✨ From Celestine Prophecy to The Military, Meet DK! #fusionbodystudio

[music] Hello everybody and welcome back to Fusion Body Studio here on YouTube and of course we're going to be airing this episode on our respective private channels too for you guys esoteric Atlanta and Empowered Spirit Healing. I'm here with one of my besties and my what co-founder my girl boss whatever we want to call it from Fusion Body Studio and also with DK who is one of the most impressive I would say human beings that we have come across here at Fusion Body Studio. It's truly a pleasure to have you. But before we even get started today, how's everything going? I know it's early for DK and me. We're both on the same time zone. He's in Canada. I'm in the United States. And Paula, it's like you've already lived here Saturday. So, how's it going you guys? [laughter] How you doing? >> Well, good for for me. Um I have a few things to do today. Um Oh, thanks for having me on, by the way. I should say that first. Yeah, it's it's great to to be to be featured this way and to maybe share my my story. But anyway, as for the day, well, I mean, it's pretty much just started. I woke up well, well, actually, my alarm clock set uh woke me up at uh what 4:45 cuz I'm trying to wake up early most days to go for my run, but today I was just a little bit tired. I'll do it later. But yeah, otherwise, so far so good. >> So far, no, the sun's just rising. How How is How is our time travel time travel? How is Saturday? What What can we expect for this Saturday, September the 19th? >> [laughter] >> Yeah. Well, it was actually pretty good day. Pretty good day. Pretty chill day today. I I kind of needed a bit of a chill rest day because I've just had lots going on lately. But it was good. And yeah, it's just weird weird weather because it really warmed up during the week and I was and we're like, "Oh, okay. Summer's here early and then it's just went to like all stormy today and I was like, "Oh, okay." So, yeah, it likes to chop and change. I will say in Aruveda the the junction of seasons is when people get the sick that's when your body is trying to regulate and so junction of seasons you never want to do a cleanse during the junction of the seasons. You never want to like you know really do a big overhaul during that time because the body is trying to regulate because the weather is pretty sporadic at that time when when seasons are are switching up. And it's kind of interesting that we are filming this today on Saturday before we get into DK's story because it kind of has to do with that, right? Because Saturday is named after the planet Saturn. And of course, we have heard a lot of of negative stuff about Saturn, but just like everything in nature, there's a positive and there's a negative. And in traditional yoga, I did do a weight class this morning at like 3:45 in the morning. But typically in traditional yoga, we do rest on Saturdays because it's a reflection of karma. It's a reflection of our own integration. And of course, so many people have a very wrong idea. Karma does not mean punishment. Karma just means action. That's all it everything is karma based. Everything is actionbased. And so in and in a traditional spiritual sense, you're you're breaking old patterns in order to create new patterns, which is a karmic breaking. And so it's kind of interesting that we are doing this today on Saturday. We're reflecting on DK's life and his experience and of course everything about about traditional spirituality is founded in the human experience because that's what your soul came here to do was to be if you want to be super spiritual just be super human you know be in your spiritual experience and so it's kind of nice to be able to reflect on DK's life u which is his karmic predicament here right now just as we like we all have one on this Saturday even though this probably won't air on Saturday but we are filming it on So with that without further ado, DK, one of our holding it down for the dudes, one of our handful of men on on on Fusion Buddy Studio. And again, I say DK, the first time I met you, you really impressed me because you came I mean all of our students impressed me, but you came in already having kind of a background in this this this life of a seeker of of you know, you had your own copy of the Bavad Gita. You you kind of had already kind of gone into that. So let's start at the beginning. So who is DK? Where do you want to begin with your life? >> Oh, okay. Uh who Well, as for who or what is DK? Because I always think about these type of these types of existential questions. I think like sometimes when people ask me how old I am, I just say I'm eternal. I don't have a [laughter] age. >> That's good. I like that. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, um, yeah, I was I was born in Montreal, Quebec, um, in like 1980. Um, my parents are from Ghana, so like I'm first generation Canadian basically. Um, Ghana, West Africa. Um, now granted, even though I was born in Montreal and I sort of I live here and I did live here, um, my French is a little bit limited just because I well I grew up across the [clears throat] country basically. Um, yeah, I was born in Montreal. I've lived in from I've lived from the east coast to the west coast. I've lived in um Ottawa, Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan that is um, Esquyimalt, British Columbia um, and Halifax. One reason why I've traveled from coast to coast is because I used to be in the naval reserve in the in the Navy and there's a base on the uh west coast which is Esclam to British Columbia and on the east coast in uh Halifax, Nova Scotia. Um so that that's a little bit about my back and I can go into more detail but that's a little bit about my background. um how did I come to this this truth seeker path? Well um one day in grade 10 um in the school library. So when of course I was in high school um and I liked reading books. I liked going to the library. And one day when I went into the library they have um I see you enter they had a display shelf of the newest some new books not all the newest books but anyway. So, I went in and one day I saw this on the the new books display shelf. I I saw a book called It was Forest Green and it was called The Celestine Prophecy >> and that caught my attention. I was like, hm. And then I think the subtitle, it's been years. The subtitle was in a in a rainforest in Peru there've been discovered nine insights. So, I was like, "Oh, this is interesting." And so that book really got me onto the um onto well I mean we were all already on the spiritual path but that that book reading it sort of sort of awakened me to the the truth path and >> words yeah to like vocabulary words and a direction like >> you know >> and yeah um and the story too like the story in the celestine prophecy and actually one of the so the love seed. I guess the way the book is structured, it says nine insights. I think it's been years, but I think there that's how the book is structured. Each there might be nine chapters or nine parts, but it centers around these nine insights. I remember the first one was about coincidences. It said our lives are moved forward by these meaningful coincidences. And when and as I was reading that book, I just remember I don't I don't remember all the specific specific coincidences, but I remember that uh just coincidences happened that were meaningful. It was just Yeah, that's it. Yeah. And the the f the first iteration is the um because there I see there's different editions. It's the first one that I remember the most. Um, and yeah, these I noticed these these happy coincidences happening as I was reading the books. I was like, "Wow, there's something to this." Um, and yeah, that's what led me down this path. Another book is um, Power Versus Force by uh, David Hawkins. I think it's Dr. David R. Hawkins. Um, one author who's probably um, had the most influence on me is uh, Wayne, Dr. Wayne Dyer. >> Yes, >> his books. Yeah. Yeah, he's he's probably I've read more of I think more of his books than I think anyone else >> so far. >> Yeah, I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan of Wend. [laughter] >> Yeah. A lot of his books. >> Yeah. >> And he recommends Power Versus Force, I'm sure. >> Yeah. He It was because of him that he read Power Versus Force. Yeah. And it's interesting because we have a lot of the power versh versus force concept is also big in like ancient yoga traditions as well about what what does it mean to like >> we call it tapus like to move forward with with intense heat without going into like forcing you know it it's interesting that these concepts kind of replay themselves over and over and over again through different cultures and talking about the the circumstances and coincidences. Well, again, that's the karma, right? That's the karma leading to one one. It's like a leap pad from one to the other. Um, and you know, Rahm Doss used to talk about that. I love Rahm Doss. He's one of my favorite one of my favorite. He's now passed away, but he would say, you know, you can you can when you're going through your life, sometimes things are happening and you're like, why is this happening? Why is this happening? But then you get to the other side of it and you can turn around and look back and go, that's why that happened. >> That's why that needed to happen. And that's why sometimes I think people in the western world see karma as something bad, but karma by it by its nature is neutral. It's just cause and effect. That's all it is. We label it as good or as bad. It's action indeed. Um and so so yeah, so you you very much went on that intellect. Well, you obviously it's very obvious you guys and I'll pull up I had I'm going to pull a substack up. It's very obviously obvious DK that you're of a very high intelligence. You know, your writing is amazing. you have this this wonderful very um very hard you feel deep philosophy almost and I I will say something Todd says a lot that people who go on this path aren't stupid you know oh to be ignorant and stupid and just like float through life right like people who they're >> so much easier so much easier just to be a little dumber right you [laughter] know so you know but we see that a lot with the depression and anxiety usually people have higher IQs because they're questioning and they're wondering and we know that you're also a huge truth seeker in like the global, you know, situations because we're on YouTube, obviously we have to watch what we say, but the global situations of what's going on in the world, which to me really magnifies more than ever what choices people are making, you know, and um and watching people react through fear instead of like through just conscious like integrity. And I'm going to pull DK so you guys kind of see what I'm talking about. I'm going to pull your your Substack up because you've written a lot and and you and Paula both are in countries that I would say as an outsider looking in were a lot harder to navigate than um than me being in