Julie Smerdon - "The Great Experiment"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Julie Smerdon, founder of Shri Yoga, talks with J about the golden times for the yoga profession and the challenges it now faces. They discuss Julie's early formative health challenges, her transition from fitness to yoga, becoming a teacher and moving from the US to Australia, opening a center and building a community, having to close during the pandemic, pros and cons of doing teacher trainings, online vs in-person teaching, and finding out if it’s possible to make a living teaching without a center? This episode is sponsored by Moonclerk.

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0:00.0	All right, let's do it.
0:13.3	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.8	My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.7	If you happen to be someone who is listening to the show for the first time,
0:22.6	I want to say welcome to you.
0:25.3	Everyone else, what's up?
0:29.1	How are we doing?
0:31.9	If you have been around of late,
0:36.0	you know, I have been off of my normal routines.
0:39.8	And this week is no exception.
0:42.9	I am recording this so much earlier in the week than I ever normally would.
0:49.9	And that is because I am going to be away this weekend.
0:54.0	I am going on be away this weekend.
0:57.8	I am going on a family camping trip.
0:59.7	That's right.
1:02.3	A family camping trip.
1:16.4	And weeks ago, when my wife came to me and she told me that several other families in our friend group were all planning to do this camping trip together and they wanted to know if we wanted to join them. My initial thought
1:23.5	was absolutely not.
1:30.7	Because I know nothing about camping.
1:32.8	I grew up in the suburbs.
1:34.6	I moved to a big city.
1:37.7	I know nothing about camping.
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