More students share their stories

I keep coming back to yoga because being there is as comfortable as my own home. I don’t have to worry about people judging me because I know that we can all love each other! There is no real status quo.
Natalie

Yoga has really helped me gain my balance and not be so all-over-the-map... even in other activities it's much easier for me now to find my center. Whenever I get too crazy during the day, I always remember to chill out and focus on my breath, thanks to yoga. :)
Abby

I am able to see much more of another person's views because I am able to see my views more clearly. I am able to manage stress by breathing and knowing whatever happens will be for a reason.
Robbie

My first experience with yoga was when I went to the teen yoga summer intensive a few years back. I was at a really hard time of my life. I had struggled with weight issues my entire childhood and at that point I had stopped eating and I started doing really destructive things to my body in hopes that I could alter it. Once I found yoga everything changed. I discovered peace with myself and began appreciating my body and it's capabilities. From then on I tried to go to as many teen classes as I was able to. Now that I am in college, away from Show Me Yoga, away from Megan and her wonderful, insightful, and emotionally strengthening classes, I have realized how much yoga really means to me. I have also realized how much I personally want to teach yoga and further my studies of the practice. Meghan, a fellow Show Me Yoga goer, and I were together the other day and told her that I want to become a teacher. She gave me a big hug, told me that she knew that it would be!

So right for me. And that she was so proud of me for making that decision. She said that even though yoga comes easily to her because of her dancing background and that it is harder for me to do some of the poses, she thinks that I get so much more out of accomplishing a pose. She said that seeing me have so much joy in doing a pose adds so much to her experiences in class. I don't know where I would be if I hadn't found yoga, but I know that I wouldn't be fully at peace with myself and my future plans as I am today.

I know that’s more than two or three sentences, but your classes Megan have meant so much more than two or three sentences to me. I love you for all the strength you have given me. I will forever be thankful.
Nomi

Yoga has affected my life by giving me a chance to relax every part of me when things get chaotic. It's the one place that makes me optimistic about life. :]
My experience with yoga has changed me into an individual who is more confident in herself and her abilities as a person. When I am participating in yoga, I feel as if nothing in life matters besides the fact that I can be accepted for who I am; yoga helps me find the truth in life.

Hope that's okay! I know I'm not a regular, but I truly enjoy yoga when I get to come!
Thanks,
Hilary

Yoga changed my life. I was going through a divorce and I was in a deep depression. With the insistence of a good friend, I took my first yoga class. I could literally feel the stress melt away and I remember finally letting go one night during a heated Yoga class and crying. I was overwhelmed. Yoga to me is a religion.
Candice