All right, the button pressing has commenced. And here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks

podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Welcome to you, whoever you are.

Whether you're a new listener or a returning friend, I so appreciate that you are listening.

First, let me express my deepest gratitude to everyone who reached out or anyone else who just held a kind thought for me

after last week's year-end chicken.

I received a really overwhelming and beautiful response from people.

Just humanity poured my way, it was really truly meaningful and beautiful and

I'm just so grateful to you. I spent the whole week sitting with everything and assessing

where are the things that I do that provide meaning and what do I want to put my

energy to, manage to come up with a bit of a plan, you know, to deal with the center,

which is going to play out in the next few days. So I'll tell you what

happens next week. We'll see how they respond. But more than anything, it was really clear

how much doing this show provides connection and meaning in my life.

So whoever you are that's listening,

I'm sending you my love and appreciation.

And that is really the thing that has been guiding me most is to focus on where the connection

and the humanity is and where I find that and not to get too caught up in the industry of

yoga and the profession of yoga,

as I was saying last week, you know,

letting go of identity and career around it

and letting it be more just the practice that it is.

And then, of course, having to contend with financial realities and all the rest, but

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