What 9 Trips to Mysore Teach You About Devotion, Discipline & Real Life | with Tina Bock

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Welcome, I'm Harmony Slater, your host of the Finding Harmony podcast.

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Over the past 20 years, I've taught thousands of yoga teachers and students

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to explore the intersection between ancient wisdom and modern everyday life,

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using mind-body practices to heal,

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awaken, and manifest their dreams from the inside out.

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This podcast is a sanctuary for those feeling overwhelmed by life's challenges.

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Are you ready to change the world?

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Hey, welcome. So today's conversation is with Tina Bach.

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She is an internationally recognized Ashtanga Yoga teacher who has taken a long

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journey around the world from New Jersey to Abu Dhabi to India and all the way back home.

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And Tina is an authorized level two teacher in the Ashtanga Yoga tradition and

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has spent many, many years going deep into the practice.

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And so what I loved about this conversation was just how human it felt,

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like friends meeting at a chai stand after practice and telling the story of

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how we got into the practice and how it evolves over time And how Ashtanga Yoga

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can become more than just the physical postures,

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that the practice itself continues to unfold as we travel as humans and evolve

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and grow and move through phases of motherhood, teaching.

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Traveling to different cities, different ways of teaching, and our thoughts

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around discipline, devotion, and the everyday realities of life.

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And being a spiritual seeker.

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So I know you're going to love this episode,

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listening to Tina's story, how she discovered yoga and continued to grow in

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the practice and still is continuing to grow in the practice as a mother of

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two young, beautiful children.

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And I just really loved the

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connecting with Tina again, and I hope that you will love connecting with her too.

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Hello, we are joined today by Tina Bach.

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Hello, Tina. Excuse me. Welcome to the Finding Harmony podcast.

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This is my host, Harmony Slater.

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I'm Harmony's husband, Russell Case, and now co-host of this show,

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which should just be on the radio, but we unfortunately have to stare at ourselves

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while we talk. What do you do, Tina?

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Do you just stare at yourself while you talk i'm

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watching you while you watched me yeah those

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braids are magnificent and you're like a little peepee long stockings over there

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are you nordic in some way did the did the nords come to jersey to make this

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happen i taught myself how to braid my hair,

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in Mysore waiting in the

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queue without mirror so just

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you know everyone else like meditating and or reading or doing something that

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looks important and I would gossiping you mean most of them are gossiping I

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would usually gossiping my friend Megan we'd just gossiping and then we would

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teach ourselves how to braid so you can do like Satubandhasana and you know,

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halafana and everything is just fine.

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Yeah, it is no ponytail to cause the bra.

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You've got to tuck them into the bra sometimes because sometimes then they go in my face.

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I don't think we can say bra on the radio. I don't think you can do that. You can.

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Thank you for that. We have sensors now because the last episode went off the rails.

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Well, you're calling me Jersey, so be careful. Get ready.

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So you're in Jersey. I don't think she actually is in Jersey,

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though. I think she's in Dubai or something.

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Are you in Dubai now? I'm at the Jersey Shore.

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I was in Abu Dhabi for eight years. I lived there for eight years.

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But you fled. That's how I got over to my school so easy. You fled what's happened

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recently, and now you've fled home.

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You're a refugee. No. No.

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No, no. I've been back in the U.S. for about three years.

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Tell us what you were doing in Abu Dhabi. You anticipated the crisis and you

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came home. That's really clever. Wow.

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I'd still go back. It still seems safer than here. Yeah. Why were you living

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in the Middle East, Tina?

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Well, she married kind of like an oil man, and they went out to the Middle East.

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No. So most Canadians who do go out there, because we know most of our friends

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were Canadians because my husband played in the ice hockey league, were in oil and gas.

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But my husband was working for Bombardier in Nantial. Yes.

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So it's aviation. So we were just like a young married couple, super young.

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In Montreal, we were 25, 26 when we moved from Montreal to Abu Dhabi.

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He got a job with Etihad, the airline there.

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They just found him on LinkedIn. I think they were just looking for young recruits.

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And I was like, this is the coldest winter of my life. I don't speak French very well.

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Let's go. and i went there and my instagram wasn't really a big thing back then but i had some,

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of the local ladies find me

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so i did very well doing private yoga lessons out there

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for sheikahs cousins her friends

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all the a lot of private lessons i

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would go to a lot of these big villas or palace like

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mini palaces and the palace even like

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the sheikah it's very cool and then of course there was like eventually there

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were from from the time i was there like 2016 to i don't know what is it 20

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23 or whatever like there were more yoga happening but at the time there wasn't

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a lot there was like one yoga studio what is a shaker it's like the princess.

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Like my wife is like a shaker. No, I'm a shiksa. There are a lot of them.

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I'm sorry. She's a shiksa. She is, in fact, a shiksa. She is a shiksa.

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Yeah, I know what that is because I'm from New Jersey.

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You claim Judaism because of the state you live in.

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But you're Nordic, in fact. I'm Italian, actually. Because you're from Jersey.

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Because also I'm from New Jersey. Everyone here is Italian or Jewish.

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Did you know Chuck growing up? Chuck Sakalas? I think he's too old.

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And Chuck was like the prototype of the Jersey Shore yoga teacher. Ashtanga yoga teacher.

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You're a Deb partner, right? Yes. Oh, goodness. I didn't know we were going

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to go this dark this early.

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No, I didn't because I met Deb in Mysore. Actually, I heard her talking to someone

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and I went over to her and I said, are you from New Jersey? Right. I don't like it. Yeah.

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And that's how I met Auntie Deb. That's so cool. Auntie Deb.

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She just seemed like she was you know one of my family

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members yeah but then then i like visited montclair

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a little bit montclair is about um an hour from where i

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am now okay i'm down at an asbury park amazing

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that's a song bruce springsteen yeah

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it's a bruce springsteen song so i taught in dubai now it's all about you yes

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because otherwise you monopolize the conversation I met Harmony in Dubai when

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Nea was doing a workshop with you and she was still having the shala in the hotel in the hotel,

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and that was back in.

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2017 maybe or 18 yeah it was a long time ago because I used to drive up there

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once in a while it was like an hour from where I lived so I would drive up she

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slept in my apartment in Taiwan in 2016,

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yeah wonderful So I was in Dubai before 2016 when we met in Dubai.

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I went to Dubai and taught there back in 2008.

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2007 and 2008 and

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then 2010 no nine

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2007 eight and nine every time

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you go back there's a new building yes five new

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buildings right and when i was there literally like

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you said when you started there was only really one

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yoga studio when i was there there was no yoga studios back

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then wow so everyone was teaching there was

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like a couple of local teachers and that's who one of

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them was my friend she was scottish at the time and her husband was

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there doing some work in the oil field anymore she's

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still scottish yes she is but she is no longer in

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dubai harmony recently gave up her scottishness to

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become jewish so she is

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that's not true and mazel tov mazel tov

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so people would literally

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rent out little spaces in

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the golf clubs because it was like there was nothing really

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to do in dubai there's just the malls and the golf clubs and the hotel yes yeah

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and like almost there wasn't even like really a downtown like the buildings

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weren't like amazing yeah so when I went there 10 or 11 years later in 2016 it was.

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Like mind-blowing how much had changed probably nothing in Abu Dhabi then did

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you ever go down to Abu Dhabi I did not but I do not think there was much going

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on in Abu Dhabi because they would all drive up to Dubai to take the workshop yeah,

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Yeah, like me. I used to go sometimes early in the morning and I would drive

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up and practice and drive home. Can we just go back for one moment?

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So you're a Jersey high school girl.

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I grew up in North Jersey, like closer to Manhattan. But now I live down about

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an hour and a half from where I grew up.

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It sounds like there's some status issues there.

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And so you meet a guy from Montreal or did you decide right away?

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Oh, on spring break, you're 16. In Montreal. 15 i

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was 21 you were oh

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okay so you went to school is that what you decided to do you went to print uh

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i did go to university i didn't go to princeton unfortunately i

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went to a school in boston called suffolk university and then i went to a school

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in uh we call it upstate new jersey like right on the border of new york closer

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to manhattan the cat scale yeah yeah that not no actually i know the other part

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like up in the mountain the ramico mountains they're we know with the Catskills.

