January 19, 2022 • 33 mins
Are you looking for a place where you can incorporate hot yoga along with strength and endurance training? Look no further than Arrichion (uh – RICK – ee – ahn). On our newest podcast, Mahala sits down with Bishop Daniels, one of the the owners and instructors at Arrichion in East Raleigh, to learn more about this unique yoga experience.
Arrichion offers many levels of classes every type of Yogi. They even have a program so you can become a trained instructor.
Get to know Arrichion:
- Website: https://arrichion.com/eastraleigh
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- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ArrichionHotYoga
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(00:01):
Hey Triangle lovers. Welcome toMaking Moves hosted by The
Rachel Kendall Team where wewill explore together the top
restaurants, community hotspotsand events in our area. Let's
make some moves.
Hello, everybody. Welcome backto Making Moves. I have been
told that I don't introducemyself. So I'm Mahala landin.
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I'm the Broker in Charge of TheRachel Kendall Team and we are
here with Bishop Daniels. He isthe owner and I think you are a
native to North Carolina. Isthat right? At this point. Okay.
And he is a local business ownerof Arrichion Yoga. Did I say it
right?
Say it phonetically for me,. UhRICK ee ahn - it is a
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really diverse and interestingyoga facility. And the I would,
I would call it Raleigh, likenot even North Raleigh like
you're right in the center, theheart of our wonderful
community. So Bishop, tell me alittle bit about you and what
your background is, and just howyou stumbled into this business
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ownership world. Well, I have aname is Bishop.
I am like Mahala said I'm nativeNorth Carolina, but not really
from here. My dad was an Armybrat. I grew up in Cary, North
Carolina, I spent most of myadult years in healthy, active,
as well as being a schoolteacher for about 18 years
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preschool kindergarten teacherfor 18 years. worked part time
as a yoga teacher for the lastseven, and then decided to
venture out and own my own yogastudio about a year ago.
Awesome. So let's dive into thata little bit deeper. So army
brat, like so many people thatcome into our area? How many
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times did you move prior tomaking your way into carry?
Um, I think it was for I wasborn in upstate New York. Spent
some time in Virginia, then Iwas in Panama, and Fayetteville
for a brief amount of time, notlong enough to say I was there.
Then Garner for about two yearsand or year and a half and then
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carry. So I went to junior highand care and went to well Middle
School and carry in high schooland carry so
yeah, and that's actually how weknow each other. So I'm a carry
brought to us, right. Alright,so moving around is something
that we talk about a lot as realestate agents. And although this
is not necessarily real estatepodcast, what's the impact that
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you felt moving around as oftenas you did prior to middle
school? And what were some ofthe things that happen that kind
of shaped who you are today?
Well, I was always had, I hadthree sisters, and Rob close in
age was my twin. So we werealways together. So we always
had the three of us. I mean, Ialways had the two of them to
rely on. I think it shaped mebeing a little bit more
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outgoing, a little bit able tokind of, you know, get into
something new and and kind offigure it out and keep going.
How did you find the community?
How did you get connected whenyou were that age moving around
as often as you did? Oh, sportsand just our parents putting us
into a lot of different programsand community centers and camps
and things like that. And, youknow, once when you move around
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like that a lot. It's it's hardsometimes to get to figure
things out, but it's also kindof fun, because we went from and
I forgot to say, we live inKorea as well. But we went from
being in Virginia, which at thetime was kind of like you know,
south, so it's different to livein, in Panama, which was all you
know, the weather was great allthe time. We had the greatest
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friends, but Spanish knew wespoke Spanish with different
foods, but we're also thereduring the Panama invasion in
1989. I think it was eight Ican't remember. So that was a
little crazy. So like just livegoing through basically what a
child was, you know, kind ofshaped a lot of my shaped who we
were as kids. And then moving toNorth Carolina was just like the
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biggest culture shock ever justbecause you know, you weren't
you never prepared for I visionof Carolina when I was a kid. I
always thought it was like AndyGriffith Show. I thought it was
like Mayberry. I didn'tunderstand. That's right. I just
thought everything was kind ofyou know, you walk around and
there'scows and wild animals. Listen, I
grew up in Cary in the 80s andwent to downtown rally schools,
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middle school, elementaryschool, and even then I was
asked if I lived on a farmbecause of Kildare farms being
such a large part of where welive. So I Yeah, it is a culture
shock. And then you come in andthere's these beautiful
communities, and we're so luckyto have so much opportunity and
infrastructure and business. Andit's it's been a really fun time
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to watch our little town growup. So where did you end up
landing for college?
So I went to a bunch ofdifferent colleges. It was, I
guess, I was like think of lifeas in stages. So at that stage,
I was trying to figure thingsout, I spent my whole for four
to know, probably six yearswrestling. And then when I got
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to college, what I tried to dowas I went to a smaller school
to try to get better grades. Andthat way would give me more
opportunities to maybe possiblywalk onto a wrestling team in
the area. So I went to I startedschool at St. Augustine's
College in downtown Raleigh.
Then I went to NC State for alittle bit, went to USC G, Wake
Tech, Durham Tech, and then wentback to Wake Tech, where I
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finished off with certificateand teaching preschool,
preschool age kids andkindergarten and so
so the one thing I'm hearingfrom you is the one thing
constant is change. Yeah, yeah,yeah. And teaching is teaching
and teaching is something thatI'm really passionate about as
well. You know, I startedteaching, dance growing up. And
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it was one of those things wherethe more you teach, the better
you are. And I found that as Iwould teach fundamentals to
younger kids, it actually helpedme be more aware of what those
fundamentals were in my owndance practice. And then moving
on, I started working inPilates, and teaching Pilates.
And again, it I started doingPilates, it was pure
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conditioning, pure, you know,learning how the body moves, and
the mechanics and thekinesiology and then I became a
better dancer, it was too late,I was way too old for doing
that, but it definitely openedup my eyes to all of the things
that teaching can provide. Soyou know, you being an athlete,
all through school and college,and then going into teaching a
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whole different world, what didthat what did that do for you in
terms of opening your eyes towhat you want to do with your
life.
Um, so I never envisioned myselfbeing a teacher. I was never
even one of those things. Like Ididn't know what I wanted to do
in life, but I knew I didn'twant to be a teacher. But I
taught at a summer camp at thisschool my mother worked at, and
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I had so much fun over thesummer. And then I what I did
was after this summer was over,and I was back at school, I
would come back in and help outat the school in the, in the
older classrooms with the fouror five year olds. And I really
enjoyed it. And I found that itwas my calling, because I kind
of just came with ease. And, butonce I even once I kind of
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decided that's what I want todo, I still thought to myself,
you know, I do this for a coupleyears, and I'm gonna, you know,
find something else to do. But Ididn't know what else I was. It
just was as a man and it justlike, you know, thinking about
as being a teacher, and youknow, knowing that teachers
don't make that much money, butyou know, I always felt that you
get paid and you know, thevalue, the friendships and the
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love that you get from the kidsgonna love you, you give them
but I, I've learned from them,patients also learn just to, you
know, when kids look at the lookat the world differently than we
do, you know, they don't knowthe word no, or, you know, you
can't do this, you can't dothat. Or if they're doing art or
anything, they just, it'screative. They just do what they
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want. And they move on. Yeah.
