Yoga means a lot to me, it’s pure love and access to freedom. It all started many years ago in London when I heard for the first time the word yoga. I suffered back pain since my childhood and pills did little to feel better. Sitting, standing and especially sleeping was hard. Many times I went to doctors and specialists, but nothing changed until I found a way to live with it. Never I expected such improvement when I first looked for yoga classes. Yet yoga was one of the most difficult things I could ever enroll in.
I will never forget my first class and all the pain I had the week after that, but I choose to go again and again because that pain was in fact tremendously good.
Although practised irregularly for a couple of years due to impossible working hours in London, still even exercising now and then gave me huge benefits. The pain was gone, the muscles were more relaxed, and so was I.
I moved to Thailand and changed my lifestyle, took more yoga classes, trying all the available styles, reading and studying the origins of yoga. I dedicated my free time to myself, participating in workshops and meetings. A very difficult time my life drawn me into darkness: yoga, one more time, helped my mind to get stronger, concentrate, and find back the light.
One day, while I was sitting in a temple during a long ceremony, I realised how peaceful I was just sitting and enjoying the meditation. It was maybe two hours: before, such a long time would have felt like going on forever, with pain, thoughts, and it would have been the worst nightmare. Instead, I was now enjoying all the benefits from my practice.
That day I realised that yoga is just more than exercise, it is preparation. Adding to the asanas the power of breath, I founded myself deeply realised. Yoga is not about how flexible you are and if you are able to do a handstand or bend your back without breaking it.
I took the 200h teacher training in Chiang Mai, seeking for alignment, learning how safely practise asanas and how to do breath control, or pranayama. I chose to stay away from the city and its noise, to go back to basics, to re-learn the principles of life.
The journey had just begun at The Warriors House, where you can now join me.
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