108: 6 Of The Most Helpful Things I've Learned About Energetic Anatomy

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In this episode of the Quiet Mind Yoga Teacher Training Podcast, I’m sharing six of the most helpful things I’ve learned about energetic anatomy. Whether you’re a yoga teacher, student, or considering teacher training, this episode will help you understand how everything has an energetic effect on your practice and your life. We’ll explore how balancing Yin and Yang energy is essential, and how subtle shifts can make a big impact. I’ll also talk about how everything can be either a poison or a medicine, depending on your unique needs, and why it’s important to address issues at their most subtle level before they become bigger problems. We’ll dive into how like increases like, why opposites bring balance, and the powerful effects of chakras on our physical and energetic bodies.

0:00:00 – Intro: Welcome to the Quiet Mind Yoga Teacher Training Podcast

0:00:18 – Episode Overview: Six most helpful things about energetic anatomy

0:01:01 – Topic 1: Everything has _______________________

0:02:22 – Yin and Yang: Understanding energy through polarity

0:04:47 – Importance of honoring energy in classes

0:10:16 – Balancing energies in your practice and teaching

0:18:33 – Topic 2: Addressing issues at ________________

0:34:43 – Topic 3: Everything can be a ___________________

0:42:03 – Topic 4: Like _________ _________

0:45:01 – Topic 5: Opposites bring ____________

0:50:58 – Topic 6: Chakras can be _______________

1:00:00 – Conclusion

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
I'm Jeremy Devons and welcome back to the Quiet Mind Yoga
Teacher Training podcast where Italk about how to learn and
apply the lessons of yoga at a deeper level like you would
learn in a teacher training or if you are in currently a
teacher training, this is very much to support your path.
Or if you're thinking about taking a teacher training, this
is to support you on that path. And today I'll be sharing what

(00:23):
is really interesting topic. It's six of the most helpful
things that I've learned about energetic anatomy.
So I've shared in the past 6-7 of the most helpful things I've
learned about anatomy. That's actually one of the most
popular episodes of the podcast.And there's actually anatomy is
just one of 10 core competenciesthat I teach in my work, which

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you've heard me talk about a loton this podcast.
And another one of those is not just anatomy, but energetic
anatomy. So what does that mean?
How do you apply it to your life?
We're going to get into that today, starting with the first
thing I want to share is #1 everything has an energetic
effect. So this comes together in the
sense of like in a yoga practice, every pose has an

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energetic effect. Everything you do has an
energetic effect. If you are listening to this
podcast while you're at the gym,that's a different energy than
if you're listening to this while you're about to go to
sleep. And if you are listening to this
and doing downward facing dog, it's very different energy than
if you were doing a headstand, right?

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One of my teachers would say, ifyou want to change your
perspective, literally change your perspective, go upside down
and do a head stand. So that is an energetic effect
of changing your perspective. Down dog is an energetic effect
oftentimes for people of grounding.
And sometimes these energetic effects are more obvious and
literal, like being upside down literally changes your

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perspective. And sometimes they're more
personal and individualized. So I would not say down dog is
grounding for everybody, but it can be.
But these are the kind of thingsto be aware of if you are
teaching yoga. And not to say that this breath
work, it is pranayama is always going to be calming or always

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going to be energizing. It depends on the individual,
right? So everything has an energetic
effect on a global level, but a lot of it is going to be
individual and personal, right? So if you have not slept in the
last day going into Shavasana, you're underslept, you're tired,
going into Shavasana might be a very easy time for you to fall

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asleep, or it might be very hardtime for you to relax and you
might feel even more stressed trying to lay down.
So the energetic effect a lot oftimes is going to be individual
to the person. But there are certain things
that we can see, and one of the models we can use to look at
that is the symbol yin Yang, very much well known, used in
the Western or Eastern medicine a lot.

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And this is one way to think about energy in the energetic
effect of things. That's really helpful.
So there's the yin and the Yang side.
The yin side is the dark energy,the moon energy, cool, passive,
dependent, nurturing, negative energy.
The Yang side is the sunlight, warm, aggressive, independent,

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self-sufficient, positive energy, and we can think very
obviously. If certain poses are more yin,
certain poses are more Yang. Certain lifestyle activities are
more yin, Certain ones are more Yang.
If I'm going to go to the gym, that's a more Yang activity.
If I'm going to go to a float tank, that's a more yin
activity. If I'm going to a power vinyasa

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class, that's a more Yang practice.
I'm going to a restorative classthat's a more yin practice and
within those classes, everythingyou do is going to be aligned
with that energetic effect of the class ideally.
That's one thing that's very important.
I think if you are a teacher, ifyou call it restorative, do
restorative yoga. Don't throw in a bunch of

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vinyasas at the beginning unlessyou say it's a vinyasa then
restorative class. But that's a very important
topic. I've been to many classes,
actually surprising how many where they call it restorative,
but it's actually like a, a hot to flow and half of it is
restorative, right? So I think that's very important
in your messaging and your communication of what you do as

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a teacher and then to be aware in yourself as a practitioner of
what are the energetic effects, right?
If I'm ready to do a restorativeclass, that means I'm probably
ready to lay down a lot, maybe tired, maybe already did a
vinyasa practice that day and I'm needing something more
gentle and soothing. So I go to the restorative
class. So keeping that in mind as a

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teacher or provider of the spaceto do the restorative practice,
that the person coming in is expecting restorative yoga.
So give them restorative yoga. It's like if you go to an
Italian food restaurant and theygive you Mexican food.
You wanted Italian food, why arethey giving you Mexican food,
right? The same thing with what we're
teaching. But a lot of that might be a

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lack of awareness and a lack of energetic awareness, and you
just don't know. You don't realize that certain
things have energetic effects, and if you go into a restorative
class and you start doing vinyasas, that is a very
different energetic effect than what a restorative class
typically is. Now, this comes down to also
little things, little details, right?

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Like if you are in Warrior 2 andyour fingers are together,
that's more containing energy generally.
If your fingers are spread apart, that's more dispersing
energy generally. And as a teacher, I might say
something like and Warrior 2, notice what it feels like if you
keep your fingers together and the hands solid and that might

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feel like you're containing energy more.
Or notice what it feels like if you spread your fingers out.
That might feel like you're dispersing energy more and check
in with yourself. What do you need today?
Have you already had a very intense energy?
You're feeling like you're kind of bottled up intense.
So if you do the containing kindof version of the pose, it feels
like more tense or maybe you hada very tense day.

