Book Review: Yin Yoga Principles and Practice By Paul Grilley

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

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you are new around here, welcome.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This is your 1st time listening and for those of you that are familiar. Welcome back

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Nyk Danu Yoga: at the time of this recording, it’s not quite. But

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Nyk Danu Yoga: by the time you’re listening to this.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the podcast will have hit one year old.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Wow! That’s crazy.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I can’t believe that it has gone by so quickly.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It literally feels like it was maybe 4 months ago that I started this podcast but it’s been a year.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and we have done a lot of really good episodes. If I do say so myself, not because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m trying to toot my own horn, but because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I get a lot of my subject ideas from you all.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So from questions that you email me questions that pop up in my in training. Or if I’m on a in a in Facebook group, and I see a question, I’ll like bookmark it so that I can discuss it on the podcast, so, thanks to all of you for asking such good questions and giving me such good content to make episodes about.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I would love to encourage more of that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So please, dear listener.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you’ll find the links in the show notes to my Instagram

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you have questions.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Find me on Instagram and send me a DM. Letting me know what your questions about yin are now. They do need to be about yin, or at least like very Yen adjacent. Otherwise, you know, it’s for a different. Podcast, but please, please, please, if you have questions, let me know

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so many of these episodes have been created to answer a question that I’ve seen pop up either in a Facebook group or that somebody has sent me. So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I would love to keep this podcast going strong with new, fresh content. And so one of the ways to do that is for you all, to let me know

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Nyk Danu Yoga: what is it that you have questions about?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: What is it that you want to know more about?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then I also want to pause and thank those of you

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Nyk Danu Yoga: who have done podcast reviews.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: bless you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: warms my heart. It’s just, you know, podcasts, what no one tells you is that podcasts are a boatload of work.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: probably about 4 times as much as you’re imagining in your head. Actually, it was at least double what I imagined.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and one of the reasons that I do. This is obviously a labor of love. I obviously don’t make any money at this time on this podcast it’s not sponsored. So don’t make any money from it. I do it because of my love of Yen and my wanting to help

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Nyk Danu Yoga: teachers

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Nyk Danu Yoga: learn and grow and give you the tools and the skills that you need to become exceptional grounded teachers.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Because I believe

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that that is one of the ways that we can change our world

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is that if

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Nyk Danu Yoga: there’s a whole bunch of grounded exceptional teachers out there holding brave space for students to heal and process, and then those students go out into their life.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and they’re more present and loving and compassionate and kind. And that has a ripple effect.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Right? So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that’s my whole big intention

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Nyk Danu Yoga: with working with teachers, whether it’s through this podcast or in my teacher training, or even with business mentorship.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is so that the more skillful teachers we have.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the more we can benefit

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the world.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So thank you so much for those of you who have left podcast. Reviews

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Nyk Danu Yoga: who have reached out in the Dms or in the comments, and let me know.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: how this podcast has been helping you in your teaching journey.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And if you haven’t left a review, I would be super grateful. If you would do that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you’re on apple, you can just

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Nyk Danu Yoga: scroll down on the actual podcast page and then do 5 stars. If you want to add a written review as well, I would definitely appreciate that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you’re on spotify, you just get to do stars so you could do some stars on spotify.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: If you’re watching this on Youtube. And, dear listener, if you’re only listening, did you know you could watch these on Youtube? So if you’d rather watch me prattle on about this than just listen to it. Those are always available as well.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And if you’re watching this on Youtube. If you could take a moment to make sure you’ve subscribed

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Nyk Danu Yoga: like the video and then leave me a comment.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So once this is over, let me know

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Nyk Danu Yoga: what you thought. What were your takeaways? What were your ahs?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I would love to know in the comments.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: before we get into today’s episode.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: which is kind of going to be the 1st in a series. I don’t mean a series as we’re going to not necessarily do these back to back.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but

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Nyk Danu Yoga: sort of something that I’m going to start adding to the podcast as of this season

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is some book reviews.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Oftentimes I’ll see in Yen groups, and also, my students will ask me for extra resources for books.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: On yen. And so we’re gonna

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Nyk Danu Yoga: start with one of those today.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Before I get into that, though

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I just wanted to mention that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: at the time of this recording

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Nyk Danu Yoga: my yin training, my fall one, if you’re listening to this live, will have probably been started or about to start.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so you may have missed that one

