Lilia Mead - “Go Yoga, Brooklyn Pioneer”

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Lilia Mead was the owner of Go Yoga in Brooklyn NY, recently closed after fifteen years of operation. J taught there as a senior teacher for seven years before he opened a center himself. They sit down together to talk over the last twenty years, just in time before Lilia’s permanent move to Los Angeles. The discussion tracks from the early nineties until today and comments on the way yoga teachers are trained, make a living, and the immense changes that have taken place affecting both. Their shared history, friendship, and love of yoga is celebrated.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Yoga Talks podcast.
0:07.0	My name's Jay Brown, and it's good to be speaking with you again so soon.
0:14.0	I'm going to have to get used to this new podcast schedule in the past.
0:19.0	I've always had a lot of time between episodes, weeks where I can get
0:24.8	feedback and think about stuff and ponder how I might want to speak before the next episode,
0:32.4	but not this week. I didn't have any time to think about it much at all. I got a little bit of feedback.
0:39.3	I got a review on iTunes. Thank you, whoever wrote that review. Really appreciate that.
0:44.9	People going on iTunes and hooking me up. Thank you. Um, but it's okay. You know, I probably said more than enough last week um and this week's talk with lilia
1:01.3	it's really it's very personal it's a special one to me because lilia is somebody who played a
1:09.8	really important role in my life.
1:13.3	And she, after 21 years living here in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, moved to Los Angeles this month.
1:23.2	And I got together with her some weeks back.
1:27.9	I got to sit down and talk over the last 20 years and really reconnect.
1:34.4	And it was really lovely.
1:36.6	And I'm just so glad we did it.
1:38.3	And it's really special to share it with you.
1:45.3	I guess there would be one thing to mention
1:48.2	and it bears relevance to what me and Lillia talk about.
1:54.8	The 2016
1:57.0	survey of the yoga industry
2:00.7	that I believe was last conducted in 2012.
2:05.5	Maybe there's one in between, but the most recent survey conducted by Yoga Alliance and Yoga Journal of the industry came out.
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