Isha Hatha Yoga Teacher Training
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Dear reader,
Isn't it true that when something transforms you deeply, you only wish to share it with others? For me, that's the case with Isha Hatha Yoga.
Last week I found out I was accepted to the Isha Hatha Yoga school in India. It is a 21 week program where I can learn Classical Hatha Yoga and will receive the training to conduct independent classes. I will be able to learn introductory Siddha medicine which is the most ancient form of holistic medicine. No where else in the world is this kind of yoga instruction taught and no where else have I seen a foundation help so many people with holistic practices. I wish to learn so I can teach to all who need it! I need to raise $8,000 before July 14th to pay the rest of the program fees. The money I was going to use is delayed and I won’t have it in time for the deadline.
When I was 24 a few years ago, I left pursuing a nursing degree because I couldn’t manage as a single mother, going to college and clinicals at the hospital, and working to survive. I began to feel so imbalanced and lost. My heart was not interested in pushing meds to the chronically ill who never seemed to heal and I did not feel I was serving my true purpose. I then pursued a career in music, it’s what I loved since a child. At 26, I was a professional Disc Jockey in Los Angeles and I was overjoyed making a lot of people happy. But overtime like a cycle, I felt imbalanced and lost. And as I had done in the past in nursing school, I hid it behind a smile and people pleasing, bad habits, working harder, and relationships. I started to witness myself and I could no longer continue to live that way and stopped doing this nonsense. I felt like I had to unlearn everything I knew because I was so unclear, and nothing I did externally, no matter how much I thought it could make me happy, could ever bring me clarity. It made me look at myself internally because I saw that me and only me was the root of all my imbalances. I began a search to know who I am within.
I eventually came across the Isha Foundation and their yoga discourses and I resonated so deeply with what I found. I started practicing their free yoga practices and was feeling better than I ever did. I discovered they had a yoga school in India and I wished to attend. But unfortunately, I became very ill with a thyroid disease and GI problems due to adverse effects from taking DepoProvera shots by a doctor. In one year, I went from 125 to 88 pounds. I was experiencing hyperthyroidism and malabsorption and so many symptoms that affected my daily life and ability to do anything. I had to eventually quit work. This went on and I became frail and anxious about my health.
The only thing that gave me any energy to stay out of bed were beginners yoga practices I learned from Isha Foundation. I didn’t find help with the doctors I was seeing so I contacted a local teacher from Isha Foundation. I needed help and the teacher kindly gave me a free yoga session and I learned simple practices that are proven to relieve chronic ailments. In about 4 months of practicing along with organic plant-based eating, every single one of my symptoms were relieved and my colonoscopy and blood work is in normal range now. Without medication, I regained health and I'm gaining weight. I’ve learned more advanced practices since which I just started to practice and they have brought so much clarity into my life. I must bounce back financially from not working that year and I have experienced tremendous loss from my home to my car, but I feel more balanced than I ever have to maneuver through anything! I was so touched by what I was given that I recently started to volunteer for Isha Foundation on my spare time. I found that beyond the health benefits which was life-saving, I began to experience a taste of my true self that I was longing to know... Someone who is willing to face life with a genuine smile no matter what the external situations look like.
To anyone willing to help, I will be forever grateful to you. You will be providing me a means to something that is so much bigger than my own life, something that is needed in this world. I am forever grateful for the life I have and I only wish to open myself to all life now. Thank you for reading.
With warmth and love,
-Kristen
Isn't it true that when something transforms you deeply, you only wish to share it with others? For me, that's the case with Isha Hatha Yoga.
Last week I found out I was accepted to the Isha Hatha Yoga school in India. It is a 21 week program where I can learn Classical Hatha Yoga and will receive the training to conduct independent classes. I will be able to learn introductory Siddha medicine which is the most ancient form of holistic medicine. No where else in the world is this kind of yoga instruction taught and no where else have I seen a foundation help so many people with holistic practices. I wish to learn so I can teach to all who need it! I need to raise $8,000 before July 14th to pay the rest of the program fees. The money I was going to use is delayed and I won’t have it in time for the deadline.
When I was 24 a few years ago, I left pursuing a nursing degree because I couldn’t manage as a single mother, going to college and clinicals at the hospital, and working to survive. I began to feel so imbalanced and lost. My heart was not interested in pushing meds to the chronically ill who never seemed to heal and I did not feel I was serving my true purpose. I then pursued a career in music, it’s what I loved since a child. At 26, I was a professional Disc Jockey in Los Angeles and I was overjoyed making a lot of people happy. But overtime like a cycle, I felt imbalanced and lost. And as I had done in the past in nursing school, I hid it behind a smile and people pleasing, bad habits, working harder, and relationships. I started to witness myself and I could no longer continue to live that way and stopped doing this nonsense. I felt like I had to unlearn everything I knew because I was so unclear, and nothing I did externally, no matter how much I thought it could make me happy, could ever bring me clarity. It made me look at myself internally because I saw that me and only me was the root of all my imbalances. I began a search to know who I am within.
I eventually came across the Isha Foundation and their yoga discourses and I resonated so deeply with what I found. I started practicing their free yoga practices and was feeling better than I ever did. I discovered they had a yoga school in India and I wished to attend. But unfortunately, I became very ill with a thyroid disease and GI problems due to adverse effects from taking DepoProvera shots by a doctor. In one year, I went from 125 to 88 pounds. I was experiencing hyperthyroidism and malabsorption and so many symptoms that affected my daily life and ability to do anything. I had to eventually quit work. This went on and I became frail and anxious about my health.
The only thing that gave me any energy to stay out of bed were beginners yoga practices I learned from Isha Foundation. I didn’t find help with the doctors I was seeing so I contacted a local teacher from Isha Foundation. I needed help and the teacher kindly gave me a free yoga session and I learned simple practices that are proven to relieve chronic ailments. In about 4 months of practicing along with organic plant-based eating, every single one of my symptoms were relieved and my colonoscopy and blood work is in normal range now. Without medication, I regained health and I'm gaining weight. I’ve learned more advanced practices since which I just started to practice and they have brought so much clarity into my life. I must bounce back financially from not working that year and I have experienced tremendous loss from my home to my car, but I feel more balanced than I ever have to maneuver through anything! I was so touched by what I was given that I recently started to volunteer for Isha Foundation on my spare time. I found that beyond the health benefits which was life-saving, I began to experience a taste of my true self that I was longing to know... Someone who is willing to face life with a genuine smile no matter what the external situations look like.
To anyone willing to help, I will be forever grateful to you. You will be providing me a means to something that is so much bigger than my own life, something that is needed in this world. I am forever grateful for the life I have and I only wish to open myself to all life now. Thank you for reading.
With warmth and love,
-Kristen
Organizer
Kristen Lirio
Organizer
San Diego, CA