03/01/2024
For anyone waiting for the ‘right time’ to take a yoga training program…now might be that time for you.
My Story: This was me in the summer of 2009 at my Yoga Teacher Training graduation party. I was 22 and had been practicing for about 3 years. I started yoga in college because my roommate, a journalism major, was doing a research report on Bikram Yoga, and she invited me to go to a class with her as research. I fell in love with Bikram Yoga for its intensity, but also for its structure. I felt like it helped keep me together because my life was literally falling apart.
In this photo in 2009 I had already been in rehab twice for an eating disorder and was also 4 months out of a hospital stay for a serious GI infection that typically people don’t contract until they are in their 70s or later. I had severely damaged my body.
Having lost my hobbies, values, job, happiness, health and friends because of my eating disorder, yoga helped me start my life over. In order to practice yoga the way that I wanted to, I needed to be feeding and treating my body better. I found a yoga studio that felt like home and it was here that I learned about the power of a community.
I saw what yoga was doing for me and I wanted to share that with others but, more importantly, I wanted to become a bigger part of a yoga community that was becoming a family for me. I was full-time college student at the time and found the least expensive training that worked with my class schedule and I got my certification. *Side note: I don’t suggest you choose your training that way*. But needless to say, I was eager to learn more about the practice, to make friends with similar interests as mine and to challenge myself, and I am SO grateful I did.
I have been teaching yoga for 15 years consistently, owned a studio, and run 3 previous teacher trainings.
I’m proud to co-lead the Baker Street Yoga Training Program in 2 weeks and I hope you’ll consider joining! I’m here to answer any questions you may have!
Kristen
