This was me for most of my life.

Yoga has been life changing. Cultivating full body awareness and presence opened my eyes to states of being that I didn’t know I was capable of experiencing.

I can feel the subtle changes in strength each day, or a touch of soreness, or the exact spot that anxiety has settled into in my gut.

Gaining the level of focus needed brought with it a deeper and broader awareness of my emotional states, and the realization that I have some separation from them, i.e. they != me.

In retrospect, it makes so much sense to think of my body as an integral part of who I am and how I feel.

But that’s a mode of thinking that I was certainly never introduced to as a kid.