And I found that, that wassomething that I wanted to be
even as an adult, I wanted to beable to create things and, you
know, just be like, I don't knowwhat it is, but it made me feel
good. I'm gonna walk away. Andyou know, I'll come back to it,
or I'll start something else.
And I'll make that and, youknow, made me feel good, I make
something else. And I think thatwas something as far as being a
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teacher, then I started doingart when I was about 2526. And
it was just kind of just seeingthe creativity and how easy how
easy it came to children becausethey didn't think about, you
know, you know, society whatsociety might tell us, right?
Yeah, they're not doing it foranybody other than themselves.
(08:53):
And I have had a few educationproviders on Making Moves. So go
back and listen to those if youhaven't, but one of the things
that is so important as parentsor even adult figures in
children's lives is to continueto foster that. Like you can do
great things. And you can dothose great things for yourself.
You don't need my my approval ormy you know, constant, like
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praise for you to feelfulfilled. And my kids drive me
bananas because that's how I wasraised. Like, you go to dance,
you got dropped off, you gotpicked back up, you know you
were doing that for you. Yeah.
And they're like, watch me watchme and I'm like I can't like at
number one, it gives me anxiety.
Like watch you do flips becausenow they're in cheer and doing
all this stuff. But I love thatyou embrace that, that side of
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children of just they're so freeand what a great place to be and
something to be reminded of asadults. Your artwork is
something that I did want to getto. So I'm glad that you
mentioned that. Your wholestudio has a lot of artwork
incorporated into it. So whatdescribe what that has done or
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what that creative process lookslike for you. I mean, it's hard
to talk about art on a podcast.
But you know, what is? What doesthat mean to you? What is it
that inspires you to create thatart?
So I started by just, I didn'tknow what I was doing nothing
about art, I was a kid that ifhe asked me to cut out
something, I'd cry and asked mysister to do it,
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are you left handed? You know, Ijust didn't want I didn't want
to do it. I was just like, youknow, why would we do this, I
didn't like the color, oranything, all I could do was be
outside smashing stuff, playinggames. And, but once I started
doing it, um, it came from apoint of, you know, when you're
in your 20s, you have anapartment, or you have something
and I didn't like the, you know,the silly movie, quote, signs
and all that stuff. So I justthought to myself, Hey, let me
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you know, try painting. Justtake a canvas and paint it blue,
or painted yellow. And then Iwent to an art store just asked
a million questions to spend waytoo much money, wasted, wasted
art products. And it startedfrom a point of just, you know,
seeing what things what happenedwhen you take this from, you
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know, decide to take this fromthis site and mash it together.
And once I kind of learned andkind of got the hang of what I
was doing it my art just keptevolving. And now what I do,
especially incorporated with ayoga studio is everything to me,
I look at all things as far aslike, what, how can I use this?
How can I create somethingdifferent with that, like, I'll
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take a lot of found materials.
And when I say found materials,a lot of things that you would
just either don't want to trashor recycle, and try to create
things with it. And it's just,it's satisfying to me is I wish
I had more time to do it. Atthis point, I'll have a lot of
time anymore to kind of createthings, but it's just, it's fun.
And it's like, I'll take a yogamat, and I'll paint it and I'll
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burn it and I'll glue it soyou can still smash and you can
still destroy things. Yeah, itgets to become a creative
process.
My stress down and it keeps onsomething that I love to do. I
mean, I mean, basically, youknow, art, I guess it's the same
way as teaching, I don't youknow, I'm not doing it for
money, I'm doing it for my ownhappiness. And as selfish as
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that sounds, I guess, the firstand only thing I can do to make
anything else happy to makeanybody else happy has made
myself. Sothat's actually what a piece of
our culture at the RachaelKendall team is, you know, it's
okay to be selfish sometimes.
Because being able to achieveyour goals is actually
beneficial to your family, it isbeneficial to your clients.
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Yeah. And it is beneficial tothe people that are around you,
because that's the energy thatwe put out there. So I
definitely agree with you've gotto, you know, pour into yourself
in order to give back whetherthat be in teaching art, or now
being a business owner. So howdid this come into the world
after teaching and art and nowall of a sudden yoga is in your
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life. Um, so this is a far cryfrom wrestling, and also bashing
things outside to go thepeaceful meditation.
So the whole way the yogajourney started for me was a
Ricky on his A, the firstworkout gym was in Raleigh, and
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my roommate at the time, and hissister, were deciding to form a
hot yoga studio. And I thought Ihad tried yoga before, but I
just thought it was like, Yeah,whatever. I don't know, who
would want to really do yoga,you know? Like, it's just yoga.
Because I mean, I love to workout and I thought yoga was fine,
but I just thought, you know, Iwant to work out what to do. I
want to break a sweat. I wantto, you know, feel like,
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yeah, and I'm gonna go runcardio. Yeah. So
they opened their yoga studio, Iwould say about 12 years ago
now. And at first I was there asjust a workout. And they were my
roommates at the time. Sowhatever they did, I once I got
off of work, I went and workedout as well. And then I started
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teaching. I started I startedteaching just with teaching
circuit training classes. So Idid a lot of things that were,
you know, familiar to me.
So break that down, because youknow, when I think a yoga Yeah,
I'm definitely thinking aboutthe mat work. Yeah. vinyasa
flow. Yeah. You know, orpotentially I know they don't
call it big room anymore. Butwhat is it the 24 or 12 poses?
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Things like 20 something Yeah,remember the number Yeah,
that's that's the world that I'maccustomed to. So when you say
circuit training and yoga, whatdoes that mean? So
I'm sorry. So with Ricky on whatwe do is we offer hot yoga, and
as well as we offer like circuittraining, HIIT classes kind of
thing. And that was somethingthat was familiar to me and my
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my my buddy tied the owner. Heasked me if I wanted to teach
and I kept telling him no, Idon't want to do it. Because I
was just content with justworking out every day that I was
I'd like to split up my daylike, I have the time to, you
know, kind of move around and dowhat I want.
Basically, I've just beensitting molding young lives.
Yeah. I'm not interested indoing this anymore. Yeah.
