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A Letter from Mehtab
Founder, Yoga Yoga
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Dear
friends, students, and teachers,
Old and new, thank you for sharing your time and energy
with us at Yoga Yoga. Some of you have been coming to Yoga Yoga
for a long time and a few of you we knew as students even before
we opened the first Yoga Yoga location on South Lamar. Others
of you, however, may have just joined us on what I like to think
of as the Yoga Journey.
Like many journeys, yoga begins with a step toward a destination
that may not yet be clearly realized in your mind. And like every
journey, you soon realize that no matter what your original destination
was, the important part of the journey was actually what you
learned about yourself in getting there. And so it is with yoga.
For us, Yoga Yoga has been a journey of self-discovery since
we first came into existence in 1998 – but actually our
story begins even before that…
The Yoga Yoga Story
Like many stories, the story of Yoga Yoga begins with a woman
and a man. In 1994, after twenty years of an off-again and on-again yoga
practice, my wife and I were facing a crisis in our lives and our marriage.
In one direction was pain and self-destruction, and in the other direction
was the one thing we knew would work -- yoga.
The blessing was that the choice was so obvious. Do yoga or lose
everything. We turned all our energy into our yoga practice. We turned the
extra bedroom into a yoga room and plunged into teacher training courses,
weeklong yoga retreats, workshops and classes. We rekindled a life-long love
for Kundalini Yoga, practiced Ashtanga Yoga with a new passion, and discovered
the power of Hatha Yoga to heal our bodies and open our hearts.
Like yoga does so well, it changed our lives totally. It wasn’t enough
to practice yoga – we wanted to live it, every day, all the time. So
when we weren’t doing our yoga, we taught in our extra bedroom that
held seven students if we all squeezed together.
We had classes in that small room back-to-back, alternating Hatha
and Kundalini, and eventually had 65 students showing up at our back door
every week to practice yoga. Students parked blocks away so neighbors could
get into their driveways. Our relationship with those who loved yoga had
grown beyond the extra bedroom in our home.
With the help of a good friend, Kewal, newly acquired credit
cards, and blissful ignorance about what we were doing, we leased a space
at 1700 South Lamar in December 1997. It had two small rooms (that looked
gigantic after our 250 square foot home studio) so we could teach
two classes at the same time – a Hatha class and a Kundalini class.
Two types of yoga – Yoga Yoga.
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