 Although everybody, welcome back to Esoteric Atlanta. Of course my name is Bryce. I am joined here with a lovely Robin. I'm so excited about having Robin on the show today because she is definitely a badass. And even though we're filming this today on Tuesday, June 20th, it will not, this video will air on the 21st tomorrow, which is Wednesday. I apologize once again if you hear a racket outside. Again, as always, they're building a high rise, and so it's pretty loud. So I apologize to you guys to be here some banging outside. But Robin, how are you doing this morning? I'm doing great. Beautiful morning. I'm here at my lovely household on the lake and listening to the birds. They wake me up every morning at 5, 5.30. So just having a nice quiet morning. That's good. That's really good. Well, Robin, you've been watching my channel for a while and you know that I focus a lot on exercise as being a part of your own awakening and a part of spirituality and a part of course correcting patterns of thought that are maybe not serving you by changing the patterning of the body. And I want to go ahead and start off with this, Robin. You are a 62-year-old bodybuilder. Yes, I am. And so I see a lot of people in the comment section who say, oh, it's easy for you to say, Bryce, because you're 40. And I'm like, no, you guys. Age ain't nothing but a number. They've gotten you so programmed to think that the older you get, the more you can't do. But Robin, when you look at your bodybuilding pictures, you look like you're 22 years old. So can we kind of start with who you are, how you got involved in bodybuilding, and what you've learned through this experience? Absolutely. OK, we'll start with my child-bearing days, which I was a late bloomer. So I had children in my 30s. I had a child at 32 and 35. And I was being busy, being a mother. But I always had the gym in my life because I was working full-time, put myself through school, raising two children. And then I got divorced when I was 40. Because two people, we change. And my ex-husband, he always said to me, I'm never going to change, always be the same. And I said, well, everybody changes. That's just part of life. And as we progressed through the marriage, and we lived together for quite some time. But when we started having children, we got married. And then I just realized that this wasn't right. And I knew when I went down the aisle, I knew I wasn't in love with him. But having kids on the way, it was like program. We're programmed, got to do the right thing. Good man and everything, he's a very good man. Just wasn't, we just kind of went different ways as we grew, and he's right. He said he would never change until this day, he's kind of still the same guy. Not a bad guy, that's just who he is. So through my 40s, I really started getting into going to the gym. I had to have that hour every day because of the lifestyle I was living. Running, running, going, going, never taking time out to breathe. And so I had a friend at one of the gyms that I worked out at was the Omni Fitness Center. And she invited me to go to the McCormick Center in Chicago for her bodybuilding competition. And I said, yeah, that sounds like fun. I would love to do that. And she was actually going for her pro-card. And she was like probably 10 years younger than I was. So I went there and I was so impressed with everything I saw, all the people, how healthy they were. And I looked at her and I said, if you can do this, I know I can do this. So I said, would you kind of just like, if we get back to the gym, can you kind of show me a little bit of this and that? And she did. So I worked out with her a little bit. And then I started doing some research on my own and learning about weightlifting. And I always was terrified about going into the weightlifting room because it was always the guys in there. And so once I ventured in there, the guys became my buds, okay? So I got over that fear thing. And I started weightlifting when I was 53. And then I started thinking about doing a competition and talk about really nervous about doing something like that but and getting on the stage. And I ended up working out, I learned all about the eating process, was working out six days a week. And the dieting is probably the hardest part. And I shouldn't say dieting, I should say nutrition. Because a lot of people, we get set in our ways and we have foods that we get addicted to and ways of eating. And it's hard to go from all that good tasting stuff to healthier options. But once you start eating healthy and you see the results that you get and the way that you feel, it becomes a feeling that you just gotta have more of. And I have a very addictive personality. So the weight training, I really got into that. And to this day, I'm still doing it. I do five to six days a week, but I do start to listen to my body a little bit more. So when I start feeling, you know, the soreness inflammation is probably the biggest one. And that's kind of one of the reasons why I went with the Cia supplement drink. Since I've been taking that, it's been amazing. I don't have the knots that I used to get in my back. I do still have a little bit of lower back pain, but that's cause I do a lot of deadlifting. And if you don't do it consistently, sometimes it gets to be a little bit painful if you go from lighter weights to heavier weights. And I try not to use that word painful cause you know, our body listens to everything that we hear or it listens to everything we say. So I really try to watch what I say words-wise. They all have to be positive because when you're exercising, it's not just about the physical aspect of it, it's the mental, it's the commitment, it is the desire and what excites you the most. And I think about that, what's the most exciting thing when I get out of bed in the morning, what excites me brings me to the highest excitement. And I literally jump out of bed and I can't wait to get to the gym and start my workouts cause I really enjoy it. The best part about it is the job that I have, I'm able to work in that industry. So working out is something that I can do every day, anytime if I take my lunch break, I can do the workouts. Recently though, I have been kinda struggled a little bit with my cardio because I injured my knee and I'm not sure how I did it, but I panicked a little bit, I was gonna run to the hospital and I'm like surgery and then I went, I took a deep breath and I thought, why am I getting all upset? I can heal myself, we have the ability to heal ourselves. So I started doing my Epsom salt baths and doing my commands and commands is kind of like something that I do in the morning and at night to like I command my body to heal and mend and I say that three times and it's just like a meditation style. You might say prayer, some people might look at it as a prayer way of praying, but it's all positive stuff and you have to stay positive, it's mind over matter. If you think that you're gonna have a problem with your knee, then you will create it. Well, and the matter is a result of your mind. That's the thing and that's the yogic philosophy is that the mind is actually, and that's why I, and I was telling you before we started filming and you know, there's a lot of people in my industry of traditional yoga that absolutely no other exercise only yoga, but my philosophy is a little bit different that regardless of what exercise you're doing, the yoga can happen. So whether you're bodybuilding, running, swimming, yes, the