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So I started, I taught like aSaturday morning, I was like,
This is great. This is, this isfun. I like it. And it was
similar just to teaching likethe teaching kids, it was, I
mean, I think it's like at theyell at. And so I started doing
that. And then they asked me toteach a yoga class, which I
still was kind of hesitant todoing. And they just taught me
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the script for one of our whatare the class that we're most
known for, which is our Tiger'seye class, which is half of like
a circuit workout where you havea bunch of stations where you
might do like, a bench press,squats, push ups, that kind of
thing. Using machines, and thenyou'd go in and do half of a
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Vinyasa flow yoga class, asimilar feel like vinyasa flow
yoga class, and I really likeddoing it. And it was it was
comfortable, because it was onlyhalf a yoga class. So that they
and the best thing about friendslike having friends like that
they weren't, there was no like,Hey, we're gonna give you some
time. It was like, Okay, weshowed you how to do it now
teach it. And they, so I didthat. And then I did the teacher
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training. And I did to watch anhourly level teacher training,
that is a rich archaeon. Doesthey have their own teaching
certificate? Yeah,yeah. So I did that. And still,
it was it was fun, and, youknow, kind of broaden my horizon
of what yoga meant. And Ilearned a lot and became a
better teacher for it. And thenI went on to doing the 300 hour
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level yoga, which was kind ofjust, basically I guess, in
layman's terms, it's like, yougo from, you know, your
undergrad to you know, yourgraduate graduate. Yeah. And
that was like, Okay, I reallylike doing this. And at the
time, I felt like with teaching,I wasn't really caught in a rut,
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but I just knew that like my,that my interests lie in other
places. And I did at teaching, Istarted to feel like my day was
I was at school teaching eighthours a day. But there were so
many times, like, if I had ourlunch break, I would think about
all the other things I could getaccomplished through the day if
I didn't have to be here doingthis.
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And that's like that gutinstinct that we all have that
we all have to trust. Yeah. AndI think that's actually a great
element of yoga is learning howto trust yourself and your
intuition, of being able to say,and you had already said it,
like, I didn't think I was goingto stay here forever. But you
saw that door open. And then youwent to go do that I have, I've
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had a couple conversations withother entrepreneurs and
intrapreneurs. And I think weall get that sense of, there's
got to be more out there. Youknow, and I love I some people
disagree, but I love the morementality, like what else? What
else is out there for me toexplore and discover? You know,
I was 18 when I got my Pilatescertification. And I started
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teaching. And the reason why Idid that was because I didn't
have the money to take theclasses. And I'm like, so those
that can't do teach. Yeah. Youknow, but it opened up so many
doors, and I met so many dynamicpeople, being a teacher, and a
lot of those people are still inmy world, and I can see them and
they've taken their love ofPilates out there. So I love
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that you trusted your gut. Andyou said, Yep, you know, I'm
going to take that leap offaith. I'm going to go do this.
So now we're full time yogainstructor.
Yeah. Oh. It's, uh, yeah. So Iopened. Right? Pandemic stuff.
I feel like the pandemic hitsare making moves podcast in
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almost every episode, because itit really was a life changing.
It is a life changing event forall of us. And, you know, I was
meeting with somebody fromRonald McDonald House just a few
minutes ago. And it there havebeen positives and there have
been negative. So what was whatwas the hardest part about
opening your business? Did youhave been 2020? Or was it end of
2019? Yeah. So what was thebiggest? What? 2019? Yeah, yeah.
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What was the biggest obstacle? Imean, honestly, like, what,
where were where were you inthat headspace of operating in a
pandemic?
Me? I didn't understand becauseI had never ran my own business
before. So I was I wasoptimistic. But I was nervous.
And I guess I was still tryingto, like figure things out. So
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it was like, I didn't understandthe way like, you know, do I pay
the rent? Do you know I needequipment? I don't have anybody
at this gym. Right. You know,and it was a it was just a lot
of waiting time. I guess Ididn't understand. You know, it
just was a lot of it was kind ofa fog, I guess. Everyday just
felt the same. And, you know, atthe time, I think anybody knew
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what questions to ask or whoknew the answer to what you
know. So Nobody hada crystal ball. And you being a
new business owner in 2020,didn't get to take advantage of
the PPP loans or the things thatwere out there because you
didn't have a payroll or youdidn't have that. And I think
that's something that, you know,although in the media, we all
heard like, this is the theseare the opportunities for every
business owner, it reallywasn't. If you didn't have the
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background, and you were juststarting in the business, right,
you couldn't choose between rentor this because you didn't have
any supplement your way.
You basically got a check. Thatwas like, Thanks for applying.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like, youknow, Pat, on the back kind of
thing, like, are you gonna takethis? And I'm, you know, working
with real estate agents asclosely as I do, you know, that
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was something I was trying toguide people like how here here,
go talk to this person or gotalk to this person? Because it
was a lot, and it was constantlycoming at you as a as a contract
employee of what you could orcould not do? And nobody would
nobody had the answers. Yeah, sototally stressful. Yeah. Can't
even imagine. So when do youfeel like things really lifted
and you were able to get startedon your business?
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So it was almost like a two partplan we open. So when they said
we could open we open with allthe restrictions and mandates,
which are still, you know, tothis day, which is still
confusing, and you're not sure,you know, is it? Is there a
right or wrong? Or is it like,legal and illegal? You know,
like, wasthis a suggestion? Or is this
like a really I have todo? Yeah, so I didn't really
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actually feel to be open, whichI cannot remember which month it
was, until they said we couldtake the mask off, because yoga
and working out is already hardenough. But once you add the
added element of a mask, whichtakes some getting used to for a
lot of people. And it didn'tbother me, but I know if you're
paying for a service, the lastthing you want to do is
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something obstructing you fromtaking that service. So it was
tough to kind of get going. ButI felt like once we took those
mask off and people were able tocome in and see the benefits
they were getting from you knowhot yoga especially that we
already have one open on theother side of Raleigh that that
now this one's closer to yourhome wherever you live with with
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East Raleigh growing so muchthat you know, right in your
backyard. Yeah. And then westart to see some growth and
everything.
Yeah. So there's two locations.
And so if you if you're a memberof one you remember both
I know so you've you are amember of one you're basically a
member that studio, there'sactually more than two
locations. There is I think fivenow there's one is two in
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Raleigh, one in Durham, one inCharlotte and one always in Salt
Lake City, sothat's interesting. Yeah. Or
part SaltLake City or parks in Salt Lake
City. Yeah, it's gonna give usso um, what is what does it look
like? Like what are the classofferings? You've mentioned? The
the one that the core class thatyou guys are known for, which is
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half circuit, half vinyasa.
Yeah. Tell me a little bit moreabout what you guys offer.
Um, so we offer a variety ofclasses, ranging from Tiger's
eye, which is, you know, likesaid the best of both worlds
where you're getting an Acircuit workout and flow yoga
workout, we have one that'sbasically a hot Pilates class. A
lot of core work calledcrystals, we have topaz, which
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is our fundamental class,similar to what became the
software kind of goes throughour basic poses our basic
foundation of our of our studio,we have diamond, which is a
voice led class, the lights aredim, that's you're holding the
pose a lot, a lot, a lot longer.
good stretch. We kind of like ayen. Yeah, yep. And then we have
warrior, which is not yoga atall. It's all in the, in our on
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our circuit side, where we haveall our weights and everything
that class varies from studio tostudio. And I think that yeah,
that's all the offers we have.
So that's awesome.
Yeah. What, what's the what isthe foundational culture of the
yoga studio? Like who's common?
What are they getting from it?
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What are your clients sayingabout your, their experience
with you?
So basically, the principle andthat's coming from what they
started with the rally is to sayour yoga is accessible to
everybody. And the variety thatwe have, allows for you too, if
you want to take you know, maybeone of the slower paced classes
such as Topaz or dive in, youcan get that in a good stretch.
