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And now on with the episode, hello everyone, where you surprised by that intro that you were just a little bit ago.

That is the original mindful minutes intro.

So if you haven't listened to any of the meditations that are like before 2019, that's what the intro used to sound like.

So what I thought might be kind of fun today as this bonus episode is to revisit and to give you the original episode of mindful minutes, the very first ever meditation.

And originally at first I thought I would like rerecord it and redo it, but I was listening back to it and I was like, I don't know, I still kind of like it.

I felt very like nostalgic listening to it. So I decided to keep it and it's in its natural form. So that's what we're doing today.

And before we dive into that meditation, I have a huge announcement. Yesterday I released the 2022 retreat calendar.

So you can now join me on two different retreats in 2022.

So I will be going to Hawaii for the sacred stillness retreat in Maui. It is February 26th through March 3rd.

And then I will be coming to Ireland in the summer for the illuminate your soul meditation retreat. And that is going to be from June 26th to July 3rd.

So I'm going to link to all of those in the show notes. And I will say that if you're listening to this right now, go look and see if there's still spots because as I'm recording this, I think both are about at half capacity.

And I just announced them yesterday. So I really hope that I will get to see you in 2022.

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