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Hello, internet.

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I'm your husband, host Travis McElroy. And I'm

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your wife, host Teresa McElroy. And you're listening

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to Schmanners. It's extraordinary etiquette. For

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ordinary occasions, hello, Mike Dove. Hello,

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dear. How are you? I'm all

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right. I thought it

0:41

was Friday. It's not. Oh, no. I

0:43

mean, it might be. It's Friday when

0:45

the listeners are listening. It's Friday somewhere

0:47

in the future. But we're reporting this

0:50

before Friday. And our Dottie's

0:53

preschool teacher was very confused when I said,

0:55

see you Tuesday. And she said, what?

0:58

I said, don't we

1:00

have Monday off? She's like, yeah,

1:02

but is she

1:05

not coming tomorrow? I was

1:07

like, oh, no. I totally forgot. I

1:09

skipped a whole day. You should have just committed to him,

1:12

but no. We've decided no school

1:14

tomorrow. Why? Because.

1:17

And then I had to answer a bunch of questions

1:19

on the way home from Dottie about why did I

1:21

think that way and what happened and what are we

1:24

going to do tomorrow and could she not go to

1:26

school tomorrow when it was a lot? My

1:28

favorite is I've been telling people about

1:30

this of late. Dottie

1:32

has become very incredulous of hills.

1:35

And I don't know why. But I

1:37

get this question a lot. Is that

1:39

a hill? Yes. Why? And

1:43

I don't know how to answer

1:46

that. I mean, there are certainly places

1:48

in Ohio that have the kind of like,

1:51

I think that Ohio is

1:53

part of like the glacier area, right? There

1:58

used to be a glacier here and there's.

2:00

parts of the of Ohio that are flatter

2:02

than others because of the glacier. Am

2:05

I making this up? Baby I have no idea.

2:07

I don't know. I feel like

2:09

that was part of our Ohio history. I

2:11

didn't grow up here. I know but

2:14

I thought that you might know just in general.

2:16

Nope. You guys had West Virginia

2:19

history though right? Yeah. Yeah. I

2:21

think West Virginia I'll tell you everything.

2:23

Is West Virginia part of a glacial plane. I

2:26

have no idea. That's not what we're talking

2:28

about today though. We're

2:31

talking about Yoda. No.

2:33

No. Yoga. Okay.

2:37

That's okay too I guess. Specifically

2:39

yoga classes.

2:41

Specifically specifically. Yoga.

2:43

I thought I was gonna

2:45

do it. Yoga classes

2:49

in the United States. My

2:52

classes are next week. Yeah that's a

2:54

different thing. I

2:57

thought I was gonna do it. I'm so glad

2:59

it wasn't me. No you pulled one out early

3:01

with the Yoda. Yeah but I almost

3:03

said yoga and then I was like too obvious.

3:07

Because this time of year

3:09

we talked about resolutions and a

3:11

common resolution is to engage

3:14

in some like new healthy activity

3:16

right? Yes. Some form of

3:18

physical engagement.

3:21

Right yeah a lot of people like

3:23

yourself say they want to walk more. I

3:25

do. I would like to walk more. I've been trying to.

3:28

You have been. I see your

3:31

goal meter. I did. I made

3:34

myself a little dry erase board

3:36

thermometer but I can color it

3:38

as I walk miles. But

3:41

yoga classes are a very

3:43

common offering for a lot

3:45

of like fitness studios right?

3:47

Yeah. Community centers.

3:49

Things like that because there

3:52

is a wide variety of

3:54

different yoga practices and

3:57

there is you know Basically.

4:00

Anybody can do. Yoga.

4:03

So would you say that the

4:05

rules and stuff serve yoga are

4:07

very flexible. Yes,

4:09

I led. There were lots of

4:11

wonderful people who wrote to S

4:14

and wanted some advocates of yoga

4:16

classes and so we have a

4:18

lot of those questions included in

4:21

this. But also we wanted to

4:23

get a brief history of yoga

4:25

in America. Because. Obviously

4:28

yoga itself is an extremely

4:30

intricate and personal promptness that

4:33

dates back thousands of years.

4:35

Or the physical practice is

4:37

an ancient Indian tradition almost

4:39

as old as civilization itself.

