Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #66 –Yoga is a Metaphor for Life – Yoga in Cyprus with Sila Atikol

 

Welcome to Episode #66 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! My conversation with Sila Atikol, a yoga teacher from Cyprus, was so gorgeous as we took a deep dive into how yoga is a great metaphor for life. I hope that this conversation made you curious about what yoga means to you, and how yoga can reflect your life itself. 

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about not being asana-driven, goal-driven, or ego-driven in your practice then this is the conversation for you.

Tell me more about Sila Atikol

Sila Atikol had a career as a lawyer until she realized she wanted something else. She found her true love in pilates and yoga. She is now certified in Pilates (Mat 1, 2 & Prenatal),  200hr Vinyasa Yoga, Total Barre Foundation, Total Barre Endurance, TRX Suspension Training, Prenatal Yoga, Aerial Yoga, and Restorative Yoga. Moreover, she is also a Thai Massage therapist. As a teacher, she aims to increase flexibility and mobility and decrease emotional and physical discomfort through movement, while increasing overall fitness and health. Sila knows that first, foremost and forever she is a student, and she is currently completing a 300-hour multi-style yoga teacher training..

What to expect in the Yoga In Cyprus episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast

You’re going to LOVE this podcast episode with Sila! She is such a bright, intelligent, well-spoken yoga teacher from Cyprus who talks to us about how yoga came into her life, what’s going on in Cyprus, and what happens when you progress on the path and in the practice of yoga. 

We talked about how yoga brings people together— no matter what. People put politics aside, and all differences and come together and practice yoga. 

This was one beautiful episode! Make sure to tune in!

Favorite Quote From Sila Atikol

“So it’s another aspect of yoga that I really like that brings people together no matter what. And you can definitely see that in Cypress. This is the beauty of yoga. People put politics aside, people put differences aside, and it brings unity.”

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Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #66 – Yoga in Cyprus with Sila Atikol Transcription

[00:00:00] Lily Allen-Duenas: Namaste family and welcome back to the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast today. I’m so excited to welcome Sila Atikol onto the show today. She’s a yoga teacher from Cypress, and she has actually had a career as a lawyer until she realized that she wanted something else. She fell in love with Yoga and Pilates, and now she has so many certifications in yoga, prenatal, aerial, restorative, as well as in barre and Pilates.

So I’m excited to talk to her more about how she aims to increase flexibility and mobility while decreasing emotional and physical discomfort through movement. So thank you so much, Sila for being on the show today with me.

[00:00:47] Sila Atikol: Hi Lilly. I’m so excited to be a guest on the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast. Thank you so much for having me.

[00:00:55] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you. Thank you. To get how about you share your story with us? How did yoga first come into your life? How did yoga find you?

How did yoga first come into your life?

[00:01:03] Sila Atikol: When I was a teenager, my father was practicing yoga and he would always tell me that I should definitely try yoga. It’s going to feel so good. He’s releasing all of his stress when he practices. As a teenager, I think this is like everyone. When I say this, most of us find, you know what our parents do.

Quite lame. So I thought, ah, yoga must be really lame. [00:01:30] So I never wanted to try it. When I was in university, I was going to this pate studio where there was also yoga. One of my friends really insisted that we should try it. So I said, okay, I’m going to come with you for three classes until you get used to it.

And I went, I think, for three years without a break. She was the one coming for three classes and never came with me. So I fell in love with yoga as soon as I started trying it. I was so surprised to find so much movement and discovering the abilities of my body.

 It took me by surprise. I didn’t expect it to be so nice. From that point on, I think it’s been 12 years now that I have been practicing, and it’s one of those things that I can never imagine being out of my life.

[00:02:27] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, that’s amazing. I love that story of how your dad was practicing it ever since you were little and you were like, no way. That’s lame. I’m not interested.

[00:02:37] Sila Atikol: Yeah, I kept saying that, oh, spiritual stuff, not me.  I want active stuff in my life.

[00:02:44] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. Were you watching him practice ever? Was he practicing at home or did you, he take you to studios?