yoga postures are designed for a specific release, but the philosophy of the yoga, Chits of Brittany Naroda, understanding the vrittis, which are the thoughts of the mind that are creating the patterns in the body as the body is the mind field. And I wanted to touch base with you're talking about the lower back pain because that's something that I personally have also struggled with. I had spinal surgery at 17 and it's something that I've dealt with a lot in my life. I know that it has to do with the root chakra imbalance, but also for me, and you're right, Robin, like whenever my back feels inflamed or my back's a little sore, instead of being all pissed about it or upset about it, I go, thank you, body. Thank you for letting me know that something's imbalanced right now. Let me go investigate this. So what I'll do is I'll, first of all, up my core strength, so I'll know to focus more on my core so that my core can support the nervous system in the spine, can support that pressure. And then I'll go and start journaling more and figuring out what has happened to trigger an imbalance. And then once I can figure that out, it starts to course correct itself. And that's something I want a lot of people, instead of like being freaked out when your back hurts or your shoulder hurts, to be like, okay, interesting. Thank you, body, for telling me something. I've got a blind spot somewhere. There's something imbalanced. And with the knee, Rob, and what's interesting about the knee is the knee is connected energetically. This is metaphysics, guys, so take what resonates. But the knee is connected to the kidneys. And the kidneys and the knee both symbolize fear of the future. If you look at whether it was the right or left knee, that will tell you more. So left is feminine energy, right is masculine energy. And so if it's the right knee, if you look at what the masculine energy in your own life is, that's the protection, the support. So where am I afraid? I'm not gonna have support in the future. And then you start to work that back and that's what the knee is telling you. It's like, hey, there's some fear here. And as my teacher says in India, why fearing? Why fearing? God's got it, why fearing? You know, and also, yes, the Epsom salt bath doing the castor oil pack. So when we do encounter bodily injuries or something's off a little bit, it's not saying like you don't just go full force around a marathon when your knee is out. No, you take time, you know, you modify what you need to modify during that moment and then start exploring what the body is. What is the puzzle that your body is presenting you with now? Because it's coming from the subliminal or the subconscious thoughts of the mind. And it's a beautiful way. The body is, it's an incredible instrument and template to help you truly do your work. Do your shadow work. And yes, and the more you start to love your body in that aspect, the more the body is going to change for you. And I've been honest on my channel, I struggled with body morphic disorder in my life. And so I, and that for those who don't understand what that is, that's when you see something different in the mirror than what's being presented to you. And so I've started doing, as I've gotten older, I would look at myself naked every morning and tell myself I look sexy. And that has changed my body a lot just because I tell myself, look how, look how good you look. You know, and so, but I think too, I don't know, as women, I think, and maybe this is an issue with men too, society wants us to be humble when it, you know, like, you know, like you, you don't want to, but there's a difference between having an ego and being proud of yourself, right? There's a difference between the two. You're absolutely right, you know, and that's another thing, excuse me for interrupting, but that's another thing that I had to do, you know, in this past year, it's been a year, I was in a nine year toxic relationship and I ended that a year ago. And I found out a lot of things about myself and one of them was a practice that I had to do every day and that was to look in the mirror and tell myself that I love myself. And you know what, in the beginning it was hard, but now I do it every day and now I do it with a sense of humor. I say, you got this, you're great, you're beautiful today, you know, those kind of things. And sometimes you can get around people that will bring you down and they'll try to make it out like everything is your fault and that you are the problem and you start to believe that and then you lose touch with yourself and you take it out on who you are. But I'm here to say that since that happened, I have turned into this beautiful person that I got myself back and I love the journey that I'm on now spiritually, physically, mentally and emotionally because I've never been happier and the exercising is something that everybody should have in their life and you're never too old to do it, never. Yeah, that's so important too. I was actually, I've gotten into watching these like YouTube shorts and it's so cool what people can put, information people can put in like a 60 second video. And we know when you go through any type of like emotional or mental abuse that your brain does rewire itself. And so sometimes things like complex, post-traumatic stress disorder was something I was diagnosed with will look like things like ADHD. And I noticed that just recently because I never had ADHD as a child and my viewpoint of ADHD is not what it is. And I started researching some of my habit and so I was like, oh my God, it's ADHD but it was rewired, my brain rewired from the abuse to be hyper-vigilant, all that kind of stuff. But the beautiful thing about it is you can then go and reprogram that rewiring through exercise. There was a great short, and I wish I could find it to share it where the person was saying exercise will literally rewire your brain. It will literally getting that oxygen, getting that heart rate up, that blood flow. It will literally correct any unhealthy programming. And it's like my favorite, one of my favorite movies is Legally Blonde. And I've said this before on the show where she's having, you know, that fitness instructor is charged with murdering her husband. And the fitness instructor does have an alibi but she can't say it because it'll ruin her fitness industry because she had liposuction done. And so Elle, the main character has to figure out a good defense. And she's like, listen, exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people don't murder their husbands, you know? And so it's that release of energy. And I say to people a lot too, you know, if you look at children, if you look at how children, now of course you can't, there is a societal rules that we learn as we grow up, but a small child like a toddler or a small child, when they're frustrated, they will have a temper tantrum. And so what is that temper tantrum doing it? It is them releasing energy. They just go into it and they just, and then you give them a few minutes and they're fine. Well, that's something you as an adult, if there's something stressful you're going through, what is exercise? It's a release of energy. It's a way for you to release your energy, to reprogram that energy that's causing stress in the mind. And we look at the body, the human body is 80% water. And that's 80% salt water. What is the ocean? Salt water. We all know that the ocean is healing, the ways of the ocean heal. So if you're going to have a