 Hello everybody and welcome back to Esoteric Atlanta for a channel update. I'm trying to compose myself right now. I just finished teaching it is Sunday so that's why I don't have much makeup on. I'm a little sweaty because I just finished teaching but you guys, I just watched a this morning and finish it up after I got done teaching. I watched this documentary right here called The Story of Serge Oblensky, an Aftermath Foundation documentary. I shared it on my community tab. Oh my God, this is one of the best documentaries I've seen in a really long time. I'm a huge fan of the Aftermath Foundation. I think they're doing incredible work. Eventually I've been in talks with Mark Hedley, this guy right here, to come on my channel. We were supposed to schedule a time but he had some stuff that was going on. I believe it was around that Danny Masterson trial and so we had to postpone it. I'm going to be reaching back out to him soon to come back on the channel but he and his wife along with a lot of the other members of the Aftermath Foundation put this documentary together and oh my God you guys like you don't have to be an ex-scientologist to appreciate what they're doing because it's not even at the end of the day. Yes, Scientology is the one that is kind of the perpetrator of some of these horrific things but at the end of the day we all know what it's like to be a human being. Sorry, this was just an incredible documentary and you know these people at the Aftermath Foundation are giving people their humanness back and nobody deserves to be treated the way that some of these people have been treated so yeah if you guys have not seen this definitely check it out the story of Serge Obolensky. I wasn't even going to talk about this on the channel. Check catch up today but I was just so blown away and I'm still like trying to hold back tears because if you're somebody that's ever been in a situation where you feel you know it's hopeless watch this documentary because there's always hope and his story is just unbelievable and what an incredible person Serge is and all the people that helped him and God what an amazing documentary but anyway do you guys ever want to do a fundraiser for the Aftermath Foundation just let me know I was going to kind of hold on that until I actually spoke to Mark Headley on this channel but that is definitely a non-profit that I really really like and I think they're doing really really good work trying to help people recover from high or high control organizations and help people reclaim their lives so just let me know if that's something you guys are interested in. All right changing subjects so we spoke about this or I spoke about this with Tathryn a couple of weeks ago and I know that this is probably going to trigger some people but you know I can't make everyone happy and I know that we are in a time in our timeline where people are very very offended very very easily and I you know try not to be somebody who throws the baby out with the bath water with that being said I let me go back to my share screen I have become an Amazon affiliate so I spoke about this with Catherine and again I know they're going to be people who are very upset because you know this vigilante behavior with pitchforks that we've got to take down any company that we deem in our opinions to be bad I know a lot of people are that way I know that the owner of Amazon has some questionable behaviors allegedly but that doesn't mean that the rest of Amazon is bad in fact Amazon hires a lot of people and because of big companies like Amazon for right now there are people that are able to put food on their table for their children and so if we were to go pitchfork vigilante and take down these companies we would be putting a lot of people on the street and so I just hope that people understand that there's a complexity when it comes to this stuff and if you are one of those vigilante people then you probably believe anyway that all of the powers that be have already been taken care of so if you believe that then potentially Amazon is now run by good people anyway but the reason why I decided to be an affiliate and yes I will earn commission off of this that's not that's not a secret mainly was because I recommend a lot of books on this channel I also get a lot of emails from people who ask me about you know yoga stuff or mats or all sorts of questions from people what kind of makeup I'm wearing all that kind of stuff so I thought you know what this will be a really good place to help keep things organized so you know if you are somebody who has a mall and pop shop in your hometown where you like to buy your books from then absolutely by all means support that small business that's not what I'm saying but if you if you are wanting to buy from Amazon at least you have a place where you can go to see all the material we've used on this channel so you know where it is so even if you're not using this affiliate link to buy from you can at least come and look and see where everything is so I set this up this weekend now I'm still learning the affiliate stuff so you'll have to forgive me for having some growing pains there are certain you can only have certain number of items in each category and so I'm probably going to have to like create more categories like especially for the books I have three book section sections on here already and I had to divide the books up between like kind of different categories and we'll have to probably create a part two for books on the show so as you see here this is the category as seen on YouTube so I just found out there was a problem with the YouTube link for the books on YouTube so I'm going to try to fix that today I just noticed that I went in and it was gone so I had to go look at that and I think it was because the picture I had picked had YouTube in it so I have to go back and reorganize that today for you guys but while I'm doing that let me go ahead and show you guys everything else so these are books by guests of esoteric Atlanta so in here you have books by the guest here's kelly teal's book gerson singh's book and then mark