#2091 - TBT: Online Yoga for People with Chronic Illnesses

Oh, hey there. Thanks for tuning in today. This is Chris Gillivow, your host up

Sideswell School. Welcome to the podcast. Welcome as well to throwback Thursday.

This is our weekly segment where we take an end up look at someone who's story has evolved

since we first featured them. We get to go back and do the update here. What's happened?

What's gone well and he challenges they've had and so on.

Last week we heard from Trevor Rappley. He's the founder of franchisefilming.com and he has had

a tremendous amount of growth in his business since we first featured him. He has increased his team

and his business 10x. I think that means something like 10 times, like a lot. Okay, just like a lot of

growth. Okay, so today in our latest feature, we're going to hear from a Toronto yoga teacher. She's also an

author. She offers classes to people with chronic illnesses. Her name is Kayla Kern. We first

featured her long long ago in episode 828. So what's happened since? How has she been? How has she

changed and evolved in her business? Let's hear directly from Kayla. I'll come back at the end

with a quick wrap up. Hi, my name is Kayla. I'm currently in Toronto in Canada and my

side hustle is Roga Yoga. I was featured on side hustle school episode 828. My hustle is teaching

yoga online to people living with chronic illnesses. I got started when I started doing yoga

myself for my own health and it was super helpful to me. So I knew it was something that I wanted

to do going forward. So I did a teacher training and did a lot of study on how yoga and meditation

and mindfulness can impact our health specifically for people living with chronic illnesses who might

not have as high quality access to care and traditional medical systems. So my day job is

freelance writing. If that can be considered a day job, but that is yeah, where the majority of

my income is coming from now. There is a lot of overlap. I do do a lot of health writing,

including writing about yoga and mindfulness, but yeah, I'm much wider. But then that since you

last featured me on the show, we had a pandemic and this drove a lot of people online looking for

health resources online and it's yeah, really made me rethink about who I want to be reaching

or who I can be reaching and helping with this. Definitely I had new students coming in who

were looking for online options who have like stayed with me now and then just yeah, in terms of

also like the other pieces of health writing that I'm doing has has grown a lot as well since

we last spoke. How many students find me is a really good question because another thing that

has changed since we last spoke is that I deleted all of social media and I'm completely

off social media. So I am not even 100% sure how people find me. I think people stumble across

old blog posts or stumble across my website or my books are for sale on Amazon so I think a lot of

people find me through there. One of the biggest challenges I'm currently facing is thinking about

hybrid models of online and offline. I still travel a lot. I'm still living around a lot and I love

having these online options but it has always been you know a tougher thing with yoga to not be in

the same room as somebody and previous COVID I would occasionally do workshops in different places.

I landed in but that has all been on hold because of COVID so I think a challenge is just thinking about

what kinds of ways I want to be there for people in person and work with people in person and what

that set up might look like in the future. I think something that's been really important for me

over the last few years is just thinking about this less as a side hustle and thinking more about

how it fits into my life and as I mentioned in a freelancer as well for my day job so just

yeah rather than thinking of like a side hustle and addition to a full time job of just being

able to like mold all of the pieces in my life and a way that like really makes sense and really

works with my energy levels and what I want to be doing in what messages I want to be getting out.

So I think I would encourage people who are maybe in a more traditional role or maybe working

part time or freelancing who want to start a side hustle to really think about how that fits into

your life so you're not just you know working one and a half jobs but you know being able to

take care of yourself and live according to the goals that you want to achieve.

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No social media she has as you heard deleted all of your social media so you can indeed be

successful without it. I often get that question from listeners who are like I'm not that great

at social media or I don't really know how to start because you know I've got my Instagram account

but I see all these people posting stuff all the time like the influencers what do I do well you

you know you can go down that path or you can go down a different path so also as you heard

Kayla has some insight into managing all of your projects just thinking about them holistically

will also take care of yourself that's a perspective that I know many of us have just kind of

come to appreciate more over the past couple of years. So anything in that department I always find

helpful to myself so I hope something is helpful to you as well. Thanks Kayla for sharing your

updates with us listeners check out her website KaylaCurrent.com that's KAYLA KURI.com. You may

also want to check out her books yoga for chronic illness and where can I find Wi Fi? I love that title

where can I find Wi Fi? I'm always asking myself that question. So let me know what you think and

who you'd like to see featured from our archives and more than a thousand stories,

questions, updates, comments, sideosalschool.com slash questions. This has been episode two thousand

and ninety one two thousand ninety one. Thanks for joining in today take care of yourself out there

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