Please help me go to Yoga Therapy School
I was just accepted to attend The School of Embodied Yoga Therapy in Ottawa, Canada! This is a 2 year graduate program that begins in April 2020 and will require me to travel there 8 times. Upon completion I will be a Certified Yoga Therapist which opens many doors for me to continue my souls work.
My story and why I want to do this:
From a very young age I remember wanting to be a school teacher or a veterinarian. I knew my path was to help people or animals in a big way. During college I started my path at the YMCA and loved every minute of it. To see families come together and be healthy filled my heart so much. I enjoyed a decade with the Y and always was attracted to the mind body spirit focus of that organization which led to me taking some yoga classes there and I loved them. The seed had been planted and I knew this was my calling and I wanted a small safe healing studio for people to come to and heal in mind body and spirit. I opened my small sacred space in 2004.
Little did I know at that moment 15 years ago that my personal healing journey would allow me to help others in ways I never ever thought possible. I have tears as I type now because its impossible to have the right words to explain how grateful I am to be alive after walking through severe depression in 2011-2012. I was 36 years old then and had suffered multiple significant traumas over the previous 5 year period. My first memories of depression were when I was 16 years old and had been living with it under the radar ever since and it walked me into a very unhealthy 15 year relationship. Those last 5 years were the most intense and fearful years of my life. I physically survived them but now had to process all that had happened on an emotional level and my body and mind shut down. I was hospitalized for 7 weeks. After living with depression for 20 years I finally got help.
I now help others to find the COURAGE to get help too.
I also have been on my path to motherhood for the last 16 years. I lost my first baby, Britta during pregnancy when I was 28 years old. Then my second baby, Ella and third baby, Grace also both during pregnancy when I was 31 and 33 years old. I'd also suffered my whole life from severely painful menstrual cycles often in the ER as a result. I then lost my fourth baby, Saylor during pregnancy at 40 years old. My sacred uterus was no longer healthy enough to stay inside me and I had a hysterectomy at 43 years old. My very loving and supportive husband Christopher and I decided to start the adoption path. It's been a beautiful and enlightening 3 year journey so far but has included some heartbreaking loss as well. We've had a few different opportunities to become parents fall through. But our unwavering love, compassion and trust keeps on the path.
I now help others to have HOPE on their journeys to parenthood.
I recently lost 2 of my amazing students Lisa and Anita and my dear uncle Joe to cancer. I'm also helping my beautiful student Lavender walk her unique journey of cancer. Part of my applying for this yoga therapy school specifically is because the director Anne Pitman has extensive experience in accompanying people who are facing cancer, as a Yoga Therapist in a clinic, and a Care Coordinator at the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre. Imagine your loved one with cancer having this incredible collaboration of oncologists, other doctors, nurses, psychologists and yoga therapists all there to help them navigate their journey in mind, body and heart. I can see Madison absolutely having an Integrative Cancer Center and perhaps in my uncles name to honor all the people he helped during his long career as a PA.
I now help others to have COMPASSION on their cancer journeys.
I've been blessed to come across some awesome doctors that helped save my life and guided me through life's sometimes tumultuous waters. I stay in close contact with them and am thrilled that they want to work with me as a yoga therapist to especially help guide others through what's so close to my heart. Imagine lives being saved from depression, mothers and fathers truly healing from pregnancy loss and receiving deep support during a hysterectomy decision, and being surrounded with unwavering trust during a cancer diagnosis. These type of connections and support can change someones life forever.
I humbly would love your help for me to attend this yoga therapy school to learn from some of the best in their healthcare fields to help further deepen my understanding of everyone's unique journey of healing and to continue my souls work of helping others.
My tuition-books are $11,000 and my travel-lodging costs are $8,500.
My heart and soul cannot thank you enough,
Jill
My story and why I want to do this:
From a very young age I remember wanting to be a school teacher or a veterinarian. I knew my path was to help people or animals in a big way. During college I started my path at the YMCA and loved every minute of it. To see families come together and be healthy filled my heart so much. I enjoyed a decade with the Y and always was attracted to the mind body spirit focus of that organization which led to me taking some yoga classes there and I loved them. The seed had been planted and I knew this was my calling and I wanted a small safe healing studio for people to come to and heal in mind body and spirit. I opened my small sacred space in 2004.
Little did I know at that moment 15 years ago that my personal healing journey would allow me to help others in ways I never ever thought possible. I have tears as I type now because its impossible to have the right words to explain how grateful I am to be alive after walking through severe depression in 2011-2012. I was 36 years old then and had suffered multiple significant traumas over the previous 5 year period. My first memories of depression were when I was 16 years old and had been living with it under the radar ever since and it walked me into a very unhealthy 15 year relationship. Those last 5 years were the most intense and fearful years of my life. I physically survived them but now had to process all that had happened on an emotional level and my body and mind shut down. I was hospitalized for 7 weeks. After living with depression for 20 years I finally got help.
I now help others to find the COURAGE to get help too.
I also have been on my path to motherhood for the last 16 years. I lost my first baby, Britta during pregnancy when I was 28 years old. Then my second baby, Ella and third baby, Grace also both during pregnancy when I was 31 and 33 years old. I'd also suffered my whole life from severely painful menstrual cycles often in the ER as a result. I then lost my fourth baby, Saylor during pregnancy at 40 years old. My sacred uterus was no longer healthy enough to stay inside me and I had a hysterectomy at 43 years old. My very loving and supportive husband Christopher and I decided to start the adoption path. It's been a beautiful and enlightening 3 year journey so far but has included some heartbreaking loss as well. We've had a few different opportunities to become parents fall through. But our unwavering love, compassion and trust keeps on the path.
I now help others to have HOPE on their journeys to parenthood.
I recently lost 2 of my amazing students Lisa and Anita and my dear uncle Joe to cancer. I'm also helping my beautiful student Lavender walk her unique journey of cancer. Part of my applying for this yoga therapy school specifically is because the director Anne Pitman has extensive experience in accompanying people who are facing cancer, as a Yoga Therapist in a clinic, and a Care Coordinator at the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre. Imagine your loved one with cancer having this incredible collaboration of oncologists, other doctors, nurses, psychologists and yoga therapists all there to help them navigate their journey in mind, body and heart. I can see Madison absolutely having an Integrative Cancer Center and perhaps in my uncles name to honor all the people he helped during his long career as a PA.
I now help others to have COMPASSION on their cancer journeys.
I've been blessed to come across some awesome doctors that helped save my life and guided me through life's sometimes tumultuous waters. I stay in close contact with them and am thrilled that they want to work with me as a yoga therapist to especially help guide others through what's so close to my heart. Imagine lives being saved from depression, mothers and fathers truly healing from pregnancy loss and receiving deep support during a hysterectomy decision, and being surrounded with unwavering trust during a cancer diagnosis. These type of connections and support can change someones life forever.
I humbly would love your help for me to attend this yoga therapy school to learn from some of the best in their healthcare fields to help further deepen my understanding of everyone's unique journey of healing and to continue my souls work of helping others.
My tuition-books are $11,000 and my travel-lodging costs are $8,500.
My heart and soul cannot thank you enough,
Jill
Organizer
Jill Babiarz
Organizer
Madison, WI