Amy Quinn Suplina - "Best Practices for Studio Owners"
J. Brown Yoga Talks
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4.3 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Amy Quinn Suplina, founder of Bend and Bloom Yoga in Brooklyn, NY, talks with J about how her center has managed to survive when so many others have closed. They discuss what things were like when they opened their studios, the influences that shaped Amy's choices, what has contributed to her centers' sustainability including how much she pays her teachers, her thoughts on social justice and unionization efforts, and the healing power of fostering relationships and developing community. This episode is sponsored by Ropana CBD.
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| 0:00.0 | So I've got this new video project I'm working on, and there's a chance that you could be a part of it. |
| 0:08.5 | Maybe some of you have had a chance to use my practice video, DVD, and downloads. |
| 0:16.4 | I made it maybe five years ago, and I'm very proud of that. |
| 0:20.6 | A lot of people have benefited from it, |
| 0:22.9 | but I've always wanted to do a new version because I felt like there was one flaw with it, |
| 0:29.0 | which was that it's just a video of me doing the practice. And I think that sometimes for some |
| 0:36.8 | people presents an idea that the way I do it is the way |
| 0:41.4 | that it's supposed to look like you're supposed to do your practice like the way it looks when I do it. |
| 0:46.5 | And that's not the case at all. If you come to any of my classes, you will see a wide range of |
| 0:52.0 | different people doing the same practice, but in their own individual |
| 0:56.9 | way. And I've always wanted to get that into a video, and we're finally seeing if we can make it |
| 1:03.5 | happen. And I'm looking for people out there, maybe you, to potentially be a part of this. |
| 1:09.8 | And honestly, we're specifically looking for people |
| 1:12.4 | who might have more acute conditions or more limitations that they have to address. Maybe you're |
| 1:20.1 | someone who normally does chair yoga. I'd love to see a chair version of the practice. In a way, |
| 1:26.2 | the more that the practice has to adapt to you the better so if you |
| 1:31.3 | are able to get yourself to either allentown pennsylvania at my place or Brooklyn new york |
| 1:37.8 | where we're going to do another shoot if you can get yourself to either of those two places |
| 1:41.8 | and maybe you've done some practice with me online |
| 1:44.9 | before, and you resonate with what I'm doing, and you'd like to be a part of making a video |
| 1:51.1 | that shows how it gets expressed in all kinds of humans, we would love for you to be a part of |
| 1:59.2 | this. All you got to do is reach out to me. |
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