All right, you who has hit play, here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Welcome to anyone who may be new today.

Everybody else, what's up? How is everyone doing? Things are really gearing up around here.

I'm five days away from the grand opening party and seven days away from the start

of classes at the new center. We have mostly finished like the painting and the situating.

We've still, you know, tying up some ends here and there on that stuff. And I mentioned last week,

I think, that there was a reporter who had interviewed me. Well, that article got published and it got

quite a lot of coverage. A lot of people saw it. And a couple of people mentioned that they saw

to me. So there's all kinds of a buzz going on.

And now I'm sitting here,

and I'm thinking about the last two weeks of podcast episodes.

I'm thinking about the episode that I did with Sheila and Ravi

from the Krishna Machari Yoga Madiram.

And then last week I had my friend Manuwan and we were talking business stuff.

And I'm reflecting on what role I think I am to play as a yoga teacher now.

Like my idea about what my role is as a teacher has changed over the years.

And it's been a long time since, like, I had a yoga center and I was looking to create

like a space like that for people to come to.

You know, for years leading up until the pandemic, I was traveling.

And anyone who's done both knows there's a big difference between when you like swoop into

someone's town and have like a weekend shindig and then you take off compared to, you know,

setting up shop in your neighborhood.

And another thing about that, about the setting up shop in my neighborhood,

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