Yoga would become a bridge back to wholeness, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I started to find space within my body, to rest and reside within it. And I started to understand that there was strength to be found in stillness and determination required on the journey toward flexibility. One translation of the Sanskrit word “yoga” is “to yoke”—yoking myself to yoga became a new way to think about everything, including my relationship with myself. Even in college and after, in the midst of a binge, I would turn to yoga to confront my demons, accept the insanity, love myself, stop the
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