#46 – Yoga is the Way – Yoga in the Czech Republic with Filip Klieštík

Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #46 – Yoga is the Way – Yoga in the Czech Republic with Filip Klieštík 

Welcome to Episode #46 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Filip Klieštík onto the show. He is a yoga teacher from the Czech Republic. From time machines, magic wands, and wishes from genies my conversation with Filip was beyond delightful, just as it was equally filled with powerful insight. My conversation with Filip, was so thought-provoking as we wove a conversation full of laughter paired with powerful insight. I hope that this conversation made you crave silence and self-reflection.

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about burnout, mental health, and the gifts of imperfection then this is the conversation for you.

Tell me more about Filip Klieštík 

Filip is from Jenčice, Czech Republic and he first fell in love with yoga at the end of year 2010, and in 2012 he completed a Yoga Teacher Training in power yoga in the Czech Republic. In 2013, he traveled to India to do another Yoga Teacher Training, this time in Ashtanga Yoga. Filip has done several courses in Ayurveda while he was in India, including Ayurveda cooking, stress management. Recently he has completed a yoga psychology teacher training at Yoga Vidya Gurukul, and a yoga nidra teacher training as well. 

Additionally, Filip has completed a psychotherapeutic training in SatiTherapy (Mindfulness therapy). He teaches Hatha yoga combined with meditation, relaxation, and a strong mindfulness approach. Moreover, he lectures at the Václav Krejčík Power Yoga Academy and participates in the teaching of future yoga instructors. In companies and offices, he takes care of the mental health of employees and leads trainings in burnout prevention programs.

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

My conversation with Filip was a true delight as we discussed how psychotherapy and yoga can go hand in hand on the path of transformation, healing, and change. Nowadays, everyone wants a quick fix, a magic pill, or even a magic wand— but change, growth, healing, all take hard work. You have to be open to change, and have the desire to change for change to actually happen.

Filip and I talked about how vast yoga is, and how it is a place of self-discovery. It’s when people can move without borders, to go inside of themselves and really understand who they are. It’s the realest of all realities— our mind, body, and soul.

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

Favorite Quotes From Filip Klieštík

“Silence is full of answers.” 

“I’m so happy we are not perfect.” 

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 Wild Yoga Tribe Episode #46 – Yoga in The Czech Republic with Filip Klieštík

[00:00:00] Lily Allen-Duenas: Namaste family. And welcome back to the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. Today, I am so excited to welcome Filip onto the show today. He’s a yoga teacher from the Czech Republic and he and I met online actually, but during a yoga teacher training with Yoga Vidya Gurukul in India. We were both doing a yoga nidra teacher training, and that’s how we came into each other’s orbits.

[00:00:26] But Filip is an amazing guest, amazing friend, amazing person to welcome onto the show because he specializes in burnout and he teaches yoga therapy and yoga for mental health, some psychotherapeutic training and sati therapy and some stress management. There’s a lot of stuff I know about Filip and I will talk about today that I hope you’ll enjoy.

[00:00:49] So thank you so much, Filip for being with me on the show today. 

[00:00:52] Filip Klieštík: Hello, Lily. Thank you for having me.

How did yoga come into your life?

[00:00:54] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you. Okay. Let’s dive in. And how about you share with me and our listeners, how you first even heard about yoga? How did it come into your radar and into your life? 

[00:01:05] Filip Klieštík: This is a great question. So I don’t know. I don’t remember. So these, I don’t remember which year was or which time was, but definitely the strongest moment that I have in my mind was when I moved to Allah Malt, which is like a small city, 100,000 inhabitants, and it’s not so far away from my home city.

[00:01:28] And I was working in the HR department of the American company Honeywell. So, I work there in this company and I liked the city and I wanted, I desired to do some fitness activities. So I went to one of the most famous famous fitness there in the city.

[00:01:50] And I remember there was a yoga teacher. She looked like a witch. She had such a black hair. And every time before a yoga class started, she was putting some candles and this thing, and the people who were waiting with her and she was talking to them and I was like I was observing them and I was thinking of a pretty weird community.

