TALI & LOZ SPIRITUAL PODCAST
TALI & LOZ SPIRITUAL PODCAST
S3 E10 - Yoga
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The last episode of this season! I am talking to Chelsea who is a yoga teacher. She is explaining the various different yoga types and the benefits of practising yoga.
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Hi, and welcome to a very last episode of season three, episode number 10. And I'm spending this episode with Chelsea. Hi, Chelsea. Hi. She's so excited. Chelsea is a yoga teacher and she's going to tell us all about yoga. And but yeah, first also to the listeners, thank you so much for listening almost every week when I can upload an episode. Unfortunately, after this one, I will be taking a quite a long break. Because my main business tiny loss crystal is growing. And that just needs a lot more time at the moment. And unfortunately, it does sort of break my heart because I do love doing the podcast and interview people. But I do have to take a break from it in order to spend the time with Tali and Loz crystals. And but I'm hoping that everybody who's listening I will see somewhere and event or fair because I will be traveling a lot next year. And otherwise just drop me a message. But yeah, before we finish this season, we have one more episode to go. And that is what beautiful Chelsea all the way in Manchester. Okay, Chelsea, so tell us a bit about yourself first.
Unknown:Okay. First of all, congratulations on your business going so well. It's absolutely amazing. I know. We've got some cool things that we're thinking about starting next year. So I'm super excited for everything and to be connecting with you and everything. Yeah, so I'm Chelsea. And I my business name for the moment is yoga with Chelsea. So yeah. I've been practicing yoga for around seven, seven or eight years. And I've been a teacher for about three. So a pest just pretty much as soon as like the pandemic was hitting and everything which is, which was fabulous, fabulous time to start a business and to start start your dreams? Oh,
Laura Konst:definitely. Yes. Well, it's crazy. Well, sort of crazy how we met because you're actually the winner of the 1000 pound giveaway on Instagram, as Chelsea won that over 1000 pound on prizes, which was with all different small businesses like all of us with 15, something like that. And Chelsea was the winner. And we connected and there was like, like we've known each other for I don't know how long but a long time. And yeah, that's sort of how we get in touch. And now she's here. And hopefully there'll be some projects next year with the two of us. So yeah, fingers crossed.
Unknown:I think people always meet for certain reasons as well, don't they? Like people can act for reasons. And I feel like the universe has a way of bringing people together. And that's definitely for a reason why we got brought together.
Laura Konst:Exactly, exactly is absolutely mentor like Lowe's on why, but in a good way, though. So you've been a teacher for three years. And you saw you started around a pandemic was during the pandemic?
Unknown:For Yeah, yeah, it was before it. So I had to I got to have a little bit of teaching because we started teaching while we were on the core. So I was still working full time, I just moved towns. So it was really unfeasible for me to take time off a brand new job to go somewhere like India or Costa Rica, which I have some really want to do, which I'm going to do. It's in my plan. So I found this amazing course at the Life Center in Manchester. And it was about a year and a half long course, I'm probably so wrong with that. But it was a long course. And so yeah, we got to start teaching about halfway through that, you know, so we could get some real world experience. So I was teaching for about maybe about a year before the pandemic hit. Yeah, it was. So it was really, really nice to be able to get that experience and to build up a little community of people at the place where I used to do aerial. So I already knew like everyone there which was, which was lovely. And they're the owner, let me use one of our spaces. So yeah, starting teaching is so scary, though. Like it's super scary. You're in charge of humans.
Laura Konst:Humans that sort of know what they're doing so. So yeah, obviously yoga. I mean, I think everybody has heard of yoga by now. If you haven't that I don't know where you've lived. But you should have heard at least about yoga. But actually I will ask the question what is yoga?
Unknown:So Yoga is a balance. have different things like a different kind of spiritual practices. So it's completely transformed from where it was like centuries and centuries ago to kind of fit in this modern day and age. So it's a balance between like your physical practice your kind of meditation practice, your pranayama practice is actually a breath work, practice Ultra chi and bring this kind of sense of spirituality and trying to find that kind of innermost self. So yoga actually means to yoke or union. So to draw together and bind together, like all these things, to try and find that, you know, that inner self, which in today's world is so much harder than it was centuries ago, because we have all of these different things that distract us and all of these different things that just go on life's mental, isn't it? Yeah, it's not easy to connect to yourself. I feel like a lot of people are completely disconnected from their inner selves just because of the way the world is.
Laura Konst:Yes. Oh, definitely. Yeah. And because yoga comes from from the east of the planet, Asia, do you know a little bit about the history where it comes from and how its was formed.
