Speaking from Stillness: Quotes, Poems & Stories in Yin Yoga

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Welcome Yenis, if you are new around here, welcome to a Yanika. Podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you are a return listener, welcome back.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Today. I want to talk about

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Nyk Danu Yoga: whether or not we should use stories, poems, quotes, etc. In our Yin classes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: there is. There was a question about this in a Facebook group. So I thought I would cover this, and actually my own approach to it has changed a little bit over time as well. So I have some insights from my own perspective, and maybe some words of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I don’t want to say caution, but things to be aware of. But ultimately, of course, you need to make your own decision. But let’s hash this out. Shall we?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: In just a moment before we do, I want to just remind you that this is an adult podcast with adult subject matter and adult language. So if you have small people around, take a moment to grab some headphones. Now

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Nyk Danu Yoga: All right, my friends, today’s topic.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Should we be sharing a dharma talk.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a story, a quote, a poem.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: at the beginning of our class.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Let’s let’s go into that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I 1st want to say that way back way back in the olden days when I was 1st a new

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Nyk Danu Yoga: New Yoga practitioner, not a teacher yet

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that Yoga classes were longer. They were like a minimum of 90 min. Most of mine still are, because I’m old school and a stickler for that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Some of them were like an hour and 45, and some were even 2 h.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, of course, over time people have gotten more and more impatient, and Yoga has become more sort of fitness based. Unfortunately.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it’s more about getting your 6 pack, and you know, detoxing and blah blah. And so the classes have gotten shorter and the sort of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: soul, I guess you could say, or the spiritual part of the classes has gotten smaller and smaller, less and less.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so this is very unfortunate, in my opinion.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but it also does affect just on a totally practical level. How much time

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Nyk Danu Yoga: do we even have in the class?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so, unfortunately, one of the things that often gets dropped is any of the sort of bigger picture stuff about Yoga, whether that’s sharing a reading from one of Yoga’s philosophy books like the Gita, or the Sutras, or Panishads

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or whether it’s, you know, sharing an experience from your own life.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or a Jutka tale which are like Buddhist parables. You know, these things

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Nyk Danu Yoga: used to happen a lot in Yoga classes, and there was space and room for them, because the class was a little longer, and the people that were there, generally speaking.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: understood that Yoga wasn’t just, you know, about getting their sweat on. And so there was the intentionality and the patience also from the students to sit and to learn, and a lot of that has changed.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So then, that begs the question as a teacher. How much do we cow tail to? You know what the market is asking us to do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and how much do we stick to our guns?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This is a bigger question.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You can even see it come up with things like chanting, like a lot of people have removed chanting for a while from their classes completely, because they were trying to make their classes digestible to a wider audience.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I’m not ultimately going to tell you what you should or shouldn’t do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because that is up to you, dear teacher.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but what I would like to do is just kind of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: break this down a little bit. Why might we decide to use

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a quote, a poem, a reading and why we might not want to? And also the in between, can we be flexible with that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So for many, many years, as a newer teacher.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I never used any kind of theme.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s not entirely true. I did use a theme. It was usually based on whatever guided meditation I was going to offer for that class. So each class I would close with a little, just a few minutes like 5 to 10 min, guided meditation before Shavasan. And that would typically be the theme of that class. Right? So if it was loving kindness, then that was the theme. You get the idea.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I didn’t necessarily have heavy themes for my classes. I certainly wasn’t sharing readings, whether that be poetry or quotes, or stories, or Yoga philosophy, and I still don’t share yoga philosophy, because, to be honest, one of the things that happens, the more experience that you get as a yoga teacher.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you haven’t hit this point yet, it’s coming.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The more you know, the more you realize how little you know.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: When I was a new teacher. I had far more hubris, almost arrogance, probably. Thinking that like I kind of had some yoga stuff figured out, and the longer I study, and the longer I practice, the more I realize how multilayered and in depth

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Nyk Danu Yoga: this practice is. And so you know, classical Yoga philosophy is not something that I personally have studied in depth enough with a skilled teacher, in order to be able to share something from the Upanishads, or something from the Gita, or even a Sutra, although the Yoga Sutras are my least favorite of the philosophies.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and share it in a way that was authentic to the source.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because a lot of this stuff gets really dumbed down, and teachers just kind of read their own meanings into things because they don’t actually have an understanding of Sanskrit. And so they’re just kind of basing it on the English translation that they may have read. And then their impression or interpretation of that English translation.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I don’t want to fall into that. So I just don’t share it, because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if I can’t do it skillfully.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m not going to do it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and as much as I would love to.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: At 1 point I thought I wanted to learn how to read Sanskrit, and I would still love to. I’m also very cognizant of the fact that there’s a lot of things I want to learn, and also of my age. I’m in my fifties, and whether or not. I’m going to Master Sanskrit enough to actually read these texts in the Sanskrit and be able to give a valid interpretation that honors the tradition before a Yoga class

