134. My Favorite Type of Exercise
My Favorite Type of Exercise
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In this week's Wellness Wednesday episode, Evan shares one of his favorite forms of movement/exercise. He even goes as far as to say that if he had to choose one form of movement for the rest of his life, this would be the one. As you likely know, movement is absolutely crucial to living a long life and to living a life that is pain free. Our bodies expect us to move and they were built to move.
When we become sedentary, our bodies begin to adapt to a sedentary lifestyle which makes it difficult to do anything that requires physical movement. However knowing what type of movement is best can be challenging. That's why in this episode Evan will explain what his favorite type of movement is and why he considers it to be one of the best.
Now of course, any type of movement is going to be incredible for your body and can do wonders for your longevity. Even simple movements like walking, doing the dishes, or sweeping can be of great benefit for your body. If you care to hear more about how important those types of movement can be, be sure to check out episode 132 .
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Transcript
Hey, what's going on, everybody.
Speaker:Welcome back to the elemental.
Speaker:I've been show, thank you very much for tuning in always grateful
Speaker:to have you here as a listener.
Speaker:And I hope that today's episode brings you a lot of benefit in one
Speaker:way or another today's episode is going to be on a movement practice.
Speaker:That is probably my favorite movement practice, as well as being the
Speaker:movement practice that if I could only have one for the rest of my
Speaker:life, it'd probably be this one.
Speaker:Um, and.
Speaker:That is yoga.
Speaker:Now, yoga is obviously much more than just a movement practice.
Speaker:I mean, it is literally a way of being, but nonetheless, I'm going to.
Speaker:Heavily focus on the movement aspect of it, or also known as Austin,
Speaker:as Austin as are the poses that you would hold in a yoga class.
Speaker:Um, but I'm also going to give some background information on what yoga is
Speaker:and what are these other aspects of yoga.
Speaker:So to first break down what yoga even is, I'm going to be sharing
Speaker:a lot of information from my.
Speaker:A yoga teacher training course that I went through back in 2019.
Speaker:Uh, it was through the universal yoga program with Andre Lapa, um, a beautiful,
Speaker:beautiful course with a ton of information and a really just amazing practice.
Speaker:Um, you know, quite literally changed.
Speaker:A lot of things in, in how I look at the world and within myself.
Speaker:So I'm very excited to share this information and let's
Speaker:start off with what yoga means.
Speaker:So Andre Lapa, my teacher told me that yoga can be translated into unification.
Speaker:Now, this is probably a pretty weird concept for most people.
Speaker:Um, at least here in the United States, as well as other Western countries,
Speaker:which tend to think of yoga as just being a, you know, throwing on some
Speaker:leggings, going into a hot sweaty room and stretching for about an hour.
Speaker:Um, how does that tie in with unification while we'll kind of dive
Speaker:into that a little bit more later?
Speaker:Um, but that's where I wanted to start is with the term yoga, meaning unification.
Speaker:I also wanted to mention that in my teaching.
Speaker:And this is something that has always stuck with me.
Speaker:Is yoga is our natural state of being.
Speaker:And when we practice yoga, it is returning to that natural state.
Speaker:So yoga is your natural state of being and going through the practice
Speaker:of yoga is returning to that state.
Speaker:Um, uh, which if you've ever come out of a really, really good
Speaker:meditation or even a yoga class, um,
Speaker:You definitely know what blissful state that is.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:On top of that, I also wanted to mention that yoga has been
Speaker:around for at least 5,000 years.
Speaker:There is a tax called the rig Veda that mentions yoga.
Speaker:So we know that it is at least 5,000 years old, and there are many people
Speaker:who believe it is even older, somewhere around maybe 10,000 years old.
Speaker:Uh, so nonetheless it is a very ancient practice that has a lot
Speaker:of relevance even till today.
Speaker:So a really cool practice that steeped in a ton of.
Speaker:Knowledge and history and is just a beautiful practice that, like I
Speaker:said, when you walk out of a really good yoga class, you can feel why
Speaker:it is something that people, you know, still practice til this day.
Speaker:Um, in terms of kind of how.
Speaker:You know, Western or modern yoga differentiates from traditional yoga.
Speaker:Um, I first just wanted to kind of touch on the point that I personally have
Speaker:nothing against Western style yoga.
Speaker:Um, I started with Vinyasa flow type classes.
Speaker:Um, You know, Style.
Speaker:Uh, yoga as well, which I really, really love.
