001: Yoga As A Daily Dose

We recorded this one outside in the park at sunset, then started with the simplest reset that most of us forget all day: sit up, find your natural spine, and take a real breath. That’s the spirit of Your Daily Dose, a podcast about building a practice you can follow along and repeat.

Yoga trains stillness, attention, and the ability to stay present when your mind is loud. We get into mulabandha, posture cues, and why breathwork and prana awareness can change how you move and how you think, especially if you spend four to six hours a day compressed in a chair.

We also connect the dots from strength training to yoga philosophy. After years of personal training, kettlebells, powerlifting, sandbag work, and now a 5K and 10K running journey, we’ve learned the missing piece is learning to feel better as well. 

If you’re in San Diego and want to practice with us, we shout out our outdoor yoga sessions and how to find the schedule on Instagram. Subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review on Spotify. What would you want as your daily dose?

Transcript

Welcome And Posture Reset

SPEAKER_01 0:01

Alright, we've hit the record button. This is episode one of your daily dose or the daily dose.

SPEAKER_00 0:08

Your daily dose.

SPEAKER_01 0:09

Your daily dose. And if you're mentioning, if you're oh mention, if you're thinking what dose of what, I don't know. I don't know. Whatever you get out of this, we'll be coming to you weekly, maybe multiple episodes a week. Just starting this out. My name is Luther Palmer. I'll be your host. And here is Deliz.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Hi, nice to meet everyone. My name is Delez.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

So uh I run a yoga class out here in San Diego, California. Have started this yoga journey about nine months ago, I believe. I'm in my like eighth month of um taking yoga teaching courses. And um what I what is definitely just opened my mind to where most people think yoga is just the postures, asana and flowing. And before we really get deep into episode one, I'm just excited for everyone to hear this. Let's kind of correct our posture if you're driving, if you're laying down, if you're sitting at a desk, just correct your posture. Fall in a natural curvature of your spine, then give it some energy, squeeze your mulabandha, which is your ground chakra, if I'm saying that or remembering it correctly, together, and have like a nice posture as you listen to your daily dose podcast episode one. So, as I was saying, let's take a nice inhale together. Open mouth exhale. And let's get into the podcast episode.

Yoga Beyond The Poses

SPEAKER_01 1:55

So, as I was saying, I started this uh journey about nine months ago um with power yoga and learning it. I think the I don't even know the school, it's kind of funny. It's uh NPTI out here in San Diego, California. Uh, but it's it's just great because I was expecting, as like every boy probably gonna going to do yoga, I'm just gonna go in here, learn some postures, how to hold, and really just develop the movement of yoga, right? What I was not expecting is actually absolutely learning the uh philosophy of yoga. And we won't get too deep, or we will with some guests in some episodes, but for me, it's really just uh not I've always had an open mind, but it's allowed me to collect my thoughts and attempt to build a road now with the bricks of the bricks from my thoughts. So as a thought comes in, I collect the brick, I put it down, and now it's the path that I want to walk. And it's been really, really inspiring. I I've taught people uh physical fitness for honestly, the first time I got paid was 2016 to design a program for somebody. And then 2019 I got I was like official personal trainer in the in Washington State for a little bit, and then 2020 pandemic happened, and I started teaching people kettlebells in a park. Really discovered that I had an itch for strength, and I just wanted to be strong as possible, fell in love into uh fell in love and still and will always love the powerlifting, powerlifting community, and that really showed me that community showed me how important a coach is, uh, how intentive your coach has to be and uh deliberate they have to be as well. But um teaching people to be strong is a unique way to um to look at fitness, and yoga has taught me that there is other ways you can teach fit fitness, not just strength, numbers, but also you know, attempting to find your edge in a posture, attempting to silence all the distractions while you're in your asana flow, um bringing awareness to your breath and your prana, your life force. See, I can I can talk about a little bit of philosophy yoga or the eight yoga uh strings of yoga the Yoga Sutra introduce. But basically, this podcast is going to basically um be me talking about stuff like that. Like I said, it's your daily dose. Let's give the Liz some time to speak. I don't know where I was going with that. I was just trying to give an honest intro of how we got here.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