America. Right. And so you talked about, you know, the World Health Organization. Um that's why I'm pulling up because there are some words here. I can't obviously cannot say here on the YouTube, but you've you've talked about the forced medication, we'll say, um, which I think most of us are absolutely against. You you you called for Canada withdrawing from some of these very harmful organizations. And so, you know, you have you have a past you you you did serve Canada. And even though I'm not a Canadian, I just want to say, you know, thank you for your service. I think it's always pretty incredible when human beings in any country decide to like protect that country. And so, and I want to make that very clear even though we know all three of us know that there are is corruption in the military. We know that up up higherups there is corruption, but that that's not the people the normal people like us who just sign up to defend their country. That's very admirable. And so, I want to thank you for that. It's very brave, very brave to do something like that. I know they're talking about bringing the draft back here in the United States and my nephew who is going to be 13 soon, he'll, you know, 5 years from now, he could be eligible and that scares the crap out of me. So, I thank you for being willing to to like sign yourself up. What made you want to join the military? Let's start there. What made you want to be a part of that? >> Sure. Um, [gasps] so it goes back to grade, let's say, grade eight. I was 13. One of my friends 12 or anyway 12 or 13 grade seven eight um one of my friends told me about something called cadetses. I'm like cadets what's cadets? Oh it's like this uh I guess the the closest thing he would have compared it to is like maybe boy scouts where you go they teach you things you learn all sorts of neat things. I was like oh okay. And so for those who don't know cadetses is like um it's the the Canadian Armed Forces version of the closest thing I could say is like Boy Scouts, Girl Guides. Um, and it it's it's just military. It's like going to a naval academy, but for when you're young in your teenage years, and you learn things that prepare you for well, for the military, if if you want to go go into the military, you don't have to go into the real military if you're in cadetses. Although cadetses is part of like the Canadian forces, but it's youth. So, they're not going to send youth to, you know, the front lines, but you you work hand like you'll probably join a unit that's um let's say sponsored by a real military unit. So it's it's like you wear um depending on if it's army cadets, air cadets or navy cadets, you'll be trained by you know real military people and just yeah it's just it prepares you for I think at least it gives you a good edge on on life and entering adulthood and and of course you learn a little bit of discipline because you have to maintain your uniform as a as a cadet. Um you learn all sorts of skill skills that boy scouts are learn. So, one thing I learned is that map and compass. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's really important. >> Kids today wear that, will they? [laughter] >> Yeah. >> It's been a long It's been a long time since I've had an actual, you know, uh, compass. But, um, yeah, just learning those skills, developing those friendships. Um, and because of my experience in cadets, I thought, uh, maybe joining the military be a, and it was. Um, I wanted to to join the specifically the Navy. Um, actually it was interesting with me. I was an air cadet for about a year. Then I switched over to Army cadetses. Then I joined the uh the Navy. So I've had a little bit of a taste of all three those three elements, air, army, and uh navy. So yeah, there was a a Navy reserve unit in my city where I was living in Rihanna, Saskatchewan. Um, and Navy reserve. So, I'll make a distinction between um Navy reserve and regular force or basically reserve and regular force. So, you have the Canadian military. Um when they say regular force, those are people who've signed up and they're like full-time. >> A reservist is like yeah, a reservist might be something more like a part-time. They wear the same uniform and they can go away and serve with um with the regular force. It's basically the same uniform, but um uh they might say that a reserveist is like a citizen sailor or citizen soldier, but they're >> like I I've g I've gone I've sailed >> we have reserves here. We have reserves here in the United States. I know some people who are in like the Coast Guard reserve. Um >> yeah. >> Yeah. And it's kind of like for us, I don't know if it's the same thing. I don't know if you guys have it in Australia too, Paul. It's almost like they're on call. So like if if the reserves need to be called in like we have actually a lot of students at AYA that are in the in in one faction of the military's reserve and sometimes they do get called um last minute usually to help more in in domestic things going on. So is that kind of what it's like you're almost like you're part time you're kind of on call if if they need you. >> Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. >> Yeah. And I actually >> with the military >> with the military, you know, it's it's I had a friend, a really good friend u my my friend Mark up in um if you guys are looking for a great Ashanga teacher in Ohio. Um he's near the Cleveland area. He and I rescued dogs together in India. We got close rescuing dogs and um if ever we go out of town, Mark usually comes down and will like whole teaching our shol for us. So, and Mark was a Marine and the Marines in the United States, that's just that's like the top those were the toughest of the toughest in the United States kind of caliber of of military guys. And he um he went from Marines to after he kind of retired, he you know, obviously is an Ashanga teacher. It seems to me, I've never been in the military, but it seems to me that there's a lot of there can be if done healthfully, a lot of correlation between military life and almost a spiritual life because of the discipline, because of having to take personal um responsibility um doing things sometimes when you don't want to do it. You know, I think that there there kind of can be um a correlation between the two. Um, and especially for what I saw my perspective of my friend Mark was that, you know, the Marines were so hard that he picked like the hard hardest form of yoga, [laughter] you know, to keep that caliber up. So, do you how was that in Canada? Did you feel like you learned like a discipline or did it help you in any way like spiritually to be a part of the Navy or Well, I mean, you you kind of tasted all all of them. So, [laughter] >> you did you did the military platter. >> Thanks. Yeah. Hm. Did it help? I'm trying to to think. Or did my maybe my spirituality help my military career? Um h that's a a good I mean because in in the mil in at least in the Canadian military they're not overtly, you know, uh spiritual, but I mean >> of it the training I mean I'm sure training was crazy to have to train you know you you get so unbelievably shredded. I mean, people who join the military just get shredded because of the amount of physical as as they should be. You're going, you could be going into combat. You need to be able to >> Yeah. >> You know, did you ever go into combat? Were you ever sent overseas or? >> I've been I've sailed overseas, but not into any real combat zones. >> Yeah. >> And so, I'm kind of curious, DK, if you tried all three of them. What What made you like the Navy? What did you like about the Navy the best? Well, I tried um I did like I did aircadets as a cadet. I did I wasn't really in the real air force as an adult. I I did join army for like a short time. Um but navy I just wanted to try something a little different I guess. Um I mean there was a n Oh, there was also an army unit in my city too. Actually probably more than once. I could have joined army. Um actually I did join army but um yeah I switched over to navy. I just was just just wanted to try that. See what it was see what it was like. So yeahve I wanted to do something military. >> Yeah. >> It's >> Oh, okay. Go ahead. >> No, that's that's brave. It takes a lot of courage to like try something especially when it comes to something in the military because >> you know you could end up getting sent into combat, you know, like and so that that takes a lot of courage to to step. Sorry, I don't know if y'all guys heard that. I don't know what Todd's doing in the other room. [laughter] Sorry. So, so is that are you do you find yourself in life DK? I mean, obviously your parents immigrated. You obviously have courage and bravery in your DNA obviously if your parents were a able to pick up and move from Ghana to Canada to a totally different environment, different country, um different weather. And so, obviously, that's part of your inherited DNA. Do but do you find yourself attempting break? Do you like Are you an adrenaline junkie? Do you like finding things that challenge you? >> I don't know about adrenaline [clears throat] junkie in in that in in in that sense of that word. Um like I don't necessarily do skydiving but I do like challenging things. Yeah. >> Yeah. to like especially um it reminds me in one of your the courses um you talk about Ganesha how Ganesha brings challenges. Yeah. I think it was the first of the sha the 10day shadow work challenge like one of the first >> Yeah. >> So um when Yeah. So when I um I think about Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I think about that um sometimes when I'm going when I'm running and I have to do something uphill particularly um so not far from here there's um one of the highest peaks in Montreal is uh St. Joseph's Oratory. It's a [clears throat] It's a big cathedral and it's like how many how many stories would it be? Let's say five stories at least of stairs. Not not continuous. You go up some. Anyway, all this to say is that it's a challenge and I think of Ganesha when I uh when I have to, you know, run up those steps. Um anyway, so your earlier question about uh why I wanted to join Navy. Yeah, I just wanted to try something uh different. And also, it's kind of interesting because Regina, Saskatchewan, that's what they call part of the prairies. Um that's central sort of central Canada. [clears throat] So sometimes there's always this uh excuse me, [snorts] there's always this funny. Yeah, it's the first one. St. Joseph's oratory. It's But you're only seeing um a po there's still there's more to it than that. um underneath the effect. There's more >> Yeah, there's more steps leading up to that. Anyway, it's just it's a lot of steps. Yeah. >> Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. >> Beautiful. >> Yeah. >> Very beautiful. >> It is. >> Yeah. And you think about [clears throat] that that's you know that's um when we hit that challenge you know everybody it's so funny because in the yoga sutras patanelene never says that it's ever supposed to be comfortable >> because [clears throat] we talk about that you know when you you know if we look at things in life that are easy for us to do you know let's take it down to just physical exercise because everybody knows what that is like for me my hips have always been pretty open my hamstrings have always been pretty open so forward folding hip-hop leg behind the head have never really been that strenuous for me. Your mind will wander, right? Like you'll start thinking about other things, but back bending for me was always the big challenge. And so what clicked with me many years ago was when somebody said, "Well, that's where your yoga lies." Because when you're in that moment of really hard, like running up those stairs or for me catching my ankles in a back bend, your nervous system is so alert at that point. You're tired. You're exhausted. Your mind can't be anywhere else but where it is in that moment, right? And in that moment of total focus of mind is where the meditation happens and where God is, you know? And so those challenges like those stairs that obstacle cuz Ganesha, you know, he's this like jolly little he's got a human body and an elephant head and he like brings the obstacles and removes the obstacles and brings them and removes them. And when you start to see toughness like that like those stairs you know as as an ability to be in the moment to be focused on in that what you are doing that onepointed attention all of a sudden life starts looking different you stop kind of being a victim and you start seeing the the unique uniqueness of situations for your spiritual growth. And so I love that you brought that up because >> um there's this big trail Todd and I do a lot and at the end I actually just filmed it to put up on Fusion Body the last two miles >> you're like literally just climbing up the mountain and you've already been on the mountain for like three hours so you're tired. I first time we did it I had to push Robbie our dog up like butt up the mountain and Todd said one time we were standing at the last two miles and Todd was like well this is where the practice really happens like this is what counts. This is where it counts. All that stuff before that just warmed us up. This is where it counts. So when you hit those trail, those stairs, it's like this is where the grit happens. This is where the mind the the mind has the mind's like trying to negotiate with you like a little terrorist trying to negotiate with you to get you to stop, but you keep pushing forward. And so I love that you brought that up. That's so and I think the military can be a lot like that too. like taking challenges the Navy like >> where you you that's you have to buckle in and settle into it and just you know accept the predicament that you're in which is a lot of the Bavagita now tell us because you you pulled the Bagita right and that's one of the most life-changing books I've ever read speaking of military it's a war called the song of God but it's literally on it takes place on a battlefield and so what led you to the did you read the whole Mahabarata or was it just the Bavagita what led you to at >> so yeah so one of in one of Wayne Dyer's books he mentioned something called Bhagad Gita >> he's talked about lots of you know spiritual books and poems and all that so I remember reading coming across the the name Bhagad Gita I thought okay that's interesting so one day maybe a few years later I was in the US um because my ship had had sailed there maybe in Seattle or something I was I was walking around I saw someone dressed rather interestingly and he had a number of books that he was off selling offering for a donation. I think one of them was called Bhagad Gita specifically the one called as it is. The as it is version is by um uh well Prabupa anyway the founder of um Escon the international society of Krishna consciousness but anyway it was called Bhagat Gita as it is. So I said, "Hey, Alred Gates, I've heard of that book." Yeah, let me I gave him a donation. I was like, "Yeah, let me take it." And took with me back to the ship. I didn't do much. It was just nice to have. Right. So, and I of course I intended to to read it and still sort of slowly making my way through it. But anyway, that's that's how [clears throat] I first got one was uh in the in the US actually. And um so I've had it I I know it's 18 chapters. I'm reading a number of things at the same time, but I'm slowly making my way through it. >> Yeah, that's >> it's and that's good because the Bhagavad Gita itself it should be read over and over and over again. You should slow down because it is part of a larger book called the Mahabarata. But the Bhagavad Gita is literally the guy Arjuna is on a on the battlefield and he's facing off. He's got to fight and it it kind of it kind of mirrors what's it's really about the internal you know it's all about your internal but it actually kind of mirrors what where we are. We're kind of in the Bavabad Gita in our life right now. We can kind of segue into that because Arjuna is standing on the battlefield and throughout the whole Mahabarata leading up to Bagabagita, he's tried everything to negotiate like a peace deal with his cousins for this land. And it's gotten to the point where it's come down to there has to be a war. and he's standing on the battlefield and he's looking across the field at people he loves his cousins his family members his teachers and he's got to go to to fight to the death for this land and he has this like we say come to Jesus moment here in the western world but Krishna is kind of the Christ the the Jesus kind of character of the Hindus um and Krishna is the you most jovial he plays the flute you know um Goinda was him as a child and Krishna is kind of with Arjuna and Arjuna has this this like breakdown where he's like I don't want to do this I can't do this and you would think in spirituality you would think that Krishna who is the avatar of God in this in this story would be like of course you don't be peaceful it's great but that's not what Krishna says Krishna says >> tough you're a warrior be a warrior do it. This is your karma. This is what you have to do. And this it talks about karma. That's the first mention we have of yoga. Um Patanjalene sutras comes later. But as far as written down, that's the first time we he talks about karma yoga. Um the action of of being in in em inbodied uh the dharma, what dharma is. Um and so it's an very powerful it's a very powerful little it's a it's written in po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po poem form. Um it's just very and as a westerner specifically like we we learn to like work work work make money work work but but the Bavagita is like do the work for the sake of the work don't even think about the outcome do it for the sake of the work basically accept the predicament that you're in you know be in that predicament because that's where you are and so it's interesting and so you coming from a military background and and the fact that Wayne Dyer I mean so many people reference the Bhagavad Gita and I mean it's it Bhagavad Gita translates to song of God. Um, and so the fact that they're in a bloody war and it's in this section is called the song of God, I think speaks values of like the human because it's all about the human struggle, right? Like the h what we go through internally of like accepting where we are, accepting the human experience, doing things sometimes we don't want to do. But let's shift that because you have been very um bravely like it's so easy for me in America to be outspoken because that's kind of our thing in the United States since 1776. That's kind of like on brand for us. But for Paula and for DK, for Paula's in Australia, DK's in Canada, for our English listeners, people who are not in the United States, it is not lost on me, what bravery it takes to speak out against the government. So, can we speak a little bit about that, DK, and your experience if you're comfortable speaking out? Again, I don't want you in a situation that would be hard for you living in Canada. what everything that's gone on let's say in the past six years a little over six years with with the fancy flu with all that with the medicine they put out like what made you because I know that the programming and the propaganda in Canada and in Australia was way more intense than it was here in the United States. So what first of all what made you go absolutely not this is and then take it a step further and start writing about it and speaking up out of it because that takes a lot of bravery and courage. So, >> you know, >> thanks. Well, um I've always been interested in um let's say alter what they call alternative media or maybe independent media and just getting my information from as wide a source as I as I can. Um so as so when um when 2020 happened or started happening um at first I listen to it maybe there was this this um Hang on I just got to sorry about that. Um >> you're fine. [clears throat] when okay when we started hearing about you know this uh SARS cove 2 >> yes >> I I paid attention and and in fact um so in the in the uh news um you might unless you're in Canada you probably didn't know not this but uh there was a news segment where a bunch of army people well army nurses and all the army had to go into a number of um what are they called like retirement homes. Um, CHSLD is what's called in Quebec just because of a COVID outbreak. And this this was international news because usually when the like the army had to go into, you know, they had to send him into hospitals cuz maybe the nurses weren't there and pretty much been abandoned basically. Um, so that that became a big news item and uh I sort of helped out with that actually. I went into um into a like a hospital basically where um usually it's elderly people who are there. >> Yeah. >> And I helped out with with that. So I was you know I was in I was in that that narrative and I just [clears throat] started um listening to other differing opinions and I I started noticing that maybe things didn't quite you know make sense like like one one that comes into comes to mind is >> [clears throat] >> You know, if you went to a hos, a restaurant, you'd be [clears throat and cough] Jesus. Sorry. >> You're okay. It's early in the morning. It's fine. >> Yeah. Yeah. [clears throat] You'd be allowed to eat. Yeah. You had to wear a mask to go in there, but when you sat down, you can take the mask off as if the virus had some sort of verticality to it or something. It was just some things. >> Yeah. It was just nonsensical. And it seemed to you more about um obedience than about any any physics of how a virus would actually, you know, supposedly spread. Um so there's there's just there's that. Um there just a lot of just anomalies, a lot of things that that just didn't make sense. And um [clears throat and cough] one thing that some people in the independent media started saying is hey be careful if if a if a V comes out maybe just because this it this is just it's going uh too far. Um and I'm trying to think