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So doing the dispersive version of the post feels like you're
releasing energy. So a lot of times the the
different ways of working with energy and the energetic effects
are in a polarity like this, like yin and Yang.
So that could be one example of dispersive energy would be more
like the yin energy, I think, right.

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There's actually open to debate with some of these, some of
these ideas and the containing energy might be more Yang.
I could actually argue both wayson that.
So that one's not so important. But just to say that any of
these polarities or these opposites, they're they often
are coming in opposites like this.
They're often coming in pairs. So there's containing and

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dispersing energy. There's examples of like
contracting versus expanding energy.
So we can emphasize contracting Asana like curling in like
forward folds, or we can emphasize expansive asana like
back bends, lifting the heart. Now again, you could argue this

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the other way because when you're curling in, you're
actually expanding the back of the body, the ability to
receive. And when you're doing a back
bend, lifting the heart, you're actually opening the front of
the body and contracting the back of the body.
So you're opening the ability togive on the front of the body.
We'll talk about this in a minute, in a little bit with the
chakras as well, but the front of the body is typically where

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we express energy. Out in the back of the body is
where we receive energy. You have pain issues in the
front of the body. You may have issues with
sharing, giving, sharing your gifts.
If you have any issues on the back of the body, you may have
issues with receiving support, feeling supported.
Again, generalizing here, generalizing.
So the energy is going to be dependent on each individual,

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but there are some general patterns that we'll see as you
work with enough people. I've been doing this a long time
and just worked with enough people to see the patterns.
So other pairs that we can thinkof, other pairs of energetic
effects, Can you think of any yourself?
There's moving energy up or down.
Very obvious, very simple, right?
Like what does it feel like whenyou raise your arms overhead

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versus if you don't raise your arms overhead?
Lot of yoga poses, lot of practice has times where we're
raising the arms overhead. High lunge, rising up into
mountain, raising arms overhead and sun salutations.
There's a lot, especially in thevinyasa practice.
And what does it feel like if you do a vinyasa practice and
you take away the raising the arms?

(08:43):
It's actually really interestingeffect.
I've taught a few classes like this myself.
Not that many, but a few, especially when people have
shoulder injuries. And in the Quiet Mind Yoga
membership that I host, there's a couple classes like this with
no arms overhead. If you've never done it, I
highly recommend it. For me at least, it feels very
grounding because I'm not sending energy up and out, which

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is more of a up energy, more of a dispersive energy versus down.
It's more of a grounding energy.To me, it's grounding energy.
And then what would the oppositeof that be?
Maybe elevating or raising energy?
A lot of kundalini yoga practices about raising energy.
A lot of yin practice is about grounding energy.

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For me, I got very into kundalini for a couple years,
mainly because I had amazing teachers, but really mainly
because it was just what I foundfirst and really resonated with
and it actually helped me get out of depression.
Depression you're pushed down too much, too heavy, too
lethargic. Kundalini raises energy up, got
me out of depression, but then Igot way too imbalanced in the

(09:50):
vato dosha in the air and ether element and I needed to ground
again. So I was very called to yin
yoga. After a few years of Kundalini
yoga, the yin was very groundingand and then then into hatha,
vinyasa and power, which were really pushing into more of the
the Yang energy to balance that out.

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Now my practice is more of a balance of all these things, but
I think it's good to explore allof this and if you want to
teach, definitely to explore allof this, to find you in each
modality, each way of working with energy, you find different
little pieces that are so valuable.
Knowing when to slow down a vinyasa practice, when to speed
up a vinyasa practice, or when to take a break from a yen

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practice because you need more Yang energy in your life.
You can have too much yen and then you have a Yang deficiency,
and then you have a difficulty finishing what you start
achieving goals, these kind of things.
So what other pairs can you think of?
It's really infinite. And there's the idea that we
live in a dualistic universe andthere's an idea that we live in

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a non dual universe. I think it's both myself.
It's my theory. Dualism is that there's yin and
Yang. Non dual is that yin and Yang
are all just one thing. There's no separation.
But if we look around, we observe separation.
So there is separation, but it is also all one thing.
We can't have light without dark.

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So it's one thing. We can't have yin without Yang,
it's one thing. But we also do have yin and
Yang. We also do have light and dark.
So we have dualism and it reallyunderneath that is not dual, but
it is dual. So that's my opinion on all
that. And that when we understand yin
had a really deep level, we can understand Yang better.

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When we understand Yang at a really deep level, we can
understand yin better. We understand the masculine
energy really well. We can understand the feminine
energy really well. We understand the up and out
energy really well. We can understand the down and
in energy really well. And the yoga practice, I think,
is so much about learning these polarities, learning these

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opposites, and then when to use them and when to read a room and
read a class and read a student to slow down or speed up.
I've talked about this before and sequencing, too.
Sometimes teachers will get through a sequence and start to
doubt themselves and ask the students, how are you guys
feeling? You want more, You want to push
it a little more or you want to slow it down.

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And I've said before, don't ask that question.
It's one of the worst questions you can ask because the response
will be silence. Everyone kind of looks around.
One person's like, yeah, more. And then two people are groaning
like, and then like three other people are like, sure, more.

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OK, so you now you just like spent like 40 seconds of the
class is kind of in this weird mode and you've kind of broken
the flow of the class and the inter reception, the inner
experience of the students. Just lead them.
You're there to lead them here as a teacher.
If you're a teacher, you're there to lead and they're there
to follow. But really it's not about them

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following you. It's about them going inward and
you're just bring your attentionhere, step your foot there.
Notice this. You're just bringing them more
and more inward into their own experience.
And anyway, I don't recommend you, you tell you ask, you do a
survey of the class. Instead, you read the energy and

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you feel the energetic effects of what you're doing.
If you just did like 5 navasanasand 10 vinyasa flows and this
complex sequence, you just did alot of Yang stuff, Some yin
stuff would probably be nice to balance it out.
Depending on the style of the class, the length of the class,
where you are in the hour, or the the length of the class.

