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J. Brown Yoga Talks

Andrew Tanner - "Cults, Industry, and Future Prospects"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4696 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Andrew Tanner returns unbound to talk with J about his experience of escaping a yoga cult and shaping the yoga industry. They discuss the life changing moment with his father that led to his commitment to Dahn Yoga, the history and philosophies of Korean Taoist traditions, what went wrong and why he left, scaling the business side, working for Kripalu and Yoga Alliance, what happened with the standards review project, problems with the status quo, and meeting the challenge of our times by keeping soul in the game.

 

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0:00.0

All right. Here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Welcome to you if you're new everybody else what's up

0:21.6

how's everybody doing

0:23.4

how's your ship

0:26.3

sailing today

0:27.9

does it feel like

0:29.6

smooth waters

0:31.2

or is it choppy

0:33.5

and

0:33.9

the bearings are off

0:36.4

how are your bearings?

0:38.1

Do you know which way you're going?

0:41.0

Regardless, I appreciate that you've taken a moment to tune in.

0:47.8

I want to thank everyone who reached out recently

0:53.4

and sent me a note with thoughtful comments about my recent conversations

1:00.3

around God and stuff.

1:03.2

I really appreciate it.

1:05.2

It does feel like it's been a vulnerable place to try to talk about these things.

1:13.2

And so having some of you reach out of all kinds of persuasions and different views.

1:19.3

It's not like everybody kind of sees things from the same place or has like a same angle and what they're saying,

1:25.4

but everybody is thinking about it in ways that

1:28.9

seems to me to be valuable, that people are thinking about things in ways that are fruitful

1:35.5

to them and are opening up things in them. And I really want for that, and that's what I'm

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