4:41

Ah, I'm so this overview

4:44

as Queen To barely scratched

4:46

the surface of the more

4:48

western centric yoga practices. But

4:50

we didn't enter and we can't throw thought. It.

4:52

May not. or if you would

4:54

like to go deeper into this

4:57

incredible tradition, we recommend that you

4:59

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5:16

well, if that's what you're interested and

5:19

sell. The.

5:21

First question. That we

5:23

need to ask ourselves is

5:25

how exactly does an ancient

5:27

Indian movement tradition become an

5:29

American phenomenon in the year?

5:31

Eighteen Ninety Three? A

5:34

Hindu month name Swami.

5:36

These can. I.

5:38

Hope that I am pronouncing some of these.

5:40

A. Little bit right. Travel to the

5:43

U S intending to share his yoga practice.

5:45

With. Every one or he was

5:47

born and eighteen sixty three to

5:50

a well off Calcutta family and

5:52

as a young man he became

5:54

a disciple of the mystic Ramakrishna.

5:57

Taking his monastic fouls. shortly before

5:59

his Guru passed away. So

6:02

now that he was a monk, Swami traveled

6:04

throughout India for five years before he

6:07

decided to come to the world's parliament

6:09

of religions in Chicago in 1893. His

6:11

teacher, Ramakrishna,

6:16

had taught him that the world's

6:19

major religions were but various phases

6:21

of one eternal religion, which

6:25

seems pretty progressive to me.

6:27

Yeah, I think that that is a

6:30

very progressive way of looking at it, especially like

6:32

during a time, you know,

6:34

we don't need to get too

6:36

into American religious politics, but

6:38

it very rarely is like, I think

6:40

we're all kind of on the same

6:42

page when you think about very rarely

6:44

is that scene from this direction outward,

6:46

you know? Yeah, and

6:48

I think that when

6:51

Swami came here, he was hoping

6:54

that at this interfaith conference,

6:56

he would find a lot of this

6:58

like connectedness. But unfortunately, he didn't. He

7:00

said, in America,

7:05

it's the place, the people, the

7:07

opportunity for everything new. That's

7:10

very optimistic of him.

7:13

He encountered several travel difficulties on

7:15

his way to Chicago, and found

7:18

himself very nervous. But

7:21

when he came to the podium and addressed the room,

7:23

as sisters and brothers of

7:25

America, he was met with sundress applause.

7:28

Excellent. He gave a brief but eloquent

7:30

speech about toleration

7:32

and condemned fanaticism. He

7:35

did a tight five about airplane food. I saying

7:39

I am proud to belong to a

7:41

religion which has taught the world both

7:43

tolerance and universal acceptance. We

7:45

believe not only in universal toleration, but

7:48

we accept all religions as true. Excellent.

7:51

I love it. The

7:53

people at the time did

7:55

not because We

7:58

just finished the Civil War. right?

8:00

I'm so. American.

8:02

Society was obsessed with kind of

8:04

like division and run the three

8:07

young and power and you know

8:09

that kind of balance of those

8:11

things is a was tough medicine

8:13

to. Take bomb as thing you know

8:15

you guys post Civil war now was

8:17

their division of like north and south

8:20

you know and and you know that

8:22

something's But there was also like huge

8:24

power vacuums right Be as a lot

8:27

of industry had been interrupted by the

8:29

war and the rebuilding of it's and

8:31

now is this like opportunity for people

8:33

to step in and that American Bootstrap

8:36

ideal but mostly lot of i'm robber

8:38

barons and that sort of the on

8:40

I'm So there was a lot of

8:42

capitalism, capitalism, capitalism, Socialism. And you

8:45

know, having been divided by the

8:47

Civil War there with a lot

8:49

of animosity really throughout the United

8:51

States at the time I'm but

8:53

he still credited as being the

8:55

very first person to bring the

8:57

idea of yoga to America, and

8:59

it was very much a matter

9:01

of philosophy and psychology and kind

9:03

of like self improvement. At the

9:05

time, his personal practice didn't really

9:07

have the kind of like flowing

9:09

movements that we associate with like

9:11

I had a yoga class he

9:13

might take. Today, or even the

9:15

pastor's that are now commonly associated

9:17

with the practice of yoga. But

9:19

in the late eighteen hundreds there

9:22

was actually a. Very. Little

9:24

agreement as to what. Yoga.

