Yin Yoga Is Not Entertainment

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Hello and welcome to a yin Yoga, podcast if you’re new around here, welcome

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Nyk Danu Yoga: thanks for coming to join me. If you’re familiar.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Welcome back, my friends.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: speaking of that, if you are familiar, if you’ve been listening to episode after episode, and you’ve been getting a lot out of these episodes you’ve been benefiting from this information. Could you please do me the honor of either reviewing it? If you have not yet offered a review, you could just pause this right now. I won’t mind. I’ll wait

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and go into either your apple or your spotify.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You can offer 5 stars in apple. You can also add a written review in spotify. You can leave comments. So if you had a favorite episode, you can always leave me comments under that, and that is also greatly appreciated.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you’re not listening to this on apple or spotify, and you want to give me some feedback, you can always just get me on Instagram, either by sharing an episode in your stories and tagging me or sending me a DM.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Also, recently I had somebody

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Nyk Danu Yoga: which was quite lovely reach out in just a random, spontaneous gratitude post in the yin Yoga network about the pod, and that was lovely to not only read

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Nyk Danu Yoga: her feedback, but also the folks that joined in under underneath as well. So you know, sharing is caring, as they say.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and another way that you could share this if you’ve already offered a review is to take a screenshot, share it in your Instagram stories make sure you tag me at Nick Danuyoga, or at Yin Yoga podcast or both, or you could send it to a Yoga teacher, friend. So if you have a friend, that is, a Yoga teacher, that is new to teaching yin or just is obsessed with yin, or you know, even if they don’t teach in. If there’s an episode that you think is applicable.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: please feel free to forward an episode I would love that I would be grateful.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, today’s topic is, yin. Yoga is not entertainment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So before we dive into that 2 disclaimers, my dear friends, number one, if you’re new around these parts, I have the soul of a mermaid in the mouth of a sailor, so you can expect there could be some colorful language. So if you have small people around.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: just consider these adult conversations with adult language, grab some headphones now

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Nyk Danu Yoga: also for those of you watching on Youtube. I do have kittens that are no longer babies anymore. Sad to say, they’re teenagers, but they are still quite rambunctious.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And one of them in particular, really likes to help me. Air quotes help me. Podcast and so if you’re watching the video, and you see me at some point, like kind of doing weird movements or like picking random kittens up.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Just know that that could happen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, so that’s that. That’s enough talking about that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then the last thing I wanted to mention before we roll right into this is, if you are considering doing more yin training or your 1st Yin training.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you’ve been resonating with the perspective offered in this podcast if it’s been helpful and you’ve been having Aha moments.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: then you should probably get on the wait list of my training.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So at the time of this recording, it runs twice a year

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in the fall and in the spring that may change, depending on when you’re listening to it, but that seems to be

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Nyk Danu Yoga: good times of year to run it. It’s all on zoom and recorded, and you have access to the recordings for a full year. So you can go back and restudy things and go over things, because, of course, no matter how skilled a teacher is. We’re only going to remember so much at the time. So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you have the recordings for a year. It is live on Zoom, though this is not a pre recorded course, where you can just kind of log in and noodle around and then get a certificate. No, no, I don’t play that way. Instead, it’s live you show up. We engage face to face over the zoom

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so that I can see. Does anybody have questions their confusion? Are there a bunch of confused faces are there overwhelmed faces? Are people excited? And I can answer all of your questions. So that’s how the format is. It’s live on. Zoom. It just recently increased to being a hundred hours

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Nyk Danu Yoga: compared to 60.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Some of those hours are self study time, so I believe it’s like

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I could be getting this wrong 78 with me, and then the rest is, you know, homework, reading, listening, etc. I could be slightly off on that. But it’s around that range.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So here’s what happens, my friends, when you get on the wait list. Why in the world would you want to get on the wait list versus just hanging out and hoping you see it on social media

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Nyk Danu Yoga: when it’s live. Well, number one, hoping to see it on social media.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Did you know that on average, only one to 2% of your followers actually see your posts?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I know. Shocking right?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you might be thinking I’d love to take Nick’s training sometime. I’ll just keep watching her social media for her to share when the registrations open, and I will share it. That doesn’t mean you, you’ll see it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But when you join the waitlist, here’s what you get.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You get some little nuggets along the way, so 1st you’ll be on the wait list. Yay, which means you’re gonna get 1st crack at registration.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So before I kind of start plastering it everywhere, I always email the wait list first.st

