 Hello everybody, welcome back to esoteric Atlanta. I do have to apologize. I'm super congested today First I filming I had to go and get toilet paper because in mr. B's America Tissue is not too expensive. So it's toilet paper for me and my nose But at least we can laugh about that and so we are I'm here with my beautiful friend and Cohort I guess for this upcoming course we have starting in a few days on Sunday Where it's gonna be a yoga intensive, but I have incorporated reiki into it And we're gonna get into why I did that in a minute But Amy and I were just kind of chatting off camera about some like political stuff some economic stuff that we're gonna go into deeper Into another video and we were talking about how Especially in the United States how a lot of people in the United States have almost like a savior complex They're waiting for somebody else to do it for them And that's probably the biggest lesson that we learned through any spiritual discipline Is that no one can do it for you with anything in life? With anything in life you have to do it for yourself and therefore and I'm sorry guys They're doing construction next door. So if you're banging around, that's what it is. It's not a demon. It's an actual construction worker, but um, you know And that's that's really hard because we do come from the land of plenty here in the United States We do come from a place where comfort is all around us and we've almost become a people of hypochondriacs We think every little ache and pain is something that's Terrible and wrong and we freak out at our own body. We freak out and when things are uncomfortable We try to avoid it. We try to shove it down and I will say We have over 200 people in the signal group right now and Every single one of those people in that group they get it. Don't they any they're facing their demons aren't they? I'm actually really I don't I don't engage very often, but I do and I can't read them all guys I'm so sorry. I'm super busy every time I go check the the chat It says, you know, 114 unread messages 200 unread messages 88 unread messages I just can't but what I'm noticing is that you know, usually when people start off on something as a group There's a lot of people in the beginning Everybody's, you know excited everybody's engaging everybody's communicating and then slowly people start to fall away or drop off, but this group is still Large and everybody is still participating and everybody is still supporting each other and encouraging each other and Going through the hard stuff and feeling the aches and pains and continuing to work out the next day And it is just freaking awesome. Yeah, guys are a huge group of warriors and this I'm so impressed and I am too and I will say we're filming this on the 15th Which is the middle point of where at the middle point of the challenge and I'm not sure this video will either go up The evening of the 15th or the morning of the 16th depending on how long it takes the processor to process this video So I'm just telling you guys the date which we're filming and you know today is Tuesday And so it's Hanuman's day and Hindu tradition. I actually have that on the Challenge for people to look at the story of Hanuman again. I've said it multiple times from the Ramayana where Rom and Sita are married and this this ten-headed demon from Sri Lanka named Ravana Comes and kidnaps Sita and takes her to Sri Lanka and it's Hanuman the warrior monkey god Who has to go and find Sita to bring Sita back to Ram? Well, he finds her but he can't just kidnap her and bring her back to Ram because the cycle will continue He knows that he has to go up against Ravana And again Ravana is the ten-headed demon who can't be slain you cut one head off a new one emerges And so he's in quite a conundrum He has to figure out how is he going to defeat this this this demon and he does I won't tell you how you could be the Ramayana if you if you want to see how and he can now bring Sita safely back to Rom well, the whole story is just a freaking metaphor guys. It's a metaphor Rom is God Sita is your soul Ravana is your ego and Hanuman is your courage It takes courage To be able to go up the the ten-headed demon who can't be slain your ego your fault sense of self and what is courage? Courage is being definitely afraid and doing it anyway doing it while you're afraid Continuing to move through the crap while you're scared as shit and shaking and You're about ready to vomit and you do it anyway Yeah, anyway, and I promise you guys. Oh my gosh if you can do this With any big or small with anything if you can do this you will come out the other side so Incredibly empowered. It is life-changing. Yes Life-changing. Yeah start to see everything because that the point of the ego guys the point of the fault sense of self Is to provide you with that friction Right, so if we had no Romana to steal the soul away from from God Then we would never need a Hanuman and through that friction and that courage the soul can know itself And so even even though I was laughing with Stephanie our friend Stephanie. I was like, you know The underworld we go into the underworld multiple times and we resurrect again. That's all the resurrection stories That's all they are guys is metaphors and having go into hell and then come back up again But it's not just gonna be one time You're gonna be going down multiple times through every every little thing you have to bust through and I was laughing with Stephanie I was like just got to go ahead buy some lakeside property and get real comfortable there because It's gonna keep coming up But the more it comes up the more you realize that your fault sense of self is false Everybody else's fault sense of self is false and the world itself is just a hologram for us to know ourselves And so things that fear that you once felt Starts to diminish more and more and more and more because you realize as Stephanie says you can't kill a soul You realize that your soul set this all in motion for your highest good And that's powerful Tomorrow we have you guys looking back at the Kwan Yen activation from the Sophia code because you're gonna be getting into getting into childhood trauma and looking at From an outsider looking looking all as the watcher What kind of childhood traumas you went through that maybe shaped you as an adult and part of your exercise tomorrow is you have to Last a few days ago. You wrote a letter to someone in your life that you admired Well tomorrow you're gonna have to write a letter to your childhood self You're gonna have to tell that little boy or that little girl how much you love them How much they're needed in the world? I Let them know that what happens to them is not their fault They're innocent and that they are still that little boy that little girl is always gonna is always a part of that fractal of God And so I have you guys write that letter as a as someone as writing it to yourself Even addressing it as it maybe you had a nickname as a kid write your nickname dear dear You know Bobby or whatever your nickname was as a kid and write that letter and then I give you the option You can either write it in your journal so you can reread it or you can mail it to yourself Actually take the time to address it to yourself and mail it to yourself to start to work through all of these obstacles This friction, you know, and we think we kid ourselves, right? We think like Because the fault sense of self is the fault. It's the biggest joke of all right So we have these things happen to us in life and we push it down And we think we can just ignore it and no one's ever gonna know Well people might not know what actually happened to you, but you can't ignore it because that energy is still there And it's gonna come out in other ways It's gonna project it needs to come out So it's gonna come out in other ways whether that's through hurting other