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J. Brown Yoga Talks

Anna Taylor - "Teaching Presence More Than Poses"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4696 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Anna Taylor, author of Weaving Mindfulness & Compassion into Yoga Teaching, talks with J about the intersection of mindfulness education and yoga. They discuss being curious about why yoga works, noticing the impact of practice, mindfulness not thoughts, doing and being, attention training, involvement of the heart, equipping people to listen, effort vs observation, failure and feeling taken care of, secular spirituality, pacing, strong flows and music, bringing ourselves into a Satvic state, and promoting values that we believe in.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, it's happened.

0:13.2

The moment in which you just hit play

0:15.6

and the moment in which I just hit record

0:18.6

has been bridged across the asynchronous universe of our digital landscape.

0:26.5

And here we are.

0:28.9

This is Jay Brown Yoga Togs podcast.

0:31.9

My name is Jay Brown, and I would like to welcome you, whoever you are, whether you're new to the show today

0:38.6

or you're an old friend. I so appreciate that you have put some attention here. Thank you so

0:46.1

much for tuning in. Maybe we would take this moment to stop what we're doing to the degree that you can and see if you can

0:58.5

notice how you're feeling. That could be physically speaking like your pain levels, or maybe that

1:08.3

could be like an emotional state that you notice

1:11.5

or even just a general mood to your day.

1:17.4

Let's see if in this moment you could notice something about how you feel.

1:25.3

And if you don't know how you feel, that is definitely okay.

1:29.6

You don't have to know.

1:31.7

It's just about asking to see if you might.

1:36.1

And I certainly hope that you're feeling reasonably well.

1:42.8

I am happy to report that in this moment, I'm feeling a little bit hopeful.

1:49.6

And frankly, that has been in short supply these days.

1:55.8

And the reason I'm feeling hopeful is because I taught some workshops this week.

2:01.5

Shout out to Kelly and Sean and all the fine folks at Indigo Yoga in Caldwell, New Jersey.

2:10.1

It was a small group of people, but it had such a great old school yoga education feeling. People came to learn. You know, I was

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