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You’re also going to get a free head to toe yin sequence a little Pdf action for you that you can use for your classes, and you’re also going to get a video practice of that same sequence that you can then experience it in your body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You’re gonna get these podcast episodes delivered right in your inbox. So you never miss an episode.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You’re gonna also get little sneaky peeks behind the curtain. So I have some videos that are like little samples of lessons from the training, and you’ll get some of those in your inbox as well

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Nyk Danu Yoga: as registration kicks up.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You’ll get some yoga practice videos.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You’ll get some of my favorite music and poetry for yin classes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you’ll get invitations to join my free seasonal Mini workshops which happen quarterly.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re almost always yin yin themed. I don’t think I’ve done one in a long time. That isn’t, and so those are free, and you’ll get an invitation to join those, and you’ll also get an invitation to join my paid zoom classes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Then, once registration does open, you’re also gonna get a 1st 5 people to sign up discount code. So it’s not an early registration discount code where you know I’m gonna send you emails every 2 days going, hey? This discount codes gonna expire on this day. No, I don’t roll like that. I got things to do instead, it’s just gonna be. Here’s the discount code, the 1st 5 of you that use it

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Nyk Danu Yoga: are going to save 25%. So that’s how

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Nyk Danu Yoga: being on the wait list is a perk compared to just kind of watching and waiting. So if you know at some point in the future whether it’s this year, next year or 2 years from now, you want to do my training.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Please get yourself on the wait list. You can start taking advantage of all those little perks on the way to registration opening.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and there is a link in the show notes that says cleverly, Get on the wait list. You can click that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and it will take you to the wait list.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: All right.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s that. That’s enough talking before we talk. Right? Okay? So for those of you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the theme that I don’t know if if I’m not alone in this, I’m sure, but the way my brain works is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: when words come in, music also comes in, and some of you may not be old enough to remember

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a little song by Nirvana.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but this is the one that pops into my head for this episode.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s called smells like team spirit.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and there’s a little section there.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It says, very brief. It says, Here we are, now entertain us.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and sometimes I feel like, here we are now entertain us is how Yoga students and maybe even Yoga teachers feel about their Yoga classes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But, dear teacher, dear Yin, teacher, that’s listening. Yin, Yoga is not entertainment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s not

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Nyk Danu Yoga: now. Should we always hopefully be learning and growing as a teacher and as a practitioner, and practicing and exploring, of course.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But this need to feel like you’re gonna have to keep things always different every time in your class.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This is what we’re going to talk about today.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: All right. So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: first, st I want to mention that there is a certain kind of Yoga student that is quite rampant right now.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: They’re what I will affectionately call the vinyasa bunnies.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know the ones, and you may be one. Don’t get me wrong. I love my movement, yoga, too.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: as much as I love my yin, but I do love it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I’m not a Vinyasa person, but you know the Vinyasa bunnies, the ones that absolutely love Vinyasa flow the more like sort of asymmetrical, creatively sequenced pump and playlist type of yoga class the better for them. So those are the people that I’m calling the Vinyasa bunnies

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the Vinyasa bunnies can find. If you, as a teacher, are not skillful at guiding them, they can find yin. Yoga air quotes boring.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I know crazy, but true.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I remember one time reading a review. I teach only one studio here locally at the time of this recording.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s a very special place. I don’t usually love teaching for others. I prefer to run my own show, but this is a very special studio.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and it’s called Ma. If anyone’s local, or if you’re visiting, come to my class.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s called Ma and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I remember I was mentoring a teacher, and she had sent me a screenshot of a review of her Yoga class on Mindbody, and was feeling down in the dumps because somebody had some

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Nyk Danu Yoga: not even constructive feedback.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I said to her. Why are you looking at the reviews of your Yoga classes after you teach?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And it’s again. She’s a new teacher, being hard on herself, and she’s like you don’t look at the reviews of your classes. I was like, no, I never have.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I have good feedback. I get testimonials from people, but I don’t like. Go log on after my class into the mind, body, situation, and see if anyone’s left me. Reviews

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Nyk Danu Yoga: never even occurred to me to do so.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but I did, because she just brought it up, and I got a lot of good reviews. But of course there was the one. There’s always the one that you know the teacher, she said that the class was

