YogArt by Sara Quiriconi is Bold in What She Stands For, Leading by Example

Welcome to Dr. Dana's show and tell. My name is Dr. Dana Churchill. We have an amazing guest today Who is devised a system called yoga art and her name is Sarah Kirikoni. Sarah, please come out. Thank you for being on the show. I'll get situated. Yeah, look at this. Amazing, huh? You can do some more of that. Yoga does the body good. Good. Tell us about your journey. How you decided to do yoga art and how it's going to benefit people at home. Absolutely, so I'll keep the journey short because we have a segmented here. Yes. It's a long one, but I came into yoga years later after being an 18 year cancer survivor today. A lot of mental health issues, anxiety struggles and yoga actually for me started as a way to burn calories, and it was cheaper than me going into the city. Laughter works just as well. Let me tell you. I started to notice that it wasn't just about burning the calorie zone. It started to heal a lot of my own mental disconnection with my body. Help me because I don't know that much about yoga. I've seen the contortionist amazing stretching, which is amazing, and then I've seen the meditation. So is there dual? Is there different kinds of yoga? I know Kundalini, a friend of mine practiced that, and one felt like all the spine, everything went straight up. She went to the top or something. She's pretty intuitive. And that's what I really appreciate that you bring up, too, because when we think of yoga, that is something we'll see it on Instagram. We'll see it, you know, on covers of books, and they're all twisted up into little petzals. The real yoga, and that's what I love to disrupt about this whole industry and with art, because yoga itself, how are you moving throughout the day? Are you aware of what you're doing, how you're impacting other people? What's the energy, you know? At the end of the day, everything is energy. It's a lot of emotional intelligence and self-awareness, how we're treating our bodies and ourselves. That to me is all yoga, you know, how we're making eye contact is a yoga. So it's a lot of different. How do you do the yoga art? That sounds really cool. The yoga art, so before I got into yoga, I was a digital artist, and I still am to this day, Art Direction Production. I did graphic design for quite many years, yes, and it combines the best of both worlds to me, because it takes a lot of the sequences, probably 10,000 yoga positions, right? Yes, but they're little sketches. Yeah, it looks like hieroglyphics. Exactly, so I actually used to write all of my sequences out, which is exactly what those are. Yeah, cool. So we can make this beautiful art out of it, as a reminder to people to be mindful, to practice all the different limbs, as we call them in yoga. Be mindful, go about your day, stretch if you want to, and each one of the pieces has a different color that resembles the chakras, which is what you were referring to before. The last and final one is white, resembling ether for space. That's like the highest. Exactly. So these are also going to be sold as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain as well, hence the ether. Can we see you do the position like that? Okay. That's really cool. You're gonna have to feed me after, you know that? Don't do this at home, okay? Do this at home. You ready? Yeah. Can you shake my foot? Shake. There we go. Thank you. Well, what's some words of wisdom you could tell the public to what can they do to start? Maybe they haven't done anything. They're still on the couch like, I can't do that. They'll be like, I can never do that, but maybe they could start. I love debunking because it's not about doing anything. It starts in the mind. Yoga starts in the mind. What you're gonna do starts in the mind, and it all comes down to what your belief is. Because if you believe you can, you can. If you believe you can't, you're right, too. So I'm gonna go with the you can part. Yeah, let's leave him with that. You can do anything you believe in. Excellent. Sarah, thank you for coming on.