All right, we did it.

The button pressing has commenced, and a time-space link has been generated between the sound

of my voice and the cave of your ear.

This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown, and I'm grateful to you,

whoever you are, for choosing to listen to this today. I hope this moment finds you feeling reasonably well.

I wonder what it's like for you right now, whoever you are as you listen to this.

How much farther in the future from the moment in which

I'm recording it is, or even what's the weather like? As I sit here, there is a fierce wind blowing.

And I mean that literally as I can hear it whipping against the roof of my attic.

But I also mean it in a more metaphoric way as well, because there does seem to be a fierce wind that has blown through

the yoga world and beyond, but you know, I largely concern myself with the yoga world here

on this show. And if you've been around, you know, I've been talking about reconciling the way that previously established career paths for yoga teachers have been all but decimated in the last few years.

And I've been reaching out and connecting with a number of other folks who are in a similar

both to me in one way or another.

And in connecting with them, it's made even more clear that I'm not imagining this,

that this is definitely the case.

Not only does it have to do with career paths, it has also to do with very deep spiritual questions

about what yoga teaches, about making meaning and reconciling the seeming contradictions that one encounters when

you look to understand or learn yoga, particularly when you're a westerner who doesn't come

from that culture in the midst of the modern postural yoga wave or whatever we,

I don't even know what to call, but that way that yoga came into the mainstream

of our culture and the nature of a yoga inquiry and where that might lead someone.

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