Meet Kelly Vali: The Girl From Canada

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two microphones and make the phone call gas.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Two microphones and you make the phone call gas.
Hi, this is Joyce and this isMarybeth.

(00:30):
Welcome to the Modern YogaPodcast.
We have an extremely specialguest today.
She puts the International inour International Podcast
audience.
She's the girl from Canada.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
And the crowd goes wild again.
Her real name is the other onehas only been a special guest.
She's an extremely special one.
So sorry, everyone else.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
I mean Patty, never podcasted from Mexico, so that's
right.
Her name is Kelly, and Hieveryone.
Not only is I'm going to letyou tell us about yourself,
because we don't know very much,we truly just know that you're
the girl from Canada.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I got this invitation , did you?
What was that I said?
I don't think you even knew myname when I got this invitation.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
No, I didn't know it until I messaged you on
Instagram and had you changedyour Instagram name.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
I actually.
I got a new account, so I had apersonal account, which is
probably where I first messagedyou from, and then I made like a
business account.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
She was hiding from international law enforcement.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's right.
Her name is Kelly, so I guesslet's just start with how did
you find our podcast?

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, so interesting.
Well, I don't know if it's aninteresting story, but I did my
yoga teacher training in 2021.
So I started in September 2021.
And I was actually in the carfor a long car ride and was just
searching through yoga podcastsand yours came up on the Yamas,
which is what we were doing inour yoga teacher training at the
time.

(02:04):
So I listened in and I reallyenjoyed it.
I just thought it was light, itwas interesting, and then I
went back.
I think that was number five.
Actually, I looked it up beforeand I re-listened to it and then
I went back and listened to thefirst few that you did and I've
just been hooked ever since.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, I just really enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
I think you're very authentic.
I can relate to a lot of whatyou talk about.
So, yeah, tune in every timeyou have a new podcast.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Thank you Excellent.
I was going to say she washooked, because we are hookers.
Kelly, if you want your lastname on this podcast, you're
certainly welcome to broadcastthat, because you might be a
little bit famous.
If you want to stay anonymous,you can just be Kelly from
Canada.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh, it's okay, it's Kelly Valley.
Who's my last name?
See, you said that, a nice nametoo Maybe.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
I'll be famous now Are you Frankie Valley's love
child.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
No different spelling .

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Sorry.
So how long have you beenpracticing yoga?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
So I've been practicing yoga for about eight
years and, yeah, I actually knewnothing really about yoga when
I started.
I used to run and I ran likenot a big runner, I've run like
5k and I ran with a friend andshe moved away and then my knees
started bothering me and I hadno motivation to do it.
I actually hated running.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
You're my people, Kelly.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I liked the feeling after, but I didn't like
actually doing it Anyway.
So then my knees startedbothering me, so then I did
nothing for I don't know like ayear and you know, put on a bit
of weight and wasn't feelinggreat and I thought I got to do
something.
I've got to find something todo.
And I don't even know how Icame across yoga, but I remember
just, you know, sort ofgoogling different things in the
neighborhood and things I coulddo, and I found a yoga studio

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about 10 minutes nearby.
So I went and I try to, youknow, free class and I think it
was like a hot vinyasa class.
So imagine nothing about yogahere in hot vinyasa and I knew
nothing about what I was doingbut I laughed, really enjoying
it.
So I signed up for a year ofunlimited membership.
I thought, okay, I'm gonna dothis.

(04:17):
Wow, big, right away.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Don't you wish you could sort of save that feeling
of like I don't know what justhappened, but I feel good, yeah,
yeah, exactly.
I want to come back like I wantto do this again.
I don't know what I'm doing,but like it's just amazing, and,
yeah, I wish we could bottlethat feeling.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
And I don't think people understand it unless
you've done it Right.
Unless you can through it, youdon't understand that right.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, actually.
Just, we have this conversationfrequently but I just, through
text, was having a similarconversation with one of our
teachers this morning about shewas just describing she's going
through some rough stuff and shewas describing how how special
her yoga practice is to herbecause she can't seem to
process things correctly inwords and but she knows that she

(05:03):
can work through it on her matand like it actually.
Let me, let me that's it rightthere.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
I mean, yeah, that's it right there.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's a different form of therapy.
It may sound cliche, but this iswhy I love yoga so much.
It's so helpful to be able towork for those through those
feelings, physically, like thethings I can't get out with
words or tears, I can workthrough on my mat and I was like
that's not cliche at all.
It's so true, and this is whythe practice is so powerful.
And it's hard to explain thatto people, and especially people

(05:35):
who have already decided whatwhat yoga is or what they can
and can't do, and like they kindof miss.
They miss what's obvious to usnow.
We might have missed that whenwe were we didn't do yoga too.
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Like I'm not judging anybody, but the bigger picture,
because yoga has been aroundfor so, so many gazillion years.
Gazillion might be a slightexaggeration, but you know, we
weren't, like you know, playingfootball back then.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Right yeah.
So what?
How long so you practice?
Probably what like five or sixyears, before you decided to
take teacher training.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
So, yeah, so probably about five years in, and I
wanted to start doing teachertraining.
But, as you know, it's a hugetime investment, right and young
, family and working full time.
I just couldn't spend the timedoing it.
So, actually through COVID in2021, someone I worked with
mentioned she had done it onlineand I thought, oh, I didn't

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think of doing it online, likethat's that would be great.
So I again looked into thingsavailable and there was a yoga
studio about half an hour, 20minutes from my home that was
offering a hybrid option.
So it was actually online.
It was one night a weekvirtually, and then one Saturday
a month, and it went from likeSeptember to March.
So I thought, well, that I cancommit to that, I can do, so,

(06:55):
signed up right away, and sothat was yes, september 2021.
And then I graduated in spring2022.
Yeah, that's awesome.
And then I did yoga.
I you know, like everybody else, I didn't actually want to
teach.
That wasn't my intention toteach.
I just wanted to dive into thephilosophy more and learn a
little bit more about it.
And here I am.

(07:16):
I ended up teaching it now.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
You do teach now.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
I do.
Yeah, I'm a lot.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
How long have you been?

Speaker 3 (07:22):
teaching.
So I've been teaching since Igraduated.
So I started just teaching onZoom for practice, so probably
January 2022, which I was midwaythrough my teacher training I
did in this course.
We were still in sort oflockdown and weird pandemic
stuff at the time, so I did someZoom classes with my

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brother-in-law and mysister-in-law and a friend of
theirs just to practice and theywanted to do some yoga.
So we did that online and thatwas great because it helped me
practice, because I didn't havea lot of even teaching
experience nothing in person,right Because we were mostly
virtual.
So, it was good for me to boostmy confidence.
And then there was no text atthe end of our teacher training

(08:05):
that the text was actually doinga yoga class in person.
So that's sort of what we werepreparing for, so yeah, so I
started doing that on Zoom withthem.
And then it just grew I juststarted inviting other people to
my weekly Zoom classes and nowI think I have an email list of
like 65 people.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
And sometimes I still do it.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Basically, just again for my own enjoyment and
enjoyment seeing others succeedin yoga.
So yeah, I do that twice a weekand you know, sometimes there's
five, sometimes there's two,sometimes there's 12.
So show up, show up if you can.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
So you want to plug that, you want to plug that
website, you've got going on oranything.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
No, not really.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Okay, that's fine, that's fine.
Just want to give you the tipthere's doing things just for
family and friends.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
I don't know much about it.
It's just sort of a passionproject of my own.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, excellent.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
And then I do teach yoga one night a week to a
senior's church group and Iteach at a physiotherapy clinic
one night a week as well.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh, that's awesome.
Yeah.
What about your life outside ofyoga, do you?
I think you just made a biglife move, didn't you?

Speaker 3 (09:13):
I did make a big life move.
So I've been working for 19years at a company.
It's a Canadian retail companyand it's the credit card side.
I was a marketing manager and Isay was because I retired.
So huge yeah, definitely hugedecision.
Lots of thought went into that.

(09:34):
But yeah, it was just trying tomove on and find something that
brings me different enjoyment.
So I don't know what that thingis, but it's definitely going
to involve some yoga.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, I'm with you.
When I retired quote unquote Ithe word that kept coming to me
was my job felt like I just ithad no purpose.
I was working a lot, doing alot of stuff and things, talking
to a lot of people, doing thattreadmill, I was in the employee
benefits insurance businesshere, and I just felt like I

(10:08):
wasn't helping anybody.
I had, there was no purpose to,it was just pushing paper
around.
And so that's the word thatkept coming back to me is do I
want my whole life to be workingat a job to get a paycheck?
But there's no purpose and I'mhappy to report I think you'll
be happy with your decision.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, no, it's definitely the right decision
and I think the pandemic changeda lot to working like working
virtually for three and a halfyears doing zoom calls like this
all day is draining.
We did start going back intothe office a couple of days a
week, which was great, but yeah,things changed I think in the
last three and a half years.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
And you said, when you first started doing yoga and
contemplating going deeper, youhad a young family.
So tell us about your family.
You have kids?

