Richard Karpel - “Yoga Alliance and Bureaucracy”

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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J talks with Richard Karpel about his brief tenure as the President and CEO of the Yoga Alliance. They discuss the circumstances surrounding his hiring, limitations in not-for-profit structures, working with boards of directors, the need for ‘radical transparency’, and the ‘yoga of bureaucracy’. J also shares an example of how yoga is applied in his personal life, and comes clean on his ambivalence regarding the Yoga Alliance.

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0:00.0	Hello there. My name is Jay Brown. I want to welcome you to my Yoga Talks podcast. Whenever I start one of these, I always feel compelled to express some gratitude. I really appreciate anybody who's listening. How are you? I'm wondering about you. I'm wondering, what are you doing right now are you in your car driving
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0:32.6	you're listening to this on the down low nobody knows i don know. But I like the idea of it that there's people
0:40.7	out there and that they might be listening to this. And you're in your life and you're in whatever
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1:21.5	somebody I've known for a long time. And he used to come to my class and then he moved away
1:26.7	and I don't see him so much anymore. And he was saying that, you know, and he used to come to my class and then he moved away and i don't see him so much anymore
1:29.1	and he was saying that you know when he used to come to my class i would always talk about stuff in
1:35.5	class like the stuff that i write in my blog i've often spoken about some in my class so people
1:42.3	who come to my class regularly when they get the blog post, oh yeah, we were
1:46.8	talking about it.
1:47.7	So I work through some stuff in my mind and that ends up being like some carefully
1:53.7	constructed words.
1:55.6	But he was saying that, you know, I started this podcast and he thought, oh, I'll get
2:00.7	to hear Jay talk about stuff.
2:02.6	Like he used to talk about stuff when I was in his class.
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