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From Pain to Power: Mindful Movement's · Create The Best Me

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  Carmen Hecox: Welcome to Create the Best Me.
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  Carmen Hecox: I am Carmen Hecox, a personal development coach, and I am so excited to be connecting with you today.
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  Carmen Hecox: Whether you're listening to the podcast or joining us on YouTube, my goal is to help women navigate through midlife challenges with compassion, inspiration, and empowering conversations.
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  Carmen Hecox: Well, hello there fearless midlife trailblazers.
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  Carmen Hecox: I am Carmen Hecox, your host and personal development coach.
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  Carmen Hecox: Today's guest is Dr.
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  Carmen Hecox: Hema Murty.
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  Carmen Hecox: She's an aerospace engineer and the author of Professional Women's Guide to Handling Stress.
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  Carmen Hecox: She's also listed in the who's who in the world.
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  Carmen Hecox: An advanced yoga instructor.
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  Carmen Hecox: She's a certified online personal trainer and nutritional coach, and an expert in Indian philosophy.
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  Carmen Hecox: Her specialty is helping women over 50 get rid of their pain so they can enjoy life.
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  Carmen Hecox: Today she's going to talk to us about how she does this.
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  Carmen Hecox: Let's dig into the conversation now.
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  Carmen Hecox: Hema Murty, or let me say, Dr.
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  Carmen Hecox: Hema Murty, welcome to Create the Best Me.
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  Carmen Hecox: I am so glad to have you on.
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  Hema Murty: Thank you, Carmen.
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  Hema Murty: I am so glad to be here.
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  Carmen Hecox: Perfect.
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  Carmen Hecox: Could you please start out by introducing yourself to the viewers and tell us a little bit about your background and your journey?
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  Hema Murty: Sure.
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  Hema Murty: I help women over 50 who have pain issues to get rid of their pain and enjoy all of their activities.
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  Hema Murty: That they couldn't when they had the pain.
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  Hema Murty: I do that through an integrated personal training, nutrition, yoga therapy, combination of every kind of tool in my toolbox.
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  Hema Murty: And I guess that's also explains my journey.
• 2:27
  Hema Murty: I wanted to do that because that's basically me as a person who had pain.
• 2:32
  Hema Murty: It was, uh, getting older and I was trying to keep myself healthy and do all the things I wanted to do.
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  Hema Murty: And I discovered all these tools along the way, got certified, did all the educational requirements to understand how to implement those tools to other people, myself included.
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  Hema Murty: Um, and all of the clients that came to me.
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  Hema Murty: And I, uh, have been doing that for over 15 years now.
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  Hema Murty: Really happy with over hundreds of clients, successful case studies later.
• 3:02
  Hema Murty: I'm still trying to help more women get into that position.
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  Carmen Hecox: Great, and I bet the burning question right now is Doctor Marty, why doctor?
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  Carmen Hecox: So let's just get that out there.
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  Hema Murty: I'm a PhD in aerospace engineering.
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  Hema Murty: That is my profession.
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  Hema Murty: At that time, while I was doing my graduate studies, I also, started doing long distance running, more, to get the brain juices is flowing.
• 3:33
  Hema Murty: The stress decreased and just to be healthy because as a graduate student in aerospace engineering, I was at my computer a lot at my desk a lot.
• 3:44
  Hema Murty: So, I started that program because other graduate students were also runners.
• 3:49
  Hema Murty: So, I started baby steps just going out for a couple of miles.
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  Hema Murty: And I was naturally a good runner.
• 3:55
  Hema Murty: I found out from myself and other people who told me that.
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  Hema Murty: And then I started, really signing up for like half marathons and marathons and just really doing the training and doing all the work.
• 4:05
  Hema Murty: And as I was doing that, I wasn't in the age category I service now, of course.
• 4:10
  Hema Murty: But there were still issues as a women runner, I encountered surprising instances of issues.
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  Hema Murty: And, I went through the usual mill that people do, the service providers, all very talented, chiropractor, sports, doctors, physiotherapists, RMTs, and.
• 4:28
  Hema Murty: I just went through the usual strategies of trying to get the pain out and get me back into action.
• 4:33
  Hema Murty: That's what everybody wants.
• 4:34
  Hema Murty: And so doing that, I discovered a lot of things about the treatment process.
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  Hema Murty: And then, I finished my PhD of course, and I worked in the aerospace industry.
• 4:45
  Hema Murty: I still do, and I'm a contractor now.
• 4:48
  Hema Murty: I own my own company.
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  Hema Murty: But on the fitness side of things, I discovered there is a better way.
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  Hema Murty: And I did my engineering kind of analysis of the situation.
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  Hema Murty: So, that came natural to me to analyze it from that point.
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  Hema Murty: So, I think most service providers in the industry come through it through the fitness pipeline.
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  Hema Murty: They go to school, they study human kinetics.
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  Hema Murty: Not that I didn't, I did go through those things in order to service my clients.
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  Hema Murty: When you're treating other people, you better get your act together in terms of knowledge base.
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  Hema Murty: So, I did all the due diligence and got the education that I needed to.
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  Hema Murty: But a lot of people in that service industry, like trainers who do rehab training, it's called, would actually go through just that strategy of education and then get the knowledge base from there.
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  Hema Murty: I think the fresh eyes and the fresh perspective just came from a different vantage point.
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  Hema Murty: So, these solutions that I provide are non-traditional in the sense that they don't go through the same stream of rehab training that one would encounter had they tried to solve this problem from the traditional quote unquote framework.
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  Hema Murty: And so when I encounter a client and she's got.
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  Hema Murty: Issues, whatever it is that they tell me about.
• 6:01
  Hema Murty: I look at it from a different lens, from the lens of a system of a body that has a lot of moving parts, a lot of aspects to it.
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  Hema Murty: There's the brain, which a lot of people forget about.
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  Hema Murty: They start treating the body.
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  Hema Murty: So, I think that engineering systems, engineering perspective that I had just naturally from solving engineering problems led me to a different solution pathway.
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  Hema Murty: And I was able to solve the problems with the pain.
• 6:30
  Hema Murty: It just turned out that the solutions were alot faster than had they gone the traditional route.
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  Hema Murty: And I always tell my clients, you know, see me get rid of the pain.
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  Hema Murty: But keep your service providers on hand.
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  Hema Murty: I mean, when you get your appointments set up with them.
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  Hema Murty: Do the due diligence.
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  Hema Murty: Do your usual strategies, if that's something that you think you're missing, that you wanna go that route just to get a double check, or you just wanna see them.
• 6:55
  Hema Murty: I always say that some people like to go see their service providers and just make sure everything's work in order, but those appointments can also take time and they're also very stressful.
• 7:04
  Hema Murty: You have to go somewhere.
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  Hema Murty: You're in your pain zone.
