All right, here we are. Breath happening, heart beating, the sound of my voice meeting the drum of your ear.

This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.

My name is Jay Brown.

If this happens to be your first time ever listening to this show,

let me welcome you.

Everyone else,

what's up?

Thank you to anyone and everyone who is choosing to listen.

How's it going?

What's your sukk level like?

And what I mean by that is how easeful and receptive are you in the experience of this moment?

And no judgments, because there's certainly a lot going on that makes the experience of life

feel not all that easeful.

And often, we don't have a lot of good models for what it even is to be receptive and receiving.

Lots of protections baked into our beings from the time we're born.

But I was sitting here thinking about how difficult things are these days and I know I've been

talking about that and sharing some about that here on the show but not wanting to lead with

all of the stuff that I have no say over and it made me think of well what is the stuff that I have no say over. And it made me think of, well, what is the stuff that I have say over?

And Styrusuka is basically it.

That's what yoga seems to me to be teaching above all else,

is that as a human being, you have an amount of agency in your life.

And the efforts that you're making and the behaviors and the attitudes that we hold are reflective of that.

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