Unknown:So there's a few different things and obviously, because it's so long ago, and there wasn't like, not everything was written down. But the practice didn't start as a physical practice. So the yogic practice started as more of like an internal practice, like a meditative practice, a spiritual practice. I don't think yoga was mentioned till I can't remember the I remember the actual date, something BC, so something like something ages ago. I know, a long, long, long time ago. So like the word yoga actually wasn't mentioned until a while ago in one of the Vedas, so that's one of the original yoga texts that many people might not have heard of. So there's different Vedas. And then I think the the piece of work that really brought like this kind of, like ancient practice to light to a lot of people was the pattern, Jolly sutras. So that's one of the most well known, that's probably what most people have heard of. The sutras. Yeah. Oh, yes. And yeah. So
Laura Konst:long, long, long time ago. And then okay, so it started sort of it like metta meditation that was sort of yoga initially. And the laser, the physical aspect came in. Yes, of all the movements and that kind of thing.
Unknown:But nothing like it is today. Oh, it was.
Laura Konst:Oh, was it? Yeah. Wasn't even back then.
Unknown:Yeah. Yeah, super, super simple. Like, basically, the way like the physical practice started was to make you be comfortable in meditation. So that's what the postures were for. The postures were to make you to be able to sit in meditation for a longer amount of time and to be comfortable. In meditation. There wasn't like any of these like wild things or, or any other like a load of the crazy postures that you see like on Instagram and stuff like that did not exist. Back then. Definitely not. And obviously, we've adapted it to in so many different ways. So you'll probably see so many different versions of yoga like there's Poppy yoga, now there's BIA, yoga, there's power yoga, there's, there's every type of yoga.
Laura Konst:Yeah, all kinds of because this was another question I want to have. So now is more the modern times we have the movement, we have the breathwork we have meditation. But you still see like you just said online, different types of yoga. You have both just regular yoga as people call it like the sun salutations. Then you have vinyasa. And yin yoga.
Unknown:Yeah, yeah. And like, unlike happens, so half, there's like, quite like an ancient form of yoga. And same with Ashtanga. So Ashtanga is not one that I practice. Personally. I have quite a few friends that do. And I did have a go at it. When I first started started practicing yoga. And obviously everyone finds their own little their own little niche, their own little like avenue into the postural practice. And I think Ashtanga is amazing. And it's a super kind of like strict kind of practice. And I'm a very non string.
Laura Konst:So what is the difference between those if we take like the top three, we take the three different ones the most practice ones or whatever. What do they do? from what's different from yin yoga than the one that
Unknown:Yin actually comes from a different place. So Yin is like an ancient Chinese kind of practice. So it has, again, it's been modified to fit in with, like our kind of yoga practices you'll find, unless they're really, really traditional yen teachers. And you'll find that a lot of the yoga like, philosophies will be used in themes for yen and stuff like that. So like the Indian kind of Patanjali themes, or kind of be used in yen and stuff like that. But yeah, so yeah, when I log in, I'm also a yoga teacher. It's a very meditative practice. It's a very intense practice, for a completely different reason to what hot yoga would be. So when you when you hold the postures for anywhere between four to seven minutes, why? Yeah. I remember the first time I ever practice Yeah, and I was like, oh my god, I'm gonna die. To get out.
Laura Konst:Because I'm doing a bit of yoga like the normal one or what normal is but the one that I you know what I follow on YouTube. And she does yen as well. And it does say, Oh, my God is so strong. So I actually never tried it. But if I have to hold it for this long, sometimes even like the normal Samsung notation, I struggle with 10 seconds have like that. Next one, please. Next one.
Unknown:I'll send you one of my recordings, bn. I see what you think of it.
Laura Konst:Yeah, I'm gonna try it. But there's a long, long time. Blimey, okay.
Unknown:But there is a reason for why it's held for a long time. So it gets there's so many like different facets of like a VPN and stuff like that. It's hard to get into like every single part of it, but one of the physical reasons why we're holding it for a long time is it gets into the fascia. So the deep deep tissue muscles of the body. And it's like called a healthy stress on the body. So yeah, it really really helps things like with longevity in your body for like, ligaments and like, even like bones and stuff like that because of the healthy stress on on the body. But yeah, it's it's a really good practice. I absolutely love it. You should definitely try it.
Laura Konst:Oh, wow. But it's it also made me more like, like, a muscle. You know, if you want to have abs. Yin Yoga is the one that you should practice.
