Before I tell you how grateful I am for having completed my 200-hour YTT through Hothouse Yoga, that I couldn’t imagine having completed it anywhere else but Hothouse, I first need to tell you that I never wanted my certification to happen here.

I have been doing yoga for 4 years now, but my yoga journey, what would eventually lead me to it, truly began the second I was born. There was love in my family, absolutely - but it was also dysfunctional and toxic, having planted little seeds of toxicity deep within me along the way. Through my unstable childhood, weaving through my parent’s messy divorce, dealing with an emotionally unavailable mother who didn’t know how to give unconditional love, navigating being a minority in a time and place where it wasn’t the friendliest, I collected enough of those seeds until I became fractured as a person, disconnected from self. I didn’t trust people at all. Least of all, myself.

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