Aday after moving to an apartment in Hawaii, I was on the floor with back pain. It led me to yoga in a desperate attempt to fix my damaged back. I had endured many injuries: first when I was bounced from a trampoline at 10, another while weightlifting, and again when I fell from a high roof.
In Hawaii, I saw yoga studios everywhere and I started thinking about claims I’d heard regarding yoga and healing for back pain. One day, with no background and little knowledge of yoga, I decided to try it hoping to find something to make me strong in the broken places. I feared collapsing in the hot yoga room but was also confident that if my back held up I would too.
I planned to try it for 30 days and then decide if I would continue. I made it through 24 classes that month. My resolve was galvanised and my hope for healing ignited. In my journal entry I wrote, Yoga is the way to go for healing back pain. It’s so simple, why don’t more people do it? But my transformation from injury to healing went beyond my back as yoga steered me into deeper waters. In ‘Passage to India’, American poet Walt Whitman wrote:
“Sail forth – steer for the deep waters only / Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee and thou with me.”
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