[00:02:50] Sila Atikol: He was going to the studios and he was actually leading classes at the beach when their teacher was away on holidays during the summers. But I would never accept [00:03:00] join, or I would never accept a try because I thought it was probably something very boring. I didn’t understand what yoga was about at all until I actually tried it for myself.

I didn’t understand what yoga was about at all until I actually tried it for myself.

[00:03:10] Lily Allen-Duenas: That’s such a common thread that people don’t have any idea what yoga is, or they have a misconception about it. Like it’s just exercise or it’s just stretching. It’s so easy or I can’t do it. I’m not flex. Like all of these misconceptions just seem to fly out of the mind and out of your perception once you actually try yoga.

Do you have students that you work with? Yeah. I just would love to hear your perspective on that.

[00:03:37] Sila Atikol: Yeah, I do have some students who have been skeptical about yoga who came in the class, with other friends, and they were like, no, I don’t like slow stuff. I don’t think I want to stretch. After trying it for the first time, they were  just like me… mind blown. They said… so this is yoga.

I never imagined yoga to be  so nice.

[00:04:01] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah, absolutely. So walk us through your journey of how you decided that you wanted to be a yoga teacher, your training, or what kind of shifted in you. Because I know you were working as a lawyer, what happened.

How did you decide you wanted to be a yoga teacher?

[00:04:16] Sila Atikol: To be honest with you…I knew from the beginning that law wasn’t the career for me. I was a good student. I studied law and was very successful in university throughout my studies. But when I [00:04:30] first started practicing the actual profession as an intern lawyer, I realized it really wasn’t for me.

I didn’t really know in the beginning why it wasn’t so much for me. But looking at it now, the entire environment, The way people interact with each other in law offices. Between clients and lawyers, between lawyers and other lawyers in the courthouse. It’s all a very negative environment, especially in the country.

I was practicing in North Cypress, I think that has been one of the biggest reasons followed by the fact that I like to move my body. As a person who likes to practice yoga, stretch. It was torture for my body to sit for such long hours every day in front of a computer. In front of a desk, so I wasn’t enjoying it and I was working very long hours.

So I needed to wake up really early in the morning to go for my practice. When I was an intern I actually convinced my 70 year old boss to join me in yoga. So we would get off one day of the week early, and I could go to the studio and catch a class. I think it was a very natural thing.

 I started teaching Pilates. That was the first teacher training I did. From there on I slowly started to realize, [00:06:00] This is the path that I want to go to. I quit my job. I took a yoga teacher training, that was in 2015. After I graduated from my teacher training, I felt like my practice wasn’t strong enough.

My practice wasn’t good enough to start teaching other people. I think it’s a very common thing among yoga teachers that we feel these insecurities, this sort of imposter syndrome. So for the first few months, I couldn’t get in front of people to teach. I was so shy. I wanted to look like the people on Instagram. I wanted to be able to do splits or handstands, or whatever, before I was going to teach other people. So when my Pate students insisted I started teaching yoga to them, I realized. There were people who wanted to learn from me because what I knew about yoga at the time, they didn’t know yet. They wanted to learn, and this is how I started teaching. This is how I found my confidence in teaching, realizing that there are a lot of people who are not as flexible as I am. Who don’t know the yoga philosophy as I do, and there are people who want to learn from me. 

I think that it’s an important lesson that I want to share with other teachers. If there are any yoga teachers listening to us, go and teach, there are people who want to [00:07:30] learn from you.

Imposter syndrome and yoga

[00:07:32] Lily Allen-Duenas: 

I love that so much because there is so much fear around being a yoga teacher. I think you always have that imposter syndrome. How could I teach? There’s so many people who are more flexible or better or have studied longer, and there is room for everybody. There’s so many people out there who need to hear what you as a teacher have to share. 

[00:07:56] Sila Atikol: Exactly. That’s the point. I think that we all have something from our personal background to contribute to the way we’re teaching.

There are going to be so many people who will resonate with that. We all come to yoga for different reasons. There are other people who are going to come to yoga for the same reasons we came to yoga for. Those are the people that we’re going to serve somehow, if that makes any sense.

[00:08:25] Lily Allen-Duenas: Absolutely it does. Yes. I know too though, that you did go through a traumatic car accident as well. I’m curious about how that car accident, and that injury played a role in your journey in coming to yoga.