of specifics so I can which there are a lot of um >> but that that's as you're thinking about it too like that's one of our students is an attorney and he said that you know for ves they it takes years especially United States for it to be to go through like testing like 10 years at least at the minimum for [clears throat] one to be like totally approved and the fact that it's only been what a year and all of a sudden it's out that's crazy like something's not right and that niggling feeling of something just is not adding up. I know Paula had that too in Australia and on this channel, my channel, we have a lot of I have a lot of Australians, a lot of Canadians that are kind of all scratching their heads. I love that. I laugh with the whole restaurant thing. We had it in the United States where they were moving people outside but creating these bubbles. So, they took inside and outside and it's like, is this an intelligence test? Because you're basically inside like >> it was so nuts. I mean, I laughed because I'd be doing the food shopping and we're touching everything. We're putting everything on the conveyor belt that goes along and then the lady's scanning everything at the checkout and then she's like, "Oh, but I can't help you. I can't help you pack your shopping." And like my daughter was only a baby then and like she was screaming, chucking a tantrum, whatever. I'm trying to like pack the shopping because she was only like a year old. And she's like, "Oh, I can't help you." So she just stood there watching me trying to struggle and I'm like but you've just touched everything as you scanned it through the checkout. It's like >> well and the following the arrows in the grocery store like that was and I think you're right DK. I think for a lot of us we're like okay this isn't this is an obedience. This is to see who is going to be obedient to the government >> and who's not because >> it's not about the virus because absolutely >> that's not how a virus works. [laughter] >> No. and the and we have here we're the CDC is located here in Atlanta, Georgia. So we have a lot of students at that point that work for the CDC and even they were sitting in their lounge and being like we don't know why because we never we never really locked down. Todd like closed AYA for like two weeks and he goes and we were laying in bed and he goes, "This is stupid. My constitutional rights are being infringed upon. My students want to come back. I'm opening up my business." And he would tell me every morning when he would leave, he goes, "Here's bail money in case you have to come bail me out of jail." Now, luckily for me, I'm in Georgia, so in Georgia is very like a red state. Like, everyone's got one of these, you know, so they he was fine. Like, we're not California. We're very conservative here. So, he was totally fine. But our students were like, "We don't at the CDC like we don't know why our higherups are locking people down. This is ridiculous. It is no different than a flu." And if you look at the CDC's website, the the survival rate was like 99%. So why are we and I you know it's and once you get one of these it the V not a W a V it it um it shot to like your survival rate shot to 90 shot down to like 97%. which is is just the ma the number the math ain't math it like things are not adding up and so you notice that and I think a lot of people I actually think more people noticed it than not and I don't know about how you feel DK one of my best friends lives up in Canada as well um and I'm not going to I don't want to out him so I'm not going to say things that he was doing during this time but I know here in the United States a lot of people we had had fake >> punch cards like punch cards to a yogurt shop had fake ones. So, I think that the numbers and and I know I know a lot of Canadians who had fake ones um for their yogurt punch carts, we'll say for YouTube's purposes. Um and so I think there actually were a lot of people I think that the other side, the people that follow what the government says does what you know the big brother is telling them were a lot louder >> than the Did you find that in in Canada DK? Did you find you were alone in your questioning or did you feel like there were people around you who were kind of on the same wavelength? >> Yeah. Well, for years I'd been part of I I go to one of these health food stores nearby. So, I knew people who who sort of a little bit more uh aware or at least into um I don't want to say it but conspirational like into conspiracy theory. Although if you look into a lot of conspiracy theories, they're they actually turn out to maybe conspiracy fact, right? So, but yeah, I had a thankfully I wasn't like I didn't feel alone and also Canada is where that trucker convoy. >> Yeah. Yeah. So >> yeah, we had to be I guess because Canada being what it is naturally the people who the truth seekers had to be louder um because they're they're it seems like their fear of us compared to like the the US. Um but the one one thing that really caught my attention because I was I was mentioning specifics is um when people like people had to quote unquote social distance. >> Yeah. >> And they call it social distance. At one point I asked why is it called social distancing? Why not physical distancing? That would be anyway. So people have to social distance outside. I was like wait out how why out why outside in the sun. So that all these these things that just that just didn't make it like physic like the actual physics didn't make sense. like you have the wind anyway and and people want wearing the mask outside. Actually, you know what? [laughter] There's a there's a funny Confucious um you know a meme like just an image uh you know Confucious that the Chinese poet right so um [laughter] when I saw it it was just hilarious. So imagine Confucious how he would speak and he he says uh in this meme he says men who wear mask alone in car also wear condom alone in bed. [laughter] >> That is his well that's how it is too. I mean I'm telling you like it is >> I can't I mean I I laugh a lot. I don't mean to I I always knew I was kind of smart, but after 2020 I was like I'm a genius. Like [laughter] I'm way smarter, you know, cuz you started seeing these this that that same thing like like we'll still see it today. Now again, I'm very lucky. I'm in Georgia. No, like half the city didn't wear a mask in 2020. And guess what? Everybody here is packing. So no one's going to like challenge anybody here. And we also have what's called a stand your ground law, which most states do. So what does that mean? So, we know that you can use these for self-defense in your own home. Well, states create a stand your ground laws, meaning that if you need to use one of these out in a public place for defense, it's also considered the same thing. So, in Georgia, no one's going to no one's going to bother you because everyone's packing. Even your grandma who has her little Sunday outfit on her pearls is also packing in her pocketbook. She's got her, you know, so in the people just don't mess with you down here in the south. And um and so I didn't I didn't have it as as bad as you guys did because again I didn't I didn't I never wore one because half the city didn't, you know, and so I would go to the grocery store, I would never acknowledge, but I also had the support because half the people weren't acknowledging, you know, so it was a safety and numbers. Um and we still say that though even in our city, it stands out like a sore thumb when someone is doing that like in the car by themselves with the windows rolled up. >> Yeah. >> Like >> Yeah. I mean it we uh that summer of 2020, the summer of love as they called it. We know it's so hot down here and it's very humid. So runners will get into your running too DK. I know when I was a runner um many years ago, you don't run in the middle of the day because it's too hot here. It's outside. You need unless you're on a treadmill inside. It's kind of dangerous and the humidity. And there was a guy that near me was running in the middle of the day. He had a mask on and he died. like he just killed like he was getting he couldn't breathe >> and it's just like and the whole George Floyd thing happened this I can't breathe all happened at [clears throat] the same time >> and I still don't know the truth behind that situation. I still don't know like if somebody actually lost their life or not. Like we don't really know. There's a lot of mystery around that. But how odd that I can't breathe >> in the same summer where they're trying to >> suffocate us. >> Yeah. because that's what it felt like, right? Was a suffocation. [clears throat] Um and and so now I know in United States we I'm in a state where never required actually that breaks the constitution. So no state really could ever require this because at the end of the day in the United States you can't go up against the constitution or that's treason charges and no one wants to face treason charges. Um so I was very lucky compared to most Americans are very lucky compared to a lot of other people in the world when it came to that. But um but yeah, it it it was a huge shock and I still don't think the world has been quite right since then. I still I still don't think people have been quite normal since since that happened. And um children especially like my sister pulled her kids out of school cuz like that's a developing child. You can't suffocate. You can't >> you know and so anyway that's your own personal >> your own personal health and your you're you're entitled to to breathe you know. Um, and so now is your family are your family are they are they like you? Do they agree with you or was there struggles? Did they follow the media or what? >> They did, but they they didn't like they [clears throat] didn't argue again like they they knew where I stood and I I didn't I I g I tried to share with them information. I we just let each other make our own choices. >> Yeah. Well, that's freedom, right? Letting people make their own choices. >> Yeah. Now, let's get into you since we're talking about running. Let's get into your running because you are a runner and I believe that running there's a lot of exunners in the Ashanga world because they're very similar in the way that they impact you. Like running is one of the most difficult things to do, but in my opinion, running is also one of the most highly spiritual and meditative things a person can do. So, how did you fall into running? What what drove you to put running shoes on? [snorts] H probably I mean okay so in grade seven maybe for PT we would have this um we'd go for a walk and we try and time we would walk I forget the actual distance x number of maybe kilometers and we'd try and keep track of it and I think we they would tally it up at the end of the year. Um but when did I actually get into running? Well, it probably [clears throat] would have been I I know I started doing real weightlifting in grade nine when I was a week like a week before I turned 15. >> It's probably around that time I