Zorananda, Demystifying Yoga |559|

Zorananda is an accomplished Yoga teacher and creator of the Yoga Connection podcast.

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[00:00:00] Alex Tsakiris: On this episode of skeptiko. A show about what yoga is.

[00:00:07] Zoananda: Each and every single person. Is gonna have their own way of, experiencing the kind of deeper realm of yoga. And what I’ve realized is what we’re exploring is not really yoga. It’s our own inner world and consciousness.

And it’s just that there’s this permission slip that yoga grants to explore that

[00:00:28] Alex Tsakiris: And what yogurt isn’t.

[00:00:30] JP: And down into pigeon pretend you’re an animal, even though you’re a vegan and you hate animals, push this knuckle into the ground.

That’ll make these muscles feel much weaker. Keep your belly button drawn in and take nice deep breaths, even though you can’t do that. When your belly button’s drawn in, I’m not telling you what to do. I’m just saying maybe you want to very passive aggressively just melt your rib cage into a melting motion. Float the right leg up.

No, no, you picked it up. Go back down and I want you to flow it up. Just a little bit of a creepy touch notice that we both have very tight pants on.

By the way that was awakened with JP, who you can find on YouTube. Hilarious, hilarious stuff.

but of course the first clip was from today’s guest. zorananda who we’re going to hear all about and his show. The yoga connection. Here goes.

[00:01:38] Alex Tsakiris: Welcome to skeptical where we explore controversial science and spirituality with leading researchers, thinkers and their critics. I’m here host Alex Saari. And today we welcome my new Dharma brother, my fellow Yogi,

the creator and host of the yoga connection podcast.

[00:01:58] Alex Tsakiris: SONDA is here. Welcome, man. Thanks for joining

[00:02:01] Zoananda: me.

Thank you. Uh, it’s it’s a pleasure to be here. You know, it’s a, a year in the making and it’s nice to now have the opportunity to sit down with you and chat. So

[00:02:15] Alex Tsakiris: this is gonna be good. Fantastic. Yeah, absolutely. So, uh, you know, let’s start tell us a little bit about yourself. The whole Yogi experience, yoga experience, something I’m really into, but also I kind of I, I just think so many, I’ve listened to so many of your shows.

There’s some very interesting stuff all over the place we could go. So mm-hmm, start just giving us a little bit of background on hu who you are. I just learned that you’re a Canadian.

[00:02:42] Zoananda: Yeah. So I live in Edmonton, Alberta and Western Canada. And I’m Serbian I’m first generation Canadian Serbian. So my parents, uh, came to Canada in the seventies and yoga came into my life.

When I was around 18, 18, 19 20 first in the first iteration of meditation and getting into kind of the new age wave of, uh, energy and chakras and You know, John Val Meza deck and the whole flower of life meditation that he was teaching at that time. And what, what I began to notice in diving into spiritual content,