Hey guys, it's Nate AK, the foot account, and welcome back to the channel. Guys, this game is all sorts of a mess right now on FC24. We have Team of the Year leaving today, road to the final coming in. EA responded about the 86 plus Team of the Year League's messy situation. The player pick, they responded, they released a statement. I want to talk about that and look at it. And also, there's a card in this game right now that should not be on the game. And it is this telecard, who I just bought for 50k and sold them for 70,000 coins. He got upgraded. If you had a silver version in your club, it might all of a sudden have turned into this 86 rated. We had to talk about that because the EA mistakes are on a roll right now. What do we say earlier this week when they start? They usually get on a roll. That has been so true to see these past couple of days. We have a lot to talk about today, guys, with Road to the Final. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up. Subscribe if you're new. Let's go back in time real quick and talk about yesterday's content to start things off with marquee matchups. Not much to say here.  During team of the year, the last few hours this morning into today, get those SBCs open, get those packs open for a last chance at a team of the year. Same thing with this 84 times 11. I know a lot of you guys probably got this done yesterday. When it was dropped, it was leaked. We knew that it was coming and the price. Yeah, it's a little expensive, but it's not expensive for like knowing that team of the years are impacts. And this is once again a decent upgrade pack. 84 rated with two 86s and an 85 rated with a team of the squad. So craftable if you're doing upgrades, expensive if you look at it at its face value. It's like 85,000 coins.  And what fodder was already extinct yesterday when this SBC came out? Oh yeah, 86s. They were all max price. The cheapest 86s on the market are not actually 12, 13 K as it's listed here. All of these gold cards are extinct. If you click on them and look at their prices, you see like he's max price 13 K. Kavic is not on the market, right? You have to go to these special cards to find the cheapest 86 rates in the game and they're right around 20 K. Same thing with the 87s. They're all around 20,000 coins as well. Lucy bronze, some of these other 87 rates that are impacts actually holding 20 K. So just kind of again, silly that EA would require an 86 rated when they're not even allowing us to purchase them off of the market on this game because of price ranges. So update the price ranges or don't require them. That makes like common sense to me, but it did into EA yesterday. So that's that. I mean, not a bad SBC. We did pack a couple people, team of your honorable mentions from those. A lot of double walkouts in those. So again, only doable though, because it is team of your time. And for the last couple of hours in the morning today, team of your cards, team of your icons, all of that is still impacts one last chance to send on that. Now with fodder, since people are going to be sending maybe opening their week of the rewards today before content, one last chance at packing a team of the year, albeit potentially tradable as well. I do think that fodder will drop today a little bit heading into content. I think it'll drop after content a bit as well with the supply. But I also think depending on what SBCs come out and if the icon pack refreshes, I don't know if it does or not. Like if I look in the game, I'm in the middle of doing it. And it says repeatable one time. So I don't know if it refreshes today or not. I can't see that. Maybe check your guys's game and see if it can. If it does refresh today, you might see a little bit of an uptick on the 88s because on Wednesday when this refreshed, 88s went boom when this SBC refreshed again because especially the 86s and 87s are near their max price. Again, I would sell the 86s and 87s that are at max price. I don't think EA is going to update their ranges in time for them to withstand those prices and continue to be higher up just because after today's content drop hits, a lot of the crafting of SBCs is going to slow down. There's a lot of SBCs that are still out. So fodder could be a good watch today for a flip, but only if you see prices go down. Like if 89s are back at like, I don't know, under 40,000 coins. If 88s are like 25k and if 90s are like 55k, it would have to be a pretty significant drop with the supply. They'd have to drop good lightning rounds today like the 84 times 10 tradeable or the 85 times seven lightning round. Not that a lot of people would be opening it. I just think that'd be a potential kind of situation to watch fodder. So if you're interested in fodder, if you want to watch that, that's the part of the market that I would watch today and those are kind of the movements that I would look out for. Now, we're getting a little ahead of ourselves, but let's roll it back to yesterday once again and talk about team of the year prices, guys. There is a lot of FOMO on these cards for sure because people that want to buy them have the coins to buy them just see their prices continually to go up and that's the only way they're going right now, guys. All of these team of the years are absolutely flying. Kevin De Bruyne, 4.2 mil and there's so much FOMO buying in this. This is a perfect example of FOMO buying, right? Yesterday, Allison was 590k, which is already up 100k from his lowest point. Kind of, we talked about buying him at 500k a couple of days ago. If you wanted him for your team, he was still one of the lower ones of team of the year. He went all the way to 800k and was selling their men. Now, it has to do with rarity too, right? These team of the years, we know they're hard to pack, but like this