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Of. Good evening everyone and happy
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Tuesday. I'm excited to bring you another
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episode tonight of the Dog Tag Diva podcast.
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I've got my beautiful, wonderful Co host with me tonight, Lauren,
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and I've got Rachel Farmer with us this evening as well.
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And we are closing out May, which is one of the Mental
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Health Awareness Month. And what better night to have on
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Rachel. And we're going to be.
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We're talking about yoga and health and Wellness and how to
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take care of ourselves. Welcome to the show, Rachel.
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Awesome. Thank you so much for having me.
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This is such an honor to be here getting to share a little bit
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about my story and just answer some questions, hopefully share
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some light. Absolutely.
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And that you're you're friends with Lauren.
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So how tell everybody about how you guys know each other and how
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you got dragged into this? She got dragged in.
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No, she willingly came because she loves me.
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Yes, I did. I was so grateful to meet
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Lauren. I think it's been a year, like a
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little. Bit over a year and a half
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because April. Oh my God, two years.
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Has it already been 2? Wow, time flat and I'm old as
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shit now but. I know I met you when you just
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had one kid and now you got 2 so time.
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Isn't. Yeah.
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So Lauren and I connected through Arbonne, which is a
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health and Wellness company that we both work with.
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And we met at a leadership retreat and we just connected,
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clicked, and really the rest has been history.
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Yeah, I mean truly. And now you're in.
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Both of you bitches are in Florida and I'm stuck up north
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for now. For now.
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So yeah, no, Rachel's a total. I will say this like to to
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preface, but like total inspiration.
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So when I met her, I was like, who is this woman that went by
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herself to Bali like I was not me, the one that like
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volunteered for deployment that intimidates the crap out of me.
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I'm like she went like we had battle buddies.
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Kristen. Yes, we did like we even though
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I deployed not knowing anybody, right, like I met them as I
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went, I met except for back you. That was for you, right?
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Like this girl just like took flight and rolled out with not a
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damn thing but a bag and and I. Was like.
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That I said that is terrifying. Like, oh, it's like God bless.
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Like it was so moving and inspirational.
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And to hear her calling, I'm so I'm so excited to hear like
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rehear everything and her new vision now and 'cause she's
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branching out. So I'm super excited to have her
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here. That's so sweet, Thank you.
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Yeah. So tell us a little bit more
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about yourself, Rachel and your background and how you got
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involved in all the things. Yes.
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So I am currently living in Florida, but I'm actually
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originally from Maryland, but I've been in Florida for a
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while. So I went to University of Miami
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and then I went to Nova Southeastern where I actually
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studied to become a physician assistant.
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So I have a medical background, but around I want to say it's
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actually been two years since I have not practiced.
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I got really burnt out working in medicine.
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It just wasn't giving me the lifestyle that was sustainable
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for I love my patients, I love the actual role and
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responsibility of what I did as a dermatology PA, but it was
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just taking more than it was giving to me and I knew that
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something had to change. I already had this love for
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health and Wellness through Arbonne, which is again the
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company that connected Lauren and I.
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So I knew that I had this passion with wanting to help
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people. I knew I loved health and
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Wellness and I knew personally myself, I loved yoga, especially
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being up in Maryland. I was working as APA up there.
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It was so cold, I was so stressed and hot yoga was my go
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to. So I found myself just going to
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hot yoga all the time. And then when it was time for me
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to leave my job and I didn't know what I wanted to do next, I
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had this, you know, bucket list on my phone.
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And one of the things was to do a yoga retreat in Bali.
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I then pivoted and I figured, why go do a retreat when I could
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do a training and actually get a skill and get to learn a little
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bit more? So last February, I went to Bali
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to study yoga. And I didn't go really with the
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hopes of even becoming a teacher.
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I just knew that yoga helped me. I didn't know what I wanted to
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do. And I loved yoga and was just
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hoping that the pieces would fall into place.
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And they pretty much have. So I've been teaching for about
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a year now. So I have my own business,
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Rachel Farmer Wellness. I do everything, yoga, basically
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everything besides work at a studio.
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So I do a lot of markets, corporate events, bachelorettes,
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birthday parties, privates, all the different things.
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And I am now getting more into health coaching.
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I completed the health coaching program through Institute of
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Integrative Nutrition IIN, and I'm going through my board
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certification now. So it's been really fulfilling
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to kind of branch out from away from that medical side and get
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to help people a little bit more holistically.
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Yeah, you know, and Lauren and I have talked about this on the
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show in the past too, about just the state of Healthcare is just
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it's not good. And there are so many of us who
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are feeling stressed, burnt out, overwhelmed, over stimulated.
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So you know we. Under appreciated.
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Under appreciate you all understaffed.
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All the things, yeah, it's so real.
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And, you know, one of the things that I really struggled with was
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I saw a new patient every 15 minutes.
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I couldn't do a whole lot in 15 minutes.
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You know, I could do the skin check.
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I could provide the education. I could.
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But I really feel like we need to have longer, more thorough
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conversations with people because you don't go to the
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doctors to get healthy. You get healthy outside of the
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doctor's office by the way that you eat.
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By the time you're in the doctor's office, something's
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gone too wrong. So I really love helping people
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prevent, you know, getting. Yeah.
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And it's really just kind of a telling statement to where we
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kind of are as a society, right? Like, we've got a whole TV show
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dedicated to people who just kind of overeat and they're just
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morbidly obese and they're, you know, kind of living off the
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system. And, and, you know, from a
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psychological standpoint, a lot of them are, you know, feeding
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their feelings because they've been sexually abused or
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something. And a lot of them are
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uneducated. And like you said, by the time
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they get to that point, like it's too late.
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We need to be doing the preventative stuff.
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And it just feels like a factory anymore.
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We're just not doing what, Like, I in my big gripe as a nurse
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right now is I feel like I'm in front of the computer so much.
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I'm not with my patients and I'm just feeling so far removed.
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I feel like we're tasters. Right.
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Like I'm doing a task and I'm not doing the things that I want
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to do to actually nurture and take care of my patient.
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Right. Yeah, 100%.
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I felt like I was looking at the iPad, spending more time
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charting than I was actually, you know, providing that
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education. And like he said, the state of
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the US, like we are overfed but undernourished.
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And we're so you don't get to build a report like I don't know
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about you guys. We all have doctors like let's
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be you get sick, you go to a doctor.
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I don't know what you guys, but I don't there's no rapport, no
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connection. I don't trust you because you
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barely know me and I barely know you.
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But Rachel LED us in one. We went to another a leadership
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retreat together and Rachel LED us in a mindful meditation.