[00:02:14] I decided to try these yoga classes and I fell in love, so I started to go to yoga classes. And I started to practice power yoga. And this was for me, like a first experience of yoga. And I really liked it. And from fitness to type of fitness yoga, because power yoga is more connected with fitness. So this was a really great gate to start opening gates, to start some spiritual life and to start yoga.

Getting into mindfulness and Burnout

[00:02:47] Lily Allen-Duenas: Awesome. yeah. I agree that it’s a good gateway, but I’m curious as to how you got into the mindfulness aspect of it and how you really decided to make that transition away from the power yoga to more of that mental health and wellness side of it. 

[00:03:06] Filip Klieštík: I moved to Capitol of Czech Republic and still worked in Honeywell, but in the office. And I worked in, I think, one, one more year and I was practicing yoga more. And I started to do also, you’ve got teachers training in power, yoga in Prague. And in 2013 I went through the burnout syndrome.

[00:03:29] So this was something that was for me like one of the strongest experiences, but really very good for transformation. And for changing something in my life. When I was on sickness leave and I was on sickness leave almost half a year I was thinking at the end of this sickness leave that I would like to change something.

[00:03:53] And I would like to improve my yoga. And I was like turning my eyes to the sky and I said, okay. So if you want me there, can you hear me there? So if you want me to go to India, I will finish the job and I will go to India and. And this was like magic because everything was set so well that I remember it was the 19th of November, 2013, and I was sitting in the plane from London to Mumbai.

Going to India for a yoga teachers training

[00:04:26] Filip Klieštík: And I didn’t believe that I am, I’m going myself, to India to do some yoga teacher’s training. So this was like this was like the start of my spiritual journey. This teacher’s training, I decided that I would like to really help a corporate company with this employee’s mental health care. But I think I didn’t call it at that moment like that. I think I wanted to do just work-life balance or some wellbeing activity, but this came a little bit later.

[00:04:58] This employment healthcare program worked, I started to offer. And I also started to do the psychotherapy therapeutic training because I really wanted to help the people who are going or who will go through the burnout syndrome. And because it’s like a little bit of time of darkness, you are in the shadows and you don’t know what is happening to you, and after I started to study a little bit, I went myself to psychotherapy and we started to really define what is happening and what is this. And this was for me, like a really very nice and good experience, even though it wasn’t so nice at that moment. But now when I’m watching back I think this was really like one of the best experiences in my life. 

Being open to change

[00:05:42] Lily Allen-Duenas: Um, I understand what you mean about how it’s not always fun to do that hard work of being in the darkness and saying, okay how do I find my way through or what is happening to me? It’s hard work. 

[00:05:56] Filip Klieštík: it is. It is. So the most important thing is I think to have self reflection and really to be open to change something. Because even now when I’m meeting some clients, if someone is contacting me and thinks that okay, I’m going to psychotherapy, so do some magic. I want to feel good and I want to feel better tomorrow. So I’m saying like, this will never happen, because you need to change, you need to work on yourself. I’m just a guide and the work needs to be done. And everybody needs to work and be open to change something in their life and to find a solution. you know, So if someone is calling me and wants me to do some magic and saying, oh, this is not happening. So goodbye.

[00:06:42] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. I think we all want that magic wand. We all want that. Okay. I’ll just, or that the magic pill, right? How many people just want to take a pill and make it all go away? 

Everything takes time, including yoga

[00:06:53] Filip Klieštík: Yeah, because we are instant. We are in an instant, a period of time. So everything is like pills. So if you have a headache, you have a pill. But definitely to have everything immediately. And this is some I think dangerous at this time now that nothing is just instant, so there needs to be some effort to achieve some goals or to achieve some results and results means someone is feeling good. What he, or she is doing but it takes time. So it’s not just only that one day and the next day is like that.