Speaker 3 (10:52):
So I do.
Yeah, they're adults, youngadults now, so my daughter's 22
and my son's 18.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Nice.
Wow, you are on the verge oflike the whole enchilada here.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, yeah, it's definitely the next stage in my
life, right?

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, you've arrived.
Whether you know it or not,you're in it.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
It's going to be the year or two of Kelly and then
onward.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
And I do have.
I didn't wouldn't have told youthis either.
I signed up for a yoga therapyprogram, so I just started that
in September, so now I canactually dive into it.
It's probably about a 12 to 15month program.
Yeah, and it's the foundationsprogram I signed up for, so
there's the option of doing thefull accredited program, which

(11:40):
I'll likely do, but I made thatdecision along the way, so I'm
super excited about that.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
So you said your daughter is 22?
22, yes, 22.
And she made those yoga.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
She did, yeah, she made paintings or drawing.
Yeah, they're sort of like alittle stencil that she painted,
but that was a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Canvas yeah, that's cool, is she an artist?

Speaker 3 (12:07):
She's not an artist, she's crafty and yeah, she works
at a craft store.
So yeah, she loves doing thatkind of thing.
She got the cricket machine andthe whole machine oh boy.
And she made me this mug.
It's got like a yoga person anddog prints on it with a cricket
machine.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
See, even in Canada, dogs yoga.
Quit your corporate job, that'sright, right, it's the same
thing.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, my husband does some software work.
He's got a lot of partners andclients in Canada and he's
always marveling that Canada isa little better than the States.
Well, listen about severalthings, but about mental health
days, taking a little time offor time out, or every now and

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then he'll be like it's aholiday today in Canada, so it's
going to be an easy day for mehere.
I actually have some relatives,so I was blessed to grow up
visiting Toronto a lot and theneventually, as everybody got old
, those who are left ultimatelymoved to Markham, which was
beautiful, and now I want to saythey live close to Blue

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Mountain.
Is that a place?
Yeah, oh my gosh, and I wasthere once to visit them since,
and then the pandemic happened,so I haven't been back.
But I've said before and I'llsay again the US is sleeping on
buttertarts.
I have no idea why they're nota thing here.
Because I would happily eatmyself to death in buttertarts.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
What is it?
We have a cottage in the north,just a little north of here,
and there's a place called theButtertart Factory, and it's
delicious.
Yes, we stopped there on ourway, and picked out.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
So, joyce, they're like a tart size.
The closest thing you'd compareit to here in the States is a
pecan pie, only without pecans.
Often they'll have raisins, butthe flavor is just way out of
this world better than a pecanpie, and it's just.
You know, it's one of thosethings that makes me go back to
childhood, because my uncleHarry and Aunt Marion would

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bring those and it was like therarest treat because, you know,
god forbid, we actually makethem at home.
But I don't know, of all thethings the US has, you know,
appropriated that we haven'tstolen those because there's
nothing better.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Do you can't find a butter tart in the US anywhere?

Speaker 1 (14:24):
No.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Really.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
She's on a mission to find it.
I just googled it.
Wikipedia says a butter tart isa type of small pastry tart
highly regarded in Canadiancuisine.
The sweet tart consists of afilling of butter, sugar, syrup
and egg baked in a pastry shelluntil the filling is semi-salad
with a crunchy top.
The butter tart should not beconfused with the butter pie or

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with bread and butter pudding.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I think those I have not had.
Well, I guess they sounddelicious as well.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
We're going to have to, we're going to have to have,
we're going to have to findsome recipes, and I mean, if you
want me to try that, they areeasy to make, yeah, they're not
hard to make, yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
I think I've even done it once, I think my aunt
Mary, and gave me her recipe and, like in my 20s, I made them
once and I'm just not a baker,but are they?

Speaker 3 (15:15):
good, it's like sugar and corn syrup and there's
nothing to it.
Throw it in the pastry.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
If I am ever on death row and they bring me the last
meal, that's going to be part ofit.
But don't forget the buttertarts.
Don't forget the butter tarts.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
So Kelly you live like it.
I'm looking for the email and Ican't.
It might be an Instagram, butyou live near Toronto.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah so we're in a place called Oakville, which is
just in the suburbs of Toronto.
It's about half an hour west ofToronto.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
I have never been to Toronto.
I'm going to have to get thereone day.
Here, really great things aboutit.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
I just remembered I spent Y2K, so the New Year's Eve
that became the year 2000, wheneverybody was sure the whole
world was going to explode.
I spent that in Toronto.
Jeff and I were at the what'sthe hotel?
It's got like a horse and it'llcome back to me Like their logo

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is like a horse and something.
But anyway, new Year's Eveparty there.
Somebody had given us somepoints or something, because
this is so many years ago.
Obviously we know how manyyears ago.
It was 23 years ago, but theworld didn't explode and it was
a lovely trip.
That sounds like fun when youwere in Toronto for New Year's

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sorry, yeah, we went just for agetaway for New Year's Eve to do
Did you go to Nathan PhillipsSquare.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
That's sort of a big New Year's place.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
No, no, it was just.
There was just something goingon at the hotel which I'm going
to do a terrible job of finding,but I'm going to look.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
So I think you talk amongst yourselves.
We're about what?
About six hours?
Six hour drive away from China?
Have you ever been to Cleveland?

Speaker 3 (17:01):
No, I haven't.
I did Google it.
Yeah, I'm about five hours fromhere to Cleveland, so I'll have
to come and just do a yogaclass.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
It's not bad.
And you know it's so great tomeet, like in Niagara on the
lake or something, with, youknow, with your Canadian cohorts
, because then it's a littlecloser for each of us and fun
for everyone.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, so I was in Niagara Falls a couple of months
ago.
We should have met then.
Yeah, so we, as you probablyknow, my husband and I opened
our first location of modernyoga in a suburb called
Strongsville in 2016.
And Strongsville is about 30,35 minutes southwest of

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Cleveland, so it's the mostsouthwest suburb of the county
Not that that means anything toyou in Canada.
But we yeah, we opened on May19th of 2016.
And then we were about to open,or about to start the process

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of a lease and everything, on asecond location.
We had an appointment to signthe lease on March 15th of 2020.
We had worked at it all firstquarter and we got shut down on
March 15th, I believe, or 16th,something like that.
It was like two days before,because St Patrick's Day was

(18:29):
Tuesday and we got shut down onMonday, along with, like
everybody else, I think theyshut down the restaurants on
Sunday and then it was like anyother place that people gathered
.
Basically, I'm sure is verysimilar in Canada and then.
So that was really bittersweetbecause we were about to expand,

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but at the same time, we'reglad that we didn't sign the
lease at that moment, because wehad no idea what that would
have meant, I'm sure, likelooking back, we probably could
have got out of it, we wouldhave been protected somehow, but
nobody knew what the heck wasgoing on in those first few days
or weeks after COVID reallyshut everything down.

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So obviously that was tabledand then we were able to reopen
10 weeks later, in May of 2020,with X's on the floor and all
that fun stuff for socialdistancing, and that was a
pretty stressful time.
We did a lot of.

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We have a teacher trainingprogram that is very flexible
because, on the heels of whatyou just said, when we were
introducing the idea of teachertraining, we had a lot of people
that were interested.
But flexibility, and not everyweekend or not.
If you're working full time andyou take one weekend out of the

(19:53):
month, that's like working what?
12 days in a row?
It's different.
It's different.
You're not working.
It's enjoyable, but it's stilllike work, and so and let's face
it, a lot of people have kidsand things happen on Saturdays

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and Sundays.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
That Forced family fun happens on Saturdays and
Sundays.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Exactly Forced family fun, all the things, grocery
shopping, and so we figured outa way to make this program
really flexible and we hadactually started getting some of
our training online, like thestudy part of it, the philosophy
and humanities, and anatomy,prior to that sounds like the

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beginning of a poem Humanitiesanatomy.
Maybe it's a song Prior to COVID.
Not that we were super ahead ofthe curve or we even knew that,
had any inkling that we'd beshut down, but it was not easy,
but it was like we knew how tomove forward I think quickly.

