EP12 The Power of Yoga with Amy Price
I met Amy four years ago—our kids were in class together and the boys played baseball together, too. Amy Price owns a yoga studio called “The Haven” and has been teaching classes with her instructors for the last three years. She’s been on her own journey with yoga that started nearly 20 years ago. She took her first class in college and instantly fell in love with the practice. She experienced healing and transformation from it and decided she wanted to share this with others. She shared this list of things yoga’s taught her and I love how we can incorporate these things into our lives:
We CREATE balance - we don’t just all of a sudden arrive at it.
Learn to have comfort in the uncomfortable.
When you want to come out of the pose - that’s where the pose begins.
Go to your edge, then hold and breathe - your edge is different from your neighbors’.
The body keeps the score - sometimes let the body inform the mind rather than the opposite.
Root to Rise
What is available to me TODAY? Not can or can’t…and today may look different from yesterday and tomorrow.
We call it a practice because it’s about progress, not perfection.
On a personal note, yoga intrigued me for years… mostly because it was the cool thing that all the wunderlusters did and Free People seemed to be the common brand they wore, too. Ha! But seriously, it took me years to finally take a class and just like Amy, as soon as I took one, I knew it was special. It’s good for anxiety, depression; it increases your flexibility and strengthens your core; it helps create balance not only on the mat, but in your life, too. I haven’t been practicing for a while, but am feeling the pull to get back in it. This conversation helped me understand things like why connecting our breath with our movement is so important and why yoga is such a powerful tool for health and healing. It was honestly like two friends talking about our lives and the power of yoga. (And I think we both wished we were face-to-face with a glass of wine.) I hope this episode helps de-mystify this practice and helps bring some inspiration to all of us when it comes to our own health and healing journeys.
Here’s a link to The Body Keeps the Score book. If you want to connect with Amy, you can find her on Instagram: @thehavendstx and @arprice76
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