Mind Body Detox Podcast
Mind Body Detox Podcast
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.
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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.
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I kind of want to bounce
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back to your story for a second,
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but I'm going to go back to mine first.
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So
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to keep things linear.
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So I got into yoga, as I mentioned,
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because I was really tight.
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And when I was shortly after I started,
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I'm going to just put this
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in air quotes for people
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who are just listening, stretching yoga,
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because I refer to yoga
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more like stretching back then.
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For me, that's what it was about.
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And when I got into it shortly afterwards,
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and it wasn't in a yoga class,
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it was in my life,
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but I really hurt my back
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like in a bad way.
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And
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I thought, well, this is not good,
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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,
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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
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in the front of our classes and said,
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yoga is not about stretching?
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Um, and,
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and it's about listening to your
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body and I think there's
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just so much to unpack in that statement.
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Um, and in that sort of visual,
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but I got deeper and deeper
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and I would go to yoga teachers and.
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they would say, well, Aaron,
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you have back problems
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because your hamstrings are tight.
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We need, well,
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I am stretching my hamstrings.
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How much more should I stretch them?
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Right?
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So over the years,
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I ended up dealing with a
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lot of chronic pain.
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I'm,
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serious chronic pain, you know, hip pain,
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lower back pain,
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my back would constantly go out.
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Um,
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and I would just stretch and I would
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think like that was the solution to it.
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And then of course I would
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sneeze one day and my lower
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back would go out.
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So I,
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I also dealt with severe neck pain.
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In fact, some nights I would wake up,
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it would feel like someone
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was stabbing a knife into my scapula.
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So clearly at the time I
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didn't realize this,
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but I was dealing with
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nerve damage at that point.
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Oh, wow.
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And so 25 years later,
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it was about when I was 45,
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I ended up in the emergency
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room of a hospital in Costa
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Rica with an orthopedic
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surgeon telling me that I
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was probably going to need
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a spinal fusion in my lower back.
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And so there was like a huge
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wake-up call because I
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thought I had been doing
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everything right.
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I'd been, you know,
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I'd worked with several
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movement specialists.
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I was, for all intents and purposes,
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a movement specialist.
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And
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I thought I knew what I was
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doing and I didn't.
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And so that was kind of like
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the big light bulb moment
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where I had to kind of suck it up.
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with some humility and ask the question,
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what don't I know?
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And so that kind of over
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time led me into muscle
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activation technique.
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So muscle activation
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technique is a system of
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muscle activation that was developed by,
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or is still being developed
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by Greg Roscoff.
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He has a school outside of Denver,
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Colorado.
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And so I decided to start
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doing those courses.
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And that was when I started
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putting a lot of pieces of
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the puzzle together.
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One of the pieces was I
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really realized that I
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didn't really know anything about anatomy,
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which was very humbling to me.
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I didn't understand muscle function.
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I certainly didn't
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understand the biomechanics
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of why muscles tighten up.
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And I also didn't,
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and I also started to
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understand what is the real secret behind,
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you sometimes call it, when I say you,
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I mean yoga teachers,
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you would call it maybe flexibility.
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I prefer the term mobility.
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And so I just kind of want
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to say one more thing that
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my teacher Greg often says,
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and this is a kind of
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circle back to something you said,
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when you only have flexibility, you
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or when you have flexibility,
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he doesn't say only,
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when you have flexibility,
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you always have instability.
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And when you have instability,
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there's always the
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opportunity for injury.
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So that's why I prefer to
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use the term mobility,
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because with mobility, real mobility,
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which comes from proper muscle function,
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we will never be in pain
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and we'll always have stability.
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What I found really curious, and again,
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this is not across the
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board because I haven't
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touched everybody on the planet,
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but people who are hypermobile,
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a lot of the personality
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types that tend to
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correlate with a lot extra
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connective tissue being loose,
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the personality sometimes,
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I'd say like 90% of the
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time is what I work with.
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They are hyper mobile,
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hyper flexible in their personalities.
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So they are not that
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necessarily very good with
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having their own boundaries.
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And then the opposite seems
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to be true with people who
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have a lot of rigid or
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tight connective tissue or
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they're really just really stiff.
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They're holding on to so
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much in their body and
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maybe mentally and physically.
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There tends to be a
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correlation there between
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the body types and the personality.
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And what you said with that
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lack of flexibility, the over flexibility,
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there's instability.
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And that's the same, I think,
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in our personal lives, too,
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with we don't have boundaries.
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We have this instability in our lives.
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So I just find that interesting.
