Perfectionism Is The Enemy of Progress | Lori Lowell | Drishti Beats Yoga

Last updated: December 17, 2023

By Lori Lowell, Drishti Beats mentor, co-founder and fitness visionary, is the 2015 Julie Main Woman Leader Award recipient. She often interviews for Ask An Expert in Club Solutions Magazine, regularly appears on Club Industry, and is an accomplished E-RYT 500.

So let’s get right to it. I am going to invite you to drop the thought of being perfect, in any aspect of your life. Mainly because I want you to complete your yoga teacher training and if you are wrapped up in being perfect it will take you longer than you would like.

Being in yoga is not about being perfect. We, Drishti Beats, truly believe that you are absolutely perfectly imperfect and everything you do is about your authenticity and your organic self. What makes a masterful yoga teacher and even more importantly, you, as a masterful person, is not being perfect and never making a mistake. If you live life in the space of seeking perfectionism it will interrupt your progress.

So let’s look at this dirty 13 letter word – Perfectionism.

Lori Lowell, Drishti Beats mentor, co-founder and fitness visionary, is the 2015 Julie Main Woman Leader Award recipient. She often interviews for Ask An Expert in Club Solutions Magazine, regularly appears on Club Industry, and is an accomplished E-RYT 500.

Lori Lowell

Lori Lowell is a yoga educator and teacher trainer with close to 25 years of experience in movement, wellness, and education. She holds Yoga Alliance's E-RYT 500 and YACEP credentials, is AYC Level-3 certified, and serves as Director of the School of Yoga at Drishti Beats, the online yoga teacher training school she co-founded.
Six years in the making and filmed around the world, Lori's RYS 200 and 300-Hour Online Yoga Teacher Trainings are among the most in-depth, globally available programs of their kind. After facilitating live trainings for four years, she co-developed an adaptive learning platform that offers an immersive teacher-training experience at each student's own pace, focused on the vinyasa flow style of yoga. Graduates complete the programs as fully registered teachers with Yoga Alliance (RYT 200 and RYT 500).
Lori's path into yoga was built on a long career in fitness and wellness. She began as a gym owner in 1995 and became National Group Fitness Director for Gold's Gym International, overseeing programs across 65 corporate-owned gyms. In 2008 she founded Group Fitness Solutions, and in 2009 created the Group Fitness Director Training Course. She remains a co-owner of three fitness facilities in Northern Virginia.
Honored as "Visionary of the Year" by Gold's Gym and a recipient of the 2015 Julie Main Woman Leader Scholarship, Lori has been sought after for expert commentary throughout her career. She is the subject of a chapter in "100 Women Who Love Their Jobs and Why" (Joanne Burke, Ballantine, 2005), has appeared on the cover of Club Solutions Magazine, and has been featured in Club Business International alongside her husband and Drishti Beats co-founder, Jeremy Lowell.