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J. Brown Yoga Talks

Kat Rosenfield - "Politics in the Yoga Space"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4696 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Kat Rosenfield, author of No One Will Miss Her and co-host of the Feminine Chaos Podcast, talks with J about her recent article on politics in the yoga space. They discuss Kat's evolution as a freelance pop culture and political writer, her separate life in yoga practice and teaching, the merging of those worlds in her article regarding the high tension and fierce infighting in online yoga communities, broader patterns and implications around identity politics, and reserving the right to let yoga remain a more neutral ground in the culture wars.

 

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Okay, here we are.

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This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.

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My name is Jay Brown.

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Welcome to you if you're new. Everybody else, what's up?

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Thanks for listening today. How are we doing? How is everyone feeling? I am doing much better than last

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week. You can probably hear in the sound of my voice already,

0:41.3

those of you have been around long enough, you can tell I'm doing a little better than I was last week.

0:47.4

I don't really want to talk about it because I don't want to jinx nothing,

0:51.8

but we had a few positive signs and we had a little bit of relief and we really

1:00.6

needed it. So I'm grateful and thanks again to those of you who reached out. It really means so much and fills my heart when listeners take a moment to

1:16.5

reach out and express their care and support. And it really does help me emotionally and spiritually.

1:26.9

So thank you to anybody who ended up doing that last week.

1:31.8

I really appreciate it. And it's so interesting to me how when I'm not completely overwhelmed

1:40.9

by one thing or another, whether it's dealing with my daughter's situation or

1:47.5

any other number of things that might overwhelm me, how my ability to take things in is limited.

1:57.0

Kind of reminds me of how when I got sick recently and I was down in bed for that period of time

2:06.8

while I was sick, my usual pains were gone. Like I normally deal with chronic pains in my hip and

2:15.5

in my spine. But when I was sick, or even just recently dealing with some of the more extreme moments

2:21.7

with my daughter, like for periods of time, like those usual pains in my body go away because

2:28.0

I don't know, the immediate moment is overwhelming me or demanding so much of my attention that my body seems

2:36.8

to prioritize it. Like, it can only deal with so much at one time. And then, of course, when I got

2:44.0

better or now that things have eased, they come back again. They're not gone. Those pains are

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