Playa del Carmen NOW

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we have a wonderful show today we have a beautiful woman in here directors to start a fight or was that who are bringing into the show in 2023 I've appointed immediately the car late because she's our guest and I know y'all forgot all about them was I thought you and then we have
Xavier thanks again for letting us be here and who else is here, text me directly back there who put this all together and putting this all together and making us look beautiful and sound amazing sometimes funny is that at any better yet at 3 podcast we already are different yes we're doing something different what are we doing different Elizabeth explain to us what we're doing different this year custom costume you're absolutely right
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when she says it we got a new look is is we removed the the Hat no longer are we wearing hats and no longer are we wearing sunglasses we're doing El natural so we have to bring some beauty in on top of the guests we have to bring some beauty in because who the hell wants to look at you guys doing a podcast on that Pharrell typical so so we're starting the 2023 series living like a local in Playa del Carmen and today we're going to talk about Carly in the few things she does like Acro yoga yes and handstand class and I and she does this huge local event Rouge local event
go ahead say it again and that's a a monthly event that's our big news is just finally become a monthly event we were doing it about once every 6 to 8 weeks and now it's going to be the second Saturday of every month it's an amazing and make sure to give some clips to Fernando to put into the YouTube which is going to be up there and there's you know I've been going there for quite some time and it's just ironic how I ran into Carly in November I had my my surgery might hernia surgery and as soon as I finish my hernia surgery and doing sorry I was just a couple months out of the surgery and I feel it's time to get back to doing my crazy stuff and and then it just ironic I ranted Mario
Mariela finally came to me and she goes to another girl that's doing handstands and I was like awesome and cheese green guy and I was like even better yeah Anthony something that you really are looking forward to do my goal my goal is number one I got to get flexible enough like she could just like put her hands straight on the ground and go up you're not going to prove that video later and we'll cut it in later handstand somewhere else some other time or something like that but let's move on let's talk let's let's do this beautiful woman over here Carly Carly
Carly's from Ringle Andrea so I'm from Ohio Midwest
and do you know the where the Midwest states. I'll be well I kind of have an idea of the Midwest but not what you were saying that you are spending a long time he in a play, right yeah I've been here for just over ten years and I always kind of say that Ohio is that state next to the other states that no one really has heard of a little but it's close to Chicago so that's kind of how you can okay for 5 days they might be cold weather no way it's crazy that you've been here for 10 years and it has a small town in typically I think I know everybody in this town or you kind of run into everybody in this town it's
and I mean that is 10 years and I haven't seen you I can explain there's a reason 24/7 so I didn't get out much it was just work homework home and then I skip to battle our for a couple years so I was actually living down in Buck alarm for about 4 years the overall in the Caribe I've been here for just over ten but that's been between Playa Del Carmen and Michael are the first thing we do before we start talking about you and all the other stuff that you do we ask you two questions because this is all about while the Carmen and people coming to Playa del Carmen so when your friends or family or anybody comes in specially from freezing ass Ohio
what is your number one restaurant go to one tenant in there so many here in Playa del Carmen and just a hint she's full-blown vegan so Brett favorite favorite restaurant to take people is po Tai and it's not a vegan restaurant is it your favorite too good and the service is amazing the food is incredible every single time and they'll accommodate you know if you're vegan they have the curry options I have tofu vegetables and they'll accommodate pretty much any request you have there a Hobbies you should realize something
you tell me what we've now I asked what our 25th or 24th erestaurant every episode nobody ever repeats the restaurant just to give you an idea of socks that when you come to pile of Carmen and we've talked to 25 local people on this show and not once is somebody repeated a restaurant. Restaurant is actually really close to here like I don't know what two blocks Avenue right yes almost sweet 16 kind of clothes is in the Torso and just cuz like later this afternoon we're going to do something out of the Taurus don't because again we're trying to teach people living like a local in Playa de Carmen
like a local
that was fun glad you decided to join
okay so question number two we always ask everybody your friends family come into town and what is that event or place that you take him to I feel like this might be a repeat answer from people you had in the past but Garden of Eden listen to stay the first time and so it's just about 25 minutes from here by car or collectible and it's on the way to Tulum right but it says beautiful beautiful signal today and I love it that it's something that's really different so people who come to visit their always really impressed by how beautiful it is a natural and it's fun you can jump off the cliff or just swim around snorkel yes so you know that place can I do I do and I haven't been there on the cheese
I haven't been there in a long time date and we went to the snow days it was like you gave the old man 20 pesos he let you in there is no safety anything and you pretty much you just prayed somebody didn't fall and break a leg or you know hopefully you still here right we're still here until it rains all right let's talk about you and what you've done in your 10 years in Playa del Carmen so we can is an artist is a Vegan Fest that goes on it's going to happen I don't know if we're going to have this posted by this week but
