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Inside the Yoga Career: From Living Room Classes to Studio Success
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Yoga Teacher
Thinking about making a career change into the wellness world? Meet Linda Winnick—she went from a fast-paced fashion industry job to owning not one, but two successful yoga studios. In this episode, she gives us the inside scoop on what it’s really like to turn your wellness passion into a full-time career.
Linda shares honest career insights, including the nuts and bolts of running a yoga studio—think class pricing, teacher pay, and the not-so-Zen side of managing overhead costs. But what shines through most? Her love for the job and the way it’s grown with her. “I can grow old with this,” she says. “I’ll be considered wise by that point.”
Whether you’re dreaming of becoming your own boss, curious about the business side of wellness, or just exploring career options with more heart and flexibility, this episode delivers practical tips and real-deal inspiration. Namaste to that.
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What has to do with the way you move and the breathing muscle tone, but I think stress is like the hugest. Sometimes it helps people regulate sleep with their digestive disorders and so there's so much that comes from there, so it could be like weight loss weight management.
How I got started
Speaker 2Hi and welcome back to how Much Can I Make. I'm Erav Ozeri. I was always interested in the process of the entrepreneur. How do they become successful? What does it take? So today we're going to stretch into the world of yoga with Linda Winnick. She's a longtime teacher in Woodstock, new York, runs her own studio studios I should say plural and she really built her career by helping people find balance, stress-free life, healing and other great, fantastic things. But how does that translate into a paycheck? Let's find out. What does it really take to turn a yoga passion into a profession? Linda, thank you so much for doing it and giving us your time.
Speaker 2Thank, you, yaraf, first of all, so when I met you, I took classes in your studio and you had a bunch of studios. I want to know how did you get into teaching yoga to begin with?
Speaker 1I used to work in the fashion business and I worked in big design houses like Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein and Daryl Kay for about 10 years in fashion In New York City, in New York City.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1I was a mother and my son was about a year, year and a half, and I had lost one of my jobs due to downsizing, and it was a pretty miserable way. They were trying to get me to leave and I wouldn't leave. They were trying to get me to leave and I wouldn't leave, and so I'd write letters. I'd write letters to human resources all day long, and because of that they gave me a severance package. So I took that money and I invested in something really bizarre, which was a master's degree in Ayurvedic medicine and yoga philosophy, because I didn't know what to do with myself. So I tried to figure out what to do.
Speaker 1Next. I started to study herbs, herbology, started to look more into Ayurvedic medicine, because I was very intrigued not just by medicine but also by psychology. But Ayurveda and yoga resonated more because of the multidisciplinary approach to health and healing. I was looking at different programs and I found a program in Vermont called Goddard College and they had a healing and health arts interdisciplinary program, and so that's, I was able to use the money that I got from my severance package and invested in a master's degree of something that was not really a thing for a job.
Speaker 1It wasn't like a viable career at that point. It was just something I was going to study.
Speaker 2And how long was the studying. So that was about a year, and a half.
Speaker 1You studied to be a practitioner. I just studied it. I wasn't studying to be really anything, I just studied the philosophies and the medicine, and I studied with different Ayurvedic doctors. So when I did graduate I wound up going to get my yoga certification as a gift to myself. So I guess the answer would be yes, I wanted to be an Ayurvedic practitioner, but it wasn't really a job yet, so I didn't know how that would play out. And then I became a certified yoga teacher and then I wound up being more needed because up here in Woodstock there weren't any real yoga studios.
Speaker 2so there was one that started how many years did you practice yoga as a student before you became an instructor?
Speaker 1I practiced. Yeah, I started when I was 18. And so I became a teacher, I guess when I was 30.
Speaker 2Oh, so 10 to 12 years.
Speaker 1Yeah, 10 to 12 years. So I did practice it and then I also practiced other. I did martial arts for a while. So that was like also part of my story my understanding of movement. I've always been a big fan of movement and exercise, since I was probably eight years old okay.
