Six months before yoga found me, my life had shifted so completely on its axis that it hurled me behind it, battered, broken, and lost. I remember so little about 6 months of my life...I know I never laughed, never smiled, got out of bed only when I had to. On the recommendation of everyone I knew, I began working out. Adrenaline was a great thing, I could move and do what I had to do to get through the day, but by dinnertime, I was done, and snapping at the kids (who I had ignored most of the day) and my husband, and anyone else I could think of, for what ever I could come up with to snap at them for, which was usually no more than being in the same room.  Then I decided to try yoga.

Before yoga, there was no choice but to be hectic.  My self-worth came from being busy and working at a hectic pace.  My mantra was ‘stay busy’ and I always felt stressed, tensed and uncomfortable.  I felt like I had no other choice.  After practicing yoga for five years, I see that I have options and I realize when I am getting overwhelmed.

I came to Greenville Yoga because I took yoga at the gym and knew there had to be something more. I wanted to know what that other piece was. Before I came to yoga I was a bit reactive. I would lay in bed at night and have trouble falling asleep. I just couldn’t settle my mind down.

I am probably one of your older students being 59. I have always been pretty fit and enjoy most forms of exercise except running. I am flat footed. This condition and 30 years of serious hiking had taken its toll on my feet so in my late forties I had surgery to repair the joint between the big toe and foot. This surgery was performed on both feet. So how did yoga help out?