sedentary life and that water is going to just sit there, what happens when water just sits there, becomes stinky molds and it gets sedentary. But if you actually activate the movement of the body, what starts to happen is you get this ocean of healing, of salt water, of a, in the tarot card deck, water cups, that's emotion, right? What are tears? They're water, right? There's that great person who's studied. I forgot the doctor's name, but he did a study of people's tears. And he looked under the microscope and sad tears, happy tears, they all look different under the microscope because it's a different, it's different emotional information. And so that is what exercise, exercise is not in my opinion. It's not about, if you're going to the gym to punish yourself, if you're going to the gym to try to abuse yourself into a size zero or into a six pack, then you're going to the gym for a very wrong reason and your body's gonna respond to that abuse, it's gonna hurt, it's gonna break down, you're gonna hate it. But if you start to reprogram the way you look at exercise and you're right Robin, like I, when I'm in the middle of an intense yoga practice or a bar class and I'm squeezing that ball and my legs are shaking and the sweats coming off and the heat's there, the brain starts to negotiate and it's like you should stop, you should stop. But no, I say, no, thank you. I'm gonna settle into this and I'm gonna start to try to go into my body and feel what information is coming up, what, look how, and in that moment, we call it in mice or we call it the mice or magic. And I think that this happens in gyms across the United, all across the world, probably in dojos, in any area, dance studios where there's intense movement happening, this magic starts to happen. When you first walk in, I know like for Robin, when you first started weightlifting, you said you were scared when you signed up for them, there are things you think, oh, I could never do that. I could never do that, you know? In Anashtanga Shala, you see someone standing up with their leg behind their head and it's so beautiful and you think, I'll never do that. But then the more you work at it, all of a sudden there's this magic that happens where you go, maybe I can do that. Yeah. And then once that window, once you start to feel your body, and that happens over time, right? Because you're starting to feel the body shift, you're starting to feel yourself stand up a little bit taller, you're starting to lose aches and pains, you're starting to feel better during the day, because endorphins make you happy and happy people don't murder their husbands, right? You're starting to feel better in the day, right? So, suddenly that shift, the power of your own, the perspective of your own self. And that was my teachers in India, even though traditional yoga is very demanding on the mobility and the flexibility. They never talk about flexibility. They always talk about getting stronger, getting stronger, because what's gonna hold that leg up behind your head safely? Strength, the core strength. And if we use that physical strength and we turn it on the emotions and the spiritual side, that's getting you stronger emotionally. It's getting you stronger spiritually, right? And so what, for you Robin, what's one of the most, like looking back on your road to this life of being a bodybuilder? And to me, it just seems, I don't wanna put words in your mouth, but it seems so spiritual for you. You love being there. It's your time to really be you. What's one of the most magical things that's ever happened to you in the gym or in a show? Where was a moment that stands out in your mind where something switched in your mind and you started to recognize something different in yourself than you had before? I will say, a few years back, I was riding my bicycle when I left the gym and I was adjusting my gym bag and I accidentally grabbed the left handle of the bike and which brings the bike to a complete stop. And so I went boom, boom, boom, and I went like this and I protected my face but I busted my elbow. So I went to see the doctor and he says, well, you're never gonna be able to do what you've done before, blah, blah, blah. And we're gonna have to put a steel plate in your arm, blah, blah, blah. And I said, well, you know, I'm not putting anything in my arm. I think I'm just gonna give this one to God and let him roll with it. So I started thinking to myself, you know, nothing's ever stopped me before. And I just, for some reason, I felt like I could get back to where I was even with the broken elbow. So when I went into the ER room, they wrapped me up with all this stuff and the next day I couldn't put my clothes on and I'm like, this is crazy. So I took it all off and I put it in a sling. So I was able to put my clothes on. So I gave it like a week or so and then I started getting back into my workout just doing light exercises. And then before, you know, within probably, I'm gonna say about three or four months, I was back to doing everything I did prior and I never had the surgery and I never had a plate put in it. Is it 100%? No, but can you tell that it's broken? No. And I'm gonna say that that was magical for me because I could have given up and said, oh God, I'm never gonna be able to work out again because I broke my elbow and, you know, and just let that be my excuse for not, you know, continuing on. But I love it so much that I said, I know I can do this and I did it. And I'm here, I am three, four years later everything's working fine. So it's doable. You just gotta know- Isn't that amazing? It really is. It's a mindset, it's not taking, you know, like my families, I've said many times on my channel but if you're new to the channel, I come from a medical family. My name, Bryce is my mother's maiden name. That's a big thing to do down here in the South. Give your kid your maiden name. The Bryce's in South Carolina where my mother's family's from are huge generations of doctors. University of South Carolina, William Sprice, State and Medical School, all that kind of stuff. So I come from a world of doctors, doctors, doctors, doctors, doctors. And so when I came up and I was like, I'm gonna go to India and study Ayurvedic health. When you start to understand that your body is an energetic expression of your soul, that your soul and your body are really, but even though the soul is eternal and the body is mortal, it will die one day, the body is an expression. It's the Shakti of the soul. And once that registers with you, once you realize that, you start to push back on other people's opinions of your experience. You know what I'm not, I love, I told on Friday the story of me having my appendix out. Yes, we need Western doctors. They're amazing for emergency situations. They're amazing when you gotta get your appendixes about to burst, all that kind of stuff. But when it comes to telling somebody that their body is something that is out of their control, your body is not out of your control. Your body is a template of the journey you're gonna go on for your soul's experience in the here. Now it's an experience for your soul to know itself. And so when you had that intuition, or that inkling to kind of push back, like something the doctor said didn't resonate with you, just remember as my grandfather always said, it's practicing medicine, it's just a practice. So doctors are not infallible, they can be wrong, right? Cause it's just a practice. And I know my family members who are doctors