started running you know more I don't want to say structure but just running with as an exercise basically just to to get in shape. Um I don't consider myself a long distance runner. I have done a a couple of um what are they called? Half marathons but Um, actually my run yesterday Yeah. My run yesterday was was about maybe four miles or something. So it's not I mean I run um >> that's pretty good. I mean that's >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. It's uh I I could run longer distance if I if I wanted to. That's that's if I wanted to and I trained for it. Um and also I wanted to play I know I in high school I played football and rugby. So you had to be you had to be in some well especially for the rugby one. Um, you had to be in some sort of you had to be able to to run some or at least even if not run well run but you also have to be able to sprint too, right? So >> yeah. So it's got it was in high school that I started integrating running into some sort of um fitness program I guess and um yeah I just carried it carried with it. Um no I haven't I haven't done it you know it's not like I do it at least for um all my life as an adult. It's not like I've done it regimentally three times a week every but it's just more recently I'm trying to do it more and more. >> Yeah. And for our Australians and Canadians uh so four miles would be 6.437 kilometers >> just you guys are aware of the differences but yeah I mean four miles for a for like an I mean I know when people train for marathons and half marathons they will up their mileage but four miles on a on a daily that's pretty good for for you know for running. Um and um having half marathons, it's like 13 what? 13.1 miles. Like that's >> Yeah. Yeah. >> That's that's a lot. That's a long time to be pounding the pavement. Um >> Yeah. Yeah. >> It's Now, do you you know I when I was a long-distance runner, that runner's high. I didn't realize that that was a form of meditation where all of a sudden you start running and everything hurts and then all of a sudden something happens where your mind just turns off and you're just in you're just in the run. Um, do you have that? Do you do you experience that? Is that like a meditation for you? How do you how does your body cope with that? Runner's high. For me, it's more like um I guess I you can say I get something like a runner's high maybe after I do a Okay. [clears throat] So, one thing I like to do is um I I know there's a a onem fast run I like to do. It's a segment of the larger run. It's a >> And I went on Google Maps. I know it's from Well, basically it's from And if you don't know these intersections, don't worry because I mean I don't >> We have people from all over watching. So >> you people over. So yeah, tell because they might want to try it. Yeah. >> Sure. It's from So Decary and Queen Mary. That's one intersection going north on uh Queen Mary up until past the uh St. Joseph's Oratory and you go to um I think it's called Kesh Kesh turn left and go about one block to the uh it's called what's like a restaurant Poke Monster. So I mean that that's one mile. I I looked on Google Maps about one mile [clears throat] and I like to time how long and this is uphill. Well, not uphill. It's more like an incline anyway. So, it's a an incline upward incline run that I like to do quick that I like to do fast and I like to time myself. Um, so it's a onem fast run that I like to time myself on. Um, and you sometimes when I like the past two days I've actually done like recent personal bests. >> Yeah. >> Like I've broken I I broke my record two days ago and broke it again yesterday. So that was nice. That's amazing. >> I feel I feel Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. I feel I mean it was under eight minutes. Um >> that's that's good. >> That's really good. >> I mean and it's uphill. It's an incline too, right? So it's Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. That's good uphill like for that's I watch I you know I I watch the Peach Road race every year and in the morning um they have the qualifiers so it's the big world's biggest 10K here in Atlanta and and they have the people who are trying to qualify for like the Olympics and they run first before the fun the fun runners run >> and to see them barrel like down Petri is how fast they're going it's unbelievable and that's really good for it to be like 8 miles and under going in an incline up. I mean, that's that's that's no easy feat. >> So, >> I I like [clears throat] that that challenge. Yeah. And also builds not just cardio like especially if you're going uphill, it might build your um there's cardio I'm forgetting the terminology and an anorobic it might build your not just your Yeah. your anorobic strength too. >> Yeah. >> So, yeah. >> And it's that endurance that it's it's interesting. We just put up I put up I I we're redoing the we just put the six first six classes up for the alchemy of movement where we've got more that are in the process right now but we have another section foundational classes where I actually talk about all the different energy systems in the body and what you know that the fast moving is really important especially as we age because it triggers a different energy system that helps the body to respond the the because your mind's always in a conversation with your body right that's neuroplasticity it's always in a conversation and so as our body and muscles change as we age to be able to go do those fast runs really keeps the mind sharp to be able to respond quickly with the body. though it is and that is sprinting. endurance running is a challenge, but sprinting is also a challenge. Like they both have their [clears throat] like their hard their hardness about it, you know, they both have their, you know, um I always prefer just the endurance where you get in that rhythm. Um but sprinters, man, especially if you go to like track, shoot, they can just fly. I It's wild. So, and that is that flying. Everybody wants to have wings and fly. I'm like, you got two lungs and two legs, you're flying like, you know, um so so um so that's that's pretty incredible. So you should be very proud of yourself. Especially, you know, [clears throat] I I fractured when I lived in Los Angeles right after college. This is like the mid as I had a stress fracture in my foot that I kept running on and I broke. This is kind of what really pushed me deeper into yoga, too. And the doctor, I remember sitting in Los Angeles and the doctor telling me, you know, that sometimes women have a harder time with long-distance running because our body isn't really our hips and our knees and our ankles are not ever going to be in a perfect alignment. Whereas men are kind of made to run. Like men are kind of built that way, you know, if we look at working with nature. And listen, females can run too, but I overdid it. I just I was at that age where I was this this was around the time where I started to really work on my thoughts around exercise not just as a way to punish myself but like as a spiritual process and so um and I started getting into you know this like 20 years ago started getting into the yoga philosophy and all that kind of stuff and and so this this break was very important that this happened funny enough every time I break a bone that's [laughter] happens every time I break a bone but um but with my sacrum it was with bar to bringing bar into the into the mix. But um you know so men for men that's a very important I think distinction because when we look at magic and you magic is is is not as is as hocusy pocusy if that as we think it is. You know magic is all around us. Having a baby is magic. Running is magic. And the Navajos would teach their children that you know you have a choice. You can either practice magic in the light or you can pic practice magic in the dark. And the big distinction was magic and the light. You worked with nature. You didn't fight nature. You worked with it to help people process. And the dark is you're working against it. You know, for your own selfish needs. And what you're doing, I think my my point of that is for a man to to do that, that's you're working with your nature. You're working with your biology, with your karma, your procrity of this life. You know, next life, listen, next life, DK might be on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a female. We never know what our next life, right? [laughter] >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So, um you know, so how do you how does that does that resonate with you with the way a man's body structure is? It's easier. It's not easier, but it's more it's more adaptable for a man to take that form of of of endurance. Okay. I haven't heard it explained quite like that. But yeah, I mean I know well I know in general men are it seems men are built for more for physical >> physically trying things. Um >> cuz I remember like well it's the men who are soldiers. Men um >> even the the Spartans, the ancient Spartans, it'd be a man who was a soldier until he was like 60 or something. Um >> even in rugby like uh the rugby I I met that I play sometimes the older players usually it's men who are like it's it's for men and women right so they're they're women players but if you look at the older players they're predominantly men it's it's you don't find as many older women players as you do men players >> right yeah I and I have my weird I mean you know I respect the women who joined the military as well but I also kind feel you know I don't think they should draft women because women are >> well that's the aana and the prana right like >> we have the prana is the upward rising energy upona is downward we have both in our system as men and women but men are predominantly pronic and women women are predominantly aonic which makes sense you look at a man's body they have bigger shoulders smaller hips women have smaller upper body bigger so it's like the ying and the yang the sun and the moon and so so for a woman what what is a woman's body designed to do whether she does it or not. It's designed to give birth, right? That's a pushing down. That's a major aonic. Um and that's why even um in in something we we we work with with Fusion Body is what what we call ladies holiday. Okay. And this comes directly from yoga where a woman um when you're on your cycle, when you start your cycle, we don't want you doing any type of you get two to three days off of exercise because exercise is predominantly chronic at all exercise because you're sweating. It's rising the energy up and your body in that moment is trying to release and detox. And so it messes with the natural rhythm of a woman's body when she compromises. Um, that's why women, a lot of times female athletes lose their period, which we never want. We never want you to lose your woman. Like that's not good. That's something that something that unless you're menopause, that might be a different story. But but uh but if you're like 30, 35 and you're that that we we need to pull back a little bit. Um and