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All those things come into consideration in the sequencing.
And I know I'm kind of going in a lot of directions already, but
This is why I have a new workshop.
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for yourself, because I think it's one of the most valuable
skills by far to have is to how to lead yourself and teach
yourself in a yoga practice safely and intentionally.
How to relieve tension in your body.
I share in this workshop, reallypowerful stuff.
Actually, some of my favorite things that I've learned as a

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(14:55):
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(15:18):
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mental, emotional, and physical hygiene.
To know how to work with energy in your body, how to strengthen,
build flexibility, build balanceand use these tools.
Know how to regulate your nervous system.
Oh my God, I could probably justsay regulate your nervous system
and just call it that. And that would be one of the
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I mean, it's constant. We're constantly needing to know
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And I give you the trauma informed tools based on my 7000
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(16:23):
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things, the business stuff as well, which most teacher
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All this is in there, even if you've already taken a teacher
training. I've had so many students come
from come to me from other teacher trainings blown away by
how much more organized and clear this training is, how much
more applicable it is to actually use it, right?

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I don't care about just teachingyou theory and just talking.
I want you to use this stuff andapply it to your life.
And hopefully you're already seeing how you can use this idea
of polarity in your life, right?So if you've been in a more yen
space for recent days and starting to feel a little heavy,
a little too much yen, do something Yang.
Go for a walk, get out in the sun, sunbathe, go to a vigorous

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class, do a vigorous practice, do just a couple vinyasas,
right? Or if you've been too much Yang
lately, do something yen, take anap, do a restorative practice,
put your legs up the walk. It's a very common thing when I
was teaching all over town all the time in Austin, TX and going
to all these classes and I see other teachers also doing that.

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We had a kind of joke and we'd see each other in the back in
the break room in Viperity Karani, legs up the wall post.
That's like a great way to quickly reset. 10 minutes, 15
minutes when you're rushing around, driving around town,
just 5, even 5 minutes, legs up the wall just to bring in some
of that yin grounding energy when you got a lot of moving,

(18:11):
dispersive Yang energy going on.So even one minute I'm just
trying to convince when you get in that Yang mode, it's hard to
break it. Even just one minute, legs up
the wall to help balance you out.
So again, everything I teach, I want it to be practical.
And you can apply it now, right now if you want to use it,
including now #2 you want to address issues at their most

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subtle. So this is what I'm talking
about. If you start to notice you're a
little too Yang, a little anxious, little angry, address
it now. Don't wait.
Don't wait till it blows up, right.
It's like if you put water on the boil, you know, if you wait
a while, it's going to boil. And if you wait a long time, all

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that water is going to evaporate.
There's a very natural obvious thing that's going to happen
there. And it all starts with turning
on the fire on the water. And we want to address issues
when they they first start, whenwe notice, right?
You've just turned on the fire like you've been, or you've been
a little too Yang recently. You've been a little too yin
recently for me there. A tropical storm just passed

(19:17):
through my region of Mexico where I'm staying.
And it was almost a hurricane very close to coming through
here, which happened two years ago, but we just passed us.
But that tropical storm like, OK, right away, it's coming.
I see it. So we're going to prepare for
it. You're going to get extra water,
extra food, right? I know this could become a big

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storm. So I'm preparing for it before
it's a big issue, right? So there's that sort of thing as
well of noticing when obviously big things externally are more
subtle in addressing them. But where it's most valuable is
internally is where OK, like right here, we've had the storm
come through. So it's been very rainy and

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stormy for like 2 weeks now. And that means a lot more time
indoors, even though I live on the coast by the beach and it's
usually sunny all the time. So I'm like missing my sun time,
my beach time and can't complaintoo much.
Life is good. Lots of high quality problems.
But I can say that it's been more yen, more damp, more wet,

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it's raining all the time. It's it's cold, it's dark.
So there's a lot more yin energyin my body, so I need more Yang
energy to balance it out before it becomes a problem and I start
to feel like heavier, lethargic sadness.
Depression, even at its extreme.That's the kind of the path,
right? I know as someone who struggled
with depression in the past, if I don't do these things at their

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most subtle, then I could go down that path.
Those, those wires are still, those neural pathways are still
in my brain. I've rewired a lot of them, but
I know it's still there. And if I let myself just sink
into that yen energy too long, that passive energy too long, I
can slip into that depressive state over time, in the long
run. So I dress it when it's subtle.

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I'm starting to feel a little heavy, wanting to sleep in more.
My energy's a little lower. All right, I'm going to make
sure I go for a walk. Even if it's raining, I'm just
going to do the walk, make sure I go to the gym, make sure I do
something physical. Yeah, if the gym is closed from
the storm, you know, just do a bunch of push ups, use my body,
address it when it's subtle. In relationship, this is a huge

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thing, right? And we see it and yoga as a
relationship to, to ourselves, to our true selves.
But in relationship to others, these things have become very
obvious, right? Like if you have a spouse and
they do something that irritatesyou or they say something or or
complain about something or whatever The thing is, and you
let it sort of fester, you don'taddress it.

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Oh, he didn't say it at the time.
OK. And then it happens again two
days later, and you don't say itagain.
Now it's becoming this thing. It wasn't the thing before.
Now it's a thing. And it's starting to get all
this energy behind it. And then 3-4 more times it
happens. And now when it finally comes
out, it's a big thing in yourself.

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It's more of an issue. You've got tension in your body.
You're holding. You've been holding for a couple
days now, it comes out with all this charge and they receive it
with your charge and they respond with, you know, and it
becomes this big thing. But if you just addressed it
when it was more subtle, like, oh, hey, could you please not
say it that way? You know, it feels a little

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critical or whatever The thing is, you know, address it when
it's subtle and then it's addressed.
And if it happens, it probably wouldn't happen again like that
same criticism because you've addressed it and you've
communicated your needs. And this can avoid so many
problems and conflict in relationship, but it starts with
that relationship to self in your yoga asana practice.

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So you notice you, you're doing vinyasa practice for a few days.
That's something that happened to me.
I wanted to do vinyasa every dayfor 30 days as a challenge
because I like these little challenges.
And six days into it, my shoulder was not happy.
And every chaturanga it hurts a little bit more.
So I was like maybe tomorrow will be better.