Unknown:No. Okay, well. If you want to, it does help gain flexibility because you are obviously getting deeper into the connective tissue. It's kind of like giving yourself a deep tissue massage almost. Yeah. So when you come out of a yin posture, and say you're in a class, you'll hear loads of like, Ah Are you supposed to make those noises because if you can imagine, you kind of cutting off like circulation and blood flow to those joints while you're in those postures and you'll get like pins and needles and stuff like that. So then when you come out of it, you have this whole entire fresh kind of circulation and blood flow into your body. So everyone will be moaning the whole class. Like at the end of like, oh my God, I feel so great.
Laura Konst:That is hilarious. Okay. I might need to practice on my normal yoga first before I do any yen.
Unknown:rise in though props, props, props. That's the thing you want pillows, bolsters, blocks, eye pillows, everything.
Laura Konst:Oh, really? Yeah. Because so long with everything. It just helps a little bit, specially the blocks.
Unknown:Yeah, exactly. Because like another thing is, you don't want to be going into like your 100% of a posture. So in something like a Vinyasa class or a hot yoga class or like a power class, you're going to go into the deepest variation of your posture, because you're in there for a second. But in your in, you want to go to maybe about 40% or 60% of what you can do. Just because it does, it really does take like that. Kind of really, the word I'm thinking now it's quite easy. Really Intense. Intense. Yeah. Super intense. Even if you like 30% like as far as you can go into a posture. It's still like imagine holding 30% of something for seven minutes. It's yeah.
Laura Konst:Wow. Okay. And then you have your vinyasa yoga I assume that's sort of like the quote unquote normal one like the regular one that most people do the one
Unknown:you see most of Yeah, I would say so. Definitely. I think it's the one that's kind of taken like the world by storm because it has all these like fitness aspects to it, I guess, which is a big selling point for yoga in in the modern world. The kind of fitness of it I think people only come to realize the spirituality of it, after all Huh, they've actually joined. Yeah. So vinyasa means to place in like a special way. That's like what being acid means. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. And it's quite a fast paced class usually. But it's just kind of like stringing postures together. And some people do things differently. So some people have kind of peak poses or say you'll be working on a, like a certain body part. So like heart openers, upper body openers, hip openers, lower body, whatever. And you string those postures together, usually between things like sun salutations. So in a class, you'll hear. You can take your vinyasa, or you can skip your vinyasa. So what they mean by that is the whole movement between like, plank to chaturanga. to up dog to down dog. So yeah, yeah, that's like, what they usually mean when they say that. Oh, does
Laura Konst:literally my favorite. I love that bit. And then, yeah, I love that. It's like this whole, I don't know, it flows so nicely. And then especially when you're not, you know, especially when you people flexibly when you feel a bit more flexible. Then it goes so well. And you're like, Oh, this feels so good.
Unknown:Yeah, yeah. It's like a ballerina don't. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Right.
Laura Konst:Exactly. Especially, like with a diving Swan or however everybody people, you know, we have your arms. Why do you feel like you're diving into the floor? Oh, yeah. And then afterwards, I follow. Yoga with Cassandra on Utah yoga with Cassandra. She's so good. I love her. Because I often get really annoyed. I think a lot of some of the listeners might have that as well. Sometimes they get really annoyed by voices. Some of them teachers, you have quite a deeper voice, or she has the same thing. And I really liked that. Because some of them are so screechie. And then like, I can't I'm sorry, I can't listen to sorry. And but she's got really, really nice voice. So I discovered her actually before, before she became huge. I think she had like, still had half a million followers. Now she's got like, 4 million, I don't know. But like, quite sort of in the beginning ish. And I love to straightaway but she she does like that. And then she does the chair pose after the sun salutations as well. And that is a killer. Oh, no. Oh, so nice flow. And they have to sit in chair and you're like, I can't deal with this.
Unknown:Part i i hate, like using the word hate and I feel like you shouldn't in yoga butcher pose is my nemesis. It's known as so another another name for it is fierce pose. Which you can imagine why it's just absolute killer, absolute killer.
Laura Konst:Killer. She keeps doing that. That is why I should do that. My suppose it hasn't been a reason for it. But
Unknown:I'm about adding it to my classes. I absolutely love it. I hate it when I'm in a class and a teacher adds it to my students to do to do.
Laura Konst:It's a bit it's really good for everything. Isn't it? Really? Yeah,
Unknown:definitely. But I completely agree about the voice as well. I think with yoga, a lot of people will try a class or whatever. And they'll be like, Oh, it's not for me. And sometimes it's not sometimes it's really not that person's path to whatever they're trying to find in their life. But I think also the teacher is so important. Not everybody is going to connect with you. And you're not going to enjoy everybody's classes. Just like I know that everybody that I'm not going to be for everybody. And that's okay. Yeah. I like to take more of like, a kind of fun, like childlike explorative practice into my teaching where I know some people really want like a serious, serious like, don't talk. Don't laugh kind of class. Yeah. Which is perfect for those people. And yeah, I just know I wouldn't be the teacher for them. And like you're saying, but I think voice is very important. Like people always say to me, I have a really good yoga voice.
