Three Sisters launch yoga business

Stephanie, 25, is supplying the start-up money for the business.

Krystina, 22, is handling the business end — bookkeeping, marketing, inventory, appointments and running the smoothie bar. She’s bought and sold foreclosed houses and worked on the side as a bartender, apartment building manager and bank teller.

“I needed to make a move,” Krystina said. “I need to make money for myself as opposed to someone else.”

Gulia, 23, will teach yoga. She began her career managing chiropractic clinics and later managed a marketing firm that helped clients and chiropractors connect.

Krystina and Gulia both helped their father, a former firefighter, renovate and remodel properties over the last four to five years. The two are now using those skills to renovate the former drapery store at 8009 W. Grand Ave.

Gulia said she thinks her sisters’ characters balance each other.

“Krystina and I, we’re complete opposites,” Gulia said. “They are the business people and I’m the new-age hippie. We meet in the middle.”

The Huertas sisters hope to open P.S. Yoga by the first week of August.

Three sisters are embarking on a new business venture together.

Gulia, Krystina and Stephanie Huertas are opening P.S. Yoga, 8009 W. Grand Ave., in River Grove.

It was Gulia’s idea to start a yoga business, a plan she originally made with her boyfriend. The two became certified as yoga instructors last year.

“Then he went to Colorado to help his dad with a pizza shop instead,” Gulia said. “I went to my sisters and said ‘if you want to join the bandwagon, jump on.’”

Gulia began practicing yoga seven yearsago for dual reasons. First, it is a way to reduce her vitiligo, a condition that causes her skin to lose its pigmentation.

“What causes it is stress,” she said. Yoga reduces her stress.

Yoga also helps Gulia relieve back pain caused by a car accident she was in as a teenager.

“I have severe back pain from that,” Gulia said. “Without strengthening my core muscles, I can’t walk straight sometimes.”