So it begins..

I would say I got serious with Yoga in September of 2010 when I started my teacher training program.  Before then my practice was very sporadic. I loved yoga but I fit it in when I had the motivation, time and money.  All three of those didn’t come together all that frequently. I knew this wasn’t allowing me to get as deeply involved as I felt like I wanted to.  Every time I saw a teacher training advertised I yearned to be able to do it.  Time and money held me back there.  In January of 2010 I lost my job and time was officially on the market.  I didn’t immediately think of yoga to fill that time. I thought a lot about getting another job.  But I also thought a lot about what could fulfill me. I didn’t want just any job.  I struggled with these thoughts for a while. I had already been on a path with Interior Design school and I wanted to figure out how to stay on that path in a less stressful manner than I had been doing it.  That manner was working full time and going to school full time in a new city, trying to make friends, trying to drown the feeling of being alone, trying to stay balanced and trying to manage my time wisely (which was not a strength of mine) in order to do all this successfully.  This caused me a lot of stress as I was dropping the ball left and right in one of those missions or another.  Something had to change; I couldn’t just tackle all of those things at once again in the same manner I had already tried.  The ticking clock of life was loud in my ear saying that I needed to figure this out and get the move on.

One night I couldn’t sleep and it came to me.  I had to change the way I deal with stress and the way I cope.  I needed to begin to understand myself better.  Find my focus.  I needed to reset.  I decided I would take the time to do that.  In that time I would join a yoga teacher training which I knew would explore some of these things as well as give me that chance to become more deeply connected to my practice which I had been wanting to do.  So I put the ticking clock in my ear on indefinite snooze and decided to make it happen even if it set me back in my initial goals. I knew it would be worth it. And it has been. So there began my journey in Yoga.

I have now graduated my teacher training and I’m starting a blog as sort of a journal for my progress in my Yoga practice and other Yoga related thoughts I may have as a student or teacher.  I want a place to document my struggles and improvements that I can go back to years from now and relive the journey. I’ll also share Yoga knowledge that I find inspiring or thought provoking. 

This morning in my practice I accomplished something new.  It made me think back on the past 9 months and the struggles and breakthroughs that I’ve had and I wished that I had some kind of timeline for my experiences, so I’m starting now.  I do want to go back in time a little first, so this is the start of that. Also looking forward to writing about new discoveries from this point forward. 

-L

“There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.” -Jean de la Bruyere