Life of a Yoga Teacher - Laura martini

Hi i'm Lauren Martini, I am a yoga instructor and I live in Kelowna BC a typical day for me is I wake up, I usually will go through some books and find some inspiration for my classes that I'm teaching or maybe just kinda think about what I'm working with in my own practice and find a way to share that with my classes I might do a little bit of yoga in the living room, I'll go say teach a class or two ride my bike down to the studio, grab a coffee I like americanos, I go for a hike with my dog, we go up Knox Mountain we might go for a run have some lunch, teach another class, maybe answer some emails, do the whole social media thing, get on Twitter and Facebook my husband will usually come home at about that time and we'll maybe make dinner together and I'll probably go teach another class or two before I watch either a probably a romantic comedy or I have this TV show that I'm borderline obsessed with called House Hunters International So I'll try to get a couple of those episodes cause I have a dream of buying a house abroad and then usually by 11:30 I'll hit the sheets I think that biggest misconception people have about being a yoga instructor is that we are perhaps perfect in our health and also in our own personal practices and and I really like wine and I like chocolate I like coffee and I also like taco chips and I'm not really willing to give that up because I'm an instructor and I'm supposed to embody health so I think that's okay and I'm almost kind of proud of that I think the best thing about being a yoga instructor is the lifestyle, it's pretty cool to be able to share what you love with people and also really only have to work maybe a couple hours a day so I get to go teach a class which I always look forward to and kind of have an audience to share what I'm learning and then see how the students grow too and also how I grow when I teach and when I learn from my own students if I wasn't a yoga instructor I would probably use the degree that I want to university for, so I have always wanted to be a intelligence officer for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and when I was in university I studied culture anthropology and also some history with the hope that I could focus on China, India and Russia and get to know the people in those areas and then one day be able to use that in intelligence because I've always wanted to work for CSIS the Canadian CIA,so I want to be a spy