My Story
From California
to Chennai
My path to Yoga Therapy was anything but a straight line. And
honestly, it is the not-straight parts that made me the
therapist I am today.
In my early twenties I was living with a scoliosis diagnosis
and a series of injuries that never healed properly. My doctors
started me on narcotic pain medication at eighteen. By my
mid-twenties I was fully dependent on opioids and still in
pain. Nothing worked. I had completely lost hope that anything
would ever change.
Then I took my first yoga class. I was blown away. It was the
only thing that actually transformed my pain. That single
realisation set something in motion that I could not stop even
if I had tried. Yoga showed me that my body was not broken. It
was capable of healing. It just needed the right conditions.
That discovery took me from Sacramento, California, all the way
to India. I spent time living near the beaches of Goa, in the
Himalayas, and dedicated a year to serving and learning at
Vaidyagrama Āyurveda Hospital, surrounded by some of the most
respected Āyurveda doctors in India. I volunteered, lived, and
experienced firsthand the profound healing potential of
Āyurveda. For over six years now, Chennai, South India, has
been my home, where I have been immersed in the Krishnamacharya
Tradition as a certified Yoga Therapist.
If you had told that girl in her early twenties — in pain,
dependent, with no hope — that one day she would be guiding
people all over the world to heal, she would have laughed in
your face.
This is what Yoga Therapy can do. And I get to share it with you.
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