YTT 200 Graduation

 

Today we graduated our first class of Lifespan Yoga® Teachers. These special gals worked hard all summer and with great joy we welcomed them into the circle of yoga teachers this afternoon. We are grateful for their dedication and to their loved ones who supported them all summer. Although Jessica’s mom is far away and could not be with us she posted this on Facebook:

Today I am one proud mom, my daughter Jessica graduates, she will be a yoga instructor...as many of my dear friends know she was diagnosed with brain cancer March 2011, and just finished her chemo May 2012. I am so proud of her, all that she has been thru...I can remember it like it was yesterday me pushing her in a wheelchair. Taking her around the rehab place and her yelling at me that I was going too fast...and then the rehab she went thru to regain use of her leg and arm, playing with coins to force her to use her hand and her being mad at me. I loved when she got angry at me…showed me she had the fight in her...She was a trooper. I want to Thank all of my friends who stood by me with private messages...and phone calls...Barb and Sandi, I cannot even begin to thank you. Barb...the gentle way you hit me in the head and helped me get myself together. My older daughter Jennifer who flew back and forth from California...my brother and his wife...putting up with my trials and tribulations...my sweet husband helping me thru it all. So many to thank...my husband's company who with compassion allowed him to take time off and get me back and forth to the hospital  and rehab places in Boston… Thank you so much, Jr…Of course a big thank you also to Jessica's dad...my ex husband who came up from Florida and got a hotel room so he can take Jess back and forth everyday for her chemo treatments. Jessica has come a long way...and everyday she faces challenges...I am so proud of her. Yoga has helped her so much thru this all...and now she will share her knowledge of yoga to others...