Success is a progressive realization of a worthy idea, and in this enlightening podcast episode, Sia Stone shares her journey from a passionate fitness instructor to the owner of Misfit Bedford View. She emphasizes the importance of aligning your pursuits with your highest values to live a fulfilled and inspired life. The conversation delves into various topics, including the significance of healthy lifestyles, the challenges of entrepreneurship, and the impact of mindset on achieving personal goals. Sia also discusses the transformative power of yoga, not just as a physical practice but as a means of achieving balance and awareness in life. With anecdotes and insights, this episode encourages listeners to embrace their unique paths to success while fostering a supportive community.

In this motivating episode of The NJ Podcast, we sit down with Siya Stone, the Head Coach and Manager at MissFit Bedfordview, yoga instructor at Virgin Active, and an independent Herbalife distributor. Siya shares her inspiring journey of transforming lives through fitness and helping people achieve a healthy, active lifestyle.

With her passion for wellness, Siya has grown her fitness classes from just 6 people to 42, helping each participant fall in love with their body. Through her guidance, her clients have become stronger, more flexible, and more self-aware, with many seeing noticeable results in just 10 days of consistent effort. In this episode, Siya discusses her approach to fitness, the importance of self-love, and how she teaches others to share their healthy lifestyle with the world.

Whether you're looking to jumpstart your fitness journey or inspire others to live healthier lives, Siya’s story and practical advice will motivate you to take action today.

Get inspired to live a healthier, more active lifestyle! Connect with Siya Stone for personalized fitness coaching and join her growing community of empowered individuals. Don’t forget to subscribe to The NJ Podcast on YouTube and your favorite podcast platform, and share this episode with friends who are on their fitness journey.

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Takeaways:

• Success is a progressive realization of a worthy ideal aligned with your highest values.
• Listening to your own inner voice is crucial for personal growth and fulfillment.
• Surrounding yourself with positive influences and people can significantly impact your journey.
• Achieving success requires both discipline in your training and a healthy mindset.
• Yoga not only improves physical fitness but also enhances self-awareness and mental clarity.
• Finding joy in the process and enjoying your own company is essential for well-being.

The NJ Podcast presents a compelling discussion with Sia Stone, a dynamic fitness coach and owner of Misfit Bedford View, who shares her inspiring journey toward success. Sia embodies the podcast’s theme that success is a progressive realization of a worthy idea, as she recounts her experiences in health and wellness. From her early passion for sports to becoming a certified yoga instructor and Herbalife distributor, Sia illustrates how aligning her lifestyle with her values has empowered her to help others achieve their fitness goals. Her transition from small group classes to leading a thriving community showcases the importance of dedication, effort, and the transformative power of wellness.

As the conversation unfolds, Sia emphasizes the importance of mindset in the pursuit of health and happiness. She discusses how practicing gratitude and self-love can significantly shift one’s perspective, allowing individuals to overcome obstacles and embrace their true potential. The dialogue also touches on the vital role of community support in the wellness journey, highlighting how shared experiences can foster growth and motivation. Sia’s insights resonate with listeners, encouraging them to reflect on their own journeys and the significance of aligning actions with personal aspirations. This rich discussion serves as a reminder that success is not merely a destination but a continuous journey of self-discovery, empowerment, and connection to oneself and others.

Companies mentioned in this episode:

• Herbalife
• Virgin Active
• Misfit Bedford View

Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode on the NJ podcast.

And remember that the theme of the show is that success is a progressive realization of a worthy idea.

That means you're going after what you've always wanted to go after because it's aligned with your highest values.

And that is the only way for you to live a truly fulfilled, inspired life.

And on the show, we've got, we speak to people from all walks of life, people who are famous and some people who act like they're not famous, people who are fitness freaks.

And we speak to politicians, teachers, actors, or people from all walks of life, because everybody has got a story to share and insights that we can all learn from.

And everyone is on their own success journey.

And you will find us on all of the podcast platforms, you'll find us on the YouTube.

And today, finally.

Oh, it's been a while.

This has been a long time overdue.

I have got the one, the only, and the most famous person in the world whose name is that?

Elon Musk.

See a stone.

And she is.

She's absolutely awesome.

It's about time.

It's a long time coming that this has been coming.

So she is Sia Stone.

If you know, you know, you know, you know.

And she is the head coach and owner.

Listen, Layla, owner.

We only speak to owners on this show.

Pela, owner at Misfit Bedford View.

She's a yoga instructor at Virgin active and an independent herbalife distributor.

And her goal is to help more people live a healthy, active lifestyle and teach them how to share their healthy lifestyle with others.

She's built classes that started off with six people to 42.

Is it still 42?

Is it more than that now?

Yeah, it's still ranging there.

Okay.

Six to 42 people where each person has fallen in love with their bodies.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

I need to join so I can form in love with my poor.

Yeah.

When they feel stronger, more flexible and more aware of themselves in their body.

And her ladies get results within ten days of consistent efforts and training towards their body goals.

Thank you very much for all the time.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, it's good to have you on.

So, Sia, outside of you being the girl boss, the owner of your own fitness empire, budding fitness empire.

Just tell us more about yourself.

Where is it you come from, where you studied?

And just what makes you so passionate about the topic of health and fitness?

Yeah.

Okay, so I am Sia Stone from Bedfordview.

I went to school in Bedfordview, went to Rhodes University for varsity ru.

That's it.

Look, at school, I was always really into sports, was where I thrived the most, so took that on.

And then in varsity, did drama, organizational psychology.

