{"id":27447,"date":"2018-01-17T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=27447"},"modified":"2018-01-17T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:05:03","slug":"meet-becky-szwandt-cathays-very-own-yoga-empress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/meet-becky-szwandt-cathays-very-own-yoga-empress","title":{"rendered":"Meet Becky Szwandt, Cathays\u2019 very own yoga empress"},"content":{"rendered":"

More women than ever before are starting their own businesses in the UK. Becky Szwandt, founder of Stretchy Suzie\u2019s<\/a> yoga studio, proves that you don\u2019t need a business degree or a huge initial investment to run your own successful enterprise.<\/h2>\n

Becky Szwandt makes everything look easy. Despite running late for our interview, she manages to glide into her not so shabby-chic yoga studio apologising profusely.<\/p>\n

The space is a carefully curated combination of 1970s wooden furniture, soft cream coloured fabrics and vintage anatomical drawings while the air is infused with lavender essential oil and the lighting is kept low. Wearing dark grey lycra leggings and a black bomber jacket, Becky reclines athletically at a small table in the corner of the room.<\/p>\n

This laid-back but composed attitude encapsulates the spirit in which Becky founded her yoga studio, Stretchy Suzie\u2019s, five years ago at the ripe not-so-old age of 27. \u201cI didn\u2019t always want to run my own business, it just evolved. For me, starting a business was about what I needed to survive in the yoga industry and how I could create a space I was happy to teach in and a service I wanted to give.\u201d<\/p>\n

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