Speaker 2So you became an instructor.
Speaker 1You got some sort of a certificate yeah, I got a certificate, and then Nanda that's what it's called.
Got my first students
Speaker 2Yeah, okay, so you got your certificate. Now how do you get your first students?
Speaker 1my first students was so from a part of my master's degree was to use ayurveda and yoga to treat addiction. So my first quote-unquote students were uh people. I worked at this rehab, I was working at first step in kingston, and so on saturday night at eight o'clock at pm I was their uh recreation. So they were basically held captive for me to teach them yoga, which was perfect, which is also part of how I teach other teachers now that you really want to start on people who really don't know yoga, so you're kind of gaining your chops, and so they didn't know any better. Most of them were highly medicated in withdrawing from drugs, so whatever I was doing, they couldn't really understand 100% either. So I was able to work out my teaching yoga, and then a yoga studio opened up, and everybody needed a yoga teacher. At this time, though there was, it wasn't like a viable income, so I would go back and forth between New York City and here.
Speaker 2So it wasn't that popular then, right, it wasn't that popular?
Speaker 1no, so I would go back to New York City and freelance. So I still almost got sucked back into the fashion business. But then by that point I was sort of the yogi, the residential yogi in the fashion company. This one was Nautica, so I would teach all the designers yoga.
Speaker 2But wait a minute. How did the recovering addicts took yoga, took to yoga? Did they like it?
Benefits of Yoga Practice
Speaker 1Some of them liked it and it didn't matter because they had to do it. I mean, I found it was going to be very useful for the recovering addict to do yoga, because you don't need it, to have any money, you don't really need much to do it, and just the profound effect that yoga has on your body, on your mind, for relaxation, for clarity. So that was the whole 225-page thesis that I wrote was on that subject matter what kind of issues yoga can solve? Well, first, the main thing is stress.
Speaker 2Really.
Speaker 1Yeah, stress is like the main thing. Well, it has to do with the way you move and the breathing, and sometimes it's like if the philosophy could sort of resonate with something that might actually bring something that you might bring home with you, so muscle tone. But I think stress is like the hugest. Sometimes it helps people regulate sleep with their digestive disorders, and so there's so much that comes from there. So it could be like weight loss, weight management. It doesn't necessarily eradicate cancer but it can accompany, like helping people feel calmer about the process of the healing. I've somehow or another specialized with people who have had joint replacements, so I have a lot of people with hips and knees. I work a lot with athletes so I'm kind of helping them balance their body off from doing their athleticism. I also became a personal trainer because I also needed more tools to help, so I'm sort of like somebody who weaves yoga and with personal training I also do sort of what would be considered physical therapy. Quote unquote stuff.
Speaker 1Whatever I've learned? Again, I keep researching and trying to find what helps my clients. I realized that a lot of people can't actually do the quote unquote textbook style yoga poses, so I've learned how to modify everything for different body types using props and chairs. I've studied a lot about bodies because that's the medium Right. As much as there's a very strong spiritual component and a mental component, the physical part is where I can destroy you if I don't know what I'm doing. So I really needed to learn about anatomy, physiology, kinesiology.
Speaker 2Wow.
Speaker 1The whole shebang, and then I also studied body works.
Speaker 2Okay, so you got the addicts as a first client. Yeah, and how did you grow from there?
Speaker 1So it was really funny. So people have these weird ways of describing the different methods of yoga, so they would call me a Hatha yoga teacher, even though I was pretty much would be considered a much more power yoga kind of a teacher. But it was great because I would start to teach, mostly like women in their 50s, and at that point I was 30. Now I'm in my 50s, so now I'm one of them. But so I learned a lot about what it was going to be like to be 50 and menopausal, and so I learned how to work on older bodies and I realized how poorly trained I was, and so I actually had to search out different teachers, and at that point I had access to more masterful teachers. So I got to study with really great teachers to learn how to sequence better, how to do more of a medicinal or therapeutic yoga, how to work with all the injuries and the ailments that all human beings have to deal with at some point of their life.