headley who again as I was saying speaking of the documentary he has not been on the channel yet but I went ahead and put his book in because I know we're trying to get him on the channel so you guys it's an amazing story I have it right here from mark mark actually sent it to me so I do have it right here and of course I will put gerson singh and kelly's interviews in the description box below in case you miss them so any other guests that come on the channel that have written a book I'm going to try to put them into category books by guests of esoteric Atlanta to keep it organized if we go back and look let's just look here so people ask me often about clothing that I'm wearing sometimes amazon is hit or miss with clothing but these are some of of purchases that I've made from amazon's clothing that I actually I love these shoes these are the shoes I wear in the winter time that I actually wear and like actually this sweater right here I have right here and it's it's really comfortable and so I put that up as well for people who have asked where I get my clothing from I do also have now I'm not a beauty person like I don't I'm not into like really into makeup that much but I know people have asked me about what I what kind of eyeshadow I wear all that kind of stuff so I did make a section with this is the light therapy mask that I actually use a lot for my anxiety so it I've had it for a while now it's well worth the money if you need something with light therapy I get asked a lot about my eyeshadow and this is the palette that most people ask about is right here and so yeah that's there in case you want to order it let's see here so this is a these are books that I read for fun in the bath and I kind of made that as a joke every evening after a long day of research and filming I like to dig a warm bath and read a fun easy but yet it's a suspenseful book my favorite are fictional murder mystery so these are just some of the books that I've read that I really enjoyed and so they're easy reads they're not and there's nothing hard or difficult they're very suspenseful they're who done it's the book I just finished let's see if it's here okay is it the guilty sister I just finished this book and I literally at the end it was so suspenseful so um so very good book if you like a fun easy read I usually I read them in the bathtub that's what I do to relax um travel must haves people have asked me about things I use because I travel a lot to travel so I've got all that in here and um my desk I actually get a lot of questions so what's on my desk and so that's actually this is actually the desk I'm on right now so everything I have in here this is right here um ring lights I've used this is a chair I'm sitting on right now actually the desk is cheap now um cheaper than when I got it this is the ring light that I prefer to use um that's what I'm using right now it just clips to the laptop and um different here's my cello night ball I've got some sage and stuff in here as well the microphone I use this microphone um my my planner this is actually the second year in a row that I've used this particular planner it's it's hard back it's really great I still like to write things down this handheld vacuum I use almost daily yeah so so this is stuff that's on my desk this right here I have that's my uh this is my desk uh mouse pad um I just got this organizer you guys can see because my bookshelf I have two big bookshelves full of my books and it was getting really crowded so I had to do something and it's really made a huge difference having this here it's got an extra drawer where I've got a bunch of my um highlighters and pens and other things that I use to help me research uh I do film obviously film for my desk but I also do a lot of work when I'm not filming when it comes to researching on my desk I just kind of helps obviously it's it helps you stay focused when you're on a desk and so these are things these are pens that I use these are things that I really really use and so if you are looking for a ring light microphone a desk anything like that this is the stuff I actually use and very much recommend bath and bubbles this is just a section when we did our shadow work challenge I talked about taking hot baths at night because that's something that I really enjoy and people like questions about stuff to use this is the eps and salts that I use um some products I've used in the past that I really really like um pretty cheap stuff if you want to make that habit of relaxing at night with eps and salts especially if you are exercising a lot um accessories this is kind of random stuff that um I've used I actually got this foot massager for my brother in law a couple of years ago he's a marathon runner and so I got it for him for his birthday and my sister keeps telling me that all these years later the family like fights over this foot massager we use this in my house we use this for our neck and we also use it for our legs so these are really good massagers I use this every morning this hair hair dryer brush um all sorts of candles different different uh rocks and eggs and some some uh necklaces that people have asked me about I have on here the honeymoon pendant honeymoon pendant that I wear the five minute journal is here so these are just random accessories that people have asked about again these are all things that people have asked about um all things yoga so I divided like what I wear to work out work out accessories and all things yoga so if you're the all things yoga I kind of gear this toward mostly beginners to kind of help them have a starting point to um to help how they're going to navigate their yoga practice and so lots of really good books to start with including the yoga sutras is here uh weekly planner from ron dos some of my my favorite ron dos book is right here polishing the mirror and um some ashtanga books and books by my teacher david greek you know mcgregor's primary series book the man duke blocks if you are using blocks that's my favorite um and also the the mat that he uses man duke they're a little expensive like this mat is a hundred thirty