FOMO buying was crazy. Everybody was buying team of the years yesterday that hadn't bought one yet and it created some pretty big price spikes and honestly some what you might call like a bubble in terms of the price. Now, some of them are probably going to keep going up and maybe even past that bubble that we saw yesterday. Kevin De Bruyne started a day at 3.7, 3.8 mil, went all the way to 4.2 and he's probably going to go higher, guys, right? With the way the promo looks today and with how meta these cards are still going to stay, like these are 100% the best cards in the game. No comparison, at least right now. Bar a couple SBC players and maybe an EVO you can create, but still not going to come close to these cards. That's why they're so expensive. They're so rare and I think they're going to continue to rise today. But there's again a lot of FOMO buying. If you really want to buy one of these for your team, man, it's tough because they are so expensive that I just think we're way closer to the peak on these cards. Who did I just sell? I just sold another teller. I bought both of these at 50K, bro. The ladies in this guy are insane. We'll talk about that in a second. But if you want to watch these team of the years, just be careful. I mean, I'm not going to tell you not to buy them because they are the best cards in the game and if you want that competitive edge and if you have the coins to splurge, go ahead and do it. But I just feel like we're way closer to the top end of how these prices are going to be than to the low end. It is disgusting how expensive some of these team of your cards are, but they're rare and they're so good. So that's kind of what's going on there. Also, team of your honorable mentions, just a quick price check on these and the icons, kind of the same thing. I think the honorable mentions will show more positive movement today if the content is as average as it is looking. So I'm still invested in some of these. That's where a lot of my coins are. And I expect those prices to be going up today. Now, let's talk about the EA tweet because the messy situation has kind of taken a hold of this game, caused a lot of controversy earlier in the week. I mean, Messi is almost 11 million coins now. Of course, a lot of people have them on straight able. But still on the market, he is very rare. EA, just a couple of hours ago, tweeted once again about the team of the year 86 plus leagues player pick, SBC, which is the glitched messy player pick. And I'm going to be completely honest, guys. I responded to this tweet. I said the expected result will read it in a second. Maybe you guys have already seen it, but we'll go over it. I said the expected result, but unexpected communication. Honestly, I didn't expect them to tweet about this. That's why I'm saying they actually treated about it. GGs, right? That's the only little bit of credit. I think I'm going to give them, but yeah, it is the expected result, guys. And I think the only reason that they tweeted about it is because this tweet that they tweeted out about the messy player pick, like blew up so massive. And what did it say? We have identified with the 86 plus team of the league's SBC, 9.3 million views on that tweet. That is like nine times more. All these other tweets have like a million views. Wait, did this readers added context? It states that 0.7 players, 0.7% of players have obtained the team. They're messy. It fails to declare what that is a representation of. I feel like I attributed to that context, bro. Yeah. If you go read my tweet, I said the same thing. Let's go chat. Let's go. All right. This is what's going on with the situation, right? They said, here's the update. Here's the situation. And SBC was released. Two of those leagues had only one item matching the 86 plus threshold, the rest of the world and MLS, which I guess the rest of the world was Christian Ronaldo, I guess the SBC was live for 24 minutes prior to its removal following the identification of a design issue, design issue. It wasn't supposed to be this OP in that timeframe and estimated 0.7% of ultimate team players obtain a team of the year messy item. That's where that 0.7 number. I'm sure some of you guys have seen it. If you've been looking at Twitter or X, EA is saying that 0.7% of users got this messy. Now, here's the thing. 0.7% of ultimate team players, the ultimate team players to me is every single person in the entire world that is logged in to ultimate team. That is a crazy massive number compared to the very small number of people that were on the game on Tuesday for the 24 minutes that had enough fodder, enough coins to get that SBC done before it went away. So in reality, yeah, maybe only 0.7 of ultimate team players got this messy, right? Because they have all the stats. That's a true stat. I don't, I don't think that is an incorrect stat. I just think that they're using an incorrect representation to put this stat out, but they don't want to make it seem like this didn't make that big of an impact, which we all know it did, right? I would have granted, I would be, I would be pretty accurate, I think to say that on the game on Tuesday, when that player pick was released or Wednesday, whenever it was, I would have to say that maybe I think 30% of all active ultimate team users were on in that timeframe. But those are the people that we match up with in Weekend League and Division Rivals. And that's why we're still going to see messy semi often in Weekend League and all those different game modes is because the people that are the hard cores that are you watching this video, like it is tough to grasp how massive the casual user base is that these people probably had no idea that this whole messy thing even went on. They barely even knew that messy team of the year