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Humans are social animals. We like to hang out and talk.

We could, conceivably, create spaces where we could go, solely to talk to other people.\\xa0But the way our society is structured, everything has to be paid for. Would people pay to go to a place just to talk to each other? Maybe. But that\\u2019s not what happens.

What happens is, we socialize with each other while doing an activity we\\u2019re prepared to pay for. Like eating. Drinking. Listening to music. Or going to a yoga class.\\xa0And, like a lot of things these days, we start young.\\xa0Take for example Lolo\\u2019s Youth Yoga and Art Studio, Uptown on Magazine Street.

Lolo\\u2019s is New Orleans\\u2019 first yoga studio specifically for kids. Children - from three years old to teenagers - practice yoga, make art, do mindfulness exercises, and learn meditation in afterschool or full-day sessions.

The founder and owner of Lolo\\u2019s Studio is Laurie Azzano.

Two places that adults like to congregate are bars and coffee shops.\\xa0We go to a coffee shop where we like the taste of the coffee they serve. Bars all serve the same alcohol, so they compete with each other by providing \\u201cadded value.\\u201d For example, live music.

For a combination of these business models \\u2013 coffee and live music \\u2013 you could go to Catahoula Tattoo, on Broad Street in Mid City.\\xa0The coffee is their own blend \\u2013 Catahoula Tattoo Select. And if you drink it at the studio, it\\u2019s free.\\xa0The live music is free too.

While you\\u2019re hanging out at Catahoula\\u2019s self- described \\u201ctattoo lounge,\\u201d you could get a tattoo, right?\\xa0Not so fast. Catahoula has 3 tattoo artists, but they won\\u2019t give you a tattoo on the spur of the moment. Your tattoo needs to be designed ahead of time, and you need an appointment to get it inked into your skin.

And in further market-differentiation, the owner of Catahoula Tattoo, Dominic Srgo, says, Catahoula is \\u201cnot the kind of tattoo shop where the tattoo artists look like they belong in a circus.\\u201d

If you ever go to a Saints Game when the dome is sold out, the sheer mass of humanity can be overwhelming. That\\u2019s around 70,000 people.\\xa0Each one of those people is on an individual life journey. So is every one of the 7 billion humans who aren\\u2019t in the dome on any given Sunday.\\xa0And, because we\\u2019re human, that individual journey we\\u2019re all on can be physical, and spiritual.

One of the oldest ways of creating an individual difference between ourself and everyone else on earth, physically, is body art. And one of the oldest ways of developing our individual non-physical self, is Yoga.\\xa0The practice of both of those pursuits is ever-evolving.\\xa0Laurie Azzano and Dominic Srgo might be merely two individuals in the 21st Century in a small city in the south of the United States, but their respective contributions to the arts of tattooing and yoga are a part of ancient traditions, and uniquely their own.

Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at\\xa0NOLA Pizza\\xa0in the\\xa0NOLA Brewing Taproom. You can find photos from this show by\\xa0Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com

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