Combine Internal Animation and External

I hope this isnt a repeat but Ive searched the forum and it dosnt seem to have been addressed.
What Ive been trying to acheive is a pose ball that contains a home done animation and a directive to trigger and KEEP an internal animation such as "express_open_mouth"

I see it done so often but cant seem to get the 2 combined..any tips or suggestions would be HIGHLY appreciated!
Thanx!

I'll send you the one I used to keep eyes closed in a vampire sleep animation. Essentially, you need to insert a timer that keeps starting the emote animation. The trigger in mine is the sit, but you could do an on touch trigger or some other trigger.

Renee this works PERFECTLY!
Thank you so much!!!!!!
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