Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-7-24 hour 3

0:00 Speaker 1: Advertisers, and I know you have great advertisers on your

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0:24 Speaker 2: Do, right right, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.

0:28 Speaker 3: Now what is so what is bickroom yoga and how

0:32 Speaker 3: is that different from I don't know if regular yoga

0:34 Speaker 3: would be the way to put it, but but what

0:36 Speaker 3: what is what is bigrom yoga?

0:38 Speaker 1: Exactly sure, Bickram yoga has been around for a very

0:40 Speaker 1: long time. Bickram Chowdery is the guy who started it.

0:44 Speaker 1: He's a controversial person and so a lot of us

0:49 Speaker 1: no longer use the term Bickram yoga. But Bickrim yoga

0:51 Speaker 1: describes a very specific style of yoga. So we do

0:54 Speaker 1: a set of postures in a specific order every single class,

0:58 Speaker 1: so the class never changes. We also don't play music.

1:02 Speaker 1: The lights are on, bright, bright lights, yeah, the lights,

1:05 Speaker 1: the bright lights, no music, a teacher talking for ninety minutes.

1:09 Speaker 1: I talked for ninety minutes and just tell you what

1:12 Speaker 1: to do with your body. That lets you. There's a

1:14 Speaker 1: lot of philosophy to that, and we'll get to that,

1:16 Speaker 1: but that helps let you actually turn your brain off. Okay,

1:19 Speaker 1: it's hot and it's humid. When Bickram started teaching yoga

1:23 Speaker 1: to Western so Bickram's backstory as I know it is

1:26 Speaker 1: he went to the Ghost College of Yoga and Physical

1:29 Speaker 1: Education in India, grew up there and was a weightlifter.

1:34 Speaker 1: Actually he was into powerlifting and that kind of stuff.

1:36 Speaker 1: And he got injured and he asked me, you'll take

1:38 Speaker 1: me back to my teacher, my guru, and he'll help

1:41 Speaker 1: me get well because he understood that yoga could heal

1:43 Speaker 1: the body, and he became a yoga therapist. And in

1:46 Speaker 1: the process of being a yoga therapist. So if you

1:48 Speaker 1: were sick, mount you went to see Vishnu Ghosh, his teacher,

1:52 Speaker 1: and you said, you know, my shoulder hurts and my

1:53 Speaker 1: neck hurts, and he would say, okay, do this yoga

1:56 Speaker 1: pos and this yoga post. And Bickraam's going to teach

1:58 Speaker 1: you how to do. Bickrams started thinking about what if

2:01 Speaker 1: we took a group of yoga poses that no matter

2:04 Speaker 1: what was wrong with you, one of these was the

2:06 Speaker 1: right one to fix your body in yoga therapy. And

2:09 Speaker 1: he put together a series that's fit together so that

2:12 Speaker 1: every posture prepares you for the next posture, and every

2:15 Speaker 1: posture works to the entire body. So when you're done

2:18 Speaker 1: with the class, you have done one hundred percent of

2:21 Speaker 1: your body has been worked out. Okay, it's nothing, they say,

2:24 Speaker 1: inside out, bones to the skin. So every muscle, every organ,

2:28 Speaker 1: every cell of your body has had something done to

2:31 Speaker 1: it to help it improve its health.

2:34 Speaker 3: Okay.

2:35 Speaker 1: The room. When he went to Westerners try to teach

2:37 Speaker 1: it that he found they couldn't move, and so he

2:39 Speaker 1: added in heat and humidity. So there's a lot of

2:43 Speaker 1: hot yoga around, but not all hot yoga. All Bickram

2:46 Speaker 1: Yoga's hot yoga, but not all hot yogas yoga. Okay,

2:49 Speaker 1: other yogas have added in heat for the same purpose.

2:52 Speaker 1: The heat is designed for a couple of reasons. Our

2:54 Speaker 1: room is much hotter than a lot of other hot

2:55 Speaker 1: yoga classes. People freak out when they hear the number,

2:59 Speaker 1: but it's a undred and five degrees with forty percent humidity. Okay,

3:03 Speaker 1: but that's less than ten degrees over your body temperature.

3:06 Speaker 2: Okay.

3:06 Speaker 1: So one of the things we know that happens is

3:09 Speaker 1: when you heat the body is that fasha, that connective

3:12 Speaker 1: tissue softens, so that makes you more flexible. Scar tissue

3:16 Speaker 1: is made out of that fasha, so you can start

3:18 Speaker 1: to stretch scar tissue. For me, that's what was happening

3:21 Speaker 1: that first time I felt something was I had heated

3:24 Speaker 1: my fasha, that scar tish with my neck enough that

3:27 Speaker 1: it actually started to stretch, okay, and it is that

3:30 Speaker 1: non stretching material that's kept me from being mobile.

3:34 Speaker 2: Okay.

3:34 Speaker 1: So that's how the heat works. The heat also focuses

3:37 Speaker 1: your mind really quickly, so that people come in and

3:41 Speaker 1: they do their very first class in ninety minutes. They've

3:43 Speaker 1: thought about nothing but what's going on in that room.

3:46 Speaker 3: Interesting.

3:47 Speaker 1: There's no way to worry about your gas bill or

3:50 Speaker 1: whatever while you're in that room, because you become very focused.

3:54 Speaker 3: And that's partly because of the heat.

3:57 Speaker 1: That's partially because of the heat, partially because the are

4:00 Speaker 1: on bright and the teacher's talking the whole class. Okay,

4:03 Speaker 1: there's no room for sort of your mind to wander off.

4:05 Speaker 1: We call it a ninety minute moving meditation. For some people,

4:08 Speaker 1: sitting and quiet in their mind is really really hard. Yes, yes, yeah,

4:12 Speaker 1: And you must notice through the hypnotherapy to people who

4:14 Speaker 1: just have that racing mind.

4:15 Speaker 2: Yep.

4:16 Speaker 1: We talk at a I wouldn't say at a high

4:19 Speaker 1: rate of speed, but we don't stop talking the entire class. Yeah,

4:22 Speaker 1: and so there's sort of no room for you to

4:24 Speaker 1: separate outside the room from what's happening.

4:28 Speaker 3: Well, you're doing you're doing a form of hypnosis.

4:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we kind of o I mean, you.

4:33 Speaker 3: Probably don't call it. You don't call it that, but

4:35 Speaker 3: that's definitely Yeah.

4:37 Speaker 1: It's creating this a thing to focus on, and meditation

4:40 Speaker 1: is having a single item to focus on and then

4:43 Speaker 1: losing that focus and then coming back to the focus.

4:46 Speaker 1: That is meditation, that's mindfulness. So we're teaching mindfulness in

4:50 Speaker 1: the process. But this Western idea of the light slow

4:53 Speaker 1: and the music on is a lot of distraction for

4:56 Speaker 1: the mind. Yeah, And people always ask me, add a music.

5:00 Speaker 1: I can't because I'm not going to distract you away

5:03 Speaker 1: from the most important person that you're working on. In

5:05 Speaker 1: that moment, which is you, and so that's what we do.

5:07 Speaker 1: There's a giant mirror in the front of the room,

5:09 Speaker 1: so you have to see yourself. Bickerm was once asked

5:12 Speaker 1: why is there a giant mirror in the room, and

5:14 Speaker 1: I loved his answer was, it's not enough that you suffer.

5:16 Speaker 3: You have to see yourself.

5:18 Speaker 1: But when you think about seeing yourself suffer, what is

5:20 Speaker 1: when we see suffering as human beings, our first response

5:23 Speaker 1: is typically compassion. So when you see yourself suffer, you

5:27 Speaker 1: become more compassionate with yourself, and then you become more

5:30 Speaker 1: compassionate with everybody else. So this Bickham yoga was said,

5:33 Speaker 1: it's this series of postures that are put together, done

5:36 Speaker 1: in a heated room with a specific set of directions,

5:40 Speaker 1: and it's designed so even if you can do very little,

5:43 Speaker 1: that every single posture is broken into tiny little pieces,

5:47 Speaker 1: and you never have to do the whole posture. You

5:49 Speaker 1: can do just just to the first step. And after

5:51 Speaker 1: you do the first step, if that's all you can do,

5:54 Speaker 1: six or seven classes in you're gonna find oh eight,

5:56 Speaker 1: I could do the second step. Okay, now I could

5:59 Speaker 1: do the third. So all these little steps that all

6:01 Speaker 1: the postures put together help you get there, because I

6:05 Speaker 1: have to tell people all the time, yoga's not about yoga.

6:08 Speaker 1: Yoga's about creating a better quality of life because you

6:10 Speaker 1: practice yoga. So what the postures.

6:12 Speaker 2: Look like don't matter, Okay.

6:14 Speaker 1: What matters is you're doing the work on your body

6:16 Speaker 1: and your mind to make your.

6:18 Speaker 2: Life better, Okay.

6:19 Speaker 3: And that's our interesting yeah, because I would imagine a

6:22 Speaker 3: lot of people who come to you they can't, like,

6:25 Speaker 3: well probably most people, they can't just do all the

6:27 Speaker 3: postures right off the bat, right.

6:29 Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever met anybody in my

6:31 Speaker 1: twenty years in this business who could do all of

6:33 Speaker 1: the postures in theories beginning to end.

6:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, completely.

6:38 Speaker 3: I mean, I imagine if you happen to encounter someone

6:40 Speaker 3: who's unusually flexible, you know.

6:42 Speaker 2: Maybe they could do it, but that's probably pretty rare.

6:44 Speaker 1: But there's a balance of strength and flexibility. And so

6:47 Speaker 1: what I find is people come in the majority of

6:51 Speaker 1: people who come in are strong but not very flexible.