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  Hema Murty: You're gonna have to go travel somewhere and you have to sit in an office.
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  Hema Murty: All very, very stress inducing kind of an environment.
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  Hema Murty: It's not very comfortable for them to do that.
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  Hema Murty: So, I provide strategies to get rid of the pain and then they can do what they wanna do.
• 7:23
  Hema Murty: Either they can go back to their activities and say, okay, well it's not there.
• 7:26
  Hema Murty: I'm not really caring.
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  Hema Murty: Or they can say, well, I still wanna see you know, my regular chiropractor or my R M T or whoever, and that's totally fine.
• 7:35
  Hema Murty: You know, I encourage people to do what's comfortable and makes them happy.
• 7:40
  Carmen Hecox: So, tell me why did you, decide that women over 50 was your target market to help them with their fitness journey?
• 7:49
  Hema Murty: Yeah, well that's, a good journey question because I started my business, as I said earlier, about over 15 years ago and started just servicing clients in general.
• 7:59
  Hema Murty: I mean, I wasn't really particular, but I'll, I did have a women focus because as I was going through my training, as my backstory, I found that training for women was not as good as it could be.
• 8:10
  Hema Murty: I thought it could be a lot better, so specific to them.
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  Hema Murty: So, I decided to, just niche down into the women client category.
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  Hema Murty: And as time went on, I found that the women over 50 categories were the most underserved population in the fitness service industry.
• 8:29
  Hema Murty: That was just my anecdotal and may not be true all over the place, but it was my, understanding of how things were going with the clients that I saw.
• 8:40
  Hema Murty: That's the anecdotal story, case studies that they would report back.
• 8:44
  Hema Murty: The case history would be that they would see, their usual, trainers or whoever they ran into at their usual place of working out.
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  Hema Murty: And that was just not a good fit for them, or it just didn't answer the questions or the pain issues they had.
• 9:01
  Hema Murty: And so I decided since that was the most underserved population, I would just focus on that.
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  Hema Murty: And that became a really good thing for me because I can understand them being in that category now myself.
• 9:15
  Hema Murty: I can understand why they would congregate towards a certain you know, one person that has specialized in that and that would be.
• 9:24
  Hema Murty: Now of course there's many service providers in that.
• 9:27
  Hema Murty: But, up to 10 years ago, there were no people who specialized in that category of demographic only, solely as their service, industry category.
• 9:40
  Carmen Hecox: And I know that, when we had spoken before, you had mentioned that a lot of the women that you work with are women that are pretty active.
• 9:48
  Carmen Hecox: They're, I think you mentioned golfers, one of them liked to ride horses.
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  Carmen Hecox: So, you're finding them in a place to where they're injured and help getting them back into doing what gives them pleasure.
• 10:02
  Hema Murty: Yeah, actually, that's basically my motto is that, you don't train to train.
• 10:08
  Hema Murty: You train to live better, and, you don't, go to the gym because hey, you know, or maybe there's a category of people that like that.
• 10:14
  Hema Murty: But, we go to do the things we do because we want the benefits of that training or whatever it is we're doing.
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  Hema Murty: Even a yoga class or a yoga session on our own that we may do, we do it because, oh, the rest of the day I'm gonna feel so much better.
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  Hema Murty: I'm gonna feel destressed.
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  Hema Murty: My body's gonna function.
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  Hema Murty: I'm gonna pick up my boxes to go and do whatever it is I have to do in my car, groceries, whatever it is.
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  Hema Murty: I'm not gonna get into any pain zone or any difficulty with my bones, or my muscles not functioning.
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  Hema Murty: So, those are the, things to remember.
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  Hema Murty: So, we do the things, the training and all the, exercises or the modality that we choose walking, whatever it is, we do it so that on the end of that, the benefits is what we want.
• 10:57
  Hema Murty: So, as you pointed out, yes, all my clients have activities that they're actively interested in for their all mental health.
• 11:04
  Hema Murty: First of all, there's a friend thing, the friend zone thing that they have with all the people that they golf with or they play tennis with, or they go for a walk with whatever it is they do.
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  Hema Murty: They do it with their friends, their buddies.
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  Hema Murty: That's a whole mental health game right there.
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  Hema Murty: And then, if they're missing that, if they're off sideline somehow, it's the fun factor's gone.
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  Hema Murty: Their mental health is taken a hit, and they're just basically not the people they wanna be.
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  Hema Murty: That's just gonna affect them in everything.
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  Hema Murty: So, getting them back into their golf game, getting them back into their tennis game, getting them back on the horse.
• 11:40
  Hema Murty: I did have a rider who fell off and hurt her back and other things.
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  Hema Murty: And, you know, Humpty Dumpty kind of thing just put her back together and, you know, way she went.
• 11:50
  Hema Murty: Of course she had the immediate service providers who saw her, but she was left with a lot of issues that prevented her from being the rider that she could be.
• 12:00
  Hema Murty: And It was always a trauma factor also that left that residue in her body.
• 12:05
  Hema Murty: And so, uh, training her was a good experience for me because I realized that a lot of things about the physiology of writing and was able to help her just enjoy that again and not have the remnants of that incident.
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  Hema Murty: So, she's able to get back, get the enjoyment, get the mental health.
• 12:22
  Hema Murty: It's all about the mental health.
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  Hema Murty: I mean, I think we all know that fitness is a mental health game.
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  Hema Murty: Even though it's a physical body, it's the mind body connection.
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  Hema Murty: So, I think that's the important piece to remember.
• 12:34
  Hema Murty: People think, oh, I don't wanna do this, I don't wanna do exercise.
• 12:38
  Hema Murty: Don't do something.
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  Hema Murty: Do something to move your body.
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  Hema Murty: And then even if it's just a walk around the blocks, guaranteed to change your mood.
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  Hema Murty: Five minutes, you know you got this.
• 12:47
  Hema Murty: You know, and that's the other difference between my training methodology and people that come up the usual training modalities is that, you know, it's more, a little more rigid in the sense that it's a program, you have to do it, and I'm just gonna be that person that orders you to do the program, where's in my context, I don't play that game at all.
• 13:09
  Hema Murty: I mean, I'm just the guide.
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  Hema Murty: I'm just going to lead people to whatever they need.
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  Hema Murty: In fact, we may write perfectly a hundred percent scripted program for the client, come up to the session and not do an inch of it.
• 13:23
  Hema Murty: Why?
• 13:24
  Hema Murty: Because they'll present with something else that requires not this program today, maybe another day, but maybe they just need to talk to me and do some breathing.
• 13:35
  Hema Murty: And that has happened many a time.
• 13:37
  Hema Murty: Where I've come to the client session with a scripted program, based on what I know, what's hurting or what's not, and what are they up to, what have they done, if they've been on a long plane ride or something, and then I need to, fix that and then come to the session and find out, no, this is not what you need at all.