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Tom teaches up there in the Catskills. Yeah. Yeah, Tom.

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Rosenthal? But not too far from there. Probably about two, okay,

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yeah, it's probably about two hours from where I am. Actually,

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that's not true anymore.

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Well, nothing's true anymore, is it, Harmony? That's something you like to talk all the time.

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Like, Bibi went, left the city and went, do you know Bibi? Oh, of course. Yeah, yeah.

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Bibi Lorenzetti. And John Campbell teaches with her sometimes and then he teaches

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in the city twice a week. So he goes, like, up and down.

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We're all in and out of New York, but we don't want to be there.

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But what happened to you where you said to yourself, you know,

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I used to do rhythmic gymnastics and now I need to do yoga for a thing.

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I never did rhythmic gymnastics, although it sounds really fun.

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With a ribbon, right? She didn't do that. I've seen photos of her.

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That's your pretend story in your mind. I did research of her.

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I was on a collegiate dance team.

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Okay, there we go. What does that mean? A collegiate dance team? Follow-up question.

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Harmony's a journalist now. That's amazing. Well, you know, you have your, like.

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Your collegiate athletics in colleges in the U.S.

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And in Canada. You have like D1, D2, D3. I was on a D3 dance team.

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Oh, good for you. And they're kind of like cheerleaders, but they just dance

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and don't cheer? But not Division I.

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It's not like cheerleading, but we do have the same competitions.

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It's called the NDA and the NCA.

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So the NCA is the National Cheer, and then the NDA is the National Dance.

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Yeah. But the dancers are not allowed to do flips or throw people or do gymnastics.

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A lot of high kicking, a lot of hip moves. A lot of high kicking. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

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And coordinated choreography. Really like... I've seen that at the sports things with the ball.

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But they can do the jumping and the... But not like sideline dancing,

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though. No. That's way sexier.

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And it'd be like the in-between the sports. This is like a league of its own.

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In-between the sports. You can watch it once a year. There's a big competition

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on TV. You'd go out in the middle of the pitch and do the kicking.

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No. They don't cheer. No. None. None of that. No cheering. There's no audience. Just competition.

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No, there's a big audience. Just a big audience. But you do like a three-minute

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dance, and then they judge you.

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Yeah. That's it. You practice all year for like a three-minute dance, and then they judge you.

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And then they give you a trophy if you win. This is exactly what it's like going

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to Mysore. You practice all year.

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You do a three-minute dance. It's very judgy. And then you get a trophy.

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That's exactly it. And that's why that was the call for you.

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Sometimes it takes four years to get the trophy. Sometimes it takes 18 years.

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And then so you go and then you get, it's very judgy.

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And then like you said, this is home for me. I feel home.

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Mysore, just as judgy as home.

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So I, long story short, no reason

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to make a long story go back to the real story before

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i moved to montreal i went to

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india so after college i went to india because i had some friends who

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went and i was into yoga i liked yoga because

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i like you know i like scratching i like dance and

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i really wanted to travel i never had

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before really ever i did a study abroad in

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italy but besides that i didn't i didn't come from like a

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travel family so i went to

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india i was 22 when i decided to go to india by

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myself for the first time you know everybody thought

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i was crazy and i just did a really random 200 hour teacher training in goa

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because i found it online and it was like a thousand dollars for the whole month

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and it was like super cheap and i was like but good for me like food housing

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everything the training you,

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Let's do it. And it was Hatha and Vinyasa, which I knew what that was.

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That's what I was like doing at the yoga club or at the Y with my dad. My dad does yoga.

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So he'd take me to the Y and we do yoga there. And then they had Ashtanga and Shivanenda also.

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So it was like four multi-style.

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Cool. I'm certified in these things. So you're in Goa doing this teacher training.

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You get exposed to Ashtanga. at what point

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you go oh like the birthplace of

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ashtanga is just a few hours away i'm gonna head

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over there so not yet so then i went home and i was

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like ashtanga was like i was like that's fine but like i didn't like doing the

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same thing over and over again no who does so boring

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so boring and i like wanted to play my music and like do the vinyasa and the

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hot yoga doing the same thing every now i do yeah throughout my day i like to

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do it exactly the same time every day Like I have my protein bar at 1130 and

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then I go take the dogster walk.

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Like that's just, can we just do the same thing every day at the same time?

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It's fine. Your father is a Nordic Jew. Is that right? Did I hear that? No. He's Italian.

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Oh, he's Italian. Catholic. My mother's side is Italian. Actually,

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my mother's side is very Italian. They're like the Jersey Italian, like. Sicilian.

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Mafia-wise. Randomly yesterday, I was reading about the group of Italians who

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had to flee Italy because their home had been given over to Chechnya.

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It was terrible for them.

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The Lucan diaspora, are you part of that? Honestly, I'm very American. I don't know.

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But your father is not Nordic, nor Jewish, nor Italian. No.

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No he's just good don't go nativist on us cold-hearted american that's nativist,

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whatever you think that is look it up i mean i have a lot of family who've done

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the 23 and me but i don't know if i believe it so you're like yeah that dna test fake news,

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not a real not a real at least my mom's family like we know like where they're from so yeah yeah,

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Back of the story, I went to India. I came back. I was still like...

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This is important news. I have to interject. I have to interject.

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It originates from the German word for billy goat.

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Thank you very much. You knew that? Family of goats. Yeah, of course.

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Well, she didn't mention that before. Seven years, though.

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Okay. This is billy goat here. Okay.

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I guess I could claim probably German or Austrian with the Briggs,

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so we'll get that. We're Dutch.

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Back to the story. You mentioned Montreal. Then I moved to Montreal and there

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was a lot more Ashtanga going on there, so that's where I learned what it was

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about because Darby had his school there and he has his teachers.

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And do you know Terry? Yes. She was teaching at the same studio that I was teaching

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at and she used to teach just an Ashtanga class, not Mysore,

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and I would take it, and I really liked it.

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And then I was only in Montreal for a year, so I didn't really have time,

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and Darby was gone, and I just like, I didn't really understand Mysore,

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so I wasn't like gonna try it, so I never did, unfortunately.

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So then when we moved to Abu Dhabi, I was like, oh, well.

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We're still close. So why don't

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I hop over back to the same school that I went and I'll do my 500 hour.

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And at the same time, I'll go to Mysore because why not? I had never done Mysore style before.

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I didn't know anything about it. And that's another long story because I did

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the 500 hour, but in between I got a motorbike accident.

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So I actually went back to Abu Dhabi and kind of like healed up for a little

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bit. And then I went back to Mysore. How severe were your injuries?

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Like a meniscus tear and stitches in three places.

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So stitches in three places in this like crazy going, you know,

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hole in the wall hospital.

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There's still some stitches in me. I'm pretty sure they use fishing wire instead of.

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As you do it's like bright

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blue it's still on my knee so totally totally really that's

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real you still have me down i'm not bright blue

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stitches in your knee i have stitches

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in my nose still that's the thing that they do when sometimes

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the stitches are so far back because i cut my nose off when

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i was oh five we've all

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heard this story no they're not the listeners but the the

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stitches have like there's 20 stitches still

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up in there they just didn't bothered this is about tina yeah yeah

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but she has stitches inside her body just like me but

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we can see hers she hasn't

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shown us her stitches she said they're in her knee let's see her knee then if

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you say it's tiny tiny you wouldn't be able to see it but i do have some gnarly

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stitches from that accident i like rode the motorbike into a ditch like my first

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time oh yeah it's tough to now i'm really good at riding and then you went to

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the hospital and you said they hosed you down.

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It's like i don't know it's like what is wrong i was probably like covered in

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dirt like i don't know i like fell in a ditch some guy like rescued me and put

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me in a taxi and sent me to the hospital did they actually hose you yeah she

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said that you said that a dog hosed you down at the hospital.

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The doctor was like the doctor um they were probably just like another tourist

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yeah another No tourists, spray them down. Wow. Give me 20 bucks, get out of here.

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Rupees, 20 rupees, get out of here. No problem. Anyway, so then I went back

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to Mysore, and I practiced in Mysore, and I loved it. That's the story. And then I went back.