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So the 7th day again, same thing.
It actually is OK. It's not so bad the first time,
but then the third time, 4th time, OK, it's back.
The shoulder pain is there. OK, let's let's just see maybe,
maybe it's it'll go away. Yoga seems to help a lot of
things. Maybe it'll go away.
Then the 8th day came back and it was worse.
So I stopped this 30 day challenge and just started to

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focus on taking care of my shoulder.
Because I know from experience that this issue is becoming more
and more gross. It started as a subtle thing,
just a little little little tweak like, oh, that doesn't
feel so good in my shoulder. Now it's becoming gross and I'm
having like literal pain in my shoulder and needing to kind of
tweak how I do the pose and do the chaturanga to avoid the

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pain. But now I can't avoid it.
It's getting worse. And some old ways of thinking
and I think very outdated ways of thinking about the body is
you just push through it. Don't be weak.
It's like Bikram kind of style or some Ashtanga style.
Just just push through it. The pose is not correct, student

(24:22):
is incorrect. It's so I do not agree with that
particular way of thinking aboutit.
I think your body is always communicating with you and it's
very important to listen to yourbody.
What we're doing in yoga, we're listening to the body.
So you got the pain in the shoulder.
Address it when it's subtle. And I did, and I did more like

(24:43):
physical therapy kind of stuff for the shoulder, some gentle
stuff for a few days and it was fine, back to normal.
And I could do the vinyasa practice again, but I didn't
need to do it every day and do all the, the, the chaturangas
and all this. And you could do vinyasa with no
chaturangas because everything again has an energetic effect.
And it's like, why do we do Chaturanga and Vinyasa to begin

(25:04):
with, right? If you do that step, the first
thing I shared of noticing everything has an energetic
effect. It's hard to question
everything. It's like, why do we do down
dogs so much? Why do we do chaturanga so much?
Is there something else that hasthe same energetic effect
without the repetitive stress onthe shoulder joint or without
the repetitive hamstring stretching that we do in in most

(25:25):
vinyasa practice or yoga practice?
So much stretching for the posterior chain and the
hamstrings. Why?
That's just what is in the Ashtanga sequence and Vinyasa is
a derivative of Ashtanga. So that's just kind of carried
over that There's so much hamstring stretching, seated
forward folds, standing forward folds, wide legged forward

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folds, etcetera. Down dog, so many hamstring
stretches. Why?
What about the front of the body?
What about the quads? What about the shins?
What about the core and everything else?
You know, we don't In the side body especially, What about the
outer hips, the IT band? That's all just as important.

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We don't need to, we don't do 50IT band stretches in a yoga
class. Why do we do 50 hamstring
stretches in a Ashtanga class? You know, so that's looking at
these things when they're more subtle too, is like you start to
notice in your practice, hey, I'm doing a lot of the same kind
of stretches in these classes. Maybe I'll go and do my own
practice and balance it out. And then the other part of this

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is your thoughts create your reality.
So not the physical level, but the mental level.
Your thoughts create your reality and so many great books
talk about this as a man think, give and and so many others
think and grow rich. A lot of this like old timey
wisdom. I love Earl Nightingale, the
strangest secret in the world. It's a great audio.

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I love it. I listen to that countless
times. I'd like to tell you about the
strangest secret in the world. I I love his voice.
I hope to have that voice when I'm older.
It's great deep Bastie voice. But anyway, this is he talks
about this a lot. If you want to hear more about
this kind of idea just from a new age thought kind of
perspective, but it's actually is in the Upanishads.

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It's not just a new age thought.It's actually in the Upanishads
that your thoughts create your reality.
Your thoughts create your emotions.
Your thoughts create how you think about everything, right?
So if you're watching the video,there's a little graph of this.
Your thoughts create your feelings, which create your
actions, which create your results, which create your
beliefs and your thoughts, right?

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So if I say every time I go and I'm not a great cook, right?
Every time I cook, my belief is I'm not a great cook, right?
That's the belief. So I feel a little insecure
about cooking with people who are great cooks.
So my actions are I don't even try to cook, and the results are

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I let them cook instead and theydon't even know.
So that validates my belief. Yeah, I don't even try.
Why even try? Don't even bother trying to
cook. I'm not even that good.
So that perpetuates the feelingsand the actions of not cooking
and the results of never even trying.
So but if I follow a recipe, I'mactually pretty good.
So my belief and thoughts are now like, hey, if I just follow

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a recipe and try that out, I feel my feelings now are a
little more inspired and a little more hopeful.
And my actions are that I try the recipe and the results are
it either turns out good or bad.And then I choose how to
interpret that with my thoughts.So the thoughts are so much of
them are just an interpretation.I could make the worst dish ever

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and they're like, this is terrible.
You're a terrible cook, don't bother.
And my thoughts could be, you'reright, I'll never cook again.
Or my thoughts could be, hey, well, at least I tried and I'm
going to try again. And what could I do better next
time? So the thoughts are the one
thing that we have the most control over.
And the Upanishads talk about this, a lot of new age thought
talks about this. And when we can address issues

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at the thought level, we can make a massive change.
And now here's where it gets really interesting is in the
koshas. So I'm going to keep this
simple. I'm not going to go so far in
the koshas. It's a deep topic.
I go pretty deep in the Quiet Mind yoga membership and then
more in the yoga teacher training if you want to go on
this path. But it's so valuable when you

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get into it. But the first layer is the
physical sheath and how we thinkabout our reality effects our
physical body. And the first layer we focus on
is the physical layer. Then there's the energy layer,
prana, Maya, kosha in the mentallayer, then the wisdom layer,
and then the bliss layer. At our core essence, what we are

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is bliss, happiness, love. That's why we're we're in love.
It just feels like the best, most harmonious, peaceful thing.
When we get out of Shavasana, often times it feels like the
most beautiful, peaceful thing. At our essence, underneath all
the layers, that's who we are. According to the Kosha model,
the Panchamaya Kosha model, the five layers of sheaths of the

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human being, and these sheaths like a sword, is a sheath to
cover it. These are sheaths over the soul,
right? To cover and protect in a way,
the soul with our wisdom, with our mental activity, with our
energy and with our physical body.
It also goes out of the physicalbody.
There's layers out of the physical body.

