:14.457 --> 00:28:16.438
 he always loves to pontificate
 
 00:28:16.478 --> 00:28:18.157
 with people, but he was telling me,
 
 00:28:18.818 --> 00:28:19.519
 you know, he says,
 
 00:28:19.699 --> 00:28:20.759
 the nervous system is an
 
 00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:22.000
 amazing thing and we just
 
 00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:23.201
 don't understand it.
 
 00:28:23.621 --> 00:28:25.682
 And so he was telling me
 
 00:28:25.721 --> 00:28:26.702
 about this quick story.
 
 00:28:26.722 --> 00:28:27.782
 He quickly told me about
 
 00:28:27.823 --> 00:28:29.304
 this story where this woman
 
 00:28:29.384 --> 00:28:32.486
 came to him and was having pain and she,
 
 00:28:33.306 --> 00:28:34.566
 I can't remember where it was.
 
 00:28:34.605 --> 00:28:35.606
 It was like her hips or
 
 00:28:35.666 --> 00:28:36.487
 something like that.
 
 00:28:36.967 --> 00:28:37.826
 And then she said to him,
 
 00:28:37.926 --> 00:28:39.267
 I have a chocolate allergy
 
 00:28:39.307 --> 00:28:40.688
 and my muscles shut down as
 
 00:28:40.728 --> 00:28:41.768
 a response to that.
 
 00:28:42.268 --> 00:28:44.608
 Greg looked at her like, what?
 
 00:28:46.689 --> 00:28:48.710
 So he did an experiment with her.
 
 00:28:48.730 --> 00:28:51.230
 He got her strong and then
 
 00:28:51.289 --> 00:28:52.570
 he gave her chocolate and
 
 00:28:52.611 --> 00:28:53.971
 she became instantly weak.
 
 00:28:54.778 --> 00:28:56.940
 And it was like, it blew his mind.
 
 00:28:57.401 --> 00:28:59.423
 But what he realized is that
 
 00:28:59.522 --> 00:29:01.325
 her stress tolerance level
 
 00:29:01.444 --> 00:29:04.729
 was so low that for whatever reason,
 
 00:29:04.868 --> 00:29:05.829
 eating chocolate
 
 00:29:07.297 --> 00:29:08.178
 really hurt her.
 
 00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:10.319
 And so what he did was he
 
 00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:11.501
 used the chocolate as a
 
 00:29:11.561 --> 00:29:13.222
 barometer to see how he
 
 00:29:13.282 --> 00:29:15.506
 could raise her stress tolerance level.
 
 00:29:16.145 --> 00:29:17.647
 And so for a lot of people
 
 00:29:17.788 --> 00:29:19.690
 that have these kind of
 
 00:29:19.769 --> 00:29:22.332
 experiences where they feel
 
 00:29:22.352 --> 00:29:24.013
 like they're holding on to something,
 
 00:29:24.294 --> 00:29:26.636
 what I would suggest is as
 
 00:29:26.717 --> 00:29:28.878
 we do yoga and as we breathe,
 
 00:29:29.358 --> 00:29:30.559
 And we learn how to breathe.
 
 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:31.559
 I'm going to use the word
 
 00:29:31.660 --> 00:29:32.921
 correctly or properly.
 
 00:29:32.961 --> 00:29:33.941
 That could be a better word.
 
 00:29:34.020 --> 00:29:35.781
 But as we learn to breathe
 
 00:29:35.842 --> 00:29:37.281
 more diaphragmatically,
 
 00:29:37.342 --> 00:29:38.063
 let's use that word,
 
 00:29:38.583 --> 00:29:41.463
 that we start to raise our
 
 00:29:41.584 --> 00:29:43.944
 tolerance level to dealing with stress.
 
 00:29:44.365 --> 00:29:45.726
 And we start to...
 
 00:29:47.182 --> 00:29:49.365
 I like to say increase our resistance,
 
 00:29:49.625 --> 00:29:51.887
 you know, and that we can, and you can,
 
 00:29:51.907 --> 00:29:53.009
 you've seen this yourself.
 
 00:29:53.068 --> 00:29:55.692
 Like people, when they do yoga, you know,
 
 00:29:55.932 --> 00:29:57.693
 Patanjali Sutra 248,
 
 00:29:57.693 --> 00:29:59.036
 we're able to deal with
 
 00:29:59.135 --> 00:30:01.878
 life in a better way, in a, in a,
 
 00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:04.261
 in a stronger and more stable way.
 
 00:30:05.742 --> 00:30:06.722
 So I just felt like I wanted
 
 00:30:06.762 --> 00:30:08.423
 to add that to the conversation.
 
 00:30:08.443 --> 00:30:09.763
 I really think it's
 
 00:30:09.804 --> 00:30:12.444
 important because in Westernized yoga,
 
 00:30:12.924 --> 00:30:14.164
 people do still associate
 
 00:30:14.184 --> 00:30:15.425
 yoga with just exercise.
 
 00:30:16.405 --> 00:30:17.425
 And so they experience it
 
 00:30:17.465 --> 00:30:19.186
 consistently and see the benefits.
 
 00:30:20.467 --> 00:30:21.747
 The resilience of the
 
 00:30:21.807 --> 00:30:23.587
 nervous system is like...
 
 00:30:24.347 --> 00:30:24.989
 It's outstanding.
 
 00:30:25.009 --> 00:30:25.868
 And I think that's why more
 
 00:30:25.888 --> 00:30:27.490
 and more people are now, you know,
 
 00:30:27.530 --> 00:30:28.590
 it's trending to do cold
 
 00:30:28.651 --> 00:30:31.053
 plunges and things because they're just,
 
 00:30:31.232 --> 00:30:31.553
 you know,
 
 00:30:31.692 --> 00:30:32.574
 they're trying to find other
 
 00:30:32.634 --> 00:30:34.095
 ways that they can, you know,
 
 00:30:34.335 --> 00:30:35.195
 use these tools to
 
 00:30:35.236 --> 00:30:36.676
 downregulate their nervous systems.
 
 00:30:36.737 --> 00:30:38.397
 And some people that doesn't
 
 00:30:38.458 --> 00:30:40.239
 seem pleasurable for them.
 
 00:30:40.420 --> 00:30:42.641
 So why not breathwork?
 
 00:30:42.701 --> 00:30:43.501
 Why not yoga?
 
 00:30:44.146 --> 00:30:45.608
 Yes, absolutely.
 
 00:30:46.089 --> 00:30:47.612
 But to go back to your question,
 
 00:30:48.553 --> 00:30:49.815
 so there are some poses.
 
 00:30:50.134 --> 00:30:51.916
 And so people ask me like, well,
 
 00:30:51.957 --> 00:30:52.557
 is there anything I
 
 00:30:52.678 --> 00:30:53.880
 definitely shouldn't do?
 
 00:30:55.122 --> 00:30:57.003
 Well, stop stretching.
 
 00:30:59.346 --> 00:31:00.327
 And see, like,
 
 00:31:00.488 --> 00:31:01.708
 like just using that kind of
 
 00:31:01.788 --> 00:31:03.888
 example that I gave about, like,
 
 00:31:03.930 --> 00:31:05.029
 if you're lying on your back,
 
 00:31:05.130 --> 00:31:06.911
 instead of trying to grab your leg,
 
 00:31:07.451 --> 00:31:09.231
 you know, just through a vinyasa,
 
 00:31:09.271 --> 00:31:10.413
 like bring your leg up,
 
 00:31:10.573 --> 00:31:12.034
 hold it for seconds,
 
 00:31:12.294 --> 00:31:13.835
 bring it back down as
 
 00:31:13.855 --> 00:31:14.914
 you're lying on your back
 
 00:31:15.134 --> 00:31:16.215
 and do that use.
 
 00:31:17.276 --> 00:31:18.557
 One of the words which I
 
 00:31:18.596 --> 00:31:19.958
 don't really like this term,
 
 00:31:19.998 --> 00:31:21.679
 but is often referred to as
 
 00:31:21.719 --> 00:31:22.920
 dynamic stretching.
 
