The first time I did yoga was with one of my best friends Shae. We giggled while we tried to maintain the posses in the book I got from the Library, only to fall off my bed onto the floor thinking of how silly we must have looked. It's been over 10 years since that day and now my best friend practices as a form of exercise and meditation and I have my 200YTT and I'm an instructor at The Studio in Boulder City, NV.
I originally went to School for Baking and Pastry at The Art Institute's Culinary program. $63K later I have an associates degree in a field that I no longer want to be associated with and credits that don't transfer because the location I went to wasn't an accredited university. Lucky for me I only have 32K left. 😣 lol
While going to school I put on a few pounds and decided to do something about it. I started going to 24-hour fitness. I would lift weights and look at the people in the aerobics classroom do Yoga and one day I went in. I was sweating and the next day I was sore. I thought of how amazing I felt and couldn't get enough of it. I started to think of why I was enjoying it and it was because it was my time to step away from all the things that stressed me out. For one hour a day,​ I could have someone tell me what to do while I got to listen to my body and reconnect with my mind.
The more I looked into yoga the more I loved it. It was so much more than an exercise and I wanted to experience all of it. Right before I got married I left my last pastry job and went back into retail, doing admin for a pottery studio. My husband would give me a hard time about where I was working. He would always ask me "Are you going to manage this pottery studio forever?" I would always reply with no and tell him I didn't know what to do with my life. I didn't want to pay for more school and I was already in debt from the last passion I had. He told me that because he was already in his profession of choice and that we were stable, now was the time for me to figure it out. He asked me what I spent most my time looking up, What magazines I enjoyed reading and were the things that really helped me enjoy my life. Everything was pointing to Yoga. So I decided to get certified.
I got my 200 hour teacher training at Sadhana Yoga School. They offered an immersion program in Bali, Indonesia. I calculated how much I needed and started a GoFundMe. With the help of my family and friends (mostly my parents...lol) I got enough money for my plane ticket and training.
It was a life-changing experience and even if you don't want to teach yoga, I would 100% recommend this to anyone. I learned so much about myself and wouldn't trade that experience for anything. I met some incredible people that lived on the island as well as fellow students that were on a similar path. Now I have family all over the world and I am so grateful that I have them in my life.
I will always try to be a student of this practice. If you have any suggestions for similar blogs or a good book for me to read on Yoga I'd love to read it. Thanks again!