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So we did a lot of Well, wealways do a lot of teacher
training, but we did a lotduring COVID.
So, anyhow, fast forward.
We opened our second locationlast August so a little over a
year ago in another suburb namedBrexville, which is just I

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don't know probably 12 to 15miles directly south of
Cleveland, and so we areprimarily Well, yeah, we are
primarily a hot power yogastudio.
We use infrared heating panels,but we do.
We have hot power basics.
We have slow flow, whichdoesn't use the heating panels.
We have hot yin, we dorestorative once a month and now

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we do a not super hot flow and,starting today, we do an all
levels warm flow class, so Ilike calling it not super hot
flow.
Yeah, maybe we'll change it toLike a woman named Flow, who's
not super sexy?
Not super hot flow.
We primarily do vinyasa, butobviously have some other
classes in the mix, and we trynot to have too many class types

(22:16):
because I feel like that can bereally confusing If you
Especially if you're new, andyou open up this menu of like.
Here's the 10 class types weoffer.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Oh, and I love when they're like moon glow with
Joyce, or.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Right, not super hot flow with Mary Beth.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, like they name things and you're like okay, but
what does that mean exactly?
Are you going to blow stardustat me?
Right, and the answer may beyes.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
We are a breath-based vinyasa studio.
Breath is the utmost importantthing and we love it.
It's a lot of work, but it's sorewarding.
I used to work in corporateAmerica for 19 years as well,
and I thought I worked hard thenOpen up your own business, but

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it is extremely rewarding andwe've met so many wonderful
people along the way.
Our community is amazing.
We have a book club, we havesoftball teams, we had bowling
teams.
We just there have been peoplewho have met and gotten married.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
You know, like there's just a lot of Babies had
, whole families, the whole arc.
Yeah, most importantly, I needto follow up on bowling.
Is that a thing of the past?
Is it going to happen thiswinter?
It's time has come and gone.
Well, it started in September.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
We just yeah, it kind of fizzled, I think, because it
was really fun.
It was like a once a monthbowling league we had.
At one point, the first year,we had four teams, but nobody is
near each other when they bowl.
So it's a lot of seeing peoplewhen you're on the way to the
bathroom or the bar, right right, you know, and I think, because

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it's once a month, that's agreat thing, but it's also like,
like softball is every Friday,it's like what you do every
Friday right, and then all of asudden on Saturday in the winter
it's like, oh, this Saturday itjust got to that point, we may
bring it back.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
So, Kelly, you have retired from your marketing
director job, but you saidyou're not sure what's next for
you.
So how do you get the courageto do that?
Do you just really hate yourjob that much?
No, she's not going to say thatout loud, but no, I did not
hate my job that much.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
No, I think I mean we're in a position where I was
able to do that, so definitelyprivileged there, and I think
you just yeah, you reach a pointin your life is I think you
both did as well that you justreevaluate what's important and
what you maybe want to do next.
So, yeah, I do want to diveinto this yoga therapy more, see
where that takes me and just gofrom there.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
And there were dog prints on your cup, along with
yoga poses.
So tell us about that part ofyour family.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yes, so we have a COVID dog.
We have a Wheaton Terrier namedRosie.
So, she's actually almost three.
And we had another WheatonTerrier before her for 16 years,
chelsea, and then we were nevergoing to get another dog.
So it was five years and thenCOVID happened and the kids oh,
let's get a dog, let's getanother dog, so we called the

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reader where we got our firstdog and she had another litter
and Swamp was like 82, stillbreeding dogs.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Oh my God, I hope she has a succession plan.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, no kidding.
I never thought of it, but yeah, the street that has a dog from
her last litter.
So they got the same mom, ourdog and their dog.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Do they know their siblings?

Speaker 3 (25:42):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Time to have the talk , because you don't want them to
get romantically involved.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Well, they're cute.
They're cute emails Well, yeah,that's hilarious.
Just one dog.
I'm a two-dog person One dog'senough Amen.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
I think two is easier .
Mine might make an appearance,I don't know.
This is the infamous futon thatI've been wanting to throw away
.
But we have senior dogs now andthey can just step up there and
they look at it, your dogs lovea futon.
Well, they love this one.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
I had to close the door because if Rosie hears that
I'm on FaceTime or Zoom, sheruns down one to be on the
screen.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
That would be okay with us.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, but then she'd start barking and it would be,
adorable.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Got it.
I saw the funniest.
You know the time waste ofwatching Instagram Reels or
TikTok and it was this lovelybride and her groom and their
dog was part of the wedding.
So all of a sudden, the dog gotthe Zoomies and came running
behind her.
His head grabbed onto her veiland pulled it off her head.

(26:54):
And then the dog was runningwith the veil and the caption
said I'm the bride now.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
I know I'll have to see if I can find that for you.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
That's a good one.
So are you still practicing ata studio?

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Not really.
So the studio I started atended up closing down probably
about a year and a half into mebeing there, and I loved it.
It was such a great place andthey transferred memberships to
another studio, which I went toa few times but it wasn't the
same.
So I probably took a year ofnot being at a studio and then
another new one opened up in theneighborhood, so I joined that

(27:31):
one and then COVID, of course,shut that one down.
They never did reopen after.
So I do go to the studio whereI did my teacher training.
It's about half an hour away soit's a bit of a jaunt, but I
try and go once in a while.
There is another studio in thecity next to us that I've been
doing a couple of classes everyonce in a while, but yeah,

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there's nothing really close by.
So if you want to start amodern yoga franchise up here,
Maybe that's your future.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
You can run a model.
I don't know if I want thebusiness part of it.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Like you said, it's a ton of work You've got to.
Really it's a lot of work, yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
So when you said the other studio, it wasn't so great
.
What makes, in your opinion,what makes it great, or?

Speaker 1 (28:14):
not great.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
I don't even know if I can explain it.
You just get sort of a feelingright, yeah, yeah, and I just
didn't have that feeling there.
Part of it was parking toohonestly, like it was downtown
you had to pay for parking oryou couldn't find parking, like
it was stressful just going tofind a parking spot.
So that's not really a good wayto start off a yoga class.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Show up on your mat stress-staining, yeah, downtown.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Toronto.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
It wasn't downtown Toronto, it was downtown
Oakville.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Oh, okay, but it's still a carousel.
I was going to say becausedowntown Toronto.
Oh, forget it yeah, forget itno.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, no, I don't even know if I can explain it,
but you just know if it's theright fit or not.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, I agree with you.
Have you ever visited the US?

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yes, I have visited the US.
Actually, my husband and I dida road trip this time last year
for a week.
We went to when do we go?
We went to the ChamplainIslands, lake Placid when else
do we go?
Lake George and Saratoga.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Wow, saratoga, the home of the horsies.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
That's a great place.
I don't know if you've beenthere, but it's a great getaway.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
So like Finger Lakes wine situation, huh Did you have
some wine.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yeah, we did go to a winery.
Yeah, I don't think weconsidered Finger Lakes, though,
but was more, probably more atleast, of that.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
We might have to do.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
My US geography is not great.
Modern either is fine.
Highcast on the road.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Mary.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Beth, yes, we could take this on the road.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yes, we need to do all those Pack these microphones
.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, right, and do all the suggested visits that
we've had over these last coupleof years.
We could do live.
Well, I don't know if we couldsomehow do live, we could do
shows.
How about that?
We'll see you show.
Yeah, you're like, okay, we cando it.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
No, I'm wondering, it was great because there's a lot
of history there.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
There was a lot of history and just yeah, it was
beyond this racing season whenwe went, but just.
Yeah, it was very interesting.
Lots of great restaurants andit was just a nice place to
visit.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
It's been my experience and maybe this is
just my superior family inCanada, but it's been my
experience that Canadians havesuch an elevated interest in
history and politics anddefinitely an elevated sense of

(30:52):
humor even about other countries.
I found my Canadian relativeswere always more aware and
conversing about Americanpolitics than we were.
So, I was going to say do youfind that?
But you wouldn't know becauseyou're not here with us.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
But I do have a friend who's very into American
politics, so that could be true.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
I mean we provide lots of entertainment, Right,
you have to admit that it ispretty fascinating.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
I can't imagine what it's like to live in another
country and just kind of observethe US.
That is a little nutty, just alittle, just a little nutty.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
And you've just had Canadian Thanksgiving.
Yours is in October, ours is inNovember.
I know my cousin there textedme.
We always have Duke.
That out Like the realThanksgiving is which.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Yes, we had our Thanksgiving and it was it
raining, did it rain?
We were supposed to go up toour cottage that weekend and the
weather wasn't great, so westayed home.
But we had the turkey and thatpumpkin pie and the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
So what's the weather like today?
So today is October 24th.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
I think it's supposed to be like 18 degrees.
I don't know what that is.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Oh, here we go.
Yeah, 18 degrees Celsius, myfriend.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
You'll have to do the conversion.
I think it's nine, it's goingto be a really nice, warm day.
Yesterday was beautiful too.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
So yeah, today we have an unusually warm,
unusually warm day on deck here.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Ready to go?

