I started my yoga journey 11 years ago in New York City, and it wasn’t by choice. I’d just gone through a heartbreaking breakup—the kind where you think you can’t go on—and a concerned best friend looked at me on the busy streets of Manhattan and said, you need to go to yoga! I went that night. Reluctantly. And I cried my eyes out the entire class. I can still see the room in my mind’s eye: the mirrored wall, the battery-powered candles scattered about, the prop cubbies on th

The first time I bled mid-cycle I ignored it thinking it was a fluke. The second time it happened, I went to the doctor and got a pregnancy test and a pap. The third time it happened, I rolled my eyes and thought, "Here we go again." This relentless cycle continued for three years until I realized that I was making myself sick. I believe the mind-body connection is so powerful and I know this first hand. For several years all of my health issues were psychosomatic— a term use