Kate Lindholm, Westport Yoga owner, answers The Pitch‘s questionnaire

Name: Kate Lindholm

Occupation: Owner and senior teacher at Westport Yoga

Hometown: KCMO

Current neighborhood: Park Farms

What I do (in 140 characters): I inspire people to intentionally breathe and move, each supported by a nonjudgmental community looking for peace and freedom with awareness.

What’s your addiction? Mud Pie’s fruit seedies and London fogs

What’s your game? I love to watch football, and I love to play golf. Yahtzee is pretty fun, too.

What’s your drink? Good me: Energized at Café Gratitude. Bad me: Beefeater martini, porno-dirty with onions. From anywhere.

Where’s dinner? Laid-back: Minsky’s on Main. Fancy: Le Fou Frog

What’s on your KC postcard? Swope Park. It’s amazing, huge and beautiful year-round.

Finish this sentence: “Kansas City got it right when …” It reinvested in the zoo.

“Kansas City screwed up when …” It didn’t start the streetcar expansion when there were federal dollars available.
 
“Kansas City needs …” To keep building momentum: the World Series, Huffington Post top 5 — we are awesome.

“In five years, I’ll be …” Forty-six.

“I always laugh at …” My Nigerian Dwarfs. Those are goats, by the way.

“I’ve been known to binge-watch …” Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

“I can’t stop listening to …” Krishna Das, Metallica and Nick Cave.

“I just read …” A History of Modern Yoga and the Kansas City Business Journal.

The best advice I ever got: Don’t stop.

Worst advice: Stop.

My sidekick: My free-roaming parakeet, George

My dating triumph/tragedy: My triumph is definitely my husband, though we didn’t really date. Got married in two weeks instead. And 16 years later …

My brush with fame: I was in a half-page pic in The Kansas City Star when I was about 10 years old, holding a doll from the Salvation Army fundraiser.

My 140-character soapbox: The world would be so much kinder if we all paused and took a breath. Make the time. Laugh more. Stop trying to be perfect. You already are.

What was the last thing you had to apologize for? Growling at my husband for eating my ice cream.

Who’s sorry now? Me. After he reminded me who it was that went out and got the ice cream (him).

My recent triumph: Being selected as the No. 1 yoga studio in The Pitch Readers’ Choice poll.

Lindholm leads a complimentary yoga class at Union Station (30 West Pershing Road) at 10 a.m. Sunday, November 2. The goal is to get 1,000 people to participate as part of the landmark’s 100th birthday celebration.