 00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:24.862
 I prefer to call it dynamic movement,
 
 00:31:24.922 --> 00:31:26.803
 but using dynamic movement
 
 00:31:27.423 --> 00:31:31.086
 as a way to improve muscle function.
 
 00:31:31.266 --> 00:31:32.467
 And so there's 100% accountability there.
 
 00:31:35.891 --> 00:31:37.832
 Definitely one of the number one poses,
 
 00:31:37.892 --> 00:31:39.212
 and we're going to not make
 
 00:31:39.252 --> 00:31:41.074
 some friends here, but it's child's pose.
 
 00:31:42.034 --> 00:31:44.516
 And so this is like,
 
 00:31:44.655 --> 00:31:46.096
 I would say child's pose.
 
 00:31:46.737 --> 00:31:49.718
 It's opposite pose, apanasana,
 
 00:31:49.758 --> 00:31:50.538
 when you're lying on your
 
 00:31:50.578 --> 00:31:51.759
 back and you hug your knees
 
 00:31:51.838 --> 00:31:52.599
 into your chest.
 
 00:31:53.500 --> 00:31:56.041
 And then any kind of hip openers,
 
 00:31:56.362 --> 00:31:57.701
 like those are definitely
 
 00:31:57.781 --> 00:31:58.903
 like the biggest ones.
 
 00:31:59.163 --> 00:31:59.963
 And, you know,
 
 00:32:00.124 --> 00:32:02.085
 hip opener would be like pigeon's pose.
 
 00:32:02.244 --> 00:32:02.424
 Mm-hmm.
 
 00:32:03.105 --> 00:32:05.346
 Um, and the reason why, and I,
 
 00:32:05.645 --> 00:32:06.426
 I'll tell you why.
 
 00:32:06.527 --> 00:32:09.847
 So if you come into child's pose, you,
 
 00:32:10.269 --> 00:32:11.749
 there's no accountability there,
 
 00:32:11.808 --> 00:32:13.349
 cuz you're just lying, you know,
 
 00:32:13.690 --> 00:32:15.431
 onto your thighs.
 
 00:32:16.070 --> 00:32:18.412
 If you did the reverse of it and,
 
 00:32:18.673 --> 00:32:20.353
 and did it dynamically, and by the way,
 
 00:32:20.373 --> 00:32:21.433
 this is a great muscle
 
 00:32:21.513 --> 00:32:22.674
 activation as well.
 
 00:32:23.315 --> 00:32:24.355
 If you did that pose
 
 00:32:24.394 --> 00:32:26.536
 dynamically that you would
 
 00:32:26.576 --> 00:32:27.457
 come onto your back,
 
 00:32:27.737 --> 00:32:29.377
 you would have your arms to the sides,
 
 00:32:29.498 --> 00:32:30.417
 and then you would bring
 
 00:32:30.458 --> 00:32:31.719
 your knees to your chest.
 
 00:32:32.970 --> 00:32:33.190
 Now,
 
 00:32:33.369 --> 00:32:34.832
 you're not using your hands to pull
 
 00:32:34.852 --> 00:32:35.152
 your knees.
 
 00:32:35.172 --> 00:32:36.093
 You're just using your
 
 00:32:36.133 --> 00:32:37.153
 muscles at that point
 
 00:32:37.173 --> 00:32:38.234
 because your arms are to
 
 00:32:38.255 --> 00:32:39.655
 the sides like a T, right?
 
 00:32:40.737 --> 00:32:43.098
 Notice how far your knees
 
 00:32:43.199 --> 00:32:44.160
 are from your chest.
 
 00:32:47.021 --> 00:32:48.042
 There's probably anybody
 
 00:32:48.123 --> 00:32:50.545
 listening can't get closer to six inches.
 
 00:32:50.664 --> 00:32:51.566
 Most people would be
 
 00:32:51.625 --> 00:32:55.710
 probably six inches to 12 inches away,
 
 00:32:55.789 --> 00:32:56.730
 maybe stiff biff.
 
 00:32:58.084 --> 00:32:59.465
 know it's probably very far
 
 00:32:59.526 --> 00:33:01.548
 away but most people would
 
 00:33:01.587 --> 00:33:03.509
 be about six to ten inches
 
 00:33:03.609 --> 00:33:06.633
 I would imagine that should
 
 00:33:06.673 --> 00:33:07.653
 tell you something about
 
 00:33:07.693 --> 00:33:08.734
 your natural range of
 
 00:33:08.796 --> 00:33:10.436
 motion that's where your
 
 00:33:10.497 --> 00:33:13.039
 body is wanting to move and
 
 00:33:14.221 --> 00:33:15.742
 if you hug your knees and
 
 00:33:15.782 --> 00:33:17.484
 bring your knees into your chest
 
 00:33:18.589 --> 00:33:20.371
 or if you come into child's pose,
 
 00:33:20.531 --> 00:33:23.733
 that distance immediately collapses.
 
 00:33:23.773 --> 00:33:25.315
 You can get like one inch,
 
 00:33:25.555 --> 00:33:26.977
 sometimes just right on top.
 
 00:33:27.676 --> 00:33:28.778
 So now you've kind of
 
 00:33:29.038 --> 00:33:30.598
 overstretched everything.
 
 00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:31.180
 And again,
 
 00:33:31.420 --> 00:33:33.682
 there's that neuromuscular connection.
 
 00:33:35.182 --> 00:33:36.344
 I have done this test
 
 00:33:37.861 --> 00:33:38.721
 countless times,
 
 00:33:39.521 --> 00:33:41.202
 thousand times out of a thousand,
 
 00:33:41.482 --> 00:33:43.144
 everybody will always test weak.
 
 00:33:43.984 --> 00:33:46.185
 So what muscles are gonna test weak?
 
 00:33:46.506 --> 00:33:48.567
 All of the back extensors.
 
 00:33:48.807 --> 00:33:50.188
 So all the back muscles,
 
 00:33:50.367 --> 00:33:52.650
 you've now elongated them
 
 00:33:52.710 --> 00:33:54.371
 beyond what their capacity is.
 
 00:33:55.171 --> 00:33:56.872
 all of the the reciprocal
 
 00:33:56.912 --> 00:33:58.053
 muscles then all of the
 
 00:33:58.113 --> 00:33:59.574
 trunk flexors immediately
 
 00:33:59.653 --> 00:34:01.375
 stop working and then you
 
 00:34:01.414 --> 00:34:02.655
 get into your glutes you're
 
 00:34:03.115 --> 00:34:04.616
 also passively stretching
 
 00:34:04.636 --> 00:34:06.358
 your glutes and then you're
 
 00:34:06.439 --> 00:34:07.920
 also over shortening in a
 
 00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:10.081
 passive way all of the um
 
 00:34:10.661 --> 00:34:12.402
 the hip flexors so all of
 
 00:34:12.463 --> 00:34:13.563
 these muscles is four
 
 00:34:13.623 --> 00:34:15.844
 systems of muscles uh that
 
 00:34:15.885 --> 00:34:17.585
 are negatively impacted
 
 00:34:17.666 --> 00:34:20.047
 from child's pose so if you
 
 00:34:20.088 --> 00:34:21.389
 wanted to actually do the
 
 00:34:21.528 --> 00:34:22.668
 opposite if you wanted to
 
 00:34:22.769 --> 00:34:24.650
 actually activate those muscles
 
 00:34:25.572 --> 00:34:26.952
 lie on your back bring your
 
 00:34:27.434 --> 00:34:29.175
 arms out to the sides and
 
 00:34:29.215 --> 00:34:30.657
 then squeeze your knees
 
 00:34:30.717 --> 00:34:32.719
 into your chest using your
 
 00:34:32.898 --> 00:34:34.701
 muscles that will actually
 
 00:34:34.780 --> 00:34:37.063
 have a very positive effect
 
 00:34:37.264 --> 00:34:38.965
 and do that six seconds six times
 
 00:34:40.184 --> 00:34:41.065
 I'm going to have to really
 
 00:34:41.105 --> 00:34:42.346
 dive in more into this.
 
