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Speaker 2: episode two hundred and forty eight of Hurdle, a wellness

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Speaker 2: We all go through our fair share of hurdles. My

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Speaker 3: Today.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Hurdle, Chelsea.

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Speaker 2: And oftentimes when things unfold for us in this way

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Speaker 2: Now oftentimes when people think about meditation and think about yoga.

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Speaker 1: yourself grace.

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Speaker 4: In that way.

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Speaker 1: And then that's when we began to own our version

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Speaker 1: of our meditation practice.

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Speaker 3: When was the last time that you really had to

446
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Speaker 3: be diligent about offering yourself grace?

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Speaker 4: Chelsea, Oh, in the last two years.

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Speaker 1: Noble is two years old, and I would say in

449
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Speaker 1: the last years certainly while I was even carrying Noble.

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Speaker 1: But it was something about having this human being that

451
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Speaker 1: my partner and I, my husband and I are responsible for.

452
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Speaker 1: But there was something about mothering and me that triggered

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Speaker 1: some of the things that I was trying to recover from,

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Speaker 1: so like the perfectionism and so reminding myself that I

455
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Speaker 1: had to offer myself grace in order to approach Noble

456
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Speaker 1: in that way. So anything that I was trying to

457
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Speaker 1: make happen, Like I think the biggest challenge for new

458
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Speaker 1: parents in general are just like these milestones and it's

459
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Speaker 1: just like, oh gosh, they're not doing this by this stage,

460
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Speaker 1: or I'm not doing this right, what's wrong with me?

461
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: And I don't ever want Noble to feel that I'm

462
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Speaker 1: looking at him like hurry up, son, we gotta get

463
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Speaker 1: this moving. It's just like, all right, Chelsea, let's take

464
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Speaker 1: this a step back, offer yourself grace first, take a

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Speaker 1: deep breath, you know, and it's just like, everything's okay.

466
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Speaker 1: I ground myself in the facts, and I feel like

467
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Speaker 1: meditation yoga is a great way to practice being rooted

468
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Speaker 1: in what is in this moment. And so that's those

469
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Speaker 1: are some of the ways that I have to remind

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Speaker 1: myself to practice exactly what I teach.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think so many get caught up in

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Speaker 2: the frantic nest, whether it is, you know, within their

473
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Speaker 2: own journey with motherhood or just everyday life.

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Speaker 3: Right. It's as though we have these tools and we.

475
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Speaker 2: Know they're in the toolbox, but sometimes life be life

476
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 2: and and you forget friendly available for you, right.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And it may not look like a child like

478
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Speaker 1: that was my experience, but like something that you're birthy

479
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Speaker 1: in a new project. I remember working writing my dissertation

480
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: way before Noble was in existence, and it felt like

481
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 1: a very similar experience of being like, you may not

482
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Speaker 1: figure this out overnight. You may have to take a

483
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Speaker 1: little bit more time than you thought it was going

484
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Speaker 1: to take. And so that's for anyone who's experiencing something

485
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Speaker 1: that they really love, they really care about, and they

486
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Speaker 1: want to see it happen, and maybe it's not happening

487
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Speaker 1: quick enough.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you need to.

489
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Speaker 1: Take a pause, a beat, a breath and go to

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Speaker 1: your mat or to your cushion, just to just reset.

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Speaker 4: Reset.

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Speaker 2: You know a lot about hard work and patience, exemplified

493
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Speaker 2: by the amount of time that you put in to

494
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Speaker 2: your studies. I mean it's not traditional by any means

495
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 2: to get your bachelor's, then a master's, then a PhD,

496
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Speaker 2: go through all of this study and learning. Talk to

497
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Speaker 2: me about what that journey taught you about patients and

498
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Speaker 2: about the importance of investing in yourself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would if you would have asked me, listen,

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Speaker 1: if I would have taken my class.

501
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Speaker 4: That classes that I teach now, like maybe ten.