6:54 Speaker 1: They're looking for more flexibit. I love when people say

6:56 Speaker 1: to me, I can't do yoga, I'm not flexible. I

6:58 Speaker 1: tell them that's like saying you can't take French lessons

7:00 Speaker 1: because you don't speak French. If you don't speak frends,

7:03 Speaker 1: you should take French lessons if you want to learn

7:05 Speaker 1: to speak French. If you're not flexible and you want

7:07 Speaker 1: to be flexible, go to yoga to learn to be flexible.

7:11 Speaker 1: It's harder for students who are very flexible. Actually, and

7:14 Speaker 1: I tell my classes all the time feel bad for

7:17 Speaker 1: them when the flexible people come in, because it's easy

7:20 Speaker 1: to build more flexibility with your strength than it is

7:23 Speaker 1: to build strength with your flexibility. But the way our

7:26 Speaker 1: postures are designed, everybody gets what they need. So we

7:29 Speaker 1: don't have a beginner and intermediate and advanced class. Everybody's

7:32 Speaker 1: in the same class. Okay, so I've you have people

7:34 Speaker 1: who it's their very first class in the same room

7:37 Speaker 1: with people who have taken thousands of classes. You are

7:40 Speaker 1: people who are incredibly flexible in with people who are inflexible.

7:43 Speaker 1: You have people who are very young in with people

7:45 Speaker 1: who are very old. Your people in my studio, we

7:47 Speaker 1: have people who sit in chairs. We have people who

7:49 Speaker 1: have to sit on the ground for the whole class.

7:51 Speaker 1: We have amputees, We have hip replacements, knee replacements, people

7:55 Speaker 1: you know, and everybody's just doing what they can and

7:58 Speaker 1: that is an amazing experience of we all work together. Yeah,

8:02 Speaker 1: so it doesn't matter how much or little you do.

8:04 Speaker 1: We don't separate people into groups. Everybody's in there together.

8:08 Speaker 1: I had a class this morning. My younger student was

8:10 Speaker 1: probably a college student. We have an older woman and

8:12 Speaker 1: I'd love to talk about more. Her name's Elaine. She's

8:15 Speaker 1: eighty eight years old. She's been practicing for fifteen years.

8:18 Speaker 1: She comes every single day. Yeah, and she was in

8:21 Speaker 1: the she comes in class and we have thirteen year

8:23 Speaker 1: olds and her in the same exact class.

8:25 Speaker 2: Yeah.

8:26 Speaker 1: So everybody's just doing what they can do. The practice

8:29 Speaker 1: doesn't change, but you do.

8:32 Speaker 3: So Elaine. So she's eighty eight.

8:35 Speaker 1: She's eighty eight.

8:35 Speaker 3: She's been doing yoga for fifteen years. Fifteen years, I

8:39 Speaker 3: would imagine. So she's probably a lot more flexible.

8:42 Speaker 1: Than most eighty eight.

8:43 Speaker 2: Yeah.

8:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, she didn't come in flexible when she started. She

8:47 Speaker 1: had high cholesterol not controlled, high blood pressure also not control.

8:52 Speaker 2: Oh, and diabetes okay.

8:54 Speaker 3: And she.

8:56 Speaker 1: They wanted to put her in the hospital to get

8:58 Speaker 1: her on medication.

8:58 Speaker 2: To control her high blood pres Yeah.

9:00 Speaker 1: Because she was struggling with you know, it's too high,

9:03 Speaker 1: was too low. It was going back and forth, and

9:06 Speaker 1: she was caring for her husband with dementia, and she

9:08 Speaker 1: didn't want to leave him the hospital, so she wasn't

9:12 Speaker 1: taking care of herself. She was taking care of him,

9:15 Speaker 1: but not taking care of herself. You don't get on

9:17 Speaker 1: the airplane, they say put your mask on first. Yep, exactly,

9:20 Speaker 1: got to take care of yourself first. But she wasn't

9:22 Speaker 1: doing that. Her kids convinced her to come and take

9:23 Speaker 1: three classes. She could not stand for the whole class.

9:27 Speaker 1: She couldn't kneel on her own knees, and she was

9:31 Speaker 1: really struggling just to be in the room. And so

9:34 Speaker 1: the first class she came in, she did the breathing

9:37 Speaker 1: exercise that we start with, and then she laid on

9:39 Speaker 1: the floor and just laid down for the entire class

9:42 Speaker 1: and did the breathing exercise at the end. And then

9:45 Speaker 1: her kids convinced her she had to do three classes

9:48 Speaker 1: before she could give up. So she said she went

9:51 Speaker 1: home even after just laying on the floor for an

9:53 Speaker 1: hour in the heat, took a shower, and she felt better,

9:56 Speaker 1: and then she came back the next day, and she

9:57 Speaker 1: came back the next couple days later, and I think

10:01 Speaker 1: that got her hooked. After she practicing a short time

10:04 Speaker 1: and she's still not doing much of the class. She's

10:06 Speaker 1: doing a lot of just laying down, which you're perfectly

10:08 Speaker 1: fine in our class. You can lay down if you

10:10 Speaker 1: need to get some airstep out, get some air come back.

10:12 Speaker 3: She's getting the still getting the heat.

10:13 Speaker 1: You're still getting yeah on this and I want to

10:16 Speaker 1: get to like the studies on heat and depression are

10:18 Speaker 1: really fascinating, really yeah, how being a heated environment lifts

10:24 Speaker 1: depression for a lot of people. But I want to

10:26 Speaker 1: finishing laid story. So she started coming. We also did

10:29 Speaker 1: a little challenge where we asked people to do ten

10:31 Speaker 1: classes in a row or twenty classes row and thirty

10:33 Speaker 1: classes and you got ten dollars off for twenty dollars

10:36 Speaker 1: off for thirty year off your next month.

10:37 Speaker 2: Yeah.

10:38 Speaker 1: And she said, I can't do it, and I said,

10:39 Speaker 1: what can you do it? She said I can do three.

10:41 Speaker 1: I said, okay, we'll do three in a row. And

10:44 Speaker 1: then she did three, and then she did five, and

10:46 Speaker 1: then she did the ten. She did the thirty, and

10:49 Speaker 1: she decided she was going to keep coming because she

10:51 Speaker 1: was feeling so good.

10:52 Speaker 2: Wow.

10:52 Speaker 1: So she did sixty classes in sixty days. She started

10:55 Speaker 1: yoga seventy two years old, and I tease her, now

10:59 Speaker 1: I gave her which charged seventy five. We gave her

11:01 Speaker 1: the gift of free yoga for the rest of her life.

11:03 Speaker 2: Yeah.

11:03 Speaker 1: I know she was going to live this long and

11:05 Speaker 1: might have waited till she was aiding, but she's still coming.

11:10 Speaker 1: And so then she started just coming almost every day.

11:14 Speaker 1: She's seen up and downs in her life, through COVID,

11:17 Speaker 1: through you know, illnesses, through the death of her husband,

11:20 Speaker 1: through you know, just things that happen in life. The

11:23 Speaker 1: yoga has been the thing that she can come back

11:25 Speaker 1: to over and over again.

11:26 Speaker 2: Wow, that grounds her.

11:28 Speaker 1: And yeah, she's she's independent, she's strong, she's flexible. Good

11:32 Speaker 1: for her, Yeah, she and she really does. We talk

11:35 Speaker 1: a lot. We spend a lot of time together, and

11:37 Speaker 1: she will tell you a lot of it is too,

11:39 Speaker 1: is the community that we have. That's why it was

11:41 Speaker 1: important when we were on Zoom for me to have

11:43 Speaker 1: the community. We know that there are people who struggle

11:46 Speaker 1: with mental health issues. Yoga is very helpful. And then

11:49 Speaker 1: to lose that in the process of a pandemic and lockdown.

11:52 Speaker 2: Yeah.

11:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, to give them still this community to come back

11:55 Speaker 1: to and be part of, even if they can't practice

11:57 Speaker 1: yoga online. Yeah, to be able to come and check

12:00 Speaker 1: in with somebody and say I'm here. I think one

12:03 Speaker 1: of the greatest diseases in the United States and the

12:06 Speaker 1: world is actually loneliness. And when you look at overeating, smoking,

12:10 Speaker 1: all of that, Yes, the depression, loneliness is a huge

12:15 Speaker 1: part of that for a lot of people.

12:16 Speaker 2: Yes.

12:17 Speaker 1: And so by having everybody in the same room, you

12:20 Speaker 1: have a community that we start building a people of

12:23 Speaker 1: all different ages, all different We have doctors that practice

12:27 Speaker 1: next to janitors, Like it doesn't matter when you're in

12:30 Speaker 1: the room in a little outfit sweating. It doesn't matter

12:34 Speaker 1: what you do for a living, or what your education is,

12:36 Speaker 1: or what your income level is. It's kind of a

12:39 Speaker 1: great equalizer. Eline spends a lot of time going out

12:42 Speaker 1: for breakfast after class or whatever with people of all

12:45 Speaker 1: different ages, and so she's kept that social group going

12:49 Speaker 1: even at the loss of friends and who are her age.

12:52 Speaker 1: I think that happens to a lot of older people.

12:54 Speaker 1: They lose their social group and then they have no

12:57 Speaker 1: way to rebuild it. So we have people that range

13:00 Speaker 1: in all ages and they all work together, which I

13:03 Speaker 1: think is really helpful. So much of what we're doing

13:06 Speaker 1: in yoga is not about the physical postures that we did,

13:10 Speaker 1: and so having that community is really important and having

13:13 Speaker 1: people of all different ages and stuff. We know that

13:16 Speaker 1: there's a lot of studies that have studied though depression

13:20 Speaker 1: and going into saunas and going into heated environments, and

13:23 Speaker 1: there was actually a Harvard study. I wish I had

13:25 Speaker 1: more information than I could, but people can just if

13:28 Speaker 1: they googled Bickram Yoga Harvard Depression Study, it'll come up.