I did human kinetics and ergonomics.

You're the smart people.

Like, I never could understand what you guys are doing.

What do you guys do?

Yeah, we're understanding the body.

Okay.

All right.

Sure, sure.

So with the drama and the human kinetics and ergonomics, I'm just going to refer to it as hke.

Hke.

Yeah, yeah.

I was able to just bring my love for moving my body, the sports, into one.

I've always really been into entertaining.

I've entertained my friends just sitting and, you know, making jokes, laughing around.

Yeah, yeah.

So, yeah, after that, came back to Joburg, did some work at a production house.

Yeah.

Then I felt pregnant.

Oh, okay.

Yes.

All right.

So I am a mom to a seven year old boy.

Oh, you're a mom.

She's a mom to a seven year old boy.

Mom to a seven year old.

Boyden.

M I l f.

You know.

Yes.

Okay, I'll take it.

I still feel fresh anyway.

I know, I know.

Someone's thinking that right now.

I can tell you that someone's forgetting right now.

Yeah.

So, yeah, then I stayed home, took care of him, and then ended up getting another job at this place called active education.

So we're doing edutainment.

Then again with my drama and my movement.

Went there.

Then I decided, no, actually, I need to do something with my life.

It's something that I really enjoy.

And I remember the one time I got invited to this free yoga class.

It was an african kemetic yoga class, and I fell in love.

African kinetic, ancient egyptian yoga.

Ancient egyptian yoga.

Okay, so did that class.

Fell in love.

I knew that I needed to share that with everyone.

How?

I had no idea, but the universe heard me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Got an opportunity from the production house that I was working with.

They had this deal that they were doing with liberty life, and they needed an extra and a talent, and they picked me.

So had to go through all the auditions and all of that.

Got it.

Got a nice pay that could pay my yoga training.

Okay.

So I just paid for that.

Went into that.

I didn't know how I was going to move from there, but I just.

I did it because I knew that this was my thing.

Ended up getting certified.

I got, like.

I don't want to say let go, but I did go and check planet fitness, virgin active to see if they were keen to take me on.

And no, unfortunately not.

This was.

2019.

Five years ago?

Yeah.

All right.

I approached this private studio, the nest space, and they were keen to take me on.

So I started there.

I did online training and.

Yeah, for years, because, I mean, you know, Covid did its thing.

Covid was amazing.

Covid was amazing.

The best thing ever.

All right.

How not.

Oh, my goodness.

Because people didn't lose their jobs and their houses and their cars and their money and their businesses.

Mental health was all in general.

Mental health was at an all time high.

Money was abundant.

Geez.

Like, it was absolutely great.

It was amazing.

No, no, it was a dumpster fire.

I want a refund.

I want my refund.

That's every single year now.

I check.

I want to check the terms and conditions of the next year before I enter.

Wow.

Yeah.

But anyways, through the online training, then joined joined herbalife.

Okay.

That was when I was like, okay, cool.

I've got my certificate.

I can do online training.

I can jump on these products.

Yeah, yeah.

Use them, sell them, help others do the things and.

Yeah.

Been uphill from then.

Yeah, from then being able to work at Virgin active.

I had so many classes in the week.

I was at so many private studios.

I then got approached by the head coach at misfit, Bedford View, to be a butterfly coach.

And what's a butterfly coach?

It's like a fill in, like a part time coach.

My only reference to butterflies is swimming.

Yeah.

And that was my main stroke.

I used to be a swimmer.

Oh, you used to be a swimmer as well?

You know, you're breaking stereotypes because.

Yeah, yeah, come on.

I know, but I mean, I grew up in Bedford View.

Oh, yeah, I grew up.

I was in the view.

Yeah, you were in the view.

People call it deaf review.

Bedford View.

Deaf review.

Sometimes I know why.

No, I don't want to say anything about that, but I know why.

It's in the name.

Dead.

What happened?

What happened, man?

What happened?

Because I still.

I serve some.

Some of my offices over there, and then when I'm there, I'm like, why do you call this place dead?

For the view.

Now there's too many shootings.

People are dying.

Oh, all the shootings.

Oh, yeah, I heard about a few of those, but I just thought it was an anomaly.

I thought, it's an actual thing.

It's an actual thing.

It's an actual thing.

I remember at the back of our house, I don't know what was going on at Bedford center, but I think there was a shooting there and right at the back.

So we stay in a gated community, and we are, like, at that.

Oh, look at that.

They stayed in gated community.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

You didn't choose this life.

This life chose you.

Hey, hey.

What must I do?

Hey.

Yeah.

So there was a shooting literally happening right at the back.

I could see.

If I stood by my son's room, I could see what was going on.

You could see the shootout happening.

No, no.

But I was hiding.

Why would I be like, oh, let me just see where.

No, just go back a little bit.

You missed the person on the left.

No, like, dancing.

Mandy.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm not going inside, but, yeah, it's.

It's deadfit view for a reason.

Oh, okay.

I thought it was just quiet.

That's why you're okay.

I.

That's.

I didn't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

It could be also because it's quiet.

But now I've got a real reason why they call it dead for you now.

That's.

That's my reason.

That's your reason?

I said I have another reason why.

Yeah, yeah.

Not the reason.

Yeah.

No, no.

There are multiple reasons, clearly.

Okay.

But.

All right.

I love it.

It is.

It is quite quiet when it's quiet.

It's quiet.

Yeah.

It's very enjoyable.

But, man, it's hectic.

And it's hectic.

It's proper hectic.

It's hectic.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay, sure.