• 13:54
  Hema Murty: You've had some stuff come up during the day and I think let's do something else.
• 13:59
  Hema Murty: Let's do some breathing, let's do some stretching.
• 14:01
  Hema Murty: Let's do some T L C.
• 14:03
  Hema Murty: Sometimes that's, you know, all they need, and I do this remotely, by the way, I must add that since two years ago, I took away my in-person events and I haven't reinstitute them.
• 14:14
  Hema Murty: I've actually been successful in doing everything over video and phone.
• 14:18
  Hema Murty: To the extent that I did before.
• 14:19
  Hema Murty: So I'm happy that I'm not, missing anything in the in-person.
• 14:24
  Hema Murty: Maybe it's just the fact that I was good at the video and good at the phone.
• 14:29
  Hema Murty: I don't know.
• 14:29
  Hema Murty: But so far I have been very good with the distance type of training that I do.
• 14:34
  Hema Murty: And so I'm one of the few online trainers.
• 14:37
  Hema Murty: That means you can access me anywhere in the world and we can try to training sessions if you have pain and any issues.
• 14:44
  Hema Murty: I can certainly help with that through the online modality.
• 14:48
  Carmen Hecox: Great.
• 14:48
  Carmen Hecox: So, let's back up a little bit and, can you give us an overview of your program?
• 14:53
  Carmen Hecox: What, would people expect, or what would ladies expect when they first sign up with you?
• 14:59
  Carmen Hecox: What does that look like?
• 15:01
  Hema Murty: Yeah, well before even, we set up any sessions or anything, we'll have a consult call.
• 15:07
  Hema Murty: So, the consult call, is normally minimum 15 minutes.
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  Hema Murty: It ends up being a chat for half an hour or longer.
• 15:15
  Hema Murty: And I, we get to know each other because as much as we like to think that personal training is, you over there telling me an exercise and showing it to me and I overhear, it's not it, you're in the person's space and it's a very intimate scenario.
• 15:33
  Hema Murty: You kind of need to understand a person's body.
• 15:37
  Hema Murty: You need to understand their mental framework.
• 15:40
  Hema Murty: You need to understand their mood.
• 15:42
  Hema Murty: You need to understand their life also.
• 15:44
  Hema Murty: What are they doing the other 23 hours?
• 15:46
  Hema Murty: You're not seeing them.
• 15:48
  Hema Murty: What's their sleep like?
• 15:49
  Hema Murty: What's their personality like?
• 15:51
  Hema Murty: Are they prone to, mood shifts?
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  Hema Murty: Are they prone to high stress that is unexpected, or is that a norm?
• 16:00
  Hema Murty: So, there's a lot of things like multifactors that go into designing a training program.
• 16:06
  Hema Murty: So, you're trying to kind of maybe be their best friend for a while, and hope that they will see you as the person that they can count on.
• 16:17
  Hema Murty: To, be that person, that friend.
• 16:20
  Hema Murty: So, in order to do that, you have to get some kind of, familiarity with the person and get to know them.
• 16:26
  Hema Murty: So, I like them to get to know me.
• 16:28
  Hema Murty: I like to get to know them.
• 16:29
  Hema Murty: Obviously, I need to write a program for them.
• 16:31
  Hema Murty: So I like to get to know all of their, lifestyle habits and personality and interests also because, just because a training program is good for them.
• 16:41
  Hema Murty: Doesn't mean they're gonna do it.
• 16:42
  Hema Murty: And if they don't do it, that's just as well as, a useless piece of paper.
• 16:46
  Hema Murty: What they need is something they like to do.
• 16:48
  Hema Murty: So, you have to understand where they're coming from.
• 16:51
  Hema Murty: So, all to say that, we have a short, as possible little chat, a consult call.
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  Hema Murty: At that point, after a week or so, I will ask them if they wanna continue working with me and in what capacity they want.
• 17:07
  Hema Murty: So, I offer three modalities.
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  Hema Murty: I offer the get out of pain session, which just means a one time session where I'll get them out of pain, whatever it is that's bothering them, and then they can go on their merry way, whatever they wanna do after that.
• 17:20
  Hema Murty: The second modality is a regular program, but it will be, a once a week, five minute zoom session where I'm making sure they're doing their program okay.
• 17:30
  Hema Murty: And they have no issues.
• 17:32
  Hema Murty: There's nothing surprising that's gonna come.
• 17:34
  Hema Murty: You certainly don't wanna wait four weeks to, ensure that their program is working for them.
• 17:39
  Hema Murty: If you don't want that.
• 17:40
  Hema Murty: You wanna make sure it's happening on a week to week basis, if that's something they're comfortable with.
• 17:46
  Hema Murty: So, it's all about their comfort zone.
• 17:48
  Hema Murty: Then there's the high end program where, those clients just want me in their life.
• 17:52
  Hema Murty: I am their buddy, and every training session we do together completely.
• 17:58
  Hema Murty: Me on the phone if they're remote, and they, don't need video.
• 18:02
  Hema Murty: A lot of them have worked with me so long that they know all the safety features of an exercise.
• 18:07
  Hema Murty: So, if I say something, if I name an exercise, if I prompt them for something, they know exactly what they, because I've already worked with them in person or I videoed with them in Zoom.
• 18:18
  Hema Murty: So, they know me enough.
• 18:19
  Hema Murty: They've worked with me enough that they'll do it automatically without me, with my eyeballs on them.
• 18:24
  Hema Murty: So, I can leave them alone.
• 18:25
  Hema Murty: So, I can just train with them for the hour on the phone, prompt them through cueing, verbal cueing, and they will tell me feedback if, hey, that doesn't feel good.
• 18:36
  Hema Murty: Okay, then are you ensuring all of these factors are good?
• 18:40
  Hema Murty: And I can talk them through it.
• 18:41
  Hema Murty: So, there are those women in that category who will see me all of their sessions and they have access to me.
• 18:49
  Hema Murty: That category of client has access to me through text.
• 18:53
  Hema Murty: So, if they're on a plane and this has happened.
• 18:57
  Hema Murty: They're on a plane and they're traveling, and they're doing a stop and they have to get on another plane.
• 19:02
  Hema Murty: One client, I had, a couple actually, but one in particular comes to mind that couldn't move.
• 19:09
  Hema Murty: So, something got triggered during the first plane and then she had to do a connector to get to her destination.
• 19:16
  Hema Murty: And she was in the airport and sat there and then found out, oh, wait a second this is not right.
• 19:23
  Hema Murty: I have great pain in, you know, whatever it was that was going on.
• 19:26
  Hema Murty: So, I think she told me at the time, if I can recollect that she tried a few things that she remembered from our toolbox together.
• 19:33
  Hema Murty: Unfortunately, there's no one, answer to anything.
• 19:36
  Hema Murty: So, she did do her due diligence, tried her best, but nothing was working, and she could see was going south, so texted away at me.
