Michael Hayes - "Larger Bodies, Inclusivity, and Perseverance"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Michael Hayes, founder of Buddha Body Yoga and an early pioneer in bringing yoga to larger bodies, talks with J about his early NY roots and the evolving conversation around how to make yoga more inclusive. They discuss Michael’s early studies in Gurdjieff and massage therapy, the process of discovering yoga that worked for him, choosing to go against the grain, some of the tools he prefers, and the perseverance and passion that fuels and sustains a lifelong inquiry into the nature of yoga. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft.

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0:00.0	All right.
0:12.1	If the sound of my voice is meeting your eardrum, then that means we are here.
0:22.5	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:26.0	My name is Jay Brown.
0:28.3	How are you?
0:29.5	How is everyone?
0:32.0	Holy shit!
0:34.7	Things have gotten progressively more crazy and more scary in the last week.
0:41.6	I mentioned that the numbers out of Italy were changing the calculus, and that has certainly
0:47.8	continued to be true. They had just a three days in a row that were apocalyptic.
0:55.9	And things are starting to ramp up here in the United States.
1:00.0	That's why New York shut down here in Pennsylvania.
1:03.8	The governor shut things down.
1:05.2	Not the full complete shutdown, but the next to full complete shutdown,
1:09.6	non-all-essential businesses.
1:12.7	Right now, the only thing that's open are supermarkets and gas stations.
1:19.3	I guess some restaurants are still doing takeout, but just today I saw reports coming from New York City and Brooklyn and it seems like they got a big search today.
1:33.8	So everybody's really on edge.
1:37.2	Here where I am in Pennsylvania, we haven't gotten hit yet.
1:43.2	I think there's been 10 cases in the entirety of Northampton County where I live.
1:49.0	But the governor has been, I think, preemptive.
1:51.5	He's had a shut down for the last week, which was even sooner than New York City.
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