was in packs, right? So that's just kind of, kind of to put it in perspective, 0.7% seems so small, but it's actually a lot bigger than that because I think included in this player pool of ultimate team players would be people that like haven't logged onto the game since the beginning of the year. Or you know, maybe they started a second or third account. If maybe you guys have two or three accounts like that counts as a separate player potentially. So that's why I think this stat is a little bit skewed for the actual impact to the game. But that's the stat that they put out. They said we understand this is called frustration. We apologize and appreciate your patience. We have explored several scenarios for how to proceed in a way that is both fair and would preserve long term game health, AKA making more FC points, money from that. We can confirm the following. Players who completed this SBC while it was available will keep their rewards. Never doubted that. We talked about that.  The SBC will not be returning as originally designed. That's the last bullet point. Those are the two things that they are doing going forward. We know this is not a perfect solution. We will continue examining our processes with the aim of minimizing such issues in the future. Okay. Yeah, guys, there's no compensation. The SBC is not coming back. And that is how it is. And to be honest, I think the only reason that they had to make this and talk about this is because the tweet that they made on their EFC direct account exploded a couple days ago. And it's messy. It's team of the year. It's a 10 million, 11 million coin now on the market card. And so I understand a lot of frustration with this, but I think in my mind after I thought about it and we talked about it on that video a couple days ago, I really just realized like, yeah, guys, we're not getting compensated for this. They're not going to give back the fodder just because it's too similar to the hero pack. And again, the fact that they even had to write that little kind of like an apology or news statement about that is only because messy is such an expensive card and it blew up on social media to be completely honest. So there's a situation there. They're probably never going to address it again. You're never going to hear about it again, but you will see probably a decent amount of team of the messy still in champs this weekend. I would be interested to know like if you kept track of all the champs games you play this weekend, like how many times you match up against messy. So it's a bummer. All right, for those of us who didn't get him or those of us who weren't on the game at the time to do that player pick sounds like we won't even get a chance to do that player pick while team of the years are still out, which is unfortunate, but it is what it is. And right around. This is the irony, guys. This is the irony with this right around the time that they tweeted that out at the same moment on ultimate team. Things are just not going well for them right now, guys. The mistakes are rolling because they accidentally dropped one of the road to the final cards that supposed to not be in packs yet. It's kind of like the Christian Erickson situation. Remember back, I think a FIFA 22 or something like that. Maybe it was last year. It was foot fantasy Christian Erickson. If you had his gold card in the club, his gold card all of a sudden turned into the new promo card that was supposed to come out the next day. That is exactly what has happened with Nathan Tella. His 74 rated silver cards getting a plus 12 upgrade, a card that's going to come back into packs today. But people who had that silver card in their clubs checked in the last couple of hours and looked and it all of a sudden morphed into this one. And now this one is on the market selling for about 50,000 coins. He lazy sales great, as you can just see. I bought the card, two of them because I saw one sell for like 80 K and I was like, you know what, I'm going to list this guy up on the market because like right now he's not on foot bin. He is not rare at all. Think about it, a 74 or 64 rated silver card, 74 rated silver card. He's going to have a lot of supply. A lot of people are going to have him in their club. But I bought two of them now for 50,000 coins, listed them at 70 K and I got lazy sales both times. Probably not going to buy him again because to me this is like a 20 or a 30,000 coin card, even though it is live and updating. So make sure you check your club because that's the news. I did not have one in my club unfortunately and it even sounds like not everybody's was upgraded to that version. But also you might see this picture of Tella going around. This is actually somebody who had an evolution version of Tella. It automatically got a plus 12 rating boost because it was in somebody's club, right? So everybody who had the silver one got plus 12, right? And it's the road to the final now, the one that you see here in game. But there was some guy that had an EVO version of him and now he's got a 98 rated Tella card in his ultimate team. So that's crazy. This card is not obtainable. But this one is on the market in it should not be because yeah, he's not supposed to be on the market right now because he's not supposed to be impacts until today at 6 p.m. content. So guys, again, the mistakes are rolling like crazy right now. Again, I'm not going to buy this card anymore. I got my two I made 20k basically on two of those cards. I'm going to take my profit and move on from there. That card to me should be cheaper than that. Even though Leverkusen are absolutely cooking and do have a chance to win Europa League. Let's look at road to the final today, right? Today. Last call for team of the year, which actually for the video, let's