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Six more times and nine times in total.

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So when you went to Mysore, you had never practiced Mysore style? Never, never, never.

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Yeah, I just kind of tried to memorize primary on my own and nobody said anything.

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Yeah, that's kind of rare for a person of your generation in Mysore.

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Yeah, because I was in Abu Dhabi. We didn't have a Mysore program.

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And actually, that's where I got really good at self-practice because I was

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so used to being in Montreal where there's yoga studios.

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You know, in 2015, there was yoga everywhere in Montreal. You had the moksha

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and then I was at Wunderlust and I taught at McGill.

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So it was like it was in the gym and McGill. There's just like yoga everywhere.

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And there was just like hot yoga popping up everywhere.

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So I had opportunity to practice every day with somebody else.

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And then I moved to the Middle East

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and I was like, OK, so if I want to do yoga, I have to do it on my own.

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And they used to do yoga videos on Yoga Glow with Jodi,

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Loomstein yeah she's on the podcast in a couple weeks amazing I've never like

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met her in real life but honestly I've like never met her in real life but you

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can tell her I feel like she's my like one of my teachers that's awesome she

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had this intermediate series.

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Video on yoga glow and i used to do it and i was like let's just teach myself this,

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so that's how you learned intermediate series was watching

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jody brumstein on yoga kind of yeah i

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mean kind of i mean mostly i was a good little shanghi like i would wait

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till i get my poses but not primary man i just went

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from it right now on and then like i would wait to get to

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get poses but can i ask you one kind of question you

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don't have to answer this at all but you're pretty young

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and attractive and you've got

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a rich husband why why

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why didn't he why did he let you go live over in india well we had just started

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dating and i exactly i'm going india for a month it was only a month okay it's

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actually actually fun fact we actually got married right before I left.

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Oh, that's a great honeymoon. Where's my wife? In India.

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I left without him. But we, as you know, as you two know, it's not easy for

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an American to go and live in Canada with no job and no, you know,

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not going to school or anything and somebody who doesn't speak French.

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And I had nothing going on. I was like living in Queens and I was like, get me out of here.

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I wanted to go live with him in Montreal.

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There's nothing going on. In Astoria, nothing.

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Fun fact, now my husband actually works in Osoria and is there three times a week.

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A full circle moment he has to like go to queen all the

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time just go and look at devil's gate and just

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like yeah so anyway

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i i wanted to move to montreal so we had to get married like

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before the wedding so we did our marriage first just like license

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just our parents there and then yeah i went to

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india and then i kind of finished out the year

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here and um then we had our wedding and then i moved in

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with him and with my long distance canadian boyfriend

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who a lot of people thought was fake for a long time back then

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we didn't have it like he didn't have an instagram it

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was just like i met a well i met a boy in canada

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and like we're just bbming every day so i mean you're like a very gifted practitioner

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and i was blessed with your presence when i was teaching in philadelphia and

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we got to reconnect oh she came to philly yeah i did yeah oh my goodness That was super fun.

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They're great. Yeah, they're so fun. She's a ball of fun. Yeah,

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they're so fun. You've got to come back. Are you going to come back? I am.

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Later this year. You've got a plan for that, Tina. It's like four months away.

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You've got to get on this. All right. What's the date?

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She's going to do it right now. Yeah, she's going to book her Airbnb right now.

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She's going to spend the rest of this podcast on her flight.

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Com so no i can drive to philly

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it takes an hour and a half yeah that's that's pretty good that's

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that's not far and like

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you're very gifted and you're a third series practitioner and have

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this like very beautiful advanced

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practice and then you end up having a

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couple of children what was that like that's

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gonna ruin yeah so i actually only uh learned third after the first baby um

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awesome which is a fun fact i love that that told me to finish third and then

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have a second baby who told you like charade charade and i said okay finish third have a baby.

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And i was like no he said that

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he said okay we'll finish third and then next baby and i

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was like i'm only having one baby i didn't want to have two babies

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it's charade's baby no no i

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don't know what happened because he said that and i wasn't planning

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on it and then surprise wow that's so

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cool yeah so you

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had your first baby you were still going to my store with the

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baby yeah baby went twice to my store when

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he was three months old and then when he was 12 months

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old wow so he just turned one he learned to walk in my

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store amazing fun fact yeah yeah learned to

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eat filth off the street in my store yeah because

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now doesn't mean system is great but you

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know when they're little like when they're

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super super little there actually is a

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lot of time to practice practice isn't the same yeah you're not going as hard

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and doing as much but there is more time to practice because they don't they

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don't move exactly exactly so i actually really enjoyed that that time that

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postpartum time to kind of like get back into practice yeah now is the hard

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time to practice because, you know,

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I'm up with them at seven in the morning, getting them ready,

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whatever, and doing everything else and like.

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I don't wake up early anymore like if they go to bed i

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have a seven-year-old like he doesn't want to go to sleep at seven like

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he's like oh yeah so 8 39

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let's go to bed and then like i'm kind of like now i

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have an hour to myself so it's hard to get to bed early and wake up early i

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find that only gets worse by the way so now it's like two in the morning and

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like i come down here and get the fuck off your phone go the fuck to bed and

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now it's mad step i was gonna be the first one to curse No chance.

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Yeah. So, yeah, it's like... In his room with these comic books.

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I'm like, don't I play? Well, at least he's reading. That's nice. At least he's reading.

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The Captain Underpants. Yeah. Oh, I love that. I love that stage.

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Those are great books. Yeah, we had that stage, too. Good job, man. Yeah.

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It's awesome to read, though. It's also exciting. You're not far away,

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but there's a little switch that goes off.

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It's some kind of genetic disorder in boys where suddenly they

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have to wake up at one in the afternoon and like it's it

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was six o'clock and he'd be staring there sitting at the

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side of the bed staring at me and you

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know dad lego is like no fuck off i don't want to do fucking lego right now

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those are all inside words and they're like no we're not i don't want to do

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your little drama with batman and i don't want to fucking do this but then it

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was like suddenly like overnight He was like waking up. He had to pull him out of bed.

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Like drag him out of bed. We're like that sometimes.

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I had to get him out of bed today at eight. And he used to be at,

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he used to, we lived two blocks from school, which was great.

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But we have to like leave the house by it.

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8.30 so he can get in by 8.35 but yeah to open the blinds and everything and

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then if the three year old is like upstairs like in her high heels you know

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yeah she's been up since 6 in the morning at least like,

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high heels that's good my mother-in-law bought them and she puts them on every

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day when she wakes up you know what they call that,

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she's a shaker.

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She's a princess We're going to Dizzy on Ice tomorrow. Amazing.

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We're in that phase. We would love to have a couple girls. That'd be nice.

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Wouldn't we love to have a couple girls? I'm over it now.

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She's over it. We should have dog girls. Not for lack of trying, Harmony.

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It's fine, but I am scared. I'm scared of pre-teens. The trying?

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Oh. The pre-teen years. Yes.

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Yes. So tell us a little bit like. She's going to be just like me.

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How did you feel like your practice shifted? I mean, it sounds like when the

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kids were young or especially when your son was young, it was very easy to practice.

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You were like kind of fitting it in and during the nap time and during the day

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and you learned all of third series after he was born. So obviously you were like.

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Doing it pretty intensely you know

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I'm obviously very blessed too as a yoga

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teacher and back living in Abu Dhabi I did mostly private lessons which was

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for me financially great because I could just do a couple a day and I had a

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nanny there and she was great and like it just it was very flexible I'm not

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somebody who had to go back to work full-time you know here in the U.S.

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Like people go back to their full-time jobs after like six weeks and like I

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have no I mean I have I have no idea how I would do it.

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So I'm lucky with, very lucky with flexibility.

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But it's much different, you know, before you have a baby, especially,

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I think times are changing now, but, you know, 10, 15 years ago,

439
00:30:16,517 --> 00:30:19,357
it was this stigma where it's like, if you want to do a shanga,

440
00:30:19,517 --> 00:30:22,537
like you got to get up and do it before you do anything else.

441
00:30:22,897 --> 00:30:26,457
And you go six times a week, six days a week, and like that's how you progress.

