TSADA CALENDAR YOGIS & YOGINIS

MEET MAUREEN ~ JULY 2007

                   

I started taking yoga classes in March of 2006.

 

Yoga was fun, relaxing and enjoyable.

 

On June 16, 2006, I sat with five of my family members in a doctor's cramped examining room as my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told that he had 6 months to live.

 

Warm, toxic, nauseating waves of stress flooded into my stomach.  My father was going to die a painful, ugly death.  My mother, who had lost her own mother at the age of 23, would be a widow at the age of 59.  My 18-year old adopted brother would lose a father for the second time.

 

I closed my eyes.  And I reminded myself… to breathe.  

 

At that moment, I began to practice yoga.   I didn't drop into one of the poses we all imagine when we hear the word "yoga," but I put into practice one of the many

principles of the discipline:

 

Keep a calm mind in the face of adversity.

 

 

 

 

 

Know your physical and mental limits.

Don't let anything in your life control you.

                               

Breathe.

 

Practicing yoga has helped me survive this past year. I look forward to each class, and know that even if I enter the studio with a mind filled with turbulent thoughts, I will exit with a calm spirit and an invigorated body. 

 

A few weeks ago, my father celebrated one year of survival!  While yoga wasn't one of his tools of survival, both my mother and husband now practice regularly.  It comforts me to know that, if and when his condition goes downhill, the three of us will all be able to step back…and breathe.

 

~ Maureen

 

 

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