• 19:45
  Hema Murty: Fortunately I was able to get her out of it.
• 19:47
  Hema Murty: And we did a few things.
• 19:49
  Hema Murty: She didn't mind looking strange in the airport.
• 19:51
  Hema Murty: So she did a few motions actually, and she went to the ladies' washroom and did them and then came out and she said, oh, I'm so glad I was able to get on the plane, because otherwise she wouldn't be able to get her connection.
• 20:01
  Hema Murty: She wouldn't be able to get back home in time.
• 20:04
  Hema Murty: So that was a real serious situation.
• 20:05
  Hema Murty: But that has happened a couple of times with a few clients.
• 20:08
  Hema Murty: But those are the clients in that high-end, daily contact program where they are allowed to talk to me throughout whatever's coming up, I can get them out of it.
• 20:17
  Hema Murty: So, those are the categories of people and we train as long as people want to.
• 20:21
  Hema Murty: Of course in the last category, I'm literally in your life and it's just, you know me, in your life, part of it.
• 20:28
  Hema Murty: And then they just do, they get on a regular plan with that.
• 20:31
  Hema Murty: But the second category in the middle one is out and in, meaning that if they're going away, like one client is going away for a long extended time.
• 20:39
  Hema Murty: So, we are just putting her, protocol on hold and then she will, climb back in when she's back to Canada.
• 20:48
  Hema Murty: So, the first get outta pain people, they, it's their option if they wanna get on a regular plan or they just wanna program, they wanna do themselves, I provide that.
• 20:57
  Hema Murty: So, those are the modalities people work in.
• 20:59
  Hema Murty: The actual, what we do during the session is a combination of a million things because I have a lot of tools in my toolbox.
• 21:06
  Hema Murty: So, there's no one, program that everybody's doing that's the same.
• 21:10
  Hema Murty: Each program has an individualized, kind of a pattern.
• 21:14
  Hema Murty: So equipment also depends on who's doing what and what they need.
• 21:18
  Hema Murty: So, there's no one cookie cutter, one size fits all in any of those.
• 21:22
  Hema Murty: They're all very different programs and they all address different issues, which they should because all women are different.
• 21:27
  Hema Murty: So,
• 21:29
  Carmen Hecox: So, let's back up a little bit.
• 21:31
  Carmen Hecox: How do these, three different tiers.
• 21:33
  Carmen Hecox: How do these, people, there's the one time help me get out of pain.
• 21:38
  Carmen Hecox: And then there's the middle one.
• 21:40
  Carmen Hecox: How do they, learn these modalities you do?
• 21:44
  Carmen Hecox: Are you sending them videos or is there like a place where they can log on and watch you do the modalities so that they can kind of learn.
• 21:54
  Hema Murty: Yeah, so the get out of pain, no, it's eyeballs on you.
• 21:59
  Hema Murty: Because they haven't, probably more than likely they're in the category where they haven't worked out with me.
• 22:05
  Hema Murty: That's normally the category that goes into the get out of pain zone, meaning they've heard from a friend that I can do that, but that's something that I'm good at.
• 22:12
  Hema Murty: And, they're not just ready yet for signing up because they've got something else going on, like a gym membership.
• 22:18
  Hema Murty: Or they're happy with their trainer, that they regularly see whatever the case may be.
• 22:22
  Hema Murty: But they know that I can get them out of pain, so they will have video chats with me until that pain is gone.
• 22:28
  Hema Murty: So, I'll develop however many sessions I think it'll take.
• 22:32
  Hema Murty: Sometimes it's just one, depending.
• 22:34
  Hema Murty: For example, I also teach regular yoga classes online.
• 22:39
  Hema Murty: And there was one client in the class who I've noticed, could probably use some assistance.
• 22:46
  Hema Murty: So I did ask them separately outside of class and they said, yes, there's an issue.
• 22:51
  Hema Murty: And so what we did was set up a, one time, online Zoom to get rid of it and the issue that was bothering them, and then I wrote up what they would need to do regularly and asked them to call me back if in a week that was still there or if there was something that didn't feel right during the solution process, that procedure.
• 23:15
  Hema Murty: But because they had worked out with me, in a yoga format, they kind of got used to how I cue and then, were able to take the instructions and I sent them video.
• 23:25
  Hema Murty: We did it together first.
• 23:26
  Hema Murty: So, I explained, then I said, I will be sending you a video.
• 23:30
  Hema Murty: Of how this exercise is carried out.
• 23:32
  Hema Murty: And then I told them a few modifications in case while they were doing it, I wasn't around, like, suppose they did it at night or something, or you know, some timeframe where I was not available then, I don't want them to be stuck, of course.
• 23:46
  Hema Murty: So, I gave them two or three variations.
• 23:49
  Hema Murty: Hey, if you're doing this and this doesn't feel right here, this is how you can change this at this point.
• 23:57
  Hema Murty: And this is how you would do this exercise if these other conditions are not met, and then you can change it this way.
• 24:04
  Hema Murty: So, I gave them a few options and that way they're not stuck, you know, that's the worst place to be.
• 24:09
  Hema Murty: So, they'll get themselves out of the pain zone, report back to me and say, all good.
• 24:14
  Hema Murty: It'll work.
• 24:14
  Hema Murty: You're great.
• 24:15
  Hema Murty: All this stuff that I get from them.
• 24:18
  Hema Murty: And then, they're good to go.
• 24:19
  Hema Murty: So, basically a video format.
• 24:21
  Hema Murty: Yes.
• 24:22
  Hema Murty: And I drop them on a Google Drive.
• 24:24
  Hema Murty: You know, and to that, location, they have a shared space there with me.
• 24:28
  Hema Murty: So, all my clients will have their own folder on the Google Drive and they can access.
• 24:32
  Hema Murty: Also tracking, I do insist on a tracking form where they tick off when they've done track, their box, when they've done their classes, their exercise formats, whatever it is that I've prescribed for them.
• 24:45
  Hema Murty: So that way I can check also.
• 24:47
  Hema Murty: And there's a lot of understanding too, that life is life and sometimes you don't get to your workout.
• 24:53
  Hema Murty: And that's totally amazingly fine.
• 24:55
  Hema Murty: And that's, I think another exception that makes me different is that I feel it should be realistic because I came through that, you know, through the life being, sometimes inhibiting to doing a perfect plan of fitness, that best intentions and all of that.
• 25:11
  Hema Murty: And sometimes you get up and life will present you with a good curve ball that day.
• 25:18
  Hema Murty: And maybe all you can muster is maybe one sun salutation.
• 25:21
  Hema Murty: And then you gotta get out into the ward zone for something that's gotta be fixed.
• 25:25
  Hema Murty: So that understanding is something that I totally agree with them, that they should, feel, fly with it, do whatever they need to do, and work around it.
