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Episode 6: Keep Showing Up with Yoga Teacher Margi Young

Showing Up with Joy: How Practice Holds the Heavy and the Light – Oakland, CA, July 3, 2025

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Hi friends,

Welcome to Episode 6 of this podcast series!

I’m joined by my longtime teacher and the widely beloved Margi Youngβ€”a yoga instructor whose presence has quietly helped shape my own healing path over the years. Margi is known for her decades of teaching in the Bay Area and around the worldβ€”from Bali to Brazil to Berkeleyβ€”but more than her impressive credentials, what stands out most is the joy and groundedness she brings to every room.

I first dropped into her class before many things in life shifted. In recent years, as in-person studio classes reopened, I found myself returning more consistentlyβ€”and more tenderly.

In this conversation, we talk about:

  • The grounding power of practice

  • What it means to witness someone else’s healing

  • Grief, humor, and downward dog

  • Our yoga adventures in India

We also touch on the joy her choreography brings her, the silliness of TikTok dances, the high that singing in community choir brings her, and what it means to keep creatingβ€”not for perfection, but for connection (and to keep ourselves away from doom scrolling).

Thank you for this conversation, Margi. May it find those who can benefit from the steady joy and deep care you bring into the world.

With care,
Kadie

About Margi Young

Margi Young has been teaching yoga and mindfulness practices since 2001 after earning her Master’s Degree in Dance and Choreography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her classes integrate breath, anatomy, alignment, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and Buddhist teachings on compassion and mindfulness. Also taking a cue from the most profound teachers, she teaches with joy, levity, and humor and encourages her students to take their yoga β€œoff the mat.” One of her mantras is β€œfind gurus everywhere."

Margi began her teaching career at Cyndi Lee’s OM Yoga Center in NYC, where she taught for a decade before returning to her hometown of San Francisco. She holds an E-RYT 500 credential with Yoga Alliance and certifications in restorative yoga (Judith Lasater), mindfulness (Mindfulness Training Institute), prenatal yoga (Integral Yoga Institute), pelvic floor yoga (Leslie Howard), and craniosacral therapy (Ellen Mossman). Named one of the 100 most influential yoga teachers in America by Sonima magazine, Margi’s approach is accessible, thoughtful, and deeply grounded in experience.

Margi currently leads classes at Nest Yoga in Oakland, as well as teacher trainings, and retreats both online and around the world. Her recorded yoga and meditation classes are available on Yoga Anytime (yogaanytime.com) and Movement for Modern Life (movementformodernlife.com), and more about her work can be found at margioyoung.com.

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