hey guys what's up welcome back to my channel you guys are new here welcome my
name is Caitlyn and in today's video I'm gonna be talking to you guys all about
my yoga journey how I started why I started and all that other good stuff so
that's we're going to be talking about in today's video but before we get into
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said let's get into the video alright you guys so let's just get straight into
it so the reason why I even joined yoga in the first place was because I wanted
to do something active the gym can be really intimidating really overwhelming
so I wanted to do something that I could kind of go on my own pace so I figured
yoga would be the best fit for me there's literally a studio that's two
minutes from my house so I really had no excuse not to go although I did put
it off for a while I didn't want to join because I felt like I wasn't gonna be
good enough I didn't want to start so I decided to change my plans I am gonna go
sign up for yoga and stop being lazy so I just signed up for yoga I'm super
excited the day that I took my first class I was in love and I have just been
doing yoga ever since then but that wasn't the
first class that I've ever taken I actually took a class about seven years
ago I did a one month trial of a Bikram yoga if you guys don't know what Bikram
Yoga is it's like a sequence of 26 different poses you're in a heated room
and I did that for one month and I loved it then but I wasn't able to continue
there because I joined the military I gained 50 pounds and then I wanted to
find a way to get off the extra weight so I joined my yoga studio here and my
first yoga class that I ever took here at my current studio was a vinyasa class
and for those of you who don't know what a vinyasa class is it's a super intense
super like power yoga it's heated because I go to a heated studio so it
was a heated class and let me just tell you it was very difficult we did a whole
bunch of chaturangas and it was just very fast paced and I wouldn't recommend
that for a first class a power vinyasa class for a first class is not a good
idea I literally thought I was gonna die 15 minutes in I was in Child's Pose most
of the class I ended up making it through the whole entire class
but most of it was in Child's Pose and at the end of the class I loved
the way that I made me feel it made me feel so rejuvenated so fresh and I loved
it so I figured like this is what works for me I need to find other classes that
is going to serve me better so I found other classes and I literally fell in
love sometimes I would even go two times a day I went at least five times a week
and I just became obsessed and its just taught me so much its just taught me how to
connect with my inner self how to get out of my head and get into my body and
just really be present Yoga has also taught me how to become more aware of my
breath and my breathing as weird as that sounds I suffer from anxiety and
depression as do most of us and it's really taught me how to become more
aware of my breathing and how to slow that down not only within my studio but
also outside of my practice I'll literally be walking around doing what's
called ujjayi breath which is in through the nose out through the nose kind of
just sounds like you're fogging up a mirror and that will really help to slow
down your breathing and just really help your anxiety a lot it's helped me so
much and I do it everywhere it's really weird and people look at me crazy but
it's fine you don't have to do it super loud but sometimes people are like well
what are you doing why are you breathing like that but it helps yoga has also
taught me how to be more confident I used to struggle with really low
self-esteem really low confidence and yoga has really changed that for me when
I first started I thought that there was no way I was gonna be able to do any of
the poses that I saw the people in the front row doing I was like there's no
way that I'm gonna be able to do that but over time I became more advanced and
I started moving up to the front row and feeling more confident about myself and
not only within the studio did I feel confident it also reflected over into my
day to day life I started walking more confidently I started being proud of who
I was and I just my confidence has changed a whole lot
so that's one of the biggest ways that yoga has changed my life not just the
physical aspect of it but the mental aspect of it as a spiritual aspect of it
all combined together has really helped my self-esteem like no other like
anything that I've ever tried so if you guys are struggling with low
self-esteem low self-confidence I would definitely recommend trying yoga
and see where your mind takes you and you'll be super grateful
another thing that yoga has taught me is how to become more vulnerable this was
something that I used to struggle with really bad I wanted to start out yoga as
being an expert yogi being like the ones that you see on Instagram who are just
perfect but we all have to start somewhere even if you start out in the
back row or you're starting out at home don't be ashamed just start somewhere
and know that you're gonna grow from that and you're not going to be perfect
right away and the journey is fun to learn you're gonna fall you're gonna get
back up but it all really humbles you and it just teaches you so much about
yourself things that you didn't know so I really like that about yoga as well I
know this sounds like dumb hippie dippie bullshit but it really does work if you
guys have any questions let me know down in the comments below or you guys can
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said I love you guys so much and I will see you guys next week bye