We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Pao Strickland. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Pao below.

Pao, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Is there a heartwarming story from your career that you look back on?

With my format (LatinFitFlow TM) which incorporates easy dance, basic yoga asanas, and a nice Shavassana infused by Reiki, my students, have reach a level of fitness that allows them to do other activities, as well as a level of mindfulness that inspire them to take other certification trainings to learn more about yoga or (with me) REIKI trainings to become holistic therapists. 🕉 🕉️

One student of mine has told me “since I am taking your classes of dance-yoga-reiki I am not only able to move, dance to a beat, and touch my toes, but also I no longer suffer from vertigo”, another student has sent me a picture of his before and after and he showed me no longer has high blood pressure and that my classes have motivated him to take other sports and mindful practices. I have gotten the testimonies of other fellow instructors from Zumba and Yoga (💃 🧘 ), who have decided to trust me and getting certified under my umbrella in Reiki and Dance-Yoga and they truly warm my heart by comments such “my knees no longer hurt, I can still teach dance and I got highly inspired to take a full yoga training and start teaching yoga. 🙏

I love inspiring others to find themselves and find their inner strength🥰.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I am a group fitness instructor, since 2007, however in fitness/dance since I was 9 yo and yoga and metaphysics since I was 15yo. These (back then unrelated) separate worlds gave me a sense of grounding, purpose and avoid body dysmorphia as well as fighting depression.

I officially studied chemical engineering, which has helped me in the design of LatinFitFlow TM (PaosFitnessAtlanta, PaosReikiatlanta). Since we are chemistry inside. Meaning that all movement, all asanas, all music chosen. and the meditation and reiki infusion shavassana have the purpose to release the “bliss chemicals” our brain produces with certain music, at exercise (in this case dance), meditate and flow in yoga. 🧘💃🏻🕉🕉️💃

Through the years I found that the combination of nice easy flow, fun easy dance and the recovery with the bumping of the self-love, self-compassion meditation/and harmonization with reiki, were a great combo to not only help my students’ physical body, but also their mental and spiritual body as well.

LatinFitFlow TM was born not only for the wellness and fitness, but for the balancing of their chakras and as a result the wellbeing in their state of mind. 🧐 Best part is for all ages, man, women, adults, teenagers, etc,

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

Being true to my purpose, being passionate in my field which is not just fitness, not just wellness, not just helping those around me with meditation and stretches, BUT most importantly HELP OTHER PEOPLE find their inner strength, their beauty, their wonderful own flow in their body-mind-life. 💜💜💜

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

Because of the passion I have for my format, the love I know I share with others with Reiki, with dance, with yoga. I reflect that every day in my business either in the trade shows, the public presentations, my classes, my online trainings I offer to others to get certified, that other people notice it and I get call out to be in GREAT spaces online, radio, TV. It helps also I am bilingual so other people from Hispanic Latino programs also have given me the opportunity. SUCH your AMAZING digital PLATAFORM where I feel extremely grateful and humble to have had the opportunity to share with you and others 🙏 🙏 🙏

Other magazines, programs, radio places I must share they helped me to pivot and best part, I did not seek them out, they believed in my little project, and gave me the opportunity to share my knowledge: The Readers Digest, La Voz Hispanic newspaper, Mundo Hispanico New media and Newspaper, La Vision, The YMCA making me their fitness/wellness ambassador in their commercial “find your Y” and flyers, Mundo Mami, Magia de los Angeles, Mujer Magazine, Geovanna Auspiro Cajita Magica, Shoutout Magazine in Atlanta, El Siglo de Torreon newspaper in Mexico, Voyage ATL Magazine, HispAtlanta Radio, Despierta Atlanta, GA-STV radio and TV, WSBA TV, and others.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://blinq.me/4ppxPoVNKamU
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Latinfitflow
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paoslatinfitflowTM
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pao-strickland-002452a1
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@paoslatinfitflow874
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@paosreikiatlanta

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