J. Brown Yoga Talks

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Pedro Luna , creator of the Instagram account @Yogimemes , started taking J's live stream classes and it led to this conversation about Pedro's infamy on Instagram and their shared experiences trying to make a life as yog...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Karin Carlson , founder of Return Yoga , has been bringing yoga out of the studio model into underserved communities for years and, after reading a recent post she wrote about the Yoga Alliance, J reached out to work thro...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Nadiya Nottingham and J know each other from the early days of the NY yoga scene and have been friends for years but this is the first time they really have a full length conversation about ideas that are important to bot...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Shelly Prosko returns to talk with J about some difficult questions he has been grappling with. They discuss the concept of right or proper alignment, the difference between yoga therapy and yoga, changing understandings...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Carrie Owerko and J talk about her unconventional approach to teaching Iyengar Yoga and some of the pressing issues facing the community. They discuss her formative theater influences, questions about one right alignment...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Dr Loren Fishman , pioneer of integrative medicine and founder of yip.guru , talks with J about his relationship to BKS Iyengar and his published research on the treatment of many disorders, including piriformis syndrome,...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Jessie Barr and Tom O'Brien , creators of OM City , are launching a campaign to fund a second season of their show which is J's favorite ever depiction of the yoga teacher lifestyle. J gushes over how much he loved the fi...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Patti Safian and J used to run in the same circles back in the early days of the NY Yoga scene and a recent reunion at the TKV Desikachar celebration led to this conversation about her mom, her yoga, and her takeaways fro...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Philip Goldberg , author of American Veda and The Life of Yogananda , talks with J about the long arc of yogic spiritual teachings migrating into western culture, and some of the important figures and moments that have sh...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Larry Payne , founder of Prime of Life Yoga and Yoga Therapy Rx , gives J a dose of expertise and humor in this conversation about his life and career. They discuss his journey to India and the many amazing teachers he en...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Mirka Scalco Kraftsow , cofounder of the American Viniyoga Institute , brings her special brand of shakti to the podcast and talks with J about the spirit that guided her to her teachers Gary Kraftsow and TKV Desikachar,...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Gary Kraftsow , founder of the American Viniyoga Institute , author of Yoga for Wellness and Yoga for Transformation , talks with J about his precedent-setting career in yoga and yoga therapy. They discuss his relationshi...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Richard Miller , founder of iRest Yoga Nidra , co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT, talks with J about his many years of study and the work h...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   R. Sriram comes to the Unites States of America for the first time to attend a celebration of his longtime teacher T. K. V. Desikachar and sits down with J for this conversation about the man and the legacy he left the wo...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Faith Hunter , creator of Spiritually Fly , talks with J about the life events that fueled her commitment to yoga, some shared roots in NYC, and the course of her high-profile career. They discuss her early work with a na...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Jerome Armstrong , author of Calcutta Yoga , talks with J about his new book on the history of hot yoga. They discuss the largely untold story of Buddha Bose & the Yoga Family of Bishnu Ghosh and Yogananda, and how that l...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Benjamin Lorr , author of Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga , talks with J about Bikram Yoga, how it lead to writing his tell-all book on the subject, and the...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Arundhati Baitmangalkar , founder and lead teacher of Aham Yoga and Bollyworks Dance , sent J a supportive email after hearing him speak about being accused of cultural appropriation, and J remembered some blogs that Arun...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Beryl Bender Birch , author of  Power Yoga  and founder of  The Hard and the Soft Yoga Institute , joins J for a look back at the earliest remnants of yoga in the west, its progression into the mainstream, and the role sh...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Kristen Fewel , author of The Gift of Awakening and founder of Full Circle Yoga & Healing Arts , reached out to say that she was inspired by some of the talks on the podcast to transition her yoga center away from the con...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Erin Heisel is a podcast listener who reached out to J after hearing him talk about 'flow states" which led to this conversation about her research into play and its relevance to yoga and beyond. First, Erin lays out a th...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Joe Simek , co-owner of Dragonfly Yoga and co-founder of The Fiaria Project , reached out to J after hearing he was moving to PA and invited him to his studio where they started a conversation that continues in this talk....

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Cheryl Urbanczyk , yoga-teacher-in-training and regular podcast listener, sent J an email that caught his attention and prompted this talk about her faith and yoga. They discuss Cheryl's conversion from Catholicism to Isl...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Andrea Ferretti , creative director for Jason Crandall Yoga Method and host of Yogaland Podcast , joins J to talk about their common experience of being both parents and podcast hosts in the yoga world. They discuss Andre...

You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium .   Prabha Sinha , founder of the Pratyush Sinha Foundation and Lehigh Valley Yoga Festival , sits down with J to talk about her journey from India to America and the story behind the foundation and festival she has dedicated...