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Nyk Danu Yoga: starting to feel like that might be one thing that isn’t going to get checked off with my Yoga teacher to-do list.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So rather than do it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: From a place of appropriation versus appreciation or place of misunderstanding instead of deep understanding. I don’t do it

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Nyk Danu Yoga: now, if you, of course, have studied in this in depth, and you feel like you really have a good handle on it. You’ve got a good teacher that you can come to with questions about these texts. Then by all means, party on with yourself. I just don’t feel like that’s the case for me.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So for years and years I never had a kind of real specific theme kind of a theme light, you could call it, based on the meditation.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I never shared a quote or a poem at all in my classes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and part of the reason I didn’t. And this is in all my classes, not just Yin. I’ll talk more specifically about this in regards to yin in just a moment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But one of the reasons that I didn’t is because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: when I was in Yoga classes and I would hear teachers share poems or readings.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They were always just a little bit too good vibes, only Pollyanna

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Nyk Danu Yoga: saccharine, sweet, or really rhymey, like so rhyme schemey that it was like, Oh, my God! Did a 5 year old write this poem like just obvious rhyme scheme.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and very rarely did the readings that they shared

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Nyk Danu Yoga: speak to any of the kind of more challenging parts of being a human on the path, or the shadow sides, or the dark moments, or the dark nights of the soul.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it just didn’t feel authentic to me. It didn’t feel balanced as far as like only sharing one without the other.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’ve almost never resonated with the reading that the teacher would share.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so that’s why I didn’t.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now I will say in my teacher training, and with one of my primary teachers, they would share something of Yoga philosophy. That’s different. That’s not what I’m talking about. That was that I looked forward to, and I enjoyed. What I’m talking about is, you know, people pick a poem they love, and they share it at the beginning of class.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and certainly nothing wrong with that. But what I found was that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: most of the teachers that did that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: again, overly sweet, overly saccharine, obvious rhyme schemes, a little bit too good vibes, only there wasn’t a lot of depth, soul, shadow, or darkness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or even an understanding of the complexity of the human condition in the readings that they were sharing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so that’s why they didn’t resonate with me. Because I’m a keep it real kind of girl, you know. Yes, there are incredible.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: beautiful moments in life, and there’s shadow, and there’s everything in between.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And to me.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you’re going to share one without sharing the other, it can sort of reinforce the stereotype that Yoga has, which is that whole good vibes only like in Wellness circles, where people think that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: they show up to a Yoga class. Everybody else in the room has their shit all figured out. They’re the only ones that are on the struggle bus, and they’ve kind of, you know.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: rolled up and dropped into the class, and they’re sort of licking their wounds, and if you can, if you come across.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in my opinion, overly positive, this right up to spiritual bypassing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then people don’t feel seen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and they don’t feel like you’ve met them where they are at.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so I found that a lot of this

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Nyk Danu Yoga: reading and stuff that was being shared in Yoga classes was essentially spiritual bypassing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay? And if you haven’t heard of the term spiritual bypassing. I’m just going to give kind of a a brief overview of what that actually means. And this is the AI overview. So let’s see how good. It is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: spiritual. Bypassing is the use of spiritual practices to avoid dealing with unresolved emotional issues.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It can involve using meditation, yoga, plant, medicine, ceremonies, etc. To avoid confronting painful emotions.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The effects of spiritual bypassing can give you short-term relief.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but it doesn’t lead to the same level of inner harmony, joy, compassion, or healing that genuine healing does.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It can make it difficult to connect with your own emotions and also to empathize with others.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and it can lead to social disconnection.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: making it difficult to connect with others, especially those who have different or unspiritual views.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and also a loss of self-love, spiritual bypassing, can lead to a loss of loss of self-love

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Nyk Danu Yoga: can lead people to think what is wrong with me. Everybody else has got this all figured out. Why am I sad? Why am I anxious? Why am I depressed?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: this is what spiritual bypassing is, and it is used a lot in wellness spaces, including in yoga circles, good vibes, only perfect example, spiritual bypassing, because there is no such thing in the world or in any human of good vibes. Only, unless you’re ignoring a whole huge part of the human experience.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is why I never resonated with the teachers classes who shared quotes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: poems, etc, at the beginning of their class because they were all too

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Nyk Danu Yoga: good vibes. Only 2. Pollyanna, 2 positive

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Nyk Danu Yoga: kind of saccharine fake spiritual bypass feeling was like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: okay. But is that even real life.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I’m a keeping it real kind of girl.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So for many, many years I didn’t use any kind of a reading or quote, or anything in my classes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for exactly that reason.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Eventually I found, and I can’t even remember what the 1st poem was.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I don’t know if I could read it to you, even if I can’t, could remember due to copyright.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I know that I know who the author was, and her name is Maya Luna

