The Spartan Mind Strength podcast the podcast for mental grit and resilience
hosted by Vie Binga and Tim Ganley -- Hello
-- this is Vie -- and this is Tim -- and this is episode 6 of our Spartan mind strength
podcast -- yes actually our episode came up yesterday
we're now on Apple and all of those things -- exactly -- we started yesterday so today is
actually October 1st -- yes happy October -- and tomorrow we're flying to Greece so
this episode is mainly (there'll be some tangents -- of course -- and stuff like that) but mainly
going to be about a raja ayurveda look at traveling -- stay tuned we'll be right
back --
this first part is brought to you by global ayurveda conference's bringing
Ayurveda all over the world -- we're going to be talking mainly about Raja Ayurveda
and flying but even though flying wasn't around back when ayurveda was created unless you listen to
astronaut theorists say there was flying -- ancient astronaut theorists says yes -- yes but for this talk -- let's assume -- let's assume that
humans weren't flying so how do you bring in Ayurveda to something that
didn't exist because you can't say that okay they wrote this in the books on how
ayurveda for traveling exists -- it's the same thing as ayurveda's view on coffee and
chocolate you use Ayurveda the way it was intended which is you use it as a
framework to analyze different situations ayurveda gives us the frame
the framework through the qualities the 20 qualities the five elements the three
bio energies and -- bio energies are the other stuff we'll be talking about we'll
be talking about all of this forever but quick synopsis of what is a bio energy
because that's gonna be important for this right -- exactly very important so Ayurveda
says that there are three bio energies first we'll name them and then
we'll analyze them there is the Vata Pitta and kapha the vata bioenergy is
the bioenergy of movement -- the bioenergy is not something you can see
necessarily but you feel it so the vata bio-energy is all about
movement think the air element has a lot of movement in it think the space
element so travel for example has a lot of that vata bioenergy it's a lot about
movement the pitta bioenergy is about transformation think fire think water it
transforms things mainly fire a little bit less water and like it would be
turbulent water and then the kapha bio-energy -- quick question on that so but
does that fit into here being in st. Pete and then ending up in Greece is
that what -- that has a lot of the movement in it and it has -- transform -- some of the
transformation because it's it's the environment has shifted has changed
there is a lot of transformation going on that's that's exactly correct I was
trying to keep it a little bit simpler but and then kapha is the bio energy of
stability think calm stable static water think earth -- where's that in flying --
there isn't exactly that's why you want to bring it in
wow you're on today so the idea is ayurveda says okay look at the air travel
what do you have a lot of you have a lot of movement and you have a lot of
transformation and not necessarily good transformation because another part of
the transformation is the inflammation like as in bacteria and viruses too so
so what do you want to do you want to bring in a lot of the kapha a lot of the
stability and the easiest way you're not gonna like me for this the easiest way
to do that to bring in the stability during flying is to fall asleep
while on the plane -- which I can't do at all -- and most people cannot do
that's why we want to analyze everything else that you can do -- so Vie can sleep
because of your parents - I am blessed -- your upbringing your mother was -- she worked for
several airlines in Greece and we had free tickets everywhere and -- your father -- and
my father was the head of the Civil Aviation Authority and we had access -- so you've lived at the
airport -- exactly exactly I used to go to the
cockpit during a lot of flights and hang out with the pilots -- nice -- what because
tomorrow we leave we head for Greece we fly out we're flying Emirates so we head
we leave from Tampa to Newark and we are stuck there for a while -- and then Athens -- and then Athens -- yes so we'll be in Athens like
Wednesday afternoon local time -- we started preparing for this travel almost
a couple weeks ago -- yeah a couple of weeks ago yes -- because you want to do
certain things -- you want to prepare ahead of time you want to start adjusting you
want to start start helping your bio energies and there are a lot of things
you can do in terms of movement in terms of food and in terms of habits and
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and we're back the first thing is movement a lot of mobility -- mobility
mobility mobility you want to be doing a lot of mobility training for a couple of
weeks before you are going to fly -- Sun Salutations get-ups -- Sun Salutations
Spartan get ups -- and wild table rock pose -- squats lunges -- the peanut butter jar
thing -- the coconut manna jar -- so lots of different movements to keep us mobile
-- exactly because what's going to happen is you may not have the chance to be
able to get up and move around as much while on the airplane -- and then the one that both
of us hate the most is the standing in the low low squat to help to -- yes you want
