Greetings everyone, my name is Sasha and here you will find a very very brief story about how I got to this point in my life.
I was born in Russia, and migrated to USA in 2000. Though I was pretty sporty, Yoga was never something I even remotely considered looking into. For the most of my adult life, I was what you would call a not-a-yoga material kinda guy. Chubby, not flexible, somewhat muscular and with a ton of old injuries from previous sports, which even further limited my compatibility with yoga… or that was what I thought until one of the days I worked up the courage to give yoga a try. And as it happens in most of the cool stories, it was love at first … bend. I am a 44 year old owner of a construction company, so my body was exposed to all kinds of physical abuse, starting with improper heavy lifting, lack of sleep, and consuming unnecessary amounts of not necessarily healthy food… My back was constantly in pain, knees as well and my hips started to let me know that at the rate I was going, they might decide to retire sooner than I could hope. First week of yoga started to change my physical and mental health so much, that I decided to dive in right away and signed up for teachers training! and so, 12 weeks later, I am now a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Hatha Yoga. I hope that you would follow my journey and maybe your life will change as much as mine have, after yoga became part of my everyday life. Stay tuned!