 00:34:42.786 --> 00:34:43.545
 I'm like going to be
 
 00:34:43.827 --> 00:34:45.487
 crawling all over your stuff now.
 
 00:34:45.507 --> 00:34:49.528
 One of the things that I find interesting,
 
 00:34:49.548 --> 00:34:50.369
 because I'm thinking as
 
 00:34:50.409 --> 00:34:51.150
 we're talking here,
 
 00:34:51.170 --> 00:34:52.289
 because I teach Kundalini
 
 00:34:52.369 --> 00:34:53.530
 and so much of Kundalini is
 
 00:34:53.570 --> 00:34:56.052
 repetitive and we're not doing,
 
 00:34:56.291 --> 00:34:57.813
 we hardly ever do downward dog.
 
 00:34:57.853 --> 00:34:59.934
 I mean, child's pose is sometimes involved,
 
 00:35:00.014 --> 00:35:00.153
 but
 
 00:35:01.014 --> 00:35:01.994
 I find it interesting.
 
 00:35:02.034 --> 00:35:03.014
 I'm thinking about a lot of
 
 00:35:03.054 --> 00:35:04.996
 it is if you're doing it with breath,
 
 00:35:05.056 --> 00:35:05.856
 it's six seconds.
 
 00:35:05.936 --> 00:35:07.838
 I don't think we, yeah,
 
 00:35:07.858 --> 00:35:09.699
 we do a lot of like full leg lifts,
 
 00:35:09.798 --> 00:35:11.119
 like when we're laying on our back.
 
 00:35:11.239 --> 00:35:12.900
 And I'm thinking about that.
 
 00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:13.900
 I'm going, oh, that's good.
 
 00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:15.442
 Oh, wait, let's look at this one.
 
 00:35:15.481 --> 00:35:16.262
 So I'm really,
 
 00:35:16.282 --> 00:35:17.103
 really going to be
 
 00:35:17.143 --> 00:35:18.324
 reevaluating and thinking
 
 00:35:18.384 --> 00:35:20.164
 more about this in this perspective.
 
 00:35:20.224 --> 00:35:21.085
 But I think it's great
 
 00:35:21.105 --> 00:35:23.226
 because I think this is so unique.
 
 00:35:23.246 --> 00:35:23.806
 Yeah.
 
 00:35:24.286 --> 00:35:25.208
 And I don't know,
 
 00:35:25.387 --> 00:35:26.610
 there's a lot of yoga instructors,
 
 00:35:26.670 --> 00:35:27.630
 I think that hopefully,
 
 00:35:27.650 --> 00:35:29.813
 and students that hopefully
 
 00:35:29.893 --> 00:35:31.976
 can embrace this a little
 
 00:35:31.996 --> 00:35:34.157
 bit more and be open to it
 
 00:35:34.257 --> 00:35:35.059
 and explore it.
 
 00:35:35.619 --> 00:35:37.121
 Because there is that
 
 00:35:37.181 --> 00:35:38.483
 thought in the back of our minds,
 
 00:35:38.543 --> 00:35:39.384
 I'm sure if you're out
 
 00:35:39.403 --> 00:35:40.063
 there as a listener,
 
 00:35:40.164 --> 00:35:40.844
 I'm sitting here thinking,
 
 00:35:41.246 --> 00:35:42.547
 but it feels so good to do
 
 00:35:42.646 --> 00:35:44.228
 pitch and pose.
 
 00:35:44.369 --> 00:35:44.849
 Yeah.
 
 00:35:45.650 --> 00:35:46.710
 Yeah, it does.
 
 00:35:46.971 --> 00:35:47.251
 Yeah.
 
 00:35:47.311 --> 00:35:49.793
 Well, there's definitely this... I mean,
 
 00:35:49.873 --> 00:35:51.695
 stretching... I've never
 
 00:35:51.735 --> 00:35:52.456
 really gotten into a
 
 00:35:52.516 --> 00:35:54.038
 conversation with Greg about this,
 
 00:35:54.097 --> 00:35:55.418
 so I don't know what he would say,
 
 00:35:55.478 --> 00:35:58.460
 but this is my take or opinion.
 
 00:35:59.181 --> 00:36:01.744
 And that is that stretching
 
 00:36:02.144 --> 00:36:04.646
 does have a positive effect
 
 00:36:04.987 --> 00:36:06.789
 on the parasympathetic nervous system,
 
 00:36:06.829 --> 00:36:07.088
 meaning...
 
 00:36:09.351 --> 00:36:10.811
 it's almost like the nervous
 
 00:36:10.851 --> 00:36:12.251
 system is unwinding and
 
 00:36:12.291 --> 00:36:14.192
 we're able to start moving
 
 00:36:14.311 --> 00:36:16.592
 more into a rest and digest state.
 
 00:36:18.112 --> 00:36:19.452
 But the problem is then it
 
 00:36:19.572 --> 00:36:21.773
 has this negative effect on
 
 00:36:22.273 --> 00:36:24.894
 this neuromuscular connection business.
 
 00:36:25.215 --> 00:36:27.195
 And so I would just say that
 
 00:36:27.235 --> 00:36:28.934
 you actually can have both.
 
 00:36:29.155 --> 00:36:30.556
 And one of the things that I
 
 00:36:30.596 --> 00:36:31.775
 thought you were going to ask me,
 
 00:36:32.496 --> 00:36:33.677
 and then you kind of added
 
 00:36:33.737 --> 00:36:35.356
 a different question to it, but
 
 00:36:35.876 --> 00:36:37.438
 Do people become like this
 
 00:36:37.518 --> 00:36:39.159
 mind-body experience?
 
 00:36:39.380 --> 00:36:40.800
 And so what I have found,
 
 00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:43.702
 when we talk about mind-body in yoga,
 
 00:36:44.184 --> 00:36:45.423
 we often refer to,
 
 00:36:45.585 --> 00:36:46.925
 it's really talking about
 
 00:36:46.965 --> 00:36:48.606
 this kinetic awareness.
 
 00:36:48.766 --> 00:36:50.969
 Like, you know, you say to students,
 
 00:36:51.068 --> 00:36:52.969
 student, feel your pinky toe.
 
 00:36:53.070 --> 00:36:54.771
 Can you move just your pinky toe?
 
 00:36:54.791 --> 00:36:56.052
 So that's a kinetic awareness.
 
 00:36:56.753 --> 00:36:58.373
 kind of awareness.
 
 00:36:59.253 --> 00:37:00.753
 But in the lane that I'm
 
 00:37:00.813 --> 00:37:02.233
 driving in is both kinetic
 
 00:37:02.574 --> 00:37:04.994
 and this level of proprioception.
 
 00:37:05.074 --> 00:37:07.275
 So we're building up proprioception,
 
 00:37:07.755 --> 00:37:09.755
 which is an unconscious thing.
 
 00:37:09.815 --> 00:37:10.856
 It's happening in the
 
 00:37:11.097 --> 00:37:13.157
 autonomic nervous system.
 
 00:37:13.217 --> 00:37:14.818
 So when we say like a muscle
 
 00:37:14.838 --> 00:37:16.757
 should contract and contract on demand,
 
 00:37:17.318 --> 00:37:19.018
 you have nothing to do with that.
 
 00:37:19.478 --> 00:37:22.820
 That's happening completely unconsciously.
 
