DC Yoga Podcast Kim Weeks

DC Yoga Podcast Episode 29- Kim Weeks - Yogaville and Satchidananda - Finding yoga in the Yellow Pages - Working on Wall Street - Ingegral yoga - Miracles at Tryst - 9/11 - Opening Boundless Yoga Studio - The business of owning a yoga studio then and now - The Groupon craze - Devaluing yoga - The Iyengar tradition - Small businesses in DC - The Yoga Journal experience - Attachment to your yoga teacher - Falling in and out of love with teaching - Grief - Corporate Wellness For more about Kim: Kim Weeks, voted three times DC’s Best Yoga Teacher by the readers of The Washington City Paper, took her first yoga class -- in Swami Satchidananda's Integral Yoga -- as a college student in Berlin in 1993. She graduated with High Honors from the University of Virginia and started her career on Wall Street, at JP Morgan, and it was through the stress and travel in this job that yoga took hold for Kim. She lived in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Japan and taught herself asanas and pranayamas from books and any class or martial arts practice she happened to find. When she settled in New York for her last stretch of time before moving to Washington, Kim took yoga all the time at Integral Yoga's 13th Street walk-up studio. She did her first headstand and shoulderstand there, and her practice was sustained by Surya Namaskar, but savasana was the life-changing pose that had her hooked for life. Kim has taught yoga since for 2002, which she decided to do after watching the Trade and Financial towers crumbled during 9/11. She founded Boundless Yoga in 2002, closed its bricks and mortar in 2013, and today uses it as a school to apprentice and train teachers. Today she runs Kim Weeks Well, a wellness educational and consulting company. She's a registered advanced teacher and yoga school with Yoga Alliance, and she's now a Certified Iyengar Teacher. Kim has been featured in many media including The New York Times,The Washington Post, and NBC4 as a yoga expert; and she'll be featured in the November/December 2019 issue of Yoga Journal with a master-class sequence and video of poses to combat tech strain. Her main teacher since 2007 has been John Schumacher, founder of Unity Woods Yoga Center, and she is also his apprentice, assisting him each week in class. kimweekswell.com instagram, facebook and twitter: kimweekswell