have said many times, even before this whole great awakening that there's just some things that happen in the human body that they cannot explain. There are some things that happen on the operating table that should not happen. There is some magic, there is some essence of something that is not of this world of nature that is present. And so when you tap into that and you start to listen to that, you will find yourself pushing back against people that wanna give you a different outcome. You know, I was taking a bar class the other day and Marnie Alton, I'll paraphrase what she said. She goes, if this is not the ending that you want, then you go back and change the ending. And I love that she said that this is not the ending. You don't want this ending, Robin. You're like, no, this is not the ending I signed up for. So I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna change the ending because that's not what my soul came here to do. My soul didn't come here to give up, right? My soul came here to take these obstacles to learn and to grow. And you're right, there's something so when you get, when you're in an exercise, whatever that might be, where you walk away sweaty and your skin is pink from the blood flow, there's something, you feel so great. It doesn't matter. It's an amazing feeling. It doesn't matter if you ran three miles, it took you an hour to run three miles. It doesn't matter how slow that was. It doesn't matter how fast it was. What matters is you released energy and you showed yourself. Like when people say, oh, I run slow, well, you're running faster than the person on the sofa right now. So you're, you know, and for people, wait nuts, and I know we wanna talk about too, the loose skin and all that kind of stuff and we'll get into that as well. But when I see people who come to the yoga shala who are overweight and I've never struggled with weight, but I know that that's a big thing for people and they feel very insecure and I know it's heavy on the body. But when you see people starting to like heal themselves with their food addictions or whatever and they start to exercise and lose the weight and they start to realize how special they are and how they don't have to be that person sitting off on the side. It's just such a, and I know you probably get that too, Robin. I wanna also show quickly before we move any further, your gym. So Robin, you train people as well. So if you're up in the Michigan area, I'm gonna put all of this down in the description box below. You can work with Robin. This is the website and as somebody, you, Robin, who work with people, I work with people, that is such a gift, isn't it? To be able to see other people have breakthroughs. Yes, and I work with all different ages, all the way from 19 up to 65, 70 years old and anybody can do it, it's just a mindset. Yep, yep, and that's it. So I'm gonna put all this down in the description box guys. If you live in the area, you can contact all the Robins email address as well. And I'm trying to talk, I think Robin, I'm telling you off camera, I think you should open up a YouTube channel of workouts. You could do 20 minutes, 30 minutes for all ages, all fitness levels. And so guys, if you think Robin should be putting some YouTube up there, I'll share it on my channel to give you, next time I do a shadow work channel, I can incorporate your exercises into the shadow work challenge. So guys, if you think it would be awesome for Robin to put some YouTube's up of some easy at home work. So for people who live, let's say Robin, I have people watching from all over the world right now. So we know that we have our friends out there in the world that are unfortunately not in countries like the United States, that are in countries that are a little bit stricter, a little bit more dictator ship-ish. I'm trying to put my words. And they can't, because they didn't get this or maybe they can't go out and go to a gym. Would you be able to put workouts for people to like, hey, if you're stuck at home, here's something you can do at home? Absolutely. Yeah, and you can use soup cans as weights. Yep, sure, absolutely. So if you guys want Robin to do that, put that down in the, let her know in the comment section and I will share all of her links and stuff if she decides to do that. Because it's, and you know, that's the beautiful thing about YouTube, even though we struggle with YouTube, it's also the beautiful thing about it is that information can get shared all over the world, right? So Robin, you are also now a part of the ASEA business as well. So I want to kind of transition, and we talked a lot about the loose skin and all that kind of stuff. So first and foremost, how did you find ASEA? Well, Bryce, I watch a show all the time and I just happen to see, you know, your sponsor commercials on it. And so I started researching the product and next thing you know, I'm ordering it. And the first one that I got was the, the SEA redox right here. And yeah, it tastes a little bit like pool water, but it's not that bad. It's not bad enough to where you go, I can't do that. Although my kids would probably do that. So I didn't know about the swishing around in the mouth. So I've started doing that. And I did notice that if I take it before bed, that I probably shouldn't do that because then I have a hard time going to sleep. I found that out. So if I'm gonna, I'm up to eight ounces a day. And the reason why is because I'm constantly going all day at the gym, personal training, doing my workouts, you know, memberships and recently maintenance in the gym because my second, my part timer was on vacation last week. So I was running the whole place by myself. So I needed the energy. Anyway, love that place, by the way. Love all my members, just want them to know. But it's really wonderful, especially for inflammation. I've noticed, as I said earlier, that I don't have the knots in my back because I used to have to go to the massage therapist at least once or twice a week. And now I'm not having any issues with that. Also the other one that I like the best is the cardio vascular and the arterial elasticity. Sorry, I had a hard time saying that. That helps also with the skin. And you know, when you're doing your workouts and as you said, we'll get to that part. It's also really good. The energy, because I do a lot of intervals which keeps your energy flowing. And so in order to get your, I think it's your anabolic hormones up, you have to do high intensity exercise, not like for long periods, but short intervals. So I do a lot of supersets in between my weight training. And this gives me the energy to do that. Before it was pre-workout and the pre-workouts just a little much for the caffeine. A lot of my young members, they're always taking the pre-workout. Like you guys shouldn't be getting doing that all the time. It's not good for you. Because the caffeine is like a manipulation of your energy where the ispia and at your right, that's some, there's like the aerobic and the anaerobic. And traditional yoga works. You know, if you look at the yoga Caranta, the traditional yoga versus what you see most of the vinyasa flow, the traditional yoga does that. I always tell my students it's like the yogis of yarn understood interval training, right? And so you see the heart rate peaking in intensity and then dropping again. You know, they're doing that specifically and it's like when you do that, you're also creating your own energy, right? So a lot of times, especially