Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #34 – Yoga as a Magnificent Ritual – Yoga in Venezuela with Carlos Romero

Welcome to Episode #34 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Carlos Romero onto the show. He is a yoga teacher from Venezuela and the founder of Livin’ Inspired. He has been immersed in the journey of self-exploration over the last 20 years, and is the founder of Livin’ Inspired. Carlos is the kind of a yoga teacher who artfully curates every moment of the mind-body-spirit journey, leaving just enough space for silence. He has taught yoga all over the world, and has been based in Bali for the last 12 years. He’s been teaching at Yoga Barn for many years.

My conversation with Carlos Romero, a yoga teacher from Venezuela was so illuminative as we took a deep dive into the synchronicity and transformation that has occurred on Carlos’ path of yoga. Carlos defined yoga as intimacy— as moving closer to ourselves and experiencing union and connection with own lungs, our own hearts, our own selves. I hope that this conversation made you want to turn a little closer towards yourself.

If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about magnificent rituals and raising consciousness through collective movement then this is the conversation for you.

Tell me more about Carlos Romero

Carlos Romero is a Surfer yogi devoted yoga teacher, originally from Venezuela. He has been immersed in the journey of self-exploration over the last 20 years, including Hatha, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Jivamukti, Dharma Mittra Yoga, Anusara, Yin Yoga, Embodied Flow, Somatic Movement Therapy and Thai Yoga Massage. He is the founder of Livin’ Inspired, and is based in Ubud, Bali where he offers ongoing classes, workshops, immersions, retreats and trainings.

Carlos is known to take you for a journey into the sensations of your inner universe, dropping deeper into stillness and awareness, where you can experience your own uninterrupted rhythm and frequency. 

His fascination with the healing arts, connective tissues, working with the fascia and the cellular intelligence of the body inspired his quest to create a space where yogis can find their own meaningful connection to life force, while opening up the energetic lines of the body and uncovering spaces through conscious breath and movement.

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

Carlos Romero first saw yoga on the beach, watching others practice while he was out on the beach to go surfing. He immediately felt a “shakti wave” go through him, and then yoga started popping up everywhere. Then he was given a book by Indra Devi, who had a major influence of yoga in South America. At 16 years old, he took this book on yoga and did self-practice and self-study in the mountains in Caracas. At university he studied pharmaceutical science, though he felt an intense duality— that his heart was calling for a path of yoga, but given his age, his parents were strongly pushing him towards a university education in Venezuela. 

Then he started doing donation yoga classes with his fellow classmates at University. After he graduated and began working in a pharmacy, he was still teaching yoga classes after work and he felt a bit like “superman,” with taking off his lab coat and donning his yoga pants and flip-flops. He soon realized his real path was the path of yoga, that was what he was meant to do and how he was meant to serve. When an opportunity came up to move to Costa Rica and teach yoga, and then later in Bali— where he has been living for Bali for the last 12 years teaching yoga and building his yoga company, Livin’ Inspired. 

Carlos is a well of knowledge about the many branches of holistic healing. His desire to help raising consciousness through collective movement, and to help people create a vibrant and authentic lifestyle is at the center of all his actions and endeavors.

Curious? Tune into the Yoga in Venezuela episode to learn more and bask in Carlos’ wisdom.

For the skimmers – What’s in the yoga in Venezuela episode?

• Yoga is Intimacy— cultivating a relationship with yourself
• The importance of developing and honoring rituals 
• Rituals help us come back to our true nature, and help us make decisions by tapping into our inner guidance 
• Raising consciousness through collective movement 
• How to create a vibrant and authentic lifestyle
• All about Venezuela and yoga in Venezuela 

Favorite Quote From Carlos Romero

“There is no rooftop for expansion or growth.” 

Resources Mentioned

Indra Devi

Yoga Integral in Venezuela 

Connect with Carlos Romero

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https://www.instagram.com/livininspired/

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Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #34 – Yoga as a Magnificent Ritual – Yoga in Venezuela with Carlos Romero 

[00:00:00] Lily: Namaste friends and family. And welcome back to the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. Today. I am so delighted to be joined by Carlos Romero. He’s a surfer Yogi, devoted yoga teacher from Venezuela. He’s been immersed in a journey of self exploration over the last 20 years. And is the founder of living inspired.