Yeah. Oh yeah, definitely. Yoga, yoga's been fun, especially with uh how you mentioned being that stillness, like being okay with that silence. I feel like a lot of us it takes time to really pay attention and be present in those moments of silence because we're so wrapped up in the noise of you know, traffic and life. Life, yeah, that's how it goes. So it's definitely been a fun journey with that. Definitely the stretching is just like you don't even know you can stretch certain muscles until you kind of feel all those poses in yoga. So it's been it's been fun. I like it. It's definitely been different. Nothing that I've tried ever before just because I've always been afraid that I'm like I don't have

Strength Culture Meets Yoga Philosophy

SPEAKER_00 5:50

the flexibility, but it's not all about flexibility. It's I think it's mostly just like you mentioned, being pressing with your breath and becoming that one with you.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Yeah, and I I really feel that's um that's that's like an inspiration of the name of the podcast and the practice. Uh I know so it what's fun is um you have uh we've done uh powerlifting together. Um now and then we went deep into sandbag training. Now we're on this like 5k, 10k running journey, but also now accepting the practice of uh adding some yoga. Like I don't I think I'm at a point where I'm gonna be doing yoga for a while each week. Each week, and I think I definitely want to teach it for a while uh each week. But um it's not it's not teaching people to be strong or stable or find the correct way to look in the posture. It's trying to teach people just to commit to the daily dosage of it.

SPEAKER_00 7:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

Like it truly comes with the reps here. Cause each time you get you find yourself in a pose, it's a little bit different anyway. So it's kind of like when do you figure out like by looks, oh okay, the hips are square, you're let your knees bent over the second toe, you're hit you have right alignment, but does it feel right? How does it feel? And then trying to find that um that success in the stillness and trying to teach that. That that has just been so fun, so fun. So interesting too, because again, when you're teaching people how to be strong, you gotta pull from something else. In yoga, what I've seen is everyone truly has their own reason to be here. And I I feel like it's like that with all any fitness, but like it really shows with yoga.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

I feel like it's more of that connect of becoming one with your practice, like really focusing and harnessing that is what gets you to be good with yoga. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

So when I first started teaching, it was more of like a power style yoga. You remember that?

SPEAKER_00 8:16

Yeah, I remember that.

SPEAKER_01 8:17

And now, uh, if we have to put it into words, or I I guess if if someone that um that would come review my practice, maybe if if Coach Czar would come here, he would be like, I think it's more of like a slow flow uh vinyasa or like a like a more uh authentic. And there's gonna be some people that hear this word when I say hata style, because in yoga every um and guys, this will not just be a yoga center podcast. First episode. First episode. Let it let us just breathe. But um Hata is just asana, it's the movement. So honestly, every style of yoga that in that involves an asana, a posture, or a link of asana is a hata style. But I feel that there is some hata hata style yoga that is more traditional and a little less um, I'm gonna use the word wacky, but that's probably not right. Because

Finding Your Edge Through Stillness

SPEAKER_01 9:20

every it's your practice, have fun with it. Um what I'm getting to say, do you like the more power style or where we're at and what we're developing now?

SPEAKER_00 9:30

I think I like more of where we're at now just because I feel like it does really go hand in hand with our interval running, like it really warms us up to really stretch those muscles that you kinda I guess neglect, especially because most of us in practice are like office workers or like work from home. So we spend a lot of time sitting, so it definitely helps us open up, you know, our hips, our legs, our hands, or anything.