Speaker 2So when I met you, that was many years ago, you had like four or five studios in the Woodstock area, correct?
Speaker 1Yeah, isn't that crazy. Yeah, I know, because now we're sitting in my first studio, which was my living room.
Speaker 2So tell me the process. How did you grow and what did it take to grow from the living room we're sitting in to all those studios.
Speaker 1You know, it was just all I can say is I, you know, looking back, it was like whoa, because I know I had like a lot of I didn't have this like certain game plan of doing this. I basically started teaching out of my living room because I wasn't sure if I could survive as a studio, like having a rent and all that, since I was like a single mother, or how me as a teacher would actually work out. So I moved all the furniture out after working for another studio and I started with two students on a Friday morning at 9 or 9.30. And then I think people kind of thought it was kind of sweet that I was teaching out of my house. I'm not sure exactly why people started to come, but I went from one class to two classes, to three classes, to five classes and I was teaching about nine or 10, 12 classes a week myself at my little living room studio. And how many people in each class I started to grow to like 15 to 20.
Speaker 2Whoa.
Speaker 1So I kind of like people would be in my kitchen and they'd be kind of in the front porch, yeah, and I'd have had dogs and cats coming through. My cat kind of would come and poop on people's mats and my dog would steal their socks my dog, simi, and it was this it was. There was something very sweet and grassroots about it and it was an alternative, because there was a you know another studio that had been established in town.
Speaker 1It was just a different attitude, so people just felt like this was a more supportive place for their practice.
Speaker 2Because I know people love coming to your place.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm very, very happy about that because I've been able to do this for 25 years. So what happened was is that I think it was 2004,. I decided that I needed to actually have a house because this was in the middle of my house, and so I built the studio, and that was when George Bush was getting reelected. So what happened was I just remember I had this very expensive hole in the ground $100,000 hole in the ground because people were like they were terrified, they were shut down. They weren't using yoga to help calm them.
Speaker 1I just remember people in my here crying. They were just sad. There was like four of them really upset that that happened and I was like, oh no, I don't know what I'm going to do, because I wasn't sure anybody was going to practice yoga my privates I had a lot of private clients at that time and they were like, oh, I'm going to reduce it, I'm going to reduce the amount of privates. Classes got kind of quiet and I was like, okay, well, I, I guess I could still go and build the studio and rent it out as an apartment, but no, then you know, each time I have a you know, a really full class, I look around and I'm like I can't believe this is still working. It's really kind of magical 20 years later.
Speaker 2Yeah, 25 years, 25 years later.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's really, it's pretty amazing yeah yeah, I know and it's, and I still have some of the same students To get back to. How do I have so many studios? How did I have so many? Oh yeah, because I started to train teachers, because I was teaching a lot. So between the 20-something years ago I was teaching as many classes here and then I had probably 20 different privates I would teach a week. So that was like 30, 40 hours of teaching a week.
Speaker 2Wow, I was teach a week.
Speaker 1So that was like 30, 40 hours of teaching a week. Wow, I was teaching a lot. And then I was working at the Omega Institute and then they wanted me to go and teach. I was teaching on their Rhinebeck campus workshops. So I teach three to five of those a year and then they would send me off to Costa Rica or somewhere else. They had places for two minutes in Austin and I didn't have anybody to sub for me. So I started to train teachers and so because of that, I sort of I don't know if I'd call it in reverse I felt like I had to give them a place to teach.
Speaker 1I started in Saugerties and that was pretty grassroots. Also, it was a really funky. It was a funky, funky space, but it had like a New York City vibe to it. Another place I started working was in Kingston, where it was somebody else who came under the guise of being a student but he owned the shirt factory and he was like we want you to put a yoga studio here, and then it was just at that point Kingston wasn't like what it is now, so like that area was pretty not comfortable for people to be there.
