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Yogi of the month: Lissa Joannis on Health & Happiness

Yoga back pain, and why she chose to time I noticed it I was in my car after you are important enough to dedicate
become an instructor.
a yoga class, feeling so good that I that time towards yourself. It’s for
Ro’s What drew you to try yoga? wanted to shout out “yahoo.” I felt that the love of movement, breathing, and
happy, that liberated. What I realized relaxing.
I had back surgery when I was is that I was falling in love with my Lissa Joannis teaches at Spirit
fourteen years old. When I turned body again. Accepting my body, the Tree Yoga Studio and Centre Charles
thirty, the back pain worsened and way it was, and breathing through
By Rosanne Fortier Emile Claude. She also offers
was extreme. I was looking for an everything that was happening – individual yoga instruction, Yoga on
alternative to pain medication because physically, emotionally, and really the Dock in the summer. You can find
I didn’t want to take it forever. I heard finding freedom of movement and her on Facebook offering a variety of
that yoga could help, and I decided flexibility. That’s when I decided to workshops.
to try it. At the time, my intentions become an instructor. If it helped me,
were to simply improve my overall perhaps it would help others. This is Quote du Jour: Being human is not
strength and especially the muscles also why I practice faithfully each about being any one particular way;
along my spine. At first, I noticed my day, to keep this fire alive inside of it is about being as life creates you—
back was getting stronger and I was me. with your own particular strengths
and weaknesses, gifts and challenges,
issa J. has been practicing yoga feeling better with much less pain. How have you stayed motivated quirks and oddities. — Kristin Neff
Lfor twenty-five years. We first Then after a few months I noticed throughout the years?
met in 2003 when I was new to yoga, how much more relaxed and happier I Thank you for reading and I hope
and she was my instructor. I found her was becoming. I wondered if perhaps It’s very easy to stay motivated. these articles encourage you to take
to be bright, funny, and so incredibly it was a coincidence, but gradually I The benefits are so apparent that you good of your health and happiness.
strong. In this interview, Lissa shares knew that yoga was having a direct feel good inside and out. You need All the best in for 2024. Namaste
how yoga helped her manage chronic effect on my mental health. The first discipline and you need to realize that friends!