Pain empowerment

I was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis when I was 36; I’m now 47. Not long after receiving this news, I gave up my job in marketing and headed off to India to do my yoga teacher training. I’ve been practicing yoga since I was 28 and I felt it was time to make a big shift in my life.

When you think of arthritis, the words that may spring to mind are ‘stiff’ and ‘inflexible’. And when you think of yoga, the words that might be stereotypically associated with the practice are mostly the opposite