[00:00:26] Carlos is the kind of yoga teacher who artfully curates every moment of the mind, body spirit journey, leaving just enough space for silence. He has taught yoga all over the world and has been based in Bali for the last 12 years. So thank you so much, Carlos, for joining me on the show.

[00:00:46] Carlos Romero: Thank you so much, Lily. It’s been a delight, and an honor to be able to connect with you and to be part of your incredible podcast and to share a little bit more about myself and these powerful projects that are living inspired.

[00:01:05] Lily: Wonderful. So can we get started with just hearing how you first got in tune and in touch with yoga?

How Carlos got in touch with yoga

[00:01:14] Carlos Romero: Well, I feel like yoga came into my life. Like one of those situations that you set you up for the rest of your life, and it’s meant to be. I was in Venezuela, I was 16 years old and I was on a surf trip, staying in a tent. A beautiful beach in Venezuela is called Kujawa.

[00:01:32] I was getting out of the tent in the morning and watching the waves. And while I was just getting ready, waxing my boards, I looked to the side and I saw this couple doing these movements, these body shapes, and in this like magnificent ritual. And I got touched by that. I didn’t go surfing for at least like an hour.

[00:01:52] I would just be mesmerized observing these couples doing this thing. And when they finished, I just approached them and I asked them what was that they were doing? And they say, oh, we’re doing yoga. And for me, I felt like a shakti path. As soon as I heard the word, my whole body just responded to it and I felt like I knew these words and I was like, oh wow, yoga. I want to do yoga. And they say, yeah, you can come with us in this sunset. We go to these cliffs and we do some yoga there, but I didn’t follow up with that. But when I came back, I was 16 years old.

[00:02:27] So I came back home and I told my parents and from there on, just like everything was all about yoga. Like my parents, oh, there is this article in the newspaper. There’s this magazine about yoga. And then I was just seeing the word everywhere. And I had a friend that had a book from yogis called Indra Devi.

[00:02:48] She was the first woman that was being taught yoga by a traditional teacher. And her teacher Krishnamacharya is well-known as the father of the modern yoga, what we know as yoga of today, he was the main teacher for who later on developed the Ashtanga lineage.

[00:03:07] BKS Iyengar who developed therapeutic yoga and the Iyengar method among other teachers, of course. And then Indra Devi was on this tour in India and she was pretty well connected to the two, like very important political members in India. And she wanted to learn yoga.

[00:03:28] So Krishnamacharya was asked to teach these women from the West yoga. And in that time in India only the men were practicing these forms of movement, these, this body art. So, he kinda was being pushed to do this. And she became one of her disciples. Her story is very beautiful because she says she has such a hard time just to be in the masculine way of teaching. And this is in the early 1900s, and later on Indra Devi was well-connected with the Hollywood scene and she ended up in teaching yoga to the West and also bringing yoga into South America. And she was living in Argentina and she developed her own unique style based on these teachings.

[00:04:17] So she was one of the main influences from the West, like traditionally, a Western person bringing in, bringing yoga into the West. So, my friend gave me this book, which was a six chapter and it was like a six week course. She was describing topics about philosophy and describing some asanas and getting to the therapeutic side of it.

[00:04:40] And I was just taking the book and walking. I lived in Caracas, Venezuela. That’s where I grew up. And I, we have this beautiful mountain called LA Villa and that’s kind of like escaping from the city to go and do your exercises. Beautiful waterfalls are like the main lungs of the city.

[00:05:02] So I used to go on my own and go for these walks into the mountain and find the spot and read the chapters and practice by myself. And that was for at least like a couple of years that I was doing that in this self study. And I remember during that time I was so stiff. I just laugh about it because my main goal was like, I will love to bend forward and touch my feet.

[00:05:29] My hands were maybe at the shin level or knee level. So, I started just getting into that flexibility, which I feel is one of the first benefits that comes with this practice. So, I went to the university and I studied pharmaceutical science. I had dreadlocks at that time and everybody thought that I was maybe studying arts or something, but I was in the science of pharmaceuticals.

[00:05:55] For a moment I felt, I was in this duality and it lasted for a few years. I feel that my heart was calling, eh, yoga and yet being a teenager, not knowing exactly what is the transition to what to do next after high school. My parents support me to go into the Universidad Central in Venezuela, which is like the main university in Venezuela. It is really hard to get there.

