I am a yoga student

I just got a membership at my favorite yoga studio. I'm creating space in my life to take regular classes. I went to a wonderful class yesterday!

After giving birth to two beautiful, healthy children within the past 4 years, I'm ready to dive back in to regular yoga practice.  It felt so good to be in a public class again knowing that I am returning to a community that I love.  During the last 4 - 5 years, I still attended some public yoga classes including pre-natal, post-natal, baby-and-me yoga, Iyengar, gentle hatha flow, and I tried a hot yoga class recently, too.  Since moving from San Francisco to Marin County (California) 3 years ago, I've taken classes at several to many different yoga studios in Marin to find the one I like best.  It turns out that my favorite yoga studio offers a discount to employees of the non-profit where I work.  Now that my youngest baby is almost 8 months old, and he is happy at his daycare during the work week, I decided to extend his time there from 4 days a week to 5 days a week.  The extra day is for me to complete more work at my job as a nurse, and also for me to take a couple of public yoga classes a week.  After I re-establish my own regular yoga practice, I would like to begin teaching yoga again.

Just incase I had any doubt about my decision to join the yoga studio (verses reserving any extra time to be spent with my children), I was reassured by the presence of another working mom at the studio.  While I was filling out some paperwork after the class, I heard a woman's voice say "Is that Juni's mom?"  It was not something I expected to hear at a yoga studio.  But yes, I am also Juni's mom as well as a yogini.  The woman is a mom to one of Juni's classmates. She is a mom of two who shared with me that she has been going to yoga classes for 15 years but took some time off from yoga when her two children were very young.  Now she has been going to classes again regularly for about 3 years, and started up again within a year after her second child was born.  I related to her story very much.  She is also a working mom, and I felt reassured by her example of taking time for yoga in addition to having a full-time job and two children to attend to. 

I went to the yoga class yesterday after my work day.  When I got home in the evening and began doing the routine of taking care of my children, my positive attitude was obvious to my family.  My husband told me I was "high on yoga".  I felt like I had so much more to give to my family since I had taken that hour and a half to take care of myself.  Yoga refills my soul.  It helps and heals me emotionally, physically, spiritually and mentally.