Adam Keen - "Reappraising Modern Yoga Methodology"
J. Brown Yoga Talks
J. Brown
4.4 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Adam Keen, host of the Keen on Yoga Podcast, returns to the show to revisit a conversation they started years ago about the role of teachers and teachings. They discuss recent scandals in the Ashtanga community, teaching styles and somatic dominance, origins of Ashtanga, tradition and market competition, implications of the "active series," homogenization of Mysore rooms, adjustments, hip replacement surgery, showing fallibility, and holding ourselves to account so we can provide something of meaning and purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, the button pressing has commenced. |
| 0:14.1 | And here we are. |
| 0:15.7 | This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. |
| 0:19.1 | My name is Jay Brown, and I so appreciate that you are choosing to listen. |
| 0:26.2 | Are you new to the show today? If so, let me welcome you. Everyone else, what's up? How are you? How are things with you in this moment? |
| 0:40.7 | I hope reasonably well. |
| 0:43.6 | For anyone who has been listening along |
| 0:46.7 | and hearing me speak about |
| 0:49.2 | the current state of the yoga industry |
| 0:52.6 | and sort of what seems like a very gloomy |
| 0:58.0 | portrait of the situation. |
| 1:03.3 | Well, I want to report that this week I had some realizations and minor breakthroughs regarding my own personal baggage around money and marketing. |
| 1:16.4 | And for anyone who's been listening, you know I have personal baggage around money and marketing. |
| 1:24.1 | And it came out of a comment that I received from a new friend named Karen. |
| 1:30.9 | Shout out to you, Karen. |
| 1:32.9 | She has been attending my classes and recently joined my teacher training program. |
| 1:38.3 | And we were in my weekly teacher's song a few days ago. |
| 1:42.1 | She made this comment to me. |
| 1:43.7 | She said, Jay, I feel like you have two |
| 1:46.6 | different personalities. And at first, I was very taken aback by that. I don't like the sound of that, |
| 1:53.4 | like I'm two-faced or something, but that's not what she meant. What she said was that when |
| 1:58.9 | she's taking my class and I'm leading practice and instructing people on the |
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