 00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:24.661
 some people think like oh I
 
 00:37:24.701 --> 00:37:26.121
 can you know engage my
 
 00:37:26.161 --> 00:37:28.103
 muscles no you can't it's
 
 00:37:28.163 --> 00:37:29.023
 either going to work or
 
 00:37:29.063 --> 00:37:30.083
 it's not going to work and
 
 00:37:30.123 --> 00:37:31.083
 it's happening in a
 
 00:37:31.143 --> 00:37:32.625
 nanosecond but what I have
 
 00:37:32.684 --> 00:37:33.865
 found consistently and I've
 
 00:37:33.905 --> 00:37:35.306
 had so much feedback around
 
 00:37:35.347 --> 00:37:37.047
 this is when we start to
 
 00:37:37.108 --> 00:37:37.688
 build up that
 
 00:37:37.788 --> 00:37:40.108
 proprioception it amplifies
 
 00:37:40.668 --> 00:37:43.630
 this uh kinetic awareness
 
 00:37:43.791 --> 00:37:45.072
 completely like people
 
 00:37:45.132 --> 00:37:46.373
 constantly say to me
 
 00:37:47.791 --> 00:37:49.831
 I feel so much more in my
 
 00:37:49.931 --> 00:37:51.291
 body than I ever have.
 
 00:37:51.791 --> 00:37:53.552
 Um, because when you feel,
 
 00:37:53.572 --> 00:37:55.012
 and you can feel the muscle
 
 00:37:55.253 --> 00:37:57.753
 starting to activate and work, you know,
 
 00:37:58.193 --> 00:37:59.474
 literally these lights
 
 00:37:59.494 --> 00:38:01.614
 start of kinetic awareness
 
 00:38:01.653 --> 00:38:04.375
 start appearing and it's like, Oh wow.
 
 00:38:04.494 --> 00:38:06.795
 You know, I feel myself coming alive.
 
 00:38:08.096 --> 00:38:09.476
 So it almost feels like if you're,
 
 00:38:09.596 --> 00:38:10.996
 you know, if your muscles are balanced,
 
 00:38:11.097 --> 00:38:12.257
 so you don't have any, you know,
 
 00:38:12.336 --> 00:38:13.516
 very weak biceps and
 
 00:38:13.597 --> 00:38:15.018
 overstretched triceps or
 
 00:38:15.077 --> 00:38:16.478
 whatever's going on, like you're,
 
 00:38:17.856 --> 00:38:19.056
 Even your gait and how you'd
 
 00:38:19.097 --> 00:38:19.637
 walk through
 
 00:38:19.657 --> 00:38:21.018
 three-dimensional space and time,
 
 00:38:21.059 --> 00:38:23.500
 the proprioception.
 
 00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:26.163
 It's such a hard word.
 
 00:38:26.182 --> 00:38:28.864
 I can see why if you're working less,
 
 00:38:28.925 --> 00:38:29.885
 if you're using less
 
 00:38:30.565 --> 00:38:32.226
 kinetic energy or your own energy,
 
 00:38:32.327 --> 00:38:32.487
 then...
 
 00:38:33.307 --> 00:38:35.811
 that it could make you have
 
 00:38:35.831 --> 00:38:37.192
 a little bit more of your, maybe,
 
 00:38:37.311 --> 00:38:38.472
 maybe your consciousness or
 
 00:38:38.512 --> 00:38:39.293
 your awareness has more
 
 00:38:39.333 --> 00:38:40.635
 time to process the world
 
 00:38:40.715 --> 00:38:42.737
 in your physical body versus, okay,
 
 00:38:43.018 --> 00:38:43.378
 we've got to,
 
 00:38:43.739 --> 00:38:45.179
 you're a little bit off here, you know,
 
 00:38:45.260 --> 00:38:46.161
 cause that's something that
 
 00:38:46.181 --> 00:38:47.541
 happens when people get body work,
 
 00:38:47.581 --> 00:38:48.523
 they get off the table and
 
 00:38:48.543 --> 00:38:49.503
 then they kind of feel like they're,
 
 00:38:49.704 --> 00:38:50.846
 or maybe even after a yoga
 
 00:38:50.865 --> 00:38:52.047
 session with you, I'm curious,
 
 00:38:52.067 --> 00:38:52.807
 do they feel like they,
 
 00:38:53.088 --> 00:38:54.088
 they stand up and they're,
 
 00:38:54.409 --> 00:38:55.730
 They have to readjust to
 
 00:38:55.769 --> 00:38:56.610
 their third dimensional
 
 00:38:56.670 --> 00:38:57.572
 space and how they're
 
 00:38:57.592 --> 00:38:59.092
 standing on their feet.
 
 00:38:59.193 --> 00:39:00.733
 Like it feels like it's on a,
 
 00:39:00.855 --> 00:39:01.614
 they're like on a boat.
 
 00:39:01.655 --> 00:39:02.635
 Like they get their sea legs
 
 00:39:02.675 --> 00:39:04.056
 until they get reacclimated
 
 00:39:04.097 --> 00:39:05.539
 to the new way that their
 
 00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:06.760
 body's sitting in space.
 
 00:39:07.539 --> 00:39:08.340
 I'm just curious.
 
 00:39:09.382 --> 00:39:11.103
 I would actually say it's the reverse.
 
 00:39:11.202 --> 00:39:13.144
 People, when they work with me,
 
 00:39:13.244 --> 00:39:15.126
 they stand up and they feel stable.
 
 00:39:15.387 --> 00:39:16.047
 More stable.
 
 00:39:16.208 --> 00:39:16.927
 More stable.
 
 00:39:17.268 --> 00:39:17.369
 Wow.
 
 00:39:17.389 --> 00:39:19.751
 I would say that, well, do an experiment.
 
 00:39:21.512 --> 00:39:22.592
 Not now, but later.
 
 00:39:22.612 --> 00:39:24.952
 Do pigeon pose for five
 
 00:39:25.012 --> 00:39:27.074
 minutes on each leg and
 
 00:39:27.094 --> 00:39:28.293
 then try and stand up.
 
 00:39:30.855 --> 00:39:32.376
 People can't because all
 
 00:39:32.416 --> 00:39:34.215
 that proprioception, it's gone.
 
 00:39:34.356 --> 00:39:36.077
 It's out the door.
 
 00:39:36.516 --> 00:39:38.157
 There's no strength because
 
 00:39:38.538 --> 00:39:39.557
 the brain doesn't know
 
 00:39:39.617 --> 00:39:40.998
 where any of those muscles are.
 
 00:39:41.398 --> 00:39:43.460
 But when you start doing muscle activation,
 
 00:39:43.619 --> 00:39:45.780
 there's actually an increase in...
 
 00:39:46.860 --> 00:39:49.963
 in like, oh, wow, there's the muscles.
 
 00:39:49.983 --> 00:39:52.505
 And it feels more stable.
 
 00:39:53.226 --> 00:39:55.047
 You immediately stand up and you go, oh,
 
 00:39:55.668 --> 00:39:57.208
 here's my body.
 
 00:39:57.309 --> 00:39:58.849
 My body is actually working
 
 00:39:58.949 --> 00:40:01.052
 and holding me together.
 
 00:40:01.371 --> 00:40:02.693
 Just as a quick side note.
 
 00:40:02.793 --> 00:40:04.894
 So, well, there's two points,
 
 00:40:04.934 --> 00:40:05.795
 two or three points I
 
 00:40:05.835 --> 00:40:06.655
 quickly want to make.
 
 00:40:07.476 --> 00:40:07.856
 And these are
 
 00:40:08.532 --> 00:40:09.494
 first point is like we
 
 00:40:09.534 --> 00:40:10.775
 didn't we learned all of
 
 00:40:10.835 --> 00:40:11.617
 these things about
 
 00:40:11.657 --> 00:40:13.057
 biomechanics in grade
 
 00:40:13.117 --> 00:40:14.420
 school you know when we
 
 00:40:14.460 --> 00:40:15.260
 were in grade school
 
 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:16.422
 coloring and you know where
 
 00:40:16.461 --> 00:40:18.023
 muscles are and stuff we
 
 00:40:18.083 --> 00:40:19.385
 learned that that muscles
 
 00:40:19.465 --> 00:40:21.467
 have a function and they
 
 00:40:21.668 --> 00:40:23.630
 the function is they need to shorten
 
 00:40:24.673 --> 00:40:26.454
 And they need to shorten to do two things.
 
