Her Story
About Alma
I've been working in yoga professionally for about 5 years, though I've been involved in the field for 8 years total. My journey really started with the healthcare side of yoga, beginning with yoga for addiction recovery. Growing up in foster care and being a teen mom with four girls, I had no maternal guidance and experienced many of my births alone, which inspired me to pursue doula training to understand how to support women in the birthing room. This led me into prenatal yoga, which became my true passion. I now work at HEB Tech helping employees get their movement in, partner with Will OBGYN, and run my own independent practice focusing on the prenatal journey and Baby and Me classes. What really sets me apart is my DJ-infused yoga classes where I create themed playlists for flows centered around heartbreak, rock music, or other themes. This music-driven approach is what I get requested for most at other studios and locations. I'm a nerd for the medical side of yoga, loving the anatomy and how every body is different. There's no one right way to do yoga, it's adaptable to everyone. I grew up as a dancer, but yoga found me during COVID when I was isolated and searching. I saw a flyer at Christian yoga and felt deeply called to it. That training with Melmerie Academy changed my entire life. I want people to know you can come to the mat broken, and we're all equal there. We can get through this together. I want everyone to feel lighter when they leave my class, like there's a load off of them.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Alma
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to trusting my journey and embracing all the difficult moments that shaped me. Heartbreak, pregnancy, burnout, and insecurity were all the negative things that led me to yoga, but those struggles helped me grow and now allow me to assist other people going through similar challenges. I learned that the beautiful version of you is the one you're building while everything's trying to break you. I want to show people on the mat that you can come broken, but we're all equal there and we can get through this together. I didn't start out as confident as I am now, I grew with my students. If I wouldn't have trusted myself to take that journey, I would never be where I'm at with my career. I thought it was just gonna be a hobby, but I just went for it. I don't think people trust themselves enough. You don't have to be at the right time at the right place every time, sometimes it is those storms that make you who you are. Just embrace it.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I say go in with the flaws and all. I feel like everybody in there embraced their flaws so much that if you don't tell your own story, somebody else will. So just go for it and have fun. I remember being so insecure at first, I didn't even want to teach. But those parts of your classes that make you you are those little things, because every instructor is different. There's not one instructor that I go to, I love every instructor because everybody's different. Embrace yourself in the journey and see where it takes you. There's going to be a style of yoga that you're gonna like to teach. I'm always evolving as a student myself, not just as a teacher.
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