Today we’d like to introduce you to Mikaela Rymer.
As a 20-something undergraduate student at CSULB, Mikaela started practicing yoga as a form of exercise. The everyday stressors that increase as you grow older were beginning to weigh heavy and a close friend recommended that she seriously consider taking up yoga to relieve some stress and to help her handle her anxiety. She began taking classes a couple of times a week, but soon became a very dedicated practitioner and would attend sometimes 2, 3 or 4 classes in one day (a bit excessive, I wouldn’t recommend). After her college graduation, which she didn’t actually attend because, naturally, she was at a yoga class, she decided to take her first yoga teacher training. She trained with tamal dodge in culver city at yoga salt and completed a 200hr yoga alliance certified program. Since the completion of her first teacher training, she has been teaching classes in southern California, from Irvine to Santa Monica. She teaches vinyasa with an alignment-forward flow. Some things aside from yoga that Mikaela really enjoys to spend time on are baking healthy and delicious desserts, swimming, ceramics classes, seeing movies, and hanging with friends and family.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc. – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
Smooth in relative terms. We all have a little baggage that we carry along with us but my relationships, yoga practice and meditation practice have helped smooth the way. My advice for a younger version of myself would be to keep making mistakes. Keep asking questions. Keep challenging everything that you take in. Form your own opinion about everything and don’t be afraid to voice it. Be nice to your body, it’s the only one you’re going to get. Negative self-talk will only make the road bumpier. Use your resources.
Please tell us more about what you do, what you are currently focused on and most proud of.
My greatest accomplishment in life is becoming a yoga teacher. I teach vinyasa style classes throughout Orange County and Los Angeles County. This past year, I moved to Seal Beach and started a Donation based class for the community, called Seal Beach Power Yoga. When I teach I like to play fun music. But not one genre in specific. I will pick an artist and play one of their albums and I range from The Grateful Dead to Otis Redding. New and old music. Whatever mood I am in that day and whatever energy I am picking up on from my students. It keeps me inspired and I love to take suggestions from students so they are inspired and energized, too.
Do you have a lesson or advice you’d like to share with young women just starting out?
Give it your all. Mess up again and again and again. Give yourself ten years at really really going at something and then, if it’s what you want to change your mind, do it! You are your only obstacle.
Contact Info:
- Website: mikaelarymeryoga.com
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikaelarymeryoga/
Image Credit:
Brie Oku, Morgan Mcgee
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