We’re still thriving and resting on our mats Saturday’s 11-NOON at Wild Heaven West End Brewery.
This Saturday, we will have a guest to guide us in practice, Candace Krstovic (@Candacekrstovic). I am sure you will have a great session. Be sure to sign up via Eventbrite for a space. I look forward to seeing you all on September 26th, we will return to our Chakra practice.
Bio- Candace Krstovic
At 13, I moved from Rochester, New York to Atlanta in 1993 and went to high school here. I received a full academic scholarship to Georgia State University and fell in love with the city life. I was always a free spirit at heart and very much an old soul. I grew up knowing that my story was going to be complex. I moved out to Colorado and meandered throughout the United States always being called back to Atlanta for some mysterious reason. Now, I know what that was.
Service work has always been a passion of mine, even when I didn’t really understand its depth, I knew I loved to help others. I used drugs to mask the pain of an extremely traumatic childhood and adulthood and decided to get freedom from the throes of addiction in 2016. I struggled severely in the beginning running from 12-Step Meetings to yoga classes before I knew there was a program combining them. I was told by one of my teachers that I should do the 200 hour training but I did not have the resources at the time. Over the next year, I made that my goal and because it was clearly my Dharma, things aligned better for this than anything in my life. I knew I was on the right path. I told everyone in training that I was going to help people with yoga way yoga has helped me. This was in January 2019. Within a month of competing yoga training, I had a place to teach my own classes weekly, I didn’t have my Y12SR certification yet, but I had recovery, so I taught Recovery Yoga and the students came. I proceeded to get my Yin Certification and Y12SR Certification and am so fortunate to be on this journey. Never in my life has my Higher Power’s will been so evident.
It’s only because of grace from the people who kept loving me when I was a volatile mess, grace from my higher power and from the freedom I experienced with the spiritual connection I have in yoga that I am able to bring Yoga 12-Step Recovery to other people today.
