Hatha yoga

Not all at once, incrementally and almost invisibly.

So this episode I'm doing, I've called it, Is Your Yoga Authentic? It's not a call out.

It's not a ranking system.

It's not me standing on a platform and telling you what you're doing is wrong.

It just won't be my face and my head because I'm unable to get anything to function with this internet outage.

So having said that, let's go.

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So I'm confident that it is so important.

That's how important Hatha Yoga is.

It is look like just like people talk so lowly of it.

I feel, you know, my heart is so sore when I hear people say, ah, we don't twist ourself into a pretzel.

When the Kundalini energy awakens in you, automatically you become very, more and more elastic.

And the higher the energy, when you're on grandmaster level, you become, then you become like a noodle, right? You can twist yourself around like a noodle, right? Not just like a pretzel.

But it's number one foundation is your Hatha Yoga.

In addition to these five things, you know, your core of your employment, your gainful employment and your tribe and territory, right? Where you normally like to hang out in, like your online portals, your podcast, selection of your portals, but also physical environments.

They weren't vinyasa classes.

They were mostly Hatha, um, some Kundalini, there was a Kundalini instructor, um, but it was just like a really soft, gentle place for me to land.

There was a mix of different people and bodies and I'd be practicing next to a man who I'm pretty sure was like 81 years old next to someone who was like also in a very different place in life than me.

So it wasn't, it was just like a really diverse studio at the time.

So I was a teacher already in terms of like understanding, quote unquote, what the general like field of teaching means.

But I had experienced so much with it that I really wanted to, or felt really called to also share it and to facilitate some of that experience, that kind of holding space experience for others and found, um, my, my, my training comes from Pranakriya yoga, which is a kind of branch off Kripalu yoga.

So Tantra Hatha and, um, my teaching journey began in 2012.

And, um, I'll also kind of note that just in case there are other listeners out there, I registered for teacher training.

And now they don't have really, I used to love listening to rave music, right? And it's not very easy to find and popular.

But I found new music that I found recently is deep house music, you know, because not so easy to find good trance music and maybe i'm evolving right and then some of the classics like beethoven classic moonlight sonata you know the it's absolutely amazing right to listen to some of the classics because very nuanced music right so depending on the mood i mean and so forth but for yoga and meditate for yoga not meditate for yoga and breath work and so forth and my Kriya practice which takes like about two and a half hours a day right just the breath work and the Kriya practice and the yoga combination because I spend do about a hundred rounds of Kriya about an hour and a half of Kriya and 30 minutes of breath work and 10 minutes of Kapalbhati warm-up and warm-up type of breath work that activates the nitric oxide and about 15-20 minutes of Hatha Yoga, right? That makes about two and a half hours a day.

In that entire time, I'm listening to my favorite channels, right? Like I like, as I mentioned, you know, gym music and so forth, right? And this is like very, like I like something upbeat, you know? And I absolutely love working out, you know, when when I learned to listen to music while working out, when I used to work out with weights and so forth, and I found it is absolutely an amazing time out, like that feeling like I loved what I was doing.

You know, that feeling of love came and it's an amazing antidepressant.

And they even passed away, you know, with illnesses that they ought not to have had, had they been consistent in the practice.

It's, how can someone who's advanced in yoga and meditation, it's very unlikely for them who's following a proper yogic diet, and doing the Hatha Yoga, you know, just 10-15 minutes a day of Hatha Yoga, about 15, 10-15 minutes of, you know, Pranayama, right? And just doing like 10-15 minutes of meditation, right? You're just doing that and not even doing your Kriya practice, right? you're not supposed to suffer with asthma or die from asthmatic attack.

Not that it's a cure for it, but it tremendously decreases it because it attacks your immune system through your lungs.

The lungs of asthmatic people are the weaker point of the body that the immune system is compromised.

in that but your yogic lifestyle the combination of your practices of breathwork, hatha yoga, meditation.

And for those who's advanced in pranayama can activate the Kriya system, which is taking it more on a serious level and want to fast forward your progression.

And when we say fast forward, doesn't mean you going to attain the highest levels in your lifetime.

Sanskrit has got like over 20 meanings, you know, but the meaning that I would attribute that's most appropriate from my perspective and opinion and experience in 50 years of practice that it's applying force and then relaxing.