Making Space

Shirley Newton. As many of you know, if you've been listening to me and rocking with me on woke f for the Power several years, on different stations and in different places, you know how my mother has always been my spiritual guide. I feel so fortunate and I tell her on a regular basis that I am that our

souls chose each other. And it's because you know, I chose the profession that isn't for the week, that is not for the faint of heart, that is about getting to the truth, regardless of how ugly, how sad, how cruel it is. But at the same time, it is incredibly important that as we go through our journey. Wherever we are in our journey of consciousness, of getting woke, that we also find balance, that we also create space for our trauma, for our healing, for mindfulness, and more importantly,

for rest. So back in April, I invited my mother, who was very reluctant about joining woke f to come on to talk about just that. You know, she would tell me after she'd listen to a show or watch me on the news, that I needed to learn how to let go, that the work that I was doing was important and it was necessary, but that I could not take on the weight of the world on a cellular level and allow it to consume me, allow it to cloud my vision to hope and possibility and to joy.

And so in this conversation we talk about the power of yoga, of what it means to stretch, to breathe, and to create space in our bodies, which allows us then to create space in our minds. You know, over the past two years, at the beginning of the pandemic, I finally, you know, after years of pressure from my mother and my sister, who is also a trained yogi, began a meditation practice, a daily meditation practice, and I've talked about this many times, and the fact is it

changed me doesn't mean that I'm any less angry. It just means that I have found a way to realign and get back in tune. That also that I have been able to use my rage as another form of meditation. But that once it leaves my body, once it enters the air waves, I let it go. And I think that that is the really big lesson that I've learned over the past several years of living through Folks. You know, we've been through a lot of trauma. It's not just

the pandemic we live through the Trump administration. There's the possibility of another Trump administration. We've been going through a lot, and I think that the most important thing is is to understand it, to reckon with it, to have conversations about it, to develop tactics in which to battle against it, but then at the end of each and every day,

to let it go, to breathe it out. We can recognize that in many ways the world is is terrifying right now, from climate change, to white supremacy, to our addiction to capitalism and greed. In a lot of the directions that we look in there are bad things happening, we can acknowledge that we can work to fight against

it and still let it go. You Know, one of the things that I've learned with my meditation practice, and my mother will talk about with the yoga, is that practicing yoga while you move through poses and breath is

really about being grounded in the present. My mother, when she teaches a classes, she will joke with her yogis that are in practice and say, you know, don't anticipate the next pose right because they all think, you know, okay, I'm going to get it, because they're so indoctrinated into perfection that they want to get ahead of where she is in her guided practice, And a lot of times she will seek to throw people off and go into a completely different pose because she wants to eliminate that

anticipation that if you were just present and listening and breathing and stretching right, then what comes next doesn't really matter. You'll get there. And that's a really profound lesson with the uncertain times that we find ourselves in that I don't think any of us ever could have anticipated or saw coming. I mean, I love to say that I

knew what would happen when Donald Trump was elected. I said it on election night, but I could not have really truly anticipated the depths of criminality and hate and cruelty that would become ingrained in our body politic. We have no idea when the clock strikes midnight tonight, what twenty twenty two will bring us. Many of us are hoping for a reprieve, a break from the anxiety and the stress of the last couple of years. All we have,

dear friends, is right now, That's what we have. That's what we can be certain of, and that shouldn't send us running for the hills. It should allow us to honor and embrace each moment as a gift, because it truly is. By the time you hear this, more Americans will have perished to COVID, More Americans will have died at the hands of police violence, domestic violence, poverty. There may be more disastrous storms that will have hit the headlines and change people's lives forever. What we know for

sure is that in this moment, we are breathing. So make that breath deep, Hold it, feel your organs working and churning, your blood flowing, and exhale it out. Feel your feet, grounding, if your bare feet, into the floor, into the soil, into the ground. Just sit still and listen to the sounds of your home or the outdoors, the wind, and take it in. If there is no other lesson that we've gotten, that we've taken in over

the past couple of years, it's to slow down. It's to not be in such a hurry to rush through your life. What are we rushing towards the end? Take the time today, of all days, on New Year's Eve, if not every day, but take the time today to take a couple of really nice, big, full, deep breaths, the breaths that allow us to remember that we are alive. Close your eyes, see and feel with your other senses, take in the space around you. Slow down, Breathe in,

