The Yoga Loft Storybook: Marion Greely
Why/when/where did you start practicing yoga?
I started practicing Bikram yoga in 2004. I was post college, and had just lost my dad suddenly so was in a confusing time. I had grown up a runner & swimmer, and loved a good sweat! I was searching for something that I could get "more" out of, beyond the sweat. I happened upon a Bikram yoga studio in the neighborhood that I was living in in Washington DC and it was love at first class! I continued to practice Bikram through 2012, but started dabbling in vinyasa in 2010 when I was pregnant with my first daughter. I didn't feel comfortable practicing in the heat so found prenatal yoga at the YMCA and Green Tea Yoga in Salem. I stumbled upon The Yoga Loft one evening in 2012 when I had planned to go to a Bikram class in Swampscott, and arrived only to learn that the class was canceled! EEEK!!!! I had a 2 year old and a 3 month old at home, and I was NOT going back home without some yoga! I googled "local yoga" and The Yoga Loft came up. I've never gone back to Bikram!!
How has yoga changed or influenced your life?
Yoga is my calm. I am crazy without it! Quite literally!!
What keeps you busy outside of the studio?
My kids and my business!