Namasté - I'm Kate.

To a foreign country with a foreign culture and language; without family and friends. It wasn't easy at first and is still a challenge. Due to the regulations in Israel, I couldn't work for about six months and was more or less on my own all day. 

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  In the beginning, it was actually quite pleasant - after almost a decade of uninterrupted permanent employment, taking some time out was just the right thing. But after three months, I started to feel bored and eventually desperate and depressed. I still had no friends, no job, couldn't speak the language, was far away from Tel Aviv, etc. 

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Although I did practically nothing all day except get up, have breakfast, read, paint, go to the beach, sleep and somehow wait for the day to pass, I was always tired and in a bad mood. Until I had a nervous breakdown and couldn't do anything anymore. I could no longer feel my body - a state that was alien to me and scared me. There was also this deep despair that I was somehow mentally stuck and that I could never be happy here.

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 My boyfriend was somehow helpless too and wanted to encourage me, saying that it was a foreseeable time and that I would soon be able to start working again. He then remembered a well-known book that someone who was in the same emotional situation as me had once recommended to him. He told me to have a look at it. The book was none other than "The power of Now" by Eckhardt Tolle.

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The next morning I said to myself, "So, from now on everything will be different!" and I remembered that somehow many people did yoga to find the connection between body and mind. So I thought to myself, it can't do any harm and you don't do enough sport either. 

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  I typed 'yoga' into YouTube and just got started. After that, I immediately realized that yoga is completely different from what I had always imagined. Not just breathing and holding positions, waiting until you change position. No! Somehow something slowly shifted, or rather loosened up inside me.

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From then on, there was no stopping me and my yoga path. I then found work at a large company that had a gym with yoga classes. It was perfect for me to practise live with a teacher. Ashtanga yoga was my first great love and remained so for a while, until I internalized the Vinyasa style more and more.

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  I finally decided to do a training course with my yoga teacher, Rony Stav, which I enjoyed immensely and which changed my image and understanding of yoga even more. 

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  Yoga is meditation in motion, as I realized for myself. At the same time, it is also an endlessly inspiring journey that teaches us who we are and why we are.

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I wholeheartedly invite you on this journey and hope that you find what I have found :)