breathe out. The world has sadly seen darker times than the ones we are in now. That doesn't make the experience variance anymore any less. It's just a fact. But we win no prizes by rushing to the future, by holding on to the anger and to the hate, by not giving ourselves grace and the ability to rest, the ability to experience joy, to laugh, to take in music,

to dance, to paint, to observe, or to sit. I don't know what twenty twenty two has to offer us, but I know that we can walk in to this new year with clear eyes and a grounding and a shared desire that whatever it is that comes our way, that we are going to center joy, that on top of our rage, our righteous rage, will be revolutionary joy. That we will not allow those who want to exist in a place of hate to rob us of that. My mother says it all the time. She texts me

all the time, don't let them steal your joy. You're doing good work. Keep going, but you can do so in your breath, with a smile on your face. Be a happy warrior. That doesn't mean that we dismiss what is in front of us. It doesn't mean that we don't remember what is behind us. Just means that we are choosing to move forward in a consciousness that isn't

just rooted in pain. Those are just some of the many lessons that I have been fortunate to learn throughout my many, many, many many years with my mother, who in this conversation, I hope as you close out this year, whatever it is that you plan to do for your New Year's if it's saging your space, if it is connecting safely, God willing with friends and family, if it's creating a big meal or going out or whatever it is that you're doing or that you plan to do,

that you take a moment to just sit still, that you take a moment to pat yourself, to hug yourself, to congratulate yourself. Regardless of what shape you think you should have ended the year in, how much you should have had by the end, the fact that you made it here means that you made it period, and that

is something to be proud of. Friends. I am so excited to bring it to you my very special feel Good Friday guest, which is my mother, Shirley Newton, who is the owner and founder of Essence of Yoga Studio on Long Island, also now virtually thanks to COVID. You guys know that if I talk about my mother, probably I am either in the midst of a meltdown or she has just coached me out of one. So I figure why not bring her on to speak to you

all directly. Hello Mother, Hello Danielle, No, not so, Mom, I want to talk to you about your journey in yoga. Many people right now are seeking out different forms of self care because of the anxiety, the trauma of living through this pandemic, the uprisings, all of these things, and they're looking for a way to get involved in yoga or better connect. So tell us a bit about your own journey. It's a long journey. Do you have all

the time you can? You can give us an a bridge and a bridge version the reader's digest version of ye my journey to Yoga. Well, how I started practicing yoga? Always been into fitness in some form. I've always been on the move because you know, the whole premise here we have to move. Mobility is really important to maintain a healthy lifestyle. So I've always been into some type of fitness step. I was a spin instructor for many

years before I opened the studio. And how I started yoga, actually, I must say it wasn't you would think that I started this, but actually Danielle's sister Nicole was one in our family that started yoga when she was a teenager and she said, Mom, you know, I think you should

try it. But I was always into more of the hardcore movement, so I was teaching spinning, and you know, I was in my thirties then, and my hip started wearing out and I would get on bed and couldn't stand on one leg because of the wear and tear of the continuous motion of spinning. One of the teachers said, why don't you try yoga class, and Nicole Kip said, Mommy used to try the yoga too, And I did it. I tried it and that was it. I fell in love. And most, I would say, most of us now probably

start a yoga practice from the physical perspective. But if you continuously, if you consistently work with it through the physical part of it, the journey becomes a completely different journey. It's more so, instead of thinking of your yoga practice as a workout, because that's the way that I thought of it, it actually is a working inward because we're made of all these layers. You know, when we show up in a room with different people, we show up

at different people of who we are. And you ask yourself one day, I wonder if anyone, if all the people that I knew, was in one room, who would I be. Because we pretend to be different people, we have different personalities with our families, with our friends, with

our work coworkers. We are different. So what yoga really teaches you to do is penetrate those layers, the layers below, layer below, layer layer above, layer above layer, And what are we looking for or true self or true authentic self? And that's what the physical part of it. Once you take off the peelow of the layers of the eagle and get into the different layers of your being, not just the physical part of it, but the energetic, the spiritual part of it. We're trying to find our true

authentic self. And basically that's the journey of yoga. There's no perfection, it is and that is why they quality a practice. We're always practicing, practicing, practicing. And one of the famous yoga goora, I think it was Yoga Budging, that says, practice practice and it will come, so you

