First meeting with yoga

Early on i became a seeker, wondering about the meaning of this life. My body was unusually stiff. A teacher in physical exercise told me he had never seen such a stiff back on a ten year old before. At the age of twelve I once visited the library and found a book about yoga. I began to try out the different positions suggested in the book, and noticed a remarkable change, and that I became less stiff after practising. “ Yoga day by day”, was the name of the book, and it helped me to open up and let go of some of my tensions.

People around me thought I was behaving in a very strange way, since yoga was something which “normal” people did not do in Sweden back in those days. I had to practise yoga and meditation where nobody could see me, since it was very important in our society to blend in with the rest. As I grew up, I always knew that yoga was my thing, and that i would visit India one day in the future.

Me and my mother    me and my mother