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Amy Taylor Alpers

Oct 14, 2026

JoyHOST
9:21
Yeah.
9:21
And it was so like, this is something I can do the rest of my life, and this is something I can do for me that just makes my body feel good and makes me feel healthy and strong and flexible and capable, you know? And so it wasn't really until that one day when I went and the studio was gone that I thought, oh dear, you know, now we're addicted.
9:42
We better, we better know as much as we possibly can because Rachel was getting married, and we were gonna be moving to Boulder and leaving New York finally after 13 years, you know.
9:55
I'd been there since '76.
9:57
And, uh, and so it was like suddenly there was, like, this little crush of time, and so just went up to Romana and Wita, who owned it at the time, and said, you know, "What else can we do?" And, you know, they had this little two-week kinda nothing, like, teacher training program that we did.
10:16
And we had been teachers, both of us had been teachers for decades really-

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JoyHOST
56:57
Mm-hmm.
56:58
These words that are so great, or cats pandiculate or, you know, like just watching it and being like, "Well, that's how nature works, so that's how the human has to work." And, you know, getting my anatomy stronger, et cetera.

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