Stephanie Cullen

So, um, I, you know, I thought it was neat that you commented on, uh, the phrase, the human forest that you saw.

And, uh, just, uh, we don't, we don't normally do formal introductions of our guests, but we, we sometimes people figure out through the podcast, uh, how we know each other or how I know my guests, but, but, uh, I thought it was kind of unique, like, uh, that you're my wife's yoga instructor, basically.

And that you've been a yoga instructor pretty much your whole life.

And with that, you're more, I don't know what the word is, spiritual or aligned with those types of thoughts.

So then when you mentioned that you thought the human force was a neat term, I just thought, I wondered how, first of all, I thought you'd make a great guess, but what was it about that phrase that you found fascinating, if you wouldn't mind?

I just felt that, or when you had termed that, well, there's lots of different aspects to it.

Um, more on a like singular, like a one tree particular, um, a human is very similar to that as we like grow and we grow branches, we started as a seed and we grow and then we get our leaves and we go through that phase in our lives, our summer, and then we go through fall or autumn and we lose our leaves.

And then we go into the winter stage of that and we lose, right, lose our leaves.

And then over, you know, however many years we eventually move on and pass, right? Um, so that really resonated to me when you said that human forest, but then as a community too, you see out in nature and us too, we have pods of cities or towns or villages.

which are very resemble like a forest or a bigger forest per se.

And, and each individual tree would be like a human in, but just in a different, you know, right out in nature instead of being in a city.

So I know when you said that, it just really resonated with me.

I'm like, Oh, that's like, yeah, that's perfect.

Like that's such an amazing term.

And so true.

And in many aspects of nature, being human, right? You can really relate to that.

You know, we dig our roots down, you know, and, you know, we have, yeah, different, different times when things are dark and times when things are bright and just like a tree.

Absolutely.

And we respond to the light just like a tree.

Right.

You know, I

just

thought, yeah, that was great.

So.

And, and, and it, you know, I have to give credit where credit's due was one of our newer instructors, we were having a team event and we were wrapping up and we were all, we were all interlocked in arms and in a circle and kind of saying a goodbye thing.