Hi everyone. Welcome to episode 108 of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. I'm Arundhati and I want to start off by wishing you a very happy new year. I hope you had a wonderful 2022, at least the end of it. You are well rested and you're ready for 2023. I did take a short break from podcasting in December.

I am someone who generally has a little bit of a workaholic nature.

And over the years, I have always prioritized work over rest and play.

And I've been trying to catch that very deliberately and make it a point to do things that are more in the rest and have fun zone than work because I tend to enjoy what I do a lot and I don't consider it as work so sometimes it goes out of balance.

I spent a couple of weeks in Thailand in December and it was a wonderful vacation.

The sun, the heat, the food, the people.

What a beautiful country.

I had such a wonderful time there. But now I'm back and the part of the heat, the food, the people. What a beautiful country. I had such a wonderful time there.

But now I'm back and the podcast is back on track. 2023 is going to be a wonderfully immersive yoga year at least in terms of content that I'm going to create for you in terms of just my

own education and reflection and understanding

of yoga.

So I'm really excited.

I always like this part the end of the year into the new year.

I do spend a lot of time in reflection and I enjoy that whole process.

So one of the things I want to bring up in early on in 2023 is this conversation about

how we can go deeper as yoga teachers in our asana

classes. How can we get our participants, our students, and even ourselves to connect through

asana in a more deeper, meaningful way. Because today millions and millions of people start

yoga through an asana

class, they walk into a studio, they try a couple of classes. Yet, yet we as yoga teachers

struggle to understand how to keep them, for lack of a better word, hooked onto the practice.

How do we teach them that yoga is beyond poses? Right. So it's a question that I've gotten

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