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- [Jon] That was fun. (laughing)
- [Kati] 'Cause I was, like, casually met you,
- Yeah. - And so I was like,
he's weird.
- [Jon] No, that was brutal, just getting the award.
- When's the last time you did yoga?
- Yoga, that was like,
I did yoga like three years ago,
- Okay
- For like a couple months.
But I was in college, so I would get like super hungover
on the weekends and then like be over it
for the weekdays, but then go to school
and be too busy to do it, and so eventually I just like
stopped going because I didn't have time.
- Have you ever done hot yoga?
- No.
- Ooh, that's rough.
- I mean, I was in Texas, it was all hot.
(laughs)
- That's what Sean says about California,
like it's all hot.
- It's always hot.
It's deceptive.
It makes you feel a lot like weaker
than what it's supposed to, I guess.
- Simple things where you just hold it,
they're like, you're just holding your body weight.
And I'm like, then why is it so hard?
Because your body's shaking, you're just
in plank pose, I'm like, this is gonna be
a long hour and a half, whatever.
- Yeah, like any time I'm standing and I'm
technically holding my body weight,
I'd rather not be doing that.
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- It's like, I'm 25 but maybe, secretly, 57.
- It's possible.
And I love Shavasana, I know --
- Shavasana?
- Shavasana, the resting pose at the end.
- That sounds more Yiddish than yoga.
(laughing)
- We could say it - Okay, cool
- in that accent.
- Shavasana!
(laughs)
- Like that was my favorite part.
I take the best mini nap of my life, and then I'm like
oh yes, yoga. - Could you define
Shavasana for the kids at home and not me
cause I know what that is.
- Sean'll teach us, he's our yoga teacher,
he'll teach us all about it.
You just rest.
- Yeah, of course that's your favorite part.
- Don't you remember?
You did it.
(groans)
- I don't remember
a lot from college, to be quite honest.
- Fair enough, fair enough. - Including like any classes.
- Same.
- I threw it out the window.
(laughs)
- Garbage.
- Garbage! (laughs)
Well yeah, literally I went to film school
and I was like, I make YouTube videos,
and that's that. - And that was the end of that
- Yeah, I know. I studied like the Wizard of Oz,
three-act structure and then I was out.
- As someone who works for yourself, you recognize
that you can work too much and feel a lot of pressure
from a lot of people, am I assuming too much?
- No, most YouTubers are workaholics,
most of us have an unhealthy relationship with our work
just because of what the platform demands of you
in order to compete with other people.
You just gotta show up literally every day
and create something new.
- Create monkey! (laughs)
- Yeah that's just one of the platforms,
you also have to post on socials all the time
and it's a difficult stressful job.
- That's why yoga's been so beneficial to me,
is because it's challenging and you're moving all the time,
that I can't really think about anything else
so I can't be worried about my list of
well I gotta respond to that email and ugh
and so it's nice to have the opportunity to at least
shut my brain down and relax.
Hopefully this is helpful for you out there too,
and some of the poses that we do are things
that you can integrate, but let's learn from Sean.
Let's have him teach us a little bit about yoga,
so we can see if those skills are still there.
(laughing)
- Yeah let's do it!
- Hey, Sean.
- Howdy.
- This is Jon, - Oh hey there, Kati.
- Jon this is Sean.
- What's up Jon? - High five.
I'm just getting into the yoga thing.
- So he hasn't practiced in a while
but we're excited to learn.
- Hey doesn't matter, we all started somewhere.
That's the key is just gettin on the mat.
That's 90%.
- I know, getting there is the hardest thing to be truthful.
- Oh my gosh it's the bi flag colors.
- Oh, look at us.
- Anyway.
- How do those lips taste?
- Good. (laughing)
- Are you nervous?
- Maybe, I'm tense.
We're gonna get through it.
- But for my audience who maybe they're not familiar
with yoga, what can they expect from a first class?
Or if you wanna tell them a little
about what we're gonna do today.
- For me, I was so afraid to get into yoga,
because I didn't know what to expect.
