About Yoga B.C.
Once upon a time, in the not-too-distant long, long ago, in a galaxy not-so far, far away...
young Grant and Waran were questioning what was next on their quest for the realisation for their highest creative and spiritual potential after several years of successfully working as writers on two lengthy film projects . They both knew that it would be something that would give them a well deserved break from the red-eyed glow of a computer screen and hours spent in the dizzying, heady caverns of one's twisted imagination.
Waran had just taken a job at a health food store over the holidays while Grant finished the final editing details on his passing project. Waran's studio in Potts Point looked out to the Opera House perfectly framed by the Harbour Bridge, the location of the final act sequence of his past project. The view had become the living meditation and motivation to see the end of the project through over the past year. Directly in front of the Opera House was the Andrew Boy Charlton Pool. As Grant is an avid swimmer, he religously took to daily swims at the stunning facility. An idea breached the Piscean waters of his mind one swishy sunny summer day in December.
As Waran continued to counsel and cashier valueable advice to customers, the hot heat in the under-ventiated shop began to cook the relationship between him and the tight-pursed stuffy boss. Note: Vitamins are best stored at cool temperatures to maintain their precious integrity, and Waran should be kept at a slightly cooler degree to keep him quiet.
Meanwhile, from their Potts Point perch Grant began to studiously observe the window-box that faced the sparkling waters of Wolloomooloo Bay and opened out to the branching beautiful fig trees of the Royal Botanic Gardens. The Garden of Australian Eden meets the ancient tidal flow of a modern Sydney Harbour. The room seemed to be empty and unused...a lot. Grant approached the management, BelGravia Leisure and fished about its availability and their willingness to plunge into the possibility of a full-time yoga school at their stunning swimming site. Would the glassed-room slipper fit the dancing Shiva feet of these two former professional dancers? The question was asked to the Universe and poised before their meditaions. They would wait for a sign, an omen.
On the third monday of January, Waran was fired from the health food store and the sweltering summer of his discontent. On the same day, as Grant left the Andrew Boy Charlton Pool after a savvy swim, he freshly asked again for a clear sign as he again pondered the possibilty of the new business. As he asked, he passed and his eyes caught the name of a yacht sitting at the Wharf..."The Solution". His mind was set and Waran was now happily free from the heated health store hell...and the rest is history.
On February first, Grant and Waran drew upon years of dedicated yoga practice and officially opened their doors as Yoga B.C.(B.C. standing for Boy Charlton, the pools namesake champion swimmer and as well as the fact that the East Indian indigenous practices of yoga are archeologically documented as existing before the life of Christ.)
A single person showed up for their first class at 10am that bright auspicious morning. Grant taught and Waran posed as another student and did the class with the sweet-faced young woman with a gracious grin and tight lower back. At the end of the hour and a half class, she bought a ten-pass card. The Yoga B.C. ball was rolling and Grant and Waran were delightfully determined to dance together from that day onward as two yogic princes of peace for hopefully many enchanted months to come.
Our blessed first Cinderella student was never to be seen again.
Grant believes her to have been a plant, an obvious guiding gift from the Land of Guardian Guiding Angels and/or Affirming Faeriefolk.
The spell had been cast nonetheless, and three years later, Grant and Waran continue to successfully sail seven-days a week with five other teachers on board the good ship Stretchy-Pop. There's no place like 'Om by the trees and seas of Yoga B.C..
We thank and honour the Indigenous inhabitants of the precious land on which Yoga B.C. nests. The site of the Andrew Boy Charlton pool was a well-known swimming beach for the Eora people of Indigenous Sydney before colonial occupation.