this is Damon from NLP gym and i'm in new orleans louisiana on new year's eve
and there is fireworks going off all around here right now a long day today I
got to interview Melanie Fawer of Ashtanga yoga a world-renowned yogi and yoga
instructor and that was exciting for me because she is one of great teachers in
my life and the way that she taught me stronger yoga is really would made my
journey in NLP so rapid and learning and help you so quickly and so fast was
basically understanding how to really practice something and that is what we
discuss here in this video is how to practice and what the product would
practice really is and how to apply that to NLP so enjoy this video also make
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so i usually do an introduction to go to that moment let's just talk about what I
want to talk about wait wait can't we put the bird away have the WR this is
damon from NLP gym and i am here with Melanie Fawer renowned Ashtanga Yogi and
we're gonna do some overlap here with NLP and yoga and I often refer to NLP as
yoga for the mind we're going to talk a little bit about yoga for the body and
how that has affected my practice with NLP and how strong it has helped me
learn NLP faster so that's what i want to start with and so welcome to my
youtube channel thank you
and so I want to start with the practice of Ashtanga which tends to be more intense
than I found within than any other yoga and repetitive that's what i've
heard people call it though I don't feel like it's that and I think a lot of the
practitioners don't feel that way if you stick with it and i think it accelerated
my progress physically but then all the wonderful benefits that come with the
practice happens much faster than i remember when i think when i first
started coming to your studio which was like 13 or 14 years ago and i only went
there because it was the closest one
and once I started price i remember seeing that in mysore style where it
wasn't left class it was people were teaching on individually right away
their own practice which was fascinating I've never seen that yoga and I thought
like I want to try and then I started doing and I said well I'm gonna come to
three days a week said no you need to come five or six days a week i remember
thinking I'm gonna think this is nice and strict in these days yeah and I
remember thinking on our yeah whatever i'm never gonna do that and suddenly I
found myself showing up five to six days a week and then when I wasn't showing up
i was practicing at home
14 years later still doing that still doing it
yeah so what is it may be for you
what attracted you to the practice and what is what do you think it is about a
Ashtanga maybe there are long and still yoga but it all there's a lot of
differences in approach to practice can we can you say about that
oh I think it's got me about saga and the people that that practice it
diligently is the method of mysore style i think it's course it's repetitious and
that's more or less the same sequence everyday etc but if you're holding the
dress jeans with your I guess that's what if you're holding your breath
you're keeping your mind
most significantly on the two then it's keeping you in your present moment and
then there's no past into the future and there's no repetitiveness to that that's
just basically meditation straight you know moving through things and that's
why does someone who actually practices it and experiences it it's not
repetitive it doesn't get more than talk to sequence one by one little by little
the teacher is relatively removed from it in a very direct way and so there's
not a lot of this like talking going on you're not always being pulled out of
yourself to see what the teachers doing you know any kind of levels of
competition between universe next door is really for you to look at your
kind of mirror and it immediately just brings everything into very concentrated
state within a practice shot and ultimately brings you to a state of
meditation a lot quicker than the other styles and it's a discipline i think a
lot of other styles are kind of just doing yoga more physical and this takes
you to a very different place
so everything you just said has been my approach to learning NLP I mean
everything about that we're even just to the last seven she said that I see a lot
of NLP training and a lot of people to attending out strains and sort of like
doing NLP just to do NLP whereas Ashtanga is so
focused and it's about the progression of it and and getting better and that's
has been my approach to NLP and I pulled that directly from ashtanga yoga and it's
like what I guess I didn't understand yoga classes that I attended because I think
I attended like two before I attended your class
it just seems so random and it was like how do you know if you're progressing
and getting better when you're doing like all this free stop just kind of
like glasses yeah just kind of jumbled mixture of things
yeah and so I did the same thing happens in a healthy is coming they just will be
three a little bit that i'm going to read this but nobody's really practicing
let me just get really good and one thing no matter what you're doing and
you had a an NLP you know walking your dog I mean you have to do it little by
little you never
you get good at it. I see it with my seven-year-old when I say go out and
walk the dog you know first the dogs controlling him and how to do it and
gets angry you know I mean anything you have to take a little steps and and try
and do it you have to do anything to get good at whether it's going to read ride
your bicycle I mean you know if you just take it back to the basics to your
