Chats Over Coffee With My Yoga Teacher

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.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/

Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

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Our yoga teacher (Kayla) and comedian (Peter) combo chat about the contraceptive pill, how it works, it's physical and cultural impact, the potential for a male contraceptive bill, theories of evolutionary psychology for differences in sexual behaviour, managing menstrual cycles whilst playing elite sport, and whether we've been seduced into thinking there's a technological or pharmaceutical answer for all of life's problems (a pill for all ills, you could say). There's also a discussion about what the best time of the day/month/year to exercise, meditate or write funny jokes actually is.

Kayla's Website: https://www.kaylamccormack.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/

Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

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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.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/

Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

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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.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/

Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

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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.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/

Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

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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.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/

Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

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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.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/

Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

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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.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/

Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

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A yoga teacher (Kayla) and a comedian (Peter) discuss building strength, why powerlifting is good for women, tangible goals vs vague goals, longevity and living forever, uploading our brains to a computer, Derek Parfit and the ethics of teleportation, the art vs the artist question, Peter's celebrity lookalike, gurus, and whether it's wise to have human beings as your heroes.

Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/

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Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

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Here we are again with yet another episode of the world's best comedian and yoga teacher podcast (to our knowledge). In this one Peter (comedian) and Kayla (yoga teacher) discuss wrist anatomy and health, RSI, carpal tunnel syndrome, the best oils, GM foods and the evolution of agriculture, dinosaurs in the bible, a very good looking rat, and whether we could use technology to wipe out all of the mosquitos (and if we could, should we do it?).

Also, please forgive the bit where longitude and latitude get mixed-up, there's no need for emails!

Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/

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Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

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