people or I'm big and I usually do self-sabotage Having anxiety having getting caught in a samsgaric loop of Reliving these obstacles until we we decide to say you know what this isn't an obstacle It's a puzzle and I'm the puzzle master and I'm gonna finally go back and unpack this and take a look at it And it's gonna be painful and it's gonna suck But the more I settle into it the more I lean into it the less power Have you noticed that too in your life Emmy and for people watching like when something really bad happens to you You try not to talk about it, but then you start talking about it Like whether it's in therapy or you open up to a friend and the more you talk about it All the sudden the less power it has over you you guys notice that It's like you're releasing it Yes, because until until you consciously and intentionally Process it it will sit in your body. Yeah, and when it sits in your body it just fosters and grows and enhances and gets bigger and Until you go away until you yeah kick it out Until you evicted You know and that's and but that but then that's in that sense like I've said many times before When we start to take our power back to we realize that all these things that happen to us these wounds that we carry These are actually very sacred things And when we flip our perspective and we say oh If you had an abusive parent or something, okay, there's a very sacred lesson in that That I agree to as a soul and I know that's really hard for people to accept when really bad things happen I mean I've both been through some really horrible stuff when it comes to being a girl and RAPE all that kind of stuff But when we start to like accept that there's a lesson there that we agree to as a soul We take our power back. We start to take that power back and we start to release whatever held Emotion we're still because it's never and I love that shanti our friend shanti says this that it's not you know So many people are so kind of get obsessed with wanting to know the story because a lot of times we have these emotions And we don't know where they're coming from. We don't know what happened We want the story, but as shanti says the story is just the drama It's just the action that caused the reaction what we're working with is the reaction as my trauma therapist told me Sometimes we don't need to know the story Sometimes there's a reason why you can't remember the story and you need to respect that And we just work with the reaction. We work with the energy of the reaction, you know And it's the same thing with past life stuff. Yeah when Pat when past life stuff comes up It's it's being brought to your attention because that's something that needs to be healed Not something that needs to be investigated and just and distract you from this life It's coming up because it's an area that you that has been carried over from a past life or past lives Being brought to your attention right now to address right now to heal, you know, I It's very very Easy to get sucked in and distracted by trying to figure out all of your past lives and who was I and That doesn't matter if stuff if stuff has come being brought up Heal it and move on, you know, your your duty is to this life. Yes Thank you for sitting to and I think a lot of people I think Stephanie said it best when she said, you know When you grew up in a super Christian home or a religion where Reincarnation isn't accepted and all of a sudden you realize that it's a real thing You do become very Interested in it, but but yes, you're right and I've said this before it's interesting But but see it as something. Oh, that's interesting But what you're carrying over the baggage you're carrying over is the lesson as an orb is going by Not the actual life. You're not in that life anymore You're in this life and sometimes I think people cling to past lives because they're using that as an escapism for something going on in this life now and The last thing that my friend Cindy always says that she's like listen I'm just trying not to build a more karma for my next life Like I'm just trying to make sure that I don't actually accidentally load up more baggage You got to get the whole Louis Vuitton sets to take into the next life Like I'm trying to unload some stuff in this life not carry more into the next and so if you're using that past life as Escapism catch yourself catch yourself. What are you trying to avoid as you are now? Because right now is all we have the past is done and tomorrow never comes all we have is now and so Do you want to travel to the next life with the full Louis Vuitton set or do you want to travel to the Next life, which is like a little backpack, right? So yeah, so thank you for bringing that up Emmy and the thing is to guys, you know all these avatars We live in we look at the false sense of self, which is what yes, the body is the Shakti of the soul Yes, it absolutely is the expression of the soul, but it's not the soul So the body the soul can live without the body, but the body cannot live without the soul So what does that tell you and this is where when we'll get into this in the yoga course This is where we have the biggest conundrum as human beings We have this idea. This is what Patan Jaleen is telling us I know Emmy's been studying the sutras on her own and it's pretty fabulous, isn't it? Like Patan Jaleen was like a scientist and every time you read the yoga I mean I read the first 16 years now I've read the yoga sutras once a year and now I've been reading gonna be more since we're gonna be going deeper into Them in the course and every time I personally read the yoga sutras. I see something else I didn't see them for the last time more and more is revealed and he's literally Taking notes on human suffering that is literally all the yoga sutras is telling you you got the three stars of the yoga sutra You have Perusha Prakriti and Ishvara Perusha is it's your soul We would call it the soul in the West, but it's deeper than that It's like the ottom and the brahm and the part of you that is just always been and then you have Prakriti Well, Prakriti is nature. So it's the Shakti the Perusha the soul is the Shiva the body nature is the Shakti Prakriti it has there's two rules to Prakriti It has a birth a life and a death it runs on a cycle and because of that because that first rule It's always in a state of changing because it will die. So it's always in a state of changing Perusha on the other hand is never changing because it's eternal now the third star is Ishvara What is Ishvara Ishvara is basically God. It's the Lord. It's the highest state of God All right. And so Patanjaleen is telling us that What belongs to Ishvara is Perusha, but we as humans Come down and we mistaken art. We have mistaken who we are. This is where human suffering comes from We think who we are as Prakriti When who we actually are as Perusha and Part of this whole systematic breakdown through yoga is to show you that your body is not what you are Eternally, it's just an expression of the now And so we quite literally in the ashtanga practice break your body down and this the practice is designed From for thousands of years ago This practice is designed to piss you off To trigger you to make you sweat to make you want to cry as David Garig One of my original teachers asked Guruji wants Guruji is this pain necessary in the practice and Guruji said yes Because pain is real You can kid yourself all you want with your ego your fault sense of self through the mind the mind stuff Chit-dom as Patanjaleen says But when that pain comes up, you can't kid yourself anymore. There's a vulnerability There's an honesty there and through that breakdown of the Perusha We start to see where we're attached to the Perusha. Let's just take something very very simple Not very very vapid. Let's say We know we're coming up on January. We know that a lot of people we again