Chats Over Coffee With My Yoga Teacher

The yoga teacher Kayla McCormack and the comedian Peter Brush return to chat about the hips, memory and the perception of time. Discussion includes stuff on hip anatomy, flexibility, whether emotions are really stored in our hips as some in the yoga community believe, the fallibility of our memories, repressed memories and the scandal of the recovered memory movement, Freud, when we form our fundamental beliefs, if our political opinions and morals are formed around hardwired personality traits, whether it's harder to change our minds on things in the internet age when we all have a written record of our past opinions, if time really does speed up as we get older and why, plus there's a stupid joke about Eartha Kitt.Peter’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/Kayla’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/Peter’s Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.comKayla’s Website: https://www.kaylamccormack.com

Peter and Kayla (a yoga teacher and a stand-up comedian) chat about what EFT tapping is, and its possible therapeutic benefits. Also discussed are acupuncture and meridian lines, Chinese medicine, how the geography of a region may affect the culture of the people who live there, echinacea, placebos and the problem of self-reporting in medical studies, limiting beliefs, the genuine positive effects of priming in a yoga class, and what those ancestry websites are doing with all of our DNA. Also Peter scratches his car and due to his meditation practise is definitely not dwelling on it and barely mentions it continuously throughout the episode.Kayla's Website: https://www.kaylamccormack.comPeter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

In this episode a yoga teacher (Kayla) and a comedian (Peter) chat about aging, whether western society actually reveres the elderly, lost knowledge, the invention of the teenager, living in a high-tech image-based culture, if solar flares will knock out all of our technology one day, cycles of fashion and political thought, the demographics of people in political life, representative democracy vs direct democracy vs communism, extended adolescence, whether we're ever actually ready to do anything until we've done it, resilience and triumphing over adversity, the lack of medical research that has been done on women, emotions creating narrative shortcuts in the brain, and mullets. Phew, that was a mouthful. So yeah, loads of stuff this month, hope you enjoy.Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.comPeter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/Subscribe to Peter's Substack here: peterbrush.substack.com

A yoga teacher (Kayla) and her faithful student (Peter, who is also a comedian btw) discuss resolutions, how easy it is to set and keep them, whether having a moral focus underpinning a resolution makes it easier to keep rather than just setting a specific goal, fake meats, the ethics of certain diets, the flaws and potential politicisation of nutritional information, the naturalistic fallacy, eunuchs, the menopause, the opposite of green, and the demonisation of sugar.Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.comPeter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/Subscribe to Peter's Substack here: peterbrush.substack.com

In this episode Peter and Kayla (comedian and yoga teacher, respectively) chat about the abdominal muscles, what and where they are, the benefits of maintaining healthy ones to help breathing and posture, and whether or not we should all be aiming to get a 6 pack. Also discussed are whether we live in a pro or an anti-natal society, aging and population control, vicariously living your holiday through Instagram and looking good naked.Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.comPeter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/Subscribe to Peter's Substack here: peterbrush.substack.com

Your favourite yoga teacher and comedian combo chat over a hot drink about mortality, day of the dead celebrations, having 4000 weeks to live, and how healthy our relationship is to death in the western world. Also discussed are whether aliens are here now visiting us, the feasibility of speed of light space travel, the origins of life, if human beings can really think rationally about evolution, the laws of mechanics, the cynical manipulation of Pixar films and what the best musicals are. Plus Kayla champions the virtues of autumn and Peter gets a new gadget.Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.comPeter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

Our yoga teacher and comedian combo discuss a conspiracy theory as to who might be behind the decline in religion in the west, followed by a chat about mudras. Topics include what mudras are (they're like poses for the hands, kind of) and the different meanings applied to them in different kinds of Eastern thought. Also discussed are bacteria vs us, western vs eastern medicine, whether you can tangibly measure health benefits of meditation with the scientific method, and a controversial black market cheese.Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.comPeter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/Subscribe to Peter's Substack here: peterbrush.substack.com

A yoga teacher (Kayla) and a comedian (Peter) have a chat over a hot drink about the breath, breathing techniques, nose vs mouth breathing, where the lungs actually are, the roots of anxiety as a survival technique, the perfect sized tribe, magic mushrooms, hallucinogens or psychedelics in therapy, and whether you should just level with your kids and teach them all the swear words form day one. Also find out whether Peter has ever managed to hold his breath all the way through driving under the Dartford tunnel.Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.comPeter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/Subscribe to Peter's Substack here: peterbrush.substack.com