Yoga with Asha

Happiness is choosing the people that choose you!
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Summer ‘26 life 🪻🌹🌷

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I’m Ash…

An Indian/Canadian Yoga teacher, educator and practitioner for over 15 years.

In 2013, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes; a life changing condition that forced me to reevaluate my entire relationship with my self, my body, my health.

Through the agonizing moments of grieving the end of a life and body that took care of me in ways that it couldn’t anymore… In order to keep living; I had to learn to take care of me in a way I had never known how to do before, otherwise I knew there was no way I would be able to emotionally survive and endure this.

Through a lifelong pattern of having to earn love… self abandonment and people pleasing was my way of perceiving and earning love.

If I could be everything you need me to be, then maybe I could earn love.

Another’s ability to love me became the condition in which I’ll then could love myself.

This was the unconscious core belief that lived inside me and drove my desperation to do whatever was needed to be ‘worthy’ of being loved.

Betraying myself to appease another was my normal from childhood…all the while I was unconsciously abandoning myself, my needs, my emotions, my body, my sanity.

In the end, the person who abandoned me to earn love from another, to make myself feel lovable…. was me.

It was a hard and painful realization that changed the trajectory of my entire inner experience of myself.

It took an absolutely annihalation of who I use to be, how I use to think, feel and treat myself.

It was kind of like finally stopping… turning around, looking myself in the eyes, and saying, ‘I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere’ .

I had no where else to run. I finally faced myself, all of me…. And learnt to love, truly love each and every part.

To be able to sit with the parts of me that I use to recoil from in disgust, run from, hide, hate.

To forgive the part of me that believed lies as truth and allowed those lies to run a muck in my mind, endlessly shaming myself, torturing my mind with self doubt, self hatred and self denial.

The difference now… I realize it’s really not so much about the destination of my life and if it fits any specific type of way…. I know now, there is no such thing as a blemish free life.

You can do all the right things and still get sick, you can do all the wrong things and still survive.

It was never about that! Those are things completely out of our control.

It’s about how I treat myself through each season and challenge of my life. It’s how I show up for me, how compassionate I am to my struggles, how deeply I choose myself.

It became a tender, loving, intimate journey with myself to change into an entire new way of being and doing life. A new normal.

From self-betrayal to self-devotion.

When you have to earn love or deny parts of you to be loved, is it really love?

This has been a profound question that helped me dismantle the ways we misrepresent and manipulate what is essentially pure and our given birthright.

You exist, therefore you are loved. Feel that in your body and tell me what you feel.

For me, it’s like finally coming home. ♥️