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J. Brown Yoga Talks

Andrew Tanner - "Live from BYF2025, American Yoga Council"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4696 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Tanner, founder of the Berkshire Yoga Festival and the American Yoga Council, talks with J live from the Berkshire Yoga Festival 2025 about the launch of his new project to advance the profession of yoga teaching. They discuss the long history of standards and trade organizations, core values of AYC, retirement funds, standards and a new system, proficiency-based education, incentive structures and career paths, differentiation, public benefit corporations, technology and growth, and focusing on helping yoga teachers make a living.

 

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0:00.0

All right. I just hit record. You just hit play. And here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.

0:21.5

If this happens to be your first time here, let me welcome you.

0:25.9

Everyone else.

0:27.5

What's up?

0:29.1

I hope this moment is finding you reasonably well.

0:34.6

If you were here last week, then you might recall I was talking about things coming round again.

0:42.9

And that is certainly true for us today here on the show.

0:47.5

This time last year, I attended the inaugural Berkshire Yoga Festival,

0:55.9

and I recorded a podcast from there.

0:58.7

And the topic of that conversation had a lot to do with people wanting to come back together

1:05.4

and what the state of like in-person events like yoga festivals was.

1:10.0

And there was a real feeling at the festival of excitement

1:13.9

because it was a super fun time, and people showed up,

1:18.4

and we had a yoga festival, which just hadn't happened in a lot of years.

1:23.3

Well, a few weeks ago, I attended the second annual Berkshire Yoga Festival, and I once again

1:30.8

recorded a podcast at the festival, which you're going to listen to today.

1:35.8

This time, it was with the founder of the festival, Andrew Tanner, who has been on the show

1:41.6

a number of times before.

1:49.3

But this time he and I discussed not so much the yoga festival as a new project that he started called the American Yoga Council.

1:56.1

And I don't want to give too much away because Andrew and I talk about it,

1:59.9

but for years,

2:02.8

Andrew's been coming on this show to talk initially about the yoga alliance and aspects of

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