A day after moving to an apartment in Hawaii, I was on the floor with back pain. It led me to yoga in a desperate attempt to fix my damaged back. I had endured many injuries: first when I was bounced from a trampoline at 10, another while weightlifting, and again when I fell from a high roof.
In Hawaii, I saw yoga studios everywhere and I started thinking about claims I’d heard regarding yoga and healing for back pain. One day, with no background and little knowledge of yoga, I decided to try it hoping to find something to make me strong in the broken places. I feared collapsing in the hot yoga room but was also confident that if my back held up I would too.
I planned to try it for 30 days and then decide if I would continue. I made it through