open a pack because I'm going to get on stream hopefully early today and keep ripping through some packs. If any of you guys from the stream know who Eddie is, if I say the name Eddie, one of the mods in the stream, he packed Hansen tonight from one of these premium upgrades. So it's not over until it's over. And I did vow yesterday in the video and on stream that I would open the 500,000 coin pack with coins today. If I did not pack a team of the year up until the content drop. And as of right now, I have not packed anything else yesterday. I did pack Trent right after the stream ended. So I do have a Trent Alexander Arnold now in my club. That is another honorable mention that I have, but no other blues I even took the counter off the screen for now other than Millie Bright. So I'm hoping to pack one more and we'll open that big pack today right before road to the final if we don't get one. So link to the stream is down below in the description. We're going to be crafting packs for last chance send. But with the cards that are coming in a pack today, is it worth saving any packs for? Here's the full team. It's been leaked. We saw a couple of leaks yesterday. Man, I know these stats are a prediction guys. But even after seeing that Nathan Tella card that has been dropped in the game, did they have the exact same stats as Nathan Tella actually in the game? Is there a little bit of a, do they know the stats of these guys? No, they had different stats for Tella than what is actually on the card. They're close, but not quite. Okay, like guys, we got Leal, we got Jesus, Pedri, Cruz, Anzu, Fatih, Lindsay, Horan. That's going to be a nice card. Darla Nunez is maybe one of the biggest names in this promo team. Lukaku, Donoruma, Emerson, Bayi. You got Zambol and Guisa. That's going to be a cracked card. He's always good. He had a road to the knockouts last year though. So it feels a little bit of like a copy paste. This promo team looks just okay. And again, these are live cards, right? That's the biggest thing. As we looked at it yesterday, these are live cards that do have the chance to upgrade, but they won't upgrade probably for about three, two and a half three weeks when you had the first games of the knockout rounds, the first legs of those first games as well. That counts for their first upgrade, but they're alive. And again, guys, we just think that they're going to be one playstyle plus, because a playstyle plus is one of the added benefits and one of the upgrade features as they progress down the line. And if their team keeps winning in each of the different competitions. So yeah, guys, it kind of looks, it kind of just looks average, right? Now you might be like, Nate, is this a one week promo or a two week promo? That is still unknown. I'm leaning towards one week promo, but I could see it being either either way. The only reason why I'm leaning towards that is all the big clubs are represented in this picture.  We're talking Champions League teams. There's only two massive clubs that are missing from at least the Champions League. And that is Manchester City, which we had a later leak on for Gavardeol. He had a radioactive card a couple of weeks ago. Looks like he's getting a live item wrote to the final Gavardeol, Prem Centerback. That could be a nice card for sure. So that's coming as a road to the final card, but there's no Bayern player. And I think there's got to be a Bayern player in this promo team. So unless they end up splitting this up into two different teams, which would, in my opinion, even make it more of an L unless they're going to give us more conference league, Europa League or women's players, because right now we have two conferencing cards like we can do a little better than that. Yeah, my opinion. And even with like one, two, three, four, five, six Europa League, we can do a little bit better than that as well, in my opinion. So I hope it's two weeks. Well, I kind of don't hope it is two weeks. Well, as well because of how this looks and how hype it looks doesn't look that amazing, right? I would rather future stars coming around kind of like we talked about yesterday, but we'll just have to see what other content comes out around this. Guys, what's going to be a real big question today is I know I have a duplicate. So I'll quick sell this one card here. I don't like to do this, but I'll quick sell this one card here as it's one non rare to go to the store. The packway today is going to be really, really intriguing. I mean, it's almost like guaranteed that you're going to see these cards on the market more, of course, than the team of the years. But all these packs expire today. There are a couple of new packs in the code. Remember the 83 times 50 pack that was supposed to contain three guaranteed honorable mentions. Well, there's another 83 times 50 pack that was added to the code that is like road to the final specific that could be coming out this weekend. But I have to imagine that, you know, you're going to see a higher percentage than like 3% or 2% on all these road to the knockout cards. It's actually probably going to be annoying to check pack percentages because you're going to have pack percentages listed for each of the different item types. But you're going to see a lot of more of them on the market. The only thing that I don't know about is like how many hacks are actually going to be open today if you think about it, right? Are the car designs in here? Okay, road to the knockouts? No, they're not even in here. Road to the final now there's no road to the final because they would be under this tab for you waifo or UCL road to the final. So they're not even in the game yet, which is interesting. But I just can't imagine that a ton of people are opening lightning rounds or look at this team