Rama Jyoti Vernon - "Great-Grandmother of American Yoga"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Rama Jyoti Vernon, one of the first yoga teachers in the United States, talks with J about her pivotal role in bringing yoga to the west. They discuss the LA yoga scene in the 1940’s and 1950’s, meeting BKS Iyengar and hosting him in America, founding both Unity in Yoga and the California Yoga Teachers Association which led to the creation of the Yoga Alliance and Yoga Journal Magazine, her reasons for avoiding the commercial aspects, and her laments and hopes for the direction of yoga. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft and RopaNa CBD.

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0:00.0	On March 16th, I'm going to be in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
0:05.7	Long-time listeners might grasp the significance of this.
0:09.7	It has been a year and a half since I left.
0:13.3	And the person who bought me out of the lease there,
0:16.0	they didn't last very long, not even a year.
0:18.8	But it has since been taken over by new owners, and they extended
0:23.9	an invitation to me. So I am returning. I'm going to be doing a workshop in the afternoon from
0:30.3	2 to 4.30 p.m. That costs just a bit of money. You can register for that through my website.
0:36.6	I'm also going to be doing a live podcast recording
0:39.8	in the evening from 8 to 9.30 p.m. That's totally for free. You don't need to register. You can just
0:46.3	show up. I've got some very special guests joining me. Amy Matthews is going to be there. Sam Chase is
0:52.5	going to be there. And the audience will also have an opportunity to get in on the conversation.
0:59.4	It's going to be a very special event.
1:02.5	I'm really looking forward to it.
1:04.4	So if you're in the New York metro area or you can manage to get to the New York metro area,
1:17.5	I want to encourage you to join me Saturday, March 16th, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
1:20.5	You can find out about the workshop in the afternoon and the live podcast recording in the evening
1:23.4	by going to jbrownjoga.com.
1:36.3	Music by going to j brownyoga.com. All right, here we are. Can you believe it?
1:42.0	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
1:45.5	My name is Jay Brown.
1:47.1	If it's your first time here, let me welcome you.
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