442
00:30:26,677 --> 00:30:29,477
And then it's how I progressed. I mean, I never would have been able to learn

443
00:30:29,477 --> 00:30:34,017
what I learned now if I didn't have that schedule before, because your body

444
00:30:34,017 --> 00:30:35,277
remembers things, and obviously,

445
00:30:36,105 --> 00:30:39,365
look, do I like catch my ankles anymore in kaputasana? Like,

446
00:30:39,525 --> 00:30:43,385
no, I'm catching my toes. Like it's, it's different. The things are different.

447
00:30:43,925 --> 00:30:46,505
Backbinding is different, but your body still remembers these things.

448
00:30:46,625 --> 00:30:48,865
Ma'am, the standard is the calves.

449
00:30:49,085 --> 00:30:53,185
You know that you just standard, you grab the calves. That's when I started third.

450
00:30:53,945 --> 00:30:58,065
When I, when I started grabbing my calves and kaputasana, that's the day I started

451
00:30:58,065 --> 00:31:01,445
third. He looked down at me. It's like, yeah, okay. Third it is. Yeah.

452
00:31:02,765 --> 00:31:05,445
I mean, but like, there are some things in third that I just don't do anymore.

453
00:31:05,445 --> 00:31:08,565
And I also don't have a teacher, you know, I don't have a program to go to.

454
00:31:08,685 --> 00:31:12,745
So I don't have somebody helping with a lot of things. So I'm skipping a lot. Yeah.

455
00:31:13,105 --> 00:31:16,085
Yeah. Good. Or just lightening it up a little bit.

456
00:31:16,925 --> 00:31:23,345
I would also say I was on the Vegas Strip in a Cadillac Escalade with Sherat

457
00:31:23,345 --> 00:31:26,525
and he looked over at me and he said, you know, I'm thinking about doing my

458
00:31:26,525 --> 00:31:27,525
practice in the afternoon.

459
00:31:28,005 --> 00:31:31,545
I was like, that's a great idea. You should do your practice in the afternoon.

460
00:31:32,125 --> 00:31:36,425
Because I'm really tired. I was like, yeah. Yeah. Do your practice like one, two.

461
00:31:36,725 --> 00:31:40,125
I like to do it at 4 p.m. That's my ideal time.

462
00:31:41,025 --> 00:31:45,205
And he said, I'm also, I was thinking about maybe just eating potatoes because

463
00:31:45,205 --> 00:31:47,725
I think I really need to lose some weight. I was like, I think that's a great idea.

464
00:31:48,165 --> 00:31:52,505
Just potatoes? Just potatoes. He had heard that it just eats the fat.

465
00:31:53,005 --> 00:31:54,905
Potatoes. Just potatoes. Nothing else.

466
00:31:55,445 --> 00:32:01,005
That's a mixed number. It's an outside. I love potatoes. Where are we? Back to your schedule.

467
00:32:01,305 --> 00:32:04,665
Yeah. Now you're taking it easy, eating potatoes.

468
00:32:05,585 --> 00:32:09,185
Now my schedule is very different. I actually teach at a gym now.

469
00:32:09,345 --> 00:32:10,985
I teach at Lifetime. Yeah.

470
00:32:11,385 --> 00:32:14,645
Which I, at first, was like, heck no.

471
00:32:14,885 --> 00:32:17,425
But my daughter just started going to school, but I was home with her,

472
00:32:17,505 --> 00:32:19,385
and they have free babysitting. So...

473
00:32:19,649 --> 00:32:24,429
I took a job at this gym that has two hours free babysitting every day.

474
00:32:24,609 --> 00:32:28,749
So I teach 45 minute yoga class, whatever they call it. And it's Ashtanga light.

475
00:32:28,869 --> 00:32:30,909
I call it. I call it Ashtanga light.

476
00:32:31,169 --> 00:32:36,169
You know, we do standing poses and warmups and I'll play some music and don't tell the police.

477
00:32:37,349 --> 00:32:42,809
But they babysit. So I like bring her with me. Who's the police? That's so good.

478
00:32:43,209 --> 00:32:47,209
That's so smart. Can I, can I ask you a question? The Ashtanga light with music,

479
00:32:47,369 --> 00:32:50,229
not to name names, but i'm going to ask you to name names so when

480
00:32:50,229 --> 00:32:53,129
we were coming up kiki and noah were the

481
00:32:53,129 --> 00:32:55,769
stanga police and then it sort of

482
00:32:55,769 --> 00:32:59,389
it sort of shifted and like susan hounsel became fucking

483
00:32:59,389 --> 00:33:02,249
top sheriff in town don't let susan know what's

484
00:33:02,249 --> 00:33:05,189
going on do you know immediately who i'm referring

485
00:33:05,189 --> 00:33:08,189
to when in your community in your in your

486
00:33:08,189 --> 00:33:11,229
epoch who the chicago police was it was it this

487
00:33:11,229 --> 00:33:14,149
a stanga not chicago police a stung i

488
00:33:14,149 --> 00:33:17,589
just chicago police i immediately think it's todd todd yeah

489
00:33:17,589 --> 00:33:20,609
yeah todd is chicago police so when

490
00:33:20,609 --> 00:33:23,449
i forgive me when i think of cops

491
00:33:23,449 --> 00:33:26,329
i think of chicago fascists and like that's where i go so but

492
00:33:26,329 --> 00:33:29,169
so is it todd is todd is todd the

493
00:33:29,169 --> 00:33:32,729
stronger police i don't know but there must be somebody because i've heard people

494
00:33:32,729 --> 00:33:37,269
getting emails from the shala about things but you don't have like a name in

495
00:33:37,269 --> 00:33:41,609
your head that you're hiding right now no should i yes i don't know i don't

496
00:33:41,609 --> 00:33:46,509
know anybody i just i i feel like i like slipped under the cracks in my story

497
00:33:46,509 --> 00:33:48,509
i would just always just sit at omaruth and like.

498
00:33:49,357 --> 00:33:54,957
People watch that's what we would do my friend megan and i we'd sit on the stoop

499
00:33:54,957 --> 00:33:56,637
and we just like watch all the

500
00:33:56,637 --> 00:34:01,597
people and be like you know just so quiet gossiping but like you're you're,

501
00:34:02,177 --> 00:34:05,597
a talker though like you were out there talking to people or is it just like

502
00:34:05,597 --> 00:34:10,957
just reserved for your best friends also but i also don't really come from besides

503
00:34:10,957 --> 00:34:13,337
maybe like the community i

504
00:34:13,337 --> 00:34:17,117
don't know if i come from an ashtanga community i feel like a lot of these,

505
00:34:17,737 --> 00:34:23,357
like especially western ashanga communities have their own like dramas like

506
00:34:23,357 --> 00:34:26,017
you know like the big shalos like not to name any of those but there is one

507
00:34:26,017 --> 00:34:32,117
state in america where i find that like starts with an o a lot of like a lot

508
00:34:32,117 --> 00:34:35,537
of i would meet a lot of americans in.

509
00:34:36,763 --> 00:34:39,463
That place well now i think they've all moved to the

510
00:34:39,463 --> 00:34:43,003
state that's a g fucking oregon man not oregon

511
00:34:43,003 --> 00:34:47,843
not oregon no the other

512
00:34:47,843 --> 00:34:53,483
i feel like i would meet so many people from there and they all have their own

513
00:34:53,483 --> 00:34:58,683
drama and their own stuff like this and like i just never really had that because

514
00:34:58,683 --> 00:35:03,683
i didn't have like a home fellow that's funny and i guess i kind of was in the

515
00:35:03,683 --> 00:35:05,563
dubai community and And now I'm kind of like,

516
00:35:05,663 --> 00:35:07,843
I dip my toes in the New York community.

517
00:35:08,003 --> 00:35:10,543
Like, I go in every once in a while and bother Michael.

518
00:35:10,763 --> 00:35:13,163
I'm like, you know, then it's not the same. Every once in a while,

519
00:35:13,203 --> 00:35:14,743
I'll pop in so high. It's not the same.

520
00:35:15,323 --> 00:35:18,843
That was a gossipy community in downtown Manhattan.

521
00:35:19,143 --> 00:35:23,463
Like, that was the locus for the drama.

