Empowered Yoga

I began practicing yoga in 2005 while living in Guatemala City. I am a life-long runner and while living there I didn’t have access to run long distances outdoors so I joined a gym… and here I found yoga… 100% in Spanish and I didn’t understand everything. But, what I began to understand was that my body was feeling better. For most of my life I had been very hard on my body, running through every injury I had and not knowing any other way. I was getting a glimpse of what it felt like to find comfort and ease in my body.

Soon I began to notice something else. I am a survivor of sexual assault and didn’t even realize how much I had dissociated from my body, how much I avoided feeling anything at all. I was afraid to feel. Enter yoga. This was a space to feel and it wasn’t as scary as I thought, instead it was a necessary release.