Creator Spotlight: Attune + Align
Marisa, founder of Attune + Align, and Miraya, Mixily’s head of Marketing, worked out of the same women’s community space in San Francisco (pre-pandemic) and they both valued the togetherness of The Assembly Clubhouse. When Miraya reached out to Marisa about Virtual Venue and explained the idea of having her own virtual customized clubhouse for her members, Marisa adored the idea. She’s been an early beta tester with us sharing feedback as she gathers her community. Meet Marisa, the founder of Attune + Align!
“Switching from Zoom to Mixily Virtual Venue is a breath of fresh air. In Attune + Align women’s wellness membership, we look forward to our time spent in our pink virtual Clubhouse space that feels like our own. The inviting and warm pink color and personalized layout within our branded virtual Clubhouse contributes to the cameras-on tendency of our community. We show up to check on each other, talk, wish each other happy birthday, and do our workouts and workshops together. Thank you Mixily for creating something to bring us closer together while we are apart.”
Introduce your business
Attune + Align is an online women’s wellness membership community and podcast. We host our virtual events on Mixily’s Virtual Venue, and you can listen to our podcast on Spotify. Our members are women who care about wellness and come together to get strategic about aligning their everyday life with their big visions.
How often do you host events? How are you using Virtual Venue for your community events?
Women gather in A+A Clubhouse M, W, F evenings for livestream yoga classes along with workshops for astrology, tarot, personal goal setting, and book clubs.
What’s an upcoming event you are organizing that you’re most excited about?
Take a look at our drop in events on Mixily to join us every week on Monday and Friday for live stream yoga. Wednesday evening rotating workshops range from astrology, to tarot, to chakras. Attune + Align programming is a buffet for all of your wellness practices.
Have you always hosted virtual events or how have they become part of your business this past year?
When we launched our online wellness membership in autumn of 2019 we dreamed of hosting livestream events, but we didn’t know our software options for doing so. The first few months of our membership started out as a library of yoga and meditation videos, along with Attune + Align’s Signature Chakra Online Course. Members enjoy unlimited access to these resources, and, thanks to our amazing Clubhouse via Virtual Venue, we’re able to realize our dream of gathering regularly for the livestream events.
Any positive results of hosting virtual events?
We’ve gotten incredible feedback from our members about our virtual events. Members say it is so much more relaxing to get ready to practice yoga at home without rushing from work and dealing with the stress of looking for parking. Members enjoy being able to control the temperature and lighting in their at-home yoga practice spaces, and they get to choose whether or not they listen to the recommended playlist or want to practice quietly.
If someone was looking to host an event for their first time, any words of wisdom you would give them?
As with any new platform, you’ll want to encourage your attendees to log on to the meeting five minutes early to acquaint themselves with the unique features for selecting video and audio preferences, along with introducing themselves in the chat and opening up the playlist if there is one. If you, the host, are not regularly hosting online livestream events, you might ask a friend to hop into the venue with you ahead of time to take a test drive through screen sharing and getting your own settings in order, too.
Since using Mixily Virtual Venue and Ticketing, what is your favorite feature? And how have they helped your business?
Our favorite feature of Mixily’s Virtual Venue is the smile it generates on our members’ faces. Whenever someone logs on to Attune + Align Clubhouse for the first time, their face lights up, excited to be experiencing something unique to our community. Members say the space feels warm and inviting, and that it encourages authentic and vulnerable conversation.
Our favorite feature of Mixily Ticketing is the easy integration with Stripe, because Attune + Align processes membership payments through Stripe already. We also love the ability to add multiple discount codes for each event, because of the unique codes available to our newsletter subscribers and private Facebook group members. Our members also have a code for Attune + Align Friends and Family to share each month, so it’s great having the ability to track the unique discount codes, rather than having them all look the same.
Why are you using Virtual Venue instead of other video chat tools?
Small business owners understand that branding and brand recognition are such an integral part of your success. So much of our daily effort involves staying consistent across all of our platforms with logos, color scheme, and overall feel—why should our virtual meeting space suddenly not match? Thank you Mixily for creating a space that allows us to stay cohesive with the look, feel, and experience of our community.
Do you have any pre-event rituals to get you in the groove like a favorite drink, snack, song or outfit?
Rituals? I’m so glad you asked! As an energy teacher, it’s incredibly important to calibrate my energy appropriately when preparing for our livestream sessions. If I’ve been sitting answering emails or otherwise involved in cognitive tasks, it’s time to feel into the energy of the physical body! I actually have all of my furniture on wheels and change the configuration of my room depending on which event we’re hosting. Once the physical space is set up, I’ll light candles, burn some sage, and flow through sun salutes to move energy through my body. A few minutes before go-time I’ll brew a cup of tea or pour myself a kombucha to enjoy while welcoming members and guests into our events. Even though I’m likely to be in yoga pants, I’ll put on jewelry and lip gloss to signal to myself that it’s time to flip my energy on! I’ll choose a crystal from my collection to place on my work space to call in the quality of energy I’m looking to cultivate for that event. Then it’s time to hold the space and enjoy with the beautiful women in the group!
Any new favorite podcasts, books or TV shows you’ve discovered this year?
I’ll start with a shameless plug for Attune + Align podcast where I hope you’ll enjoy hearing stories from real women who attune to the callings of their heart and align their life accordingly. Our podcast guests are world champion salsa dancers, clean beauty executives, intuits, nutritionists, and small business owners sharing from their personal journeys. In our women’s book club we’ve recently enjoyed Untamed by Glennon Doyle. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet is up next—we hope you’ll drop in and join us!
What is your favorite or most used emoji?
✨We love all of the star emojis—a common side effect of A+A programming is that you’ll see your stars moving into alignment according to your vision!
Where can readers learn more/sign up for upcoming events/follow on social.
We’d love to get to know you better! Follow us on Instagram @attuneandalign and join the conversation around women’s wellness to get started aligning your life with your dreams. A lil’ something just for you—use code FEB20 at checkout for 20% off your first class through the end of February! Use the link in our Instagram bio to subscribe to our Monday Mindfulness Memo Newsletter for playlists, yoga tips, healthy recipes, and member spotlights, and be the first to know about our upcoming events. We can’t wait to get to know you better and see you in Attune + Align Clubhouse!