Speaker:It's like deep, slow stretching.
Speaker:And of course, if you listen to this show and you know who I am.
Speaker:Um, acro yoga, right?
Speaker:Like I've done acro yoga for seven to eight years now with my fiance.
Speaker:It's something that we've taught.
Speaker:We continue to teach.
Speaker:Uh, we continue to practice it.
Speaker:It is a really enjoyable practice.
Speaker:And while many people are more focused on the acrobatic portion of acro yoga.
Speaker:Um, you can still find a good aspect of yoga within the app or yoga practice.
Speaker:So that is where I come from.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Um, I started with Vinyasa yoga and.
Speaker:Uh, acro yoga and yin yoga.
Speaker:And it led me down this path of continual, um, understanding and, and figuring out
Speaker:about the traditional style yoga and its practices, the deeper practices.
Speaker:Um, so really Western style yoga is what opened the door for me.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:I can remember almost like.
Speaker:Crystal clear some of my very first classes and the effects that I felt
Speaker:coming out of those classes where, um, you know, I had, I came from
Speaker:a traditional sports background.
Speaker:So I'm taking a moment after your exercise or your really intense practice to.
Speaker:Uh, go inward, close the eyes, shut down and just meditate.
Speaker:I was a very new.
Speaker:Um, practice for me.
Speaker:And so I just couldn't remember, you know, going through a
Speaker:really physically demanding yoga class and then being able to.
Speaker:Take a moment to now focus inward, right?
Speaker:Allow the body to rest.
Speaker:And it's almost like when you really tired the body out, it allows for
Speaker:this moment of introspection where you can just really go deep and have,
Speaker:um, some really blissful moments of.
Speaker:Yeah, having your eyes closed and kind of being in between this
Speaker:conscious and subconscious state.
Speaker:Um, so it's a really interesting practice that, like I said,
Speaker:led me to where I'm at now.
Speaker:So personally with Western style yoga, um, I understand why some
Speaker:people don't like it and they prefer just traditional style yoga.
Speaker:Totally get it.
Speaker:But I think it really has a lot of benefit in some ways, and it
Speaker:can also open the door for people to the deeper teachings of yoga.
Speaker:So my goal here is if you are listening to this and you.
Speaker:Just practice, you know, Western Sal yoga.
Speaker:That's amazing.
Speaker:Um, but I would definitely recommend that while you're doing these classes
Speaker:to, you know, take some time to really focus on your Shavasana, that the
Speaker:meditation at the end of your class.
Speaker:And, uh, you know, if you're lucky enough to have some breath work
Speaker:mixed in there and some meditation.
Speaker:By all means, do it and live it up to the fullest and really, um, you
Speaker:know, just be with yourself, right.
Speaker:Be present in that moment.
Speaker:Um, I think.
Speaker:A lot of people will, they kind of get weirded out by meditation and you
Speaker:know, the Shavasana portion, which is, I think why people keep it so short,
Speaker:you know, in like an hour class, you only have like a five minute Shavasana.
Speaker:Um, in my opinion, that's way too short, but for a lot of people that
Speaker:is all that they really want to, but I think going within and kind
Speaker:of discovering who you are right.
Speaker:And what it, what it means to just be present.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And instead of.
Speaker:Giving all of your energy and focus and attention to the outside world.
Speaker:Instead.
Speaker:Now, turning that in onto yourself and really focusing on that.
Speaker:Um, I think there's a ton of benefit in it.
Speaker:And if in your next class, you can really focus on that and practice it.
Speaker:I would be so happy and you know, my goal is accomplished there and just
Speaker:helping you to deepen that practice.
Speaker:Um, and also in terms of what a more traditional style.
Speaker:Uh, yoga would look like.
Speaker:There are.
Speaker:Varying different types of yoga.
Speaker:There's, um, many that are, uh, rather, you know, traditional quote unquote.
Speaker:Um, but one thing that really stuck out to me that my teacher.
Speaker:Uh, told the entire class about was, um, when he was in India, practicing
Speaker:yoga, which he was fortunate enough to even practice with , which is amazing.
Speaker:Um,
Speaker:Um, he said that it was actually a lot slower paced.
Speaker:Like we weren't, they weren't really doing as many flows, um,
Speaker:while I'm sure that did happen.
Speaker:They were actually more focused on really practicing certain poses and, you know,
Speaker:really focusing on doing it correctly.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Like having good form in those poses, um, doing pretty high level poses as well.
