 Hello everybody. I just wanted to do a quick little video here to update you guys on the yoga intensive course That we are I am going to be offering online that registration should be up by this weekend Early next week at the latest. I'm still trying to work out all the kinks in the administration side of running a business Partnering with the Shala making sure we have everything We need that they need to run this course for push this course ford It might be a little bit more than 400, which was my original Guestimation looking at what we were going to do but with all the processing fees that Come with running courses for example running through mind body Running through credit card machines all that kind of stuff We might have to tack on a little bit more just to make sure that all of that is covered I know it's frustrating. I actually to be honest with you guys Mind body is one of my least favorite software systems to use But it's one of the only software systems that's available to yoga shalas to use for the business portion That also accommodate other countries as well So for example, if you are from england and you want to take my course We're going to have to run it through mind body because it's technically an international purchase. I hope that makes sense Anyway, the course is most likely going to start sunday october 2nd And then four consecutive sundays so october 2nd will be the first sunday and then three more sundays after that It will run from two o'clock in the afternoon to four o'clock in the afternoon eastern time I picked this window of time because that is the best to accommodate As best as I can to people all around the world and people in other parts of the united states It's not super early for those on the east coast and or excuse me It's not super early for those on the west coast And it still gives enough time for people in europe who also want to pop in for the course once again We are going to be focusing mostly on yoga philosophies because i'm not there to adjust you physically with the asana We'll talk about the asana practice because the asana practice is important as a tool used to study yourself But we will be mostly focused on the philosophy You will be required to also purchase Sri swamis of titananda's commentary on the yoga sutras We are going to be going through the first and second pata of the yoga sutras in this course We will also be talking about the chakra system We are not going to be going through eastern body western mind But if that is a book you want to purchase on top of everything for your own self study Go ahead and do so but we will be discussing all the seven major chakras that run up the body Along with shashuna, which is the energetic spine Pathway that runs up the spine and the two other nadis that come through the nasal now more importantly than the chakras We are also going to be talking about the bundas the bundas are what lock in the energy within the chakra system And that is something you really work with within the asana practice So we're really going to focus a lot on mola bunda uriyanda bunda and jalandara bunda In their relationship to the chakras if the chakras are healed, but the bundas aren't strong It doesn't mean mean anything right your chakras can be completely healed But if you have no strength in the bundas energy is not going to flow And so we're really going to look at that as well We'll also be going through the arya Vedic Doshas and this is for you to start to understand what your Disposition is so that you know how to proceed forward with your own healing I always suggest that you go see an arya Vedic practitioner as well because they will look in your eyes your tongue They'll ask you other questions Listen to your heart rate all that kind of stuff that you can't do in a worksheet But the worksheet we'll be doing is just a generalized practice for you to start to understand more about Who you are what's your disposition is so that you know how to balance yourself Along with this course you're also going to get a pdf of a manual So i'm putting together the manual right now that you'll be able to keep you can print it off Take notes on it That will kind of be your guide through the course and also something that you can refer back to once the course is over You're also going to get a couple of videos of some posture work I'll be doing the posture work on the videos Mainly sari namaskar a and sari namaskar b which are the foundation of all asana work That's just the minimal that we will be doing on this course again Because i'm not there to adjust you on top of this you are going to get two sessions with emi for reiki This i've incorporated into this course. I've never incorporated reiki into any courses before but i'm doing it for this course Just so you guys have a Better understanding of how energy flows because you can actually feel that when someone's doing reiki on you and of course emi is Available to do reiki over zoom so that you can start to tap more and become more grounded within your physical body So you understand that sensation of feeling We also will be going Through some Sanskrit. We'll be looking at the count for sari namaskar a and sari namaskar b It comes way treeney tech twadi punches shots up to ash down the va that kind of stuff looking at all those counts for Sari namaskar a and sari namaskar b will look at some of the sanskrit words that are important For this practice because sanskrit is a light language. It is a vibrationally high language So 100 sanskrit should be studied along with yoga because that is the language of yoga along with sanskrit I might include some simple vetic Chance within the manual and depending on what you guys want to do with in the course If you want to go through those chance We can if not they will be there in the manual for you to look up later on on your own Just depends on what you would like to do especially if you're new to yoga Sometimes I think just learning the count to begin with is enough for the sanskrit And then as you start to acclimate more to the practice then you can get more into the vetic chanting But again, I will let the class decide what they want to do when it comes to that I also want to remind you guys because I am getting still getting a lot of questions about this I am not affiliated with the yoga alliance. Okay. I am not affiliated with any corporation That's going to grant grant you permission to teach. Okay. No 200 hour course. Nothing like that In order for me to be an authorized