Free Spirited Yoga

I started practicing yoga 20 years ago, shortly after the birth of my first son. I trained as a ballet dancer in my youth, and the focus on flexibility and alignment in yoga appealed to me. I quickly discovered that yoga helped to ease chronic back pain from scoliosis. As my husband and I moved around the country and welcomed three more children into our family, my practice ebbed and flowed, but I always returned to it to relieve my physical pain.
While I loved being a mother, parenting four children's pressures led to chronic stress and fatigue. My doctors kept telling me to stress less, as it took a severe toll on my body, but no one told me how.
Eight years ago, I decided to train as a yoga teacher. It was then that I discovered yoga was about so much more than a physical practice.