Kari Harendorf - "Not the Same Yoga We Were Doing in the 90's"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Kari Harendorf, co-founder of Better Yoga, talks with J about reviving old models with new eyes. They discuss the East Village NYC scene in the early aughts, her dog Charlie, longevity of boutique studios, teaching anatomy for Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee, Kripalu going from ashram to for-profit, the moment when the world fell apart, getting the hang of zoom yoga, Ayurveda schooling, downsides to digital technology, productive rest, becoming a better listener, elusive truth, and holding it all with the preciousness life deserves.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are.
0:13.1	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.3	My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.0	For anyone who is listening for the first time today. Let me welcome you.
0:22.7	To all the rest of y'all, what's up? How is everyone doing? Thank you so much for putting some
0:32.5	attention here. It's no small thing and I really appreciate it. If you were listening last week, I was talking about the pressures of life bearing down
0:43.3	on me and feeling like a lot of other people in my life were also experiencing some
0:49.2	difficulties and it's amazing how sitting here now exactly a week later,
0:56.1	I don't feel that same sense of weight all on my shoulders.
1:02.2	And it didn't take that much for it to turn around.
1:05.3	There was like a hurdle that I was needing to get over,
1:08.7	and I wasn't sure whether I was going to get over it,
1:10.9	and an unexpected thing happened that allowed me to get over it.
1:16.0	And, you know, there's another hurdle right up ahead that I can see,
1:19.6	but at least I just made it over that one, you know, and I've got like a little room to run.
1:26.2	You know, that's really so funny that I'm using hurdle analogies right now because when I was a
1:34.3	freshman in high school, I ran track.
1:37.4	It's the only time in my life I ever ran track.
1:40.9	When I was in middle school and high school, I was a drama kid.
2:00.8	But as a freshman in high school, I was track. When I was in middle school in high school, I was a drama kid. But as a freshman in high school, I was required to take a PE class in this one period, six period, whatever. I ran track when I was a freshman in high school. And I ran 440 hurdles. And I wasn't terrible, but I wasn't great.
2:05.1	And I ran in a bunch of races, but I always came in fourth.
2:11.0	So I wasn't last, but I didn't come in the first three.
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