522
00:35:24,223 --> 00:35:28,643
And who is screwing who? Who is making big money from who?

523
00:35:28,883 --> 00:35:32,903
Where it's all going. Like, that was where it was at. New York was pretty.

524
00:35:32,903 --> 00:35:36,743
I would hop into Broom Street every once in a while, but now it's not.

525
00:35:37,083 --> 00:35:42,083
It's not the same. Yeah. It's interesting. You and I share a very similar journey

526
00:35:42,083 --> 00:35:46,763
that way in that I learned most of my third series after Jediah was born.

527
00:35:47,363 --> 00:35:50,943
And also, I didn't really have a Mysore community.

528
00:35:51,243 --> 00:35:55,743
I never had a regular Mysore program. The first time I went to Mysore also was

529
00:35:55,743 --> 00:35:59,003
the first time I'd practiced Mysore for more than five days in a row.

530
00:35:59,663 --> 00:36:02,343
So it's how did you learn how did you

531
00:36:02,343 --> 00:36:05,083
find a song out in calgary i'm assuming you were

532
00:36:05,083 --> 00:36:08,503
yeah i mean it was lead classes like

533
00:36:08,503 --> 00:36:12,083
you and then we had one woman melody

534
00:36:12,083 --> 00:36:17,263
baker who's a good friend of mine and she opened up like our traditional astanga

535
00:36:17,263 --> 00:36:23,563
shala called the shala and at that time when she first opened it was we had

536
00:36:23,563 --> 00:36:29,963
like an early morning open practice time and so if you wanted to practice my source style,

537
00:36:30,183 --> 00:36:34,123
basically you would just go and there'd be like four or five of us and we'd

538
00:36:34,123 --> 00:36:36,363
just practice together at the same time.

539
00:36:37,294 --> 00:36:44,494
With no teacher and so that's how i learned yeah for anywhere outside of manhattan

540
00:36:44,494 --> 00:36:47,054
yeah and then after i went to

541
00:36:47,054 --> 00:36:53,794
my sore i came back and started teaching in that like open practice time.

542
00:36:54,954 --> 00:36:57,474
And did that for a few months and then i moved to thailand.

543
00:36:58,994 --> 00:37:01,934
That's great i mean my story is the best honestly i

544
00:37:01,934 --> 00:37:04,734
wish because where i live i live at the jersey shore and

545
00:37:04,734 --> 00:37:07,654
there's just like hot yoga everywhere and then there's more

546
00:37:07,654 --> 00:37:10,414
there's just more popping up all the time like they just opened a

547
00:37:10,414 --> 00:37:13,054
coffee shop and i thought it was a coffee shop and i walked in there and

548
00:37:13,054 --> 00:37:16,374
there's a yoga studio in the back what's that all over

549
00:37:16,374 --> 00:37:19,494
the place i wish i had you know either an

550
00:37:19,494 --> 00:37:22,434
assistant or somebody else to do it for me and i could teach sometimes but

551
00:37:22,434 --> 00:37:26,514
i i can't i can't do my star now um especially my

552
00:37:26,514 --> 00:37:30,334
husband you know i said he goes to the city to work so i'm

553
00:37:30,334 --> 00:37:33,414
like early morning it's like a no way right now but maybe someday i

554
00:37:33,414 --> 00:37:36,814
wish i wish that we had one here because i think people need

555
00:37:36,814 --> 00:37:39,554
it and i think i don't really

556
00:37:39,554 --> 00:37:42,534
know if they're really doing yoga you know yeah it's

557
00:37:42,534 --> 00:37:45,614
different when you're they're doing yoga but i'm like are you

558
00:37:45,614 --> 00:37:48,474
doing yoga you don't know like you don't know how good it can

559
00:37:48,474 --> 00:37:54,274
be you don't know how good it can be in your mind yeah without all the loud

560
00:37:54,274 --> 00:37:58,794
music and the a teacher shouting at you every single thing to do you know and

561
00:37:58,794 --> 00:38:01,394
you don't know how good it can be when you're not doing the same exact thing

562
00:38:01,394 --> 00:38:04,834
as the person next to you when it's just about you and it's not about the rest

563
00:38:04,834 --> 00:38:06,154
of the class. Right. Totally.

564
00:38:07,245 --> 00:38:10,085
Food is a little bit of a shame, but that's why, you know, I like to do,

565
00:38:10,145 --> 00:38:14,225
I do intensives and retreats every now and again.

566
00:38:14,685 --> 00:38:19,945
The last few years, I've only done one a year, but I'm thinking about two and two next year.

567
00:38:19,945 --> 00:38:24,085
The funny thing about the industry, it's not dissimilar from,

568
00:38:24,185 --> 00:38:28,365
like, say, the restaurant industry, where to really do it right,

569
00:38:28,405 --> 00:38:29,865
it should be a Mysore room.

570
00:38:30,105 --> 00:38:35,925
And yet that's untenable for the human beings who run the place to live.

571
00:38:36,045 --> 00:38:37,145
And it's just like a restaurant.

572
00:38:37,325 --> 00:38:41,405
Like, it's not tenable for a person in the restaurant industry to be in the industry.

573
00:38:41,645 --> 00:38:43,865
It's just, it's soul-destroying.

574
00:38:44,425 --> 00:38:48,325
And you don't make any money. And then so finally you get really good at it

575
00:38:48,325 --> 00:38:53,305
and then you can't do it anymore. You have to go off and teach and do workshops

576
00:38:53,305 --> 00:38:55,925
continuously to make any money so you can support yourself.

577
00:38:56,365 --> 00:39:05,385
So then you're left with people who don't need to make money from teaching.

578
00:39:05,745 --> 00:39:08,445
And it's like a passion project.

579
00:39:09,705 --> 00:39:11,565
Yeah. It's tricky.

580
00:39:13,905 --> 00:39:18,505
Yeah, but it is true. It is like the best way to learn yoga and the best way

581
00:39:18,505 --> 00:39:22,425
to actually experience a practice is in a Mysore style setting.

582
00:39:23,845 --> 00:39:25,085
100% is.

583
00:39:26,865 --> 00:39:29,825
And I don't know. I can't tell. I don't know if you're in your area.

584
00:39:29,905 --> 00:39:32,525
Are you guys there in Calgary or you're in California? Yeah, we're in Calgary.

585
00:39:33,245 --> 00:39:35,425
In Calgary. Yeah. We look like California.

586
00:39:36,845 --> 00:39:42,125
Yeah. But you are. He used to be kind of.

587
00:39:42,285 --> 00:39:47,385
I'm not a native. I'm a native to Detroit, but I ran the Stanford for 10 years.

588
00:39:47,665 --> 00:39:50,725
And then it became untenable to live in California.

589
00:39:51,145 --> 00:39:53,645
And so now I live in Harmony's basement.

590
00:39:54,685 --> 00:40:00,985
Perfect. She lets you sleep there. She does. She lets me sleep there. Right on this red couch.

591
00:40:02,105 --> 00:40:05,385
As long as he pays the rent on time i i

592
00:40:05,385 --> 00:40:08,105
do not exactly i mean

593
00:40:08,105 --> 00:40:10,845
it's sad like i can't tell i don't know at least because i'm you know

594
00:40:10,845 --> 00:40:13,765
i'm back in the tri-state area we

595
00:40:13,765 --> 00:40:16,845
call it and in manhattan they're less and

596
00:40:16,845 --> 00:40:20,065
less where there used to be a lot in in

597
00:40:20,065 --> 00:40:23,105
manhattan on all corners of the island and in

598
00:40:23,105 --> 00:40:27,245
brooklyn sure and now there's

599
00:40:27,245 --> 00:40:30,765
a place in jersey city and maybe there's one in

600
00:40:30,765 --> 00:40:33,745
brooklyn and maybe one and

601
00:40:33,745 --> 00:40:37,225
a half and that that speaks to the punk origins of

602
00:40:37,225 --> 00:40:45,545
ashtanga where just like a cbgb's or you you find that once in fact i went there

603
00:40:45,545 --> 00:40:50,445
once before clothes in high school you find you find it in places that are cheap

604
00:40:50,445 --> 00:40:53,985
to live where people can go there cheaply and live cheaply.

