June 18, 2025 • 14 mins
Discovering how yoga can transform both body and mind is at the heart of our conversation with Amanda Steadman, owner of Level Yoga Studio. As she celebrates an impressive 10-year milestone with her Vero Beach studios, Amanda reveals how a dark period of her life evolved into a thriving community space that's changing lives.
As Amanda explains, yoga's transformative power extends far beyond the physical benefits most newcomers initially seek. While increased flexibility draws people in, it's the mental clarity and emotional stability that keeps them committed to the practice. At the core of this transformation is proper breathing that can be deployed during moments of anxiety, stress, or overwhelm.
Whether you're a seasoned yogi or just curious about how yoga can support your everyday life, Amanda’s story is a powerful reminder of what happens when movement meets mindfulness. From healing personal pain to helping others find peace, her journey is one you won’t want to miss.
Tune in to hear how breath, balance, and belief built something beautiful, right here in Vero Beach.
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Brian (00:00):
All right.
Well, welcome back to the VeroBeach Podcast.
I'm Brian and I'm Shawna, andtoday we are sitting right here
at the Level Yoga Studio.
Now we're with the owner,Amanda Steadman.
You have two locations, correct.
Amanda (00:12):
I do yes.
Brian (00:12):
We're sitting in the.
Amanda (00:13):
Royal Palm Point Studio, the very first one that opened,
and you're celebrating 10 years.
I am 10 years.
Brian (00:19):
Thank you Big congrats Well, yes, congrats Well.
We just did an episode withAudrey from Seahorse Lane and
she just celebrated 10 years,too, right she?
Amanda (00:27):
did.
Yeah, she's a good friend ofmine.
Shawna (00:29):
Did you know each other back then, when you first
launched I?
Amanda (00:31):
actually had.
Just I think I met Audrey onour grand opening party.
Brian (00:37):
Oh, that's so cool.
Yeah, amanda, we're so glad tobe here with you.
Tell us a little bit about whoyou are and what you do.
Amanda (00:44):
So I grew up in Vero, born and raised, and I moved
away for a little bit and thenended up marrying a friend of
mine who I went to high schoolwith and we relocated back to
Vero and started our family.
And then, during a challengingtime in my life, I was doing
yoga and I thought I want tolearn more about this, because I
(01:05):
would go to class like reallystressed out and then I would
leave and feel really good andhappy and like, wow, this is
like amazing stuff.
I want to learn this.
So I ended up going into myfirst 200 hour yoga teacher
training in 2008 and theninstantly was done within three
months and went right intoteaching.
So I started teaching aroundtown Christie's Fitness, quail
(01:27):
Valley, did some privates and atthe time there was a yoga
studio in town and I wasteaching there as well.
In 2015, a student of mine whowas younger than me she had just
graduated from college andmoved back to town and was
actually sitting at La Tabla.
This space was empty and sheasked if I wanted to open up a
(01:49):
yoga studio with her kind ofbring something different to
Vero Beach.
I said yes.
Brian (01:55):
So yoga Okay, I don't do a lot of yoga I encourage him
all the time.
She always encourages me.
Shawna (02:01):
I'm like just start doing a few moves, a few
stretches, You'll open thosehips right up.
Brian (02:06):
We've been following you on your Instagram and stuff and
I do have one question Did youreally come out of that box or
was that like some kind ofediting?
Amanda (02:14):
I was in the box, are you?
Serious and I could only get inthat box because of yoga, oh my
gosh, have you seen that video?
Shawna (02:22):
No, I got to show you that video.
Brian (02:23):
I can picture what you're talking about though I'm like
there's no way that I was in thebox.
I can't wait to see it.
Well, tell us some of thebenefits of what you've learned
about yoga.
Amanda (02:32):
A lot of people come to yoga because they want to
stretch or they've been toldthey need to stretch.
And yes, that is true, you dostretch when you take yoga.
But there's so many otherbenefits to it.
One you can become stronger,strengthen your muscles, your
body.
