Okay, here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Hello, whoever you are, new and old friends alike.

Thanks for tuning in.

Let me first express some gratitude to all of you who sent messages after last week's episode with my daughter Annabel.

Especially those of you who specifically sent Annabelle messages.

I read her every single one that came in.

And if you could have only seen the look on her face as I read them to her,

your messages of encouragement and support and just feedback really made one little girl feel very special.

And she said to me, I'm glad we did this, dad.

It was really truly a wonderful thing that happened, and your messages contributed to that.

So thank you so much.

I really, really appreciate that.

And I have to say that the contrast between last week's episode with my

daughter and today's episode with Sidiya Bruce, it feels very indicative of how my life is going

these days, because on the one hand, I'm just so incredibly blessed to have a wife

and daughters and family around me and these moments of joy and wonder that I am able to share

in that. And last week's episode, what was a little example of that maybe? And then, you know,

there are also encroaching other stresses on me, as I sometimes allude to on this show.

And it's strange because on the one hand, I'm fine, I'm okay.

I've got some people who've signed up for the teacher training program,

and I've got people who are coming to my classes online,

and I'm having what I feel is a nurturing yoga with people, but it's all online right now.

And every once in a while, I just, I step back and I see myself in a room with a computer

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