to put a link on this episode for that -- sure sure -- yeah it's sitting
in a low squat -- yeah but you call it something special isn't it the Spartan
squat -- yes actually I do call it the Spartan squat because it is painful in
every way -- yes and everyone at the studio hated
that one -- yes -- so it's a great one to do -- and everybody can do it and they can do
a modification of it -- that's before -- yes -- now we are at the airport -- so whatever your mobility
training choice is just go ahead and do it -- but now we're at the airport we
do something different -- while at the airport
try not to just sit walk around that's why it's also good to travel light
because then it gives you the chance to walk around walk around walk around walk
around stand just don't sit -- yeah we're going to Greece for six weeks to
set up all these trainings pick the olives all of those things and we're
bringing three carry-ons for both of us and that includes all the computer gear -- exactly and
no checking no checking three carry-ons and that includes yes all of the
electronics so you can do it -- it takes a while but it does work -- it may lead to
some domestics but it's worth it -- on the plane -- on the plane um well I sleep
so I am good -- you should get up and walk -- yeah you should get up and walk just get up and walk like
every 20 minutes or every half hour just move around even while sitting see if
you can sit like cross-legged just crossing one leg at a time just do
something -- point and flex your feet if that's the only thing you can do while
you are waiting -- exactly -- stretch like raise your arms overhead and stretch you know --
don't hit the people behind you in front of you or next to you --
yes stretch your obliques your sides
just do something fidgeting even is is healthy just do that -- when we land --
-- and when we land again mobility mobility mobility as much as possible
and the other thing we try to do we don't always succeed depends on the
environment is go out at a park or something on the beach if you can and
walk barefoot but that depends on your environment -- and that's the kaphaness -- and that -- kaphaness that's a word right -- the
kaphaness oh my goodness I think I will remember that forever -- kaphaness -- that's that's raising
the good kapha quality that is giving you grounding that's the best
thing you can do and not just in terms of movement the walking but in terms of
your mitochondria you are bringing in good gut bacteria but then again when we
say walk barefoot use common sense please and only do it if the environment
is conducive for that otheriwse your kaphaness will lead into
bad pittaness because you are gonna pick up things you don't want to like
bad bacteria and viruses -- movement is very important -- movement is very important if
you haven't gotten the point by now movement is very important -- number two is
nutrients what do we eat and not eat before during and after so let's go with
before -- okay so there are two things that are going on here you want to bring as much
good kapha as possible to keep the vata at bay so grounding and stability you
wanna bring in and also you want to support your immune system against any
negative pitta so you want hydration you want good fats
-- oleation -- oleation and you want nutrients for your immune system okay hydration
you want good electrolytes so don't just think water -- don't think Gatorade
either -- yeah no my goodness don't think Gatorade yes thank you for that don't
think soda so hydration is clean water filtered water and good electrolytes and
when we say electrolytes we are talking Himalayan salt lime or lemon and a
little bit of good sugar to assist with that which would be the raw
unfiltered honey -- as long as you can eat honey -- as long as you can eat honey -- oh by
the way attorney thing if -- yes yeah -- don't do anything you shouldn't do
-- full disclaimer don't do anything you shouldn't be doing or anything a doctor
a medical doctor has told you not to do and so
good electrolytes and if you cannot do honey maple syrup organic raw maple
syrup is the best in terms of good fats you want your extra virgin coconut oil
your extra virgin olive oil careful when you buy olive oils a lot of times they
have canola oil in them -- and canola oil that's a whole another podcast -- yes that would be a very long tangent we would have to go on
so no and since we started no vegetable oils period and then good grass-fed
butter good grass-fed ghee good lard if you can tallow all that and avocados
if you can if they are in season and we said hydration we said fat and now the
immune system to support your immune system the best thing you can do is have
bone broth we make our own bone broth but you can always get good bone broth
from the store as long as it is grass-fed -- grass finished -- and grass finished
and you're usually gonna find it in the frozen section -- yes -- not in the what
is the soup regular bad broth section so that's what you want to do before in
terms of food -- on the plane ideally you -- real quick before we get on the
plane is we cut out any any dry food like salads
-- yep no raw perfect yes no raw food like salads nuts -- that all feeds the vata --
that all raises the vata and that's what you do not want to do and no cold
no we cut all well we don't drink cold drinks but if you were to be drinking
