Tonya Russell - The Yoga Circle

This week on The Membership Podcast, Claire chats with Tonya Russell about building a beautifully simple membership that generates recurring income while helping women prioritise themselves, improve their health, and create lasting habits.

Based in New Zealand, Tonya teaches live online yoga classes and has built a thriving membership around consistency, community and self-care. What started during lockdown has grown into a business that gives her flexibility, freedom and recurring income, all while doing work she genuinely loves. 

In this episode, we discuss:

•  How lockdown led Tonya to completely rethink her business model 
•  Moving from a physical yoga studio to an online membership 
•  Why she believes yoga is about far more than flexibility 
•  Helping women become the kind of person who keeps promises to themselves 
•  Overcoming fears around filming and showing up online 
•  Launching with simple equipment and imperfect videos 
•  Creating a membership that feels like doing yoga with friends 
•  Why community matters more than fancy technology 
•  Building recurring income from something you already do 
•  The mindset shifts required to create a successful membership 
•  Time freedom, location freedom and lifestyle design 
•  The surprising transformations members experience through regular practice 

What Is Yoga Circle?

Yoga Circle is an online membership for women who want to make yoga and movement part of everyday life.

Members receive:

•  Live online yoga classes several times each week 
•  Access to a supportive community 
•  Flexible attendance options 
•  Classes designed for real women with real lives 
•  Guidance on strength, flexibility, balance and wellbeing 
•  A sustainable approach to self-care and movement 

The membership is designed to fit around busy schedules while helping members build a consistent practice they can maintain long term. 

Key Takeaways

•  Memberships can be built around something you're already doing. 
•  You don't need expensive equipment to launch online. 
•  Consistency creates bigger results than perfection. 
•  Community is often more valuable than content. 
•  Small recurring payments add up to meaningful income. 
•  A membership can provide freedom without adding complexity. 
•  The stories you tell yourself are often the biggest obstacle to starting. 

About Tonya

Tonya Russell is a yoga teacher, business owner and founder of Yoga Circle in New Zealand.

For more than two decades she has helped women use yoga and movement to improve their physical wellbeing while developing greater confidence, resilience and self-trust. Through her membership, she helps women create sustainable habits that support them both on and off the yoga mat. 

Member Success Stories

One member in her seventies joined believing she was someone who always started things but never stuck with them. Through regular attendance inside the membership, she completely changed that story and has now maintained a consistent yoga practice for over a year.

Another member, who had undergone shoulder replacements, regained enough mobility and strength to do everyday tasks independently again, including fastening her own bra, something that had previously required assistance.

Other members have experienced improved posture, greater mobility, increased confidence and a stronger sense of self-care through consistently showing up for themselves. 

What You'll Learn

By listening to this episode you'll discover:

•  How to create a successful do-along membership 
•  Why simple memberships often work best 
•  The mindset shifts needed to launch online 
•  How recurring income changes the way you think about business 
•  Ways to build a membership around community rather than content 
•  How small daily actions create powerful long-term results 

Memorable Quote

"The real thing people get from our membership is becoming a woman who keeps the promises she makes to herself." 

Links Mentioned

• Yoga Circle
• Yoga Circle Facebook Page

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Transcript

Speaker 0:12

So welcome, Tonya. Thank you. Um, I would love to hear about your amazing membership. So could you tell us first of all what your business does and whereabouts you're based? Sure.

Speaker 1 0:26

So I have an online um yoga business or membership, and I'm based in Whangarei in New Zealand, and we I help women set up a home a home yoga practice to help yoga yoga and movement be part of their everyday lives, really. So you kind of and underpinning all of that, the real the real thing that people get from the our membership is becoming a woman who keeps the promises she makes to ourselves. Because quite often we always put ourselves last. And I noticed that when I was teaching yoga face to face that people would intend to come to class, but they'd get stuck at their desk at work. And I was like, that's actually the biggest difference I can make. So sure when we use yoga and we practice yoga, I mean, people can dip in and come whenever they like so they can live with flexibility and balance and strength and all of those wonderful things, but they really do become women who keep the promises they make to themselves, and that's that's the inside. That's what you get on the inside. Sort of come to yoga, but that's some that's the that's the gold. That's the gold that's in there. I love it.

Speaker 1:31

So, what is the name of your membership and who is it specifically aimed at?