But the one thing that keptdrawing me back to yoga was the
(02:54):
mental aspect of it, because ithelps you really work through
the stress that you might befeeling in your life.
It's helped me in some likedarker times in my life, through
depression.
It just it gives you a tool tobe able to use when those things
are happening in life.
So there's, I mean, it's just,it's the only like I've.
(03:16):
My whole life I've eitherworked out at the gym, I've done
spin classes, you know I'vedone other modalities of
exercise, but yoga it ismodalities of exercise, but yoga
it is a form of exercise butit's not really a workout.
We like to say it's a work in,but it, it, um, it's the only
form of movement that helped mekind of change my life in the my
the mental aspect.
Shawna (03:37):
Um, that's been my experience too.
Amanda (03:39):
The, the main part with yoga is, again a lot of people
come because they want tostretch, but they don't realize
that they're going to learn howto breathe properly, and so that
really is the biggest part ofyoga is you learn how to breathe
properly, because so many of usin life don't use half as much
as we can to breathe our lungsand really shallow inhales.
(04:01):
So with yoga, we talk a lotabout that and we teach you how
to breathe properly and then sothen you're putting your bodies
in these shapes and you'rebreathing into them, and that's
ultimately what starts to happenis you feel better and happier?
And, yeah, it's veryinteresting.
Brian (04:17):
Talk to us a little bit about breathing properly.
Amanda (04:19):
So in yoga it's called Ujjayi breath and it's through
the physical practice we breathein and out through our nose.
Some people breathe throughtheir mouth.
I've been doing this for solong like I can't even imagine
breathing out of my mouthanymore.
But it's called Ujjayi breath.
So it's a sound breath and whatwe do is we constrict and use
(04:40):
kind of the back of the throatand it really helps to deepen
your breath.
So when I'm teaching somebodyhow to breathe I will talk them
through about probably like afour or five count inhale and
then a four or five count exhale, because we want the breath to
match, be the same length.
Shawna (04:58):
Okay, you're going to love this.
When I was doing yogaconsistently with an instructor,
my asthma got so much betterand I didn't need my inhaler
nearly as much, and I could feellike my lungs felt so much
healthier, yeah.
Amanda (05:11):
A lot of people don't even think about breathing.
They just don't, you know.
And then there's so many peoplewalking around that are
struggling with anxiety, stress,depression.
You know things like that, andI mean myself.
I struggle with anxiety.
I hate getting on an airplaneand flying, but I know I have to
do it so I can utilize myUjjayi breath to help calm me.
(05:31):
And then, within that, thereare other breathing exercises
that we, you know, teach, thatwe learn as well, but through
the actual, like practice, whenwe're going through a flow,
we're using the ujjayi breath.
Shawna (05:43):
I've never heard that word before.
Amanda (05:45):
It's called victorious breath or ocean sounding breath.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Brian (05:49):
Yeah, I know that even you, shauna, have talked to me
about like sometimes, like if Ican't turn my mind off when I'm
trying to go to sleep, she'lltell me to do these breathing
exercises, and I'm surprised howmany times it actually does
help if I just really slow downand just focus on the breathing.
So I could definitelyunderstand a little bit of how
it could benefit.
Amanda (06:10):
But that's very interesting Because the mind is
definitely busy.
We're constantly thinking andthat's what we're teaching also
in class is how to stay in themoment, be present.
You know the mind's going tothink, oh, I have to go to the
grocery store or I have to go dothis.
But how can we just focus onthe breath, even just by simply
counting to yourself?
You know, counting the breathin, counting the breath out.
Brian (06:39):
That's really, really anybody that's listening.
That's something reallyimportant to capture.
There is being in the moment.
That is something that is sodifficult these days to consider
that breathing right, breathingbetter, would actually help us
be more present in the moment.
That's pretty powerful.
Amanda, tell me what was themoment that you decided to go
all in to launching thisbusiness?
What did that look like?
