Amy Baglan, founder of the dating site MeetMindful, is not your typical CEO.
She tends towards flowing fabrics rather than buttoned down shirts. She prefers a face-to-face meeting and in a FaceTime chat showed us that her workstation could be a standing desk or a seated desk. She laughed, “I’m levitating!” A playful puppy danced around in the background.
We sure have come a long way from stale office life.
Currently in “300 days of sunshine a year” Colorado, Amy was stationed in New York for 10 years. She ran a successful New York startup and has a background in marketing and advertising. Yet somehow it wasn’t working.
Inspired by The Four Hour Workweek book, Amy found herself giving it all up and flying to India. This was the beginning of an entirely different path: one that had her in yoga teacher training and moving to Denver where she knew exactly nobody.
Amy went on OkCupid to try to expand her social-circle but found that it left her surrounded by “fist pumping guys that were not my scene. I wanted a conscious dude, someone from my tribe.”
With no tribe in sight, Amy decided to create her own by starting an events company that was dedicated to mindful meetups. Soon people were flocking to Flirt and Flow, Wine and Vinyasa and yoga speed dating. Amy became known as a yoga matchmaker (if only we had known that was a viable option in high school).
As an ever-moving and ever-evolving individual, Amy decided to look into starting her own dating site with the premise of mindful attention in dating experiences. “We all want to evolve,” Amy declared. “It isn’t just about the yoga. It’s why we go vegetarian…and maybe back to eating meat. Our lives can become a practice in awareness of what we are doing in any given moment.”
We may have awareness of who we are at the farmer’s market, at the yoga studio and even at work. Yet dating often feels less like a practice and more like an embarrassing experience. Amy is adamant that relationships are a mirror and by being mindful of who we are with, it can add great value to our own journeys.
This doesn’t mean that mindful relationships are all serious relationships. There is such a thing as a mindful hookup, Amy insists. MeetMindful is not just about getting the meeting; it is also about being honest. With a great deal of written content on the site, MeetMindful is committed to help people through their relationships, their breakups and their quandaries.
Already Amy knows some people that are madly in love as a result. At the present moment she herself is “blissfully in love, just not with any particular person.” Of course, that includes her adorable puppy.
There is no swipe left, swipe right judgment in the MeetMindful dating market. It is about authentic communication, even if that communication is no strings attached. This is an all-heart dating site and with Amy at the helm, we assume it will remain that way.
14 Countries. 1000s of Dates. 1 Mission. MeetMindful represents a major step toward cultivating more conscious, loving relationships in an otherwise trigger-happy, fast-food-style dating atmosphere. Create your profile and search for free today at http://mbsy.co/cC76d.
Courtney Sunday from Toronto, Ontario
Courtney Sunday is a writer, yoga teacher, Pilates instructor and Thai massage practitioner. She teaches corporations in Toronto the fine art of breathing deeply, and travels too much for her own good. She likes to cook meals from scratch using ingredients from her garden, and would mill her own flour and make her own butter if she had more hours in the day. You can find out more about her at www.courtneysunday.com.
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