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Alora LeBaron's avatar

Where do I even begin? I related to so many things in this post! From finding yoga during my drinking days, going to class hungover, and somehow it keeping me from falling of the cliff. Five years sober and two years after completing my 200hr YTT, it was quarantine 2020 that finally pushed me into a consistent meditation practice for myself. I've listened every morning to Deepak Chopra's guided meditations for over 4 months now and I couldn't be more proud of & surprised by my consistency! Deepak & Oprah have a meditation app that comes with a few free 21-day meditations (I recommend the one for Abundance), and you can purchase more, too.

I totally hear you on the love-hate relationship with yoga, too. It's disheartening to think of all of the ways it's been twisted by Western society, and all of the ways I've been lead into (and unknowingly participated in) cultural appropriation or spiritual bypassing. My love for yoga remains because I use it solely as my own personal practice, to deepen my own relationship with my body. I haven't actually taught many classes since my YTT, mainly because I don't know how to translate how personal I believe it's meant to be, to students who are expecting me to tell them exactly what to do & how to do it. I'm like...figure out what works for you on your own, don't listen to me! haha yet at the same time, I know that if it wasn't for all of the yoga teachers I've taken classes from, I wouldn't have been led to explore the practice more deeply on my own. That's the joy of it for me :)

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Kerry Radcliffe's avatar

Welcome to the underground, Dani! What a beautiful post.

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