Speaker 1 1:36

It's Yoga Circle Online Membership, is or Yoga Circle is my business, and it's aimed at women over 40, really. So yeah, I've got women from 40 up to and oh, I do have a couple of men who come. They've been coming to yoga with me for I don't know, years and years. Um, and like one of them is 78, and he's been coming for eight for so long. And um, he comes face to face, he's not online, and then um, and another guy who's in his 60s, and then the rest of them are just uh uh a woman who are in their 40s up to I don't know, late 70s, mid-70s. Wonderful. So then New Zealand and Australia, that's where they come from too, the time zones.

Speaker 2:23

Yeah, because you uh yeah, it would be difficult with Europe, I think. Well, maybe not.

Speaker 1 2:27

I mean No, Europe would be fine, it's opposite. Like, so our five like I have a class at seven o'clock in the morning, which is seven o'clock in your evening. Yeah, so it could be a nice window class, but yeah.

Speaker 2:40

So the way that I've spoken and described your um membership before is that you are doing it anyway, it's like a do-along membership because you're doing the yoga anyway, and you were, and then you decided to bring people in. So is that correct? How would you describe your membership?

Speaker 1 2:55

Oh my membership our membership, it is just yeah, I I get I get I'm so lucky and blessed, and I because I get to practice yoga with my friends every time I only teach yoga to my friends. That was the thought I had when I first started my business, you know, when it came to doing it anyway. Um, all those years ago when I became a yoga teacher because I was a lecturer and then I set up my yoga studio and I was like, oh my gosh, you know, it's terrifying. You know, what if someone doesn't like me? What if someone doesn't like um complains about my yoga business? And so it was lit, it was quite paralyzing all those years ago. I'm talking 2004. And then I was just like, well, what if you could just set your business up on the belief or the idea that you only teach yoga to your friends and that you are really good at making friends? And so literally that's what my business has been. Like when it was face to face, I just I don't know, called in people I liked really. I don't know how it worked, but it became true, it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Um, and I realized we'd speak in New Zealand fast, so I should slow down. It's fine. Yeah, and so and same with the online, the online business. I changed online in 2023 or two, maybe 22 or 23, around that time. Um and yeah, we we do it. We just all practice yoga together and we delight in seeing each other online, and it's really they I will say they're all my friends. I I like And is it every morning? I teach yoga um three mornings a week, so Monday, Friday, and Wednesday morning, and then we have a class at seven at 9.30, and which is like 7:30 in Australia. And then I have, yeah, so every day I teach it, but it's at slightly different times. So six, you know, one class on a Sunday, which is a restorative class, so you can ease into your weekend or soften off on the gardening at the moment where we've got spring here.

Speaker 5:00

Yeah, so really good for aches and pains, I guess.

Speaker 1 5:03

Getting rid of the aches and pains. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 5:08

So why did you start your membership and how did you come up with the idea for for this membership?

Speaker 1 5:13

Honestly, it was nuclear. It was lockdown, one of our lockdowns. Um, because we were back back in 2022, um, our prime minister still wanted us to have zero cases of COVID in the world, and the world was opening up, and just Cinder was like, no, you're gonna have zero cases in New Zealand. And so literally, our business, we would have to watch the news, and like we'd get like you have to close your business tomorrow. Okay, you can open it up, and these are the rules for opening. And so I was having to change my website every couple of days. Um, I really felt that my business was like somebody else was dictating my business all the time. I mean, it was quick, you know, crucial times. It was a but I had no autonomy, and I just had and it was quite stressful because you're like, okay, I'm gonna have to be two meters apart. Um, these these people are allowed to come, these people are not. It was very divisive because some of my members chose not to get um the vaccine and others did, and so it became very problematic. Like, and and she wasn't budging, like the world was opening and she wasn't budging. And I was like, how much longer are we going to be like this? And then at the same time, there was this it's old lady who's 83, she was going to be kicked out of her house. It's kind of a random tangent, but this was kind of one of the key catalysts. She was about to be kicked out of her home that she'd lived in for 21 years because her landlord was put into a rest home, and so her landlord had to sell the home. And nobody would let her come and she had a dog, nobody would let her come and um look at a house. There was a housing crisis, and it was all that time, you know. So I saw this randomly on my Facebook page that the story about this old lady, and I was like, Oh, I've got a home, I've got a house because I'd bought a pro a commercial property that I and it was a it's a bungalow, which I converted into my yoga studio. It's very beautiful, it's like a French chandelier and wooden floors, and it's gorgeous. Opposite a park. And I was just like, I can't have that house empty, knowing that this lady's gonna have to put her dog down and go into a rest home. Like I I can't do that, you know, I can't do that. And so I so I rang her and said, you know, if you need this house, it's yours. And at the meantime, I've been seeing on my Facebook feed you saying, um, oh, start a membership. It can be easy. Um, start a membership. It can be easy, just in your very plain, like pink backgrounds, I think. It wasn't anything fancy, but it was consistent. It was an idea that just kept getting planted into my brain. But of course, not thinking that that was for me, because I was still so distracted by what the state was saying, you know. And then all of those things came together one day. And I was just like, well, what if I what if I started this business online? Because by then I was running some classes online and I haven't died because I was thinking, if I videoed myself doing yoga at 50, oh my god, I might die. You know, like who do you think you are? Um, yeah. So there was a little bit of growth that had to go through that stage because I mean, I'd you know, been a lecturer for years and years and years, and then suddenly there was that monkey mind. Like, who do you think you are? You're going to be a 50-year-old woman videoing yourself doing yoga. You don't know anything about da-da-da-da-da-da-da. You can, whatever story it is, it does. That was my story, but there's a story, you'll have a story, and you can kind of expect that story to be there. It's how you respond to that story that's going to change your life. So, yeah, it was you, really lucky. And that gave planted that seed, made that an opportunity, and that lady's still living in that house. Um, and oh, fantastic! Yeah, yeah, yeah. She loves it, and it's wonderful. Like, she's she's lovely. Yeah.

