![]() ![]() Not here, but.to me, yes, it's a powerful practice and it's going to be challenging for you. They think of someone doing yoga with, like, a 40-pound barbell. We're empowering you to discover the practice for yourself, and to let yourself make mistakes and to let yourself be a hot mess. And when people think "power," they think that's going to be really hard. ![]() You do not need to be flexible-inflexible people, please come! You're trying to create a balance between strength and flexibility in every pose while using breath. What we do is move to the breath, so you flow, or transition, from one pose to the next using both upper body and lower body strength. You're practicing in a room that's about 95 degrees with 40 percent humidity-the best way to describe it is you're practicing on a hot summer day. I couldn't be happier, I'm psyched.Ĭan you explain hot power yoga to someone that's never done it before? What will they be doing for an hour? ![]() Who gets that? We could have been on the third floor somewhere. And the fact that we got to be on the street level is a dream. Cobble Hill is here, Brooklyn Heights to the right, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, Park Slope-everyone can get here. It's a very funny, eclectic street, but what's nice is a) we're right next to the subway, and b) We're close enough to everywhere. ![]() What is it you love about being in Downtown Brooklyn? We signed the lease on October 9th 2014, five years from when I initially said I wanted to We talked for three hours and two weeks later, I said "I'd love for you to be the sole investor," and he agreed. He loved that I had all my ducks in a row, all this work I had already done and paid off-He was like, "Wow, she has a space already," and that worked for me when everyone told me not to. Then we met at the space, and he saw what was going on around here. And I knew-his very first email to me had a smiley face at the end. She set up an introduction, and we talked on the phone. Two weeks later, she said she might have found an investor for me. In May of 2014, my real estate agent said "I think I found a space for you," which is this space. I'll live in a studio." I had to be talked down the ledge off from there. I owned my apartment and I was like, "I'll fuckin' sell it. But I just thought, you know "Why not?" Then I met another student who helped me write my business plan, and started seeking out every different avenue for how to get money. So I started looking at spaces, and everybody thought I was crazy because I had no money. I ran into a student that used to come to my classes at Crunch, because I would tell her to come to my classes over here, and she said she could help me because she was a commercial real estate agent. The pivotal moment for me was when I was practicing at Prana in 2013. Every day I would wake up like, "What do I do to make this happen?" I pulled back and said, "I'm just going to teach in Brooklyn, I just want to build my community." It was after a lot of rejection, after trying to get into certain studios that I thought I was going to get into and it didn't work out, that I finally said, "I've gotta take the stand and do this." I had no idea how, but I just started telling everybody I knew that I was opening up a yoga studio. Then I was teaching at studios all over the city: Crunch, Pure, crazy places, just running around like a maniac. And that's when I started teaching there, from day one. So that was my dream, and after that I didn't do anything about it, because Prana, the power yoga studio, opened up on Smith Street, and I said "That's where I wanted to open!" I felt like my dream was crushed. In 2009, I was at a Baptiste training, and we were asked to close our eyes and say "Where do you see yourself in five years?" So I said "I'm going to have my own yoga studio in Brooklyn." I have a lot of heart for Brooklyn. What was the motivation behind deciding to open your own studio? I took anything I could get-make it up, teach in the park, teach to my friends. It's challenging to get a job when you don't have any experience. And then I started teaching at Yoga to the People, which is where I got my first training. I started teaching in a tiny little gym somewhere in the depths of Brooklyn because I was just desperate to teach. I had no idea how, but I just started telling everybody I knew that I was opening up a yoga studio.Īt first, it was really hard. ![]()
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