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>> My name is Jesse.
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I am a yoga teacher.
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So I think, as a yoga teacher, our job is to
help create vulnerability because that's really
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where like all the greatest
things in our life come from.
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But when -- if you were to look in on a yoga
class and you saw people doing all these shapes,
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I think a lot of what you're doing
is creating space in your body
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to send more oxygen or energy or prana into.
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So if you're to stretch a certain way,
you'll like if you're stretching your arm,
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even if it's something as basic as
pulling your arm across your chest,
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your creating more space there and
that gives more of an opportunity
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for oxygen to spread your blood cells.
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You know, I joke around that I'm mostly
just like DJ and tell some bad jokes,
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but I'm talking a good amount of the class.
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But it's also like so important to very
intentionally have moments of silence
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where whatever you said or whatever
they did can really just like sink in.
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So, for me, typically I'll teach two
to five times a day, six days a week.
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And I think you kind of have to do it.
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If you're just committing
to teaching yoga classes,
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you kind of have to teach 20 times a week or
something like that to make a reasonable living.
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But there is so many different
avenues you can take.
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I teach a lot of workshops and so those
are more like intensive sort of programs.
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I do retreats every couple months so, you know,
a big group of yogis that are students of mine
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from different studios that I've
taught at over the years will come out.
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And we'll just go play in the mountains and
have some fires and, you know, meditate,
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do some yoga, eat some vegan food and it's nice.
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If you're going to teach yoga,
you should be practicing yoga.
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So my day is a lot of trying to mindfully live
a yogic lifestyle, doing things on purpose.