An interview with Amber Joliat, creator of MISFITSTUDIO.

My path has been ever winding, twisting and turning in directions that only make sense in retrospect. I have always danced. I have always taught. I see art and beauty in almost everything. Piecing together who I am and what I have to share has been my greatest journey. The untangling of what lives intuitively within me. MISFITSTUDIO was birthed out of a desire to share in connection of all my loves, movement, music, the senses, and how to awaken creativity in each and every human.

 

   To guide humans back into FEELING and CONNECTION. We have lost ourselves. Stuck in a strange and surreal world where touch and eye-contact and moaning and sighing and dancing freely seems....so far away, it's lost. My aim, my ultimate goal is to remind humans that we are BORN TO MOVE, BORN TO FEEL, BORN TO CONNECT. So, we do it one breath at a time, one move at a time, one beat at a time, together in class and in the aftermath the steamy, sweaty, open love bath aftermath, that is where the magic lives.

 

 

How do you balance the duality of running a growing business while staying present, creative and engaged in the day-to-day?

The only way is to BE PRESENT. Practicing the art of presence in every thing I do whether it's dialogue with teachers, engaging a room full of humans in class, interacting with my husband, cooking meals, coordinating our next month schedule. Dancing through the highs and lows of life. Presence is power especially in the seek for balance in a very out of balance time.   

What are some of your daily rituals?

Morning meditation. Gratitude practice (c/o Rachel Mclean via Tara Brach). Eating mostly plants. Drinking a TON of water. Moving, sweating, connecting. Doing my very best to remain open, judgement free and curious.

 

Lindsay is wearing the Minimalist Black Ankle Boot

 

Can you describe the relationship you have with your team at MISFITSTUDIO?

 Amber is wearing the Minimalist Black + White Ankle Boot

 

Photography by: Shjaane Glover