• 25:36
  Hema Murty: The work act should work around the light.
• 25:40
  Hema Murty: You should not live for the workout.
• 25:42
  Hema Murty: Unless, unless you're in that very slight small category of humans on the planet that find the workouts to be your thing.
• 25:52
  Hema Murty: And if that's so great, that's, you know, if that's something.
• 25:56
  Hema Murty: But for most of us, me included, the workouts are a way, all the fitness things that we prescribe are a way for me to get through my day better.
• 26:06
  Hema Murty: Get through all my activities better.
• 26:08
  Hema Murty: I don't have to worry about knee pain.
• 26:10
  Hema Murty: When I'm asked to go walking with my friends.
• 26:13
  Hema Murty: I don't have to worry and say, well maybe it might strike while you guys are chatting and walking up a storm and I'll be, stuck.
• 26:20
  Hema Murty: So no, I don't want any of my clients or myself to be in that category.
• 26:25
  Hema Murty: And so the workouts are a way to say, life can go on and I'm not gonna miss a beat.
• 26:30
  Hema Murty: I'm gonna enjoy every ounce of it, and I'm gonna do all the stuff I need to do, to make sure that happens.
• 26:36
  Hema Murty: And enjoyment is part of that.
• 26:38
  Hema Murty: So,
• 26:40
  Carmen Hecox: How have you incorporated yoga into your fitness program?
• 26:43
  Carmen Hecox: And what are the benefits that you've seen some clients, receive from doing yoga regularly?
• 26:50
  Hema Murty: Yeah, so in the West, yoga is, interpreted as the asana portion or the physical portion only.
• 26:59
  Hema Murty: But I teach the original concept of yoga.
• 27:02
  Hema Murty: Which was developed in India thousands of years ago.
• 27:05
  Hema Murty: Maybe 10,000 or more.
• 27:08
  Hema Murty: And that concept of yoga is not only the physical thing, that we see here, like a yoga class, which is what I, said I teach.
• 27:17
  Hema Murty: I teach that according to the Western concept'cause that's what they call it and that's what they'd understand.
• 27:24
  Hema Murty: And so that would be the asana or the movement portion of it.
• 27:28
  Hema Murty: But in India, or the original concept in India, and even now, I got to give that caveat that unfortunately some of the feedback from the west has gone back to India.
• 27:36
  Hema Murty: So, now if you go to India, you'll probably get the Western styled version so unfortunate, but that's just the way the world goes.
• 27:43
  Hema Murty: But the original concept of yoga, going back to that, is an integrated fitness system.
• 27:49
  Hema Murty: So, everything I teach would be yoga.
• 27:52
  Hema Murty: And so the original concept of the yoga work, is that integration, aspect of the human being, the mind, the body and something extra, call it intuition, call it whatever you want.
• 28:08
  Hema Murty: That aspect of the human being, which gives us that extra something special.
• 28:13
  Hema Murty: We're not just mind and body.
• 28:14
  Hema Murty: We have some extra oomph to us, and that aspect of it is what yoga says we can use to be the integrated person we need to be.
• 28:26
  Hema Murty: For example, and I talk about this in my book, The Professional Women's Guide to Handling Stress, where I describe, the situation of any professional women or women in any kind of a career path or just everybody basically, is that your mind wants something, your body wants something else, and then there's your intuitive sense thinks you should be doing something all together different.
• 28:49
  Hema Murty: And that's when there's no yoga.
• 28:52
  Hema Murty: So, yoga is the Sanskrit word, which means integration.
• 28:57
  Hema Murty: It means everything is integrated and so you want to get to a state.
• 29:03
  Hema Murty: The goal of yoga is to get to a state where what your mind and body wants are in keeping in resonance with what your intuitive sense thinks you should be doing so that there's no disparate, of paths that causes the anxiety in the mind.
• 29:20
  Hema Murty: Which causes all the stress.
• 29:21
  Hema Murty: And this course of all stress is when different parts of you want different things.
• 29:27
  Hema Murty: And the answer to that from the yoga perspective is while the asana of the physical practice does help.
• 29:35
  Hema Murty: Why?
• 29:35
  Hema Murty: Because we all know that movement and mental health are related.
• 29:38
  Hema Murty: There's that mind body connection.
• 29:40
  Hema Murty: So, what the western, side of it says is basically if you move your body in a certain way with breathing, you take your mind away from your issues for the moment, and then it gives you a clearer perspective.
• 29:53
  Hema Murty: Why?
• 29:53
  Hema Murty: Because you've got a little refresh button set, reset.
• 29:56
  Hema Murty: So, that's one aspect of it.
• 29:59
  Hema Murty: So, how do I incorporate yoga is the traditional sense.
• 30:02
  Hema Murty: So, I could even call my practice a yoga practice, and it wouldn't be just the physical asana with a mat.
• 30:08
  Hema Murty: In fact, mats were never used in the class that I took because I took a very university level.
• 30:15
  Hema Murty: Yoga, I have a master's in yoga from India.
• 30:18
  Hema Murty: And so in those cases, those scenarios, you don't follow any of the traditional Western style yoga classes.
• 30:24
  Hema Murty: It's completely different.
• 30:26
  Hema Murty: But all to say that that incorporation of yoga is from the traditional sense, which is an integrated body mind.
• 30:33
  Hema Murty: I call it spirit, for the lack of a better word, or intuitive sense is another way of saying it.
• 30:38
  Hema Murty: Or just something extra that you'll feel and you are more than the mind and body.
• 30:43
  Hema Murty: You have some sense about you that you know that you should be better?
• 30:48
  Hema Murty: Because I think a lot of people come to the fitness arena because A, their doctor told them to.
• 30:57
  Hema Murty: B, they know that there's something missing from their life, and that's what I call that intuitive sense.
• 31:04
  Hema Murty: C.
• 31:05
  Hema Murty: They think that if they do something else, they will solve some of their problems.
• 31:12
  Hema Murty: If you keep doing what you're doing, you're gonna get what you get.
• 31:15
  Hema Murty: Right?
• 31:16
  Hema Murty: So there's that old adage that I heard somewhere, someone must have said that before me, I'm sure.
• 31:21
  Hema Murty: And basically you have to do something different.
• 31:23
  Hema Murty: And moving your body differently is always a good start because it's the lowest hanging fruit, it's the easiest thing to do.
• 31:29
  Hema Murty: So I think there's that sense that people think that that would help.
• 31:33
  Hema Murty: And of course they're right because if the body is having issues as we age, then the yoga mindset and the yoga body, the yoga spiritual sense will all help.
• 31:44
  Hema Murty: And so that's how I've incorporated it.
• 31:46
  Hema Murty: I have, got to incorporate into this answer the fact that 90% of the people who attend my yoga class are all people who say, I hate yoga.
