My yoga journey, so far.......

After a long journey, I finally passed my 200 hour yoga teacher training and I am feeling so many emotions. I went from being happy and excited to scared and anxious. So many questions were going through my head 

• What's next?
• Will I ever be brave enough to host my first class?
• If I did would anyone come?
• Where, when and how?

Then I remembered none of that matters, this is not the time to be worried about whats to come, fist I need to live in this moment and enjoy it for what it is, after all I worked hard to get here! I started to reflect on my yoga journey so far and thought I would share it with you all.

I first started yoga in January 2021, I gave birth to my second baby during lockdown and was 5 months post-partum and to be honest I wasn't in a good place, (like many of us during this time). I was feeling isolated, lonley and anxious. Intrusive thoughts were getting hard to ignore and I had to try fight it as I had a 2 year old and newborn to look after. I had to find a way to feel like me again!

Of course this came with challanges, I was limited in what exercises I could do due to pelvic organ prolapse, I couldn't run, jump or do anything that put pressure on my pelvis or lower abdominal area. That's when I decided to give yoga a chance, I thought it was perfect as I needed something to help me both mentally and physically.

I started of with prenatal yoga, this alone made me feel stronger and it gave me something to shift my focus onto. I stopped dwelling on being in lockdown. Yes I missed my family but practicing yoga made me grateful for everything else in my life. I had two healthy children, a loving and caring husband and lots of time to work on me.

I practiced every evening, I went from lying in bed, watching tv most evenings to rolling out my mat and getting lost in a vinyasa flow, afterwords I would spend 10 minutes meditating and writing in a gratitude journal.

The physical benifits were enough for me to become a yoga addict, I was feeling stronger, more flexible, balanced and even lost 2 and a half stone in weight, which improved my prolapse but none of that compares to the mental benifits. I could control my anxiety, I was happier and just feeling like ME again, but a better version of me. 

That's the moment I decided yoga is going to be in my life forever, and that I may as well learn all there is to know about it, by starting my teacher training journey and one day I hope to help others find themselves through yoga.