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I read one of her poems and was completely in love with it, and just thought.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Wow, I’m going to share this in my next class. It was very spontaneous. It was just.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m going to share this in my next class.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the amount of feedback that I got

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Nyk Danu Yoga: from sharing that reading was amazing. And so it was almost like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know how, if you’ve never noticed something in life before, and then you notice it, how all of a sudden. You then start seeing it everywhere. That’s what happened to me with poetry. I found one of my Luna’s poems. I fell in love with it. I shared it. And then I found several of her other poems, and then just I would be on the Internet, or wherever. And I would. Another poem that would come that I thought really spoke to the human experience. And so I just started collecting them in my iphone so that I could start sharing them in class.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And the reason that I know that I did an okay job with this is because at every class that I teach

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I will have someone or someones ask me for the reading.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It will come up to me afterwards, and they will say.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: what was the name of that author? What was the name of that poet. Where can I find it? And I’ll usually just text it to them from my phone, since it’s in my phone, anyway.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this is how I know I’m hitting the nail on the head.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you’re sharing readings in your classes, and no one’s ever asking you about them afterwards. You’re probably missing the mark

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Nyk Danu Yoga: as to where your people are.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s why I didn’t share quotes or poems before, and why I slowly transitioned into doing it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I think that you can share a reading, a poem, a small story, depending upon how long your class is, and how long the story is very skillfully.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and it can be a really beautiful addition.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and it can also be a way to

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Nyk Danu Yoga: let the people know who are maybe new to Yoga and think it’s all about, you know, sweating and detoxing, that there’s more to this practice

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Nyk Danu Yoga: than you know your hamstrings.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I think it can be done in a very beautiful, very skillful, very soulful way.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I hope that I do that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I do want to just mention some cautions and some things that I’ve seen come up that I think aren’t very skillful when people do it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: just as something to avoid or something to be aware of.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And the 1st one is just that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: sharing a reading that is overly saccharine, overly positive, really kind of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: amateur level rhyme scheme. That isn’t going to land with people for where they really are in that moment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: right?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Oftentimes these poems can come off completely tone deaf.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, for example, if there is a current

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Nyk Danu Yoga: war on everybody’s mind, which when isn’t there one somewhere, we just may not always know about them. But let’s just say there’s 1 that’s ever present in everyone’s mind. We all know this as teachers, that sometimes you show up to teach your class, and the world just feels extra heavy.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And if you think that your solution to that is to read some really positive, sweet kind of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: good vibes, only light and love poem

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that’s spiritual bypassing. You’re not meeting your students where they’re at.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: kinder, more compassionate humans. Right? So I’m not saying we should get political in classes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So am I going to speak about the current conflict in whatever area of the world that it’s happening in my class. Nope.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m going to choose to share something that speaks to where people’s minds and hearts are at when I share my reading.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s what I’m going to go in with. Right? I’m going to speak to the shadow

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that’s what I find a lot of Yoga teachers do with their poems. Their poems are ice cream.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: changing the subject and talking about ice cream is probably not helpful. Now some of you might be thinking, I eat ice cream when I’m grieving, and it is helpful I’m not talking about that. We could argue whether or not that’s really helpful in the long run. But I’m talking about

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Nyk Danu Yoga: when you ignore where people are at, and you just good vibe, you paint everything with good vibes only, and you just, you know, and ice cream and flowers and rainbows and unicorns, and you don’t acknowledge where people are at.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I find that most UN. Teachers tend to talk too much. And so what can happen? And this has happened to me in a class with a very lovely human, with a very skilled teacher, trained by the same teachers is that she had a different quote on the same theme, but, like a different quote for every single pose we went into

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So every single pose she’s sharing a different quote, which means you’re now pulling me out of my body and into my head, because when you’re analyzing words and listening to words, you’re not in your body, you’re up in your analytical mind.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: meaning at the at the at the end of it, and you’ve got a longer class. Then, sure, why not share a story, but try to get it done in the 1st few poses so that you can start to settle into stillness. And whether this is a story that you’re reading to them, or a story from your own experience, that you think would be helpful either way.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s sort of like, let’s use this as an example. Shanti Davis, prayer.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: which you can Google, I’ll try to read it to you hopefully, this isn’t going to get me a copyright violation, but it is very kind of like big picture. You know how to help humanity kind of situation.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Here it is. May I become at all times, both now and forever, a protector for those without protection.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So let’s say in my mind I’m going to share Shanti Davis prayer because I think it’s beautiful. I think it’s inspiring. It really speaks to my own personal mission in life. It also speaks to the fact that I think that Yoga classes help us become more kind humans, so that we can go out and we can support the rest of the world.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s gonna come across a little bit tone deaf.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the other mistake that often teachers make is that they’re not flexible with their theme

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or with their readings. So you may have something in mind, and then you show up and guess what

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so can you pivot? Can you be like? Hmm!

