Homework, What yoga means to me.

What Yoga Means

To sum up what yoga means to me on one page is really hard . Ask anyone who knows me, I could talk a strangers ear off for hours about yoga, and trust me I have. Yoga has been such a major part of my life. For 10 years I have been practicing, reading up, being like a sponge trying to gather as much information as I can.

Yoga is an experience, a lifestyle that I have adapted. I try to live my life filled with love and positive actions and thoughts, and I believe that has made and will continue making my life as rich as it is.

Yoga has made my mind at peace. For several years I struggled with an eating disorder that plagued my life. At this time in my life I was practicing for the wrong reasons, I started to get deeper into my practice, and as that happened I noticed I didn't pay attention to the mirror, or how I looked. I drew inward during classes, which made it so that I could focus on other things rather than beating myself up. I learned to love myself, that these thighs were made to stand strong that these hips were made to give birth. I can honestly say that yoga has saved me from a path of destruction towards myself and let me learn to love who I am for what I am.

I share my experiences with many people, I try to educate as many as I can about all the benefits of having a yoga practice. I work at a gym and many of my regulars know about my strong passion for it. I have a regular guest who is the sweetest older woman, she constantly asks me, “Gabby how can I lose weight?” I have given her tips about eating, and cardio, and weights and than I had mentioned that she should do yoga, she didn’t believe me that yoga could help her lose some weight, I let her know that doing yoga alone may not help her drop all the weight she wants to but combined in with her regimen will help, I let her know yoga will help her become more aware of her own body, that it will help her listen to what her body feels that it needs. This sweet older woman has started practicing yoga two times a week regularly and has become more patient and loving towards her body.

This is why I cant wait to teach and share with everyone my passion for yoga. I want to spread the love and light that I have learned to everyone. Yoga means everything to me , it has reached down and grabbed me from my lowest point and made life go on, and going on beautifuly.