Speaker:Uh, so it was a much slower style class and I remembered that just
Speaker:always, really sticking out to me.
Speaker:Um, so traditional style yoga in terms of just the Asana practice would
Speaker:probably look something like that.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:Yoga as a whole is not just, you know, The classes where you're doing stretches.
Speaker:That is actually just the very first shell of yoga.
Speaker:So the very first shell is the physical body, right?
Speaker:So the very first part is working on the physical body in
Speaker:terms of practicing asanas, to strengthen and stretch the body.
Speaker:And also our Veda to nourish the body correctly.
Speaker:Um, IRA Veda is the form of like dieting that, um, is within the yoga practice.
Speaker:I'll speak a little bit more about it later.
Speaker:Um, but that is the first shell was the physical body.
Speaker:And the reason we start with the physical body is because it was in preparation
Speaker:to help you get ready for really long periods of meditation, essentially.
Speaker:So, um, for those of you who have not stretched in a very long
Speaker:time, and then you try sitting cross-legged for five minutes,
Speaker:You know, what I'm talking about.
Speaker:It is very difficult.
Speaker:If your body is not limber enough and comfortable in sitting
Speaker:in a cross-legged position.
Speaker:You're not going to be sitting there for very long, hence you're not
Speaker:going to be able to meditate very well for a very long period of time.
Speaker:So that was the goal was to teach the body to be comfortable in a.
Speaker:Uh, static pose, which would be like the Lotus pose or just even cross-legged,
Speaker:which by the way, according to Andre Lapa was, uh, the first Asana was just
Speaker:seated with cross legs, like full Lotus.
Speaker:Um, which is really interesting to think about because now we have so many
Speaker:asanas, but anyways, uh, so that was the first shell was just practicing
Speaker:the physical body to be able to sit for long periods of time in a meditation.
Speaker:Then beyond that you had your energetic level or your energetic
Speaker:shell, um, this largely deals with things like pranayama or breath work.
Speaker:And, you know, so on and so forth, working in towards, you know, meditation and, um,
Speaker:you know, with a goal, basically being reaching enlightenment or Nirvana, Somod
Speaker:he, uh, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker:Um, but pretty much getting to that point, right.
Speaker:Getting back to unification with the source.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:That is pretty much kind of the breakdown of yoga.
Speaker:Yoga is not just the practice of, you know, uh, the physical body that is
Speaker:actually just the very first part of yoga.
Speaker:Then it goes even deeper and deeper and deeper.
Speaker:And, um, you know, that they're true practices are more like meditative.
Speaker:Um, this is just the very beginning.
Speaker:So here in the us and most Western countries, we practice mainly just
Speaker:that very first shell, that very first portion of yoga, but the
Speaker:actual practice of yoga is much.
Speaker:Much deeper.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:If you are practicing yoga and you have not heard this information before,
Speaker:um, you know, keep this in mind when you are practicing the next time.
Speaker:If you have, uh, you know, the ability to do a little breath work.
Speaker:Absolutely do so maybe, um, even extend your Shavasana for a little bit longer.
Speaker:And also just remember that Shavasana is essentially the whole reason
Speaker:you're doing a yoga class, right.
Speaker:It's to get to that meditative state.
Speaker:So when you do a yoga class, instead of just going in there for the benefits.
Speaker:It's of the physical practice, right?
Speaker:Because of course there is a great benefit to that.
Speaker:Um, but really keep in mind that it is a practice for meditation.
Speaker:So the Shavasana is the reason you're doing your yoga class.
Speaker:So kind of keep that in mind and, um, go inward, take some time to stop giving
Speaker:your attention to the outside world.
Speaker:Um, you know, we really.
Speaker:Purely almost give our attention to things that are external from us,
Speaker:whereas Shavasana or meditation is that moment in time in which we can take
Speaker:that, that awareness, that attention and bring it and direct it back onto
Speaker:ourselves and kind of, uh, you know, take a moment to sit with ourselves and.
Speaker:See, what's kind of underneath the hood, right?
Speaker:It's a very interesting practice.
Speaker:And, uh, I remember the very first times that I was really getting into
Speaker:some deep Shavasana is, um, it was really cool and sparked me wanting
Speaker:to go deeper into the practice.
Speaker:So that's a little bit of what yoga is, right?
Speaker:I mean, there's so much information.
Speaker:I mean, I literally, I don't even think I scratched the surface.