13:34 Speaker 1: They had people doing two classes a week and they

13:37 Speaker 1: self reported huge changes that they were far less depressed

13:41 Speaker 1: during yoga, even compared to people who are taking medication.

13:45 Speaker 1: We not only offer yoga, though, we also have other

13:48 Speaker 1: modalities of healing. So we have float tanks, we have

13:50 Speaker 1: a sauna, we have red light therapy, massage therapy, we're

13:54 Speaker 1: adding in skincare, We do meditations, and all of these

13:58 Speaker 1: things work together. Some people just coming into asauna can

14:01 Speaker 1: be really helpful for helping depression.

14:04 Speaker 3: That's particularly interesting to me because I probably haven't told

14:08 Speaker 3: you this, some of my listeners know because I'm pretty

14:10 Speaker 3: open about this stuff. But you know, I by entire

14:14 Speaker 3: adult life and probably going back to when I was

14:17 Speaker 3: a teenager, I've struggled with depression unmedicated because I'm stubborn

14:22 Speaker 3: and terrified of side effects. But it's definitely and I've

14:25 Speaker 3: never been formally diagnosed, but I believe it's, you know,

14:28 Speaker 3: just it's clinical depression, because you know, I can get

14:30 Speaker 3: depressed for no reason, so that's probably you know, I'm

14:32 Speaker 3: pretty sure it's a chemical imbalance, and it's definitely in

14:35 Speaker 3: my family. But I love my favorite time of year, summer,

14:40 Speaker 3: and I actually like the heat, like when it's ninety

14:44 Speaker 3: degrees outside, you know, and people are you know, I'd

14:47 Speaker 3: prefer a dry heat. But even the humidity doesn't really

14:50 Speaker 3: bother me. You know, I'm running around well, you know,

14:52 Speaker 3: you've seen me pop in at your place in al

14:56 Speaker 3: when it's you know, ninety degrees and I'm out running

14:58 Speaker 3: around all sweaty. But I'm fine, And I always I've

15:02 Speaker 3: always kind of assumed that part of why I like

15:06 Speaker 3: summer so much, it is my favorite time of year,

15:08 Speaker 3: is because there's more sunlight, and I think the more

15:12 Speaker 3: sunlight helps alleviate depression. But I wonder too, if maybe

15:16 Speaker 3: maybe the reason I like the heat, it's not just

15:19 Speaker 3: because I'm weird, because people think it's weird. Really it's

15:21 Speaker 3: ninety degrees and you don't mind. I'm like, no, it's

15:23 Speaker 3: fine with me.

15:25 Speaker 1: I don't mind the heat either.

15:27 Speaker 2: Yeah.

15:27 Speaker 3: So you know, maybe it's because it's actually helping me maybe,

15:31 Speaker 3: yeah mentally.

15:32 Speaker 1: Yeah, it probably is. They know that heat. They don't

15:36 Speaker 1: know why, but they know that being a heated environment

15:38 Speaker 1: does help people with depression. The float tank that we

15:41 Speaker 1: have we put in an open float tank. A lot

15:44 Speaker 1: of float tanks and there's some great float places up

15:46 Speaker 1: here in New Hampshire. Yeah. They have cabins and they

15:49 Speaker 1: have pods which have covers and for some people that's

15:52 Speaker 1: very claustrophobic.

15:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's.

15:54 Speaker 1: Very difficult for people with mobility issues often to get

15:57 Speaker 1: in and out of them. Okay, so we put in

15:59 Speaker 1: a large open float tank that has a side that

16:01 Speaker 1: you can sit on. It has a metal grab bar

16:04 Speaker 1: that allows people with mobility issues to get in and out,

16:07 Speaker 1: but also for people who are claustrophobic they can come

16:09 Speaker 1: in and use it. There's been studies where they've studied

16:12 Speaker 1: floating compared to medication for anxiety for mild to moderate,

16:16 Speaker 1: not severe anxiety, but mild to moderate anxiety. Compared medication

16:19 Speaker 1: to regular floating, and the people who were floating regularly

16:23 Speaker 1: saw more improvement than people in medication and no side effects.

16:27 Speaker 1: I love Western medicine. I think Western medicine is great.

16:31 Speaker 1: There are a lot of people in the wellness industry

16:32 Speaker 1: that detagrade pharmaceutical companies on that. I think if you

16:36 Speaker 1: have an acute injury or illness, western medicine is a

16:40 Speaker 1: great solution. If your appendix structures, go have a surgery. Yes,

16:43 Speaker 1: if you have pneumonia, please take an antibiotic like there are,

16:47 Speaker 1: but it comes with side effects. What the Western medicine

16:51 Speaker 1: hasn't been able to do as well is chronic illness,

16:54 Speaker 1: chronic injury, you know, immune thing, the autoimmune disorders, depression,

17:00 Speaker 1: chronic anxiety. When you have those chronic illnesses, Western medicine

17:05 Speaker 1: has tools in their toolbox are pills and surgery. They

17:09 Speaker 1: are so good at diagnosis though they have X rays

17:12 Speaker 1: and cat scans and functional MRIs and all blood tests

17:14 Speaker 1: and all these things they can do to diagnose what's wrong.

17:17 Speaker 1: But their treatment toolbox is really just pills and surgery.

17:22 Speaker 1: And for some things that's great, like say your pendix ruptures,

17:25 Speaker 1: please have it taken out. That doesn't work for chronic illness,

17:29 Speaker 1: that doesn't work for chronic injury. And I was so

17:31 Speaker 1: blessed to come across a doctor when I got injured

17:33 Speaker 1: who said, go try all these other types of healing

17:37 Speaker 1: to see what works. And what I've found is and

17:40 Speaker 1: working for twenty years in wellness, lots of my students

17:43 Speaker 1: have found finding the other monologies is how you treat

17:47 Speaker 1: chronic illness. You can't really treat it with Western medicine

17:51 Speaker 1: because who wants all those side effects. But you find

17:54 Speaker 1: the other things that work, and then you have to

17:57 Speaker 1: incorporate them and make them part of your lifestyle, even

17:59 Speaker 1: when that's hard. One of the hardest things I think

18:01 Speaker 1: for people with depression is to make that consistent to

18:05 Speaker 1: keep coming. We have students that I have said to me,

18:08 Speaker 1: I struggle with depression. So when I don't show up,

18:12 Speaker 1: I'm probably And I said, I asked them, do you

18:13 Speaker 1: want me to call you? Do you want me to

18:15 Speaker 1: call you? And just like give you a little nudge.

18:17 Speaker 1: I don't like to chase students, but I'm happy to

18:19 Speaker 1: give you a little nudge and say, hey, you're doing okay,

18:22 Speaker 1: why don't you come in and you know, commit and

18:23 Speaker 1: take a nap on the floor. And once they're in

18:26 Speaker 1: and they're with the people again, it helps. It's not

18:29 Speaker 1: going to fix it, and I may not fix it

18:31 Speaker 1: for and this is the good news is it helps.

18:34 Speaker 1: The bad news is you have to do it for

18:35 Speaker 1: the rest of your life. Bad news is you're not

18:38 Speaker 1: going to be able to do It's not a one

18:40 Speaker 1: and done. It's like brushing your teeth. You have to

18:42 Speaker 1: do it consistently to keep helping. And so it's that idea.

18:46 Speaker 1: You have to show up for yoga two to three

18:48 Speaker 1: times a week. If you're injured, come more. If you're

18:51 Speaker 1: feeling good, go to the beach. Don't go to yoga

18:54 Speaker 1: that day. You know. The red light therapy that we

18:56 Speaker 1: do is designed to excite the mitochondri and yourselves. It

19:00 Speaker 1: makes people feel better, but it also heals injuries faster.

19:04 Speaker 1: There was a recent study done. It is funded by

19:07 Speaker 1: the company that makes red light therapy panels. So I

19:10 Speaker 1: always like to premise it with that disure. It doesn't

19:13 Speaker 1: make it in a bad study. It just I like

19:16 Speaker 1: to disclose where the study came from that. They found

19:20 Speaker 1: the people who regularly use red light therapy, they're not

19:23 Speaker 1: sure why it decreases inflammation in the body. They're not

19:25 Speaker 1: sure why it does these things it does, but they

19:27 Speaker 1: know it works. Okay, So they found an increase of

19:31 Speaker 1: healthy gut bacteria and people who were regularly doing red

19:34 Speaker 1: light So it may just be that increasing your gut

19:38 Speaker 1: bacteria that's healthy having. We know that having a healthy

19:41 Speaker 1: gut makes your whole body feel better. So the red

19:44 Speaker 1: light therapy and it's been used as a treatment medically

19:47 Speaker 1: for people with crones and colitis for a long long time. Yeah,

19:50 Speaker 1: so they know that it's good for your gut and

19:52 Speaker 1: their gut stuff helps the whole body feel better. The

19:56 Speaker 1: sauna is more heat to like hang out and just

19:58 Speaker 1: relax sends the muscles, but also helps with depression, helps

20:03 Speaker 1: with mental health issues. To float tank, the massage, all

20:06 Speaker 1: of this works together, but the yoga to get people

20:09 Speaker 1: moving and stronger and more flexible not only in their

20:12 Speaker 1: body but also in their mind.

20:14 Speaker 3: I feel like all of this too, you know, because

20:16 Speaker 3: when when you're talking about Western medicine and what it

20:20 Speaker 3: addresses well and not so well.

20:22 Speaker 2: I think.

