Bari Gratton - "Can We Shape a Better Yoga Profession?"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Bari Gratton, coauthor of an Open Letter To Yoga Alliance along with collaborators Meghan Maris, Courtney Ng, Gayatri Sehgal, and Shuo Wang, talks with J about the possibility for change in the yoga profession. They discuss the Masters of Arts in Yoga Studies program at Loyola Marymount University, problems with the Yoga Alliance and how the final project they did together came about, whether yoga teaching ought to be regulated, suggestions for reform, appropriation and racism, and engaging in good faith dialogue that respects differences.

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0:00.0	All right, it's done. I just hit record. You just hit play. Here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:22.7	My name is Jay Brown, and whoever you are,
0:25.7	whether you're new to the show today or whether you're a long-time listener,
0:30.7	welcome and thank you for being here.
0:34.3	How's your summer going?
0:36.6	It certainly is summertime, but I can't say that the living is easy as the song goes.
0:45.2	I don't really want to get into my stuff, though, today, y'all, be honest with you.
0:49.7	We're going to talk about other things today because we all have our own personal stories, right?
0:58.0	We all have our own trials and tribulations, things that are going on right now that are specific to us as individuals.
1:07.6	But then there's also the collectives that we also comprise, right?
1:15.4	And today we're going to talk about yoga professionals.
1:22.5	And it's an uncomfortable topic because whenever we talk about yoga being a profession or being an industry,
1:31.7	you know, it feels icky to those of us who have a lot of heart in it.
1:39.6	It means something really important to us on a very emotional and spiritual level. It's had this role
1:47.2	in our lives. So when it gets tainted by, you know, economic forces and things that seem to undermine
1:58.7	it, we get our backup. I have been for years since I to undermine it. We get our backup.
2:01.9	I have been for years since I started calling myself a yoga teacher and taking money for it.
2:10.2	There's always been, you know, this conversation here on this show about the profession.
2:16.3	And then that always ended up being some about yoga lines
2:19.4	because that was the trade organization for yoga teachers.
2:25.9	And I'll say more about yoga lines, perhaps on the other side.
2:30.6	I don't want to say too much right now.
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