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And in that 30 minute span of her chatting with us and then
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leading us and then the after, afterwards, it was still more
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time building a I'd already obviously a friendship with
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Rachel, but like you felt a different connection by just
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like little holistic things added into your daily life, you
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build a better rapport with the practitioner who is
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practitioning you, who is actually helping, helping you
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and, and wanting you to, to to, God forbid, be healthy, you
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know? So that's my tangent.
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I'm sorry it's off. Topic So how was Bali that
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sounds? Amazing.
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I mean, so cliche, but life changing of course.
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It was obviously a big leap of faith.
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I had never really solo travelled like that before.
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I had never been to Asia. And I remember getting to the
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airport thinking to myself, why did I sign up for five weeks?
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Like why couldn't I even just do like the three weeks of the
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training? I was like, why did I decide to
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be so brave and do this five weeks?
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But by the end of the five weeks I was like, wow, I definitely
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could have stayed longer. So I loved it.
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I think it's such a special place over there.
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There's this very spiritual energy and people are just so
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connected with their land and their culture.
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One of my favorite things is just walking down the street.
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They would always put out little offerings throughout the day.
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So they would put out little flowers and cookies and incense.
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And it was just such a reminder that they just appreciate the
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world around them and realize that they're more than just one
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person. Like there's just a big
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community mindset over there. It's not individualistic.
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So even just outside of the yoga teacher training, I felt like I
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was just able to learn so much from being in that environment
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and talking to the people over there.
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So if you ever get the chance to head on over to Bali, I would
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highly recommend. Bucket list it, Chris.
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Yeah, absolutely, for sure. I agree.
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I mean, it kind of sounds like you had your own little version
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of like eat, pray, love A. 100% it was my eat, pray, love.
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I was going over there confused, not knowing where I wanted to
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live, not knowing what I wanted to do for work.
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And I really feel like I left with just a lot of sense of
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clarity. And I feel like it just
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connected me back to myself. And after being in school,
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especially for so long, and being in a position where I was
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constantly falling rules and following protocols, it was nice
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to just kind of reconnect with myself because I had lost that.
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Yeah, I think that's huge. Like when's the last time any of
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us weren't like, I mean, right now Rachel, Rachel's on the
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path. But like, think about it.
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And in 20/20/25, what? When are we listening to
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ourselves? What are we pouring into
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ourselves? Like this whole self-care is not
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selfish and and you can't pour for an empty cup.
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Like, yeah, freaking preach. We know this, but nobody is
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helping us to do those things. And we're so overworked and
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overran and and all of us. It's not just moms and not just
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women, and it's literate the gamut.
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Because welcome to 2025, where burnt bread is how we live.
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OK like that is. That's so true.
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Burnt bread is how we live. Wow.
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Y'all I've had, I've had a few days.
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OK? I can hear the baby screaming in
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the background. Sophia's going to be bumping up
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here soon talking about her. Aunties are on here and I'm just
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like getting by with Pixie dust prayers at this point.
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So we're going to do this for as long as we can until I get
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interrupted. Oh.
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You crack me up, Pixie. I have so many questions though,
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and I and and Rachel, I had sent you those questions and Kristen,
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if you want to like hit the ground because I'm going to
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interject with like my own jam. Now I'm still on Bali.
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I'm still like, what? I'm still like, what an amazing
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experience that must have been like, I think you know, and just
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take like you recognize that this isn't serving me.
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I'm walking away from this and I'm going to walk down this
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path. No water, no matter what it cost
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me. But my mental health is worth
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more than all this other stuff behind me.
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So I'm really, I just, I'm really taking it like I don't
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want, I don't want this to come off the wrong way, but I think
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that sounds really amazing that you recognize in yourself this
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is what you need to do to take care of yourself.
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Because this American Society right now, we're everybody's
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just in a big damn hurry to get to the next thing.
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We are not taking not only we're not taking care of ourselves
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individual, we are not taking care of each other as a
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community. And I think that's just, it's
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terrible. And we need to be, we need to be
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doing that is looking out for each other, helping each other,
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support each other because we can't.
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No one person can do it by themselves.
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And that's one of the, I think I, the community Rachel has, has
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created the community we have with Arbonne is, is and the
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community we have in the military, Chris is very niche,
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right? And I feel like your niche will
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look out for you. But God forbid we're walking
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through Target and you go to try to interject to help somebody
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with something. Even if they drop something
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behind them, their whatever their credit card, their phone,
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you go give it to them. Like 95% of the time people get
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mad that you intruded on their everyday life.
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You can't even look out for people anymore.
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It's it's rare that people are like, Oh my God, thank you.
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We're like, it takes a village to raise a kid, right?
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And nobody wants to interject in the kids.
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Even if they think they're being stolen, they'll just stare and
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like gawk and film it and then post it on YouTube later.
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And but nobody wants to help us with our mental health.
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That's creating this crisis. Yeah, it's so interesting.
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That's why I love what you're doing because I feel like this
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goes beyond mindful meditation and yoga.
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It's combining the two. It's recognizing the things that
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you recognize, teaching others to recognize those things in
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themselves and you're pouring into them.
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But you're still able to stop and pour back into yourself so
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you can give your clients the best version of you, which is
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just, I'm tired as hell. I don't have an any to do that,
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but I am like blown away at your capabilities to do that.
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And I and I don't want to say I envy it because that's such a
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bad word, but like I get some give me a word, I'm fried.
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I'm like. You're over simulated.
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I'm so over simulated, but I, I, I love that you can do that
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because some of us, most people can't.
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We have a deep appreciation for the the light that she's
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cultivating and. She you.
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Know and she wants to help others just like we got into
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nursing because we wanted to help others.
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But healthcare has morphed into something that I don't know what
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it is, not what I what I first got into and the struggle is
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real. And what we're going to take a
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break and we're going to come back and talk more about health
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and Wellness and self-care. And we're back and before the
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break we were talking with Rachel about her health and
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Wellness in her yoga journey and she went to Bali to for some
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training, which was amazing, I'm sure.
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And So what? Is there a specific type of yoga
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that you are trained in? Practice All of the above.
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Yes, so we were really trained on hatha yoga and vinyasa yoga,
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and we learned a little bit of Ashtanga in the last week, but
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that's completely separate. So I primarily teach and
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personally take vinyasa yoga. Vinyasa is all about moving with
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your breath, so each movement is paired with breath, so you're
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either inhaling or exhaling. And I particularly love this
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form of movement because it's very fluid.
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I feel like when we move, it's a lot easier for us to get out of
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our mind and into our body. We're concentrating on moving
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our body and moving our breath. It doesn't give our monkey mind
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a whole lot of time to think about that To Do List.
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I love that phrase. I don't mean to cut you off.
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I took one of Rachel's classes I virtually because obviously I
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can't bebop to Florida whenever I want, but I didn't virtually
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and it on a Monday. She offers them on Mondays and
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you can book them throughout Rachel.