if you take a bar class, you'll notice that the beginning of the workout, there's a heavy cardio, heavy intensity and then they go into the anaerobic which then forces the body to drop deep. And it's creating that energy. So that's what, that's, it's all, it's all amazing when you really start, if you guys are really fascinating with the body, like it's super fascinating to study how the body actually performs and does and how it correlates to the emotional and spiritual because you can see them mirroring each other. But yeah, those like pre-workout stuff, you're taking like a caffeine or a substance that's creating a hyper feeling, right? Like eating a Snickers bar in order to give you that kind of an illusion of energy whereas what the ispia is doing and you're right, I notice it too, I can't take a see it before bed because I'll stay up all night because it gives you a natural work because the ispia, all the see it is is a redox system. It's a supplement. And what it's doing is it's allowing your body to perform at its maximum. And so it's your body's natural, it's allowing the body to naturally do what it's supposed to do after, when it's able to signal and communicate with each other. And so yeah, I do my first four ounces in the morning and then my second four ounces, I do eight ounces a day too. I do like two o'clock in the afternoon-ish. That's it for the day. And it does, it gives you a pick-me-up. It gives you, and days, I learn this from Jay, days where I have a lock going on or maybe I'm feeling a little bit under the weather, I'll do 12 ounces just to keep me, and I usually notice that the next day after I've done 12 ounces, I'm like super, super high energy the next day. And so what was one of that, so for me, Robin, in my experience with this supplement, we can't make any medical claims, guys. It's all just our own perspectives and our experiences because it's a supplement. I noticed by the third day I was calmer in my mind. What's something you noticed? Like, what was one of the first things you noticed with the ASEA? I noticed the, like I said, the inflammation was huge. Okay, that's huge. That's why I'm like 100% with this. And I like the fact that it helps balance the hormones too. Especially as we get older, our metabolism slows down. So you really got, you can't just eat once or twice a day. And I have a lot of my seniors that I train and they go, I look at what they eat. They're eating once or twice a day. And I'm like, you gotta eat more than that in order to build your strength. And you're gonna come in here and do your exercises, you gotta eat more. And I realize they're not hungry, but again, it's not just the supplements. There's all, there's the exercise. There's the mental aspect of it. There's the discipline to make sure that you're eating the right foods and the right amount of foods. So it's not just one thing, it's all of them together that works so well. And that to me, and also the immune system, amazing. This whole, ever since this whole thing, but started back in 2020, I've been around both, you know, the, I don't know if I can say this or not, but both the J and the non. And I haven't been sick at all. I've never worn the, you know, face cover up and I've never been sick. And it's because I live a healthy life. And I think if everybody did that and took care of themselves and stopped being afraid, I think they would see a big difference. And it's all a mental thing to stay positive and think positive. Yeah. What they say fear, the acronym for fear is false, evident, appearing real. Yeah. And it's also that, it's right. It's that not trusting. And I, you know, for me, I have a firm belief in God in a creator. What creator is gonna put us in bodies that can't defend themselves? That can't, you know, that's why we have an immune system. That's why, you know, and of course, the powers that be have done a lot to try to compromise that immune system, right? And, but when we start to take care of ourselves and I said before, I said it on another show, Mike, the freaking food pyramid was the worst thing that was ever invented because it's your body. You need to know, you know, for me as a Vata apples, raw apples make me sick because I'm Vata. I'm Vata, but I cooked apples and so it's understanding that you're right. You said something earlier that really resonated because I'm this way as well. When you're eating for your body and healthy and you're feeling alive and you're feeling good, you don't wanna go and have that meal that's not gonna serve you, right? You're not craving that anymore because you know, it's gonna make you feel like crap, right? You start to feel so good that you wanna continue feeling good. You wanna continue living the quality of your life, you know, having that healthy body and that of course, the healthy mind. And, but yeah, the inflammation is big for me too. I've struggled in the past with inflammation and you know, I think anybody who does an intense workout is going to at some point have some inflammation they're gonna have to work with. That's just happens, but the ASEA does help so much with the inflammation. And for some people when they do the ASEA, some people will notice like, you know, lose like five pounds in the first month or something. And I think what that is for a lot of people is the inflammation, that their body's just releasing health fluids and because the ASEA comes in and allows the body to heal itself faster. So let's talk about, cause I, you know, I don't have any loose skin. I've never had a child. I've never had to do that. I do have stretch marks on my boobs though, which I think a lot of women do have, you know, that just cause they grew. And so that could be, you know, so let's talk about the loose skin cause you kind of did some research on this. So can we, can we go in that direction? Oh, absolutely. You know, being in the fitness industry and doing shows and stuff, I've always been self-conscious of my stomach area. So I actually went into one of the medical facilities and had a procedure done. They take like this little pen and they like do these little burns on your stomach and it's supposed to bring the collagen up. But then before I had it done, I started thinking about how is that possibly gonna work? But she's the doctor, she would know. So I had it done and I didn't see a big difference at all. You know, I kind of, kind of a, to me was a waste of money, but that was just me, maybe somebody else might have reacted differently to it. But I have really good skin and that probably comes from my Mexican heritage because it's very oily. So I love the, and not to get off subject, but I do love their skincare, but the serum and all the creams, you know, I only put those on at night when I go to bed because it gets really greasy for me because I have naturally oily skin. But back to the loose skin, which is caused by aging, you know, weight loss, sun exposure and I have been in the sun since I was 12. I don't believe in sunscreen. I never wore sunscreen and I love, I, yeah, I think I lost you. You're, you're quiet. Oh, sorry. I was, I muted myself because of the same. I've never worn sunscreen either. So I totally forgot I muted myself guys. So yeah, what she's talking about with the skincare system quickly is this is a skincare. And I've been doing this skincare as well. I'm going to just before we move forward, if I forget to say this, I'm gonna be putting down Robin's links in the description box below guys. So you can check out Robin's