Elizabeth recently wrote an awesome post about attending her first Yoga class. If you haven’t read it, here is a link. I told her that I would also post a little about my own experiences with Yoga but it took me a while to determine what I wanted to share. I figured that it would be best to start with what I’ve recently been struggling with and go from there. So, what I have been struggling with? Well, I moved.
I didn’t just move away from my friends and family. I also moved away from my “home” studio, the place where I felt safe in my practice. Often when I travel, I try to drop in on a Yoga class and I enjoy going to new places. I especially love traveling to attend workshops with new teachers because I appreciate diversity in studios, teachers and styles. But once I could no longer attend classes with the teachers that I had come to know and trust on a daily basis, my practice began to suffer. Continue reading