Grab a coffee, brew your tea, crack a coconut, because this is a real “chai-stand” conversation!

In today’s episode you’ll hear story after story about different people and events within our global yoga community, including celebrity encounters, and funny stories about our time in Mysore, both together and separately.

Our guest is not a professional yoga teacher, but is someone known and loved far and wide within our global yoga family.

Joey Solano is an accountant.

He is someone who finds great benefit from his regular practice, but has never had any intention to teach. This makes his perspective on the practice and the community in Mysore particularly unique. Growing up in Cebu, in the Philippines, Joey Solano moved to America to pursue his studies, where he found Ashtanga Yoga in Florida before moving to L.A to practice with Noah and Kimberly.

Joey made his first trip to Mysore in 2004, and he continued to return to India annually to practice with the Jois family, quitting his job each year to embark on another adventure!

He’s practiced with Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois, Sharath Jois, and Saraswathi. He continued returning year after year, not only because he fell in love with the Shala, but he fell in love with India and it’s many paradoxical ways.

Joey told us about his experience with Water-Fasting, the benefits he personally experienced, and the findings of the Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on how cells recycle and renew their content, a process called “autophagy.”

This was super interesting, so we took the opportunity to ask Joey about body image, and how he felt about being a larger sized person in a world of freakishly thin yogis.

You’re going to love spending time with our old friend Joey Solano!

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Opening and closing music compliments of my dear friend teaching Ashtanga yoga in Eindhoven, Nick Evans, with his band “dawnSong” from the album “for Morgan.”

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