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This week on the podcast, I am joined by Andrew Singer. Andrew is a yoga teacher based in Medellin, Colombia. He is the owner of Flying Tree Yoga and Yoga Internships Colombia.

In this episode, we talk about Andrew’s teaching journey and how he ended up owning a yoga studio in Medellin. He shares how he created a unique studio that offers classes in both English and Spanish, teacher trainings in both languages, Spanish language immersion programs for teachers, as well an internship program.

Andrew talks about how the studio was operating before the pandemic, how they pivoted during the pandemic, and how things are going now, as well as what he’s learned through running a yoga business in another country.

Enjoy!

Discussed in this episode:

• How Andrew found yoga during a stressful time in life
• How did Andrew start teaching yoga
• What brought Andrew to Colombia and Medellin?
• Why Andrew connected so deeply with Medellin
• What led Andrew to create his yoga business?
• What was the process of setting up the business?
• Why having a diverse set of offerings helps stabilize your business
• What led Andrew to combine language learning and yoga teaching
• How learning to teach yoga in a new language can help you bring attention to the way you teach in your native language
• How did his business change throughout 2020 as travelers weren’t able to come to Colombia
• What is it like starting and running a business in Colombia?
• What are the challenges of running a yoga studio business in Colombia?

• And much more… Here is the episode!

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