[00:07:32] Like sometimes when I’m watching, like someone is practicing yoga one month after going to yoga, teacher’s training, which is done in two or three months. And after he, or she wants to be like the best yoga teacher, but it’s also the way, so it’s not just only then from one day to another day, I can change immediately.

[00:07:52] And what I like about yoga is that it is the way for whole life, and I cannot say never I know everything about yoga, because if I say this, it means that I know absolutely nothing. I didn’t understand anything.

[00:08:08] Lily Allen-Duenas: I like that. Yeah. It doesn’t mean that we don’t understand anything. If we’re claiming we know everything. And I agree with you, how. Yoga is very humbling because it is endless. It’s infinite. The study of life is Ayurveda and yoga is the union of all of the aspects, all of the ways we can use our energetic body, our mental body, our spiritual body, our, all the koshas, all the sheets and layers.

[00:08:38] It’s just, you can always go deeper. There’s always more to learn and to explore. And I feel like, the more that I learn too about yoga, the more that one phrase, I’m sitting, listening to a Satsang or a teacher and just one sentence will change my whole perception on some aspect of my mind or of how I perceive time.

[00:09:02] It’s powerful how it can be distilled down into these really beautiful resonant truths. 

[00:09:10] Filip Klieštík: Yeah, it’s true.

Yoga is self-discovery

[00:09:12] Lily Allen-Duenas: So Filip, what do you actually love about yoga? You mentioned you love as well, how you’ll never know everything, but what else do you love about it? 

[00:09:21] Filip Klieštík: This self discovery, everybody can understand yoga in a different way and that everybody can find in yoga what he or she wants to find. So this is like a then we were talking that it’s infinite, and yeah, so it’s without borders, and people can go inside and really understand. And also what I really like about yoga is that it connects the body, mind and soul, so that in unity there are three parts. And if someone is understanding these and not taking yoga just only like a body exercise and starts to really understand it, there is something deeper.

Silence is full of answers

[00:10:02] Filip Klieštík: This is really what I like. I think yoga is really helping people also with the mind, because if someone is living in truth with him or herself is watching the mirror. And see who is there in the mirror without any filters, so it’s like you are watching with your eyes on the truth of yourself. Sometimes it’s like the game of the ego when I am thinking like now is not like. But when I’m really silent, because silence is full of the answers. So if I don’t want to lie to myself, really this yoga activity or even meditation is bringing me a lot of answers. And I am like that. In the environment or in the space which is full of truth. And I’m there like with myself. So this is what I really like about yoga is it’s so magic, and even it’s not magic. It’s so easy and. On the other hand, it is not so easy. It’s one of the most hard things or the hardest thing in life to live in the present moment. But it’s such an easy instruction. And I think that our. The keys of happiness, if people are living the present moment of, so this is one of the, one of the keys of happiness.

[00:11:29] Lily Allen-Duenas: I agree with you. It is. Okay so Filip, I love how we talked about what you love about yoga and how silence is full of answers. I thought that was such a powerful. A powerful sentiment and perspective. And I think right now we’re all filling our silence. Maybe with the pandemic, we’ve spent a ton of time at home.

[00:11:50] Maybe we’ve had restrictions of even being able to go outside or go to restaurants or social gatherings now of course the world is opening up quite a bit more. Of course we’re on the upswing, but that silence, I think people still are filling it with music or TV shows. It’s that silence that I think people really want to run away from, because they know that it will make them feel uncomfortable. 

[00:12:16] Filip Klieštík: Yeah, definitely. Yes. And even in yoga classes, you have some clients, they cannot at the end of the class they cannot close, close the eyes, because they feel uncomfortable. Or when we are doing some yoga nidras or some relaxations.

[00:12:30] We are creating a space of silence for them. And some people, they are really feeling uncomfortable with this because there is some job which needs to be done, and nobody from outside can do it for them, so it’s about the self-reflection sometimes I am like watching.