Laura Konst:Yes, you do. Because you set a bit lower in your voice. And that's really that's really nice. I think. I think in general is nicer when women have a bit of a lower voice. I wish I'm taking classes to have a lower voice people. So because I think mine is too hot, a little bit too high, but anywho that's beside the point. And this for me also to record meditations because I've written a half a book of meditations and I tried to record them for also my customers under when they're gonna go live. But don't like my voice in those meditations. Like I need to sit lower. So I'm now taking senior classes. Oh, no, I'm here. Yeah, and I can't sing at All right. That's not the point. She's helping you connect. It'll help. Yes, yeah. But also to
Unknown:change my voice when I teach. I try and make this more softness to it because I have a very like, and my voice is deep, but I get super excited. And I'm super excited. I'm like, like an actual, like, yoga voice that is just different to this. Yeah. Which I can never put on. I can never put on if someone asked me to do I have to I have to be teaching to speak like that.
Laura Konst:Yes, I think you have to be in the zone for that as well. And I think it's, it's with the meditation recording as well. I've have a couple of I think, okay, that's it's better. But I'm really enjoying I'm really sit by myself, you know, wrapped in a blanket and I liquid. But it makes me feel like put a candle on and, you know, just make it very relaxed. And that's the, so my voice can go a bit deeper. Because if I do it in a broad daylight, that I can't, I really can't. And I think with yoga is the same. It's the same thing I had. I used to live in Balam, South London and that teacher, I loved her. She was so good. Then I moved outside of London sounds x. And then I had another teacher but she also had like a really scratchy voice. But not only that, it wasn't a massive hall with T L light. And I think about 50 people in there. And I was like, Nah, that's just not that I don't think that's how you should do I really teach yoga because I there was no atmosphere. But also the classes are so huge. That if you do something wrong, because you can do wrong postures, which will be one of my other question to hear, but didn't need. I think yoga because it's a meditative thing. You have to be in smaller groups.
Unknown:Yeah, it is hard. It's hard when you're teaching a lot of people. Because obviously, like you said, like you can't keep an eye on say there is 50 people. And you're not going to hold everyone in worrier to. So you can go and check everybody's alignment and make sure no one's gonna break an ankle. It's literally impossible to be able to do that with 50. People say we're co teaching with somebody or teaching like a workshop or something like that, then yeah, maybe? Or if it was like an advanced class, like, yeah, why don't I use the word advanced? In? Yeah, give them the light. And the people have been practicing for a long time, because I think advanced is just who knows what advanced is?
Laura Konst:Right? Yeah. Anyway, what they do?
Unknown:Yeah, like advanced doesn't mean that you're in the splits, I can do a handstand advance could mean that your breath work practice is absolutely stunning. And you can switch off in a second. So yeah, I think it depends if you have multiple teachers that it probably is easier to teach, say a class of 50. But otherwise, I would be super stressed.
Laura Konst:Yeah, cuz what do you think about? Like, how big are your classes, the physical ones are not online, obviously.
Unknown:So my classes range from especially at the moment, because in winter things drop at the moment anywhere between 2010 to like, 20 people, okay, so
Laura Konst:you can still keep an eye on people, because you do you correct your your students, if they have the wrong posture,
Unknown:or don't do physical adjustments. I, so what I do is I will use my words, and I will use cues, or I will go next to the student. And I'll demonstrate the posture right next to them, while giving verbal cues. So I think when you're teaching, this is another thing, actually. So sometimes teachers will practice the whole entire practice with the students, I do not do that. Because I won't be able to see them, otherwise, I won't be able to see what they're doing, if they're even enjoying it, or what cues I should be adding to make that class better. So I, I've demonstrate, and then I'll get out of the posture. And then I'll bet everybody I'll go around like the class in between people are like do the posture again, like in between them. Or again, when I see when I see the students doing the posture, say I can see that everybody's shoulders are hunched over or whatever, I'll use like a visual cue to like, lengthen the spine, bring the shoulder blades together, you know, open through the heart kind of thing. And then it's beautiful to see everybody's posture change when you make those verbal cues, because it's it's not a chance for me to practice when I teach like, I'll do that in my own time. I want to give them the best class possible and help them guide them through their 60 minutes of movement.
