4.4 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Reika Shucart, host of the Full-Time Yoga Teacher Podcast, talks with J about what has become of studio culture and the realities of the profession in 2025. They discuss the differences between Japanese and American cultures, international development and volunteer tourism, teaching 28-30 classes/week, benefiting from online training, earning more money and ethical conflicts, mirrors, vegetarianism, less yoga specific offerings, lifestyle and identity, ashtanga active series, and getting outside the box to witness and inspire students.
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0:00.0 | All right, somehow, some way, here we are. |
0:17.5 | This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. |
0:20.6 | My name is Jay Brown. Whether yous podcast. My name is Jay Brown, |
0:22.5 | whether you are a first-time listener or a returning friend. |
0:26.8 | Let me welcome you and express my gratitude. |
0:29.9 | I so appreciate that you would give us a listen. |
0:34.6 | I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed in the last few weeks old patterns coming back round again. |
0:45.9 | I think I was talking about this last week or the week before. |
0:48.4 | I was talking about pain patterns in my body coming back around again. |
0:53.2 | But I'm also talking about like other kinds of patterns, just thought patterns and even |
0:58.6 | situational life patterns maybe. |
1:02.8 | Like even right now in this moment, it is really late at night and the podcast has to go out in just a little while and I'm |
1:13.2 | making this happen at the last minute, which was a very common thing years ago. Longtime |
1:22.5 | listeners might remember the late night ranting intros hours before the podcast would go out. |
1:30.2 | But these days that's not really how I roll with the show. |
1:33.5 | You know, I've got things dialed in way more than that. |
1:37.3 | It just so happened that this weekend, it didn't work out as planned. |
1:42.3 | I drove back from the Berkshire Mountains today from the Berkshire |
1:47.9 | Yoga Festival. And I had thought that I would maybe record while I was there or maybe in the |
1:54.8 | car on the way home. I thought maybe I could do that, but that did not work. And it's a longer story than is worth telling right now, but here I am, |
2:05.8 | like old times late at night, trying to make this happen, and I'm totally spent. And, you know, |
2:15.0 | I'm not going to say much about the festival right now. |
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