Alex Auder - "Magu Yoga, Old-School in Philly PA"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Alex Auder, director of Magu Yoga and old friend of J, talks about her mothers' relationship to Andy Warhol, growing up in the Chelsea Hotel, NYC in the 80’s, the early formative times of Jivamukti Yoga, and the fierce determination of independent yoga center owners to make shit happen. They also compare and contrast the current landscape of social media and teacher trainings with how things were in the older days of yoga industry, and briefly discuss some presidential politics as it happened this was recorded on inauguration day.

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0:00.0	Hello there. How's it going? This is Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Welcome and thank you for listening. How was your week, everybody?
0:23.0	How you're doing?
0:25.2	Me, I'm okay.
0:28.7	I had a week of sorts.
0:39.7	Actually, this week, I came up against the limitations of a yoga teacher profession.
0:42.5	And I want to talk about it with you.
0:43.7	It's very taboo.
0:45.5	I'm really hesitant, actually.
0:49.1	I'm uncomfortable right now in this moment as I hope to begin to start to get this out of my mouth for you.
0:54.5	But the fact that I'm so uncomfortable about it is why I want to do it, because I just know
1:01.5	that there's going to be a bunch of you listening who this is going to speak to because
1:06.9	yoga teachers as a profession,
1:11.6	we still largely exist in the margins.
1:15.6	On this podcast, I've often talked about with guests
1:18.6	and in these intros about how yoga's become mainstream.
1:23.6	And in a commercial sense, from like a marketing demographic standpoint that is true you know people
1:32.7	using yoga to sell shit that's totally mainstream but the profession still as i said largely exists in the margins, in particular when it comes
1:48.0	to our tax codes. And we're getting to that time, right? It's right around tax time. And this is an
1:57.4	area where yoga teachers, we just, we don't talk about this stuff ever.
2:02.7	And most of us get all of our pay on 1099s.
2:07.2	Like in my entire adult life, I have never, ever received a W2.
2:12.9	It's never happened for me.
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