Getting Out of Your Head and Into Your Body; From Heart Transplants to Teaching Yoga with Hiro Landazuri

Hiro Landazuri is a yoga teacher and photographer with a past life in medicine. His yoga classes focus on intelligent movement, which is no surprise as he integrates his deep understanding of anatomy with his deep understanding of the asanas (the physical postures of yoga). While his intelligent flows are effective, what is more impressive is how Hiro integrates his philosophical perspectives and spiritual practice (the essence of yoga) into his classes in a profound but discreet manner, making physical and personal growth accessible to anyone who shows up in his class. He shows up to each class without an agenda or planned flow. Instead, he shows up fully present and ready to teach whatever the present needs of the students in his class are. This is also how Hiro shows up to life. Present. Vulnerable. Intelligent. Open mind. Open heart. He is not just a guiding light for yoga teachers, he is a guiding light for other souls on this human journey. Prolon Fasting Mimicking Diet code Bry10 for 10% off single purchase, Brysub for 10% off subscription https://prolonfmd.com/isreferral.html?p=bdburkhart&w;=FMD Viome Microbiome Test www.viome.com/BRYANNADEE   IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT: How Hiro got into yoga; his journey into teaching, leaving, and coming back again Hiro’s background in science and medicine, and how a heart transplant surgery gone wrong changed his life trajectory Hiro’s family and cultural background and the impact that had on his perspective of life How Hiro leveraged Instagram to build a business around yoga and photography Hiro’s focus on anatomy while teaching yoga and how he helps new teachers expand their knowledge base by focusing on the integrity of the movement instead of the expression of the pose The importance of working through our injuries instead of around them (on and off the mat) Getting out of our heads and into our bodies Showing up and being vulnerable while you are in the middle of the transformation Plus much more…   RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE   Mentioned: DocJenFit Jonni Pollard Alo Yoga Blinkist Connect with Hiro: Instagram: @actionhiro   QUOTES “I was waking up every day in pain. So I decided, what if, instead of looking at my body trying to conform to poses, what if I just look at what is actually happening in the body. I know what the skeleton looks like, I know the attachments of the muscles around the bones.” “People with social media now don’t care about pretty pictures as much, they just want to connect. They want to learn something and feel something real.” “I’ve solely relied on my brain and my intelligence to solve issues. The simple question of—okay, if I am so smart and I have it all figured out, would I still be having all of the issues that I am having now?—so dropping that ego and being like, okay, maybe I need something more than my freaking brain here and my brain is not the solution nor do I have it figured out allowed me to open up and really experience this process.” “We’re starting to get a little obsessed with this self-help and personal development piece, which I think is great, but what I see is a lot of my friends going out and consuming massive amounts of content and thinking that the answer is out there, but the thing is, everything is already inside of you. You’re just looking for a way to figure it out, but the tools are already inside of you.” “You always hear instructors talking about how you can take everything you learn in yoga off the mat. I always struggled with doing that because I didn’t really believe it, or I didn’t resonate with everything completely. So now, teaching this way, looking at and confronting my issues on the mat, I am forcing myself to confront my issues off the mat. And I am seeing how much they are connected.”   LET’S CONNECT Website: Bryannadee.com Instagram: @bryanna_dee Facebook: Facebook.com/bryannadee Pinterest: Pinterest.com/bryannadee/