[00:06:19] It’s a public university, the public universities in Venezuela, the ones with them, with the highest education and internationally recognized. So it is difficult to get there. So I didn’t miss out on other opportunities. I felt a level of responsibility with my parents and with this uncertainty of who I am and what to do next to make a way of living.

[00:06:40] So I did that career, but in the meantime, I found a school of yoga there, the Yoga Integral , that’s the name in Spanish. One time there was this exhibition from India, they had a crew from the Sivananda Ashram from India that were in Venezuela and they were doing an exhibition that we see actually like in the stories of Krishnamacharya he was traveling in India and offering demonstrations about the practice.

[00:07:09] And in that way people were gaining back the essence of this practice and coming back to their roots. I went straight to the teacher and I just opened myself to learn more and they say, well, we’re running a Shivananda teacher training and it’s 10 months to a year.

[00:07:26] To 12 months program and I straight away say yes. And that’s when I did my first teacher training. I was in 2002. So, I’m 38 years old at this moment. So that was 20 years ago. It was really powerful because Shivananda is such a foundation for education. You learn not only about the asanas, but Sanskrit and philosophy and the rituals and the benefits of each pose in relation to the physiological aspect of ours, in the organs and the subtle body, the chakras.

[00:07:59]  And that connected for a moment also when I was studying anatomy and physiology and in, in the university, in the career, that was the first moment where I found the connecting dots.

[00:08:12] It’s okay, I’m not just studying something. That I don’t really don’t really make sense for me right now because my passion and my love was for yoga, but then realizing the connecting dots about understanding the body more from the science point of view. And then seeing that in the practice, it inspired me to continue on with my career.

[00:08:33] I started doing, after I did that year of education, I started doing donation classes in the faculty and mostly for anyone that was studying there and for free, and it’s a five-year degree. So I would say for the last three to four years of my career, I was teaching these classes for free.

[00:08:58] Funny thing is that after I graduated and I worked in some pharmaceutical companies, I was always inviting people to experience yoga and was working during the day on it.

[00:09:10] And then at night I was teaching yoga in a couple of studios. So I felt kinda like Superman or Spider-Man story, you wearing a suit and everything during the day. And then while I’m driving to the shala I was just putting on my tie pants and flip flops and then feeling like, oh, back to myself.

[00:09:30] And now I get to do what I love the most. And my colleagues, they were always saying, I feel like you. This is your hobby and your real job is teaching yoga. And sure enough, after I had the opportunity to make some funds, maybe by the age of 25 or 26, then, I got this opportunity to teach in Costa Rica, or move into Bali, and live in Bali, which was a dream.

[00:10:04] And I arrived in Bali and since then I’ve been living in Bali until now for 12 years. And I feel that has been such a blessing.

[00:10:13] That’s kind of part of my story.

[00:10:15] Lily: It’s amazing, Carlos, all of the synergy that had to happen and all the synchronicity of just being that day on the beach, and intending to surf, but instead watching yoga instead, and then your friend gifting you the book from Indra Devi and then seeing the Shivananda practitioners and then diving in that way.

[00:10:33] It just seems the universe was guiding you in that direction and I love that. You never seem to let it go. Even when you were learning and studying and at university, you were still, as you said, kind of living that double life, but then of course soon made the transition to be a full-time yoga teacher abroad.

[00:10:51] I think it’s such a gorgeous story.

[00:10:53] Carlos Romero: Yeah, it is definitely beautiful and powerful like recognition. Even now, while I’m sharing my story, I feel that maybe this was something related to one of my past lives or something where yoga was something really like it was part of my life because I don’t think it’s by chance that I got so connected just by hearing the word.

[00:11:20] One of the main things for me is that there is no rooftop for expansion and growth. And even though there is a 20 years of journey in this ancient art. And I feel that every day I feel inspired to learn more and every year I get to go, some of my teachers and continue learning.

[00:11:42] So that’s one way it has been taken me to, to learn so many different styles of yoga from Indra Devi and Krishnamacharya into Shivananda and then into ashtanga which it was mostly the main practices in Venezuela back in the day there was a lot of Ashtanga happening, so it was kind of easy to immerse myself into that, which I feel in the beginning of my journey with this practice is such a powerful foundation. You get to learn the breath and the synchronicity between breath and movement and that kind of fullness of presence and connection. 

