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Peter Sterios

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“Yeah, the word got out that I'd been to India. And so people started contacting me and saying, hey, when are you going to start teaching? So I ended up, okay, I'll rent this senior center. They had a hall that we could do yoga in and the city rented it to me Wednesday night class 530 to 7. And the first couple weeks I had like eight, ten people show up and it was nice. But within a month, I had like 40 people showing up.”
2023-04-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Manduka: Peter Sterios · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, he would, I have pictures in my album of he would use me as a model sometimes in the morning classes. Wow. And he would make adjustments on me because my body at that point was pretty pliable. And so that was another one of those moments where I felt privileged in a way that I was being picked to be a model.”
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“Transformed me, you know, like it changed. My intensity, let's call it I joke about this sometimes before I started doing yoga, I was a type A, or actually I was a type AAA, you know, like beyond A. And what that year in India did for me was completely transform that mentality of doing. in a way reminded me of the power in being. And being present in particular.”
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“Yeah, so on the last day of this ceremony, I went to the school secretary and I said, I have to leave tomorrow, but I'd really like to stay. And he said, listen, I'm going to make an exception for you. And I come back and see me again tomorrow and I'll have. the right permission, let's say, for you to attend classes. And so I showed up the next day for that first morning class at 6 a.m. So for six days a week. Monday through Saturday I was at 6 a.m. yoga class which was two and a half hours long. Wow. And then in the afternoons, I would Ayengar had a personal library downstairs that he allowed students to go down and use. And so the afternoons were spent in the library reading. And then I would after reading, I would go up and do my own practice. And that was for me that year of doing yoga six days a week in India was...”
2023-04-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Manduka: Peter Sterios · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sensitivity and intimacy to feel where you maybe are in a state of contraction because of stress. So Iengar's answer was, I like the way it makes me feel. I have now this heightened ability to feel these places physically that I'm holding stress. And that has informed my life as a yogi. And frankly, it's also informed my life in business.”
2023-04-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Manduka: Peter Sterios · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Anger had just spent four hours talking about why he does yoga, and he had this reputation of being really a fierce, demanding kind of person. And you could see on his facial expression that he was angry by the simplicity of that question. So as I'm watching him, all of a sudden his face softens. And his answer is just as brief. He says, I like the way it makes me feel. And he moved on. And so I realized what he meant by that answer. The obvious answer is, like most people's experience, the first couple times they go to yoga, it feels fantastic, but there's a depth to that answer. I like the way it gives me more ability to feel. I like the way it makes me feel. What yoga does is it makes it opens you up to possibility and gives you this little”
2023-04-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Manduka: Peter Sterios · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, the Angar Institute. And so the school secretary looks at me and he said, Well, we're closed this whole week because it's Ayengar's 70th birthday. You're welcome to come and participate in the demonstrations and the lectures. So it was really an amazing time to show up for the first time and the very last day There was an afternoon session where all the major newspapers of India and international magazine photographers and writers all showed up for this special last program just of Iyengar talking about his life of yoga. And the first question is from a reporter from Mumbai, young guy, probably 25 or 26 years old, and he says, Here's his question. Why do you do yoga?”
2023-04-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Manduka: Peter Sterios · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. And so when it was time for me to leave New Zealand after eight years, I told him that I was going and he said, I really think you should go to India and meet Ayengar. And I said, Well, there's a three year wait list to get into those classes. And he said, don't worry about that. I'll write you a letter. No problem.”
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“That's right, yeah, right. That's right. That's the paradox of him. He was not only in Vietnam, he was special forces in Vietnam for the Australian Army. And he saw things that he never shared. And I'm sure that he went through a lot of PTSD before they even knew it was PTSD. And he used yoga to create balance back in his life. At that point, he'd been doing yoga since he was six years old with his father, and he meets this master yoga teacher in Pune near Bombay. And he studies with this master teacher for 25 years. What's the master teacher?”
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“And so that was a curiosity to me. How is this guy who's obviously athletic and muscular so flexible? I want to know what his secret is. And so the weekend was profound. Literally that weekend was the major course change in my life.”
