All right. Hello. Have we met before? If not, let me welcome you. This is Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Otherwise, what's up? How is everyone doing?

I am coming to you from a hotel room in Tokyo, Japan. This is not the first time I've done that.

Long time listeners may remember. I take trips here twice a year and I have introduced a podcast from Tokyo before. Well, I'm here again. It's been an awesome trip. I've said it before, I will say it again. Teaching yoga to the Japanese students is just such a joy. They are incredibly sincere people

with like a built-in respect for teachers and it's just always a pleasure to be here and I'm

always very grateful. Thanks to everybody at Yoga Generation for hosting me.

And let me give a little bit of a shout out to Maria Kirsten, who I met last night.

She's a yoga teacher from Australia, also teaching here.

And we had dinner last night.

We had Okonomiyaki.

Delicious.

And I just a great time and fun to talk to her.

She's a podcast listener. And I need to give a little shout out to Robin Bell as well, because apparently Robin is a maven of mine out there telling everybody about the podcast.

And I just really appreciate that so thanks

robin and it's just been great it's wonderful to be here and it's awesome when I feel like the

podcast really intersects with my life and relationships.

And I got this email like a week or two ago where it just encapsulated everything that I want this podcast to be.

So I'm going to read it to you.

It says, hi, Jay, I just made a long overdue donation to your podcast,

and I'm writing to say thanks for helping me get through a very difficult time in my life.

I'm a long time yogi, and until 18 months ago,

was leading a superactive life as a public school music teacher,

playing music, and doing lots of yoga.

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