Her Story
About Angie
Angie Knight is a yoga teacher, teacher trainer, mentor, and retreat leader with nearly 20 years of experience teaching in Austin, Texas. She developed Sacred Space Teacher Training to help others become yoga instructors and mentors yoga teachers to discover their niches and share authentically. Knight also plans and leads international yoga retreats, drawing on her university studies in English, her ability to speak Spanish, her childhood experience living internationally, and her early work with a study abroad company. As a single parent for 15 years, she has cultivated resiliency and capability that inform her approach to supporting others in accessing their inner guidance. Knight values authenticity, humor, and integrity in her work, helping clients expand their capacity to be present with themselves and live from a place of trust and courage.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Angie
01What do you attribute your success to?
I have drive and I don't give up. I have a lot of love and I love sharing it. I see the best in people. Being a single parent taught me resiliency and capability.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
I am mostly internally driven. I spent a lot of time going inside and learning how to trust my own guidance. We are meant to live by external guidance but I feel like we all came here to be authentic, and the way to find out what that is, is to explore and to go inside and learn to listen to a deeper voice than the outside world.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Don't wait till you feel ready. Get started. Doesn't have to be perfect. You'll grow into who you are. Having fun and enjoying it. Don't take score too soon. If you decide you want to do something, don't start taking score if it's a success or not, too soon. You do it for the sake of itself.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I am established in the community so if I want to create something, I have the container, the support, and the network to be able to do that. I want to stay right here, like, I want to water the grass where I am. I don't want to take over the world. I am pretty content in my community.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Authenticity. Approaching life with humor is life-saving for me. Honesty or integrity. I am not pretending to be some guru, I just show up as myself, which is fully flawed, and I don't take myself seriously.
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