Embracing The Fire Element: Summer in Taoism, TCM and Yin Yoga

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Thank you, brigine.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: All right, my friends, today.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: without further ado, we shall get into the topic.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, those of you that are watching this on Youtube. And if your listener. If you did not know, you can watch these on Youtube, you can. So if you are more of a visual person than an audio person, you can watch them on Youtube.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you’re watching this on Youtube, you will see me navigating around a little bit with my eyes and my screen, because I have some notes, and they’re on several different sources. So if you see my eyes shifting around, I just want to make sure I don’t miss anything.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you’re listening to this live. When it comes out it will be the first day of summer.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so I thought it would be a great idea to do a little bit of a just, a brief synopsis of summer, according to Taoism and Tcm.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: just kind of like an overview for you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I did a brief one also in the winter. So I think that this is a great idea to have a bit of a seasonal theme.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, that’s of course, if you live in the northern hemisphere.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you do not live in the northern hemisphere, then you will be approaching your winter.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so let’s get into a little bit of info about

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Nyk Danu Yoga: summertime.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so

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Nyk Danu Yoga: summer

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in traditional Chinese medicine and Taoism is connected to the element of fire which makes sense logically.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Here’s a quote by Lao Tzu.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. I think this is such a great reminder, because what can happen in the summer, especially for those of you that are summer lovers. And you know who you are is that we just get so excited. And we want to do all the things, and we’re just like, Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! And we do all of this sort of young activity.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You know, being outside socializing, etc. You know we have more daylight, and we can forget to kind of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: harmonize that with a little bit of yin energy. So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: this is a good reminder. The flame that burns twice as bright only burns half as long.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay? So within the fire element. Again, we’re connected to summer.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The direction is south.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The color is red, the climate is heat, which is pretty logical.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The yin channels that are associated with the fire element are the heart and the pericardium and the Yang channels are the

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Nyk Danu Yoga: small intestine, and the sanjiao.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Summer is a little interesting in Tcm. Because it actually has sort of.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the fire element has more meridians connected to it, and some people split these apart and call some of them ministerial fire and traditional fire. I’m not going to get that detailed about it, but it is unique that there are 2 yin channels and 2 young channels that are connected to the fire element, which is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the element for summertime

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the sound is laughter.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The Chi raises up, and the emotion is joy. The spirit is shen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the constitutional archetype. If you could come up with one would be the life of the party.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the heart

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in Chinese medicine is super important. It is said to be the sovereign that all of the other organs are in service to the heart.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the heart is really really important. When we’re talking about this time of year and the fire element.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: There are also

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Nyk Danu Yoga: tastes and smells and things like that as well that go along with

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Nyk Danu Yoga: fire element.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the taste, for example, is bitter.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so the heart is the sovereign.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: All of the other organs are in service to the heart.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: which is one of the things. When I first heard this in Tcm.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Foundations that helped me to just fall madly in love with this

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Nyk Danu Yoga: way of viewing the world and our bodies, this sort of Taoist Tcm lens.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so the heart is the sovereign and the leader of all the other organs, and all of the organs are in service to the heart.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The physiological functions of the heart, according to Tcm. Include circulating blood in our body. But the heart is also responsible for our spiritual and our mental activities

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in Tcm.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The the heart is the abode of the Shen, and Shen is sometimes translated as mind, but it’s important to note that the view of mind in Taoist thought is not the way that we think of the mind in Western thought. Western thought. We think of the mind as our brain and our thoughts.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But in Tcm. The Shen is equivalent of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the mental function, but also has a role in emotion.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So although in the West we separate body, mind, and spirit in Tcm. The mind and heart are one, and that oneness is called Shen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The Shen is what allows our inner radians to shine outward. It’s the alertness of our mind, and the inner vitality that can shine out through our eyes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This brightness is called our shen Ming, and the Shen Ming is the glow, spark, or radiance of fire that shows up as enthusiasm or sparkle in the eyes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the harsh stores, the shen and the shen affects our ability to fall asleep.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The shen goes outward in the day and engages with the world, and then at night the shen returns to the heart and rests in the blood of the heart.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I just love that little visual.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The Shen affects our short-term memory governs our ability to think clearly. If our shen is weak, then we can’t think clearly. We might be forgetful, or a concentration wanders off.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and if our shen isn’t settled, we can have difficulty falling asleep.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Dream disturbed sleep, or we might experience anxiety.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I mentioned that there are

