Full Life Yoga & Wellness

My journey has always been a spiritual one. I thank my mom for that, she has always been a seeker. I experienced my first spiritual awakening in grade 8 or 9 at a Mormon Youth Retreat. It was so wonderful. I was completely devout, bursting with spiritual wonder, however, this only lasted a few months. Those fires didn’t have much of a chance to be fanned living on a farm in Southern Saskatchewan, far from any other teenagers remotely interested in this kind of exploration. So, I did what most teenagers do, I followed the flock which was a ton of fun but way harder on my parents.  

The next few years found me in somewhat of a confused purgatory as far as my spiritual life went. I had decided Mormonism wasn’t for me, lovely people, but they have some pretty strict guidelines around things that, as a teen and young adult, I found really inconvenient! I was of the belief that spirituality/religion was an all or nothing contract which left me feeling somewhat unanchored. Thank God (pun intended) for a religious studies class I took in University! Wow!!! There were all these other ways to approach spirituality and it most certainly did not have to be all or nothing. I was especially intrigued by the Eastern religions/philosophies but … life was still full of, what I perceived as, non-spiritual adventures so my spiritual life continued to wait patiently on the back burner.