Root to Rise: Yin Yoga, Spring & the Wood Element

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Hi Yannis, and welcome back to a yin Yoga. Podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if we have not met before, my name is Nick welcome welcome for those of you that are return listeners. Welcome back

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Nyk Danu Yoga: couple of things to mention before we dive into today’s episode.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: today’s episode will be about the Tcm. Taoist view, or a very brief overview of spring.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because that’s where we’re headed now, spring.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: In fact, I think when this comes out we will have just hit spring. That time of recording. We’re still a little bit in winter, but we will be in spring soon enough.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so we’re going to do a bit of an overview on spring, according to Chinese medicine and Taoism, and see what kind of wisdom we can gleam from that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But before I get into that, a couple of things to mention.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Some of you listeners may have heard me say that I have new kittens.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I have one currently. Oh, and she’s off! Was on my lap.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so you may see some kitten cameos that’s possible.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: As they kind of. There’s a tail right there for those of you watching on Youtube. So there may be some kitten cameos.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or you may see me picking a kitten up and moving it. If they’re going a little crazy and doing their best. Ninja moves on my lap while I’m

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Nyk Danu Yoga: recording. So that’s thing number one thing number 2, dear listener, is that these are adults having adult conversations with adult subject matter. So if you have small people around, headphones might be a good idea.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I have the soul of a mermaid and the mouth of a sailor, and also sometimes we get into some intense topics on this pod that are not always for small ears.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that make note of that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then the 3rd thing is, I just want to read a little podcast. Love that I received recently.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then we’ll get right into today’s episode.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So this was, I believe, on either Facebook or Instagram. I think, Instagram, and it’s by Maya Lewis.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or is it Mia Lewis MIA. Is that mia or maya.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Not sure either way. Thank you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And this is what it says, Nick Danu, your podcasts are a magnet. I look forward to jumping in the car, waiting for Bluetooth to connect

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to my speakers, and driving off with inspirational conversations all about Yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Thank you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I love hearing how you all listen. Some people go for walks, some people clean their house, some people are driving.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s it’s so cool.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So thank you very much. And if you are a return listener and you have been benefiting from this, podcast I would be super grateful if you would take the time to

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Nyk Danu Yoga: offer me some feedback. There’s many ways you could do that. If you’re listening to this in an app, whether it’s spotify or apple, you can just pause this and go in and leave me 5 stars on Apple. You can also leave a written review and on spotify. You can leave a comment below this episode, which is cool.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you’re watching this on Youtube hey youtubers, you can take a moment to like the video, make sure you are subscribed to the Channel, and then let me know in the comments.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: any feedback that you have about the podcast or topic ideas always looking for Yin specific topic. Ideas. Now, I should clarify. I’m not asking for.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: hey? You should have this person on your podcast I’m not asking for guest requests.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m asking for topics.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if there is something to do with Yin

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or Yin adjacent things anatomy that affects Yin or Tcm. Or Taoism, and you have questions. I would love to know what those are, and I will do my best if I can’t answer them, to bring someone else on who can answer those?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I’m not looking for specific guests. I’m not looking for like, Hey, you should talk to so and so, this isn’t a podcast where we just kind of have random conversations about Yin yoga, I do want this to stay educational. So I’m not opposed to you know, guest requests. If you have a specific topic like, Hey, this person is really, really

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Nyk Danu Yoga: niched in this particular aspect of yen. You should talk to them then. Fine but just general kind of like, hey? You should talk to so and so about Yen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Not looking for that. At this point the podcast is invitation only. I really want it to be educational and specific

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and those of you listening can’t see this. But those of you on

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Youtube have now seen one of the kitten cameos. This is Padme. Padme means lotus.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: She’s a little ninja. Her sister, is sleeping, but this one is purring.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: which I don’t think the microphone picks up because I have

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Nyk Danu Yoga: on zoom. I have that noise cancellation on, because I live in a very noisy neighborhood, so I don’t think it picked up her purring, but she’s here purring. Nonetheless. She’s also a fan of the podcast, she’s often here helping me. Air quotes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, my friends.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you have been loving the pod, and you haven’t taken a moment to give me some feedback again. You could do that on Apple spotify on Youtube or just on Facebook or Instagram. Send me a DM, or if I post an episode on Facebook, and you’ve been getting something about, you know from it, let me know in the comments I would love to know your feedback.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, my friends, today we’re going to talk about spring as it affects

