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Journey to joy and the dream of giving back.

By: Gaia Maria Friday, Jun 15, 2012

I have not always been kind to my body - or my mind, for that matter. Around age 14 I started developing the eating disorder that would haunt me for many years. It started out disguised as an interest in animal rights - I became a vegetarian, then a vegan and insisted it was all about the animals ... Read More

Coping with the past while actively constructing a brighter future

By: Anna Thursday, Jun 14, 2012

My path to yoga started in college as I struggled to manage stress but it has grown into something I never thought it could be: a pathway into the past. I never imagined that a video I bought on sale in Blockbuster would lead me to something that would become a part of my daily life and, now, a ... Read More

The Beauty of the Way

By: maitreya falcon Wednesday, Jun 13, 2012

SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/tobygallagher/Documents/yoga%20essay%202.doc It’s warm today, the bright summer sun blazing down on the verdant beauty of Maine’s rolling hills. Entering the cool confines of the YWCA for the days aerobics classes, I realize I’m an hour late and ... Read More

The Path of Peace and Joy

By: Joli Harrington Sunday, Jun 10, 2012

Finding a peaceful, loving, energetic and healthy way to experience my life has increasingly been my goal. I have practiced yoga for decades - I'm 58 - and lately became interested in Thai yoga/massage and eye yoga. I practice dance, drumming, meditation, thankfulness, use emWave and Noumic to grow ... Read More

Love

By: Carrie Algar Wednesday, Jun 6, 2012

Spirituality, love, trust. What is my spirit... who am I? The question all beings would benefit to ask themselves. If only I could help them do that. Inspire, grow, create. Lift the consciousness of the world... possible. I am a fairy after all and all the fairies find the best ways to spread their ... Read More

Grow in Yoga

By: Amber Wess Monday, Jun 4, 2012

Some say that pain is the most powerful motivator of all. I believe there is some truth to this, but I also believe that we can choose to be motivated by joy. In my early twenties, I began having migraine headaches on a regular basis. I had several debilitating episodes every week, and pulling my ... Read More

"FROM WHERE I HAVE BEEN"

By: jared Sunday, Jun 3, 2012

Dear scholarship reviewing board: I have made leaps and bounds to bring me to where I am now, and I shall never stop trying. Looking back I sometimes wonder how I endured growing up with an alcoholic father and an abusive mother, or how I suffered the death of my first love. I know that if I had ... Read More

My Path of Spiritual Enlightenment in becoming a Yoga Teacher

By: Brenda Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Growing up in a family of 5 children and being the eldest child in the family I had the responsibility for caring for my younger brothers and sisters, at that time I never knew what it was like to be a child. With my mother being an alcoholic, drinking through depression, I always had to protect my ... Read More

Just This...

By: Scott Anderson Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Greetings, My name is Scott Anderson. I am a 38 year young yogi residing in beautiful Bellingham Washington. I'd like to tell you a quick story about myself, and how yoga has changed my life. Yoga found me about 12 years ago. I took yet another spill racing my mountain bike, and came away with more ... Read More

Stop dreaming & start living

By: armione Monday, May 28, 2012

Namaste'. I am italian, ciao! and please accept with fun my poor english! Regarding my story it all has started 17 years ago with my spiritual wake up call. I was a teen then and my spirit guides me to a very intense and fast awakening. So I had been a Lightworker for years, struggling to raise the ... Read More

My Yoga Dream

By: Betty Geyer Sunday, May 27, 2012

I first learned yoga in the junior college I attended right after high school in 1976. Being one who always hated gym class in high school, and now having to pick a gym class in college, I was surprised to see yoga listed as a gym class. That was different! I tried it and I loved it! I took the ... Read More

Yoga was my Missing Something

By: Joanne Sunday, May 27, 2012

Namaste and Hello Everyone :) My name is Jo, I'm from the UK, and here is my story of my path to Yoga and the Pranashama Yoga Institute. I hope you enjoy reading about it! I lacked the confidence and self-esteem of my friends when I was growing up, but I didn't know why..was it to do with my body? ... Read More

The Gift of Yoga

By: Keron Martin Friday, May 25, 2012

‘What is this big mystique that surrounds Yoga?’ I remembered thinking this before my first class almost three years ago. How could an activity going SO SLOWLY be good exercise for me? I thought that it just wasn’t enough if I didn’t pant and sweat for at least an hour or ... Read More

I finally OPENED MY EYES

By: Claudia Sortino Friday, May 25, 2012

eyes closed (totally) open heart (to the world) sensitivity (extreme) 3 details to know about me ... to whom does not know .. what it means: "being blind" having everything in hand (right ahead) but not seeing it, indeed seeing everything that is behind .. I was only attracted by all that was ... Read More

Thank You to All of My Spiritual Teachers

By: Jessica Palman Friday, May 25, 2012

Namaste, my name is Jessica, or Jess. I am a 33 year old single-mother to a beautiful son, Isaac Aolani. I grew up in a very insecure world as a child. My siblings and I were emotionally, morally, and spiritually misguided. I am the oldest by eight years over my sister and 13 over my brother. When ... Read More

"The beginning of awakening"

By: bhoffensb Thursday, May 24, 2012

Hello dear Friends and dear Dashama: First i need to say im not a native english speaker, so sorry if i make mistakes. My name is Bárbara Hoffens and im from Chile. My story begins like this...When i was six years old, i lost my left eye because of a rare illness, in fact it is so rare that ... Read More

How to Achieve Pure Love

By: Daniel Bellon Wednesday, May 23, 2012

A bridge between Yoga wisdom and the world we know. Become convinced of the need to awaken our innate love for God and decide to pursue it as our goal in life, we must take guidance from a devotees who will engage us in the practices of yoga. These practices center on chanting holy names and entail ... Read More

My Dream to Bring Yoga to Working Class Communities

By: Daniel Reyes Tuesday, May 22, 2012

In 1998, I took my first yoga class with Barefoot Yoga in Little Rock, Arkansas. Immediately afterwards, I told the instructor that I wanted to become a teacher someday and introduce this practice to those who didn’t have access to it. After all, I just happen to be in the right place at the ... Read More

Fall in Love with Your Knees

By: Angela E Watson Monday, May 21, 2012

I realized I wanted to teach yoga the day I fell in love with my knees. Yeah, that's right, my knees. I had been practicing yoga for several years, but never felt I could relax during a class. I was always uptight and pushed myself so hard that I suffered in class more than was necessary. It was ... Read More

My Yoga Journey

By: michelle beall Monday, May 21, 2012

I Have had such a journey in yoga. I started off with Yoga fit and Mat science Then concentrated on my Pilates Certification. I started an interest in Hatha Yoga and Iyengar. Then I had a teacher introduce me Into Baptiste Power Vinyasa. i just fell in love with Flow with heat. I then expanded adn ... Read More

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