[00:12:53] Or I met some people who are doing everything in their daily life just not to go to psychotherapy because they have something to solve in their life. And they are doing for they are going for a yoga, for meditation classes for craniosacral therapy, for some massages, for some witches is who gives you the advices based on some card and reading your future or whatever, and it’s not helping.

[00:13:24] And this is what I think yoga brings to the people. The possibility or very big possibility is to be in truth with yourself, or with myself. To not lie to me and in truth is that people are a mind focused really outside, so not inside and outside.

[00:13:45] I think the pandemic was a really good opportunity to connect with yourself. But some people, they don’t want to do it, so I remember I had some discussion with some client and we started to talk about psychotherapy and she said no.

[00:14:01] I think I don’t want to go inside because I don’t want to meet myself or something like that. So some people are really afraid to be, or to meet themselves inside of them. So it’s really sometimes it’s really hard for the people.

[00:14:16] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. Yeah, it is. When we avoid that self-reflection. 

[00:14:21] And that hard work for so long, when we really numb it, escape from it, run from it for years. It feels if they finally look inside and meet themselves, it will just be. I don’t know, like it just completely a flood of 

[00:14:38] overwhelm because it’s just years and years of layers and piles and all of the stuff, all of the narratives and the 

[00:14:45] stories 

[00:14:46] it’s just, it’s so hard. 

The power of loving ourselves 

[00:14:48] Filip Klieštík: Yeah. Yeah. If I have magic power and I have one wish I would like to. What I would like to wish for all the world. I would like to know that people are. People love themselves. Really they have self-love, because I think also is one of the strongest topic in therapy that people, they don’t like themselves, even some of them they even don’t know that they don’t like themselves, so they don’t love themselves not alike, but they don’t love themselves. 

[00:15:19] Lily Allen-Duenas: Wow. I am so glad you shared that. And I think a lot of people will need to hear that and need to ponder that a little, but for me, Filip, when I’m in a meditation retreat, or I’m usually reflecting most on self compassion. I feel like I really love myself. I’m all right with myself.

[00:15:37] We do. Okay. But it’s. Yeah. Okay. But it’s the compassion side that is gentle, soft, allowing and accepting when I make mistakes or when I feel like I’m failing or I didn’t do something quite. How I wanted to, to 

[00:15:55] that level. And I know I could have done better. I know I could’ve said that better. I know I could’ve learned something to handle it with a better grace. It’s that compassionate element that for me, at least just feels so, so difficult. Something I’m always working on. How about you? What advice do you have for that? Or what’s your two cents? 

 The key to happiness is self-compassion 

[00:16:14] Filip Klieštík: Yeah. I think this is also one of the key, so one of the keys to happiness, to be happy really to have self-compassion, so because what is done and to be like in the situation in the past and still blame myself, what I did wrong or what I should do differently.

[00:16:33] I will not change it. I don’t have the machine for going back in time, so this is how it is. Time is flowing. We are making mistakes and I think really nothing is mistake. I think nothing is a bad experience, so even our mistakes can push us or move us forward in our life. And we, if we take a lesson from it and we are forgiving ourselves and really, we have compassion with ourselves. What is done, so it’s doesn’t need to be the punishment or the blaming and a lot of people, they don’t have the compassion with themselves, they were raised or educated that they cannot do the mistakes and once they are doing the mistakes so their world is immediately destroyed, because they did the mistakes, everybody’s doing mistakes. We are not perfect and I’m so happy that we are not perfect, because we can really learn from every situation and learn for the future life.

[00:17:37] My advice is like a two to accept the reality, so to observe it really from outside, what would I do and don’t blame myself, or don’t punish myself and just only what is done. So we cannot change it but we can learn from the situation. 

[00:17:55] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah.

[00:17:56] Thank you. The punishment and the blaming is where a lot of suffering comes from. And I agree that it’s okay. That happened. again, begin again. You get another chance 

[00:18:11] every day, every hour, you get another opportunity to try and, or just to choose. And so I think instead of focusing, as you said on that back pass and just constantly reliving it and beating ourselves up about it And questioning it, it’s just saying, okay, I see it.

