“If anyone reading this is having doubts about signing up for teacher training due to their flexibility, “skill”, or experience, I want to assure you that it doesn’t matter. I had only been practicing for a little less than a year when I signed up. I dove in because I wanted to commit, and had no plans to actually teach. I just wanted to go deeper into the practice. I was nervous, but I knew it was the right move.”
Read More“As an athlete, I have been trained to always push myself further and harder. This was the first time I really had the space to slow down and listen to my body. It was a very important lesson to learn as it is what I now teach professional athletes how to do today.”
Read MoreBefore 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.
Read MoreIn April 2019 life took an unexpected turn and we found ourselves navigating the world of the NICU with a micropreemie. Leo William was born on April 20th, 2019 and left this Earth on May 3rd, 2019.
My yoga practice really shifted from there. My first class back at the studio was a Thursday night vinyasa with Maureen. We both cried over my loss and she told me, “welcome home” which is exactly how I felt. That class was the first time I’d really been active since delivery, and it was also the first time I felt ALIVE during those initial weeks of loss.
Read MoreAs the owner/partner of three small businesses, I carry a lot of responsibility for the success of those businesses. Before developing a regular practice of yoga, my personal stress management was terrible; stress eating, stress drinking, comfort food, eating when not hungry, poor diet choices. I was a hard person to be around; My family noticed it, my employees noticed it, my friends noticed it. Before yoga, I tried to use golf as a means to relax, which proved to be a bad idea, golf simply added stress to my life. My newfound yoga practice provided me with the tools to better manage my stress and increase my confidence. I found I could focus better at work when things were both going well and when business conditions were more challenging.
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