cold drinks you don't wanna have cold drinks -- no ice cream
and yogurt today -- no
no you can have it I am not it's not worth it so and then on the plane again
we stay away from all the peanuts nuts pretzels they are dry they have
vegetable oils in them they are just terrible -- we actually don't even eat anything -- we don't eat the airplane food
we do not touch it we do we do time restricted eating it's not only that you
stay away from any bad stuff that you would be putting in your body you also
through the not eating assist your mitochondria who creates the energy of
life and then when we land we go for great warm home-cooked style food again -- yeah
when we went to Okinawa they took us to a great restaurant and we had -- it was the best
thing ever -- it was pigs feet and some type of -- some type -- organ soup -- yeah organ soup it was
warm and those noodles whatever they were buckwheat noodle -- yes yes yes -- oh my god it
was like the best thing you can have after a long flight -- and that really kicks -- and that yeah we
didn't feel anything we had even way more energy than before leaving -- we
actually had more energy than some of the people that were taking us around -- oh
of course yeah but yeah it was amazing so home-cooked meal lots of good fat
lots of good oleation your good electrolytes and your are set -- that's food --
that's food -- we'll be right back with some more stuff -- yay --
-- and we are back --
this next section is brought to you by Snow Shimazu of air beautiful all about
staying sane while traveling we'll have the link in the comment section of
course -- of course -- so now we're getting into habits and the -- habits -- habits -- and we're
going to talk about before during and after so what do we start doing before
we start traveling -- time restricted eating and intermittent fasting what it is
basically is you eat eat eat and then you don't eat for anywhere between 12 to
24 hours no caloric intake -- and I want to jump in
real quick because some people that are listening might say well that that's
today's fad -- fad exactly -- and it's not a fad this actually this is what what is the ayurvedic term
for this -- this is as ayurvedic as they come it is considered the most important
practice to address any imbalance and the Sanskrit word for it is langhana
and the reason it is so it is the most important health practice is
because it helps your ahara rasa which is considered the input to your rasa
dhatu in other words it helps clean up what goes into your body that will feed
the tissues -- and what that means is -- just do it -- because because this is thousands
of years old and it's not a today's fad -- no it's not -- eating every two to three hours
is a today's fad because that's only ten years old twenty years old -- yeah -- it
doesn't fit -- yeah -- the way that ayurveda the way
that Greek medicine had talked about in the scriptures -- and this is one of the
things that both systems of medicine both ayurveda and ancient Greek medicine
were saying it is the most important thing you can do for your body is stop
feeding it all the time -- and we'll get into fasting a lot because that's one of
the main things that we like to do so let's jump though to travel -- so basically what
exactly so before traveling a couple of weeks before traveling what you wanna do
is have your last meal or your last caloric intake say your glass of wine by
8 o clock in the evening and then do not put any calories in your body for at
least 12 hours which means 8 o clock the next day that would be 12 hours if you
want to do 14 hours it would be 10 o clock so it is really easy to do so
that's what we do a lot well we do it all the time -- all the time but we make sure that we follow it --
exactly -- two weeks before -- and that's why we mentioned when we are on the plane
which all together it can be more than twelve hours we just don't eat and and
then once we arrive there after the first couple of days we do it again this
way you allow your body to cleanse and rejuvenate
no caloric intake means you can have black coffee you can have your tea with
as long -- but I wouldn't be drinking black coffee on the plane --
no no no no no no we do not put anything in our body that comes from the
plane except -- sparkling water -- sparkling water which comes out of a sealed bottle because even the water the
regular water bottles -- can be -- can be -- refilled -- yes -- a lot of the planes
actually refill the water bottles -- exactly -- and then bring them and that refilling is coming
from the tanks which you don't know the last
time -- exactly -- that was cleaned -- and you may be putting bad pittaness in your body doing that -- see I created a whole new slang -- yes so that's
about the time restricted eating and intermittent fasting -- supplements --
supplements we like to take activated coconut charcoal which is again an
extremely old practice because charcoal was being used to help people
get rid of -- poisons -- and -- with that though you don't want to eat activated charcoal
with good food -- no because then you're missing out on everything -- because it's sucking all the
goodness out of what you just put in your body we take the activated charcoal
because we're on the plane breathing in a whole bunch of stuff -- exactly that's why we
take it and we take it like on an empty stomach and -- or if we did eat bad -- or if we did