502
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Speaker 1: Years ago, I don't know, if I would have gotten

503
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Speaker 1: a PhD, I'd have been, like Chelsea said, just go

504
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Speaker 1: take a rest. So relax, girl, and so that's what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, don't get me wrong, I'm often telling

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Speaker 1: people to remember to rest, to remember to have those

507
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Speaker 1: restorative and recovery practices. And also I know that it

508
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Speaker 1: can benefit us to achieve. It's quite beneficial for me

509
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Speaker 1: to have been a high achiever for so many decades

510
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Speaker 1: really in my life, and the journey was definitely one

511
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Speaker 1: of unlearning what that looks like. I'm here to normalize

512
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Speaker 1: being the both. And so those nights when I stayed

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Speaker 1: up and maybe not have, you know, slept the way

514
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: that I should have, and perhaps that could have impacted

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Speaker 1: how I showed up to the next day, I think

516
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Speaker 1: I would have done that differently. I think that I

517
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Speaker 1: would have rested a little bit more. But then I say,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to do anything different because I probably

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have ended up where I am today. And so

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Speaker 1: it's all of those lessons. I often tell my students,

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Speaker 1: I never be ashamed of the journey that got you

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Speaker 1: where you are right now, and remind yourself that these

523
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Speaker 1: were the steps that were needed, these were.

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Speaker 4: The lessons that were needed.

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Speaker 1: I don't get into that everything happens for a reason,

526
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Speaker 1: because I think that that can be dismissive sometimes case

527
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Speaker 1: by case, but I will say, never be ashamed of

528
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Speaker 1: the journey that brought you here. And when I think

529
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Speaker 1: about the journey those sleepless nights, those nights where I

530
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Speaker 1: prop my central nervous system was probably looking at me

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Speaker 1: like girl, just stop, just stop for a second. I'm

532
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Speaker 1: glad that I'm learning those lessons now, and that's why

533
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Speaker 1: I'm sharing them the way that I do now to

534
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Speaker 1: hopefully save someone a little bit of suffering, you know,

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Speaker 1: like just a little bit that you can have a

536
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Speaker 1: more balanced approach to achievement.

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Speaker 3: It is really wild. The older that you get, the

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Speaker 2: And I don't want to generalize, but that we have

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Speaker 2: for rest and the benefit of just slowing down and

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Speaker 2: realizing that ninety nine point nine percent of the time,

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Speaker 2: it's really not that serious, right it is.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh when I think about things in the

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Speaker 1: past and I'm just like, I was just so and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, I don't even really remember,

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Speaker 1: you know, like when you have an argument with someone,

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Speaker 1: here's like I don't even remember what it was about,

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Speaker 1: Like yeah, And it's just like at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, I think somebody has posed this question before.

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Speaker 1: It's just like, at the end of your time here

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Speaker 1: on this earth, what are you really going to reflect on?

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Speaker 1: And I want to reflect on those moments when I'm

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Speaker 1: with those with whom I love, whether it's my students

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Speaker 1: or my very close family members, my husband, my child,

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Speaker 1: like all of those things. That's what I want to

607
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Speaker 1: remember where their love existed. Not everything that I produce.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the things that I produce can be a

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Speaker 1: space for love, but it's really about those intimate connections

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Speaker 1: and I am usually not present if I'm not well rested.

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Speaker 1: And so those are the things that are really important

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Speaker 1: to me.

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Speaker 2: Talk to me about how you stay present with everything

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Speaker 2: that you have going on right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's definitely a work in progress. And

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Speaker 1: it's that's why yoga teachers will often say to have

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Speaker 1: a beginner's mind, like I'm never going to be this master.

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Speaker 1: I never want to be you know whatever the word is, Like,

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Speaker 1: i am a teacher with a capital T, but I'm

621
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Speaker 1: also still a student with a capital S. Like it's

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Speaker 1: just like I want to constantly be learning and evolving.