Amanda (06:54):
Well, once she approached me and asked me to
open up the studio, I of coursehad to talk to my husband about
it, and we had our children weresmall at the time.
It wasn't that she didn't haveto convince me too much, I did,
I was excited to do it.
It was something that I feltthat I probably never would have
done on my own, and to havesomebody see something in me to
(07:17):
open a business with, I thoughtwas very kind of her, because it
is something I probablywouldn't have done without her.
My husband he's always been sosupportive, even when I said I'm
going to go take a yoga teachertraining and I don't know
what's going to happen, but Ifeel like this is something.
And he was like go do it.
Brian (07:34):
And you said you have.
You said you have kids.
You had kids when you started.
Amanda (07:37):
Yes.
Brian (07:37):
So how old were your kids when you started?
Amanda (07:39):
It's funny, we were just talking about this last night
because we're at 10 years, so myson was four and my daughter
was eight.
Shawna (07:45):
That's kind of hard ages to start a business.
Amanda (07:48):
So that was one of the reasons why I wasn't sure,
because I was still.
I was teaching yoga and I wasteaching a lot of yoga around
town, but I was still able to bewith the kids.
My mother-in-law helped out alot with the children as well,
and so that was something I hadto consider.
I knew this was going to takeup more of my time and but, you
know, we've been able to reallyhave a healthy balance.
(08:09):
My husband has been verysupportive.
He's he works, he's an oilpainter, so he's an artist and
works from home, so we've beenable to really balance it out
and raise our children the waythat we, you know, felt was
important, and that's cool.
Brian (08:24):
That is so cool.
That is so cool.
Wow, oil painter.
I want to talk to him.
What's his name?
Again, luke, luke.
All right, luke, if you'relistening, luke, we need to get
you on the podcast.
Oil painting.
I love that.
I love that.
Do you want to share any ofyour story about, like you said,
you were going through like adark time and then you found
yoga, like that helped.
Do you want to share any ofthat?
Amanda (08:43):
Yeah.
So my husband and I we gotmarried at 24 and um we had
lived in Sarasota and then wemoved back to Vero and I started
a job and he was trying tobecome an oil painter.
He just graduated from artschool and then we ended up
getting pregnant a lot soonerthan we weren't not trying, but
(09:05):
because we weren't.
You know, we didn't really haveany money.
So when I had our daughter Idid not go back to work because
it didn't make sense and so itwas hard.
We didn't have any money.
I was really stressed out and Iwould go to this gym, yoga class
, and met Mary Rapogle, who isowner of Ocean Grill, and was
(09:28):
really inspired by her, and so Iwas like I want to, I want to
do this and I would, really Iwould go to class really upset
and stressed and just I guess Iwas feeling a lot of like
unknown.
You know, and that can go whenpeople have insecurities or
money issues or whatever itmight be.
(09:49):
So that's when I decided to doa yoga training and it was the
best decision ever.
Wow, it's kind of funny.
When I was a senior in college,I took a elective class.
It was a yoga elective class,not thinking anything that I
would end up doing this for mywhole life.
But I was.
I needed, needed an electiveand I took a yoga class.
(10:11):
So I'm like, wow, that's kindof funny how like life prepares
you for like these things yeah.
Cause that was my first well, Itook.
I did a few yoga classes incollege, but so I feel like all
those little things prepare youfor more things in your life.
Brian (10:24):
That is so true.
Well, what would you say likethrough your 10 years?
Amanda (10:33):
did you have any times that you faced any fears or
doubts?
Yes, and I'm sure this isprobably a very common one, for
a lot of people.
But I would have to say, 2020COVID was very, um, a very hard
time, because they were likedon't get next to each other,
don't breathe on each other, andthis is what we do.
Brian (10:46):
Yeah, you just talked about.
You talked about it correctly,and now you're like don't
breathe, so yeah, that was um.
Amanda (10:54):
that was a very scary time and it was definitely um a
very hard and dark time for me.
Um, I ended up buying out mybusiness partner um September
1st 2020,.