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You can plug yourself in in a minute, but like she used that
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term and it threw me off for a hot minute at the beginning.
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I'm like a what? And all of a sudden it all made
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sense because I'm like, Oh my God, my brain is a circus and
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there are monkeys kind of running it.
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And I know that's not like, but that's how I that's how I
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associate it now. Sure, I too, I've got them up
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there too. I think we all do.
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We live in on this fast-paced society and it is so much easier
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for us to speed up and keep sprinting than it is to slow
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down. And that's another reason I love
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vinyasa, because you can't speed it up or you can slow it down.
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So I like to do a little bit more of a slow flow.
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I don't do it more on like a super fast pace or power.
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I really try to keep it authentic to yoga and talk about
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the mind connection, the spirit connection and not so much view
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it as a workout. So I would say Vinyasa is pretty
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much my go to. Yeah, I agree.
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I am inconsistently done yoga over the last like probably 10
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to 15 years and I know that it's your practice is best when you
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are staying consistent with it. Consistency definitely does help
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but I think any time that you show up on the mat you're doing
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yourself a service and I really love the 10 minute rule.
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I apply this to any form of movement or just honestly like
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anything that I don't really want to do I give myself 10
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minutes and I say cuz I think the hardest part is starting
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whenever people show up to the mat I'm like Congrats you made
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it to the mat. That's the hardest part.
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So I like the 10 minute rule, so I give myself permission to
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leave something after 10 minutes.
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So for. Example, don't really do this in
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yoga so much because I don't really feel a lot of resistance
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showing up to the mat. But for a typical workout, for
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example, where I know that I'm going to be sweating, I know
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it's going to be really hard. I say just show up for 10
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minutes and if you're still hating it, go ahead and leave.
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And I think I've only left a workout once or twice ever since
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I started doing this like five years ago.
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Because truly, once you start going and move your body, it's
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so much easier to start. So that's kind of my sense on
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consistency. Just about 10 minutes and 10
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minutes, even if you stop, is better than 0.
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Yeah, I think people don't realize how great yoga is for
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your body because I know I think I want to say was at least 10
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years ago and maybe a little bit more than that.
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They were actually training like NFL players and elite athletes
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and yoga because they were what they were finding.
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The more flexible you are, the faster you are, which is what a
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lot of athletes want. And the more flexible you are,
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the less injuries that you get as well.
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So I know my aging brain and body is telling me like, OK, get
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back into yoga, woman. I.
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Know I need to get back into it for sure, but there's so many
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health benefits to doing yoga, not just the mental piece of it,
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but the physical piece of it as well.
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It just the you know, the the flexibility and the joint motion
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and it's really good for women and you can start at any age.
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I know they're even doing it for kids with like ADD like in the
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schools and stuff. So there's so many health
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benefits to doing yoga. I don't think the three of us
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could probably say it here enough for everybody listening.
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To me, yeah, fine. You, you bring that up because I
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actually reached out to Rachel last week, I think, or my days
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are blurred. But I was like, hey, can you
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please put a yoga thing together for Soph?
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Because she needs like a, she really wants to do yoga.
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And I'm like, why would I pay somebody on YouTube when I have
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Rachel who I trust to be with my daughter to do a class to help
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her wind down. And then you know, the mindful
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meditation part Cuz so it's like she thinks she knows everything
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cuz she's a 5 year old going on 25, you know, So she's like, I'm
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like, OK, that's what I do. It's so cute.
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I love that. Yeah.
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I think yoga truly is for anyone and everyone, especially kids.
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It's so great for them to start young.
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I've taught a few kids classes and I love to incorporate animal
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themes. I think that really taught them
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in and it just helps them to remember, you know, like coming
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to a starfish pose or you know, like something like an elephant
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raising your hand. So drawing on that.
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But I've also done some cherry yoga for people that are older.
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So, you know, it would be great for everyone.
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And like you said, there's a lot of different aspects to being
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like physically fit and it's great if you can lift a bunch of
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weight, but what if you can't tie your shoes?
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That's like the mobility and the flexibility portion.
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And that's where yoga really comes in.
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Yes, you can absolutely build strength with yoga.
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Doing those Chaturangas, I can now do push ups and that's from
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the yoga there. But I think even more important
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is being able to bend down, not being in pain.
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That's a really big working through the body.
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I mean, even myself, I find I'm only 28, but I feel like I get
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stiff after a day or two. So they say like if you don't
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use it, you lose it. So just stay in.
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And another thing is it doesn't always have to be that intense.
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I love to remind people that you don't need to be doing the
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headstand or doing the craziest pose to get benefits.
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Like they say that yoga is not about touching your toes.
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It's about what you learn on the way down.
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And I think that's a really beautiful way to describe it and
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remind it because yes, you're touching your toes and getting
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that benefit, but it's also how are you talking to yourself when
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you're doing that? Are you speaking to yourself
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kindly? Are you saying like, oh, like
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this was so much easier five years ago?
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It's like that type of thing that makes yoga different than
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versus is just stretching. So you would think that.
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So in in in your opinion then consistency is totally better
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and Trump's intensity of it. For sure, yeah.
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I think with most things, yeah. Because, you know, if you go,
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let's say, to your local studio, you get like the unlimited two
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weeks and, you know, you go as much as you can and then you
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never go again. That's not really helping you
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longevity wise. So I think consistency, you
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can't see because I'm blocking the camera, but I actually have
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my yoga mat rolled out behind me on the ground just as a reminder
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manager for myself to just step on the map.
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Doesn't have to be long. Maybe it's just a little
24:23
forward, fold a child's pose, but just doing something a
24:27
little bit. It's like anything like when
24:28
you're working your business, when you're trying to make
24:30
progress training for a marathon.
24:31
I think consistency always wins. I think, I mean, I agree with
24:35
you 100% of the consistency. It's just interesting when you
24:38
bring it up in terms of this topic, right?
24:40
Because everyone thinks go big, go home.
24:42
Yeah. And that's that's rarely
24:45
actually always the case. And when you're getting started,
24:48
at least for sure, I will say that you really it it struck A
24:53
chord when you were like, but can you tie your shoes?
24:57
Because Chris and I mean Rachel, you saw a different breed.
25:00
We we know Chris, did I see you forever?
25:03
She's done kids, she's done everything.
25:04
And like, you know, bedside nurse for you know, I'm not
25:08
going to say your age first time.
25:11
So, but like, and then me from the, you know, ERICU and then
25:15
pack you like, you know, many patients we've had that can't
25:19
even put their shoes on without like an assisted device.
25:22
And it's like that, like we're getting these patients heavy.