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Speaker 1: And so the challenges for me, as I said, I

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Speaker 1: do have tendencies to be introverted. I started off this

625
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Speaker 1: year saying that I'm going to work with that and

626
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Speaker 1: see how it feels to not lead with that as

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Speaker 1: my identity, because I think that that was a defense

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Speaker 1: mechanism for me in order to not for one to

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Speaker 1: not arrive to.

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Speaker 4: The things that I could actually do.

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Speaker 1: So it was just like, oh, if I tell them

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Speaker 1: I'm an introvert, introvert, they're not going to ask me

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Speaker 1: on a podcast, They're not going to want to interview

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Speaker 1: me and talk to me. So it's just like these

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Speaker 1: roadblocks that I was subconsciously putting up so that I

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Speaker 1: couldn't even arrive to the challenges of sharing all of

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Speaker 1: this experience with yoga that I have. And so some

638
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Speaker 1: of the challenges are being seen. That is one of

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Speaker 1: my biggest challenges, and says the Peloton instructure, being seen

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00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: like being seen and heard. That's still something that I

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00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: work with and really it's my own internalized view of

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Speaker 1: what I should look like. And they say comparison is

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Speaker 1: the thief of joy. And I've never felt happier after

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Speaker 1: comparing myself to anyone else. And so again, although I

645
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 1: may have tendencies that may not look extroverted, I'm still

646
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: very much a person who loves human connection. And so

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Speaker 1: the challenges for me are being seen and heard out

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Speaker 1: into the world.

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Speaker 2: Would you mind if we dug into that feeling of

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Speaker 2: should What is it that sometimes you feel as though

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Speaker 2: you should look like?

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00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 3: How does that show up for you?

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Speaker 1: Before Peloton, I was a global ambassador for Lulu Women,

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Speaker 1: where I traveled the world. One of the last things

655
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Speaker 1: that I did right before the pandemic I taught in China.

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Speaker 1: I taught in China right at the end of the

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Speaker 1: year and there were about five thousand people in the

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Speaker 1: audience taking yoga with me. I had an interpreter, I

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Speaker 1: had demos, about five people demoing for me. Shae was

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00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 1: with me, and I just could not believe it. I

661
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: could not believe that I had done that. And it

662
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: was almost like this out of body experience. And I

663
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 1: started to watch the playback the videos and I was just.

664
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 4: Like, who was that? Who is that?

665
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: And all I can remember was just like I was

666
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: extremely nervous, anxious, all of the things, being in a

667
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: country where the language, like everything told me that I

668
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: should not have been there, yet I did it anyway.

669
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: And had I listened to.

670
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 4: The should shoulds, the shoulds and.

671
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: Woods and you can't and who are you to think

672
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: and all of those, I would have never have seen

673
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: myself in that way. And that was definitely a transformative

674
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: moment in time. And then fast forward to when I

675
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: became a Peloton instructor, and what I knew a Peloton

676
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: instructor to be were some of the people that I

677
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: was quite impressed with, Like I would see Robin, and

678
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: I would see Ali, and I see you know, Cody

679
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: and Alex, and these were all the people who I

680
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: was looking at before I started Peloton, I was like,

681
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: but I'm not like them, And so then I start

682
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: second guessing and doubting myself. Even after all of the

683
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: experiences that I have. I'm like, are they sure they

684
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: want me? Are they sure they know who? And so

685
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: all of these mental gymnastics that I'm doing to tell

686
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: myself that I shouldn't step into my power?

687
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 4: How dare I not?

688
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: If the opportunity was being offered and these people fell

689
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: the time, saw my light, saw my talent, saw my skill,

690
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: and gave me a chance, how dare I not take that?

691
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 4: Because what would.