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So disease and issues with the physical body start externally
at the very subtle level. And this is what's so
interesting, right? So you may have heard this idea,
like if you're getting allergies, it's not because of
the pollen or the mold necessarily.
Maybe it is, or maybe it's because you feel very vulnerable

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at that time in your life. You feel under attack in some
way. You need to protect yourself in
some way, and you need to push away invaders.
So you start sneezing, push it out, get out, or you start to
build up mucus to build up this sort of sort of fight against it
and, and try to kill off all these things that are coming in

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and get rid of them through the mucus and this disease.
We might just think, oh, I'm just, I'm getting congested.
It's cold season, it's flu season or I'm getting allergies,
it's allergy season, which may be true.
I totally maybe just physical reaction and physical thing in
the environment and it's worth exploring if there's any more

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subtle issue at play because noteverybody gets allergies.
Not everybody gets a cold or fluin the flu season.
Is it just because of their immune system maybe?
Or is it also maybe something todo with their mental state at
the time in their sense of ease,peace, their sense of releasing,
of tension in the physical bodies block these things.

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Maybe it's a element of their energy being good at energy of
the chronomy Kosha. And this is so different for
everybody, right? You might think, well, Susie
smokes everyday and drinks on the weekends all the time and
she never gets a flu and I'm perfect health.
I do everything right, blah, blah, blah.
And I always get the flu. So what's that about?

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You know, and it's some of this is so much of this is very
individual in her mind, smoking and drinking and doing all the
drugs or whatever, eating the terrible food.
There's no resistance to it. There is no judgement of it.
There's no shame about it. And she's listening to her body
and it feels right for her and it works for her.

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There's no resistance. So this is one way the energy
may be working through that physical body and your body may
need different things. And for me, an issue I had was a
lot of times getting in my head about this stuff.
Well, this study says this and this book says that.
And this teacher says I should eat this way.

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And this person says I should dothis exercise or this thing.
And not really, not really listening to my body, not really
coming from this internal awareness, this interconnection
of like, what does my body mean?So my thoughts were more like
just try to listen to everyone else.

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And then I would try to feel andbelieve that and act upon that,
but the results were not what I expected.
So there's an issue now of this second thing I'm sharing.
It's like, yeah, our thoughts create our reality, but it's not
the whole picture because there's other things besides
just our thoughts. And we're addressing things at

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the subtle level of, OK, I'm going to proactively take care
of my health at the subtle level.
I'm not sick now, but I'm going to start drinking elderberry.
You know, in Austin, TX, that was a common thing, elderberry
to help avoid allergies. That's also it's, it works very
well there for the particular allergens there or other things

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for you. So addressing things when
they're most subtle, you feel like lonely.
Maybe you need to ask a friend for a hug.
You let that perpetuate, you start to feel very lonely and
very sad, and your body becomes more susceptible to disease.
So you try to address these things at the subtle level, on
the thought level, but that's not the whole picture.
And as we start to address thesethings, we start to listen to

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the body and start to question these these ideas of like, I
should eat this way, I should eat that way.
This person says this yoga practice is the best.
I should do hot yoga every day. That's the thing.
That's the best science says it.Or I should do whatever yin yoga
every day. Science says that's the best
thing. Well, everything can be a poison

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or medicine. This is the third thing that
I've learned about energetic anatomy that I want to share
today is everything can be a poison or medicine.
So again, you might know these people who've smoked and drank
their whole life and somehow they they live to 100.
They seem OK. I mean, could their quality of
life be better? Probably.
But are they complaining? Probably not.

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They're probably happy to to drink coffee, smoke cigarettes,
drink when they want. They're probably pretty happy
actually. And and this is where this idea
of from Ayurveda comes. Everything can be a poison or
medicine, depending on the dose,depending on the individual.
So one thing I've learned for meas a silly example is just

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moving to where I moved. My diet changed dramatically.
I came here and, and trying to eat like I ate in California or
in Texas or in Minnesota, just no, no, no, no.
Your environment changes, your diet's got to change, your
lifestyle changes. Everything's got to change,
right? And in that case, what was once
a medicine to me could actually become a poison.

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So I was eating a lot of pizza kind of things.
And when I was living in California, it was very damp
weather the whole time I was there.
I was there for a year and the whole time it was like overcast
damp, raining a lot like record rains in California on the
coast. So to me, eating like pungent

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spicy pizza kind of things was balancing out the damp cold
weather there. And I move over here to Mexico
and super hot. When I got here super hot and
dry in the summer, everything was drying out in the summer and
I was eating all these pizza things, pizza foods and a pizza
environment in a pizza body where my body's become more

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pizza in recent years means pizza excess.
So I got a fever multiple times until I learned the lesson
because I'm always learning the lessons too.
I knew all this stuff. This wasn't new to me, but you
forget when you go to new environments.
You forget in all the little details of, Oh my gosh, I was

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drinking kombucha and eating ginger and eating garlic in this
notion of health, like I want toprotect my immune system.
But actually those are all very pizza things.
I got to tone it down. So I had to get lots of cooling
stuff. And then cucumber was like the
biggest medicine in the world. Oh my God, just eating cucumber,
drinking cucumber water in a hotclimate and with a pizza body,

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right, Eating cooling foods, so much more balancing.
So that became a medicine. Now the more silly example is I
started craving muffins like 5 months ago.
I moved to this other area wherethey have this bakery I walk by
every day. I never go to the bakery.
I don't care for baked stuff. No, it's not healthy.

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But I saw this muffin and I tried.
It's like for some reason I really craving that muffin and I
ate it and it's just like the best feeling in the world to my
body. It's like so medicinal.
And now I've like, that was one thing for me that was like
really shifting this energy and it's this constant thing.
I've done this so many times in my life.

