Outspoken and sometimes controversial yoga teacher and blogger J. Brown has sparked broad discussions in the yoga community via his award winning blog, known for thoughtful criticism of established ideas and heartfelt insight.
Those who frequent my class have probably never heard me mention energy or chakras. The reason being that these concepts have been so superficially disseminated into our pop culture as to render them almost entirely cliche. Yogic teachings establish that we have both a physical body and an energy body; however, the correlation between is not as linear as is generally made out to be.
Read MoreSometimes I question the merits of Yoga Journal Magazine. There are good ideas and inspirational sentiments to be found in this publication but it's difficult to separate from the not always so subtle inclination of effective advertising to exploit low self-esteem. Magazines depicting idealized notions of beauty that make us feel worse about ourselves is nothing new but ...
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Pursuing a quiet yoga revolution, based in healing, J. Brown seeks to change the dialog, and direction, of yoga practice in the west.
