PASCALE REES YOGA
Take a really deep breath and sigh it out
How yoga changed my life...
I used to think yoga was just for people who had their lives together—who exuded that kind of calm I never seemed to have. When I first started, I was awkward and self-conscious, always checking if I was doing it right. Then one day, an instructor said, “If you mess up, no one cares. What’s going to happen?” And something clicked.
On my mat—and I've had several little rectangles of all different colours over the years—I finally had a space that belonged only to me. A border against everything outside. Bit by bit, I learned to focus inward, to stretch from my heels to my fingertips, to feel every muscle wake up. I imagined the tight, hidden parts of me loosening, opening.
Yoga taught me how to live inside my body again. When I’m there, fully present, I feel beautiful, powerful—alive in every inch of myself.
