A 20-year-old Bournemouth woman claims that restorative yoga has helped her beat her battle against a chronic disease.
A schoolteacher suggested that yoga might help improve her health when she was in high school, but she wasn’t convinced initially.
“At the beginning I felt a bit apprehensive. I pictured yoga as a bunch of old people sitting around doing nothing. I’d had to quit the swimming team around that time and the thought of taking on a different hobby was quite daunting”, she said.
Julia developed fibromyalgia as a teenager, which is very uncommon. The condition usually affects adults above the age of 50.
Julia said that now she cannot imagine her life without yoga.
“No matter how I feel before going into my yoga class, when I come out I’m a whole new person. I let go of my pain and it really helps with my depression and anxiety – I would have probably had a breakdown by now if it wasn’t for yoga.”
There are different types of yoga, and some are believed to help relieve chronic pain.
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