will find your true self. I love that, And I love one of the things that you always say before we start a yoga practice, which is like, there's no judgment on your yoga mat And I think that we're often, even within our context of social media likes and cliques and all of these things, we're conditioned to believe that

we should be in competition with one another. And I think that the beauty of yoga and of starting into this practice is this idea that it is a practice that you shouldn't have any judgment of yourself, but people do. And so what is some advice that you give to people? Because I hear this from my friends that say, well, I don't like to do yoga, I'm not good at it, right, And I always think that that's such a bizarre thing to say, like, if you're not quote unquote good at something,

how do you get good? But what do you say to people that come in and they are concerned with other people looking at them, or they're concerned with, you know, their value of how they're presenting on their maps. And that's a really good question because I get that a lot, and I get that a lot of times from clients that may want to start with me to do a

private lesson and a couple of privates. And one of my first questions to them when I meet them before we start, why are you choosing to do a private as opposed to going into a group class? Why what is the reason for that? And most of the time is that they're self conscious. They think that someone is going to be looking at them on their map. They're not flexible enough, I said, But that is the true reason why you come to yoga. It's not because you're

flexible why you come there. That's just the physical part of it. Come to yoga if you're coming from that physical perspective to gain flexibility. So if you're not flexible enough, that's the reason why you would do that. And one of the great things about yoga when you truly get

into your practice and when you unroll your mat. And I've seen that so many times where students will they will come into the studio and someone will be next to them practicing and they didn't realize they knew that person until the end of class, because once you unroll your matt, you are in that space, and if you're practicing, you are so connected and you're starting that journey inward that you don't see the peripheral stuff that's going on.

And you start off with that, eliminating all that physical distraction and begin the journey inward so that you can then begin to eliminate the distractions in your head, the stories that you're starting to tell yourself while you're sitting there and connecting, starting to connect with your breath, and

that's when the true journey really begins. It's not so much the physical, the physical aspect of yoga, the postures that you're getting into, whether you're taking hot yoga, vinyasa or hota yoga class, whichever option you're choosing to do. It's about breaking through the physical layer so that we can release all the toxicity that's going on around us, like for example, the pandemic and all the stress that everyone is speaking right now, because we need all of us.

We need to create a sentuary within ourselves. And that's the journey of yoga. You are trying to find your true authentic self. And when you begin the physical practice, the sweating, the movement of your muscles and joints, and you clear out those blockages that we talk about in yoga, not necessarily physical blockage times and feel it as physical blockages, but you know energetic blockages that you have within you, the issues I and I say this to my students

a lot. We come to release the issues from our tissues. That's my thing. That's say it again, mom, that's my favorite past. The issues from our tissues. And that's when we work in and when you're feeling that discomfort, learn you learn this from your yoga mat to take it out into your daily life. Sit in the discomfort, don't run away from it, Sit, feel it, taste it, and then we get the breakthrough and then you can move through from the physical layer to the energetic layer and

the spiritual layer. And why at the end, what are we looking for or true self? I think that a lot of people And you tell me if this is true with the students that you've seen throughout the years, which is that people are afraid I think of their authentic selves and people are afraid of quiet. I know that I was before the pandemic. You used to tell me that I was on a hamster wheel all the time and that I needed I needed to stop doing such aggressive cardio and really needed to breathe and sit.

Why do you think that people are afraid of the quiet? And what do you say to people who are afraid of the quiet? So what do we do when we're afraid? We try to run away and physically run away, emotionally runaway, spiritually runaway because we don't want to face what the quiet is going to bring to us. So when you're in a yoga class or one of the most challenging poses I find for students is say Shavasna, which is the rest pose. When you have to lay there for

five or ten minutes in stillness. It becomes really uncomfortable for some students because when you sit there, there's no place for you to go. You have to be still. And when the stillness comes, then like everything reveals itself to you. Maybe you are dealing with something and you really do not want to face it, but when you're still with yourself on your yoga mat, it reveals itself to h to you. There's no place for you to run,

so you have to face it. So it's important, and I say to my students it's important when you're in a pose and you're starting to feel a little bit of discomfort, as long as you're not feeling pain, but it's discomfort. And what I qual it I put little

words on it. I qual it heighten awareness. When your awareness of the sensations in your body is heightened, Sit in it, feel it because you're going to learn this technique on your yoga mat that you don't get out of her pose just because I'm feeling some burning sensation here, not pain. If you're feeling pain, get out of it, that's important. But when you're feeling that discomfort, sit in it because this is where you're going to learn the tools on your yoga mat to take in your daily life.