links. But you talked about collagen and I know they now, I've just ordered mine. They have collagen with a SIA that's a vegan product, vegan collagen that they just released. I cannot wait to try it. And so yeah, so sorry, keep going Robin. I just wanted to point that out. Oh, absolutely. And yeah, and I can't wait to get that too because I've tried a lot of collagen products and I haven't seen a real big difference. But so I do a lot of, I have amazing looking abs, but I still have that skin thing. And so I have been using the Renew 28. Love this stuff. As a matter of fact, I can need to get a bigger bottle so that I don't run out so quickly. Just saying, but I love that stuff. Pop bottles like the Polly Quilson. Exactly. And I should know to order it right away as soon as I get it. Cause it goes that fast. Cause I put it on my lates and I'm noticing a difference in my legs, you know? Because that's where women my age, that's where our problem spot, spots are is on the inner thigh. And of course, let's not forget the hips. So that's the first place that I gain weight when I do. And so I'm off season right now. And usually when I'm competing, I'm 115. So right now I'm about 125, 127. So I go up and down with weight loss. So that right there is a problem. So I've got to learn to try to stay, you know, at a happy medium so that I'm not going up and down all the time, which isn't always easy. But in the other thing is I've learned to with the face, if you wash with the cold water than heat, then that really helps the circulation also. And I have been using this on there along with all it. So I just can't get enough of that stuff. It's great. And the vitamins I'm using, I'm using all your products. All of them. Okay, I love them. And I actually off camera with Jay one day, listen, my boyfriend is like the biggest nerd when it comes to health. He literally was all vegan. Like when I first met him, he refused to get a microwave. Cause he was like, I just, you know, but then so that the, the vitamins, we were really hesitant to try them because he really likes help force. Help force is an incredible company. I still love help force, but that was kind of like after his years of experimenting with all these different supplement companies. He was like really sold. He thought a lot of supplements were just kind of bullshit, but he was really sold on the ones that he liked. And then there came a point where we had these, all these, I had all these, these extra points I didn't know what to do is I was like, let's just order. Let's just try them. Let's just try them. Holy shit. These are some of the best vitamins I have ever taken. The source, especially that one, the Omega we're not doing cause I'm vegetarian. So if anybody from Asia is watching and create a Omega without using fish stuff, we would love that. But the people who do do the Omega that are not vegetarian say that the one thing about this Omega is that it doesn't give you the aftertaste of fish like some Omega does. So that's awesome. But the source, this one right here, this is the Mac Daddy, we believe. I mean, you open that little, you pop that top off and you smell the supplement. It is like plant, it's a plant potent odor. And so we actually, we're waiting, we have some, we just ran out, we're waiting for more to come in and I can feel a difference not taking them for a couple of days as I wait. The probiotic right here is not very, so I've done, I've had some colon issues in my life with like, I get very, very dry. I'm the opposite of you, very dry skin, very dry, I was very vata. And so I've done a lot of different probiotics and like colon lenses and herbs. This is not aggressive. So that's what's amazing about the biome is that it literally, so when I would do like health or forces intestinal movement formula, it's aggressive. So like you have to be prepared to, you know, to do it when you know you're not gonna be like teaching a class or like doing a bodybuilding show, right? Where you can get to a bathroom, you need to get to, but this is very mild and so it's very manageable. This also helps with inflammation, the life max. Are you doing all of them, Robin? I'm doing the ones, I think this one with the anti-aging, so that's what I'm working on, but I haven't looked at the other ones and I'm sure I'll try them all. These two I think are like the Mac daddies, the surgeons in the life max. These are like, I mean, the biome is great as well for people who, they say they really like the Omega, but these are like the ones that if I had to narrow it down to the two that were really potent, it would be these two. Cause this, the life max also helps. It's the anti-aging, but it also helps with the inflammation as well. So yeah, it's, and they last for, they're pretty, even though the bottles are kind of small, they have a lot in them, so they last for a long time. They're not stuffed with a big, huge cotton in there. There's really a lot of vitamins in there. They really have the quality of their products for SCI. You can tell they really have a lot of integrity and how they put their products together. And so, so yeah, that, that it's awesome. Have you, have you done the play mask yet Robin? I sure have. And I, and I did put it on my stomach, like you said, and I did see a difference there. So yeah, so I'm going to be using it on that. That's a wonderful product too. I love the clay mask. I can always tell a difference the day, the mornings I do it before I film, I can always tell a difference in my skin on the camera versus cause it puts the Redox back in the system. And you can guys, what she was talking about with the Renew 28. Yeah, I've been putting the Renew 28 on my thighs. I've been putting it on my butt. And I've been putting it on my boobs because why not, right? It does, it does, I have stretch marks there. And so it's, it's literally what you're doing with the Renew 28 is you, so I've said this a lot and I'll say it again, with the, the liquid, what you're doing is you're, you're swishing it. And then we swish it around our mouse for 30 to 60 seconds just so the saliva can pull it apart and start to take it into the bloodstream and that the rest gets swallowed and it goes from a colon. But the, the liquid is allowing your body to take it, the Redox, wherever your body needs to take it, right? So you're handing that over to the intelligence of your body. But with the Renew 28 gel, you can decide where to put it. So even if it's not, if you're not, you know, I put it on my boobs, my butt, my thighs, you've been putting it on your stomach. People put it on their face, putting it on their crow's feet. Don't forget your hair, that's the best part. Yeah, I got my hair, like that's the one, the biggest notice after being on this for months now, my hair is, my hair dries naturally better than it's ever done before. But this, you can put it on the vagus nerve as well. So if you're like stressed out, you can take it or you can rub it on the bottoms of your feet. And guys, right now, if you're associated with me or with Robin, because Robin's with me, with your order, you can get, I believe it's of like 150 points, which is basically a basic order that you have every month going. You can get a free tube of Renew 28. That's just from a CSA saying thank you to all of you guys. And so if you order from Robin, her links below, after you make place that order, you're just gonna text Jay at three, two, one, two, one, six, 80, 47, your invoice number, I'll put this all in the