as Americans We live in the land of plenty. We got a lot of people who are overweight So every January what do people do? They make a New Year's resolution to lose a bunch of weight to go to the gym and maybe for the first couple of weeks They're on that resolution. They're burning the calories and then they get off of that They gain their weight back and so they get depressed again So they're on this yo-yo of the body because what's the body going to do? It's always going to change So if you if you exercise, it's gonna it's following the rules of nature But when we put our attachment to that We start to then go into suffering if that makes sense now with that being said I actually recorded like yesterday for next week I recorded the next half or reading and a half or is tell you that you absolutely have to have physical exercise The body does have to be at a high heightened state of athleticism in order to evolve spiritually Why because the more that the consciousness awakes the more the soul awakes the higher the vibration is gonna come in the body And the body is weak if the body is out of shape. It's not gonna be able to hold that vibration Does that make sense? Yes, like yes, like this is What we're got what we have going on is a beautiful marrying of of physical and spirit if our physical body is so toxic and So uninhabitable Our soul isn't gonna be able to descend all the way and and we can't ascend until we completely embody Yeah, yeah, you have you have to make your temple a healthy environment for who you are You know, most of us are hanging out up here Yeah, like we just our bodies are so sick that we couldn't even come down and into them if we wanted to Absolutely, and that is something I keep telling people like if you because I've been studying Over the past couple of years now, obviously the missing Gospels. I've been studying into the priests and priests of Isis you guys all of these ancient fates all Involves it physical exercise all of them yoga is one of the oldest in the world The priests and priests of Isis those those people were exercising and I keep telling you They weren't trying to look good in a bathing suit It wasn't like they were getting a six-pack to be on the on the cover of like what playboy or something like that wasn't their goal They understood that the body being the Shakti of the soul was how the soul was gonna know itself And so if we understand that we're putting so we if we think if I think that who I am Eternally is Bryce then my then I am wrong Because I'm only Bryce right now in this moment this avatar is the expression of my soul If I think who I was in a past life is who I am eternally then I'm wrong It's all just expressions my soul has given me in order for my soul to find itself now with that being said within that Expression for the soul to actually know itself in this moment. I have to be Bryce. I have to go into Bryce I have to drop into my body to because the body is carrying the chakra system the bunda system all the different fluids the different Notties and so I can't that's another mistake in the half doors talk about this and the yogas who just talk about this as well That's another mistake people make in spirituality where they completely separate themselves from the body They let their body get fat. They let their body because that's they want to see this the soul separate But the soul isn't separate now the body is that expression. I Hope that's making sense. It's such a And it's so it's so funny because Guruji used to say 99% practice 1% theory Let me tell you guys a little funny story Before the Americans started coming over to India to study with Guruji before the white people came He would say apparently the story goes. He would say 70% practice 30% theory But then these hippie-dippy boys from America came over in the 60s and 70s all they wanted to do was smoke pot Drink coffee and talk philosophy with Patabi Joyce and Patabi Joyce was like absolutely incorrect You need to practice this because what happened and Emmie's been experiencing this to the Alshanga practice is the theory and theory It's very simple in theory and theory in that abstract thought of what we're saying it makes sense But once you step on that yoga mat and you've got to live through it That's when it gets hard. That's when you start to see it playing out in your own life and you're like, oh fuck This is hard My hip hurts like hell and I can't you know That's that's it. Let me talk about the suture where it talks about the mind wants to gravitate more towards pleasure and pain Even if that pleasure is going to bring it to ultimate pain. How many people will have a hip pain? And so I mean I'll tell you a story We had a student at AYA not long ago that would practice for a couple of months And then he would be out for a week with back pain his back hurts So he went come for a week and he'd come back practice for a few months and then he'd be out for a week with back pain again Right. It was his cycle and finally Todd said listen this shit's not gonna end until you just push through that back pain You got it you're bought your practice is showing you something and instead of actually leading in and biting into that pain and continuing the practice You're backing away It was the same with me I know I think I've told the story before when I was heavy into first learning second series and Second series you're doing a lot of really deep back bends and then you're putting your leg behind your your head So you're really moving your body you're flexing your body backwards and force very rapidly, right? It's it's it's why it takes about ten years to prep for it because it's a lot It's very demanding on the physically on the body and I didn't know at that point I had no idea that ribs could actually pop out like dislocate. I didn't know that that that they could do that Happen. Oh, it's so painful the first time it happened I got up at like three o'clock in the morning at a hard time breathing So I of course got a webmd and diagnosed myself with either a broken rib or cancer But but then I found that they had been dislocated and so I hadn't I had like seven ribs that need to be popped back in What's kept kept happening? So I would go to my sore in the morning I do all the leg behind the head stuff deep back in and I walk out and I could feel my rib was out So I'd go to the chiropractor get it popped back in again Same repetitive cycle and it was just not shifting and it was actually Tim Feldman the teacher I smacked that one time who said to me What would happen if you just stopped going to the chiropractor? What would happen if you just let your ribs be out for a moment? He's like what's happening is your body is trying to recalibrate itself You're opening up all these new new passageways in your body with second series And so the ribs are going to pop out a little bit while the body re-reav lines itself And you keep going back to chiropractor and they pop them back in and so you totally undone every time you go the chiropractor after Practice you've totally undone everything you did in the practice. And so every day you're having to start again He was like what would happen if you just dealt with the pain For a few days and I did I stopped going to chiropractor. I just dealt with it. I Got through that phase. I had a breakthrough and I haven't popped my ribs out since Yeah, the muscle the muscles needed to be developed around those areas to hold them in and and I'm a big fan of chiropractic but I'm a fan of chiropractic along with Muscle work. Yes, because if you're just gonna continue to get adjusted without doing the muscle work and strengthening the muscles to hold you in place You're just gonna keep having to get adjusted. It's gonna be a constant cycle Yeah, and how many people in your life like I know Emmy we all so everybody always has something that they're struggling with