25:26
And by heavy, I mean physically heavy and also chronically
25:29
heavy. And it's, it's like, where was
25:32
the preventive medicine? There isn't any, let's be
25:34
honest, right? And I feel like what you're
25:37
doing, I know some people won't say it's preventive medicine,
25:41
but it's preventive for sure #1 and it's preventive healthcare.
25:45
Yes, I agree. And it pisses me off that people
25:48
don't utilize holistic approaches more and that
25:51
insurance companies, I don't know if that was a word.
25:54
I just like insurance companies. There we go like Foo Foo it.
26:00
Like why do I have to pay more for a chiropractor or for yoga
26:03
instructor or for needling? Like I get dry needling for my
26:07
entry on deployment. I go get PT and dry needling and
26:10
STEM all the time. Why is that not covered?
26:14
I mean, thank God I go to the VA, but there's people that
26:15
that's not the case. Yeah, it's backwards.
26:18
It's backwards for sure. And I think it comes down to the
26:21
greedy people at the top wanting to make a profit.
26:23
Unfortunately, they don't make a lot of money off healthy people,
26:26
but I, yeah, I think that's really where I try to come into
26:31
play. And I try to always share
26:32
throughout my yoga practice or the classes that I teach, not
26:35
only, you know, what we're doing on the mat now, but how you can
26:38
then translate this to off of the mat.
26:40
So talking about like how if we're working really hard
26:42
through our lower body, remember to relax the upper body.
26:45
And talking about how if you're working really hard at work,
26:48
remember, keep relaxing that upper body.
26:50
Don't let the creep up. So I think that there's just
26:54
such a huge opportunity where people need to learn more about
26:57
this. What?
26:59
Would be in your. Oh, go ahead, Chris.
27:01
Bring it like bringing an awareness to your body and where
27:03
you are, like, you know, in relationship to the environment
27:06
around you. And it's kind of like, you know,
27:08
in the military, like, you know, and we create that muscle
27:11
memory, like how you practice, it's how you're going to
27:13
perform. And, you know, I kind of made,
27:15
you know, I kind of make it made a joke out of it.
27:17
Like when I was getting ready to deploy, they keep putting me in
27:20
these, you know, up armored vehicles and flipping the damn
27:23
things over. And, you know, I was in the
27:26
vehicle with all the gear on and and they've I they stopped us
27:29
upside down and the lumbar pad to the Polper vest got stuck
27:34
behind the seat that I was sitting in.
27:37
So when I unclicked like the harness, I was actually dangling
27:42
like a turtle because even though the straps were released,
27:45
I was stuck. But it was just luck that I
27:48
have, you know, am flexible enough that I was able to bend
27:51
myself in half and put my feet on the roof of this thing and
27:54
kind of like pop my booty out to get myself down and out.
27:59
But like simple things like that, you know, in reality, like
28:05
I wound up getting in a car accident several years after
28:07
that. And it was just sheer, you know,
28:10
because I'm flexible and my brain like muscle memory just
28:13
kind of knew what to do from the rollover and the, the
28:16
flexibility. Like I got like sprained my
28:19
whole body head to toe, but I had no major injuries.
28:22
Like we have people, you know, you could trip and fall over
28:24
your shoelaces because they're on tight or going up and down
28:27
steps. And so maintaining that mobility
28:30
and that, like your awareness of your body is really important as
28:34
we age from, you know, little kids all the way on up.
28:37
I mean, how's your stability? Absolutely.
28:40
Yeah. So Rachel, what would be like
28:43
your go to self-care recommendation then?
28:47
So I think nature is super important.
28:49
So I think that we forget that we are nature and we get so
28:53
disconnected from it because we spend our time inside and not
28:57
enough time outside. So go to self-care definitely
29:00
involves fresh air and then breathing, of course, that's
29:03
such a big part of yoga, but so often we tend to breathe really
29:07
fast and very shallow. So I would say getting out into
29:11
nature if possible, taking deep breaths.
29:14
If you're able to do some yoga, that's obviously one of my
29:17
favorite self-care and making it a little ritual for yourself.
29:20
I find it's really fun to add a little bit of essential oils,
29:23
maybe light a nice soy non-toxic candle and just doing something
29:26
that calms you down and feels good.
29:29
Something that feels simple enough that you could repeat it.
29:32
I think sometimes we think of self-care and we go overboard
29:35
and it's really great that one time, but it's not sustainable.
29:38
We're not able to do these elaborate things.
29:40
So sometimes the best self-care is just taking a break, stepping
29:44
outside, taking a nice like deep good morning stress, big inhale
29:48
and then exhale. Really like releasing and
29:50
telling yourself that you're releasing is just so simple, but
29:54
it really can make a big difference.
29:58
Yeah, I don't have people think it's like I got to go to the
30:03
gym. Like you said, you have so much
30:04
stuff that isn't sustainable, not that the gym is not.
30:07
The gym is sustainable if you're doing it within reason, right?
30:09
Like, but you're right. And then when life happens and
30:12
throws A curveball at you and jacks up your schedule.
30:16
Yeah. You forget that you can go back
30:18
to little things like going in bare feet outside to ground
30:20
yourself and stretch. I mean, I don't get the morning
30:22
sun the way you guys do, but the choice I made has not been to go
30:27
to Florida yet. It's coming, but when it does, I
30:29
will have that ability. Yes, exactly.
30:33
Just little things like that and like that's one of the other
30:35
reasons I love yoga and find it so accessible because you don't
30:38
even need a mat, you just need a space to put body.
30:41
You don't need to drive to a gym, you don't need this
30:44
equipment, you don't need anything fancy.
30:46
That's why I try to offer the online yoga to make it
30:48
accessible to people. Hopefully soon I'll have some
30:51
YouTube videos so that it's on demand.
30:53
We don't need to wait for time, but I think that's one of the
30:56
reasons I really love yoga, because there's not so many
30:59
barriers to accessing it. So what would be, how do I word
31:04
this? Actually, I'm gonna pull from
31:06
the questions that I had. So what's your yoga style then?
31:10
In three words. So I would say welcoming for the
31:14
first word because I really want everyone to feel welcome.
31:17
I don't really have like a niche of the type of, you know,
31:20
students that I cater towards. So very welcoming.
31:23
I accept anybody that's showing up on their mat.
31:26
I'd say empowering because I want you to not be disappointed
31:29
at your body or judging your body.
31:31
I want you to approach it with a sense of gratitude for your body
31:35
and realize how strong and capable you are.
31:37
So when you leave the time on your mat, you feel good, you
31:40
feel empowered that you can do hard things.
31:42
And then I would say adaptive. I mean, I've only been teaching
31:45
for about a year, so things are still changing.