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Nyk Danu Yoga: almost identical from week to week that she’d been to 3 classes, and they were almost identical, and that I even used some of the same words

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or scripts in my class, and I couldn’t help but laugh because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: only a Vinyasa Bunny would think that every single class should be different.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: 1st of all, I will say

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in the Og yin Asanas. So if you look at Paul’s book.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you’re gonna see, there’s very few poses in there now. Those of us like myself that have been teaching this for a long time and are kind of senior teachers have added many, many shapes to the inexperience. So there’s a lot more now, especially things for upper body, and you know I’ve added some extra twists and some extra backbends and things like that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but it is a more limited practice as far as the poses go. So yeah, odds are if I’m getting you to do something for your hip flexors in a class. I’m going to have one to 3 options. So there’s probably going to be some repeat.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So yeah, that was feedback that I got, and I just kind of laughed, and it was like, Well.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: yep, there’s going to be repetition, and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know there’s 2 choices as a teacher. When you get feedback like that you can, you know. 1st of all, I always look at feedback to see how valid is it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know, if there’s

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if they’ve said something, and it’s not something that I’m aware of that I’m doing. And I actually do think that taking their advice would be an improvement to my class. I absolutely will.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But the class being boring, you know, too much repetition.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: No, you know. I use mindfulness in my practice when I teach.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Mindfulness has some areas that are going to repeat.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I’ll give you a little secret here, my friends. Now, Yoga, teachers don’t realize this when we’re trying so hard to be the sparkly showboat of Yoga classes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that actually repetition is more soothing to your students nervous system.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: When someone is in a state of dysregulation, which I would argue that most of the world is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: having consistency actually helps them to shift from their fight, flight or freeze response and into their parasympathetic or their relaxation response.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So then, the question goes, where do we draw that line between?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m doing exactly the same sequence which I do not do, by the way.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and there’s going to be some repetition here, because there’s only so many poses, and I also try to teach really excessively. So I do tend to favor certain hip openers over others, because, you know, I know most of my students, especially especially the ones not at the studio. I know them quite well, and I know who’s got knee issues. And so, rather than mess around with like 5 different options that people can’t do. Anyway, I’m going to just give them the one I know they can all do

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Nyk Danu Yoga: with the invitation for them to choose a different option if they would like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I got a comment like that from a Vinyasa, Bunny.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s 1 of the reasons that you know I did. The 1st episode on in Yoga being boring

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Nyk Danu Yoga: how to keep classes inspiring.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then recently, in my teacher training you know, one of the teacher trainees made a comment that, like, you know, if you can use this pose and this pose and this pose?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know we were comparing and contrasting heart melting to fish pose on blocks so supported, fish on blocks. So not on a bolster. And I was saying that if I have a choice in my sequence. I’m going to take supported fish on blocks.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: hands down any day of the week, because a it opens up those areas that I’m looking for more effectively. But it’s also more accessible that there’s a big percentage of the population that can’t do heart melting pose because of limitations in their shoulder when they reach their arms up overhead. And so they would just be kind of struggling in that shape. And yeah, you can do the half version, and you can give props and all that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or I could just flip them on their back and give them supported fish on blocks

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Nyk Danu Yoga: now and then she but she had said, you know. Well, you know, having these other options, of course, keeps class.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: what did she say? Interesting, or keeps the students from getting bored?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I I did look at her, and I said, Yin Yoga is not entertainment

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Nyk Danu Yoga: right? I am not, Netflix, I am not Disney.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I am not here to entertain you in your Yoga class.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: What I am here to do

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is to hold brave space, for you have an episode on that as well with the lovely grace

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Nyk Danu Yoga: all of these episodes. By the way, there’s a document in the show notes that says all episodes at a glance. That’s a Google doc that lists literally every episode

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Nyk Danu Yoga: with a link. So if you are new to the pod and you want to binge, that’s a great way to do it. Or if you’re just like

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Nyk Danu Yoga: there was a topic. And I wanted to look and see if it’s there. It’s all in that Google, Doc. So you can access all of them there.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So my job is to guide skillfully guide a practice