Continually so like you have knee issues You're probably gonna have knee issues for the rest of your life because that is something that you're learning in this life What a knees represent knees usually represent fear of the future They're connected to your kidneys and a lot of primary series the binds are going around the kidneys John you should show us in a sea where you're twisting your ankle and folding in on it that that Part of the foot that's being pushed on the floor is the the pressure point to the kidneys And so a lot of times people's need knee issues will start to pop up again at primary series And it's because you're literally exercising and detoxing an Obstacle that's been there that started in thought everything started in thought and so with that being said of course We're not gonna be stupid. I'm not gonna take your leg and throw it behind your head without it being prepped for it We're gonna have to lean into it I was telling anyway I know many people who wear knee braces while they practice enough strong a yoga, but they still come in every day You know sometimes the issues are coming from the hip The hip is the biggest joint you have in your body, and it does not matter how flexible your hip is It's always a shit show Doesn't matter who you are your hip. It's like that that storage unit Where we take all of that the moth balls and the leftover stuff grandma when she died and we take all that stuff We put it in that storage unit So your hip all these things you've gone through from this life past life stuff You don't remember that are uncomfortable that you don't know what to do it You've subconsciously taken that and put it in your hip And so when we start to move and you can tell because the hip the femur bone and the hip sockets That femur bones should be able to move pretty smoothly Right. It's round. It doesn't go back and forth only it can't go other directions But we get so jam-packed with stuff We don't want to deal with that it gets stuck it gets tight And so we're trying starting to unstick that and we start to unstick that it's gonna be uncomfortable My left hip is my problem child. My left hip is just I Noises come out of my left hip that I swear are not humanly noises sometimes like There's shit there, right? But because I'm able to change my perspective. I Find my left hip super fascinating. It's way more interesting that my right hip is pretty boring Like my right hip my right leg goes very easily behind my leg no problem But when I pull that left leg behind my my head and I feel an interesting sensation and I this weird sound comes out of it That's entertaining. That's interesting. What is that? What's and so I'm hoping and I see people in the group chat saying that I'm just seeing this is interesting Yes, it's interesting. It's super super super interesting my left hip being out means that my right shoulder slumps I don't know if I kind of do this. It's connected to the left hip. It's not necessarily right shoulder That's the issue. It's coming from the hip. And so when we start to see our bodies in this way Yes, it can be overwhelming sometimes, but it's also really fun and we start to realize how special and how Intricate and details and detail these organisms were living in Actually the information they actually carry that our soul created to express itself. I hope does that make sense? Am I making sense? I feel like I've done this for so long that I don't people like this girl's bastard crazy. What is she talking about? And you know it when when you work through this stuff, I Don't know about anybody else. But for me I Have an idea in my head of how I think I think things are gonna come out and then there's how they actually come out and You know, I'll go through life and I was I was very insecure. I Was always following the rules. I was always submissive just to authority What I'm noticing is when you work through this stuff and like I've had a lot of issues with my shoulders Shoulders are our you have parental stuff in it. It has authority stuff in it, you know, and I'm working through my shoulders And I'm getting more strength and I'm gaining flexibility and as these issues are being worked out And I'm dealing with the pain what I'm noticing is my fear of authority and my fear of like studying certain things like law is Disappating and I'm diving into it and it you just don't notice because it the change is so subtle That you just don't realize and notice that that's what's happening over the last two months, you know, I've really been strengthening and flex strengthening and increasing flexibility in my shoulders with with my practice and correlating that with The things that have happened and unfolded over the last month have shown me that these issues that were in my shoulders creating this fear of authority are Being worked out and that fear is dissipating and I'm taking action and it is just like Let's say that you had spent your whole life in me just hold on I have shoulder issues That's just how it is and you never dug into your shoulder issues Do you think you would be where you are now studying the law and study? No, I wanted to point that out because everybody who's like, oh, I've got this I've got that I've got this problem or that problem Well, if you live that way you're closing so many doors to your whole human potential and yes It's gonna hurt. I'm not saying that by diving into any shoulders. I'm sure she's she's going through a lot of pain Opening up that stuck energy. It's stuck energy for a reason. I've gone through a lot of pain in my practice I've broke my effing sacrum in a practice like we go through these but but that's part of the process We cannot be afraid of Feeling pain we I know I know in our society. There's always a pill for that, right? So we don't have to feel things How many pills are being? Shuffled out to humanity so we just don't feel things We're supposed to feel that's why we have an effing nervous system. That's why God gave us a nervous system Pain is an excellent teacher pain is an excellent teacher. It's necessary Suffering is what's not necessary Suffering is created by an attachment to the pain via our ego And then we attach to the pain and we judge it and we feel sorry for ourselves and we sit on a pity pot and That's suffering sufferings unnecessary pain is necessary. You can't grow without it Growing pains, you know, I mean there it's even you know embedded in our our vocabulary Yeah, and that's why I say to like to me watching a clean yoga practice is boring Right because when I see somebody who has a pretty clean primary series If not, they haven't this out that they've completed the work of primary stairs emotionally But they've worked through a lot and so it's released itself and it's clean When the second series gets sloppy though after the that's when it's interesting again because we now we have new opportunity Right, so I always tell my students in live classes ugly. Yoga is my favorite yoga Because ugly yoga is opportunity ugly yoga is the real story Ugly yoga is the reality show ugly yoga is the treasure chest It's like that ten of pentacles in the tarot card deck where the heavy heavy chest That's ugly you open it and there's all these jewels inside Right and we are so Programmed to think that everything has to be perfect at all times. We didn't come here to be perfect We came here to be messy because that's where we freaking learn is through the mess and And so I want to talk about so when we're working through the by this is why I'm gonna tell you guys I know I said in the beginning So I didn't say in the beginning we have one seat left for the yoga intensive that's starting this Sunday A lot of the people doing the yoga tension intensive are also doing the 30-day challenge too. So I'm like You guys are mega warriors You're gonna have even more. I'm telling you I just finished up your homework for