Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

When I lived in New York City, I used to go to yoga classes a lot. I swear, New York is like a mecca for yogis.

There are such cool yoga studios on every corner.

Oh, it's like a candy store if yoga's your thing. And, you know, I tried a lot of them.

In Miami, it's harder. I haven't found as many yoga studios here. And I've noticed that the yoga studios that I have come across are more kind of athletic

yoga, like yoga sculpt or yoga for a certain shape or outcome that you want.

And I don't know, in New York, I found it more traditional.

But anyway, that's not the point.

The differences of yoga in New York and Miami are not the point of today's episode. I am getting to it,

which is a memory that I have around this time of year. It was towards New Year of a yoga class

that I went to in the Upper West Side where I lived in New York.

And if you've ever done yoga, or even if you haven't, you're probably aware that some

poses look really cool, right? You can contort yourself a bit. You see these gorgeous photos of

people and these incredible yoga poses that they can hold because

they're so flexible. And one that yoga move that I never really felt so comfortable doing,

but that I saw other people doing who were really experienced or seemed to be experienced,

was the good old handstand. Sorry, headstand. The yoga headstand. And there are different ways that

you can do it. Some people use a wall. Some people use a teacher or a friend for support. But the handstand,

I tell you, I grew up with a very anxious mother and she always said that would break our necks or break

our backs and something terrible would happen if we threw ourselves upside down and that voice is still

somewhat in my head. So when it came to headstands or handstands, both are common in yoga,

I would kind of shy away from a bit or do some form of modification. But the memory that I'm coming to here

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