Speaker 1There was like a lot of needles in the bathroom and whatnot.
Growing the business
Speaker 1I don't know if it's the same there anymore. So we were there short lived and then the mac fitness. I went from there, mac fitness, who I was, a which is a gym they the owner, he he was um reprimanding me because he thought I was training somebody in his gym which I wasn't and I was like saying I you know, I have other places I could train people. So that in that same kind of like conversation he and I were having, uh, he asked me to open a, a studio in his spot and you did and I did, I did so.
Speaker 1I had one at Mac Fitness and then I had one in Boyceville, and then from there I went to Kate and Monica's and we did the Lazy Meadow. I was teaching in a teepee.
Speaker 2Oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 1Yeah, that was fun. Teaching in a teepee is a little rough because it's hot For all their guests that came to the motel.
Speaker 2Yeah or whoever showed up. What?
Speaker 1kind of capital will it take to build a studio and grow to two or three studios in an area you know? It's such an interesting thing because the biggest expense you're going to have is rent and what your employees will cost. So like that's always going to be based on where you live, what the rents are and what level of employees you're going to be able to hire.
Speaker 2You mean the teachers, the teachers Right.
Speaker 1Teachers, some people need staff. You might need a receptionist, bookkeepers, people to clean the studio. Other than that, it's not like a lot of money because you already have the mats, you got the props, you pay the heater, the utilities, so everything else is pretty much set. I always think when it's been a slow week I'm glad I'm not a restaurant. You know the by food. I don't have the cooking staff, I don't have the dishwasher, all that and the perishable stuff I don't have the perishable, so I'm like I don't have perishables and so yeah so if somebody starts in the studio in their living room, let's say yeah, how much money can they make?
Speaker 1yeah, it depends how good they are. I hate to say it.
Speaker 2It really let's say they're good, let's say they they know yoga they practice and they're good teachers okay.
Speaker 1So if they're good teachers, the next thing is how much do you want to work like? For me, I had a good amount of energy, like I used to work, you know, in fashion, so I used to work long hours. So for me, teaching eight hour day, I taught an eight hour day. Some people can't teach eight classes a day how much each student pays you?
Speaker 2what's the going rate?
Speaker 1so well. The going rate back then it was like 13 per person if you bought like a 10 class card. So if you have a class card, it can be anywhere from, like you know, 15 to like 24 here. If you get an unlimited, it's you know whatever that is. So I think for people, if they want to, it really has to do with, like, if you're going to participate, if you're just owning a yoga studio and all of the money, the possible profits are going to other people, and then the rent, then I don't necessarily seeing it being a viable business. If it's New York City, I mean gosh, it's so much different. The scale there is different because your rents are like really expensive there.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1And you have to pack them in and you have just a whole nother vibe. But I've seen a lot of studios come in and out because they don't realize that again you're going to have some lean months and if you do not own the building or you don't have some sort of other way of making money, I don't know how they're going to make their ends meet. My whole idea about doing this is I didn't want to go insane doing this Like. I didn't want to feel fear. I didn't want to be anxious. I didn't want to start pandering to keep students. I wanted to teach how I felt I should be teaching, based on how I learned and watching other people. I didn't want to make this trendy. I didn't want to be the flavor of the month. In the beginning I was like oh no, this isn't going to last. This isn't going to last. 25 years later, I've teached the same amount.
Speaker 2So you said before the slow months that you will have slow months. What are the slow months in this business?
Speaker 1You know okay, not not to sound like any, they're not that slow here, like when you they could be slow. They could be slow Like, like, because I was thinking about that like when do we have slow months? We might have a slow week. The only reason that we're we don't have that is we're very steady here. I don't change things a lot. The schedule that I've had has pretty much been the schedule. We get people seasonally in the summer so we might get bigger classes, like up to like 30 40 people wow, yeah, they get pretty large.