20:24 Speaker 3: It's it's probably I assume you have people who who

20:28 Speaker 3: come to you who are perfectly healthy, they just want

20:32 Speaker 3: to be healthier. Yeah, because I feel like, and maybe

20:36 Speaker 3: maybe I shouldn't say Western medicine so much in this context.

20:41 Speaker 3: Is it may just be a broader just societal issue

20:44 Speaker 3: that we have in America where there's there's not enough

20:47 Speaker 3: And we were talking, Jenny and I were talking about

20:49 Speaker 3: this recently on the show. There's never enough emphasis on

20:53 Speaker 3: preventative medicine and and just taking care of yourself up front.

20:58 Speaker 3: It seems like our whole way of doing things culturally

21:03 Speaker 3: is you address these problems when they occur, but you

21:07 Speaker 3: don't do enough. And it kind of goes back to

21:09 Speaker 3: what I was saying too about smoking. When you know

21:11 Speaker 3: a smoker who says, well, I'm okay today, there's no

21:14 Speaker 3: cancer today, you know, and then I'll address the problem

21:18 Speaker 3: when it kind of arises. And smoking is an extreme

21:21 Speaker 3: example of that, of course, but but I think most people, yeah,

21:25 Speaker 3: they're just like, yeah, you know, when when something happens,

21:29 Speaker 3: I'll address it, but until then I assume I'm fine,

21:33 Speaker 3: when in reality, you know, it's We had someone on

21:38 Speaker 3: the show Doctor No who from Portsmouth who was on

21:42 Speaker 3: the show with us one day, and I said to him,

21:46 Speaker 3: the easiest thing in the world for any of us

21:49 Speaker 3: to take for granted. The number one thing that people

21:52 Speaker 3: take for granted, I believe is their health. And he

21:56 Speaker 3: said to me, not only is it the easiest thing

21:59 Speaker 3: to take for granted, it's the hardest thing to get

22:02 Speaker 3: back right once something goes.

22:04 Speaker 1: FROLLI Lama I think it was who said he has

22:07 Speaker 1: found that people will give up their health to chase money,

22:12 Speaker 1: and then when they get old and they need their health,

22:14 Speaker 1: they'll spend all their money yeah and get healthy.

22:16 Speaker 2: Yes.

22:17 Speaker 1: So I may not have got the quote perfectly right,

22:20 Speaker 1: but that's the gist, that idea that things that we

22:26 Speaker 1: monetize things in a way that will chase the money,

22:29 Speaker 1: but we'll give up ourselves in the process. And again,

22:32 Speaker 1: yoga is about finding a balance, right, so that balance

22:35 Speaker 1: of go and work but also take care of yourself.

22:38 Speaker 1: So in our classes too, there's a section of the

22:40 Speaker 1: class on the floor that the last part of the class.

22:43 Speaker 1: But we do a posture and then we lay down

22:44 Speaker 1: to rest. We do a posture and we lay down

22:46 Speaker 1: to rest. We do a posture, We lay down and

22:48 Speaker 1: rest and we do back and forth, and there's some

22:51 Speaker 1: physiological things going on there, but I a'll think it's

22:53 Speaker 1: important you're learning in that moment, Like you have to work,

22:56 Speaker 1: but as much as you work, you have to rest.

22:58 Speaker 1: You cannot constantly go go, go, go, go burn the candle.

23:02 Speaker 1: That both ends. At some point you run out of candle.

23:05 Speaker 1: That's the problem. So you have to create that balance

23:07 Speaker 1: of work and rest. And it's all about balance, and

23:11 Speaker 1: that's what we're trying to teach people to find the

23:14 Speaker 1: balance in their life, in their strength and flexibility in

23:17 Speaker 1: their work and relaxation in their mind and their body.

23:21 Speaker 1: How do you find the balance. It's not that you're

23:24 Speaker 1: going to be perfectly balanced your right arm and your

23:26 Speaker 1: left arm will be equally strong and flexible. That's not

23:28 Speaker 1: the balance we're talking about. But it is that idea

23:31 Speaker 1: that you figure out how to live in your body

23:34 Speaker 1: in the way that you're not abusing yourself. And again

23:36 Speaker 1: that always goes back to that idea of falling in

23:38 Speaker 1: love with yourself. To look in the mirror over and

23:42 Speaker 1: over and over again when you come in class from

23:43 Speaker 1: your beginner is hard, and I struggle to watch those

23:46 Speaker 1: students who are really struggling to see themselves. I jokingly

23:49 Speaker 1: often say look in the mirror, and if you see yourself,

23:52 Speaker 1: I'll give you extra points because we can look in

23:55 Speaker 1: the mirror. Many of us look in the mirror every

23:56 Speaker 1: single day to get ready to go out the door,

23:59 Speaker 1: but we don't see our So to spend ninety minutes

24:02 Speaker 1: seeing yourself that's who you truly are, is an amazing

24:05 Speaker 1: thing to watch people create that balance to get their

24:08 Speaker 1: health back. But we do have a lot of people

24:10 Speaker 1: who are fine, they're healthy, and they're coming to relieve,

24:14 Speaker 1: press maybe or whatever. They just want to Often it's

24:16 Speaker 1: something that goes with the other activity they do. They golf,

24:19 Speaker 1: but they need to get that flexibility. They run, so

24:23 Speaker 1: their hamstrings are tight, so they need to do the yoga.

24:25 Speaker 1: They lift a lot of weight, so they need to

24:28 Speaker 1: do the yoga. So often these are people who are athletes,

24:30 Speaker 1: professional athletes and stuff. I had one hundred mile marathon.

24:33 Speaker 1: If he used to come all the time, I think,

24:35 Speaker 1: when you discover what's big and hungry and chasing you,

24:37 Speaker 1: please let me know and we'll take.

24:39 Speaker 2: Care of you.

24:40 Speaker 1: But he just loved to run, but he needed that.

24:43 Speaker 1: His hamstrings have started to be a problem, so you

24:45 Speaker 1: balance it out with this other stuff. You can never

24:48 Speaker 1: measure what didn't go wrong because you've taken care of yourself, right,

24:53 Speaker 1: that's the thing, right, can't measure that. So I often

24:57 Speaker 1: say to people, I don't know where I would be

25:00 Speaker 1: without the yoga, And my manager, who's lovely, he always says, oh,

25:04 Speaker 1: you'd be dead by it, and I think he's probably right.

25:07 Speaker 1: I probably would have been dead by now. But he

25:09 Speaker 1: just believes that, you know, the smoking and the drinking

25:12 Speaker 1: and the chronic pain would have led me down a

25:14 Speaker 1: dangerous with yeah, and I think he's right. Once my

25:17 Speaker 1: kids were no longer my responsibility to take care of

25:19 Speaker 1: every day without the yoga, I don't know what that

25:22 Speaker 1: would have looked like. But you can't measure that.

25:25 Speaker 3: Interesting, yeah, because once the kids grow up, then you know,

25:29 Speaker 3: I don't have any children. I'm not a parent, but

25:32 Speaker 3: I assume, and partly I hear people talk about this too.

25:35 Speaker 3: There's that sense of what is my purpose now? My

25:39 Speaker 3: purpose was to raise my children.

25:41 Speaker 1: And that purpose in combination with living in pain, because

25:45 Speaker 1: when you don't have that, when you live in that

25:47 Speaker 1: level of pain, and for some people like me, that

25:50 Speaker 1: was physical pain, Yeah. For some people that's emotional pain.

25:53 Speaker 1: For some people that spiritual pain. It's chemical pain, it's

25:55 Speaker 1: that brain chemistry, whatever it is. When they don't have

25:59 Speaker 1: that reason to get out of bed in the morning,

26:01 Speaker 1: it gets easier and easier to not to stop taking

26:05 Speaker 1: care of yourself, to stop. You know, it's painful to

26:08 Speaker 1: drive the car and turn my head to try to

26:11 Speaker 1: back out of my driveway. I'm just gonna stop doing right.

26:14 Speaker 1: I have to do it because I have to bring

26:16 Speaker 1: the kids to school. But once they're gone, yeah, you know,

26:19 Speaker 1: and I think that's and watching people age like that,

26:22 Speaker 1: it's sad for me because I see Elaine who made

26:25 Speaker 1: a different choice. And we have lots of students in

26:27 Speaker 1: their sixties, seventies from almost sixty, myself in their seventies eighties.

26:32 Speaker 1: We're about to celebrate Elane's ninetieth birthday in just a

26:34 Speaker 1: few years, so you know, there's no reason to if

26:38 Speaker 1: she started at seventy two, there's no reason to think

26:40 Speaker 1: I'm too old to start, right, because I think she had.

26:45 Speaker 1: She don't tell people the reason I can come every

26:47 Speaker 1: day is because I started. I was already retired. Interesting

26:50 Speaker 1: I could come every day because I didn't have a

26:52 Speaker 1: job in kids and stuff. Yeah, I had repent. She

26:55 Speaker 1: learned to take care of herself, which made her better

26:57 Speaker 1: take care of her husband. Yes, yes, so it all,

27:00 Speaker 1: you know, it all works together.

27:02 Speaker 3: I always assume Mick Jagger, you know, he's in his

27:04 Speaker 3: eighties now, but if you see recent video of him

27:07 Speaker 3: on stage, he's still you know, he runs around like

27:10 Speaker 3: he's twenty years old. And he and he you know,

27:13 Speaker 3: he doesn't seem to get winded. You know, he's singing

27:16 Speaker 3: and running around on stage. And I know he.

27:19 Speaker 1: Hasn't always had the healthiest lifestyle.

27:21 Speaker 3: Right exactly. We all know that exactly. So I just

27:24 Speaker 3: assume I don't know this, but I assume he does

27:26 Speaker 3: yoga something.

27:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think you can't abuse yourself a fair

27:30 Speaker 1: bit in your twenties and thirties. I think anyone over

27:33 Speaker 1: thirty would agree, like, you could abuse yourself a fair bit,

27:36 Speaker 1: the body recovers better and all of that. Yeah, Ony,

27:38 Speaker 1: don't you start getting in the thirties and forty you

27:41 Speaker 1: don't bounce back. And it's that idea. Objects in motions

27:43 Speaker 1: stay in motion, Objects at rest stay at rest. Your

27:46 Speaker 1: one job in this world is to take care of you. Yeah,

27:49 Speaker 1: I asked his question in class. If I told you,

27:52 Speaker 1: at sixteen you learn to drive a car, and I'm

27:54 Speaker 1: going to give you a car, you could have any

27:56 Speaker 1: car you want, but you can only have that car

27:59 Speaker 1: for the rest of your life. How are you going

28:00 Speaker 1: to take care of that car? How often are you

28:02 Speaker 1: going to wash it, change the oil, to take care

28:05 Speaker 1: of it, all that stuff. Most of us would say, oh,

28:08 Speaker 1: I would take such good care of that car, knowing

28:10 Speaker 1: that's the only one I'm getting. You get one body, yeath,

28:14 Speaker 1: and it's got to take you from beginning to end?

28:16 Speaker 1: How are you taking care of it? And that's not

28:18 Speaker 1: for a place of guilt, because you can't abuse yourself

28:20 Speaker 1: a bit For a while.

28:22 Speaker 3: You can get away with that young.

28:23 Speaker 1: Spoking, the drinking and all of that. You know, you

28:25 Speaker 1: can get away with all of that until some point

28:27 Speaker 1: where you can't anymore. And the problem is you've created

28:30 Speaker 1: the habits and the lifestyle patterns, the patterns that make

28:33 Speaker 1: it difficult to transition to something new. So you're right,

28:36 Speaker 1: we are hypnotizing people when I have these conversations while

28:39 Speaker 1: they're in class sweating, and I'm saying these things to

28:41 Speaker 1: them in class. I'm brainwashing. But I tell them I'm

28:44 Speaker 1: up front, it's not a secret. I'm going to brainwash you.

28:47 Speaker 1: And if I have trouble brainwashing, that's when we turn

28:49 Speaker 1: the heat up because it makes the brainwashing easier. But

28:52 Speaker 1: my goal is to brainwash you. So instead to be

28:54 Speaker 1: your brainwashing us we are a cult, I said, no,

28:56 Speaker 1: we're not a cult. Cult wants to tell you what

28:58 Speaker 1: to do all the time and what to think all

29:00 Speaker 1: the time. I want you to stop thinking for ninety

29:03 Speaker 1: minutes and fall in love with you because that's my

29:07 Speaker 1: that's my evil plan of yoga is to make people

29:09 Speaker 1: fall in love with themselves, right, because that makes the

29:12 Speaker 1: whole world better.

29:13 Speaker 2: Yes, right, yes, And.

29:14 Speaker 1: That's the same when you're hypnotizing somebody and they stop smoking,

29:17 Speaker 1: you probably see it. They change how they feel about

29:20 Speaker 1: them They care about themselves in a new way that

29:24 Speaker 1: getting them to stop smoking gets them to eat better,

29:26 Speaker 1: to go for a walk more than you know, whatever

29:29 Speaker 1: it is, you see those changes. When you start just

29:32 Speaker 1: making those small steps to just start being better to yourself,

29:36 Speaker 1: it builds and then it builds and it builds, and

29:38 Speaker 1: all it takes is one step. I tell you. All

29:40 Speaker 1: you have to do is walk in the door. We're

29:42 Speaker 1: going to help you do the rest, but you have

29:44 Speaker 1: to walk in the door. I can't come to your house.

29:46 Speaker 1: I wish I could. I see people in the grocery

29:48 Speaker 1: store and I go, excuse me with me. I would

29:51 Speaker 1: like you to come with me for just for an

29:53 Speaker 1: hour and a half and see if we can, you know,

29:55 Speaker 1: help you out, because it makes me sad to see

29:57 Speaker 1: people who physically are struggling. You see people physically struggle,

30:02 Speaker 1: but you never you can't see what's going on for

30:04 Speaker 1: the people who are not physically struggling, but struggling in

30:07 Speaker 1: lots of other ways. If you're a human being, you

30:09 Speaker 1: have trauma, you're struggling in some way, and so being

30:13 Speaker 1: able to help get that out of your way so

30:16 Speaker 1: that you're not struggling to go through life every day.

30:20 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it feels so good. It's it's like, uh

30:23 Speaker 3: to me, I mean, it's got to be the biggest

30:26 Speaker 3: endorphin rush in the world to be able to help

30:28 Speaker 3: somebody get better. You know, Yes, it's I mean, that's

30:33 Speaker 3: what you know. To me, hypnotherapy is addictive because I

30:37 Speaker 3: just love helping somebody make make positive change. You know,

30:41 Speaker 3: it's it's Uh.

30:42 Speaker 1: Someone asked me what my return on investment was in

30:44 Speaker 1: my business when we were transitioning from the smaller studio

30:48 Speaker 1: closing financially not in a good place, to reopening in

30:52 Speaker 1: a much bigger space with all the other wellness modalities.

30:56 Speaker 1: They were like, what's your return on investment? Well, it's

30:59 Speaker 1: eline my return investment. I have a student who had

31:03 Speaker 1: kidney failure and I couldn't get him a kidney, and

31:07 Speaker 1: somebody another modality, a chiropractor or an acupuncturist, had said

31:11 Speaker 1: to him, you should maybe try this. I met this

31:13 Speaker 1: woman who teaches sweaty yoga. Maybe you should go do that,

31:15 Speaker 1: and like sweat, maybe that'll help. Yeah, right, and we

31:19 Speaker 1: talk about detoxic and hot yoga. You're not toxic. It

31:22 Speaker 1: does help remove metabolic waste from your body and stuff.

31:25 Speaker 1: But the students walk in, you're not toxic. You're not

31:28 Speaker 1: sitting around toxic. This guy was toxic, like he had

31:30 Speaker 1: didn't have functioning kidneys to clean out his system. Wow,

31:34 Speaker 1: And we progressively watched him get better back because I

31:36 Speaker 1: asked him, I said, so you've had a kidney transplant.

31:39 Speaker 1: He said no, And I said, so you're not on

31:41 Speaker 1: dialysis of kidney failure and you didn't get a transplant.

31:44 Speaker 1: And I said, how does that work? Because basically I'm

31:45 Speaker 1: just waiting to die, okay, but I want to feel better.

31:50 Speaker 1: I think maybe this will help me feel better.

31:52 Speaker 2: Okay.

31:52 Speaker 1: Come eleven years later, he finally got a kidney trips.

31:56 Speaker 2: Oh my god.

31:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, and he did it. Actually, he was saying, the

31:59 Speaker 1: show the birthday of that place where Jennie Shell is

32:01 Speaker 1: this weekend is Saturday. My birthday is on Saturday. And

32:04 Speaker 1: he got his kidney on my birthday, which was really exciting.

32:07 Speaker 2: Wow.

32:07 Speaker 1: But I watched him progressively get better and better and

32:10 Speaker 1: better and better and better and better over years and

32:12 Speaker 1: years and a year.

32:13 Speaker 2: Yeah.

32:13 Speaker 1: Just doing hot yoga and Western medicine is a funny

32:16 Speaker 1: thing because he went to his doctor, his necrologist with

32:19 Speaker 1: the kidney doctor, and they said to him, you look great.

32:23 Speaker 1: What are you doing And he said, I'm doing hot yoga.

32:25 Speaker 2: Yeah.

32:25 Speaker 1: And the doctor said, oh, I don't know if you

32:27 Speaker 1: should be doing that.

32:28 Speaker 3: Oh really, But He's.

32:30 Speaker 1: Like, but you just told me how good I look.

32:31 Speaker 1: My numbers look good. My numbers look good, and I

32:34 Speaker 1: look good and I feel good and I'm living of

32:36 Speaker 1: a good quality of life. Why would you tell me

32:38 Speaker 1: that's not the thing I should be doing. It's funny

32:41 Speaker 1: that Western doctors just have this idea and also this

32:44 Speaker 1: idea of what yoga is. Like most people think yoga

32:46 Speaker 1: and they think down dog and up dog and I

32:48 Speaker 1: did too. I can't do that. I have a neck injury,

32:51 Speaker 1: I have a shoulder injury, whatever, and we don't do

32:54 Speaker 1: any of that. It's really accessible to everybody with injuries

32:58 Speaker 1: because that's what it was designed for, designed for injured bodies,

33:01 Speaker 1: to bring them back to health and then to let

33:04 Speaker 1: them maintain that good health into it.

33:06 Speaker 3: I'm curious, and if you're just joining us, we're talking

33:09 Speaker 3: with Terry Almquist from Wellness Hot Yoga in haverl Yeah.

33:14 Speaker 3: I was curious to ask you.

33:15 Speaker 2: You may have.

33:15 Speaker 3: Already answered it with what you were just saying, but

33:17 Speaker 3: maybe there's something else, like misconceptions, Like what is the

33:22 Speaker 3: biggest misconception people have about yoga.

33:25 Speaker 1: I think the biggest misconception people have is that you

33:27 Speaker 1: have to be flexible to yoga.

33:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you don't.

33:31 Speaker 1: I was so infired. I hadn't moved my head in

33:33 Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen years.

33:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, so inflexible.

33:35 Speaker 1: It wasn't until I actually started doing yoga that we

33:37 Speaker 1: realized I had all this problems with my shoulder too.