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I just wanted to share that.
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So, yeah.
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You want me to comment on it?
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No,
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I was just curious about my
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over-flexibility.
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That was kind of my journey to myself.
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I had to learn how to have
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more stability and
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anchoring in body awareness and then,
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of course, my personality.
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And that helped with
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understanding how the body
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is formed too and the anatomy.
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But I know that your kind of
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tagline is that stretching is killing us.
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And of course,
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when I'm working with
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stretching and mobility and
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working out and I'm like,
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why is my neck still
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hurting me for years?
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I'd love to have you go more
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about and talk more about
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this stretching is killing us notion.
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Yeah.
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And in that answer,
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I just want to circle back
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to a point because I said
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any kind of flexibility.
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Yeah.
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And so whenever we have any
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kind of flexibility, and so, you know,
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when we focus on flexibility,
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we're always going to create instability.
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So anytime we start to push a muscle,
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right?
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you know, beyond its end range of motion,
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beyond its capacity.
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If we take that tightness
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and we try to stretch it out,
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we're going to always create instability.
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And now I'll give you the answer why.
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So the answer why is because
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whenever we stretch
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So let's back up one second.
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Your brain or your central
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nervous system is connected
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to your muscles.
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And one of the biomechanical
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words is proprioception.
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So there's this proprioception,
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this connection between
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brain and muscles.
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Your brain kind of knows
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where your body is in space.
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And the space obviously is your body.
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But when we stretch,
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we basically sever that connection.
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And so when I say stretch,
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let's give an example of that.
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There's a couple of examples, but one,
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this is one of my favorite
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ones because your listeners
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can probably visualize this,
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is if you're lying on your
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back and you're doing a
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yoga stretch called Supta
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Parangusthasana.
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So like grabbing the leg or
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it's like a hamstring stretch, you know,
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you bring one leg up and
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and you're lying on your
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back and you grab your foot
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and you pull your leg towards you.
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Now, some of your listeners are thinking,
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I can't grab my foot.
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I have to use a strap.
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So use a strap.
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Okay.
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So grab a strap,
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wrap it around your foot
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and pull it towards you.
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And there's all of these
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kind of gimmicks on social media.
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You can find like how to
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improve it and blah, blah, blah.
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But either way,
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And that is stretching the hamstring.
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Okay.
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I think we can both agree with that,
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that the idea is to stretch
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the hamstring.
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The question is,
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and something I find at least with myself,
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but also in the 25 years
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leading up to me landing in
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the emergency room,
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not one teacher ever came
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up to me and said, Aaron,
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Your hamstrings are tight.
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The tightness is a symptom
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because muscles are not
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contracting properly.
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The opposite muscles are not contracting.
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So the difference between
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what I'm teaching and
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traditional quote unquote
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stretching is I would say,
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come onto your back,
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but don't grab your leg.
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Just bring the leg up as high as you can.
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And then hold it there for a few seconds.
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So typically in muscle activation,
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we hold things for six
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seconds and then do it six times.
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And so the question then is, well,
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why is the hamstrings tight?
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Because the quads aren't
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activating properly, the hip flexors.
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So coming back to my back problems,
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by the way,
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Like,
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it's no wonder why I had back
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problems because I was so
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focused on trying to
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elongate my hamstrings.
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I wasn't really dealing with
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the real problem.
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Real problem was my hip
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flexors weren't working at all.
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And the major hip flexor is the psoas,
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which its main job is to
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stabilize the lumbar spine.
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And so it's no wonder why I ended up,
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you know, there.
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But when you are lying on
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your back and you bring your leg up,
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you're now...
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engaging you have to engage
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all of your hip flexors in
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fact some people don't like
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doing that because you know
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because they try so hard
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and that starts to make
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their quads cramp um and so
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cramping is another sign of
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muscles not working properly
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Uh,
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so bringing the leg up and just doing
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that, you start to,
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there's a hundred percent accountability.
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You're working your quads
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and I guarantee you by the sixth time,
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probably by the fourth or fifth time,
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but definitely by the sixth time,
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you're going to notice something a,
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your range of motion
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improves because your quads
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start working.
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Well,
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what do we know when a muscle starts
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contracting properly,
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the opposite muscle relaxes or elongates,
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right?
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So the hamstring tightness
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disappears and your range
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of motion improves and
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you've got 100% stability
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as you're doing that movement.
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So that's the kind of
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difference between what I'm
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teaching and then traditional stretching.