692
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: Have happened was it would have looked for someone else

693
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: to fill that space, and they may not have had

694
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: the message that I know that is so important that

695
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 1: I am sure has brought so many people to the

696
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: mat who thought that they were never ever Yogi's or

697
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: worthy of this space. I know that it has made

698
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 1: a breakthrough for so many. So that's what I did

699
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: with my shoulds and my coud is I would like bye.

700
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,919
Speaker 2: It's so powerful, right, and it's something that is such

701
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 2: a common occurrence for all of us, regardless of whatever

702
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 2: it is that we may be up against or going after.

703
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 2: This constant, unfortunate era of comparison, especially with everything that

704
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 2: we deal with on social media. For someone that may

705
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 2: be in the thick of this comparison spiral right now,

706
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 2: for someone that is in their own battle with the

707
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 2: shouldoves and the kuldoves in the wood ofs what is

708
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 2: it that you tell them to help them get out

709
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 2: of their own way?

710
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 4: Yeah? I always love people.

711
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: I always invite people to close their eyes, take a

712
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,359
Speaker 1: deep breath. One of the practices that I do when

713
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: I'm experiencing being unkind, and that's a form of not

714
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: being kind to ourselves, like just completely doubting ourselves or

715
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: not thinking that we're worthy to fill up that space.

716
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: I often tell my students to imagine yourself at the

717
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 1: age of five, and you're sitting in front of yourself,

718
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: and you're seeing yourself so full of hope, excitement before

719
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,919
Speaker 1: the world begins to throw onto you who you are,

720
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: who you need to be, who those people are, and

721
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: why they're not you, and you know all of these

722
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: things that we learn as we grow up. I feel

723
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: like there's this sweet spot in our youth. I see

724
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: it in Noble right now, how he can just go

725
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: up to a child and just want to play.

726
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 4: No matter what. He just has that courage.

727
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 1: And so I tell people to imagine that you're sitting

728
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: in front of yourself at that tender age of whatever

729
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: it is, and I think that there's like a trend.

730
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 4: Going around right now of like I met.

731
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: My younger self for coffee, and I think I'm crying

732
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: every time I read somebody's it's just like, oh, I

733
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: get it, And it's just like, take yourself back to

734
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: that place where you can be completely sweet to yourself

735
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: and see yourself in that light now who you are

736
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: right now, in this moment, who you've learned to develop

737
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: shame around something that you may not be proud of,

738
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: or something you wish you would have done differently, but

739
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: that person A's the purest point at whatever age that is.

740
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: And go to that version of you and sit with

741
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 1: that version of you, and something usually happens.

742
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 3: Something usually happens.

743
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 2: We talked about the should have and the kudos being

744
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,959
Speaker 2: a big challenge for you as you stepped into your

745
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 2: power and especially as this new in that new chapter

746
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,879
Speaker 2: as a Peloton instructor, what would you say has been

747
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,879
Speaker 2: the biggest challenge that you feaced over your last five

748
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 2: years at Peloton.

749
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: Being seen and Willie really is like, It's like, on

750
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: the one hand, no, I'm not comparing myself to my colleagues,

751
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: but thank goodness, I have such amazing colleagues that I

752
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: can say I'm right here with them, and what is

753
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: it that I see myself doing? And so you know

754
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: that whole iron sharpens iron. That's how I feel. And

755
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,800
Speaker 1: so the challenge, while the challenge may be me being seen,

756
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: me saying the thing even when my voice shakes, me

757
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: sharing the yoga practice that I'm just like, oh gosh,

758
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're going to receive this, but

759
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: doing it anyway like that has been the challenge, and

760
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: what's on the other side of it has been my

761
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,280
Speaker 1: biggest transformation achievements.

762
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 4: In really proud moments.

763
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 2: You will never find someone that does something that is

764
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 2: so authentic to their being and who it is they

765
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 2: are at their core and they will say I regret doing.

766
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 3: That, like when never, absolutely never.