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Nyk Danu Yoga: depending on what date this comes out. However, I will have another one in the spring, and the best way to find out about that.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and to get access to a whole bunch of yin goodies

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Nyk Danu Yoga: delivered weekly in your inbox from me with love every week.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And to be eligible for the early registration discount. If you want to do all of that, you got to be on the wait list

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so you can join the waitlist by just clicking the link in the show notes that says, teachers join the waitlist

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and when you’d click that if you look up into my picture you’re going to see there’s a button there to click.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You’re going to get a couple little gifts when you do.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or it’s also all the way at the bottom of the page, and if you’re there long enough reading, there will be a polite pop up that will slide out and ask you if you’d like to join the wait list. So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you’re interested in doing another yin training or your 1st Yin training, and you’ve been resonating with these episodes, and with my point of view would highly recommend that you get on the waitlist.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I want to read a little testimonial before we dive in from a former student about my, it’s a time of this recording. It’s a 60 plus hour therapeutic in training. It might be longer by the time you’re listening to this. If that’s off in the future.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: This is by Julie Chapman.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the quality and caliber of Nick as an instructor, did not disappoint.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I like that. She offers a variety of ways to learn, and that she herself

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Nyk Danu Yoga: has been creative with her message. Throughout teaching classes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the amount of information and resources was fantastic.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I have so much enjoyed this training and all the learning I’m geeking out and searching up more about Yin Yang theory, and it’s inspired me to learn more and apply it to my own life on a personal level as well as my role as a teacher.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yin was new to me, but I’m hooked big time.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I love, not only being a student

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and learning, but also as a teacher.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: How would I put this into practice with my students?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m already creatively thinking about how to incorporate and create new offerings.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I appreciate Nick’s style, which is approachable and full of information. I wouldn’t change a thing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I also enjoyed that Nick is not only very informed, articulate teacher, but she adds humor to her presentation and instruction.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Thank you, Julie.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so there’s a little feedback about my yin training.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay before we dive into today’s solo episode. One last reminder, my friends.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that this is an adult, podcast you can expect perhaps some adult language and adult subject matter. So if you have small people around

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Nyk Danu Yoga: pop in some headphones now.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: okay, so when considering whether or not and why and how I should do some book

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Nyk Danu Yoga: reviews or book

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Nyk Danu Yoga: episodes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And the reason I decided again to do this is because there’s a lot of teachers that are a bit newer, that have kind of come up, you know, in the more recent years, who may not be as familiar with yin and sort of the founder of yen or at least the founder of yen, in the way that I practice and teach it in the most kind of common way.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And they may also not be familiar with these books that came out, you know, before their time. And so I thought, of course, I can’t start, you know.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: starting to record episodes

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Nyk Danu Yoga: on Yen Yoga books

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Nyk Danu Yoga: unless I start at the beginning.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: which would be my teacher, Paul Grilley’s book. So we’re going to talk about that book today, and just to make sure that you’re you understand?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I love Paul. Paul is my teacher.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I adore that man. I did a whole interview with Paul

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in season one.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And you can check that out.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m going to start putting a link in the episode notes to a Google Doc, which actually lists all of the episodes with links.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So for those of you that are just joining now, and you’re like, Oh, my gosh! There’s so many to catch up on. You’ll be able to do that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: from that Google, Doc, which should be handy for both yourself and for me as well.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, my friends.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so there will be a Google Doc that you can check out. I’m looking at it right now.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And it’ll list season one all the episodes. It’s just very simple. It’s just the topic and the link

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Nyk Danu Yoga: episode number season number topic link. Very simple.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so my interview with Paul Girley, my teacher, was episode one episode 4.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But again, there’ll be a link in the

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in the down below this that will take you to this document that I created

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And again I’ve talked in my own story about how I discovered Paul Grilley, and then how I ended up studying with him for

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Nyk Danu Yoga: 500 h now, and hope to continue that trend as we go forward in the future as often as possible.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And I have a whole interview with Paul Grilley.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And since Paul is sort of

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Nyk Danu Yoga: known as like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know, Mr. Yen Yoga, although a lot of people think that that Bernie Clark

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Nyk Danu Yoga: is sort of like

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the the founder of Yin.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: He’s not actually, it’s Paul Grilley. And Bernie is always really good at pointing that out. But somehow I think

