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Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti, and this is episode 72 of Yoga Land.

I hope my voice is not too distracting for you today. It's a little distracting to me.

I can't quite tell when I talk what is going to be a squeak and what is actually going to be my voice. So we just returned on

Thursday night from Maui, those of you who follow us on social media, probably saw

the pictures. Jason did his annual retreat there at the Loomaria in Maui,

which is on the northern part of the island.

It's so beautiful there.

And then we went as a family afterward to the southern part of the island and had a few days vacation and it was so wonderful

But as often happens when your body completely relaxes, my immune system kind of failed for a few days and I ended up getting really sick.

So it's been about almost two weeks since I have officially gotten on my mat. I did 15

minutes of practice today just to get back on my mat and get back in my body. My body is killing me.

Everything sort of my neck and shoulders are really tight. My wrists hurt, my back

hurts. Sophia was doing little karate chops on my back last night because I'm kind of

walking around like an old lady.

I feel really stagnant energetically, like I think from the cold,

but just knowing that you know like your lymph

doesn't really move unless you were really moving I feel kind of stopped up and I just was really thinking today about all of us and about how we just place such high expectations on ourselves and you know that one of the expectations is that everything in life

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