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hi i'm lauren martini, i am a yogainstructor and i live in kelowna bc a typical day for me is i wake up, i usually will go through somebooks and find some inspiration for my classes that i'm teaching or maybe just kinda think about what i'mworking with in my own practice and find a way to share that with my classes i might do a little bit of yoga in theliving room, i'll go say teach a class or two ride my bike down to the studio, grab acoffee

i like americanos, i go for a hikewith my dog, we go up knox mountain we might go for a run have some lunch, teach another class, maybe answer some emails, do the whole social media thing, get on twitter and facebook my husband will usually come home at aboutthat time and we'll maybe make dinner together and i'll probably go teach another class or two before i watch either a probably a romantic comedy or i have thistv show that i'm borderline obsessed with called househunters international

so i'll try to get a couple of those episodes cause i have a dream of buying a house abroad and then usuallyby 11:30 i'll hit the sheets i think that biggestmisconception people have about being a yoga instructor is that we are perhaps perfect in our health andalso in our own personal practices and and i really like wine andi like chocolate i like coffee and i also like taco chipsand i'm not really willing to give that upbecause i'm an instructor and i'm supposed to embody health so

i think that's okay and i'm almost kindof proud of that i think the best thing about being ayoga instructor is the lifestyle, it's pretty cool to be ableto share what you love with people and alsoreally only have to work maybe a couplehours a day so i get to go teach a class which i always look forward to and kind of have an audience to share what i'm learning and then see how the students grow tooand also how i grow when i teach and when i learn from my own students

if i wasn't a yoga instructor i wouldprobably use the degree that i want to university for, so i have always wanted to be a intelligenceofficer for the canadian security intelligence service and when i was inuniversity i studied culture anthropology and also somehistory with the hope that i could focus on china, india and russia and get toknow the people in those areas and thenone day be able to use that in intelligence because i've always wanted to work for csis the canadian cia,so i want to be a spy