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[00:00.18] My friends and family have always been like, I don't want to say they've been unsupportive, but they definitely did not understand what I was doing.

[00:07.88] There are so many people who, for whatever reason, believed that they are not capable of practicing yoga.

[00:14.52] And I just thought that was wild, because the yoga practice is really meant for everyone. It's meant for every stage of life, no matter what happens to you.

[00:25.68] But we have this very limited idea of what a yoga practitioner looks like.

[00:30.99] We think that it's only a white, slender-bodied, cisgender, heterosexual person, usually a woman, usually wealthy, usually traditionally educated.

[00:42.94] And if we're not in that bubble, then we think it's not for us. And I've realised that through being visible on social media, there's a way to really shift that paradigm.

[00:54.64] Yoga is key for my life. When you were practicing something that really pushes you out of your comfort zone, there's something magical about seeing who you really are.

[01:06.33] Exhale, forward fold, over your legs. Take it in, breathe it in, inhale, lengthen it out, through the spine to the chest. Exhale, clamp the hands down, step back, high point.

[01:20.40] It's definitely something that wasn't a goal of mine, like I never wanted to be a yoga teacher. People would ask me to come teach them.

[01:27.04] I would just be like, you should try this teacher, you should do this thing, because like there are literally thousands of yoga teachers.

[01:33.42] Why do you need for me to come teach you? But I didn't realize how important it is to have a lot of different voices speaking about this experience.

[01:44.31] Because we're not all speaking the same language, whether that's like, a metaphorical language, or a literal language.

[01:50.94] And while my message can't resonate for everyone and it won't, it could resonate for at least one person. And that has really motivated my whole teaching practice.

[02:02.63] It's just wanting to reach the one person who needs to hear what I'm saying.