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Eating ice cream can be a medicine.
A lot of times it's, it's kind of veer towards the negative
effects. But every now and then ice
cream, great every now and then,some wine, great every now and
then. Anything could be a medicine or
it could be a poison. And a lot, this comes from a lot
of self-awareness and a lot of really being honest with
yourself, right? And not using this as an excuse

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to do things that are harmful. But this is very important to be
aware of. And this is more lifestyle
stuff, not so much in the officeof practice.
But this also comes through in the more challenging kind of
practices. Like let's say intense breath
work can be a poison or a medicine.
If you're already somebody's very Spacey, ungrounded, high

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Vata energy doing a bunch of like holotropic breath work or
breath of fire intense breath work, it's probably going to
make you more Spacey and grounded.
It's vata on top of vata. So that might not be the best
choice. And if you are also very Vata
person and you go to a lot of kundalini practices, which tend

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to elevate energy, move energy up.
That's the direction of the ether element moves up.
Air and ether is Vata dosha, Vata dosha is air and ether and
kundalini is typically a Vata practice.
So that can be a poison for you,become more ungrounded, more
Spacey, more unreliable, more impractical, more just kind of

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head in the clouds. That's the problem in the
practical world, unless you you're just a Yogi full time and
do what you want. But then something like a yen
practice for somebody's very Vata could be medicinal, doing
some slow yen stuff, doing some Yang stuff, some pizza stuff,
right? So if you have too much Mata,

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you need more pizza or kafa depending on, again, you kind of
listen to your body, listen to yourself.
And it helps to have a teacher, helps to have guides for this,
helps to have a lot of understanding of the different
energies you're working with. Like in a teacher training, like
I teach in the quiet, my yoga teacher training show you how to
be aware of energy, how to notice what could be more

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medicinal for you, what could bemore poisonous to you.
Strong word, but more harmful toyou.
'Cause everything can be a poison or medicine and you might
have said I'm never going to drink alcohol my entire life.
And then you try a sip of wine and it just relaxes all the
muscles in your body. Maybe, maybe not, right?

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Or you say, I for me, I said I've never do Bikram yoga.
I didn't agree with Bikram as a person years, many years ago
before all this stuff came out. Just like I don't, something
doesn't feel right about this guy.
I don't like it, but then I I was like, well I've never
actually done it so I don't knowwhat I'm talking about.

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I'm just assuming what it's like.
So I just did, I did a 30 day Bikram series and it felt
amazing. I was like damn it, I wish it
didn't feel so good for my body.But I was so vata as coming out
of shortly after my kundalini immersion phase of years.
All that routine, it's the same thing every time.

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So relaxing and then the warmth and I was doing it 5:00 AM and
5:30 AM in the morning for 90 minutes.
The cold mornings in Austin, TX,so, so warming felt amazing.
So that was medicinal for me. But then it started to become
like I still have, I don't like this.

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I don't like the dialogue they say in the class.
I don't like Bikram. Can I get some of those things
without that right? But it's something I thought I
would never do, and I did it andit was so good for my body and
I'm so glad I did it. It's just to gain that
perspective. So everything can be a poison or
a medicine. Fourth thing I want to share

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today is like increases like, Sojust like I've already shared,
and this will be a shorter one because I've already talked
about it a lot. If you're already very Vata
person, doing Vata stuff will increase Vata.
If you're already a pizza person, doing pizza stuff will
increase pizza. If you're already a kapha,
person, doing kapha stuff will increase kapha.
Now those are the three doshas of Ayurveda I'm using.

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Bata is air and ether, up, space, ideas, creativity,
imagination. Pizza is fire, action, drive,
power, strength, force. Kapha is earth and water
density, slowness, groundedness,stability, stability, putting
things together over the long time, long term, sustaining

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things. So if you do things that are
grounding and you're a grounded person, you're going to be more
grounded. This kind of person is more
likely to get married for life versus avata person more likely
to be single for a long time. Pizza person more likely to date
a lot of people and just get outthere and go.
I'm going to date 10 people thisweek.

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I'm going to check it off the list, right?
Pizza is very like accomplishingchecking things off the list.
So if you do more pizza things like drink coffee, have A to do
list, have a coach, rush around,have 5 businesses.
This is all pizza kind of stuff.You're going to be more pizza
person and like increases like you start on the subtle level, a
little more pizza, a little morepizza, it becomes more and more

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gross and now you start to have fear or excuse me, start to have
symptoms of excess pizza, not fear.
Fear is a more of a kafa or vatathing, but pizza symptoms are
more like anger, frustration, irritability, dryness, rashes,
burns, cuts, inflammation, inflammation, flame.

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It's in the word. These are all pizza.
Excess issues, migraines, headaches, headaches.
Could also be vata. But too much fire, you get fire
issues. Diarrhea can happen too.
Too much fire in the digestive system, too much bile in the
digestive system. And famously Steve Jobs had

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liver issues through. He was considered a very angry
person by the people who worked with him closely, Very
controlling, very much like let's get this done and like
drive people and push them. That's very pizza.
And he started to have hair losstoo.
That's too much fire. So it's not enough kafa to
sustain like the oils of the hair and too much fire and also

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too much vata. Very creative guy.
So his hair thinned out, dried out and, and I lost his hair at
a not too young, but a little bit younger age.
And that's another pizza issue, right?
So like increases like you do a bunch of Yang yoga practices,
you're going to be a little Yangperson.

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And the opposite spring balance.So #5 point I'm sharing today,
opposite spring balance again, very kind of simple and obvious,
but so profound to actually apply it to your life.
So if I've been spending too much time doing Yang stuff,
work, work, work, check things off the list, drinking coffee,
go, go, go, and I'm starting to have these symptoms come in.

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I'm a little more irritated, a little more angry, little more
tense, little more inflamed. Got to do some of the opposite
stuff and it becomes harder to do this.
It's like a train or a car goingdownhill, right?
If you got a car parked on a hill and you take the brake off,
it's going to be hard to stop ithalfway down the hill.

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It's got so much momentum. So like increases like, and it
starts to build momentum and youhave a disposition, a dosha that
you tend to go to. Everyone has one.
You might tend to be more bata or tend to be more pizza or
kafa. And I'm using the doshas as a
sort of catch all because everything can be understood.
They're the doshas. But you could just say you're a

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more productive person. You like to be productive and
get a lot of stuff done. So if you know that tendency and
you start to drink a lot of coffee and try to be more
productive and you listen to allthis hyping up stuff like on
YouTube, like you got to do thiswith your business and you got
to push it and you got to crush it and you got to hit those
goals. And you go to the gym and you
listen to intense heavy metal music and you push your body

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and, and you just push, push, push.
You got a lot of momentum going in that direction.
And then you, oh, I'm going to need to go to yoga.
I'm going to go to a vinyasa class and needs to be hot
Vinyasa. I need to sweat.
So I know I did something right.You all know these people.
You might be this person. Hello, thanks for listening.
And if you, if you know what I'mtalking about, you know that
momentum builds up and you got to bring the opposites in to