teacher through kbj where I I cannot be affiliated with the yoga alliance that The teachers of india take this very seriously They are very The yoga alliance is enemy number one to the yoga teachers of india. They see teacher trainings as they're called as scams They believe are according to my teacher. It's like They stole yoga. They stole it and they made it their own and there's no way There's absolutely no way you can learn to be a teacher in 200 hours. That's ridiculous You can't learn to do anything in 200 hours And so I in my personal opinion, I think the yoga alliance is part of the controllers They they put that into screw yoga up To make it something it's not and so I just want to put that out there now with that being said I know they're really good teachers who do run teacher training programs But it just generally speaking if you would like to get into a proper yoga practice You're not going to be doing anything affiliated with the yoga alliance You're going to be looking for teachers like myself who have studied in india with parm gurus All right. Um, when we go to india, we're not there just for a certain amount of time We're there for years we go for years before we're actually granted permission to teach You're not just given it. You have to be granted that permission So it's a pretty serious thing and so I cannot extend Extra credit hours to you for this bullshit corporation called the yoga alliance. All right I'm just want to make that very very clear So if you're signing up for this course because you think it's going to help you get more credit towards yoga alliance You don't need to be signing up for this course because I have nothing to do with the yoga alliance. All right um, I have more respect for India and for my teachers in india to ever be involved in that Okay, I know how upset my teacher gets you have to remember this is a part of the indian culture This is a part of their heritage. This is a part of their faith and so for a corporation in the united states to come in and be like Thank you. We're taking this now and we're going to be the holders and the keepers of who can teach or not is a slap across India's face It really is and so I just want to make sure everybody's aware of that In my ashtanga lineage that I teach if you see somebody running an ashtanga teacher training That's a scam Because ashtanga teachers can't be a part of that So somebody's scamming you and the amount of money you're going to pay for that anyway Could send you to india multiple times. So I just want you guys to be super super super aware of that I really um Parampara is the system in which india is taught which yoga is taught which we will talk about in the course what parampara is You do not get parampara through the yoga lines Okay, and this is what I was saying when you're looking for teachers when you look for a teacher yourself You want to see what their resume looks like who is their teacher? That's how you find a good teacher if they just say they went through a training course and that's it Then they're not a yoga teacher, right? They're teaching some yoga size class some jazz or size with some yoga poses They're not a yoga teacher. They have to have an actual teacher an actual lineage that they are accountable to That's when you know, it's a valuable It's valuable or not if that makes sense And so I just want to put that out there Do not sign up for this course if you think that I can get you in with some bullshit teacher training program through the yoga alliance Okay, that's not what this is about all right Also Once again once you sign up for this course and we start the course We are strictly going to be talking about yoga shadow work and everything that encompasses this type of course Okay, no, we're not going to be talking about any of the truth or stuff. We're not going to be talking about twin flames We're not going to be talking about them missing books of the bible nothing like that We are strictly going to be focused on you learning yoga you learning the yoga philosophy You learning how to navigate this world. I I have set this course up different from the courses I teach here in Atlanta I've set this course up to be able to hopefully give you enough information So that once you're finished with the course you have enough knowledge To go out there and find a proper teacher You know what you're looking for because knowledge is power and knowledge protects Okay, so that is my goal with this course. I'm not going to be Prepping you to to walk into a mysore room if you want to follow the off strong lineage after this course is over I'll be more than happy happy to help you find a mysore studio or shala in your area Whether you choose iin guards and ananda whatever form of yoga you choose after this Hopefully this course will give you that information so you can pick for yourself What you want to follow and you don't get fooled by scams or any type of yoga Colts because within every religion or spiritual practice. There are cults So this is going to help you have that sovereignty so that you can make wise decisions And i'm super super super super excited about it. You will have homework with this course. I i'm calling it an intensive That's what we call things in ashtanga. We call them intensives because they're intense It's i'm going to ask that you actually Do some sort of practice during the week whether that's the sun salutations. I send you or some other examples I give you you're going to have to be journaling You're going to have to be working through the count everything like that So so I I really only want people who are serious about working with themselves to work To sign up for this course another thing I want to talk about When I uh posted the hips video I had a couple of people comment that they didn't think they can do this because x y and z and I want to stop you right there Henry Ford once said whether you think you can or you can't you're right All right. I have worked with people with hip replacement. I have worked with people who have Amputated limbs. I have worked with people who have cancer And they can and they've done it You can do it too This is the mind control that the controllers have put on us to make us think that our body is something That's out of our control to make us think that anything that happens to us any sickness is something that just oh well This is what happened That's not true at all That is absolutely not true. The body is the gps system and no human body is perfect Everybody