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"Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self."
- The Bhagavad Gita
Yoga is one of the greatest gift that the universe has given me. No words can describe how much I've learned from yoga and how much more there is to learn. I teach yoga because I truly believe everyone can benefit from yoga regardless of if they started it for the wrong reasons like me 🌝
I've always been sedentary since middle school because physical education was not required. I preferred to play video games instead. As an adult, I've tried to go to the gym here & there, but never stuck to anything.
I dabbled in yoga fall of 2021 then quit right away because I caught a very bad flu, my dog died, and I was out of town for a month. Also - basically every pose was painful and difficult because the ignorant 19 year old me never treated my spinal cord / hip injury from fracturing my tailbone so I was working thru years of hardened scar tissue, spinal cysts, and hernias.
During the holiday season of 2021, I sucked it up and and gave yoga another try for shallow reasons. I wanted to
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put my carry on luggage in the overhead bins without struggling because I love traveling, not pain
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reduce my back, hip, and neck pain from sitting on long flights and train rides, again, because I love traveling, not pain
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get into the splits because I couldn't touch my toes
I honestly went thru the motions of the poses for a couple months because I felt like I had to. It wasn't until I serendipitously took Anamaria's class. I will forever be grateful for her and that moment because that was the start of my love with yoga.
There's a joke that no one learns as fast as a neurodivergent person who hyper fixates on a topic. Yoga was so fascinating to me that my ADHD brain couldn't stop thinking about yoga. Once I started to connect and listen to my body - in a handful of months, I went from not being able to touch my toes to putting my hands on the floor with straight legs. I eagerly signed up for Anamaria's teacher training with the goal to learn rather than to teach. Jokes on me as always 🤡. After teaching my first class in the program and seeing how yoga can add value in basically everyone's lives, I realized I needed to make teaching a part of my life.
While I was torn between a job with some elements I enjoyed, but had baggage and an uncertain future as a yoga teacher that could nourish my soul, the universe blessed me with chaos. I became unemployed early 2023 and my platonic soulmate / best friend died from cancer later that spring. The universe gifted me the time and the push to fully commit to teaching yoga. Although some people think teaching yoga is a waste my IVY league undergrad and grad education, I can't imagine doing anything else.
I teach to become a better student of yoga and hope that others can make yoga a part of their lives as well.
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