eat bad because of whatever -- so that's and then krill oil -- krill oil -- we like to take some extra
krill oil because the omega-3s is exactly what you need to to pretty much to
prevent any inflammation omega-3s are really important because a lot of what
you're you may be breathing in or eating or whatever has too many omega sixes and
again we do wait 12 hours before we put the krill oil because that is fat -- exactly the
krill oil is fat and it is considered calories and you don't want to take
krill oil together with coconut charcoal because then you are missing out on all of the benefits -- you just
spent a whole bunch of money on nothing -- exactly and -- glasses -- glasses blue blockers or
blue light blockers this is something we wear a lot when we are inside you know
bad lighting which is pretty much everywhere and we don't wear them all
the time though but on the plane on the airplane and the
airports you just have way too many bad rays hitting you and that's why we like
to wear the blue blockers and there are several out there now we have just a
couple of favorite ones and we'll put the link in the comment section and they
I believe also they look really cool so to me -- if you've ever seen her
YouTube videos you will know that she wears them pretty much all the time -- yes --
next is the socks -- yeah compression socks and air beautiful has great
compression socks they are actually -- in fact those are the ones we use -- those are the
ones we use and I didn't know how great they were until I actually used
them and we wear them like pretty much from the moment we leave our place to
the moment we land -- yep -- and they help they really do help a lot if you have to just
sit a lot they they just they just work -- and then we bring layerings -- layering is
the most important thing at least for me in terms of clothing because the
temperature changes the airport maybe depending on where you are depending on
which say lounge you are at -- like right now it's 98 degrees outside -- yeah -- when we
hit the airport it'll be 50 degrees -- so depending on where you are and then on
the airplane also the temperature changes so again you want to minimize as
much of the vataness the movement the change in temperature you want to
minimize it you want to help your body yes when you are
healthy your body will thermoregulate on its own but why add an extra stressor
to your body so layers work great this way you don't have to carry around
really thick stuff bulky stuff like sweaters and things like that so layers
work great -- we get we're using patagonia --
yeah Patagonia's jackets and shirts -- because they pack up really small so it's very
easy to carry the rain gear and their jackets we take it everywhere -- and they look really cool
they match my sunglasses and then lounges -- yes spend the money on being
able to get into a lounge because when you're doing like a six hour layover
man it's nice to be in the lounge instead of in sitting on a hard -- exactly yes in
the main area it is it is great it is worth it so -- in fact sometimes we
actually even try to get the lay over so we can go spend the time in the lounge
-- yeah some of those lounges are pretty impressive the lounge in athens
has one of the best dishes of lamb and potatoes I've ever had -- and that's going
from that's going from Athens to -- to London -- to London yes oh my goodness -- excellent
one of the best lunges I've ever been in
China's lounge was nice too -- oh yeah it was it was really good -- we were in China for what we had a layover
14 or 15 hours -- yes -- and so we had to leave because it was overnight so we had
to leave the International Airport and go outside and then we got to come back
in right when it opened in the morning -- fresh food and everything -- we hit that and their food was excellent
-- their service -- the people there was beyond wonderful -- yeah they spent forty five minutes
trying to help me set up the internet connection and they didn't complain at
all -- no -- so if you get into the lounge it is very simple and it costs us because
you are you are a - american express priority pass -- priority pass so you're free and I'm sometimes a free pass and sometimes not -- and you are a companion -- I'm a companion
so the lounge is by far one of the biggest things that
makes traveling simple -- yes it adds a lot
and next is grounding right like -- do things that ground you -- do things
that ground you so when you get there when you arrive to your destination go
outside find a clean place and walk around barefoot if possible otherwise
just walk around and observe your surroundings just for a little bit -- and
if you can't even with that because sometimes the layovers we can't but
grounding poses such as one-legged stuff tree -- one legged balancing poses yes --
are extremely grounding and you don't even have to do the whole pose so people
look at you weird -- yes -- if you want to you can but just taking one foot off the ground
will start getting your body back into being grounded -- exactly so if you can get
outside and walk around and observe your surroundings please do that just for a
couple of minutes and if not then just the one-legged balancing poses even in
your tiny hotel room will do wonders they are more powerful than you think
you may think oh that's too easy too simple simple doesn't mean that it
