Rewind two and half years ago.

I was anti-yoga.  In a big (judgemental) way.

I was one of those people who was proud to say that yoga just wasn’t my thing.  I just wasn’t craving to feel calm + relaxed.  Instead, I was craving to feel excited + fit.  Which is why I loved working out to loud music, heart rate pumping + sweat drippin’ like crazy.

But that was two and half years ago.  A lot has changed.

Yoga is now a central part of my life…but it took a lot of persuading for me to even explore yoga.

the woo-woo reason I chose to explore yoga.

PART ONE. (PART TWO will be the health reasons I chose to explore yoga) 

Rewind back to October 2009.  I was confused about life, work + love.  (And I mean really confused!)

I was craving direction…purpose…meaning…answers.  I was craving to know why life was turning out like it was.   I needed to confide in someone I could trust.  Someone who knew nothing about me and yet, wanted nothing but the best for me.  I wanted a fresh perspective and some tough love but I wanted to hear it from somebody who didn’t have an agenda.

So I saw an intuitive healer.  Actually, I emailed her a photo of me.  Then she sent me six pages of insight.

This was the first time I was told that I needed to pursue yoga. I didn’t listen.

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Five months later, my quarter life crisis struck so I went to Vipassana, a 10 day silent meditation retreat.  I was too focused on the problems in my life that I didn’t even associate meditation with yoga.

Vipassana was the catalyst for profound change in my life.  With that said, it was still another 6 months before I went to a yoga class.

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Three months later I saw another intuitive healer.  Not only did she tell me to start practising yoga, she told me I needed to start teaching yoga.  I thought she was crazy.  I had only ever tried a couple of BodyBalance classes and they bored the shit out of me.

But she was so spot on with everything else that I started to open myself up to the idea.

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Three months later I enrolled in my Yoga Teacher Training.  Not  because I finally made it to a yoga class and fell in love with it…but because I needed to make a decision.  Six months of conscious unemployment to figure out what I wanted to do was as long as I could stomach.  I was at a crossroad.  And I was ready to chose the path I’d never been down before.

Best decision ever!

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COMING UP THIS WEEK: PART TWO: the health reasons I chose to explore yoga.