 00:40:26.835 --> 00:40:27.655
 And then I know that there's
 
 00:40:27.695 --> 00:40:28.876
 other things that muscles do,
 
 00:40:28.936 --> 00:40:30.297
 but the basic two things
 
 00:40:30.418 --> 00:40:33.000
 are muscles shortened to move bones.
 
 00:40:33.619 --> 00:40:34.581
 But the other important
 
 00:40:34.621 --> 00:40:36.601
 thing is this stabilized joints.
 
 00:40:37.101 --> 00:40:38.463
 And so, you know,
 
 00:40:38.543 --> 00:40:39.543
 like you were saying earlier,
 
 00:40:39.603 --> 00:40:40.885
 like you stretch your neck
 
 00:40:41.244 --> 00:40:42.246
 and then you don't,
 
 00:40:42.445 --> 00:40:43.686
 you feel the pain coming
 
 00:40:43.746 --> 00:40:44.887
 back really quickly.
 
 00:40:44.907 --> 00:40:46.007
 And that's like,
 
 00:40:46.289 --> 00:40:48.489
 that's what I dealt with for years.
 
 00:40:48.590 --> 00:40:49.451
 I dealt with that.
 
 00:40:49.570 --> 00:40:52.112
 Like my, my neck constantly going out.
 
 00:40:52.193 --> 00:40:53.793
 So it was always my neck and my back.
 
 00:40:53.813 --> 00:40:54.233
 And,
 
 00:40:54.653 --> 00:40:56.715
 And my solution was,
 
 00:40:56.815 --> 00:40:57.817
 I'm just going to stretch.
 
 00:40:57.876 --> 00:40:59.257
 I'm going to stretch this out.
 
 00:40:59.818 --> 00:41:01.739
 And again, when you stretch a muscle,
 
 00:41:02.740 --> 00:41:05.864
 it disconnects from the
 
 00:41:06.063 --> 00:41:07.184
 central nervous system.
 
 00:41:07.704 --> 00:41:08.505
 So the central nervous
 
 00:41:08.545 --> 00:41:09.726
 system no longer knows
 
 00:41:09.786 --> 00:41:10.768
 where those muscles are.
 
 00:41:10.827 --> 00:41:11.989
 What I really needed to be
 
 00:41:12.028 --> 00:41:13.469
 doing was getting those
 
 00:41:13.530 --> 00:41:15.172
 muscles working and getting
 
 00:41:15.211 --> 00:41:16.713
 the muscles to be able to
 
 00:41:16.773 --> 00:41:18.153
 contract and contract on
 
 00:41:18.213 --> 00:41:20.315
 demand that were supporting my neck and
 
 00:41:20.976 --> 00:41:22.516
 and getting those to start
 
 00:41:22.556 --> 00:41:23.518
 working properly.
 
 00:41:24.077 --> 00:41:25.978
 Pain and muscle tightness
 
 00:41:26.519 --> 00:41:27.880
 are the two check engine
 
 00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:28.880
 lights of the body.
 
 00:41:29.061 --> 00:41:31.682
 So if you have muscle tightness,
 
 00:41:31.782 --> 00:41:33.143
 like I had tight hamstrings,
 
 00:41:33.543 --> 00:41:35.545
 that was an indication like, hey,
 
 00:41:35.784 --> 00:41:37.666
 your hip flexors need to be
 
 00:41:37.887 --> 00:41:38.646
 addressed here.
 
 00:41:39.126 --> 00:41:41.949
 Your quads are not contracting properly.
 
 00:41:42.449 --> 00:41:45.731
 So at 18, the knowledge I have now,
 
 00:41:45.751 --> 00:41:46.871
 because I probably would be
 
 00:41:47.172 --> 00:41:47.873
 a lot stronger,
 
 00:41:48.552 --> 00:41:49.994
 was to start getting those
 
 00:41:50.034 --> 00:41:51.577
 muscles activated so that
 
 00:41:51.597 --> 00:41:52.719
 they could contract and
 
 00:41:52.759 --> 00:41:54.300
 contract on demand and then
 
 00:41:54.742 --> 00:41:56.483
 be able to stabilize my
 
 00:41:56.563 --> 00:41:58.786
 hips and stabilize my lower
 
 00:41:58.847 --> 00:41:59.728
 back properly.
 
 00:42:00.851 --> 00:42:01.771
 And those are so common,
 
 00:42:02.192 --> 00:42:02.893
 neck and low back.
 
 00:42:02.932 --> 00:42:03.673
 They're so common.
 
 00:42:03.753 --> 00:42:05.695
 And even shoulder injuries are so common.
 
 00:42:05.775 --> 00:42:06.677
 So it's really good that
 
 00:42:06.717 --> 00:42:07.797
 this information's there.
 
 00:42:08.338 --> 00:42:09.458
 But I'm curious,
 
 00:42:10.199 --> 00:42:11.780
 you have a community and
 
 00:42:11.961 --> 00:42:12.661
 I'd love to learn more
 
 00:42:12.681 --> 00:42:14.563
 about how can our listeners
 
 00:42:14.643 --> 00:42:15.344
 connect with you?
 
 00:42:15.724 --> 00:42:16.646
 How can they learn more?
 
 00:42:16.746 --> 00:42:18.327
 What other opportunities to
 
 00:42:18.807 --> 00:42:19.949
 learn about the yogic
 
 00:42:20.228 --> 00:42:21.010
 muscle activation
 
 00:42:21.050 --> 00:42:22.452
 techniques that you have?
 
 00:42:22.731 --> 00:42:23.532
 Tell us all the goods.
 
 00:42:24.195 --> 00:42:25.076
 So, I mean,
 
 00:42:25.275 --> 00:42:28.458
 go to yogiaran.com and right
 
 00:42:28.478 --> 00:42:29.219
 there they can start
 
 00:42:29.378 --> 00:42:31.039
 accessing all of my stuff.
 
 00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:32.900
 I have tons of content out there.
 
 00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:35.322
 I have my book called Stop Stretching.
 
 00:42:35.342 --> 00:42:39.346
 I also have an online course
 
 00:42:39.385 --> 00:42:40.967
 that people can jump into.
 
 00:42:41.367 --> 00:42:43.088
 And I was just going to say
 
 00:42:43.108 --> 00:42:45.311
 that my goal is actually to
 
 00:42:45.351 --> 00:42:47.032
 have more people like you and
 
 00:42:47.692 --> 00:42:49.393
 who are learning this stuff
 
 00:42:49.793 --> 00:42:51.353
 and grow this community.
 
 00:42:51.974 --> 00:42:53.594
 And you might say, well,
 
 00:42:53.635 --> 00:42:54.976
 why do I want to grow this community?
 
 00:42:55.096 --> 00:42:57.956
 Because at the heart of all of this stuff,
 
 00:42:57.996 --> 00:42:59.217
 and the reason why I'm
 
 00:42:59.277 --> 00:43:00.639
 spending a lot of my time
 
 00:43:00.938 --> 00:43:02.298
 doing these podcast
 
 00:43:02.338 --> 00:43:04.099
 interviews and sharing this
 
 00:43:04.139 --> 00:43:06.742
 information is because I
 
 00:43:06.802 --> 00:43:08.422
 lived with pain for so long.
 
 00:43:08.442 --> 00:43:10.023
 And when we're in pain,
 
 00:43:11.806 --> 00:43:13.327
 like especially chronic pain,
 
 00:43:13.387 --> 00:43:14.347
 but any kind of pain,
 
 00:43:15.068 --> 00:43:18.208
 it literally zaps our life force energy,
 
 00:43:18.268 --> 00:43:19.530
 our prana.
 