[00:12:20] I feel like it’s just been unfolding as I’m reaching into a level of exploration that is kind of opening another aspect of myself that now is in synchronicity with another form. If that makes sense.

[00:12:36] Lily: It does. I think there’s so much growth and transformation that occurs and the beautiful processes of that change and that evolution through yoga. I would love for you to share with our listeners Carlos. What is your personal definition of yoga?

Carlos definition of yoga

[00:12:54] Carlos Romero: I feel like I still have new insights of what yoga means. It means for me, it kind of makes sense because as we continue diving into our own inner experiences with these, with this practice there is more to be seen and more to be acknowledged and recognized from within.

[00:13:15] So. We know these days that yoga comes from that root of the Sanskrit word, that means union. And for me, one of the main things that comes strongly is the word intimacy. I feel that it’s very easy to relate intimacy to the intimacy that we can share with others, whether it’s with our families, friends, beloved, and that like love intimacy.

[00:13:43] I also see intimacy as words that come together “into me I see”. And that makes it even more profound and in sync with the word union and yoga itself. Because every time we dive into these practices and we close our eyes and take a deep breath, everything that is happening on the outside and even the fluctuations in the mind, they, they get to settle and as they slow down, we get an opportunity to actually experience what is in the moment within ourselves. And just the fact that we can take a deep breath and now we get to feel like it is a sensation that we get to see it moving through our nostrils and our throats and longs and everything now becomes alive from within.

[00:14:40] And the fact that it happens, it’s amazing because now we get to relate to the places in our bodies that are operating on the unconscious level. And these places, these areas in our bodies are the ones that are sustaining our optimal state of living. So when I take a deep breath in that sense of intimacy, I get to experience union with my lungs.

[00:15:14] I get to experience a connection with my heart. And even if I’m not doing a pose and I’m not putting the head, the foot, in the back of my head, I could be walking on the street and taking a pause and stop and take a deep breath and feel the breath moving through my body. That second, that we get into this relationship.

[00:15:37] That for me, it’s also a way of being in yoga. Because it’s creating the thread, it’s creating the connection between my body, not only my physical body, but the subtle aspects within myself. And the union is happening. just taking a moment to close the eyes, and experience a moment of silence and taking a deep breath.

[00:16:05] Lily: That’s beautiful. And I couldn’t agree more about yoga being intimacy, because for me that means just going closer with consciousness, with gentleness, with love and seeking that union. And I feel that when I meditate, when I’m breathing, when I’m practicing Asana, it is with that gentle, compassionate, loving energy that I’m trying to cultivate very mindfully.

[00:16:33] And I’m so glad you expanded on it for our listeners as well, so that they can think about it in that way as a union with ourselves. And Carlos, I did want to ask too. In the beginning, when you said you first saw yoga practitioners on the beach, you described it as a magnificent ritual.

[00:16:51] I would love for you to share with our listeners more about rituals and the importance of developing or honoring rituals in our practice and in our lives.

[00:17:02] Carlos Romero: Rituals, becomes like the day-to-day life experience in Bali you may wake up in the morning and just open your doors and there might be a sweet Palin is just in front of your door already put in early morning some prayers and putting an incense with some offerings. It makes you stop for a second and appreciate that which is invisible, but it’s there, which is spirit.

[00:17:30] I feel that ritual is an action that takes us closer to that invisible force, which is spirit and which is the self and the power of ritual, it’s something that I feel, especially in these times that we are living, it’s an action that is helping us so much to, to come back into our true nature and to be able to create, or make decisions, not from the pressure that is outside coming from the news, so the external situation happening globally, rather from what is that inner guidance asking me. And probably the action that is helping us to connect with spirit, to connect to that inner voice. We can call it intuition. We can call it the Soma, many words to relate to that intelligence that we serve within ourselves.

[00:18:27] The action that can be as simple as closing the eyes and taking a few conscious breaths, or lighting up a candle from an altar and making that action, a moment of presence right there. It’s a ritual. Even the practice itself, going into a soul salutation or arriving into a specific pose.