I took over full time and I wasvery scared because we were
still operating at like 14people in the studio.
(11:15):
Our max in the studio spacesare 27 people, so we were not
even getting, you know, a fullclass and it was.
It was just a very scary time.
But again, I had my husband onmy side and he was the one who
really pushed me through thisand told me that we can do this.
And that's when he kind of tooka step back from his job and
(11:36):
stepped in and helped me a lotmore with the kids and like,
when I look back at that time,who I was into, where I am now,
I'm like, wow, I've really growna lot.
Shawna (11:45):
Did you have to close down for any period of time?
Amanda (11:48):
So I think we were closed for like six weeks, um,
but we instantly went online.
So we were closed, we closed,and then, I think like two days
later, we live stream.
We would online, um, theteachers that wanted to, we
would still teach classes.
We did it all at the otherstudio, so it was a pretty quick
turnaround to be able to dothat.
And then we have such awonderful community of students
(12:10):
that supported us through thatand they would hop online with
us and practice with us, and Ithink that one of the beautiful
things that came out of that ishow many people came to me and
with my teachers and told themthat we helped them so much
through that time.
And that's ultimately, that'swhy I teach.
I want people to experiencewhat I've experienced through
(12:36):
yoga.
I want them to grow and learnand feel better in their bodies
and their minds.
Brian (12:38):
What do you love most about running your business?
Amanda (12:41):
I think what I love most is the people that I get to be
with every day my teachers thatare here some of them have been
with me since the very beginningmy support staff, my studio
manager and assistant manager.
We tend to we are together alot because the two of them
they're a lot on the back end ofeverything, and then just being
(13:02):
with the students.
I mean it's like I said thislast night in the class that I
taught, like how grateful I amthat I get to do this every day.
It's a lot of work.
When you add a brick and mortar, you know something that you
have to like really manage.
But I wouldn't change it.
Brian (13:21):
Well, I'm super excited to get into episode number two,
to learn more about what the dayto day looks like, maybe some
more about the breathing, andprobably, I'm sure, there might
be some funny stories you canshare with us, too, that you
maybe have experienced throughhere as well.
Shawna (13:35):
No names, no names, no names have to be included.
Someone's listening right nowgoing, oh no please don't,
amanda, don't don't tell mystory, but uh but yeah, well,
I'm excited to learn more aboutthe day to day.
Brian (13:45):
So, with that, if you guys are enjoying the podcast,
make sure you click subscribeand leave us a review see you
later, neighbor.
All right.
Well, welcome back to the VeroBeach Podcast.
I'm Brian and I'm Shawna, andtoday we are sitting right here
at the Level Yoga Studio.
Now we're with the owner,Amanda Steadman.
You have two locations, correct.
Amanda (00:12):
I do yes.
Brian (00:12):
We're sitting in the.
Amanda (00:13):
Royal Palm Point Studio, the very first one that opened,
and you're celebrating 10 years.
I am 10 years.
Brian (00:19):
Thank you Big congrats Well, yes, congrats Well.
We just did an episode withAudrey from Seahorse Lane and
she just celebrated 10 years,too, right she?
Amanda (00:27):
did.
Yeah, she's a good friend ofmine.
Shawna (00:29):
Did you know each other back then, when you first
launched I?
Amanda (00:31):
actually had.
Just I think I met Audrey onour grand opening party.
Brian (00:37):
Oh, that's so cool.
Yeah, amanda, we're so glad tobe here with you.
Tell us a little bit about whoyou are and what you do.
Amanda (00:44):
So I grew up in Vero, born and raised, and I moved
away for a little bit and thenended up marrying a friend of
mine who I went to high schoolwith and we relocated back to
Vero and started our family.
And then, during a challengingtime in my life, I was doing
yoga and I thought I want tolearn more about this, because I
(01:05):
would go to class like reallystressed out and then I would
leave and feel really good andhappy and like, wow, this is
like amazing stuff.
I want to learn this.
