Kristen Driscoll
1)Why do you like it hot?
Because it teaches me to keep my cool.
2) What are your personal tips to Bikram Yoga Lower East Side students?
Show up and do your best, the rest will take care of itself.
3)Tell us about your first kiss: who, when, where?
Matt Halligan, 8th grade, in an old graveyard in downtown Plymouth.
4) What’s your most prized possession?
My practice.
5) What is your most embarrassing moment on the teacher’s box?
Oh jeez. Demonstrating head to knee with loose shorts.
6) What were you doing the day you decided you were going to be a Bikram Yoga Teacher?
Wrapping up a one-week vacation from a job I hated.
7) What’s the best/worst thing about being a Bikram Yoga teacher?
The best thing is the privilege of witnessing the humanity of it all – the struggles & the triumphs. The worst thing is the never-ending plastic bags of wet yoga clothes.
8) What was the first concert you went to?
When I was 10, my brother brought me along with him and his friends to see the Thompson Twins in Boston Commons. The first concert I went to with my friends was The Who. I think I was a junior in high school.
9) Describe your perfect yoga shorts.
Ones that would miraculously wash & dry themselves.
10) What’s the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning?
Can I sleep for five more minutes and still get to the studio in time?
11) What’s your sign and birthday?
Sagittarius. December 1, 1973.
12) Have you ever been in love?
Yes.
13) Words or phrases you overuse:
Find your stillness.
14) Do you remember what your first Bikram class was like?
My first class was in Miami on vacation. My second class in New York was more memorable – I had to leave the room and throw up.
15) What was the first album you purchased with your own money?
A Captain & Tennille “Do That To Me One More Time” single. I was five years old and played it on my Holly Hobby record player.
16) What’s your guilty pleasure?
I have a few.
17) Do you have a “most memorable Bikram moment”?
A post-camel breakthrough/breakdown
18) If you could have any job, what would it be?
One day I’ll be a Mom.
19) What’s your more favorite smell?
Salt air and beach plum.
20) What’s your favorite place to hang out in the Lower East Side (besides Bikram of course)?
Home.
