MY STORY
I didn’t know it then, but I would always come back.
My relationship with yoga has never been a straight line. I found it, left it, returned to it — and somewhere along the way, the practice became part of how I move through life.
01 / THE BEGINNING
An unlikely beginning
I first discovered yoga through a recommendation from a friend after recovering from a period of illness. My first experience was a private yoga session at home. I remember finding it incredibly difficult to stay still in a pose. I felt uncomfortable, annoyed, even agitated. So I stopped. At the time, I didn’t know that yoga would find its way back into my life.
Practice, pause, return.
02 / AMSTERDAM · 2020
When I moved to Amsterdam during Covid, I found my way back to yoga — first through YouTube, and eventually through The Breathing Space. It was there that something shifted. I began with Vinyasa, and later discovered Ashtanga Mysore. Somewhere between the repetition, the breath, the early mornings and showing up, I found a love and devotion for the practice.
03 / LEAVING & RETURNING
My practice has never been perfectly consistent. There were periods when I stepped away because yoga began to uncover parts of myself that felt heavy and confronting. But somehow, I always returned. Over time, I started to understand that perhaps this was part of the practice too — not perfection or constant discipline, but learning how to return and finally stay.
04 / 2023—NOW
From practice to teaching
Forever a student.