31:48
I'm learning my style. So I don't really have, I mean,
31:51
I definitely do have a style, but nothing that's 100% concrete
31:55
that I wouldn't be willing to change.
31:57
So I would say like adaptive or flexible because the more that I
32:01
learn and grow in my own practice and in my own life, I'm
32:04
able to then better my teaching. I love it.
32:08
That's awesome. Yeah, and the empower, like
32:10
Kristen, I'm always talking about how not enough women and
32:14
Rachel, we've had this discussion.
32:16
Not enough women empower each other.
32:18
We're bringing each other down. And you've seen my
32:20
conversations, Rachel. I'm always trying to lift
32:22
someone's crown. Because what does it benefit to
32:25
tear down another freaking human?
32:27
Being I want abundance. I do not.
32:29
Understand that like if you're a total a hole and you come at me,
32:32
I'm going to probably match your energy.
32:34
I'm just going to be real, but I'm not going to tear you down
32:38
and I'm not going to definitely not do it for shits and giggles.
32:42
Yeah. I don't get.
32:44
It that there's enough for everyone.
32:46
We can all have enough success, enough money, friends, fame,
32:49
power, calmness, you know, whatever you're after, there's
32:53
enough for all of us. And there's never a need to
32:56
criticize your neighbor to compare.
32:58
I love to tell people, stay within the four corners of your
33:00
mat. It doesn't matter if Susie's
33:02
next to you doing the headstand. It doesn't take away from your
33:05
practice. You don't.
33:06
Stay in your lane. Exactly.
33:07
Stay in your lane, stay on your mat.
33:10
Yeah, I was never a fan of the headstand.
33:12
I'd never like, felt comfortable doing it.
33:14
I I never liked the way my head felt and my neck felt and
33:18
something that that's. All over.
33:21
But that's one of them that I'm like.
33:23
And that's OK. There's so many yogis and
33:25
amazing yoga teachers that I look up to.
33:28
They don't do headstands. Doesn't make you any more.
33:30
It doesn't make you any less. Again, yoga's really not about
33:33
the poses. I think that's a really big
33:35
misconception. That was something I wanted to
33:38
talk to you about, a misconception.
33:39
OK all. Right.
33:40
So it's about coming back to yourself.
33:42
And traditionally the yoga poses were really used to kind of move
33:47
around energy. So that way you could get out of
33:49
your mind and into your body to prepare for shavasana and then
33:53
that meditation. Because the whole point of yoga
33:56
is enlighten, enlightenment and coming back to yourself and
33:59
really knowing yourself. So the yoga poses that we do are
34:02
then really in preparation for you then to steal your mind.
34:06
Because if I were to say, all right, guys like let's meditate
34:09
now, I know our monkey minds would be all over the place.
34:12
Versus if we do a yoga flow for 60 minutes and we move around
34:15
that energy, we find some stillness.
34:17
By the time we come to Shavasana and we do that meditation, it's
34:20
probably going to be easier for you to find some stillness in
34:23
your mind. It may not be perfect, It
34:25
doesn't need to be perfect, but in theory and an application it
34:28
does tend to be easier. I will say I I mean, Chris, can
34:32
you I don't have I'm not on the right link today.
34:34
Chris, can you plug in her her Instagram handle for Rachel
34:39
Wellness, Rachel, Rachel, Rachel Wellness, Rachel farmer
34:43
Wellness. What one of those words
34:46
together, but she Rachel, can you or Rachel might be able to
34:49
type in. I can't type in anything on the
34:50
link I'm on. Don't.
34:52
Worry, don't sweat it, we're going to go to a quick
34:54
commercial break and we're going to talk more about health and
34:56
Wellness and. Yoga sounds good.
38:05
Me. Are we dead?
38:07
And in the chat, I have posted Rachel, Rachel's Instagram,
38:11
Rachel Farmer Wellness on Instagram and her website
38:14
rachelfarmerwellness.com. If you want any further
38:18
information or support from Miss Rachel, I'm I'm in.
38:22
I want. Emails and I love, love getting
38:28
I know we talked about when you first started doing them and I'm
38:31
hoping you're not feeling a composter syndrome doing them
38:34
now, but like I looked for it so much.
38:36
I was super pregnant when she started coming out with them and
38:38
I was like, I just need a freaking shining light for the
38:40
love of God. And because I was in so much
38:43
pain pregnant and so large and like, and when you started
38:49
coming out them, I was like, Oh my God, this is so nice to read
38:51
because it's not any, it's no, there's no stress in it.
38:56
It's not like crap you're seeing on the news.
38:58
It's nothing to do with work. It's a, you can even read on the
39:01
toilet away from your children if you have it, you know what I
39:03
mean? And it's like a nice group cause
39:04
your, your husbands and men are always on the toilet doing
39:07
something. So like, what's up?
39:08
What else do? So like it's, it's, I love your,
39:13
I know they're more than monthly.
39:14
At least I feel like they're more than.
39:15
Monthly. Yeah, they're bi.
39:16
Weekly I try to get. That I feel like I'm getting
39:18
them more than that. It's awesome.
39:21
So she has a subscription to that.
39:22
I highly recommend you guys if you want a little sunlight in
39:26
your e-mail box and not spam. Thank you.
39:29
Yeah, just bi weekly and I share what classes I have coming up.
39:32
I try to do a mantra. Usually 2 mantras is bi weekly.
39:36
So mantra for like 2 weeks. I share some different health
39:39
tips, maybe something about the moon, horoscopes, just providing
39:42
some value. So they're not a very long read.
39:45
But if you go to my website and you're just on it for more than
39:47
two seconds, a little pop up box will come up and ask if you want
39:50
to subscribe. So you can do that and would
39:53
definitely love to have you on that.
39:54
That's awesome. 2 questions I want to pick your brain at
39:57
because we went to break right before that when my mind was
40:00
going to hell in a handbasket. I wanted to ask if you can
40:05
visualize monkeys. They're scrambling the eggs.
40:07
OK, this is your this is your brain.
40:10
This is your brain on drugs. But I don't take any drugs.
40:15
So you brought up making mistakes like the mat is kind of
40:18
like a judgement free zone. Feel empowered.
40:21
I remember the first time I saw you do yoga on a mat, you were
40:23
on your patio in Florida and your your caption was about
40:27
like, it's OK to make mistakes and fall and slip.
40:30
And I always felt so insecure going to yoga classes 'cause I'm
40:35
like, I'm going to lose my balance.
40:36
I have to do certain things modified.
40:37
We've discussed this. I have certain things I can't do
40:39
because I have an injury. And then when I was pregnant, at
40:43
hello, when I was pregnant, she flipped.
40:47
That's my daughter. She flipped like part of my
40:49
muscle. And like, so we discussed all
40:52
that. When I saw you slip on the mat
40:54
and like fall and then post it, I was like Oh my God like.
