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Old Jun 30, 2012, 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by BNLsMOM View Post
I used to. In a manic rush I found a space that would be great. The rent was low because it was in an old mill building. I ran everything myself, taught the classes, etc. If I had kept it going I bet it would be doing well right now. In a depression, I closed the studio and left my ex for the first time. I went back to him that time, and about three years later, I left for good with my one year old son. We have a decent relationship now, and we do everything to give our son as normal a life as possible.

Anyway, I sometimes think that I would be better at owning a studio now, although I am too fat and out of shape to teach the classes. I think about how much the other studio failed, or rather how I failed at it. It was starting to attract yoga students, and when I closed, I had a $20 profit. It is small, but it was on the positive side. I felt like a fraud the whole time I owned that studio.

Right now, I don't think I could handle anything. I am on disability and I can't even keep my home clean or cook a meal.

I am nothing.
I have read about a fat, flexible, middle aged lady in Austin, TX who teaches hugely popular yoga classes, showing by example that you do not need to FIRST lose weight and THEN do yoga. You can enjoy yoga as you are. I am sure she modifies exercises.

I do restorative yoga and in the past did yin yoga. The teachers are slim, but I do not see reasons for them to be of any particular shape, for these yoga styles.

This is too much now, of course. I hope you can DO yoga yourself for yourself now. Not teach, but do.

Hugs.