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My first Aha Moment in Yoga

After a few years of practicing and teaching yoga, I can see how yoga has truly and without a doubt influenced my life and how I choose to live my life. I remember very clearly my first “aha” moment in yoga that changed my outlook.

I was running around trying to find balance in my life, working full time, going through a very difficult divorce, trying to cope with my father’s sudden death, my mother’s diagnosis of leukemia and lupus, and most of all trying to be everything to my children. All the stress, uncertainties, insecurities, self-doubt and trying to define myself lead me to a very unhealthy relationship with myself. A good friend and mentor suggested that we both could use some time on a yoga mat – and believe me I was very skeptical. I had tried yoga before and it just wasn’t a fit; however, I have always prided myself in having an open mind so I decided why not try yoga again. It wasn’t long that I began to see a little glimmer into a peaceful practice, finding some inner calmness and steady serenity. Slowly it all began to feel “real” and there was a calmness that slowly happened within myself.

I don’t know how to fully explain this but one day on my mat, I had my “Aha Moment” – it was the day I understood completely the connecting of your movements with your breath – that I was no longer struggling with this concept, but my body naturally accepting that this was true. That I was no longer attached to worrying about the things in my life that I couldn’t change and learnt that day that I had the strength to change the things that I had control over. These were my choices and I had control over my own happiness, my own joy and my own life.

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