33:40 Speaker 1: I think in the same injury, I had probably torn

33:42 Speaker 1: a rotator cuff. When you go to an emergency room

33:45 Speaker 1: and you can't move your legs because your spine is injured,

33:48 Speaker 1: no one asks you how your shoulder feels. Right, it's

33:51 Speaker 1: not high up on the list. And so when you

33:56 Speaker 1: have those kind of injuries, you think, I can't do

33:59 Speaker 1: yoga because I injured this, And that may be true

34:02 Speaker 1: of and I found that true for myself. And I'm

34:04 Speaker 1: not denigrating other styles of yoga. I think all yoga

34:06 Speaker 1: is good yoga, yeah, and not all yoga is made

34:09 Speaker 1: for all bodies. Right, So if you're an injured body,

34:13 Speaker 1: you're not. You shouldn't be going into a class where

34:15 Speaker 1: the first thing they start with this handstands.

34:17 Speaker 2: Right.

34:18 Speaker 1: If you've ever done yoga and you go into a

34:20 Speaker 1: class and they're starting and you have a spine injury

34:21 Speaker 1: and they start with headstands, you're in the wrong yoga class, right,

34:25 Speaker 1: Because ours is designed from a therapeutic yoga standpoint, was

34:29 Speaker 1: done as yoga therapy. Every single posture is designed for

34:32 Speaker 1: people who have almost no mobility. The first step of

34:36 Speaker 1: a lot of the pastures when we're standing is to

34:37 Speaker 1: stand with your feet together, and for some people that's it.

34:40 Speaker 1: That's hard enough. Yeah, bring your arms over your head.

34:42 Speaker 1: There's nothing we do that's really crazy. There's nothing we do,

34:46 Speaker 1: first of all, in this particular style of yoga that's

34:48 Speaker 1: outside the natural range of motion for the adult human body.

34:51 Speaker 2: Okay.

34:52 Speaker 1: And we do no weight bearing exercises on non weight

34:55 Speaker 1: bearing joints, meaning we're not standing on our head or

34:58 Speaker 1: our hands, we're not doing. All of the poses we

35:02 Speaker 1: do are designed to work with the way the human.

35:04 Speaker 2: Body is actually designed to Okay.

35:07 Speaker 1: So, and you could just do that little bit. So

35:09 Speaker 1: people think I can't sit on my heels. I can't.

35:11 Speaker 1: I can't get up and down off the floor. I

35:13 Speaker 1: hear that a lot. That's a common misconception yoga because

35:16 Speaker 1: I can't get up and down off the floor. And

35:18 Speaker 1: in some yoga's that's true. They're doing down dog up

35:21 Speaker 1: dog chataranga. That's a very traditional set of postures that

35:24 Speaker 1: are done and yasa in different styles of yoga. Yeah,

35:27 Speaker 1: we don't do that, So there's no up and down.

35:31 Speaker 1: You're up standing up for the first part of class,

35:33 Speaker 1: and then we get on the floor once and we

35:35 Speaker 1: stay on the floor till the end. Oh so you

35:37 Speaker 1: only have to get up once and down once. That's it.

35:41 Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah, that's why.

35:42 Speaker 1: It's really a different it's a different conception concept of

35:46 Speaker 1: yoga than a lot of yoga that people are sort

35:49 Speaker 1: of conscious of it.

35:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and do do do kids do yoga?

35:53 Speaker 1: We kids as young as eight can do this yoga.

35:57 Speaker 1: Kids do the only do the portion on the floor.

36:00 Speaker 1: They're already flexible. They're just made out of rubber band

36:02 Speaker 1: in bubblegum, right, and they don't have the muscle strength

36:06 Speaker 1: to hold We only hold the postures twenty thirty seconds,

36:08 Speaker 1: but some of them that's the challenge, Like it's difficult

36:11 Speaker 1: to hold that posture for twenty to thirty seconds for

36:15 Speaker 1: children who don't have that muscle strength. What happens is

36:18 Speaker 1: they can get very deep into postures and they can't

36:21 Speaker 1: hold it. So we don't have them do and they

36:23 Speaker 1: don't need to warm up the heat all. The first

36:25 Speaker 1: part of class is warming up in the heat to

36:27 Speaker 1: get ready for the yoga practice, which happens on the floor.

36:30 Speaker 1: Kids don't need to warm up they're already warm, they're

36:33 Speaker 1: already limbered, they're already all those things. So I'm seeing

36:35 Speaker 1: less and less. I'm seeing more and more younger kids

36:38 Speaker 1: who have less flexibility. I think they don't run around

36:41 Speaker 1: like we used to do.

36:42 Speaker 3: Oh interesting, Like they don't.

36:43 Speaker 1: Have gym like we used to. Ye, So I see

36:46 Speaker 1: kids who have less flexibility, but they come in for

36:50 Speaker 1: the back half of class. So they usually they're usually

36:53 Speaker 1: coming because their parents come and they're interested, and they

36:57 Speaker 1: start coming because of that. So under the age of

37:00 Speaker 1: fourteen thirteen, fourteen, they just do that last part of class.

37:04 Speaker 1: Once they get old enough to sweat efficiently, that's the

37:06 Speaker 1: other problem. You don't want to put a kid that

37:08 Speaker 1: age in the heated room for ninety minutes because children don't.

37:12 Speaker 1: Part of the reason we have the heat is to

37:14 Speaker 1: make you sweat, and that sweat helps you efficiently cool

37:17 Speaker 1: your own body, okay, And so we want you to

37:20 Speaker 1: be heated up so your limber sweating so you don't overheat,

37:24 Speaker 1: which sounds counterintuitive, like if I make you hot and sweater,

37:27 Speaker 1: you won't overheat. But as the sweat is evaporating, your

37:31 Speaker 1: body is staying. It's normal for temperature. Yeah, the room

37:34 Speaker 1: is hot, but you are not. Children can't cool themselves

37:38 Speaker 1: like that because they don't have mature sweat glands. Children

37:41 Speaker 1: can overheat much more quickly than adults. So we don't

37:44 Speaker 1: want little kids in the room.

37:46 Speaker 2: I don't know that.

37:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't want little and they can go from

37:48 Speaker 1: being fine to being not fine and just really fast. Yeah,

37:52 Speaker 1: with the delta takes a little longer. So as teachers,

37:55 Speaker 1: the part of the training we have, we're looking for

37:57 Speaker 1: certain sides. If somebody's overheating, if they stop sweating, if

38:00 Speaker 1: they you know, there's certain things we're looking for. A

38:03 Speaker 1: certain color of the skin, they get paler or they

38:06 Speaker 1: get pinker. I always tell my teachers if you have

38:08 Speaker 1: a little a younger person in the class and they

38:10 Speaker 1: start looking like they have a bit of a sunburn

38:12 Speaker 1: on their face, they need to go outside and cool

38:14 Speaker 1: off for a minute. They're not cooling themselves. Same with adults.

38:17 Speaker 1: We have a deltable turn. Some adults just turn very red.

38:20 Speaker 1: They'll tell you I turn red.

38:21 Speaker 2: You know.

38:22 Speaker 1: Some people are just ready like that. But we're looking

38:24 Speaker 1: for certain signs. The teacher stands at the front of

38:27 Speaker 1: the room. We stand on a podium. I wear a

38:29 Speaker 1: headset and I'm talking, but I'm looking at everybody all

38:32 Speaker 1: the time, so I'm watching to make sure everybody's okay.

38:36 Speaker 1: Kids who are thirteen fourteen, they start sweating, they can

38:39 Speaker 1: come and try the whole class. I ask parents who

38:42 Speaker 1: want to bring their kids to class, does your kid

38:44 Speaker 1: wear deodorant every day? Or does your kid wear deodorant

38:47 Speaker 1: to the school dance? So if they're still just wearing deodorant,

38:50 Speaker 1: if they only really need it for the school dance

38:52 Speaker 1: or something very physical, they're probably not sweating efficiently enough.

38:56 Speaker 1: Yet a kid who needs deodorant every day to go

39:00 Speaker 1: to school, they're probably.

39:01 Speaker 2: Sweating efficiently okay.

39:03 Speaker 1: And then if you practice enough and you come a lot,

39:07 Speaker 1: then you don't need deodorant at all because your sweat

39:10 Speaker 1: is very clean.

39:11 Speaker 3: Okay.

39:12 Speaker 1: Fascinating.

39:13 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh that's very interesting. Yeah, the subject of deodorant

39:17 Speaker 3: came up recently on the show too. I forget who

39:18 Speaker 3: we're talking with, but how it's really not not great

39:23 Speaker 3: for you like this, the regular store brand deodorant stuff

39:26 Speaker 3: is fine.

39:27 Speaker 1: To not smell is good. Yeah, we live in a

39:30 Speaker 1: social world.

39:30 Speaker 3: But there's like like organic but you are.

39:33 Speaker 1: Designed to sweat, Yeah, to cool yourself. Sweat is actually

39:37 Speaker 1: a natural reaction to either temperature or change. Is a

39:40 Speaker 1: logical change in your body, like stress and that kind

39:42 Speaker 1: of stuff. And we all know stress sweat smells different

39:46 Speaker 1: than just like every day sweat. And if you sweat regularly,

39:51 Speaker 1: this is like way too much information. The spell is

39:55 Speaker 1: actually bacteria that's growing on your skin. Oh, that's what

39:59 Speaker 1: the spell. And if you sweat regularly, that bacteria is

40:03 Speaker 1: it's cleaned up there. And so I have to be

40:08 Speaker 1: like too much information about me. I don't think I've

40:10 Speaker 1: won the.

40:10 Speaker 2: Yoda in fifteen years, kidding.

