I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to Slo-Mow. Thank you for joining me. Today's episode is one of a mini series that we're

planning for the publication of that little Voice in Your Head, my third book,

That Little Voice is an attempt to explain to us how our brains work. It was triggered by the idea that I noticed that we humans in the modern world have become better at using our digital devices, our phones and computers,

than we are at using our brains, which is quite a shocking realization.

And so I basically decided that perhaps one good thing I could do for humanity is to explain how our brains work in an analogy to how our computers work. So it's a bit of an analogy between neuroscience and computer science, if you want,

which believe it or not holds very, very true because our brains are incredibly predictable, incredibly

programmable and yet we use them with bugs and mistakes we put the wrong

software on them and we run them really badly and that causes us to struggle in life

and to suffer. This miniseries is going to invite incredible wise thinkers and

authors and

and happiness practitioners to discuss their views

of how that brain affects their topic of passion. And today I start with one conversation that I believe is

spot on. Of course you may have been exposed to yoga and meditation in the modern world as I call it the

California flavor yoga and meditation which in reality is a knockoff but not

really the truth of what the practice is about. Today with me I have

Nadiagilani who has written this the yoga manifesto which is a beautiful beautiful. I don't know if it's a biography or if it's a philosophy book. It really is Nadia's story with yoga and yoga's story with the world. It is an idea of how

yoga helped Nadia through her life and through some challenging times, but also it's an idea of what

yoga itself needs if it was going to save itself and save us today.

Nadia is a very successful yoga instructor and yoga seems to be part of every part of her life.

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