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Or you could come in and youknow, really put I'm sorry, I
forgot one of our classes calledbloodstone. You can really come
in and do a flow class whereyou're up and down. You get a
great workout in so it's more ofyoga for athletes yoga for the
everyday kind of person, youknow, we have that spiritual and
mental and physical balance butless more of you're finding that
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yourself. I mean, I think we allfind that if we're in a hot room
your brain immediately turns offthe minute your focus more on
not passing out. Yeah. I feellike I'm in good shape. And I go
to Hot Yoga and I'm like this isthis is mentally and physically
challenging. And I think that weall need that push because
number one, we sit too much.
Yeah. And we don't move aroundenough. And I feel like movement
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is such a healing thing for ourbodies. But if when you're in
that room and it's hot, it's oneof those things where you don't
have the choice but not beinward of your thoughts. Yeah.
And I love the idea of circuittraining with yoga because we,
we love the idea of flexibility.
But we we can be flexible andnot strong. And I've tried to
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teach my children that too,because they're super bendy.
Yeah. And they're able to do alot, but they don't have they're
learning how to have strengthbehind flexibility. You as an
athlete, I'm sure you had todeal with that as well. How
would you describe the benefitof strength behind flexibility
to your clients,um, I was to, I was trying to
say, you know, it's, it's goodto be a yogi, but it's better to
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be a strong yogi. And that'sjust what building you need to
maintain that flexibility,you're gonna need that strength.
We all like to think we'rebetter super bendy and a lot of
people are, yeah.
But they can cause injury, andthen you're rolling ankles and
those thatwant to, you want to incorporate
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building that strength, becauseI think most people have this
preconceived notion of yoga. Sosometimes just a stretch is
actually building a lot ofstrength. I mean, the hardest
thing sometimes in the world isto lift your own your own arms
above your head, right withoutany pain or you know, without a
struggle kind of thing or to siton the ground. And, you know,
inhaling your arms up and reachafford to touch your toes. It's,
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it's tough. So yeah, yeah. Ithink when you build that
strength, and you incorporatethat the circuit side of things
into it, you start to see thebenefits and your flexibility
and everything. And I thinksometimes people have that, you
know, thing of, Oh, where am Ijust do yoga. It's just this I'm
just stretching and all thatkind of stuff. And if you do,
if, or if you're just doing, youknow, strength clannish, core
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strength classes, you'rebuilding your strength, where it
actually is kind of the it'sshortening your muscles, and
you're actually getting tighter,and we're all aging and we're
getting tighter. And you do youhave to be holistic about your
fitness. Just like you have tobe holistic about your diet or
anything else that you do. Yeah.
Clearly, I'm a big fan. So, youknow, with now you're coming up
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on about a year that you've beenopen. Yeah, it was a year a
couple weeks ago. Yep. Okay. Andwhere do you see the business
going? Like, how was it growingand what's been working for you,
um, we're just continuing togrow. I think that's been the
fun part. And most of thelearning curve for me is just
trying to figure out how to, toget people in the door and, you
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know, brick and mortar, so youknow, social media is great, but
word of mouth is the best thing.
So, it's just continued to buildthat community. That so that
we're seeing people formfriendships and bonds outside of
the yoga studio, you know, so wehave people like, for instance,
like on Wednesday night, we havea big group that goes down,
there's a place called Mordecai,I was gonna say, we're gonna
talk about mortar. That'sprobably one of my favorite
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little draft houses little beershops. I love it. I love the
movie nights that they do. So ifyou're familiar with is it
center was the shopping centeris that center gateway gateway
shopping center. That's where aReiki on a trip over and that's
where Mordecai is. It's a greatlittle shop. And I think there's
gonna be a restaurant opening upin there too.
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Called fine folk. Yes. Which isgonna be great. Yeah, it's nice
to be a part of a growingshopping center. It's because
it's there's a huge communitybehind this. And I think the
more people I know downtown's,kind of like where everybody's
at. But people are starting tokind of like, you know, once you
get going to get tired ofdowntown, you come in, or you
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just move nice, right? Becauseyou don't want to part of
downtown. ILOVE EAST Raleigh, because
you've got the Alamo movietheater, which is so cool.
That's one of my favorite. Iwhen I was working with
homebuyers, I would be like, butlet's go here. This is where we
can go. You want to be close todowntown. So it's an awesome
location. Absolutely love it. SoI have to ask you about your
hat. Okay. Selfmade dues paid.
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Yeah. Talk to me a little bitabout it. Um,
I mean, I saw it on Instagram.
It registered with me. I can'tremember the guys name. Luke
something. He's a tattoo artist,and it just resonated with me. I
just know, more of the hard workand positivity part. I mean, the
dues paid kind of thing to selfmade a little bit because I've
had help along the way, but it'sjust it's a great hat. I mean,
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I love it. I love it. And you'reright. You know, it takes a
support system who's yoursupport system?
By parents? My girlfriend Mary,the Reynolds family, they own
the yoga studio, the corporateyoga studios. My friend Steve,
who owns the one of my partners,I have two partners in this. So
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you know, Shannon and Liz and wejust all work together and you
know, just trying to do for thegreater good Yeah, you know,
I'll be successful. SoI love that, you know, creating
a team, as you, you know, embarkinto something that's new and
foreign is so important. So, um,is there anything else you want
everybody to know about Reikion?
Yeah, I mean, I want if you havedone yoga before, I've never
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done yoga before in your life,come try it out. And the
greatest thing about it is weoffer the, you can come in and
you know, do a strength workoutand do the hit classes. Or you
can come in and do yoga, and youcan do the easiest yoga classes
we got, or the hardest yogaclasses. It's fun for everybody.
SoI've watched your Instagram, and
it does look like you guys havea lot of fun. Yeah, I
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think I think there's a certainamount of joy you get, even when
you're tired and sweating hard.
I mean, I think working outworking out is where it's at. So
I mean, it's just somethingeveryone should incorporate in
their life. And the greatestthing we offer right now is that
you can pay $30 for 20consecutive days of yoga. And
that gets you with the wayeverything is now that gets you
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access to our in person classes.
And our virtual classes. Oh,I love that. So how do people
find you online?
So you can go to a rookie on.comAR r i c h i o n, that calm and
once you click on the webpage,there is a list of studios and
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once you go to the list justlook on click on nice Raleigh.
You'll see all the informationon there you see my information,
your beautiful artwork. Yeah.
And, or you can check me onInstagram. And this basically,
like find out more about it. SoI love it. Okay, so I got to ask
some random questions. Do youlike to read? Are you a book
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guy?
Nah, not really.
I challenge you to start pickingup some books. I send you a
couple of recommendations.
Favorite TV show?
Seinfeld sign to lane. I didn't.
I don't know where I was at thelate 90s Seinfeld. I can watch
Seinfeld.
Hysterical. That's somethingthat's noteworthy. I love it.
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And you know, best advice forsomebody that is thinking about
either doing a franchise doingtheir own business what what
what could you give them fromsome of the things that you've
learned?
Read, read over your paperwork.
Know that some things aren'tgoing to go as planned and be
ready to pivot. And just have anopen mind and be positive. I
mean, have good have a have agood energy to you. I mean, so
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know that it's gonna be hardwork.
