Carol Horton - "Grounded Hope in Authoritarian Times"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

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

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🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Carol Horton, author of 21st Century Yoga and Yoga PhD, returns to the show to provide a sober analysis of authoritarianism on both sides of the political aisle and perspective on the choices we all are facing. They discuss the erosion of dialogue and debate among online yoga communities and beyond, the politics and social mores that are fueling the polarization we are experiencing, illiberalism and decentralized authoritarianism on the left, and finding ground for wisdom and hope. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.8	Welcome and thanks to whoever you are, whether you are a first-time
0:24.8	listener today or a returning friend. I'm grateful to you for taking a moment to listen. I'm hoping that
0:36.5	I've caught you in an okay moment, because these days it's really hit or miss.
0:44.1	I could go either way.
0:47.2	We are living in particularly confusing times, and I am going to be talking about that today with my guest, Carol Horton, which I'll tell you
0:59.4	about in just a bit.
1:01.5	First, I have a correction, or maybe a retraction to make.
1:10.0	If you have listened to this show for any period of time, you have probably heard me say
1:16.2	something about yoga going from underground to mainstream.
1:23.9	And I want to officially say that it's not true. Never happened. Yoga never went mainstream.
1:34.6	And that's what my most recent blog is about. It's called yoga was never really mainstream.
1:41.4	And in order to tell you what I mean, I have to go kind of way back. You would have had to be
1:48.0	listening to this show since 2017 to remember when I was moving from Brooklyn to Pennsylvania
1:56.8	and I got this house and the kind of miracle that happened. It's a long story and I'm not going
2:04.7	to retell it now. You'll have to get a premium subscription and go back and listen to some archive
2:09.5	episodes. You can hear me talk about it when it was happening. But long story short, I wasn't
2:16.7	able to get a mortgage from the bank because after 10 years of owning a yoga center, I had successfully mitigated my tax liability enough that I didn't show enough net on my tax returns to meet the income requirement.
2:33.6	Even though I could have totally afforded the mortgage, I just, I couldn't show enough net on my tax returns to meet the income requirement. Even though I could have totally afforded the mortgage,
2:36.1	I just, I couldn't show enough net on paper.
2:40.2	Fortunately, there was a angel of a selling agent who saw me for who I was,
2:48.2	took the time to get to understand my situation, and ultimately the property
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