Justine Wiltshire Cohen - "Down Under School of Yoga Boston"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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After a snarky post from J referencing an article in Yoga Journal about Down Under School of Yoga in Boston making yoga teachers employees vs independent contractors, the owner, Justine Wiltshire Cohen, joins in this conversation to clarify and make her positions clear on the issues. They discuss the origins of the center, its growth, the reasons for non-compete clauses, intellectual property rights, pay scales, and the problem with attempting to present black and white solutions to nuanced and varied challenges.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:11.1	Here we are again.
0:13.6	If you're new, let me welcome you.
0:17.1	If you are a returning listener, what's up?
0:22.2	This is Yoga Talks podcast.
0:24.8	My name is Jay Brown.
0:27.7	It's nice to be here to sit down to try to talk to you for a minute before today's podcast.
0:36.7	I am recording at an unusual time.
0:41.7	Last two weeks, I was right up against the wire.
0:44.9	I was scrambling to make this happen just in time to get it out to you.
0:49.0	So this week I was determined not to put myself in that position.
0:55.2	First, I tried to just go back to my old routine,
1:00.2	which is after I teach my Friday night class,
1:03.0	I sit and do a little recording for the podcast next week.
1:07.0	But last night when I went to do it, it didn't work.
1:12.7	Like, I was just too spent and too tired.
1:16.5	And, like, I sat down and I hit record and I started talking, and it just sucked.
1:23.4	It wasn't good.
1:24.8	And I have to say, that has never happened before.
1:27.7	In the two years that I've been doing this podcast,
1:30.6	I've never had it happen where I sit down to record for the podcast
1:35.3	and I don't succeed in recording and I just end up giving up,
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