5 Question Interviews
Yoginis and Yogis making a global impact!
5Q Interview with Danielle Hicks @el.feather.yoga
1. Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you? Yoga has always been with me, even when I wasn’t aware. As a young girl, I was drawn to movement, gymnastics, using the body as a way to process and express my joy and emotions. Heading into my 20’s I[…]
5Q Interview with Kali Basman @kali_durga
1. Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you? I’ve read so many yoga teacher bios outlining their ‘aha’ moment in yoga where they were dragged to their first class in the midst of despair, got into a down-dog and were radically and instantly transformed. I feel that is[…]
5Q Interview with Maureen Lauer-Gatta @the.yoga.room
1. Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you? I started practicing yoga in 1998. As someone that played competitive sports since I was 5, it was something that words cannot describe what caught my attention, but I stuck with it for the last 20 years. My first teacher,[…]
5Q Interview with Lindsay Jay @lindsayjay_loves
1. Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you? Why Yoga? It brings me peace. The sentence below is the meaning of ‘namaste’ and it sums up the reason I practice yoga: ‘I honour the place in me where the entire universe dwells, I honour the place in[…]
5Q Interview with Dannika Ross @dannikaross
1. Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you? Initially, my yoga journey started with an emphasis on physical transformation—to be more slender, flexibile, and toned. After a while, the yoga started working its magic on me and my intention for practice shifted from a physical desire to a[…]
5Q Interview with Heather Bare @mrsyogibare
1. Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you? They say you never really find yoga… yoga finds you. And it did indeed find me in 2002, when my head needed to be screwed back on straight. A consistent practice of Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Astanga, etc. helped me way[…]
5Q Interview with Melanie Iznaola @traveling_yogigirl
1. Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you?: I am wife and mother of two beautifully spirited children. With a background in being an experienced ER nurse of 11 years. I began her yoga journey as a student as a way of a healthy life style and stress[…]
5Q Interview with The Urbivore Sisters @theurbivoresisters
1. Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you?: Seated meditation was our first journey toward mindfulness, it was a difficult practice for us to sit still and enjoy each passing moment. Why? Because we hate sitting still!! Being half Japanese, the practice of mindfulness has always been a[…]
5Q Interview with Lisa Mello @melloyoga
1. Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you?: Yoga found me! I was living in New York City and it was winter time when I saw this hot yoga studio sign on the corner of the street. It was cold and snowy and hot yoga sounded delightful. I[…]
5Q Interview with Maggie Townsley @mamatownsley
1. Tell me about your personal journey with yoga. Why is it important to you?: Yoga came into my life in what seemed at the time to be a random moment- but ended up being exactly what I needed 11 years ago. It was like I had been driving with a fogged windshield, and yoga[…]