40:13 Speaker 1: Except to fly. I don't like to fly. I'm a

40:15 Speaker 1: nervous flyer. Maybe I should get a little hypnosis. I

40:17 Speaker 1: have doing a retreat in Thailand. It may I'm gonna

40:21 Speaker 1: have to fly to Thailand. I usually fly with my manager,

40:23 Speaker 1: which I refer to on the plane as my emotional support.

40:27 Speaker 1: I'm going by myself on this trip. Maybe a little

40:30 Speaker 1: hypnosis will help.

40:31 Speaker 3: I have helped people.

40:33 Speaker 2: Yeah, specifically, I do fly.

40:35 Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of flying. I'm just I don't I

40:37 Speaker 1: just I'm nervous on the plane. Yeah, but I'll where

40:40 Speaker 1: Toyoda because that's nervous sweat. It's not my every day,

40:43 Speaker 1: but I go in a heated room several times a

40:45 Speaker 1: day and sweat.

40:46 Speaker 2: Yeah.

40:46 Speaker 1: And I haven't won Toyoda in years. And you've been

40:49 Speaker 1: around me. Nobody's ben plain so far. Everybody so that

40:54 Speaker 1: constantly sweating is good for your skin and your body too.

40:57 Speaker 1: Like we talked about detoxing. If part of that is

41:00 Speaker 1: that idea?

41:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's interesting.

41:04 Speaker 2: Yeah.

41:04 Speaker 3: I have helped people with that fear of flying. I

41:06 Speaker 3: have my my only issue with see, I don't mind

41:09 Speaker 3: being Like being in that big metal tube in the

41:11 Speaker 3: air doesn't bother me at all. I don't like airports.

41:14 Speaker 3: Airports are stressful. Well like that Manchester. Have you ever flown?

41:18 Speaker 3: And I love flying out of man Manchester is awesome.

41:20 Speaker 3: That airport is so it's so small, it's easy.

41:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think for me it's on the plane. I

41:25 Speaker 1: call it big in the tube.

41:27 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.

41:28 Speaker 1: It's a really uncomfortable thing for me.

41:31 Speaker 3: Although physically that it can be hard for me because

41:34 Speaker 3: my ears, especially on the descent. You know, people get

41:37 Speaker 3: the ear popping. I get the pressure in my ears

41:40 Speaker 3: sometimes gets really bad, like I've I've had I've been

41:44 Speaker 3: in intense pain intends to happen on the descent. Not

41:49 Speaker 3: every time I've flown, but a couple of times.

41:51 Speaker 1: I was a sick kid and I had a lot

41:52 Speaker 1: of chronic ear infection.

41:54 Speaker 3: Oh that's right, we're talking about that the other day.

41:55 Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I actually understand that too much pressure

42:00 Speaker 1: flying is better for me now though unfortunately, because of

42:03 Speaker 1: I had COVID and I flew during while I had

42:05 Speaker 1: COVID and I had problems with drugs, I ended up

42:08 Speaker 1: with tubes in my ears that are pretty permanent. But

42:10 Speaker 1: now I don't have that pressure change because I have tubes.

42:13 Speaker 3: Yeah that's good.

42:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good, but it's not good, you know, I'd

42:16 Speaker 1: rather not have the tubes.

42:17 Speaker 3: And yeah, of course of course.

42:20 Speaker 4: We should talk about too.

42:22 Speaker 3: Uh, you've got the big open house. You've got a

42:24 Speaker 3: big event that starts tomorrow tomorrow.

42:27 Speaker 1: So our kickoff is tomorrow. So, as I said, this

42:31 Speaker 1: coming Saturday, the fourteenth is my birthday, and every year

42:34 Speaker 1: for my birthday at the yoga studio, what I do

42:36 Speaker 1: is gift other people yoga. Yeah, because the greatest gift

42:39 Speaker 1: you can give me for my birthday is to take

42:41 Speaker 1: care of yourself and learn and learn the tools to

42:44 Speaker 1: do that. Put those tools in your toolbox. So we

42:47 Speaker 1: have an open house all next week, kick off tomorrow

42:50 Speaker 1: from seven to noon. We're gonna have healthy snacks and

42:53 Speaker 1: some healthy beverages and come and see the float tank,

42:57 Speaker 1: try out the red light, take a free suna, take

42:59 Speaker 1: a yoga class. All next week. Yoga is free, all

43:03 Speaker 1: of our yoga classes, so we teach primarily this Bickram

43:06 Speaker 1: hot yoga. We also have several yin classes a week

43:10 Speaker 1: in the evening. Yin is a slower yoga class. Deeper stretches,

43:15 Speaker 1: held for long postures are held for long periods of time.

43:19 Speaker 1: Oh wow, it's a nice compliment to the hot yoga.

43:22 Speaker 3: Yeah.

43:23 Speaker 1: Not, it's therapeutic.

43:24 Speaker 2: Good.

43:24 Speaker 1: All yoga is good and therapeutic. But if you're really

43:27 Speaker 1: badly injured, the hot yoga is the one you want

43:29 Speaker 1: to do, and then the yin is good for creating

43:31 Speaker 1: more flexibility once you are generally healthy. Okay, So all

43:37 Speaker 1: our classes are free next week. Also all month. For

43:40 Speaker 1: my birthday, we're doing twenty five dollars float therapy sessions.

43:43 Speaker 1: So just it's usually seventy, we're doing twenty. We're probably

43:46 Speaker 1: giving it away. Come and float for an hour. In

43:48 Speaker 1: case you don't know what float is, it's a tank

43:50 Speaker 1: filled with saline solution. There's one thousand pounds of ebbs

43:54 Speaker 1: and salt in this tank, so it's high in all

43:56 Speaker 1: those minerals and magnesium. Most people know, like an some

44:00 Speaker 1: salt baths is great if you're injured, if your muscle's hurt.

44:02 Speaker 1: It's also good for people have trouble sleeping. It's good

44:04 Speaker 1: for anxiety.

44:05 Speaker 2: Okay.

44:06 Speaker 1: By getting in a tank full of salt water, you

44:08 Speaker 1: become weightless. Yeah, So it takes the pressure off the

44:11 Speaker 1: nerves and the muscles and the joints. So people with

44:15 Speaker 1: chronic illness like fibromyalgia, arthritis, bad backs, pregnancy, pregnant women

44:21 Speaker 1: can float. We actually have a prenatal yoga class that

44:24 Speaker 1: we do once a week, and we have prenatal massage

44:27 Speaker 1: float and massage float and.

44:34 Speaker 2: Not the sauna.

44:35 Speaker 1: I can't remember what the other thing is. I'm so sorry.

44:37 Speaker 3: Well, you got a lot going on.

44:38 Speaker 1: I know, we got a lot going on. We do postpartum. Oh,

44:41 Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Postpartum. The red light therapy is good,

44:43 Speaker 1: but no red light therapy during pregnancy, just because there's

44:45 Speaker 1: never been any studies, and nobody's nobody's gonna take that

44:48 Speaker 1: risk to try and study that.

44:49 Speaker 3: I'm sure.

44:50 Speaker 1: But postpartum red light therapy helps the body heal faster.

44:54 Speaker 3: Okay, it's just good for nursing mothers.

44:55 Speaker 1: It's very good. So we offer a lot of that stuff.

44:58 Speaker 1: So the massage and the float therapy are on special

45:04 Speaker 1: all month. Okay, ninety nine dollars for one hour massage

45:09 Speaker 1: and twenty five dollars for a one hour float.

45:11 Speaker 2: Nice.

45:12 Speaker 1: And the float therapy is I want people to do

45:15 Speaker 1: yoga because I think you have to do the work

45:17 Speaker 1: to make yourself well. You can't. You were talking about medicine.

45:20 Speaker 1: Can't take me medicine instead of taking care of yourself,

45:22 Speaker 1: because one is passive and one is active, and it's

45:25 Speaker 1: so easy to just do the passive thing. And I

45:27 Speaker 1: think Western medicine and pharmaceutical companies have sold us on

45:30 Speaker 1: this idea of you don't have to take care of yourself.

45:33 Speaker 1: It's better living through chemistry. Remember those commercials, Yes, chemistry.

45:38 Speaker 1: So they've sold us on this idea that we don't

45:40 Speaker 1: have to do the work. Well, we offer both. We

45:42 Speaker 1: have the passive stuff. You could sit in the float tank,

45:44 Speaker 1: you could sit in the red light. Doing the work

45:46 Speaker 1: of the yoga is so important because all this other

45:49 Speaker 1: stuff that we offer was put there to help support

45:53 Speaker 1: the work you're doing in the yoga practice. Yeah, but

45:55 Speaker 1: everybody's welcome. You don't have to do yoga to come

45:57 Speaker 1: and use the other stuff. Just you don't have to

45:59 Speaker 1: be a member. That's off in a misconception, right to

46:02 Speaker 1: remember the yoga studio. No, anybody can walk in and

46:04 Speaker 1: do a float. Anybody can walk in and get a massage.

46:07 Speaker 1: We have five massage surface. We offer a massage seven

46:09 Speaker 1: days a week. It's hard to find.

46:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, that is Yeah, so

46:14 Speaker 3: we do.

46:14 Speaker 1: Days and evenings and weekends and and we are open

46:18 Speaker 1: as a center five days a year. We actually have

46:22 Speaker 1: yoga classes on Christmas and Thanksgiving and a lot of

46:25 Speaker 1: people those are the days they need it either, because

46:27 Speaker 1: loneliness is a major disease.

46:29 Speaker 3: Oh that's interesting. Oh so you actually offer that for something.

46:32 Speaker 2: Yeah.

