Yoga With Kelly

What led me to yoga teacher training and some of the best weekends of my life was a journey that I never dreamed my life would take. Due to a series of events I ended up in YTT, as we yogis like to call it in January of 2017. I had made a move from my home in Florida to a friend’s house in Ohio. I quickly began a job at a day care as a preschool assistant. Later on I was promoted to lead teacher. Then another year down the road I was in yoga teacher training with Carrie Treister and a wonderful group of other trainees. The weekends were long, I learned a lot about myself, and there was so much yoga. I was in yoga nirvana. When I began teaching preschool as a lead teacher I fell in love with teaching. I had people asking me why I didn’t go get my teaching certificate. At the point yoga had become increasingly more active in my life, a more important part of my life. Shortly after I took over lead teaching I was asked to teach the children a yoga class once a week, that was 4...

My yoga opened my heart to light, love, peace and honor. It has done wonderful things to change my life. I believe all things are beautiful and I invite more peace into my heart. I began yoga because I hated working out at the gym but knew I needed to do some sort of physical activity, other than walking. I fell in love with yoga because it brought me happiness. I felt energized, I felt peaceful, and I felt good in my body after every class. It was a beautiful form of practice, like a dance. I felt free. After working on my physical practice for a few years I wanted to know more about where yoga came from and what it was all about. I began studying yoga on a deeper level. I realized that yoga was about more than just the poses. The yoga philosophy really spoke to me. And the more I read the more I wanted to know. Yoga philosophy teaches us peace, love and honor among many other things. It teaches us about joining the body, mind and spirit into one entity. And above all i...