767
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 2: So it totally makes sense that although there is that

768
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,439
Speaker 2: fear of the shoot of the kod, ofs the being seen,

769
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:35,320
Speaker 2: right when you act in your purpose and you're standing

770
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 2: on your own two feet, there's so much pride and

771
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 2: strength and beauty that comes hand in hand with fast. Yes,

772
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 2: something that I do want to talk about is that

773
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 2: I know that recently Peloton launched their seven Days to

774
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 2: Better Sleep series, sleep one of without a doubt, the

775
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:56,280
Speaker 2: things that can truly benefit from a meditation a practice.

776
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 2: Why was this something that was important for you to

777
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 2: be involved in, Chelsea.

778
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: Because I have challenges with sleep. I've had challenges with

779
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 1: sleep again, it ebbs and it flows. I used to

780
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: be that person, I think, like in my early twenties

781
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: who was just like, I don't understand why people have

782
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: such a hard time.

783
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 4: Sleeping, Like I just didn't get it.

784
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: And then something happened and then I started having a

785
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: hard time sleeping. That's something the trauma of losing my

786
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: best friend, like the trauma of just everyday life, the

787
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: experience of being a high achiever who's trying to write

788
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: a dissertation over the course of five years. So things

789
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: in different parts of our lives will keep us up.

790
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:45,760
Speaker 4: But what I did find was that usually when I

791
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 4: was in resistance to go to sleep, I was usually

792
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 4: asleep to something in my life that needed to be

793
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 4: worked on. I'll say that again.

794
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: Usually when I was in resistance to go to sleep

795
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: and recover and to be still and to turn everything off.

796
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: It was usually because I was staying asleep to something

797
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 1: in my life that was a big challenge, and my

798
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: yoga Nidra teacher actually supported me with that. Tracy Stanley

799
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: shout out to her and it was that question that

800
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: she asked. She was like, what have you been asleep

801
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 1: to in your life? What have you been basically sleeping

802
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: on yourself about? And it was my voice, it was

803
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: my own voice, and I think that that was keeping

804
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 1: me up at night because I wasn't living in my

805
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: true authentic self. That was keeping me up. It was

806
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:41,280
Speaker 1: I felt unsettled. I was having issues asleep before Noble came.

807
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: I actually started to get a better sleep practice when

808
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: Noble was earthside because I would go to sleep with him.

809
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,839
Speaker 1: Shane would be up binge watching, catching up on all

810
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: the shows that I would fall asleep on, and he

811
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: would just be like, Chelsea, you're still awake. No, I'm

812
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,240
Speaker 1: sleep And so I would just start going to sleep

813
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock and it truly shifted like how I

814
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: felt in the morning, and it's certainly leveled out now.

815
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 4: I'm actually having an adult life.

816
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: You know that I can watch my favorite programming and

817
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: spend time with my husband and just things like that.

818
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: But I do remember struggling with sleep when I was

819
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: in resistance to sharing my voice in the world.

820
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 4: It was keeping me up at night.

821
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 2: There is nothing worse than wanting to get to sleep

822
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 2: and not being able to get to sleep or and

823
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 2: I would argue that this is really the worst, waking

824
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 2: up anytime between like one thirty and two thirty AM,

825
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 2: and then just being awake and the thoughts are racing

826
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,800
Speaker 2: and you feel as though you are literally a prisoner

827
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 2: within your own body.

828
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, I've.

829
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: Experienced that too before Noble, even before Pelotime when I

830
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: lived in Atlanta, and waking up and just being like,

831
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, why don't you just go to sleep?

832
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 1: And then after a while I just started making peace

833
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: with being up. I was just like, you know what

834
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: you're up right now? I wasn't necessarily going to feed

835
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 1: it by going on social media, and my central nervous

836
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: system is now getting ignited again, like on ready, and

837
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 1: it's just like, but I would kind of work with

838
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 1: being up. I would start to journal I'm like, what

839
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 1: am what are it's on my mind right now because I'm.