description box below to make sure that you get your free tube of Renew 28. So yeah, so make sure for you guys watching right now, this, I think this promotion, it ends at the end of June. So yeah, you'll just text Jay, your invoice number, if you're ordering from Robin, and they'll be able to add that free tube into your order. But that Renew 28's amazing, isn't it? It really is. And it took me a while. I will say when I first started doing the ACA, it took me a while to appreciate the gel, and learn how to use the gel. And now it's like, that's all, we have so much gel in this house now, because my boyfriend loves it. If you want a more intense gel, let me go back here and share screen again. The more intense gel is, and I actually have not used this, but we have a ton of it in our house. The reason why I haven't used it, is because my boyfriend uses it on his hair. It's the Renew Advanced, it's a more advanced version of the Renew 28. It's like more potent. And so that, again, I haven't used that yet because my boyfriend hoards it all for me. I have actually used it and I put it around here, where my curls feet are, and down here around my mouth, because I smile all the time, but I have noticed that this is getting smaller. And- I'm gonna have to try that, because I have some crow's feet. Like, I think 40s at that age, where I'm like hinging now, between two different times of my life. So I'm gonna start. I was like- Be proactive. Yes, be proactive. Although I will say, I feel like, since I started using the ACA, I'm looking younger. I mean, maybe that's just me, but I edit my videos all the time, and I feel like I'm starting to look younger again, because of the ACA. So what was, besides the inflammation, when you first take it, yes, it does, it can taste a little bit like pool water. And what that's doing, guys, when you taste that, that tastes, it's the ACA pulling up the toxins, right? And so now for me, I don't taste it anymore. I just taste water, basically, when I do it now. What about you, Robin? No, it still tastes like water, you know, it doesn't. I still kinda, well, I'm not gonna lie, it does still taste a little like pool water, but, you know, that's just, I got it in my head, so I just think that, I guess. But it's not that bad. I mean, it's not like, ooh, I can't drink that. It's not that bad, seriously. This company is so integral, and, you know, I know, for me, I just feel like, in my opinion, this is just my opinion, guys, this is one of the most important products that have hit the shelves in my lifetime, because this product, and I believe, and again, this is just my opinion, I don't wanna put words in people's mouths, but the founder of this company, the guy who figured out the formula to keep this out of, because they had a machine where they could do it, but you would have to buy the machine, and once you poured it in the glass, it would only last five minutes, so you'd have to drink it really quickly, the guy who was able to figure out the formula to get it to stay outside of the body for as long as it does in the bottles that we have in Ossia. I believe he channeled that information from a higher source, because I believe this is, you know, we talk about these things called med beds, we talk about, I believe this is it, this is it. This is the med bed in a bottle. This is what's gonna bring you a longer quality of life, you know, and so, yeah. What else have you noticed, Robin, in your experience with Ossia, besides the inflammation? Have you noticed quality of life change, or? Oh, yeah, definitely, gut health, okay, so I've noticed, you know, because I used to have a lot of, because when you're competing, you eat a lot of protein, lots of protein, so you get very constipated, but this keeps a healthy balance, you know, to where you're constantly not being constipated. So, yeah, I like that about it too. Now, as far as the taste, and this is a thought that I had, what if you were to take the two ounces and put it in one of the drinks? Like the focus drink or the mood drink, can you make some of that? I would have to ask, that would be a question for Catherine and for Dr. Silverman, because I know, because we give Ossia to our dog, and so I know that when we give him Ossia, we can't put it in the food bowl because it will work on the food and not him. Oh, yeah. So, we have to keep it separate, but that's a good question to ask Dr. Silverman, I don't know if it's the same thing. Just for those people that don't like the taste, and they have to get around it, I personally, it's not that big of a deal for me. Yeah, no, it's not that big of a deal for me either. I actually, there is, I want to, I'm trying to look at these images here, because I kind of want to focus on the colon for a little bit. There is, okay, colon plaque, and this might be kind of gross for you guys who aren't used to this type of stuff. Let me see here, my computer's being slow. But I wanted to kind of talk about this. Okay, so excuse me, these pictures might be a little gross for some people, but this is why I always say in the yoga world, no one ever wants to hang out with us, because all we talk about is your colon and your periods, but I literally find this shit so interesting. So, when you look at your colon guys, you have all these crevices inside your colon. And so, I know we've all seen those commercials where they talk about, you've got seven pounds of poop stuck in your colon, or you've got stuff, and I don't think people understand what it is they're actually saying when they talk about that. So, what happens in the colon? So, you see what he's holding up here. In these little crevices, what will happen is food particles will get stuck in these crevices. It's kind of like when you're dusting your house, and dust gets like stuck in vents, and you have a hard time getting it out. That's what's happening. And so, over time, the colon starts to kind of get blocked with this plaque, they call it plaque, and a lot of cleanses will actually pull that plaque out, which is this, you know, some of these gross pictures you, and I apologize guys, TMI, if you're having a hard time with this, but this is a super important conversation, so you see the stuff that comes out. The first time I ever did intestinal movement formula and did a full cleanse, I was horrified at what actually came out of my body, but then I felt so good after it was out. So, it's really deeply cleansing the colon so that all of that plaque is gone. And so, I believe what's happening with the asias, it's doing it on a calmer, more, more, like if you do a full-on cleanse, it's gonna be intense, but it's slowly starting to allow the colon to remove the plaque. So, that also what tends to happen too, and I've talked about this with Jay before, is that what's happening with the body, and I see this a lot with my students in studying Ayurvedic health, is that when our body is unable to, so if you eat, let's say you eat a banana, you swallow the banana, it goes into the stomach, and the body starts to pull out the nutrients from that banana that it needs, and then the bulk of the, once it's pulled out, the bulk of the banana then goes through the digestive tract to then leave the body. But if your body is unable to actually pull the nutrients out of the banana or the carrot or the potato or whatever it is you're eating, then it's just gonna go through the system or get stuck in the system without the body actually pulling the nutrients. What the asia does is it's correcting