Brian Cooper - "Yoga Professionals"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Brian Cooper, PhD, co-founder and director of Yoga Professionals (aka Yoga Alliance Professionals,) talks with J about raising the standards and quality of yoga teaching. They discuss Brian's background in practice, the impetus behind starting an association, why hours-based curricula are inherently flawed, necessary elements in fostering yoga education, the mainstream fantasy narrative of yoga, if mystical realms exist, and fostering yoga that is personal, transformative and maintains integrity. This episode is sponsored by Moonclerk.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are.
0:13.9	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:17.3	My name is Jay Brown.
0:19.3	Welcome to you if you're new to the show today.
0:22.9	All the rest of y'all, you know the deal.
0:26.0	What's going on?
0:27.9	How is your week?
0:30.1	Yeah?
0:31.5	That's good.
0:33.5	Me?
0:34.0	Oh, well, I had a pretty wonderful week, actually, on so many levels.
0:42.2	First, my wife and two daughters left me alone.
0:47.1	No, that's not what made it wonderful. I actually missed them quite a bit.
0:51.1	But my wife took my two daughters to my in-laws and gave me a pass.
0:56.8	She said I could stay home, mostly because I was working on a bunch of projects, like working
1:02.0	on the back fence, I'm putting up a fence in our backyard and like doing a bunch of stuff.
1:06.2	And I think she also just intuitively knew that I might really benefit from some solitude, which is very
1:15.6	rare after you become a parent. Most parents out there know what I'm talking about. You lose all of this
1:23.4	solitude time you once had because the kids just take up all the space that used to be there for that.
1:31.2	So in any case, my wife took my two daughters away,
1:34.5	and I have had the house all to myself all week long.
1:40.3	And it's such an interesting thing because recently on this show and just in general in conversation with my fellow teachers and friends,
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