Well, hello there. Fancy meeting you here. Actually, it's not that surprising. You just hit play. So, of course, you're here. and I'm here. And this is Jay Brown Yoga Talks

podcast. My name is Jay Brown. If you are newly stumbling upon the show, maybe a friend of yours

told you about it and you're checking it out.

Let me express some welcoming sentiments to you.

And let me mention that I am just going to have a little check-in with regular listeners here before we talk to today's guest, Lauren Walker.

Some people appreciate that I do that sometimes,

some people not so much. If you are the latter, do please feel welcome to skip ahead. I will not be

the least bit offended. If you're sticking around, what's up? How is everybody doing? How's it going? Are you

settled in? I know a lot of you. There's usually a little bit of a settling in in some regards in order

to listen to this. Either you're just settling into the car ride on your way to class, or maybe you're

settling into the walk that you're having, or maybe you're my friend Terry and you're with your cat

and you're settling into bed, but there's often a sort of settling in. And, oh, I really enjoy the idea that there's someone out there, you, who is settling in

in this moment.

I do want to say something today about this blog post I wrote.

I don't know if you saw it. If not, you might go read it. It's called

Yoga is Not Convenient. And it comes out of me looking ahead towards 2020 and thinking about what I'm going to do or what I need to do as a yoga teacher

and trying to once again navigate what I really want to do, what I feel like my passion is telling me to do.

And, you know, the industry dictates, like the things that you do because

you need to to make the money that your life is requiring, you know, to meet your financial

needs. I don't want to get into numbers this week. I've done that in the past, as some of you may remember.

But I'm no looking ahead.

And if you are someone, a yoga teacher who travels to make your living,

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