Speaker:It's like just a piece.
Speaker:Um, but I think that gives you a little bit of a better
Speaker:idea of what yoga is, right?
Speaker:It's not just this practice of, um, holding these poses, but rather
Speaker:it is a full-blown way of being.
Speaker:And now I definitely want to take some time to focus on why I love.
Speaker:The physical portion of it, right?
Speaker:The movement practice here.
Speaker:Um, so I want to really break down why.
Speaker:This practice of asanas or, you know, Vinyasa flow,
Speaker:whatever you want to call it.
Speaker:Is so beneficial for the body.
Speaker:So for one thing, of course, any time you are moving your body, there's
Speaker:just an enormous amount of benefit that's taking place in your body.
Speaker:I mean, we're talking about, uh, moving all of your lymphatic
Speaker:system, because remember it does not have a pump on its own.
Speaker:So movement is literally the way that we can move our.
Speaker:Uh, lymph fluids, uh, throughout our body.
Speaker:So incredibly important for that.
Speaker:Um, of course it can help with actually, uh, you know, Decreasing
Speaker:levels of anxiety and depression.
Speaker:Um, it is possible to as well build muscle.
Speaker:And, um, with yoga specifically, you're able to work out muscles
Speaker:that typically don't get a lot of.
Speaker:Tender love and care.
Speaker:You know what I mean?
Speaker:Um, yoga will put you in poses in positions that are not what you
Speaker:would normally do in a day, right?
Speaker:There are these poses where you're twisting your torso and straddling your
Speaker:legs, and it is not opposed that you would normally find yourself in, but
Speaker:for that reason, it works out muscles that do not normally get activated.
Speaker:So it is a really, really beneficial practice in using muscles that you
Speaker:don't normally use and, uh, being able to work them out, strengthen them.
Speaker:Um, and one of the biggest things, and I talk about this so much to people who
Speaker:start getting into yoga, especially if they're a little bit older and that is the
Speaker:ability for it to improve your balance.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:There's a lot of poses where you're standing on one leg or, um, you
Speaker:know, Going inverted, uh, whether it's a headstand or handstand.
Speaker:Um, and while you're doing those, you are improving your balance for sure.
Speaker:You're working all those tiny little muscles and, uh, improving yeah.
Speaker:Your balance overall.
Speaker:And the reason that is so important, like I said, especially for the older.
Speaker:Uh, oh, Older part of our society.
Speaker:Uh, is because according to the world health organization, An estimated 600.
Speaker:And 84,000 fatal falls occur each year.
Speaker:Making it the second leading cause of unintentional injury death.
Speaker:After road traffic injuries.
Speaker:That's crazy.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Literally you got cars.
Speaker:And then you got falling.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Like, that's the order in which this is going, is car accidents.
Speaker:Falling.
Speaker:It is extremely, extremely important for.
Speaker:All of us, but specifically the older community to really, really focus on.
Speaker:A little bit of strength, training and balance.
Speaker:We really, really need to start hammering these hard because there are so many
Speaker:people, people that I know personally in my family who have fall all the time and
Speaker:it's something I try to at least with one or two of them, work with them a little
Speaker:bit and, uh, hopefully mitigate that.
Speaker:But it is a very serious issue.
Speaker:So according to the CDC, just to really drive this home, The
Speaker:age adjusted fall death rate.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Fall death rate.
Speaker:Increased by 40.
Speaker:Sorry, 41%.
Speaker:In nine years from 2012 to 2021.
Speaker:Like that is insane.
Speaker:41%, it went from 55.3 per 100,000 older adults in 2012.
Speaker:2 78.
Speaker:Per 100,000 older adults.
Speaker:In 2021.
Speaker:So literally a 41% increase in the fall death rate.
Speaker:This is insane.
Speaker:It's something that can easily be mitigated lowered.
Speaker:Um, we can start taking action literally, right this second to
Speaker:start changing this statistic.
Speaker:And I think it's something that is such a low hanging fruit.
Speaker:That for us to not just go for it is ludicrous.
Speaker:We absolutely need to start working on our balance.
Speaker:And if you're thinking, oh, I'm young, I've got time.
Speaker:I can work on that later.
Speaker:Of course.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:I mean, you can always improve your balance later on in your life, but
Speaker:there is no time like today, right?
Speaker:If you start building those muscles start, you know, uh, taking care of
Speaker:those muscles, start working on your balance right now, it is going to
Speaker:help you so much more in the future.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:It is.
