Jahnavi (Claire) Missingham - "Holding True to What You Know"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Jahnavi (Claire) Missingham talks with J about living a life and having a profession in yoga. They discuss being raised by a devout Sufi and going by different names, NY from 1997-2005, music in classes, Sean Corn, Jivamukti training at Omega Institute, Peter Rizzo, teachers being placed on pedestals, HOME Wellness opening up in London, Kundalini yoga with Guru Jagat, Yogaglo, DVD's and Yoga Journal, intellectual property and protecting integrity, utilizing technology, devotion and Hinduism, and finding our way back to who we really are inside.

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0:00.0	All right. I just hit record. You just hit play. And here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
0:22.1	If anybody listening is new round here,
0:25.4	then me welcome you.
0:26.9	Everybody else.
0:28.7	What's up?
0:30.8	How's everybody doing?
0:32.7	Did you have an okay week?
0:34.9	Because I don't know about anybody else.
0:38.4	Life felt kind of hard this week, I have to admit.
0:42.2	It's not like anything in particular happened, like a particularly tragic thing in per se,
0:50.5	but in general, once again, it feels like the weight of things is starting to feel like
0:59.6	a little too much to bear. And I felt myself at moments wavering in terms of just my feeling of
1:07.6	okayness and that everything is going to be fine. You know, there's times when I feel
1:14.9	very much at peace. I have a lot of contentment in my life, even when there's challenges. And I generally
1:22.4	have found a sense of self and purpose that I can rely upon and is usually there.
1:29.5	And still, there are times when it wavers.
1:36.3	And I've been talking about for the last few weeks how things have been coming around again,
1:41.2	old patterns in lots of different ways.
1:43.7	And maybe this is one of those.
1:45.0	Maybe this is one of those old patterns where I feel unsettled in a certain way.
1:52.2	Part of it is that it is exactly a year ago that I decided to open a yoga center and launched a fundraising campaign that made it possible,
2:05.5	I'm going to give more of a report about where things are with the yoga center
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