• 31:58
  Hema Murty: They started out saying, I hate yoga, but I love your class.
• 32:02
  Hema Murty: Uh, well maybe this is yoga.
• 32:07
  Hema Murty: Maybe, what you attended before was not.
• 32:09
  Hema Murty: So that would be my answer to that.
• 32:13
  Carmen Hecox: So, stress is a big factor in people's health.
• 32:17
  Carmen Hecox: How does your program help women manage their stress when they're over the age of 50?
• 32:24
  Hema Murty: Yeah, well stress accumulates with age.
• 32:27
  Hema Murty: And so, when women are over 50, the number of things they have to keep track of, the number of balls that they're juggling just increases.
• 32:34
  Hema Murty: It never goes down.
• 32:35
  Hema Murty: It's always add-on.
• 32:37
  Hema Murty: Right?
• 32:38
  Hema Murty: So with, any kind of a personal training program or a yoga therapy program, which is what I do, it is more about self-awareness awareness.
• 32:49
  Hema Murty: So, the awareness of a person is what you're really looking for.
• 32:54
  Hema Murty: And what I start out with my clients is to, and I talk about this in my book, is to just sit down with yourself even for five minutes a day and you'll see the world of difference it makes.
• 33:08
  Hema Murty: Stress is basically that a disconnect between your mind telling you something, your body telling you something else.
• 33:16
  Hema Murty: And again, that intuitive sense telling you something else.
• 33:19
  Hema Murty: And that causes stress because it's a disconnect.
• 33:22
  Hema Murty: And so, it just yells louder until you say, okay, okay, I'm gonna do something about it.
• 33:27
  Hema Murty: I'm gonna stop.
• 33:28
  Hema Murty: So if you give yourself that five minutes of even just a breathing session, it's enough to say, okay, I'm listening to you.
• 33:36
  Hema Murty: Now I get what I may need to do.
• 33:40
  Hema Murty: And it could be one of many things, but it will come to the person.
• 33:44
  Hema Murty: They will come to a point where the stress will reduce itself.
• 33:48
  Hema Murty: So, as I said, pointing to like the people in my class who hated whatever other classes they went to.
• 33:54
  Hema Murty: I hated Joka, but they found the real thing clearly answers to them.
• 33:59
  Hema Murty: And those people have, testified, you know, they're their testimonial to me that they're amazed at how much better they can handle life's things.
• 34:11
  Hema Murty: And all it is, is a pause button, that's all we're introducing into their life.
• 34:17
  Hema Murty: Pause and take stock.
• 34:18
  Hema Murty: You know, what's going on.
• 34:20
  Hema Murty: And I think meeting with yourself is basically what's going on.
• 34:24
  Hema Murty: You know, every morning if you carve out five minutes.
• 34:27
  Hema Murty: And time is a premium for everyone.
• 34:30
  Hema Murty: But everyone has five minutes where they're scrolling through feeds.
• 34:33
  Hema Murty: Don't tell me no one does that.
• 34:35
  Hema Murty: So I know everyone's got five minutes.
• 34:38
  Hema Murty: So instead of scrolling through the feed, just put your phone away for those five minutes, scroll after, and then, um, take stock.
• 34:46
  Hema Murty: You know, you might do a breathing exercise.
• 34:49
  Hema Murty: And I have exercises in that book that I was talking about.
• 34:52
  Hema Murty: Or you could just take a piece of paper and start scribbling all the things that are going on with you.
• 34:59
  Hema Murty: What, you know, just do a brain dump.
• 35:02
  Hema Murty: What are all those balls that you have in the air?
• 35:04
  Hema Murty: What are you juggling?
• 35:06
  Hema Murty: And perhaps just from the brain dump, you might find that a solution to your own issues.
• 35:15
  Hema Murty: You may find some clarity just from doing that because you were trying to keep it all here.
• 35:20
  Hema Murty: And if you do a brain dump, Suddenly it's on the page and you can afford to let go of remembering all of those items.
• 35:28
  Hema Murty: You can maybe just remember what you need to get done today.
• 35:31
  Hema Murty: Maybe there's an emergency report for you, better start attending to, or maybe there's a kid issue that you need when no one children's issues or something that needs attention for today.
• 35:41
  Hema Murty: And that would be today's thing.
• 35:43
  Hema Murty: And just a get a more aware of all the things that are going on and why you feel that way.
• 35:49
  Hema Murty: Also physicality, you know one of my clients told me, I don't put my shoulders to my ears anymore when I walk.
• 35:58
  Hema Murty: So, and she's been working out doing personal training with me.
• 36:01
  Hema Murty: It's not even yoga, you know?
• 36:02
  Hema Murty: And so movement is an amazing tool.
• 36:05
  Hema Murty: So,the Indian traditional yoga definition is that is the body mind connection that you put your mind onto your body's movement, and that's the integrated approach.
• 36:18
  Hema Murty: And then from that comes an awareness.
• 36:21
  Hema Murty: You've triggered an awareness that carries throughout the day.
• 36:26
  Hema Murty: And that's where the amazing, you know, the amazing spark comes and you feel, oh wow, that workout really helped me.
• 36:33
  Hema Murty: Well, it was just you, you know, putting that mindset into your equation and creating that awareness.
• 36:39
  Hema Murty: And that makes, you know makes everything so much better.
• 36:43
  Hema Murty: Because all of a sudden you're attuned to what your body's doing.
• 36:47
  Hema Murty: You're attuned to what you're getting.
• 36:49
  Hema Murty: What's your input?
• 36:50
  Hema Murty: What are you taking in?
• 36:51
  Hema Murty: A lot of my clients who've gone through have started making life changes with no prompt for me.
• 36:57
  Hema Murty: Because they realize once the body mind connection has been made, they're plugged in to that self-awareness loop.
• 37:04
  Hema Murty: They realize that, oh, well, maybe I shouldn't be watching TV after eight because I really feel like.
• 37:10
  Hema Murty: You know, I want more quiet.
• 37:11
  Hema Murty: And they decide these things on their own.
• 37:14
  Hema Murty: Why?
• 37:14
  Hema Murty: Because they're connected.
• 37:16
  Hema Murty: So I think just plugging into who you are, what you need, where you wanna go.
• 37:22
  Hema Murty: These are fundamental questions.
• 37:23
  Hema Murty: And sometimes we go, I was just talking to somebody this morning saying sometimes we go through life like a groundhog, just, we keep going, tunneling through and we never stop, look up, even the groundhog pauses and looks up.
• 37:35
  Hema Murty: We may not even do that.
• 37:37
  Hema Murty: Sometimes we just tunnel through to the next day and, plop on our bed and hope we fall asleep because we haven't done any proactive activities on the sleep cycle either.
• 37:46
  Hema Murty: So, I think all of that to say that, stress increases with age because of all the things we keep on our plate.
