23/12/2022
2022. The year our dream came true. Our dream of growing our family. The year our prayer was answered. The year our journey of trying to conceive came to an end. The year our embryo successfully implanted and grew into our little miracle. The year our stars aligned and the universal energy created our baby boy 💙
Yoga was always a part of my life, from a young age I watched my mother bend herself into shapes which she believed would heal her and keep her healthy.
The day I discovered the true power of yoga was after our first round of IVF had failed. The first time I realised yoga went beyond the physical was during recovery from emergency laparoscopic procedure following large amounts of internal bleeding due to tear in my o***y post egg retrieval.
I was unable to move due to pain in stitches yet I was itching to get back onto my mat. The only pose I could do was savasana. So I did it. For 20 minutes I lay still, breathing into my body. For 20 minutes I allowed myself to feel the physical pain of surgery and feel the unbearable mental pain of failure. Failure to create healthy embryos. Failure to create our family, to be a mother. It was in this moment where I turned failure into success.
Success of finding myself, my true inner self. Success in discovering my passion for yoga. Success in manifesting the power of prana to heal the mind and body. Success in understanding that life has its own plan and that plan is what is needed for us to blossom.
Thank you yoga. Thank you for being my rock, my confidant. Thank you yoga for holding me whilst I cried, tears of pain, tears of joy. Thank you yoga for allowing me to find strength within myself to overcome our challenges. Thank you yoga for nourishing my body. Thank you yoga for nourishing my baby. Thank you yoga for showing me the light when all I could see was darkness.
“Yoga does not change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees” BKS Iyengar
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