So I ended up going into myfirst 200 hour yoga teacher
training in 2008 and theninstantly was done within three
months and went right intoteaching.
So I started teaching aroundtown Christie's Fitness, quail
(01:27):
Valley, did some privates and atthe time there was a yoga
studio in town and I wasteaching there as well.
In 2015, a student of mine whowas younger than me she had just
graduated from college andmoved back to town and was
actually sitting at La Tabla.
This space was empty and sheasked if I wanted to open up a
(01:49):
yoga studio with her kind ofbring something different to
Vero Beach.
I said yes.
Brian (01:55):
So yoga Okay, I don't do a lot of yoga I encourage him
all the time.
She always encourages me.
Shawna (02:01):
I'm like just start doing a few moves, a few
stretches, You'll open thosehips right up.
Brian (02:06):
We've been following you on your Instagram and stuff and
I do have one question Did youreally come out of that box or
was that like some kind ofediting?
Amanda (02:14):
I was in the box, are you?
Serious and I could only get inthat box because of yoga, oh my
gosh, have you seen that video?
Shawna (02:22):
No, I got to show you that video.
Brian (02:23):
I can picture what you're talking about though I'm like
there's no way that I was in thebox.
I can't wait to see it.
Well, tell us some of thebenefits of what you've learned
about yoga.
Amanda (02:32):
A lot of people come to yoga because they want to
stretch or they've been toldthey need to stretch.
And yes, that is true, you dostretch when you take yoga.
But there's so many otherbenefits to it.
One you can become stronger,strengthen your muscles, your
body.
But the one thing that keptdrawing me back to yoga was the
(02:54):
mental aspect of it, because ithelps you really work through
the stress that you might befeeling in your life.
It's helped me in some likedarker times in my life, through
depression.
It just it gives you a tool tobe able to use when those things
are happening in life.
So there's, I mean, it's just,it's the only like I've.
(03:16):
My whole life I've eitherworked out at the gym, I've done
spin classes, you know I'vedone other modalities of
exercise, but yoga it ismodalities of exercise, but yoga
it is a form of exercise butit's not really a workout.
We like to say it's a work in,but it, it, um, it's the only
form of movement that helped mekind of change my life in the my
the mental aspect.
Shawna (03:37):
Um, that's been my experience too.
Amanda (03:39):
The, the main part with yoga is, again a lot of people
come because they want tostretch, but they don't realize
that they're going to learn howto breathe properly, and so that
really is the biggest part ofyoga is you learn how to breathe
properly, because so many of usin life don't use half as much
as we can to breathe our lungsand really shallow inhales.
(04:01):
So with yoga, we talk a lotabout that and we teach you how
to breathe properly and then sothen you're putting your bodies
in these shapes and you'rebreathing into them, and that's
ultimately what starts to happenis you feel better and happier?
And, yeah, it's veryinteresting.
Brian (04:17):
Talk to us a little bit about breathing properly.
Amanda (04:19):
So in yoga it's called Ujjayi breath and it's through
the physical practice we breathein and out through our nose.
Some people breathe throughtheir mouth.
I've been doing this for solong like I can't even imagine
breathing out of my mouthanymore.
But it's called Ujjayi breath.
So it's a sound breath and whatwe do is we constrict and use
(04:40):
kind of the back of the throatand it really helps to deepen
your breath.
So when I'm teaching somebodyhow to breathe I will talk them
through about probably like afour or five count inhale and
then a four or five count exhale, because we want the breath to
match, be the same length.
Shawna (04:58):
Okay, you're going to love this.
When I was doing yogaconsistently with an instructor,
my asthma got so much betterand I didn't need my inhaler
nearly as much, and I could feellike my lungs felt so much
healthier, yeah.
Amanda (05:11):
A lot of people don't even think about breathing.
They just don't, you know.
And then there's so many peoplewalking around that are
struggling with anxiety, stress,depression.
You know things like that, andI mean myself.
I struggle with anxiety.
I hate getting on an airplaneand flying, but I know I have to
do it so I can utilize myUjjayi breath to help calm me.