I'm gonna stop going to the movies there.

There's east gate, and there's Bedford Center.

I like going to the movies there, but now I'm not so sure anymore.

It's okay.

Just.

Yeah.

Nowhere safe.

I'll say that.

Nowhere is safe.

Yeah.

Nowhere.

Someone can just pop off and be like, eyo.

Yeah, that is very true.

Like, anywhere.

That is very true.

That is very true.

Okay.

Yeah.

Right.

So, uh, misfit Bedford view.

Misfit Bedford view.

I was there, um, did my part time thing there.

She was.

I think she was getting married.

Is that the owner who said, you need to become a butterfly?

The head coach.

The head coach.

Okay.

Sure.

She approached me, and she asked.

She came to one of my classes, and she was blown away.

And she was like, you know what?

Actually come through.

African kemetic, not kinetic.

Yo.

Yeah.

African.

African kinetic.

Yes.

How's that?

Yes, yes, yes.

That's my son's name, actually.

Amun.

Ra.

Amun, not Ra.

We've changed Ra to Langa because Ra and Langa have, like, an energetic.

They share the same energetic.

I thought they meant the same thing, though.

Ra is like the rays of the sun.

Oh, I thought it was the sun.

Okay.

Yeah.

And the sun.

The rays of the many things.

It's like seeing what you see, what you don't see.

Yeah, there's a lot of things, but, yeah.

So we've changed it to Amun langa.

Okay.

Instead of.

But yeah.

Ended up there, and then I think she.

Life was laughing with her.

Oh, okay.

And they obviously needed someone to fill in her space, so then they asked me to fill in the space, and then I ended up becoming the head coach at the misfit, Bedford View.

I remember I was standing on the rooftop, and I was just like, whoa.

Like, I would love to have one misfit, like, just for myself and have my own studio.

It's such a beautiful space.

And my boss, the owner at the time, asked me what I wanted to do for the next five years, and I mentioned it to her, and she was like, okay, cool.

I want to own Bedford View.

No, a misfit.

Because she has Bedford view.

Right.

So I was like, I mean, I don't know where, but it would be.

I want your job.

I want your job.

Yeah.

She approached me a few months after that, and she offered the space to me, and I was like, okay, okay.

She's like, would you be keen to buy?

And I was like, yeah.

Not knowing what this means, how this.

And I was also mind blown because, like, how is this happening?

And I'm.

I'm just, like, feeling and thinking of having the space.

Yeah, yeah.

Not.

I wasn't doing the research or anything like that, so it was pretty cool when.

When she approached me.

So, yeah.

Signed everything, and by the 1 September, it was mine.

By the 1 September was yours?

Yeah.

Okay.

How did you finance it?

That's just me being.

Well, loans.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

I thought they were going to give it to you for free.

No, no, no.

She's very nice, though.

She like the payment plan and all of that.

She's been very, very kind with that.

Okay.

And obviously, this was after Covid, right?

This has happened.

Like, now.

Now.

Like, now now.

I like now.

Like, now.

The 1 September.

I thought.

Yeah, yeah.

Well done, well done, well done, well done.

Geez, that's good.

Yeah.

Wow.

I'm gonna go out and have some juice after this to celebrate.

Sparkling juice?

Just juice?

No appetizer?

No, no, no.

Just juice.

No.

No sparklers?

No, no, no, no.

You're not gonna get me canceled.

No, absolutely.

I'm gonna have some juice to go celebrate.

I'm gonna have, you know, the health shots.

The health shots.

You know, the ginger and the turmeric.

I'm gonna have those whole shots to celebrate.

Yes.

You know what I mean?

But anyway, well done.

That's amazing.

That is amazing.

I love seeing people win.

Yeah.

Amazing.

I love it.

Yeah.

No, it's.

It's definitely been a journey.

Yeah.

I appreciate it.

So how does it make you feel?

Like.

Look, I will say that my energy and my vibe towards, like, myself and the space has changed.

Okay.

Completely.

I wake up different.

I step into the space different.

I walk different.

Yeah.

Do you walk around like you own the place?

Because you do.

I need to.

Ah, yes.

That's my spot.

That's my house.

Yes.

You know, it is my sandpaper.

And if you don't like it, you can get out.

There.

It is.

But, yeah, I definitely do feel different.

Sometimes.

It can get overwhelming, because for the longest time, I was only doing yoga with people, selling products to people.

Yeah, yeah.

Helping with transformations and, like, just physically moving my body now it's admin.

Now it's making sure that rent is paid.

Is there still toilet paper?

Like, is that an actual concern?

It's an actual concern for other people, not just you.

No, no, no.

Like, is this space still moving the way it needs to?

Like, how can I improve?

How do I just better myself?

Better?

The space, it's different now.

Completely different.

There are no games are being played.

No, no, no.

And it's nice because everything then comes back to me.

Yeah.

So I really need to put my best foot forward.

Yeah.

100%, all the time now.

You just can't oversleep.

No.

What's that?

You see?

You see?

That even exists?

This is a message to all the employees out there who've never owned a business a day in their life.

No.

They come to work late and then they want bonuses and promotions.

Have done nothing.

Own something and then miss a payment and see what happens.

It's insane.

Yeah, it is insane.

But very grateful, because now I'm definitely out of my comfort zone.

I had no idea what was the next step after just doing what I was doing, being an instructor.

But now here I am.

This is the next step.

That's amazing.

That is amazing.

You still write all yours for that rhyme to give you a gift when you double this one.

This is monumental.