and like, yo, I gotta have these cards, especially after opening packs all week for like to pass two weeks with team of the year being out in such the pack grind that it is. So these cards might end up being a little expensive today. Or they could end up being decently cheap, just because the pack weight could be turned up. And that will be interesting to watch. So maybe some of the top tier cards really expensive though, just because a lot of the top tier cards in team of the year are expensive. So we'll have to see. Now SBCs, we do have two SBC players that are leaked, one of which is going to come today in my opinion. Lautaro Martinez, I would think they would want to start off on a Friday with a Champions League player SBC. He is a leaked SBC, of course, representing Inter. Decent card could be pretty good. I mean, they need to give him a solid upgrade though. I don't know does his base gold card have a play style plus? I mean, if you're Argentinian, this is a must do for sure. But for me, Lautaro Martinez, I don't know, he's sometimes a really good, a really good card in this game. He's got an 89 rated informants four star, four star, no play style plus. Man, he needs a big play style revamp. He's got Trivella. He's got technical. He is controlled five foot nine with I mean, really solid dribbling, really good shooting and really good physical. So this could be a nice card. As long as it's cheap, maybe they give him like, I doubt they give him a skills or a week foot upgrade though, because again, that's part of the whole progression into the card getting upgraded for Champions League. So probably going to be small upgrade for that. It's going to be 90 rated like the picture shows. Hopefully it's cheap then for sure, especially because it's a live card. You hope that it gets upgrades. The other SBC is maybe even more exciting David Neres. And there is his card in an inform earlier on this year, that actually during the other UCL promo, if you remember the DeMaria card that came out, the David Neres inform was extinct forever. And he's actually so rare on this game. I just searched his card. He only has like less than one page on the entire market. But this card early game was absolutely cracked. He's got base five star skills. He can play right side and the center attacking mid. It's his dribbling and wow, all those play styles finesse power shot flair tricks their technical rapid Trivella, sorry, not rapid quick step and Trivella. I mean, this could be a this could be a banger card really could be hopefully he is around 87 rated whenever he drops, whether it is today or whether it is on the weekend. So I think there might even be more hype for this SBC than there would be for the Altar Martinez. But one of those two is going to be coming today for sure. And then also I would reach into the objectives part of the game and say that we're probably getting a new objective today because the year in review is going away as well. If you guys wanted to get this done, it is going to be going away today. So we'll probably have something in here. Actually, I think almost all of these except for the team of your champs bonus and the team of the year Cup are going to be going away, at least for those that are team of the year related. Oh, yeah. Was this a part of like EA saying sorry for the whole messy situation? They dropped a random bonus objective that you can play one match in any alternate team game mode to get 500 XP and a lone team of the year player pick? I don't know if this is a whole part of like the sorry situation of the whole team of your messy fiasco, but they dropped a random bonus objective. So war compensation from EA, I guess is what we'll say on that. The only other thing that I think we could see today that actually might be earlier on in the day is loudly get player the month. This was our week and ultimate team tweet that EA put out. I don't even think I've seen a leak on who is going to be the loudly get player the month, but that SPC could be coming out today as well, probably an hour or two hours before content. So watch out for that one right there.  And there is an evil that is leaked right now. First thing I want to draw your attention to is the skill moves training. This evils going away. I actually need to play a couple games really fast because I'm in the process of putting Jesus Ferreira into it. I need to play two rivals or champs games so that I can complete this evil, put him into the skill move and get him from two star to three star, which is still not great, but it's an upgrade. We are probably getting an evil today. I just don't know what it is. If it's going to be related to road to the final somehow, I doubt they're going to have a special design for this promo. We had a team of year design specifically, and they like to go one promo on one promo off with like the special designs. It seems so if we don't have a promo design for this one, we might just have a regular evil or it could be related to heroes, which is what the leak is a hero striker evolution is set to come to ultimate team soon. And I think whoever has the leaks about this knows who's going to be in it because a guy like Tevez and Aloe Weyren absolutely soared yesterday from 80,000 coins up to 120 K. And now he's back down. He was just 100 K again. And now he's going back up to like 113. I think Aloe Weyren as well with the striker secondary position on his card, 46 K man, Aloe Weyren just is not the same as he was earlier. Wow, wait, he's back down again. He was 41 and he's back down to 46 after being 75 K. That card is undoubtedly going to rise in the high begin today. If he actually fits that evil, that's crazy. I don't know if he does or not, but that's pretty well. It'd be wild as well. If Tevez fits the evil. So maybe you keep a look at these cards today and watch them. But all the hero and the icon evils that we've had this year have not been that good. So I wouldn't be expecting of the evil today if it is related to the heroes to be that crazy. So unless there's something else that gets leaked or that gets put out there, you know, just keeping on these cards, but I don't think they're going to move too crazy much unless the evil is actually really cracked. Now I want to talk about market too, because all the stuff we're talking about today, just I keep using the word mid or keep using the word L, right? Yeah, that's kind of how it feels this whole last week apart from all of the news and everything, right? It just seems kind of mid, but it's actually meant really good things for the market.  