When I first came out from the hospital after the first of 3 operations, I couldn't even lift my little mug of tea off the ground. You have to have the motivation to get back on your mat. You just ...
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Yoga has changed my whole life! When I was a child I experienced some situations I didn’t know how to handle and I built a huge wall of ice around me to hide my emotions. It was a way to protect my...
Yoga had changed my life! Before yoga, I was a completely different person. I wasn't myself. I was the person I thought I was supposed to be. I had an "image" I was trying to protect. I had such a ...
I’d suffered with an eating disorder from the age of 12. There was a time when I was too weak, both physically and mentally to walk more than a few steps. But I could still breathe. And where there...
Robin Watkins-Davis, Yoga Teacher, shares her yoga story as an example of just how good yoga is for mental health – for our self-esteem and our self-respect.
I am most definitely #PoweredByYoga. I travel around the world (everywhere around the world). You get that little place on the mat, and you’re sitting there and you go, ‘I’m home. Even though I’m a...
A lot of people have very low self-esteem and some people have no self-respect, especially if there are problems in their life. They see the problems as their fault; they put themselves down. You s...
When I started yoga, I was only 10 years old. I was a naive little girl who thought yoga would make me taller and smarter (according to my parents). I started falling deep into endless journey that...
Yoga means union, connection, and reminds me everything is temporary, teaching me to breathe through difficult situations and try to create a lightness and mindfulness in my practise that I can tak...
I took a class back in 2011/2012 as a means of exploration as I was attracted to the physicality and movement. Plus I needed to get back in shape from years of slacking! It was great and different ...
I found yoga when I started to feel stiff. I was in my early 20's, I spent all winter skiing and snowboarding and all summer working as an outdoor instructor. I abused my body with activities, putt...
I'm working as a Yoga Teacher but I do always and forever see myself as a student. I learn something new every day. I sometimes feel that I get the hang of it but then something happens that brings...
I took my first yoga class as a child, tagging along with my mom. I reconnected with yoga as an adult and it continues to shape my life. I become a Yoga Teacher so I could share my love of the prac...
Yoga is inspiration for a better living. Life is too short to keep walking down the beaten path. Yoga inspires us to uncover our fears and hesitations so we can grow and move past them to reach new...
Yoga gives me my sanity. It keeps me sane and balanced; keeps me from going mad! That’s it..
I began when I was sixteen, in 1970, when I came across a small paperback on yoga. I can’t even remember who it was by, but yoga then was considered generally to be a bit wacky, only for health nut...
I have allergies to chemical medicine; my skin will be burning and my breath very heavy. So, every time I get migraine or stress or can’t sleep, I do yoga and after 2 years of practising yoga all m...
With yoga I have learnt how to see the world in a different way, a better way. I feel inspired to learn every day more and to help people to find their way. I think yoga is for everyone and if you ...