"There are so many things - abusive partner, anxiety, bipolar
depression, eating disorder, stress of PhD, my father's suicide - that yoga has helped with, it's a lot to share and impossible to narrow it down to a caption
Yoga has and continues to save my life
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As a teenager, I limited myself to 500 calories a day and occasionally purged. If I
went over 500, I’d work out twice as much to punish myself
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A friend told me about a yoga studio she was going to, so I joined her for a class. The only thing I knew about yoga was the pictures of beautiful,
bendy former gymnasts and ballerinas I saw in magazines, and I thought it would make me feel worse
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When I entered the studio, I saw people of all ages, shapes, and sizes flowing peacefully alongside each other. Yoga was by no means an instant fix, but over the years, I gained the tools and confidence to regain control of how I saw myself
in the mirror
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The yoga studio has become a space for me where nothing else matters, where I can clear the clutter from my life and mind and prepare myself to face things one at a time
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There is nowhere or nothing else quite like it ❤🙏