the first week doing the syllabus for your Homework you have a lot more journaling to do but um, but when we're when we're talking about this energy this energetic body now I this is the first time I've ever taught a yoga course on a zoom normally and Before the whole timeline change of whatever the hell it is. We're going through right now I would teach you one-on-one or I can touch your body. I could adjust you I could work with you with your actual energy, but because I'm on a zoom I Can't adjust you. I have to rely on just my my words And your work that you put in yourself to meet you halfway through the zoom and so as I was Contemplating creating this yoga intensive. It was like God was like Text Emmy bring reiki into it. I've never taught a yoga course where I brought yake reiki yake yoga That's what our course will be called Emmy from now on yakey I have taken my level one of my level two Two minutes and reiki. I did it a long time ago. I never I always knew that I was never going to be a reiki practitioner But I did it for my own education. I was heavily at that point Obviously heavily involved in yoga and so I personally was like I need to learn more About the energy in my own body. That's not Necessarily my body's energy of that that the energy that directs the body that the subtle energy behind the blood flow That's that's directing it and so I did level one level two just so I could understand it So I was sitting there and it was like God was like or my guys were like text or Emmy Because by bringing the reiki into it I feel like the intention is that the students taking this course are gonna have the yoga information But then also have you get two sessions with Emmy privately where she does a course on you And I think she's gonna send some information over for you guys to start to look at your own Feeling that own energy. I know a lot of times and you know Yoga we actually practice feeling The energy and when we chant I don't know if I've ever said this on a show before but a lot of people mistake The mudra of chanting by smashing their hands together to chant. This is not the chanting mudra This is the greeting mudra mudra. The chanting mudra is this Why Emmy? Why are we doing our hands like this when we chant since you're the reiki master? Why are we doing that? Why did the sages thousands of years ago create this mudra specifically for chanting? well when you when you put the palms together you have Chakras and you're the palms of your hand when you put your palms together and there's space there You can ignite the energy and you can feel it if everybody just takes is just take a second right now Just take a second close your eyes put your hands together make sure that there's a little space there and just focus on the space between your palms and just think just think energy and Sometimes it can take a few seconds sometimes maybe a little longer most of the time. It's immediate. You can feel this heat That is Your key. That's your energy. That's your life force. That is part of who you really are You know this body like Bryce was saying is just an avatar Who you really are is the energy that holds all this body together. Yeah Yeah, and that's what that's why and I actually was so when we do we'll talk more about Vedic chanting in the course Because we know Sanskrit is a light language. So there's healing Tones in the Sanskrit and so we do an opening chant and I'm stronger yoga. So your heads bowed You've got your hands cupped like this You're chanting basically into your hands Activating that energy flow before you that start your practice. How powerful is that? How powerful is that? Mm-hmm and depending on depending on like okay I think everybody should get attuned to Reiki whether you're gonna practice it on others or not I think everybody should get attuned Honestly, and there are different lineages. There are lots of different lineages the lineages of classes that I have taken have um an Evolved form of Reiki energy called holy fire and I'll activate holy fire at the beginning of my practice when I do the yoga chant And it is amazing the flow that comes like it is I Really had to let go of perfection and like what Bryce says a clean practice because I just wanted to copy What other people are doing and I wanted it to look just the same, you know because What it looks like is what it's about right? No My practice is is not clean at all and um, I But I activate the energy and and it tells me things through intuition through Different pains and sensations and feelings and my body, you know, it's not all pain It's not all pain pain is there, you know some of the time But there are sensations and when when you can connect with your body Especially in this meditative flow state like you get in with yoga When you can connect with your body like that, it strengthens your intuition. It strengthens your discernment. It strengthens your ability to To listen to subtle teams because subtlety and Being able to tune into that subtlety is where you're going to be empowered. It's it's your that's your power You know when you can hear that still small voice and Listen to it and Drown everything else out and be in this flow state and really connect with your body It just it's it's so beautiful and so amazing Having a spiritual practice through the physical like this is the first time that I've Attempted spirituality through a physical practice And there's many many different ways many different ways to walk down spiritual paths and you know yoga is one of them and I tell you what there you can there are there's so much to learn from each path Whatever you feel like you're being guided to whether it's yoga or Reiki or another spiritual path Follow that investigate, you know your higher self God source universe Whatever you choose to call higher power is guiding you there for a reason you're you're being guided If you're not going to listen to those subtleties and you're going to miss out on a lot of awesome stuff You'll just have more luggage to carry to the next It's so interesting you're saying that because book three of the yoga sutras is the portion on accomplishment and I debated because Additionally when we teach yoga we teach the sutras we only for the first like 10 15 years We only focus on the first and second sutra and that is so that students when they come into the third It's the third suit the third potta the third book They they are humble because it is the book on the city's as we call them cities are like yoga powers What do I mean by that? It means that the height the heightened intuition Eventually things like levitation when you learn to have when you learn to really live in that Energetic power your body is not as heavy anymore. And so you have these abilities There's is documented in India, you know when people started to or white people started to explore the Himalayas They would run across yogis and like loincloths Sleeping in snow and they were fine because they learned how to control their own sense of their senses of controlling them They were controlling their senses and I actually decided I decided that in this course We are going to go through the third and fourth Pada Because we're going to be breaking some rules because this is a time of great friction in our lives And if you are humble enough to take the teachings of the first and second Pada that hopefully Your mind will be ready to take the teachings of the third and fourth Pada because all of these cities These abilities are not going to come clearly to you unless you're able to descend into the messiness of The fault sense of self-first and once you I always say it I'll say it again. This is said all across the Estongo world The easiest students to teach are the beginner students and the advanced students Because both the beginner students and the advanced students know that they know nothing So once you guys that