eight dollars but literally it's lifetime um I've gone through two mats in seventeen years and so you know if you're serious about having a yoga practice I would highly highly highly recommend investing in a proper mat like a man duke because if you're buying the cheap mats from like target I mean those are okay for when you're just starting your yoga or you're trying to figure out if you want to continue with it but honestly those things are not sturdy they fall apart in like six months anyway so if you're paying twenty dollars thirty dollars for a cheap yoga mat that you're having to get a couple every year because you're running your you know you're ruining them um then it's better it's cheaper to actually make the big purchase and um it's going to last you like ten plus years right and and it's going to become it's sturdy too so it feels different when you're practicing uh I put the yogi towel here I have a few of these yogi toes mat towels because we have to in ashtanga we have to have a binding towel and a mat towel because our practice is so sweaty um I typically though even though I have a few of the yogi towels I we we we we order carpets from India from um a person we know in India and that's typically what I use now because I know that I know the family it's coming from and I know that that money is going a long way for that family but if you're in a situation where you don't have access to the yoga carpets yogi toes is the second best option these towels are really easy they wash in the washing machine very well um a strap for carrying your mat if you are someone who travels uh it's easier to have a strap to carry your mat all right what I wear to workout and workout accessories I actually got this question a lot and I I do have a difference between my um the clothes that I wear and my own workouts and practices versus what I wear to teach in mainly because my workout clothes get real used and so I have found a few things on amazon that I actually really really like a lot of my yoga pants have been given to me from like big companies to to wear to promote their brand but as far as the pants and shorts that I found here on on amazon uh they're really good and pretty pretty reasonably priced you know if you go to lululemon I have a lot of lululemon pants they are they're pretty expensive but um there's some ankle weights uh wrist weights here for people who do bar um there's a ball that's a bar ball a bar uh a bar bar um for those who like the bar I use I don't use a bar bar I use my um my chopping block the table in my kitchen if you've seen some of those videos but for those who want to do the bar because I do the yoga and the bar the ashanga and the bar and you need something this is I kind of looked around and um from the from the platform that I use to practice bar this seems to be like the most used one and and good one um I love these socks uh my favorite socks for when I do have shoes on I rarely have have shoes on but when I do go on like walk long walks or something with a dog these are my favorite socks um all right sports bras my best so far has been champion I really like the champion sports bras they're great uh they're soft so these are a few of the champion sports bras that I've bought uh gotten over the years these are the the tennis shoes that I use these pants these shorts you guys these are my favorite favorite favorite workout spandex shorts I have multiple colors of these they're only $15 in the United States which is really cheap if you look at lululemon those things are super expensive so that's really cheap price they're really durable they're pretty good um I've got a couple here I wore those this morning this morning I wore those here's some uh longer legged ones that I've used so if you're looking for pretty good work sturdy workout clothes that don't cost you $80 these are really good I've been very impressed because again Amazon sometimes the Amazon clothing isn't that great but these are some and they have multiple multiple colors let me see if it shows you all the colors on this one yeah so it's multiple colors multiple colors so you if you like these and they're high wasted for those of us who are in our middle middle ages and they're high wasted all right so that's there um let's see here travel must clothing again here's clothing um food and health so I do get some questions about like snack foods or herbs and this is not a very big section but just some of the things that you could order on Amazon that I some of this is going to come from Whole Foods I love the Amy's brand of of pizzas and stuff and here's some help force products the super green products I have used um here's some of the although that might be no that's green mush okay well that might actually might be for the dog there are products that my dog has used a lot um you'll have to look at this and you can use it uh all life stages so yeah all right so you you can figure it out for yourself what's going to work best for you um let's see here the intestinal the so intestinal movement formula and super colon cleanse these are the two things that I recommend for those of you like myself who struggle with your digestion especially those of you who are r.h. negative like me and are also lots of like me that's kind of like a double whammy where you're you're really dry your organs are really dry and you also are r.h. negative and r.h. negatives notoriously have digestion problems so health force uh test test intestinal movement formula was the first thing I did from health force and holy crap that thing like cleaned me out reset my system and then it got a little bit too potent so that's when I switched to super colon cleanse and this is a lighter version of that to help keep you regular to help keep your organs working properly as far as electrolytes liquid IV is my favorite company for electrolytes and for those of you who work out a lot especially if you're in a warmer environment like me electrolytes are really important um if you travel a lot electrolytes are really really really important it is possible to over hydrate yourself and if you don't so if