So when you're feeling uncomfortably in an uncomfortable situation with a cowork or the family member, set face set because it communicate. It's really important because it's hard. Yeah, mart doesn't mean it just means which hard do you want to deal with? Ignoring your feelings is hard too, because it's going to manifest someplace else. Yes, So ask yourself which of the heart do I want to deal with?

Do I want to deal with the hard communication and the hard sensations that I'm feeling right now in my muscles so that I can build strength and release physical toxic it? Do I want to deal with that hard? Or do I just want to run away and be a hamster on that wheel with no tools to help me? How do you deal and stress? We all know how stress reads ABOc on your immune system, and that's what we're all trying to do to reduce the stress hormones.

So sleep is another key important part of our well being and our wellness, so sleep, movement, movement, and I think it is so underestimated about movement, physical movement, mental movement, spiritual movement really important because if we don't move our physical body, all the systems eventually starts breaking down. So you're either going to pay attention take care of your wellness so that if you don't, you know, you will be forced to take care of your illnets or for

your illness. So take the time, make time to take care of your wellness so you're not forced to take care to make time for your illness. And there's a quote out there like that, it's really really important that we move. And there is no perfection in yoga. There's no perfect pose because there's always another level, so we're all. I approach my practice and I share this with my students, Always approach my practice as a beginner, so that you have this open space that you can just receive because

there's so much for us to learn about ourselves. And we may get stock and those energetic layers, and you know, set and examine and assess why am I stuck here? What lessons do I need to learn so that I can move on? One of the things mom is I think that for me, and I always offered this on the show, I've been sharing more of my journey into wellness right into fullness over the past year, and I think that for a lot of ambitious people, you get sucked into what we refer to as grind culture, right

where you are just continually grinding. We talk about the hamster wheel, where you're continually moving, but when you're talking about movement, you're talking about purposeful, connected, mindful movement as opposed to just busying yourself with moving. So I just want you to talk about the like just a little bit of the difference between moving to be busy and mindful movement. Yeah, so moving to be busy, it's like trying to use that constant. My calendar is fall. I

don't have time for this. I don't have time to take care of myself. So everyone has to work, and you know, because you work to make the money so that you can take the yoga class or whatever. Ill unless you're but there's a thing called balance, and you can't have a take a look at your calendar and if there's no empty spaces there, then something is missing.

Our whole life is built around balance. So one of the things I was having a conversation with the students because we have a twenty one day challenge of yoga going on right now, and I say to them, ask yourself. If you're saying that I can't do this because I don't have time, I can't go to a yoga class, I can't take care of myself because I don't have time. If you approach it with that mindset, you're setting yourself

up for failure. You have to approach your well being as I must make time for wellness, must make time to take care of myself, not if I have time, I will unroll my map and take a yoga class. It is something that you must approach that I will make time for, not because I'll do it because I have time. You have to create the time. And another important thing I say to my students also think about this for just ask yourself. With the challenge that we're doing,

close your eyes here for a moment. And I did this in class last night, and ask yourself, have I worked for someone for twenty one days out of any given month in my whole life? Have I ever done that? And I said, just sit for a moment and just ponder on that. Have I worked for a corporation? Have I worked for someone else for twenty one days in any given month out of my lifetime? And they all everyone had a smile, and I said, now ask yourself.

Think if you're being your whole being here as a corporation, and you are the CEO of this corporation, and you want to have a sustainable corporation, right, a sustainable lifestyle to get through all the different stages of your life. So if you do, if your corporation is not sustainable, then what will your life be. So you go to work, to work for someone else corporation so their business is sustainable, but you must do that for yourself. You have yourself

a priority. You are the CEO of this corporation. Your physical, your emotional, and your spiritual being is your corporation. You are the CEO, and you must allow this corporation to

be sustainable. Treat it well so it's sustainable through all the stages of your life when your twenties, your thirties, your forties, your fifties, your sixthies, like cheese in So you know, I think that that's so important, and it's one of the things that I've learned most from you, so many different lessons obviously throughout like my entire life,

but making yourself a priority. And I will tell people a story about the fact that I used to grow up eating dinner at eight or nine o'clock at night because and people were like, well, come over for sleepovers and be like, why y'all eating dinner at nine o'clock at night? And it was because my mother was a teaching a spin class or our step class, or you know, she needed to go to the gym after her work day,

and so that's what she did. And it was always recognizing and I think that and I'm going to ask you to say this especially for you know, for caregivers, for parents who either have children or they are carrying caretakers for their elderly parents. You know, you always made yourself a priority so that Nicole and I could grow up seeing ourselves as a priority. A lot of people are still stuck in martyrdom where they feel like they have to sacrifice themselves for their kids or for their parents.

