At the age of five years old I developed macular degeneration and due to this eye disease I was limited in many ways being partially blind. At a young age my sister introduced me to yoga which has enabled me to focus and develop my other senses. Many years of hard work have been rewarded by mastery of some postures and techniques. I began to extend my knowledge of yoga philosophy from the base gai
ned during many yoga lectures. I also began to teach, after my qualification in Hatha Iyengar Yoga. My yoga training enables me to concentrate for hours at a stretch and cope with pressures through everyday life. For me, the benefits of yoga are more moral and spiritual than physical. Through my personal experience and practice of Yoga, I have realized that disabilities or any kind of limitations within life, should not be looked on as ineradicable forms of negativity that exist to make us unhappy. They should be seen as natural manifestations of your life that are to be worked on and developed, not suppressed or denied. These flawed mechanisms or limitations are an opportunity to develop and evolve towards an internal awareness of consciousness. The mind and body must not lose courage to carry on. You must be patient, and know that all healing, all help will arise from constructive thinking, constructive application and most of all constructive spiritual inspiration. Use the mind and the bodies disturbances as stepping stones toward higher and better understanding. Don’t carry around negative thoughts or perceptions that drain your energy to become empowered, you must focus on the present. Pay attention everyday to where your thoughts or energy is going, detach yourself from fear or pain and positive energy will be restored. Pay attention to yourself energetically and the physical will take care of itself. Remember that every form of life is energy, just different vibrations of energy. All strength and healing of nature is the changing of the energy vibrations from within, the attaining of the divine within the living tissue of a body to creative energies. This alone is healing. Whether it is accomplished by the change of thought patterns, the use of herbs, change of diet, reiki or through the practice of Yoga.
