That Guy Yoga

Live with That Guy Yoga - 9/4/26 at 6 PM

That Guy Yoga — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:48:20 GMT

Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! You can replay this practice as a subscriber here in Substack or find it on my YouTube channel. Look for an email or check my Substack for next week’s schedule. If you felt like this practice benefitted you, consider a ‘dana’ gratitude offering and buy me a coffee!

Carry the practice of yoga out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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Live with That Guy Yoga - 9/2/26 at 8 AM

That Guy Yoga — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:12:31 GMT

Carry the practice of yoga out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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Meditation Mondays - ep. 18

That Guy Yoga — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:13:30 GMT

Carry the practice of meditation out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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That Guy's Schedule For The Week Of August 31

That Guy Yoga — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:06:44 GMT

Hey all!

I’m back from my vacation or retreat (however you want to look at it) and I’m ready to jump back into my yoga and meditation practice with y’all.

Here’s my livestream schedule for this week starting Monday, August 31 and ending on Saturday, September 5, 2026. All times are Eastern Time. All classes are FREE!

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Monday, August 31 at 7 PM: Episode 16 of Meditation Mondays — come listen to a little Dharma talk and meditation instructions and then 15 minutes of silent meditation followed by Q&A if it comes up. What a great way to kick start a meditation practice or sit with someone if you always sit by yourself. Come join me!

Wednesday, September 2 at 8 AM: Yoga with the neighborhood ladies. A 60 minutes gentle flow practice with lots of suggestions

Friday, September 4 at 6 PM: A 45-ish minute, after work practice so you can bring down your blood pressure after a long week. Sun salutations, core and hips and maybe some surprises. Come join me after sitting all day at your desk!!!

You can catch all of these practices on the rebound here on Substack or on my YouTube channel… for FREE!

~ If that guy can practice yoga, so can you!

Meditation Mondays - Ep. 17

That Guy Yoga — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:27:10 GMT

Carry the practice of yoga out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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That Guy's Schedule For The Week Of Aug. 17-31

That Guy Yoga — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:07:23 GMT

Hey all!

I will be on the road to California this week and next and will not be practicing on a live stream — so y’all are on your own for yoga classes this week. I will be looking for some really granola based yoga (is that a thing?) while in San Francisco and I encourage you to look for some classes that are different and challenging.

I will do one last Meditation Monday and then return on August 31. You can catch all of my previous live streams o Substack and Youtube. All times are Eastern Time. All classes are FREE!

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Monday, August 17 at 7 PM: Episode 17 of Meditation Mondays — come listen to a little Dharma talk and meditation instructions and then 15 minutes of silent meditation followed by Q&A if it comes up. What a great way to kick start a meditation practice or sit with someone if you always sit by yourself. Come join me!

You can catch all of these practices on the rebound here on Substack or on my YouTube channel… for FREE!

~ If that guy can practice yoga, so can you!

Live with That Guy Yoga - 8/12/26 at 8 AM

That Guy Yoga — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:57:20 GMT

Carry the practice of yoga out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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Meditation Mondays - Ep. 16

That Guy Yoga — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:10:36 GMT

Carry the practice of yoga out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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Mapping Out Your Route To The Present

That Guy Yoga — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:33:35 GMT

I will often hear myself saying to students: Meet yourself on the mat (or the cushion). Well, that sounds silly when you take it out of context and slow it down to think about it. Meet yourself on the mat? Well of course you’re going to meet yourself! Where else would YOU be?

But then when we zoom in, we find that we really aren’t on the mat with our bodies. Our minds are off in the past or the future and we have never really stopped to explore the body — to check in as it were.

In meditation classes, I have often heard the teacher say that we are sitting silently in order to meet and greet ourselves and make friends with our thoughts. I will say in my classes that our thoughts are not us — our thoughts do not define who we are. But yet, there they are. Sitting silently and noticing the thoughts that come and go helps us become familiar with and become friends with our thoughts.

As you sit, noticing the breath, and a recurring thought comes into your mind, you have choices: latch on, follow the thought while creating a story to go along with it, or, you can greet the thought, noticing its arrival and noticing its exit out the same door it came in. You’ve established a relationship with that thought. You know it and know what it can do to your state of mind (rile you, excite you, make you angry, etc.) so you let it pass on and return to the breath, your anchor in the present moment.

In yoga, we map out the body with the breath and mind. Coming into asana, we notice how it feels, and the teacher encourages us to notice how we greet the sensations we feel plus all of the accompanying thoughts: I can’t do this, the person next to me has better form than I do, when will the teacher move on, etc. Over time, we figure out that this is our past experience talking to us, and we learn to be present and non-judgmental.

