Motorcycles and Mindfulness with Monica Ramos

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In 2021, yoga instructor Monica Ramos packed up her home and went on a cross-country motorcycle adventure with her husband and their eight-year-old daughter. On the trip, Monica learned to incorporate lessons from her yoga practice - like awareness of her body and mindful breathing - into motorcycle riding.

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0:00.0	I spent May of 2022 in Nosara, Costa Rica.
0:06.8	I've been going there for years.
0:09.0	It's actually where I met my partner, Johnny.
0:12.0	It's also where I connected with today's guest, Monica Ramos.
0:16.6	About a decade ago, Monica used to teach the most beautiful yoga class that I attended
0:21.5	whenever I was in town.
0:23.8	Monica is an incredible teacher with a calming voice and an introspective awareness.
0:29.8	Even her yogi lifestyle, it might come as a surprise that Monica is also a pretty badass
0:36.0	motorcycle rider.
0:42.0	Let's take a moment and just take a few breaths and find our body in this space because, yeah,
0:48.9	this is definitely part of the story and it's about embodiment.
0:52.2	In moments where I would feel butterflies in my belly kind of like now in front of this
0:57.0	beautiful microphone and you, let's just inhale through our nose and as you exhale,
1:03.5	letting out a deep sigh, yeah, I can sense a little, you know, I'm fluttering in my breath.
1:12.5	So we'll take three more breaths like that, just inhaling and exhaling.
1:26.2	The loud rev of a combustion engine may not seem like the most zen sound.
1:31.9	But Monica told me that she has to be extremely present when she's riding her bike.
1:37.4	She often uses yoga breathing techniques to help her stay safe and grounded on the road.
1:44.0	In July of 2021, Monica decided to go after one of her wildest ideas.
1:50.8	She, her husband Mario and their eight-year-old daughter Magenta, rode motorcycles from Costa
1:56.7	Rica to Mexico.
1:59.0	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI co-op studios production.
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