Liz

Hi everybody. Whether you are ready to believe it or not, yoga is about you. It’s not about me or anyone else. I am so grateful for this opportunity to share with you my experience with yoga and what lead me to become a yoga teacher. I do so only in the hopes that if you find the practice just as sweet as I do.I have been a dancer since I was 5 years old. I still love to dance. However, life just got in the way and eventually I stopped dancing. I would go to the gym because I felt like I had to burn calories and “workout” but never enjoyed it. On a day-to-day basis, I hadn’t found anything that gave me that feeling of freedom and movement that dancing did. Then I took my first yoga class. I loved how I felt during class and even more so afterwards.I started practicing yoga everyday at the Shelter. I looked forward to each class, I loved the friendships that I was building and began to realize everyone was just as screwed up as me and more importantly, it was OK. At the Shelter, I am accepted for who I am, not for how I dress, the college degrees I have or how much I weigh; the typical attributes that I have in the past thought defined who I was. I began teaching and am grateful for the opportunity to teach yoga, and enjoy meeting new students and building lasting relationships. I still look around in amazement that I am actually teaching and feel so lucky that I get to do it for a living.I look forward to seeing each and everyone one of you around the Shelter and continuing to learn and grow together!Namaste’ Liz