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and I think that’s just because Bernie kind of gets out there more. You know, he’s got the forum, and he’s more active with

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Nyk Danu Yoga: being online and getting on podcast and things. And so I think a lot of people think that Bernie Clark is

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the founder of what we call Yen Yoga. Most of us.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: He’s not actually

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Nyk Danu Yoga: paul Griley would be the guy who codified this and kind of turned it into

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a practice.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And so we’re going to talk 1st about

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Paul’s book, because

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that just seems to make the most sense to me. It’s like, why wouldn’t we start at the beginning

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Nyk Danu Yoga: with the beginning with my teacher, Paul Grilley.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And just to be clear, I’m going to talk about what I love about the book. I’m also going to say what I think

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Nyk Danu Yoga: could be approved. And I’m going to do that with every single book that I talk about.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Just because Paul is my teacher doesn’t mean that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I’m not going to look at

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Nyk Danu Yoga: this book with a bit of a critical thinking lens and

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and say what I think right? So I’m going to talk about what I love about it. I’m going to talk about a couple of things I wish were there that aren’t. And I’m going to do that with every book

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that we chat about. So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: today, we are starting with

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the very 1st ever

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Nyk Danu Yoga: book conversation on the podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: with Paul Griley’s book. It’s called Yen Yoga principles and practice

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the book that I have, the one that I’m gonna show in a moment. For those of you on Youtube is actually the 10th anniversary edition. There was a previous edition which I don’t have anymore. I don’t think I looked, and I don’t think I have it because I tend to be like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I have a problem with books meaning like, I’m a book addict. And so I force myself at least a couple of times a year to go through books and remove books and take them to a consignment store

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Nyk Danu Yoga: a secondhand bookstore, or give them to somebody who would love them.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So once I got the autographed copy of the 10th Anniversary edition, I didn’t feel the need to keep the older one.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so I was incredibly lucky. Here’s the book here for those of you that are

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that are watching on Youtube.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I was incredibly lucky that this book

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Nyk Danu Yoga: came out.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I believe it came out the 10th anniversary edition. Yes.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in 2012, when I was at Lmb. When I was at

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Nyk Danu Yoga: landed the Medicine Buddha doing a training with Paul in 2012.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: That’s when the book came up.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so I not only was I able to buy it directly from Paul, but I was able to get it signed

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Nyk Danu Yoga: by him and Susie, his incredible wife.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: You can see that in there.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: says Nick, inspiring to learn more about your work and dedication, and then it just says Paul and Susie Grilley, and then it’s got Lmb.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: 2012 on it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I got rid of the older edition, because this is the the newer one.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So we’ll talk a little bit about this book.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: the advantages, the the things that maybe room for improvement. Before we get into that, though I do want to just say, if you are a yoga teacher listening.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and you’re inquiring if you’re one of those teachers that’s inquiring about yin books because you

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay? So one of the things that I love about this book is, look at how small it is.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: When you know when I would study with Paul, and then I would go home, and I would be doing my yin, and I’d be like where? What about my upper half, and so I would start doing things that I knew of from my other styles of Yoga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that’s 1 thing that I wish was in this book. But I could also again say that about pretty much. Every Yoga book

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Nyk Danu Yoga: on the planet and every end book is that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in the images there isn’t enough

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Nyk Danu Yoga: ideas for people who

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Nyk Danu Yoga: aren’t as flexible and able-bodied as the lovely Susie Grilly.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So that would be us a critique

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But again, that would be a critique of 90% of the books out there.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But I do love this book. I love. The simplicity of this book.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I mean, if you know all of that that I just told you is in here, you know. He talks a little bit about Taoism y and yong theory, connective tissue, etc, etc. And look at how small it is.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it’s a small book

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Nyk Danu Yoga: with a big punch. It’s got lots of information in here, but Paul is not one to sort of prattle on.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: He’s 1 to kind of give you the information and move to the next thing. And so everything in here is sort of an abridged thing, and then, of course, if you decided that you really loved a certain aspect of the practice, or you were really intrigued about something else like. So, for example, if you were in this book, and you were reading about the chakras, and you were like, Oh, now my curiosity is peaked even more. Then, of course, you could get pulse, Chakra book, or you could continue self study in some way.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So highlights of the book are, 1st of all, it’s by the founder.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s by Mr. Yin yoga.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So, Paul, just to be clear when I say the founder I’m talking about the founder of yin as it’s practiced

