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 .   Matthew Remski and J have a long-standing friendship and dialogue which carries into this talk about the rapid paradigm shift taking place in the yoga world around consent and authority. They discuss Matthew's recent arti...

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 .   Sarai Harvey-Smith talks with J about becoming part of the Ashtanga Yoga community and how she is navigating her way in light of the revelations surrounding abuse by Pattabhi Jois. They discuss Sarai's process of getting...

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 .   Scott Johnson , founder of Stillpoint Yoga London , joins J for a continuation of the friendship and conversation that started between them when they met in London a few months earlier. They discuss Scott's former life as...

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 .   J interviews Kino MacGregor , founder of Miami Life Center and OMstars , about a few of the hot button topics at the forefront of yogaland. In this difficult conversation, they discuss the current situation in the Ashtang...

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 .   Tara Stiles , founder of Strala Yoga , helps J get over some of his personal baggage regarding the Industrial Yoga Complex by giving him insight into her trajectory and teaching. Tara shares the story of her humble beginn...

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 .   Peter Blackaby , author of Intelligent Yoga , talks with J about the newly revised second edition of his book and the implications it has on our ideas about yoga and ways in which we teach it. They discuss the fundamental...

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 .   Schuyler Grant , founder of Kula Yoga Project and co-creator of Wanderlust Festival , communes with J on their shared past in the early NY scene and on all that has happened since. Schuyler tells the story of her unusual...

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 .   Ana Forrest , creatrix of Forrest Yoga , and her partner Jose Calarco , join J for a discussion on their current work and some of the roads that brought them there. Jose fills J in on his role and the current incarnation...

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 .   Gernot Huber , founder of Yoga Mind Yoga Body , happened to take a few of J's live stream classes via a mutual friend and had some constructive feedback and criticism. In this talk, they discuss Gernot's background in sil...

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 .   Danny Paradise , renowned teacher and writer/co-producer of Love Will Rescue You , joins J to talk about how things have evolved from his first experiences in 1976 until the present day. They discuss the influences that 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 .   Theo Wildcroft was kind enough to let J stay with her during a recent trip to England. On their last day together, they sat down to have this conversation about different yoga cultures. They discuss how yoga happens in al...

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 .   Andrew Tanner , chief ambassador for Yoga Alliance , joins J to discuss the Standards Review Project and the recently released survey . The conversation gets a bit heated as J grapples with his YA status and what he sees...

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 .   Jonathan Sattin , founder of triyoga , sits down with J at the head offices in London to talk about how he went from holding yoga classes in his living room to creating one of the premier destinations for yoga in the UK....

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 .   Roseanne Harvey , founder of its all yoga, baby and co-editor of 21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics and Practice , is an old friend of J's from the blogosphere days who has been away from the yoga world for a time but 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 .   Richard Freeman was the person J most wanted to speak with when starting the podcast and his dream is finally realized in this conversation celebrating the 100th episode. They discuss what yoga was like in the late 60's,...

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 .   Amina Naru , board member and project manager at the Yoga Service Council , owner of Posh Yoga , talks with J about her work bringing yoga into juvenile detention centers and prisons, and the new Best Practices for Yoga i...

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 .   Tiffany Cruikshank , founder of Yoga Medicine , joins J for a discussion about her early challenges and roots into yoga and holistic healing modalities, and the process of developing her professional work as a teacher and...

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 .   J met  Maria Kirsten , founder of Yoga for Grown Ups , through mutual contacts in Japan and they kind of hit it off after discovering they share many common experiences and viewpoints in yoga. In this conversation, they c...

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 .   Rexx Anthony , founder of Rogue Ashtanga , wrote a blog post entitled "A Cautionary Tale on Operating Yoga Studios" that caught J's attention and spurred this conversation. They talk about Rexx's early adoption of Ashtang...

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 .   Seane Corn , creator of 'Off the Mat, Into the World' , joins J for a lively and wide-ranging discussion on coming into adulthood as teachers alongside yoga going mainstream. Seane talks about the early days of NY Yoga an...

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 .   Or Shahar , from freedomyoga.info , is a podcast listener with a booker who got a bit lucky and caught J in a moment that led to this candid and unexpected conversation about family, cultural divides, and the universality...

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 .   Barbara Benagh , legendary indy yoga teacher, joins J to trace the history and evolution of yoga from the 70's until the present day. They discuss her early adoption of Iyengar yoga, her progression into a more somatic ap...

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 .   Justin Mastin e, creator of YogaQuest , talks with J about bringing yoga to the geek community. They discuss what it means to be a geek, the process of embracing her inner nerd through yoga, and how she came to create a n...

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 .   Anneke Lucas , founder of Liberation Prison Yoga , returns to talk with J about her thoughts on the resurgence of the #metoo movement, the politics of power addiction, and the larger implications for the yoga world. They...

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 .   Jill Miller , creator of Yoga Tune Up® and The Roll Model Method® , talks with J eight days after receiving hip replacement surgery. They discuss their parallel journeys, Jill's decision to go under the knife, what its be...