How far you can go just by keeping the promises you make to yourself
Katy Olunsanya outlines the fascinating journey that took her from a corporate career to where she is now, running a yoga studio and a meditation retreat. She explains how her path and her decisions were chiefly directed by different promises she made to herself over her life. She also discusses what she gets from her yoga and meditation practice, and what it has enabled her to give to others, as well as sharing some valuable self care advice.
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The greatest promise of all
Tackling the theme of Promise, Katy will share the winding journey that led to her starting her dream businesses, and how she has coped during the pandemic being self employed and with a newborn baby. Katy will also share some self care practices we can all adopt to help us manage this challenging time.
Katy started her career in financial marketing in London. Uninspired by corporate London life, she decided to move to Sydney to see if living in the sunshine would bring her more joy and fulfilment. Although living in Sydney were some of the happiest times of her life, she was still working in corporate marketing and she couldn't escape the recurring thought that there must be more to life than the conventional 9-5pm slog. So after nearly 5 years in Sydney, she left on another adventure.
She lived in a camper van in an off-grid community in Portugal for 8 months and then spent 2 months in India training to become a yoga teacher. These experiences taught her resilience, how to muster the courage to step out of her comfort zone and how important it is to follow your heart.
When she moved to Edinburgh just over 3 years ago, she realised the time had come to put everything she had learned over the last 10 years into practice and create her own Yoga and Wellness space. Calm on Canning Street was born in April 2018. To offer an even more immersive wellbeing experience, Katy and her husband Ross bought a house on the west coast to hold Yoga and Meditation retreats called Old Kilmun House in 2019.
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