Traumatic Car Accident and Yoga Recover

[00:08:40] Sila Atikol: Yes, I have been in a car accident in 2016 while I was already teaching yoga and Pilates as a full-time profession. I was standing on the beach and there was one car towing the other car. I wasn’t even close to the vehicles. The towing bar came [00:09:00] out of the car in the front and it just flew in the air and landed on my leg. If it just landed one centimeter deeper, it went, I think six or seven centimeters deep. If it went only a few millimeters deeper, I would’ve probably either bleed out until the ambulance arrived or lose my leg. Of course, I’m very grateful for the person who gave me first aid over there because he knew what he was doing and part of the reason I didn’t lose my leg is because of him and also for the entire experience.

Because it made me really be able to resonate with the students who are just beginning practicing yoga, beginning any sort of movement journey for the first time in their lives. I was bed bound for about a week. After that, I wasn’t allowed to step on my leg for a few more weeks. In the beginning when I was allowed to finally start moving, when I would lie down on my belly and I would try to lift my right leg up, it wouldn’t move.

I would ask, the person, the physiotherapist, or the doctor, I would be asking, so is it lifting? They would say, no, try again. Even the smallest of movements, the things we did in the physiotherapy, it worked so quickly. In about two weeks, I was able to start slowly moving my leg [00:10:30] again. Start slowly walking again, and it gave me this insight that whoever comes to yoga or whoever comes to any sort of exercise, our bodies are like sponges and we can teach our bodies to do anything..

 No matter what traumatic thing the body has experienced. It is still learning. So this is what I experienced. I always share this with my students when they feel discouraged. When someone is trying to stretch their hamstring, and it’s taking too long and they’re feeling discouraged, I say… this is my experience.

I have been in a car accident. I couldn’t even move my leg, being patient and consistent in my practice. I was able to start moving again. I also really sympathize with the frustration of not being able to do something you want to do so it has been an experience on so many different levels.

Of course, the gratitude of being able to do everything for myself, even the smallest things like getting up and washing your hands when you’re not able to do it for a long time. You realize how important it is. Or, getting up and getting yourself a glass of water, all of that aspect. But also it gave me so much insight on how a beginner feels. Again, even though it’s been a long time, I was a beginner.

[00:11:51] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, it’s so humbling whenever we have any type of hindrance or physical issue, whether it’s just having, a flu for a week, [00:12:00] not being able to walk up and down stairs or as you said, even get a glass of water. It offers you that huge, humbling perspective of gratitude when things are going well. It’s so easy when we’re healthy, feeling great, and we’re just walking around doing our thing to forget how incredible it is that we get to move this body.

[00:12:22] Sila Atikol: Yes, how vulnerable our physical body is.

Vulnerable bodies and yoga

[00:12:26] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yes. That’s interesting you bring that up because there’s some yoga teachers, out there on Instagram, out there in the world who I know really push their physical body to the absolute limits. Like they’re really pushing into certain asanas or into certain shapes.

I feel like the stage I’m at in my yoga journey is less about having that ego driven, I need to reach a pose and more of having that body honoring. I do want to challenge myself. But I do not want to do anything that could break myself. How are you feeling right these days when it comes to things like that?

The yoga journey

[00:13:03] Sila Atikol: I think you set the keywords there. Being in a place in your practice? I think that’s a place in a person’s practice most of the time. In the beginning, in the first few years, you perceive yoga as something physical and you set goals and you want to reach them. It is for some people as in itself, it is the tool to achieve whatever you’re trying to achieve through yoga, the relaxation and the quieting of the [00:13:30] mind. The discipline and everything, but as you progress in your studies in yoga or as you progress in your practice, I think we all develop more body consciousness and we all develop this sense that as itself is not the only part of our practice. And this is what brings this consciousness and makes, this asana driven, goal driven, ego driven thing just fades away.

[00:13:57] Lily Allen-Duenas: Absolutely. I do think that it is. We do grow in the practice and we do change. It is seen more in the beginning, I think as well, it’s that challenge too, of “Oh… I’ve seen other people do it. I want to try it.” This is just it’s eagerness, it’s a lot of eagerness and that’s like  a beautiful element as well. But when it does shift into that ego driven, as you mentioned too oh, I don’t know if I can teach yoga until I do a handstand. It’s so hard to feel that way because we also know that’s not yoga. That’s not serving us and it’s not something we need to bring to the mat and bring to our practice.