(05:31):
And then, within that, thereare other breathing exercises
that we, you know, teach, thatwe learn as well, but through
the actual, like practice, whenwe're going through a flow,
we're using the ujjayi breath.
Shawna (05:43):
I've never heard that word before.
Amanda (05:45):
It's called victorious breath or ocean sounding breath.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Brian (05:49):
Yeah, I know that even you, shauna, have talked to me
about like sometimes, like if Ican't turn my mind off when I'm
trying to go to sleep, she'lltell me to do these breathing
exercises, and I'm surprised howmany times it actually does
help if I just really slow downand just focus on the breathing.
So I could definitelyunderstand a little bit of how
it could benefit.
Amanda (06:10):
But that's very interesting Because the mind is
definitely busy.
We're constantly thinking andthat's what we're teaching also
in class is how to stay in themoment, be present.
You know the mind's going tothink, oh, I have to go to the
grocery store or I have to go dothis.
But how can we just focus onthe breath, even just by simply
counting to yourself?
You know, counting the breathin, counting the breath out.
Brian (06:39):
That's really, really anybody that's listening.
That's something reallyimportant to capture.
There is being in the moment.
That is something that is sodifficult these days to consider
that breathing right, breathingbetter, would actually help us
be more present in the moment.
That's pretty powerful.
Amanda, tell me what was themoment that you decided to go
all in to launching thisbusiness?
What did that look like?
Amanda (06:54):
Well, once she approached me and asked me to
open up the studio, I of coursehad to talk to my husband about
it, and we had our children weresmall at the time.
It wasn't that she didn't haveto convince me too much, I did,
I was excited to do it.
It was something that I feltthat I probably never would have
done on my own, and to havesomebody see something in me to
(07:17):
open a business with, I thoughtwas very kind of her, because it
is something I probablywouldn't have done without her.
My husband he's always been sosupportive, even when I said I'm
going to go take a yoga teachertraining and I don't know
what's going to happen, but Ifeel like this is something.
And he was like go do it.
Brian (07:34):
And you said you have.
You said you have kids.
You had kids when you started.
Amanda (07:37):
Yes.
Brian (07:37):
So how old were your kids when you started?
Amanda (07:39):
It's funny, we were just talking about this last night
because we're at 10 years, so myson was four and my daughter
was eight.
Shawna (07:45):
That's kind of hard ages to start a business.
Amanda (07:48):
So that was one of the reasons why I wasn't sure,
because I was still.
I was teaching yoga and I wasteaching a lot of yoga around
town, but I was still able to bewith the kids.
My mother-in-law helped out alot with the children as well,
and so that was something I hadto consider.
I knew this was going to takeup more of my time and but, you
know, we've been able to reallyhave a healthy balance.
(08:09):
My husband has been verysupportive.
He's he works, he's an oilpainter, so he's an artist and
works from home, so we've beenable to really balance it out
and raise our children the waythat we, you know, felt was
important, and that's cool.
Brian (08:24):
That is so cool.
That is so cool.
Wow, oil painter.
I want to talk to him.
What's his name?
Again, luke, luke.
All right, luke, if you'relistening, luke, we need to get
you on the podcast.
Oil painting.
I love that.
I love that.
Do you want to share any ofyour story about, like you said,
you were going through like adark time and then you found
yoga, like that helped.
Do you want to share any ofthat?
Amanda (08:43):
Yeah.
So my husband and I we gotmarried at 24 and um we had
lived in Sarasota and then wemoved back to Vero and I started
a job and he was trying tobecome an oil painter.
He just graduated from artschool and then we ended up
getting pregnant a lot soonerthan we weren't not trying, but
(09:05):
because we weren't.
You know, we didn't really haveany money.
So when I had our daughter Idid not go back to work because
it didn't make sense and so itwas hard.
We didn't have any money.