unknown 9:16

Yeah.

Speaker 9:16

So you're changing lives in many different ways, Tonya.

Speaker 1 9:21

And do you know what, Claire? One thing, and I will say this, because that day that I said to her, like, if you need this house, it's yours, to have the money and the freedom to be able to change another woman's life like that with ease. Um, I was just like, it's worth doing the work over your money blocks. Absolutely. Yeah, because otherwise you just if I hadn't have done that, she wouldn't have done it. You know, like it yeah. So it I mean, there's stuff that I think that's a big thing too.

Speaker 9:53

Yeah. So did you how did you go about with the filming side? Was that difficult having to film yourself doing yoga?

Speaker 1 10:00

Yes.

unknown 10:01

Absolutely. Of course it was.

Speaker 1 10:03

But most of it was like in my head. Like it's not and like if you're uh on your computer and you're like, I'm an intelligent woman and I can work this out, that takes you somewhere else than if you go, oh my god, this is not gonna work. Absolutely. And if and the other thing one of the things I did, um I used this lipstick actually, because I was like, I was thinking, um what would a successful woman say to herself? She wouldn't be saying, Oh my god, I like fat, or um, the lighting's bad, or like, I don't know, whatever excuse you can come up with, she wouldn't say that. What and then I was like, well, what would she say? Because I don't know. This is right at the start, you know, right at the start. Yeah. I would say, I thought to myself, because it's easy sometimes to think of the smallest thing to say, and she would think to herself, my lipstick looks great. And so I just made sure every time I had good lipstick, and then when those monkey minds came in, I would just go, Oh, my lipstick looks great. You're fine, off you go.

Speaker 11:08

You go. Oh, I love this so much. I just love your mindset.

Speaker 1 11:13

And then I never watched the videos again. And thank God, because last yesterday I accidentally found one, and you know, I'm videoing from here to here in some places, and from here to here in places, like and my membership still grew.

Speaker 11:29

Yeah, it's still good anyway. So, what does your um filming setup look like now then? You know, a couple of years down the line. Oh, super simple.

Speaker 1 11:39

I've got um my computer on a cardboard box. I've got my laptop, I've got a long, not to promote loggy, but that's the brand of the little tiny computer I've got, camera I've got sitting on top of it, and um, and a yoga mat. So literally just like my. And I don't mind that you are slow, but I don't want to change.

Speaker 12:08

So you're literally running this hugely successful membership with, like you said, a webcam and a yoga mat. Yeah.

Speaker 1 12:16

I love it. I love it. Oh, and my cell phone, like I do with my in my cell phone. I I do a lot of talking to people and my my marketing on here.

Speaker 12:26

Yeah. But in terms of the filming and running the sessions when you're doing yoga with your friends, um it's just that's just on the computer in a yep, camera, it's easy. Yeah, I love this because so many people take the excuse or make the excuse that I don't have the right equipment or the kit. And as you said, it's about what you tell yourself, but you're living that. You're like, yeah, it's my old laptop and it's a webcam, and I do a market on my phone, and it works. Yeah, yeah. I love it.

