Being a doctor, it's got a lot of social cred

... being a doctor, you know? You know, and, um, I was like, yeah.

So I got, I got offers from medical school, and I went to medical school in England, in Newcastle upon Tyne.

And I had, I had been a kind of big fish in a small pond in my little rural town in Ireland, and then coming to medical school with, like, the cream of the crop, I struggled to find my identity because previously my identity had been through success, like academic success.

And then when I wasn't, like, up there, I suddenly had to realize like, okay, well, who am I? Like, if I'm not my achievements, like, who am I? So honestly, that was kind of s- start of, like, a spiritual process for me because I, from a young age, suddenly realized, well, like, what, what is my identity? Like, who, yeah, who am I? So it was pretty interesting.

Um, medical school is, is fantastic, but it's very tough.

Like, for us, from week one, we were working with cadavers.

Mm

So there's lots of use of language which, uh, yoga teachers use all the time, because it's in the trainings, I suppose, which is probably ineffective and outdated, but it doesn't tend to get updated.

updated.Yeah. Well, the biggest one is the, the easiest fix is to remove the word protect from your teaching language.

Our body does not need protecting, particularly in a yoga setting, uh, as long as you have the, the correct approach, which is being mindful, aware, working with your body rather than against it.

You know, so it's, it's, you know, have a, have a common sense approach.

You don't need to use the word protect.

We don't need to engage the core to protect the lower back.

We don't need to micro-bend the knee to protect the knee.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

So this ocean sound.

So it's interesting because the, the sound itself isn't necessarily the goal.

It can be.

The sound has a lot of, can have a lot of benefits, but it's almost like a byproduct of the, the mechanics of that, yeah? So you get this, this constriction of the, the glottis.

You get turbulence.

And, and then that is a- actually gonna slow the breath.

Mm-hmm.