I was really stressed out and Iwould go to this gym, yoga class
, and met Mary Rapogle, who isowner of Ocean Grill, and was
(09:28):
really inspired by her, and so Iwas like I want to, I want to
do this and I would, really Iwould go to class really upset
and stressed and just I guess Iwas feeling a lot of like
unknown.
You know, and that can go whenpeople have insecurities or
money issues or whatever itmight be.
(09:49):
So that's when I decided to doa yoga training and it was the
best decision ever.
Wow, it's kind of funny.
When I was a senior in college,I took a elective class.
It was a yoga elective class,not thinking anything that I
would end up doing this for mywhole life.
But I was.
I needed, needed an electiveand I took a yoga class.
(10:11):
So I'm like, wow, that's kindof funny how like life prepares
you for like these things yeah.
Cause that was my first well, Itook.
I did a few yoga classes incollege, but so I feel like all
those little things prepare youfor more things in your life.
Brian (10:24):
That is so true.
Well, what would you say likethrough your 10 years?
Amanda (10:33):
did you have any times that you faced any fears or
doubts?
Yes, and I'm sure this isprobably a very common one, for
a lot of people.
But I would have to say, 2020COVID was very, um, a very hard
time, because they were likedon't get next to each other,
don't breathe on each other, andthis is what we do.
Brian (10:46):
Yeah, you just talked about.
You talked about it correctly,and now you're like don't
breathe, so yeah, that was um.
Amanda (10:54):
that was a very scary time and it was definitely um a
very hard and dark time for me.
Um, I ended up buying out mybusiness partner um September
1st 2020,.
I took over full time and I wasvery scared because we were
still operating at like 14people in the studio.
(11:15):
Our max in the studio spacesare 27 people, so we were not
even getting, you know, a fullclass and it was.
It was just a very scary time.
But again, I had my husband onmy side and he was the one who
really pushed me through thisand told me that we can do this.
And that's when he kind of tooka step back from his job and
(11:36):
stepped in and helped me a lotmore with the kids and like,
when I look back at that time,who I was into, where I am now,
I'm like, wow, I've really growna lot.
Shawna (11:45):
Did you have to close down for any period of time?
Amanda (11:48):
So I think we were closed for like six weeks, um,
but we instantly went online.
So we were closed, we closed,and then, I think like two days
later, we live stream.
We would online, um, theteachers that wanted to, we
would still teach classes.
We did it all at the otherstudio, so it was a pretty quick
turnaround to be able to dothat.
And then we have such awonderful community of students
(12:10):
that supported us through thatand they would hop online with
us and practice with us, and Ithink that one of the beautiful
things that came out of that ishow many people came to me and
with my teachers and told themthat we helped them so much
through that time.
And that's ultimately, that'swhy I teach.
I want people to experiencewhat I've experienced through
(12:36):
yoga.
I want them to grow and learnand feel better in their bodies
and their minds.
Brian (12:38):
What do you love most about running your business?
Amanda (12:41):
I think what I love most is the people that I get to be
with every day my teachers thatare here some of them have been
with me since the very beginningmy support staff, my studio
manager and assistant manager.
We tend to we are together alot because the two of them
they're a lot on the back end ofeverything, and then just being
(13:02):
with the students.
I mean it's like I said thislast night in the class that I
taught, like how grateful I amthat I get to do this every day.
It's a lot of work.
When you add a brick and mortar, you know something that you
have to like really manage.
But I wouldn't change it.
Brian (13:21):
Well, I'm super excited to get into episode number two,
to learn more about what the dayto day looks like, maybe some
more about the breathing, andprobably, I'm sure, there might
be some funny stories you canshare with us, too, that you
maybe have experienced throughhere as well.
Shawna (13:35):
No names, no names, no names have to be included.
Someone's listening right nowgoing, oh no please don't,
amanda, don't don't tell mystory, but uh but yeah, well,
I'm excited to learn more aboutthe day to day.
Brian (13:45):
So, with that, if you guys are enjoying the podcast,
make sure you click subscribeand leave us a review see you
later, neighbor.
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