40:59
She's just like us. Like I can't tell you it makes
41:02
you fat. Someone just said hello.
41:04
Hello young lady. Professionals mess up.
41:08
And the fact that it's OK to be human because humans mess up you
41:13
made it so relatable isn't even the right word.
41:18
You it just people need to see that.
41:21
It was normal, that's all. Yeah, it was like, Oh my God,
41:24
I'm not doing it wrong. For sure.
41:26
And it's the least like when I took your class, it was the
41:28
least judge mental class. I and I love yoga and when I can
41:31
I go to a class, but I can't be consistent.
41:33
I got a baby on the boob and somebody else trying to climb in
41:36
my uterus and so sorry. Is this like it?
41:41
Just makes me laugh every time you say baby's on the boom.
41:45
Baby's on the boom. I know, my favorite saying of
41:46
yours. I'm so real.
41:50
But like I've never felt less judged, more empowered and more
41:55
capable. So if anyone is looking for
41:57
someone like you're not physically there holding my
41:59
hand. And that would be weird during
42:01
yoga if you were right. But like if anybody is looking
42:03
for everything you've ever not realized you needed, but
42:09
actually did need in a in a coach, whether it's yoga,
42:14
mindfulness, even health, I like you feel.
42:17
I feel like you're the person because you are the least judge
42:19
mental person I know. And if you were still in
42:21
healthcare, you would be the provider I wanted.
42:24
Thank you. So I just have to say that.
42:26
So like making mistakes, you make human look good, so don't
42:30
stop. And my second question has
42:33
evaded me, so let's keep it moving.
42:35
Oh, I was going to ask, what's your favorite yoga pose, Rachel?
42:39
Oh, that's a really hard one. I'd probably say Warrior 2.
42:43
I really like that one. So that's where you have a
42:44
really deep bend in the front knee, micro bend in the back
42:47
knee. Your arms are stretching in
42:48
equal opposite directions. You're gazing through that third
42:51
middle finger. I feel like I just feel very
42:53
strong in it and it's a pose that makes me feel balanced.
42:56
I feel like it's working on cool, poor stability.
42:59
It's not super fancy, there's not a ton of moving parts, but
43:02
it's just a good staple that it feels good.
43:05
I think that it makes other people feel good.
43:07
I can kind of feel that energy when people are in that strong
43:10
warrior pose. And one of my favorite mantras
43:13
is I can do hard things, and I feel like it just into that a
43:16
lot. I love that, Chris.
43:18
I feel like we've said that and didn't realize we're probably
43:20
doing our own little affirmation in that, like, yeah, and.
43:24
People don't realize, you know, that warrior pose, like all the
43:27
warrior poses like you, like if you look at it just a quick
43:30
glance, you're like, oh, yeah, I could do that.
43:31
And then trying to get into it and out of it, like like I've
43:34
been in that post and just kind of like completely lost my
43:37
balance. For sure, yeah, it's a great
43:39
pose to build on. Started to play around and I
43:42
lost my focus. Yeah, exactly.
43:45
It's one of the your monkey brain.
43:47
Yeah. It looks, you know, it looks
43:49
fairly simple. And I feel like sometimes people
43:51
view yoga and they're, you know, they think it looks simple, but
43:54
when you're actually doing it, it's very humbling because you
43:57
don't realize how much course ability is needed, especially
44:00
when it comes to balancing poses.
44:02
People are always embarrassed that they can't balance.
44:04
And I have to ask them. I'm like, well, are you a
44:06
Flamingo? Do you balance on one leg every
44:09
day? No, you don't.
44:10
So why would this be something that you're good at?
44:12
You know, it's something like anything.
44:13
It just takes practice. So why would you expect yourself
44:16
to show up on the mat and be able to make these crazy shapes
44:20
if you don't make these crazy shapes in day-to-day life?
44:22
Like it's not necessarily supposed to be easy.
44:25
Right, but you can do hard things.
44:27
Agree with me, get it, get on the mat and just maintain the
44:30
focus and that course ability. We use it in so many things and
44:36
I'm Full disclosure, I fell off my paddle board this weekend.
44:40
Is that what the puzzles got? Yeah, I just fell off the pad.
44:44
I don't. I must have just lost focus.
44:46
I wasn't paying attention and I just my husband's like, how did
44:49
you fall off? I'm like, honestly, I don't even
44:51
know. Like they were jet skis were
44:53
coming around and the boats creating like little swells,
44:56
like nothing major. And I just must not have been
44:59
like adjusting paying attention core and just fell over.
45:03
Lost my favorite freaking hat too.
45:05
I'm. Oh no.
45:08
But yeah, like I, you need that core for so many things and you
45:13
need to quiet the mind. And that's the whole point of
45:16
being out on the water is to quiet your mind.
45:18
And clearly the monkeys were out of control, even out of the
45:21
water. I will say yoga really does help
45:24
with core. Like even PT pushes it right.
45:27
Like my husband, bless his freaking heart, he needs to do
45:31
way more core because even just his posture, he's got cervical
45:33
and spinal stenosis and radiculopathy.
45:36
I'm just putting out HIPAA. Like it ain't no one business.
45:41
But like PT is like, you've got to engage your core.
45:45
I'm like, you should do yoga with me.
45:47
He he was like, OK, I'll stand behind you.
45:49
And I'm like. That's not Halloween.
45:52
Yeah. That's not like close, but not
45:55
quite. I'm like, no.
45:57
You just go to a class. I'll watch the kids.
45:59
Thank you. OK, so give us yoga in a
46:02
sentence, Rachel. So I actually, I have this
46:06
quote, I don't want to mess it up, so I'm going to read it.
46:08
So it says yoga is the journey of the self through the self to
46:12
the self. And it's from the Bhagavad Gita,
46:15
which is a ancient yogic text. And it's essentially touching on
46:20
all the parts of yoga. So journey of the self through
46:24
the self and to the self. So like I had mentioned, yoga is
46:27
all about coming to the self and we do that through the physical
46:30
body. So that's when we're moving
46:32
through the self, but then there's that mental component of
46:35
the self and then the spiritual and yoga actually means union of
46:38
body, mind and soul. So I feel like that sentence
46:43
about it being a journey is just a really great description of
46:45
that because it's so much more than the physical poses.
46:48
And I feel like if there's one thing I want to stress to the
46:50
listeners today, it's not about the asana, that's the physical
46:53
pose. It's about how you talk to
46:55
yourself, how you show up on the mat, how you then carry that
46:59
energy off of the mat. Like it's so much more than just
47:01
holding your body in those positions because holding your
47:04
in position, that can just be a stretch.