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Nyk Danu Yoga: 2 yin and 2 yong meridians connected to the element of fire, which is the element connected to summer.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so we have the heart, and we have the small intestine.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The heart is the yin, the small intestine is the yong.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Do you have the patience to wait until mud settles and the water is clear again by Lao Tzu.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the small intestine is the paired organ to the heart.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the role of the small intestine is to separate the pure from the impure.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And while this makes sense on a purely physiological level, right purification, transporting clear substances and expelling what in Tcm they often call the turbid. There’s also a mental emotional aspect to this function as well.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the small intestine is also responsible from separating the clear from the turbid thoughts.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and when this ball and testine is in harmony, it knows the difference between right and wrong, wise and unskillful judgment

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and healthy and unhealthy decisions.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the small intestine. If the small intestine is in a state of disharmony.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: there may either be

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a life of no purity or somebody who’s obsessed with living a pure life.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then the Paracartium, which is absolutely one of my favorite concepts. So the Paracartium

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is a real thing

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Nyk Danu Yoga: anatomically in our body, but of course, in Tcm. And in Taoism they have all this poetry and symbolism that goes along with it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: He who defends with love will be secure. Heaven will save and protect him with love. Loud su.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the Paracartium has an anatomical role

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and a mental emotional role as well

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in this case, as the heart protector.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, according to teach anatomy.info

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Nyk Danu Yoga: physical pericardium is made up of 2 layers, an rough external layer of fibreous pericardium, and a thinner, more internal layer known as the serious pericardium.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And

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Nyk Danu Yoga: inner white

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Nyk Danu Yoga: stuff is in the serious layers. So there’s 2 layers to this, this sort of bag or sack of the pericardium that protects the heart.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the pericardium is both literally and symbolically the heart protector

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in Tcm. Sometimes they talk about the pericardium being a wall or a fence

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Nyk Danu Yoga: around the heart.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so the Paracartium not only physically protects the heart, but also energetically shields the heart from damage and disruption of excessive emotions from the other organs, and from external sources.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and Tcm. The view of health and and extreme emotional states of any kind or seem to be disruptive. Right? So in Tcm, they don’t differentiate that there are certain emotions that are 100 negative and some that are positive.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: All emotions brought out to the extreme can cause disharmony

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and disease.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So without the percardium

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the heart could be gravely injured just through everyday emotional fluctuations.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So here are some possible signs of weakness in the pericardium.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I’m by this, I’m speaking metaphorically, not physically

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Nyk Danu Yoga: being emotionally guarded or having an inability to be vulnerable, a fear of intimacy, sort of an irrational relationship, fear

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Nyk Danu Yoga: too much joy, incessant laughter, giggling out of control, anxiety, or mental disturbance.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then, on the other side. If there’s a disharmony

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in the pericardium.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: there could be excessive vulnerabilities. So those people that wear their heart on their sleeve or inappropriate intimacy.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Those people that tell you way too much way, too personal way, too soon, or depression.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and it can also manifest as

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so what I I have done a workshop on this in the past, and I send that out to my students at the beginning of spring.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a few extra poses for those specific areas. So for the liver, for example, runs up the inner line of the leg, so I will include more shapes that open up the groin and the inner thighs

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now I’m also going to do that other times of year, because there’s actually 3 meridians that run up the inner thighs. But to keep this very simple.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ll do. I’ll do. Maybe some more dragonflies, or more half dragonflies, for example, than I would have in the winter.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: also for the side body, which is where the gallbladder channel runs, and the senior channel of the gallbladder, so I may tend to do more kind of side bends, or

