Okay, hello. Here we are again. My name is Jay Brown. This is Yoga Talks podcast. Welcome to you if you're new, if you're returning. Thank you. And how's it going? What are you doing

right now? I'm betting from the majority of the emails I get that there's a lot of you right now who are in

your car and you're on your way to get to a class or maybe you're even on like on a subway

and you got headphones on but you're right now in this moment on your way to go teach a yoga class

and if that's you i just want to take a moment to express some deep solidarity with you

because I really have returned back to what I feel are like the roots of being a yoga teacher in this modern day.

If you've been listening, you know I got back from Japan and I'm settled into my new life.

And maybe you've done that where you travel to some place.

And it takes like a week or so before you like settle into that place and you're actually there.

Well, I've settled into being here, and here is my new life in the Lehigh Valley.

And I took a week off, as I mentioned last week, and that was really good. I just rested and tended to myself and like did some practice, which was really great.

And this week is the first week that I taught a couple of classes. I taught one just regular

drop in class, and then I taught two workshops at these two centers that I'm teaching at,

Eastern Yoga in Easton, Pennsylvania, and Yucato Yoga in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

And it was really interesting.

My first class wasn't a workshop.

It was just eight people who I didn't know.

Actually, there was one person there who was a podcast listener.

I think her name was Annie, maybe.

Forgive me if I'm forgetting your name,

but I really appreciated that you came.

There was one podcast listener, which was cool to have my first class.

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