840
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 4: Clearly not sleeping. I would do my meditation.

841
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 1: I would it didn't look perfect, but I would do

842
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: things that allow me to work with what is as

843
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: opposed to saying, oh my gosh, Chelsea, why can't you

844
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:47,240
Speaker 1: just go back to sleep?

845
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 4: That never works. That never worked for me.

846
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: I could not force myself ever, whether it was in yoga,

847
00:48:56,040 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: whether it's publicly speaking, to force myself to do something

848
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: thing that was in resistance to what was actually happening.

849
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 3: And that's the way that it's supposed to go.

850
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,879
Speaker 2: Right When you start to get wound up and more

851
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 2: angry about something that you can't necessarily one hundred percent

852
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 2: control in the moment, it is truly just wasted energy.

853
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like I remember, like especially during pandemic days,

854
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: like if you had to cough and you're like trying

855
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: to keep the cough in because you're like, I don't

856
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: want anybody around me to think I and then you're

857
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: like trying to hold the coffin. The cough is going

858
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: to be ten times worth my friends, Or like when

859
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 1: you're trying to not cry, especially during a yoga class

860
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: and at the end and you're just like, I'm going

861
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: to hold it in.

862
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 4: I don't want anybody see me cry.

863
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,839
Speaker 1: Just cry because I promised that it's going to be

864
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: way more of a dramatic moment, trying to keep whatever

865
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,879
Speaker 1: that is it needs to be out released. And so yeah,

866
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: that's why I say work with what you got friends,

867
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: be kind, be patient, work with yourself.

868
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 2: Tell me a little bit then, in this meditation series,

869
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,760
Speaker 2: what are some of the cornerstones, What are the things

870
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 2: that you feel to be very important that help us

871
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 2: get better sleep.

872
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: The one thing is that these are in ten minute increments.

873
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 1: People have been doing these this whole series in seven days,

874
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: and the feedback has been beautiful. A lot of people

875
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: who started they're just like, Okay, ten minutes, I'm gonna

876
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: make this commitment.

877
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 4: They fall asleep in the first three minutes.

878
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: There's something about not feeling like you have to do

879
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Speaker 1: something like, okay, y'all. Just disclaimer, is a sleep meditation

880
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: the goal go to sleep, and then you may put

881
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Speaker 1: so much pressure on yourself that you're just like, I

882
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Speaker 1: have to go to sleep perfectly now by the end

883
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Speaker 1: of this. If I'm not asleep, I didn't do it right.

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Speaker 1: That's not true. So I love that we have these

885
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Speaker 1: ten minute increments, that that's the commitment, see what happens.

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Speaker 1: I also know that meditation is not easy for everyone,

887
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: so anchors are always great. The breath mantra, visualization like

888
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: these are all of the techniques that we use to

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Speaker 1: support us to get more present with our meditation and

890
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Speaker 1: then with sleep meditation. My goodness, like what a wonderful goal.

891
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Speaker 1: Like I know that a lot of people are excited

892
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 1: about their streaks on Peloton, and for non Peloton users members,

893
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: that just means that you are consistently showing up to

894
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: yourself in some way. Sleep meditations count, So making that like, okay,

895
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Speaker 1: if you missed a day of whatever it was that

896
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,919
Speaker 1: you were going to do on the platform, make sure

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Speaker 1: that you count yourself in for that sleep meditation. And

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Speaker 1: so while we have thirty minute sleep meditations on the platform,

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Speaker 1: these ten minute increments during the seven days to better sleep.

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Speaker 1: To me or just like Chef's kiss, it's just like

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Speaker 1: ten minutes I can do that, I can do.

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Speaker 3: That, ten minutes, you can do that.

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Speaker 2: And if you're going to take at least five minutes

904
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Speaker 2: to fall asleep anyway, it seems like a no brainer.

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Speaker 4: Right, exactly.

