Raff's Brain
by Rob Raffety
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Raff's Brain #276: HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃! 400 Yoga Classes Later, I…
Raff's Brain #276: HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃! 400 Yoga Classes Later, I…
About this podcast
Raff’s Brain is my playground for goofy stories, real-life adventures, and experiments in how openness, creativity, and technology can bring people together and improve our lives. Expect Hot Yoga Problems, Riffin’ with Raff, Drive & Jive / Walk & Talk, and various zany side projects that are sometimes cathartic, sometimes ridiculous, and hopefully worth your time.
Episodes
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- Raff's Brain #276: HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃! 400 Yoga Classes Later, I Still Can’t Rise from the Dead! · 15 minRob’s 400th CorePower Yoga class begins in corpse pose. Considering what comes next, that feels appropriate. In this Halloween edition of Hot Yoga Problems, Rob celebrates a…
- Raff's Brain #275: Hot Yoga With Three People and Nowhere to Hide · 15 minThree students. One very attentive yoga instructor. Zero opportunities to phone it in. Rob tries a noon hot yoga class and emerges ready to conquer the afternoon. The school bus…
- Raff's Brain #274: Three-Pound Weights, Heavy Thoughts - Hot Yoga Problems · 15 minRob Raffety has a December doctor’s appointment to prepare for, three-pound weights to contend with, and absolutely no desire to attend today’s Yoga Sculpt class. He goes anyway…
- Raff's Brain #273: HOT YOGA PROBLEMS! Two Students. Nowhere to Hide. · 10 minTwo yoga classes. One tired brain. An unnecessary amount of internal debate. Rob arrives at the studio without a reservation and faces a Monday-morning dilemma: C2 or Yoga…
- Raff's Brain #272: Turning 51: Hot Yoga and the War on Getting Healthy · 14 minFifty-one doesn’t come with much ceremonial significance. I’m celebrating anyway—starting with hot yoga and an honest assessment of the ongoing situation that is me. On this…
- Raff's Brain #271: I Took Melatonin. Then I Went to Hot Yoga. · 11 minRob makes it to 6 a.m. hot yoga. His consciousness arrives separately. After taking melatonin the night before, an already sleep-deprived Rob Raffety battles the snooze button…
- Raff's Brain #270: Hot Yoga, Cold Mornings & Steelers Anxiety · 9 minA Yoga Sculpt class without cardio sounds like a gift. Rob’s lungs would like to dispute that. This week on Hot Yoga Problems, Rob discovers that removing his least favorite part…
- Raff's Brain #269: Does “I Want Candy” Count as a Halloween Song? · 13 minA surprisingly successful hot yoga class leaves Rob Raffety energized, opinionated, and ready to debate whether “I Want Candy” belongs on a Halloween playlist. First, there’s a…
- Raff's Brain #268: I Work Harder When the Yoga Teacher Walks By · 13 minRob likes to think he’s an independent adult. Then the yoga instructor walks toward his mat, and suddenly he wants a gold star. Following yesterday’s core-crushing Sculpt class…
- Raff's Brain #267: HOT YOGA PROBLEMS - Bear Plank or Bear Claw? I Chose Wrong. · 12 minA bear claw is a delicious pastry. A bear plank is an ungodly exercise. Rob would like to register his preference. Today’s Hot Yoga Problems begins with a Yoga Sculpt reckoning…
- Raff's Brain #266: Are My Yoga Instructors Just Making This Up? · 10 minThe chair is invisible. The pose names are suspicious. The sleep debt is very real. Rob Raffety emerges from hot yoga with questions: What exactly is “bobcat tail”? Why are we…
- Raff's Brain #265: Yoga Sculpt: A Round of Applause for Not Dying · 11 minTo clap or not to clap? That is the post-yoga question. Rob emerges from another Yoga Sculpt class with sore muscles, a small but encouraging sign of fitness progress, and an…
- Raff's Brain #264: My Hot Yoga Sculpt Form Is a Chiropractor’s Business Plan · 13 minRob doesn’t want to attend 5:30 a.m. yoga sculpt. He certainly doesn’t want to become its instructional model. Fresh from another punishing Monday workout, Rob recounts a…
- Raff's Brain #263: My First “37th Annual” Block Party | Hot Yoga Problems · 24 minOne hot yoga class. One hardware store run. One allegedly “37th annual” block party. Rob emerges from Saturday morning yoga with a question about loyalty: does he choose classes…
- Raff's Brain #262: Panic Patrol, Pizza, & the $20 Yoga Surcharge · 16 minRaff’s Brain hits the streets of New York City. Recording from Midtown Manhattan, Rob checks in during a visit with the Moving Picture Institute and celebrates the arrival of…
- Raff's Brain #261: My Algorithmic Wellness Overlord Says I’m Improving - HOT YOGA PROBLEMS! · 14 minRob survived CorePower Sculpt. Barely. After an early-morning encounter with burpees, mountain climbers, push-ups, and the general indignities of exercising aggressively in a…
- Raff's Brain #260: The 5:30 A.M. HOT YOGA Class I Definitely Meant to Take · 13 minRob checks in from a Monday night edition of Hot Yoga Problems with a report from the front lines of diet, exercise, sleep, and podcast consistency. He’s about 10 days into a…
- Raff's Brain #259: Hot Yoga Problems - Yin Yoga Is a Different Kind of Suffering · 18 minRob voluntarily walks into a Sunday evening yoga class looking for something a little easier. He chooses Yin yoga. This turns out to be a misunderstanding. On this episode of…
- Raff's Brain #258: Hot Yoga Problems - Crushed, Vaxxed, & Back in Action! · 19 minRob is back with another episode of Hot Yoga Problems, freshly crushed by a 9:30 a.m. class and contemplating one of yoga’s recurring themes: transitions. After his second…
- Raff's Brain #257: Hot Yoga Problems - Step, Hop, or Flop to the Top! · 11 minRob emerges from another hot yoga class with not one, but several revelations—including the disturbing possibility that he’s been doing pigeon pose wrong for roughly a decade. A…