• 37:55
  Hema Murty: But I think stress reduction strategies are, part and parcel of my training program in terms of the yoga therapy.
• 38:01
  Hema Murty: And, personal training and all the stress reduction strategies that I introduced into my clients, and they find they carry themselves very differently.
• 38:09
  Hema Murty: They, they no longer have forward necks, you know, they sit back with good posture and it corrects on its own.
• 38:15
  Hema Murty: That's the magic of it.
• 38:18
  Carmen Hecox: I understand that self-care is a critical part of your program.
• 38:22
  Carmen Hecox: Can you talk a little bit about why it's essential, and how you encourage your clients to incorporate it into their routines?
• 38:31
  Hema Murty: Yeah, for sure.
• 38:32
  Hema Murty: and as I said, just in the last, bit with the yoga, mindset aspect.
• 38:37
  Hema Murty: The yoga aspect or the Indian traditional, science of yoga is that, we look at the world through an integrated approach.
• 38:48
  Hema Murty: We know who we are.
• 38:50
  Hema Murty: We know where we wanna go, and we know what helps us and what doesn't serve us.
• 38:57
  Hema Murty: When you do that, your stress reduction goes down.
• 39:00
  Hema Murty: So that total aspect, that total practice is a very self-care practice.
• 39:06
  Hema Murty: I mean, in India they didn't call it self-care.
• 39:08
  Hema Murty: In India, they wouldn't call it life coaching.
• 39:10
  Hema Murty: Well, maybe now.
• 39:11
  Hema Murty: Okay, this is 2023.
• 39:12
  Hema Murty: So I'm talking about, you know, 20, 40 years ago when I studied.
• 39:17
  Hema Murty: So, I think, you know, I grew up in the yoga tradition, so I've been doing this since I was a child.
• 39:22
  Hema Murty: So I knew you know, the whole yoga aspect of it, the yoga, science of it, and the traditional aspect of it.
• 39:31
  Hema Murty: The cultural aspect of it.
• 39:33
  Hema Murty: So, self-care, is a term that the Western, tradition has introduced.
• 39:38
  Hema Murty: Very good term because it's not part of the training process.
• 39:43
  Hema Murty: But if you go to the gym, it's self-care because you're not doing it for anybody else.
• 39:48
  Hema Murty: You're doing it for yourself.
• 39:49
  Hema Murty: If you choose on any day.
• 39:52
  Hema Murty: On any given day, suppose you choose, a healthier option for food, then that's self-care.
• 39:59
  Hema Murty: And if you choose to go for a walk around the block, that's self-care.
• 40:05
  Hema Murty: So self-care means self-awareness and the yoga mindset and the, training women over 50.
• 40:12
  Hema Murty: I think it all hinges around that self-awareness.
• 40:15
  Hema Murty: What do you want?
• 40:17
  Hema Murty: You know, it's a funny question, but it's true.
• 40:19
  Hema Murty: A fewer people ask themselves and I, you know, it kind of segues back, from the previous question.
• 40:25
  Hema Murty: This question segues, from that because, juggling many balls into the air of all the things you have to attend to and all the things on your radar, and you forget that the I, that one in front of all the zeros that you're carrying, so you can carry a hundred things, but if that one, which is you, Is not present to what you need, then you know it's not going to be going well for taking care of all those ideas.
• 40:52
  Hema Murty: If you wanna take care of the world around you, you must be able to be as fit and present as possible.
• 40:59
  Hema Murty: And I think a lot of people don't answer that.
• 41:01
  Hema Murty: What do you want?
• 41:01
  Hema Murty: But in my training program, the first thing that you know, clients get to ask themselves is, where am I?
• 41:11
  Hema Murty: Am I where I wanna be?
• 41:13
  Hema Murty: Because if not, that's where your disconnects come from.
• 41:16
  Hema Murty: And that disconnect creates the stress that disconnect can creates more, outward awareness rather than internal awareness.
• 41:25
  Hema Murty: So selfcare, self-awareness will come out there just fallouts of the whole training program.
• 41:30
  Hema Murty: Why?
• 41:30
  Hema Murty: Because the first thing I ask them when in the consult call is, What do you want?
• 41:35
  Hema Murty: What would you like to have?
• 41:36
  Hema Murty: there's no one size fits all.
• 41:38
  Hema Murty: There's no thing that says you have to be this weight.
• 41:40
  Hema Murty: This is the structure you have to be.
• 41:42
  Hema Murty: These are the clothes you have to wear.
• 41:44
  Hema Murty: This is what you have to eat.
• 41:45
  Hema Murty: And the whole nutrition, stuff, in that equation has been taken way out of proportion because what I see, I mean from the Indian mindset, there is a common sense approach.
• 41:56
  Hema Murty: And I'll explain what the Indian mindset is.
• 41:58
  Hema Murty: You eat food and there it ends.
• 42:00
  Hema Murty: Just do what you have to do.
• 42:02
  Hema Murty: I mean, but over here I find that there's a big spectrum.
• 42:07
  Hema Murty: When you start talking fitness people start throwing kale in your face.
• 42:11
  Hema Murty: You know?
• 42:11
  Hema Murty: I mean, it's just becomes a really weird phenomenon.
• 42:14
  Hema Murty: Like what happened to enjoying life?
• 42:17
  Hema Murty: I coach all my clients to say, just keep to your regular habits.
• 42:22
  Hema Murty: Don't go weird.
• 42:23
  Hema Murty: Don't go buy weird food.
• 42:24
  Hema Murty: Weird in their vocabulary because that's what they say.
• 42:28
  Hema Murty: That's their word, not mine.
• 42:30
  Hema Murty: You know I just say, just do your regular whatever your family eats, you eat, and don't go into any crazy zone.
• 42:35
  Hema Murty: Self-awareness tells you when you're full.
• 42:39
  Hema Murty: Self-awareness tells you when you're hungry.
• 42:42
  Hema Murty: Self-awareness tells you what you need to eat, what will fuel you, and what it creates fun.
• 42:48
  Hema Murty: So suddenly, you know it's a Saturday and your family wants to go out and have fun.
• 42:54
  Hema Murty: You should be a part of that totally.
• 42:56
  Hema Murty: And you should never negate anything.
• 42:59
  Hema Murty: The other day I saw some reels about packing food for travel, and I thought, No, don't pack any food for travel.
• 43:10
  Hema Murty: You've got this travel experience.
• 43:12
  Hema Murty: Why don't you just enjoy it?
• 43:13
  Hema Murty: The airports are chockfull of nice surprises.
• 43:15
  Hema Murty: Go enjoy it.
• 43:16
  Hema Murty: It's not going to affect you unless you have some medical reason for not eating a certain food.
• 43:22
  Hema Murty: It should not be, forbidden.
• 43:25
  Hema Murty: That's just acts as a stressor.
