J sits down with the former manager of BackBay Yoga Boston, Ryan Cunningham, to discuss how he got to yoga, became the manager of BackBay, and the surprising announcement that Yoga Works bought the center three days before J got there to teach workshops. They also discuss yoga teacher training and the dawning realities that independent yoga teachers and centers are facing.

J talks with Richard Karpel about his brief tenure as the President and CEO of the Yoga Alliance. They discuss the circumstances surrounding his hiring, limitations in not-for-profit structures, working with boards of directors, the need for ‘radical transparency’, and the ‘yoga of bureaucracy’. J also shares an example of how yoga is applied in his personal life, and comes clean on his ambivalence regarding the Yoga Alliance.

Distinguished yoga teacher and movement expert Amy Matthews and J talk about their dance, theater and movement roots, shared history, and ongoing evolution as yoga teachers. Amy gives background and insight into the field of somatics and they engage in spirited debate on subtle points of disagreement, exploring the relationship between our movement and practice patterns and how we are in the world.

J. talks with his producer, friend, and long-time student, Josh Sitron. Perhaps better known as the composer for Dora the Explorer, Josh, a self-described 'manic NY Jew', talks about how he came to do yoga back in 1993, how he found his way to J's yoga class and their re-acquaintance years later which led to producing J's yoga video and now podcast. Josh shares how yoga helped his struggles with depression, anger, and his wife's cancer.