Tory Schafer

So I might play that a little bit more.

Now, this is a very long winded way of going.

When music is played in class for one individual, they might go, oh, that just completely made that experience so magical for me.

There might be somebody in that same class that goes, that was horrible.

I didn't like that at all.

So the important thing to know is when you hear something you don't like now.

Sometimes rock and roll is played a little too loud and it's agitating to my nervous system, my ears.

That's one thing.

But if you feel it and you go, ah, that just doesn't feel right, there might actually be some stuck energy.

So that might be our opportunity to breathe and lean into an edge that might actually free something up.

I love music, so I'm obviously coming from a perspective and an opinion that absolutely.

I do believe there is a place for silence without music because when you do use silence as a container, I believe that when you do choose music with purpose, it makes it more profound and lets it have a greater impact on the nervous system than if there was just a running playlist the entire time.

I believe that there is a place for rock and roll in yoga because rock and roll, it's going to excite something in somebody or agitate them in a specific way.

Let me be clear now, when it's chosen with purpose, if that guide is doing it for a reason, it's not just like, yeah, let's play some Metallica, right?

It's got to have a rhyme and a reason for being there.

Music in our lives, I don't think there's any other way of communicating that touches a being down at their nervous system and at a soul level that like music can.

And 100% music within itself is a yoga practice.

First and foremost, thank you for that question.

It's an important one.

uh and i'll say it's not it doesn't bubble up as much as it used to a decade and i'm getting old now so it's almost more like two decades ago um when i first started people were like i can't do that you're trying to turn me into a hindu or you know this is a religious uh and