What started it all
So this is the photo I posted stating I am giving yoga a try.
I may look okay on this photo, but the fact is that I wasn't. I remember exactly when and how this photo was taken. At this stage my journey with yoga had already started, but it was only in my own four walls and only for myself. Yoga was my medicine for my negative mind at the time and maybe if things didn't happen as they did, none of these things would be happening right now and maybe I wouldn't even be writing this post today. But I am and I am thankful for that. That is why I truly believe all the things, the good and the bad, happen for a reason.
About two years ago I was heavier for around 80lbs, totally changed my diet, lost the weight and became a true lover of Pop Pilates. Everything was okay until one day I started getting this excruciating pain somewhere under my rib cage. I did all the tests and according to them everything was okay with me, the doctors just told me to rest, rest and rest. And just like that my working out 5-6x a week turned into zero.
Not the pain, but not working out was the most devastating part for me. I came into this stage where I felt so miserable I didn't want to get out of bed. And even if I did, I used to look myself straight up in the mirror and tell to myself ''you are okay''. Our mind is a powerful thing and you wouldn't believe how much little things like this could have an influence on you.
But, I knew this couldn't go on anymore so I started searching for ways of healing my mind. Before all of this I was very sceptical about yoga and totally underestimated its power. And when left with no other choice I turned to yoga. And only then I discovered the true beauty of yoga. It brought my soul back to life and every day since then I have been falling in love with it more and more.
But it was actually 5 months before that my passion for the art of yoga started, but at the time I wasn't even close of being aware of it.
Bodypopactive had a giveaway, but the catch was that you had to snap a photo of you in one of their pieces. As I had only one sports bra I got for my birthday (the best gift I've ever got, I am not even joking) I decided, let's do this!
So I took my camera, my Bodypop sports bra and my boyfriend to this abandoned ruin of a building and we snapped a photo. And not just any photo. A winner one!
I may look okay on this photo, but the fact is that I wasn't. I remember exactly when and how this photo was taken. At this stage my journey with yoga had already started, but it was only in my own four walls and only for myself. Yoga was my medicine for my negative mind at the time and maybe if things didn't happen as they did, none of these things would be happening right now and maybe I wouldn't even be writing this post today. But I am and I am thankful for that. That is why I truly believe all the things, the good and the bad, happen for a reason.
About two years ago I was heavier for around 80lbs, totally changed my diet, lost the weight and became a true lover of Pop Pilates. Everything was okay until one day I started getting this excruciating pain somewhere under my rib cage. I did all the tests and according to them everything was okay with me, the doctors just told me to rest, rest and rest. And just like that my working out 5-6x a week turned into zero.
Not the pain, but not working out was the most devastating part for me. I came into this stage where I felt so miserable I didn't want to get out of bed. And even if I did, I used to look myself straight up in the mirror and tell to myself ''you are okay''. Our mind is a powerful thing and you wouldn't believe how much little things like this could have an influence on you.
But, I knew this couldn't go on anymore so I started searching for ways of healing my mind. Before all of this I was very sceptical about yoga and totally underestimated its power. And when left with no other choice I turned to yoga. And only then I discovered the true beauty of yoga. It brought my soul back to life and every day since then I have been falling in love with it more and more.
But it was actually 5 months before that my passion for the art of yoga started, but at the time I wasn't even close of being aware of it.
Bodypopactive had a giveaway, but the catch was that you had to snap a photo of you in one of their pieces. As I had only one sports bra I got for my birthday (the best gift I've ever got, I am not even joking) I decided, let's do this!
So I took my camera, my Bodypop sports bra and my boyfriend to this abandoned ruin of a building and we snapped a photo. And not just any photo. A winner one!
I can't explain it to you how badly I wanted this. I even named the file with the photos ''I WIN''. I really badly truly wanted it. And it was not even about winning a new Bodypop piece. It was more about showing how much Popster community meant to me.
I remember the moment I found out I was chosen as a winner - it was night and I was heading home and you know, just scrolling through my social media and then - bam! First I was silent. Like, is this for real? And then I literally started jumping and crying out of happiness! I was the happiest girl on the block!
But why is this story relevant? Well, through this contest I became friends with this awesome yogi Aly and one day she decided to tag me for a #StopDropAndYoga on IG. I figured why not and so the first photo was my entrance to the world of yoga. As simple as that!
Today yoga is my art. To create all these beautiful shapes with your body and to combine it in a beautiful artistic photo is what I live for. It makes me happy to see my progress and it makes me happy to be able to express my feelings with something so simple, but yet so complicated.
Today I know my inexplicable pain was not here for no reason - it helped me find my passion and it helped me create who I am for that. And for that I am thankful.
''Everything happens for a reason. Someday everything will make perfect sense. But until then, just believe and never give up!''
I remember the moment I found out I was chosen as a winner - it was night and I was heading home and you know, just scrolling through my social media and then - bam! First I was silent. Like, is this for real? And then I literally started jumping and crying out of happiness! I was the happiest girl on the block!
But why is this story relevant? Well, through this contest I became friends with this awesome yogi Aly and one day she decided to tag me for a #StopDropAndYoga on IG. I figured why not and so the first photo was my entrance to the world of yoga. As simple as that!
Today yoga is my art. To create all these beautiful shapes with your body and to combine it in a beautiful artistic photo is what I live for. It makes me happy to see my progress and it makes me happy to be able to express my feelings with something so simple, but yet so complicated.
Today I know my inexplicable pain was not here for no reason - it helped me find my passion and it helped me create who I am for that. And for that I am thankful.
''Everything happens for a reason. Someday everything will make perfect sense. But until then, just believe and never give up!''