Rexx Anthony - "Rogue Ashtanga"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Rexx Anthony, founder of Rogue Ashtanga, wrote a blog post entitled "A Cautionary Tale on Operating Yoga Studios" that caught J’s attention and spurred this conversation. They talk about Rexx’s early adoption of Ashtanga Yoga and how the system has changed over the years. They also discuss the trends and tribulations of managing a yoga center, some of the pressing issues facing the industry, the challenges that yoga teachers grapple with, and the personal and professional factors that make up a life in the grassroots world of yoga.

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0:00.0	Okay, it's time.
0:12.4	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:15.2	My name is Jay Brown, and another week has passed.
0:19.4	And we are back together again. At least that is if you are a returning
0:23.6	listener if you're new welcome to you i hope this is finding you well and that your drive or your walk
0:33.3	or your breakfast or whatever it is that you might be doing right now while you're listening to
0:38.6	this is going well. There's no problems or annoyances that maybe you're having a pleasant moment
0:48.9	right now while this is hitting your ears. That would be very nice and that is my hope to you.
0:56.7	I myself am actually just a little bit under the weather and I'm right up against it again this week. This is like
1:01.2	one of these last minute intros that I'm getting in just under the wire in time. That is because
1:07.6	like I said, I got a little bit sick a couple days ago,
1:16.1	but I got well enough to have a workshop yesterday in Doylestown, Pennsylvania,
1:17.5	at Dragonfly Yoga.
1:24.9	I want to give a big, fat shout out to Joe and Alexis and all the very fine people there.
1:32.7	It really was an enjoyable time, and felt an earnest inquiry into yoga and a shared experience that I'm very happy to have had. It dovetailed perfectly with the blog
1:41.6	post that I put out this week. It's dropping the very same day that this podcast is.
1:47.1	It's called The Future of Yoga is Small.
1:51.3	And it became encapsulated my ideas for this blog post
1:56.4	when I arrived to teach a workshop at Dragonfly Yoga in Dorostown, Pennsylvania,
2:03.5	and I had difficulty locating it initially because from the outside,
2:08.0	dragonfly yoga looks exactly like a home.
2:12.2	It doesn't look like a storefront like I had in Brooklyn.
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