But it’s hard too. We’re all so human and I have to admit to all of our listeners, I’m by no means perfect. I am definitely a hypocrite in saying this with things that ebb and flow in my life, ebb and flow in my practice, but it’s something to be mindful of. I think that’s what Sila and I are saying.

Taking the ego out of the practice

[00:14:52] Sila Atikol: Yes. I also find that students come through the door expecting you to be like a contortionist. [00:15:00] It’s important to not get sucked into that mindset as well as educating people on the topic when they come to your classes. It’s okay to tell someone, oh, I cannot do that pose. It’s not in my practice, or, my practice isn’t there yet, or, my anatomy doesn’t allow me to do it. That’s also a reality.

[00:15:23] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, that’s a huge reality. I love that you said that, because our anatomy is just what we’re born with. It’s not something we can change like the bone structure. There’s amazing yoga teachers out there who have done actual, bone studies on how our bones connect and rotate. Because we’re not just  a stick figure.

There’s this kind of spiraling motion, you know, of how two bones will connect cartilage and all the juicy, fun stuff that goes along with our skeletal system. But you gotta accept, like there’s some things that were not meant for your body and that is not wrong. at all. That’s not a problem. That’s not something you can solve. That’s actually a lesson or something just that you discover that you can be aware of and that can offer you more insight into your own body.

[00:16:14] Sila Atikol: Yes, and it’s a very important knowledge because you can take that knowledge and apply it to other exercises that you do in your life. Knowing yourself, knowing your limits, and accepting it. This is a concept that you can apply to other things in life. Maybe [00:16:30] it can be a nice practice to do it at the mat. Reflect it on your life and know when to stop pushing, for example, when you’re tired, when you’re taking on too many tasks. I think yoga is a great metaphor for life, and this is one of those little things.

[00:16:45] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yoga is a great metaphor for life. Wow. I want to hear you say more about that just because it feels so quotable, and juicy to me.

Yoga is a great metaphor for life

[00:16:52] Sila Atikol: I usually say it when my private students are struggling in a stretch. They want to get out of the pose and especially when we are doing yin and I go yoga is a great metaphor for life. You just sometimes need to breathe in and try to soften and be flexible and go with it.

This is one of those moments. Also it really does apply to many other things. For example, I always had body image issues growing up. I wasn’t a very physical person. I didn’t feel confident in my physical abilities.

After I started practicing yoga and seeing how my body is able to make progress in poses, and in terms of flexibility or strength. I started to find this sort of confidence that I could apply to other things in life. And I really think that how a person approaches to their yoga practice, Everything happening on their mats, the failures, the falls patience with the progress and everything.

It really does reflect to life. It really does [00:18:00] reflect how a person approaches, challenges and everything in life. So finding that sort of patience in a challenging pose or being able to stay in that warrior two for five breaths and thriving in the challenge of that. I think these are all things that can reflect our personal lives, other things we do in life. Yoga is a great metaphor for life.

[00:18:26] Lily Allen-Duenas: I’m so glad you shared that and I hope our listeners are going to have this huge spark of curiosity… Ooh, how is yoga a metaphor for my life? Or what is yoga reflecting? Cause I love thinking about yoga as a mirror, and the more that you kind of practice and you progress in some direction, and it’s not linear at all. But you’re able to think, “okay, am I bringing my ego onto the mat today, or am I bringing my fear or my anger?”

“Or am I pushing in this way, or am I only doing yin right now because I’m just drained? And what does that mean?” Being eing curious about what’s calling to you.  I find that really comes to me most during personal practice.

[00:19:11] Sila Atikol: Exactly.

[00:19:12] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. So I would also love to hear Sila about yoga in Cypress. I know you’re in Northern Cyprus as well, and for some of our listeners, maybe they’re really unfamiliar with what has gone on in the past and how Cyprus is divided. So would you be willing to share more about yoga and [00:19:30] Cypress and what also is going on right now in your country and how’s it feeling? Maybe a little bit of a history lesson for those of our listeners who aren’t sure at all what I’m talking about.