think about that the advanced student also knows that they know nothing It's the intermediate student that makes they know everything that it's hard to teach Right, so think about that if you're a beginner and you're intimidated by the idea of being a beginner You're your body might not be in the same place as the advanced student, but your mind is And that advanced student Doesn't care that you're because they've been through hell and back with their practice their Todd tells a lot of funny stories from India With the toffee Joyce And there was this one student he used to practice beside the mice or him and she was like in fifth series Which I'm telling you guys I don't want to go past fourth series because it just I have a hard time watching people practice fourth series You only really see in India Because it's like the way the contortions they do with their body like they've been their body in places The body is not supposed to bet so it's it's really hard like third series is beautiful It's more advanced than most yogas are anyway So I'm cool with that but this one student was like a fifth series and Todd said that Guruji would come and put her in the posture Then he'd walk off to the next student and she'd be so stuck in the posture. She'd be like The Todd she'd like can you push me over? He'd have to get up and like push her over just so she could like get out This is right when Todd first came to India So he was very much a beginner at that point. So this advanced student was like try to get the beginner eight push me over So that's that's that's my fault process, right is the advanced student is the one that's ego's been shattered So they know they know nothing, you know, and if anybody tells you they have all the answers They don't we're all I mean even Patanjali doesn't doesn't claim to have all the answers We're just we're just studying ourselves. And yes, and I said this too There are a lot of people in the yoga world that are strictly yoga asana as far as exercise Like they straight and I was that way for a very long time Of course in the ashtanga lineage when you're in the heat of that ashtanga practice all your body can handle is ashtanga asana because it's so damn Exhausting people lose a lot of weight. It's just a lot. There's a lot of calories being burned And so in reality energy wise you really can't go off and do like a kickboxing class after it. Can you at me? No, you can't so I'll this another funny story. I'll I'll tell you guys after this So but what I've done with the challenge specifically because I have dabbled in other modalities I love bar a lot because of the activation of the bundles is I've taken the philosophy Because this philosophy can't you can any way you you use your body Whether that's through yoga or running or tennis or dance or whatever it is You can take this philosophy and you can incorporate it into that movement It's changing the perspective of the movement. So if you're like a dancer, you're not looking for to perform You're gonna actually feel what these shapes your body is making because essentially what we're doing in yoga is we're making shapes with our body So whatever shapes your body is making what is being triggered by that now on the course? We're gonna get into more detail because what we're actually doing is sacred geometry which we're gonna get into in the course We look at the count The sum is dte being the point zero position and drawing out of the graph of how your body is actually moving in the graphs You're drawing because there's a little bit more to it than that with the traditional yoga But that is why in this the third day challenge. I incorporated kickboxing. I incorporated bar I incorporated dance because I want you guys to see that these things Can be this this this theory it's always not a 9% practice anyway It can be incorporated. So if you are on the spiritual journey, I would say for every person out there get yourself a copy of the yoga sutras You will read. I read one or two a day Yeah, I read one or two a day I do one of the lessons every day in a course in miracles and I read a session from raw Yeah, it takes like 15 minutes Let's I mean one of the most powerful sutras is the first sutra of the first pota Which is now the exposition of yoga is being made Are now the but now yoga now yoga begins now the study of yoga begins So when you first read that you think okay, it's first sutra. We're starting now But let's think about this What is Patanjali and really saying here? And this very first sutra if there is if tomorrow if the past is gone and Tomorrow never comes What happens every day you step on your yoga mat your present now now the study of yoga begins That's the most important word there at home now now Now the study of yoga begins So whether it's your first day stepping on the yoga mat or you've been doing this for 20 years I've been doing this for 16 years every morning. I step on my yoga mat Now the study of yoga begins Because the practice I did yesterday doesn't exist anymore The practice I did this morning doesn't exist anymore. It's gone. It's done. It's not coming back. Done. It's a moment in time Tomorrow morning I step on my yoga mat Now the study of yoga begins again It's never ending and that that is that people often neglect that first that very first sutra That very first sutra right there We are going to go through the same Sanskrit of it in the course as well But for this video, I'll just say the English that is the most in one of the most important suit the first two sutras are two of the most important sutras Now he says in the second one if people can get this and they don't need to go. They don't need to read any further The second one is yoga chitra vritti naroda. I say that all the time. It's a second sutra yoga chitra vritti naroda What does that mean? Okay? Well, it's so funny because of the Gnostic text They call God the no thing. Why do they call God the no thing because God the ultimate source God Not the Archons and the demigods and the Lucifers, but the ultimate God is silent It's a silent consciousness that runs through everything. It's that that's that movement between your hands It's the no thing. So yoga chitra vritti naroda. Ha naroda. Ha is no thing nothing Yoga chitra is the brain the mind stuff vritti are the thoughts so Every thought you think through the chitra through the brain Comes out of you are typically down into you where you're the brain and the body are the same thing guys That's the one thing you learn through through yoga to your brain. Your body is the mind field These two things are worked together, right? And so yoga, what is yoga? A lot of people mistranslate that they say it's silencing the mind It's not silencing the mind to silence something means it's not it's just quiet. It's lurking still It's the no thing It's finding the nothingness. It's removing the thought Now that's the unsolvable riddle as my teacher David Gurig would say the unattainable unicorn Because we will always be working on that and what we learn to do in our practice is to observe up our thoughts and see them Just as thoughts So that's where the naroda. Ha really comes in when we realize our thoughts aren't real They're not real They're just reactions to some sort of action And we've created the drama around it our thoughts are like The real housewives of Beverly Hills It's like the Bravo Channel the thoughts are creating a telenovela But it's not real and so we realize that will still continue to have them But then they and he and Shri Swami me to teach did not it talks about that He says what's in one of it one of the I can't remember which teacher it is But in his commentary, he says once you realize that none of this shit's real You really start to enjoy life You don't take it so seriously Yeah Yeah, probably my favorite I say it all the time and and of course in miracles it says nothing