Yoga saved my life. That may sound like a dramatic statement, but it is true. Although I have been practicing yoga for almost 30 years and teaching it for 16, it wasn’t until I had a breakdown brought on by severe stress in 2009 that I realised yoga had always been - and always will be - my lifeline.
In 2006, as a former youth and community worker, I had the brilliant idea of starting a charity that would teach yoga to children in areas of social deprivation in order to address rising obesity levels and low self-esteem. While this was a worthy cause and we won numerous awards to prove it, I had not given any thought to the impact it would have on me. As it was a charity I refused to take a wag e, which in turn impacted my life.
In order to pay my mortgage, I had to take on more adult classes in the evenings. Before long I was working for 12-14 hours a day, five days a week and even with that schedule I wasn’t bringing in enough to live on - so I took on a full -time office job on top of that. (My husband was unemployed during this time, so the onus was on me to make enough money for our survival).
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