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that serves the the needs of most of the people in the room to the best of my ability, and to hold brave space for them for whatever may come up during that practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s my job.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s not to entertain you. I’m not a rock star.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so I think this idea that we have 1st of all, it’s twofold sometimes this idea that we have that we need to entertain our students is our own pressure. We’re putting on ourselves. Or maybe we, as a teacher, are bored of our sequences. Well, then, absolutely switch them up if you want to, but just acknowledge that it’s you that’s bored.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: not your students. Right? So sometimes we we transfer our our boredom or our feeling of being predictability on the students when actually, they’re quite content to just keep going along as they have been with their favorite poses. And it’s us that is feeling like we need to mix it up a little.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, 1st of all, acknowledge, is it really that the students are bored, or is it you? And then, if they are, if it is that the students are bored well again, there are

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Nyk Danu Yoga: many more poses now available to us than were in when I 1st started training with Paul. The the repertoire of poses that Paul has is actually quite small.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s sort of like basic shapes with many variations for different body types, but it didn’t even include upper body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I think the last time I trained with them they introduced one thing for our next

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I’ve done a whole episode on upper body in, so I won’t get into that too much. But if you’re looking at these books and you’re like shit. There’s not a lot here to choose from. Well, then, of course you’re going to have repetition.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and repetition is not bad.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: However.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: also, there are many more poses that have been added on by other Yin teachers over the years. I did. Again. I talked a whole bunch about that in the

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Nyk Danu Yoga: upper body yin episode. So I’m not going to get into kind of how I came to that and all that. But just know that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: just know that when I train teachers, you’re not only going to get the poses that were originally in Paul’s book. There’s a whole bunch more that I go into. So it does leave me some room for creative expression.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but also so with that said as a teacher again, it’s not my job to entertain the students.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or if they feel like, you know. Oh, we did some of the same poses this week that I did last time I came here. Yep, that’s gonna happen, too.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Did you know there are whole styles of Yoga where you do the same series over and over and over again until you actually get good at it, and then you move to the second series and etc. It’s called Ashtanga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s just. And so was Power Yoga. Both of them were based on Ashtanga Yoga, and then just sort of taken away and and run with as far as sequencing. And, you know, letting go of some of the rules, and I’m not, you know, defending the Ashtanga tradition sequence. I don’t actually

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I’m just pointing out that it is out there, and that there are thousands and thousands and thousands of Yoga teachers and students doing exactly the same sequence again and again and again. And it happens in hot yoga, too.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s the same. What 26 poses over and over and over again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that again. It’s not our job to entertain our students now, what you could do and what I would do had that person come up to me before the class, or with verbal feedback after the class versus written on an app, and you know no way to respond there. If they had come up and said, You know, I’m finding that this practice is kind of boring like. It’s like the same poses. And

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Nyk Danu Yoga: because the point of this practice is not the shapes. It’s not these funny shapes that we’re making with our body.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then I would have had an Aha! As to the state of mind of that student, and I could have more skillfully with my words, guided them to all of the wonderful things about a yin practice that don’t happen in a movement-based practice, simply because you’re moving too quickly.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and the 1st one that I’ll highlight is interoception.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Well, that’s actually pretty dang hard to do in a Vinyasa class, because you’re moving so quickly

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Nyk Danu Yoga: as to you know how people can get more in touch with what is happening inside of them, and less focused on this sort of fluff of like how many warrior flow? Sequence, Chaturanga surprises did I have in this class?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, what might actually be surprising is when you sit still and quiet for a few minutes. How hard it is for you to notice the sensation in your hamstring

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then, when they’re in the practice, I’m also going to guide those cues. You know. I’m going to say things like come to 50 to 60% of the most you could do. Well, guess what you can’t do that unless you’re paying attention to what’s happening inside your body

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Nyk Danu Yoga: flashy, sparkly showboat, Vinyasa Bunny, here I am! Now entertain me. Give me a super complicated sequence, that’s all on one side before I switch to the other, and let’s put a bunch of chaturangas and downward dogs in between each one, too, while we’re at it. I took them from that sort of expectation

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Nyk Danu Yoga: which is all very external. What shapes am I making with my body. In what order, how predictable are they? What fun things did you throw in that I’ve never tried before.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m taking them away from that into the entertainment, if you want to call it that being what the hell is happening inside your body

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So it’s not that there isn’t things to notice in a yin practice, dear teacher, there is plenty to notice, but you may have to guide them

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I might always, and I might pick one or 2 of the other things that I said to guide them into. And this really just goes on instinct based on what I’m observing in the room.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But if somebody, you know, I do a check in at the beginning of class to see if anyone’s new to Yin, and if nobody has said that they’re new to yin

