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Finding My Foundations

I've always been a person with very little patience, always wanting to skip ahead and get to it ALREADY!! If I didn't exhibit at least some natural talent for something, I'd move on instead of diving deeper into it. And for a long time this seemed to work for me, seemed being the key word here. But with everything I did there was still an element of impatience, like ok yeah I get it take me to the more advanced stuff. So when I started taking yoga classes after growing up my entire life with gymnastics and ballet I was again impatient with the practice. I was flexible and fairly strong so I tossed myself into more advanced classes and ended up with a back that would go out and some very unhappy rotator cuffs, and yet was still being praised for how "beautiful" my practice was. Giving my ego just enough to keep me coming back for more. The problem was I skipped over ALL of my foundations. ALL OF THEM. The more yoga classes I teach the more I discover that most of m