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Hi, I'm Dora and welcome back to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday. So the other morning I was taking

an online yoga class. Now I'm not too much of a yogi but I do value the benefits that

yoga brings. The instructor was offering beginner poses as well as a few advanced ones and

I thought hey let me try one of these advanced poses since I've been doing this for a while

now. So she instructs us to do the pigeon pose and if you don't know what that is it's

like the splits but your front legs at a 90 degree angle and the back leg is straight.

So as I struggled to maneuver my way into this position the instructor said don't compromise

your breath for the sake of a pose because the whole thing with yoga is that you should

be able to breathe while moving into these different poses and here I was holding my breath

the entire time. So afterwards I was reflecting on that class and it made me think about how

so often in life we simply forget to breathe but let me take a moment to pause and fill

the body with air. We create space and open up ourselves to the possibilities that exist

in the present moment. A few months ago I was guiding a one-on-one session with a woman

named Ruby. I mentioned her in a previous episode. Ruby was exhausted and burnt out from

taking care of her family members. And in our session we were connecting and trying

to create a plan of action for how she can learn to take better care of herself. And the

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