WEBINAR: Key Covid Lessons for Yoga Businesses
WEBINARS BY URBAN YOGS
Viewing time: Sunday July 26th , 4pm – 5pm; Replay time: Monday July 27th, 4am – 5am
FREE bi-monthly webinars hosted by Urban Yogis, created to offer a platform for open-minded discussion, exploration and inquiry. We’re breaking out of classroom-setting discussions about yoga to expand into thought-provoking communications that we hope you will be a part of. We’d like to engage you in a platform for intelligent exchange through topics that are not typically consumable in a regular class or workshop environment.
KEY COVID LESSONS FOR YOGA BUSINESSES
The toll that Covid has taken on the economy is massive. From job losses to business closures across all industries, most of us are having to re-evaluate how we do things. A close look at how events unfolded in the global yoga industry clearly reveals our desperate fight for survival. At the start of Covid, the yoga world eagerly offered the one beneficial thing it had to the rest of humanity, our practice of self-care, with teachers throwing free online classes out to anyone and everyone as a lifeline. Quickly, it became clear that we too need a lifeline. And so it began, that reactionary human instinct to try whatever we had to do to stay afloat. We watched from the corner of our eyes what everyone else was doing. Some, we applauded, some we tried ourselves, some we let be. This webinar is a sharing of some of the major lessons we learned during this time of Covid that we offer as advice, inspiration, and solidarity to anyone out there who has chosen Yoga as a trade. We hope to hear your voices as well in the IG Live Q&A following the webinar viewing (30-minute Webinar followed by 30-minute Q&A on IG live).
Speakers
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Julie MoksimCo-owner & Yoga InstructorI’m Singaporean by birth, global citizen by lifestyle, having lived in Indonesia, Egypt and India as a child and young adult, and later in the United States, Laos and Myanmar. My spark for yoga began while I was living in Boston in 2003, but my calling to teach grew much later out of the joy that I developed as a teacher’s assistant at the studio that I attended regularly. After completing a teacher training in Bali with Rachel Hull, Anna Smallwood, Emil Wendel, James Newman and Dr. Sujatha Kekada in 2011, I moved to Laos and started a yoga cooperative called Luang Prabang Yoga. Both the yoga cooperative and the immersive retreat programs that I lead under Laos Yoga Retreats have in some ways, put Laos on the map as a destination for yoga. I also co-owned a yoga studio in Myanmar between 2017 and 2019. My partnership with Kathy and Urban Yogis has grown out of a collective purpose to share knowledge and bridge the gap between people of different cultures, languages and belief systems. I trust that when a group of people come together from all walks of life, the opportunity for learning is boundless. Yoga has been an essential platform for these gatherings and for experiences that create more open-minded humans. Today, the biggest influence in my practice and teachings is Edward Clark of Tripsichore Yoga. He reinforces the importance of authenticity in how we express ourselves in movement. Ultimately, this translates to authenticity in life. I’d like to say to people out there, don’t be afraid to find out who you are, and when you find that person, don’t be afraid to be the person that you are! Thank you for taking the time to read this and to browse our website and offerings.
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Kathy GabrielCo-owner & Instructor / Therapist
Kathy Gabriel is a Yoga teacher, Craniosacral Therapist & Bodyworker licensed under Pacific Association of Craniosacral Therapists (PACT). Although yoga and complementary health was always in her family, she only picked up yoga as teenager during a period of spiritual seeking. She initially sought out Buddhism and meditation out in order to process her grief. Through the years, her understanding of health and wellness began to expand and it was through a holistic practice, she learned how to found solace, ease and balance to move through the different seasons of life. She is deeply passionate about sharing this practice with others, helping them navigate their own journey through the belief that all that one ever needs lies within.