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I think it also goes along
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with a lot of things that
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we educate our clients with
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massage therapists when
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we're telling them about
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therapeutic aspects to
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working instead of just, you know,
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like a spa-based massage.
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But that's, I think, a very common thing.
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Like so many people are
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sitting at desks shortening
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their psoas and their hip flexors.
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They're just sitting all day.
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And I'm curious if you've
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experienced with your
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clients for yoga these
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chronic postures or these
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everyday postures we're in
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and how those are affecting
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the muscle activations.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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But so here's the
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interesting thing about the psoas major.
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So muscles always work in pairs, right?
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And so when one muscle is shortening,
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an opposite muscle is
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contracting and vice versa.
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And so the opposite muscle
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to the psoas is the glutes, right?
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and if the glutes aren't
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shortening properly or are
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shutting down so the glutes
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you know the the they just
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basically shut down they
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stop working the opposite
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muscle which is one of one
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of the major ones is the
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psoas the psoas will what
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does it do tighten up
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muscle tightness is always
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the response of the
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opposite muscle or
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synergistic muscles not
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working properly and when I
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say working you know
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Muscles should be able to
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contract and contract on demand.
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It's kind of like a light switch, you know,
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and I do a lot of muscle testing.
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That's how I know whether or
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not a person is strong or
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weak is I can test a muscle.
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And then if it's able to work,
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it contracts immediately,
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like it shortens immediately.
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So the tightness in the
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psoas is often a response to the glutes,
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right?
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not working properly.
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And to go back to your point, like sitting,
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yeah, sitting, yeah,
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you're shortening the psoas,
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but you're not actively
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shortening the psoas.
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What's really going on is that your glutes
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are not working because
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we're sitting down so much.
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I think one of my teachers
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told me one time,
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studies have shown that
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your glutes actually start
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to atrophy after 30 minutes of sitting.
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Oh my gosh.
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So, ergo...
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the whole article that came out,
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I think it was around 2014 or something,
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you know,
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you started seeing all of these
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articles like sitting is killing us.
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And that's why.
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Get the standing desk.
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Yeah.
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Get a standing desk.
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Cause,
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cause the glutes literally start to
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shut down.
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Um,
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and so if we want to get rid of tightness,
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again,
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we need to start looking at what
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muscles are not working
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properly because listen,
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when muscle tightness is
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always a response, um,
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to it's like a protective
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mechanism you know the body
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doesn't feel stable so it
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sends out an sos message
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tighten up tighten up
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tighten up and so with it's
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kind of like walking on ice
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you know if you step out on
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ice what does your body do
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it tightens up it freezes
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up so it's a protective
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mechanism in the body to
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compensate for um to
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compensate for muscles not
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working properly
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Now,
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in your work with muscle activation
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and checking for weak muscle tissue,
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you know,
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this is something that you can
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do private with one-on-one with people,
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like really target their
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specific individual body type.
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Do you see from the more
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mind-body perspective
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connection between the
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psychology of the person
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and the areas that are tight or weak?
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I would really love to hear about that.
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Yeah.
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Not so much.
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I kind of steer away from,
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I'm just going to call it,
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refer to it what you said,
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the psychology part of muscle tightness.
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But what I can say about it is that
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from a psychology perspective.
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So let's back up one second,
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three things that really
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shut down muscles, stress, trauma,
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and overuse.
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And so you just,
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let's just distill it to stress.
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Okay.
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And so the biomechanical
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response to stress is
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inflammation and
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inflammation has such a
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negative response on all
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our nervous system you know
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and this is the domain that
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I run in I don't I'm not
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like I call myself a muscle
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specialist which I am but
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my job isn't to try and
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make your muscles bigger or
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anything like that I want
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to improve the
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communication system
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between you know your brain
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and the muscles so that's
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where I step in why is that
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communication system being
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compromised it's because of stress
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the results of stress is
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inflammation so the
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inflammation gets into by
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the way I'm I'm talking
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like seriously here I'm not
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trying to be glib or
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metaphoric here like it
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literally gets into the
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nervous system and starts
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disrupting that neuro
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impulse right and so any
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kind of time we create
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stress uh we're going to
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cause problems and so you know the
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What I kind of address more
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is the physiological aspects of stress,
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like stretching.
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Stretching is a stress.
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And so we want to diminish that stress.
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You had mentioned earlier sitting.
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Sitting is another stress.
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But we also can have emotional stress.
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Like maybe we get into
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arguments with our partner.
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Maybe we are just worried
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about something in our life.
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Maybe there was a past
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trauma that something...
