Hi everyone, it's Arundati and welcome to episode 200 of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. It's

officially October and I hope you are having a wonderful start of this season. I have a conversation

with Andrew McGonigal on the show today and Andrew is someone I discovered on Instagram. He's usually known as Dr. Yogi on Instagram.

He actually was training to be a doctor and then slowly moved away to teach yoga, become a massage therapist and anatomy teacher.

He has been studying anatomy for over 20 years and he combines his skills and experience to teach anatomy and physiology of

yoga in courses worldwide. And he also runs the Enlightened Yoga Collective, which is an education-based

online community membership program for yoga teachers. He's an author and he's written two books.

His first book was supporting yoga students with common injuries and conditions.

It's a handbook for yoga teachers and yoga teacher trainees and that I believe came out in March

2021.

And then his most recent book is the physiology of yoga that was published in June 22.

And Andrew lives in Los Angeles with his husband. And I've been following

Andrew for many years now. Andrew and I are talking about pain and inflammation on this episode.

We've done 200 episodes and we haven't touched these topics yet. And I haven't really approached

these topics because there is so much that

can be said and needs to be looked at when we talk about pain and inflammation. So Andrew

breaks down for us very clearly what is pain, what is physical pain, what is psychological

pain, the role of the nervous system, the role of lifestyle and mindset research studies.

He has such wonderful research studies

that he shares throughout this episode. We look at what does this mean for a yoga teacher

who walks into a class not necessarily knowing the medical history of a student and if they say

they're experiencing pain, how do we encounter this in a wholesome way? And what it means to age with the body

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