How To Breathe Like A Yogi - Dylan Werner - #282

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hi friends, welcome back. My guest today is Dylan Werner, yoga teacher extraordinaire and an author. Breathing is one of the few ways that we can directly interact with how our physiology is operating. And yet, no one ever actually taught us how to do it. Dylan is one of the world's best known yoga teachers. And today, he gives us a breakdown, not only how the breath can impact our mood and our performance, but also explains the biology of how breathing works, how you can implement breath work into your daily routine, and he guides us through an entire breath work sequence at the end of the episode. Despite what Dylan says, please do not do it if you're operating heavy machinery or driving a car, because I'm not liable for you doing weird breath work and crashing. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Surfshark VPN. Protect your browsing online and get access to the entire world's Netflix library for less than the price of a cup of coffee per month. If you haven't already secured your browsing, your data, your passwords from nasty hackers that are tracking you and trying to steal your information or websites that are split testing you on prices for products that you are already buying, what are you doing with your life? Head to surfshark.deals.mw for 83% off, 3 months free and a 30 day, 30, 30, 30 day money back guarantee. Not only that, but at the press of one button, you can access the entire world's Netflix library, all the movies, all of the seasons and TV shows that you can get in America or in Japan or anywhere else. No matter where you are, you can access everybody else's, which means that you're basically 10Xing the size of your Netflix library for one pound 54 per month, something like that. Go and do it, surfshark.deals slash modern wisdom, 83% off, three months free and a 30 day money back guarantee. But for now, it's time to learn how to breathe like a yogi with Dylan Werner.
Dylan Werner, welcome to the show.

**Dylan Werner** (2:19)
Thanks, thanks for having me.

**Chris Williamson** (2:21)
Pleasure to have you here, man. How's Bali treating you? What are you getting up to out there?

**Dylan Werner** (2:25)
It's good. It's, you know, I was actually in London through the whole lockdown. I left Bali to go to London to teach, and that's when the whole pandemic kind of started, got stuck there, got in lockdown. Then I wrote a book, which I know we're gonna talk about.
Yeah, so then, since then, I've been kind of just trying to get back here, but it's been great. It's like the whole pandemic just grazed Bali. So you see like little signs of COVID here and there, like you gotta get your temperature taken when you go into a restaurant, and the staff wears masks, but no one else does. It doesn't really make sense. It's more just like people follow rules because of rules, but they're not really in place. But yeah, Bali is an amazing place to be right now.

**Chris Williamson** (3:16)
So is there no public masking when you're walking about on the street? No. Should be. It just feels like a different world now.

**Dylan Werner** (3:26)
Yeah. Yeah, I know when I watch the news and I talk to my friends back in the States or my friends in Europe, it's like, it is totally different. And I spent, I did experience most of that before getting back here in October. So I'm well aware of what the new normal is. And I'll tell you what, it's good to be here right now.

**Chris Williamson** (3:50)
Where are you practicing your yoga in Changu?

**Dylan Werner** (3:54)
Where am I?

**Chris Williamson** (3:54)
Where are you practicing it in Changu? Are you going to a studio?

**Dylan Werner** (3:58)
Oh, look right behind me, like right there, that little space behind me on that floor. That's where I practice yoga.

**Chris Williamson** (4:07)
So you're not going to, obviously, there's a lot of different yoga studios out there, nice places with bamboo leaves and everyone in Lululemon, and you're not bothering to venture?

**Dylan Werner** (4:17)
There's some beautiful studios here. On Saturdays, I go to Kirtan, which is like yoga music. So basically people get together and someone plays harmonium and someone plays a drum or something, and you sing mantras and kirtans.

**Chris Williamson** (4:34)
Yeah.

**Dylan Werner** (4:37)
It's kind of, it's called bhakti yoga. Bhakti means the yoga of devotion. And so it's a different sector, different aspect. It's good, though.

**Chris Williamson** (4:51)
I didn't realize until reading your book, that there was a philosophy behind yoga. I knew that it was to do with embodied practice and different levels of awakening and stuff like that, but I didn't realize that there was a full philosophy behind it. Can you tell us a bit about that?