Thinking back to when I made my decision to become a yoga teacher, I remember being on the sofa, heavily pregnant, and my then-husband asking me what I was going to do after the baby was born. I hadn't given much thought to going back to work. I immediately answered: “I'm going to become a yoga teacher.”
I loved that pregnancy with my first child. I had looked for yoga classes when pregnant truthfully because I had wanted to control my weight. I had always been fit and athletic. I waited many years to become pregnant. Once I was with child, an uncomfortable desire still lingered… pressure to not gain weight. Yoga, then, I decided! Safe exercise when pregnant. I’d already practiced strong, hot and flowing yoga methods – pregnancy yoga must do the same job I assumed.
I attended classes in a basement on the Fulham Road with a wonderful teacher called Miranda. It was in her classes that I learned something that has been the touchstone of my entire career since -I was moving my body, with my beautiful unborn baby boy inside me and for the first time in my entire life I was being gentle with myself. I was aware and vigilant.
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