Sponsor Spotlight: Dean Mahan, Yoga Vida

Sponsor Spotlight: Dean Mahan, Yoga Vida
Dean Mahan, Yoga Vida
3620 Bee Caves Road, 78746
707 W. 7th, 78701
6a-8p
For Questions:
Call - 512.750.2213
Online - YogaVida.net
Email – YogaVida@mac.com

Next in our Sponsor Spotlight series, we interviewed Bronze-level Sponsor, Dean Mahan, Owner of Yoga Vida.

Dean teaches Power Vinyasa Yoga at Yoga Vida on Bee Caves Road. Yoga Vida, which has been around for ten years, offers classes, clothing, mats and anything needed in order to reach full yoga potential. LGBTQI owned and operated, Yoga Vida endeavors to broaden their students’ yoga potential and horizons.

Dean got involved with aGLIFF through one of his students, board member John Livingston, in order to support his belief that the LGBTQI and arts communities need to be supported financially and by the community. Dean, who hasn’t seen anything like aGLIFF in any other place he’s every lived, deeply feels that the festival has provided a unique and important good to the city of Austin.

“I’m not interested in what aGLIFF will do for my business, I just want to support the festival,” says Dean, “I’m not giving to receive.”

And that is exactly the spirit that Dean puts into Yoga Vida every day. It’s about creating a whole in the community and spirit, not about quid pro quo. His belief that aGLIFF provides a voice and platform of support is what drew Dean to the festival and in sponsoring its ongoing endeavor to educate, expose artists and entertain the LGBTQI and Austin at large.

Dean believes that aGLIFF brings comfort and a return of support to LGBTQI businesses in the community and that it supports other companies and nonprofits, like Out Youth.

As we do with our interviews, we asked Dean about movies. His favorite movie is AGE OF INNONCENCE, his favorite genre is romance and though he likes all that act, he specifically enjoys the talent of Tom Hanks.

aGLIFF appreciates the support of our business sponsors and offers the Sponsor Spotlight as a venue for business owners to share more information about their business with aGLIFF members. If your business is interested in becoming a sponsor, please visit our Sponsorships page.