Louisville Magazine

JUL 2013

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way it is. It's just that daily practice that brings the benefts. "Tere are many people who are accomplished in poses but not happy people. Just being able to do specifc poses doesn't make you happy. Being able to maintain your practice slowly, gradually, takes you to a better place physically, mentally and emotionally." R unning arguably the city's oldest yoga studio in 2013 guarantees nothing. Yoga exploded nationally around 1999 when doctors began touting it as a stress reliever, and Louisville is seemingly fush with yoga classes, even as the economy has decimated discretionary dollars. Yoga East works for its business, ofering deals on Groupon and Living Social along with countless competitors and wannabes. Spaulding is constantly mixing and matching class oferings beyond the ashtanga yoga that she favors. Te schedule includes several $5 courses, including some taught by Leroy Chittenden, an arthritic septuagenarian who has been known to ride his bike around town to teach yoga to senior citizens. "I'd be the last person in the world to say everyone should go to Mysore class, because that is just not gonna happen," Spaulding says. "A lot of people are being well served by hatha and gentle yoga classes, for example. All of those classes, at Yoga East and other studios, are beneftting people, even if they're not traditional yoga." Davenport doesn't expect Spaulding to retire anytime soon, but has been happy to see the explosion of interest in teacher training because it means his wife may be training her eventual successor(s). Te studio has trained 127 students since 1995, not counting the current class, and interest has spiked over the past couple years. Spaulding now conducts classes twice a year, with a dozen or more students each time. Maja Trigg has kept in touch with Louisville but purposefully kept her distance from Yoga East to let it take its own path. She loves to see how large it's grown, though, and says she made a solid decision when she passed it on in 1994. Spaulding hasn't really thought about a succession plan, but fgures it may involve handing it of to more than one person, just as Trigg did. "Tere's nothing else I really want to do," she says. "I like running studios. I like working on my practice. It's still defnitely growing and I intend to push the envelope. I see what my mother has been through. I don't know if I'll follow the same pattern or whether I'll escape Alzheimer's. You just don't know. Other things could happen. You can get sick or have an accident. What I'm hoping is nothing will happen. All you can do is see how it goes." 40 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 7.13

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