My Soul Space

I found yoga in 1991, when I started college. I had sustained an injury to my hip & back in a car accident, and had been making weekly visits to a chiropractor for close to two years. With a few months of yoga classes in a musty church basement, and the purchase of the Sivananda Companion to Yoga, my pain was considerably reduced. I soon became too busy to commit to weekly classes, but pulled out the book when pain started to settle in- I would move through some postures and get relief. I went on to live for years with little knowledge or consideration for my body, but with age, and wisdom, I kept coming back to yoga when things got tough… and began formal meditation practice in 1999, with the Prairie Zen Meditation Center in my hometown of Urbana, Illinois.