Emma Morse on Seacoast Fitness Scene Drama, the Whitewashing of Yoga, & Lifelong Battles With Anxiety & Depression (The Yoga Parlor Owner)

Emma Morse didn't want to become a yoga teacher.

A native of South Hampton, N.H. and a UNH alum, the 33-year-old owner of The Yoga Parlor (Hampton, N.H.) took a yoga teacher training in California during her college years, immersing herself in the program to get away, and to try something new.

Awestruck while taking in picturesque scenes of blue skies, she realized she not only wanted to teach yoga, but that she needed it for her sanity.

She hasn't looked back since.

On today's episode, Emma sits down with host Troy Farkas from the four walls of her expanded space in Hampton, where the two discuss what led her to take a YTT, her lifelong battles with ADD, anxiety, and depression, teaching yoga at MISSION (now Studio One) in the studio's early days, the not-so-good aspects of working in the Seacoast fitness scene, starting The Yoga Parlor at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, opening a new studio weeks before giving birth to her daughter late last year, and so much more.

CHAPTERS:

• Bartending at Libby's for 13 years (00:00)
• Emma's lifelong struggles with ADD & anxiety (05:20)
• Becoming a teacher & Emma's teaching style (14:32)
• A CRAZY schedule when she started teaching (25:02)
• Emma's mental health struggles (31:25)
• SPONSORS: Jenn Bakos Photography & Budget Blinds of the Seacoast (35:30)
• Why Emma opened a yoga studio during COVID (38:20)
• Giving birth & opening a new location late 2025 (54:00)

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