Today we’d like to introduce you to Amara Depaul.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Amara. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
Born and raised in Houston, I went to Montessori schools most of my life and I fully believe this had me look outside the box of how things “should be”. I think I realized adventure and travel was my passion at the age of 11 on a school field trip camping on a Navajo reservation for seven days. I started a career in fashion modeling at the age of 14 and later moved to live in Italy at age 17. My career deepened the love I had for adventure by taking me all around the world from Trinidad and Tobago to Brazil and everywhere in between! While working as a model, I found my love for long-distance trekking and mountaineering and for immersing myself in cultures across the globe. While living in LA, I started doing yoga as an exercise and I didn’t fall in love with the practice until I moved back to Houston and visited BIG POWER YOGA. And my life completely changed. I received my 200hr YTT at BIG in 2014 and started leading yoga retreats for BIG in 2015. I studied under Suzanne Conrad for a year to become Lightyear Leadership certified as well as receiving another 200hr training from Baptiste Yoga. Thereafter a 300 hr training from Sarah Montross. I just could not stop! I went on to co-lead several 200 hr yoga teacher trainings at Big Power Yoga, helping shift perspectives one yoga teacher training at a time! During this time, Live Alive Adventures was created and molded into what it is today!
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
Lol. No.
Creating your own path will never be “smooth”. However, it is a mindset. If you are looking for everything to run smoothly you will find all the ways that it is not. If you release the need to have it be easy it actually allows you to have fun within all the rough patches.Because in the end, it is always the journey in all that you do and experience.
What should we know about Live Alive Adventures? What do you do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
Live Alive Adventures is a yoga adventure company. It became clear on our first trip that “retreat” was not the word for what we do, so we changed the name to BIG Adventures. We live and travel to lean into life, to wake up, to be amazed, to be surprised, take risks, and have fun. We don’t travel or practice yoga to escape, we travel and practice to SHOW UP. Three years after that initial conversation, BIG Adventures had taken on a life of its own, and was ready to expand out into its own expression of entrepreneurship and creativity and became its own company, LIVE ALIVE ADVENTURES. We are known for authentic people getting out of their comfort zone together as a family. It’s the people that set us apart. Time and time again. It’s never the places (while they are STUNNING) it’s always the people. We understand that we are all different and that we are in this adventure called life together. It allows everyone to be freed up to be themselves!
Do you have a lesson or advice you’d like to share with young women just starting out?
Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop looking at social media unless it’s for connection and inspiration. When you take steps that are unique and passionate to who you are, you will meet all the right people. Also, TALK about what you LOVE and DO what you LOVE.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://livealiveadventures.
com - Email: curious@livealiveadventures.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livealiveadventures/
Image Credit:
Drishti Studio
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