[00:18:28] You’re right. You said it observed reality. I observed that and then said, okay, now’s the time to choose again. And then again.

How mindfulness helps us to grow and change and learn

[00:18:37] Filip Klieštík: And mindfulness is helping, so because if you are in the same situation or similar situation and you are doing it again, let’s say you want to do it again with the same mistake. And if you have a really good level of self-reflection something inside of you is telling you like, Hey, You are already, you were already in this situation and I think you are not going well, doing well.

[00:19:04] So there are some little red lights inside, which are saying to our mind: Hey, we were already here. Let’s start to do something different, or let’s solve this situation a little bit differently. So I think, this yoga and mindfulness is also helping us to get self-reflection and to really recognize when the situation is happening again, but some people, they are in the same situation.

[00:19:34] And as you said, so again and again, and we can start again and again. So when I was in Vipassana meditation retreat was like a start again was saying this, a teacher in the record this is like also like a weekend start again, and we can do it. Different ways if we know. That the situation brought us some things which we didn’t like or on ourselves or was a little bit of a mess. So this is a great opportunity. So every new situation is a great opportunity to do something different.

[00:20:04] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yes. I’m so glad we’re talking about this, Filip. Thank you. And I’ve also done an SN Goenka Vipassana. 

[00:20:11] Filip Klieštík: Yeah.

[00:20:12] Lily Allen-Duenas: Before I’ve done a few other Vipassana is like in a Mahasi method, but 

[00:20:16] Filip Klieštík: Yeah. Yes! Yes, I did do both of them. 

[00:20:19] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, 

[00:20:19] look at us. We’re little twins. I would love to talk to you a little bit about your experience with your Vipassana. Did you do it in the Czech Republic somewhere else? And what were some of the biggest kinds of things you took away from that experience? 

Vipassana meditation retreats and what they are like 

[00:20:33] Filip Klieštík: The first Vipassana I did was in Czech Republic in summer 2016. And because I was doing this psychotherapeutic training of Sati therapy, which Sati means the mindful. Or mindful, or mindfulness. So it was one of the conditions to finish the training to participate in Vipassana.

[00:20:54] But anyway I was learning about that. And again, when I’m going back in time, I was working in a corporate company and my friend, my colleague, she said, ah, I want to do Vipassana. And I was asking her and what is this? And she said, so this is like some meditation retreat. You are sitting, 10 days you are meditating 10 hours per day.

[00:21:21] And it’s so good and so refreshing. And my first reaction was never, I will never do that. And in two years I was sitting already. So it’s like sometimes it’s people. Thinking about something is different. So I did it in Czech Republic. It was really great. And a beautiful experience because we were in the mountains in some really old hotel with an old facility.

[00:21:48] This was so beautiful for me because really we were meditating. I think it was 10 hours per day. At the beginning it was a little bit difficult because when we are managing our breath in yoga, the instruction was like, don’t manage your breath.

[00:22:04] And don’t verbalize anything like in this tradition of Mahasi cider, when you need to verbalize everything, what you are doing. So this was a little bit difficult at the beginning for me, maybe two days and after it went really well. And I was so happy even during these main hours I was sitting and I didn’t move myself, during the whole hour.

[00:22:27] And I tried to really stay in the position without any movement and was really great also with the breath. And I remember. I think it was the ninth day of this. And I was like doing the instruction and in some moment I stopped doing, I stopped doing the instruction and I was connected with, or I connected myself with myself, so this was I don’t know how to describe it, but. I was in some, like a space where it was not the time. I felt really with full sense that the sentence I am has the full sense. I don’t know if it is understandable, but I was like attaching my being, and was some like a moment when I was totally in in this meditation time, it didn’t take so much time but still when I’m talking about is I feel like I feel cold on my skin, because this was such a strong moment. The time and really I felt the present moment fully, and I felt my being fully. So this was my experience with Vipassana.