605
00:40:54,205 --> 00:41:00,645
But once that gets gentrified, then not only do the punk locations go,

606
00:41:00,865 --> 00:41:04,465
also the Ashtanga Yogi places go because those people can't afford to live.

607
00:41:04,685 --> 00:41:08,385
It's the same mindset with the restaurant. If the people who live there can't

608
00:41:08,385 --> 00:41:12,765
afford to live there and work there and make a living, then all of that gets pushed out.

609
00:41:13,258 --> 00:41:18,138
I like this coffee shop yoga place that you introduced here.

610
00:41:18,238 --> 00:41:19,558
That sounds like gentrification.

611
00:41:19,738 --> 00:41:23,718
Yeah, it's super funny because like... Oh, well, I mean, our town is...

612
00:41:23,718 --> 00:41:28,058
Azur Park is gentrified like... I don't know if you know about it, but it's like...

613
00:41:28,738 --> 00:41:34,338
It is gentrification like 101. This place used to be just a hellhole.

614
00:41:34,558 --> 00:41:39,278
And now it's like beachfront condos that are like $3 million for a one-bedroom. Wow.

615
00:41:39,478 --> 00:41:42,958
Nobody can afford it. But a hellhole is like a place to live.

616
00:41:44,118 --> 00:41:48,858
Yeah there used to be we used to create yoga studios and then like put a coffee

617
00:41:48,858 --> 00:41:54,918
bar in the yoga studio so that like you could create community and people could have like a little,

618
00:41:55,658 --> 00:42:01,038
yeah and now it's like the opposite you create the coffee bar and like throw

619
00:42:01,038 --> 00:42:04,958
some yoga in the back in case someone wants to like stretch in between their

620
00:42:04,958 --> 00:42:08,358
lattes well that's it i think they just do like two classes a day or something

621
00:42:08,358 --> 00:42:12,578
like yoga or pilates or something and then but then Then it's like a functioning

622
00:42:12,578 --> 00:42:15,398
coffee shop, which actually is probably a better way to use the rent.

623
00:42:15,478 --> 00:42:19,398
Because I'm sure the rent downtown here is unreal.

624
00:42:21,778 --> 00:42:25,438
I remember learning this when we had opened up Joyce Yoga and Encinitas.

625
00:42:25,718 --> 00:42:27,798
I'd say we, but I was kind of loosely associated.

626
00:42:28,458 --> 00:42:34,958
There was this notion about the square footage being expensive when you're closer to the high street.

627
00:42:35,678 --> 00:42:41,218
And as you get to the high street you have to have the shelves filled all day

628
00:42:41,218 --> 00:42:45,358
long with things to sell but if all you're selling is an empty room,

629
00:42:46,378 --> 00:42:50,898
then your shelves are empty. But if you get further away from the high street,

630
00:42:51,018 --> 00:42:55,258
there are less customers, but you can afford to have empty shelves.

631
00:42:55,878 --> 00:43:00,918
And that dynamic for Ashtanga Yoga is, again, impossible.

632
00:43:02,018 --> 00:43:07,198
But then you do. You get people who would fly out to Hawaii to see Norman Allen

633
00:43:07,198 --> 00:43:09,958
and Nancy, and they could live their lives out there.

634
00:43:10,138 --> 00:43:15,858
But then you have to charge astronomical prices to be able to live out in paradise. Yeah.

635
00:43:16,778 --> 00:43:19,978
Yeah i mean this is the same thing here like i mean

636
00:43:19,978 --> 00:43:22,858
probably pay 30 minimum for a drop in

637
00:43:22,858 --> 00:43:26,658
the city i think it's 35 now yeah yeah

638
00:43:26,658 --> 00:43:29,738
it's tricky isn't it it's tricky yeah

639
00:43:29,738 --> 00:43:32,418
balancing all those things so how do you do it

640
00:43:32,418 --> 00:43:35,238
now you do self-practice do you practice when the kids are

641
00:43:35,238 --> 00:43:38,038
at school or when are you kind of fitting

642
00:43:38,038 --> 00:43:41,138
it because i do teach at my

643
00:43:41,138 --> 00:43:44,358
mecca gym three times a week and i like sub

644
00:43:44,358 --> 00:43:47,118
every now and again so sometimes i'll do it when i get

645
00:43:47,118 --> 00:43:49,798
back like before they come home like if i get home at like

646
00:43:49,798 --> 00:43:52,618
1 30 and i have an hour to crush it out i do it like

647
00:43:52,618 --> 00:43:56,418
or i do it on the weekend when my husband's home but i don't do six days a week

648
00:43:56,418 --> 00:44:02,658
anymore like if on a good week is five you know yeah yeah you know i am i have

649
00:44:02,658 --> 00:44:06,438
a couple days off but now this really nice studio here they want me to do another

650
00:44:06,438 --> 00:44:10,098
class at like a noon on thursdays so i might do that Again,

651
00:44:10,338 --> 00:44:15,738
a modified primary Ashtanga light class. Yeah. What do you think?

652
00:44:16,518 --> 00:44:20,218
I'm curious because you teach these Ashtanga light classes, which is like how

653
00:44:20,218 --> 00:44:25,558
we've all taught Ashtanga forever since we all learned Ashtanga and it was taught

654
00:44:25,558 --> 00:44:28,198
to us and we went out into the world and taught it.

655
00:44:28,338 --> 00:44:30,798
But you're also of this younger generation.

656
00:44:31,738 --> 00:44:34,718
What's with the active series? What's going on there? Do you know?

657
00:44:35,138 --> 00:44:38,978
Oh, good. I don't know. But you know what? actually I really I wanted to go

658
00:44:38,978 --> 00:44:43,258
but now I can't but Ashrada who is.

659
00:44:44,164 --> 00:44:48,704
Living in New York city and is just the sweetest. And Sambob is actually there

660
00:44:48,704 --> 00:44:51,004
for a month visiting her and staying with her.

661
00:44:51,164 --> 00:44:54,964
And we had a little get together at Michael T.

662
00:44:55,304 --> 00:44:58,144
I don't know his last name, Michael T. You know him from New York city.

663
00:44:58,244 --> 00:45:01,544
They have a very nice apartment somewhere that I was invited to.

664
00:45:01,704 --> 00:45:04,904
They invited me and we had a little get together with her and she's super sweet.

665
00:45:05,004 --> 00:45:12,064
And she's going to teach it at the Shala in Brooklyn. This is Barb and Barbara Shala.

666
00:45:12,384 --> 00:45:15,904
Yeah. Barbara Shala. the shala um the shala

667
00:45:15,904 --> 00:45:19,584
i think this is like april 24th so if anyone's listening they live in the area

668
00:45:19,584 --> 00:45:23,964
definitely go to it's her first class so i wanted to go and support but i'm

669
00:45:23,964 --> 00:45:27,424
i'm going to kina's workshop now because kina's going to philly um that same

670
00:45:27,424 --> 00:45:31,924
weekend but if anyone's around that's listening check that out because she's

671
00:45:31,924 --> 00:45:34,464
gonna start teaching that which is so nice i think that she,

672
00:45:34,924 --> 00:45:37,584
i mean i don't know i can't speak for her she's so young still you know

673
00:45:37,584 --> 00:45:40,544
she's still in college and she's just enjoying being a kid you

674
00:45:40,544 --> 00:45:43,404
can't push anything but i think it's just a a little

675
00:45:43,404 --> 00:45:46,804
bit of a start and i never i didn't do the active series so i don't really know

676
00:45:46,804 --> 00:45:51,644
it but i'm assuming it's very similar to kind of how i yeah so she's gonna do

677
00:45:51,644 --> 00:45:56,384
like a regular class then like a regular weekly i think it's just like a one-off

678
00:45:56,384 --> 00:46:02,164
but maybe she will start to do a regular class and she's I was practicing now with Michael Gyu.

679
00:46:03,324 --> 00:46:06,024
He's at Tsuk Yoga in Nomad.

680
00:46:07,224 --> 00:46:08,784
So, you know, she's there.

681
00:46:10,099 --> 00:46:13,799
Yeah, they're doing good. I got to talk to them and Sambhav and he's like getting

682
00:46:13,799 --> 00:46:14,879
really into photography.