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Nyk Danu Yoga: more than one side bend, or maybe a longer hold in a side bend to get into the sinew channel that’s connected to the gallbladder meridian.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is how I use this information, because sometimes I feel like we can hear all this information. And it’s it’s interesting and it’s fun. But then it’s like, what do I do with all this.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, dear teacher, listening to this, if you haven’t studied

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or your yin training kind of barely glazed over, or just told you that you were doing poses for your meridians, which is not accurate. Really.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it’s a gross oversimplification.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then I wouldn’t include this information in your teaching until you’ve had a chance to actually study it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: either with you know, somebody who includes this information in their training like I do. Then maybe you can do some more seasonally themed classes, or maybe and this is, you wouldn’t be the first. There are plenty of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yoga teachers that find Yen fall in love with Yen fall in love with some of this Tcm stuff, and then they run off and they go and study more in depth.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Whether that study B

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or some sort of Shiatsu training. So there are ways to learn more beyond a yin training and study these things. If this really, this kind of philosophy and medicine really feels like home to you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Before I realize that I actually don’t want to put needles in people, and so where my studies will likely take me, or where they were going to take me right before covid times, and where I hope that they will is into medical Chi gong, because I do

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Nyk Danu Yoga: absolutely love this medicine and this philosophy, and this way of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: looking at the earth and the elements and the seasons, and then also how we are a

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and explore. We are a part of that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So often as humans, we view ourselves as separate from

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the earth and the elements. But we are also

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Nyk Danu Yoga: part of the earth and the elements. We have all of these things inside of us, and this is one of the reasons that I really love.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Tcm thought is that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the organ itself from inside has, of course, a physical but also a mental, emotional quality to it, and that it is connected to an element into a season. So it’s a very holistic view

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Nyk Danu Yoga: of a way of looking at us as humans

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and our connection to the earth.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is one of the reasons that I fell in love with this medicine, and why I studied it for 3 years, and I do include overviews sort of similar to what you just heard, although more in depth

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in my teacher training

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that people have a bit of an understanding, a little bit, even at least, of of this kind of philosophy.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But if you don’t have this philosophy.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you haven’t studied this, then you probably shouldn’t just go Google, where the meridians are and start teaching classes, telling people that you’re doing this practice for the blank blank meridian.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because that’s an oversimplification, and not very accurate. And again,

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Dr. Karina Smith and I chatted about this

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a bit more in depth in her interview, which is a fantastic interview, so you could check that out if you want to learn more.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I just thought it would be fun.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: as the sort of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: second last episode for the season

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Nyk Danu Yoga: before I take a bit of a break to share a little bit about the summer

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in Tcm. And in Taos thought

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so some key takeaways might be to remember that over summertime it is the most extroverted, the most young of all of the seasons, and so, in order to keep yourself in a state of harmony. You want to balance that out. So we want to balance that out with rest and yin like things. Yin, yoga might be a good choice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: although I don’t think there’s ever a bad time of year for yen yoga, but I might be biased

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you want to bounce it out with making sure you stay hydrated with your food. And still I know those of you that are really really extroverted that really love summer, and you just wait all year for summer. Don’t forget that you do still need to take some downtime and some alone, time as well.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Right. Even the life of the party occasionally should be quiet and still.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, I hope you found this interesting.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: my little seasonal

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Nyk Danu Yoga: wrap up with summer here. There will be one more episode coming out next week.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then I’m going to take a bit of a pause, and then I will be back

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the vengeance and a whole bunch of new episodes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I hope you found this interesting again. If you’re watching this on Youtube, just take a moment to like the video subscribe, and then just let me know in the comments

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Nyk Danu Yoga: what stood out to you, what little nugget that I shared where you’re like, Oh, that’s interesting! Let me know. In the comments below.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and for those of you that are listening.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Thank you for listening. And again, if you don’t mind taking a moment

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to offer a review, I would be super grateful.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and until we meet again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: bye, for now.