Monumental, right.

So explain the tenets of yoga to me, please, because I understand yoga to be just stretching.

That's my basic understanding of it.

And then others say that there's spiritual implications to it.

Some conservatives saying, like, oh, you're gonna be possessed.

Others are saying that it's aligning with.

Aligning with your energies.

Please explain to me, as a person who's a noob, a novice, in understanding what yoga is.

So, yoga is the Sanskrit name of union of mind, body, spirit, because we are mind, body, and spirit of the asanas are the postures.

We call them asanas.

And yes, there is a lot of stretching in yoga.

Yoga can be very strength based.

So the yoga that I have been teaching recently at virgin active has been strength based.

African kinetic yoga has a bit of strength to it, but more alignment and, liKe, endurance.

Yeah.

So it is the alignment of the energy centers.

There are seven main energy centers that the SANSkrit yogis, the HATHA yogis, the vinyasa yogis focus on.

But we actually have about.

And I might be butchering this, but 108 energy centers in our bodies.

Did you say 108?

108 energy centers.

But the main ones that we focus on is the root chakra, the sacral chakra, your solar plexus.

Okay.

The heart chakra, throat chakra, your third eye, and the crown.

So, solar plexus is your stomach.

Right.

Solar plexus right here by your diaphragm, like, just a few fingers away from the diaphragm.

Okay.

All right.

Yeah.

So when reason I know that is because I used to watch the wwe a lot.

Oh, he got punched in the solar.

Solar pexels.

Yes.

Okay.

Right, right there.

Yeah.

It is exactly where it is.

What happens if someone punches you there?

Yeah.

Like, think about it.

I'm asking, do you die?

Whatever.

No, no, no.

Not die.

But on an energetic level, there is an imbalance that happens 100%.

The aim is always to try keep your energy centers balanced so that you are really aligned in yourself, not for anyone else but yourself.

There is a spiritual aspect to Yoga because of the energy centers.

Yeah, yeah.

Right.

So I kept on reading this one thing.

It's literally left my mind.

But the energy centers is literally, like, who we are.

Okay.

Right.

Without them, we don't exist.

So with each energy center, they have, like, a different thing that they run.

Yeah.

So, for your root chakra, it's your legs, your feet.

You're grounding, you're feeling secure, you're feeling safe.

It's inertia.

Right.

And then your sacral chakra is the sex organs, your creativity, your.

I'm being.

Almost not.

I'm being.

But your feeling.

Right.

And then you've got.

Your Solar plexus is your willpower, your discipline, your go getter energy.

The heart chakra is very much about love.

Loving yourself, loving others, and just taking care of self.

It's the bridge between the lower energy centers and the higher energy centers.

Then you've got your throat chakra that is in charge of hearing, listening, communication.

But, like, honest communication.

I know with me, if I'm not speaking honestly to myself or listening properly to what anyone else is saying to me, and I know that I need to hear it.

I feel like a.

It's almost as if lump in your throat.

Not even a lump.

It feels like someone on the inside or something on the inside.

Is striking you.

Yeah.

Is reaching me like this.

So is that how I can spot a liar?

Like.

No, you can spot yourself lying to yourself.

Oh, not spot someone else lying to me.

No, no.

That's what I want to know, man.

You can tell someone if they're lying because you can even hear it, right?

Lies you can hear.

Yeah.

If you're just gonna say this, this, and I'm lying to you, like, I'm the greatest basketball player in the world.

I've been playing for the NBA.

I'm an Olympic swimmer.

I can already feel myself, like, lying.

I can feel it.

Like, my body's just like, you're a liar.

You're a liar.

But you can also see, like, the way I was, like, acting, I guess the performance you can.

We are in tune.

But some people are very good liars, though.

Yeah.

It's the micro movements that you need to watch.

The micro movements, because you might even see that someone starts to do the.

Shoes moving or like a tiny or someone is busy.

Like, you know, there's always things that you can see.

The third.

The third eye, this one.

It's literally what you see.

But, like, your creativity, your visualizations, what you say, and see yourself in the future, in the past, in the present.

Oh, is it right?

And then the crown chakra is you being my being.

Okay.

You are just your being.

You're here.

Okay.

Your presence.

Okay.

All right, cool.

Yeah.

Third eye, how does that work?

Like, what's the importance?

I know you're talking about.

It's how you see yourself past, present and future.

You being in tune.

Yeah.

And I know some people talk about opening your third eye.

Is that an important thing?

It's something that we can all do.

It would be great if we can all do it.

Look, not everyone thinks that it is important.

So for me, yes, it's nice to have.

Because then, like, you're in, your intuition is different.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like, the lying thing of catching someone lying.

If someone is lying through their teeth and you can't really see because they're holding it down, but you can, like, you can see.

No, man.

Oh, lord.

There's something.

Game recognized game.

And you're looking pretty familiar right now.

You are lying to me.

Okay.

You understand?

Opening your third eye just helps you being aware of the space where you are reading the room.

If you like that whole feeling, I don't know if people still feel it, but you go into a room and you can feel.

Actually, it's feeling a bit.

I shouldn't be here.

Yeah.

Or yes, it's a vibe.

It's because of the energies that we let out, because our energy centers are not only just on the inside, they go out into our auric field.

And you can also probably feel this with people's bubbles.

Right?

If you standing a bit too close to someone and then they want to step back.

Like, you.

You're in my personal space.

Men, get out.

I should have a stick.

Like, hey, yeah.

That's one thing I really appreciated about COVID But now the social distancing, now people don't get it.