Laura Konst:Yes, exactly. Because I think there are there are some postures that if you do it wrong, you can actually get injured right We can pull. I don't know what you can do all kinds of stuff in your body. So yeah, that's for you guys. Obviously, it's good that you keep an eye on that. Because I think that's another thing if I do online classes that I'm often not quite sure if I do it right, or how I can do better, I've got a mirror. But obviously, I'm not trying to be a teacher. So I don't know. And then I think it was looks fine. Let's see. But
Unknown:yeah, I have strong opinions on this to be fair, Oh,
Laura Konst:yeah. Good to play with the adjustment
Unknown:thing as well. So like, one of the reasons why I don't adjust is because which is also leads into how posture should look, one of the reasons I don't adjust is because you don't know what that person has been through in their life. So they could have been through some, some things, that means they do not want to be touched, they do not want people near them, and they're in yoga to try and help them spiritually and all that kind of stuff. And I know I've had adjustments from teachers in the past where I've literally been physically pushed in like, as deep as, I don't know, they want me to go and it's painful, like, I'm not there to cause people pain. And I know, some of the adjustments, you want to look online. Some of the adjustments, there's actually been quite a lot of quite a lot of what's the word like hoo ha, about certain teachers and certain adjustments and how they abused their power. Because obviously, it's quite a, it's quite a vulnerable practice, especially when you're in certain postures, you're quite vulnerable. So you're putting your trust in that teacher to look after you and guide you. And I just think you in certain physical adjustments is just No, I just think, No, exactly. Like some teacher that really works for them. And some teachers are amazing at it. And some students really want to be physically adjusted. When I first started, I used to feel like all the teachers come and move me I'm like, the best student ever kind of thing. And like now, I'm like, stay away.
Laura Konst:And I want that anymore. Yeah. Well, that's, especially with everything going on with the me two things. The years that it can be. Yeah, that's true. I didn't think Yeah. I think the lady that I had imbalance, she was really good. But she was more, you could see her coming. She would always always look at you and sort of not really touch you. But she did type of
Unknown:thing. Yeah. Sounds like energetically touching.
Laura Konst:Yes. Yeah. She, because I know. Because I've got lower back problems. So I can't have if I do downward dog. I can't have that curve. So she would often I don't know what she was doing, but sort of adjust me a little bit. So it's better. Yeah. But it was never Yeah, it was never like really strong or anything. It was more. I don't know, it's just really gentle. But she would always not just become out of the blue type of thing, because it would just look at you or I don't know, maybe she asked. I can't remember exactly. But yeah,
Unknown:I do. I have just said a couple times in the past, but I rarely rarely do it. I always ask. And I know some teachers put like, say affirmation cards by the mats. And it's like you either leave it or poor leave it down. You know, if you're okay with being adjusted, which I get, I think if you are going to adjust is super important. Just to get that confirmation and Okay, from the students that they're okay with being torched?
Laura Konst:Yeah, so that's a really good one, actually. Because it gets sort of a double security on both both sides, isn't it? A really good idea? And okay, so then we have and then we have hot yoga as well. So that's Doga but in a sauna, for a Raj is hot. I love it. Why? I'm already hot enough. Well,
Unknown:I'm actually I actually taught hot yoga when I was about to say I'm not a hot yoga teacher, but I used to. I started my yoga journey, I guess, with hot yoga. And again, I went into it with a mentality of, oh, it's going to help me lose weight, like I had, I had an eating disorder at the time. And you know, like, if you've got an eating disorder, you kind of like, like, Oh, my God is gonna make me sweat. That's gonna make me lose weight, like so that's the that's the mindset I went in with when start in hot yoga. Which is crazy to think that I ever thought that about, about a practice that has benefited me so greatly now, but a lot of people do like they think Oh, hot yoga, it's going to help me lose some pounds and all that kind of stuff. Anyway, going off in a tangent Yeah, it's done. I think different studios do a different heats. But it's generally between 30 to 45 degrees. Yeah, and it's a different kind of heat. I can't remember the difference between dry and wet heat, but it's the one you can breathe in.
Laura Konst:Probably be a bit more dry. He dies soon, right? I think so. Because it gets really, really humid. If it's really humid, then then it's obviously the hot, right? Yeah. But why? Why would you do that? Why? What was the benefit of it.
Unknown:So some people say the, because of the heat. And because of the sweating, you're kind of sweating out all of those toxins out of the body, that kind of benefit to it. So it's great for that kind of stuff. Or I guess it really helps with the immune system, I guess, because you're sweating out all those toxins and all that rubbish and stuff like that. And it also really helps with the mobility and flexibility because your body's really, really warm. But that can be a bad thing and a good thing. Because if you're a naturally kind of stiff person, then being in a hot yoga room might make you go past your ability of movement, which again, could lead to injury, so but I love hot yoga, because Because I love being warm pretty much like I'm always cold. I'm a very, very cold person. And I could just sit in that room all day and just lie down.
