How did your company get its name?
I struggled for a long time deciding on a name. I knew I wanted something that could include all of my skillsets which were nutritional interventions, personal training, athletic training and injury prevention techniques and of course yoga. Not to mention, the certifications I could acquire like teaching, becoming a yoga school, meditation, coaching, etc.
I played with phrases that were marketable like "Pawleys Island Yoga" or "Beach Fit". I thought that a play on my name like "Chrissea" would be good and was really close to deciding on "Chrissea Fit." I didn't want it to sound like too much of a gym but I also didn't want it to sound like only a yoga studio.
I started looking up Sanskrit words that were aligned with my credentials and sentiments of strong but graceful, flexible but not lax, natural beauty, movement, fluidity, anatomy, etc. I landed on Subala and remember thinking "They dance" in Spanish was very similar and I liked that because yoga is somewhat of a dance with your mat and the world around you. After more research, Subala was a man who was a fighter and featured in very small roles in The Upanishads and The Bhagavad Gita as a graceful warrior who is both strong and beautiful. I thought that was a great start to a name! I looked and observed around for months and still would always come back to that name and so finally, it stuck!
Now, Subala is a way of life. It's choosing to see the beautiful things in everything like the rose, a Warrior, the pattern of a cabbage that is freshly cut. More than that, it's seeing the strength within - seeing that rose can withstand storms, infestations, temperature variants and is still beautiful. It's seeing a Warrior 1 pose and seeing the beautiful body, elongated and upright, but seeing lines, angles and muscles contracting to still the body for a few more moments.
In addition to beauty and strength, it's seeing resiliency, perseverance and choosing the be strong to promote peace. At all costs, inner peace should be preserved. By maintaining strength in the outer world, in responses and actions, inner peace can be maintained. Sometimes that means being strong in initiating conversations that are uncomfortable. Maybe it's exhibiting patience and not responding because it takes strength to contain bubbled up emotions. It could be coming out at the end of major trauma in a beautiful and composed way to mode and emulate grace in grieving.
I think that the community and world I have created around Subala is one that could really modify the way people think, work, respond, react and view themselves, the world around them and prioritizing their peace of mind.
What started as a "workout hobby" has now drifted into a lifestyle and I am so excited to see where the path will take it in the future.
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