Speaker 3 (32:21):
up.
So we did have frost yesterday,like I went outside yesterday
morning and it was frost on theground.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, we did too, because all the people in my
Instagram feed who have gardensand plants and things were
scrambling to cover them up withtheir blankies and their canvas
and their burlap.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
So I did the opposite .
Yesterday, I ripped our potsapart, did you?
I was just thinking, yeah, justthe ones that I knew the frost
was going to get.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
I just had this panic moment.
I was like I'm supposed to dothat.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
People do, joyce, not you and I, although you're
better at it even than I.
I know you did some good stuffthis year at your house.
My flower beds looked decentthis year, but they don't right
now, like I haven't pulled weedsin a while and I'm just like,
well, it's getting cold, I gotto tell you I was at a party
over the weekend and this leftme scratching my head too, just
because I'm so terrible I won'teven say terrible, I won't give

(33:16):
it negative connotation I'mdevoid of the household arts.
But this a bunch of people thatwere at this party live in the
same subdivision and they weretalking about snow removal and
their lawn care and everything.
And the one girl said I hatewhen we don't get it done.
And then he drives out thedriveway and then by the time

(33:38):
they snowblow or plow, therewere tracks in it in the snow
already.
And I was like wait, I haveliterally never noticed if
anybody's driveway is perfectlyclear of snow or if it had some
sort of tracks.
Is this a thing?
And other people were having awhole conversation like, oh, I
know they remove the snow, butthey don't do it the way I would

(33:58):
do it.
And I'm like, listen, if my carwill get over the snow, I'm not
even removing it.
So I feel like I'm missing somegene of noticing, of observing
what the outside of a propertylooks like and, frankly, the
inside as well.
So I just had to share that.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
I'm right there with you.
I can't imagine being upsetover if there were tracks in the
driveway, and not even justbeing upset.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Not even just being upset, but there is no way in
hell you're going to get me outof bed an hour earlier so that I
can make the snow look the wayit's supposed to, before I drive
on it.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Well, and it's part of their subdivision service In
some cases.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
I mean they were having different conversations
about it, whether it wassubdivision or not.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
I was going to say if somebody else is doing it, I
was going to shovel my driveway.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Who cares yeah?

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Right, I'm not criticizing, I'm just saying I'm
surprised at what is importantsometimes.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
And again, I wish I had the time to care about
things like that.
You know what I mean, like Iwas at Costco.
Do you guys have Costco inCanada?
I'm sure you do oh, we do haveCostco in Canada.
So I was at Costco yesterdayand in my head my day changed a
little bit.
A meeting moved and I wasleaving one of our studios that

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has a Costco nearby, and so Iwas like, oh well, it's Monday
morning at 11-ish, 11.30.
This is probably a good time togo to Costco, because, yeah,
you're shaking your head there'snot one.
There's never a good.
I mean, it was better thanSaturday afternoon.
We'll give it that it wasn'ttoo bad, though I don't really
mind.
But I didn't have to rushthrough and so I was looking at

(35:45):
things that I don't normallystop and look at and I was like,
oh, that would be awesome, thisthing would be a really nice
decoration.
But we're working on our house.
I'm like that'll come when wepaint the living room, or
that'll come, and as I'mchecking, I'm like that may

(36:06):
never come, that literally maynever come, Maybe when we move.
But yeah, honestly, Alina hasmade me a little bit more
conscious of those things I wasthinking today.
So my granddaughter is threeand she and my stepdaughter live

(36:26):
with us, and the dad isn'tinvolved.
It's the three of us that arekind of.
I mean, Ashley's doing thelion's share of raising her.
But there's three adults in thehouse and we're the
grandparents who are raisingslash, spoiling her, but she's
really big into family right now.
She gets super excited if we'reall there to eat together or do

(36:47):
anything.
She's like it's my family andI'm like she probably gets some
family photos and put them onthe wall.
And then I'm thinking thethings behind you with the yoga
poses, like canvas things, andI'm going to put that here, here
, here and here and I'm justlike, ok, let's start small
joists, let's get a littlepicture frame, print it on the
computer.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
We had a family gathering on Sunday, and my
nephew lives in Toledo, which isjust a couple hours Kelly from
us, so we don't get to see hisbaby all the time.
So Zach, Hillary and Annie werein town and so she got to see
all of us and her cousins.
She's a year and a half-ish oldand my sister, Judy, her

(37:31):
grandmother, was telling me thatZach and Hillary show her a lot
of family pictures, and so whenshe sees us, even though it's
not as often as the others,she's oh, Mamie, Nana.
So yeah, that's pictures aregood.
Or just mess with her and showher other people's pictures,
since they're great.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
There you go.
Do you have a big family, Kelly?

Speaker 3 (37:53):
So I have two sisters and my husband has two brothers
.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Oh, wow.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Everyone lives sort of nearby, within like a
45-minute radius, so it's thatlady bunch.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
That would be.
Oh yeah, I guess it is.
Well, there's three brothersand two thrusters, but they're
not.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, this is really important as well, because we
are speaking of Costco.
At the same party where wetalked about the snow, somebody
had brought some sort ofrectangular chocolate mousse
cake from Costco.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Oh yeah, I saw that yesterday.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Oh my gosh, I took a peek and unfortunately the
slices were kind of thick,because it's hard to cut
something like that thin.
So I gave half of it to Jeff.
But here's what I'm so happy toreport.
It is not mind-blowingly sweet,it doesn't give you that base
hurt or headache.
It's rich and smooth anddelicious and not too sweet.

(38:51):
So if that's on anybody's radarI can wholeheartedly say go get
it.
Sometimes things like that lookso good and they're just not
worth it.
This was really good.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
It's just hard to have that in the house, do you
mean?
Well, yes, I do.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Especially the Costco size is so big.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Right, and I bet it would be awesome if it was
frozen and you just took thefrozen pieces off.
I know that's why I can't havestuff like that, because I will
just simply eat it till it'sgone and then the weight gain.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Although I will say I did get their banana bread,
which is like 12 pounds, andtheir pumpkin pie, because it
was like 599.
Their pumpkin pie isnotoriously good yeah but it's
like the size of a beach ball.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yes, both.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
James and Ashley were like are we taking this
somewhere?
Are you saving it forThanksgiving?
I'm like yeah, that's like amonth away, no.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
I don't bake anything but I do make banana bread just
because I go through so manybananas and Jeff likes them on
the green side, so we alwayshave bananas.
In fact, once we were havingfriends over for a clam bake and
I know she happens to be glutensensitive, so I was so proud of
myself I bought the gluten freeflour and made a gluten free

(40:08):
banana bread and she actuallycame to yoga that morning.
This was a few years ago.
Sorry, roberta, I'm going tocall you out and I'm like
Roberta, I made a gluten freebanana bread.
I made it for dessert tonightand she goes I can't eat bananas
.
She goes bananas, gross me outLike she goes.

(40:30):
If there's a banana in the room, I gag and I'm like are you
kidding me?
Who doesn't like?

Speaker 2 (40:35):
bananas.
So did you have to eat thegluten free banana bread all by
yourself?

Speaker 1 (40:41):
We had to and you know what it was good.
The gluten free stuff hasreally improved the gluten free
flour.
I don't know about bread bread,but at least for banana bread
it was good.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
I love to bake too, and actually, as you say, banana
bread.
I got bananas upstairs that Iwill be making some, either
banana bread or muffins with aflavor, but I freeze them
because you're rotten.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
I do yeah, yeah, because it's rare that I get the
wild hair that I'm going tobake them, so I do a few at a
time, of course.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
You didn't start baking once you retired Mariba.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
No, I started eating bakery, but I didn't start
baking.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Kelly?
What's your favorite type ofyoga class to take?
What's your go-to?

Speaker 3 (41:25):
It's changed over the years.
I used to love a good powervinyasa in the hot room, but now
I like a slow flow.
I really like yin.
Yeah, my yoga taste has changedover the years.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
That's okay.
That's what's beautiful aboutthis practice, right, it kind of
moves and changes with you.
What's your favorite type toteach, or what are you teaching?
I know you said you teach chair, but what about you just do is?