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pushes a button within us
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and and activates you know
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that memory and then our
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breathing patterns change
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and you being a yoga
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teacher know and understand
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like as soon as our
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breathing pattern changes
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that's going to affect our
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stress levels and we can
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actually reduce our stress
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levels by you know
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breathing differently by
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breathing one-to-one or
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diaphragmatically so
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That's what I would say about that.
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Like,
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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
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our hips or we store
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emotions in our body.
00:26:20.767 --> 00:26:22.067
There's no evidence to
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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
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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he gave her chocolate and
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she became instantly weak.
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And it was like, it blew his mind.
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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,
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what I would suggest is as
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we do yoga and as we breathe,
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And we learn how to breathe.
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I'm going to use the word
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correctly or properly.
00:29:32.961 --> 00:29:33.941
That could be a better word.
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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.
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And we start to...
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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
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closed container where they drop it down.
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Yeah.
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Oh,
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I don't know that I would do
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a cold plunge is I've got a
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lot of some scars around cold water,
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which is a whole other topic.
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So I'm glad that you have
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another option that can do
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similar effects.
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Yeah.
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So our final question is if
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you could detox one thing
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in your life or the world right now,
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what would it be?
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Oh my goddess.
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Confusion.
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You know, my teacher,
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Pandaji Rajmani Tiganai,
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who's the spiritual quote
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unquote leader of the
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Himalayan Institute.
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He says the confused mind is
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not fit for the practice of yoga.
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And you can almost translate
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that into life like a confused mind.
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is not fit to walk life.
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And, and I think like, you know,
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if us as yoga teachers, the one,
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I think the one singular
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gift that we have for people,
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if we do a good job teaching yoga.
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is to help people remove the
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veil of confusion and in
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sanskrit the word confusion
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also is thomas and thomas
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is very heavy there's this
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heaviness in people's minds
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and and we see this you
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know the gift that we give
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to people is they you can
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see that confusion starting
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to lift a little bit and
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this heaviness that they're
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carrying and um
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So that's what I would say.
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Let's remove the veil of confusion.
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Yes.
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We need more clarity and
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full connection with who we
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are beyond our ego identities.
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And that experience is
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really there when you have
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a really good yoga practice
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and yoga instructor that
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can lead you in that way.
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I think it's a powerful gift.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Is there anything else you
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want to add that we forgot
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to chat or say and add on
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to the end here?
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Go get the book, Stop Stretching.
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It's available on Amazon.
00:49:51.876 --> 00:49:53.356
I always say to teachers, look,
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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?
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Of course.
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I just want to say a deep,
00:50:57.489 --> 00:50:59.351
heartfelt gratitude to you,
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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.
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Thank you so much for having
00:51:16.581 --> 00:51:17.402
this conversation.
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Absolutely.
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Curiosity and being an
00:51:20.623 --> 00:51:22.802
explorer is what drives it.
00:51:22.882 --> 00:51:23.963
Life is an experiment.
00:51:24.043 --> 00:51:25.943
And if you stay rigid in
00:51:25.963 --> 00:51:26.684
what you think you know,
00:51:26.724 --> 00:51:28.023
you stay rigid in your persona,
00:51:28.063 --> 00:51:29.244
you stay rigid in your identity,
00:51:29.644 --> 00:51:30.224
you don't grow.
00:51:30.385 --> 00:51:31.344
And that's when suffering
00:51:31.364 --> 00:51:32.045
starts to set in.
00:51:32.326 --> 00:51:32.985
At least that's what I've
00:51:33.025 --> 00:51:33.885
noticed in my own life.
00:51:34.326 --> 00:51:35.826
Because the more suffering that's there,
00:51:36.166 --> 00:51:37.467
okay, you got to go with something.
00:51:37.507 --> 00:51:38.246
What don't you know?
00:51:38.266 --> 00:51:40.086
You got to open up to more curiosity.
00:51:40.126 --> 00:51:41.588
That openness helps that
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growth and moves out of that space.
00:51:43.248 --> 00:51:44.467
It's just what I've experienced.
00:51:44.487 --> 00:51:45.309
And there's so much more to
00:51:45.349 --> 00:51:46.048
learn that I don't know.
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Yeah.
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And that's how it always goes.
00:51:48.750 --> 00:51:50.231
So thank you so much for
00:51:50.251 --> 00:51:51.351
being here with the show with us.
00:51:51.471 --> 00:51:51.891
And again,
00:51:52.552 --> 00:51:54.393
thank you all for listening and be well,
00:51:54.452 --> 00:51:54.813
everyone.
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Until next time, my friends.