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AI Kills The Studio Star? A discussion of yoga, tech, and AI starring J Brown.
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What is the impact AI and tech have had, and are going to have on teaching yoga?
J Brown and I have thoughts.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
*I do think we need to pay homage to some of the old ways, even as we adapt to new tech. When yoga, as an industry, sort of came of age in the 90s, we were using old shoe boxes, tissue boxes, or cigar boxes to store our money. And there is something to that model, even if some of that “something” was a bunch of yoga studios evading taxes. We certainly were running businesses that were using a significantly smaller amount of tech.
I also feel a bit of nostalgia for those days. I remember walking up 48 stairs in a 200-year-old building to get to a class where we wrote our names on a sign-in sheet that also served as a waiver. Which is to say, we’ve come a long way, baby.
* Interactive engagement with other humans matters. It also improves our yoga teaching skills and teaches us how to navigate all kinds of humans skillfully. However, since the majority of us are one human show as far as our business is concerned, tech can help us lead capture and navigate competition against major corporations who run chain studios like Yoga6 and CorePower.
*One of the best points here is that if you use tech or not, there needs to be boundaries around it. Are you using it to help fundraise, like I did? Are you using it to replace the discomfort of not being proficient at a thing? What your intentions are for use is a great, deeper inquiry here.
*The struggle matters for the professional experience!! OMGI could not agree with this thought J has more. Some initial struggle is SO useful for developing proficiency as a teacher. You will hear an interview in this series with Justin DeAngleo, who talks a lot about how he uses tech as a springboard for ideas. Like a conversation starter, so to speak. But it is up to us to interpret the ideas a develop them as human beings. And in this process…sometimes a little bit of discomfort is necessary.
*Turning off all the spigots is such good business advice. Stop all the flow and then turn each stream on one by one until you figure out what makes an actual difference and do a whole lot more of that.
*What a great question here–is there a point of diminishing return? At what point is the tech that once helped us hindering us? This is a great add-on question to our AI and Tech series discussion guide that you can find in our show notes.
*Do you believe that the inevitable progression of AI and tech is that we will need to opt in to more tracking? The tracking conversation is always an interesting one, as it seems like we are already tracked via our cell phones for most things. Is that okay with you? It is in antithesis to the liberation practice of yoga?
And finally, two other industry points of inquiry for you to end this conversation.
What are your thoughts on online training vs. in-person training? At least one org has decided that an all-online asynchronous training has the same weight as an all in-person training. Do you agree with this? Is there nuance here?
Which also begs the follow up question, should our orgs have industry standards and guidelines for how we use AI and tech in our industry–or is this something we all need to figure out for ourselves?
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