Divya Kohli - "A Midlife Crisis of Yoga"
J. Brown Yoga Talks
J. Brown
4.4 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Divya Kohli, author of Finding Peace in Difficult Times: grounding techniques for inner calm, returns to talk with J about the post-pandemic crossroads that many yoga teachers are facing. They discuss the halcyon days of wholly committed teachers, maturation in parallel with the evolution of modern yoga, organic communities, sweet spots and scalability, wanting in person vs actually showing up, class issues in marketing, inverting the pyramid of priorities, and countering a dystopian future with the power of shared ritual and intention.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Welcome to you. If you're new today, everyone else, what's going on? How are we feeling today? |
| 0:27.6 | I suppose that depends on at what point in time you are listening to this. |
| 0:35.4 | If it is some point in the future, |
| 0:38.7 | and you're listening back to this episode, |
| 0:42.7 | who knows when, how many years or days or weeks in advance that I'm recording is, |
| 0:50.4 | then maybe it's just like a snapshot as to what was going on with me at this time in the past. |
| 1:02.9 | But if you're listening to it within a reasonable amount of time of this moment that I'm recording, |
| 1:09.6 | like if you're listening to the day that this publishes, which will be tomorrow, |
| 1:12.7 | or even in the next few days of this week of its initial publication, |
| 1:17.9 | or maybe even within a few weeks, |
| 1:23.1 | then it might be that checking in with how I'm feeling right now |
| 1:30.5 | and inviting whoever's listening to do it |
| 1:32.1 | could actually lead to maybe a sense of what's going on in like the zeitgeist of things. |
| 1:42.3 | And I think all the stuff I've done in the past with my blog writing and with this |
| 1:47.6 | podcast has often been about that. |
| 1:50.8 | I've talked about this lots of times, how because I made yoga a primary focus of my life |
| 1:59.5 | at this crucial time in my early 20s |
| 2:03.9 | and I've just stuck with it ever since. |
| 2:08.2 | My whole coming into my adulthood |
| 2:10.6 | has been interwoven |
| 2:13.4 | with the trajectory of the modern yoga world in a way. |
| 2:21.8 | And I think that through reflecting upon things in my blog writing and the conversations |
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