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In both of these practices, we are writing a sort of guidebook for ourselves for when we are not on the cushion or the mat. When we meet resistance in real-life, real-time scenarios, a person without a guidebook will “REACT!” without much thought. They may lash out or retreat or create a story to support themselves in the moment. The person who has made friends with that part of themselves that reacts in the moment will know what to do from their guidebook. They’ve been there before while sitting in meditation or breathing into Warrior 2.

Pause — mind the gap — look at the thoughts that spring up from the situation — then check the guidebook and choose the best route. The best route being the route back to the present moment.

Simple but not easy. Simple, not easy, but attainable through practice. It’s the repetitive motion that creates the well-worn paths in our bodies and minds: the guidebook to our daily present awareness.

If you’d like to start a meditation practice or would like someone to sit with, join me on Mondays at 7 p.m. for my Meditation Mondays series here on Substack. Each episode is about 30 minutes with a brief dharma talk and then 15 minutes of silent or guided meditation.

Peace,

Darryl

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Live with That Guy Yoga - 8/9/26 at 10 AM

That Guy Yoga — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:20:26 GMT

I love Sunday morning yoga practice. It’s like my own private church service. Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! You can replay this practice as a subscriber here in Substack or find it on my YouTube channel. Look for an email or check my Substack for next week’s schedule. If you felt like this practice benefitted you, consider a ‘dana’ gratitude offering and buy me a coffee!

Carry the practice of yoga out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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That Guy's Schedule For The Week Of August 9

That Guy Yoga — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:24:42 GMT

Hey all!

Here’s my livestream schedule for this week starting Sunday, August 9 and ending on Saturday, August 15, 2026. All times are Eastern Time. All classes are FREE!

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Sunday, August 9 at 10 AM: Sunday Morning Yoga - Join me for a Sunday morning practice.

Monday, August 10 at 7 PM: Episode 16 of Meditation Mondays — come listen to a little Dharma talk and meditation instructions and then 15 minutes of silent meditation followed by Q&A if it comes up. What a great way to kick start a meditation practice or sit with someone if you always sit by yourself. Come join me!

Wednesday, August 12 at 8 AM: Yoga with the neighborhood ladies. A 60 minutes gentle flow practice with lots of suggestions

Friday, August 14 at 6 PM: A 45-ish minute, after work practice so you can bring down your blood pressure after a long week. Sun salutations, core and hips and maybe some surprises. Come join me after sitting all day at your desk!!!

You can catch all of these practices on the rebound here on Substack or on my YouTube channel… for FREE!

~ If that guy can practice yoga, so can you!

Live with That Guy Yoga - 8/5/26 at 8 AM

That Guy Yoga — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:19:59 GMT

Carry the practice of yoga out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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Meditation Mondays - Ep. 15

That Guy Yoga — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:58:57 GMT

Carry the practice of yoga out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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Meditating On Impermanence

That Guy Yoga — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:20:49 GMT

I’ve been ruminating on change and the passage of time lately. I’m observing how my family is aging. My brother-in-law and sister are in their late 70s and early 80s and dealing with mobility issues. My other sister is turning 70. My wife just had her 60th birthday. These are all ages when you peek out the door to see if the Grim Reaper is on the corner smoking a cigarette. But what can you do? You wish for things to stay the way they are, but that’s not realistic or healthy outlook.

As Dylan told us, the times are a-changin’. Major milestones make us sit up and notice and pay attention. We seem surprised by the changes as if things weren’t in flux every moment of our lives. We don’t notice the small, incremental transformations until they add up to one day looking at your family and they’re way older than you remembered.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, is permanent. The Universe is constantly expanding and as the Universe goes, so do we. And yet, we want things to stay the same or stay stable at least. We grasp onto the idea that we will always be here for our loved ones and they will always be there for us. We tuck the idea of change away in a small corner of our minds and hope for the best. This, my friends, is the seed of all suffering: grasping onto the desire for permanence.

Many people are just “content” with the way things are and probably think that they will “always” be like this. The illusion of permanence is the seed of suffering. We suffer because we want to hang on tightly to the ideas of permanence in our minds.

And this brings us around to talk about our meditation practice. How does meditation help us to let go of the desire for permanence? When we are jailed by our thoughts and start to attach a story to every little thing we think about, we create situations of misunderstandings and miscommunications. We can degrade our quality of life and our relationships with other people. Meditation helps us untangle the story and allow the thoughts to evaporate.

