Get to Know Your Host, Joy

Yeah.

Um, Physical Mind was more of an apprenticeship model.

I, myself, trained, um, in more of that apprenticeship model.

You know, I get to say the, "Well, back in my day, we all made fig, you know, stick figures," uh, instead of having pictures and videos and, and all manner of content.

The apprenticeship model was lovely because it was immersive.

You were in a studio.

Like, I could tell you to this day the smell of the studio, right? We were just in there, I remember being in there for a snowstorm.

I re- and, and I remember what Manhattan felt like when everything was all quiet and it was snowing outside, and we're rolling like a ball, right?

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Um, uh, I could smell the steam heat.

I could see the equipment.

Um, so you're in this immersive sensory experience through the entirety of the training.

Your class became really a cohesive class.

Um, you know, and, and some of those relationships, many of those relationships follow you throughout the rest of your career.

The modular, um, model is one where it allows for much more flexibility.

Right? Um, you're, you can take the modules at your leisure, as you can afford to take them.

Uh, you can take them from multiple teachers, so you get to hear different voices, which, which is just different.

One's not better.

You know, I talk about, you know, the smell and the feel of New York, but you know what? I also remember what it was like to tr- you know, to deal with the traffic and to get on the train and, um, you know, y- so, so the flexibility and the flexibility today, today is really important.

Also, it's the availability and the accessibility.

You are more likely today to have teachers around you, um, than, than you were then, so the, the time commitment across the lifespan of the education is very, very different.

Um, but, but you, you, in either case, what you do need to seek out as a student is, is finding teachers that care to nurture your journey, um, that it not only just works for your schedule, but it works for who you want to become as an instructor, uh, and that you, you do take the time to make sure that the voices that are speaking to you resonate with you and inspire you.

Yeah.

I, I've now taken modules with a few of our educators, right? And, uh, and when people ask me, like, who my favorite is, it really is just, I tell them, "It doesn't actually matter what my answer is.

It, what matters is whoever has the style that feels the most like it is anchored to you-