Coharu

Yoga instructor, CoharuRYT500Online yoga studioFounder of Oneness Yoga

I teach all kinds of classes —studio lessons, temple yoga, park yoga,online lessons —and across a wide range of ages, from kids' yoga to senior yoga

Meeting yoga made me feelas though I had fallen in lovewith my own life once again

In my teens, living an irregular life,I had come to feel a chronic tiredness in body and mind

In a stressful lifeneither drive nor delight can be fully felt —I was carrying a great deal of discontent I couldn't name

It began with yoga,met quite by chance

But in a yoga class,a passing word from my teachersoaked all the way through me

and, as if pushed on by intuition,I set out on the path of a yoga teacher

To savour the unremarkable day with care, and to give thanks

I wanted to become like the teacher who turnedthe scenery I had always seen into a world that shines

Step by patient step,I keep up my practice each dayso that I may become a teacher who can hand kindnessto the student in front of me

Facing your own breath and bodyis only a small thing gathered day by day, and yet

for the students who practise with me,yoga becomes part of everyday life,and to see them living their days vividlyis my greatest joy

The body, the heart, our relationships.Precisely because this is an age where each of us so easily carries some worry

I hope that one more person, and one more,meets yoga and comes to spend their dayswith a lighter heart