In 2017, I began diving into a spiritual and health journey. I was introduced to various modalities, including Reiki, shamanic journeying, soul retrievals, shadow work, internal family systems, EFT tapping, and daily meditation. At the time, it was exactly what I needed. Though as I worked through different levels of healing, I kept hitting walls in my body that looked like pain, irritation, frustration, and exhaustion.

I had always practiced yoga on and off since high school, but it was never anything more than an attempt to achieve greater flexibility. When a friend asked if I wanted to join her in a practice she was leading in Kundalini yoga, I said yes because I trusted her and have always been open to trying new things to improve my mind and body. After that first experience, I was intrigued and found myself practicing with her teacher on a somewhat regular basis.

A year had passed, a 180-day practice in the books, and I was pretty sold on Kundalini. I had witnessed in myself an ability to be in my body like never before. I was very accustomed to dissociation, so an embodiment practice had been low on my list of resources. Kundalini was the first practice where I could sit in hard postures, challenging my nervous system while building and strengthening it, rather than putting it in a constant state of activation, overstimulation, and exhaustion.

As I dove deeper into my own Kundalini practice and decided to earn my 200-hour teacher certification, Kundalini became an outlet for me to not only go more inward and create a stronger relationship with myself, but also to develop a new relationship with my body. Kundalini yoga helped me build a relationship with myself where I could finally see myself fully and truly. My exhaustion started to lessen, and the chronic pains I had been experiencing began to loosen their grip and dissipate over time.