Just do the easy work on the market and the easy work on the market today is going to be hopefully watching these team of your honorable mentioned cards go out of packs and rise, right? I would focus on cards like Musiala, Kane, trans already back up a little bit starting to rise, Bernardo, Kim and Jay, the rare ones. I think the rare ones are going to do the best. They'll have the biggest rises maybe today. I'm still holding on to all the honorable mentioned cards that I have bought. But the easy work on the market today is going to be finding four or five cards from older promo teams, getting on bids, especially if there's like, let's say the Lautaro drops out today. Maybe you look at more like serial related cards or maybe some Argentinian cards from recent promo teams like Winter Wild Cards, the versus Fire and Ice. Guys, getting on bids for these, whatever, whatever budget you're in. We got cards here that are, you know, 100K, 40,000 coins for LAMPTY, 200K for an Adiemi. We've got 400,000 coin Renato Sanchez. You know, we've got 100,000 coin Courtois. We've got cards in the millions. Get on bids because these cards, again, if the content is going to be just OK and in mid, there might be a couple of drops around the content drop as people see something new that comes out, like if Lautaro comes out, you know, strikers could dip a little bit, watch a DiBala. If Nara is where to come out, maybe this Raphinha would drop, right? A Brazilian right wing with five star skills, even though it's not as good of links potentially. Maybe he's got a better play style plus that could make his card drop that sort of thing. But just get on bids, these cards today because they're in demand. They're rare. People have coins, obviously look at the prices of team of years. Finally, Jude Bellingham is up 700,000 coins, right? Waited ages for that card to go up after some of you guys wanted to buy it for your team. And the team of the year is now like, but it's just between like six or seven million coins, something bananas. This messy is 1.8 that is crazy. Yeah, just get on bids guys bids for literally anything out of packs that is a popular player, popular card, it will should do good today because the market just does not seem like there's a whole lot of panic on it. And a lot of people.  The fact that it's been such a grindy game over the past 43 K for Alawarin, I'm going to pick that up. Such a grindy game with the upgrade packs and stuff people are used to being on. And I think that that'll show on the market this weekend and we could have a nice little market lift off. So we're going to be streaming live today, trying to pack a team in the year one last attempt at doing so. And let's end with a pack. Guys, I will say don't sleep on these 81 plus doubles. They're not amazing, but sometimes sometimes they hit. Alright, sometimes they hit. So we're going to keep ripping up great today. If you're excited for the promo today, drop a thumbs up on it on the video. 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My name is Emily. Thank you for joining me for some gentle chair yoga. I'm in Burlington, Vermont and I'd like to share with you some movement that you can connect with your breath to hopefully find just a little more relaxation or a little inner peace. When I say gentle chair yoga we'll go about 25-30 minutes and we're connecting our breathing to our movement and I would say it's acceptable or appropriate for all scale levels and all bodies. With that said, all of the movements that I suggest are suggestions so please move with what feels best for you and your body. If something doesn't feel good if it doesn't sound safe definitely refrain from doing it and just focus on your breath and what's best for you. Now for chair yoga let's talk a little bit about our setup. So I've got a full new chair and any chair will do. I recommend a chair without arms so that you have full range of motion without being blocked. Now in my case I'm on the small side I'm under 5 feet tall and so when I'm sitting in the chair I can't sit back and have my back resting against the chair without my feet coming off the ground. So I might need some props to help bring the floor up to me. So in this case I've got a couple options. If you have yoga blocks yoga blocks work great for putting them under your feet. If you don't have yoga blocks a folding up towel or a folding up blanket. So then that way you can place them under your feet bringing the floor up slightly trying to find a 90 degree angle with the ability to sit comfortably back with your back against the chair. Now if you also have another blanket or towel I would suggest grabbing that because we might need it for the end for Shavasana for our resting time. Also it's a great prop so if we're coming down forward but it feels difficult to hinge at the hips that can help bolster you and support your body so you're not coming down quite as far. Now if you're on the other end and you're on the tall side maybe you find that you can't comfortably sit because your knees are coming up higher than 90 degrees right? So in that case you can take a blanket or a towel to put it on the chair to bring your hips up. So the goal is to sit comfortably for your body.  