This is Sarah Stewart Holland.

And this is Beth Silver's.

You're listening to the Nuance Life,

a Pants-Sansu politics production. Thank you so much for joining us for our very last episode of our summer revival of the nuanced life.

We have had such a delightful time.

Returning to the show and you guys and the commemorations and everything it meant, we hope that you have also enjoyed

this revival of the nuanced life. And for our last episode, we spoke with a listener

Kelly. Now we get emails pretty regularly where people will reach out and they will say hey I'm going through this really hard thing and have the best day available has been really helpful to me.

First of all, Beth, do you remember where best day available came from?

Because I do not.

Yeah, like a lot of good things, this was inspired by a friend

and like many, many good things in my life, it is inspired by a friend and like many many good things in my life it is inspired by my friend

Anna Guess Jelly of curvy yoga when I did my yoga teacher training with her 10 years

ago now yikes can't believe it's been that long.

She talked to us a lot about making yoga more inclusive and accessible

by saying to people, to people,

go into the pose to the extent that's available to you.

Maybe you fold forward, not that you fold forward

to touch your knees, or, you know,

yoga teachers will say all the time like chin to chest or chest to knee or whatever

and she said we don't want to instruct that way because that's not there for everyone

and it's not there for everyone every day like your practice changes day to day and so she really focused

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