47:06
That can be just be strength training, but it's really about
47:08
the intention that you use behind it and the way that
47:11
you're talking to yourself. Again, I think that's a really
47:13
big one. Especially as women, we tend to
47:16
criticize ourselves. We always want to take
47:18
accountability and find how we can do better.
47:20
But just working on accepting. I try to tell my students, you
47:23
know, we don't need to label it good or bad.
47:25
Doesn't need to be better or worse.
47:27
It can just, it can just be. So I really again journey of the
47:31
self through the self to the self.
47:34
I love that. Yeah.
47:36
Love it. It's like, deeper than what?
47:39
Yeah. Yeah, it's a it's a lot deeper.
47:41
Yeah, it's a lot deeper. Rabbit hole for a long time.
47:45
So we were, we talked about how yoga is good for the the body
47:48
and and spiritual and and just blending heart, body, mind,
47:53
heart, soul. But yoga is also good for our
47:56
sleep too, right? Yes, definitely.
48:00
So I think one of the big things with yoga, especially coming
48:03
back to the breath, is the nervous system regulation.
48:06
We've talked a lot about how in our fast-paced society we're
48:09
just disconnected from ourselves.
48:11
So one of the big things is just bringing that awareness back to
48:15
the body. And then once we have that
48:16
awareness, knowing that maybe we're breathing a little bit
48:19
fast, we're breathing a little bit shallow, when we're able to
48:21
then tap into that parasympathetic or that rest and
48:24
digest nervous system, it just calms everything down and it
48:28
kind of recalibrates our body to do that.
48:30
Our body needs to do, which then in turn is going to help our
48:33
sleep. Because so much of the time, I
48:35
don't know about you guys, but I'm assuming we're kind of
48:37
razzled and frazzled and we're going all over the place.
48:40
So when we're able to tap into that vagus nerve, that's the big
48:43
nerve that we're using when we're working through those long
48:46
extended exhales, that's really the key.
48:49
That's going to help us to just maintain homeostasis in our
48:52
body, kind of reset that circadian rhythm, and then help
48:55
us to be able to sleep more soundly and stay asleep.
49:00
OK so I'm going to play sleep into stress because people that
49:03
are real stressed have trouble falling asleep right?
49:06
And if y'all haven't picked up in the 45 minutes we've been
49:08
together. OK hello So what is one thing
49:13
that you would do? Like what do you or what do you
49:16
do? Maybe not even recommend your
49:18
clients, but either way, either or when?
49:20
How do you ground yourself during those stressful times?
49:23
Overwhelming over stimulated times?
49:25
So I feel like it's a little bit cliche, but truly coming back to
49:29
your breath because for example, if we're in the car, I'm down in
49:32
South Florida where the drivers are terrifying.
49:35
So I can't, you know, get into my child's pose and move my body
49:38
when I'm in the car. But I always have access to my
49:41
breath. So that's something that I love
49:43
to come back to. Even when I was in clinic seeing
49:45
patients and really stress, the breath is something that I would
49:48
always come back to. And I really love sharing the
49:50
478 breathing. So that's where you inhale for
49:53
four, you hold for seven, and then you exhale for 8.
49:57
So what you're doing is essentially doubling that
49:59
exhale. And when we allow our exhales to
50:02
be longer than the inhale, we're directly communicating with our
50:05
body through our breath to turn on that rest and digest nervous
50:09
system. It's activating that vagus
50:11
nerve, which is the largest nerve, and that really helps to
50:13
settle you down. If breathing isn't your thing,
50:16
you can try humming, you can try whistling.
50:18
These are all things that vibrate the nerve.
50:21
But I really love breathing because just bringing awareness
50:23
to the breath is going to translate in so, so many
50:26
different scenarios. And maybe you're in a meeting,
50:28
you can't really whistle or hum, but no one's going to notice if
50:31
you're doing this breathing. It's something that's so
50:33
inconspicuous, it's so silent, it's so sneaky, but it really
50:37
isn't active. How do we not let our face know
50:40
what we're doing? I've struggled with this my
50:42
entire life. So if you guys know me, you know
50:45
this is true. So my daughter's picked up like
50:50
I'll be like, and I'm trying to breathe like I can't get into
50:54
the yoga rat. I've got me and you have to have
50:55
like a one-on-one, but like I'm trying to deep breathe so I
50:58
don't get ghetto fab on her ass. And I'm like, and she's like,
51:03
oh, you're frustrated. I'm sorry, mom.
51:05
And I'm like, how do I not show you I'm frustrate?
51:07
You're 5 like it's not your job to wear my frustration.
51:10
I'm just overstimulated because we're doing all the things, you
51:13
know? And how do you recommend people
51:15
in a meeting, especially healthcare workers, when they're
51:17
like, when they just want to knockout administrators because
51:20
they don't get it, You know, what's your recommendation?
51:24
So it's hard. That's something that I struggle
51:26
with too. I'm also a very facially
51:28
expressive person. I think, you know, we're not
51:31
always able to create breaks for ourself.
51:34
But if you can even, I mean, I wasn't really able to use the
51:37
restroom at my old job and have time for that.
51:40
Even if you just need to like turn into a corner like in
51:43
between patients and just like breathe it that way so no one
51:46
can see you. I don't think it's necessarily a
51:49
bad thing in situations. You know, it's obviously
51:52
depending on the context, like in a meeting, not the best, but
51:55
it's OK to show your emotions and let other people know and
51:58
just, you know, let them know like this is something I'm
52:00
working with. It has nothing to do with you
52:02
and establishing that boundary. And then just to also try to
52:06
like contain things, I really like using kind of like a
52:10
visualization of like a golden orb or some type of light around
52:14
you that is kind of blocking out anything that you don't want.
52:18
So I like to in that kind of envision it or imagine it as
52:22
it's penetrable, meaning that you can still give and receive.
52:25
You don't want to have this hard wall where you're blocking
52:28
yourself out from, you know, human interaction, but you get
52:32
to be selective kind of like as the gatekeeper.
52:34
So if, you know, someone says something that you don't like,
52:36
you know, the orb just deflects it, not even, you know, letting
52:39
this come into my consciousness, I'm not going to hold on to this
52:42
energy, this thought and just kind of imagining this kind of
52:45
like imaginary shield. It kind of sound, it sounds a
52:48
little silly, but it can be really helpful knowing that you
52:51
have this boundary that's protecting your energy from
52:54
someone else's because that's super important in healthcare
52:57
especially. Yeah, because we.
52:58
Pick up other things we end up carrying.
53:00
So much that's not hers. So just realizing you.
53:04
Know just. Even if it's in your mind, this
53:06
just like thin veil, it can be light, it can be like, you know,
53:09
the texture, gauze material, whatever, that just, it
53:12
separates you just creating this defined boundary just kind of as
53:16
a way in the mind to make it a little bit more concrete that
53:19
you don't have to absorb everything.
