Yoga With Kelly

Today I feel it is necessary to talk about the breath. Lately it seems like I am being constantly told to take a breath... I began to see that I have not been taking enough time to take care of myself. I was wound up tight. And the spool was just getting tighter and tighter. I had too much going on.  Eventually it seemed like everything was falling a part. But in hindsight I am only human. I was asking too much of me. And not doing enough to properly care for me. I cannot expect me to take care of everything all at once, even though I am the only one taking care of myself. There is no one around to help me. No one is going to come around and do my dishes or clean my bathroom or sweep the floors let alone make sure the bills get paid on time. If things do not get done they don't get done. I began to realize I was putting too much on myself. I was working too much and having a hard time switching over my mindset between managing a gymnastics gym front desk to teaching relaxation yo...

Yoga isn't always about the postures, the poses themselves. Yoga is more than that... It is about finding balance in every day life. A balance between the good and the bad. I have some terrible road rage. But I work to be friendly in every other aspect of life. I am lazy and enjoy my rest. But I work hard. It is always about the balance. Even when doing the poses they are used to balance both sides of the body. When we find our lives off balance it is more difficult to appreciate the little things. We fall into turmoil and depression and anxiety. And sometimes, if you are like me, your physical yoga practice suffers. In those times I have to remind myself that yoga can be done in other ways. When I tend my garden and take time to admire it, I am practicing yoga. When I take time to respect nature, I am practicing yoga. When I take time to smile at someone, I am practicing yoga. When I am open minded and take time to see another's point of view, I am practicin...

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...