Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. I'm so excited to bring you today's episode. But first, I want to remind you that September 14th is the date that my 200-hour in-studio study program launches. This is also our optional teacher studies, but you do not have to think of it as a teacher training program.

At its core, it is a study program for yourself.

So if you have been wanting to learn yoga a little more in depth beyond your asana classes and you want to live your yoga, you want to cultivate daily practices to enrich your life

with yoga, then this program is something you should

consider. It is starting on September 14th. It goes up to mid-December. It is a local program.

So if you are a listener and not local to Seattle, this may not be applicable for you. I will have

some online trainings coming up at a future point.

But this particular study program, which I am really, it's the most special time of

the year for me, to sit in the studio and to get nerdy about all things yoga.

If you are on Instagram, you would have seen me post snippets of me teaching over the past many months.

Those are snippets from last year's

program. It is truly transformational. It is enriching. And if you love yoga and you're looking

at a way to deepen your own relationship and journey with yoga and with yourself,

then please consider this program. All the details are in the description below.

Now, let's get to today's podcast. For the first time, we have a Swamiji on the show.

Swami Chidananda is a spiritual educator and a monk from the Vedic-Hari Bhakta lineage and he holds

the distinguished title of a Swami. He's been studying the

yoga sutras and the Bhagavad Gita in depth. And I met Swamiji at another event a few months ago and

that's how I got connected with him. He also hosts a podcast called The Path of a Swami, which he talks about

a little more at the end of today's show. Swamiji has in-depth understanding of the Bhagwatra

and yoga and many aspects of yoga. So I was very keen to have him on the show today to share his wisdom with us.

I especially wanted to go into the topic of peace and shanty because of everything that's going

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