Welcome to a new season of Bedroom Sessions!

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As we're preparing for our annual Yoga Teacher Training, today we answered some of the most commonly asked questions about our training. Iru Studio's RYT300 Hatha Yoga Teacher Training starting on 5 December 2020, and if this is something you've been curious about, we hope we've answered your questions.

We're back this week, talking about happiness and why need to stop chasing it. Taking notes from Rumi, we discuss the different kinds of happiness, and the bliss we find in savasana.

This week, we catch up with Iru Studio's first 200hours Yoga Teacher Training alumnus Nisthu. We talk about the struggles of fixing Nisthu's downward facing dog, and how she fell in love with the practice of yoga. In addition to talking about losing the whereabouts of your limbs in some yoga poses, Nisthu highlights the importance of finding a yoga teacher to help your yoga practice and how she worked on building the mind body connection since her teacher training with Iru Studio.

This week, we delve into yoga related injuries and how to tell the difference between muscle soreness and injury related pain. We list down the most common seven yoga injuries and breakdown some myths on yoga injuries and how best to prevent yoga injuries. It's a serious topic and we tried our best to be serious in our discussion on this topic.

Continuing on with the theme of mental well being, we invited Mizy Mustafa, a humanitarian worker & long time fitness professional to talk about mental health and fitness. Explaining how her mental health is affected by her fitness journey, Mizy talks about the trainer's responsibilities towards their clients as they step into a gym setting for the first time. We also touch on the importance of taking care of our mental and physical health especially during the pandemic.

In this week's Bedroom Sessions, we talk about mental health & yoga, discussing why Iru started therapy during lockdown and her journey to self discovery through five years of yoga that prompted her decision to seek professional health. We touch on the stigma of seeking mental health and the problematic self diagnosis through Googling. Some of the books that we mentioned in the podcast are Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk Overcoming Trauma through Yoga by David Emerson When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way we Live, Love, Parent and Lead by Brené Brown

In today's episode,Jiya talks about her unique experience of practicing yoga in a bigger body. and how yoga is for all bodies. Jiya touches on asking your teachers for modifications and using the practice for self acceptance and neutrality. She also talks about how yoga helped her with her anxiety and how to approach a yoga practice for improving mental health. This is, as usual, her experience and opinions.

In today's podcast, we talk about why yoga is something close and dear to our hearts. We define yoga and discuss the importance of breath and mind body connection and touch on why many people consider yoga as a healing wellness modality.

This week Dhafy joins us to talk about healthy eating and how to make it simple and inclusive. 

Dhafy is one of the youngest, hardworking, caring and brightest women working in the fitness industry. From her efforts to raise awareness on environment issues to voicing out about toxic diet/gym culture, she is someone all young people should stop and listen to for a more grounded view of approaching health in a holistic way.

Disclaimer: This is an opinion piece and we are not experts on this subject.

This week, Hasko joins us to talk about the wonderful things that draw us online and the kind of stuff that makes us want to take a social media break.

We're discussing what it is for us today. Going into more detail about what kind of an impact it has made for us in our lives.

Our very first episode with an introduction.  Topic is how has your practice or workout changed these past months. Let us know how it has changed for you in comments. 😊