Somewhere Outside Yoga

Jennifer Koziel

Over 15 years ago I started down my yoga journey, starting enthusiastically in Vinyasa, Core Yoga, Power Yoga, Ashtanga, and Bikram Yoga. Around the same time, I was in the early development of rheumatoid arthritis, and the yang-style yoga I loved became painful and sadly
inaccessible. I found myself wishing for a more friendly yoga and dropped from classes opting to practice on my own. Learning how to tune in and listen to what my body needs.

Many years later and I found myself in India at the birthplace of yoga – Rishikesh. Here I studied for 5 months yoga, reiki, and sound healing. Discovering both the roots of yoga and myself. There, I found forms of yoga I had not studied before, falling in love with therapeutical practices and finding the balance in yoga – the yin and yang.