real Can be threatened and nothing unreal exists Herein lies the peace of God And how you can tell if something is real or not Is if it stands alone And doesn't need anything else light stands alone darkness Is the absence of light so darkness depends on light but light doesn't depend on darkness so darkness is not real Love is real it stands alone Evil is the absence of love Evil depends on an absence of love to exist Evil is not real Yeah Let's look at that with the body and the soul Can the body stand alone without the soul? Nope Can the soul stand alone without the body? Yes, so is the body real It's just a really fun Christmas tree decoration You know I was I wasn't with you and Stephanie or someone I was laughing about this with and it gets so I mean your soul is so powerful like literally One of the karmas we have is inherited karma and so you part of you picking your parents Yes, we all picked our parents. What's you picked them for their weaknesses? Because you wanted to learn from that experience that they've had that got passed to you Right, so when the sperm whatever energy was being held in that sperm and whatever energy was being held in that That egg met that then became your karma and you picked that for a reason That's your power. That's your power move Plot twist you sat down as the all-knowing being your soul is and you said, all right That person and that person There's something they have that I want to learn from and so I'm gonna I'm going to jump in through them and take some of that karma That's how powerful you are But I was laughing with someone I was like but you look at because that means that you designed everything about yourself You designed your eye color from their dna, you know, everything your parents had the plethora of ancestors You picked everything for whatever reason you needed to learn for whatever reason my soul decided to have blue eyes in this life Maybe I know with the rh negative blood the back of my eyes shaped differently Maybe there was an experience my soul wanted to learn from that So it picked two people both my parents have blue eyes so we can have that right So I was saying to someone I was like you look at some people in this world though and you go That's what you went with That knows like out of all all of them So, you know, and that's what he's saying though when you start to realize that you can enjoy life You can laugh at life. My teachers in india say the highest form of spirituality is a sense of humor Is being able to laugh at yourself Being able to laugh at the ridiculousness of life And maybe that's a challenge. Maybe I should have added that to the challenge Maybe and everything we've been going through these past couple of years Can we find the humor in it? Can we find the humor? And where we've been and what we've been through You know, and it's it's I know we can because I see the memes on instagram And What was I saw big a big bird meme And big bird was walking down the street and this little kid came up to the meme and was I think it was tomorrow that sent it to me And was like Big bird, where are you off to today and big bird said i'm going to arizona to teach them how to count You know like What's this whole thing is there's still a humor there. There's still a sense of humor. I know god has a sense of humor I know that You know and and and what is humor well, we talk about with demonic entities humor is the biggest weapon there is They don't know how to laugh In a very literal sense look at like the uh, the bad guys will say the D s the d state if you guys know what i'm saying in all countries and then look at like the good ones These they don't know how to laugh They fake laugh You know like like if you look at like the woke Stand up comedians nothing's funny anymore Because they don't know how to laugh because laugh and laughter and and and silliness and like that's the highest state of god It's a what's a high you can't if you're have you ever i know i know i just kind of a horrible question Because i know ever been in that with a friend where you're laughing so hard at something you can't breathe Your vibration what your stomach is crunch crunching up that shows you how vibration how highly That that action is and you feel it in your body. You're crying because you're laughing so hard That's the highest state of god And we only find what what do we say we can only find that through the polarity of the of having the pain Of having bouts where are suffering because i know i've been addicted to my pain before Probably a bit be addicted again at some point, you know, but then being able to move to the opposite end of that and laugh at it Because that's how little that power that's where you're powerless and that be living in that suffering is powerless But when you see the suffering for nothing more Then something that doesn't exist It becomes powerful because you could laugh at that does that make that my making sense with that because it's I'll tell you guys a funny story. I said I would another potabi yoi story So back in the 90s when yoga journal came out I won't say the teacher's name. There was a teacher a yoga teacher in america who was on the cover of yoga journal And potabi joys had had his head butts with yoga journal before he wrote a skating leather letter to them at one point about In america, we were calling it power yoga and he was like how fucking dare you power is god Yoga's just the tool, you know, just it's a beautiful letter. It's skating. Anyway So this guy this famous american yoga teacher from the 90s who was on the cover of yoga journal Came to india to practice with potabi joys and he brought The magazine with him on the cover on it to show potabi joys like he was proud of himself and potabi joys was furious And so He worked that guy so hard every practice Todd said Guruji was here in this little house of laxmi poram. This guy this teacher's house was right next door He would get his ass handed to him so hard in practice that he would have to hire a rickshaw driver To be waiting to pick him up To drive him next door. Todd was like the guy didn't even have to turn his gas on He just pushed his foot like a floodstone's car and like Because he was so beaten up because guruji was like this ego's got to go basically How dare you bring a magazine with you on the cover? I'm thinking you're gonna impress me a guru You got to break your ego humble yourself and he humbled him You know, so I always I can just imagine because I I know I've had those days of like hobbling out of the shallow like My body hurts so bad. What's happening So it is so funny because charat's mother saraswati. She's like in her 80s and she still teaches She still teaches at the solid too. She has her classes as well But that she teaches the one the only female teachers in india And one of my friends practices with her and he said he knew That she was his teacher because at four o'clock in the morning He was waiting outside to go in and he could see her through the window And she was eating a sticker at Snickers bar and he was like that's my teacher And then she also does zumba competitions And I love it because and I was thinking as I'm hobbling on the shallow like I bet they don't get this much pain in zumba You know, here's saraswati doing her like indian zumba zumba competition that 80 years old But she teaches my sore all the time and you know, it's it's just our bodies are powerful things guys and um Maybe is there any last parting words that you want to tell people about the rakey side of this course for that one spot We have left or for the people that are going to be joining us already on sunday Oh, man. Well, I'm gonna I I'm writing something up just a a few Facts and tidbits about rakey what it is and what it is not um, I'm gonna get that over to brice Today or tomorrow to put in the manual um, but basically in a nutshell rakey is