Hi how are you good what are you what are you doing by the way I you don't have an accent are you are you American no so you were born and raised in Vienna how would you describe vienes people I have a lot of judgments I find them to be a little grumpy and a little bit I want to say dead inside but I think whatever you see is reflecting something in you so it's my own thing you don't seem dead inside to me though I think everybody's a little dead inside if we were really
alive the world would be very different do you ever feel like you don't fit in in Vienna I do what's that like not fun yeah it's really isolating do you ever feel lonely sure but you're okay with it I wouldn't really say I know anything else it's been life here I think what it really takes is to have good connections to feel really held in community I don't think this is one of our strength Community yeah gosh that sucks why do you think that Community isn't super strong for our people in Vienna I think there's
a lot of unhealed things from World War II mistrust and isolation still everybody has to do their thing by themselves and you have to do it right and if you don't do it right it's kind of dangerous and scary and that creates a lack of spontaneity a lack of fun a lack of movement and life life like things could be so different we actually just got together as people and we dropped some of the structures in our heads why do you think World War II affected Austria so much because it wasn't a war on the
level of killing only it wasn't like a physical War its real objective was to mess with your mind and I think that probably the wars before that they were there was a conviction that you were right and you had to kill you had to do this action you had to kill this person whereas this one people lost their minds like they went mad and this instability I think is what is passed on and that's why you have to create this rigidity to make up for it because actually underneath you know there's a little bit of
Madness so what do you do you set up some walls and pretend it's not there that would make sense for me there's so much I mean I I can't not imagine what it must have been like to be alive at that time but actually that is the destruction of the community the destruction of trust between people being able to open and be safe in that I really think that that is the medicine to create spaces for people to come together and to be with their feelings and their realities and that's kind of what I do
with with yoga it's not about like some super spiritual thing it's kind of just breath as life connecting that to just what we feel together and I think that's really healing