I know um there was one day I Todd a lot of men get kind of pissy about this that women get like three days off. [laughter] One day um we this is before YouTube you two I was teaching in my sh and he we would meet back home and I had started practicing in the kitchen and he came in and like threw his bag down and like went back in the room and he didn't come out and I yelled to him I was like hey are you going to practice today and he popped his head out and this was right around the time we heard we started hearing these like pronoun debates and like identifying [clears throat] >> he popped his head out and he goes today I'm identifying as a woman and I'm on ladies holiday [laughter] so um Yeah. So that's unfortunate. >> Yeah. Yeah. But even you're saying that uh with like there's differences in in men and women's bodies because I and I think one way they identify women sometimes or female skeletons they look at the hips right there. So something there's 90 degrees and 120 I think. >> Yeah. It's the pelvis shows the difference. Like once we're all dead and gone and they dig up our bones, the only way they're going to be able to tell that Paula and I are females and DK is a male is by looking at our hipbones. The collar bones also, there's a little bit of a difference. Like women tend to go up more of the collar bones and the patella bone. So a woman's patella curves inward whereas a man's will be more aligned. You can also tell and I've I've studied this with adjusting people too. So women, white women, women of European descent tend to protrude out even more into like an external rotation in their femur and hipbone. And this is, you know, this is the one area of Darwin's philosophy, I believe, which is called survival of the fittest. I actually think that's common sense. And for centuries and centuries and centuries, what did European women do? They wore corsets. And so genetically, white women tend to stand a little bit differently because the body started to change and adapt for the demands of a course. It's same with feet for um for Asian women for feet binding. A lot of Asian women I've worked with, even though that doesn't happen anymore, they're still carrying some of the side effects of their feet sometimes give them problems that we have to work with to reestablish foot strength because of centuries of foot binding. And it's not something to be like super upset about. about it just is what it is, right? And that's just the karma we're working with. And it can be um it's just knowing those things just like I say all the time like women who have had a cescareian section. Now, if you if you had a cescareian section and that saved your life and the baby's life, absolutely, hallelujah, praise God. Like so glad you're here. However, your body did not finish giving birth. [clears throat] >> And so sometimes we're trained in this. Sometimes an exercise, doesn't matter which one, can release the hormone and you will finish the labor. So, I'm literally trained to deal with that if that happens in one of my classes. Um, and we have to just let it finish itself out so that your body can finish that. And so it's very fascinating when you start looking at DNA, when you start looking at genetics, when you start looking at um the ancestrial what you've, you know, picked up from your ancestors that's creating your predicament now and predicament not being bad or good, just the situation, the karma that you're in, you know, and so um and so yeah. So did you're speaking of that, I mean again, I cannot believe your parents immigrated from Ghana to to a very cold area of the world. How did that happen, DK? Like what made them go? I think I'm gonna try the snow. [laughter] >> I think I heard my dad just my dad wanted to to study well I say yeah here in well Miguel University in um here in Montreal. >> Right. >> So um yeah that was I think originally he wanted to go back but anyway he wanted to one chapter of it is that he wanted to come here and study. So yeah, >> I stayed and now do you consider yourself to be fully Canadian or do you also have Ghana citizenship? What how do you consider yourself like what were your where where would your loyalty be? >> I mean culturally I'm culturally I'm Canadian. Um >> yeah, >> of course ancestrally I'm Ghanaian. I have a Canadian Well, actually it's expired after I knew it, but I have a Canadian passport. >> Um >> yeah, so you could Yeah. >> Yeah. I've been to Ghana a few times. Um I've been to a few African countries. um go um Ivory Coast. >> Um but yeah, I have a a Canadian uh passport. I've I've I've been to Ghana. I've seen some of my extended family there, but yeah, I >> you're Canadian. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I have a lot of friends who had like one parent from another country or their parents and they all considered themselves to be American. Like even if their parents were from Germany or they they were very much like, "No, I'm an American. I'm not." And it is how you're raised, the land you're that informs you, you know, and that becomes your home. Um, you know, so I know for Paula and me, I mean, I've been my ancestors have been here for a long time. Same probably with Paula's in Australia going back. >> Actually, my mom was born in Holland >> and yeah, so I'm actually half Dutch and then my dad feel you feel any any type of way when you go back to Holland when you're when you're in the Netherlands. Do you feel any >> I've never been I've actually never been yet. another one for fun. >> But I do want to go. I do want to go because I want to see where my mom >> they have a very loose relationship with the rugs. So, [laughter] >> but I don't feel, you know, like I when I'm in England or I'm in France, like I can feel a reverence for like my ancestors coming from there, but I don't that's not my home. I don't >> I feel very Australian. >> I mean, that's not Yeah. So, anyway, well, this I mean we're we're over an hour now, guys. I could just talk to you forever, DK, because you're so your life has been so in people's lives are so interesting. >> And maybe that's just me being nosy. You guys know I'm nosy. Um, but I always find just, you know, people I took this class in college once which was really about kind of like storytelling and like how we always think stories have to be like so fantastical, but they don't. Like sometimes people view their lives as so mundane, but they're so fascinating. like what led you, how you got to where you are, how you grew up. Like it's so interesting to just hear people's experiences. You know, we all live in our own heads and then when we hear other people's experiences and we realize we're not so different. You know, human beings really are not that different from each other. We all kind of want the same things. Well, those of us with souls kind [laughter] and critical thinking skills kind of want the same thing. And I know that you what I guess we'll end because you're such a freedom fighter DK and you're really um you know you remind me a lot of Sergey >> Monastex and like just the just the um the courage that Sergey Monast had and for those who don't know we're huge fans of Sergey Monast on my channel. If you know the term project blue beam you have Sergey Monass to thank for that. And Sergey Manass was a French Canadian back in the 90s when none of this stuff that we this conspiratorial stuff we talk about now. None of us really knew about this stuff. And he had compiled he was a journalist who found all this information started kind of spying on what we now call the deep state or you know the system the the establishment we'll say. he kind of started spying on them and he wrote something called the Toronto Protocols and he really tried and and the where he worked wouldn't print his stuff because you can't bite the hand that feeds you, right? So, he opened up his own publishing company and I have a ton of Sergey Manass books. Um, he was everything we're seeing play out now he wrote about back in the 90s and was warning people about it and especially Canadians. was very concerned about Canadians. Um because we it looks like Canada kind of might be the trial for the nWo. Um and so and that's why my heart goes out to like people like DK and a lot of we have a lot of Canadians on this channel like like we we we like we support you. We want Canad Canadians to be free. Um just like we want everyone to be free. But you remind me of Hemp DK because you're writing these beautiful articles and you're talking about this stuff and you don't do it in a way that's that's invasive. like Sergey Monass his his writings were just kind of like this is what's happening like here's what you can do about it like this is what we can band together he worked a lot with a lot of American people he was constantly and he bless his heart like the biggest the not bless his heart in this other way like I'm [laughter] as I said that I'm like I think I'm like no like I feel bad for the guy because he his first language was French and he translated all of his stuff by himself for the American audience and so you can see a lot of like grammar mistakes and spelling mistakes in his papers and a lot of people come down hard on him but it's like >> where's your French like this guy is not an English speaker and the fact that he was able to do this so that we understand what's is amazing and unfortunately I this isn't going to happen to to DK because [clears throat] >> they're too awake now we're too awake now but he unfortunately was taken out by by the establishment in the mid 90s um his kids he had pulled his kids out of school. Um was homeschooling him which I guess back in the 90s in Canada was an arrestable offense. They arrested him for that um took his kids away from him and the next day he was he had a heart attack which he had actually wrote about Blue Beam being able to do that. Um and so um I say that I don't think that's going to happen if that happened to Decay. I think he'd have Fusion Body Studio people all protesting at Mark Carney's office. So you know we're too awake now for that to happen. It was easy for that to happen back then because >> Sergey Monass was was a rarity, but you remind me of him a lot in your writings and and you know, your proximity to where he was in the world and and um and the way that you're very kind in the way that you deliver these things, which is hard to do. It's super frustrating, isn't it? Like when you >> you just want to smack people sometimes, right? >> Yeah. It's it's it's Oh, boy. Yes. Sometimes I felt so I mean and they're they're kids too. They don't know what like they just and and I I don't see them as like because I mean people say people say I'm smart and things like that but that I don't consider myself that much smarter than any like the average person, right? It's just that I'm able I like the things I do I don't I think almost any well anyone of average intelligence can do. just I'm I'm someone who chose to look at it and do it. So the fact that I I saw all these people whom I some of whom I consider like