All right. Here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.

How are you? Whoever you are.

New person, returning listener.

Thanks.

I appreciate that you are choosing to listen to this.

If you've been around for the last few weeks,

you know I've been focusing some on the possibility and also hard realities

of brick and mortar yoga classes. It seems like I hit a nerve. There was a lot of response

from folks out there. Really appreciate everybody engaging in that conversation.

There is more to it. We're going to be continuing it. Some folks reached out and I'm going to be checking back in with some other people

so we can get some further perspective on that. I think there's something important there.

So cheers to everybody for listening and engaging.

Today, we are going back to where I was right before I took that little sojourn into

brick and mortar yoga classes. Regular listeners, you remember that I have also been focused some of late on yoga philosophy

and theology. And I think some of those conversations aren't for everyone because they kind of get

into the weeds and sometimes, I don't know, they can feel

not as rewarding or gratifying in certain ways, depending on where you are in your life and

what kind of interest you have in getting into the nitty and gritty of text sources and different

philosophical ideas

and trying to put words to things

that don't even really have words for them.

I, in general, as a practitioner and a teacher,

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