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balance it out or you're going to have issues, you're going to
have disease, you're going to have blow UPS, you're going to
have accidents, cuts, scrapes, things like that.
So you catch it when it's more subtle and bring more balance.
And ultimately, when we're working with energy, we want
balance. We want to accentuate our gifts.
If you have a pizza gift, use it, be the productive leader, do

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all that stuff. Be like Steve Jobs and get stuff
done. Great.
If you're a Kapha person and youwant to sustain stuff and keep a
family together and nourish things and sustain things and
build things that have a strong foundation like in banking or
finance or family issues, great,do that.
But catch those issues before they become too excessive so

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they can become excessive and you start to know it.
It's pretty obvious if you're just listening to your body,
you're doing things to check in.And again, check out the yoga
workshop I'm doing that you can check out now.
It's a quiet mind that yoga slash workshop.
Become your own yoga teacher. I talked about this in there.
I give you a daily practice you can do.
I call the daily check in. And this is a way that you can

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catch those issues when they're most subtle and you can start to
bring in the opposites. So I haven't been sleeping very
well, restless. What do I do?
Take sleeping pills. That's a hard one, right?
While you try to take away the things that might be causing
issues with sleep, like screens after sundown or coffee after

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noon, or trying to be very productive in the afternoon or
evening, right? Take away the Yang things before
bedtime. Bedtime is meant to be a yin
time, a relaxing time, a kapha time.
And actually, there's the time of day for everything too.
So that time of day from 6:00 to10:00 PM is the kapha time of

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day, and that's the time when you're ayurvedically meant to
wind down. If you have shift work, ignore
this. You have your own schedule, but
typically if you're syncing up with the sun, 6:00 to 8:00 PM,
you want to be winding down. So you bring in the kapha things
and take away the pita and the vata things don't.
And a lot of times people go outand they go to concerts, they go

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to movies, they do very active things, often times go to
restaurants, stuff, you know, But try to bring in more of this
coffee energy as you wind down in the day to balance out.
Maybe around 1:50 PM, you're in a pizza time of day, you're
getting a lot done. Great.
And then two to six, you're in the Vata time of day getting
some ideas out, maybe you take alittle nap, you take a little

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rest and kind of getting your thoughts and ideas together for
the next day and transitioning to home and all that.
So opposites bring balance, but there's a lot of momentum.
So little by little, if you've already got so much pits of
momentum, don't try to stop thattrain or that car from going
downhill. You can't do it, but you can do

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a little bit. All right, Maybe 1/2 calf
instead of a full caffeine coffee, instead of you normally
drinking 2 cups of coffee a day,just try 1 1/2 and then a week
later try 1 cup, and two weeks later try half a cup.
Or if you're doing like only hotyoga, try adding ¥1 class to
your rotation little by little. And that's how you start to come

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to a more holistic, balanced experience where you have access
to all of these energies all thetime.
Especially if you want to be a teacher, you really need to be
aware of your energy because a lot of teachers are unconscious
of this, and they just dump their energy on the class.
They come in with their cup of coffee and they've been running
around all day and they're so productive and excited, and
we're going to kick your ass today.

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It's like it's just a half of class.
Chill out, you know? Yeah, but some teachers are like
this. They bring their energy into the
class because they don't have the energetic awareness of the
energetic anatomy of the doshas,the koshas, the chakras, all
these things to balance them out.
And as we're trying to balance them out, we want to be aware

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that anything, any energy in thebody, including the chakras, can
be excessive or deficient, receptive or projecting, taking
in or giving out. And we can see this if you're
not familiar with the chakras. Welcome.
You've got quite a journey aheadof you.
This is a lifelong study, very fun topic entity.
Judith, check her out. Great books.

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But if you are a little more familiar, you know the seven
chakras of the body and they canbe excessive or deficient, any
energy in the body. But we're just going to talk
about the chakras here. This is something that I learned
that was really helpful for me in my path.
It's like, oh, yeah, the chakras, OK.
The root chakra, the second chakra, the third chakra, we
want to be grounded in the root.We want to be creative in the

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second. We want to be owning our power
and expressing our will in the third chakra, expressing our
love in the heart chakra. But then learning it can be
excessive, right? Heart chakra is excessive.
You're giving too much love. You have no boundaries.
You'll be giving too generous people who don't appreciate it,
who are walking over you or deficient in the heart.
You have grief, you have sadness, you have unexpressed

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pain to feel, and you close off your heart and you can't receive
love. And you receive love through the
back, and you give love through the front.
This is a model that I think is valid and true.
You might disagree, great. Please disagree with me a lot.
Question everything I say. Question everything everyone
says. But I've experienced this very

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much myself, right? If I feel like low back pain,
I'm not feeling supportive in mywillpower and in my creativity.
And 2nd chakra is the flow of the water element.
Its currency, its money, it's sexuality as well, but it's the
flow of energy and currency. Money is one of those things.
And when I was feeling really ina bad place financially and

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unsupported financially, I had alot of low back pain, right?
It's not just physical pain in the back, but there's an
energetic of thing too here withthe chakras.
And I was feeling deficient in the low back, deficient
deficiency of support. And when one of my mentors just
put her hand on my low back in like a comforting way, I just,

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the tears flowed. I just released so much I was
holding on to because I felt supported, you know, she didn't
give me any money. She didn't really even say
anything, but I just felt like somebody cared, you know, and
somebody was supporting me, giving support through the back,
through the back of the second chakra, just just putting a hand
on the low back. Like never underestimate how

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powerful that can be to receive just simple support like this.
And if you are a teacher as well, you know, not knowing you
don't have to do so much for your students.
Just being there, just being a presence can be so valuable.
So again, I'm not going to go into all the chakras today.
It's a different topic for a different time.
But knowing that they're not just there, they're not just

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energies, but they're the chakrameans wheel or disc and a wheel
can be going fast or slow. And if it's going too slow, it's
slowing down the whole system. Like my third chakra was too
slow a deficient for a long timeand my projective energy from
the third chakra not giving it out as much.