Speaker 3 (41:54):
it a challenge.
I like to keep yin yin actually.
Yeah, I like to sort of moveand then so I guess that's the
best of both worlds, right?

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Right, and then we still Good balance there.
Yeah, the mashup of yin yin.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Do you have a little yoga room at your house or do
you?

Speaker 3 (42:11):
I do.
That's what I'm in right now.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
You're in your yoga room.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
cool, I'm in my yoga room yeah, so it's big enough,
probably for two mats, but I domy Zoom classes from here and my
yoga podcast.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Your yoga podcast, your international yoga podcast
James and I you might have heardthis story on the podcast but,
like in the months before usactually opening so we opened in
May, we signed the lease theprior November and then I took a
severance package in January.

(42:45):
So it was kind of really weirdhow everything lined up.
But we were pretty nervousabout doing this, and especially
since I wasn't working becausethe original plan was that James
was gonna run the studio and Iwould teach and then my branch

(43:07):
was bought out in our companyand the company I'd worked for a
long time and I had the choiceof taking the severance package
or not, and because of the newposition was different enough
from the old one and it was kindof like how often do you get to
do this, whether or not I'mopening a business or not?
So we just both decided that wewould pour our hearts and do it

(43:28):
to get it off the ground.
And then and here we are so forthose months probably January
through about April-ish we inour spare room, we threw some
space heaters and humidifiers inthere and every day we would
practice so that we couldpractice teaching to each other.

(43:51):
We were complete assholes toeach other, like it was really
funny.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
And it was a young marriage.
You got married in 2013, so Istill can't believe you guys
were able to.
I'm not surprised that you wereable to survive it.
I'm surprised you were able tobe honest with each other and
weren't more careful about beingassholes to each other in a
young marriage.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Well, we were in our teacher training.
It was so and we had been a fewyears away from teacher
training, but it was soimportant to give honest
feedback and so that was justvery natural to us.
I guess in that setting and wehope that that's what we try to
bring into our teacher trainingas well the teacher training we

(44:34):
run, we give feedback and thenwe also have our trainees give
each other feedback and we tryto do, depending on the
situation and time, usually atleast two helps and two likes,
or two likes first and then twohelps.
So it's not criticism, butanyhow, that's where James and I
started, where it was like,okay, a couple of helps, a

(44:57):
couple of likes, and becausewe're married, that swiftly
turned into well, that sucked,like whatever, but we would be
in there for longer than an hour, put it that way and I honestly
think that those few months andwe weren't like jerks to each
other all the time and it wasactually kind of funny sometimes

(45:18):
, but I really think that thatelevated our teaching and got us
to the point where we just werecomfortable, being really
uncomfortable.
Maybe that's the gift that wegave each other, but you were
kind of saying that, kelly, youdidn't have any teaching

(45:42):
experience, so you wouldpractice teaching to family and
friends and it grew to what itis now Like.
There's just that when you lookback at your teaching journey
and I know that you haven't beenin it like super long, but you
just see these ebbs and flows,you see how you grow as a
teacher and you look back andyou're like, oh, that was a

(46:02):
really special time, like thatwas key to my growth as a
teacher and yeah, and then itshifts and something else
happens and you see some growth,but you can't always see it
when you're in it.
Maybe when you're a little bitmore experienced you could be
like, well, this is the seasonof my teaching right now.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Yeah, it's important to get that feedback too, like
you need that for growth, right?
Like if someone tells you, thenyou don't know and you can't
grow and change and evolve.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
How were your family and friends, Kelly?
So imagine that they wouldn'tbe anxious to criticize you.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Well, yeah, that's the thing.
It's hard getting feedback frompeople Like I'm like be honest,
because I can't help you if I'mnot getting that feedback.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Well, and feedback from people that you teach is
different from feedback fromteachers or people that you
train with.
Like, I always tell ourtrainees that your most valuable
feedback forever is going to befrom the people you train with.
So if you're training with MaryBeth, pretty often invite her
to your class a couple times ayear.

(47:07):
And I'm not saying that studentfeedback isn't valuable,
because it's absolutely valuable, but you're like kind of
speaking a different languagewhen you're I was just gonna say
you're speaking the samelanguage with the people that
you've been training with.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
There was one thing about my training that I think
could have been more.
It would have been the teachingin person part, because we
didn't have a lot.
We were virtual and we didbreak out rooms and that kind of
thing.
But, as you know, it'sdifferent being online and in
person seeing people, and I'mnot totally comfortable doing
hands-on adjustments because wedidn't do a lot of that in our
teacher training.
It just wasn't available to us.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
And as difficult as it is to, or challenging as it
is to do virtual teachertraining like it's impossible to
teach assists.
Yeah, I would say almostvirtually impossible to teach,
assist, but that's-.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
I mean in my virtual classes now, most people don't
put their cameras on, so youdon't even see people.
You're just hoping that whatyou're saying is landing right.
So I do feel from a virtualperspective that my queuing is
probably improved dramaticallybecause I try to be very
specific and give lots ofoptions, because I can't see
people, I don't know whatthey're doing.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Right, I did.
I think it was in quarantine.
I did a virtual class for, likethe women's group of like this
big company that's based in thearea that our studio is in, and
I think there was something likea hundred women on it and they
set it up through their system,you know, through their meeting

(48:33):
system.
But because there were so manypeople on it, I could only see
myself.
And they did that on purpose,because of whatever I don't even
know, like I don't know.
I'm sure they use somethingdifferent than Zoom.
It was probably proprietary,but I was like, well, this is
interesting, like I'm teachingthis big crap probably one of
the biggest classes I've evertaught and I can't see I can't

(48:54):
see anybody.
Anybody, I can't hear breath,you know, whatever.
But back to the feedback.
Like I've really been noticinghow, outside of yoga teacher
training I'm talking about justregular old life Like we, we and
I'm generalizing for everybodywe're so negative, like there's

(49:19):
so much negative talk and Ithink there's an expectation of
being told that we're doingsomething wrong all the time
that when we're given somehonest feedback, that's just
feedback it's taken as suchcritical judgment, you know, and
I think that's really sad.
And I also feel like when we'regiving really positive feedback

(49:45):
, that's also taken with like alittle bit of a guard up because
we don't, we don't do this.
You know what I mean.
We're not super honest with eachother and honesty doesn't have
to be mean, it's just verysensitive and I just I don't
know, like I I've told thisstory a couple of times, but in

(50:08):
the last few months two peoplecame up to me after class and
asked what they were doing wrongin Child's Pose, because I gave
them an assist and that Child'sPose assist is just like one of
the crowd favorites.
It feels good, yeah.
So I felt so bad about thatbecause they probably spent the

(50:30):
whole class like wondering whatelse they're doing wrong or,
like you know, they started.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
It started out and now everybody saw her adjust me.
Now I feel like I did somethingwrong, right, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
I just we're really rough to each other and we're
really rough to ourselves too,in every way.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
I mean, if somebody gives you a compliment, you have
to say like oh, this wholething, no Right, you know, like
you don't even receive acompliment Well, at least I
don't, I'm the same way and likecriticism yeah.
Criticism makes you defensiveand you're ready to, you know,
make an excuse or whatever.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
It's just it's like I like your shirt.
I got it on sale Like it'salmost like I don't really
deserve it.
I know it's a great shirt, butI got it on.
I got it at Costco, you know itwas only $4 because they were
trying to get rid of them.
And yeah, one of my friends hermom, so I have.
You might have heard my.
I don't know if I ever told it,but I think I did my story

(51:28):
about my wedding dress and how Iended up, by chance, like it
was relatively inexpensive, andturned out.
Did you hear the story?
I have to.
I have to tell it.
So I went to look at weddingdresses this one particular year

(51:49):
I think it was the year beforewe got married, or maybe it was
the year before that I broughtmy husband's sister in from
Texas to surprise him because hehadn't seen her in several
years.
The weekend that worked was theweekend before Christmas, which
was fine.
The only commitment we had thatweekend was that one of my
brother's bachelor party washappening.

(52:10):
That was fine too.
It was like, well, we'll justhave a girls night and maybe
we'll go wedding dress shoppingbecause that would be fun with
my stepdaughter and maybe myother future sister-in-laws
would join and they did.
I wasn't expecting to find thedress, I was just expecting to

(52:30):
start looking.
We went to David's Bridal,which is a chain that you guys
might have.
I didn't really think I'd getmy dress from David's Bridal.
I just know that they have alarge quantity of dresses and
you never really know what'sgoing to look good on you.
And blah, blah, blah.
There is this one dress that Ikept going back to and everybody
loved and it just fit me reallywell.
It was really beautiful.

