Jana Long - "History of Blacks and Yoga in the U.S."

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

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🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Jana Long, director of Power of One Yoga Center and co-founder of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance, talks with J about the history of yoga in the black community. They discuss the earliest influencers of yoga in Black America, the expressions found in black art and spiritual life, Jana’s many years of self-directed practice before discovering other black teachers and receiving training, her experiences in Africa and ashram life in India, why she started BYTA, and the universal threads that unite and transform. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft.

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0:00.0	Have you ever been to upstate New York? It's quite beautiful. Specifically, the Omega Institute in
0:10.2	Rinebeck, New York. Have you heard of it? It's a pretty great place, and I'm going to be there,
0:16.3	June 16th to 21st. It's a pretty significant gig for me. I used to teach there years ago as a core
0:23.7	faculty teacher, but this is a catalog gig. And it's a really great place. It's been a long time
0:29.0	since I've been there. And I think it would be a pretty cool opportunity for us to hang out
0:34.5	and to study some yoga together. So if you want to do that, come join me.
0:40.4	I'm going to be at the Omega Institute in Ryan Beck, New York, June 16th through the 21st.
0:45.1	I just want to let you know.
0:47.0	You can find out about it at jbrownjoga.com. Okay, so that time.
1:03.0	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
1:06.1	My name is Jay Brown.
1:07.9	As always, if you're new, welcome.
1:10.1	And if you're returning, thanks.
1:13.2	How is everyone? How did the last week go for you? I hope it went better for you than mine
1:20.1	when. Honestly, I had a really crappy-ass week. Life presented me with a bunch of curveballs and my yogic facilities
1:34.7	were deeply challenged. It was like so much that I want to talk about right now that I would
1:42.5	like to just vent about. But honestly, today's talk about right now that I would like to just vent about.
1:51.7	But honestly, today's talk with Jan Along, it's an important talk.
1:57.3	And I don't want to let my personal crap be a distraction.
2:05.7	It would feel too indulgent. And longtime listeners know, I don't usually let that stop me. I remember when I had Judith Hansen Lasseter on, if you go back and listen to that
2:13.5	episode, when it came time to record the intro for that talk, I was just so dealing with
2:21.4	important stuff and I just couldn't help myself and I did this whole thing in the intro.
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