[00:18:49] It becomes a ritual because it’s helping us to connect closer to our essence and to our spirit. I feel that when we run these trainings and these containers, that is the essence behind that action that becomes so precious and so valuable for our wellbeing and ritualizing our lives with simple things, with simple actions. And if each one of us as human beings, the millions of human beings on this planet, we take a moment to awake into that aspect, as simple as taking a few moments, a few minutes to close our eyes and breathing to ourselves. And that is being seen as a ritual for our souls, for our spirits, for our bodies. It could create a powerful shift in the way we live individually and in the collective. So that action for me, it’s equal to ritual.

[00:19:50] Lily: Incredible. I am so glad you talked about this as well here, Carlos, the, raising the consciousness through collective movement and ritual and spirituality, because I know that’s something that’s a big pillar of your company, of Livin’ Inspired, of all the offerings that you have. So I would love for you to talk about Livin’ Inspired.

[00:20:12] I know for my listeners, there’s no G it’s not living inspired, it’s Livin’ Inspired, and of course I’ll link to it in the show notes, wherever you’re listening to podcasts, as well as on my website, wild yoga tribe.com. So, Carlos, can you share more with our listeners about Livin’ Inspired and what catalyzed you to create it?

[00:20:32] Carlos Romero: Livin’ Inspired it’s a way of cultivating an authentic and a vibrant lifestyle. It’s one of the main aspects of what I see has a vision and a mission for us through Livin Inspired, we creating containers in which the diving into the experience, it can create that, that returning back home, returning back into ourselves, to be able to observe and listen to what the heart is calling. 

[00:21:09] Through Livin’ Inspired, we aim into create an experience, a platform, a container, that is helping us to take a pause into all of those turbulence that are affecting us on a subtle or on a very clear, strong way and taking a moment to come back into ourselves.

[00:21:34] So I feel really passionate about experiencing yoga as a lifestyle, when we dive into these containers through Livin’ Inspired and we get to touch our essence and our true nature. And now we feel in union, we feel connected, we feel grounded. 

[00:21:57] And that’s why I love saying that as we raise this consciousness within us, that is going to create a ripple effect in the collective. And I feel yoga is the more we practice, we realize that it’s not only being in the container of the mat, that when we get out of the mat and we get to experience life itself, we have some tools and these resources may help us to now see yoga as a way of living that is supporting us to be in our full potential to create our own ritual of life yoga as a way of living.

[00:22:39] Lily: Thank you so much for sharing more about Livin’ Inspired and Carlos, can you tell our listeners more about yoga in Venezuela and what that was like in the past or where you see it going the future in terms of styles or popularity or anything else you’d want to share about the yoga scene in Venezuela?

Yoga in Venezuela

[00:23:00] Carlos Romero: Venezuela, my Homeland. I miss Venezuela so much. Venezuela, is in the top of South America, Venezuela has been privileged with an incredible weather, and is facing the Caribbean sea. So we have incredible beaches and beautiful islands with super crystal water.

[00:23:26] We also have in the southwest of Venezuela, the beginning of the Andes and we have mountains with a high altitude where there is snow, but then also we have incredible flatlands, and we have on the other side, the meeting with the Amazon. And we have these ancient mountains, that are like plateaus, like table-top mountains, they call Tipous in one of them, which is called the John DePuy.

[00:23:56] It’s where the highest waterfall in the word is the Angels Falls. In terms of yoga, it’s mostly happening in Caracas, at least when I was living there characters the Capitol, that was where mostly the, that culture is growing these days definitely there is more yoga in many different states. When I was there, the yoga practice was really strong. I feel like in many other cities yoga becomes that, that medicine, that escape from work and a moment to reconnect with yourself. So the yoga studios were always super packed. Everybody wants to do strong practices, more dynamic practices, Ashtanga or Vinyasa or Power Yoga.

[00:24:49] And when I flew to Venezuela, one of my first times after being in Bali, I started bringing the yin aspect into Venezuela. There were also other teachers exploring the practice. And now these days, I feel like it is really balanced with yang dynamic practices.

[00:25:09] I dream about Venezuela, coming back to the place where I grew up 20 years ago, where none of these insecurities and difficulties were so extreme, it was actually the number one country in South America, going towards a first world country on one way.

