Noah Mazé - "Downturns and Ambiguities in Yoga Profession"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Noah Mazé, founder of The Mazé Method, talks with J about the stark realities that yoga professionals are facing. They discuss the "ecosystem" of the yoga world before lockdowns, Yoga Journal conferences and Wanderlust festivals, shortening of classes and workshops, going from DVD's to online with Yogaglo, impact of subscription-based services, intellectual property, sustainability of teacher training and the studio model, integration and strength instead of pushing the envelope, and finding meaning in uncertainty.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are. Here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
0:19.3	If this is your first time listening to the show today, let me welcome you.
0:24.2	Everyone else, what's up?
0:27.3	How was your week?
0:29.4	Sure went by fast, didn't it?
0:32.1	I think we are in a full-on time warp these days.
0:36.8	And I don't know about anyone else, but
0:39.0	I am still sitting with all of the same
0:42.6	difficult and unanswered questions that I was talking about last week.
0:47.2	Sitting here now, they all continue to remain unanswered and difficult.
0:54.0	Seems to me that for many of us, there is a dawning and stark recognition that this is it,
1:05.6	that this is as much as we're going to see of a comeback in the yoga world.
1:10.7	I remember when we were in lockdown
1:13.1	and I was discussing on the show about how
1:17.9	we weren't going to go back to doing what we were before the pandemic,
1:21.7	that there was no way to go back to what it was before.
1:25.2	We all sort of intuitively knew that this was going to be like a new
1:29.7	normal. But I think somewhere inside of me, I still was having hope that there was going to be
1:38.9	some amount more than we've seen of a resurgence, that it was going to come back more than it has.
1:47.2	And honestly, if you're someone who wasn't making your living teaching yoga classes,
1:52.9	or if you were just someone right now even who, I imagine a lot of you are still going to
1:57.7	classes at your local center.
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