and welcome to another episode in the life two point zero shall hi jackie i said lena another day in the life two point zero show where hopefully our gifts are going to inspire people to follow dreams take those dreams off the  interesting with your show being about you know coming to another for you right you right that happened to me pretty early on with getting into yoga ok and meditation i i work for a corporation i was in management and i had a lot of roles but previously to that i had been in a severe car accident and i have a compression fracture in my house so fashion forward to sitting in the chair at a desk and having that kind of a job in my back had more and more issues with it so a friend said why don't you try yoga maybe that will help because many other things didn't right and so i started practicing yoga once a week then i am feeling a little bit better and i started going twice a week and then the next thing you know i'm taking teacher training and quitting my job wow wow opening up a yoga studio and now eighteen years later wow i've been you know teaching you know around central new jersey for a long time i had my studio for just about that long i have some students that are still with me almost that long wow that's changed you know in many good way yes yeah i really did recreate myself very early in my life i'm going to be fifty so this was you know in my thirty's or early thirty's and that's true and i think the fact that in your case you know it was a result of an accident but i think a lot of people have dreams things they like to do but you know they have for whatever reasons they still have to be where they are now you can start you can start if you know that are you need to take classes take the class now sally if you want to at some point have a business start developing that business plan especially when you still are making an income because it may mean yes a lot of stress off you and easier to do it that way exactly what i did you know i night i was either doing yoga massage and then slowly integrating until until it was profane when you write right and you could now do what you truly wanted to do and i am and there's there's there's a little bit of fear in in letting go of all of the you know tend to know when it's time to move born or do something different i can see how the purse i've always known throughout different parts of my career where you've got to get out it is she gotta move on and i initially was like going from a different position to a different position but you can't always have that intuition is you know time to do something different or move on here so so that being said with having this corporate life and now having this more i would say peace ok in a different in a different type of stress ok what are some of those different like how how would you how would you differentiate t experiences of working with well first of all i'm able to make my own decisions on my my work now so i'm deciding how how often i'm working of the stuff behind the scenes the marketing you know it's still paperwork all that stuff that's the stressful part but i think that what gives it a different type of stresses that it's what i really want to do yeah it's your love right right yeah i love what i do and so i can get through those stressful times a lot easier first is when i was in that corporate environment i had a lot of i had a lot of physical problems i was sick not that i don't catch a cold right now and then i'm kind of fighting with nothing today but i was constantly sick chronic sinus infections always you know because the stress is some even share yoga to people so they have those practical applications on right even at work to to really and you know when you said that it reminded me when i was working every year i would have to take time off  because my back would go out yeah and i remember times having a teleconference and i'm flat on the floor i am i off if because my i was in so much pain but afterwards i mean unless i turn yoga are part of the same thing the idea of yoga is really at the end of the day about self realisation it's not only what we're talking about anyway it's it's tuning in to what is your own true nature ok your core level so many people you know some of your viewers might say well wait a minute i've taken a yoga class not doesn't explain anything so the postures and the breathing techniques or our methods are ways to get you to this place ok you know so in fact if you want we can do a little something yeah ok really  ok so you know the the thing with most people is that when we're busy during our day we're really not breathing very deeply we're not being very mindful usually the mind is very busy right and it's jumping we call it the monkey mind it that's jump jump around for ok all over the place thought a thought and the idea with the practice of yoga meditation is that you can very easily take that and bring it to one single focus now it might be for a fleeting second but you can do it and then with time and practice you know better because i can't my mind is always always going to the next thing or whatever so it's very hard sometimes to quiet i have to listen to music i find music will help me write calm you know like calm it down and not be thinking about fifty million different yeah yeah i hear you and won't get into the reason but if you allow yourself to close your eyes to the first thing i want you to do is focus the eyes on one spot so you can look either to the center of your brow or we call the third eye or the tip of your nose pick one of those spots ok let your eyes focus on them you might find that that's really hard in the beginning just to focus your eyes and then i want you to once you've got the eyes locked on that spot and what you just started taking deep breath through your nose so take an inhale hold it for a minute and then exhale deeply through your nose inhale again through your nose paws exhale deeply through your nose try to do this even even deeper take your hands to your stomach area that you're telling and once you take that deep breath and try to fill your belly on the inhale and then hold and then exhale and pull the belly in towards your spine inhale feel the belly hold exhale belly to the spine will do one more inhale fill your belly hole and exhale pull the belly in towards the spine now take just a deep breath  and then just now just in that little bit i don't know if that was a minute thirty seconds do you feel a little more sun just a little more a little bit more yeah yeah so that's great you feel that rate immediately and with a consistent practice you can do it for two three minutes on the beginning but then you can you can take it long long or longer you can build upon it and then what happens is that  throughout the day yeah anybody can do that at their desk for a minute you know pause the phone had it on hold or whatever do that just for a few minutes and there's something to you know placing the feet flat on the floor too when you're doing  breathing because it's connecting you to the earth right now and you look around ok you know and we don't we don't really get grounded very often during the day anymore we're all in buildings or on concrete with shoes and you know so we're not you know taking our shoes on walking on the grass