Yoga & Health
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's show is on yoga. Yoga, yoga meditation, the whole thing. And we've got a wonderful, great guest. And I can say that because he's my yoga instructor. And he's really, really good. He's really good. So I'll introduce him in a minute. We've got a great crew. that really helps our shows be successful. And it includes Maddie Levine-Wolfe, Aaron Collins, and Aaron is also doing our recording today. Deandra Howard did the background research for this show. Matthew Campbell is our production person. Sheridan Nygaard helps us with marketing and transcribing all the shows for us. So wonderful group, great colleagues, and I appreciate them a lot. Lawrence Jones. is my co-host for Health Chatter.
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So it's been quite a ride. So thank you to everybody. Today, yoga. And we've got a great guest. Really, really great. Tori Schaefer is the Senior Director of Yoga at Lifetime Health. fitness and lifetime has i don't know how many clubs around the country but almost 200 now over 200 wow almost almost 200 yeah wow unbelievable and a nationally recognized meditation yoga and sound healing practitioner i will tell you this um i've taken classes with with with tori and um He really brings a creative bend, no pun intended on that one, to yoga. And it's very, very enjoyable. It really, really is. And so it's great. He teaches all the different types of yoga, and we'll be talking about those today. He's got a wonderful background in music, performance, teaching.
So thank you. Thank you, Tori, for being with us today on Health Chatter. All right. Yoga. So let's start with maybe a little history. Maybe that's a good place to start here. All right. Yoga. It goes back a ways. So maybe you can respond to that a little bit. Yoga and history. History.
Oh, how far do you want to go back, Stan?
Just a day or two.
Just a day or two. What most people in the West consider yoga today, which as you referred to with bending, is actually quite new. Really, it became popular in... the early 1900s, like 1927 ish, right around there is when Chris Macharia in India was asked to create a school actually for a bunch of gymnasts is how the story goes. And prior to that, you can go thousands of years and most people will relate it back almost to Hindu faith in India. But there's some healthy debate even around that, because that's when the first written word was starting to come around. And so we find it in a text called the Rig Vedas, and it talks about how there was this yoke, which the word yoga loosely translates to yoke, connecting to the goddess of dawn and helping us to be connected to the universe.
But even then, philosophers will often take a look at that and go, you know, that still wasn't an introspective practice. It wasn't much till later in the era of what they call the Upanishads, which was a bunch of texts when it started to be internalized about a practice about how do I refine my own self? But there's even history going back. way further before that in the uh oh the indus valley so northwest india where they'll find these stone medallions of people meditating which was way before the hindu faith even came around so In our yoga teacher training that we run, we often go, well, if the word yoga means to yoke or to connect and is about relationship, when did that first come about?
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