 00:43:19.710 --> 00:43:21.170
 And I know from my own
 
 00:43:21.230 --> 00:43:22.630
 experience when I was lying
 
 00:43:22.690 --> 00:43:25.431
 in bed because my back was
 
 00:43:25.992 --> 00:43:27.773
 out or just kind of like
 
 00:43:28.574 --> 00:43:29.773
 going through life and
 
 00:43:30.094 --> 00:43:31.914
 constantly massaging my neck,
 
 00:43:31.954 --> 00:43:34.396
 because I had this constant dagger there,
 
 00:43:34.916 --> 00:43:37.217
 all my energy and resources
 
 00:43:37.597 --> 00:43:39.539
 went into how do I get out of this pain?
 
 00:43:40.438 --> 00:43:43.621
 and um I just I feel so sad
 
 00:43:43.681 --> 00:43:45.001
 for people when they are in
 
 00:43:45.041 --> 00:43:46.181
 that state because I know
 
 00:43:46.202 --> 00:43:48.242
 what it's like myself so I
 
 00:43:48.282 --> 00:43:50.163
 want more people to be
 
 00:43:50.202 --> 00:43:51.664
 teaching practices you know
 
 00:43:51.684 --> 00:43:52.664
 one of the things I
 
 00:43:52.704 --> 00:43:53.844
 constantly ask yoga
 
 00:43:53.885 --> 00:43:55.445
 teachers how are you
 
 00:43:55.525 --> 00:43:57.367
 leaving your students at
 
 00:43:57.387 --> 00:43:58.367
 the end of class are they
 
 00:43:58.467 --> 00:43:59.467
 leaving are they walking
 
 00:43:59.527 --> 00:44:01.068
 out of your classes strong
 
 00:44:01.088 --> 00:44:02.748
 or are they walking out of
 
 00:44:02.789 --> 00:44:05.369
 your classes weak and so I
 
 00:44:05.409 --> 00:44:06.751
 think for all yoga teachers
 
 00:44:06.791 --> 00:44:08.851
 we want our students to leave strong
 
 00:44:09.751 --> 00:44:11.193
 We want them to leave stable
 
 00:44:11.293 --> 00:44:13.315
 and we want them to leave pain free.
 
 00:44:13.894 --> 00:44:15.496
 And so that's my mission is
 
 00:44:15.556 --> 00:44:17.458
 to get this out there to
 
 00:44:17.597 --> 00:44:18.739
 hopefully inspire more
 
 00:44:18.798 --> 00:44:20.360
 people like you and other
 
 00:44:20.420 --> 00:44:22.961
 yoga teachers to dive into
 
 00:44:23.001 --> 00:44:23.983
 this more because,
 
 00:44:24.143 --> 00:44:26.184
 and it's not that big of a switch,
 
 00:44:27.204 --> 00:44:28.925
 but it's available to
 
 00:44:28.987 --> 00:44:29.887
 people if they want it.
 
 00:44:29.947 --> 00:44:32.148
 So go to yogiaron.com, get plugged in.
 
 00:44:32.528 --> 00:44:34.090
 That's very easy to remember.
 
 00:44:34.130 --> 00:44:36.690
 YogiAaron.com.
 
 00:44:37.072 --> 00:44:37.931
 Very easy to remember.
 
 00:44:37.952 --> 00:44:38.431
 Yeah.
 
 00:44:39.532 --> 00:44:40.813
 So I think that leaving
 
 00:44:40.833 --> 00:44:41.994
 people strong and the
 
 00:44:42.014 --> 00:44:45.076
 stability is so needed within ourselves.
 
 00:44:45.155 --> 00:44:45.576
 Go ahead.
 
 00:44:45.795 --> 00:44:46.737
 I just wanted to say one
 
 00:44:46.797 --> 00:44:48.557
 quick thing because one of my students,
 
 00:44:48.637 --> 00:44:49.557
 one of the students who's
 
 00:44:49.597 --> 00:44:52.260
 working with me is a Kundalini teacher.
 
 00:44:53.019 --> 00:44:55.179
 And she actually jumped into,
 
 00:44:55.260 --> 00:44:56.581
 she saw me doing a special
 
 00:44:56.661 --> 00:44:58.581
 on my online teacher training course,
 
 00:44:58.601 --> 00:45:00.300
 which was bundled into the
 
 00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:01.661
 Ayama certification.
 
 00:45:02.242 --> 00:45:04.001
 And she immediately jumped into it.
 
 00:45:04.481 --> 00:45:05.601
 And it's been so much fun
 
 00:45:05.702 --> 00:45:06.762
 talking to her because she
 
 00:45:06.802 --> 00:45:08.543
 has her Kundalini background.
 
 00:45:08.882 --> 00:45:09.643
 And I think,
 
 00:45:09.722 --> 00:45:11.003
 I don't know exactly how old she is.
 
 00:45:11.043 --> 00:45:12.643
 I think she's around 35-ish.
 
 00:45:13.304 --> 00:45:14.244
 And she,
 
 00:45:14.664 --> 00:45:15.864
 we always have these interesting
 
 00:45:15.903 --> 00:45:17.244
 discussions because I've also,
 
 00:45:17.264 --> 00:45:20.025
 I've never been a Kundalini teacher,
 
 00:45:20.065 --> 00:45:21.465
 but I've definitely studied.
 
 00:45:22.545 --> 00:45:23.326
 it a lot.
 
 00:45:23.465 --> 00:45:25.588
 And so where I could,
 
 00:45:25.608 --> 00:45:26.789
 I would always integrate it
 
 00:45:26.849 --> 00:45:28.971
 into some practices back in the day.
 
 00:45:29.871 --> 00:45:31.251
 But it's been a lot of fun.
 
 00:45:31.311 --> 00:45:32.313
 So there's definitely a lot
 
 00:45:32.353 --> 00:45:33.954
 of space for you to do that.
 
 00:45:33.974 --> 00:45:35.436
 And I can definitely hook
 
 00:45:35.456 --> 00:45:37.277
 you up with her experiences.
 
 00:45:37.617 --> 00:45:39.918
 And it's just a joy to work with her.
 
 00:45:39.938 --> 00:45:40.420
 Yeah.
 
 00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:41.260
 Thank you.
 
 00:45:41.280 --> 00:45:42.260
 I appreciate that.
 
 00:45:42.621 --> 00:45:43.842
 And I wanted to say that
 
 00:45:43.882 --> 00:45:44.842
 what you said about the
 
 00:45:45.081 --> 00:45:45.922
 stability and leaving
 
 00:45:45.963 --> 00:45:47.983
 people strong is so important, you know,
 
 00:45:48.344 --> 00:45:49.065
 just for the listeners,
 
 00:45:49.844 --> 00:45:51.565
 this making the connection again, like,
 
 00:45:51.585 --> 00:45:51.806
 you know,
 
 00:45:51.865 --> 00:45:53.266
 how much instability there is in
 
 00:45:53.286 --> 00:45:53.746
 the world,
 
 00:45:54.206 --> 00:45:55.688
 and how much if you can show up
 
 00:45:55.728 --> 00:45:56.989
 with stability in your own life,
 
 00:45:57.708 --> 00:45:59.289
 physically, and of course, spiritually,
 
 00:45:59.329 --> 00:45:59.791
 mentally,
 
 00:45:59.911 --> 00:46:01.451
 through all the practicing and practice.
 
 00:46:02.931 --> 00:46:05.273
 the breath work and everything.
 
 00:46:05.793 --> 00:46:07.813
 Really, it's a whole full package there.
 
 00:46:08.153 --> 00:46:08.934
 So I have two more final
 
 00:46:08.974 --> 00:46:10.135
 questions that I ask all of
 
 00:46:10.175 --> 00:46:11.034
 our podcast guests for
 
 00:46:11.054 --> 00:46:12.034
 their first visit with us.
 
 00:46:13.295 --> 00:46:14.936
 Currently, what is your favorite product,
 
 00:46:15.036 --> 00:46:15.737
 wellness topic,
 
 00:46:15.817 --> 00:46:17.637
 or self-care indulgence at this time?
 