at least book smarter than I am make such uh such bad and it's not that they well I what I call bad decision maybe it was the right decision for them but one thing that really frustrated me was when people um chose chose to be let's say blind and tried to enforce that blindness on others. >> Yes. That's that's why I found very very and I still find it very hard to forgive um and and their their kids too. People, you know, the people who should know better um silenced the people who either tried to to speak out or people who didn't have a voice. Anyway, it's it's >> I absolutely it's it comes down to crimes against humanity at that point and I totally get what you're saying. Absolutely. um to enforce that onto somebody else is just um and I know in Australia it was pretty bad as well and um I yeah and and I think we learned a lot you know and I'm not there are a lot of people with PhDs with really high levels of education that are just like us that saw it but it did kind of show us how the educational system does indoctrinate and because so many people with very high degrees were just following the program even when it was so obvious >> that it was You know, I mean, Fouchy could have come on TV at one point and told people to stick up stick up their ass >> and they would have done it >> probably, >> you know, like like it's it's that lack of critical thinking skills and um >> telling people to wear two two masks. >> That's just >> But I think that's what happens when fear, you know, when people are afraid, people just don't think straight. They're not thinking in a rational, logical way. Yeah. >> What about Go ahead. >> Oh, I was just gonna say or um I need you to take take yours so that mine will work better, you know? >> Right. Right. >> Or or like Yeah. Another a funny one that I heard was that um well, I I don't know if I read this, but it was really funny. I was like I I should have posted this on Facebook, but I didn't. I was thinking of posting um it would say, "Hey everyone, um I have a headache. I just took an aspirin. Now, if everyone else would take an aspirin so that mine will work better, that'll be good. Thanks. >> It's [laughter] just that's the the idiocracy of it all, isn't it? Like, it's so crazy like and the fact that some of the people that you think are just the most logical ground of people were falling for it. It's it's we had that a great divide in the Ashtanga world and you know, Todd always always said that the original yogis were the original conspiracy theorist. Um because they they literally was like they were literally like something's not right like something's not right about our our world and so they started this practice and [snorts] you know and the pra the practice you know first starts off you're observing like inaccuracies within yourself but then it also kind of bleeds out into the world and so we had this big divide in the Ashtanga community globally where like half the people were following the media which is crazy because tradition the traditional yoga world historically has been one of the most holistic anti-V worlds you'll ever I mean most people I knew going before this were very anti-ve like they were super hol they were drinking raw milk before it was invoking you know and all of a sudden because the TV is telling them to do this they're doing it and and Todd and then you had this other half which myself included my friend Jordan who might be watching like there's ton of us half of us that were like record scratch wait a minute why are We like and Todd said this just goes to show you who's really been practicing and who hasn't been practicing. >> You know, if you're not really doing the internal work, then it's just gymnastics. And this is really the the the limus test is to show you who's actually some of these people that were pushing the the narrative were some of the most advanced practitioners. >> And I remember sitting there, some of them I was kind of learning from like my mentors, they were authorized before me. I remember at one point I sat there and I I was sitting looking at my laptop and this was like maybe right before I opened up my channel and I was like,"Well, I guess I can't learn from them anymore. I can't learn from them anymore because they obvious obviously I've been doing the work they haven't been doing, you know, and I was really relieved when like my teacher here in America was on our like I that that was like when you like people that you respect so much are actually awake and aware too." So I think it was this big divide where people you know people who are able to kind of that fear that fear is really real but being able to just for the yoga community you would think like they would be able to sit in that fear for a moment and reflect deeper on it and not react to it. That's the whole point of a spiritual practice. Another point of it is to not react is to like sit with things and let things play out and um because God knows in Ashanga we do scary all the time, you know, and so with our bodies and so if you can't if you can't process that and one of my favorite memes I saw during this whole debacle was if you if you ever wondered what you would have done in Germany during World War II, now you know. M >> now you know what you would have done >> with we have to say Yitler and the Yatsis >> and that was powerful to read that like the three of us sitting here we we know we would have we wouldn't have >> capitulated. >> Yeah. >> We now know that that we would have said no. >> Question everything. >> Yeah. >> I was questioning everything. >> Yeah. How could a cult and one thing too that we just just now that we're ragging on on that whole talking about 2020 it was almost like people forgot we actually die like at one point I was like do people forget that death is actually a part of life [laughter] actually happen sometimes you know that or does all of us we're all headed towards the same the same place you know spoiler alert like we're all going to go crazy [laughter] like you didn't know that sorry to burst your bubble But we're all going to be heading to the same place. We're only here for a very short amount of time and then we get to do it again in another life. Um, but you know, it it just was like, are people forgetting that this is actually a part of life? So anyway, well, DK, I know we've kept you over an hour, my friend. I would love is there anything else you want to say to to our audience right now? Encouraging words or things you want to people to follow or any more besides your Substack? any more places they can find you if they want to get in touch with you? >> Uh, if they want to get in in touch with me, I guess maybe through my Substack. Um, I mean, I do have an email address, dkfinngmail.com, but um, I mean, I'm pretty easy. You can just search my name. Um, pretty easy to find. Um, anything else? Well, I mean, few maybe eight years ago now, I did write um, it's called a novella. It's not a novel. It's not the size of a novel. A novela is like 20 to say 50,000 words. I did write one. It's a it's a I had a good story in my head and I wanted to write it down. It's um it's a it's a romance novel or romance story actually. Maybe I'll give you the the link. I I didn't think much of it until you asked just just now. >> Please do. It's called >> Yeah, it's called A Savior for Christmas. You can look it up. The word Savior is spelled with O. It's spelled the Canadian way. A Savior Christmas. Oh. Oh, you Yeah. Oh, you r >> tooth [laughter] >> a saver for Christmas. It's um Let me see if I can >> I'm Let's see here. I found it. Right. You have it on Barnes & Noble. >> Yeah, it's also on Good Read. Oh, yeah. Probably it's on Barnes & Noble. It's on good Well, it's reviewed on Goodreads. Um [clears throat] >> I will put it up on the screen here. We will definitely Where did Where did y'all go? Here you are. Like I lost the screen for a second. All right, let me put it up here, guys. Uh, we will I'll definitely share it. >> Very cool. Okay. >> Yeah, it was it was just it was like eight years ago and Yeah, there it is. Yeah, the newer one has a a newer like I I'm working on just updating it sort of. The cover is a little bit it's a white more of a white background, but yeah, that that's it. Um, >> I will. There's that. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah, >> that's so cool. It's hard to write a book. Good job. >> Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. Um, [clears throat] >> good job. >> Actually, a couple things maybe I didn't get to finish. You asked me about uh challenges and yeah, how the Navy could have helped me spiritually, especially with with um the regimented discipline. Um, yeah, I did did help with with that. Um and he asked me about um what's what's the exact am I an adrenal adrenaline junkie uh so not not quite to that extent but I I did like challenges and that's why I brought up the Ganesha thing but also in in the Navy one thing I found challenging so in the military you have different trade what are called trades different different jobs job descriptions um for me mine was um it was called MISO maritime engineering systems oper operator. Now, naturally, I'm not an an engineer. I didn't I didn't grow up with tools and all that. Um, but that was a nice challenge for me challenge for me because I was um I was introduced to a whole new even industry that I didn't know much about and and uh the challenges that I had to like like I had to know the um some of the schematics of some of the ship systems. So every every ship would have you know you have your freshwater system, your fire main system, your electrical distribution system. I had to know all well a lot of those to some to some detail even had to like draw like the schematic from memory. So that was an interesting challenge. So because you're asking yeah you're asking me about challenges earlier. So that was one thing that challenged that was >> that's the brain challenge too. That's what I know Paul and I keep sharing on our Instagram like all these things with dance now how dance like helps you with the brain as well choreography. So the brain keeping that brain active absolutely that learning I mean I'm like engineering I anything that's math and sciency my mind goes brain just like shuts down [laughter] and I and I come from a family of doctors and I'm like let's talk about eastern philosophy I don't want to talk about what the kidney does biologically I want to talk about what it does spiritually so you know so that's really cool that's really cool well we absolutely respect all of the service men and women out out there um who who vow to protect their country and their homeland. It's a very courageous thing to do. So, all the Australians serving in the forces, all the Canadians who serve in their forces and of course the American military who serve uh you know, we we thank you so much for protecting us and for protecting our um our our lives, especially you, DQTK, for giving your life to to the Canadians to help protect them and keep that's that's huge. So