What box are you putting yourSelf in?

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most of my life I considered mySelf an athlete so when I hit 20 and twisted my ankle I didn’t know what to do with mySelf. I had been labelled an athlete for as long as I could remember but now what was I? Sitting still for me isn’t easy so through recovery my mom suggested that I come to yoga with her. I rolled my eyes at her and in my head thought, NO WAY. After a couple more weeks of not moving and feeling like crap, yoga got the best of me. You see, going from moving all of the time, multiple times a day, to not at all was quite shocking to my body and my mind and for the first time ever, I began to notice how much I needed movement. So I thought I dropped my ego at the door, put on some yoga pants and decided to hit the studio so that I could show those yogi’s how an athlete does it. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was my second or third yoga class I had ever experienced and still I had no real idea what this whole yoga thing was all about. This was about the time instagram and juice cleanses became really big so I had this idea I had to be a green juice drinking, able to do the splits person which I was neither. What I knew at that time to be true was that I needed to be super flexible to be called a yogi and I needed to eat green things. I told mySelf all the reasons why I was not a yogi and also all the reasons why I am better than a yogi. I thought I was better than a yogi because I could run fast and far, because I could score goals and that’s really all I cared about. But when I look back, I couldn’t even do that at this time so I should have just checked my ego at the door. What I was actually doing is covering up my fear of trying something new by telling mySelf why I was better than the new thing. Not a great approach but at that time it got me through the door. This particular studio was a bit more granola than than some of the ones you see today and it made me feel really out of place. BUT for some reason I went back, and then again, and then