I stumbled into yoga. (I really did!)

I had just moved countries and one of my best buddies invited me along to a yoga demonstration and class at her friend’s new studio. There I met my first yoga teacher, Master Yogananth. His practice and his classes were grounding and most importantly created the space and mobility I needed then, with all the trail running and weight lifting I was doing. Not only did I sign up for an annual membership but I registered for his next teacher training. I thought I might as well understand what I was doing in class if I was going to be practicing yoga.

What happened next was not what I had expected. I committed to almost a daily physical practice, studied yoga philosophy and became a vegetarian for almost a decade. I burnt all my work leave between visiting my spiritual teacher in Dharamshala, India and doing yoga trainings and workshops around the world. But that decade offered me my most profound personal discovery, understanding and growth.

I was stuck in a big career, complicated family relationships, impacted by generational trauma and I did not know how to get out.

As my practice deepened, the mental clarity allowed me to see what I no longer needed and did not serve me. And I started to understand the root cause of these heavy emotions - anxiety, anger and fear. With practice and time, they started to shed away - layer by layer.

I would have been a very different person without my yoga journey. Yoga offered me perspective. It gave me an opportunity to study myself and to make repairs - physically, mentally and emotionally. In the era we live in today, it is a method that has much value and definitely worth experiencing.