Speaker 2What is the most lucrative? Is it the private lessons, the classes, owning a studio? What's the most lucrative part of being a yoga teacher?
How Much Can you charge
Speaker 1all of it, all of it all of it, yeah, but like you know, like if you, if you do teach classes, those are, I guess, more lucrative because like you can mean you could do the math if you get like 40 people in a class and they're all paying like anywhere between 13 to 4 dollars right you know, minus whatever you could do really well in the summer, right yeah, you could do really well.
Speaker 1And then, um, you know, the privates are sort of steady and those are my known quantity, like I know that they're showing up for how much can you charge?
Speaker 2what's the going rate for private class?
Speaker 1you know probably like, oh, like 125 150 and how long is the class? Uh, it could be from 40 minutes to 50 minutes, 45 minutes that's fair. That's fair, yeah they get a concentrated, like very much focused class yeah and each student that I have.
Speaker 1I have, like again, a lot of different private clients with different needs. I also match their personality. Some of them like to chat with me which can you imagine? So we chat and we do yoga. And Some of them like to chat with me which can you imagine? So we chat and we do yoga, and some of them are quiet and I'm quiet with them.
Speaker 1I have a lot of very high profile people that I work with and I have like a lot of CEOs and high powered humans, so I adjust based on what their needs are. I don't need to chat with anybody, I don't need to not chat with anybody, and so I become their person. So I'm also their confidant and so I hold a lot of energy for people who are going through some serious stuff in their life and I very much value the relationship. So the privates have that going on and I get to know them, whereas, like students, I wish I could know all every single one of their stories. But it's hard. When it's a little, there's an element of anonymity.
Speaker 1It's a group and I try to break through the anonymity or the boundary Because, again, yoga to me is very intimate and I like today I had somebody. I'll never see them again, not because it was bad, or maybe it was for them, I don't know but like they come through town and like I'm like hi, you're in my yoga class and we're doing these things and I don't know what you're like as a student and it always it just finds me. I find it really interesting, like this is a very intimate experience that we're sharing and I have I'll never see you again. It's like anonymous sex.
Incase of Injury
Speaker 2Yeah, what happens if you are injured or you are sick? What do you do then? Oh, I know.
Speaker 1Isn't that awful, because I do get that way. Could you imagine, like actually, that's when I bought my. I bought the property in the middle of town because I had actually had gotten some body work done and they kind of disabled me, where I kind of learned what like core strength was, where I was like, wow, I can't even pick up my wallet. They had kind of like twisted my pelvis and I just had no, I had no core. I was like everything went and I couldn't move. I remember I was actually teaching and all of a sudden I went to go demonstrate a triangle pose and I was like, oh, I can't move. And so I realized that everything is invested in this whole being here. I mean, I have teachers that work for me.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1But the reality is, I'm, you know, I'm the one that's the financial situation here. I'm the person. So I bought an Airbnb.
Speaker 2So did you not teach yoga?
Speaker 1at that time. No, I did, I kept teaching. I know how to teach without moving I'm like a big talking, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1So you put the coin in and then I could shoot out uh sequences. No, because even with my hip repair now, I basically taught. I started teaching after 10 days and it's interesting because I feel it when I'm talking about it, so I can sequence from my, my, my mind, feeling, my body doing, even if my body isn't doing it. And I've done so much yoga where I'm like, okay, I'm going to combine this with this and I'm going to add this and then I'm going to throw this in. It's almost like a chef being able to cook, knowing the flavors of food, without actually having to taste it.
Speaker 2What would you say is the biggest challenge of being a yoga instructor?
