All right. This is Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. I would like to welcome you, express some gratitude that you are listening. Thank you. I am coming to you from a bit of a

weird moment. Normally I would have recorded this a couple of days ago, but I'm completely off of my

usual routines. It's like Sunday afternoon. My wife and kids are upstairs. They've already interrupted

me twice in trying to do this, but I have no other choice. It's going to happen now or never.

The reason it's happening now and not a couple days ago is because this week went a little bit

south for me. I hurt myself terribly.

I was in my basement lifting an emac.

I don't know if you know what an emac is.

I'm betting some of you do,

but I know a lot of you are younger than me

and maybe you have no idea what an emac is.

It was the precursor to the Apple iMac computer and anyone who recalls it will remember that it is a big, heavy-ass,

TV kind of thing. And I did everything that you're not supposed to do when you pick up a heavy object and I hurt my back really bad.

At first, I didn't think it was that bad. I took like a little time off, like one day off. It was feeling a little better. I'm like, oh, I'm good. And I just sort of jumped back in in and then my body completely revolted and said,

no, sir, you have hurt yourself much more than you have allowed time to heal.

And it came back with ferocity and put me down.

And, you know, on another day, in another circumstance, I'm betting I could have picked up that thing just the same way I did and not hurt myself.

But this week, it hurt me.

And it's one of those occasions where I feel like my body expresses what's going on with me in perfect metaphor. So right now, my body refuses to carry any

weight. Like if I have to hold a bag in my hand or throw a backpack over my shoulder, even just a

little, not even heavy, like my back will start hurting.

Like, I cannot carry any more weight than I already am, which is true in other ways,

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