J. Brown, “A testament to the practice is the person it produces”

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

J. Brown is a yoga teacher, former yoga center owner, blogger, and the host of the popular podcast J. Brown Yoga Talks. On this episode, I ask J. about his yoga origin story as well as the current iteration of his yoga life -- both online and off. J. also shares how the powerful words he said to his mother toward the end of her life have had a lasting impact on who he is today and helped lead him to yoga. J.'s mother died before he graduated from high school, and what he once saw as a wound he now sees as an event that has filled him with purpose and, ultimately, gratitude. PS: J. had me on his show a few months ago, the link is on the shownotes page if you want to check it out.

Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode118

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0:00.0	Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 118 of Yoga Land.
0:08.8	Today I'm so happy to welcome Jay Brown to the podcast. You probably know Jay Brown from his yoga
0:15.8	podcast which is called Jay Brown Yoga Talks. It's been around longer than mine.
0:20.4	In fact, right before I launched my podcast I thought, hmm, I better do some
0:24.3	competitive analysis and go see if there's just tons of yoga podcasts out there. And I found
0:31.2	his and I distinctly remember really liking the sound of his voice,
0:36.8	which is always kind of a nice thing with a podcast.
0:39.4	Jay and I have become kind of internet friends.
0:41.7	It's sort of a long story, but we've never met in person, but we have a really nice bond over doing this, you know, fairly new form of media and we're both supporters and fans of each other.
0:55.9	A little bit more background about Jay.
0:58.0	He's been practicing yoga by my count from the stories that he tells for more than 20 years and he's the former owner of
1:06.2	Abiasa Yoga Center in Brooklyn. He closed that I think within the last year or two and
1:11.8	moved to Pennsylvania in a town near where I grew up.
1:15.6	You'll hear this in the interview and then he just recently opened a studio space
1:20.4	in the town where I grew up which is Allentown, Pennsylvania. So he is now teaching in
1:26.0	Allentown and living with his family in Pennsylvania. He's still traveling on the road quite a bit and
1:30.8	teaching on the weekends, but he's taken a lot of his teaching online. He does a live streaming class. He's got the podcast and then he's got a monthly subscription-based membership where you can do his video classes there.
1:45.0	One of the things I respect about Jay is that he's similar to my husband in that he's very opinionated about yoga and the evolution of yoga in the West and you know he's
1:56.9	coined his way of teaching he says gentle is the new advanced he has some frustration with how challenging it is to
2:07.4	balance the business side of yoga which obviously he lived through with you know owning a studio for as long as he did.
2:14.8	So balancing the business side and sort of giving people what they think they want
2:19.4	balanced by offering really high quality yoga at a more measured pace,
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