Meet Kary Sinkule of Yoga’s Arc

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kary Sinkule.

Kary has dedicated the last 25 years to health, fitness and education. Kary’s health and wellness career began at Rhode Island College as a group fitness instructor in 1991. After graduating with a degree in Special Education in 1994, she began working as a Junior High Behavior Disordered Teacher for Worcester Public Schools while continuing as a fitness instructor and personal trainer. Due to the wear and tear on her body from the intense fitness courses she taught, her physical therapist recommended she try yoga for relief. Within two weeks of practicing yoga, she was asked to join her yoga school’s apprenticeship program and immediately started teaching yoga to her group fitness students as a self-taught yoga instructor. She noticed how yoga started to beneficially impact her mind and body in so many ways, and it was having the same effect on her students. This was the beginning of the journey.

Wishing to support her sister, she moved to Arizona in 2001 and continued her work in public education and mental health as a School Counselor Department Chair at a junior high. Again, she maintained her fitness work in Arizona as a group fitness instructor but began to gravitate toward teaching yoga over the high impact classes she used to teach. She began to notice every time she practiced yoga, she felt better, and every time she practiced any other form of group fitness exercise, she felt drained. Yoga was helping her listen to and learn from her body instead of ignoring and persevering past the messages of hurt and pain.

In 2014, she received her 200-hour yoga teacher training certificate at Dave’s Astanga Yoga School in Scottsdale, Arizona. The same year was when her battle with Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome became a blessing, as it guided her to add daily meditation and restorative yoga to her routine. Her transformational experience with yoga led her to a full-time career. It played a significant role in her healing, and she feels it is her calling to educate others on various aspects, practices, and easy accessibility of yoga. Kary has instructed over 10,000 yoga classes over the last two decades and is graduating with her 500-hour certificate from Authentic Yoga School in January 2020. She has created and coordinated yoga programs in places such as corporate offices, spas, chiropractic/physical therapy locations, restaurants, senior living neighborhoods, and her local Life Time Fitness. Gleaning from these experiences, Kary took the strengths of her work to develop a new model: Yoga’s Arc.  Yoga’s Arc is a mobile yoga company that brings yoga classes to people and places without easy access to this resource. Further, she has a yoga mentoring program through her company to help new instructors get more experience and feel comfortable guiding people through yoga practices. Yoga should be accessible to everyone, anywhere, anytime, and it is her mission to help create a ripple effect to bring more yoga to more people.

Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
Nothing is a smooth road, and nothing comes without struggle. Every significant difficulty during my life has been part of God’s plan and path to Yoga’s Arc. Each challenge made an impact in the vision I have for Yoga’s Arc, and my vision to give back through Yoga. Since my yoga career began in 1997, I have seen much and had a variety of experiences that have helped me learn what works and what doesn’t work. Ultimately, this all taught me how to build a company with a solid foundation and the ability to predict the problems before they occur. I have put all of this knowledge into creating a customized premium yoga experience with each yoga class we deliver. Each struggle reminds me that we are all human and go through suffering. It reminds me to always put our clients and employees first, and encourage empathy and self-care. We also need to consider the struggles our clients go through on a daily basis and set proper boundaries as instructors to cope with their trauma and experiences. You never know what people come to the mat with, and it is our priority to give them space. Everyone has struggle, it is what we do with it that matters.  

Please tell us about Yoga’s Arc.
We were born out of a passion for outreach. After years of yoga practice, I began wondering how I could bring yoga to those who need it most- the overworked, the unable, and the under-served.  To reach these people, I knew I needed to find a way they can practice that is not intimidating and convenient for their lifestyle.  In studios, we serve everyone in the same class, at the same time.  While anyone can find a benefit in yoga practice, a crowded yoga studio may not always cater to individual needs. I knew that I couldn’t serve everyone if I was in only one location. The movement had to be fueled by flexibility and a willingness to join people in every step of their personal journey. After meditating on this for years, I then thought outside the four walls of a typical studio and created Yoga’s Arc, a mobile yoga company that delivers the practice to you.

A year later, we’re even more energized to keep changing the mindset of what yoga can look like. To us, yoga looks like coworkers sharing in morning rejuvenation. Yoga looks like a healing breakthrough for a stroke survivor in her own living room. Yoga looks exactly how you envision it.  

Everyone has a right to feel their best in mind and body. Yoga isn’t just about self-improvement, it’s about self-love. As a team of over 30 certified instructors, we believe it is our responsibility to share the love and power of the practice by bringing unique classes to meet individual needs. We teach to stretch minds, and we teach to stretch bodies.

If you had to go back in time and start over, would you have done anything differently?
Not one single thing. Not one. We could all look back and say that we wish we could have done things differently.  We can’t change our past, but we can use the past to learn what to do in our future.  I am thankful that I chose to serve diligently in the yoga community as a hard working instructor for 20+ years to learn what to do and what not to do. Driving all over town, instructing up to 25 classes per week gave me so many opportunities to make mistakes. Instead of repeating these mistakes, I learned and applied myself to growing in the practice. I stayed patient and diligent in this self-growth instead of abruptly opening my own place or yoga business just as I watched so many around me do. All the waiting and serving was on purpose for me to be exactly where I am today, with all the tools necessary to create Yoga’s Arc.  

Our Pricing:

• INSTRUCTOR ONLY $130/hour Up to 20 people
• STUDIO 2-U $150/hour Up to 20 people + rental
• STUDIO 2-U DELUXE $175/hour Up to 20 people + rental

Contact Info:

• Address: 4435 E Chandler Blvd
  Suite 200
  Phoenix, Az
  85048
• Website: https://yogasarc.com
• Phone: (480)861-3788
• Email: Kary@Yogasarc.com

Image Credit:

Sandoval Design & Marketing (Gil Sandoval)

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