Ryan Cunningham - "Return of Brick-and-Mortar Yoga?"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Ryan Cunningham, co-founder of Boston Yoga Collective, returns to the show to continue an ongoing conversation with J about the evolution and future of yoga centers. They discuss meeting each other at the tail end of the traveling circuit heyday, economics of operating an independent center, changes in the market and studio culture, landlords and leases, importance of physical spaces post-pandemic, influence of the person at the top, pedagogical models and meditation, and the possibility of still making it work against all odds.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, Jay here. We've heard you. Money is tight, time is tight. We're all feeling the squeeze.
0:07.7	That's why we've got a lot of new offerings beginning now and in the next few months to fit any budget and schedule.
0:15.0	But you have to go to my website or be on my email list to hear about them because we don't use social media and we want to
0:22.8	keep the podcast as free from promotions as possible. It's all at jbrownyoga.com. That's jbrownyoga.com. All right, here we are.
0:45.9	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:49.1	My name is Jay Brown, and you are, whoever you are, listening.
0:59.4	Thank you for that for being you and choosing to listen.
1:08.2	Welcome if you're new and everybody else, what's up? How are we doing? If you were here last week, then you know I was away from home. I was at my in-laws place
1:12.5	in Virginia for our annual late summer visit. And then you also know that I broke from my usual
1:21.5	protocol and spent some solo time pontificating on the economics of yoga centers,
1:29.7	I was a little bit apprehensive about whether or not that was a good idea,
1:33.1	but it seems like I definitely hit a nerve
1:36.2	because a slew of emails came in,
1:40.8	and many of those emails were from long-time listeners.
1:45.5	And when a long-time listener, someone who's been here since the beginning says,
1:49.5	I have to take some time out of my day to write to Jay about the episode,
1:55.9	it means a lot.
1:57.6	It seems like many of us have been thinking or feeling about these things in a
2:05.9	similar way. And there does seem to be some kind of shifting happening, some kind of tectonic
2:14.5	shifting happening. Very interesting.
2:18.3	Thank you to everybody who did take a moment to reach out.
2:21.9	Even those of you didn't, if you just listened and thought about it, thanks to you as well.
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