906
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Speaker 2: Now, for someone that may be in this mode as

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Speaker 2: you talked about, it's like I have to do this

908
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 2: ten minute meditation or I want it to be perfect,

909
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 2: that perfectionism is seeping in. How can they break from

910
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 2: that attachment and really just take the practice for what

911
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 2: it is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I again, journaling is my best friend. I've been

913
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: a journaler ever since I was a little girl and

914
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 1: I was called a diary. And it's just like when

915
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: I look back when I read the words of fifteen

916
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Speaker 1: year old Chelsea, like of even twenty one year old Chelsea,

917
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Speaker 1: and I see how much I've grown, even in something

918
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: like a seven day practice. If you just have like

919
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: a sentence or a word or two minutes of just

920
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: free and just saying I'm just gonna write, right, rite,

921
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: whatever happens, whatever comes up after the meditation, look back

922
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: on it and you will see the growth. And to me,

923
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 1: that's the motivation. Like this is such a personal experience, meditation, sleep,

924
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:22,720
Speaker 1: like all of these things, So only you, only the user,

925
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: only the practitioner, only the meditator is going to know

926
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: how truly beneficial this is. So why not document it,

927
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 1: make a picture, draw a picture about it?

928
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:33,880
Speaker 4: Afterwards?

929
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 1: Like just something to one remind you that you did it,

930
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: and to two for you to be able to see, wow,

931
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Speaker 1: I've really grown since this first day that I didn't

932
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Speaker 1: think I could make it through a ten minute meditation.

933
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Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking of the word grown.

934
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Speaker 2: As you reflect again on this anniversary five years at Peloton,

935
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Speaker 2: what would you say some of the most transformational parts

936
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 2: of this experience have been for you?

937
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: Absolutely definitely seeing my self in this way. There has

938
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: been no other experience where I can turn on the

939
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: TV or turn on my app and take one of

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00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: my classes and you know, I know a lot of

941
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 1: people say when I hear my voice play back, I'm like,

942
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, And it's just like that was a

943
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 1: practice for me. That was a practice for me to

944
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: hear myself and so that has been transformative for me

945
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:34,240
Speaker 1: to love my voice, to understand that people love my voice,

946
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: with especially the sleep meditations as one of my most popular,

947
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: you know, ways that I reach folks. I will definitely

948
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: say the community. I had no idea what I was

949
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: getting into Peloton. I had no idea of the tremendous

950
00:54:55,719 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: just open arms that people were way for me. And

951
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 1: that's what that to add to a question that you

952
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 1: asked earlier, like no one is you, Like how dare

953
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 1: you compare yourself to anyone else? It was just like

954
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 1: they were waiting for me and wherever else you want

955
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 1: to go, and you're listening and maybe it's not yoga

956
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 1: and fitness, maybe it is. You know, whatever your goals are,

957
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 1: they're waiting for you. You just have to step into

958
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 1: and own your purpose of those that journey that got

959
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: you to where you are, and so community hearing my

960
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: own voice step into her power, and just to know

961
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:45,240
Speaker 1: that people who never thought that they could practice yoga

962
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 1: and meditation are now certified yogi's and meditators and that

963
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: means so much to me.

964
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 2: You look back on these five years and there is

965
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 2: so much that makes you feel a little bit better

966
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 2: side yourself in awe. Right when you think about moving forward,

967
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 2: where do the goals go from here?

968
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 3: Chelsea?

969
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Speaker 1: The goals go to continue to normalize yoga meditation. I

970
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 1: think that because you know yoga and meditation proceeds even

971
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: fitness in general, how we experience fitness, especially in the

972
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 1: Western world, that it can feel overwhelming. You can feel like,

973
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I need to learn all of these

974
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: things before I consider myself a yoga practitioner. I just

975
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,840
Speaker 1: want to normalize yoga and meditation so much that it

976
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,319
Speaker 1: just becomes this household practice, it becomes a framework for

977
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 1: how we engage each other. And so that has been

978
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Speaker 1: my goal, especially here at Peloton, at a space where

979
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: it's different, because usually I'm in a place where people

980
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: are like, this is a yoga space, So I'm going

981
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: to a yoga space to experience this, whereas some people

982
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: are finding me because they're just like, oh, oh, I

983
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 1: do this, and then it's just like WHOA, I had

984
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: no idea that this is what yoga was or yoga is.