A brief history of Cyprus

[00:19:41] Sila Atikol: Sure. Without going deep in politics, because this is a very political subject, In the island of Cypress, there has been a separation In 1974 when Turkey came on the island and occupied a part of it. Prior to that there were Greek, Greek speaking, Cypriots and Turkey speaking Cypriots living on the island. After Turkey arrived there was a partition and Turkey speaking, PRIs moved to the north of the island and Greek speaking. PRIs moved to the south of the island. So this has been the situation since 1974. It’s a long time. We have borders separating the two administrations. Greek speaking Cypress Republic of Cyprus is part of the EU and where they live, Northern Cypress is considered to be under occupation of Turkey. So I live in Nicosia, the capital of the island, and it is the only remaining capital in the world that’s divided in two halves. Even the old city, we have a walled city in the center from the Middle Ages, and even that is divided.

Up until 2002 when I was a little child, it wasn’t possible to cross the border, so there was no communication, no contact between the two communities of Cypress. But right [00:21:00] now we are able to cross the borders very easily just by showing an identity card. We are building relationships, trust and communication between the two communities, and I’m really hopeful for the future that we are going to have a better relationship.

Yoga in Cyprus

[00:21:15] Sila Atikol: In the meanwhile, I can safely say that. The Yoga world is a place where you can still, connect and communicate. We sometimes do joint events. It is possible for a Turkish speaking yoga teacher to go and teach in yoga festivals in the Greek speaking part in the Republic of Cypress and vice versa..

So it’s another aspect of yoga that I really like that brings people together no matter what. And you can definitely see that in Cypress. 

[00:21:53] Lily Allen-Duenas: What I love that you said Sila is that yoga brings people together no matter what. I love hearing that it’s this kind of space where you can go into studios, and hopefully have students who are Turkish Cypriots or Greek Cypriots. Everyone can come together,  practice,  or have a community that feels like outside of anything that’s going on in, politically or externally. Is that kind of how I’m hearing it? Is that correct? 

[00:22:18] Sila Atikol: Yes, exactly. And yeah, this is the beauty of yoga. People put politics aside, people put differences aside, and it brings unity

[00:22:28] Lily Allen-Duenas: At the core of yoga, the word [00:22:30] itself, Yuj, the root of yoga and the Sanskrit word Yuj means to yoke.. So to bring two things together. 

[00:22:38] Sila Atikol: Exactly what I was thinking when I said it brings out the unity

[00:22:43] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yes. I guess it’s the perfect opportunity then, and I ask every guest on the show, what is your definition of yoga? I know we do have the sutras and texts, and there’s so many different ways to express that. But for you, what is your definition of yoga?

What is your definition of yoga?

[00:22:59] Sila Atikol:  Yoga is a tool for exploring the world, exploring myself, and exploring how it all connects together.

[00:23:10] Lily Allen-Duenas: I love that you said yoga is a tool for exploring the world too, because that’s definitely what I try to do on this podcast is to explore the world of yoga with everyone around the world. Like I love that when you get to know yoga,  you sink your teeth in and you become curious and open. It does open the whole world to you.

Yoga opens the world up

[00:23:32] Sila Atikol: This is so true. This is what I experienced with yoga. It brought so many different people to my life from all around the world, and it all somehow connected together through yoga and I’m living in an unrecognized country on an island, on a tiny part of an island. Somehow I get to meet a lot of people from all around the world. Exchange experiences, conversation, thoughts and [00:24:00] it’s all thanks to yoga. I feel really blessed.

[00:24:04] Lily Allen-Duenas: Me too. I definitely feel blessed with how it’s, it just expanded everything. The more that you practice and the more you reach out. The more you are practicing yoga, people magically show up. people come into your life and usually if someone is practicing yoga. You meet someone else who’s practicing yoga, no matter what, you have something in common. You maybe, have a similar, maybe just a little similar, just even if it’s a sliver, a perspective on the world of being open, receptive, curious, kind, I love that about yoga. I think it has great principles and values and it  makes you more curious about yourself and others.