9:26

Was especially in the United

9:28

States here, right? because it

9:31

is kind of like an

9:33

all consent like consuming saying

9:35

like that. like a lifestyle

9:37

Rae I'm. Scented. Only

9:39

because it on my me a lot

9:41

of like medicare zone could do no

9:43

wrong time and then it's interesting because.

9:46

Very. Rarely is there a

9:48

like there's only one way to

9:50

meditate and exists Wait until someone

9:53

is charging you money more and

9:55

then they're like limited you My

9:57

way to meditate for the most

9:59

money. Emmert the time it's it's

10:01

like yeah man like count the

10:03

end goal or whatever you're working

10:05

for mindfulness right? Whatever way that

10:07

you would see that that you

10:09

mean to do by you do

10:11

it works is not like oh

10:13

you're meditating were as if if

10:15

you're achieving that mindfulness and all

10:18

that stuff. it's like cool the

10:20

great until. Someone. Wants to

10:22

say hey, you're doing wrong and for fifty

10:24

dollars also? Yeah, right. I'm.

10:27

And. So. The. Word

10:29

yoga at this time with

10:31

kind of like thrown around

10:34

kind as as like maybe

10:36

it was a die yet

10:38

or a system of like

10:40

mental concentration or maybe breathing

10:42

techniques are a lot of

10:44

different things. ah I'm and.

10:48

As it was something very

10:50

brand new a lot of

10:52

like Victorian westerners rights had

10:54

a. Kind. Of racist

10:56

obsession with like eastern cultures have

10:59

underlined so the idea of yoga

11:01

occupied the same space as like.

11:04

Turban wearing snake charmers

11:06

or something, right? It

11:08

all yeah. Learned a lot

11:10

about him. Like stays magicians

11:12

as well. have a gamble,

11:15

doing different forms of a

11:17

racially insensitive oh and appropriate

11:19

live performances because there were

11:21

two the people of of

11:23

the west. The he was

11:25

like a mystical right? Yeah,

11:27

this I see, as a

11:29

minister says, I'm was really

11:31

kind of popularised at this

11:33

time. Okay, That the twentieth

11:35

century brought in more that kind

11:38

of posture based forms of yoga

11:40

we know today. And

11:42

this is due to a man

11:44

named Swami. To

11:47

file a non. Com.

11:49

And he was one of the

11:52

first people to make the idea

11:54

of yoga practice much more like

11:56

digestible for western audiences. I'm what

11:58

he did with Murder to be

12:00

a traditions of half a yoga

12:03

with practical like medical. Beliefs and

12:05

their. I'm so happy Yoga is

12:07

a particular branch of yoga that

12:09

focuses on like the flowing physical

12:12

movements we were talking about. So

12:14

by that twenty nineteen twenties, the

12:16

Nineteen Thirties yoga was gaining a

12:18

higher profile in America. and not

12:20

just as like this kind of

12:22

mysticism that we just talked about.

12:25

Lights. Were. More it's more

12:27

like part of again. So third

12:29

team? Yes or grab the I

12:31

am. In. Nineteen

12:34

Twenty three, The Supreme

12:36

Court ruled that I'm

12:38

Indian Americans were ineligible

12:40

for citizenship. What? right?

12:43

Yeah, Ah, and so this

12:46

left several Indian immigrants with

12:48

out citizenship and other rights.

12:50

And so. What? Happened

12:52

was a lot of political

12:55

activists rebranded themselves as the

12:57

Oh Geeze in order to

12:59

stay in the Us. and

13:01

they would travel around giving

13:03

lectures and classes and things

13:05

like that. I'm but by

13:07

the end of the nineteen

13:09

thirties. Sasa.

13:11

Yoga as revival in India made it's

13:13

way to the United States and this

13:15

is where we see the boom. Mira.

13:19

I'm and so. People.

13:21

Recognize that as a a

13:23

helpful physical tool that could

13:26

improve posture and flexibility. I'm.

