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On this day 14 of the yoga Wheel backbend challenge I found a cool park with a veterans memorial. It even had a tank on display. You aren’t supposed to climb on it but it’s a tank. Built to be indestructible. So yeah, I did. Fun to imagine what it must be like to be deployed with a bunch of brothers on one of those things in a distant land. I don’t support foreign wars but I do have a great deal of respect for those who volunteered to sit on one of those howitzer tanks while being shot at and trying to survive. Anyway, America!

Former Dead Head and daily stoner no longer needs weed to calm his mind and get good sleep. Watch the techniques he uses to find the peace from within. Everyone says you have everything you need. I believed them with everything but weed. I needed weed. Until I started meditating like this!

I often post videos of myself doing asana practices. To me that is very important so that I can maintain my health as I get older. I know it is something everyone can do at some level. Everyone needs to do some movement. This video is another aspect of yoga. I have other videos on pranayama and meditation. But this video puts several aspects together. We did all of these techniques during the Sampoorna teacher training. Bastrika breathing is something I had not done before. Hyperventilations help build heat in the body. I have videos on Kapalabathi, but this includes active inhalations. I did this yoga video at the upstairs yoga studio/shala during one of our breaks. You can see the ocean and palm trees. It is a very beautiful place to practicein Agonda Beach Goa, Inida

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During our Teacher Training in India we practiced in an amazing shala on top of a mountain. The views of the ocean were beautiful and there were monkeys and palm trees and flowers and birds. But to get to the shala was the first part of the yoga class. Almost 60 steps every day up a couple of times a day. This is a video of the journey up to the shala that we took. I hope you enjoy it.

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