HOW YOGA CHANGED MY LIFE

HOW YOGA CHANGED MY LIFE
I clicked on a video and it clicked… not in body, but in my soul.
I leap frog into the movements of a TH-cam guided yoga class, and damn… it was difficult, but at the the end of it I felt something I have never experienced before, at least in such a conscious level
I felt relief.
Honestly back then, didn’t even knew it was not normal or it was the so called general anxiety.
I genuinely thought “this is who I am and I have to live with it”.
I have to live with this massive struggle while going through life events.
So upon this new finding of relief, I started to do yoga workout more often.
I kept meeting my yoga mat the intimacy of my room and hotel rooms around the globe.
So the yoga practice was primarily captivating my efforts for the experience of relief, and then a few practices after, the feeling of awe upon realizing myself doing those movements, I once though my body could not do.
Little did I know that these tiny accomplishments were gaining terrain in a vast land of limiting beliefs.
So honestly I would step into the mat with the intention of movement, challenge and relief. I was not going into a practice with awareness of body, breathing, thought, emotion or feeling.
But the practice has its way of doing and undoing oneself without words, definitions, concepts or ideas.
As I kept going I was little by little, growing self-aware - aware of my own body.
I was noticing more often sensations in my body alongside the moods I was entangled with.
The yoga practice sure kept pushing me into the awareness of how I was feeling.
The unconventional movements and postures were changing the way I was feeling, practice after practice.
Today I believe that each posture were actually regulating my internal chemistry.
This fluctuations presented the foundation to the further questioning Who am I really?
When it comes to Yoga, it brought me to a larger understanding of the connection about body movement and emotion display.
I was building self discipline.
This self discipline paved the way out of lethargy and the feeling of being stuck.
This self discipline brought me to the mat day after day, tired or rested, depressed or euphoric, motivated or not motivated, sunny or rainy
I just kept checking-in my mat, with the reassurance that at the end of the circus, I would feel that sense of relief and accomplishment.
I was stepping into the mat mostly for the physical sensation, but the practice itself was working on other level. It seems that it was wearing off the vail between me and my thoughts which was very thick, to the point I could not see the difference between thoughts and what might actually be real.
So In my case, I always felt this sense on hopelessness, anxiety and inadequacy.
This was my identity, what I believed to be real and fixed, cannot be changed.
So I assumed that who I am is this pool of discomfort.
I conceived this way of feeling like a life sentence.
Yoga practice made the first crack on my identity and sparked the desire of how far can I go with this. The devotion to it was broadening my back then, very short ability to focus.
The repetitive attempts to focus on a given posture, kept scrubbing the walls between thoughts/emotions and the awareness of those thoughts and emotions.
The way I today relate to the practice is very different.
Nowadays my yoga practice seems to be inviting me towards lessons of letting go and detachment, and also to enjoy the movement, on the most present level possible.
Everything is always changing, day after day, year after year, the intention behind the practice kept changing, so as the person behind the intention.
Apart from all the definitions and meanings we give to it, Life really is this never ending movement in the here space of now, flickering images and sensations, that are here and now are gone.
Thank you for watching.
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Ella Neto
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[@coribailey4519]

I have listened to many TH-cam on how yoga changed lives yours made me feel at peace. You voice and the fact that you didn’t feel rushed and the honesty. Thank you!

[@marthamugnaio5400]

I love the Flow of your asanas

[@sarahmclin2434]

I love your video and the message is fantastic! The flow footage, and your narration, is so calming!

[@kokosbluete3259]

Very encouraging this video...to kow there is the possibility to change the inner feeling, experiencing that an inner state is not a given unchangeable circumastance , but rather something that we can change trough movement...
So nice the way you created the video, your voice we can listen to, while whatching this wonderful yoga movements, thank you a lot ☺️💜

[@zaprude]

What a beautiful video! What an amazing yoga journey you've had!

[@daniellethompson681]

Beautiful video and powerful words. Thank you for inviting and providing exquisite space 🙏

[@emmameads8798]

Sooo inspiring!!💖

[@debbiemarlow4027]

Yes!!!!!!

[@tierrabear10]

Are you a teacher of yoga now?? You are amazing!

[@M4miata]

You should become a yoga teacher! You would be excelente! 🙏🏽🕉

[@elassaadaboude7151]

Hello , Nice yoga ? Do you have any recommandations for praticing

[@muskanagarwal5808]

Wow

[@gracindareis7598]

Adorei!

[@Neighbourhood5555555]

Would love to hear your advice on starting a regular yoga practice (:

[@Joe-qk4od]

Amazing outfit

[@nicholessmuse2447]

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[@kuppasamy108]

Wonderfull simply superb feeling to start yoga from tomorrow

[@bubbleworld4172]

Yoga is the shit