has something that they have to go through. I have Practice through a broken sacrum. I have multiple herniated disc right now But I don't feel pain because I work on my practice every day and I'll tell you guys a little story Something I can't believe I don't think I've ever told this story And I can't believe I have it but I guess it's just so distant for me that I Just don't even think about it when I was 17 years old I had back surgery when I was 17 my high school my whole teenage years were just one cluster fuck of sickness and surgery after another And after my surgery was over The doctor came into the room and he was like, you know, everything looks really good now You're good to go and start your recovery and I remember him saying laughingly That the two things I would never be able to do in my life would be golf and yoga Now yoga had just started to make its way into the southeast at this time Not many people knew much about yoga My perception of yoga at 17 years old was that it was something that a bunch of old people did and they just were breathing That's all I knew about yoga and the doctor kind of laughed. Oh, she'll never play golf and she'll never do yoga because of her back Well fast forward 22 years later I'm the only female authorized in the state of Georgia to teach this particular form of yoga So that just goes to show you when I first started practicing yoga I could barely touch my toes because my back was tight because of surgery Now I can easily get my foot behind my head Now I can catch my ankles in a back bend What happened? I worked at it. I worked at it. I learned I learned that the issue I had with my spine wasn't just something that you know happened Oh, well, it happened the issue that happened with my spine had to do with my energetic body It was a wound and of course at that point As many people still are today. They think that is something that surgery should fix, you know It's just something sure it surgery Should fix instead of going wait a minute That's my by mola dara and the minute you started having that those back issues was when your father left So let's go to therapy. Let's work through that abandonment issue and then my back would have of course corrected itself, right? That's what the human body does So if you had a hip replacement surgery if you've had back surgery you've had sold shoulder surgery It's not just something that's happened to you It's something that's showing you where there's a wound an emotional wound And coming into the yoga room working through the yoga practice is one of the tools that's given to us To work through that to rebalance ourselves Your body is the most amazing tool that you have ever been given It's beautiful Your beautiful body is so much smarter than your mind And your beautiful body is going to start to show you Where there's imbalances within you And that that's true for everyone. That's why we chose to have a body You know in the yoga philosophy the body is the expression of the soul So the soul's the shiva the body's the shakti and so the body being that shakti Is going to be that gps system to show you where there's imbalances where there's attachments where there's issues That's distracting you from your alignment with god And so if you're sitting there saying oh, I can't do yoga because I have an amputated leg or I have hip issues Or I have you know back surgery Then you're falling into the bullshit of the matrix And and yoga, you know, you're not going to come to a yoga class and just put your legs behind your head That's not going to happen. I've said it so many times yoga has nothing to do with flexibility The tool the the asanas are just tools. That's all they are. It doesn't matter How far you can fold? I don't care how far you can fold It doesn't matter as long as you're feeling a sensation as long as you're feeling some some type of a friction And a release then that's how far you fold And I hope that makes sense. Don't do not Do not compare your chapter one to my chapter 10 I've been doing this for 15 f-ing years six days a week for 15 years Of course, I can put my leg behind my head. Of course. I can do a handstand Of course, I can do Things that you can't do right now. Of course, I can't I've been doing it for 15 years for six days a week My body is trained to do that now my body. I've gone through the dark night of the soul I've gone through those times where things were painful. I've gone through the opening and the releasing Do not compare your chapter one to my chapter 10 Meet yourself where you are. I had to start at chapter one two. Nobody is born Doing this. We all had to start somewhere When I was in college I started right after my back surgery. I started running again I was a long-distance runner when I was in high school. I ran cross-country And when I was in college, I had to take like this elective class, right this Anyway, and the only thing left was yoga and so I signed up for this yoga class about whatever I'll just do it and The teacher was kind of weird But I remember after the class was over feeling really relaxed feeling really really good And so I went and I got don't laugh. I went and I got jerry hollow. Well from the spice girls She had a vhs a video of her doing yoga because of course this was before dvds This was when you went and bought videos And so I went and got jerry hollow else from the spice girls vh vhs yoga practice because I felt so good doing it And I didn't know any I didn't know anything about yoga. I had no idea Anything about the yoga world But I thought I feel so good I'm going to incorporate this into my week like a couple times a week. I'll just do this video Just to stretch myself out, you know from all the all the running I'm doing Well over time what started to happen is I started to have such profound experiences open opening my body that I shifted more into yoga and And moved myself further out of run And then of course there's other parts of the story but to make a long story short I ended up in india and dedicating my life to this practice And so I want you that's my chapter one my chapter one was not knowing anything about yoga So I got a vhs from the spice girls because that's the person I knew was the spice girls not a yoga teacher at like 1920 years old All right, and now at 39 years old. I'm a student of a parm guru of india through the ashtonga lineage Okay, so there there were obviously many steps between that jerry hollow. Well vhs video and where I am now But just so you guys understand