683
00:46:15,679 --> 00:46:21,519
Nice. They're just, yeah. I think they're really just honoring their father's legacy.

684
00:46:22,039 --> 00:46:25,299
Connecting. Good. Yeah. And I like that they're nearby, you know,

685
00:46:25,359 --> 00:46:28,099
I can see them every once in a while. So yeah.

686
00:46:29,039 --> 00:46:35,599
Yeah. That's so cool. I love hearing that Sambhav is into photography because I feel.

687
00:46:35,659 --> 00:46:38,279
I have an account with my fellow. Yeah. Okay.

688
00:46:39,179 --> 00:46:44,619
Because I feel like that was, you know, Sherrod, if he was able to choose his

689
00:46:44,619 --> 00:46:49,539
own life path, that's what he would have done. New peer photography.

690
00:46:49,779 --> 00:46:54,979
Yeah. He said it to me several times. He said it all the time.

691
00:46:54,979 --> 00:46:56,879
Probably to you, right? He said it publicly. Yeah, all the time. Yeah.

692
00:46:57,219 --> 00:47:03,379
So it's nice to see, like, I feel like sometimes and often that happens.

693
00:47:03,379 --> 00:47:10,119
Like the children we have live out dreams of the parents, even unspoken dreams, you know?

694
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:14,359
And it's so interesting how that happens. It's like this continuation of the

695
00:47:14,359 --> 00:47:18,839
vibration of a seed that was planted decades earlier.

696
00:47:19,039 --> 00:47:22,419
Did you want to be a personal bodybuilder? Is that what you wanted to do? No.

697
00:47:22,699 --> 00:47:26,339
Your child's living that dream for you? That's Jeff's dream. That's Jeff's dream.

698
00:47:28,999 --> 00:47:32,379
Were your parents bodybuilders? But parkour, I would have been a professional parkourist.

699
00:47:32,479 --> 00:47:36,079
Chorus had i had another it's a real or that's fun um

700
00:47:36,079 --> 00:47:38,919
yeah but everybody has these

701
00:47:38,919 --> 00:47:42,739
questions on like what's next for the shala and like what's next and like i

702
00:47:42,739 --> 00:47:47,259
mean i actually haven't been back to my store since 2020 i don't even know i

703
00:47:47,259 --> 00:47:52,179
got my trunk there i don't know what's going on i have a truck but i think someone

704
00:47:52,179 --> 00:47:56,439
should auction off those i think i'm sure they've been rifled through.

705
00:47:56,739 --> 00:47:58,619
Like, like, you know how they do that?

706
00:48:00,119 --> 00:48:02,859
Yeah, you know, they do that like water bomb in mine.

707
00:48:04,050 --> 00:48:08,190
A water bong? Did she say a water bong? Is that what she said?

708
00:48:08,210 --> 00:48:10,530
Yeah, I don't care. I don't care to admit it now.

709
00:48:11,410 --> 00:48:16,930
That reminds me of Chuck's to call us. I just did two tabs of ecstasy.

710
00:48:17,070 --> 00:48:18,890
I had the greatest practice. You wouldn't believe it.

711
00:48:19,350 --> 00:48:23,150
So that's real straight. Do you find, I had a very good friend,

712
00:48:23,410 --> 00:48:27,670
Olaf, who I would go over to his house on the east side of Gokula. The snowman?

713
00:48:28,330 --> 00:48:30,210
The snowman? Olaf the snowman?

714
00:48:31,830 --> 00:48:34,810
No, that's frozen. different i've never

715
00:48:34,810 --> 00:48:37,530
seen that was you know what that was the first conversation we were

716
00:48:37,530 --> 00:48:40,450
having about my braids and i was gonna say my daughter's obsessed with frozen and

717
00:48:40,450 --> 00:48:44,730
that that was why i bring my hair like anna today oh nice yeah you look just

718
00:48:44,730 --> 00:48:49,010
like anna i'd go over to olaf i'd go to olaf's house and olaf would have an

719
00:48:49,010 --> 00:48:53,470
array of drugs uh available and then he would you know he would shoot ketamine

720
00:48:53,470 --> 00:48:57,790
he would take his muscle relaxants he would smoke dope in mysore all

721
00:48:57,810 --> 00:49:03,470
available legally and the legal acquisition of drugs. I only knew where to get the swag weed.

722
00:49:04,490 --> 00:49:05,930
Swag is bad.

723
00:49:06,990 --> 00:49:12,410
The bush weed. And he just found that for him, like it removed so much inflammation

724
00:49:12,410 --> 00:49:20,230
and he did so well with this practice of- He was practicing four series every day. He was very good.

725
00:49:20,470 --> 00:49:24,090
He was, I think the, with Mark Yao.

726
00:49:26,124 --> 00:49:30,604
Maybe a lie. Maybe just the best I've ever seen. Is that something that you

727
00:49:30,604 --> 00:49:35,884
find that is just really helpful for you to medicate with medicine while practicing?

728
00:49:36,544 --> 00:49:41,564
No. Before practicing or after? Is it just something that helps?

729
00:49:42,944 --> 00:49:47,324
For me, no. It's like a before bed thing. A before bed thing to sleep.

730
00:49:47,984 --> 00:49:51,904
I had a roommate in Mysore once, like a housemate in Mysore once,

731
00:49:51,944 --> 00:49:54,804
who was like a big time stoner.

732
00:49:54,804 --> 00:49:58,964
And i remember one time she knocked on my door at like 6 a.m she's like oh more smoke before lead,

733
00:49:59,584 --> 00:50:02,404
this i shouldn't be telling the story but here we go you shouldn't be telling

734
00:50:02,404 --> 00:50:06,804
the story i'll like fuck it let's do it and i did and i remember just having

735
00:50:06,804 --> 00:50:11,164
like the worst practice of my life like lead class you know you're there and

736
00:50:11,164 --> 00:50:14,044
and back then was when we were in this was before the,

737
00:50:14,564 --> 00:50:19,884
monster shellah so do you remember when everybody would like some people would

738
00:50:19,884 --> 00:50:21,784
like throw their mask to get a spot.

739
00:50:21,944 --> 00:50:26,084
Everybody shuffled in at the same time, and people would just run to their spots

740
00:50:26,084 --> 00:50:30,944
and throw their masks so you didn't have to practice in the back or in the bathroom

741
00:50:30,944 --> 00:50:34,884
or the lobby or outside or wherever or on the roof or- The bathroom is the best

742
00:50:34,884 --> 00:50:36,104
place to practice, by the way.

743
00:50:36,404 --> 00:50:41,024
Yeah, nobody can see you. Nobody can see you. The worst place was where the

744
00:50:41,024 --> 00:50:45,764
small people like me used to go next to the men's bathroom. Yeah. That was the worst spot.

745
00:50:45,944 --> 00:50:48,524
It is shitty, yeah. And I have a feeling for some reason I was,

746
00:50:48,544 --> 00:50:52,264
I got stuck there during this practice because I was like paranoid the whole time.

747
00:50:52,404 --> 00:50:55,984
Like, and it was not good. So I think ever since then I was just like, meh, it's not for me.

748
00:50:56,204 --> 00:50:58,664
It also just makes me kind of tired. Like I don't get that kind of energy.

749
00:50:58,824 --> 00:51:01,324
So maybe I'm just on the wrong drugs. But for me, it's just,

750
00:51:01,444 --> 00:51:03,504
you know, clean, clean head is about you.

751
00:51:04,064 --> 00:51:07,244
That's the best practice when it's clean, you know. Might be candy.

752
00:51:07,504 --> 00:51:08,464
No hangover or anything.

753
00:51:09,164 --> 00:51:12,744
Not before practice. You would do that in the afternoon. It's quite relaxing.

754
00:51:12,744 --> 00:51:17,784
Well, I would just, yeah, I would get back from, you know, my sore days are

755
00:51:17,784 --> 00:51:20,264
lazy days. So you just get back from practice and.

756
00:51:21,011 --> 00:51:24,871
Take a shower and hang out for an hour. Take a nap, maybe.

