1. I started practicing 6 years ago.

2. I hated it.

3. I was very stiff, I am a former basketball player with extremely tight hamstrings

4. I didn’t understand anything the teacher was saying

5. My ego thought the class and the teacher were “lame”

6. But then the boyfriend I had during that time said he really liked me after I did yoga.

7. I realized I felt peaceful and happy despite my original opinion.

8. I took yoga for 4 years for free outside in  a park

9.  Those sessions cleared my mind and inspired me

10. I had magical meditations

11. I would do yoga, then record music.

12. I struggled making money and worked in retail

13. I had terrible anxiety (from my teens into adulthood)

14.  I had trouble focusing

15. It grew into a very dark depression (I’m an artist)

16. I struggled at my retail job (terrible anxiety at work)

17. My nerves were fried

18. My house was a mess

14. I quit retail

15. I decided to enroll in a Yoga teacher training course

16.  For 200 hours I “hit the mat” every day facing my self

17. My anxiety cured.

18. My depression was gone.

19. I started teaching immediately to help others.

20. I enrolled in a 300 hour graduate program

21. I started this blog.

22. My album “Kingdom in the Sky” was inspired by the meditations I experienced in yoga.