I Should Be Could Be Would Be

It’s December 2006.

I didn’t have a car or a truck. I had a bicycle.

I bought my Kona bicycle for $300 in Lincoln Nebraska. It was black. I loved loved loved that bike.

But I didn’t do yoga when I lived in Austin or when I lived in Houston. I started doing yoga when we lived in Dallas.

I was pregnant with DJ when I met my favorite yoga teacher of all time. Nicole.

She was a lawyer. It was like being drill marshalled love and light through low planks and handstand hops.

She called them millimeter chatarangas. But it’s not all that bad when you just keep your knees down. Because I had a belly. But we didn’t know it was DJ - we used to called “it” Zygy.

I fell in love with yoga more than running because I was pregnant. The yoga studio was just down the road and I would leave work and go home and change into yoga clothes and walk or drive to the Dallas Yoga Center.

So I guess, I began my dedicated yoga practice in 2016. But I’ve been “doing” yoga since high school.

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