Speaker:It's not something that you should ness necessarily.
Speaker:Really postpone.
Speaker:It's something that you should really start working on.
Speaker:At this moment in time.
Speaker:So yoga is an incredible way.
Speaker:If it's not through yoga, if you want to do some other form of
Speaker:balanced practice, I don't care.
Speaker:It's just super important that you start doing it.
Speaker:I just think yoga is a really, really great way of obtaining so
Speaker:many different benefits at once.
Speaker:And that is just one of them.
Speaker:Now on top of helping to, uh, you know, Build our balance workout these muscles
Speaker:that don't normally get worked out.
Speaker:Uh, it also is going to help out with, uh, some joints.
Speaker:I've had many people say that they have, you know, had.
Speaker:Decreases in their joint pain, uh, overall.
Speaker:And this can be for a few different reasons personally.
Speaker:I just think it's because you're putting yourself in a pose and that
Speaker:joint in a position that is not normally in, and you're holding
Speaker:it for an extended period of time.
Speaker:This can be, you know, working out the muscles around, it could
Speaker:be stretching those muscles.
Speaker:It can, um, maybe even.
Speaker:Uh, lubricating that joint a little bit, uh, whatever it is people do say
Speaker:that they receive a ton of benefit.
Speaker:I myself have received benefit from.
Speaker:Um, doing various stretches, uh, you know, even just a simple forward
Speaker:fold for your back can be incredible.
Speaker:Um, so definitely a lot of benefit in terms of joints and on top of that,
Speaker:We also have, uh, the ability to work on our fascia.
Speaker:So for those of you who don't know what fascia is, it's essentially
Speaker:this spider web looking.
Speaker:Film kind of that is surrounding all of your muscles.
Speaker:And so this usually will get a lot of benefit when you are doing a deeper style.
Speaker:Uh, stretch.
Speaker:So like yin yoga is a great one where you're holding a pose for one to five
Speaker:minutes and you just get to sit there and really get deep into the pose.
Speaker:And the reason it's so good is because when you first go into a
Speaker:stretch, you always notice that.
Speaker:You're most tight, right?
Speaker:When you first get into that stretch, right?
Speaker:Like maybe if you bend down and you can't really touch your toes at first.
Speaker:Hanging out there for like a minute and you'll probably be all.
Speaker:Depending on who, where, where your flexibility levels at, um, maybe you
Speaker:can already touch your toes, right?
Speaker:And then get there.
Speaker:So nonetheless though, your muscles, when you first get into a
Speaker:stretch, they're much tighter there.
Speaker:They're resisting the stretch.
Speaker:And then as you hang out there for a second, The muscles are able to
Speaker:relax and slowly start to lengthen.
Speaker:And then that's where you start to work into the fascia.
Speaker:Um, this can really help for, you know, a lot of different.
Speaker:Uh, pains like hip pain, back pain.
Speaker:Um, yeah, like I said, also just great for the joints, right.
Speaker:But specifically that fascia, you know, people will do foam rollers, which are
Speaker:also an excellent way of getting into the fascia, but also just deep stretches
Speaker:are a really great form of doing that.
Speaker:So that is in terms of exercise, the benefit of practicing
Speaker:the Asana portion of yoga.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:On top of all of that, like I said, there's other aspects to
Speaker:yoga and this is why I think it's one of the best forms of movement.
Speaker:Because there's so many different layers to it that don't really
Speaker:pertain just to movement.
Speaker:But one of those is breath work.
Speaker:So breath work, or as it's known in, uh, in yoga pranayama.
Speaker:It is literally.
Speaker:Something I practice every single day.
Speaker:I don't practice my Austin as every single day.
Speaker:Actually I don't practice it nearly as much as I showed here recently.
Speaker:But breath work or pranayama.
Speaker:I practice every single day.
Speaker:Whether it is to get into a deep meditation, what or whether it is to,
Speaker:uh, activate my body and get ready to maybe go for a run or do something.
Speaker:Uh, that requires me to be ready for action.
Speaker:Or even the opposite of that to de-stress and calm down my nervous system.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Activate my parasympathetic nervous system.
Speaker:Your breath can literally do all of that.
Speaker:And what I think is so fantastic about this is Prawna
Speaker:means both breath and energy.
Speaker:It is synonymous for both of those words.