13:28

Reserves and I think about there's

13:30

a lot of educational films about

13:33

Posture Com an Alibi Go forties

13:35

and fifties and sixties right? Yeah,

13:37

I guess it makes sense though.

13:39

you'd start very odd week. He

13:41

brought the days you standing up

13:43

straight in the classrooms and. And

13:46

the sixties that you talk about.

13:48

that kind of revival of of

13:50

everything old is new again, rights.

13:53

Is partly because of

13:55

television. Several

13:58

Yoga Practice I decided that Tv

14:01

specials were a wonderful way to

14:03

present approachable and practical forms of

14:05

yoga to a wider. Audience.

14:08

So this field by the hippie, counterculture,

14:10

rain, and the New Age kind of

14:12

movements? Sure, I'm and so. Know

14:15

the dawning of the age of Aquarius when

14:17

mindset one. Might say that it.

14:20

Resurfaced again another boon. ah

14:22

with the emergence of the

14:24

I Just States. Ah yes,

14:27

it is Andrew industry itself

14:29

way. Really got into like

14:31

the idea of like working out at home.

14:33

You can have your own class at home

14:35

with this Vhs. There is a great

14:37

great great bar. Couple of episodes

14:40

of the podcast Decoder ring about

14:42

like Jane Fonda Yeah and they

14:44

talk a lot about like Jane

14:46

Fonda's on exercise That and like

14:48

the way that. Things

14:50

change because. He young and

14:53

gather round that there wasn't a time we're.

14:55

Buying a Vhs tape was so expensive,

14:58

right? Which was why Blockbuster came into

15:00

existence. Video rentals came into existence because

15:02

it could be like hundreds of dollars

15:04

to buy a Vhs tape and now

15:07

you think of them with I mean

15:09

those things are I get quarter at

15:11

Goodwill or whatever. Like yeah, but at

15:13

the time it didn't work that way.

15:16

Yeah, I'm and used to like Go

15:18

or Men check them out. And

15:21

when they became affordable in suffered

15:23

a home workouts after boomed yeah.

15:26

Yeah and Dvds as well right?

15:28

That's another kind of like wheat.

15:30

We see these kind of waves

15:32

and crests thrive as as things

15:35

become popular and then there's like

15:37

the people who come out against

15:39

that saying and then it swings

15:42

back to like it's not popular

15:44

anymore though it kind of has

15:46

a rebirth. A little later we

15:48

we see mess with a lot

15:51

of different cultural phenomenon rights and

15:53

it happens that. In

15:55

the United States. Yoga.

15:57

Has this kind of like. The

16:01

pendulum. Swings in in

16:03

the culture. Of the U S

16:05

and and I think that. The.

16:07

Vhs the D V D them,

16:09

you know, So naming revenge

16:11

or yeah, Has really kind

16:13

of made Beast swings a

16:15

little more. still right? Because

16:18

we have this this constant

16:20

stream of. Just

16:22

exposure. Where we often those

16:25

ideal we don't have as much

16:27

of a monoculture anymore. Right where

16:29

it was like you could pinpoint

16:32

these booms in the com workouts

16:34

and stuff like that because that

16:36

was what was available right? But

16:38

I would say that my guess

16:41

is was sub like tic tacs

16:43

right? Whenever you get a trend

16:45

of like overall general health, exercise,

16:48

wellness, whatever the trend is bad

16:50

stuff like yoga goes up. it's

16:52

just not. One thing raise like

16:54

yoga and water consumption and meal prepping

16:57

and these things and who because suddenly

16:59

everybody's talking about these trends in like

17:01

are you looking for like a five

17:04

minute way to improve it right and

17:06

it all gets folded in the same

17:08

thing. It's of just one thing peaking

17:11

at at time. We'll

17:13

be back in just a moment to answer

17:15

some questions and I'm sure go over some

17:17

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18:54

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18:56

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18:58

some questions we would love to.

19:00

Answer for you Yeah, I'm. So.

19:03

Before you take. One of these purposes.