for all the Canadians watching right now, make sure you show DK some respect in the comment section of service. And also, you know, it's the reason why I ask for you people to connect with you because there I think I think a lot of Canadians that I know personally have really gone through a huge depression in a lot of ways because I think from what I've heard from people I know personally, there's like this like no almost like they keep saying, you know, like my friends in private life are like, "Bryce, you're so lucky you're in America. You have hope." There's like this [clears throat] hopelessness that that keeps that I think a lot of Canadians are feeling and I um >> hope is not lost. Listen, hope is not lost. >> And um your your prime minister might be a piece of but guess what? A lot of people's prime ministers are pieces of So, >> and your prime minister isn't the whole country. And so, uh look at what happened with the truckers. You know, you guys do have the power. And if you want to connect with like like-minded people, TK is here. He's a Canadian as well. And so you can go to his Substack and connect with him so you don't feel so alone. Um, of course Paul and I are here as well. We're not in your country though, so I understand that that's a little bit um >> and yeah, and just so people know, I'm not I'm not in the Navy anymore, right? I in the Naval Reserve. Yeah. Um because of the the V mandate, I I was like I just I was like, "Nah, it's okay." >> Good for you. a whole and hopefully you'll get re like we in America have had a lot of highranking military officers that got laid off and fired because they too refused it and now they've gotten back pay and been reinstated and so hopefully that will happen all around the world for all the military men and women who said no. Um >> I think just any industry, nurses, doctors, teachers, I mean I know people that had to quit their jobs and leave their jobs. I was very lucky. I mean, I was a stay-at-home mom at the time, so I didn't have to leave anything. But it was such a scary time for so many people and so many people having to get that even though they didn't want to. >> We I had we had somebody cuz Todd Rodri is never going to ask anybody for that information coming. I wouldn't either. Like that's embar I'm not going to ask you for your your health sheet. You tell me what I need to know about your health as your teacher. That's it. It's private. Like I'm not anybody is welcome into our business. Todd, especially Todd's never, that would be it would be comical to see him do that. But we had people like messaging us and be like, "Why aren't you demanding these?" The funny thing is the yoga studios in our area who did demand the paperwork, they've now since closed down. It turns out people don't like having to go through a whole health inventory just to take a yoga class. Sometimes people just want to walk in, >> be get on their mat, and and just take the class. You It's It's so so I think there is going to be retribution. I think we will see the scales balance. Um I know for Australia and Canada it might take a little bit longer than it does in the United States. Um just because of our constit I mean literally the constitution is what saved us here in the United States full on uh because they just can't listen the beast system the the controllers of the world have tried for 250 years to alter that constitution and for 250 years we've said no we're not altering this this cannot be altered. Um, and so anyway, and I know DK carries around a a declaration of independence to constitution with him from the United States because that is our hope is that and we know Canada was supposed to join us. Canada was supposed to join us in the American Revolution, but there were some traitors among them who flipped the coin. And so for the good Canadians, you're you were supposed to be right right up there with us. Um, so you know, and that's our hope is that people around the world have true freedom just to be big government doesn't need to babysit us. Ex. >> Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. I was just looking for it. U my my um independence, right? Or Declaration of Independence and um US Constitution little book. Uh I'll take it would take me probably just a minute. >> Yeah, you're fine. You're fine. >> Yeah. But the Declaration of Independence to me, I keep telling people if you want to read some petty, beautifully petty stuff, that is the most petty. Thomas Jefferson wrote one of the most petty letters. And it's so powerful though, isn't it? We find these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. You there's no such thing as a monarchy. Royal blood, my ass. We're all equal, you know, and we were given such we were given inaliable rights. Among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And so, and then and then the lower part of the Constitution is where they write out every single thing King George III did. And that's where I love it. Every single thing he's done to piss them off, they write it out in the Declaration of Independence. So, anyway, so that's awesome. And so, we support the Freedom Fighters. Spirituality is all about being free. It's not about controlling other people. It's about being free and allowing people to live their choices and to have the have the u ability to make those choices um without being coerced. And so and so we totally support UDK and all of the people in Australia and Canada and the UK and Europe and a everywhere in the world who is are fighting so diligently um to make sure people stay free and have the ability to live in life, liberty and pursue happiness. And so that is that is what our hope for you. So all right you guys. Well this has been so fun. This is a great way to start the day. Um and I am so grateful for you DK getting up early and for Paula for staying up late to do to do this episode. For those who are with us on Fusion Body Studio, we do have a live class coming up next weekend. That is going to be Sunday the 27th. That's going to be 5:00 p. a.m. Eastern time where D decr, which is 5:00 a.m. the 28th for Paula and um and she's going to get up at 5:00 a.m. and it's going to kind of be what we're calling a catchall class. We're going to go through the new website again just make sure everybody knows how to work it. We're going to let you ask some questions about we just dropped a big aruveda video and so people have any questions about their dosha. Todd will be on as well and he's really good at doshas. So we'll let people ask those questions. Then we're going to talk about our upcoming we're going to be doing a yoga sutras course. And so if you're interested in the yoga sutras, we're going to be doing this as a group. So it's not going to be me pre-recording a video. And so we're going to be talking about kind of the syllabus for that. Um and for those who want to join us, uh you know, you're not required to get a yoga sutras book if you can't afford it. We're going to go over it anyway. Um but you can if you want. We always start with the second pa first. So we we'll be starting with the second pa um of Patanalene's yoga sutras first and going through the yoga sutras and talking about them. We're also going to be looking at a light on yoga by BKSAR and all that kind of stuff. And then eventually we took down the Bhagavad Gita course because we want to also do a course with the students over the Bavad Gita as well a live course after we do the yoga sutras course. And so if that's something you guys are interested in, please join us over at Fusion Body Studio. Um not only do you get your workouts, but you also get the reason for the workout too. two separate libraries. So, um so anyway, thank you guys so much. Anything Paula you want to add to that before we >> um just yeah, thank you so much DK for sharing your story with us and joining us because we love hearing from our our members and it's just really awesome to hear your story and yeah, it's really great. >> Yeah, thank you. Yeah. Yeah, thanks for for putting together um Fusion Body Studio. It's a nice It's a nice place to get the spirituality and the the exercises combined. Usually you get sometimes you get one without the other. You get >> the other without the one. So yeah, it's nice to see the philosophy and the u >> the movements combined. Yeah. >> Listen, I don't care about like vanity. I mean I do care if if you get lose weight that's you should celebrate that, but I'm I'm not interested in just like the gym bro like I want to I want to know why. like why are you know the why and that's that's the most important thing and how beautiful it is to view exercise in the western world sometimes we're taught that we need to punish ourselves especially women starve yourselves look good and that's not healthy we're we're doing this to wake your chakras up to wake [clears throat] your bundas up to get you en energetically into your body so that you can live your karma in a in a more healthful way and uh and find God that's where God is right God's in the struggle that's where you find that that surrender to to Ishvvada which we're going to talk about because part of the oak sutras so we're going to talk about that um um when we get into uh pariha nonattachment like what does that mean to not be attached because sometimes that gets a little bit lost um which is parraha you know all that kind of stuff so we're going to talk about that in our yoga sutras class so oh we lost DK >> oh I'll text him anyway you guys so I guess um his internet was acting up before we uh before we um signed on so well thank you to DK [laughter] make sure to check out Fusion Buddies you Um, I don't know. Does D Oh, he's back. Here he is. Does DK have a DK, do you have a word, a password? Do you have a a affiliate link? Do we have >> No, maybe not for the Maybe not for the new like I had one for >> the older fus for um esoteric whatever it was before, but I haven't seen one for the new fusion body. >> Let's make one. I'm going to put DK's affiliate link, you guys. So, I'll put it in the editing process. I'll put it on the screen and it'll be down in the description box below. So, we're going to create that for you today and before this video goes up, we'll have it so you guys can use and DK that link you can use on your Substack anywhere you want. And so, um we can use your name uh for you get 20% off your first six months with us. Plus, we always give a 7-day free trial always. We we're going to continue to do that. We want people to be able to come in open house, try it out, make sure they like it. Uh because we're not a cult. We don't have any intention. Listen, listen. I always say this about the controllers of the world. I have a hard enough time controlling my dog Robbie on a leash. I have no interest. [laughter] And that just seems extreme. Like that just seems too much. I have no interest in actually trying to control people. So, so anyway, you guys, make sure to check that out. And until next time, we will see you guys later. Bye, everybody. >> Bye. Thanks for having