How I got into Bikram June 2011

Hello Everyone,

I'm not really a blogger, I talk all day long for work between being on the phone and sales presentations, I am verbally spent. Maybe that's why I like Bikram so much I can just be a mute on the mat and breath :)

I thought I would start blogging my journey in my very first Bikram 60 day challenge. Let me tell you a little about myself. Been in corporate finance for about 15 years and made a career switch. I have been in corporate sales and marketing now for the past six years working for a national consulting firm.

I am a mom of THREE BOYS, yes I am very outnumbered as I type this blog my three year old is strangling me and has his stinky foot in my face while the other two are arguing in the next room. I can barely find the time to type this b/c I get the "mommy, mommy, mommy" every five minutes.

I have a ten, nine and three year old boy, my ten year old is going through auditory therapy for processing delays, my nine year old has Asbergers and is in the Autism Spectrum and my three year old is obnoxious.

Needless to say my life is hectic and I was knee deep in corporate politics and had new management taken over my company, in fact in my last job I went through 3 CEOs. I was so stressed with home, work etc. I put on maybe 40 plus pounds . I would fill my sadness/void with food, having a job that required lots of business lunch/dinner meetings didnt help. I literally felt myself slipping away and felt like I was dying inside.

On one random day, I went to see my pedi lady and she looked me right in the eye and said "You need Bikram, now!" and I'm like hell no b/c i hate heat hate it hate it..  I went years before with a group of friends for a unlimited week intro and couldnt go past day two.

But listening to my pedi lady Donna (@ Urbane Beauty she's the BEST)  I went to the Pasadena website and read through it and saw $39 intro for the whole month, I said what do I got to lose. I signed up and went..telling myself I will go and do this at least ten times to get an idea if I can do this. The first few classes I dreaded and barely stayed in..I hate looking at myself in the mirror, I would avoid mirrors at all cost b/c I hate the way I looked and felt.  Everyone in class is so fit, wearing their bikini looking clothing and am I the only one with no tattoos? I felt like a messy fat clump for the first week in class. I would come in wearing bulking big t'shirts to hid the massive fat on my body.

But once I got past that , a major transformation has changed in my life, pounds were coming off, my skin got clearer, crap at work bothered me less....this was in June, I was already preaching to my office about Bikram Magic. Then in July I got hit by a truck.. I remember being in the ambulance with the sirens going off and can't really feel my legs...my main thought was "no more yoga" luckily that wasnt so and it was only brusing and a knee fracture...I even asked the doctor if I can resume Bikram in a few days...he looked at me like I was nuts. Thank you so much Val for extending my intro, when I reached out to you I was only trying to get your permission to go back to something that i truly enjoyed, the once place that made me clear my mind and wash away my troubles in a healthy way.

Through Bikram I learned to listen to my body and have a steady calmness, as Jeff said in one of my early classes "Let that Shit go" boy is that the truth and with that it carried me through a bad accident, getting laid off the next month...nothing mattered but my health for my family.. well now I am blessed with a new job and back to going to Bikram. The best part my parents go as well!!  Well that's it for now b/c typing up my drama made me wiped out...