19:06

You should learn about the different types

19:08

of yoga that are available at your

19:10

studio or gym. Most places have like

19:12

a class descriptions that if a little

19:14

snippets of what you might need, what

19:16

kind of them skills you might have

19:18

you know already and what you might

19:21

be learning. I'm so what you need

19:23

to do as you need to know

19:25

your own fitness level. Have you done

19:27

yoga for years or you're coming back

19:29

from a bit of a break? Is

19:31

this a completely new practice to you

19:33

and you'd rather just do some light

19:36

stretching? right? Arm are all your bones

19:38

feeling like one my would be like vinyl

19:40

her I I'm not apply for was was

19:42

injured. There are elements of my body that

19:45

are very flexible. but

19:47

overall the rights are some my legs

19:49

is like or that nothing more than

19:51

numbing from as i have a lot

19:53

i'd say nerves hanging nerves demurred nominees

19:56

and or nesting not the muscles and

19:58

on the joints been there serves. Wow.

20:02

Because I'm already always ready for fight or flight. That must

20:04

be it. I'm always prepared. I'm ready to be attacked at

20:06

any moment and then run away from it. Like

20:11

a gazelle. Read these

20:13

class descriptions before you book and if you're still

20:15

unsure, you can

20:17

talk to an instructor, right? Or

20:20

a friend. I bet like you probably

20:22

know someone in your life who takes the other

20:24

classes, who does the other classes. You can't just

20:26

tell people who have taken

20:28

them to the point of becoming certified

20:30

and then teach them that you could go to

20:33

and be like, hey, run me through

20:35

like what, where do you think I'm at of

20:37

like starting it and like where I should start

20:39

at. Do you have any recommendations for like what,

20:42

you know, where I should go and what levels I'm

20:44

looking at and that kind of thing? Yeah.

20:47

The next thing is you really... I bet you have an

20:49

aunt who does it. Just something tells me, listener,

20:52

your aunt does it. You

20:54

should be punctual. This is one of those

20:56

times where that that adage,

20:58

if you're early, you're on time and

21:00

if you're on time, you're late, really

21:04

comes into play because there are a lot

21:06

of like preparatory things that you need to

21:08

do for a yoga class. You

21:10

want to make sure that you have enough

21:13

time to put your things away, especially like

21:15

your shoes and your socks, turn off your

21:17

phone, get your mat ready, get any of

21:19

the other things that you might need like

21:22

a yoga block or a towel. A

21:25

lot of places with like sign

21:27

up classes, you have to pay for your

21:29

class or you have to

21:32

do the sign-ins or you have to sign

21:35

a legal waiver or something like

21:37

that. So it is important that

21:39

you arrive early for your class. This isn't just

21:41

something that you can run in and do. And

21:44

also, I've never taken a yoga class, but

21:46

if it's anything like meditation or anything like

21:48

that, which I assume it is, I've done

21:50

group. Anyway, there

21:52

is a time of, and this is true

21:55

like with rehearsals and anything like this, where

21:58

there is a kind of. transitional period

22:00

of like you're getting there, maybe

22:03

you're rushing from something to get

22:05

there, and there's a chance of

22:08

like, I'm getting in my body,

22:10

I'm getting present in this moment,

22:13

doing this thing, and then

22:15

we begin the thing and just going straight

22:17

from like rushing in to start, it's going

22:20

to take you, like it's going to

22:22

take you so long to get in the moment. And also,

22:24

just as far as like Schmanner's goes, if

22:26

everybody else is like, okay, I'm in

22:29

the moment, I've taken and then you come in flustered

22:32

and running like 10 minutes late, and

22:34

I'm like, oh my God, oh my

22:36

God, I'm like, sorry, everybody is now

22:39

distracted and it's harder for the teacher

22:41

to pull everybody back and all

22:43

that stuff. So 10 to 15

22:45

minutes is a good buffer zone. So

22:47

if your class starts at 11, aim

22:50

to get there at 10.45 so

22:52

that you can do all these things and get

22:54

ready. Yeah. Like I said- And

22:56

plan to stay the whole time. Yeah. And

22:59

then it's an hour long class and you're like, well,

23:01

I have a thing, so I could

23:03

only do 45, like then you're still leaving

23:05

in the middle. I

23:07

guess you could talk to the teacher and the teacher's like, oh, that's

23:09

totally fine. Just, you know, set up near the door or whatever. But

23:12

my recommendation is if you are like setting up for

23:14

a class, for example, that's like 10 to

23:16

11, you want to plan on like,

23:19

are you actually available like 9.45 to 11.15? Yeah.