Laura Konst:I'm the opposite everyone to try. Yeah, really? Yeah. I can't do saunas. It gives me migraine. I kinda like infrared and steam. So like the dry saunas? No, no, no, it's too hot for me. Either. It gives me headaches. No, not for me. It's too hot. And I need
Unknown:to drink enough water if you're doing hot yoga. Well, yeah,
Laura Konst:that's true. Yeah, you have to drink a lot of water. Yeah.
Unknown:It's quite intense. It is quite intense. For some people like the first class that I did. I'm not going to lie about halfway through. I have to leave the room for 10 minutes. I can't do it.
Laura Konst:Yeah, I think you have to be quite careful to start with with that anywhere. Yeah. And then you also have something that I've well I know that you do is aerial yoga. Oh, yeah. So it's like a crowbar, acrobatic? Doga. You've got ropes and sheets, or how have you called them from hanging from the ceiling? Yeah. And then it's like Cirque du Soleil all over, kinda. Okay, so how did you get into that?
Unknown:Well, I actually, I started doing the aerial hoop and aerial silks before I even tried aerial yoga. So aerial hoop, I guess it's, I guess it's kind of all the same exact aerial Yoga is a little bit more general. Whereas like, aerial hoop, and aerial silks are more like, circus kind of, you want to be pushed into that posture, because it's circusy stuff. So. So if your toe is nearly touching your head, you're gonna get the person next to you to push that toe to your head. And it's so weird to have those two different dualities with my movement practices, because I don't force at all in yoga, but then with like, aerial and stuff I do, like the different kind of movement practice. Well, yeah, I started with that. And then a lady started teaching aerial yoga at the same place, so yeah, it's just really nice and kind of, I can't use I can't describe it kind of nice. And like flowy. And it's just, it's just different. It's nice.
Laura Konst:Because with the area yoga, do you have to be good in basic yoga in order to do aerial yoga?
Unknown:I wouldn't say so now. So the difference between, I think you might have seen pictures on my Instagram and stuff like that the difference between aerial silks is usually they'll just be to pee, two separate pieces of silk, where you use your strength to kind of climb up them and then do crazy things. Whereas in aerial yoga, those two pieces of cells will be knotted or it will be a hammock. So you kind of just sit in that hammock, and you know, make the postures within the already kind of base that you've got. What so yeah, beginners, beginner friendly? Definitely.
Laura Konst:Because, yeah, that sounds really cool. It's maybe something that I would I would love to try at some point as well. Yeah, definitely. You should probably fall asleep at the hammock to be fair, but okay.
Unknown:Do tomorrow. smell like? Oh my god, it feels he feels like you're a little butterfly in a cocoon. Yeah.
Laura Konst:The lights go off, and they'll be like, still someone is still in there. There'll be definitely, definitely. And okay, so what if someone wants is listening now? And they haven't actually done yoga yet? But I think actually, maybe I should start. What do you suggest they start? And how do you suggest they start?
Unknown:So I suggest that you find a community class. Or if you have a studio near you, I would go to a specific beginners class. Just to get you gently into the practice, You'll even learn a little bit more about the philosophy because usually, the basics of kind of philosophy and breath work are in beginner courses. So beginner courses are amazing, you'll you'll find them in pretty much every single studio, there'll be a beginner course that just runs, you know, every six weeks. So I would definitely say, either go to a community class where it's just completely mixed level, which is what most of my classes are at the moment. So you have people that have never done it before. And people that have done it for like 20 years, all in the same class, which is lovely. Or if you're super nervous, I would Yeah, I would look for a beginners course, or a specific beginners class, just so you know, that you've got that kind of, you know, camaraderie with like, all these people that have never been on a map before. And just go into it with an open mind. So yes,
Laura Konst:I think. Yeah, unfortunately. Because I think what we see sometimes on Instagram, it's just ridiculous like that. They expect you to put your hair your you know, your leg, across your head five times, and then like nobody in the world can do that apart from that person. So you know, don't expect to have to do that. It's very gentle when you just start, especially to beginners classes. And I think definitely a personal one rather than look online. If you don't know about yoga, definitely go to a physical class, rather, yes. Hardware online for also the reason of your posture. To be sure you don't you know, you don't injure yourself. Yeah,
Unknown:yeah, definitely. Definitely. I completely agree with that. And if any of you do go online, I would start with someone like Yoga with Adriene. If you've heard of her, she does like a 30 day, beginners thing. And yoga with Adrienne is, is amazing. She's absolutely amazing. And the classes are only like 15 to 20 minutes. So if you're a busy, like person, or more more, you work a lot the perfect to do
Laura Konst:this great. And you do online classes as well.