Speaker 1 12:57

And it's not just that it works, it delights me, I'll clear. Oh it delights me. I never think, oh my god, I've got to go do yoga with my friends. Like people like that. Like, I'm like, oh, and sometimes I'll be working and I'm like, oh but oh, it's yoga at 4 30, like that'll get me off my computer. Like, because otherwise I would have just stayed. And and you know, and just to see people just grow into like because when you keep a promise that you make to yourself, if you say to yourself, I'm gonna start a membership, and you become the woman that keeps that promise, like your whole life changes. So when these women turn up to their yoga mat, like one lady, she's she said to me, she isn't here 70, and she said to me, um, oh, I'll well, I'll I'll start coming, but I never stay, I never stick at things. Like I I start things off and then I always drop off. And I was like, Oh, please, please don't come to my yoga, um, to my yoga membership, because I don't want to be part of someone's story that starts something and they can't carry on. I don't I want I don't want to be part of that. Like it was nice doing yoga with you today, but please don't join my membership. Just come along to my face-to-face classes. Yeah. Because I only teach yoga to women who keep the promises they make to themselves. And then she was like, I want to, I want to be that. Like I want to be that. And so she's been coming to yoga now for over a year, which is mind-blowing for her. But the coolest thing, like the coolest thing about this lady, she's had um her shoulders replaced, is that she can now do a purple bra strap. That's life-changing again. That's life changing. That's independence, isn't it? So it's and you know what? It's it's independence, and it just makes me so happy. Like, for me, that's one of my greatest successes, is that this woman's been able to do this. Because she goes to church and her husband stays in bed. So she gets up for mass on a Sunday morning early, and she'd have to wake her husband up to do her bar brush back. And now she, like you said, she can just get up. Like, I'm an independent woman who keeps the promises I make to herself, do her own bra. She's got in and out of the bar. Like the the women like who I share yoga with, they want to be able to get down and they want to be able to get that thing in the back of the cupboard. They want to play with their grandchildren and get up off the floor, like not go, oh, I'm here and now a lot, you know. And yeah, it's about living with strength and flexibility and balance.

Speaker 15:40

Fantastic. So, how did you launch your membership? I know that you um, you know, made the decision that you were going to do yoga with your friends, and that was your entire kind of um um what's the word I'm looking for, approach really when you when you put it together. So, how do you actually go about launching it in practical terms?

Speaker 1 16:00

I in practical terms it was reasonably easy for me because I'd been teaching yoga face-to-face f since 2004. So I had in various stages, but I bought a um I bought a pro a property where I was teaching yoga from, and I already had a lot of um like people who were coming to yoga regularly there. And so then when I moved online, like I just sent out an email to say I'm moving online. And if you join now, I did a join now for as like it's like if you join now, it'll be this price lifetime price um for that. And so they came along. So I dropped lost a lot of people, like not everybody came because people wanted face to face when everything opened. Um, but mostly like I it go it. The other cool thing about setting up a membership is that I started to teach yoga with some of my old yoga friends, like who had moved away from my city. So I've got people who I haven't even met all the way down the country um and all the way up to the top of the country. So there are people who made some of them used to come and have moved away. Some of them I've never met before. Um that's the beauty online, isn't it? It just makes it accessible to anybody. Yeah. And people come in their pajamas and they have their cameras off and they do like half an hour and they all log off when they need to go to work or to you know to drop their children off to school. And you don't, they don't have to have their lipstick perfect. I don't even need to see them. But it's but if they want to, I'm there, you know. If they want to say, check this posture out. I'm not sure. So how many people joined that first time? Oh, I wouldn't know. Um in the beginning it was a lot more because the world was shut, like we were we were closed. So it used to be quite those members, though I would have screens full of people, whereas now I have about um between about I'm thinking about four to twelve in a class.

Speaker 18:01

Yeah. So Tonya, how much money does your membership bring in and what difference does that make to your life?

Speaker 1 18:09

So my membership currently brings in around $2,000 New Zealand a month. Wow. And yeah, it's pretty it's nice. It's amazing. It is, it is good, yeah. And I just so I that seems easy. Like I set up all the systems on my and on my website, but most people just do an AP, and then if they want to cancel, they can cancel anytime. It's an AP automated payment. Um yeah. And so um I'm guessing that's like a screen, isn't it? Oh, yeah. The difference it makes to my life, and I think this was it came from you because I never thought I wanted this actually until you said it was an idea.

unknown 18:49

Is it clear?