that was my chapter one And as I told you guys, I couldn't touch my toes. I could not get to my toes Now I can give my leg behind my head because I just kept at it I kept at it and I and I was okay with being the student All right, that's another thing you have to understand when you walk into a practice like yoga or any other spiritual discipline Whether it's tai chi rakey whatever it is you have to be humble enough to be the student You're not a gymnast You're not a performer for Cirque du Soleil You're a yoga student My teacher came a few years back. He came to Miami from india I went down to Miami to to be there with my teacher and do the whole thing In Miami and he was giving this conference because he gives conferences And he was making fun of us because he was like all you guys do you just you just put You put videos and pictures of you doing handstands on instagram And he sat there and he looked at us and he said have you seen Cirque du Soleil? I've seen it eight times They do it better You are a yoga student. They do it better. Stop it. Basically stop it Stop trying to use the yoga asana to validate yourself Right the only time I hate taking asana shots The only time I take asana asana shots posture shots is for advertisement purposes As I said in the hips video, I normally practice alone because I don't it's very sacred to me It's very it's not about the performance the cleaner my practice becomes Shows me how much control I have in my bundles Right when something is wobbly when something's not coming together, right when it's looking kind of Wonky that's when I know I have something there that I need to work on Those places where you're tight those places where you're weak. That's where it's interesting You know my teacher david gree up in philadelphia when I will go up there to practice with him You know, he would have these young girls, you know That were gymnasts or triliers at one once upon a time in their life and they would come into the shala And it was relatively no problem for them And so he would just kind of give them the next posture or whatever no excitement But when like a 60 year old man would come into the shala who was a little bit overweight and really tight david would get excited Because now we have something to work with Where there's resistance where there's weakness where is where there's that hip Replacement where there's that amputation where there's that surgery That's where we have things to work with We have something to work with And that's the tool of yoga that resistance Patanjali talks about this in the sutras, you know for me I've I've said before I was pretty athletic So when I got to our strong yoga and I I learned the primary series pretty relatively quickly didn't have a lot of hiccups in the primary series But when I got to second series, that's where things started to get really challenging because it was really deep back bending It was triggering a lot of that wound I had in my back a lot of leg behind the head stuff Well, patanjali makes it very clear When things are easy for us Our mind is not there Right, so when I'm doing a practice like if I'm doing primary series I'm thinking about the laundry. I'm thinking about my research. I'm thinking about Some boy. I don't know. I'm thinking about some not I'm not in my in my I'm not presently in my practice But when I get to second series third series Because it's so complicated for me because there is resistance because there is weakness because there are wounds that are being highlighted in these series. I am presently on my mat I'm not thinking about anything else, but being there on my mat with this challenge So if you are coming to this this practice with a resistance with herniated disc with an amputated leg with shoulder surgery Then you're coming to this practice lucky Because you already have something to work with There's already information for you to start to dive into So stop seeing yourself as coming into a yoga class to perform You're not a gymnast You're not in Cirque du Soleil You're a yoga student And the value you have as a yoga student doesn't matter how beautiful your practice is at all It just matters how much work you put into it At Ashok yoga Atlanta, there's a student who has several palsy He has to use one hand to pull the other one up to do a sun salutation He's never going to finish primary series But in my opinion He's the most advanced student in that class Because he comes into that class every single day with a good attitude He works hard and he's coming into the class with obstacles that most people don't have And he's working through them Because that's all they're supposed to be dishes. It's like Ganesh. Ganesh is the deity He he's the remover of obstacles, but he's also the bringer of obstacles So if you have had back surgery if you have had hip replacement Ganesh brought that obstacle for you for a reason God gave you that obstacle for a reason because there's something you need to learn from that And you're not going to learn from that by just sitting around on your sofa eating popcorn Watching tv going saying, oh, I can't do it because I've had this no Then that obstacle is going to follow you into the next life too It's always going to be there until you've actually sit down and work through it So why not take the opportunity to actually work through it? It's going to be uncomfortable You're going to have to go up against your preconceived notions of your mind But I promise you it'll be beneficial. All right I hope that answers some questions and some concerns will Again, we'll get deeper into this in the course when you take on a spiritual practice from the east You're going to have to rewire your brain To rethink everything you're going to have to unlearn everything and relearn everything again And it is such a liberating path to be on your body is amazing Warts and all It's there to teach you and to show you things All right. Okay guys once again, hopefully that registration will be up by this weekend Again, we're looking at the start date being August 2nd I think I'm going to open it up to 15 spots if we book out and You can't get a spot then we'll just continually keep doing this course Which is fine for me because I am going to be traveling a lot coming up And so I can do this course on the road as well So um, if you miss your chance to do this course, don't worry. We'll do it again Right after the first course. So all right guys. I hope you have a wonderful wonderful day I'll talk to you soon. Bye