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or I should choose something that talks about taking time for rest or self-care.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I would bet you that at least 50% of the time I will show up to class with a few ratings pinned.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I’ll check in with people and hear where they’re at, and I’ll completely change the poem that I’m going to share, based on what I hear from the group. Now, if you’re not checking in with your students before, you know. Just kind of a hey? How is everybody, then this is going to be hard to do, unless you’re quite intuitive or empathic.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this might be why, you might want to check in with people, even if you don’t do it in a formal way, like I do where everyone says their name and how they’re doing, you know, you could just walk around amongst your students as they’re setting up. And you know, and you’re letting them know what equipment and just kind of check in with them. How are you doing today? How how are things? You know anything kind of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So what do we have so far for mistakes for readings we have sharing one that’s totally tone deaf and Pollyanna, and overly sweet the good vibes only the spiritual bypassing poems, please, for God’s sake, if you don’t have at least

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Nyk Danu Yoga: half that are good vibes only, and the other half that speak to the shadow side of life.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s mistake number one, mistake number 2 would be overdoing the quotes in the poems like, there’s 1 different one for every single pose too much talking way, too much talking

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Nyk Danu Yoga: sharing something you’re not qualified to share. So we’ve talked about this with Yoga philosophy.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you haven’t studied in depth with somebody who speaks Sanskrit, and you can really get an accurate interpretation of the Sutra or the Gita, or whatever the snippet that you’re going to share, because they’re often so often mistranslated, and they’re overly simplified, and they’re shared in a way that takes the depth of meaning away completely.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So we we want to watch that, too. Right? So I don’t share those, because I don’t have enough education and experience to be able to skillfully know for myself

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that’s a different story. But most of us, as Western Yoga teachers do not have that. Most of us have learned from other Western Yoga teachers who also didn’t have that. And so there’s all kinds of things that they’re saying Yoga is, and that this, you know, Scripture says that are not accurate. So that’s another mistake.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then sharing one. That’s too long for the time that you have also a mistake.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They were so surface and lacked depth and soul and shadow, and they just felt like ice cream.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but ice cream has a time and a place, and it’s not in every Yoga class.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so deeply that I was like, Oh, my God! This is so moving to me that I have to share it, and I can’t remember exactly which of her poems it was, nor could. I probably read it copyright wise. But anyway, her name is Maya Luna spelt MAYA. LUNA. If you Google her, you will find her writing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so I shared one of hers. I found several more of hers, and then it was like I. It was like the universe was like, Oh, okay, you’re open to this kind of poetry here, let me just keep tossing it in your feed, tossing it in your or in your presence. And so now I’ve got a lot. In fact, one of the bonuses that I did for my last teacher training. Because each time I do a teacher training, I try to add, like another little bonus that people get when they graduate and they’ve done their homework.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: another bonus. And this past one the bonus was that they got a bank Google, Doc, with all of the poems up to that date that I use in my classes, because, again, like I said, I always get people asking

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Well, they want to know about that poem. Where do you find your poems, etc, etc. So that was something I offered as just as a little graduation bonus. So I now have a bunch, and I started with none.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So again, if you don’t want to share a poem that’s not your style. You don’t need to do that. A meditation is just as good, if not better sometimes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you can check that one out. I believe that was in season one or 2. But anyway, it’ll be linked below in the Google Doc that has all of the episodes. So you can check that out. If you want more on how much talking we should and should not be doing in our Yin classes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But that would be my big caution, too, is the 2 biggest ones for me are. Don’t be so, Pollyanna.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and good vibes only, and also don’t talk so much in your class that you don’t allow for any silence.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Those would be the 2 biggest takeaways.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But again, there’s other things like being able to pivot.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If the poem you have planned does not at all meet where people are at.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You need to pivot that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, my friends, I think that’s enough. Talking about poetry, etcetera.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’d love to know from you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: either in the comments. If you’re on Youtube, or if you’re on spotify, you can let me know in the comments. Do you use quotes, and poetry and stories in your classes, and if so, where do you find them? Where do you source them? Do you just kind of hang out? And then, when you find something on the Internet that speaks to you, do you collect it? Do you have, like a particular author or poem or book?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That, you know, really speaks to you. Let me know in the comments below, so that we can all kind of resource share. I just shared one of my favorites, Maya Luna, share some of yours below in the comments.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And if you are on apple they don’t have any way for you to do that. But you can always message me on Instagram at Nick, Danu, Yoga, or at Yan, Yoga, podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: either below this podcast episode, let me know in the comments or send me a DM. Letting me know if you do share readings, poetry, etcetera. What do you share? And who are your favorites? I would love to know.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, my friends, I think that’s enough for me for today until we meet again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Bye, for now.