Accessible Yoga Podcast with Bill Brown

Listen as Accessible Yoga Founder, Jivana interviews our Executive Director Bill Brown.

You can find the full episode and transcript here: https://conference.accessibleyoga.org/podcasts/accessible-yoga-podcast/episodes/2147632112

In this episode, Jivana and Bill discuss:

• Bill’s background and personal interests
• How Bill started his yoga practice
• How Bill ended up volunteering teaching in prison
• Childhood trauma
• How trauma is stored in the body
• What teaching in prison is like
• Society failing to care for people
• COVID disrupting Prison Yoga Project’s work
• The business back end for people who want to teach yoga in prisons
• Yoga as shamanistic soul retrieval and relationship building
• Accessible Yoga Training
• Prison and disenfranchised people
• Bill’s experience facilitating classes
• Supporting students with grounding and emotional release
• Subtlety in yoga practice
• Hierarchy and empowerment
• Neuroscience perspective
• Letting go of fear and moving into love and connection