J. Brown Yoga Thoughts
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J. Brown Yoga Thoughts
The Blogcast. Celebrating 10 years of 800 words per month, written and now read aloud by J. Brown, influential independent yoga teacher at the forefront of the slow yoga renaissance. J navigates coming into his adulthood alongside yoga becoming mainstream and ends up leading the way in what is at on...
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EP95 To Sell a Center
After nine years of owning and operating a yoga center in one of the most popular neighborhoods on the planet, I was approached by a broker inquiring...
EP94 Strung Out in the Attention Economy
Something has happened to the way I see myself in relationship to time, and the amount of life that is being spent behind a screen. For a while, I had...
EP93 My Body is Not a Machine
In the post-lineage void of the current yoga scene, conversations around safety and improving the quality of yoga teacher-training often turn to biome...
EP92 I Love Yoga and Hate Everything About It
Pop culture continues to enjoy a glossy-eyed love affair with yoga. But many long-time practitioners and professionals are discovering that, somewhere...
EP91 Yoga Journal Exit Stage Right
Yoga Journal has announced that it is doing a "reset" on all of its annual conferences. There will be no more Yoga Journal Conferences for the rest of...
EP90 Another Yoga Center Closing
It’s official. I will be closing my yoga center down at the end of this year. The hipster pond that I once helped homestead a decade ago has come to a...
EP89 Getting Off the Crack
For a long time, I relished the way I could “crack” my back and neck. Just the right turn of my torso would send a ripple of clicks and releases along...
EP88 Keep On Rockin' in the Real World
I grew up in the eighties. My folks moved from NY to Los Angeles and settled into the comfort of a big house, two-car garage, and three kids. We were...
EP87 I Teach Yoga
A number of long-time yoga teachers are deciding to stop referring to what they teach as yoga. In the past, the term yoga represented a freedom to exp...
EP86 Yoga and the New Discipline
The novelty of yoga has been worn down to almost nothing by a multi-billion dollar industry that cares little for its tenets, like the crumbling shred...
EP85 Abundance Mentality and Yoga Careers
Continuing education for yoga teachers is in high demand since the proliferation of yoga teacher training certification has reached epic proportions....
EP84 Incredible Shrinking Yoga Class
In the last twenty years, yoga in the west has gone from a guru-driven model to a market-driven model. Decisions still often come from atop a pyramid....
EP83 Yoga's Marginal Utility
Among longtime yoga professionals, there are some well-kept secrets. The reasons for these truths to remain unspoken are rooted in protecting both per...
EP82 Midlife Yoga Crisis
Coming of age in the yoga profession means facing changing realities and shifting priorities. The majority of yoga teachers start out in the professio...
EP81 Is That Your Male Privilege Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?
A confluence of conversations has emerged in the yoga world regarding purpose, safety, and abuse of power. The politics involved are playing themselve...
EP80 Get Your Yoga Out of My Asana
For many, it is has become important to distinguish between “asana,” or the performing of postures, and yoga. Both those who are inclined towards yoga...
EP79 Your Yoga Teacher is Now a Brand
Economic trends and the evolution of social media have led to a shift in the way yoga is being effectively marketed. The old model of packaging and se...
EP78 Empowerment Lost
When circumstances, ruled by forces beyond the will of one individual, overshadow our personal experience of life, unconscious resentment and fear run...
EP77 Establishment Politics in Yoga
Last month, the Yoga Alliance announced a new policy regarding “yoga therapy terminology” that creates a significant new precedent. A lack of any publ...
EP76 Riddle Me Some Reality
Expanding the definition of reality beyond the usual time, money and politics is generally considered naive or delusional. Aspects of life that are im...
EP75 I Am Not This Phone
Now that the information superhighway is such a ubiquitous part of our lives, repercussions must be reckoned with. In this time of smartphones and big...
EP74 The Year Yoga Came Home to Roost
For the modern yoga world, 2015 was a time of reckoning. The veneer of yoga lifestyle branding dulled further and the un-photoshopped belly continued...
EP73 Despite it All, I'm OK
Recent events and the turn of season have landed on many like a celestial wet blanket, casting a hue of funk and resignation. Even just a quick glance...
EP72 Am I Misappropriating Yoga?
The continued rise of Instagram-influenced yoga has led to a new wave of criticism among East-Indians and academics alike. Accusations of cultural app...
EP71 Mega Yoga
Once heralded and esteemed, yoga conferences have lost much of their appeal as livelier yoga festivals have come into emergence and birthed new forms...
EP70 Yoga Center Expiry
The unforgiving trajectory of real estate markets poses the greatest challenge for independent yoga centers. In order to survive, smaller centers need...
EP69 Yoga Extremism
Polarization seems rampant across all sectors of modern life. Debates on money, politics, religion, and even yoga, readily devolve into diametrically...
EP68 Pros and Cons of Yoga Teacher Training
Yoga teachers don't really make a living off teaching yoga classes anymore. Many rely upon conducting yoga teacher training. But contrary to popular b...
EP67 Hustle, Unplug, Repeat
Statistics show that Americans are working harder, for longer hours, and are more productive than ever. Yet, few are getting ahead and most are gratef...
EP66 Yoga is Not Stretching
The ubiquitous trope that “yoga is stretching” is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of both yoga and human anatomy. Now that scientific research...
EP65 Slow Yoga Revolution
On the outskirts of the last decade, a small and humble minority has been pushing back against the pumped up power craze that swept through the nineti...
EP64 Brogis Need to Recognize
Given the patriarchal history of yoga and society, the predominance of women in yoga classes and the marketing efforts to entice men is not only profo...
EP63 Yoga Teacher As Friend
The traditional roles of yoga teacher and student have collapsed under the weight of cultural appropriation, capitalism, and scandal. In the aftermath...
EP62 Can We Make Things Better?
Transformation is a catchword in yoga circles. Wanting to see things change, both personally and societally, is often what motivates people to practic...
EP61 This Life is Important
Life is difficult to discern. The mix of wonder and suffering is confusing. And there is so much put upon us, shaping our thinking and experiences. It...
EP60 What Now Yoga Alliance?
News that the saving grace CEO of the Yoga Alliance, Richard Karpel, is leaving after only two years was met with little more than a collective: “what...
EP59 Where Community is Found
In the new connection economy, community is an invaluable asset. When people identify with a particular set of motivating ideas, those inclinations ca...
EP58 Yoga is Not Hard
When I meet someone who is new to yoga and they learn that I am a teacher, they always say the same thing: "I went to a yoga class and it was really h...
EP57 King and Queen of Yoga Dethroned
Perhaps the most questionable convention in yoga practice is the assertion that headstand and shoulderstand are the “king and queen of asana.” Deeply...
EP56 Unimposing Yoga
In the pursuit of health through yoga, the challenge is often more about shifting ingrained sensibilities than addressing physical limitations. Attem...