Right? If you're ready toinvest, and I can't say that
enough. Awesome. Well, it's beena pleasure to have your bishop
loved every minute. Thank youfor joining us on this episode
of Making Moves. We want todeliver the highlights of the
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make some moves.
Hello, everybody. Welcome backto Making Moves. I have been
told that I don't introducemyself. So I'm Mahala landin.
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I'm the Broker in Charge of TheRachel Kendall Team and we are
here with Bishop Daniels. He isthe owner and I think you are a
native to North Carolina. Isthat right? At this point. Okay.
And he is a local business ownerof Arrichion Yoga. Did I say it
right?
Say it phonetically for me,. UhRICK ee ahn - it is a
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really diverse and interestingyoga facility. And the I would,
I would call it Raleigh, likenot even North Raleigh like
you're right in the center, theheart of our wonderful
community. So Bishop, tell me alittle bit about you and what
your background is, and just howyou stumbled into this business
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ownership world. Well, I have aname is Bishop.
I am like Mahala said I'm nativeNorth Carolina, but not really
from here. My dad was an Armybrat. I grew up in Cary, North
Carolina, I spent most of myadult years in healthy, active,
as well as being a schoolteacher for about 18 years
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preschool kindergarten teacherfor 18 years. worked part time
as a yoga teacher for the lastseven, and then decided to
venture out and own my own yogastudio about a year ago.
Awesome. So let's dive into thata little bit deeper. So army
brat, like so many people thatcome into our area? How many
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times did you move prior tomaking your way into carry?
Um, I think it was for I wasborn in upstate New York. Spent
some time in Virginia, then Iwas in Panama, and Fayetteville
for a brief amount of time, notlong enough to say I was there.
Then Garner for about two yearsand or year and a half and then
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carry. So I went to junior highand care and went to well Middle
School and carry in high schooland carry so
yeah, and that's actually how weknow each other. So I'm a carry
brought to us, right. Alright,so moving around is something
that we talk about a lot as realestate agents. And although this
is not necessarily real estatepodcast, what's the impact that
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you felt moving around as oftenas you did prior to middle
school? And what were some ofthe things that happen that kind
of shaped who you are today?
Well, I was always had, I hadthree sisters, and Rob close in
age was my twin. So we werealways together. So we always
had the three of us. I mean, Ialways had the two of them to
rely on. I think it shaped mebeing a little bit more
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outgoing, a little bit able tokind of, you know, get into
something new and and kind offigure it out and keep going.
How did you find the community?
How did you get connected whenyou were that age moving around
as often as you did? Oh, sportsand just our parents putting us
into a lot of different programsand community centers and camps
and things like that. And, youknow, once when you move around
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like that a lot. It's it's hardsometimes to get to figure
things out, but it's also kindof fun, because we went from and
I forgot to say, we live inKorea as well. But we went from
being in Virginia, which at thetime was kind of like you know,
south, so it's different to livein, in Panama, which was all you
know, the weather was great allthe time. We had the greatest
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friends, but Spanish knew wespoke Spanish with different
foods, but we're also thereduring the Panama invasion in
1989. I think it was eight Ican't remember. So that was a
little crazy. So like just livegoing through basically what a
child was, you know, kind ofshaped a lot of my shaped who we
were as kids. And then moving toNorth Carolina was just like the
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biggest culture shock ever justbecause you know, you weren't
you never prepared for I visionof Carolina when I was a kid. I
always thought it was like AndyGriffith Show. I thought it was
like Mayberry. I didn'tunderstand. That's right. I just
thought everything was kind ofyou know, you walk around and
there'scows and wild animals. Listen, I
grew up in Cary in the 80s andwent to downtown rally schools,
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middle school, elementaryschool, and even then I was
asked if I lived on a farmbecause of Kildare farms being
such a large part of where welive. So I Yeah, it is a culture
shock. And then you come in andthere's these beautiful
communities, and we're so luckyto have so much opportunity and
infrastructure and business. Andit's it's been a really fun time
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to watch our little town growup. So where did you end up
landing for college?
So I went to a bunch ofdifferent colleges. It was, I
guess, I was like think of lifeas in stages. So at that stage,
I was trying to figure thingsout, I spent my whole for four
to know, probably six yearswrestling. And then when I got
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to college, what I tried to dowas I went to a smaller school
to try to get better grades. Andthat way would give me more
opportunities to maybe possiblywalk onto a wrestling team in
the area. So I went to I startedschool at St. Augustine's
College in downtown Raleigh.
Then I went to NC State for alittle bit, went to USC G, Wake
Tech, Durham Tech, and then wentback to Wake Tech, where I
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finished off with certificateand teaching preschool,
preschool age kids andkindergarten and so
so the one thing I'm hearingfrom you is the one thing
constant is change. Yeah, yeah,yeah. And teaching is teaching
and teaching is something thatI'm really passionate about as
well. You know, I startedteaching, dance growing up. And
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it was one of those things wherethe more you teach, the better
you are. And I found that as Iwould teach fundamentals to
younger kids, it actually helpedme be more aware of what those
fundamentals were in my owndance practice. And then moving
on, I started working inPilates, and teaching Pilates.
And again, it I started doingPilates, it was pure
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conditioning, pure, you know,learning how the body moves, and
the mechanics and thekinesiology and then I became a
better dancer, it was too late,I was way too old for doing
that, but it definitely openedup my eyes to all of the things
that teaching can provide. Soyou know, you being an athlete,
all through school and college,and then going into teaching a
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whole different world, what didthat what did that do for you in
terms of opening your eyes towhat you want to do with your
life.
Um, so I never envisioned myselfbeing a teacher. I was never
even one of those things. Like Ididn't know what I wanted to do
in life, but I knew I didn'twant to be a teacher. But I
taught at a summer camp at thisschool my mother worked at, and
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I had so much fun over thesummer. And then I what I did
was after this summer was over,and I was back at school, I
would come back in and help outat the school in the, in the
older classrooms with the fouror five year olds. And I really
enjoyed it. And I found that itwas my calling, because I kind
of just came with ease. And, butonce I even once I kind of
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decided that's what I want todo, I still thought to myself,
you know, I do this for a coupleyears, and I'm gonna, you know,
find something else to do. But Ididn't know what else I was. It
just was as a man and it justlike, you know, thinking about
as being a teacher, and youknow, knowing that teachers
don't make that much money, butyou know, I always felt that you
get paid and you know, thevalue, the friendships and the
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love that you get from the kidsgonna love you, you give them
but I, I've learned from them,patients also learn just to, you
know, when kids look at the lookat the world differently than we
do, you know, they don't knowthe word no, or, you know, you
can't do this, you can't dothat. Or if they're doing art or
anything, they just, it'screative. They just do what they
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want. And they move on. Yeah.
And I found that, that wassomething that I wanted to be
even as an adult, I wanted to beable to create things and, you
know, just be like, I don't knowwhat it is, but it made me feel
good. I'm gonna walk away. Andyou know, I'll come back to it,
or I'll start something else.
