It brings me great joy to share nourishing, home cooked meals, so we would definitely indulge in that. Of course we would go to as many yoga classes as we could! I am a homebody, so many of my favorite things are in and around my house. If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to? Certainly, there have been growing pains and lessons along the way, but when we view them as opportunities for growth and expansion, it helps us take our offerings to a whole new level! It has been incredible to be able to connect with people all around the world and share our unique and therapeutic style of yoga with more and more people. It’s something we’ve been wanting to do for a long time and COVID pushed us to make the leap. I’m so very proud of the way we as a studio have been able to continue to serve our community – both locally and beyond – through our transition to offering online classes. The studio owner, Sandra, and I play really well off of each other because she is a very right-brained thinker. In my opinion, this is what sets me (and Indra’s Grace) apart from others. I have the advantage of a business degree and experience as an entrepreneur that I’m bringing to my role as a studio manager for Indra’s Grace. By no fault of their own, many yoga teachers go into running a studio without any business background – they just know that they love yoga and want to share it, but they don’t have any experience with running a business. So, I feel like my background is a perfect compliment to what I’m doing now. I come from a left-brained, corporate, business background. Teaching yoga is a very right-brained activity requiring lots of creativity and abstract thinking.

In addition to being a full-time mom, my day-to-day job is teaching yoga at and managing Indra’s Grace: A Yoga and Meditation Studio in Weatherford, Texas and online. Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community? Above all, I try to reside in a space of gratitude and trust which allows me to be really connected to each moment – grateful for the experiences presented and trusting that all is perfectly orchestrated for my highest good. The transition from role to role is key and one that I am continuously working on. To the degree that I’m able, I try not to do both at the same time (of course there are occasional exceptions).

If I am in “studio manager” mode, I want to be fully present for that. If I’m in “mom” mode, I want to be fully present as a mom. My goal in finding the work life balance is really being present in whatever it is I’m doing at the moment. My path has led me to this beautiful place where I teach yoga and manage a studio which allows me to also be with my son on a full-time basis. The idea of work life balance was now more complex than anything I had experienced before. Almost four years ago, I made another career transition and also welcomed a beautiful baby boy into the world. Success to me is being deeply fulfilled and happy in what I do – not the amount on my paycheck. Outwardly, it didn’t make a lot of sense, but I was so happy! This was the point in my life where I made the promise to choose the path that is in support of my happiness instead of following someone else’s plan for my life. Fast forward a few years: I decided to leave my corporate job for a low-paying job doing something I was really passionate about that was much closer to home. It was an incredible experience and I learned a lot, but it wasn’t in alignment with my higher purpose, so it left me drained. When I first graduated from college, I took a corporate job where I had an extremely long commute and worked a lot of hours which left little time for family much less anything else that wasn’t work-related. This is the million dollar question of my life! Work life balance is incredibly important to me. Hi Jenny, how has your work-life balance changed over time? We had the good fortune of connecting with Jenny Reitz and we’ve shared our conversation below.

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