[00:24:48] Sila Atikol: Yes. Not to be biased, but I think yoga people are the kindest, most compassionate people.

[00:24:56] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. Not to be biased, but…

[00:24:58] Sila Atikol: Not to be biased.

No. 

[00:25:00] Lily Allen-Duenas: No one would think that. But I would love to ask you too, I’m sure some people who’ve listened to this podcast want to know more about you, and  want to  reach out or have a question. I will link your social media. I know you have Instagram, YouTube, and your website here in the show notes.

Wherever anyone can find or wherever anyone listens to podcasts, they open the show notes and click the links. It’ll also be on my website, wild yoga tribe.com/yoga [00:25:30] cypress, as well as a transcript. You know, are you leading any retreats or are you planning any festivals? Is there anything going on that you wanna share that you plan or you do, or do you work at a studio or just anything you’d like to share?

We’re all ears.. 

What is Sila up to and how can you get in touch with her?

[00:25:45] Sila Atikol: I’m not currently planning any retreats, but if there are any yoga teachers who would like to organize retreats in Cypress, please do contact me. I would love to help. I am offering only private lessons right now, both in person and online. So if you would like to work with me, if you would like to practice with me, you can contact me through my website.

Send me a DM on Instagram and I would be at your service. But the most exciting thing happening right now is I am preparing a new venture. Which is helping new yoga teachers who are struggling with confidence. Who are struggling with sequencing,  queuing,  or theming their classes. Who feel like they’re not ready to teach it.

I want to help new yoga teachers find their voice and start teaching impactful yoga classes with ease and comfort. I am a huge believer of intuitively teaching, especially when you’re teaching 20 hours a week. It’s impossible to put down long hours into preparation. Each class a sequence or go over the queues for each class.

I see a lot of people are spending so much time just [00:27:00] trying to get the perfect sequence and memorize it. I see a lot of new teachers asking on Facebook groups how to memorize their sequences. I feel like it’s a waste of their precious energy. I want to help people to find their own voice and be able to come in front of a class and say, “Hi students, namaste, what do you need today? What shall we do in this class?” And, confidently deliver that to their students. So this is what I am planning on doing.

Intuitive Yoga Teaching

[00:27:31] Lily Allen-Duenas: I love the term intuitive teaching. I don’t think I’ve actually heard it before, but that’s definitely 

[00:27:37] Sila Atikol: Maybe I made 

[00:27:38] Lily Allen-Duenas: well. Oh, you made it up. Good credit

[00:27:40] Sila Atikol: did.

[00:27:42] Lily Allen-Duenas: It’s definitely more my style of teaching though, as well, where I love kind of feeling the energy of the room and feeling kind of what people need, but also asking that question. Just as you said, you walk into the room and say, what hurts? What do we need to work on? Does someone have tight hips or a really sore neck? What do they need? How can we make classes for our students?

[00:28:05] Sila Atikol: It’s for the students, like you said, for us, we deliver the class for the students. So when we are just home and focusing on creating the perfect class. We are not really sure how that’s going to serve the person who walks in the door. Especially with group classes. I think that’s a challenge because sometimes you spend hours preparing a flow, preparing the queues, and then you show up there’s only four out of eight people.[00:28:30] 

I don’t know, a hip injury that prevents them from doing half of your sequence and what then. It’s important to be able to just show up and prepare something for the needs of the students to deliver them a practice for them rather than practice to feel good about our own teaching abilities… 

[00:28:50] Lily Allen-Duenas: Perfect. Well said. Thank you so much, and the love for joining me on the show today. It has been such a joy to be with you.

[00:28:57] Sila Atikol: Thank you so much for inviting me. It was so much pleasure to be part of this and to have this conversation with you.

Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Outro

[00:29:05] Lily Allen-Duenas: . Thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast. My conversation with Sila Atikol, a yoga teacher from Cyprus. She was so gorgeous as we took this deep dive into how yoga is a great metaphor for life. I hope that this conversation made you curious about what yoga means to you and how yoga can reflect your life itself. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that’s all about not being asana driven, goal driven, or ego driven in your practice, then this is the conversation for you.

Thank you for listening to the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast. Be well.

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