Barbara Verrochi - "Long Live The Shala NYC"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Barbara Verrochi, co-owner and director of The Shala yoga studios in Manhattan and Brooklyn, talks with J about surviving all these years and so far in the pandemic. They discuss their parallel paths through the early NY scene of the nineties, the evolution of practice over the years and the sustainability of small independent centers, what has contributed to her longevity and fortitude, managing the uncertainty of the shutdown orders, and the hope and faith that fuels a life-long passion for yoga. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft.

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0:00.0	Many of you may have seen or used my original practice videos, and I made those like seven years ago because I wanted to put out a practice that was simple and contemplative and geared towards well-being and a lessening of pain rather than the accomplishment of forms or a lot of the other
0:23.1	stuff that usually sells well. We had all these slogans, gentle as the new advanced and
0:28.2	slower is stronger and I was just putting myself out there to sell it, try to make simple,
0:34.1	sexy, you know. And I felt good about that. I feel like a lot of people have benefited
0:39.1	from those videos. But as things have evolved, I felt that there was really something missing about
0:45.8	it, something that didn't capture the essence of the practice principles that I teach,
0:51.2	which was that it was just me. You didn't get to see what it looks like in other kinds of
0:57.0	people and other expressions. So that's what we did. The new 60-minute version of the practice,
1:05.3	which we call the multi-student version, you get to see individual expressions of the same program. And it looks like what,
1:16.4	to me, like yoga looks like in like regular people. And I just, I'm very happy to finally
1:26.1	have it be available to you.
1:28.8	So it's the J. Brown Yoga Practice second edition,
1:34.0	and you can go check it out at jbrownyoga.com. Okay, here we are.
1:55.7	This is J. Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
2:02.0	Thank you to whoever you are that has chosen to listen to this.
2:08.6	I'm wondering how everyone's negotiations are going.
2:13.5	Did you decide to go to that restaurant, get takeout, or did you even try to sit, maybe outside?
2:22.0	Did you let your friend come over, even though you're not sure if they've been all that strict about their contact with others?
2:34.3	Did you let your kid play with that other kid?
2:36.5	Did you let them go inside if you did?
2:39.8	Right?
2:40.5	It's all a whole series of negotiations, isn't it?
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