Gaining Ground

It's been too long! S has taken over the blog and ranted for the last few posts so M wanted to let you know about our struggles in the yoga world of Austin. M has been hard at work, to a certain point, out of the yoga world, until yesterday.

S is in Portland doing a training and M was home alone, so she went to the usual Saturday morning yoga class, with the hopes that no one would show up. Don't get her wrong, she loves to teach yoga, but she really wanted to go a complimentary yoga class at Lululemon with a former ambassador.

This month, Lululemon is having classes led by their ambassadors, and these girls are the "yogis" of Austin. M had never been to this ambassador's class. It was hard, it felt good, M is still feeling it now as she's watching Face the Nation plopped on the futon with a full litre of water.

Last night M went to a yoga marketing and really got to the nitty-gritty (say nitty-gritty like Nacho Libre) of who is S&M, what do we believe, what is our ultimate goal.... and that sort of thing. With S being away, M had to do it on her own.
So, M's yoga goal is to have a yoga paradise in a studio, filled with an array of yoga classes, chanting, dancing, meditation~ whilst being anatomically aligned, non-profit, and offering yoga to ALL. How S&M are going to achieve that? No clue! This yoga business seems a little daunting, just like any business....

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhui

But M has never run a business, and neither has S, so our powers are limited, but our spirit is not. M is looking to people now, that M would have never, ever thought she would look towards, Steve Jobs, Chip Wilson- not necessarily for their powers of philanthropy but more for their ability to connect with people in a way that makes their businesses boom.
This is where it gets tricky, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhui is a huge, HUGE inspiration for M. So herein lies the problematic duality for M in business- how does she remain humble, while promoting a business and being, well, over-confident? arrogant? Or further, how do we create a business for the goodness of others, without "taking over"?
Is it even possible?

So with that in mind, M has looked at other great yogis that have boomed: Bikram, Baron, Shiva.... and she's not too sure it's possible. M supposes that all that matters is that you don't lose the original intention of the goal, M's integrity has to be more solid than ever, and to believe that as long as her heart is in a place of peace, love, and generosity, all will be given onto her (and S).

Stay Grounded,
S and M