[00:23:38] And I remember the last day when we could talk, I was laughing and I felt so much pain in my cheeks and in my face muscles because for 10 days, you are not talking, you are not watching. So everything is released and after 10 days you start to use your face muscles. But it was some euphoria, I remember with my colleagues we felt some euphoria. We did it, that we did it really. We stayed, we didn’t escape from the, from Vipassana was some like a beautiful experience.

[00:24:14] And this second Vipassana I did in Thailand, in Chiang Mai there is such a big monastery and big meditation center and really I had this experience with this this Mahasi Sayadaw tradition, which was really also beautiful with the changing of walking and sitting meditation was really so nice experience as well.

[00:24:35] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah.

[00:24:36] it was, I also did the Goenka first and the Mahasi second. And so for me, it was such a gift to be able to move. I really felt this enormous sense of gratitude for not having, just to sit in that cross-legged position for 10 hours a day. And with Mahasi I think we did about 12 hours of meditation total, but just having the walking in there 

[00:24:59] Filip Klieštík: Yeah, this 

[00:25:00] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, thank goodness. 

[00:25:01] Filip Klieštík: Yeah. Yeah. And I remember this, we also had the chanting at six o’clock in the evening in the morning. I think we also had some chanting and in the evening we had some chanting and it was really great. I really liked it. All of us needed to have the white cloth and it was so beautiful, so I really liked it, and this was so magical this monastery there. So every time I’m thinking if I want to escape from reality to go inside myself. So I’m thinking I’m checking the flight tickets that sometimes I could go there and just only for one week or something like that, because you can do in this meditation center, you can do 21 days or you can do just only one week or you can really ask for special days.

[00:25:45] That is not like going at this for 10 days, but it’s strictly done like that. But in the center you can organize or manage your days if you have only five days or more days. So it’s up to you. 

[00:25:58] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. And I actually will say, I don’t think that when you do Vipassana, you’re escaping reality, I think you’re maybe escaping your everyday life and the routine of life, but you’re Definitely going into true reality is your mind. That’s the realest of real life. 

[00:26:16] Filip Klieštík: That’s true. That’s true. That’s true.

What is your definition of yoga?

[00:26:19] Lily Allen-Duenas: Oh, so I always ask my guests on the show, Filip, what is your personal definition of yoga? 

[00:26:26] Filip Klieštík: So for me, yoga is the way it’s like a lifestyle, but also the way of the whole life and is the gateway to go inside of myself and to understand a little bit of me and to get some answers which for the questions so what will be after, when we will pass away or What is what is about the religions?

[00:26:53] So because you can hear that our religion is really the truth. And at the end of the day, when I was in India, I really understood that it doesn’t matter if you are failing if you are believing in Jesus or Vishnu Shiva or Allah so I think there is one source. And for me, I really understood this thing that is really coming from one source and is the same source. And it doesn’t matter how we are calling this God, so for me, it’s this brought me yoga this is the gateway to the spiritual life, it doesn’t mean that people if they are saying that they are spiritual, that they need to believe in some God or in some gods, but they can be spiritual even they are going inside of themselves. So I think yoga for me is really the gateway to connect with my spirituality. So this is and this is such a fortune, so this treasure is treasure. Yeah. 

[00:27:50] Lily Allen-Duenas: It is, it’s true, it’s richness, right? It is the richness of life and of experiencing it to the full, vast potential of it. It’s not sleepwalking through life. It’s not escaping life and ourselves and our own being and body. It’s it? That is the treasure. You’re right. 

[00:28:11] Filip Klieštík: And even I’m like watching the people around me and I was thinking when I studied this psychotherapy and I was thinking like, Oh My God, in 19 or 20 century one, when this psychology and psychotherapy was just beginning, in the beginning. And I was thinking about how they were defining mental illnesses or these uncomfortable situations in their lives and these things and. Now everything is so accessible and doesn’t matter because the mind of the people is still the same. People will be afraid of the future. People will have some trauma from the past. So the accessibility is the service, but if the people, they don’t want to do something with that. So they will never move forward. They will never move forward. So it doesn’t matter if we are in 20 centuries or the 21st century. It doesn’t matter because these services or even yoga classes are all around and everybody is the fruit is all around and the people, if they want, they can just only pick it and they can eat the fruits but if they want to eat it.

