Waching daily Mar 6 2018

Hi, I'm David Robson talking about Ashtanga yoga.

I would like to talk about the importance of asana.

If you know much about Ashtanga Yoga, you know that we like asana.

and sometimes, I hear that as a criticism.

It's too physical. It is very physical. We put a lot of emphasis on a daily physical practice.

And, maybe it's not obvious what the value of that is.

It's easy to think of Ashtanga Yoga, the daily practice, six days a week, as an exercise routine.

You show up every day, you go through these intense postures and vinyasas movements,

and over time you get very healthy.

That physical health is a byproduct of a daily practice.

But it's not to say that the asanas aren't important.

First it's very important to be healthy. It makes it so much easier to walk this path if you're healthy.

You're less distracted with sickness and weakness, and it's easier to focus.

As you become more sensitive,

as purification takes place over the practice,

you begin to feel that you want that health in your body.

It becomes very important to you.

But the asana, ultimately, isn't really about our bodies

We use asanas as screens.

Screens to reveal the impermanent nature of our thoughts and feelings.

In Ashtanga you're given a set sequence of postures and when you master

"master," the last pose that you're doing you're given another one.

You're always kept at your edge this way.

And we do this so that you're always practicing non-attachment; equanimity.

We're always learning how to work just at our edge, right before were overwhelmed.

And so we're using asanas, in a way, to mine different feelings,

different sensations and extend our capacity for equanimity.

We're using all those physical contortions to teach ourselves to be calm

And this is how it's different than exercise.

You're not basing the value of the asana on the performance of it,

but on your ability to maintain calm mind.

So even though the goal isn't asana,

asana is everything in our practice.

Asana is what we use as the focus of our meditation.

So asana is very important, but paradoxically the asana itself isn't important at all.

I'm David Robson, thanks for listening.

For more infomation >> Why is Asana Important - Duration: 3:31.

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Etheal Founder Viktor Tabori is helping users find healthcare with blockchain - Duration: 3:16.

Hello I'm Viktor Tabori, I'm from Hungary, and I'm the co-founder and CTO of Etheal which

is basically, we are building the Booking.com of healthcare.

You can book any medical treatment in any country with a 50% discount.

So we've done this in the last four years, and actually we are focussing on blockchain

in the last one year.

What do you do, and how does it work in the crypto sphere?

So everyone asks me how we give this discount, and the answer is we don't because the discount

is already there in the market.

Because if you come now to Hungary, to get your dental work done, you can get it with

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And this happens because Hungary is very specialised in the dental care they provide.

What's not there is the trust.

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You search online or you ask for some advice or some recommendation, right?

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So trust is really missing, and we use blockchain technology, which is basically a trust technology,

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What problem are you solving that other people aren't solving?

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As far as we saw, no project that is tackling this issue to make it very easy for you to

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And you can read reviews in your own native language, so no one is solving this issue.

We are basically building a marketplace where we connect patients and care providers.