Carol Green
It is an honor to be student of the month. When I started practicing Yoga, a little over a year ago, I couldn't sit cross-legged on the floor. I made a commitment to myself to keep trying. It has paid off incredibly in greater energy, improved balance, flexibility, strength, muscle tone and mental focus. Chris is a wonderful teacher. She always offers modifications and adjustments for difficult poses, and she always emphasizes "stretch at your own pace." My own pace is slow, but my heels are getting closer to the floor in downward facing dog pose and the core strengthening work is getting easier. Yoga can be a lifelong practice and I am committed, because the benefits are huge.
Amy Stricker-Hume
My yoga practice initiated out of convenience and has grown through a sense of commitment. I say convenience because I am a full-time professional, wife, and mother of two involved, active kids. The option of a yoga practice based near home was a major attraction and the fact that it is available to me in the early morning before the rush of the day's events takes place is tremendous.
The commitment that I feel was brought into focus during a class celebrating The Yoga Hus' first anniversary. While in savasana, I estimated that I was experiencing the posture in that space for at least the 100th time. More than one hundred times in the year I had crossed the threshold to the studio and was met by a one or more like-minded people! I am committed to the positive changes that I have experienced in my physical self and for the personal enrichment that I have enjoyed in connecting (and in some cases) re-connecting with others from our community.
Yoga for me can be at once relaxing and energizing, comfortable and challenging. Ultimately it is time that I take for myself and feel privileged to share with others.
