25. Bethany Lyons, Founder of Lyons Den Power Yoga

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Run, Health & Fitness, Women, Inspiration, Runner, Entrepreneur, Sports, Fitness, Health, Running

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Bethany Lyons is the owner, founder, and CEO of Lyons Den Power Yoga in New York City. Before opening the Baptiste yoga-style studio, she was the first-ever hired instructor at SoulCycle, and was a regional manager in charge of the group fitness programs at Crunch Fitness — which is where we met! (We share the story of our first interaction in the episode — it involves Bethany being the spin class sub and me being pissed.) Bethany has been a fitness instructor for more than a decade, and before that she was a professional dancer, singer, and actress. Today, Bethany is all about showing up, doing the work, and “being a yes.” On this episode, she shares the story of how she accidentally learned to love yoga (happens to all of us that way, doesn’t it?), how and why she decided to open her own studio — in the most expensive neighborhood in the most expensive city in the world — and whether or not she was worried no one would show up the day the studio opened. Bethany is a game-changer — enjoy! Stuff We Mention on the Show: How I met Bethany Lyons: http://www.aliontherunblog.com/2017/02/27/bethany-lyons-soulcycle/ Crunch Fitness: https://www.crunch.com/ SoulCycle: https://www.soul-cycle.com/ Syracuse University: https://www.syracuse.edu/ Baptiste yoga: https://www.baptisteyoga.com/ Flywheel Sports: https://www.flywheelsports.com/ Baron Baptiste: https://www.baptisteyoga.com/pages/baron-baptiste Atlas Shrugged: https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191145 Tedi Sarah on Instagram @tedisarah: https://www.instagram.com/tedisarah/ ChiliPad: https://www.chilitechnology.com/products/chilipad-cube-single-zone-single-split-queen Animal Haven on Instagram @animalhaven: https://www.instagram.com/animalhaven/ The Dodo on Instagram @thedodo: https://www.instagram.com/thedododo/ Follow Bethany: Instagram @bethanyalyons: https://www.instagram.com/bethanyalyons/ Twitter @balmnyc: https://twitter.com/balmnyc Follow Lyons Den Power Yoga: Website: http://lyonsdenpoweryoga.com/ Instagram @lyonsdenpy: https://www.instagram.com/lyonsdenpy/ Twitter @lyonsdenpy: https://twitter.com/LyonsDenPY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LYONS-DEN-POWER-YOGA-560303797369023/ Follow Ali: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aliontherun1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/aliontherun1 Blog: http://www.aliontherunblog.com/ Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/13333410 Thank you for listening to and supporting the Ali on the Run Show! If you’re enjoying the show, please subscribe and leave a rating and review on iTunes. Spread the run love!

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to the Allie on the Run Show.
0:06.7	I'm your host Allie Feller and today you're listening to episode 25.
0:11.8	On this episode I am so excited to be joined by one of my favorite humans, Bethany Lyons.
0:18.4	Bethany is the co-owner and founder of Lyons and Power Yoga, a hot yoga studio here in
0:24.8	New York City and she has a great story of what got her to open her own yoga studio because
0:30.5	spoiler that was not a plan. She was a dancer and then she worked at Crunch and she was the first
0:37.5	hire at Soul Psych also. She's got a really cool background and story to how she became an entrepreneur.
0:43.5	Bethany is full of wisdom and advice so I am not going to talk anymore.
0:48.2	Sit back relax by that I obviously mean get running even though this one's about yoga.
0:53.6	And enjoy my conversation with Bethany Lyons.
0:59.7	All right we are here with Bethany Lyons.
1:04.3	The owner and founder of Lyons and Power Yoga here in New York City and if you've been around
1:09.6	the Allie on the Run Show or the Allie on the Run blog for more than two seconds this is a
1:14.3	familiar name for you. You've heard about Bethany because she has been in my life for a while.
1:19.7	So before we get to that we start this with a warm up because I'll preface it. Bethany is not a runner.
1:25.6	No I'm definitely not a runner. I'm really dislike running to be honest with you and if you see me
1:31.4	running it is because either I'm being chased or I am extremely angry. Like if I'm really mad
1:39.4	then I'll tell my husband John and like I'm going for a run and then he knows.
1:44.0	Things I've never heard you say. No I'm going for a run. Yeah that's because I don't run.
1:48.0	But Bethany deals with a lot of runners in her everyday life. A lot of runners go to her yoga
1:52.1	studio myself included and we met when Bethany was an instructor at Crunch Gym. But again before we
1:59.6	get to that what I was going to say is we start every episode with a warm up because that's
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