The yoga studio I first began practicing at was strictly no substance use or promotion. They didn’t align with any event or company that promoted substance use. At the time, I wasn’t sober, and I thought it was a bit absurd but I thought “isn’t my business!”
I went through their yoga teacher training a year or so later, still not sober, but respected their small business values.
Three years later, a drunken mess of a person, and finally sick of my shit, I got sober. Going into my third year of sobriety, I cannot tell scream loud enough how important her convictions to stay a clean yoga studio was and is to someone who is in recovery.
I am now going into a 300HR YTT with the same studio, to become a 500HR RYT. The hope is to open a studio of my own in Colorado someday. And one thing I can promise is it will be a safe space for people in recovery.
The yoga studio I first began practicing at was strictly no substance use or promotion. They didn’t align with any event or company that promoted substance use. At the time, I wasn’t sober, and I thought it was a bit absurd but I thought “isn’t my business!”
I went through their yoga teacher training a year or so later, still not sober, but respected their small business values.
Three years later, a drunken mess of a person, and finally sick of my shit, I got sober. Going into my third year of sobriety, I cannot tell scream loud enough how important her convictions to stay a clean yoga studio was and is to someone who is in recovery.
I am now going into a 300HR YTT with the same studio, to become a 500HR RYT. The hope is to open a studio of my own in Colorado someday. And one thing I can promise is it will be a safe space for people in recovery.
Thanks for sharing this story!
Thanks for sharing, Jaimie.