SPEAKER_01 9:57

Everyone currently in the class right now all has like a you're sitting for at least four hours of your job.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

At least for four to five hours of your job. And that's just so common in today's job force. God, and I wish like because I I'm thinking about my boy brain right now, because I've coached, I've helped a lot of people get strong, lose weight, and whatever, but did I make them feel good? That's what I'm thinking. It's hard to, you know, sit and be compressed all four to six hours, then go and sit in your car, and then be like, I need you to put this bar, excuse me, on your back. I need you to compress a little more instead of not and I don't like to use the word stretching a lot, especially like if I'm coaching you. I I don't think you've heard me say stretch. You've heard me say get long. Yes, extend yourself because stretching I think can put people in this mindset where they're like, I have to um hyperextend or I have to reach beyond.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Okay, that makes more sense as to why that's the and that's like garbage you're using.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

The little word choice that I like to use, where getting long or really extend or try to reach out and um and connect with like this tree. Obviously, you cannot even reach that tree, it's so far in instead of stretching out and causing like this weird deviation because the play on words, because cueing is so important, but to go from like compressed state being wound up and bound through work and then being like, I need you to do some compound um barbell movements or machine movements, has to be rough. Where now I would be like, hey, go get a 20-minute yoga session in just to warm up and then go into that that war with yourself. Because I felt I feel like I I had this boy-brained approach of like I'm gonna go learn this damn yoga stuff, pick little things here because I know I'm missing something in my um and just how I want to coach, not just being because we were talking about this earlier, how you find something, like there's a coaching manual, or there's a course, or there's a YouTube video that you're gonna watch, or a podcast that you'll listen to, and this coach is gonna be like X amount of things, this is how I do it, and then there's something that you see that you that pulls you that gravitates, that you gravitate towards, and then you start trying to be that coach, and the next thing you know, you you end up just doing your own thing. Maybe take some months, some years, and I felt like that is what I've been doing. And as soon as I found yoga and the philosophy of yoga, and all honestly the lineage of uh Coach Czar and how he's teaching it, it's really opened up my mind to be like, okay, this is exactly I was I was missing the yoke, the unity, the yoga in my fitness. Because I love being strong, I love being able to run, but also love like knowing that if I need to sit still, I can sit still. If I need to control my breath, I can control my breath. If I need to find this posture, I could figure it out in the stillness and to be okay with it. And I'm really enjoying that right now. I'm really enjoying that right now. Yeah, but it's been good. It's been good. I've been really happy

Outdoor San Diego Classes And Wrap

SPEAKER_01 13:30

with uh the class too. And uh yeah, if you guys are hearing like the class or whatever, we um I mentioned this earlier into the podcast, but uh we'll mention it again. If you're in San Diego, California and you're looking for some yoga, we do yoga outdoors every week, Monday, Wednesday at 6 6 p.m. sometime 6 15.

SPEAKER_00 13:51

Yes, 6 to 6 15.

SPEAKER_01 13:52

If you want to know the location, go to Instagram and look up train with sand currently, or look in the description here, it might be changing, but train with sand, one word. You'll see my lovely face pop up. I will be your coach L. Come out for a session, have some fun, and we'll have a great time. But yeah, I think you know we can wrap it up. We're we're about to be in that that 15 minute t uh territory. I think I talked way too damn much. But yeah, this is the first episode of your daily dose podcast brought to you by KPTZ. Yeah, you want to close us out with anything?

SPEAKER_00 14:33

No, I think we're good. I think you you closed it real good. Everything made sense. Awesome. At least see we out here in the park.

SPEAKER_01 14:43

Oh, it's be sunset. Yes, yes. So we are doing this outside in the park where we do practice yoga. But the fun thing about this is uh we'll talk more about this in a future episode, but um this will only and always be a um audio-only podcast. This podcast, your daily dose, will be only audio only. And there's a reason for that. And we'll peel back those reasonings, those layers much, much deeper into this podcast journey. But yeah, like, subscribe, tell someone that you know someone that you know about that has a podcast now, you want to do some yoga, hit us up at trainwithsan at Instagram. And uh yeah, leave us a review on Spotify, and we'll be with you uh next week.

SPEAKER_00 15:30

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SPEAKER_01 15:32

Peace, peace, peace. Do we have a horn? We have these sound buttons too. Listen to this. Oh, that's the laugh track. That's the clap track. That's like the putum. The air horn. We're out of here.