Meet @meredithevangelisti sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us. These are her words 📷 . . "From the age of 8 I was a competitive athlete. I roller skated competitively until aged, 33 collecting local, regional and national titles as well as being a member of the world team in precision skating . Even though I skated into my 30's my skating career somewhat ended at the age of 17 when my partner dropped me from an overhead lift.  The fall left me with severe trauma to my

Meet @raunchyyogi sharing her #yogasavedmylife with us. These are her words 📷 . . "At 12, I was diagnosed with severe scoliosis - the sideways curvature of the spine - & told I’d never compete like I did before. I had to wear a metal back 24/7 except for working out & showering, for 4 years. It was absolutely tortuous. Then I had spinal fusion: two rods & 17 screws put into my spine . During those years, yoga & pilates became my mental health respite. No one, not doctors or

" I was being bullied by a person on my team, & without any outlet outside of work I found myself deeply unhappy in my job & my life" . I'm delighted to introduce Fierce Calm Ambassador @yogi_grogie who represents so much of what we stand for, not least because of her commitment to helping others, especially through her work with the fantastic @deadyogissociety charity fundraisers. This is her #yogasavedmylife story 📷 . . "I was crying a lot until one day my brother said – ‘

Meet @yoga_bibi Fabiola sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us. These are her words 📷 . . "Since my diagnosis my multiple sclerosis has had its ups & downs as in life itself . I called my MS my best friend as I've learned a lot about myself through "her" and I wouldn't have changed many things in life for better if wasn't for her . She is the one that showed me how stressed out I was and still am sometimes but she is the one that tells me to come down as she is part of m

Meet Melanie Waldman @whereswaldman sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us. These are her words 📷 . . "Though unrelated to my diagnosis, my amputation was due to a rare allergic reaction to heparin--used in hospitals to treat blood clots . . One of the few things I can remember at that time was how fortunate I felt, due to the love & energy surrounding me. This truly was what motivated me to fight on . . YOGA: I began my yoga practice about 5- 6 years before the amputati

Meet Jen @iampixelated sharing #yogasavedmylife story with us. These are her words 📷 . . "I found yoga through a back injury in 2010. Waking one morning, unable to sit, stand, walk or lay down without searing pain cascading across my back into my legs & to the soles of my feet. My chiropractor at that time was unable to help (that has changed with my current chiropractor, though, who I love!) . . Frustrated, I stumbled across a yoga program on TV. Immediately, I found relief

Meet transformational wellness coach, RYT 600 @taylorisaacs__  sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us 📷 . . " A transformation has taken place, by taking care of my body- starting with becoming physically active with yoga,  aware of the food & drink that I nourish my body with & allowing meditation & breath work to be the foundation of my spiritual practice . It has not been easy, but I have more understanding of who I am today than ever . My heart is more open, I've  fi

Meet @jessica_kish_ sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us. These are her words 📷 . . "Insert all the life problems/crises you can think of — personal, family, career, financial, spiritual — and I was pretty much drowning in all of them . After getting my master’s degree and working for a few years as a therapist I became burnt out and ultimately decided that was no longer the career path for me.  A decision I feel a degree of shame and guilt about to this day . But trut

Meet Cara @queendomoffife sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us. These are her words📷 . "My future became uncertain & I was acutely aware of the limitations the condition might bring. What lay ahead seemed so dark . To prove I was ok I did the only thing I knew how to do. I worked harder! . Kettle bell workouts, 5k runs, more projects at work. . The inevitable happened. I became so tired mentally & physically I crashed. The wall I had built to cope collapsed. I was left

Meet Lorina @anarchoyogi sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us. These are her words 💚 . . "Yoga changed me, without a doubt, but consequently, it changed the world around me . The energies I was attracting. The friends, the loves . My whole life I've been the "weird" one, the quirky friend, the crazy of the family, until I met Yoga. Then I just found I wasn't the difference, I was just "misplaced". Away from the path to unity. And that's why I wasn't recognised, and was

