All right, here we are.

This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.

My name is Jay Brown.

And if this is your first time listening to the show, let me welcome you.

Everyone else, what's going on? How are you? I hope you're doing okay. It's been gray and rainy

here all day in Pennsylvania. And it feels a little bit expressive of how the last week was too. I mean,

nothing bad happened, but boy, does it feel like an ongoing strain? I don't know how it's been

for you. I think part of it for me is that I'm feeling what I guess I would describe is a form of grief.

I've just been feeling sad.

And it has to do with the state of what I used to call the yoga world.

You know, having this show, as I've mentioned before,

originally before it was a podcast, it was a blog.

And I wrote every month.

And for those of you who were younger and maybe don't remember,

there was a very fruitful time on the internet

that I used to call the blogosphere.

And every year when it got to be December,

a lot of us bloggers, myself included,

we would write a year-end wrap-up of like what's going on

in the yoga world and we would recap any sort of like significant kind of things that were being

put out by particular teachers or any kind of dramas or new conversations.

Like a lot of things we talk about here on the show about, you know, revelations about teachers

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