Over time, when we notice our thoughts, we come to realize that reality is not a solid thing. When we sit and watch our thoughts come and go wth out interacting with them, we notice that there is a lack of substance to what we are thinking, a lack of reality. When we realize this, we are in a sense turning a key that is unlocking our jail cell door and liberating us from a life of clinging and a life of suffering. We are not our thoughts just as the sky is not the clouds that roll underneath it.

I’ve heard my meditation teachers say that in the future, all of the stuff I own now will belong to someone else or be in a landfill. All three of the schools I went to as a child have either been repurposed or torn down. People drift in and out of our lives. What we think of as reality is quite porous.

Here’s a simple self-guided meditation for you to try. Once you establish your seat and your breath, start to think about how each breath is different coming in and different going out. No two breaths are the same. Notice how different your body feels throughout the time you are sitting — you feel itchy, you feel hot or cold, you feel achy from sitting still for too long. Then notice how all of those observations change — the itch disappears, you stop thinking about the temperature, the ache subsides. Your heart pumps blood throughout your body, but not the same blood every time as it changes with the breaths you take. The meal you had earlier in the day is digesting and changing, not things the body can use or being discarded as waste. Your thoughts change — you started out thinking about one thing and now you are thinking about an entirely different set of things.

As you meditate on each of these aspects of change, you come to realize that you, your family and friends, things around us, the world, the universe, are all in constant, moment-to-moment states of change. As we practice this form of meditation, we learn to release our need to control things, we drop our expectations. We start to cherish and find joy in the happy moments because we know they won’t last. We realize that grief, sadness, pain are passing and temporary, and the bitterness we feel is part of the story we create for ourselves.

Peace,

Darryl

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Live with That Guy Yoga

That Guy Yoga — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:26:58 GMT

Carry the practice of yoga out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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That Guy's Schedule For The Week Of August 2

That Guy Yoga — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:15:59 GMT

Hey all!

Here’s my livestream schedule for this week starting Sunday, August 2 and ending on Saturday, August 8, 2026. All times are Eastern Time. All classes are FREE!

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Sunday, August 2 at 10 AM: Sunday Morning Yoga A 25 minute post run yoga practice with the intention of cooling down, lower breathing and heart rate. Go for a run and then join me at 10 a.m. for this practice.

Monday, August 3 at 7 PM: Episode 14 of Meditation Mondays — come listen to a little Dharma talk and meditation instructions and then 15 minutes of silent meditation followed by Q&A if it comes up. What a great way to kick start a meditation practice or sit with someone if you always sit by yourself. Come join me!

Wednesday, August 5 at 8 AM: Yoga with the neighborhood ladies. A 60 minutes gentle flow practice with lots of suggestions

Friday, August 7 at 6 PM: A 45-ish minute, after work practice so you can bring down your blood pressure after a long week. Sun salutations, core and hips and maybe some surprises. Come join me after sitting all day at your desk!!!

You can catch all of these practices on the rebound here on Substack or on my YouTube channel… for FREE!

~ If that guy can practice yoga, so can you!

Live with That Guy Yoga - 7/31/26 at 6 PM

That Guy Yoga — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:32:03 GMT

Carry the practice of yoga out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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Live with That Guy Yoga - 7/29/26 at 8 AM

That Guy Yoga — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:32:51 GMT

Carry the practice of yoga out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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Meditation Mondays - Ep. 14

That Guy Yoga — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:39:47 GMT

Carry the practice of yoga out into your daily life - be present.

~ Darryl

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That Guy's Schedule For The Week Of July 26

That Guy Yoga — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:32:40 GMT

Hey all!

Here’s my livestream schedule for this week starting Sunday, July 26 and ending on Saturday, August 1, 2026. All times are Eastern Time. All classes are FREE!

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Sunday, July 26 at 9 AM: Sunday Morning Yoga Breath and movement focused - building a flow.

Monday, July 27 at 7 PM: Episode 14 of Meditation Mondays — come listen to a little Dharma talk and meditation instructions and then 15 minutes of silent meditation followed by Q&A if it comes up. What a great way to kick start a meditation practice or sit with someone if you always sit by yourself. Come join me!

Wednesday, July 29 at 8 AM: Yoga with the neighborhood ladies. A 60 minutes gentle flow practice with lots of suggestions

Friday, July 31 at 6 PM: A 45-ish minute, after work practice so you can bring down your blood pressure after a long week. Sun salutations, core and hips and maybe some surprises. Come join me after sitting all day at your desk!!!

You can catch all of these practices on the rebound here on Substack or on my YouTube channel… for FREE!

~ If that guy can practice yoga, so can you!