Sarai Harvey-Smith - "Beyond Mysore and KPJAYI"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Sarai Harvey-Smith talks with J about becoming part of the Ashtanga Yoga community and how she is navigating her way in light of the revelations surrounding abuse by Pattabhi Jois. They discuss Sarai’s process of getting into yoga and becoming authorized at KPJAYI, her love of the practice and teaching, the reasons for her gradual transition away from the system, and her clear position statement and suggestions for the AY community to heal and move forward. This episode is brought to you by Yogalifestyle.com and Karmasoft.

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0:00.0	Okay.
0:10.0	Ola.
0:13.0	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.4	My name is Jay Brown,
0:18.1	coming to you from Rio de Janeiro,. How about that? And not only am I coming to you
0:27.0	from Rio de Janeiro Brazil, I am coming to you from the Copacabana. And I'm betting a bunch of you
0:35.5	just now when you heard me say the word, Copa Cabana thought of
0:40.7	Barry Manalo. Come on, I can't be the only one. At the Copa, Copacabana. Well, you know what? In my mind,
0:52.2	I always thought the Copacabana was a hotel that you stay at.
0:56.5	For some reason, in the song, it made me think that.
1:00.1	But actually, it's a neighborhood in Rio.
1:03.8	And I'm staying in the neighborhood of Copacabana.
1:09.6	And it's pretty awesome, I got to say. It's a really bizarre mix Rio.
1:15.1	It's like a beach town, which I kind of know because I grew up in Los Angeles. So I sort of know
1:20.4	the feeling of being at the beach. It's an awesome beach. Like the sand is super soft, you know?
1:26.4	And then you've also got like metropolitan city where i'm
1:31.4	walking down the street and oh it doesn't feel all that different than new york you know but then
1:37.3	you also have like rainforest the city is built in and around these mountain forest ranges. And then there's like
1:48.3	10 tunnels that get you from one part of the city to the other part of the city that run like
1:54.2	underneath these like big mountain ranges. And then on top of the tunnels, the mountain ranges is where all the favelas are the
2:03.9	ghettos that when you see in the movies i don't know if you guys say i think that movie was called
2:08.1	city of god where you you see the favelas there like these kind of like lawless neighborhoods
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