53:21
Because I think that especially as women healthcare workers, we
53:24
want to take it all in and we want to fix it.
53:26
But knowing that. Yeah, exactly.
53:29
But kind of having that protective layer is something
53:32
that I've taught some people to do and have had some good
53:34
feedback with that. So I would love for you.
53:38
To discuss, I don't know, I don't think you got I don't know
53:41
what Anyway, I digress. I want you to told you scrambled
53:47
eggs. I want you to tell the viewers
53:51
everything you offer in your business, essentially including
53:54
like I know you do group like leading groups in like
53:59
corporations. So like or like girls night you
54:02
could like you would host like a retreat for like all your
54:05
girlfriends or whatever. So please discuss.
54:09
I like the sound of that. That's why I wanted to.
54:12
Bring it up. Yeah, so I do.
54:14
All things health and Wellness so.
54:16
Specifically in regards to yoga, I don't have a studio, so I
54:20
either come to you at a location of your choice.
54:23
So I do a lot of corporate yogas where I'll go into businesses.
54:26
So if you work at a business, you can always ask your employer
54:30
if they're open to having me come in and teach a yoga class
54:33
or even a corporate health workshop.
54:35
That's something that I've started to now do where I come
54:38
in and provide tangible tips that are more than just stress
54:42
less, eat better, move more. Like what does that even mean?
54:45
So that's something that if you're working in a job, you can
54:48
ask your employer to bring me in.
54:50
I do group classes at different markets online.
54:54
I do it in person. So I do birthday parties,
54:57
bachelorettes, just partnering with different organizations.
55:03
I'm looking to get into the international retreat space so
55:06
coming January 2025 I will be hosting a retreat in Columbia.
55:10
262026 Yes, sorry. 20/26/25 yes, for January 2026.
55:17
So I'm really excited about that.
55:19
So that will be the part of my kind of retreat adventure.
55:22
But we're going to be planning some more retreats, hopefully
55:26
international and domestic with some smaller scale, maybe some
55:29
weekends where I incorporate some other practitioners,
55:32
whether that's sound healing, meditation, massage therapy,
55:36
just making it really holistic on different modalities.
55:39
So that's pretty much everything yoga I do, privates, personal, I
55:44
love to really create something for you.
55:47
So if you're interested in sharing what you're looking for
55:50
from the class, any particular injuries, I'm really good about
55:53
working with that when it comes to more individual.
55:55
And then with health coaching, I really like to bridge the gap
55:58
between whatever you were told in your doctor's office to life.
56:02
Because maybe you went to the doctor's and you got this
56:04
diagnosis of let's say you know, like high blood pressure and you
56:09
don't even know what that means. You don't know how to make it
56:12
better or you don't understand really anything about the
56:15
condition and how you got there. So my goal as a health coach is
56:18
to, number one, help you understand your diagnosis #2
56:21
help you realize that you are not your diagnosis and #3
56:25
implement lifestyle changes to maybe even reverse that
56:28
diagnosis. Obviously, I'm working through
56:31
my health coaching credentials, so I can't provide any
56:33
medication management or any diagnosis.
56:36
I won't be using my PA license. But I'll be able to help you
56:39
work through different goals of with your nutrition, with
56:43
movement, with sleep, and really troubleshoot things.
56:45
Because for example, I find that, you know, we go to the
56:48
doctor, they say, are you eating well?
56:50
You say yes, and then you get this diagnosis.
56:53
And maybe you thought you were eating well, but you don't know
56:55
how to read nutrition labels. Maybe the grocery store is too
56:58
far away, so you have to order in bulk and your kids want
57:01
something different. So these type of problems, I'm
57:03
able to really work through them with you and help you to get to
57:07
your goal in either yoga and in health coaching.
57:10
I really love the philosophy that I am not the sage on the
57:14
stage. I'm the guide on the side.
57:16
Like I truly believe that it's you doing the work.
57:18
You have the answers within you and I want to empower you to
57:22
feel good because at the end of the day, like it's your life,
57:25
it's your body. But I want to be there to
57:27
support you, hold you accountable, and give you the
57:29
tools and the resources that maybe we weren't accessible to
57:32
you before. And I do think it's so
57:34
important. How many?
57:35
Times have have as a layperson and and and we've all seen it
57:39
right left the doctor's office urgent care ER what have you and
57:43
been like don't know what they just told me all the time all
57:47
the time even. With my patients seeing them in
57:50
15 minutes, I would give them a handout and they I'm sure they
57:53
had no idea they'd walk out and not know.
57:54
It's just not enough time and it takes a while for us to really
57:58
understand things. And then we have to think about
58:01
the questions that we have. So we're not going to understand
58:03
things right off the bat and have all our questions.
58:05
It takes some time. It takes the trial, the error.
58:08
So I think that health coaches really fill in this unique gap
58:11
and working through things and really troubleshooting.
58:14
And I think I feel like we're. Like healthcare's become an
58:18
assembly line, especially like surgery centers, urgent cares.
58:21
You pass through, let's be efficient.
58:24
But efficiency has turned into tasking and inhumane.
58:28
Not inhumane, but like, heartless, not connected care.
58:31
Yeah, it's not. You're thinking the humanity out
58:33
of healthcare. Right, we're right.
58:36
So. Yeah, I agree.
58:38
And I think one of the other things that I.
58:40
Really try to harp on is bio individuality.
58:42
I know that there's so much information out there.
58:45
We all have access attached to EPT Google, but information
58:49
overload and what they say works for one person may not work for
58:52
the other. My favorite example of this is
58:54
nuts. Nuts are great because they've
58:56
got a lot of fats in them. They've got vitamins, murals,
58:58
fiber, all the things. But to the other person, they're
59:01
allergic. Nuts can literally kill them.
59:03
So when you're working with me as a health coach, I can help
59:06
you distinguish what's actually right for you versus what the
59:09
Internet says is right for everyone.
59:13
Well, we've. Got about 45 seconds here.
59:16
Left Rachel thank you so much for coming on tonight we're so
59:19
happy to have you talking about thank you so much thank you for
59:22
Wellness and yoga. You're doing great work out in
59:25
the community and we're happy to have you and Sophia has joined
59:29
us for the last 30 seconds. How are you girlfriend?
59:32
Hi Cutie. Hi, are you?
59:35
Excited about next? Week.
59:38
Where you. Going Denny Disney for your
59:45
birthday? You're lucky girl.
59:46
Hi. And.
59:49
That's how we're going to close it out.
59:50
With some happiness. And self-care for the dog here
59:55
to remind you to greet each. Day with purpose.
59:57
Passion and tenacity and be kind to each other.
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