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Nyk Danu Yoga: our yin yoga practice, or just our life. So from the Taoist sort of Tcm perspective. And this will be a kind of a brief overview, because, I go into this much more in depth, in my teacher training, but this will be a little overview for those of you who want more info.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I also have done this on the on other seasons, and I’ve done a 5 element, one on one overview of kind, of a brief overview of all of the elements. And so you know, those are all available. If you want to learn more.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you want to see other episodes, I’ve done so. If you ever hear me mention that I’ve done an episode on Blank, or I’ve done an episode on this. In the show notes, there is a link to a document. It’s just a Google Doc which hold houses all of the episodes that I have done. It’s very simple. It just says the season, the name or topic, and then a link. So if you ever need to look something up.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: we just want to nerd out and do all of my former episodes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Please know you can do that in that document, and the link to that is in the episode. Notes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, shall we begin? 1st of all, I must tell you. I must confess spring is my favorite season

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it always has been from the time I was quite small, and I used to think it was because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because where I’m from we had long winters.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and it took forever to get to be spring. And so when spring came I was just extra eager, extra excited.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But now I live somewhere where actually our winters are fairly mild by Canadian standards we get snow for Max like 4 days a year. If that even

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and spring comes early and fall is stunning. We actually get 4 whole seasons here, which is amazing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But spring is still my favorite.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I don’t know if it’s the extra light, or if it’s just the the energy of that kind of newness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or if it’s all the flowers where I live on Vancouver Island, let me tell you, friends. There are flowers here I had never seen before until I moved here my 1st year. Here I walked around like a complete nerd, taking pictures of all these flowers that I had never seen. So I’m not sure all of what it is. Maybe it’s because I am a wood constitutional element. I’m not sure, actually, what my element is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for those of you that are like. What? What is that? So in 5 element, acupuncture?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Although we all have all the elements in us, we have certain ones that are more dominant. Kind of a 1, 2, 3,

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that are the most dominant. And this is not something that I have the expertise to talk about, but I will look at bringing someone on who does so I don’t know for sure, but I have a sneaking suspicion

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that wood is in my one or 2 spot.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so it could be that I don’t know. But whatever it is.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: spring, glorious spring. Oh, my God, I love spring.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so let’s do a little bit of an overview of the springtime of year and the element of wood which is connected to springtime.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and we’ll dive right into that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So first, st my friends, I have

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Nyk Danu Yoga: just a couple notes here. Okay?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So as I mentioned, the wood element is connected to spring.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The color is green. It is considered to be New Yang.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So we’re just leaving the sort of yinnest of the yinnest of the yinnest times of year in wintertime

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Nyk Danu Yoga: for those of us. If you’re listening, live, and you’re not in the northern hemisphere. My apologies, my seasons are always backwards to you, or if you’re listening to this later. But at the time of this recording we are approaching spring, we are leaving the sort of yinnest of the yinnest of the yinnest times of year known as Winter, and we’re starting to move into New Yang.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so summer would be the most young.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and spring is considered New Yang. We’re just starting to move into that more energetic state of Yang

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the climate is windy and the organs in the meridian pathways and the sinew channels connected with spring and with wood are the liver and the gallbladder

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the times of day. So 11 Pm. To one Am. Is the time of the gallbladder, and one Am. To 3 Am. Is the time of the liver.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The direction is east.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The emotion is anger, or I feel like sometimes saying, frustration is more accurate than anger.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re used universally.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The stage of development is birth. So if you think about spring right, this is when we’re planting seeds. It’s a time of birth, of rebirth.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so the stage of development is birth. The energetic quality is generative.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the virtues are benevolence. The sound is said to be shouting.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you’re a person who tends to be a wood orientated person, you would be a goal setter, a visionary achiever, a planner, a go-getter, you would be task orientated, a list making, and they tend to live in the future, raises her own hand to all of that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The would downfalls can be that you might be an overachiever or be obsessed with overachieving feeling like you’ve never done enough. I don’t suffer from that. Luckily, control freaks. Yeah, that’s that rings true. That’s been my case for sure in the past.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or they may be a sort of it’s my way, or the highway kind of person.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They can be impatient, irritable, frustrated, and easily angered.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: When we’re unbalanced. Anger issues night sweats, wind disorders, eye problems and tendon issues.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: When inbalance.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: one thing we need is a job that we can thrive and grow in. We don’t like to be stuck. I’m saying we, as if I know for sure that I am. Would I just know I have some wood for sure. It’s either one or 2 I don’t know

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but they don’t like to be stuck. They’d like to be constantly moving, taking breaks as it’s necessary. But there’s this forward movement, this forward propelling

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a diet that is good for the wood season, and the spring is lots of green vegetables, fewer fats, green apples, kale spinach, some sour foods, artichokes, lean meats, pickled vegetables like sauerkraut

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or liver as an organ meat.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and they say that the best exercises for a would