People are still like, you're standing in line with gas.

Like, right here.

Like, you're right here.

Like, no, you don't need to be this close to me.

Like, but there's a lot to yoga.

I can really go deep.

We do a lot of breath work.

It's a lot of.

And I like to say this, like, when doing yoga, you really start to feel who you are in the space.

You're more aware of your body.

And I really like it for people who train on a daily basis, because when you're doing the asanas, you're on the mat, you're doing the things.

You're breathing.

You can feel your body changing.

Your energy centers are opening up.

Some of them are getting balanced.

You're releasing a whole lot of traumas.

But you know what it feels like to be balanced in this spot.

Then you go to the gym and you hit a workout, and then you feel a.

I'm about to land.

Funny.

You can catch yourself quickly.

Is it?

You already know, like, especially with hiking.

Hiking is a great example where the stones and the rocks are not leveled.

Some of them are loose.

The moment you take a step, you can already feel that.

This one is a bit tricky.

Okay, then you're okay.

You know that you can step back.

Or if.

Even if you're doing something, I don't know, like, how do I explain this with, let's say when I'm chatting about myself and I want to get to know myself for myself, and I'm journaling and I'm writing all this stuff down, and I can feel, okay, this feels like it's just pouring out of me.

It feels good.

And then I try to adjust what I'm trying to think, and then it's like, okay, let me go back to the truth.

Yeah, yeah.

It's not nice sometimes when you see, okay, these are the facts.

But those are the facts.

These are the facts.

Yeah.

It's just being aware of yourself, learning how to breathe.

It also helps with posture.

And this is a chat that a lot of people have about yoga, is that we always try to in the alignment.

So when you start, you always want to keep your spine erect.

You want to keep the energy centers one on top of the other, so that when you're moving, you're able to keep everything open.

You know what I mean?

Um, but, yeah, it really is an experience.

It's a practice for a reason, because you need to keep going back into it to do it.

It's not a one stop shop, as I.

It's not like I just go there for a tune up and then stop.

No, you gotta continue.

I want to use this term way.

Of life, quote unquote, way of life.

Okay.

It is a way of life because you do.

Yeah.

You are aware of the things that you.

You need to do good to yourself, right.

When you do good to yourself, you can do good to others.

And it's not even a thing of, like, I'm trying because it's who you are.

Okay.

Yeah.

And then, controversial question.

Do people get possessed while doing yoga?

So I think the possession part of the yoga comes from the fact that a lot of the sanskrit poses, like the hatha poses do, and even the comedic poses, and I don't want to lie about this, is we mimic the deities or the gods of Sanskrit.

Sanskrit.

Or then the kemetic deities.

That would be like your horuses and.

Yes, your osara.

Your oset.

Who's this other one?

Is it Osiris?

Osiris.

Osa.

Oh, okay.

And then Isis is osset.

Oset.

Oh, okay.

I didn't know.

I just know the names that I know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But you're just mimicking the energies that they carry.

So even with, like, a pose, like a yogic squat, that really is.

It's a grounding pose to help you with gratification.

When you're sitting in that squat, you're open you're very open, right?

Sure.

You're encouraged to keep everything open and then in that pose you just, it's the energy that pose carries of like you're grounded.

It's safe to share what you're grateful for.

Okay.

Okay.

You know what I mean?

And then there's pose of Osa.

Pose of Osa is very like stern, sturdy, rock solid.

I've got this, but also doesn't exist without oset.

So it's a thing of like I've got masculine energy in me.

Yes.

But I also have my feminine energy in me, so I'm guided in a balanced way.

Yeah.

So it's just the energy of.

It's not necessarily I am.

Okay, okay, the pose, yeah, yeah.

So I think because there's many gods in these different with the yoga.

But isn't, doesn't yoga have its roots in, is it, is it Hinduism?

Is that where originates from?

Yes.

So then how did it get to african kinetic.

So, yeah, I.

These are the chats, right.

What's your chat, Sierra?

What's your chat?

What's your chat?

So from what I remember in my studies is african kemetic yoga is the originator.

It comes from Africa, from Egypt.

Right.

Ancient Egypt.

Doctor Umar Johnson is going to be very happy to hear.

100%, 100%.

What happened is back in the day and many years ago, when the people were migrating, the cousins of the ancient Egyptians migrated to India, the Dravidians.

The Dravidians took the practice with them because it is a way of life.

Took it with them to India.

Yeah, they did the things and then they got colonized by the English, the British almost.

They merged the yoga with gymnastics.

Oh, okay, okay.

And then it became gymnastics.

Gymnastics.

A lot of people might be like, you've got this wrong, which is okay, this is the story that I understand.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So if you've got different facts, come through with it, please, because it's very nice for us to ask her, not me.

I don't know, it's nice for us to learn, but this is the story that I remember from the books that I was reading.

So that's what happened really.

But yoga is.

Yoga is yoga.

It has the same effect of alignment, getting to know yourself, being aware of yourself, doing good to yourself, because it is then, like I said, body, mind and spirit, what you're consuming, be it food, information, music, what you're smelling like, you know what I mean?

So you pretty much have to mind everything that you do.

Yeah.

Like how are you breathing, you know, like exactly I mean, you can already feel panting, like that is going to make you anxious.

So when you already feel like you're.

Worked up, like, oh, this person is trying me today, then you just like.

Because we teach people how to breathe different ways, then you like, another breath that I like to do if I'm starting to get like.

Is just like curling my tongue, and then.

I already feel calm on this.

It's like the.