985
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 1: And so normalizing the impact that yoga and meditation can

986
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: have on our lives to make us more mindful, more compassionate,

987
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 1: empathetic with each other, and also owning our power and

988
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 1: our power together.

989
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 2: Someone comes to your Instagram page, they see you as

990
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 2: a Peloton instructor or Lulu Lemon ambassador. They look at

991
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 2: the numbers and they see that there are something like

992
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty seven thousand people there. When you

993
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 2: look in the mirror, though, Chelsea, what is it that

994
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 2: you see looking back at you?

995
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: Oh?

996
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 4: See this?

997
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: Now that question makes me emotional. I see the little

998
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: girl from Dayton, Ohio.

999
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 4: Who huh.

1000
00:57:55,920 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: I just see this little girl who who had no

1001
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: idea that all the things that were hard for her,

1002
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 1: that she didn't think that she was good enough for.

1003
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 4: That.

1004
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 1: That is the power that allows me to reach and

1005
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 1: connect with so many people, because I think that so

1006
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: many people in this world, and I think that that's

1007
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 1: where a lot of the confusion, the disagreements, the suffering, Like,

1008
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: I think that it all comes from our own internalized

1009
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: view of how we see ourselves. And we're either trying

1010
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: to paint a picture, construct a narrative, deliver this persona

1011
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: that protects who That little girl from Dayton, Ohio who

1012
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: thought that she was not worthy to speak up and

1013
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: share her voice, That's who I see. And I'm just like, girl,

1014
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: we are here. We did it.

1015
00:58:56,320 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 4: All those scars, all of those experiences, you did that

1016
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 4: and they were for this moment, and they were for

1017
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 4: this stepping into and owning your power right now.

1018
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 2: Man, Chelsea, it really is so special the way that

1019
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 2: you own your power, the way that you inspire others

1020
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,800
Speaker 2: to be their own biggest hype man. And speaking of

1021
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 2: being your own biggest hype man, woman, should I say,

1022
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 2: right now, you have an opportunity to offer yourself a

1023
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,919
Speaker 2: piece of advice. Looking back on that hurdle moment when

1024
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 2: you were taking your first yoga class, unsure of what

1025
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 2: it was that you were seeking, but knowing that you

1026
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 2: needed to process the grief and step into your power.

1027
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 2: Knowing what you know now, Chelsea, what would you tell

1028
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 2: your younger self?

1029
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, to know that you are enough, to know that

1030
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 1: you have everything that you need to get over that

1031
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: hurdle right now. It may not feel like it, it may

1032
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 1: not look like it, you may not even be able

1033
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 1: to imagine it. But if you truly believe that what

1034
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: you have inside of you right now is enough, then

1035
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: anything is possible.

1036
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Speaker 3: Doctor Chelsea Jackson Roberts.

1037
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Speaker 2: For those that don't follow along with you on social

1038
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 2: just yet, where do we find you?

1039
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Speaker 3: How can we keep up.

1040
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 4: Your Chelsea loves Yoga.

1041
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: It's been there for so long. It's so wild that

1042
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: I was just like, what should I take? It was

1043
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: really a website. It was a website that started first

1044
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 1: and it just became my social tag everywhere.

1045
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Speaker 4: So Chelsea loves Yoga.

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01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 2: I'm over at Hurdle podcast and at Emily Abadi another

1047
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 2: hurdle conquered.

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Speaker 3: Catch you guys next time.