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Nyk Danu Yoga: person or for the wood time of year, are Yoga stretches tai Chi and walking in the forest, which is amazing, because those are all of my favorite things.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: there’s a little bit I’m going to go into a just a little bit more in depth about the wood season, and this is taken from my teacher training. So it’s a bit of an abridged version. It’s not the whole.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The whole thing, obviously this year is one of my favorite quotes about this time of year.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Notice that it is the stiffest tree that is most easily cracked, while the bamboo and the willow survive by bending with the wind, that is, by

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the much beloved Bruce Lee.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The element. Archetypes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: are the architect and the contractor. I’m going to get into that in a little bit more. In just a few moments.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The spirit is the Hun

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the Chi direction or action is outward.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, let’s get into some of this a bit more.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So in Chinese medicine.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: There is a sort of physical function of the liver.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: which I’m going to get into less here because I want to talk more about sort of the philosophical, mental, emotional aspects.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the liver is responsible for our emotions. It houses the Hun or our spiritual consciousness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s the liver that motivates our higher desires and our passions through our thought process, helping us control our speech, our actions

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and inspiring our interpersonal relationships.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The Hun uses the Shen, which is the heart’s spirit which I’ve talked about briefly before in the summer episodes you can check that one out

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Nyk Danu Yoga: to manifest and show our intelligence, our spirituality, our intuition, dreams, introspection, creativity, imagination, respect, ideas, speech and love and enthusiasm for life.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The liver is our life’s purpose, waiting for action.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: A liver is your life’s purpose, waiting for action.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: mental functions that are affected by the Hun are thinking, sleeping consciousness, focus, strategy, insight, and wisdom.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The Hun, the spirit

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Nyk Danu Yoga: of the liver is rooted in the liver’s blood. So if the liver isn’t healthy that can disrupt sleep.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: things like floating off sleepwalking or even out of body, experiences like astral travel, difficulty separating dreams from reality.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: A liver that is in harmony is needed for planning that has insight and wisdom.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and people with a well-rooted Hun can make skillful decisions and plans, using insight, wisdom.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The gallbladder has, of course, the anatomical functions that we know about with bile, etc. Etc. I’m not going to get into that too much. I’m going to stay in the sort of philosophical realm here.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The gallbladder also stores our controls, our judgment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the liver controls planning and the gallbladder controls our ability to make decisions, and these 2 functions are totally interdependent.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The gallbladder is responsible for our courage, direction, and our initiative.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: The courage to make decisions, to act, to make changes, and for positive and decisive action.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a deficient gallbladder qi can result in indecision, timidity, and easily becoming discouraged.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So the relationship between the liver and the gallbladder is one of my favorite relationships of paired organs.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Each of these meridian and organ pathways and sinew channels have paired organs, and this is my

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Nyk Danu Yoga: maybe my second favorite.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I think maybe the heart and pericardium relationship is is special to me as well. But that is in a previous episode on summer.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But this relationship between the liver and the gallbladder

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is that the liver dreams and envisions? Well, it’s the gallbladder, on the other hand, that has the courage to make the choices and take action.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Without the gallbladder the liver would be nothing but a frustrated dreamer.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and without the liver the actions and decisions of the gallbladder would be uninspired and without purpose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So they really do depend on each other.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Here’s a quote by Lao Tzu, a man with with outward courage dares to die. A man with inner courage dares to live.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I mentioned briefly, and again, this is gonna have to be kind of a just a very brief overview. Because I’m not a 5 element practitioner. I hope to have some on the podcast to kind of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: flush these things out a bit more. But I mentioned that each of the elements has a

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a personality type that’s attached to it. So, although we all each have all of the 5 elements in of us there might be one or 2 that are more dominant. We have kind of a top 3, right?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So if you are a wood element archetype. And again, remember, the wood element is connected to spring, which is why I keep talking about the wood element.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then here are some qualities that you may possess

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the primary emotions. For the what element are frustration and anger?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If the would element is in disharmony, this can affect one’s ability to have a healthy relationship with anger.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This can either lead towards impatience and irritability, and be quick to anger.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or to have an inability to feel or express frustration or anger, even when the situation warrants it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: which can lead to spiritual bypassing or repression.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that can also lead to drug and alcohol, abuse, or any addiction.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So frustration and anger, if used in healthy ways, lead to spiritual and emotional growth.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So a little story from my own life. And this is one of the reasons why I think I may have either what would in number one or 2. Not sure.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and didn’t have access to therapists, or even another adult on a regular basis that I could talk to about. You know what was going on in my childhood. My grandma was around, but I only saw her occasionally, and she did her best to kind of make up for what wasn’t happening at home. But there was a lot not happening at home.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so I kind of took it with a grain of salt. Now, of course, it. It had buried its little sliver in the back of my head to use a wood pun.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and it was there. I was thinking about it, off and on, and one day I was getting ready to go out with my friends, and I happened to be just kind of pacing around my house getting things together, getting ready, and I walked by a mirror, and I caught a look at myself.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And right around that time. I, you know, realized oh, I’ve got a lot of anger. Where is this anger coming from? Started thinking, hmm! Perhaps my childhood. And so I actually confronted my mother.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: when I didn’t know that of course I couldn’t do anything about it, but once I knew

