Randi Zinn, GOING BEYOND MOM

Randi Zinn, GOING BEYOND MOM

Randi: I was a yoga teacher for a handful of years while I was juggling a lot of other very complicated parts of my life, which I have a feeling we'll get into. Yoga was my saving grace personally. It also became the place where I could take a lot of the struggles in my life, take the lessons I was learning from them, and help people. It was a very direct equation. My favorite part of teaching yoga was not so much about the poses. Although, I love the poses. They're incredibly healing. I loved telling stories. That was where I dug the experience of teaching. If you're a yoga person, you might know that as the dharma talk. The dharma talk is that moment in the beginning of class where you take a deep breath and then your teacher gives you some kind of nugget of wisdom. That was my favorite part. Then connecting that to the postures felt like this incredible opportunity to weave whatever I was going through and give something, a gift, to a people that could, in a way I might never know, help them.