46:33 Speaker 1: And some people really have said to me, I'm so

46:35 Speaker 1: grateful that I can come to my yoga before I

46:37 Speaker 1: spend the day with my family, because the family can

46:40 Speaker 1: be stressful and families can be messy. And they're you know,

46:42 Speaker 1: but when you're taking care of yourself and you come

46:44 Speaker 1: from a messy family, sometimes that's hard to back in

46:47 Speaker 1: there to be able to come on Christmas morning and

46:50 Speaker 1: then go spend time with people that you know and

46:54 Speaker 1: be okay in yourself. Yeah, com and okay in yourself.

46:57 Speaker 2: Yeah.

46:57 Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely we clean them up right right there you go,

47:02 Speaker 3: there you go. So the open house starts tomorrow and

47:04 Speaker 3: then it goes through.

47:05 Speaker 2: It's for the week.

47:06 Speaker 1: The whole week. The whole week is free yoga, and

47:08 Speaker 1: the whole month for the float and the massages on sale.

47:11 Speaker 1: And to cap off the end of the week, which

47:13 Speaker 1: is my actual birthday, we'll have free yoga next Saturday

47:16 Speaker 1: as well, but also in the evening the community because

47:18 Speaker 1: we do community events. We're doing a riverboat cruise down

47:22 Speaker 1: the Merrimack that goes from behind the Tap in downtown

47:24 Speaker 1: Hayral and then afterwards this cake back at the studio

47:27 Speaker 1: and anyone's welcome. Oh cake.

47:29 Speaker 2: Very cool.

47:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, So we're more than just you know, it's really

47:32 Speaker 1: community and that's that idea of loneliness is really hard. Yeah,

47:35 Speaker 1: but we create a community. So especially I think it's

47:37 Speaker 1: hard to make new friends when you're an adult, and

47:40 Speaker 1: it's hard to a lot of people lost a lot

47:43 Speaker 1: of their community during COVID. Yeah, and they're not working

47:45 Speaker 1: in the office anymore. They've stayed home to work. So

47:48 Speaker 1: if you're somebody who's feeling a little on the lonely

47:50 Speaker 1: side and think you need a community, come and check

47:52 Speaker 1: us out just to meet some people and make some

47:55 Speaker 1: new friends and find a space where you can come

47:57 Speaker 1: and be chilled out and relaxed and be with people. Yeah,

48:00 Speaker 1: and you don't even have to be that social. We

48:02 Speaker 1: come in for an hour and a half class. You

48:04 Speaker 1: don't have to talk to anybody, right, you could just

48:06 Speaker 1: be in them.

48:07 Speaker 3: Yeah, I would imagine this. There's probably some people who

48:10 Speaker 3: it's their first time, maybe they're a little shy or whatnot,

48:12 Speaker 3: and then they you probably see it right. Over time,

48:15 Speaker 3: people kind of open up and they they become more

48:17 Speaker 3: social if.

48:18 Speaker 1: We try to help that along. One of the things

48:20 Speaker 1: we do at the studio is when you come in

48:22 Speaker 1: your first time, or we make an effort to introduce

48:25 Speaker 1: you to somebody who's been coming for a while, just

48:27 Speaker 1: to say like, oh, by the way, hey Matt, this

48:29 Speaker 1: is Elaine. He Lank comes every day and people calm

48:31 Speaker 1: right down when they meet a link because she's she

48:34 Speaker 1: tells you don't get every day. But she absolutely looks

48:36 Speaker 1: like an eighty eight year old lady, Like that's you know,

48:40 Speaker 1: that's what she looks like. And you start to go like, oh,

48:43 Speaker 1: she can do this, I can do this, and yeah,

48:46 Speaker 1: just didn't have somebody else there that you know their name?

48:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.

48:49 Speaker 1: And I always tell people we do a postu where

48:51 Speaker 1: we put our arms out to the side and say

48:52 Speaker 1: say hello to your neighbor. And if you don't know

48:54 Speaker 1: your neighbor's name, please introduce yourself after this. Yeah, that's

48:57 Speaker 1: how we take a class and make it a community. Yeah,

48:59 Speaker 1: we have people that are members of our community that

49:01 Speaker 1: do not practice yoga. We have spouses, some people who

49:04 Speaker 1: practice to come to our potlucks and our other events,

49:07 Speaker 1: know them and we know them. We feel like we

49:09 Speaker 1: know them well and they're part of our community. So

49:11 Speaker 1: you don't have to practice yoga to be part of

49:13 Speaker 1: that community. You just have to come in the door.

49:15 Speaker 4: Yeah.

49:16 Speaker 3: I think that's really cool, especially you know, we live

49:18 Speaker 3: in an era where you know, there are there are

49:20 Speaker 3: online communities, and I think I think for some people

49:23 Speaker 3: that's interacting with online communities, and social media has kind

49:28 Speaker 3: of supplanted what was at one time more actually going

49:32 Speaker 3: out and seeing people. So I think it's I think

49:34 Speaker 3: what you're doing when you talk about community, I think

49:36 Speaker 3: that's really important.

49:38 Speaker 1: And I think a lot of community is built around that,

49:41 Speaker 1: going out, drinking and eating and all this stuff. And

49:43 Speaker 1: if you're struggling with those things in your life, they

49:45 Speaker 1: have another place that isn't that. It's it's often very hard,

49:49 Speaker 1: especially for people, if you give up smoking and drinking

49:52 Speaker 1: that what do I do? That You often sometimes lose

49:55 Speaker 1: your social group. Yeah, and I think that in recovery,

50:01 Speaker 1: a lot of people find loneliness. They come from families

50:04 Speaker 1: that have drinking or drugs as part of their social interaction,

50:07 Speaker 1: and you know, and so to find a place where

50:10 Speaker 1: you can feel like you fit in. I'm not saying

50:12 Speaker 1: you have to give up smoking and drinking to come

50:14 Speaker 1: to yoga either, but it's a new place to go

50:17 Speaker 1: that isn't the old patterns, and it's all focused on

50:21 Speaker 1: being good to yourself and feeling good about yourself as

50:23 Speaker 1: opposed to hiding how you're feeling and hiding who you

50:27 Speaker 1: are and hiding all that stuff. Come and be exactly

50:29 Speaker 1: who you.

50:30 Speaker 2: Are, right right.

50:31 Speaker 3: No, I think that's wonderful. I think that's wonderful. Well,

50:35 Speaker 3: so before we run out of time. Oh, the website.

50:38 Speaker 1: Website wellness hot yoga dot com. We just got a

50:43 Speaker 1: new website. I hope everybody enjoys it. Yeah, all the

50:45 Speaker 1: information about the open houses on there, as well as

50:48 Speaker 1: anything about our other services that we offer. You're always

50:52 Speaker 1: welcome to call the phone number nine seven eight six

50:55 Speaker 1: eight nine nine six four two. I tell people it

50:57 Speaker 1: brings through to my cell phone, so you know, if

51:00 Speaker 1: somebody's there to answer the phone, somebody will try to

51:02 Speaker 1: answer the phone. And just stop in. It's at thirty

51:06 Speaker 1: four more Rex Freet in downtown Haveril in this beautiful

51:09 Speaker 1: new Harbor Place building across from the big giant new

51:13 Speaker 1: coming parking garage. Right now they've taken down the parking garage.

51:15 Speaker 1: We have quite a bit of construction going on across

51:17 Speaker 1: the street. But come by and just stop in. We

51:19 Speaker 1: have a lovely meditation You and I have sat in

51:21 Speaker 1: the meditation area chatted. We always have tea back there.

51:25 Speaker 1: People can sit, anyone can wander and have a cup

51:27 Speaker 1: of tea, talk to us find out what we're offering.

51:30 Speaker 1: There's no obligation to do anything but come in and

51:33 Speaker 1: be you.

51:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely no.

51:35 Speaker 2: I think it's awesome. I think it's awesome.

51:37 Speaker 3: Well I'm glad, I'm glad you got here early because

51:39 Speaker 3: I knew we'd have a lot to talk about. This

51:42 Speaker 3: has been wonderful, so thank you, Terry, and I also

51:45 Speaker 3: want to remind people too before we go. Of course,

51:47 Speaker 3: this coming Friday night, John Poussett Dart will be at

51:50 Speaker 3: the or actually the John Possett Dart Duo will be

51:53 Speaker 3: performing at the Rex Theater right here in Manchester. And

51:56 Speaker 3: if you miss it, John called in at the top

51:58 Speaker 3: of the second hour and really enjoyed talking with him.

52:01 Speaker 3: And of course don't forget also one week from today

52:04 Speaker 3: and we'll you know, we'll talk about it. Of course

52:06 Speaker 3: next Saturday, but September fourteenth, from four to eight pm

52:10 Speaker 3: on Hanover Street, the Mosaic Art Collective proudly presents their

52:15 Speaker 3: annual Full Circle the Speed of Light as they celebrate

52:19 Speaker 3: their birthday as well. And Jenny has one of one

52:22 Speaker 3: of her amazing paintings hanging up there, so proud of her,

52:25 Speaker 3: and she'll be back next week she's a little under

52:28 Speaker 3: the weather, but she'll be here with us next week

52:31 Speaker 3: and we'll we'll close out with a song in a moment.

52:34 Speaker 3: But Terry, thank you again so much, and we.

52:38 Speaker 4: Will we will leave you with this.

52:39 Speaker 3: I haven't played this in a while. This is a

52:40 Speaker 3: song called Reconnection from Eons Encoded and this is this

52:45 Speaker 3: is a great way to end the show, I think.

52:47 Speaker 3: But Terry almquis wellness, hot yoga and haverl. Absolutely thank you.

52:52 Speaker 3: And if you missed any part of today's show, it'll

52:54 Speaker 3: be up in just a little bit wmnhradio dot org

52:56 Speaker 3: and my website Matt Connorton dot com. I'll talk to

52:59 Speaker 3: you a little bit later.

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