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so you know, certainly didn’t beat myself up over the fact that a student was bored, that she came to 3 classes. And, oh, my God! We repeated some of the poses in those 3 classes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Now, had I known, of course, that she was having that experience, I could have spoken to it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You know, if that’s what someone’s expecting, and I know that then I can speak to it right then I can say that actually, the attention is a little bit more subtle and a little bit more inward in yin, but that it’s just as rich, and I might argue more important.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: instead of my mind focusing on the movement I now have to focus on what comes up in the stillness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I’m going to say that one more time instead of my mind focusing on the movement.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: my mind is now having to shift gears to focus on what is happening in the stillness.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you do not need to feel like you always need to have a totally different sequence with totally different poses than you did in the last 3 months. Well, 1st of all, good luck with that, because there’s only so many poses, you can only string them together in so many orders. You can get creative, of course.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Secondly, understand that actually some repetition is actually really good for your students nervous system, and that there are whole styles of yoga out there that are repetitive right. So the Ashtanga tradition. There’s a primary series. Then there’s another series, then I can’t remember how many there are 4 or something, and those are the same poses over and over and over again.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Same thing, same poses. Now, I’m not necessarily in love with either of those styles of Yoga myself. For my own practice. They’re not. They’re not suitable for me and what I need. But I’m just saying that there are whole styles of yoga out there

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that have a predictable sequence that they go through every single time. I’m not 100% sure. But I believe there’s a lot of repetition in the Shivananda tradition as well. I can’t say for sure, because I’ve never studied it in depth. But just from what I’ve seen.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is what you really focus on in movement styles of Yoga, which is like, Where is my body in space? Proprioception? Right? So if you’re standing at the front of your mat, and your teacher says, step your foot back to a high lunge, knowing where the hell the back of your mat is, and where your foot is in space, and getting it to land there. Movement forms of Yoga are really good for that, for proprioception that’s called proprioception. But Yin’s secret magical superpower is interoception.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I would argue that unless that student thinks that they’re a boring person and that their felt lived moment to moment, experience is is boring.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and all of the kind of fancy fun transitions. And you know, super loud music that they can sing along to. And if that’s their experience, and then they come into your yin class, and maybe there’s a little bit of atmosphere, music or no music at all, even. And they’re just asked to be like lying still and quiet. And there’s a lot less poses because we’re holding them longer. So that means there’s less variety. And you know they’re not being entertained by you

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You. It might be helpful to point that out that this practice is very different in these key ways.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But it’s an inward experience. It’s more introception, and in yoga is not entertainment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I hope this is helpful for any of you who do have those kind of vinyasa or power bunnies that come into your class, and sort of show up with that attitude of the Nirvana song that is playing in my head of Here we are now entertain us. Remember, dear teacher.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it’s not your job to be entertaining.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s not your job. Yoga is not. Entertainment in Yoga is definitely not entertainment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Your job is to skillfully create a class that works for the majority of the people in the room.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and to hold brave space and to guide them to the subtler, more quiet aspects of a yin practice that they might be missing if they’re all up in their head.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: focused on the fact that they’re still in this pose.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and that they’re bored, and even explaining that boredom is part of the process could be a valuable thing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I hope that’s helpful, dear teacher, take the pressure off yourself, and Yoga’s not entertainment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Hopefully. You’ve also gotten some tips, for when you can see those Vinyasa bunnies kind of twitching out in their poses, and you’ve got some ideas on ways that you can address or guide them into the other aspect of Yoga practice, which is this internal experience.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I would love to know in the comments your feedback on this. So if you’re on spotify, there’s a comment feature. If you’re on Youtube, there’s a comment feature also, if you are watching or listening to this on my blog which lives on my website, there’s a comment feature. So if this sparked something in you. I would love to know did you ever feel this way about yin yourself, especially those of you that were 1st Vinyasa bunnies who have now transitioned over to Yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: What helped you with this transition from kind of like? Here I am. Now entertain me to this more subtle, quiet practice or what other teaching tips do you have that you could share with everybody about getting people to stop viewing this as entertainment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and instead, as a deep part of their healing journey. And dare I even say, perhaps, their spiritual practice?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: All right, let me know, and until next time, my friends bye, for now.