and feeling the feeling that but there's no i won't again there's many studies about the benefits of just grounding and how that helps our whole system  ok so yeah there's there's simple things yeah people can you know you know awesome that's a really good i know i have taken some meditation classes with you i knew the process was you know i want to take more yo clear that energy out and you know with our daily lives working leaving a lot of unwanted energy so getting into a routine of practicing the postures carriage either will say what's great about the  type of yoga i practice it's how the yoga and it's about creating balance so if you need more flexibility you gain it where you need it ok need more strength you gain it where you know you day and has that ability to create ok yeah you i can feel energy of space is especially angry and you know it's chaotic or it's really call it's really inviting but you also feel energy of people oh for sure yeah you know there's a lot more people talking about energy practices today yeah these are five ten years ago we're in a really good time i think for people to learn about how to  clear energy so you know we're always interacting with different people and going to different places as you said sometimes you can feel that energy in the room or off of somebody's yes and  us like a what one tip let's say we're feeling we know when we're feeling like really frustrated about something or really you have this reaction or feeling that you don't feel is true to who you are and you want to release it because you're mad at something or somebody or whatever is there any quick tip that you could give us or help us clear that that energy out of us i can say i can tell you again that's why this is an ongoing practice right you know but if you can just take some of those deep breaths and maybe connect to hear this is your heart center and maybe if you just put your hands there instead of on the stomach for the hearing but ok here and you take just a few deep breaths and you just send love to whatever that situation person whatever is just send love practice that that is going to change the energy so if someone is aggravating you back because you were allowed the situation to aggravate you you've got to he can't stop the person from a aggravating because that's their only they are that's their last thing or whatever they're into that they but i think it's with you if you're accepted or not except what you're saying and it's the energy that you're going to say i'm not making you affect my space my energy and i shut that off exactly you come into that space like love for yourself and then sending out word as well so it's a two way street it's not to say that me be that situation is not good for you and you need to step away from it and give space or time to it but in that moment you can quickly change the energy around it ok ok that makes sense yeah that that that is i find that if i go into it first with trying to do the love thing it's harder for me i have to go into it first with ok is this situation supposed to teach me something or is this person that came into my life supposed to teach me something what is that lesson ok then i could be thankful for the last and then the love comes loose have emotions right there right there are not always peace loving right tom i think that our energy what we are collectively sometimes it's meant to to be a force of change absolutely yeah because if i you know just kind of we look at what's going on now in the world we can say it's probably a force of change some way shape or form because it's a lot of kind of crazy energy that is are in the world right now so i'm thinking it's the catalyst for something to change yeah and and change right has to come right some kind of unrest right right sorry things are you know right right and then we can step into that but we still can hold that space of this is coming from a higher vibration right right from a place of love right for all a right right right for the betterment of retreats and you do sacred journeys tell us a little bit about that yeah well you know for me i started traveling i worked actually in a travel company that was part of my corporate prior so i got the travel bug early what i love about traveling the world really is that i feel like it brings us all together you know when people are able to go across the world  created this part of my business where i take people to other locations on the spiritual journeys and i call them sacred journey ok and so we're traveling mindfully i teach there ok highlander and i have a good friend that works up in chiang mai why is a temple but there's an orphanage at this particular watt for six hundred fifty kids ok you know we do some work with him i how do you do a locals i do i have a local retreat coming up in south jersey in april ok so i try to do a host at least one local retreats here in new jersey a once a year for people who don't want to travel mass the planet if you had to give us a couple of tips to help us calm our mind and be more mindful of the energy we bring to this space or to discuss whatever to the moment know well what some of those things be well i think it's really powerful to start the day with an intention with you know that creates the energy for your day to day and so usually i'll tell people to you know schedule that in your planner with everything else that is a part of your morning ritual to schedule time to create an intention for your day that is you know what are you little altar just with flowers and a candle and set up that space every day for your intention or your prayer your meditation i think it's important to commit to that and to give yourself that time to set that energy right before you you know something you know some students do it in bed before they even get out of bed they'll just so the hands on their heart will you know say their intentions their prayers before they even get out of hand yeah yeah before anything starts  you know how that happens as soon as things you know yeah it's right right a lot and i think it's also important if you do want to develop a bigger practice to seek out reputable teachers to you know  today everybody is teaching yoga everywhere i think it's great but i think seeking out really good reputable teachers is important you know when there's ways to do that online yeah you know and meet with people and tell us a little bit more about where is the studio and just a little bit about a different classes that you guys offer so that our viewers you know sure see how to contact you well i moved my studio to heights two years ago so we that's where location is and we offer yoga classes for all levels beginners through intermediate studio students but i like to really focus on and the type of yoga where you're really just present in the postures you're more really will carry we offer some vinyasa classes which are a little more vigorous for people who want that but i find that what people really need is just to get quiet yes yes just to get the quiet yeah yeah yeah yeah and so even though we may you so much thing for me and you know given us a couple of tips on how we can quiet our mind right and for our viewers you know we love to hear from you you know the intent of who like to point out community to create a