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🗓️ 16 November 2015
⏱️ 49 minutes
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J sits down with the former manager of BackBay Yoga Boston, Ryan Cunningham, to discuss how he got to yoga, became the manager of BackBay, and the surprising announcement that Yoga Works bought the center three days before J got there to teach workshops. They also discuss the realities of conducting yoga teacher training, the role it plays in a yoga education, and the dawning realities that independent yoga teachers and centers are facing.
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0:00.0 | Well, hello. Welcome to Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown and it's good to be talking to you. I got to admit it. I've been looking forward to it and here I am. I got this mic. Got a little red light. And, you know, last month I had fun. I asked for some feedback. I did a little bit more talking, |
0:24.7 | not just the interview, and I got some feedback. What's interesting is that I asked for feedback |
0:32.4 | about two specific things. I asked for feedback about me talking about my wife and like, is it indulgent |
0:41.1 | for me to just like talk about myself and personal stuff and like do kind of like a monologue |
0:46.8 | kind of thing or should it just be the talks, you know? And I did get some feedback about that. |
0:52.3 | And I got some really lovely emails and I just, I'm really appreciative. |
0:56.6 | I want to give a particular shout out to one friend whose name's not in my mind right now. |
1:00.9 | I'm sorry, but she's from Australia. |
1:03.3 | And she basically was, I guess, listening to the podcast and, like, paused it after the intro. |
1:13.9 | And emailed me, like, her one daughter was at school and her other little daughter was toddling around on the floor at her feet and she just felt |
1:20.1 | like you know her and her husband were going through some similar things and she just wanted me to |
1:27.0 | know that I don't know it it made her smile and it made her feel |
1:31.6 | a little bit better about the situation and feel human. |
1:35.1 | And that's, that's it. |
1:36.8 | I love that. |
1:38.3 | And that's what it makes me happy. |
1:40.1 | And that's why I'm doing it. |
1:41.3 | And I'll do a little bit more going for it because of that because |
1:44.7 | I think that there's something to me revealing something of myself on this podcast. And I want to |
1:55.2 | say more about that later. But in any case, the other thing that I asked for feedback about, which I didn't get that much feedback |
2:03.6 | about, and I'm not surprised, is I asked about yoga lines. |
2:06.4 | Like, what should we do about yoga lines? |
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