Unknown:Yes, I'm taking a break from those at the moment, but I am starting them back up in the new year. So yeah, I do zoom classes, and I also teach privately on Zoom.
Laura Konst:Okay, so when someone has started, so they found their class, ideally in a physical one, what can they expect is going to happen.
Unknown:So with every type of class, and every type of teacher that you go to, it's going to be different, and some teachers will really, really focus on the physical aspects of yoga, some teachers will focus more on the meditation aspects. So and then yeah, there's loads but with usually say, for mine, for example, I like to mix things between physical meditation and pranayama. So breath work, and I also add bits of philosophy in the, there's usually like a recurring theme is to keep like, everyone, you know, on point and to help people learn a little bit about the practice rather than just going through a physical practice.
Laura Konst:Okay, so what would you say then, for example, what could we learn?
Unknown:So let's take something like a Ahimsa maybe which is from the sutras. So you've got the eight limbed path, which might be something that people have heard of, that's kind of like the path to liberation, or Samadhi. And that you kind of take this path to find that kind of liberation or Yes, anyway, Ahimsa is one of the NIA armas, or Yeah, I think it's you got yamas and in the unique armors are the first two first two on the eighth limpa. And then a Ahimsa is something that say I will put into a class or theme a class just to start to get them to know a little bit about philosophy and it means non violence. So that could be to walk towards yourself, or towards the world around you. Yeah. And that, that means like, again, it can be taken in so many different kinds of ways, depending on how you want to put it into a class. But I could put it into a class and be like so today we'll focus on self love loving ourselves how we can talk to ourselves better. That kind of Ahimsa, non violence, like, when you notice a judgemental thought coming into your head? How can we stop that and change it into a loving thought, and how we can take that off the mat. So I think, like, teaching, not just for the 60 minutes that you're on there, but helping people like get all these tools that they can put in the tool belt for life.
Laura Konst:Right. Okay. So yeah, so it's bit more than just the yoga thing that you're doing a bit of a given people a bit of extra. It's like having affirmations as well. Yeah.
Unknown:I love affirmations.
Laura Konst:I love affirmations. I think it's brilliant. I think it's always it's always good, especially if you do it in the morning. A good start the day. I really like that. No, she Yeah. So but obviously not everybody does that. No, it's very, it's very much
Unknown:that some people aren't interested in the philosophy or stuff like that. And some people just aren't interested in that part of yoga. And that's, that's fine. Like everybody's journey is different.
Laura Konst:Yes, exactly. Okay, so when you come to class, and then you sort of, yes, start talking. First, I assume that your teacher or teacher as well questions X, Y, and Zed. And then the breath work. Because with that particular flows, you need a particular flow of breath work as well. Because if you do the other way around? Well, it's just more helpful if you do the right way around breathing at the right time and breathe out time. And didn't do you know why? Why is that? Why is it so important to have the breath work going with your physical practice.
Unknown:So there's loads of different types of breath work. So there's ones that like get put at the start of class at the end of the class, but then the one that you use for your physical practice that you'd probably see in most classes is the Ujjayi breath. So that's like a warm in breath. And you kind of sound like Darth Vader, you've probably like, like, if you've been to a physical class, they'll either say, ocean waves or Darth Vader I like. But the way I like to teach people, if they've never done it before, is I'd get them to breathe in through the nose, you kind of want to make like a little constriction at the back of your throat. But when you breathe out, I get them to put their hands in front of their face. And imagine as if they were fogging up a car mirror. Yeah, so you kind of get that like. So it's supposed to make noise you're supposed to, but your breath is supposed to be like, vocal, it's like you're supposed to hear it. The benefit to connect in your breath with movement is to being able to Well, yeah, well, you can imagine if you move in and you're not breathing properly, or so you're exercising, you're hyperventilating? Yes. And that's like the opposite effects that you want. From your yoga practice. You want to stay away from that hyperventilation, you want to stay away from that chest and shoulder breathing. And you want to have that nice. Diaphragm diaphragmatic. Because even
Laura Konst:Yeah, diaphragm, yeah.
Unknown:Yeah. Then you connect into your Paris into Paris, parasympathetic nervous system as well, which is going to help connect you to that rest and digest response. So bringing you down from this kind of chaos that we're constantly in, in our life, where I don't think anyone really takes note of the breath on a day to day basis. You just because it's something that you just do. It's automatic. Yeah. Like, how often can you say you've got to know you've been asked during the like, where's my breath today?
Laura Konst:Sometimes I haven't, it's like, I can't breathe today then why?
