sungypsyyogini
sungypsyyogini
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Like a lot of people, my first reaction to yoga was to brush it off. It looked silly. It looked easy and I didn’t see how any of the moves could actually benefit my body. I was 21 and full of myself. I was deeply into fitness, vanity muscles and dieting. My regime at that time consisted of weight training, cardio and kickboxing. Yoga was incorporated into my plan by the designer but I refused to do it. Until one day, when I was sick and didn’t have the energy for a full on workout. I figured I’d do the yoga. It would be quick and easy. It was anything but. I hadn’t struggled so much with exercise for as long as I could remember. It was only quick because I quit so fast. That experience led me to respect yoga but not to embrace it. Jump ahead about 10 years. I’m recovering from a deeply traumatic event and I’m introduced to yoga as a healing technique by someone at a support group. I was given a website where I could take an 8 week course in healing trauma through yoga. That was my first experience with the spiritual aspect of the practice. I’d never felt such a release before. My body, mind and spirit would never be the same. Once I’d completed the course, I started using online classes to continue my practice. I realized I needed to attend a studio when one day when the online teacher said, “ breathe through the burn” but nothing was burning. I found the closest studio I could and signed up for a class. I was completely revolutionized by the combined energies of myself, the other students and mostly the teacher. I went to yoga nearly everyday. One day about a year later, the teacher mentioned a yoga teacher training was going to be held soon. I knew then what I was meant to do with my life. I knew that I had to chance to give other people the same feelings and change I had experienced. I signed up the same day and started teacher training shortly thereafter. I struggled for nearly 6 months working a full time job Monday through Friday and doing teacher training Friday through Sunday. Not to mention funding my training. I was a single mom with three kids and tuition was not cheap. But nothing else would do. I knew my purpose and I was going to get there. Needless to say, I made it. My first paid job as a yoga teacher was at the University of Houston. I remember signing up to teach only gentle classes because I was terrified to mess up but I have never felt so confident walking into a room before. There were at least 40 people sitting there, waiting for me. To learn from me. To receive something pure and esoteric that they believed I could give them. Trusting me to provide energy and hold space for them. Not everyone comes to yoga for the spirit but they inevitably feel it at some point. Seeing the progression in a students spiritual health convinces me everyday that I am exactly where I am meant to be doing exactly what I am meant to be doing.
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