The fear of the unknown and I lived this life
of going to bars every night and just not wanting to go in
that's the last thing I wanna do is go on the mat
and face what I was thinking, so it was very scary for me.
But one day I went in and I fell in love with it
and about a month later I stopped drinking for two years,
of course you see a lot of people who deal
with their day to day stresses that come to yoga.
So it's a beautiful thing.
I think if you can just do
five minutes with yourself in the morning,
five minutes in the afternoon, five minutes at night,
start off there, you'll notice a huge difference.
I'll just show you some basic stuff everyone at home can do.
- Okay so where do we start?
- I would say start on your back for everyone at home,
just because we don't know about the knees.
So you're gonna start on the back.
- I've got a little ant infestation.
- Is everyone okay?
No one's hurt yet?
- Nope I'm fine - No we're
we're totally ...
- I recommend doing this at the end of practice too,
and it's nice to go into the room before you start yoga
or with yourself, and notice the difference
at the end of class, you can really see the benefits,
you know what I'm saying? - No, totally.
We were just talking about Shavasana,
and he was like, "What is that?"
and I was like, "Sean will teach us."
(laughter)
- Oh, yeah, totally.
- It's my favorite.
- It's everyone's favorite cause they nap,
but usually it's the hardest one too
cause it's like vairagya is a Sanskrit word.
It's the act of noticing things,
but allowing them to pass.
You're letting everything happen around you
and you remain present in the moment.
It's pretty cool.
So we start off our back, just take a few minutes
to just be with yourself, notice, and then I recommend
taking the soles of your feet, placing them
on the floor in front of your sit bones.
And you can just press the soles of your feet
into the ground, elevate the hips up, and just feel
the activation underneath your erector muscles, your spine,
maybe you lift the toes, grounding the heels,
and press into the heels, then what I want you to do
is pull those heels, so you're going to activate
the back of your legs, activating the back of the legs,
the hamstrings, and feel the difference.
So a lot of times teachers will say, "This is right,
this is wrong," and they're so stern on that.
Moreso, we're not cookie cutters.
Every body is different.
Listen to yourself.
Be a scientist, pay attention
to what's going on in your body,
and that is the most important thing, I find,
for coming on the mat, listening to yourself.
And just try to (laughter)
pull your knees to your chest,
maybe wrap your little hands around your shins,
give yourself a nice little squeeze, yes.
Feels good, so I pretty much wake up every morning
and do the same little thing.
Just squeeze yourself, maybe touch
your forehead to your knees.
- We can do hard stuff now.
- I get, when most people look at my Instagram
they're like, "That's yoga?"
- Yeah cause you do crazy stuff.
Yeah, we can do some hard stuff.
- Give the people what they want.
(laughs)
- What do they want? - Jon said he...
- They want it hard? - They want the hard stuff.
(laughs)
- Hands down, and look down at your toes.
Elevate your heels up, just activating the front torso.
This is called a line drill.
(laughing)
Reach your arms back behind your head,
act like, what beach are you on?
Are you in the Caribbean? (laughs)
The Maldives? - This is impossible.
- Do you have a drink, what kind of cocktail
are you drinking over there?
- Pina Colada. (laughter)
- You look like you're in college,
come on you gotta have drinks, and breathe.
Okay, pull the knees in, reach your hands up,
grab the outside of your feet, happy baby,
everyone's favorite - I know such a good one.
- You can play with pulling the knees down toward the ground
allowing your hips to elevate up off the floor,
or you can kick into your hands to bring your pelvis in
down toward the ground, and try to
straighten your legs into your hands.
Do you feel the difference?
- Mhmm. - Mhmm.
- There's no wrong way, there's no right way,
there's just the way that feels good to you.
Maybe breathe into the tight areas,
exhaling bring the soles of the feet together,
this is a Supta Baddha Kenasana.
Recline, (blows raspberry)
(laughter)
And good, reach the knees away from your shoulders,
good so now I want you to straighten your legs
with your feet in your hands and begin
to reach your feet up over your head.
This might be a little crazy for some of you at home.
