This past year in Parry Sound I worked alongside my childhood best friend to help her expand her business from a backdoor basement studio with no outdoor signage to a centre of health and wellness in our community.
She worked as a personal trainer and social worker for 3 years in our community, teaching fitness classes to a small group of dedicated women and keeping a very busy schedule. She built her self up from on again, off again, attendance, to a consistent following. Come March of 2018 it was time to expand. She had been renting one room in the basement of an apartment building with commercial offices on the ground floor and increased her rent to include a yoga studio in the subbasement and a street front accessed set of offices. Its with this new acquisition that we launched JF Fitness and Therapy.
She worked as a personal trainer and social worker for 3 years in our community, teaching fitness classes to a small group of dedicated women and keeping a very busy schedule. She built her self up from on again, off again, attendance, to a consistent following. Come March of 2018 it was time to expand. She had been renting one room in the basement of an apartment building with commercial offices on the ground floor and increased her rent to include a yoga studio in the subbasement and a street front accessed set of offices. Its with this new acquisition that we launched JF Fitness and Therapy.
The vision behind the expansion was to do counselling in the front offices, yoga in the new studio and fitness classes and personal training in the old, existing studio. Genius! The only problem? We were in Parry Sound. I stepped in as a studio manager and helper in all ways and together we grew the business, making it a common known centre in town.
Our open house was sparsely attended, our schedule increases small, and our extra workshops all but ignored.
Fast Forward to one year later and we are now partnering with fitness instructors, personal trainers, yoga teachers, nutritionists, and healthcare professionals. JF Fitness and Therapy came alive.
Not only did JFFAT come alive but so has Yoga with Vanessa with myself teaching anywhere from 10-20 hours of week with a mix of private and group lessons, workshops, and intensives. My personal practice has deepened, my love for the activity exploded and my reputation has surpassed any amount hoped for.
In ONE YEAR we created this, and it is now time to move on. It is with a heavy heart that I leave my yoga family and the little life created, having settled down here this past year, but at the same time, I am eagerly awaiting the thrill of hitting the road.
Check out the JFFAT website here, www.jffitnessandtherapy.com and keep updated on all the growht the studio has in store.
Check out the JFFAT website here, www.jffitnessandtherapy.com and keep updated on all the growht the studio has in store.