“Your Body, Your Yoga”
Every Body is a Yoga Body
My passion for yoga began over 7 years ago, when I attended my first Hot Yoga class in 2014. To say that this experience changed my life would be the understatement of the century.
I truly don’t know where I would be without yoga. I found this incredibly healing and transformative practice when I needed it most. I was going through a very difficult time in my life and coming onto my mat and practicing yoga allowed me to just drop out of the chaos that filled my head, tune into my breath, and really listen to my body.
Of course, life goes on, we have our ups and downs, and life never seems to run out of challenges to throw at us. I had played soccer all of my life and truly enjoyed it, until I found yoga, my true passion. After my first couple yoga classes I knew that I was hooked, this practice would be with me for life and I knew that someday, I would become a yoga teacher myself.
Looking back now, it’s crazy to see all that I have accomplished in these past 7 years. Over the years, no matter how long of a hiatus I took from yoga, I always found myself back on my mat. An inevitable attraction, just like the push and pull between the moon and the tides, and in the words of one of my incredibly wise yoga teachers, “your mat will return you home.”
Every single time I step onto my mat I get this incredible feeling, a sense of love, of home, of happiness. One of the reasons that I love yoga so much is because it is such a deeply personal practice, truly unique to each individual. Though the teacher is there to guide you, it is truly up to the yogi to decide what they do or don’t do in their own practice. No one else knows your body like you do, and everyone’s body is different. Like Bernie Clark says, “Your Body, Your Yoga.” So everyone’s yoga practice is different as well.
Taking my 200 RYT training was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Apart from further developing my personal practice, I was also able to take the first leap in pursuing my career as a yoga teacher. I learned an immense amount of information, not just about yoga and philosophy, but also about life and people. We came together as a group of strangers and left as a small family, one that I am forever grateful for and will never forget