And I'll make that and, youknow, made me feel good, I make
something else. And I think thatwas something as far as being a
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teacher, then I started doingart when I was about 2526. And
it was just kind of just seeingthe creativity and how easy how
easy it came to children becausethey didn't think about, you
know, you know, society whatsociety might tell us, right?
Yeah, they're not doing it foranybody other than themselves.
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And I have had a few educationproviders on Making Moves. So go
back and listen to those if youhaven't, but one of the things
that is so important as parentsor even adult figures in
children's lives is to continueto foster that. Like you can do
great things. And you can dothose great things for yourself.
You don't need my my approval ormy you know, constant, like
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praise for you to feelfulfilled. And my kids drive me
bananas because that's how I wasraised. Like, you go to dance,
you got dropped off, you gotpicked back up, you know you
were doing that for you. Yeah.
And they're like, watch me watchme and I'm like I can't like at
number one, it gives me anxiety.
Like watch you do flips becausenow they're in cheer and doing
all this stuff. But I love thatyou embrace that, that side of
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children of just they're so freeand what a great place to be and
something to be reminded of asadults. Your artwork is
something that I did want to getto. So I'm glad that you
mentioned that. Your wholestudio has a lot of artwork
incorporated into it. So whatdescribe what that has done or
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what that creative process lookslike for you. I mean, it's hard
to talk about art on a podcast.
But you know, what is? What doesthat mean to you? What is it
that inspires you to create thatart?
So I started by just, I didn'tknow what I was doing nothing
about art, I was a kid that ifhe asked me to cut out
something, I'd cry and asked mysister to do it,
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are you left handed? You know, Ijust didn't want I didn't want
to do it. I was just like, youknow, why would we do this, I
didn't like the color, oranything, all I could do was be
outside smashing stuff, playinggames. And, but once I started
doing it, um, it came from apoint of, you know, when you're
in your 20s, you have anapartment, or you have something
and I didn't like the, you know,the silly movie, quote, signs
and all that stuff. So I justthought to myself, Hey, let me
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you know, try painting. Justtake a canvas and paint it blue,
or painted yellow. And then Iwent to an art store just asked
a million questions to spend waytoo much money, wasted, wasted
art products. And it startedfrom a point of just, you know,
seeing what things what happenedwhen you take this from, you
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know, decide to take this fromthis site and mash it together.
And once I kind of learned andkind of got the hang of what I
was doing it my art just keptevolving. And now what I do,
especially incorporated with ayoga studio is everything to me,
I look at all things as far aslike, what, how can I use this?
How can I create somethingdifferent with that, like, I'll
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take a lot of found materials.
And when I say found materials,a lot of things that you would
just either don't want to trashor recycle, and try to create
things with it. And it's just,it's satisfying to me is I wish
I had more time to do it. Atthis point, I'll have a lot of
time anymore to kind of createthings, but it's just, it's fun.
And it's like, I'll take a yogamat, and I'll paint it and I'll
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burn it and I'll glue it soyou can still smash and you can
still destroy things. Yeah, itgets to become a creative
process.
My stress down and it keeps onsomething that I love to do. I
mean, I mean, basically, youknow, art, I guess it's the same
way as teaching, I don't youknow, I'm not doing it for
money, I'm doing it for my ownhappiness. And as selfish as
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that sounds, I guess, the firstand only thing I can do to make
anything else happy to makeanybody else happy has made
myself. Sothat's actually what a piece of
our culture at the RachaelKendall team is, you know, it's
okay to be selfish sometimes.
Because being able to achieveyour goals is actually
beneficial to your family, it isbeneficial to your clients.
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Yeah. And it is beneficial tothe people that are around you,
because that's the energy thatwe put out there. So I
definitely agree with you've gotto, you know, pour into yourself
in order to give back whetherthat be in teaching art, or now
being a business owner. So howdid this come into the world
after teaching and art and nowall of a sudden yoga is in your
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life. Um, so this is a far cryfrom wrestling, and also bashing
things outside to go thepeaceful meditation.
So the whole way the yogajourney started for me was a
Ricky on his A, the firstworkout gym was in Raleigh, and
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my roommate at the time, and hissister, were deciding to form a
hot yoga studio. And I thought Ihad tried yoga before, but I
just thought it was like, Yeah,whatever. I don't know, who
would want to really do yoga,you know? Like, it's just yoga.
Because I mean, I love to workout and I thought yoga was fine,
but I just thought, you know, Iwant to work out what to do. I
want to break a sweat. I wantto, you know, feel like,
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yeah, and I'm gonna go runcardio. Yeah. So
they opened their yoga studio, Iwould say about 12 years ago
now. And at first I was there asjust a workout. And they were my
roommates at the time. Sowhatever they did, I once I got
off of work, I went and workedout as well. And then I started
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teaching. I started I startedteaching just with teaching
circuit training classes. So Idid a lot of things that were,
you know, familiar to me.
So break that down, because youknow, when I think a yoga Yeah,
I'm definitely thinking aboutthe mat work. Yeah. vinyasa
flow. Yeah. You know, orpotentially I know they don't
call it big room anymore. Butwhat is it the 24 or 12 poses?
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Things like 20 something Yeah,remember the number Yeah,
that's that's the world that I'maccustomed to. So when you say
circuit training and yoga, whatdoes that mean? So
I'm sorry. So with Ricky on whatwe do is we offer hot yoga, and
as well as we offer like circuittraining, HIIT classes kind of
thing. And that was somethingthat was familiar to me and my
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my my buddy tied the owner. Heasked me if I wanted to teach
and I kept telling him no, Idon't want to do it. Because I
was just content with justworking out every day that I was
I'd like to split up my daylike, I have the time to, you
know, kind of move around and dowhat I want.
Basically, I've just beensitting molding young lives.
Yeah. I'm not interested indoing this anymore. Yeah.
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So I started, I taught like aSaturday morning, I was like,
This is great. This is, this isfun. I like it. And it was
similar just to teaching likethe teaching kids, it was, I
mean, I think it's like at theyell at. And so I started doing
that. And then they asked me toteach a yoga class, which I
still was kind of hesitant todoing. And they just taught me
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the script for one of our whatare the class that we're most
known for, which is our Tiger'seye class, which is half of like
a circuit workout where you havea bunch of stations where you
might do like, a bench press,squats, push ups, that kind of
thing. Using machines, and thenyou'd go in and do half of a
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Vinyasa flow yoga class, asimilar feel like vinyasa flow
yoga class, and I really likeddoing it. And it was it was
comfortable, because it was onlyhalf a yoga class. So that they
and the best thing about friendslike having friends like that
they weren't, there was no like,Hey, we're gonna give you some
time. It was like, Okay, weshowed you how to do it now
teach it. And they, so I didthat. And then I did the teacher
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training. And I did to watch anhourly level teacher training,
that is a rich archaeon. Doesthey have their own teaching
certificate? Yeah,yeah. So I did that. And still,
it was it was fun, and, youknow, kind of broaden my horizon
of what yoga meant. And Ilearned a lot and became a
better teacher for it. And thenI went on to doing the 300 hour
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level yoga, which was kind ofjust, basically I guess, in
layman's terms, it's like, yougo from, you know, your
undergrad to you know, yourgraduate graduate. Yeah. And
that was like, Okay, I reallylike doing this. And at the
time, I felt like with teaching,I wasn't really caught in a rut,
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but I just knew that like my,that my interests lie in other
places. And I did at teaching, Istarted to feel like my day was
I was at school teaching eighthours a day. But there were so
many times, like, if I had ourlunch break, I would think about
all the other things I could getaccomplished through the day if
I didn't have to be here doingthis.
