Espresso Before Yoga Is a Really Good Idea
Dan Gottlieb, a yoga instructor and entrepreneur known around his hometown of Detroit as “Yoga Dan,” never really liked coffee. Scratch that—he pretty much hated the stuff.
“I loathed it, actually. I thought coffee was the worst thing you could put in your body,” Gottlieb confesses. As someone trying to live clean, he’d come to believe that caffeine was the first step down the slippery slope to the dark side.
And then, as happens, he met a girl. Who happened to be Italian. An Italian who really liked coffee, as most Italians do, and not just any coffee, but the really good stuff. They’re married now; his feelings on the devil’s nectar have changed. Gottlieb can’t get enough of it—not only the coffee, but the way we are drinking coffee now, too.
“I became fascinated the same way I did originally with yoga—I wanted to know everything about it, why are they taking such care when measuring it, what’s all this equipment. A fine barista is a real artist, a talent, like a sommelier—there was such a genuine passion that I saw.”
We’ve got yoga and wine, yoga and beer, yoga and chocolate, now—why not, Gottlieb thought, espresso and yoga? And so Sproga (already trademarked, so don’t even) was born. This Detroit Yoga Instructor Thinks Espresso Before Yoga Is a Really Good Idea | Food & Wine