just um spiritually guided life force it can do no harm um It is intelligent It knows where to go The you know the the practitioner that you work with Doesn't even need to know really what's wrong with you. The rakey will address it um It's helpful to know ahead of time What you would like to work on because different energies work with different things um, so your practitioner, you know can hold space for you and Send different energies that work with different things, but ultimately um rakey is Is god it is Consciousness it knows everything about you and knows things about you that you don't know It knows where to go and what to do And it's very relaxing And it works with the part of your nervous system that is responsible for rest Digest and repair the parasympathetic nervous system when that part of your nervous system is activated Healing happens Um So yeah, that's about it and then not show When you said that I was going to ask you before you even started filming and I mean I'll just put you in the spot And ask you here on camera. I am thinking about doing a big episode on We're talking you're talking about digestive and the parasympathetic nervous system. I think about doing an actual episode just on the gut Would you yeah Yeah, when I when I first created this youtube my youtube channel one of the topics that I wanted to do a series on was gut health And I've been so busy. I haven't gotten to it yet I haven't gotten to it yet because that was I I felt myself the mola bunda the udyana bunda That's all gut health too and I feel myself doing that I'm going to continue to work with you guys on that because that's also that that also covers the area of like the first three chakras Which are the most ignored and so um, we want to look at the physical and the energetic combining themselves And so um, so yeah, that's why part of the challenge guys. I'm having you to stop eating after 7 p.m I said this on one of the videos this week So that if you stop eating at 7 p.m You don't snack at night. You're giving yourself at least 12 hours between meals and is giving your digestive system a chance to rest And so if you snack at night what's happening is all the blood your body is going to your digestive system to break that food down But if you stop snacking and you give your your digestive system a chance to rest The blood's they're going to be able to disperse around the body and heal other parts of the body as well And so sometimes that's why we have like food hangovers. That's why if we snack at night We don't wake up the best in the morning But if you stop snacking at a certain time you're giving your body that regeneration the nervous system can regenerate all this stuff So and it does come back to allowing because The gut is also kind of the second brain um All that kind of stuff and and and working with uriana mola bunda, which we will go deeper into in the course as well um That's pulling that energy up in through the organs. So um Also, let's let's work on a video as well to do just in general about gut health and and all that kind That's why drinking water is important too. It flushes the coal. It flushes all this stuff out. So Anyway, I will I will say just one more thing. I will say The one activity that I did For my gut health that helped the most Was I went I and I still do this I go by locally grown if I can find it if not Make sure it's organic Locally grown if possible vegetables any kind cabbage carrots broccoli beats anything anything Watch some youtube videos on how to ferment Vegetables you can ferment them on your counter. It takes three weeks Super easy. You don't need expensive equipment. You can buy expensive equipment, but you don't need it. You can just do it with um Guys you if you buy alfredo sauce or spaghetti sauce or salsa or whatever save the jars You don't even need to buy mason jars and super easy To ferment vegetables and eat a couple tablespoons of those every day I'm telling you what you are going to be absolutely amazed at the clarity of your thinking At the reduction of anxiety and depression Like when you have a healthy gut bacteria Your whole life will change. I promise you it's amazing And we we actually ferment here too from time to time as well. We've been doing that as well We are lucky though because in a city we have did a cap farmers market We have a bunch we've accessed but in small towns. You should also have access to like a farmer to locally grown stuff as well If not though your your local grocery store will have organic vegetables. Yeah They should So so we'll we'll let's let's plan on doing that a little bit later and be doing a big gut one because that is so important And I I it's kind of why I snuck that into the challenge because I wanted people to start to kind of experience Wake, you know, it seems seems crazy But if you give your digestive system like 12 hours of rest you usually wake up with more energy Because the organs have prepared themselves because they weren't other blood wasn't all having to be used in your digestive track so um So yeah, so it's it's all this stuff is in your right. I I've struggled because I'm bought. I have struggled with constipation in the past um I thought it was normal that you didn't go that I just thought everybody went to the bathroom like once a week and that was it And it wasn't until I got Oh my gosh Los Angeles my boyfriend at the time who I lived with was the first person that clued me and that wasn't normal Because he can't I'm very private about this stuff But he came out of the living room one day and he was like He could need to take you to the hospital. I was like, why he was like, what was the last time you went to the bathroom? I was like, I don't want to talk about this with you. He's like, no, this is concerning He was like, oh, listen, just because I'm not on the toilet for 45 minutes. Does it mean but but I was like Oh, you mean people do this every day. Like, oh, I see that people like did this every day Um, so let's just say the house I grew up and we had separate bathrooms. So I had no idea that My other family members were going I just didn't know Um, but as a vata and I'm very thin so I'm very thin person So, you know, I can tell when I haven't been able to go the bathroom But I then I got for me I got on a bunch of different herbs and then I learned in yoga if you struggle with that if you're super constipated The teacher won't let you practice Because you run the risk of bruising your internal organs And so and then when I when I got on these herbs and I started eating for my dosha and I was like, oh This makes a huge difference Oh my gosh And if you're about to like me and you just assumed that something somebody did once a week No, you're supposed to do it like once a day a couple times a day. Maybe even that so Um, so when we can talk about that on the episode together and we can talk about all the different remedies I've done colonics myself Those are fun We can talk about all the different things you can do which is a kriya and yoga colonic would be a kriya and yoga which we'll get into in a later episode. So All right, you guys One spot left you guys, so I'm going to put the link down in the description box below We are meeting this sunday for our first class at 2 p.m. Eastern standard time So make sure you know when that is for your time And we'll go from there because I'm going to do smaller groups throughout the week to work on the oftenest stuff that we can I will be providing you guys with some links to some other stuff. You can work on your own You're gonna have a lot of homework the first week dealing with the first Pada of the sutras and I'm really excited. I'm really like we got a great group of people and so hopefully You know man in the mirror we got to change ourselves first before the world changes, right? So, yes. All right you guys. We'll talk to you soon. Bye everybody