OM Yoga UK - May 2017

Why did you start yoga

My first experience of yoga was on a vacation to

Goa in India in 2010; being a dancer, I thought it

would be something I would like to try. Walking in the

yoga shala in silence, with just the sounds of the birds, the sun shining though the nets,

welcomed by stillness...everyone sat on their mats, present and blissful, waiting for the

practice to begin. I was hooked from that moment, knowing this was something bigger

than I ever could have imagined. It took hold of my heart, and that is where the most

wonderful journey of my life began.

How has yoga changed your life

I have fallen in and out of yoga. That first trip to India and my first experience was such

a powerful one, I found it hard to find that same place in my heart on returning to the

UK. None of the classes grasped me in the same way; something was different. I returned

to India in 2013, and once again fell in love. I knew I needed to do more, so I started

to explore yoga at home, following YouTube clips, lighting incense sticks and trying to

replicate the feelings and senses I had in India. In 2017, I took the trip once again to

India to do my teacher training qualification, in Ashtanga and Vinyasa flow. This time,

upon returning, I realised the feeling I’d been searching for all these years - the feeling

yoga in India gave me - was within me and had been all along. Yoga taught me that I am

home, home is within my heart - and this is the biggest lesson I can ever learn.

Favourite yoga haunts

Anywhere I can lay my mat and go deep within myself. My favourite moments are

outside, in the fresh morning air, the sun rising, gently warming my mat and the sounds

of nature around; this is my bliss.

Best yoga moment

I have never had a bad yoga moment, and day-by-day, the moments get better, the

things I’ve learnt about myself continue to grow, the deep connection with my mat and

the connection to my soul - this equals my best yoga moment ever.

Anything else

I am so grateful for yoga; it has changed my life in ways I never dreamed imaginable.

Breathe, surrender and let go and the magic happens. I read a quote somewhere saying

that yoga continues long after you have rolled up your mat, and this is so true. This is

my life; my life is yoga.

YOGA

CHANGED

MY LIFE

Yoga made an immediate and

lasting impression on Mimi

Ramsey after a visit to India

seven years ago

NAME: Mimi Ramsey

AGE: 43

OCCUPATION: Yoga teacher

and blogger

YOGA YEARS: 7

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