Yes, I know what you think of me. Never shut up. Never shut up. Never shut up.
Hush my darling, don't fear my darling. It's time for Never Shut Up. I'm your host, Rose Crest. Today is January 27th, 2026, and we're talking about the lion's sleep tonight.
This is Tori's cover when she was in South Africa in 2014. It's an interesting cover. I mean, I'm shocked that she chose to do this. I mean, I guess it works.
I remember loving the song when I was a little kid. I mean, no shade to Tori. I know that sounds like I'm giving shade to Tori, but I really do love it when she just does these out-of-the-box covers and you're like, Wait, what? She did what?
Okay, I just love that about Tori. She's having fun with it. What's this about? Well, I think part of this is about not having fear or having courage in the face of potential dangers.
I mean, obviously, right? What's the song about? Mmm, you know, there's lion's sleeping, so you can kind of go and do your thing. Do lions really hunt at night, though?
I don't know. All I know about lions and their hunting strategy is what I saw in that one Val Kilmer movie with like the deadly lion and like eating people. So I really don't know much about lions, but I do know that there is a practice in yoga called Simhasana and it's lions breath, lions pose. A lot of times we just do lions breath without the pose, but there's a whole posture that goes with it.
So Simhasana, let's get into it. Let's do the practice. You can do just the breath part if you're driving the pose part while you're going to find out really soon why you wouldn't want to do that when you're driving. So this starts out hands and knees in that tabletop position.
You're going to bring your hips to your heels sitting on your heels. If that's not comfortable, shift to any other seated position or dump that part of the practice altogether. And then the movement is we inhale here and then on the exhale, we're going to come forward straighten the arms and you're bringing the palms to the floor right in front of your knees. If you can, you're going to rotate your arms, rotate your fingers so that they're pointed back towards your knees and perhaps even on the edge of your knees or slightly underneath your knees.
If you've got hyper extension issues or your shoulders are really wide, it's going to be a little harder to get them underneath your knees. So just be mindful of elbows and shoulders and comfort level. We don't want to be over stretching here. So the inhale is leaning back just a little bit and then the exhale is pressing into the hands and bringing the chest forward like pride as in pride of lions.
So the exhale is bringing the chest forward and opening it and expanding the chest. The breath part is the inhale is through the nose and the exhale is going to be through the mouth and you're literally roaring it out through the back of your throat. As you're roaring it out, you're going to bring the tip of the tongue to touch the tip of your chin to the best of your capacity. And then you're going to look up at your third eye center so your eyes are kind of rolling up in their sockets.
Probably a sound warning, although I'm sure Efren will turn it down a little bit because it gets kind of loud. You're roaring like a lion. This is a great practice. If there's somebody that you just need to roar, like they're just driving you nuts and you just want to roar it out of them.
This is a great practice for that. Good for clearing the throat. It's supposed to be really good for halitosis, which is a chronic bad breath. And it strengthens the muscle around the throat, the platysma and the neck, which will help lift that muscle if you've got a saggy chin.
I know some of us are of that age. So let's do it with me. Inhale. Roar it out like you're really trying to scare people away.
Once more. This breath can make you cough a little bit. That's a good sign. We always want to get stuff out, get it up and get it out and get rid of it.
Thank you for joining me and Tory for a little mental yoga. Remember, five minutes a day is so much better than 60 minutes once a week, especially if you're here to change your life. Thank you and see you tomorrow. Bye.
That's what you sing. Don't lose your place because I'm singing something different. All right, more voices fresh. Here we go.