[00:25:30] And these days it’s very sad that it’s been taken by, by all of these corruption. I dream of Venezuela coming back to be that country where I grew up and I feel that people are really strong with the practice of yoga. I see my friends on social media when I talk to them, I see them having their classes always full.

[00:25:51] And that, for me, just makes my heart happy.

[00:25:54] Lily: Thank you for sharing about Venezuela with us, Carlos. Can you also share your offerings that you offer online and in person, in case our listeners want to tap into them and to get to know you better as well?

Carlos offerings

[00:26:09] Carlos Romero: Yes. Thank you so much. Online at the moment, we have a 200 hour yoga teacher training. We have also these yin trainings, have two different yin yoga trainings that can be done together and people can get a 100 hours education on specifically on, yin yoga, the one of them is called unwinding, basically they both are in relation to the holistic approach to the practice, not only understanding the physical aspects and the poses and the benefits of them, but in addition to that, adding the other branches of healing intertwining together to create a more holistic approach. And we have the other 50 hours called Rewiring, which is about unlocking the subtle aspects of the healing journey. And now this one becomes a deeper experience because then we tap into the journey of embodiment, and then we dive into the somatic experience. Understanding this summer has the wisdom within ourselves as the intelligence that goes all the way to the cellular level and how by decoding that through presence, through meditation to different resources, practices, we can attune into our true nature.

[00:27:40] And one of the most exciting features of those training sessions is that all of the practices are supported with sound. We have moments in which we offer in some journeys, just the journey itself with sounds and other episodes in which is the practice itself with these sound journeys that we have been recording in our in-person expressions of in a hundred hour trainings embody we have a collective of musicians, including myself and three or four more in which we play cellos and he tires and chance from different traditions Sanskrit, Spanish, English.

[00:28:25] Flutes, hand pans, hand drums, medicine, music, and all of these are covered and held by binaural frequencies. And so facial frequencies, which are all in relation to brain wave enchantment, drop into the Gamma and Delta’s brain waves, like the most deeper brain waves that are connected to our subconscious and by decoding our subconscious through all of these resources.

[00:28:55] So those are the programs that we run online. They can be done at a self pace at any time. And I feel really blessed that this is an opportunity for this vision of Livin’ Inspired to continue to reach more and more people out there.

[00:29:13] And we have a few trainings in person trainings happening. We basically have 500 hour education, we have 200 hour, foundational reading passage in person, which is happening from July the 10th to the 31st. We experienced the training in Bali at the Yoga Barn in Ubud, and on the other hand, we have our 300 hour program, which is happening from May 8th to the 18th. And we have the other 100 hours called Infinite Circularity to dive into the linear practices and also into nonlinear practices and how we can integrate them into a journey of expansion of consciousness to the body.

[00:29:57] It’s all about ultimately understanding flow state and the art of embodiment. So excited about them and especially with the synchronicity of some countries opening up more and Bali opening as well to welcome anyone that feels it’s ready to have a break from home and jump into an adventure in Bali and get nourished by the beautiful energy of the land, the devotion of the people and the depth of these incredible journeys that we host in here to come and join us.

[00:30:31] Lily: Amazing. Thank you so much, Carlos, for sharing your offerings with our listeners and all of the ways that they can tap into your vast well of knowledge and generosity. So thank you so much for being with me today. It has been a true joy to be with you.

[00:30:50] Carlos Romero: Thank you so much. I’m so grateful to be part of this journey. I’m looking forward to continuing to connect. And I hope these, this opportunity with this podcast inspired others to continue in the journey with these powerful ancient art of yoga, thank you so much. 

Wild Yoga Tribe outro

[00:31:11] Lily: Thank you so much for tuning into this episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast. My conversation with Carlos Romero, a yoga teacher from Venezuela and the founder of Livin’ Inspired was so illuminative, as we took a deep dive into the synchronicity and transformation that has occurred on Carlos’s path of yoga.

[00:31:33] Carlos defined yoga as intimacy as moving closer to ourselves and experiencing union and connection with our own lungs, our own hearts and our own selves. I hope this conversation made you want to turn a little closer towards yourself. 

[00:31:51] Thank you for listening to the Wild Yoga Tribe podcast, be well. 

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