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And that's like that gutinstinct that we all have that
we all have to trust. Yeah. AndI think that's actually a great
element of yoga is learning howto trust yourself and your
intuition, of being able to say,and you had already said it,
like, I didn't think I was goingto stay here forever. But you
saw that door open. And then youwent to go do that I have, I've
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had a couple conversations withother entrepreneurs and
intrapreneurs. And I think weall get that sense of, there's
got to be more out there. Youknow, and I love I some people
disagree, but I love the morementality, like what else? What
else is out there for me toexplore and discover? You know,
I was 18 when I got my Pilatescertification. And I started
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teaching. And the reason why Idid that was because I didn't
have the money to take theclasses. And I'm like, so those
that can't do teach. Yeah. Youknow, but it opened up so many
doors, and I met so many dynamicpeople, being a teacher, and a
lot of those people are still inmy world, and I can see them and
they've taken their love ofPilates out there. So I love
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that you trusted your gut. Andyou said, Yep, you know, I'm
going to take that leap offaith. I'm going to go do this.
So now we're full time yogainstructor.
Yeah. Oh. It's, uh, yeah. So Iopened. Right? Pandemic stuff.
I feel like the pandemic hitsare making moves podcast in
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almost every episode, because itit really was a life changing.
It is a life changing event forall of us. And, you know, I was
meeting with somebody fromRonald McDonald House just a few
minutes ago. And it there havebeen positives and there have
been negative. So what was whatwas the hardest part about
opening your business? Did youhave been 2020? Or was it end of
2019? Yeah. So what was thebiggest? What? 2019? Yeah, yeah.
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What was the biggest obstacle? Imean, honestly, like, what,
where were where were you inthat headspace of operating in a
pandemic?
Me? I didn't understand becauseI had never ran my own business
before. So I was I wasoptimistic. But I was nervous.
And I guess I was still tryingto, like figure things out. So
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it was like, I didn't understandthe way like, you know, do I pay
the rent? Do you know I needequipment? I don't have anybody
at this gym. Right. You know,and it was a it was just a lot
of waiting time. I guess Ididn't understand. You know, it
just was a lot of it was kind ofa fog, I guess. Everyday just
felt the same. And, you know, atthe time, I think anybody knew
(19:57):
what questions to ask or whoknew the answer to what you
know. So Nobody hada crystal ball. And you being a
new business owner in 2020,didn't get to take advantage of
the PPP loans or the things thatwere out there because you
didn't have a payroll or youdidn't have that. And I think
that's something that, you know,although in the media, we all
heard like, this is the theseare the opportunities for every
business owner, it reallywasn't. If you didn't have the
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background, and you were juststarting in the business, right,
you couldn't choose between rentor this because you didn't have
any supplement your way.
You basically got a check. Thatwas like, Thanks for applying.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like, youknow, Pat, on the back kind of
thing, like, are you gonna takethis? And I'm, you know, working
with real estate agents asclosely as I do, you know, that
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was something I was trying toguide people like how here here,
go talk to this person or gotalk to this person? Because it
was a lot, and it was constantlycoming at you as a as a contract
employee of what you could orcould not do? And nobody would
nobody had the answers. Yeah, sototally stressful. Yeah. Can't
even imagine. So when do youfeel like things really lifted
and you were able to get startedon your business?
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So it was almost like a two partplan we open. So when they said
we could open we open with allthe restrictions and mandates,
which are still, you know, tothis day, which is still
confusing, and you're not sure,you know, is it? Is there a
right or wrong? Or is it like,legal and illegal? You know,
like, wasthis a suggestion? Or is this
like a really I have todo? Yeah, so I didn't really
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actually feel to be open, whichI cannot remember which month it
was, until they said we couldtake the mask off, because yoga
and working out is already hardenough. But once you add the
added element of a mask, whichtakes some getting used to for a
lot of people. And it didn'tbother me, but I know if you're
paying for a service, the lastthing you want to do is
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something obstructing you fromtaking that service. So it was
tough to kind of get going. ButI felt like once we took those
mask off and people were able tocome in and see the benefits
they were getting from you knowhot yoga especially that we
already have one open on theother side of Raleigh that that
now this one's closer to yourhome wherever you live with with
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East Raleigh growing so muchthat you know, right in your
backyard. Yeah. And then westart to see some growth and
everything.
Yeah. So there's two locations.
And so if you if you're a memberof one you remember both
I know so you've you are amember of one you're basically a
member that studio, there'sactually more than two
locations. There is I think fivenow there's one is two in
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Raleigh, one in Durham, one inCharlotte and one always in Salt
Lake City, sothat's interesting. Yeah. Or
part SaltLake City or parks in Salt Lake
City. Yeah, it's gonna give usso um, what is what does it look
like? Like what are the classofferings? You've mentioned? The
the one that the core class thatyou guys are known for, which is
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half circuit, half vinyasa.
Yeah. Tell me a little bit moreabout what you guys offer.
Um, so we offer a variety ofclasses, ranging from Tiger's
eye, which is, you know, likesaid the best of both worlds
where you're getting an Acircuit workout and flow yoga
workout, we have one that'sbasically a hot Pilates class. A
lot of core work calledcrystals, we have topaz, which
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is our fundamental class,similar to what became the
software kind of goes throughour basic poses our basic
foundation of our of our studio,we have diamond, which is a
voice led class, the lights aredim, that's you're holding the
pose a lot, a lot, a lot longer.
good stretch. We kind of like ayen. Yeah, yep. And then we have
warrior, which is not yoga atall. It's all in the, in our on
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our circuit side, where we haveall our weights and everything
that class varies from studio tostudio. And I think that yeah,
that's all the offers we have.
So that's awesome.
Yeah. What, what's the what isthe foundational culture of the
yoga studio? Like who's common?
What are they getting from it?
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What are your clients sayingabout your, their experience
with you?
So basically, the principle andthat's coming from what they
started with the rally is to sayour yoga is accessible to
everybody. And the variety thatwe have, allows for you too, if
you want to take you know, maybeone of the slower paced classes
such as Topaz or dive in, youcan get that in a good stretch.
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Or you could come in and youknow, really put I'm sorry, I
forgot one of our classes calledbloodstone. You can really come
in and do a flow class whereyou're up and down. You get a
great workout in so it's more ofyoga for athletes yoga for the
everyday kind of person, youknow, we have that spiritual and
mental and physical balance butless more of you're finding that
(24:41):
yourself. I mean, I think we allfind that if we're in a hot room
your brain immediately turns offthe minute your focus more on
not passing out. Yeah. I feellike I'm in good shape. And I go
to Hot Yoga and I'm like this isthis is mentally and physically
challenging. And I think that weall need that push because
number one, we sit too much.
