Episode 74: Bent Out of Shape: How Yoga Stretching Is Killing Us

In Episode 74 of The Mind Body Detox Podcast, Kara Lovehart interviews Yogi Aaron about the dangers of hypermobility... Discover a game-changing approach to yoga with Yogi Aaron.

This episode dives deep into the most dangerous yoga pose, and how to eliminate pain with yoga. 

Yogi Aaron, a leading Master Yoga Teacher and Muscle Specialist, shares his revolutionary Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™ (AYAMA) method. This groundbreaking technique activates and engages muscles instead of stretching them, reducing pain and injury risk while enhancing strength, stability, and alignment.

Key Highlights:

• Dangers of Hypermobility: Learn why excessive flexibility might be causing more harm than good.
• Avoid This Yoga Pose: Discover the most dangerous yoga pose and why you should steer clear.
• Pain-Free Yoga Techniques: Uncover Yogi Aaron’s secrets to living pain-free through muscle activation.
• Boost Your Alignment and Power: Find out how AYAMA can transform your yoga practice and overall health.

About Yogi Aaron:

Yogi Aaron is a renowned yoga teacher known for his unorthodox yet effective methods. He created AYAMA to help people live pain-free lives by activating muscles. He offers in-person training at Blue Osa Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica and online through his AYAMA Certification Program. His platform, The Yogi Club, provides a vast library of on-demand classes for a global audience.

Connect with Yogi Aaron:

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

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

Transcript

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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,
 
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 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
 
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 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?
 
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 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,
 
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 but I really hurt my back
 
 00:09:33.294 --> 00:09:34.575
 like in a bad way.
 
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 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.
 
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 So that kind of pushed me into,
 
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 over the years,
 
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 getting more and more into
 
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 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,
 
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 you stay rigid in your identity,
 
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 you don't grow.
 
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 And that's when suffering
 
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 starts to set in.
 
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 At least that's what I've
 
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 noticed in my own life.
 
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 Because the more suffering that's there,
 
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 okay, you got to go with something.
 
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 What don't you know?
 
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 You got to open up to more curiosity.
 
 00:51:40.126 --> 00:51:41.588
 That openness helps that
 
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 growth and moves out of that space.
 
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 It's just what I've experienced.
 
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 And there's so much more to
 
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 learn that I don't know.
 
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 Yeah.
 
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 And that's how it always goes.
 
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 So thank you so much for
 
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 being here with the show with us.
 
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 And again,
 
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 thank you all for listening and be well,
 
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 everyone.
 
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 Until next time, my friends.