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So fast forward. Many, many years now, at this point I’m in my thirties, and I’ve been doing yoga for several years, and I’ve finished my teacher training. And I’m just starting out as a teacher. And I’m still doing hair, because that’s what I did before

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And you know how sometimes you can’t see something even when it’s literally right in front of your face like you’re looking literally right at it. And you just what? What do you need? What? Where? So she was doing that right. It was literally right by her hand, but she kept going. Sorry! What? What tool, what? What screwdriver? What? Where is it? What you know? She couldn’t find it, and she couldn’t find it, and so I just kept repeating what I was asking for in slightly different ways. Oh, the blank screwdriver! It looks like this on the end or

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now I want to be really clear. I’m not saying that yin yoga did all this and that, my Yin, and that my yoga and my meditation practice took me from being, you know, an angry, angsty, bitter, you know, young person, due to my childhood into this patient sage. That is not what I’m saying.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: We have a lot of unhealed trauma from our childhood, and when we can identify that. Oh, this is my trauma talking. We’re going to think it’s about that person that posted that meme on the intranet that’s inconsiderate or not inclusive, or whatever the thing may be, and then we end up going off on them. Now, if you’re not a person who does that which I’m not, and go off on people about memes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So when your anger is unhealthy, when you don’t have a healthy relationship to your anger, it could tend towards impatient irritability, being quick to anger and or an inability to feel or express anger even when the situation warrants it. That’s the other side of the coin

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and this was something that she grew up with, and her father really was, you know, quite a lot of toxic anger. He’s gotten some help, and he’s doing much better now. But there was a lot of outbursts and yelling and even abuse.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So you know, they have anger that comes up with this partner all year, and instead of saying, Hey, like, I don’t like that when you say that I don’t like that when you do that, or that hurt my feelings, or whatever it is, they just repress it. They swallow that bitter pill until they’re so full of bitter pills that once or twice a year they explode over something incredibly minor, and to the outside eye, if you didn’t know the pattern in the relationship, you would think

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that can happen a lot. And I know this from myself. Being an activist circle. So one of the archetypes for the wood element is the activist.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But what can happen in activist circles I know from experience is that there are a lot of activists that are actually using their activism as a way to express their unprocessed anger about things that have nothing to do with the cause that they’re standing for and everything to do with their own life.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yes, maybe they are really upset about the dolphins, or whatever the case may be. Maybe that does upset them. But really the fuel.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I experienced this myself. So I’ve been an activist my whole adult life, and it’s taken on different shapes at different times based on my own needs, because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But what I realized partway into my activism as well. Is that? Yes, I was angry about Tibet and the dolphins and big oil and war, and all of the things that I was standing for on a regular basis, 100%. Those were injustices in my eyes, and I was standing for change.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: We wouldn’t have had civil rights movements, the Vietnam war protests, etc. Etc. If it wasn’t for this element of wood, and this feeling of justice, injustice, and anger right?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I’m going to read that one more time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or the converse of that. They don’t process their anger. They don’t admit they have anger, they don’t justify their anger, they ignore their anger, so it’s just all good vibes, only spiritual bypassing. I don’t process that emotion and that can lead to all kinds of issues later on.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and not being able to process our trauma, our anger and the injustice in the world in a healthy way, leads to addictions whether that’s drug and alcohol or other addictions.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that’s a lot about the season of spring and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the wood element again. My favorite is season.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you follow me on Instagram, don’t be surprised, if not too long from now. You don’t just see kittens in my stories, but also a bunch of flowers.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So there’s a little bit of an overview on spring on the wood element, and some of the mental, emotional aspects of that as well.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, dear listener, if you have a yin Yoga subject

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Nyk Danu Yoga: question, podcast idea, so yin or yin adjacent can’t just be randomly about yoga. It’s got to be about yin or something that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: really like the person to talk to about this one thing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Please feel free to let me know again. I’m not taking requests for guests just because you really like them, and they give you your training, and you think we’d have a good chat. That’s not what I’m looking for.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But if they have a book out there, or if they are an expert in an area that is specific. I would love to hear about that. I would also love to hear your questions and your quandaries and things that you struggle with with teaching yin or understanding yin, or sort of the yin spectrum of things. So if you have any of those, please get at me.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You can reach out to me on Instagram and the Dms you can reach out to me via my website. You can leave a comment below. Where you’re watching or listening to this, whatever way works for you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and until next time, my dear friend bye, for now.