Speaker:And I think it's so neat that we also, you know, um, like I was saying, the
Speaker:second shell is the energetic shell and that is, uh, you know, associated
Speaker:with pranayama and it's like, Even back then, they just knew that
Speaker:breath affected your energetic level.
Speaker:And now we have the science to see that literally your breath is a form
Speaker:of energy, but also in the book by Dr.
Speaker:Steven Gundry, where, um,
Speaker:I'm spacing on the title, but it's his most recent book.
Speaker:And he talks about mitochondria uncoupling, and he talks about how these
Speaker:monks up in the Himalayas, or even, you know, Wim Hoff for example, are able to do
Speaker:these breath works and activate something within their bodies that is heating
Speaker:them up in a very cold climate, right.
Speaker:Can be snowing outside and they don't have any clothes on, but yet they
Speaker:maintain a constant body temperature.
Speaker:That is absolutely fine.
Speaker:They they're, they're nice and warm.
Speaker:And so how is this happening?
Speaker:Well, according.
Speaker:To Dr.
Speaker:Steven Gundry.
Speaker:He says that it's because when you do these types of breath works,
Speaker:you're actually, um, Uh, causing mitochondria uncoupling, which
Speaker:is releasing a form of energy.
Speaker:So it's just wild to see the science kind of starting to back up the stuff
Speaker:that was already traditionally known.
Speaker:Um, I just love to have like the mix of the two worlds kind of come together.
Speaker:I don't know why it always fascinates me, but.
Speaker:Anyways.
Speaker:Breathwork is incredible.
Speaker:If you're not practicing some form of pranayama.
Speaker:Like even maybe over the Austin of practice, like I highly recommend it.
Speaker:There are so many benefits from it.
Speaker:Um, like I said, I think the most important one is the calming type
Speaker:of breath work that you can do.
Speaker:Um, but literally, like I said, even if it's just a few deep conscious
Speaker:breaths, uh, at a point in which I'm very stressed in the day,
Speaker:Uh, there is some form of pranayama that I'm using in my day-to-day life.
Speaker:So highly recommend that.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:Aside from the pranayama or breath work and the exercise portion of yoga.
Speaker:There's also the meditative portion of it, right?
Speaker:The inner work portion.
Speaker:And I was kind of talking a little bit about Shavasana, right?
Speaker:The like five minutes that they give you at the end of your yoga class.
Speaker:Well, that is just a taste of what to benefit you can gain from meditation.
Speaker:And that is coming from a person who, you know, I have never obtained
Speaker:like enlightenment or anything like that through meditation.
Speaker:I've probably only obtained the very small beginning portions of meditation.
Speaker:And that's, you know, even with me doing four to four and a half hour meditations
Speaker:in my yoga teacher training, which were absolutely wild, you know, uh, there's
Speaker:still just so much benefit in doing.
Speaker:Like 10 to 15 minutes of meditation, you can gain so much whether it's,
Speaker:you know, doing some inner work, just becoming conscious of what it feels like
Speaker:to quiet the chatter that's constantly going on in your head all day long.
Speaker:Even if it just for a second, just to recognize what it feels like to.
Speaker:Not have that chatter and just kind of be present in the moment and be
Speaker:with yourself and see who you are.
Speaker:I actually think that.
Speaker:You owe it to yourself, to the people around you and to the society at large.
Speaker:To meditate, right?
Speaker:Because for most people we don't do any inner work.
Speaker:The most inner work we do is probably from the hours of 10:00 PM to 6:00
Speaker:AM when we're sleeping and that's.
Speaker:When we're in our subconscious mind, we're not even conscious
Speaker:of what, uh, of what's going on.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:I highly recommend that you start practicing some form of meditation.
Speaker:I don't care what kind it is, but take a moment, five minutes minimum
Speaker:to just sit with yourself and.
Speaker:See what's underneath the hood, like I said earlier, right?
Speaker:Like take a moment to really see what's going on.
Speaker:And for myself personally,
Speaker:I have definitely noticed that.
Speaker:I am.
Speaker:Much more calm throughout my day.
Speaker:I don't get triggered by things as easily.
Speaker:I am able to respond instead of react, which is huge, right.
Speaker:Instead of just reacting to what's happening to you.
Speaker:You're able to choose your response.
Speaker:It's extremely powerful.
Speaker:Um, and just really giving this overall sense of calm, right?
Speaker:There's a huge mental health benefit in meditation as well.
Speaker:That, um,
Speaker:I think it's not stated enough.