Feet, ankles are parallel legs are parallel. They're about shoulder width apart Now also if you find that this feels unstable or you feel like you might fall out of your chair feel free to bring your feet forward even more so that your feet aren't in front of your knees and perhaps that will provide the stability that feels best for your body. Now for music if you feel that there's some music that you would like to play that would help you relax a little more feel free to play it. Now for the moment let's get our bodies comfortable first we'll get started with just some centering and setting our intention then we'll get into the body do a little movement starting up moving down and then we'll start working on some flow so really focusing on linking our breath to our movement. Afterwards we'll move into Shavasana which is the resting pose or corpse pose and then in that case you may want a blanket or a towel to relax your neck lastly I'd love to share with you a mudra for finding some peace so if you are all set let's get our knees in the proper position our feet are parallel back as comfortably against the chair paying attention to the shoulders trying to relax them down and bringing your attention into your surroundings while collar over walls do you hear any sounds around you now if it feels comfortable gently bring your eyes to a close focusing on our breathing so this particular breath we'll try to find balance through inhaling and exhaling for an equal length of time so on the inhale we'll breathe in through the nose out through the mouth perhaps holding the inhale for 3 seconds and exhaling for 3 seconds perhaps 2 seconds however long whatever feels good for you so let's try one together and then we'll breathe on our arm for a few moments so inhale going at your own pace focusing on your breathing in your own body and perhaps thoughts are flitting through your mind that's absolutely normal and absolutely alright let's acknowledge these thoughts and try to come back to your breath inhaling together so feel free to bring your body back to a normal eyes are still gently closed breathing finding some extension through your spine so perhaps your back is coming off the back of your chair imagine there's a cord extending through the ground of your head to the sky pulling you up now if you find your chin is coming up drop it just a few inches so that it's parallel with the ground though for today's intention I'd like to invite more peace into my life recently I find there are so many uncontrollable variables happening around me and the thing that I can control is just myself and my inner being, my inner storm so hopefully through connecting our breath and our body we can find a little more peace if you feel comfortable let's bring the eyes feel free to close your eyes feel free to wiggle if you need to feel free to stand up if you feel like you've been sitting too long remember this is your practice so do what's best for you so let's get started just with movement bring it down and move into some salutation inhale arms coming up over the head just relax in the shoulders hands are open hands can touch we'll bring in the arms as high as it's comfortable for you exhale arms coming down so we'll inhale coming up exhale coming down inhale coming up now on the exhale I'm going to go to one side so option one slightly bending to one side option two hands are touching option three perhaps grasping a wrist option four feel free to grab your chair so whatever's feeling good for you and your body now let's breathe here and exhale deepening it pose one more inhale and exhale let's release inhale bring both hands up and exhale opposite hand coming down excuse me let's reset inhale coming up and exhale bring the body to the side so again we have option one option two option three or option four so we're inhaling finding some length exhaling sinking into the bones inhaling and exhaling let's release inhaling both hands up and exhale coming down so inhaling shoulder circles back moving down let's inhale and then exhale hands can come to your hips to your knees or even to the chair for a little cat pose so on the inhale we'll open through the shoulders arching through the spine bellies coming forward moving away from the back of the chair on the exhale rounding the back pushing into the back of the chair if you find that it's impeding your movement feel free to shift your body forward a little bit as long as you're feeling stable so inhaling opening through the chest coming forward and on the exhale pushing your back the back of the chair head coming forward into a letter C inhaling opening letter C last one from here going to scooch forward in my chair making sure I still have stability here dropping a foot opening up the stance now what we're doing here is opening through the hips into a goddess pose so again we find whatever feels good for you so maybe you're here maybe you want to pass it's completely up to you and you can do the arm movements we'll find our leg stance and then the arms come to a 90 degree angle so when we move into goddess pose we'll inhale finding length and then on the exhale we want to turn with our torso now sometimes people might be inclined to just turn at the shoulders and so you'll see that I look like I'm turning a lot more but then my torso is not even engaged so let's try that together so legs are open to whatever position is comfortable for you arms come up into a 90 degree angle let's inhale trying to draw your belly in and then on the exhale moving with your belly button inhale here holding it