 00:46:17.677 --> 00:46:18.478
 What are you doing for you?
 
 00:46:18.518 --> 00:46:19.577
 What do you love right now?
 
 00:46:20.327 --> 00:46:22.648
 So you had mentioned cold plunges.
 
 00:46:22.668 --> 00:46:25.869
 I just decided to start doing cryotherapy.
 
 00:46:26.789 --> 00:46:28.369
 So I signed up for a package
 
 00:46:28.449 --> 00:46:30.791
 because I talked to other
 
 00:46:30.971 --> 00:46:32.152
 experts and they say that
 
 00:46:32.172 --> 00:46:33.612
 there's such a positive
 
 00:46:34.713 --> 00:46:37.373
 effect on inflammation and
 
 00:46:37.614 --> 00:46:39.094
 especially for older people.
 
 00:46:39.135 --> 00:46:40.996
 They said for younger people, not so much,
 
 00:46:41.076 --> 00:46:43.577
 but for older people, absolutely.
 
 00:46:43.637 --> 00:46:44.036
 And I'm
 
 00:46:44.597 --> 00:46:46.018
 definitely starting to fall
 
 00:46:46.097 --> 00:46:47.599
 into that age bracket.
 
 00:46:47.699 --> 00:46:50.800
 So I did it for that kind of reason,
 
 00:46:50.860 --> 00:46:52.101
 just as an experiment.
 
 00:46:52.762 --> 00:46:53.481
 One of the things that I
 
 00:46:53.561 --> 00:46:55.784
 truly believe that life is
 
 00:46:55.824 --> 00:46:57.103
 a constant experiment.
 
 00:46:57.204 --> 00:46:58.824
 My life is a living experiment.
 
 00:46:58.885 --> 00:47:00.186
 So I always like to find out
 
 00:47:00.266 --> 00:47:02.867
 things firsthand, you know,
 
 00:47:03.148 --> 00:47:03.788
 what it's like.
 
 00:47:03.807 --> 00:47:05.188
 So anyways, I signed up for it.
 
 00:47:05.849 --> 00:47:07.170
 I'm doing a series of like,
 
 00:47:07.409 --> 00:47:08.610
 I think I've got three more
 
 00:47:08.670 --> 00:47:09.811
 this week I've got to do.
 
 00:47:09.952 --> 00:47:11.353
 So that's kind of what I'm
 
 00:47:11.393 --> 00:47:11.972
 doing right now.
 
 00:47:12.233 --> 00:47:12.833
 Do you love it?
 
 00:47:12.853 --> 00:47:14.074
 Do you feel you're feeling it?
 
 00:47:14.094 --> 00:47:14.833
 It's an experience.
 
 00:47:14.873 --> 00:47:16.074
 You walk in there for three
 
 00:47:16.134 --> 00:47:18.954
 minutes and the temperature went down to,
 
 00:47:18.974 --> 00:47:19.896
 I don't know if this was
 
 00:47:19.936 --> 00:47:21.635
 Celsius or Fahrenheit, but it said 134.
 
 00:47:21.635 --> 00:47:21.775
 Minus 134.
 
 00:47:21.856 --> 00:47:21.976
 Wow.
 
 00:47:22.016 --> 00:47:22.096
 Yeah.
 
 00:47:22.175 --> 00:47:24.077
 Three minutes of that.
 
 00:47:24.157 --> 00:47:24.396
 Wow.
 
 00:47:24.476 --> 00:47:24.996
 That's great.
 
 00:47:25.137 --> 00:47:26.617
 Are you sleeping better?
 
 00:47:34.458 --> 00:47:36.478
 Um, I, I don't know yet.
 
 00:47:36.759 --> 00:47:36.858
 I,
 
 00:47:37.259 --> 00:47:38.980
 I'm feeling a few different things
 
 00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:41.201
 happening, but I'm not exactly sure yet.
 
 00:47:41.340 --> 00:47:42.822
 So ask me next week.
 
 00:47:43.422 --> 00:47:43.702
 Okay.
 
 00:47:44.143 --> 00:47:44.262
 Yeah.
 
 00:47:44.382 --> 00:47:44.983
 I'm definitely,
 
 00:47:45.063 --> 00:47:46.143
 I'm curious myself cause I
 
 00:47:46.184 --> 00:47:47.503
 haven't actually done a cold plunge yet.
 
 00:47:47.664 --> 00:47:49.364
 Not, not, it's not a cold plunge.
 
 00:47:49.405 --> 00:47:50.266
 It's cryotherapy.
 
 00:47:50.306 --> 00:47:51.565
 So you walk into the thing
 
 00:47:51.585 --> 00:47:52.766
 and it's kind of like a
 
 00:47:52.867 --> 00:47:55.527
 closed container where they drop it down.
 
 00:47:56.068 --> 00:47:56.548
 Yeah.
 
 00:47:56.568 --> 00:47:56.608
 Oh,
 
 00:47:57.235 --> 00:47:58.235
 I don't know that I would do
 
 00:47:58.295 --> 00:47:59.597
 a cold plunge is I've got a
 
 00:47:59.637 --> 00:48:02.677
 lot of some scars around cold water,
 
 00:48:02.697 --> 00:48:04.518
 which is a whole other topic.
 
 00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:07.159
 So I'm glad that you have
 
 00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:08.280
 another option that can do
 
 00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:08.981
 similar effects.
 
 00:48:09.420 --> 00:48:10.181
 Yeah.
 
 00:48:10.282 --> 00:48:12.443
 So our final question is if
 
 00:48:12.483 --> 00:48:13.882
 you could detox one thing
 
 00:48:14.003 --> 00:48:15.983
 in your life or the world right now,
 
 00:48:16.103 --> 00:48:16.704
 what would it be?
 
 00:48:17.324 --> 00:48:18.164
 Oh my goddess.
 
 00:48:19.304 --> 00:48:19.905
 Confusion.
 
 00:48:21.532 --> 00:48:22.773
 You know, my teacher,
 
 00:48:23.554 --> 00:48:25.875
 Pandaji Rajmani Tiganai,
 
 00:48:26.135 --> 00:48:27.394
 who's the spiritual quote
 
 00:48:27.414 --> 00:48:28.376
 unquote leader of the
 
 00:48:28.416 --> 00:48:29.456
 Himalayan Institute.
 
 00:48:30.916 --> 00:48:32.916
 He says the confused mind is
 
 00:48:32.996 --> 00:48:34.958
 not fit for the practice of yoga.
 
 00:48:36.217 --> 00:48:37.938
 And you can almost translate
 
 00:48:37.978 --> 00:48:40.280
 that into life like a confused mind.
 
 00:48:41.637 --> 00:48:43.039
 is not fit to walk life.
 
 00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:44.702
 And, and I think like, you know,
 
 00:48:44.722 --> 00:48:47.965
 if us as yoga teachers, the one,
 
 00:48:48.045 --> 00:48:49.367
 I think the one singular
 
 00:48:49.447 --> 00:48:50.949
 gift that we have for people,
 
 00:48:51.130 --> 00:48:53.253
 if we do a good job teaching yoga.
 
 00:48:54.041 --> 00:48:55.702
 is to help people remove the
 
 00:48:55.742 --> 00:48:58.184
 veil of confusion and in
 
 00:48:58.224 --> 00:49:00.385
 sanskrit the word confusion
 
 00:49:00.585 --> 00:49:04.067
 also is thomas and thomas
 
 00:49:04.166 --> 00:49:05.708
 is very heavy there's this
 
 00:49:05.788 --> 00:49:07.708
 heaviness in people's minds
 
 00:49:08.070 --> 00:49:10.190
 and and we see this you
 
 00:49:10.231 --> 00:49:11.590
 know the gift that we give
 
 00:49:11.630 --> 00:49:13.132
 to people is they you can
 
 00:49:13.211 --> 00:49:14.773
 see that confusion starting
 
 00:49:14.833 --> 00:49:16.434
 to lift a little bit and
 
 00:49:16.474 --> 00:49:17.715
 this heaviness that they're
 
 00:49:17.735 --> 00:49:19.936
 carrying and um
 
 00:49:20.481 --> 00:49:22.302
 So that's what I would say.
 