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So my voice was not projecting because the voice a lot of times
comes from the diaphragm, which I learned as a singer.
If you want, you want to hold the notes, you got to use the
diaphragm, you got to use the third chakra, the power.
Any great singer will tell you that.
So I needed to connect more to that energy.
It was deficient. So I needed to activate it more

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through vinyasa yoga, through vocal training, through singing
more vocal exercises and doing work to to scream.
Literally screaming into a pillow.
I did this for I think it was 14days, just everyday, 5 minutes
of screaming in the pillow. Very therapeutic and very
opening to that energy. So that's a way of projecting

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the energy and making it more active.
Not excessive, but just healthy,right?
So there's deficient, there's excessive, and then there's just
healthy functioning of the chakras.
And it was no longer slowing everything down.
When it was slowing everything down, I had a lack of
confidence, lack of self esteem.I wasn't giving my gifts at the
best I could. And I would teach yoga classes

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and people couldn't hear me in the back of the room.
People didn't feel my presence. The third chakra, a lot of it is
presence. People have excessive third
chakra. They've got the big bully belly.
They're these, they throw their weight around.
They're powerful. Like they just kind of dominate
a room. It's too much.
And, and there's a lot of ego, alot of pride.

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They push their weight around. You see this a lot with people
in high positions of power and management and things like that.
But they have a literally large protruding belly and they're
sort of pushing their energy outtoo much.
It's excessive. And then drink a bunch of coffee
and that fuels the fire of the fire element of the third chakra
as well. All right, so the elements, this

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can lead into the chakras. This can go into the the doshas.
There's a lot of layers to it. But again, I simplify it in the
quiet mind. Yoga teacher training.
So if you're wanting to go deeper into your yoga teacher
practice or if you're a student and you want to go deeper into
yoga practice, yoga teacher training is open now at Quiet
mind, at Yoga Slash YTT, you'll learn about the chakras in

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depth, the koshas, the doshas, energetic anatomy, the
naughties. There's more, there's more I'm
not covering today. Ayurveda, the diet, the
lifestyle stuff, it's all in there.
And so you can apply it to your life.
So again, if you want to apply this, what you've learned today,
hopefully you found some things in here you can apply now, but

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essentially, if there is something a little bit going, a
little out of balance that you can start to bring a little more
into balance little by little, all these changes little by
little. Don't try to change everything
overnight. It's not sustainable.
You don't have the activation inthe chakras and the energy
centers to sustain it anyway. You could say I never work out.

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I need to go to the gym and justgo to the gym for four hours
tomorrow and then you never wantto go back.
I've seen that happen to people plenty of times.
That's your third chakra is not ready for that.
Your root chakra is not ready for that.
It'd be better to just go to thegym and walk on the treadmill
for 5 minutes and leave and thencome back the next day and do it

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again. So you build up this muscle of
discipline, third chakra and desire second chakra to come
back. Like I didn't do enough.
I wanted to do more. And then the root, the routine
of the root chakra, the third ofthe first chakra, and then it
starts to activate. These lower three are so
important. So much spiritual stuff just
avoids those lower 3 chakras. And no, just love everybody.

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It's all about love and just love everything and speak
connected to your intuition and your spirit and your spirit
guides. And you don't need to worry
about anything else. You know, that's there's a,
there's a good, there's a sweetness in that and a genuine,
there's a goodness in that. That's there's good to that for
sure, but so much of the growth in life has to happen through

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the lower 3, the root, the 2nd and the 3rd chakra, our
survival, our relationships and our ego.
Healthy ego. I am this and what I do in the
world. We need those just as much.
We need all of them equally. And a lot of times in the
spiritual world, those lower three are deficient.
Oh, I don't need any money. I can't pay my bills though, and

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I'm unreliable and I don't show up when I say I'm going to show
up and I don't keep my word. But it's all love and light,
right? So we all know these kind of
people, spiritual bypassing kindof thing.
If you're bypassing those lower three chakras where you can be
reliable, consistent and disciplined, structured, honest
with yourself, own your sexuality.
A lot of those spiritual people have their sexual energy come

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out sideways anyway. And then we see sexual abuse in
these communities because they, oh, don't talk about that, but
then it comes out sideways, right?
Talk about it, talk about it. It's there.
We got to work on these energiesand we got to address them and
make sure they're balanced, not deficient, not excessive, not

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hidden and shameful, not overly exposed and just out there and
just, oh, I'm a free sexual being and free love baby, you
know, but balanced and oh, I don't need anything.
I have everything I need in myself.
It's like, no, we do need relationships.
We do need stability. We do need material things for
humans or householders. If you're an ascetic, you don't

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even listen to this podcast. You're in a cave somewhere, so
you're not going to hear this. But if you are a householder and
trying to live a life and be an honest person, then we need all
of these energies and be aware of them.
So hopefully this helps you be aware of the energies in
yourself. And again, you want to go
deeper. The next step, Quiet Mind at
Yoga slash Workshop, become yourown yoga teacher.

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And then the next step beyond that, if you want to go really
deep with me, the Quiet Mind Yoga teacher training at Quiet
Mind at Yoga Slash YTT. Also, the link is in the show
notes. And it's not just for people who
want to teach yoga. It's not just for people who
want to get certified. If you're already certified,
you'll learn a ton. I've had so many people say I
learned more in one training than I did in 20 years of other

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trainings. We're already established
teachers. So I know not everybody's going
to have that experience, but I think it's pretty darn good,
pretty good training. It's my life's work.
And if you're new and you're like, I don't have much
experience, well, practice. Start practicing a lot.
You can meet with me, you send me a message, I'll see if you're
a good fit. I generally recommend you have

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about a year of experience before joining.
But you don't need to be an expert.
You don't need to do scorpion pose or any crazy advanced
thing, but you don't need to be willing and open to explore this
physical body, this mental body,this emotional body that you
have through this practice of yoga, of uniting all those

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things and being just being curious, being open to learn.
That's all I ask. And you'll learn so much.
It's, it's such a great, beautiful thing to see the
growth that people go through inthe training and how fast
they're able to apply this. It blows my mind because it took
me a long time, but you can do it in a pretty quick time.
By the end of this year, you could be teaching classes as a
yoga teacher if you want, or if you're already a teacher,

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teaching deeper classes, more aligned, more authentic classes,
and using these 10 core competencies of yoga that I talk
about. So that's all for today.
Thank you for listening. Hope you enjoyed the Quiet Mind
Yoga Teacher Training Podcast and look forward to sharing more
with you next time on the podcast.