The Full Story

i came to yoga because i hated my body.  
i stayed because it changed the parts of me that needed to.  

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on the mat, i discovered how good it felt to move without punishment  
to notice what my body could do instead of how it looked.  
slowly, i began to soften.  
i began to listen.  
i began to like myself.  

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yoga became the doorway to everything else
a ten-year journey into awareness, emotional intelligence, and community.  
it taught me how to open my heart, how to regulate my nervous system,  
how to repair what was broken in my relationships,  
and how to ask for help—and receive it.  

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it seems strange to credit yoga for all that.  
after all, it’s just stretching and breathing.  
but it has given me constant intimacy with life 
the kind of wonder that makes me want to write it all down.  

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i will never capture the godliness of this life,  
but i will spend every moment trying, 
and not a moment will be wasted.