Today we’d like to introduce you to Paul Silitsky.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Paul. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
Innergy Meditation opened in Miami Beach on April 1st, 2017. It was about two years in the making. Innergy happened after I went through a very traumatic experience while I was CEO of a technology search firm; I lost my voice completely with a diagnosis called spasmodic dysphonia. It was crippling both psychologically and physically as I was barely able to communicate with my team, clients, and family. I felt like I was locked up in a body with no ability to communicate. I’m not a religious person so I had to find some other way. I came across a book by Jon Kabat Zinn, ‘Wherever You Go There You Are’. I found it to be increasingly amazingly life-changing for me as I discovered mindfulness and meditation. I began doing very short meditations everyday just for a few minutes each day. Over the weeks to follow I would stop and start it as so many people do, but I kept going back to it for some reason. I started doing it for longer sessions and I found the impact to be very incremental as I started to become more aware and present and more clear and less reactive. I started to become more patient and compassionate with those who I came in contact with. I can go on and on but the impact was mind-blowing– no pun intended. I eventually got my voice back after lots of speech therapy and a surgical procedure. I started to realize that bringing mindfulness and meditation to the “unlikely meditator” like me, the “Type A”,anxiety-ridden driven competitive person, I knew that this was something that could impact so many people. After lots and lots of research and business plans, I sold my company to a couple of long-term employees so I could focus my time on Innergy with the goal to bring and Innergy Studio to every large urban area in the United States and around the globe.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
I think any new business, not to mention a new type of business in a new area, naturally is going to have its struggles and its challenges. The biggest struggle has been creating awareness in the community but that is starting to happen little by little. Every month we bring in 140 new meditators into the Innergy Studio and considering the hurricane and summer in Miami, I’m very very pleased with what we have accomplished. We have some amazing teachers and very chill super quiet studio. We are still figuring out what our audience wants and what is going to motivate them to maintain a consistent practice. We know from science, that the impact isn’t felt for a person who meditates over a day or a few days, it’s felt over a longer period of time. Just a month of regular meditating will have a profound impact for the meditator. Just 15 minutes a day everyday is the key. The challenge is getting the meditators to come back on a regular basis and to hang in there long enough so that they can see the benefits. We’re figuring that out. One of the ways is to make it so cost is not an issue, so we have a first month offer of $40 for unlimited meditation. So really no reason monetarily to not give it a try.
So let’s switch gears a bit and go into the Innergy Meditation story. Tell us more about the business.
Innergy Meditation is a come-as-you-are meditation only studio located in South Beach.
At Innergy Meditation we deeply believe in a world where meditation is a mainstream, widely-accepted practice for a healthy and happy life.
With a passion to modernize and de-mystify meditation to make it more mainstream, Innergy Meditation provides a space, literally and figuratively, where regular people; people with jobs and families, busy schedules and competitive stress levels, can sit, chill and be still with 20 to 60 minute guided meditations.
At the new and must-see SoBe studio, the first-ever secular meditation-only studio in the area of its kind, meditators of all levels come-as-they-are and attend one of the many sessions throughout the day, seven days a week. Students leave more focused, relaxed, calm, and with a guaranteed post-meditation glow.
We also host workshops and specialty classes such as Family Meditation, Mindful Chocolate tasting, Moving Meditation, Visualizations, and incredible Sound Bowl immersion experiences to name a few. No religion. No posturing and no pretense. Just room to breathe. Literally.
Pricing:
- 30 days of unlimited meditation for $40 *new members
- $24 drop-in class
Contact Info:
- Address: 1560 Lenox Ave Suite 102
Miami Beach, FL 33139 - Website: http://innergymeditation.com
- Phone: +1 305-266-2277
- Email: info@innergymeditation.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/innergy_meditation/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/innergymeditation/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/innergymeditate
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/innergy-meditation-miami-beach
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