Hello, Jay here. I want to make sure that everyone knows I'll be starting my next teacher

training group in January 2023. It's a year-long journey and a yoga training that for me is really a

return to the way that I learned yoga and became a teacher.

And I think people like me who learned yoga and became teachers before the advent of standardized yoga teacher training.

It's not about arbitrary hoops that you have to jump through.

It's about relationship and co-creation, relationship to ourselves,

relationship to teachers, relationship to students. And in that spirit, as a way of sharing with you

more about the program, I've recorded a series of mini talks with people who are currently participating.

Today, I'm talking with Charlene.

Hey, how are you, Jay? I'm doing pretty good. How about yourself?

I'm good. Well, I have to say, you know, to be perfectly honest, I'm thinking back to when we started in January, even before, like in December or November, when people were deciding to do the training.

Mm-hmm.

And frankly, you were one of the people who I was a little bit intimidated maybe

or not intimidated, but like you just, you had a bunch of questions and you were,

and you'll have to remind me, I forgot what it was, but you were finishing like an academic degree

or a project that you were working on?

I was doing my master's.

Right.

I was doing a second master's.

A second master's degree, exactly.

And I guess, but you also had background in Montessori education, right?

You're a Montessori teacher, is that correct?

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