23:25

Turn off your phone because the

23:28

idea of a yoga class is often

23:30

pretty meditative, right? So you don't

23:32

want any kinds of distractions. And that

23:34

includes not disturb because like, listen,

23:37

I get a massage occasionally and sometimes I forget to

23:39

turn on do not disturb on my phone and I

23:41

sit in there and even though my phone's on you

23:44

here. Well,

23:46

then your phone's not off. Yeah,

23:48

that's what I'm saying though. Because a lot of

23:50

times people here turn your phone off and they're

23:52

like silent. Got it. Oh, no, no,

23:54

no, no, no, no. Because What's

23:56

good to you, grub buzz and you're gonna stop what you're doing to

23:59

answer it? Iranian threat put on Do

24:01

not disturb. And time be

24:03

pretty specially aware. There's usually amount

24:05

that you use and a yoga

24:07

class that your math is yours

24:09

zone ray and you don't wanna

24:11

like block anybody's view So it's

24:13

common courtesy that students dagger their

24:15

mats so that everyone can get

24:17

like a clear view of the

24:19

teacher know she is on the

24:21

of the floor. A lot

24:23

of these studios have really nice

24:26

kind of like Hard Word or

24:28

parquet flooring and everyone does the

24:30

flows or the status and their

24:32

bare feet. I'm. Go to the

24:34

bathroom before via. oh that's a great

24:37

one. Yeah you don't wanna be in

24:39

some kind of inter depose a mineral

24:41

like or geico bodies right? as on

24:43

the time for well yourself ready. For

24:46

talk a little bit about that

24:48

and the second allowing. okay, go

24:50

easy on the perfume cologne. Things

24:52

like that again, is usually like

24:54

a smaller space and deep breathing

24:56

as part of yoga most the

24:58

time, and so smells that are

25:00

typically more muted will probably get

25:02

more amplified in class and be

25:04

mindful of your hygiene in general

25:06

for that as well, right? It's

25:08

usually like I said, an intimate

25:10

space, so we're T C or

25:12

deodorant. Clothes, That are clean. Things

25:14

like that all make a difference. They're gonna make

25:17

you feel better if they're gonna make you feel

25:19

better about being in the room and they make

25:21

it and make everybody else felt that. To

25:23

reinforce, I would recommend non restrictive

25:25

but clothes that are going to

25:27

stay where they are while you

25:29

move around. rags you don't want

25:31

to be like constantly For example,

25:34

For. I'm wearing a tee shirt and I'm

25:36

doing any kind of pose right where

25:38

my head is lower than my bag.

25:40

Writing: when have been keep like. Tagging

25:43

my teacher back into place right? so it

25:45

may be tucked in or whatever. I don't

25:47

have to keep pulling the shorts back into

25:49

place or whatever. So I would say try

25:51

to think about clothes that you're not gonna

25:54

have to constantly worry about readjusting as you

25:56

move into different positions. Clothes that are going

25:58

to bind up and down again. The way

26:00

you move around. that guy with. Yeah, I'm

26:02

a member thought. Yoga.

26:05

One of them, like central points

26:07

is about doing the things that your

26:09

body can do now. so try not

26:12

to be self critical or focus on

26:14

anything that you can't do. Don't do

26:16

any poses that make you feel

26:18

uncomfortable. Right And let me say this be

26:20

of. This is a mistake that I made for many,

26:23

many years when it comes to stretching of flexibility. Don't

26:26

stretch off. Hundred percent of I give

26:28

your pushing as hard as you can

26:30

going. I I used to stresses I

26:32

have to stretch herself. As far as

26:34

I guess who's going to end up

26:36

irritating or damaging yourself Mike of that's

26:38

what in that promotes the the announcer

26:40

my legs and so is researching like

26:42

twenty five percent right? Because you're just

26:45

trying to grow over time for it's

26:47

not like oh you stretch this one

26:49

time at one hundred percent. Now you're

26:51

flexible forever. It's a little bit at

26:53

a time you're increasing your flexibility. It's

26:55

so. Don't like stretch so hard that

26:57

you for yourself and your teachers can.