Unknown:I always do it. But I always tell my students to do it. I might this week. Your homework is to three times in the week. I don't care where you are. Check in on your breath because I feel like I'm going on a tangent here from what you asked.
Laura Konst:It's okay. Well, we're talking about breath work. It is important you are connected to your breath work during you know your your postures, but also just throughout life.
Unknown:Exactly like breathing is literally the way we connect to life and how we feel Think to how we feel like we all have this prana this lifeforce in us, that connects everything, even like plants and animals, like, we all have this prana this this life or so being connected to it is super important. Like when we're born, we're barely breathing. We know how to belly burns, like we're literally born knowing how to yogic Lee breathe. And then it's just as we become adults. And as we get older, and life becomes more stressful, we start to breathe up in the chest, which is why you see so many neck problems and shoulder problems, because, but it's creating tension. And we're never getting that kind of full, like kind of full breath. So within yoga, especially when we're moving, to be able to keep that kind of peaceful state of mind. And to be able to move in general like, like, I know, if I'm not breathing properly, I won't be as comfortable in my movements. Same same with my students. So yeah, it's kind of keeping that mind body breath. Connection connection. ties it all together. Yeah.
Laura Konst:That's so beautiful, because that's actually what it was originating from the location and breath because meditation is also a breath. So it's yeah, it's one big ball of Yeah, self awareness, I want to say and self connection, and mindfulness, obviously. So that's why it's so good. And everybody can do yoga, I think even if you have, for example, like myself, back problems, especially. And it's much better now, at a time when it was really, really bad. I could barely move. But there was always some sort of movement I could do. Gently. So I do think it's for everybody. If it's not for you, it is for you. Because it's for everybody. Yeah, because you don't have to be able to do every single piece. And it will just help a little bit. You know, you can there's even you can do some yoga practice just on your bed, if you can't be able to get out of bed. Yeah, well, or
Unknown:restorative yoga, or, like, you've got so many different options of yoga that, like, I guess all you see on Instagram is kind of the gymnastic ballerina yoga, which is just not what happens in classes like listening. No one will make you do that. No one will expect you to do that in a class. You don't have to touch your toes. I when I first started, I was nowhere near my toes. I am not a naturally flexible person. Never dance never done like anything like gymnastics or anything like that. Like, it does not matter. Everybody's anatomy as you need. Everybody's body is different and beautiful. So you find a movement practice to suit you. You never try and fit yourself into a movement practice.
Laura Konst:No, exactly. So I think definitely everybody who is listening, if you haven't done already, and if you don't do yoga is something just to start with. Just have a try. Go to beginners classes, and talk to your teacher what you can or can't do. If you have any restrictions. I'm sure they all should be trained on work with you for that as well. Wow, Chelsea, thank you. Thank you. It's so good. You said I love the energy that you've got. And who's Yes, again to do some yoga. I haven't done it for a few weeks now. But I could talk
Unknown:for hours and hours and hours. Yes.
Laura Konst:Definitely. And I think I think it's definitely a good start. For people who either just started or not, or completely new to it or actually just like to listen to us. They probably you know, I've learned something from it. And I think the different types as well is good to mention because people may not may not be familiar with different types of yoga. And even if they aren't going to know exactly the volumes in vinyasa they may want to try more yet now that I think I can hold something for seven minutes. We should
Unknown:at least one everybody try in you will fall in love with it.
Laura Konst:Okay, I will try it send me send it to me and then I'll try to send you a video Yeah,
Unknown:just have loads of pillows even have you do a prop yourself or, like as well as the physical aspects, obviously, because you're in there for quite a long time. You really learn how to connect to your breath and how to quiet your mind because all your mind will be doing is when she's gonna tell us to get out when she may tell us to get out how long is left, how long is left. So learning how to short that monkey mind or like Yin is a perfect practice to help you get better at that.
Laura Konst:I probably I really need that though, because I'm very good in my brain, just not stopping to go at all. I will try it and I'll Um, I'll put up a story of some sorts that tell people say she told me to do this. I will do. Thank you so much, Chelsea and yeah, thank you for all the listeners. I know almost every episode I definitely have the core fans that listening every time which is I'm so grateful for. And yeah, there will be bit of a break. Like I said before, I don't know how long because I think it also obviously depends on the crystal side of Tali and Loz. That is getting busier, which is good. And a lot of events coming up, do check out the event calendar. And thank you, Chelsea, so much. Oh, thank you. Definitely, yeah, share this episode, share all the episodes. Every single episode I've done. It's now three seasons. They're all timeless. So you can listen to episode one, season one episode one you can listen to today. It doesn't matter. They're all timeless. So you know discover, keep discovering spirituality and share the love. Thank you so much and have a great day.