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the first of your recurring starts this weekend of course I plan to go cuz everybody in there is the food number one I make sure I don't eat on that Saturday so I can go there and eat all the food and then there's other things tell us more about the things that are are there at your at your event so basically I want to mention that I organized this event with a friend two of us who who started it this will be our fifth one this Saturday and then yeah like I said once a month from there on out until you can find all sorts of different things that are people selling clothing people selling jewelry handmade crafts we usually have at least a yoga Workshop some time some other workshops as well someone sells plans and you can find anything from vegan pizza to vegan popsicles and it is so so so delicious it is there's a lot of good things
will you have it. We will have some music I think some live music at the end I'm not sure if we'll have a DJ this time but we usually do have a DJ there will definitely be music and in the very first one we actually had a circus performance at the end when we had a belly dancing and break dancing performance so we try to keep it interesting but people really seem to like the live music to to close it out so that's what we're doing this time and even like my earrings I don't know if you can see them but I got these they're so they're a bunch of cool things you should definitely check it out and it's a beautiful place this park where we hold it it's it's really one of the gems that's kind of in the not-so touristy part of Playa but it's really a beautiful place to go just any day to kind of hang out and relax and it is dog-friendly parks she's talking about is parka LeSabre
and Seattle and I'll let I'll let our Mexican explain what
say latest what is Salem in the area is actually really holy tree and is one of the strongest bond and biggest biggest one and this is Pacific Place is being working since I don't know maybe 12 years maybe we will it related with the community of play Garmin always like yoga like movies like they have this project the scenic loop that is not actually working right now but he's going to be working at the house in 3023 and festivals a lot of things for for kids and I don't know we should have more faith more things on on this park you know something about the library across the street from the park
it's a huge library of huge I've been there and it's pretty cute even of the painting that they have outside it is lovely and yet there are many many books are good for the library right it is
so every month we are going to the event so we can eat I go there any vegan food has all kinds of stuff I buy from Eduardo all the time though the habanero oil that he's peed it's it's it's it's amazing and all of Eduardo I can't even remember his what business is Eduardo the
oh my God I'm drawing a blank and I didn't they're going to hate me for this but whatever we're going to move on cuz I can't I am good for everything that the pizza made by Revolution write Revolution a revolution has an amazing Chef when it comes to pizza that's like one of the first things I head towards and then Ellie or going to learn a little bit more about Ellie makes a special cookie for me
just so you know Ellie makes these amazing chocolate chip cookie mix cookies wow because they're made with coconut oil only which is impossible to cook with and number two she puts special Coke special and chocolate chips in it so it has a different little different flavor and I have yet to find anybody that hates them
so all right so on top of the great events that you do every month you do other things like you taught me I went to one of your classes I did a handstand class with her freshly out of after a surgery I was bumping and flowing all over the place and it's needed like a specifically I was embarrassed and I was like well are you cleared by your doctor like let's not go that I like
is like I'm sure I can see that you do I don't know if that's the way I took her class and I actually was a little embarrassed because everybody was just like boom boom and I was like man I'm going to hate myself later but was that the people should be learning and you are the only one or what we were all warmed up and get you ready to go she teaches how not to cuz everybody's in sting to do a handstand is to put their hands on the ground in a jump and it's like the worst thing to do because you can just going to flip over and on all the time and she finally finally somebody taught me how to actually address doing a handstand it's it if there's really a good science 20 that are specific steps for it. So there's not just one technique right that's what I like to always say to my students that so there's not just one way only one right way to do a handstand but I do like to share what works for me
and the classes it depends on who shows up to Classic classes are multi-level and so you know it's kind of fun it keeps me on my toes little bit I always have a plan for the class and then depending on who's there I modify and try to adopt it so that everybody has something interesting to work on until learn that kind of fits their level in their hands didn't Journey as we like to call it because sometimes it's up and down why handstand good question because I just started doing handstands this month it'll be two years since I started really trying to learn how to handstand and I'm still working on it and it's fun I love it it's just I will try but I always felt when there is a camera nearby
okay I'm calling bulshit on that on Monday or Wednesday from 5 to 6 p.m. or 1 p.m. okay that would be really really really really early so I already told her I've already told her I says I want I want personal classes but you got to do them for work look
but yes I'm try I'm going to be negotiating to get her up a little earlier she's got to walk her dog. She already told him
