International Women’s Day
7 Quotes from Top Yoga Teachers to inspire you to get on the mat today…
Donna Noble: “Yoga became my therapy and helped me to experience life from the inside out. Allowing me to find my passion and purpose.”
Emily Harding: “My life changed because of yoga. The main gift I feel I’ve been lucky enough to access is the superpower of confidence. Finding the space and stillness to look within and get to know my innermost self, and understand who she is and what she needs, has allowed me to show up in the world as a more truthful version of myself, that is less scared of being alone, of being lonely. Yoga continues to teach me so much, about becoming a better person for myself but also in service to my community, and I am so grateful for every quiet lesson in the silence, in the spaces of what is left unsaid”.
Erika Shapiro: “ Yoga has given me the tools to live a life much more attuned to my authentic self and of deeper service to others.”
Liz Joy Oakley: “As an empathetic woman I used to feel a lot of shame around being sensitive and experiencing emotions so deeply but Yoga helped me to transform that belief. When I was young I was often told I was ‘over-sensitive’, as I got older and started working in high-pressure jobs that became ‘you don’t handle stress well’ or ‘you need to show less emotion to be taken seriously’. Yoga has taught me that sensitivity is a gift and that feeling deeply is a superpower! Teaching gave me the space to explore my own emotional vulnerability and to hold space for others to embrace theirs. It has helped transform my mental health, given me a community that inspires me everyday & changed my life for the better.
Nischala Joy Devi, The Secret Power of Yoga: A Woman’s Guide to the Heart and Spirit of the Yoga Sutras: “Yoga takes us back to the beginning of our journey of becoming human; we spark the memory that we are first and always an aspect of the Divine. The physical body was created as a temple to house this Divine light.”
Saskia Bolscher: “Yoga has helped me appreciate my body, it has allowed meeting wonderful people who I otherwise wouldn’t have met & has made me a kinder, calmer person.”
Yvonne Henrietta: “The unexpected calming feeling, connection to my breath and body, that I experienced in my first yoga class led me to a regular yoga practice which then led to changing career. From HR to Yoga”.