26:59

Usually help you at this rate

27:02

if you have injuries or physical

27:04

limitations or as like that you

27:06

know whether it's a bad knee

27:08

or attract backer. Well whatever it

27:10

is if you let someone know

27:12

this com they'll be more apt

27:14

to give you like modified poses

27:16

and I guess I'm or suggest

27:18

now at this is more and

27:20

advanced pose. any one can stay

27:22

in the last pose for a

27:24

little longer. said that they don't

27:27

have to hurt themselves moving into

27:29

the next post. So

27:31

you know be very communities

27:33

about that with your instructor.

27:35

Ah, The next etiquette advice

27:38

is be silent during. Service

27:40

but deadly Tag new gangway.

27:42

Service Center that's that's a very

27:45

end com you usually way quite

27:47

slap on your matt. Some people

27:49

like them bring their knees up

27:51

because it's hard on your back

27:54

to lay flat sometimes I'm and

27:56

so this is like silence, stillness

27:58

and meditation. nine. Love that! And

28:01

this is, it's very important that you

28:04

do this, but a lot of teachers

28:06

will have a kind of code, right?

28:09

Maybe they come around

28:11

and they help people

28:14

stretch or they give you a warm

28:16

towel on your forehead

28:18

or something like that. And

28:20

you can ask your teacher if this

28:22

is something that they do and if

28:24

they have a kind of code. Like

28:26

if you want physical action, place

28:29

your hands on your stomach. If you don't,

28:32

put your hands by your sides, right? So

28:34

that they can know this person

28:36

would enjoy a warm towel. Your hands

28:38

are on your stomach. Make

28:41

sure you clean up your area after class if

28:43

you borrowed or rented a mat. Wipe

28:45

it down, roll it up, return it to

28:48

where it goes, wipe up any sweat, anything

28:51

you use like yoga block or tennis

28:53

ball or whatever. Put them back

28:55

where they go, obviously, and then take all of your

28:57

own things with you. Here

28:59

is the

29:02

most asked question. What

29:06

do you do if you

29:08

fart during a yoga class? I'm

29:12

going to guess just keep going. Everybody

29:15

farts. That's a great one. Yep.

29:19

Here's the thing. You just say, ah, my

29:21

tension is escaping. Some

29:24

of yoga is actually designed

29:26

to make you fart. This

29:29

is like when someone burps after a meal and

29:31

they're like, in some countries, this is

29:34

a compliment to the chef. It's like, ah. It

29:36

is like that. A lot of yoga

29:39

postures are intended to aid in digestion

29:41

and specifically help you to pass gas.

29:44

For example, some poses involve

29:46

twisting your body to release

29:49

pressure and pent up gas. There's

29:51

actually a yoga pose that

29:54

literally translates the wind-relieving pose

29:56

where you lie on

29:58

your back and hold one of your shins

30:00

to massage. your abdominal organs, right? So

30:03

it is perfectly normal and if

30:05

you fart it might mean

30:07

that you're doing something right. There you

30:10

go. It can be a little bit embarrassing. Sure.

30:12

So if you need to fart and you don't

30:14

want to do it in like a crowded classroom

30:16

you can excuse yourself to go out and fart

30:19

in the hall if you need to, but you

30:21

know if you don't have to

30:24

you can just do what you would

30:26

normally do. You can, you

30:28

might want to laugh it off. Maybe

30:30

you are... Blame it on somebody next

30:33

to you. Maybe you

30:35

just want to ignore it, right? That's, it's

30:38

important to know that everybody does it and

30:41

that it is like the nature of the

30:43

thing. I remember we

30:45

did an episode about farting, right?

30:47

And Miss Manners was

30:49

like the best thing to do is just

30:51

ignore it. Yep. You drawing

30:54

attention to yourself or to someone

30:56

else only makes

30:58

the kind of like anxiety

31:00

last longer, right? You

31:03

can ignore it or a simple excuse

31:05

me, right? Right. And

31:07

it's natural and the moment

31:09

will pass. Sounds

31:12

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