Yoga helps people keep their spirits up

Such experiences inspired her in her daily activities.

"Living in a fast-paced modern city, it is easy to become impatient with basic routines, and anxious to look for ways to achieve our goals as quickly as possible," Chen confesses. "After months of practicing yoga, I realized that there is no shortcut to success and the only way to achieve your goal is to keep doing basic things over and over again."

Chen has been active in social media platforms, and often records her practice on WeChat and Instagram. One thing that brings her satisfaction is that quite a number of her friends and colleagues began to practice yoga after seeing her posts.

Fine Yoga is a big training center for both enthusiasts and coaches. According to Rao Qiuyu, owner of the studio, who's also the translator of Ashtanga Yoga by John Scott, a quality guide book for yoga enthusiasts, more than 200,000 practitioners have taken part in classes and over 40,000 coaches took their training lessons at the center.

The studio was founded by a British practitioner in 2002 and was taken over by Rao in 2004, when there were fewer than 100 practitioners. She opened her second venue in Beijing in 2010.

In 2012, with more people from other parts of China coming to learn at her studio, Rao and her team developed classes online. Practitioners have to log into the website before watching the videos.

In 2017, she had 20 studios in Beijing. She also set up branches in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Tianjin. The number of her studios has reached 60, with 550 instructors.