Try to look back behind you so you keep
that natural cervical spine curve.
(exclaims)
Maybe a lil Hot Wheel car can drive underneath your neck.
Good, roll back down, knees to your chest,
heels to your butt, knees stack above the hips,
slowly curl up, begin to straighten the legs out.
Keep the feet up off the ground,
act like you like it, maybe cross the left foot
over the right, the right foot over the left,
bring the feet in, curl up, whoop!
Okay, so a lot of times you'll see people put you in
what's called a boat pose, who doesn't like boats?
- I love boats.
- Alright, maybe grab the back of your leg, shimmy shimmy,
elevate the feet up, pull the knees together.
Do you feel?
Do you feel anything?
Pull the knees closer toward your armpits,
reach your arms out to the side, pull your toes
toward your shins - That's a muscle
I don't think I've used in a while.
- Oh you don't use that muscle?
- Pulling them in.
- Okay, point 'em, flex 'em, point 'em.
Good now, straighten the left leg up, straighten it.
I believe in you!
Good, and right leg up - Oh my gosh.
(laughs) - Closer, compression.
Okay great.
- I can't wait for the GIFs of this.
- Grab the soles of the feet together, and just have a seat.
A lot of times you can elevate your hips up on something.
Dn't worry about how close you get your heels
to your privates.
Come all the way back
one more time to your favorite.
Everyone wants abs, right? - If this is what it takes.
- I wanna eat chips and burgers and have abs.
- Same. (laughs)
- This is good. (exclaims)
- And you'll come up
- Kati! - So try to use your breath,
- You wanted a workout! - Exhale back, inhale up.
Exhale back, inhale up, squeeze your legs together.
Compress.
Utilize every single little abdomen you have
on the front body.
Pull the shoulders down your back.
I believe in you, I believe.
Just picture a prize at the end.
- We're having tacos later - We're gonna go
until he gets it right. - He looks really cool.
(laughs)
- Do I look like that?
Hold for a minute, watch your shows.
You can go scissor kicks.
Good, roll up, roll back,
roll up, roll back and again
it's actually harder if you keep your legs bent.
So if you could just straighten your legs,
if you could just find it in you
to straighten the legs a little bit.
- I've just never been - It just makes it
a little easier, (laughter)
Maybe bend one. - It's just not a thing
my body really does things.
- Do whichever one works (laughter)
- I'm doing it. - Again.
So I recommend in whatever class
or whatever you're doing, just work on those.
Nothing's gonna hurt more when you're old
and not able to move your body,
so you might as well start now.
Yeah? - Yeah.
Is Sean gonna do cool things?
- You bend what's it called? - The tripod.
- Oh you can put your head down, the tripod?
- I wish I'd started these when I first started,
but let's just everyone start here.
So you press your hands into the ground,
and lift your hips up.
And then squeeze, lift up.
(wheezes) - What the hell?
- But if you do it, if you do it every day...
- You'll be able to... - You'll get it.
- Not just pretend to do it?
- Squeeze your anus, squeeze your anus,
blossom your anal flower (raucous laughter)
- Goodness gracious! - Those are the kind of terms
you're going to hear in yoga, turn to the right.
- It's true. - Place your right hand
behind your hips. - I live in West Hollywood,
I don't know. (laughter)
Then just press your elbows into the floor,
lift the center of your chest up,
tucking your shoulders underneath.
Allow your knees and your feet to splay out to the side.
Allow your breath to slow down.
Allow your palms to turn up towards the sky.
Draw your attention to your heart.
Feel your heartbeat begin to slow.
Relax,
relax,
relax.
- That's probably enough of that isn't it?
Do you want us to go for...
(laughs)
- [Sean] I think you're good there.
- [Kati] That's why I was like, this isn't a normal
(laughter)
Thank you for tuning in, make sure
you check out Jon's channel,
make sure you check out Sean's Instagram,
I'll link everything in the description
and we'll see you next time.
Bye.
- I was like, - Like move the sides
of your mouth to your ear, I'm like...
- Yeah I was like, smile? (laughing)
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