Learn how to do more of what you love by listening to stories from other yoga teachers, healers, and coaches about how they first got started.

Discover what they did to first make money, how they actually got started, and how they overcame their struggles like fear and burnout along the way.

In this episode, Ayurveda Specialist, Lauren Prindiville, from Ep.241: How To Incorporate Ayurveda In Everyday Life shares how she created a business doing what she loves.

Part of her journey has been to leave a secure teaching job that she loved so that she could travel the world, teach yoga and share her wisdom about Ayurveda.

She’s travelled around the world to Spain, Costa Rica, Bali, and Tahiti. She’s taught Yoga Teacher Trainings and runs online courses for Ayurveda. While all of this sounds like a dream, there were some challenges in creating this life. She shares all of that plus the successes in this episode.

Listen to discover:

If you give yourself flexibility, you'll have more space to trust your heart
What Lauren did to start teaching yoga in Bali
How Lauren started an online course from scratch and attracted participants to take the program even though she lived in a new country where she didn't know anybody

About Lauren Prindiville

Wanderlust at heart, Lauren has been traveling, volunteering and teaching internationally for the past 5 years across Europe, North & Central America, and Asia. Lauren is a 500 + hour registered Yoga Teacher, an Ayurvedic specialist, and a YACEP instructor for courses on Ayurveda, prenatal, postnatal and kids yoga. She is now based in Tahiti and offers online trainings/courses, YTTs, and retreats.

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Key Nuggets:

1.What is your calling right now?

To share and to teach

2. There’s a moment in this journey where we must decide to go all in – we can’t stay small in a bud anymore and we must decide that we want to step up. Sometimes it comes in the form of something big like quitting your job and other times it’s a mindset shift like mustering the courage to show up fully. What did your moment of commitment look like?

I went to school to be an elementary teacher and taught in Spain and Costa Rica. It was in Costa Rica where I started to do a lot of yoga and decided that I wanted to take my YTT.

After travelling, I figured that I needed to get a “real” job so I found a full time teaching job. I loved my job but I wanted to try and do other things. I travelled to Bali and realized that I didn’t actually want to go back to my teaching job.

It was hard but I told the school that I wasn’t going to go back.

3. Did you have a formal plan of how long you were going to do this for?

No. I gave myself the option to go back [to teaching] though.

4. What’s was one of your first successes?

I didn’t know anybody when I moved to Tahiti and I didn’t speak French so I pivoted to putting my offers online. It worked out so well that I still have online program offerings today.

5. What was one time when you really wanted to quit? What kept you going?

It was hard to be in Tahiti because I don’t speak the main language. I tried teaching English but it wasn’t really working. I figured that I can either keep trying to do everything English or I can start to learn French so that I can have friends and a life here.

6. What has been your biggest resistance, and how did you respond to it?

I’m always trying to do too many things. I manage it by staying organized and plan for the things that I want to do.

7. What is the best thing you've done to help you create this life?

Trusting that it would work out. Sometimes my courses didn’t work out but I kept trusting and trying anyway.

8, What do you do to check back and make sure that it is still all worth it, that you're still aligned?

I take time for myself to stay balanced and I also make sure to have fun and do things that aren’t related to work.

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