All right, here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.

Welcome to you, whoever you are. Thanks for choosing to listen today.

If you've been around in recent weeks, you heard me mention that this time of year, this

December month, I often find myself falling back into an old ritual, which is to reflect back on the year,

not just from my own individual perspective, but to see if I could get a sense of what's going

on in the larger yoga world, as I used to call it.

I also recently mentioned that I'm not sure there is a larger yoga world anymore, at least not as I used to envision it.

But I do still have a lot of opportunities to talk to a lot of yoga teachers through this show and through my weekly discussion group.

I also have cultivated many relationships over the years, and I keep tabs on stuff,

like who's going back out on the road, who's teaching this training, you know,

you get a sense sometimes of what's been going on.

It's definitely been harder to get any kind of read because everything's become so

isolated and online and stuff.

But one thing that has clearly been true is that there has been a marked paradigm shift, I would say,

when it comes to yoga teaching.

And that paradigm shift has to do with one, just the way people present yoga and talk about yoga,

and maybe even more so, the relationship between teacher and student and the dynamics there.

And over the years of this show, we've had many conversations about guru-disciple relationships and what it means to have an enlightened master.

And I think in years past, as I've said many times,

I don't feel I always did a very great job of conducting those conversations.

I think inside myself, I was looking to stoke controversy.

I was getting off on the fact that it was happening on this show.

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