Yeah. And we don't move aroundenough. And I feel like movement
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is such a healing thing for ourbodies. But if when you're in
that room and it's hot, it's oneof those things where you don't
have the choice but not beinward of your thoughts. Yeah.
And I love the idea of circuittraining with yoga because we,
we love the idea of flexibility.
But we we can be flexible andnot strong. And I've tried to
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teach my children that too,because they're super bendy.
Yeah. And they're able to do alot, but they don't have they're
learning how to have strengthbehind flexibility. You as an
athlete, I'm sure you had todeal with that as well. How
would you describe the benefitof strength behind flexibility
to your clients,um, I was to, I was trying to
say, you know, it's, it's goodto be a yogi, but it's better to
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be a strong yogi. And that'sjust what building you need to
maintain that flexibility,you're gonna need that strength.
We all like to think we'rebetter super bendy and a lot of
people are, yeah.
But they can cause injury, andthen you're rolling ankles and
those thatwant to, you want to incorporate
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building that strength, becauseI think most people have this
preconceived notion of yoga. Sosometimes just a stretch is
actually building a lot ofstrength. I mean, the hardest
thing sometimes in the world isto lift your own your own arms
above your head, right withoutany pain or you know, without a
struggle kind of thing or to siton the ground. And, you know,
inhaling your arms up and reachafford to touch your toes. It's,
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it's tough. So yeah, yeah. Ithink when you build that
strength, and you incorporatethat the circuit side of things
into it, you start to see thebenefits and your flexibility
and everything. And I thinksometimes people have that, you
know, thing of, Oh, where am Ijust do yoga. It's just this I'm
just stretching and all thatkind of stuff. And if you do,
if, or if you're just doing, youknow, strength clannish, core
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strength classes, you'rebuilding your strength, where it
actually is kind of the it'sshortening your muscles, and
you're actually getting tighter,and we're all aging and we're
getting tighter. And you do youhave to be holistic about your
fitness. Just like you have tobe holistic about your diet or
anything else that you do. Yeah.
Clearly, I'm a big fan. So, youknow, with now you're coming up
(27:14):
on about a year that you've beenopen. Yeah, it was a year a
couple weeks ago. Yep. Okay. Andwhere do you see the business
going? Like, how was it growingand what's been working for you,
um, we're just continuing togrow. I think that's been the
fun part. And most of thelearning curve for me is just
trying to figure out how to, toget people in the door and, you
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know, brick and mortar, so youknow, social media is great, but
word of mouth is the best thing.
So, it's just continued to buildthat community. That so that
we're seeing people formfriendships and bonds outside of
the yoga studio, you know, so wehave people like, for instance,
like on Wednesday night, we havea big group that goes down,
there's a place called Mordecai,I was gonna say, we're gonna
talk about mortar. That'sprobably one of my favorite
(27:59):
little draft houses little beershops. I love it. I love the
movie nights that they do. So ifyou're familiar with is it
center was the shopping centeris that center gateway gateway
shopping center. That's where aReiki on a trip over and that's
where Mordecai is. It's a greatlittle shop. And I think there's
gonna be a restaurant opening upin there too.
(28:23):
Called fine folk. Yes. Which isgonna be great. Yeah, it's nice
to be a part of a growingshopping center. It's because
it's there's a huge communitybehind this. And I think the
more people I know downtown's,kind of like where everybody's
at. But people are starting tokind of like, you know, once you
get going to get tired ofdowntown, you come in, or you
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just move nice, right? Becauseyou don't want to part of
downtown. ILOVE EAST Raleigh, because
you've got the Alamo movietheater, which is so cool.
That's one of my favorite. Iwhen I was working with
homebuyers, I would be like, butlet's go here. This is where we
can go. You want to be close todowntown. So it's an awesome
location. Absolutely love it. SoI have to ask you about your
hat. Okay. Selfmade dues paid.
(29:04):
Yeah. Talk to me a little bitabout it. Um,
I mean, I saw it on Instagram.
It registered with me. I can'tremember the guys name. Luke
something. He's a tattoo artist,and it just resonated with me. I
just know, more of the hard workand positivity part. I mean, the
dues paid kind of thing to selfmade a little bit because I've
had help along the way, but it'sjust it's a great hat. I mean,
(29:31):
I love it. I love it. And you'reright. You know, it takes a
support system who's yoursupport system?
By parents? My girlfriend Mary,the Reynolds family, they own
the yoga studio, the corporateyoga studios. My friend Steve,
who owns the one of my partners,I have two partners in this. So
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you know, Shannon and Liz and wejust all work together and you
know, just trying to do for thegreater good Yeah, you know,
I'll be successful. SoI love that, you know, creating
a team, as you, you know, embarkinto something that's new and
foreign is so important. So, um,is there anything else you want
everybody to know about Reikion?
Yeah, I mean, I want if you havedone yoga before, I've never
(30:17):
done yoga before in your life,come try it out. And the
greatest thing about it is weoffer the, you can come in and
you know, do a strength workoutand do the hit classes. Or you
can come in and do yoga, and youcan do the easiest yoga classes
we got, or the hardest yogaclasses. It's fun for everybody.
SoI've watched your Instagram, and
it does look like you guys havea lot of fun. Yeah, I
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think I think there's a certainamount of joy you get, even when
you're tired and sweating hard.
I mean, I think working outworking out is where it's at. So
I mean, it's just somethingeveryone should incorporate in
their life. And the greatestthing we offer right now is that
you can pay $30 for 20consecutive days of yoga. And
that gets you with the wayeverything is now that gets you
(31:04):
access to our in person classes.
And our virtual classes. Oh,I love that. So how do people
find you online?
So you can go to a rookie on.comAR r i c h i o n, that calm and
once you click on the webpage,there is a list of studios and
(31:25):
once you go to the list justlook on click on nice Raleigh.
You'll see all the informationon there you see my information,
your beautiful artwork. Yeah.
And, or you can check me onInstagram. And this basically,
like find out more about it. SoI love it. Okay, so I got to ask
some random questions. Do youlike to read? Are you a book
(31:45):
guy?
Nah, not really.
I challenge you to start pickingup some books. I send you a
couple of recommendations.
Favorite TV show?
Seinfeld sign to lane. I didn't.
I don't know where I was at thelate 90s Seinfeld. I can watch
Seinfeld.
Hysterical. That's somethingthat's noteworthy. I love it.
(32:07):
And you know, best advice forsomebody that is thinking about
either doing a franchise doingtheir own business what what
what could you give them fromsome of the things that you've
learned?
Read, read over your paperwork.
Know that some things aren'tgoing to go as planned and be
ready to pivot. And just have anopen mind and be positive. I
mean, have good have a have agood energy to you. I mean, so
(32:30):
know that it's gonna be hardwork.
Right? If you're ready toinvest, and I can't say that
enough. Awesome. Well, it's beena pleasure to have your bishop
loved every minute. Thank youfor joining us on this episode
of Making Moves. We want todeliver the highlights of the
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