 Okay, with me today is Sunaina Dekhi. Sunaina is a yoga expert. She's a wellness expert. She is a yoga representative at the United Nations. She's also in a car right now because she is going to the airport because apparently she is in Delhi. Today we are talking to her because it's yoga day and to begin with Sunaina, how did you get associated with yoga? I got associated with yoga very late in my life actually. I was never the flexible with the strength yogi. I started in London and the first time I entered the yoga studio it was a love affair. I loved the whole energy. I loved the way my body moved. I loved the challenge it gave me. I just enjoyed it too much and that's when the journey began. And throughout the years since you've been practicing yoga, how really has yoga sort of helped you? How has it changed your life physically, mentally both ways? I think yoga, I can't even explain it because there are so many things in life that are intangible. You can't even understand them but I am just becoming better. I'm becoming more mindful. I'm becoming more aware. I'm becoming more intuitive. Like my body or my mind is so aware now with movement. I think when you get so aware of your physical body, the next shift is like really becoming aware of your mental space. And I think having a spinal condition living with a chronic spinal condition for seven years really made me so mindful about my body, about my emotions. If I did, if at times I felt anxiety, I was mindful of that. I was mindful that I might need to see somebody apart from me to help me with anxiety because I'm feeling pain when I felt emotions. I was able to just put my yoga mat on and really, really release it, whether it was sadness, whether it was anger, whether it was frustration, just to be able to breathe those few breaths and to open your heart or like to move into Surya Namaskar. It's really a very beautiful space to be in, to take care of your emotions. I think it takes care of you. You mentioned that you're living with a spinal health condition for the last seven years. Could you elaborate on that? What exactly is it and what happened? So I've got the, my whole spine is actually fractured. So I've got, I've got disc bulges throughout my neck and at the bottom, I've got spondylitisis. I've got spondylitisis. I've got every spondio that you can think of and I've got a hip fracture. So it's a lot of stuff. It started when I was five, my spinal, my L5 wasn't developed and any activity or movement, because it's not there, my L5, it didn't grow. I've become such an awesome teacher because I can understand pain. I can understand like when, when, like earlier, me as a teacher was, if somebody told me, hi, Sunaina ma'am, I want to join your classes, but you know, I have a spinal condition. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, come, you know, we'll handle it. And it was very intellectual and it was something that I had learned and that was what I was teaching them. But today, as a teacher, I feel them, I get them. I understand pain and because I understand pain, and I can understand what the other person is doing, going through, it makes me better, I think. When you have any condition, you know, everything I feel is given by God. Like today, after whatever I'm going through, whether it's on a physical plane, that has taught me how to become so mindful of how I walk, heal to engage my core, shoulder, back, chin, parallel, that requires a lot of discipline in the mind. If I look at it on an emotional level, how I've been getting anxiety or how I've not felt supported, to be able to try to help myself and try to get emotions under control. That has been my emotional practice through this pain in the last seven years. You know, on a spiritual practice, just to believe that everything is there for a reason. It is making you stronger. Yeah, I think what you basically encapsulate and saying is that yoga is a practice which sort of physically, mentally, spiritually, it sort of really brings you together and makes you strong. And I think that is really the message you're looking for during on a day like Yoga Day. But all the best for the future. Take it. Yeah, yeah. Thank you so much. Lots and lots of love, Kabir and everyone. Happy International Yoga Day. And I've loved this interview. Thank you, Kabir. Thank you. Thank you.