a nervous wee
With so many fancy new humans on this email list over the past couple of months, I thought I would take this time to re-introduce ourselves to you.
We are Nin Yoga. Three studios in Western Sydney, as well as a Yoga Teacher Training and an Online Platform.
We first started in the Colyton (my own local) Neighbourhood Centre, every Wednesday night first at at 6pm. I created a public Facebook event and was not expecting anyone else to come except my biggest cheerleaders at the time, my long term buddies. I obviously forgot what the word "public" meant and my first session required many nervous wees before teaching.
"Who are these people! They trust me to teach them yoga? ahhhh!" (otherwise known as good old and reliable imposter syndrome)
After two months of lugging cushions, yoga blocks, yoga mats, incense, tea, candles, speakers & singing bowls, I was curious to see how possible it was to find my own studio.
Throw back to our shares in the newsletter last week, and we had signed a lease for Nin Yoga St Marys September 2017.
As interesting and metal as "Nin Inch Nails" Yoga would be, Nin was simply my high school nickname. I just needed a name for the studio that people would remember easily and was impossible to spell wrong (not true btw, as Nin yoga often gets confused with in and yin!).
I also thought I could easily change it later once I thought of something more "spiritual," but here we are, seven years now as Nin Yoga. Whoopsies! 
For many years, I hated telling students the origin of the name Nin. I felt like I was putting myself on a pedestal as Bikram did in his legendary and cringe-worthy Netflix series.
However, I think of it now and am chill about it. I don't plan to change it; it comes across as a fun and random story I can now share in newsletters.
I wish I could also tell you I had specific goals and a detailed business plan to get these studios started.
Like most small business owners, that has never been the case. I just wanted to bring teachers together to share yoga in a place that could permanently hold my decorations and tea, up the road from my house.
I also realized that I loved opening studios, and I continued to open one a year for five years.
That C-word pandemic has a marvellous way of stopping that plan in its tracks, so after trying to stay afloat with so many, we let go of three studios (Mt Druitt, Blacktown, and our Gym "Maya Movement") and settled with St Marys as our main community studio and our Penrith Studio to support our workshops, studio hire, and Yoga Teacher Trainings.
Skip along to the beginning of THIS month, and rather than open a new one, we merged with Body Barre Air to conceive what is now Nin Yoga Castle Hill.
These days, we focus most of our energy in creating solid foundations within the Nin Yoga community itself.
This is where we want to stay, in building relationships with people in unique and profound ways.
We really dig the power and magic of a class working together to achieve similar goals, and we want to support as many people as we can in being comfortable with the constant discomfort that comes from growth and change.
The only constant in this life is change.
Thank you for once again getting down this far in the word spam, and speak again soon,
Annika xx
P.S We have THREE spots left for Yoga Teacher Training that starts on November 5th. THREE!!!!!!!!!!! If one of these spots is yours, you can reserve it by clicking here.