It's cooling.

It's a cooling breast.

Oh, is it?

Yeah.

And it really does cool you down.

You're like, okay, where does.

What does wusa come from?

From bad boys two.

I love that I can't do it here because where does it come from?

I actually don't even know.

Oh, is it okay?

It's not a yoga thing.

Okay.

All right.

Yes, yes, yes.

Relax.

Yes.

The taxi driver cut you off again.

It's okay.

No, but I feel like now for.

If you've been driving for a while.

And you've been in South Africa, you must know, you.

You just need to give them away because let them go on a strike.

Just, ah, it's a madness.

If the taxi drivers go, there we go.

I don't want them to go on.

No, exactly.

So just drive.

Guys, they are helping the economy.

Economy.

They've been building that economy like that for a very long time.

Let's let them have their spot.

Yes.

Even if they stop in the middle of the road.

It's their spot.

Yeah, it's their spot.

They stop in the middle of the road.

Like, I don't even get.

I don't even get upset.

I appreciate the hazards when they put their lights on.

You know, I'm like, I'm grateful that you actually get it.

Yeah, but in the middle of the road, bro.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Someone is on the way to feed their family.

That's.

That's it.

I'm not.

I'm not going to stand, shout out.

To the taxi driver's, yo, taxi boss on the show.

But, uh, do it.

What?

Me?

I don't want to die.

I don't want to die.

So, guys, if you know a taxi boss out there who is safe?

I just want to just chat about the business model around the taxi industry.

I don't want.

Look, I feel like some of them are actually really nice.

I don't think.

I think they need to be, like, rough and tough because of the industry.

You've heard stories, but when have you never heard stories anywhere?

There are some stories that I am more afraid of than others.

I'm sure there's the samburi me.

I'll find them.

I'll find them.

But I just.

I just want to die.

No, you won't.

Come on.

I just want to die.

Yeah, I'll find them.

The day I remember doing some consulting work for Sa taxi.

They're the guys that fund taxi owners for their.

For their buses and for their cars.

No wonder these guys are so angry.

Do you know what you need to go through just to get insurance and funding for a vitaxing?

My gosh.

No, no, no, no.

Guys, there has to be a better way.

No, no, no, no.

The interest rates are.

Matt, I sort of get that.

The application, the background checks, all of that.

It's like, sort of you being self employed and then you want a loan from a bank.

Yeah.

Think about that process a hundred times harder, because then they'll ask you questions, like being some guys and stuff.

They'll ask you questions because I do work for a bank.

Right.

So then I understand the question that they'll ask you.

Okay, so, sia, on this day, when that debit order went off, but then it was returned, what happened?

They questioned everything.

Everything.

Oh, geez.

Like, yeah, I'm gonna get a taxi pass on.

Yeah, do it.

I think there's.

There's definitely one that's keen.

Well, that's keen.

Yeah, send them through.

Send them through.

Yeah, I'll make sure.

I'll move my guests for next week.

Yeah, 100%.

So.

So, basically, when you're on the road, you're seeing a taxi driver cut you off, you can just do that pose, right?

Do that pose.

Okay.

They're just feeding the family.

They're just.

They're feeding the family.

I literally, that's, like, the one thing that I always say to myself if I start to go into, like, a negative.

Yeah.

Thought process, like, I.

The moment I catch myself, I, like, poor myself with positivity, like, overflow, so that I can.

How do you.

How do you do that for a lot of people?

Because, um, I don't, if you understand, I know this, uh, you.

A lot of people are angry.

Yes.

They just.

They're just angry.

Unprovoked at work in shopping malls and shopping centers.

The cashiers are unhappy.

The people who are working at the gym are unhappy sometimes.

All of them.

Not notion, act of select.

I mean, I.

Everyone's great there.

Right?

Right.

I.

Right, right.

Okay, maybe not so a lot of people.

A lot of people.

Don't break my heart here.

A lot of people are.

I feel that the anger that they have and the hostility that they have is, it's too much.

And I don't think it's rooted in something that is.

I don't know what the word is that it's, it's that.

Not that it's viable, that it's actually, they're making things out of things that are not things.

You know what I mean?

So with the people that are very angry, wholesale, what are some of the practices that you will suggest that they take and how do they pour themselves with positivity?

Like, how do you do it?

Look, those things are hectic, first and foremost, because you need to be keen to change your mindset.

It's a mindset thing.

Who are you spending the most time with?

Yourself.

Yep.

That is true.

You are with yourself every single time.

Sleeping, waking, all the days.

If you're tired of being sick and tired of being angry, upset, always, things will happen.

And you are now able to take that and be like, okay, it's on me, then we can move.

Yeah, you can do the things.

But if you're still gonna be like that person, this situation.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm just gonna let you vent.

But isn't it easier to do your thing, blame other people and be angry at other people isn't easier?

Yeah.

Okay, then for me to look at.

Myself and like, why would you want to blame yourself?

Why?

Why, Meena?

As perfect as I am, Mina, it's all you people.

Magic.

I'm the greatest.

I am the greatest.

It's tough.

It really is tough.

And I will stick by this.

It is a mindset thing.

I'm very grateful.

Look, the people who reminded me, the herbalife community, my yoga teacher who shut it down, Ursula, they gave me books.

I read the books.

Things that I had to practice to get into this mindset.

And being okay with that, understanding what negative energy does to you, and then how you can just use the positive energy and help mask that.

I've been told many times that I'm on, like, a toxic positivity train or I'm way too positive.

How is that?