doesn't work actually simple is the most powerful and one of the other things
that we didn't mention but we start doing right about what two weeks
out is no inversions -- oh yes no inversions no -- before during and after
-- yes because inversions are the worst thing you can do for your vata and pitta
bioenergies it will aggravate the heck out of them so that means no head stands no
arm balancing inversions not holding down dogs not holding standing forward
folds none of that anything that brings the
head below the heart is considered an inversion and it's the worst thing you can
do for your vata and pitta bioenergies and you won't know it until
it is way too late -- yeah because it's a very subtle -- it is a very very subtle energy
that it brings in so the imbalance is going to take a while to manifest in a
way that you can realize it because what happens is we do not realize how screwed
up we are while we are screwing ourselves up -- very good
so snow actually talks about two other things that I want to hit real quick - yes -- and
you might have a couple things too but two things that I really want to talk
about is she brings throwaway shoes -- yes -- so when you take your shoes off on the
plane you slide them in so you're not picking up all that junk on the ground
while you're walking around while you're walking to the bathroom so she brings
extra like slippers throwaway slippers -- or thick socks -- no throwaway slippers she does not bring extra socks because
that's going over top of your socks you are wearing then the other thing she brings
she mentions is to when you flush the toilet -- make sure the lid is down the lid
that covers the toilet make sure it is down so all of those bacteria
really nasty bacteria are not flying around in the air while you are in there
breathing them in and she actually created a course I believe on things
that you can do on the plane -- yes yes yes yes and all that will be on her website -- yes -- and
the other thing is that it's a good practice unless it gets you into trouble
with your neighbors is to cover the shades -- yep -- to shut the shutters on the
airplane windows so you don't have all that form of radiation coming in but
only do that if it doesn't cause any trouble -- yep --
you don't want things like that on the plane -- so we are heading to Greece
tomorrow -- oh and then the other thing is please be nice to the people working on
the airplane it is they have a very very hard job they have an extremely vata
and pitta deranging job and you wanna you wanna show that you respect what
they do so please be nice to them -- give them a tip even -- yeah -- so thank them -- we
leave tomorrow -- yes -- we fly out we're heading into Greece we're going to
be hitting the ground moving very quickly
we go to we have to deal with some paperwork right when we get there and
then we're heading to South Greece to pick olives -- to start picking olives -- from there
we have to not have to we get to go to the island of -- Aegina and prepare -- we're setting
up three different trainings yes the first one is going to be with Deborah
-- Deborah Lamber of Picasso's moon -- and she's creating a this is very cool she's
bringing a group of people and I don't know she might actually already be full
but she's bringing at over 20 people -- yes -- to the island to teach knitting and
meditation and it's it's even more than that she's given them -- it is using
fiber and it is a very very traditional form of knitting what she's
doing and you can figure it all out through her Instagram account -- yes -- and
that's Picasso's moon -- Picasso's moon yes -- next is right after we get done with
that group we're then going to do a hundred hour -- a 100 hour Ayurveda for the
mind course which is it's actually a hundred hour course that involves online
preparatory training in-person training on the island of Aegina and then post
practicum that's actually the most important part on how you can use
everything you learn for your own and with your clients --and then after that is a
three to five day conference with AAPNA -- yep global ayurveda conference co-hosted
with AAPNA the association of Ayurvedic professionals of North America and we
are going to have Ayurvedic doctors from all over the world -- we know already that India Canada
US -- UK -- UK possibly Holland -- Pakistan -- Pakistan so we're gonna have this awesome awesome
group of individuals that they specialize in ayurveda giving a
conference on that island -- yes -- and what's cool about that island is in Greek
Apollo is the one who brought medicine to the world today -- yes -- so and there's this
one of the oldest -- the temple one of the oldest temples -- is right there on the
island and we can look at it while the conference is going -- yes so talk about
talk about an amazing place for such a conference and if you
decide you ever want to travel or if you do travel Aegina Greece is one of the greatest -- Aegina is the best one of the
best islands you haven't heard of yet -- yes okay anything else -- that's it -- so -- next time --
we will be either doing this in Greece we might be doing this in -- Newark
Newark -- it depends -- but will be on the road thank you so much -- much much love from
both of us namaste kala may we all be well
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