Okay, hello. Welcome to Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Thank you for listening. It is an unusual day. It's an unusual month in the sense that my last talk with Andrew Tanner only just dropped

yesterday.

And here I am again recording.

And that's unusual.

I just had a little time to answer some emails and respond to some comments, and there's a

discussion happening.

And that's cool.

So thank you for listening and participating in that.

Normally, I would not even think about recording for my next talk until later in the week,

closer to when it was going to post. However, this week is unusual because I'm leaving town

tomorrow. I'm on my way to Japan. I have this really great gig that I do in Japan twice a year. I've been doing it for a couple of

years. It's a too good to pass up gig, because honestly, I don't really like to travel that much.

I mean, I enjoy seeing new places and meeting people, but I don't like being away from home.

I really like, I decided that this is what I wanted to do,

and this is where I want to be with my family, just here. So I normally don't like to go away more than a week at a time. But Japan's so far, so it's got to be a longer trip. It's two weeks.

And, you know, it's a long way to go.

And I'm still in touch via the Internet, but I'm 13 hours different, which is always weird.

I mean, it feels like you're on the other side of the planet.

Because you are, you're on the other side of the planet.

That's why it feels like that, I guess.

So in any case I'm going to be gone and I didn't know if I was going to be able to record I'm not even sure if I want to try to carry recording equipment with me I'm not even

sure I'm packing so I thought well let just, let me just try to see if I

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