 00:49:22.822 --> 00:49:24.702
 Let's remove the veil of confusion.
 
 00:49:25.362 --> 00:49:25.661
 Yes.
 
 00:49:25.702 --> 00:49:26.682
 We need more clarity and
 
 00:49:26.742 --> 00:49:28.762
 full connection with who we
 
 00:49:28.802 --> 00:49:30.724
 are beyond our ego identities.
 
 00:49:30.824 --> 00:49:32.664
 And that experience is
 
 00:49:32.884 --> 00:49:34.585
 really there when you have
 
 00:49:34.605 --> 00:49:35.605
 a really good yoga practice
 
 00:49:35.625 --> 00:49:36.425
 and yoga instructor that
 
 00:49:36.445 --> 00:49:37.885
 can lead you in that way.
 
 00:49:37.905 --> 00:49:39.746
 I think it's a powerful gift.
 
 00:49:40.206 --> 00:49:41.027
 Yeah, absolutely.
 
 00:49:42.407 --> 00:49:43.146
 Is there anything else you
 
 00:49:43.166 --> 00:49:44.007
 want to add that we forgot
 
 00:49:44.047 --> 00:49:45.628
 to chat or say and add on
 
 00:49:45.648 --> 00:49:46.168
 to the end here?
 
 00:49:46.492 --> 00:49:49.135
 Go get the book, Stop Stretching.
 
 00:49:49.335 --> 00:49:50.695
 It's available on Amazon.
 
 00:49:51.876 --> 00:49:53.356
 I always say to teachers, look,
 
 00:49:53.396 --> 00:49:56.378
 if you read this book, anybody,
 
 00:49:56.579 --> 00:49:57.739
 if anybody reads this book
 
 00:49:57.880 --> 00:49:59.760
 and does some of the practices in it,
 
 00:50:00.181 --> 00:50:01.001
 you're going to know more
 
 00:50:01.061 --> 00:50:03.282
 than 99% of yoga teachers out there.
 
 00:50:03.923 --> 00:50:05.985
 So go get the book because
 
 00:50:06.224 --> 00:50:09.047
 you will have a very strong
 
 00:50:09.226 --> 00:50:10.807
 understanding of
 
 00:50:11.248 --> 00:50:13.550
 biomechanics and how to
 
 00:50:13.630 --> 00:50:15.530
 start living your best pain-free life.
 
 00:50:16.945 --> 00:50:17.865
 awesome and if you're out
 
 00:50:17.905 --> 00:50:18.786
 there and you have a yoga
 
 00:50:18.827 --> 00:50:20.867
 instructor that you love
 
 00:50:21.268 --> 00:50:22.208
 get them the book
 
 00:50:22.849 --> 00:50:25.650
 especially because it'll
 
 00:50:25.670 --> 00:50:26.869
 benefit your practice and
 
 00:50:26.889 --> 00:50:28.431
 your pain of course right
 
 00:50:28.490 --> 00:50:29.610
 and and share this episode
 
 00:50:29.630 --> 00:50:30.791
 with other yoga instructors
 
 00:50:30.952 --> 00:50:32.833
 and also share yogi aaron's
 
 00:50:32.873 --> 00:50:34.673
 information too because you
 
 00:50:34.713 --> 00:50:35.614
 know there's so much out
 
 00:50:35.634 --> 00:50:37.795
 there on the in the world
 
 00:50:37.835 --> 00:50:38.974
 wide web a lot of people
 
 00:50:38.994 --> 00:50:39.596
 think well if you're in the
 
 00:50:39.615 --> 00:50:40.556
 yoga community or yoga
 
 00:50:40.596 --> 00:50:41.456
 instructor don't you know
 
 00:50:41.496 --> 00:50:42.277
 who yogi aaron is
 
 00:50:42.677 --> 00:50:45.400
 There's so many, and we get lost.
 
 00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:48.121
 So it's really beneficial when you share.
 
 00:50:48.242 --> 00:50:49.182
 It really does help and
 
 00:50:49.222 --> 00:50:50.684
 support everyone's work and
 
 00:50:50.724 --> 00:50:52.146
 missions and purpose to
 
 00:50:52.246 --> 00:50:52.945
 make a better world.
 
 00:50:53.045 --> 00:50:53.887
 So thank you so much.
 
 00:50:53.907 --> 00:50:55.027
 Can I say one more thing, though?
 
 00:50:55.047 --> 00:50:55.528
 Of course.
 
 00:50:55.548 --> 00:50:57.369
 I just want to say a deep,
 
 00:50:57.489 --> 00:50:59.351
 heartfelt gratitude to you,
 
 00:50:59.532 --> 00:51:00.994
 and I really want to acknowledge you.
 
 00:51:01.753 --> 00:51:03.255
 in being open to have these
 
 00:51:03.335 --> 00:51:06.255
 discussions and to, you know,
 
 00:51:06.996 --> 00:51:07.976
 ask the question that it
 
 00:51:07.996 --> 00:51:09.557
 took me 25 years to ask,
 
 00:51:09.998 --> 00:51:10.878
 what don't I know?
 
 00:51:10.898 --> 00:51:14.579
 So I really want to acknowledge you.
 
 00:51:14.619 --> 00:51:16.541
 Thank you so much for having
 
 00:51:16.581 --> 00:51:17.402
 this conversation.
 
 00:51:17.882 --> 00:51:18.402
 Absolutely.
 
 00:51:18.581 --> 00:51:20.563
 Curiosity and being an
 
 00:51:20.623 --> 00:51:22.802
 explorer is what drives it.
 
 00:51:22.882 --> 00:51:23.963
 Life is an experiment.
 
 00:51:24.043 --> 00:51:25.943
 And if you stay rigid in
 
 00:51:25.963 --> 00:51:26.684
 what you think you know,
 
 00:51:26.724 --> 00:51:28.023
 you stay rigid in your persona,
 
 00:51:28.063 --> 00:51:29.244
 you stay rigid in your identity,
 
 00:51:29.644 --> 00:51:30.224
 you don't grow.
 
 00:51:30.385 --> 00:51:31.344
 And that's when suffering
 
 00:51:31.364 --> 00:51:32.045
 starts to set in.
 
 00:51:32.326 --> 00:51:32.985
 At least that's what I've
 
 00:51:33.025 --> 00:51:33.885
 noticed in my own life.
 
 00:51:34.326 --> 00:51:35.826
 Because the more suffering that's there,
 
 00:51:36.166 --> 00:51:37.467
 okay, you got to go with something.
 
 00:51:37.507 --> 00:51:38.246
 What don't you know?
 
 00:51:38.266 --> 00:51:40.086
 You got to open up to more curiosity.
 
 00:51:40.126 --> 00:51:41.588
 That openness helps that
 
 00:51:41.628 --> 00:51:43.128
 growth and moves out of that space.
 
 00:51:43.248 --> 00:51:44.467
 It's just what I've experienced.
 
 00:51:44.487 --> 00:51:45.309
 And there's so much more to
 
 00:51:45.349 --> 00:51:46.048
 learn that I don't know.
 
 00:51:46.068 --> 00:51:46.548
 Yeah.
 
 00:51:47.048 --> 00:51:48.690
 And that's how it always goes.
 
 00:51:48.750 --> 00:51:50.231
 So thank you so much for
 
 00:51:50.251 --> 00:51:51.351
 being here with the show with us.
 
 00:51:51.471 --> 00:51:51.891
 And again,
 
 00:51:52.552 --> 00:51:54.393
 thank you all for listening and be well,
 
 00:51:54.452 --> 00:51:54.813
 everyone.
 
 00:51:54.833 --> 00:51:56.074
 Until next time, my friends.