49 min listen
Rama Jyoti Vernon - "Great-Grandmother of American Yoga"
Rama Jyoti Vernon - "Great-Grandmother of American Yoga"
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Mar 4, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Rama Jyoti Vernon, one of the first yoga teachers in the United States, talks with J about her pivotal role in bringing yoga to the west. They discuss the LA yoga scene in the 1940’s and 1950’s, meeting BKS Iyengar and hosting him in America, founding both Unity in Yoga and the California Yoga Teachers Association which led to the creation of the Yoga Alliance and Yoga Journal Magazine, her reasons for avoiding the commercial aspects, and her laments and hopes for the direction of yoga. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft and RopaNa CBD.
Released:
Mar 4, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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