So can you speak to that about like the importance of making yourself a priority even when you have kids and elderly parents, both of which you have found yourself. You know in that you cared for you know, my grandparents. You cared for Nicole and I and like and other stranger friends and things like that. How did you manage that? So? Did you know? How? Mother has all these sayings, all of them that I share with my students and I

share with my family. Remember this you cannot pour from an empty cop Okay we say it on woke af and I credit you all the time. Another analogy that you can use. And I say this to my students that I keep say in that because this is what I do is to help people understand the importance of

their well being. And one of the things that we should realize, like when you're caring for your family and you're getting you, you will have some inappropriate outburse or you're just lashing out at the kids or your spouse or your partner or family member and they're looking at you. Where's this coming from? And I will tell you a little secret. That is coming from built up resentment. Because you have given so much of yourself and you have not taken anything back. So it is really important to

refill your cup. I say to my students, think of this, Like every Friday morning, I do a restorative you old class and I call it this is a class that you come back to to redeposit in the ATM machine, because think of your being, like everyone is taken, your taken withdrawing from your ATM machine, the physical being, the well being, your spiritual being, your emotional being. You give it to your job, to your family members and your friends, and they keep depleting you all week of that energy.

When do you take the time to make a redeposit in your bank? And that is what the resort of yoga class is all about on a Friday morning, is redepositing in your energy bank so that you can pour from that up that's fall. I love that, and I mean that's I think that that's probably one of the best pott It's so good. The resentment and the anger, the outburst is coming from the depletion of your energy bank, and you cannot be depleted and continue to give. So

for mothers out there, I did it. Always made myself a priority because if you don't take care of your well being, you won't have enough to take care of the ones that you really truly need to take care of. And when you love yourself to take care of yourself, it energetically radiates out to your family members, to your co workers. Taking care of yourself first, making yourself a priority. Your children will learn that how important it is from mom or dad to take care of themselves so they

are sustainable to take care of me. Yeah. I think that what is so incredibly important and valuable is that martyrdom doesn't lead you anywhere, and all you are teaching. All you are teaching your kids, your you know, if you are a caregiver to other people's children, all you are teaching them is that they come last, right, Like, that's all. That's all that you are teaching. And if you want to raise you know, healthy people, right because

these are children that will turn into adults. If you want to raise healthy people, then you have to model healthy behavior and that and that and a healthy lifestyle, and that means putting yourself first. Another question for you, mom is that you know everyone knows, um okay, f

that last year was a very traumatic year. Uh for you know, I went through a divorce, You went through a brain tumor, and the family was able, you know, through the grace of God, to be able to be together for five months of the most critical heightened time of the pandemic. How did yoga and meditation help you on your healing journey after your after your surgery, even during thing is that I had a lot of support.

I had just loving kindness support. I had a soft place to land with my daughters, with you and Nicole and my husband and the rest of the family. Just a it's really important to have connection. And what that did. And I will tell I say this all the time that I don't know the universe had a plan. I had one of my students that told me that, you know, you actually started the pandemic because the universe took you down and the whole brain tumor on March fifth, and

the world shut down after that. So she said to me, you know, mother Yobi MOhm, you got taken down and then the universe came down. But the important thing here is that I had a lot of support, and you know I did. I do meditation twice a day. I do it while I'm walking, I do it before I go to bed. I do it the first thing I wake up, even if it's five minutes. You don't need an hour of meditation. You can do one minute of deep,

deep breathing just to reconnect with yourself. Movement was also very important, and even if you're immobile at some point, which I was, you know when I just got out of the surgery, movement of your breath, yep, it's considered movement because you're moving the energy. You're moving your lungs, so breathing deeply and most of us in the population tends to breathe from your chest. That is one of

