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    Student Spotlight: May 2008
    Jane Nelsen
    Ginny Post

    What brought you to yoga?

    I first came to yoga in the age of "peace, love, and rock and roll". What drew me was the peace and love, however it didn't hold me.  In the 80's I fell into the leg warmers , headband, and no pain no gain but I found there was pain.  I exercised to loud music and hopped and jumped my way to several injuries. I quit and began walking, but what drew me back to yoga was what brought me there in the first place. 
    What benefits have you experienced from your practice?
    To make peace and acceptance for an aging body and to love myself enough to push, but not to injure my body.  It is that idea of honoring my body that holds me to yoga.  I love feeling and with that the feeling of vitality.
    What is your favorite asana and why? My favorite asana is perhaps the back bend.  Not that I have perfected backbending or that I find it easy, but just because I just recently let go of the fear to be able to try it again.  That was a eureka moment for me.  I had not tried to do one in many years and when we would get to that point in many classes, I just automatically told myself I couldn't and so I didn't.  But I tried and found I can!
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