she's got a walker dog and trust me we know how we all have dogs and we are seeing that finished already with the plan in the mine I want to do with why do you want to do him still because I think it gives yourself a lot of power that guy I know that I'm going to see if I feel like a lot of power when I'm done a lot of it is like a meditation of the me will look like it so if you need to refocus and what you're doing doing not the card yourself that feels that connect with your body and soul and everything so I don't know if the meat that's the reason that it is like learning process so we work on that in class what I really I love when people come to the class has obviously but I try to give my students exercises if they can work on it
for flexibility strength or specific handstand drills that they can work on their own and a Safeway and then come back to class you know as often as they can but so that they're not just depending on what's or twice a week to to try to learn to handstand since they're able to do these exercises on their own and yeah so there's a lot of flexibility exercises that you can be doing or strengths definitely in the classes we work on that but there's not like a requirement like you have to be able to do this to be able to handstand I don't see any sort of like black and white requirements so tip for for hand sanding and some people might say dedication perseverance things like that but what
on that one but I have friends who can do a handstand on one hand right but I think what you need to do is just keep it fun because then you're more likely to continue doing that you're more likely to to want to get out there and practice if it's fun if you're not just getting stuck in one certain pose that's maybe some days you just can't quite hit your perfect straight line and you get frustrated okay that might happen but if you keep it fun then it's like exploring different types of leg movements different ways into the handstand what you were saying about the meditation is so good to because you have to remember to breathe if you're trying to hold a handstand for a minute how are you going to do that if you're not breathing so question how you got into it like do you have what is your background on
so I got an a handstand and just because I started doing acroyoga so for those who don't know what Acro yoga is cuz it's kind of how it sounds but the names a little bit ambiguous I think so it's a partner yoga poses between two or more people and sometimes you can flow from one pasture and transition into another pasture and then it looks kind of almost like a dance or almost like a yoga vinyasa flow and so usually like if when you were a little kid did you ever play airplane with somebody where they lift you up on their feet are laying down on their back we lift you up on their fee and kind of move you around like that it's kind of like that if someone else you do identified why I got more into heat for the time for you don't have somebody else to lift you out so I'll let you know one of the things that that we practice acroyoga I will do handstands on our friend's hands right
hand-to-hand and you know sometimes you don't have somebody to do a handstand on so you've got to learn how to do it yourself you know it's just it just it open the door to see if I started playing around with it a little New Perspective will actually I have a fear of being upside down and that's the reason why my goal to do handstand is to get you know I'm always pushing myself far and Way Beyond and getting upside down and was always freaky for me
I never felt comfortable and then finally went and I watched enough Instagram videos and said she sees freaking kids in these girls a skinny little girls being their up and they're just there for 30 seconds I get up there for 2 seconds on my car crash and you will if you don't practice and you don't look better someone teach you two how to write I love it I love it that's your reasoning behind wanting to hanse and his because it scares you a little bit and you're pushing those limits that's amazing I love that but I have also if you don't like doing a front lever I like doing the Jesus pose I mean all those things I trying to achieve at my age and you are doing it that's why I am I
I was happy that I finally landed that after the surgery and although I did break something yesterday thing in your body do something my body oh no we make
but that's okay
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okay so what a Soviet will you be explained acroyoga the hand standing Xavier you ready to handstand right now can we start like when we did the the paddle ball we wanted you to go and you went out and play us yes and I can't I kill it yeah and then she's ready to go she's going to call me a hundred percent ready
love it so I actually like to push it I've already pushed it a whole nother level because I brought my parallettes to the course to the class because to me it's like if you're really going to push it get an Elf on a parrotlet it's easier I think it's just a little scarier makes it harder right so and then with the bars I don't have much experience and standing on on bars like that so that the control it just feels different you don't have your whole hand in the same way you have to use it differently so that's just another another thing to learn but the fact that it's up higher definitely gives it the Fear Factor a little bit
but that's good. You are on the fear game come on the fear game yeah so well now that we've had this amazing episode our first episode of 2023 we have to talk about the promotion ding ding ding ding ding so every hour podcast we do a promotion I think today's podcast would be hashtag handstand get you an additional
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perfect I think that sounds amazing and awesome okay Carly thank you so much for coming today you were amazing thank you thank you for having me yes absolutely it was that great first show we need to do yeah I know I ain't we follow you on Instagram so my personal account is Carly cell and then and I post to Acro yoga play it apartment and then MX all the amazing pictures of the food and it's just going to make you hungry so if you follow that account you'll have to come to the event
it's going to be the second Saturday of every month and it's all day it's from 11 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon Saturday perfect okay well thank you very much don't forget ring the bell
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