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Yoga teacher and writer J. Brown is leading the way in the Slow Yoga Revolution, advocating for more intimate, breath-centered, therapeutic yoga practices. J interviews guests from old-school yoga teachers to other yoga revolutionists about philosophy, spirituality, and the business of yoga.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A reflective yoga interview show about practice, teaching, studio life, pain, faith, and keeping meaning inside a changing industry.
J. Brown Yoga Talks belongs in Health & Fitness, close to the point where yoga practice becomes a working life. In the sampled episodes, Jay Brown uses relaxed interviews to stay with the parts of yoga that rarely fit cleanly into technique talk: studio survival, boutique…
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A grounded talk about yoga studios, rent, and the pressure to make practice fit real life.
Jay Brown keeps coming back to a simple problem: how do yoga spaces stay rooted while everything around them shifts? He and Jahnavi (Claire) Missingham move from Tri Yoga history to reopening, teaching, and the work of building a team around a new Home spot.
Yoga history and the economics of keeping a practice alive.
Jay Brown opens the show from his attic in Easton, Pennsylvania, thanks listeners, and lets the summer heat and fireflies outside hang in the air before the conversation settles into the uneasy economics of being a yoga teacher.
A direct look at yoga lineage, fees, and the pressure on center culture.
Jay Brown opens with a plain question: what does it take to keep a yoga center alive? The conversation does not stay on the spiritual side for long.
A plainspoken look at how a yoga teaching career changes when the business side stops cooperating.
Jay Brown keeps the focus on the parts of a yoga career that rarely get polished over: closing a dedicated center after it stopped paying its way, patching together lecturing work, teaching in Malta and at Rambert, and then stepping back before the pandemic pushed everything…
A plainspoken look at how yoga teaching and community kept going as the studio model thinned out.
Jay Brown Yoga Talks keeps the focus on the everyday mechanics of yoga work: where teachers land, how communities hold together, and why the studio setup can feel fragile.
A grounded look at yoga hero worship, aging teachers, and the status games around the practice.
Jay Brown's conversation reads like a clear look at what yoga culture rewards and what it asks people to carry. He speaks from lived experience, including turning 53 and spending decades as a yoga teacher, which keeps the tone grounded instead of polished.
A live yoga-world conversation about career paths, training levels, and the practical realities of staying in the work.
Recorded at the Berkshire Yoga Festival, this conversation has Andrew Tanner laying out the American Yoga Council and making a practical case for yoga as a career, not just a certificate stack.
A yoga conversation that folds politics, discipline, and everyday philosophy into one thread.
Jay Brown keeps the focus on yoga as something lived, not packaged, and that gives the conversation its strength. Reggie Hubbard is most engaging when he talks about the dark night of the soul, the rules he set for himself, and the way a first Saturday flow class opened the…
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