Yoga7even

Despite numerous efforts from teachers and mentors, an introduction to outside culture and diversity was lacking growing up in Mount Sterling, Illinois.  I didn’t know any different and growing up in West Central Illinois, I took our community for granted. The fact that anyone would do anything for anyone in this special area of the world is an incredible and nurturing value to my world today.  This stands out as one of the many principles (community and family alike) that make West Central Illinois a relatively unique place from the rest of the country.

The first time I was in a yoga studio, my mission became clearer. A conscious awareness of the space developed around me and I began to ask myself “Why haven’t I learned this before now?”  This practice, thousands of years old, gives people an opportunity to improve themselves, both physically and mentally. That it hadn’t reached an area where five generations of my family originated dumbfounded me. It crystallized my mission to give back to the same community that fostered all these wonderful values I still carry with me today.