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Then I felt like they were likeyou should really get that.
You should consider gettingthem.
I'm like but I'm not getting adress tonight, this is just
trying it on.
I started feeling panicked, thepressure of like, well, if I
don't buy it, what if I regretit?
I tried it on one last time andI'm pulling the tag out from
the body of the dress and I'mexpecting it to be way more than

(53:13):
I was hoping to pay, because itwas very intricate.
It was on clearance for like$400.
I'm like who's ever even heardof a dress being on clearance?
I walked out and the lady waslike yeah, that's like last
year's style or something and itwas Christmas time and that's a
bad time to sell weddingdresses.

(53:33):
The clearance was 25% off andeverybody's like you should get
it, you should get it.
I was like then I'm like Idon't want to make my wedding
dress decision on a sale.
That just seems kind of weird.
Then I thought, well, it'sgoing to be around $300.
That's a drop in the bucketcompared to what this wedding's
costing.
If I end up getting somethingelse, that's not the worst thing

(53:55):
in the world.
I decided to get the dress andthey rang the bell and did the
thing and the sales lady waslike will you get this book?
Because the designer was OlegCassini, who's a very famous
designer of wedding dresses andall kinds of other things.
It's a big rectangle Likecoffee table book, heavy coffee

(54:18):
table book.
When we got home, mysister-in-law and my
stepdaughter and I were flippingthrough the book and it's
really fun to like.
Taylor Swift is in there andJackie oh and all these things.
All of a sudden there's mywedding dress and they're like
oh, so I read.
It Turns out it's aboutembroidery.
My dress has 108 lotus flowerson it.

(54:40):
I'm getting goosebumps.
Every time I tell the story Iget goosebumps.
I was like it's fashioned afterthe sun salutations.
I'm like the universe wasgiving me the dress.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Which you did not know or notice till.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
you read that the universe was giving me this
dress and I got it, james.
I picked him up later from thebachelor party and I was like
he's like, did you get a dress?
I'm like, yeah, it's upstairs.
He's like I don't want to seeit.
I'm like I'm not, it's in a bag.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
Not offering.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
James, you're not going to see it.
It's got to get altered and allthe things.
But I got this book.
Just don't open the book.
He was like not hard for a guyto not look at a book about
designers, clothes, whatever.
And then he saw the book whenhe got home and it's a heavy
book, it's probably like thatthick.
And he's like how would I findyour dress?

(55:32):
I was like my dress is in there.
He's like how would I find yourdress?
I'm like you just would,because it's in there.
He probably would open the bookand it would fall to that page.
So when we were doing ourwedding pictures after our
ceremony he was asking me sowhat about this dress?
And I'm like I told him he'slike oh my God, are you kidding?
So, anyhow, the dress isbeautiful and my friend Gabby

(55:57):
got married around the same timeand I showed her we were
looking at pictures of my dress.
She got married first and hermom was there and she was
looking and I was like I toldthis whole story.
She was like honey, do not tellanybody that you got that on
sale.
Let them think that it was$10,000.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Because it looks like it.
It's none of their business andI'm like, oh, I think it's part
of the charm of the whole storyof like and you thought I'm
going to have a podcast and tellthe story over and over so the
whole world knows it Exactly,yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
I felt like I was given this dress, kind of like
you're supposed to wear this.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
Yeah, absolutely that connection.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
You know the universe , you should brag that you got
it on sale.
What was that?
I said you should brag that yougot it on sale.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
That's a great one, and we do.
The universe spoke to me aboutmy first wedding dress in my
twenties too.
What was it?
There was a local seamstresswho was working on making my
dress and seven bridesmaid'sdresses and my mom's dress, and

(57:01):
the universe burned her housedown 10 days before the wedding.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
With your dresses in it, yep.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
What did you do?
The universe talks.
You should listen.
What did we do?
First of all, we set a prayerfor A that everybody was safe
and B she had weddings thatweekend.
The fire was like on aWednesday, so those girls were
right and properly screwed inthe butt with a cucumber.
I had at least 10 days right,which is enough.

(57:32):
So there was I don't even knowif it still exists there was a
fabric store near Great NorthernMall called Cutting Room
Fabrics that she had used andthey had all this material
overnighted.
And the ladies who worked atthe store worked overtime to
make dresses for my bridesmaids,who my dad was fond of saying
looked more like a defensiveline than a bridal party.

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And I bought my dress.
Luckily it was able to off therack, just with some alterations
, and my mom just bought anotherdress.
And the universe the nightbefore my wedding also, when I
took my ring to get cleaned, thestone fell out.
So the universe was gettinglouder.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
You probably weren't in tune with the universe back
then.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
I was not in tune with the universe back then but
I had an eight-year marriagethere that was largely happy.
It was just the wrong person,but there was nothing tragic
about it.
But I probably would have savedus both a little bit of angst
if I had listened to theuniverse.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
Mary Beth got divorced by post-it note.
That's what her husband says,or her current husband.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Yeah, her current husband escaped by the edge of
his fingernails that he doesn'teven have with the clothes on
his back and he's like oh, yourswas so polite, you got to leave
a post-it note back and forth,because my first husband was
working nights and I was workingdays and it was very amicable
and we shared an attorney for adissolution and he helped me

(59:05):
pack my U-Haul and they alllived happily ever after.
That was it.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
We call those starter marriages.
I had one too.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
My mom asked me just the other day, joyce, was Joyce
ever married before?
And I said yes, she had astarter marriage as well.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
I don't know anything about him now.
Anyway, back to Kelly.
Yeah, back to Kelly.

Speaker 3 (59:29):
I don't have a starter marriage so I can't
relate to that.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
That's good, not even congratulations.
Congratulations on your hardwork to not have had a second
marriage.
Unless you just have a reallyawesome husband.
Maybe I should give him all thecredit.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
I do have an awesome husband.
Yes, we've been married for 26years.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Wow, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
Did you do?

Speaker 1 (59:50):
anything fun to celebrate your 25th.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
That was our road trip, that we did last year.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
What does your husband do?

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
He's a money manager.
He manages mutual funds andportfolio manager.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Does he practice yoga as well?

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
No, actually for me.
We were just cleaning out ourclosets and we were going
through drawers and stuff and hehas a bunch of athletic shorts.
He's like, oh, maybe I'll usethese for yoga.
I'm like you don't really doyoga, oh, maybe you do.
I'm like, well, that'sinteresting, I've tried.
He's good for like 20 minutes.
He'll do some stretching andstuff.

(01:00:32):
He's done a couple of classeswith me over the years at a yoga
studio and I'll take him to thestretch class, but I know he
does not regularly do yoga.
But we are both starting toplay pickleball.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
This is going to be our new.
Here we go, here it comes.
The pickleball revolutioncontinues to roll through North
America.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
I signed up for the lessons.
He's taking some lessons nowand I signed up in November, so
I'm not here to come.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Maybe the Cubics will travel to Canada to play
pickleball against Kelly and herhusband.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
That reminds me Patty's surgery was yesterday.
I'm going to check in, maybewith Dennis and get the 411.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Did you listen to Patty's story, Kelly?

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
I did yes.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Yeah, she's got such a great outlook on everything
and she's a pretty remarkablewoman.
I'm sure everything's going tomove ahead, with a few bumps
here and there, but Patty'spretty cool.
Are you texting him now, maryBeth?