Speaker 1 18:51

You don't know. You honestly, you have no idea whose life you influence, do you? Like you just don't know. Well, likewise, yeah. Yeah, so yeah. So I you said something that you don't have to start the month on zero. Years ago, somebody said to me, How often do you want money coming into your account? Somebody said that to me. And that was has been a formative question in my adult years. Like, because I was growing up in a I had grown up in a family where there were no entrepreneurs, you know, and the money came into your account when on payday. So, like this for me was like a mind-blowing, what do you mean? Like once a fortnight, I said, and she was like, once a fortnight, I want to check my bank about my bank account every hour. And I was like, every hour, you know, like so. We had these these two women having two very different perceptions of money. And for me, that, and then you said years and years and years later, and I'd had other businesses, I mean, had businesses and coaching and all of that in between, but you said um about not starting your month on zero, yeah, and just having this recurring income. And I do have investments, so it's not like it's zero, but like that doesn't come into my bank account, whereas this membership money comes into my bank account um and it's there. So I'm not starting the month on zero. Like I guess my energetic zero is two thousand dollars a month. You know, I think, you know, my zero, that's my zero. Um and because it just is easy. Like I don't yoga doesn't feel like work. Like you said, it's what I'd be doing anyway, and it's amplified because I get to share it with people I love and care about.

Speaker 20:33

I love this so much. So are you actively growing your membership now?

Speaker 1 20:39

Oh no, like I never honestly I I I sometimes I think, oh, I should do that. I'm open to people coming in. Um and yeah, when I was lecturing, I would have my my my pleasure number in a class would be 50 people. And I don't know if this is like a limiting belief I can only work with 50 people, but I and it's open. If people see this and they think, oh, I want to try yoga, I'm interested in doing it, come message me, that's fine. I'd love to talk to you, I'd love to be your friend, but I'm not doing a launch, you know, like I pay for yoga. I don't ever want my yoga, I don't even really want yoga to be how many people have paid, how many people are on their mat. Like I just teach yoga to my friends and I share it from this place, and then I'm supported by that. It's it's $45 New Zealand a month, so it's not a huge, huge amount for people. It's you know, if people can come nine times a week, um, and or they could come once a month. You know, it's up to them how often they come. So I want it to add value. And if when it doesn't work, go find the thing that does work for you.

Speaker 21:55

So, what do your members love most about being inside your membership? You've already kind of alluded. To it, but do you have any other stories apart from the amazing lady able to do a brass chop-up? I know, isn't that cool?

Speaker 1 22:06

Yes, I do. One of the things I say to say my classmates is often is what's my next self-nourishing step? Look, when we're working when we're doing our yoga pose, and we'll do our yoga poses, and then there's a space between because I think we need to be comfortable in life at being in that space between, you know. That you know, your child leaves home, there's that space between. Yeah. And like that, or you finish a job and then there's that space between, like, and it's uncomfortable, or you are doing something successfully, and there's that space between when you're like, what am I going to do next? And I think we live in a time, and maybe life has always been like this, but certainly in my lifetime, we want to rush through that space between. We don't want to be there. We want to go, what's next? Like, what are you doing next? Like, and so part of my yoga practice is to like to practice being in that space between. So we do it in like everything you do on your mat, you can do off your mat. So we'll do like your stretches at your left and your right, and then we might we always do a pose that comes into balance. And I have these spaces in the class where you do what your body wants you to do, you know, whether it's a light small back bend, whether it's a small hip opener, and I show you these things, and they're not they're not doing handstands or cartwheels or anything, they're simple postures that are going to enhance your life. Um, but you like let your body be your teacher, let your body, let your body be your teacher. And one of the ways that we can do that is by asking ourselves, what's my next self-nourishing step? What is my next self-caring step? And to actually practice listening to that. And that has a different flavor or attitude to it than I have to drink eight glasses of water a day, right? Absolutely, yeah. Um, and so anyway, this lady, she's a she's a nurse, a cardiac nurse, and she messaged me a little while ago to say, Oh my god, I know I opened my fridge today to get my lunch for work. This is about 5 30 in the morning, and I just heard your voice. Instead of saying, What's for lunch? I thought, what's my next self-nourishing step? And then I made myself this, like and tell me what she'd made herself for lunch. And it's little moments like that that just delight me. Yeah. And yeah. And then there's one more tell you one more as well, is the lady she she works in IT, and so she's on her computer a lot. So she's and she sit was sitting like this, you know, kind of, and um, and she said she always had this belief that she had bad posture. And her mum would tell her, and people would say, you know, in winters, yeah, growing up, her mum would say, and so she grew up to believe that she had bad posture, and she said, Now that I've been doing yoga, and she was a she's a woman who sits all day and doesn't like exercise, you know, and she has been showing up every week, twice twice to three times a week to yoga for years now. And she was like, People will comment on my posture. Oh yeah. So people tell her her posture is good, and so her whole sense of self-belief has needed to change to adjust to these new comments because she's no longer that person who had poor posture, which she just believed it wasn't really in her brain, like I'm a woman with poor posture. But now when people are saying you're you've you've got such good posture, um, that's shaped that self, that sense of self-belief. And that's that's pretty cool.

