ALISON

“I’ve been practicing yoga on-and-off since I was twelve when my mom brought me into a class during a family summer vacation. Towards the end of highschool and into the beginning of college I began to get more serious about my practice when I started struggling with anxiety, waking up nightly with panic attacks but without any support from trusted adults or anyone to talk to about what was happening. So I didn’t know they were panic attacks. I just would wake up, bolt upright in bed and my mind no longer felt like my own. I was shaking, I would get sick to my stomach, and I was terrified. I had no idea why it was happening but I was losing weight and my dad started to think I’d developed a drug problem due to the rapid weight loss that came along with this mental torture.”