On the level of meeting my initial intention, I did learn more about the anatomy of the body and it's function in the alignment of yoga postures so that I can teach a safer class. I also learned more about the philosophy of yoga, including chanting, sanskrit, postures, the chakra energy system, and meditation; which I feel added depth to my teaching and what I'm trying to help my students allow to surface for themselves.

While I was very pleased with all that I learned to enhance my teaching practice, the most profound change for me was the insight I gained into myself. On a personal level I was helped to understand my own past samskaras, or patterns. I became my own student in this process as I allowed myself to go deeper - to release, heal, and function on multiple levels instead of just the physical/surface level that I was so used to functioning on - especially in my yoga practice. Through my learning in the training, I was allowed to go places in my own practice that I never could before. This allows me to go places in my teaching I didn't realize I could go either. I never expected to gain all that I did out of the training. It was an amazing life experience that I didn't even realize I needed until after I started. The Infusion RYT training led me through a process I needed to start my own healing on many levels. I feel as if I grew as a teacher and as a person. Looking back, the training was something I feel as if I was led to. It was an incredible experience. I looked forward to it every month and plan on attending the retreat again this year.

I had always loved to exercise and been consistent with it, but as a runner/biker, I was always in pain and suffered from poor health. Among my many health problems, I suffered from bowel discomfort, acne, back pain, and depression. Doctors treated each of these problems individually without ever finding the cause. Finally, an OBGYN discovered that I had a 2.5lb tumor in 2002.

A week later, I had the tumor and my right ovary removed. I felt better for a little while, but then the same symptoms reoccurred. In 2005, the doctor found 27 cysts on my left ovary and diagnosed me with Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). After treating it with medication, I still had symptoms and cysts. I started doing yoga regularly at Infusion the summer of 2006. My symptoms decreased significantly. Women with PCOS suffer from increased inflammation, but I found that my joints didn't hurt anymore. I also found that I had less anxiety and depression, two other symptoms of PCOS. I had much more energy. In January of 2007, I returned to the doctor for my yearly ultrasound and discovered that I had only 3 cysts on my left ovary! I had also lost 8lbs! Yoga at Infusion was the only variable!

So many things have improved in my life since I started at Infusion. I still bike a lot, but it never hurts. My depression is not only gone, but I'm more positive and optimistic than I've ever been before. Hide this content.

I'll be 64 years young in June 07. I can put the "young" in that sentence because of Yoga. This has been the most difficult time of my life. In November 05, my husband and I quit good paying jobs, sold our home in California and moved back to Utah to be near my aging parents. I didn't expect their dying process to happen so quickly after arriving, but it did. After an exhausting, illusive and confusing journey in and out of hospitals, nursing homes and finally their own home, Mom died in August 06 and Dad followed in November. My sisters and I are selling our family home of 52 years. After that I will end my work as executor of their estate and start to recreate my life.

I tell you this because I want you to understand how emotionally and physically stressed I've been the last year and a half. The one main thing that kept me balanced dealing with this painful reality was my commitment to Yoga. I joined Infusion shortly after arriving in Utah, determined to keep myself healthy and vowing to practice Yoga for the rest of my life. I don't want to develop the diseases or use the prescription drugs my parents did with prostrate cancer, pancreatic cancer, osteoporosis, heart problems, arthritis, high blood pressure, macular degeneration, anxiety, depression and Alzheimer's.