[00:29:19] And this is also for me a little bit magical that we have the opportunity. We have the possibilities and it’s just only up to us if we will take the advantage of the accessibility of yoga, of the spiritual life around us. 

What is yoga in the Czech Republic like?

[00:29:36] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. And Filip, I also would love to ask you a little bit about the Czech Republic. Could you tell our listeners more about what yoga is like in the Czech Republic? Is it super popular? Is it everywhere? Is it only athletic based yoga? 

[00:29:53] Filip Klieštík: We are a small country in the center of Europe. We have about, I think 11 millions of habitants but based on the yoga life, I think you can find all different kinds of yoga here as well. This like a fitness style as well as like a meditation, yoga, Kundalini yoga, really all the kinds of Vinyasa, even this Bikram yoga is here about really this is like a colorful like everywhere else.

[00:30:24] What I can say is that in 2019, I think yoga was really everywhere. Definitely in Prague, the capital. And thanks to this COVID pandemic, a lot of studios were close to a lot of people. They started to work again in the jobs because this yoga business was or yoga classes were not allowed and there were a lot of restrictions.

[00:30:51] So I think that now the environment is more clean because I can say that yoga was everywhere and sometimes the quality of yoga is like everywhere, there is like a low quality of yoga classes. There are some high quality classes. What I can say is that everybody can find the style, which is convenient. So everybody can find their own way. So I think all the classes, all the kinds of the classes are possible to find in Czech Republic.

[00:31:22] Lily Allen-Duenas: Amazing. Thank you so much for sharing with us more about it. And what do you love about the Czech Republic or about your country? 

[00:31:29] Filip Klieštík: I received some questions a few years ago. If I can choose another country when I would like to be born. I will think, I don’t know, because I love my country so much. Because we have everything here. We have wine, the arts, the mountains, we have so many beautiful mountains, the lakes, whatever. So you can find everything in Czech Republic and what I really like is that we have four seasons, really springtime, summertime, autumn, and the winter time. I’m living in the countryside. My garden. So I’m growing my vegetables and fruits. So this is such a blessing, that I can be connected with this mother earth and really take care of some land. We have so many castles, the ruins of the castles, the hills. Really so beautiful. So I like, and also beautiful cities. If listeners would like to come to Prague, it is one of the most romantic cities in Europe. And he’s not so big. It’s not if you are going to Paris is such a big agglomeration, so it’s such a big capital Prague is not so big, but it’s so beautiful as well.

[00:32:42] You will be very welcomed in the Czech Republic, if you would like to come.

[00:32:46] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yeah. I have actually been to Prague myself a few years ago and I agree it was so romantic. So fairy tale, like everything you’re walking around, I felt like I was in a Disney movie. Not a Disney movie, but in a way, but yeah, because it’s so beautiful. I loved it. But Philip, I want to just say thank you so much for joining me on this podcast and having this beautiful conversation with me.

[00:33:12] I’m so happy we did this. 

[00:33:15] Filip Klieštík: Yeah, me also, it was so beautiful to have, I was a little bit afraid because of my English, but I think it went well.

[00:33:24] Lily Allen-Duenas: Yes it did. I promise you did great. So thank you again, Filip for being with me, it’s just been a joy to be with you.

[00:33:32] Filip Klieštík: So thank you for having me. 

Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Outro

[00:33:34] Lily Allen-Duenas: Thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast from time machines to magic, wands and wishes from genies. My conversation with Filip was beyond delightful as it was equally actually filled with powerful insights.

[00:33:56] I hope that this conversation made you crave silence and self-reflection. Thank you so much for tuning in to the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. Be well.

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