Health general yoga story

This essay has won the first prize in the yoga experience story that was held by Embassy of India for celebrating International Yoga Day. 

    My yoga experience(1/3)

                                                                Kim * Jeong

I met yoga a long time ago when I was a newcomer to the society who had just graduated from college. My major was design and I looked for an authentic yoga center to relax my stiffened body caused by long hours of computer work due to the major’s nature. 

Since I was a child, all kinds of workout were hard for me and I even had a painful time with sitting down having my back upright. To me, yoga was the first step to get through the pain of stiffness. In all ages, it is commonly said that health is important. However, I didn’t have much interest in a relationship of yoga and health or the importance of health in life at that time. I strongly thought getting a disease is a fate and there was no choice but receiving treatment at a hospital when the disease is caught.

Indeed, I finished up daily yoga practice to escape from my stiff body just like a stick. But, none the more, my body that had been neglected over 20 years didn’t become flexible quickly. The months passed since then….

Some changes happened to the unexpected parts of my body. In those days, I had several physical problems and the most predominant symptoms were my irregular period and migraine. I menstruated one time or two times a year and had intense cramps.

And I suffered from migraine for my whole life. I attended the hospital for many years for treatment, but I could hardly find the answer. I just reproached myself for being born with the body like that and I resigned myself thinking that it was an inevitable problem although I was anxious. I really didn’t expect the puzzle of my body that I had for the years would be solved in a few months by doing yoga by chance just to relax my stiff body….

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