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
I texted Patty's.
I thought I had Dennis's, but Idon't.
If he's got her phone or ifshe's looking at her phone, I'll
let you know what she answers.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Mary Beth loves pickleball.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
I've never played pickleball.
I've spectated once.
I just don't love any sport.
It's just me.
It's not the sport.
I know everybody else isplaying pickleball.
I'd rather eat pickles andwatch people play ball.
I like pickles.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
I just went once we went on Saturday with courts
just down at the Park ViewerHouse.
I had never picked up a paddle,but Scott just taught me a few
little strokes and stuff.
It was actually fun.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
Everybody loves it.
It is Everybody does love it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
I haven't tried, but I'm not opposed to it, we're
just a little busy.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
Maybe it could take the place of bowling Go to
modern yoga, pickleball leagueor something.
Maybe bowling has shifted topickleball now.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
I don't have the.
If somebody out there in theModern Yoga Podcast audience
wants to start the Modern YogaPickleball Club, we can talk.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
Yeah, see, now Joyce is getting smarter and
delegating, putting someone elsein charge of it, unlike
softball, which you took on alot of admin duties there.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Yeah, I recruited coaches, though, that were
supposed to just take it overafter the admin, and it doesn't
work out that way.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
But it's okay, it's all good, it's fun.
I've been also trying to.
I dropped the hint with TiffanyLuccarelli quite a bit that the
space next to us in Brexvilleis open and that it would be a
great place for a rock-climbinggym I don't know, but she

(01:03:27):
doesn't.
She said she.
I don't know, she's not.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
She has her own business.
She's smart enough.
Here's what I'm going to speakfor Tiffany.
She's smart enough to not takethat on.
She would love it if there wasa rock-climbing wall next to
Modern Yoga.
She just doesn't want it to beTiffany Luccarelli's
rock-climbing wall.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
She told me to do it and I was like I don't know
anything about rock-climbing.
She's like, well, you know alot about business.
I'm like I don't, I can't know,she could just be your
rock-climbing consultant.
Rock-climbing consultant Againmy younger brother who lives in
Illinois.
He rock-climbs, but he's alittle too far away.
Speaking of Tiffany, she's sofunny.

(01:04:14):
We're going to Mexico in about amonth, about six weeks, to go
to this music festival whereTrevor Hall is playing and
James' passport is expired.
He needs to renew it.
I know How's that going Rightnow.
It's taking a long time to getpassports back.
We had been talking about thistrip for a while and we finally

(01:04:39):
booked it.
I think I booked it about amonth ago.
At this point, at least threeweeks ago, he knew his passport
was expired and he's like well,I'll have to rush that.
Had he started that processthree or four weeks ago, he
would have been in a pretty safe.
We probably would have beenokay.
But he didn't and booked thetrip and almost every day I'm

(01:05:00):
like did you start I can't dothis for him, not that I want to
either, but did you start thispassport renewal process for the
expediting option?
He was like don't stress me out.
Don't stress me out.
I'm like you're stressing meout.
We paid too much.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
Don't stress it out, joyce.
You go to Mexico, that's allyou know.
You are going to Mexico.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
So Tiffany Luccarelli , who listened to the podcast,
she's like, oh, you guys bookedit.
He got his passport renewed.
I'm like, well, not yet.
And she's like mine iscompletely current.
She's ready to hop out of theplace.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
There you go, you can take her.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
And I have a couple like other people have done the
same thing, but Tiffany is allover it.
She's like did he get itrenewed?
So apparently through FedEx youcan pay extra dollars to have
it very expedited, which I kindof didn't believe because I've
been hearing horror stories oflike it coming on the last day

(01:05:54):
or.
And then people are like, oh,it didn't take that long for me.
But I feel like right now it'sjust they're all backed up and
like there's no way this isgoing to happen.
So Friday afternoon I was outrunning errands after my class
and he told me, like I'm takingcare of this on Friday, I'm
taking care of it.
So he was messaging me saying,hey, can you send the flight

(01:06:16):
information?
I don't know why he needs allthis, but like to renew the
passport, but maybe because it'sexpedited and so I'm courting
him all of the confirmations forthe resort and the flights.
And then he said something likehe was telling me about what
FedEx was asking in this wholeprocess and I don't think I'm

(01:06:37):
going to be able to do it.
I was like, oh crap, like isthat a for real thing?
And James is either veryresponsive with texting or not
responsive at all and I wroteback.
Really, I thought you said youwere very sure that there was

(01:07:01):
like a two to three weekturnaround and then he didn't
respond for like an hour or soand in my head I'm like I think
Ashley has a passport, I knowTiffany can go, like you know
and I was really kind of sad andstressed about it and it turned
out that what he wasn't sure hecould get done was getting to

(01:07:22):
the FedEx office to turneverything in on Friday.
And because he took my text askind of a derogatory judgey, I
thought you said it was a littlechippy and didn't answer you.
So the next text was I got itdone.
I went up there everything's,you know.
I'm like oh, that's what.
So they called him yesterdayand there was one thing that

(01:07:44):
they needed to like change orupdate and they told him he
should have it by November 13.
I was like oh good.
Okay, so he's still going.
The plan is that James is stillgoing at the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
And when's your trip?
December?

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
1st.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
I'd like to check a couple weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
Right, yeah, we did a retreat in Costa Rica in 2019.
And I think when we wereorganizing it, I just happened
to think to look at my passportand it had expired.
So I knew mine was okay becauseit wasn't 10 years.
But we this is kind of how thisall came up.

(01:08:25):
He was like you renewers in2019, I think I need to renew
mine.
And then he looked and he waslike yeah, that's our problem
too.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
Mine and Jeff are years apart, and so trying to
remember who's is when is hard.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
Well then were you telling me, or somebody else was
telling us, that Patty wassaying that somebody was going
to Italy and their pass?
No, that was a guy that workswith Jeff Aaron.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
He and his family were at the airport ready to go
and one of the kids passportswas going to expire within the
next several months and theywould not let them board.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
I read about that six month thing.
I guess that you know people goplaces and they end up staying.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
And then they have.
You know, if their passportexpired they can't get back.
We just need a passport card.
Do we need a passport ticket toCanada anymore?
Do you need a passport to getto United States or a passport
card?

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
Yeah, we need a passport.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
I legit, for such a law abiding citizen, still get
so nervous crossing the borderLike I don't have a firearm.
I don't have or do drugs.
I'm a licensed driver.
I have no criminal record.
The most I've ever done istaking buttertarts across the
border back into the States anddeclared them at that.

(01:09:46):
But I'm just shaking in myboots the whole time.
The whole time you're in lineshaking in my boots.
The other thing is here's theother thing besides buttertarts
Pea meal bacon.
What Americans think Canadianbacon is is not good.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
What did you call?

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
it.
It's called pea meal bacon.
It's Canadian bacon is not theboring little ham that Americans
think it is.
It's that.
It's like a pork loin, right,or tenderloin even, and it's
crusted in pea meal and it'sgreat to cut thick and grill or
fry or whatever, but it's somuch better.

(01:10:26):
Oh, now I'm craving it andthat's what I'm always afraid
Like.
Are we allowed to take meatacross the border?

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Do you make these things?
Pea meal, bacon and.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
We'll make pea meal bacon.
No, you know what it is, I doknow what it is, yeah, yeah.
No, I do know what it is, forsure, but no, I don't make it
Buttertarts.
I need.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Do you have a favorite American dish or dish
that's only made in the UnitedStates?
I don't know what's, only me, Idon't know.
Is there like a butter tartthing or a?
What do you think of our bacon?

Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
You know, when I was in Ireland, jeff and I were so
embarrassed because everybartender or anybody would ask
have you been to the States?
They would all have either beento Disney World or Disneyland
or New York City.
And they you know what theytalked about Frickin' Kraft,
macaroni and cheese.
And I was like, please, no,please, no, don't let that be

(01:11:32):
what you think of America.
But unfortunately it kind of is.
Yeah, I guess that andsometimes a lot of people have
been to Texas, so there's, youcould see like everybody's view
of America is shaped by New YorkCity, Texas, and then the
Disney properties.
The Disney properties andbrightly colored orange cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
Yeah, there's nothing artificial in that.
Have you ever been to DisneyWorld?

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
Disneyland we have yeah, we took our kids to Disney
World when they were little.
I mean, my son was like noteven three, my daughter would
have been six.
Yeah, it was not a relaxingvacation.
It was fun Like we did a parktoday and we haven't been to
Texas, but I have friends who golike every year to Disney World

(01:12:24):
.

Speaker 1 (01:12:24):
Well, that's what happens with Disney.
You either check the box or yougo down a rabbit hole.
That makes me question yourreality.
But that's another podcast foranother day.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
My aunt is a Disney person.
She's got she's in the DisneyVacation Club and has been for
probably since it started andshe has a beautiful house that
has like everything is Disney.
Something Like her mailbox hasMickey on it and not like a
Mickey sticker, it's like areally nice, but they do High

(01:13:00):
end Disney.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
Designed in Disney.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
They do the property in Hawaii They've been to.
Is Euro Disney still a thing?
Even if it isn't, they've beenthere, but everything seems to
be Expensive watches andexpensive purses, in all things
Disney.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
Even the big, you know big designer purses have
Disney purses like Doonie andBurke and stuff.
I'm sure I don't know, yeah, wehaven't been back.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
We have the pictures to prove that we went.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Yeah, we've toyed with the idea of taking our
granddaughter.
I mean, you got to take a kid,you do.
I think she's little too young,I think one's in their lives.