and exhale releasing it so let's do that on the other side let's get our arms up into a 90 degree angle we'll inhale finding some length exhale tightening our belly rotating at the belly button so here let's inhale in and then onwards feel free to push your body back into your chair bringing our blocks for blanket to reset it's a neutral position 90 degree angle through your legs knees and ankles parallel and let's work a little bit on our ankles so perhaps you angle your blanket or push your blocks forward and we're going to bring some movement into our ankle so on the inhale raising our toes to the sky exhale bringing our toes to the ground so inhaling here option 2 if you'd like to float your heel feel free you can support yourself under your thigh and then inhaling here exhaling here option 3 supporting your ankle excuse me supporting your thigh on your chair and then rising your ankle lifting your ankle inhale toes coming up exhale inhale come on inhale exhale if you're floating drop your heel onto the ground and then let's do some ankle circles in opposite direction now what we do on one side we must do on the other so let's reset and then opposite foot trying to straighten it out the best to your ability whatever feels good for your body so option 1 heel is on the ground inhaling toes up exhaling pointing inhaling option 2 perhaps you're supporting yourself option 3 thigh supported by the chair floating your toes now let's drop our heel on the exhale legs still extended ankle circles on one side circles on the other side so let's reset coming fast to our parallel position getting ready for some sun sanitation so feel free to push your back into your chair for extra support making sure that you have a blanket available so when you're bending over you can catch your chest alright so we're going to link our movement with our breath so inhale hands float up exhale down now inhale hands floating up exhale hands coming down and we're going to hinge at the hips and bend forward so if you'd like to grab a blanket and put it in your lap feel free to do so so perhaps you're just bending forward a few inches you prefer not to have a blanket and are hinging at the hips ultimately you just want to get more movement through here hinging through the hips and in the end relaxing the neck let's inhale looking up and exhale sinking deeper down inhale here and gently bring your body to an upright position inhale hands coming up exhale coming down you have a bolster blanket in your lap that's quite alright you can drop it or even keep it in your lap moving into cat and cow hands can be on your knees on your thighs on your chair inhaling opening through the shoulders and exhaling rounding your back feel free to switch forward if you need to inhale opening exhale inhale exhale coming to a neutral position so let's do that one more time without any interruptions so inhale exhale getting ready to come down relaxing the neck inhale looking up exhale relaxing further into the pose inhale bringing the body slowly up exhale coming to neutral position inhale arms come up exhale hands come to hips or chair inhale opening inhale and exhale now let's inhale coming to a neutral position inhale and exhaling so with the length breath and the movement perhaps we got our body temperature up but we're going to bring it back down with a resting pose called Shavasana if you feel comfortable here if you feel like you'd like to lay down feel free to lay down if you put a blanket under your knees and under your head for a little support or if you'd like to stay in your chair and grab your blanket and if it feels good, if it's not too hot, if you feel like it's giving you good support feel free to put it around your shoulders just for a little neck support so for Shavasana we're bringing our breath and our awareness feel free to gently close your eyes, deepening your breath perhaps inhaling through the nose feet are parallel as you can. Each inhale you're bringing energy up through the bottom of your feet extending through your body up to the top of your head and then exhaling releasing any tension so imagine inhaling through your body and exhaling feel free to connect this idea and this breath with individual body parts perhaps on an inhale you'd like to bring your attention to your ankles then release any tension from your ankles perhaps to your knees taking a moment to breathe and slow down connecting with your breath finding peace within into your chest, your neck, your shoulders or a few moments let's bring movement back to our body and wiggle in the tones taking a moment gently bring your inhale free to drop your blanket if you'd like I'd love to show you a mantra to connect with Amudra Amudra is our hand movements that correspond to your body so a very common one is when your hands are resting on your lap and you bring your thumb to your pointer finger through here what I'd like to do is we'll focus on this Amudra and then also connecting our thumb to our other fingers so if our palms are pointing towards the sky inhale and on the exhale thinking peace begins with me so for peace the thumb meets the pointer begins thumb meets the middle finger with thumb meets the ring finger me so let's try that together if it feels good we'll inhale so I'll let you try that on your own and if you'd like to close your eyes feel free whatever's comfortable for you inhaling palms are open and feel free to move through it a few more breaths at your own pace now feel free to your knees or your thighs when you're breathing back to normal you'd like to open your eyes let's inhale hands coming up over the head and feel free to bring your hands together over the top and in front of your heart may you move with joy, happiness and peace namaste thank you for joining me for some yoga