Welcome to a slightly different episode of the Yoga Girl podcast conversations from the heart.

If you follow me on the social medias, you already know that I am super sick and sitting here talking

to you right now with a pretty bad case, or I don't know if it's a pretty bad case or a pretty

good case of pneumonia. So I was really debating how to record the podcast this week. I get out of

breath so quickly. I have a hard time just speaking for an extended period of time. I, you know,

stand up and walk across a room. I get out of breath. So this episode, I have promised myself to

take it super, super, super easy. And if at any point of recording this show, I get totally out of

breath, I may cut this episode short. So this might be a shorter episode of the normal. But

if you have, listen to this podcast for a while, you probably know that the episodes I record when

I'm feeling really vulnerable, when I'm ill, when I'm sick, when something crazy is happening,

often turn out to be some of the best ones. So I'm also grateful that I have that opportunity to

sit here and share and just open my heart and connect with you guys. So let's take a

moment just to connect with the body. I know I really, really, really, really need it. That's

find a comfortable place to sit. If you want, you can lie down, you know, if you're tired, if you're

sick ill, just having a hard day, you know, you can feel free to lie flat on the couch if you want,

if you want to sit up tall on a meditation cushion or on your yoga mat or whatever is going on,

make a little more space for the spine and sit up tall. Now, if you're in the car and I get this

feedback sometimes for the beginnings of this episode, if you're driving a car, that we can

absolutely tune in and have a big moment with ourselves for this meditation practice without

closing the eyes. And some days we don't want to close the eyes, right? Especially if you feel a

little bit unsafe in the body or a little bit, maybe a little scattered, sometimes closing the

eyes can feel a little bit overwhelming. So you can simply direct your awareness inward and get

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