Your Name: Stephanie

Where You Live: Small town in Kansas

Your Current Profession: Theatre instructor at a community college

Brett: What’s Your Big Dream?
Stephanie: Be comfortable with myself and my body. Feel like I’ve made the right choices in my life.

Brett: What Brought You to Yoga?
Stephanie: We did a lot of yoga in graduate school and that’s sort of when I started to fall in love with it. I love how it calms you and makes you feel alive at the same time. I always feel better after a practice even if during the practice I felt like I was struggling.

Brett: What do You Hope to Get out of Yoga Teacher Training?
Stephanie: A better understanding of my body and how it moves. I also want to be able to help my students be more comfortable with themselves and their bodies. Yoga and theatre are similar and I know teacher training will help me become a better theatre practitioner and teacher.

Brett: How Long Have You Been Practicing?
Stephanie: On and off for several years but more seriously the past 2 years.

Brett: What’s Your Favorite Style of Yoga?
Stephanie: Vinyasa

Brett: What’s Your Favorite Class (or two)?
Stephanie: I love the chakra 2 yoga class: https://brettlarkinyoga.vhx.tv/chakra-challenge/videos/chakra-2-classclean
And the release your inner control freak:
https://brettlarkinyoga.vhx.tv/full-length-classes-50-min-or-more/videos/let-go-class

Brett: What’s Been Your Biggest Struggle in Your Practice?
Stephanie: Finding one specific time that I can practice. I sometimes squeeze in random practices at different times. I have rehearsal a lot times until late into the night so I don’t always have a consistent practice time. And that’s something I’m still trying to find and incorporate.

Brett: What’s Your Big Advice for Others?
Stephanie: Remember to breathe. Not just in yoga but in all aspects of life.

-Lightning Round-

Favorite Mat: The Gaiam Sol Studio Select Dry-Grip Yoga Mat. I sweat A LOT during yoga, even if it’s not a heated class. I never slide using this mat. It’s also really cushy, which I like.

Favorite Prop: Blocks

Favorite Place to Practice: (feel free to include photos) In my living room. I usually push the coffee table out of the way and practice there. Or sometimes with my students in the theatre.

Favorite Yoga Hack: I always try to stretch in bed before I fall asleep.

Favorite Smoothie Recipe:
Half bag (3 oz.) Spinach
2 handfuls blueberries
2 handfuls blackberries
3/4 of green apple
3 pineapple rings
1 handful of ice cubes
Blend

Favorite Food Recipe: I love these 5 ingredient baked falafels from pinch of yum. I make them a lot. http://pinchofyum.com/simple-6-ingredient-baked-falafel

Favorite Book: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Favorite Quote: I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. Hamlet Act 2 scene 2 by William Shakespeare
Or
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt – Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
I deal with some chronic pain issues and a lot of times when I really hurt these run through my head like mantras

c) if public, whether you prefer to use your full name, or just your first name and last initial
Use my full name and last initial. It can be public.