How yoga found me?
I didn't plan starting yoga. It wasn't a "new year, new me" resolution. It wasn't something I researched for months. It just…happened or maybe life, decided it for me.
When COVID hit, everything around me shut down: restaurants, cafés, gyms, even the parks at some point. Working online five days a week, barely moving, living between the kitchen and living room my body started feeling it. But more than that, my mind started falling apart.
I felt lost, anxious, overwhelmed. Thoughts kept spiraling:
How long will this last?
Will my family be safe?
Is this how it ends?
Will it ever feel normal again?
There were no answers just noise. And the more I tried to "figure it out," the worse I felt.
One thought changed everything
One day, in the middle of that chaos, something simple crossed my mind: Maybe I should try something new. I searched for ideas online. You know the list: Calligraphy. Learn a language. Read more books. Try knitting. Start doing yoga.
And somehow, yoga clicked.
I opened YouTube and followed my first-ever home yoga session. At first, I thought: "Okay, I did something for myself that feels good." Then I fell off again. I was inconsistent. But in that strange version of life, with no distractions, no parties, no travel I slowly built a habit a daily morning yoga practice.
That changed everything.
Yoga began to shift my mind and my body. Since then, it's stayed in my life sometimes on, sometimes off. But I always come back.
It gave me something I couldn't find anywhere else: A sense of peace. A break from the million thoughts running through my head. A space where, for a moment, I could breathe again.
Every time life feels difficult or uncertain, yoga helps me return to myself. It grounds me. It soothes my nervous system. It reminds me that my body and mind are deeply connected and always evolving.
Maybe you're in that place right now overwhelmed, searching or just simply curious about the new things in your life. If so, I just want you to know: you don't need to be perfect. Or flexible. Or ready. You just need to start.
Yoga will meet you exactly where you are.