Meet KJ @the.rooted.yogi sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us ❤These are her words🙏 . . "My yoga journey started in June 2012 after my 2nd ACL//Meniscus surgery. In seeking a way to rehabilitate my knee I discovered a new found passion for movement & breath. I now teach yoga & wish to share that with everybody, show that yoga is for every body . . Yoga created a new me. To the old me, the younger me, I wish to say: I wish I had loved you more. I wish I hadn’t had habi

Meet Shannon @sierradeh sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us. These are her words 💚 . . "I found yoga at the age of 18. I didn’t know much about it, nor was very serious about my practice. It was just something my friends and I tried for fun . Fast forward four years later, yoga found me at age 22, after my Grandma passed away. It was a confusing time, I struggles to accept it; yet through yoga, what started out with anger, slowly melted into a sweet understanding, and

Meet @forever.learn.lindsay sharing her #yogasavedmylife story ❤ . . "When I was 22 I was diagnosed with a chromosome abnormality called a translocation. It causes miscarriage, a “lethal abnormality”. I ended up having 8 miscarriages in total; 3 live births . . I was sad & isolated, but I never saw a therapist or understood it to be any type of trauma. The birth of my 3rd son was quite an event. He was stuck in my birth canal & there was a point where we thought one of us was

Meet Waivian @petit.blondie sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us. These are her words 💚 . "At 38 years of age I was suffering from cervical spinal stenosis and it had taken most of my life away . I was told by doctors that the pain I was experiencing will only worsen with age due to degeneration, and there was absolutely nothing I could do to reverse the condition . My very good friend @issieliping introduced yoga when it seemed all else were failing. In a desperate at

Meet @jennyclise_ sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us. These are her words 💚 . . "I originally had the singular intention of strengthening my body through yoga. After years of dancing, it was hard to break that mindset . I was first introduced to yoga at age 17! I feel very fortunate to have begun my practice at a young age, but it wasn’t till I got to learn about meditation in Hyderabad, India, on a student trip, that I had my first experience with what yoga was tru

"I had been diagnosed with PTSD, TBI, vertigo, chronic migraines, & ruptured disks in my neck as a Veteran of the United States Air Force. I was on a cumulative of eleven 'medications' at a time" . . I'm sharing this incredible @kristopherpace #yogasavedmylife story again. Not least because he features on our PODCAST (link in bio) hosted by @dannipomplun & I really want you guys to read this story, then listen to the pod! It is so good! There is so much wisdom in there from

I had been told that my serious condition would be with me for the rest of my life and that I’d need a wheelchair to move around . . Meet Veronica Maurel @veronica_yogihealth Dru yoga teacher, Ayurveda health Coach & founder of The Akasha yoga centre Nottingham. This is her #yogasavedmylife story . . " I embarked upon a healing journey of yoga, Ayurveda and Mickel Therapy. And I came back to myself and pure health . . When I say Yoga saved my life, I’m not talking about Asan

Meet Stacey @karmabhaktiyoga sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us. These are her words ❤ . "I was always athletic growing up. I did triathlons, ran, played tennis, skiied & many other physical activities. After the crash, I was in pain but I pushed through until 2009, when I was walking with a cane & had a 3 year old son . I didn't want to live this way. I began to see Dr after Dr and finally in 2010 I had a discectomy. 10 months later I had another. I then had surgery

Meet Lara @mintyogini sharing her #yogasavedmylife story with us. These are her words 💚 . . "In 2009 I had been living on my own for years, sucked into the luxury / fashion industry & lost touch with who I used to be, what mattered to me. Then the unexpected happened. The sudden loss of a family member shook my innermost foundations . . Yoga found me in a fancy London gym , trying to sweat out my pain, distract myself. I had taken leave from work &, flown halfway around the

"I was thrown into traffic & run over by a truck, riding my bike in Chicago, when a woman opened her car door into the bike lane in 2013. I broke 23 (of 24) ribs, both sides of my pelvis, both collarbones, my left hip, left shoulder, fractured a vertebra, punctured a lung, & cracked my skull" . Meet Dustin @rdvalenta sharing his #yogasavedmylife story with us 💚 . . "Doctors didn't think I would survive, let alone walk I know for a fact that if I had not been practicing asan