Scott Johnson - "Stillpoint Yoga London"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

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

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Scott Johnson, founder of Stillpoint Yoga London, joins J for a continuation of the friendship and conversation that started between them when they met in London a few months earlier. They discuss Scott’s former life as an electrician, the importance of family, the motivations for his yoga and center, his relationship to the Astanga Yoga Tradition and feelings about the current crisis the community is facing. They also talk about low-overhead business models and finding shared or alternative spaces. This episode is brought to you by Yogaanatomy.net.

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0:00.0	All right. We're back. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.2	How is everybody? I hope you had a good week. I'm sure you can hear from the tone of my voice already that I'm in a much more relaxed place this week than when I was speaking to you last week. I got a bunch of emails from you guys asking me, what are you talking about, man?
0:41.0	I was awful cryptic, wasn't I, in those intros and outros. Well, a lot's happened, and I definitely
0:48.7	feel more at liberty to speak freely this week than I did last.
1:02.6	First, let me just explain a little bit about the next couple of podcasts, because last week's podcast with Kino, today's podcast with Scott, next week's podcast with Sarai, Harvey
1:10.4	Smith, and then maybe even one more. We have to see,
1:14.6	but there might be one more after. All of these podcasts are sort of turning into a bit of a series.
1:20.5	And I didn't really plan for that. It just sort of happened accidentally. You see, those of you
1:26.5	have been listening for some months might recall that
1:30.1	whenever I've had somebody on the podcast who mentions to me that they met Potabi
1:37.7	Joyce or studied with Potabi Joyce, I have always been asking them. So what do you think about the recent revelations of sexual abuse by Potabi Joyce?
1:48.9	And then I let them say whatever they want to say, and then we kind of move on.
1:53.1	And I haven't like been pressing people or asking any hard questions.
1:57.9	And some of the people I was talking to, they weren't really like inside the
2:02.4	Estanga yoga community necessarily, except for Richard Freeman, who I think I was just like a
2:09.1	little star studded and just it was a little while back and I just didn't know as much as I know now
2:15.2	and I softballed him and that And that was the criticisms I got.
2:21.0	People I really respect said, Jay, if you're going to bring this up and you're going to ask about
2:26.1	Potabi Joyce, you can't just softball and let everybody off the hook. Like, this is like a serious issue,
2:32.3	and you've got to discuss it seriously.
2:39.3	You can't just be like all buddy-buddy when you're talking about tough things like this.
2:44.8	And I felt shitty about that, and I felt ill-equipped.
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