that signaling system, and so a lot of people who go on a asia start to also feel better because their body is now able to pull the nutrients out of the food. Does that make sense? I'm not a doctor so I feel like I'm, I'm always like talk to me like I'm five, explain it to me like I'm five. You know, so when we're doing that, I've noticed too like for people who do have the propensity to overeat or to snack too much, typically it's because their body just really needs that nutrients and they're not able to get it, and once they're able to get it, maybe that stops happening, so that happened with my boyfriend all of a sudden he just stopped snacking as much, and it was because his body was able to pull out the nutrients of the food with the asia product. Does that make sense? Yes, and another thing too is fasting, prolonged periods of fasting is also really good for you because it recycles the old damaged protein and it cleanses the system, and by taking this too, even if you're fasting, this will give you the energy to keep pushing along through it, but I've done the fasting before, and I've noticed that after the first eight, 12 hours, I start getting the surge of energy and I start feeling, hey, like a whole new person, so cleansing the body like that is really good. If not, maybe once a month, maybe twice a month, however, whatever works for you. There's, I have a student from India who does, he follows the pattern, he fasts every full moon and new moon because of the way that the moon affects the water in the body and that not allowing food into it allows the body to fully cleanse and use, take advantage of the power of the moon and the cleansing waters of the body, and I will say too, you know, guys, any type of colon issue is another, your colon is like your trash can of your body, it's really important, it's very important, all the organs are important, but when your colon is backed up or you haven't cleansed in a while, what tends to happen as well is that the body will take the toxins that you have, like all over your body and tries to pull it. There's two ways it gets rid of it through sweat and also through pulling it into the colon and letting the colon flush it out. If the colon cannot flush because it's too packed or it's just too dirty itself, the body cannot then take the toxins out of you, like it can't, so the toxins rather get pushed back into the bloodstream, and so that's why it's so, the colon help is so, so, so important, it's not just good, it's not just help for your physical body, when somebody is constipated or doesn't have a slow digestive tract or a messed up colon, it can affect your mood, it can affect, it can cause depression, there's just as many neurons in the stomach as there are in the brain, and so sometimes when people experience things like depression, it's not necessarily coming from, the neurons, it's coming from the stomach, not being able to digest, that's why I tell my students in the yoga class, like when you are nervous or excited, you get butterflies in your stomach, your gut, your gut instinct, your gut is a huge communicator, and so not having that cleansed and working properly can affect you in a very serious way, your outlook on life, feeling sluggish, you know, and so when you start to take those proactive steps, you know, doing the ACR, even if you don't do the ACR, just really starting to focus on cleansing, drinking enough water to flush through the colon, you know, you're gonna start to notice changes in your outlook on life too, so anyway, but we are almost at an hour, Robin, and I wanna bring you back on, and I'm gonna ask the audience right now, if you have any questions for Robin, because as I said, guys, as I said, I think I said, did I say when we started this video, I am put up a lot of little clips of me exercising to try to show you guys how I'm exercising in my kitchen, you know, and so many people have commented like, well, it's easy for you to say you're 40 or it's, you know, you're not, but I was like, I gotta bring Robin on because she's here to say, that's not an excuse, that's not true, she's 62, you know, so, it's, yeah, and I was telling you off camera, like in India, man, there's 70-year-olds that I practice with, and they kick my ass. They can practice any of us. I have two seniors that come into my gym, and I think I gotta be like 85, yeah, and they come in probably five to six days a week, seriously, and it's amazing. I'm like, I wanna say, where are you guys getting all this energy, but they're wonderful. It's amazing to see them every day. I will say too, my last shadow work challenge I did, I had somebody emailed me and said their parents who were in their 80s were gonna do it with them, and I thought that is fantastic. It's fantastic. You're not 80, I was telling you, Robin, before we started filming, I saw somebody say that they're gonna start calling their age, their level. I'm not 40 years old, I'm on level 40. Robin's on level 62, so he's higher than me, so if you're 85, you're on level 85 right now, like that's a high level to be on, that means you're more powerful, right? Exactly. I'm gonna ask for our viewers watching right now, and I really hope you guys who have that mindset that maybe you're over 50 or something, and you think, oh, I just can't do it because of my age, I've never exercised before. And now hopefully, hearing Robin, you believe me now, when I say age is just nothing but a number. Any questions that you have for Robin? Please ask them in the comment section below, and then maybe we can do a follow-up video, and Robin can answer your questions. If you've got a bodybuilding, a gym, anything, anything, age, appropriate age, any myths you might have about age or whatever, and of course ask them below, and we can bring Robin back on to answer those questions, and of course you guys, I'm gonna ask you, if you think Robin should open up, I'm not trying to be your pressure or anything. I just think that you have a certain gift that can so be utilized by our friends all over the world right now, and so if you guys think Robin should put up some 20 minute, 30 minute workouts, or an hour workout, or whatever, let us know in the comment section. Robin, is there anything you wanna, is there anything we forgot to mention that you wanna end this episode off telling our audience? I would love to share this gift with everyone, so anyone that's interested, I'm very passionate about fitness, I love it, it's part of my excitement every day, and the fact that I have a job where I can go in and share that with other peoples, I'm very blessed, very, very blessed, so. That's amazing, anybody that, I'm gonna share the website once again, so where are you located again? Robin, where in Michigan? We are in North Muskegon, we're probably about 10, 15 minutes from the Big Lake, Michigan. So anybody that's around this area, you can just contact Robin and you can meet her in person and get involved, oh here's a map, you got a map right here, cool. So anyway, you guys, all right, all right, all right, well again, all of Robin's links are gonna be in the description box below for this video, not my links, Robin's links, and again, of course, all of her links to her gym, and I'm gonna put your email too, is that okay, Robin, so people can contact you? Absolutely, absolutely. Perfect, perfect. All right, you guys, well, I hope you guys are all having a wonderful Wednesday since this is being aired on Wednesday, and we will talk to you soon, bye everybody.