Speaker 1no-transcript. The career made itself right. I was working in fashion part-time, like doing freelance work in the city, and then all of a sudden, this started to take off, and so then I was able to be like, oh, I guess I could do this now and I had some really great gifts, like the person who co-founded Omega, elizabeth Lesser. I didn't know who she was and she walks up to me after a class and she asked me she goes you know who I am? And I'm like no, but you look like. I didn't say it out loud, but I was like you look, like you could be, you're very smart looking, a professor, like a lawyer, psychiatrist or something. You're very intelligent looking, and she's like I'm a co-founder of Omega and I think you'd be great to start teaching workshops. Wow, and this was after probably my ninth month of teaching.
Speaker 2Wow.
Speaker 1So it was like, and then she started hooking me up with all her wonderful friends, so I started teaching all her friends yoga and I didn't know who these people were either and a lot of them were pretty.
Speaker 2You know high fluid. She just happened to go into one of your classes.
Speaker 1Yeah, she was in one of my classes when I was teaching, and oh, you know what it was she was crying. I hope she doesn't mind that I'm telling. This is a very beautiful story, which is more about her than about me, or maybe it's about us. She was crying and it was around 9 to 11.
Speaker 2And.
Speaker 1I didn't know why she was crying. And I walk, I'm holding her while I'm teaching, I'm just hugging her as one human to another. I was like, oh no, she's crying. I'm like. I was like I don't know what's going on with this woman. And then that's how she told me that, because I did that, that's how she fell in love with me.
Speaker 2You see, I was going to say before it's a matter of luck. She walked into your office. But it's not. It's how you use that luck. It was a very beautiful.
Speaker 1It was very beautiful and then like all of a sudden I'm doing all these things. That was like what and like it was a dream. But it wasn't like a dream I had. It was a dream that was happening. So I didn't have an idea. I wanted to work at Omega. I was just really honestly in survival mode. Everything I did was like, oh, I gotta make this work because I have a child to support, I got, I bought this house. But I think also I was just always curious, right like there's a certain level of curiosity about every person who walks in. So I'm like who are you and what can I do for you? There was a strong belief in in yoga and technology of yoga, if I was to call it something did you have to advertise?
Advice to Yoga Teacher Wannabe
Speaker 1spend money on advertising you know, not so much like advertising, like I still have a pretty big word of mouth. And it was so cute because when I first started it was all about making a flyer. And I remember like when I knew I was like going to probably get fired from this one place I worked at, which again I wound up owning later down the line. I remember like looking at the guy because I had like two students and I look at him and I'm like, oh my God. I said he said he goes well, why don't you open up your own thing? And I was like, well, I don't know how to make a flyer. That was like my biggest grievance. I really don't know how to make a flyer. He goes well, I do, I'm a graphic designer. And then Shakti was born.
Speaker 2All it took was someone telling me, they knew how to do graphics what advice would you give somebody that want to start?
Speaker 1teach a lot before you open a studio. Teach a lot friends and family and stuff yeah well if you want to teach yoga, definitely I would suggest going to a program that's more than a month, because you can't really learn anything in a month to the degree of what you need to know for this, if you want to make this a full-time job.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Like I've had two people last week, two friends' daughters for some reason one week we're like, oh, I'm going away to like Mexico or Costa Rica. I'm going to become a yoga teacher and I'm like you're gonna have such a great experience doing that. I doubt you're gonna get the skills and the knowledge Right, but I'm like you're gonna love doing it and you're gonna feel really empowered. But it takes a long time and you need a support group, right? You need somebody who's going to be with you for the long haul you know, to guide you, because this is you know, it's. There's a lot to know.
Speaker 1I'd say you know, kind of have a good idea of what it means to you. Teaching yoga and doing it are not the same. You have to really know bodies. You have to know that the gain isn't to push yourself and do wacky wild things. A lot of times when I see yoga teachers having like phenomenal poses on a flyer I guess no one uses flyers anymore and their like phenomenal poses on a flyer I guess no one uses flyers anymore and their Instagram account.
