Get to know Jill

I have come to yoga at many different times in my life. I first met yoga in college, then after getting burned out while working in a Womens' shelter I turned to it again and got my yoga teacher training certification in 2003. I worked in health clubs and conducted classes on my own at recreation centers and a church. Since then, it has come and gone from my life, never quite letting go. 

 

When I first was introduced to yoga therapy, I was transitioning jobs and went to a training about Music Therapy. This made me wonder if Yoga Therapy was a thing. I hadn't done much researching, when I got an email about a training being offered locally for yoga therapy. I took that as a sign and signed up. Once I started experiencing the work, I immediately felt a connection and realized how life changing this work can be for those who are open to it. Aside from what it can do for others, I have experienced a shift myself. Shortly after starting the work, I realized how much my own childhood trauma has affected my entire life. Bullying played a large part in my life and caused me to look down on others, bully others, look down on myself, and put a lot of weight on how I looked. None of these things were productive, fulfilling, healthy or kind to myself or others. It had caused me to put up a lot of walls around myself and to lack connection with others to maintain an image. I lacked true compassion for myself and others around me. 

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I have been practicing for almost 6 years now and I have begun to find myself again; the loving, compassionate, sincere, caring girl I used to be before the world happened to me. I don't believe I am alone in having lost this part of myself. I believe that all human beings come into the world this way and build walls to protect from the outside world, that can be hard and uncaring, even dangerous. We do what we have to in order to survive in the moment. But what if we went beyond this and back into the self that we were before? What if we allowed ourselves to be vulnerable with ourselves and with others whom we trust? How might that change our lives? 

 

Even after having practiced yoga for so many years I know the journey is never complete, and it isn't always easy, but is always evolving and growing. I still find myself falling off the wagon when I don't take care of my mental health; stay off my mat for too long, or don't have enough quiet time to hear my internal self. This means I have to reset and reconnect, and with yoga therapy I know just how to do that. 

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​We are all connected. We all have our own stories, insecurities and fears but are not so different. We all want acceptance, safety, and love. What's your story? How might your story change if you take the time to listen, Be With and perhaps even transform. Let's take this trip together. Its already within you. 

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If you are ready for a change within your life, contact me to open to your truth.