And I'm like, help me understand.

No, I don't understand.

So I can help you understand.

Help me understand.

They use the words toxic positivity?

Yes.

The last time I checked, they don't.

Yeah.

What's that thing in English?

I don't know.

What?

It's oxymoron.

It's not an oxymoron.

Right.

It doesn't work like the two opposite things.

Yeah.

Look, I don't get it.

And, yeah, I don't know.

So maybe your positivity is being toxic.

To them, probably because it was a.

I remember.

I don't want to say names, but I was having a chat with a friend, and it was a thing of like, but how are we gonna get a car?

Like, the stresses of this and that?

Where's the money for this?

And I was like, just put it out into the universe.

Be grateful for this car that you don't have.

Like, I'm grateful I have this car.

I'm grateful that I get to pour.

Petrol in this car until the petrol prices go up.

No, because when the petrol price goes up, this means that more money is coming in.

Sure, sure.

Right.

For you to afford that.

Right.

So just being in that mindset, but that whole thing, I don't think they were understanding what was going on or where I was coming from.

They were like, you were definitely starting.

There you go.

With all your positivity, actually.

You know what I mean?

I will say that it's helped me a lot.

Like, I would not be able to be at the place that I'm in.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Without that mindset of, I can do this, and the universe has got me.

Yeah.

Can you give us a time where you're, like, other than Covid, or you can use Covid, whatever it is, where you're, like, you're filled in.

You're in this negative space, negative mindset, negative time, negative situation.

Then you were able to flip it around with your toxic positivity.

Sure.

Yeah.

I remember I was actually hosting my first herbalife boot camp at Galuli's farm.

And I had invited all these people from Facebook, my friends.

I was like, homies, we are doing this.

Got food, got all my shakes, got all the mats, got tables, got clothes.

I literally got everything.

And then I.

Night before.

Sorry, Sia, I can't make it.

Sorry, Sia, I'm not gonna make it.

And legit.

Everyone other than one said that they weren't able to make it.

Listen, with every single.

Sia, I can't make it.

My heart.

Do you understand?

You don't understand.

My heart was beating like that.

So hard, so sore.

But I was like, no.

Do you do the Denzel Washington?

You think you can do this to me?

I put in cases at all.

You people shoot program lockdown.

No, I was saying, so many people are coming to this place.

Oh, this pooch.

You carried on saying that even though people.

Even though these messages were coming in and I was filling it up, my heart would be so sore.

And I would fill up with, I'm so excited.

So many people are coming to this boot camp.

It's going to be the greatest bootcamp I've ever hosted.

It's going to be amazing.

Everyone's going to love it.

Love it.

I kept on saying it with every single cancellation.

Then come the day, and I was like, yeah, the mats are laid out.

I've got my table, I've got my shakes, I've got my food, all the things.

It's game time and it's game time, but one mat is full.

I was like, wow, one mat.

One mat.

I was like, okay, cool.

No, it's fine.

My mom came.

That friend that was the one who did not cancel still came through.

Yeah.

There were so many people at Galuli's farm, I had no space.

Like, everyone came through to fill it up.

So people who you didn't invite happened to be there still?

No, the people I invited didn't come.

Yeah, but the people at Galuli, at.

The farm, that's what I'm referring to.

At the farm.

They decided to go.

Yeah.

Oh, wow, look at that.

They came through, they filled it up.

I got all how Philip Coululy is.

It was a true success because I got a whole lot of clients from them.

That was when I knew that, no, this thing works.

This thing works.

You just gotta also radiate that positive energy, because also, if you're in that vibe.

I was gonna say the other vibes.

Yeah, that.

Those.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If you're in those vibes.

Yeah, yeah.

Then you're gonna.

People are gonna feel that.

You're gonna just spread that out to a whole lot of people.

But if you're vibrating on a high frequency of love and positive energy, there is no way it's going to go wrong.

Even when there's delays, even when things are not going right.

Grateful.

I'm grateful for this delay.

I'm grateful that this person wasn't able to show up.

Yes, I'm hurt, but I'm grateful because God is steering me in the right direction.

I don't know where.

But you're a much better person than I am.

People don't know this.

What?

But I'm very petty.

Oh, my goodness.

I am Petty.

I am.

Oh, I'm very petty.

Did you see your eyes?

Even you were like, you go to cancel on me.

Okay, all right.

Okay, all right.

Okay.

You see that?

It's great.

I need to work on my pettiness.

I'm going to admit I go to be open, honest.

I need to work out my pet school.

Wow.

Look, we were supposed to be sitting here many, like, a long time ago.

Yeah.

But now I'm here as an owner.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, now.

Now I think.

I think this was the right time.

It was the perfect time.

Yeah, yeah, the perfect time.

So.

Yeah, so, geez.

Like, wow.

I would have been like, you cancel on me.

Okay.

All right.

You think you could do this to me?

My time?

I'm putting cases on all.

All of you.

All of.

And then when I become successful.

Yeah.

Guess what I do?

I do.

I do what Steve Harvey did to death to his teacher.

You know what he does to his teacher?

What did he do to teach you?

Like, my pettiness is like, I need to work on that.

Like, y'all.

You pray for me.

Pray for me in my pettiness.

Steve Harvey's a teacher.

Told him you'll never be on tv.

Oh, yes, I remember this one.

And then now that he's made it, every single Thanksgiving, every year, he sends her a big screen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.

I would have.

I would have made a note to everyone who canceled.

And the day I'm big, I'm sending them yoga mats.

Yoga mats out every single day that they were there.