Speaker:It's incredibly, incredibly beneficial.
Speaker:And, uh, on top of that, there can be some very trippy experiences that you have
Speaker:while doing meditations, which I haven't had many, but the ones that I have had
Speaker:are really, really interesting and, and.
Speaker:Absolutely beautiful experiences to have so highly recommend as well, uh, to give
Speaker:some time to the meditation and really all three of these go hand in hand and a
Speaker:really good yoga class can give you pretty much all three of these at least to some
Speaker:degree, um, which is why I chose yoga.
Speaker:As like if I had have just one form of movement for the rest
Speaker:of my life, it would be yoga.
Speaker:That's probably mainly why is because of all the levels and also.
Speaker:I wanted to take a moment because I think this needs to be stated.
Speaker:To talk about I R Veda.
Speaker:So our Veda is a portion of yoga.
Speaker:It is the dietary portion of yoga.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And what I find so fascinating is the level of complexity to
Speaker:Aveda for being such a old form of, you know, quote unquote dieting.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:What they actually did is they broke.
Speaker:The okay.
Speaker:They looked at people on, they understood that.
Speaker:Not everyone is the same, right?
Speaker:Like we all have different body types.
Speaker:Um, you know, different things going on with, uh, within, uh,
Speaker:within us and therefore we should not all have the exact same diets.
Speaker:We are very unique individuals and we might need different things from,
Speaker:you know, this person in that person.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So,
Speaker:They broke everyone down into three different groups.
Speaker:Uh, they're called doses and you have the Vata, the PETA and the Kafa.
Speaker:And you can do these little tests online that will tell you what your dosha is.
Speaker:And, uh, sorry.
Speaker:Dosha is spelled D O S H a.
Speaker:And so yeah, you can figure out what your dosha is.
Speaker:You can find out what diets are best for you and what practices are best for you.
Speaker:I mean, there's a whole, a whole world within that and I'm not
Speaker:going to go super deep into it.
Speaker:I'm not even here to tell you that, you know, Irv.
Speaker:Our Veda is the best form of, you know, practice in terms of what you eat.
Speaker:But nonetheless, I do think there is a lot of benefit in it.
Speaker:And I think that it's very fascinating that.
Speaker:Such an old form of.
Speaker:Yeah, I keep saying dieting, just cause I don't, you know, it's lack of a better
Speaker:word, but I think it's so incredible that they really understood so much, right.
Speaker:Like if you go to a lot of the modern day,
Speaker:Uh, Dieting.
Speaker:Programs like I, I'm not going to throw anyone under the bus, but just think of
Speaker:some of their, the very big common ones.
Speaker:Um, it's like one size fits all, and that is just not the case.
Speaker:Like we are absolutely indivi individuals, unique individuals, and we require
Speaker:unique, uh, dietary choices for us.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:I find that super interesting, and I think there's a ton of benefit in that.
Speaker:And for that reason, I think yoga.
Speaker:As a whole is not just an incredible movement practice, but a way of living.
Speaker:And I think there's so much knowledge in this.
Speaker:I personally feel like I'm still just scratching on the surface, trying to get
Speaker:deeper into the deep teachings of yoga.
Speaker:And I highly recommend that you also do the same if you, if it's so calls to you.
Speaker:Of course, right.
Speaker:If you feel called to practice some of these deeper teachings of yoga, then go
Speaker:down that path and see where it takes you.
Speaker:I promise you it's a very enjoyable experience and we'll
Speaker:teach you a lot about yourself.
Speaker:And for that reason, Yoga is my favorite.
Speaker:Movement practice and kind of just way of being right.
Speaker:So anyways, that is going to do it for today's episode.
Speaker:Um, it is the ultimate movement practice in my opinion.
Speaker:Um, of course there's other incredible movement practices
Speaker:and, uh, in my personal opinion,
Speaker:I think as long as you're doing a movement practice of some kind you're doing.
Speaker:Immense.
Speaker:Uh, yeah, just like providing so much benefit to your body and, uh, enter your
Speaker:mind and your overall health and wellness.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Whatever movement practice you have.
Speaker:If it's not yoga, that's fine.
Speaker:If you want to try yoga, highly, highly recommended, um, but just move your body
Speaker:in some way or another, because that is the most important thing for sure.
Speaker:But yeah, go ahead and give yoga.
Speaker:Try it.
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Speaker:I'm just very thankful to have you all listening here to this show and, uh, yeah,
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