you're if you're exercising a lot you're super sweaty doing high impact uh exercises and you're drinking too much water without replacing that salt it can cause you to get sick it's happened to me before and it was the gnarliest experience I've ever been through oh my gosh um and so I always make sure I have electrolytes now um and these are really great they're my favorite this soup is my literal favorite thing in the whole wide world I've been eating this for years now it's uh Indian uh lentil soup they have I think I put the non spicy because I don't like spicy food they have non spicy they have spicy this company is great they have a tons of different Indian style and I'm not a fan of Indian food believe it or not as much time as I spend in India I'm not a fan of Indian food but I love this soup this soup is also it's pretty thick because it's lentil and some people I know will use this soup for a topping for nachos as well so there's lots you can do with it it's easy easy easy it's like 90 seconds in the uh microwave so it's it's very very very easy all right I think that's is that everything that I go through everything um okay I think I did so I'm going to go back today and work on the YouTube book link to recreate the YouTube book link for you guys it has like the Sophia code the emerald tablets the Hathor material all that stuff um so you guys have easy access to at least find a list of all the books that we've done so that you have that list so even if you're shopping or buying from like a mom a small business for your books you at least have the the list of the books that we have used we are going I'm going to be announcing the new book very soon for Tuesday because we're almost done with the octurane anthology so I will be announcing that soon but going forward this link will be in my description box with everything else so again I'm still learning how to to work the affiliates links and how to update my list and all that kind of stuff and again from what I understand Amazon only lets allows you to have certain amount of items in each category so it might be that we have to do YouTube books part one part two part three all that kind of stuff as we start to grow our library and so um again so and that's again why I divided the books I read for fun books by guest and we're going to have the books that are used on the channel and yeah so I hope that makes sense again if you are one of those people that's very vigilante about not using Amazon because of the owner of Amazon I would absolutely ask you to reconsider your thoughts every time we go into more of a radicalized viewpoint of the world it's not good you know absolute power corrupts absolutely and so we need to have more of a rational perspective and I believe that Amazon feeds and gives thousands if not millions of people jobs and so from my perspective I see it that way that yeah the guy who created Amazon might not be to get best character in the world however he's 99.9% of the people who work for Amazon are good people just like you guys are they're good hardworking people that just want to put food on their family's table and so that's why I don't have a problem using Amazon I think Amazon is a great platform for us since we do have a global community it's easy for me to create lists because most countries have Amazon and so that's a way for us to share links for different books to spread information and also for the for people like Kelly like Kelly T for these for these the guests of Atlanta for Mark Hedley Gersant the guest of esoteric Atlanta Mark Hedley Gersant Singh and Kelly Teal these are their books and so every time you purchase from Amazon they get a kickback from their from their work on these books and so we always want to support each other I'm not the type of like I said I just don't where is where is the let's go here I'm not somebody that wants to like throw the baby out with the bathwater I you know any type of absolute authority or vigilante violence is just not okay it's not okay and if if the head of Amazon has done bad things then hopefully he will be dealt with and Amazon can stay up and it can be cleaned out and can be used for good because any Amazon's just a tool right it's just a tool it can be used for both good and bad and on this channel we're using it for good and so if that bothers you that I'm using Amazon well that's a you problem that's not a me problem I will block people who are abusive in the comments um it's just uh we're on the you know it's crazy when you open up a platform somehow people think when you open up a platform that you should be be beyond the matrix and that's just not true we all still have to pay our bills we all still have to pay the rent we also have to pay our mortgages all that we put food on the table none of us have escaped the matrix and we're all we're all in this together and so I for one understand that people need to make their money they need to make enough money to pay to pay their way and 99.9% of people out there working hard are doing it simply to take care of their family and themselves with no ill wishes for anybody and so I'm choosing to use Amazon for the good and not the bad it's just a platform and again if you are somebody that's very rigid in your thought like that then that's a you issue not a me issue that's not the issue of this channel um and I would I would ask you to rethink the way that you view the world being vigilante being bloodthirsty going on witch hunts if you're that way then you're no different than the bad guys you know so anyway guys um so thank you guys I hope let me know if there's any other categories you want me to create for you so that you have easier access to see the things that you've asked me about over the three years I've been on this channel and again you don't have to buy from these links if there is a small business uh that you want to support that sells this stuff by all means print off these lists and take it to them and see if you can buy it from them but otherwise the links are in here so yeah all right you guys I hope you're having a wonderful Sunday and I will talk to you soon