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¡Hola! :) Espero que estés bien. Quisiera agradecerte por lo que me has enseñado y contarte como Bikram Yoga México ha cambiado mi vida. Te mando mi testimonio en inglés, me sale un poquito mejor en mi lengua materna.
I played a lot of sports as a kid and went on to play tennis at the
collegiate level. After a couple of years of collage tennis, my shoulders were weak from the repetitive motions and I was tired of the emotional strain of competition. After graduating with my masters’s degree in international business, I began my first “real” job. With a workaholic spirit, I jumped eagerly into my job volunteering to work all hours of the day and night. One hundred percent of my work was on the computer, any stress that I felt went from my neck through my shoulders through my hands. Eventually, I had to go to the doctor for the pain in my neck and hands and had to begin wear wrist braces.
To deal with the stress of work, I picked up distance running. Out my front door and along the streets is where I found peace, taking me away from all of the problems of work. I loved not competing with anyone, that it was just the road and myself and I worked up to running my first half marathon. Then, I suffered an accident and had to have knee surgery. I had never felt that kind of pain before and the recovery was very slow. Even with physical therapy, a year after the surgery, there was a pain in my knee that was
always present. Along with that pain came fear and saddness that I could no longer do the one thing that took me away from the ever growing stress of my demanding job. The doctor told me not to run any more as the hard pounding on the road would eventually ruin my knees. I was depressed and felt like part of my freedom had been taken away from me. After months of sitting at a computer with a hurt knee, with more and more tension at work and no way to release the stress, I heard about a yoga class in a hot room. As it was winter, anything warm sounded good to me. That was about 5 years ago.
I remeber very distinctly my first class. On the floor exercises, I could not rest in savasana with my neck turned to the right or the left without severe pain running down the side of my neck. Salabhasana with the pain in my hands was pure torture. I quickly accepted that supta-vajrasana would never be a possibility with the state of my knee. Camel pose made me cry and for the first time I realized how my dedication to work, something I had always seen as a good thing, had taken its toll on my body and spirit. At the end of the class in the last savasna, I instantly fell into a deep, wonderful sleep. As I walked out of the studio that night into the cold, I didn’t need a coat because the blood was flowing throughout my body like never before. I attended class as work allowed which was 1 day a week. While I loved the class and felt great after each session, I never really saw improvement. I began to dream of going to the training session, of having 9 weeks to only focus on my paractice and nothing else.
Then my work moved me to Mexico. There was no Bikram yoga and I quickly got back into the familiar routine of work, eat, sleep, work, eat, sleep. I tried other types of yoga but did not get the same sense of a work out that Bikram yoga gave me. Adjusting to a new culture in a tense work environment was a challenge, one that I loved but, again, one that became all-consuming. As is common when one lives in a culture that is not her own, I found myself emotionally, mentally and physically exhausted at the end of each day. I was unable and without desire to do anything on my off time other than sleep and nearing a state of depression.
About two years later I found out that Bikram Yoga had come to Mexico. I began to attend classes in the way I had attended classes previously, only as work allowed. As much as I wanted to go to class, there was always something urgent at work, a difficult travel schedule, stress and it was hard to get to class more than 1-2 times a week. Again, while I enjoyed the class, I saw little improvement.
Then, one day in class, you told us that all we had to do was to come to yoga and the rest would work itself out. Work had always been the priority for me, I had never thought about it the other way. This concept also went against the way that I was taught to think, I was taught that being responsible was putting work first, I was not taught that being responsible was first taking care of your body, mind and spirit, that only by doing that can you truly be effective in anything else you do. You said that things would change and as I began to go to class as close to seven days a week as possible EVERYTHING began to change. For starters, my attitude toward work and the challenges of living in another culture changed, I became less depressed and more able to work through issues in the moment instead of keeping things inside and letting them eat away at my soul. I became much stronger physically, mentally and emotionally and more able to leave work
issues at work. The physical changes within me are great. I feel wonderful and have lots and lots of energy. My knees, neck, wrists and hands no longer hurt and the poses I once thought impossible are now a reality. The ones that used to cause the most pain are the ones that I love to do. Now, I rarely cry after camel because yoga has taught me to deal with things in the moment instead of storing them away never to deal with them.
You say that once you get hooked on Bikram yoga, you can’t stop talking about it and that is definitely true. My friends and family think I have become somewhat crazy. I thought that running gave me a certain sense of freedom and was saddened when it was taken away from me. However, in Bikram yoga I have found something much more freeing. I have found an exercise that is good for every part of my body and soul, an exercise that I can do for the rest of my life that will not hurt my body in any way, that only makes me stronger. It is something at which I am not competing, not even with myself. I have learned to accept my body as it is each day knowing that each day the challenges are different and that each day I have more to learn. I have watched this wonderful studio grow, have seen such amazing changes in the members and am so grateful to be a part of it.
De verdad te quiero agradecer por haberme enseñado lo que no aprendí en otros centros de yoga Bikram, que solamente necesito enfocarme en ir al yoga y lo demás se resolverá, que en ir al yoga puedo ayudar a los de mi alrededor sin saber que los estoy ayudando.
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