Hi All~
I don’t know why I feel shy typing here but I do. Anyway ~ I want to tell you a little about me.
I started practicing Vinyasa yoga at my local rec center in Sept 2008. So it’s been almost a year. I didn’t really have any expectations about yoga or what it could do. I just read somewhere that it was relaxing and I wanted to learn how to breath. I felt like I held my breath a lot and I had a lot of stress in my body, I was exhausted and stressed out all the time.
After I had my daughter I felt off balance and kind of a mess, it was a really dramatic pregancy and a traumatic birth, a lot of complications and I almost lost my life. I’m 37 years old and I was never overweight before but I just went with it and thought maybe that’s what happens after you have a kid (even though I had my kid when I was 34). I was pretty overweight when I started Yoga, exhausted all the time and anemic.
I started taking the classes once a week from the month of Sept - Dec. In December I bought a DVD and started practicing Yoga at home so that brought my practice up to two times a week. Next thing I bought another DVD and started practicing every day in addition to my Monday night classes.
I have a pretty great teacher at the Rec center and have been very blessed to have her as my first yoga instructor. Still exhausted all the time, but I was finally losing weight. I added walking every morning to my routine and I started eating healthier. Yoga has a way of going into other parts of your life.
Long story short - I found out about a month ago that I have a extremely underactive thyroid. That’s the reason I was exhausted all the time. What baffled my doctor was that I was still practicing Yoga and walking. taking care of my kid etc,. My doctor was amazed that I was able to lose weight with my thyroid this hypo!
I believe it was the Yoga that helped with my hypothyroid even though I have no scientific proof. I also believe yoga had made me more stable and it has made me more balanced which makes me a better wife and mother to my daughter.
My yoga instructor believes that I have it in me to become a yoga instructor one day. I believe I do to. I’ll just go with the flow and one day I hope to be able to teach others what has worked for me.
Sorry for the lengthy post. I tend to go in circles when I write. Some days I’m a better writer than others. I’ve been reading for a while on this forum and just wanted to finally jump in!
Namaste~
& warmly welcome!