the things. Even if you're not doing physical arm or legs or muscle movement, moving your breath moves the internal organs. You are still using your lungs, so breathing deeply, take a minute time yourself and take one moment of nice deep inhale to help you. So again I had a

soft place to land. I was really grateful, and you know, I can't the gratitude that I have that my whole family was with me for five months of recovery and the moment I got home and got out of the hospital and you know, we did the deep breathing that was part of yours. I started back with my movement like two days out, doing restorative yoga. So there's so many different forms. Whatever you're yearning for, physical, emotional, and spiritually,

there's something there for you. Someday we may need a physical, energetic movement, but another day we may need a little bit more restorative yoga because we need to heal, and maybe physical healing, but spiritual and emotional healing. So there's a balance. So, yes, we know that we have to hustle. But I am telling you, and I almost said to you, yogis please, Yeah, you could call that, take the time, stop the hustle and take care of yourself, self care, do it now, do it for yourself. My So it's

just so everyone knows. People ask all the time like oh, Danielle, like you seem to know so much, and I'm like, I don't. I just I just parrot the things my mother has told me over the over my entire life. M mom. Last question for you is, you know, again, this time has been really trying on people. People are going through you know, COVID, a fatigue, the emotional disconnect that folks have been having, you know, not with the inability to see family members, the inability to gather in groups.

It's been hard. It's been emotionally taxing for people. What advice do you give to folks to help them deal with this trauma? Because that's what we're all experiencing, is this collective trauma of what it is like to create a new normal while we're living in this pandemic. So what can you offer to people as as some advice

to maintain their emotional and spiritual well being. What I've gained learned with COVID, what COVID brought to me is that the only thing that is consistent is change, yep, change. So we must adapt to whatever it is that's going on and try to live our best life because nothing is permanent and the only thing that is consistent again is changed, and so we must change. What I've learned is that a simpler lifestyle is more grounding for me.

Being home and make your home a sanctuary, make it someplace that you want to be in, you know, introduce your plans. Yes, somebody became a plant mother during the pandemic. My my, oh she's a black grandmother because she now has an entire fourest in her house, like I do. You know, go back to eating together, eating meals together. That's very important in my family that when we are

together in the same house. We eat meals together. We sit at the table and eat together, have conversations and talk. Put away you know, the phones, the technology, and just take time and make meals together. And those are the things. And just what are you taking away from this pandemic? And I believe you know the universe is bringing us down because we were all scattered all over the place, running from one appointment to the next, on the grind

on that hamster wheel. And what this pandemic has done for us, if you really go deep within your soup and think about it, it is grounding us, grounding us, taking us down, and say stop listen, feel feel what is going on within you and around you. Let's stop listen. So we we had many, many, many, many signs and that we did not pay attention to. And this is my own personal feeling, an analogy on. We had hurricanes,

we had floods, we had fires. So to me, it's like universe is speaking to us and we're not truly listening. And until we get the message there, the universe is still going to pilot on on us. So here we are in the pandemic. What have you learned from this? What can we take away from this. Yes, it's brought us some really uncomfortable situation, uncomfortable situations to be in. But what lesson. There's a lesson here for all of us to care about each other, to care about ourselves.

And another thing I'd like to leave with everyone, and this is um had been reading it in like a passage in my in my yoga classes. Is one of the yoga Guru's yoga budget. It said, let us all be a forklift for each other. When someone leaves your present, let them feel like they were uplifted and not like the energy was sucked out of them. So let's all try to be a forklift for our siblings, for our partners,

for family members, for our friends, for co workers. And if we keep lifting each other up, yeah, yeah, and we vibrate on the same on the same level, and waveler be a forklift, yeah for each other. Mother Shirley Newton, owner of Essence of Yoga Studio. Guys, if you want to take virtual classes with my mother, I highly highly recommend you check out Essence of Yoga Studio dot com. If you use the Mind Body app Mind Body app,

you can find Essence of Yoga Studio on there. As well. Mother, surely last word, oh, one last word, to remember to make time for your wellness so you will not be forced to make time for your illness. That is it. Remember that, make time for your wellness so you won't be forced to make time for your illness. Take care of self care necessary. Thank you, namaste, thank you for listening.

I wish you all a happy, healthy, safe and brilliant new Year, and we will see you back here, live and filled with passion, ready to hit the ground running in twenty twenty two. Be well, dear friends. Power to the people and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck. See in twenty twenty two.