Hyperactive to the point of absolute and utter distraction. I tried channeling my energy by playing a lot of sports throughout school. As time passed and I grew older, the physical activity lessened and the mental activity increased. Growing up brings its own set of fears and inhibitions. Mix that with the rush to find and keep a job/career, the weight of basing your life on the opinions of others
and it’s the perfect recipe for a stress laden lifestyle – which is exactly what happened with me. In my twenties, I met this wonderful person (now my husband) who came into my life by chance (meant to be I’d like to think) and right then, I knew, he was the one for me. I went on to become a commercial pilot in America and we broke up for many reasons. I came back to India and found myself a very different person. There was a void in my life, an emptiness I couldn’t understand. The causes were many and I found myself feeding my depression – literally and figuratively. A haze of negativity surrounded me and I held everything and everyone in judgment. On the personal front, Kashif and I reconciled and this eventually led us to tying the knot. So, while that piece of the puzzle fit, things on the professional front were still messy at best. That’s when I started going to a yoga studio near our place, tentative at first, but with a singular focus a few months in. I knew I had found that final piece of the puzzle. Fast forward a few months and I had signed up for the Teacher Training course there. While the course wasn’t very demanding it helped me identify my strengths and weaknesses. It helped me achieve clarity on a lot of issues that I hadn’t been able to grapple with. So, after a year and 3 months of teaching at Google, Hyderabad, I decided I need to take the next step – push myself to see what I’m capable of and realign my goals. I had to address my fears and limitations and try to regain the positivity I had lost somewhere along the way. I was thinking specifically of handstands and inversions at the point. Being an ardent admirer of their practice and ethics, I signed up for the Bryce Teacher Training course. My teachers, people who became my friends there - to say that they changed my practice, my outlook towards yoga, not to mention life; would be a gross understatement. I learned that balance on the mat can be extended to balance in life – one mirrors the other. It is this balance that I want to bring to my practice, my teaching. Yoga is my way of life. It brings peace and perspective to every other aspect of my life. With my practice, I want to share this energy with the people around me – bring to their lives the joy and strength yoga has brought to mine.