757
00:51:25,271 --> 00:51:30,631
Then go get lunch. Okay, so we've decided in this episode that Shiva should

758
00:51:30,631 --> 00:51:32,191
start auctioning off the trunks.

759
00:51:32,411 --> 00:51:35,711
Like, 50 rupees. You just get a trunk, see what's inside.

760
00:51:36,331 --> 00:51:40,891
Yeah, like a storage board. That would be so fun, exactly. Microfile storage board.

761
00:51:41,451 --> 00:51:43,991
That would be amazing. Might have to put a blender in there.

762
00:51:44,151 --> 00:51:46,331
I think I have a Lululemon mat in there.

763
00:51:46,671 --> 00:51:49,511
Yeah, gold bouillon. Definitely some rugs.

764
00:51:51,011 --> 00:51:54,711
A lot of clips, you know, the hanger clip. Yes, clothes hangers.

765
00:51:55,071 --> 00:51:58,251
Well, the essentials that you needed in my store, like a bath mat,

766
00:51:58,451 --> 00:52:01,251
you know, like some things like that that you just didn't have there.

767
00:52:01,351 --> 00:52:04,011
And then you could get probably a tapestry or a blanket or something.

768
00:52:04,671 --> 00:52:07,591
Maybe some clothes. Mine's probably pretty good, actually.

769
00:52:07,671 --> 00:52:11,611
Oh, I have a helmet in there for sure because I bought my own bike helmet because

770
00:52:11,611 --> 00:52:13,991
those were gross. I needed a helmet. They're on the street.

771
00:52:14,091 --> 00:52:16,671
You know, they sell them on the street there on the side of the road.

772
00:52:17,391 --> 00:52:20,851
Wow. Yeah, a good one. But I downsize from my big one to my small one.

773
00:52:20,851 --> 00:52:21,751
The last time I was there?

774
00:52:22,111 --> 00:52:25,711
I ran over a police officer because I was not wearing a helmet.

775
00:52:25,951 --> 00:52:29,651
And then I had to pay a large fine to the state of India.

776
00:52:31,171 --> 00:52:35,991
I never said it once. Nobody was harmed in the...

777
00:52:36,747 --> 00:52:44,647
I was harmed. I was removed financially of a great deal of funds for running

778
00:52:44,647 --> 00:52:46,967
him over. I hired a lawyer in India. Really?

779
00:52:47,347 --> 00:52:52,267
Yeah, through Randy to take care of this fiasco. This is a real story? Yeah.

780
00:52:52,647 --> 00:52:54,787
Yeah, these are a lot of real stories, Tina.

781
00:52:55,267 --> 00:52:57,227
Every single one of these are real.

782
00:52:58,427 --> 00:53:02,727
Really hard to tell. What did you run over his foot or you ran over his car?

783
00:53:02,727 --> 00:53:06,667
I ran right through him because he was stopping me for not wearing a helmet.

784
00:53:06,747 --> 00:53:09,527
So if you're listening at home wear a helmet

785
00:53:09,527 --> 00:53:13,047
that's all i'm saying but i didn't want to wear a helmet i

786
00:53:13,047 --> 00:53:15,767
didn't want to wear a helmet i was like that's not cool and so he

787
00:53:15,767 --> 00:53:18,727
i like shouted i shouted kids on the street to wear helmets wear a

788
00:53:18,727 --> 00:53:21,527
helmet and no indian person wears a helmet but

789
00:53:21,527 --> 00:53:24,507
the white people must wear helmets now it's a lot yeah no

790
00:53:24,507 --> 00:53:27,947
i got a ticket one because i had a guy in my scooter who

791
00:53:27,947 --> 00:53:31,107
didn't have a helmet on yeah and then

792
00:53:31,107 --> 00:53:34,167
like then like the there's one guy with a helmet on on

793
00:53:34,167 --> 00:53:37,047
his scooter and eight people sitting with him who don't

794
00:53:37,047 --> 00:53:40,947
wear helmets and like there's a double standard um so

795
00:53:40,947 --> 00:53:44,527
do the lesson is wear a helmet okay and if

796
00:53:44,527 --> 00:53:47,607
people want to come practice with you down in the south jersey

797
00:53:47,607 --> 00:53:50,227
shore i'm actually in the

798
00:53:50,227 --> 00:53:53,227
north jersey shore okay sorry north

799
00:53:53,227 --> 00:53:56,547
jersey you know i do

800
00:53:56,547 --> 00:53:59,407
pop-ups now and again and i do workshops now

801
00:53:59,407 --> 00:54:02,207
and again and i do retreats now and again but i don't

802
00:54:02,207 --> 00:54:04,887
have really like a set schedule um unless you

803
00:54:04,887 --> 00:54:10,107
are a member at lifetime so just follow me on instagram it's tina bach and i'll

804
00:54:10,107 --> 00:54:15,427
post next i'm trying to uh figure out my next retreat now i keep looking at

805
00:54:15,427 --> 00:54:19,487
it i'm not sure where but i'm hoping in october november i'll okay get something

806
00:54:19,487 --> 00:54:23,067
on the book perfect but they can come to philly in september and meet you in person.

807
00:54:23,847 --> 00:54:27,167
Yeah. Wait, you've got to tell me the weekend now because we have a big music

808
00:54:27,167 --> 00:54:30,127
festival here, so I'm hoping it's not the same weekend. I hope not, too.

809
00:54:30,727 --> 00:54:35,047
You are super delightful. For me, this... I'll come teach in Philly, too.

810
00:54:35,227 --> 00:54:39,467
This is exactly like sitting in front of the shawla for an hour and a half,

811
00:54:39,587 --> 00:54:42,587
two hours, waiting for it to open and having a good chin whack.

812
00:54:42,767 --> 00:54:44,627
Like, this is exactly... While I braid my hair.

813
00:54:44,847 --> 00:54:48,507
And it really takes me back. This is really a pleasure. And drink my instant

814
00:54:48,507 --> 00:54:50,387
coffee that I brought with me.

815
00:54:50,507 --> 00:54:53,647
I was this annoying in front of the shawla as well, by the way.

816
00:54:53,647 --> 00:54:59,827
That's why we didn't speak in my story I don't know my generation everybody didn't talk,

817
00:55:00,687 --> 00:55:05,167
like and if you were talking you got shushed it was constant fucking chatter

818
00:55:05,167 --> 00:55:12,767
from Todd and Aliyah and Susan it was constant fucking chatter constant and I participated.

819
00:55:15,267 --> 00:55:17,727
Fuck off you heard a lot of that

820
00:55:17,727 --> 00:55:24,687
that's where the fun is alright guys this was so good Yeah, thank you.

821
00:55:25,962 --> 00:55:29,502
Thank you so much for listening to this episode.

822
00:55:30,102 --> 00:55:34,242
And if this conversation resonated with you, then don't forget to share,

823
00:55:34,662 --> 00:55:43,842
tag us on social at Finding Harmony Podcast, and also find out about my upcoming workshops.

824
00:55:43,842 --> 00:55:49,462
I am going to be in Portugal almost the entire month, starting at the end of

825
00:55:49,462 --> 00:55:53,982
June in Lisbon and then ending mid-July in Faro.

826
00:55:53,982 --> 00:56:02,182
And I would love to see you come join one of these amazing multi-day workshops and intensives.

827
00:56:02,442 --> 00:56:06,782
We're going to go deep. We're going to go through the practice into the body

828
00:56:06,782 --> 00:56:11,422
and move beyond the mind.

829
00:56:11,702 --> 00:56:16,642
Really get into the essence, into the juice of what yoga really truly is and

830
00:56:16,642 --> 00:56:19,262
how it can support us in our daily lives.

831
00:56:19,482 --> 00:56:25,502
So I cannot wait to meet with you there. It's the last time I'll be in Europe this year.

832
00:56:25,882 --> 00:56:30,882
So come on over. Come visit Portugal. It is a beautiful place.

833
00:56:32,542 --> 00:56:36,802
That's it. We've concluded another episode of the Finding Harmony podcast.

834
00:56:37,282 --> 00:56:42,622
I just want to thank you so much for doing the work that changes the world,

835
00:56:42,942 --> 00:56:43,942
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836
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It truly does make a huge difference.

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