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
Yeah, she's still too young.
Just because you wanted toenjoy it, you can't remember and
appreciate it, right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Yeah, she's very into princesses, very.
She's the girliest, girly girl.
She's very funny that way.
She will only wear dresses.
She doesn't like to wear pants.
She has to have her hair, youknow, done a certain way, like
Ashley.
Ashley's so good with her hair.

(01:14:08):
At some point she put theselittle braids down the side and
Alina fell in love with that andwill freak out.
If she doesn't have littlebraids, she will only wear a
nightgown to bed because it's adress.
It's not even a nightgown, it's.
Yeah, she loves princesses.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
When we went we did the.
There was like a princess lunch, so we did that.
All the princesses came aroundto the table.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
He would probably love that it is something
wonderful for the parents to, orgrandparents to, take the kids
to Disney, because it is somagical for them when they're
little, so it's definitelyworthy of the trip once.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
Do you guys have indoor water parks there?

Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
We do.
We have Great Wolf Lodge.
Do you have a Great Wolf Lodge?
We do.
Yeah, so we have Great WolfLodge.
That's probably the big indoorIn Niagara Falls.
There's I think it's calledFalls.
There's an indoor water parkthere.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Is there anyone in your family pay hockey?

Speaker 3 (01:15:09):
No, we do not play hockey, which I'm not
disappointed about, becausehockey is an intermittent.
Hockey's the eight year, yeah,so my cousin's played.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
I mean, he's in his sixties now.
I think he's still playing, ifhis body will allow.
My doctor even was from Canadaand he plays, so yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
a lot of people have their kids in hockey leagues
here.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
Yeah, a lot of ice rinks around you.

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
There is a lot of ice rinks, especially in Oakville.
There's lots Like there's tonsof kids that play hockey.
Yeah so we've probably got.
We've probably got six or sevenbig ice rinks here.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Wow, wow In Oakville itself or in the surrounding
areas.
Yeah, oh my gosh.
Yeah, wow, wow.
I would have been in heaven, Ifigure skated for a long time,
so I was always there's probably.
I mean, at some point therewere probably about a dozen ice
rinks in the greater Clevelandarea, which is really easy to

(01:16:06):
get around.
We have, relatively speaking,we have pretty good traffic here
, or we don't have a lot oftraffic Compared to others, yeah
, big cities.
Yeah, so I would skate atdifferent skating clubs and go
where my coach was going, orwhatever.
Yeah, to have six within acertain radius would be pretty

(01:16:31):
amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
Well, in some of the community centers, like just one
within walking distance fromour house, and I think there's
two or three rinks within thatcommunity center.
Right, it's not even just onerink, right?

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
There's a bunch.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Yeah, that's pretty serious.
Yeah, if you have six rinks anda couple of them have more than
one sheet of ice like, yeah,yeah, that's a big deal.
My brother has Well, they'renot there anymore, but he took
my niece and nephew to a waterpark slash hotel called Calahari
this weekend.

(01:17:03):
I don't know if you guys havethose up here, but that's the
first time that they went there.
They've been going to GreatWolf Lodge.
My niece and nephew are sevenand nine and he's been texting
photos and stuff and he said itis just so massive that I guess
most of the state, I think,didn't have school yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
Do you guys have that ?

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
in Canada where, like I mean, I feel old saying like
back when I was in school wenever get a day off, but I feel
like kids get like random daysoff pretty consistently now yeah
, we have professional activitydays or professional development
days, they're called so theteachers work but the kids have
the day off.

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
I can say it's probably like once every six
weeks maybe, I feel like they gooff.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Yeah, that's probably pretty similar.

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
There's so many for a year that they have Right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
Well, thank you for joining us.
I think I have a question for.

Speaker 1 (01:17:55):
Kelly, okay, how about a favorite?
And again, this may change, buthow about a favorite yoga pose?
And why Favorite?

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
yoga pose.
What's one of the favorites?
Half Moon.
I think Half Moon is myfavorite.
I just like the feeling ofbeing in it.
I do like a good headstand too,but I think Half Moon trumps.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
Mary Beth's called Half.

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
Moon, they're getting laundry out of the basket pose.

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
Yeah, Cause you end up like doing all sorts of other
things, but that's such acommon.
I know a handful of yogateachers even, and yoga students
who that was something magicalwas was balancing Half Moon.

Speaker 3 (01:18:38):
Yeah, but I always do it with a block I make sure
it's a block, cause I find, yeah, I used to do it on the floor,
but now I know it's a block.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
It's just way more awesome.
I think most people need ablock or two or three, like the
higher you can.
Yeah or let themselves at leastexplore that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
Yeah, so you can feel that opening of the shoulder
and hip.
Most people kind of end up notopening as much because of the
and that's the hard part aboutyou know people think a block is
a crutch and something you need, but it's just exactly the
opposite.
It allows you to now extendyour pose to a higher level
instead of dumbing it down, ifthat's what they think.

(01:19:20):
So it's interesting anddifficult to explain, so I'm
glad that's the magical one foryou.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
Yeah, no, I think people, once people get over the
whole block is cheating thing.
Blocks are wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
Blocks are amazing.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
Also Artish Andrasana is such a pretty name.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
It is a pretty name.

Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
Yeah, I like to say that one in Sanskrit.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
I also do paddleboarding, and you do as
well.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
Oh wow yeah, do you do the standup yoga?
I do yoga.
So.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
I actually did the standup paddleboard teacher
training last summer.
Yeah, it must have been lastsummer.
I don't teach it, but yeah,like I said, we have a cottage
on a lake, so I use mypaddleboard all the time and I
go out and just do my own yogaon the paddleboard.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
Yeah, the training was.
I paddled for a few yearsbefore I got the training.
You know I had gone to this orthat where somebody told you but
that was really worth it tomake it less the paddling, less
taxing.
Just some of those helpfulhints.

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
Yeah, I just learned how to do some of the poses on a
paddleboard too.

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
That's pretty cool.
You're a very interesting yogi.
You probably heard the story ofhow the only paddleboarding
yoga any paddleboardingexperience I have is Mary Beth's
blowup paddleboard that we putin a development pool One cold,

(01:20:45):
unseasonably cold summer daybecause one of our students had
a handful of teachers.
She insisted she wanted us overfor lunch and she's a hoot,
she's hilarious.
But she insisted that we go tothe pool.
And it was like late August,which is usually steamy, hot,
and it wasn't super hot, but itwas like 60.

(01:21:06):
Yeah, and the pool was heated.
So if you were in the water itwas fine, but once and so nobody
else was there because it wascold, except for us.
Mary Beth took out herpaddleboard blowup paddleboard.
Yeah.
In the car, yeah, theinflatable.
Flated it.
It's dangerous to do that in apool because you could fall and

(01:21:28):
hit your head on the cement ifyou get.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
Yeah, it's not a lot of room in the pool Right, but
it was really fun.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
It was a fun.
That was the whole day, wasjust funny yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
I remember that kid that worked there.
The lifeguard was likeseriously, why is anybody here?

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
Handfully yoga teachers.
Here come the middle-aged womenon an inflatable paddleboard
Super cold day.
But so the lady who had thelittle luncheon, she is now 90.
So this was a few years ago,but still she.
It was like no, no, no, youguys stay in the pool, we're
just going to swim.
For a while we felt like kids,like mom was making us swim,

(01:22:11):
yeah like do we have to?

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
And she's like yeah, in fact, I have a video full of
profanity of her saying yes,you're effing going in that pool
.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
So we did Okay, loretta, and then when she said
we were allowed to come out, wecame out and went back to her
condo and had some snacks, maybea little bit of champagne,
probably, or whatever.
Whatever was there.
So thanks again for your time.
It's so great to meet you andkind of person and Zoom person

(01:22:42):
and I hope you and thanks forreaching out to begin with,
really.

Speaker 3 (01:22:46):
Yeah, Thanks for having me.
I really I do love your podcast, so keep doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
I'm an avid person and I'm sure you've heard that
we're going to have the comebackseason at some point, so we're
going to, we'll have you back onif you'll let us, if you're
willing to be back on, and, yeah, hopefully we'll be podcasting
for years to come, right, maryBeth?

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
Yes, and good luck, and enjoy your yoga therapy
education.
I know you're going to,especially now that you're done
working.
You can really immerse yourselfand I think you'll find it
magical.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Yes, I can update you on that.
Yeah, I can update you on thatfor sure, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
Absolutely so.
If you've made it this far onthe podcast, please follow our
podcast.
If you haven't, tell yourfriends.
Give us a good review.
And Well, Mary Beth, take usout.
All right, we're done.

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