Tory Schafer

I'm a little sarcastic.

So Clarence, if you were the one coming to me going, hey, hey, I don't want to be, you know,

converted into anything today, I would typically look at you and go, hey, Clarence, are you breathing right now?

Do you feel that breath?

Okay, now tell me, is that a Catholic breath?

Is that a Jewish breath?

Is that a Hindu breath that you have going on?

That's all we're doing here today is teaching you how to breathe.

The poses that we're going to do are going to challenge your breath.

And our hope is by the end that you can breathe more succinctly and connected in all walks of life.

Now the truth of it is, to go into it, can yoga be a spiritual practice?

The answer there is 100% yes.

And when I say spiritual, I mean,

I walk up to the edge of the Grand Canyon, right?

And you can picture that in your mind and almost you can feel this openness in your heart.

That's this feeling of awe and wonder when you go, oh my goodness, this world is amazing.

And I'm part of that.

So small, but I am part of it.

That to me is a spiritual practice.

Whereas a religion is...