childhood you know we've all been sort of given that is tools we just don't
have to take it to the next place and use those tools and those containers
we've been given ideally and childhood whether it is to learn to ride a bike or
whatever and take adulthood is it's the same thing you're doing great
absolutely and you touched on this a little bit and I think this is probably
no reason why one of my students when I teach the middle finger of any students
who learn from any teachers in it already is
they don't want to do the practice over and over nature like okay once i'm going
through the lecture say like language patterns you know
yeah they go I kind of know that they don't want to go and you know it's
really about the practice and we were headed to practice now I really think
that's gonna teach and frankly I mean I think this is teaching enough he has to
drive at home to the idea that the people learning that you have to
practice this and do it a little bit about it but i think that that should be
you know getting printed from the teacher just think it's different
schools of thought. Obviously you feel that
so how do you like this and so with yourself what went with NLP I mean you've
been doing it for how long
I mean not NLP, Ashtanga
and the series don't change the primary series still the primary series second
series is still a second series how do you deal with that for yourself it
starts to feel like I've been doing this for over 20 years and you're still doing
the same poses the same sequence you know how do you touched on this a little
bit more about me a little bit earlier about the pad there's no passengers no
future
how do you do without for yourself to keep your practice going you know we all
get come around humans so it's not like every day I've just put it perfectly
present you know this is definitely struggled at different times but not not
as much as the times are it comes without a struggle and I've had to buy
nature how I learned having a teacher when I was in India get very good
practice
all that said I find when i'm having trouble focusing on my breath or
whatever if i can get back to the Christian a tight rusty you know so not
just like looking out in front of my nose but like literally like no and
maybe even speeding up the breath and not you're not going too slow not
getting too caught up in working on an alignment on that day or you know just
really moving with the stricken Gaza and picking up the pace i find that helps a
lot and I give that advice to people who maybe are having a hard time something
in their life divorce whatever that's the advice I give to them i mean in
younger years I mean even once in awhile today will go against Cruz advice and I
will take my mat outside to somewhere covered on a beautiful day in practice
outside the park by some water on occasions I've even been into music now
if you don't notice target about ashtanga that takes you out of those are
basically distractions and so in a Jewish class you don't have music you
don't do it outside etc so I've never done a lot but be lying if I didn't
remember I went to a
yoga class and they started playing music I got so angry
yeah exactly where my breath you know it's such an important part of the
practice yeah well then it's a good tool isn't because then you have to like
really go to your your cases and your even if you can hear I you know to me
because then it's the reflection of your anger you know coming out in where you
going to let that dictate your practice did you find all that you caught that
don't remember everything was just getting back into yoga and i started its
It's funny.
I joke around i say then you know I had affairs affairs Armstrong marcheeta
understand i'm going to try to other forms but it was a really good thing for
me to do because i realize how important practices to make it always return to it
and because i couldn't go as deep and the other practices
I think that's something i was talking to the more you do it it does it does
show your reaction to things so that you become more witness to your behavior and
so that your mind your behavior does not have such control over you know kind of
trips so you can just map that right across into this so there yet i'm gonna
do it amazes me I knew I had a feeling about this but were talking here to just
got it reaffirms how much I've applied the stronger the principles over to my
healthy practice think it is a good container it gives us a good container
from which to move into the world you know or whatever and and you have to
have a container for anything you do otherwise everything running over you
know so i think that no matter what age you come to Sean that I think it's you
know whether you realize it or not it's creating that
you and I think that's part of why it probably helped you and translate it
noted and nothing I started really changed the way that I saw the world and
it will be the same thing for me and the song away sort of trains the energy in
your body to sort of function a certain way i found it also gives me a very
grounded and of course he was the same thing when you start to train and
healthy enough and I don't need to study at like three different book you really
can't it's like trying to study
starting from a book and you're going to get it that way so they're both very
experiential and the more you do the more it's sort of alters the way that
you see the world and you see the world through the NLP structure and stronger
structure have known that these two have been extremely similar this video is to
be continued lots more great information from Melanie power and how to apply
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