21/06/2025
☀️HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA🧘🏻♀️
I first found yoga in 2012 as I was recovering from a violent relationship that landed me in the hospital with a back injury.
I never went to physical therapy and immediately dove back into weightlifting and running leaving me with excruciating sciatic nerve pain and an injury to my foot.
All of this unfortunately happened at a time where I had just moved back to Tallahassee with no vehicle and had to walk/ride the bus to get to class so I needed to get out of pain fast.
I think I looked up some basic sciatic nerve stretches on YouTube like pigeon and felt immediate relief.
As I write this I look back and laugh because after all of the years I’ve spent working with this practice, a few stretches on you tube hardly seems like yoga 😂 but it’s a reminder we all have our own doors to enter this practice.
Reflecting over the past 10 years, all the limbs of yoga, have held me like a grandmother tree, connecting me to the earth and allowing me to sway in the wind.
Yoga has supported me through DV recovery, chronic pain, loss, pregnancy, life transitions, heartbreak, fear of the unknown and has also given me relief, joy, love, community, abundance, a connection to God and so so so much more.
I truly could go on and on about the personal and evidence based benefits to adopting a yoga practice but I need like a 2 week break from supporting everything i say with PubMed IDs 😂
A week from today, we’re gathering at to celebrate Summer, practice together, and deepen our yoga community. 🙏🏼
Tickets are $20 and include a beverage (NA options available) get yours by sending me a DM or just show up with cash/card and we can do it before class on Sunday!
I’d also love to hear about your introduction to yoga in the comments! 👇🏻