Speaker 25:50

It's really cool. Yeah, it is. So um what what dreams or plans do you have for this amazing membership?

Speaker 1 26:01

Honestly, I'm inspired by the the people who come. And like there's a lady, she comes here to my actual to my physical space, and she is I don't know, 76. She planks like a boss. Like she's a full plank. And when I look at her, I think when I grow up, I want to be like you. Like I want to be her. I want to still be doing yoga um for it to still delight with my friends, like she is, she's doing yoga with their friends. She comes here and well, I zoom. So I'm zooming the class, we'll start. There's some people in my room. And so my big dreams, honestly, is to be like my like my clients, like my friends I teach yoga with, like to grow into them.

Speaker 26:47

How lovely. Really lovely. So, Tonya, what does running a membership allow you to do that you couldn't do before?

Speaker 1 26:55

Well, one of the things that I love about teaching online is that it has provided me with time and location freedom. Like that was one of the things I was wanting when I was lecturing full-time and running my yoga studio physically. I had a lot of cleaning to do. And they also knew that I had to be in this room at this time. Whereas teaching it online, I can take or take just take my laptop with me. So I can go to other cities. I homeschool our daughter so I can take her to the city and I can take my computer. We make sure I'm at the hotel by these times, and I can teach, or we've got a beach house as well, so I can take my computer to the beach house and zoom out there. I don't have to be in town at a certain day. So it's really provided that flexibility to our lifestyle. And it's removed the cleaning. What does remove the cleaning?

Speaker 27:49

I love it. So, what advice would you give to somebody who's sitting on a great membership idea like yours but hasn't actioned it yet?

Speaker 1 27:58

Okay, so I'd say plan for your objections. So get familiar with your mind monkeys, the the stories that you're going to say. They'll be the same ones that you've used before. They might be dressed up slightly differently, um, but they'll be there. You can do it anyway. And I think the the way to do that is to step into that future version of you to think about who is that woman who's already established this membership. What does she say to herself that's different from the version I am right now? Give this person grace because she's doing the best she can, but use her for advice. Like use her for advice.

Speaker 28:39

And this is kind of what you did yourself when you started the way that you you described that, isn't it? What would that successful woman and membership want to be talking about? What would she be thinking, what would she be believing? Yeah, and what would she not be doing?

Speaker 1 28:53

Yeah, and what would she not and that would help me catch like there's no way she would berate herself for being a 50-year-old woman videoing herself in her house. She wouldn't do that. How do you feel confident if you tell yourself those stories? So, and and but at the same time, you're not gonna beat yourself up for it because your brain is trying to say, no, that's really dangerous, and it's okay, I got you. We'll be fine. We'll put the lipstick on, we'll be okay.

Speaker 29:20

It'll be all right. I love that so much. So um, we'll wrap up now, Tonya. This has been amazing. I think people are gonna get so much from this. Um, but where can people find you? How can they connect with you? I know you said um your membership is welcoming to anybody, and if people want to connect, then that you'll kind of have a chat with them. But how do we find you?

Speaker 1 29:43

Um face I'm on Facebook. Um, that's a good place. So Yoga Circle or Tonya Russell. I guess there might be a number of Tonya Russell's in the world. Um but or otherwise my website, which is yogacircle.co.nz. Perfect. And my and my email should be on there. You should be able to email me from there.

Speaker 30:04

And your membership's on there. It is. Yeah, a membership's on there. This has been such a joy. I feel like you've given us some coaching back. Um, I just love it. I love your attitude. I love the way that you've approached this. I just feel like it's a lovely membership and it's perfect for you, but I feel like it'll inspire so many people as well listening to this. So thank you so much. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 30:29

Oh, you're welcome. Thank you. Thank you for your support over the years and your ideas. That's and like I said, you just don't know who you inspire just by being yours. Yeah, I'm right back at you. You've changed lots of lives. So thank you, Tonya.