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“Sure Chandor is one of those powerful and also controversial teachers of yoga, Western teachers of yoga, who lived at the time, I met him in Australia, and he would come to New Zealand twice a year. It was the first male yoga teacher I had met after at this point I'd been practicing yoga for about five years. amazing because he was an athlete. I was an athlete, but he did a yoga demonstration on the Friday night before the weekend workshop that just athletically was some of the most incredible things I'd ever seen a body do just you know pulling up into a handstand with no wall to balance on you know and just hanging out in a handstand like he's sitting on the couch you know”
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“Well, actually, I was. So I sometimes would leave practice and go to the 7 o'clock yoga class at this studio. But I couldn't tell anyone on my team that I was going to yoga. That would have been kind of a mistake with the type of people that were on the rugby team. So I kind of kept it hidden.”
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“Yeah. Regional rugby team, exactly. No one was getting paid. At that time, I was still swimming, weightlifting, and keeping myself fit. And he saw me and saw, oh, this is a rugby player in the making here. And so I said, sure, happy to try. And it turned out that I loved it. It was... It gave me that kind of competitive adrenaline rush that I was becoming accustomed to having in my life, either through rock climbing or snowskiing or whatever it was, it got that life force going in me.”
2023-04-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Manduka: Peter Sterios · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. But when the architect was ready to offer me the job, he said there was one condition. And I said, what's that? And he said. You have to go out for the local rugby team, and I'm looking at him going, first of all, what is rugby had no clue. And second of all, why is this a requirement? It turned out he was the captain of the rugby team, and as I had mentioned.”
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“Ah, it was one of the most difficult athletic things I'd ever done And so for me, a good day bending forward touching my kneecap standing. That was a good day. That's how stiff I was. So, yeah, that first class was that took me to a level of intensity, pain intensity that I really had never experienced before. But the teacher could see that I was kind of overdoing stuff. She came over and gave me a few adjustments in this one pose. And then after that, the end of class, she laid us all down on the floor for the final relaxation. And this relaxation exercise that she did was only two minutes long, three minutes long. Where I went during those three minutes, I have no idea. But it was like all the pain in my neck was gone. My mind was refreshed. You know, I had hardly slept the night before. And I just felt fantastic. So I was hooked.”
2023-04-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Manduka: Peter Sterios · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I was embarrassed actually that I'd walked in while the class was in session. And just right in the middle of the class, I asked loud enough for the teacher to hear, what is this? And in that moment, it could have been kind of a difficult situation, but the teacher turned to me with kindness and said, it's yoga. Do you want to try? Putting me on the spot. And I was embarrassed. I'm sure I was turning pink and red in my face. But when I looked around the room and everyone in the room, all the girls in the room were looking at me and smiling and like encouraging look on their faces. And I thought, hmm, and in that split second, I said, sure, when's the next class? And the next week I showed up at this class to do yoga. And that's how it all began.”
2023-04-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Manduka: Peter Sterios · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Totally random. I was late. I'd been up till four AM, went home, got a half an hour's sleep, took off to class that I was late to around nine o'clock. And there's this door propped open. And for the life of me, I have no idea why I stopped, turned, pulled the door open, and walked in a step to see what was going on. And it was the craziest thing for a kid from Fresno no clue of anything other than kind of sports and, you know, family and friends to go into this room full of women and female instructor doing yoga with no context for what I was seeing. Like it was like I was on another planet.”
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“It was physical abuse, self abuse in a way to the 10th degree, and it started to take its toll on me, especially at 19, I had severe arthritic pain in my neck.”
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“Pain that I was experiencing was just the result of long hours leaning out over a drafting table with drawings. And just the crazy hours that Know schools of architecture seem to demand of students just kind of the bragging rights of how many all-nighters have you pulled to get that project done.”
2023-04-24 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Manduka: Peter Sterios · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. As I started to ramp this business up, I actually, a friend of mine was a business consultant and I hired him. I said, here's the business model, an indestructible product, lifetime guarantee. He said, you're insane. No built in obsolescence, there's nothing, it's a dead end. Don't do it. And I said, here's your money. Thank you for the advice. And then I moved on because I knew that it was filling a void.”
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