My interest in health began long before I started my formal studies. Nutrition, psychology, and natural ways of supporting the body had already caught my attention. At a certain point, that interest became personal. I was experiencing physical symptoms that had no clear explanation. When someone eventually looked beyond the symptoms and asked about my nutrition, my environment, and how I was feeling, I began to see how much these factors can influence our health.

 

My symptoms started to make more sense, but so did something else: I became increasingly curious about what happens when we look beyond the complaint itself. From there, I wanted to understand more about the relationship between the body and the psyche.

 

What happens in the body when we are under prolonged stress? How do nutrition and lifestyle influence our physiology? And how can we support the body in a way that makes sense for the individual?

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Yoga came into my life when I was fifteen. I started with the physical practice, but it did not take long for me to realize that yoga was about much more than the postures. I wanted to understand where the practice came from and what lay behind it.

 

In 2022, I travelled to India for the first time to complete a yoga teacher training. What I found there did not feel entirely new. It felt like coming home. The way of life, the people, and the space for different values resonated deeply with me. I experienced a sense of presence, connection and freedom that felt very different from what I had been used to. There was room for curiosity, for different ways of living, and for allowing another person to simply be themselves. It was not that India taught me something I had never known. Rather, being there allowed me to recognise and experience more deeply something that had already been present within me.

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Since then, India has remained an important part of my life. I continue to return to learn, to work, and to deepen my understanding of yoga.