Cora Wen - "The Fame Game"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Cora Wen is a name that J knew from his early remembrances of the yoga world, yet it wasn’t until this talk that he knew anything about her. They discuss Cora’s origins in yoga, the many amazing teachers that she has worked closely with over the years, and some reasons why she has maintained a slightly underground status. The conversation also tracks some yoga-going-into-the-mainstream history, some of the pitfalls and troubles that come with the territory, what things look like today and what might be warranted given the new conditions.

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0:00.0	Okay, wow. We're doing this.
0:15.0	Hello, everyone. This is Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. I want to thank you for being here and welcome you.
0:25.8	If you're new to the podcast, I want to warn you that you have chosen a particularly unusual, or maybe not so unusual for this podcast but definitely a particularly
0:41.1	charged day i am going to get to a talk that i had with cora when which is super cool but
0:50.8	before we get to that talk i have like some serious shit to unload.
0:57.8	Those of you who've been listening, you know I've been dropping hints.
1:02.4	I've been mentioning that there's things going on, but I'm not talking about it.
1:07.4	There's reasons why I wasn't talking about it, which I can explain.
1:12.4	But today I can talk about it.
1:16.0	And it's funny, now that I can talk about it, I almost feel out of loss.
1:21.2	It's like, I don't even know how to tell you.
1:23.1	I don't even know how to tell you this.
1:26.1	All right, I'll try.
1:27.2	Let's see.
1:28.3	Yesterday, I signed my name on a piece of paper and handed over some keys and got a check.
1:38.2	And then now today, for the first time in 10 years, I no longer own a yoga center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
1:48.5	I let somebody buy me out of my lease.
1:53.1	And the process of that happening has been almost as
1:59.2	unplanned and crazy as the house.
2:04.7	Those of you remember how I got the house.
2:06.6	Well, the way this has come about that I have let someone buy me out of my lease
2:14.6	and basically finished with the center like three months earlier than
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