Speaker 2I'm like you can almost guarantee you're not going to get that many students, because most people don't want to do those poses and you're going to intimidate them, right, of course, that's me, that's you. Well, that's most people.
Speaker 1And you know I know this because people have talked about yoga to me for years like for years, what they fear, what they like? People want to feel good about their bodies. They want to feel safe. There are people who like to up it several notches and you have to teach them how to progress into that, these wild poses, if we were to call those that, those crazy poses. Your mind has to be incredibly calm. You have to be more meditative because you regulate your breathing.
Speaker 1You have to learn how to use different components in your core body you know because it's not so much upper body strength sometimes it is but it's your whole body, and so that's yeah.
Skills Needed
Speaker 2Are there any special skills somebody need to have besides doing, besides knowing yoga and practicing yoga? Do they need any other skills in order to open their own studio, their own classes?
Speaker 1I believe you need to have so many skills. I think like to teach it. That's just teaching alone.
Speaker 2Now to be Like what Well.
Speaker 1You have to know about bodies. You have to know about philosophies. You have to know how to vary it, you have to. The sequencing is essential. You have to. You know, deal with pregnant people. People walk in. They're like I have a knee replacement.
Speaker 2I just had, like glaucoma.
Speaker 1I had open heart surgery. I've had cancer. I've had a baby. I'm gonna have a baby.
Speaker 2I have a lot of babies at home and I'm stressed out and I'm a mom. So what you read about different conditions and then you adjust your well if you saw my library.
Challenges and Career Growth
Speaker 1But I mean I actually do study and I and I and I learn a lot from studying on people, but it's like, yeah, you have to know. I believe you have to know a lot.
Speaker 2Have you seen a demand from students changes, wanting something different than when you started? Yeah, like what?
Speaker 1I think what happens for some students not all of them is that they want to know more of the spiritual dimension, like they might come in for the physical. But then they start to see like, oh, what's the philosophy, what is all this ayurveda that you're talking about? So sometimes they start to inquire about that and that helps their yoga practice. Yeah, it helped. I mean it helps their life. I don't know if it helps their yoga practice, but it definitely helps their life because, like yoga is there to support life, like when you're really in it.
Speaker 1It kind of makes you a little bit I don't want to say more agreeable, but it allows you to accept things a little bit more. Right, one of my favorite teachers. He's an ayurvedic doctor. He accepts everything. It's amazing. He's just like oh, that's good, divine plan, divine plan, divine plan. He doesn't have any rifts in his psyche because he just sees whatever happens as what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2What's the biggest reward of being a yoga teacher?
Speaker 1Oh goodness. Well, all the wonderful. Honestly it's going to sound trite, but all the wonderful people I get actually get to meet, all the different relationships, I mean a lot of the people that we both know. I met them through yoga.
Speaker 2Yeah, and.
Speaker 1I got to, you know, have a lot of people, meet other people that I've met. So we like have this wonderful network of wonderful human beings. Yoga is pretty portable, so I can kind of do it anywhere. Right, right, I can go on the road and go and teach. But rewarding is that like I can grow old with this, I don't ever have to stop. Like I can be an old, craggly yoga teacher in the front of the room or sitting in a chair. Probably at that point, I don't know, maybe I'll still be moving, I will still be accepted, I will be considered.
Speaker 2That's a huge plus.
Speaker 1I will be considered wise by that point Right, I'll be a sage of some sort, because I will have done it for a long time, because I'm aiming to be a very happy, peaceful older woman, so I'm hoping I will be able to help other people get that great, that was going to be my last question, but you answered it your hopes and dreams for your future well, that's some of them, but that's one for this career, right so on that note, this is well.
Speaker 2I learned a lot about yoga myself today.
Speaker 1Well, there you go. Hopefully other people caught a little something and I'm sorry if I forgot anything.
Speaker 2I know If I left anything out. I don't think we did.
Speaker 1They can always ask me ShockedyogaWoodstock at gmailcom. That's LaNita.
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