That is so hectic.

Oh, my goodness.

Noise.

Oh, man.

Yeah, okay.

No, that's.

That's very good.

Well, I mean, well done.

Well done, well done, well done.

Let's keep that going.

That's good.

So for those people who want to start preparing for, like, a marathon or like, a fitness go for, this is.

Let's just take a marathon.

So it is coming up to oceans is going up.

People want to do comrades.

Someone says, okay, sia, you are a health and wellness coach.

You're a girl boss, owner of Misfit reference.

Now.

You miss and then fit.

You're a misfit.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

She owns misfit now.

She thinks she can do whatever she wants around here.

You know, people say that.

You know, some people say that probably.

It's okay.

I appreciate that.

Doesn't matter.

One of you come with the energy.

Come with the energy.

Yeah, yeah.

And then I'll send you your comments.

So if I want to prepare for a.

I've never done a marathon a day in my life.

Never done a marathon.

What are you going to recommend that I do in terms of the training?

Maybe the yoga, maybe the diet mindset.

What would you say I should do?

So definitely yoga.

Yoga for endurance.

Endurance.

We're definitely going to have to do a lot of, like, yin yoga is a very, like, stretch based yoga.

Tends to the ligaments, your tendons.

It does tend to the muscles.

It also, like, goes deep into the energy centers.

With the yoga, you'll obviously get into a nice, healthy Mindset every single time.

When we have a yoga session, we always have an intention, or I will always encourage the people to think about things that they're grateful for and we take it on.

And I mean, for an hour, if you are being reminded about the things that you're grateful for and a positive intention, you're going to leave there feeling light.

So I'll definitely get into that.

My thing is, because I'm learning a lot more in my industry, is I would definitely refer them to a biokineticist.

If I'm being honest, is that the straight person?

That is the person who will tend to all your things in your body.

Okay.

With regards to your food, you need to eat.

You need to eat.

Don't tell me you're gonna go run a whole marathon and you're not chowing.

No, you need to have your breakfast.

A nice, healthy breakfast.

You need to have your snacks.

Can you go with a healthy breakfast?

You have to.

Can't I have my chocolate and wine for breakfast?

Look, let's balance it out.

I love how she's not saying no.

Yeah, no, no, no.

I don't want to say no, because we're human living in the world that we're living in right now with the influences that we have.

So let's not take it out.

Let's just not have as much.

Oh, okay.

Just taper it down.

Yes, taper it down.

But on your day to day, like, look, after what you're consuming, it has to be healthy.

You have to have your snacks.

You need to have a healthy lunch.

You need to have a healthy snack after lunch.

You need to have a nice, healthy supper.

And depending on what time you're going to sleep, you need to have your snack before you go to bed.

Right?

So if I go to sleep around like eight, nine pm, when should I have a snack?

Well, I'm asking for a friend.

I'm asking for me.

I'm asking for a friend.

So if you're having dinner at five or six, yeah, yeah.

Then 2 hours after that.

But if you're gonna sleep soon after that, then maybe, like, just like, let it not be something with sugar.

Maybe even just a protein would be great.

What if I like my sugar?

If I go to sleep?

No, no, no.

Sorry.

No, no.

Like straight up.

No, no, no.

Ulala Ganjani.

Your body's busy digesting you can't dream nicely, my bro.

How are you dreaming?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It needs.

No, no, no.

The judgment.

The judgment that's going.

It's not even the judgment.

It's just being aware.

You need to be aware of how your body moves also.

This is why.

And like, probably, like, completely out of it.

But life orientation deprived us of things that we need to learn.

What do you mean we need to learn tax.

We need to learn every, like, financial literacy.

We need yoga in life orientation.

Yes, we've got Pe, but that's PE.

Just go kick a ball.

No, no.

Tell me about my body, how it moves.

Yeah, teach me how to breathe.

What is the economy looking like in Saudi?

And in the world, let that not just be in business.

The economy is great, man.

What are you talking about?

What am I talking about?

What are you talking about?

Economy is great.

No, no, no.

Let's be, let's be real.

I love positivity, but, uh, but, yeah.

It'S challenging, but it's, but in that, like, let's, it doesn't have to be positive for us to learn about it to know what's going on in the world.

You know what I mean?

Like, yeah.

I don't think they did enough for life or end.

It's life orientation.

Orientation.

I'm like, guys, like, let it.

I wish they should.

They didn't teach me to not be petty.

They, that's, they, they did me a disservice.

I think also they rushed through the whole thing.

Like, let's, let's, yeah.

I don't know.

It is what it is.

Anyways, we're here now living life.

Yeah.

So, so then, like, what would constitute healthy breakfast lunch at a very basic level.

Okay, so the, my go to is the herbalife products.

I'll have my herbalife shake.

I'll have a Formula one shake with a PDM.

Or I'll have my rebuild strength.

What is PDM now?

PDM is a protein drink mix.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I've seen that.

Yes.

So two scoops of formula, one shake, and then two scoops of protein drink mix, and I'm good to go.

Some people like to add banana, others will have, like, oats.

But you just need to feed your body with like, a nice vitamin boost.

Yeah, a protein boost.

Something that will fill you up nicely until your next snack in the morning.

Sure.

And then what would that next snack be?

The next snack would be a protein with a carbohydrate.

So let's say an apple with bultong.

An apple with bolton?

Yes.

I thought you was going to say banana nicotine.

I mean.

Okay.

Let'S keep the banana.

Let's keep the.

I caught.

And then the egg from the quarter Maru.