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in this way, floor-based postures, longholds.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: etc, moderate amount of sensation. Paul, my teacher, actually did study with poly poly zinc. Again, you can hear more all about that in the episode I did with Paul. And so that’s who introduced him to this yin way of practicing.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: But then Paul has so definitely put his own sort of stamp on it, and the the yin that Paul teaches is quite different than the yin that Polly Zinc teaches.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I think if you’re a yen yogi. This one’s a must have for your collection of books. It’s like.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: How how could you not start with Paul’s book?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: It’s a fantastic book as far as like introducing you to a lot of the concepts without getting super wordy, super, long.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: etc.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Great book to bring again on the bus

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in your travels on vacation. Toss it in your bag because it’s not heavy.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: but yet has a lot of good information in it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and then the only thing that I

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if I’m going to be hyper, Picky, because I’m going to be hyper picky about all the books that I review is that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in my opinion I would have kept the Chakra stuff out, and is in the separate book. And again, I don’t know if that second book wasn’t, you know, kind of envisioned yet when he did this, so maybe that’s why, or if he just, it’s that much of a part of his practice that he wanted to have it in here.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I also would have left out some of the yong poses, because I just think there’s so many books already on Yoga that have those poses in there that why not make yen special?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And then the only other sort of small critique is that, again, this book, like

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Nyk Danu Yoga: most of them. There isn’t any props

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Nyk Danu Yoga: being shown

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in this book.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and so, if you are

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Nyk Danu Yoga: not as flexible and kind of able bodied as Susie, and you’re not familiar with props. If you’re not sort of a props, ninja, that can be a bit of a challenge.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: apologies a sip of macho there.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So I guess, to summarize if you are looking for yen books, and you’re looking to learn more about yin. And

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you know maybe you’re already a yen teacher, and you just haven’t. You know you’re a newer teacher. You haven’t really kind of heard of like the Ogs, the Yin Yoga Ogs. You’re not as familiar. Then this is a good place to start building your yin Yoga book library. In fact, I think it’s the best place to start.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Why not start with the OG.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: So yin yoga Principles and Practice, by Paul Grilley.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I would definitely recommend grabbing this 1 first, st if you or if you already have a few in books, and you don’t have this one definitely. You need to have it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it’s a fantastic book

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Nyk Danu Yoga: in that. The sheer amount of information in here in such a small format is like, I’m still like, how did you do this?

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Nyk Danu Yoga: How did he get all this in this little small book. I don’t know, because when I write I can’t be that

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Nyk Danu Yoga: efficient. But he he is.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: so it won’t take you long to read. It’s a great one to carry with you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and there’s a boatload of really good information in here.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: He also briefly mentions meridians. I don’t know if I’ve said that already.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: again, in brief, in overview. Because if you really want to learn this stuff in depth.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: you’re not going to get it in a book, you’re going to get it in a training.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Okay, I think that’s all. I think we’ll keep this one short and sweet.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: as always, dear listener, if you have questions.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: that you would love me to cover on the podcast please reach out to me on Instagram.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or you can try messaging me on Facebook, but

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it will probably end up in my other folder. And I really don’t spend a lot of time on Facebook. Facebook. I just go into the the Yoga groups and get out because I don’t enjoy Facebook but you can find me on Instagram at Nick Daniel Yoga, or at Yen Yoga, podcast and you can send me a DM. With a question. If you’ve got something you’d love for me to cover on the podcast I would love to hear about it.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: And again, big gratitude for all of those of you who have offered podcast reviews. Thank you so much. Deep bows to you.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: it makes a way bigger difference than you think. It seems like such a small thing. I just logged onto my app. I beep bop 2 min.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: How could that make a difference. It makes a big difference. It really shows apple or spotify, or whoever that this podcast is getting popular. And so they’re more likely to show it to people that are searching

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Nyk Danu Yoga: Yoga podcast

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Nyk Danu Yoga: or Yen Yoga. Podcast so

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Nyk Danu Yoga: if you have, have, you have done that and already thank you, if you have not.

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Nyk Danu Yoga: I would love it if you would give a 5 star review

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Nyk Danu Yoga: and again send me questions, and until we meet again

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Nyk Danu Yoga: bye, for now.