• 43:28
  Hema Murty: Once you say, I can't eat this and I can't eat that, automatically just cleaved your mind into adding stress to your plate.
• 43:36
  Hema Murty: I think the better thing is what I teach my clients self-awareness.
• 43:40
  Hema Murty: So clearly if you are full, you don't eat because the body doesn't know what to do with that food.
• 43:47
  Hema Murty: So, and there it ends.
• 43:48
  Hema Murty: There's my nutrition program in one word.
• 43:51
  Hema Murty: So just enjoy life.
• 43:52
  Hema Murty: It's so short.
• 43:54
  Hema Murty: A lot of my, friends with younger children, they tell me how fast they grow.
• 43:58
  Hema Murty: Well, you're growing too.
• 44:00
  Hema Murty: So are you going to turn the corner and then something different's gonna happen.
• 44:04
  Hema Murty: Look at 2020, I mean, there's such a major change.
• 44:07
  Hema Murty: So you don't know what tomorrow brings.
• 44:10
  Hema Murty: So try to enjoy today as much as possible and don't deny anything for yourself.
• 44:14
  Hema Murty: Don't pack travel food, just enjoy the airports.
• 44:17
  Hema Murty: They're so fun.
• 44:18
  Hema Murty: And there's a lot of fun things you can do at an airport with your friends.
• 44:22
  Hema Murty: Hopefully, you're traveling with friends or family or even by yourself.
• 44:25
  Hema Murty: Discovering how amazingly stress free would that be if someone just said, oh, well I'm gonna get over there and I'm gonna discover what this new airport has for me.
• 44:36
  Hema Murty: Or, when I get to my destination, I'm gonna discover what that city has to offer.
• 44:40
  Hema Murty: I'm not gonna worry about something cast in stone to deliver my enjoyment, that's not gonna be fun at all.
• 44:47
  Hema Murty: So, I mean, I've diverted a little bit from your question, but self-care means being aware.
• 44:52
  Hema Murty: And so that also segues into the nutrition piece of my training, which says, you know, you're aware of what your needs are and if something you need is, something that you need to go get for your own nutritional needs, then that will be satisfied through that.
• 45:08
  Hema Murty: You'll discover what that is for yourself.
• 45:11
  Hema Murty: Nobody has to tell you anything.
• 45:15
  Carmen Hecox: If there's one piece of advice that you.
• 45:17
  Carmen Hecox: You could give the viewers or listeners, especially women who might be over the age of 50 who may be thinking about starting their fitness journey, what would that be?
• 45:30
  Hema Murty: I would say spend five minutes with yourself every day.
• 45:34
  Hema Murty: If you already spend time with yourself doing some kind of self-care program, maybe a lot of people do have that practice.
• 45:41
  Hema Murty: Then I would say sit down with yourself and ask yourself, is there anything missing from this piece?
• 45:47
  Hema Murty: Is there something that is holding me back?
• 45:50
  Hema Murty: Is there a stressor in my life that I'm not addressing?
• 45:53
  Hema Murty: So again, it's another five minute conversation with yourself and do it every morning.
• 45:58
  Hema Murty: Don't stop at once and saying, oh, I'm good.
• 46:00
  Hema Murty: You are good today.
• 46:01
  Hema Murty: But tomorrow might be a different day, might present different circumstances.
• 46:06
  Hema Murty: The world might be different And maybe that's affecting you at some level that you're not even aware of.
• 46:11
  Hema Murty: So I would just say that one piece of advice that everyone should do, but specifically the, this demographic of women over 50 who serve the world in many different ways and sometimes forget about themselves in the loop.
• 46:25
  Hema Murty: I would say spend five minutes on yourself each day with nothing more than maybe just you.
• 46:32
  Hema Murty: Maybe a piece of paper, no electronic gadgets, just you, a piece of paper, a pen, and just try to spend it alone with yourself and see what do you want and just answer that question.
• 46:44
  Carmen Hecox: And how can the viewers or listeners get in touch with you or find out more about your program?
• 46:50
  Hema Murty: Yeah, I have a website which, is undergoing some renovation, but you can still access me at getshanti.com.
• 46:57
  Hema Murty: That's G E T S H A N T I.com.
• 47:01
  Hema Murty: And on that you can do a contact me.
• 47:03
  Hema Murty: Also I'm on Instagram at over 50 Fitness.
• 47:08
  Hema Murty: With Siva, S I V A.
• 47:10
  Hema Murty: S I V A is Siva, it means Auspiciousness.
• 47:14
  Hema Murty: So I try to Introduce that into my program?
• 47:17
  Hema Murty: So that makes me a little different.
• 47:19
  Hema Murty: That's why I put it into my, handle.
• 47:22
  Hema Murty: So it's over 50 fitness with Siva on Instagram.
• 47:25
  Hema Murty: That's a good place for me to find me.
• 47:27
  Hema Murty: And also on my website getshanti.com.
• 47:31
  Hema Murty: Email me at hema@getshanti.com and we can connect up and you can have a free consult.
• 47:40
  Carmen Hecox: Perfect.
• 47:40
  Carmen Hecox: Thank you so much for coming on the show.
• 47:43
  Carmen Hecox: I know that our viewers have gotten a ton of information here.
• 47:49
  Hema Murty: Thank you Carmen.
• 47:50
  Hema Murty: I really enjoyed talking about my favorite topic, training women over 50 and getting them to their goals, and that's really what I'm wanna do more of.
• 48:00
  Hema Murty: So hoping if any of you, have any questions to just talk to me and I would love to talk with you.
• 48:06
  Hema Murty: Just have a chat.
• 48:07
  Carmen Hecox: Great.
• 48:08
  Carmen Hecox: Thank you.
• 48:08
  Carmen Hecox: Wow, I don't know about you, but I'm just left in awed over all the information Hema provided today.
• 48:15
  Carmen Hecox: She's such a smart woman, and what I really love about the information she shared is that she takes the time to get to know her clients, and she designs a program that she knows her clients will follow and it will help the clients achieve their own personal goals.
• 48:33
  Carmen Hecox: Hema understands that we are all different, and as we age, there are certain movements that we just can't do due to prior injuries, genetics, or degenerative changes that are just a part of getting older.
• 48:45
  Carmen Hecox: Hema's information and today's transcript can be found at createthebestme.com/ep026.
• 48:56
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• 49:01
  Carmen Hecox: Join me next week when we'll delve into the topic of self-care.
• 49:05
  Carmen Hecox: This episode is one you won't want to miss.
• 49:08
  Carmen Hecox: Until next time, keep dreaming big, take care of yourself.
• 49:12
  Carmen Hecox: And remember, you are beautiful, strong, and capable of creating the best version of yourself.
• 49:19
  Carmen Hecox: Thank you for watching, catch you next week.
• 49:21
  Carmen Hecox: Bye for now.