I walked into my first Kirtan Vinyasa Yoga class with Govind Das about 16 years ago, at Bhakti Yoga Shala in Santa Monica, CA. I was completely new to the yoga world, and this was maybe the second yoga class that I ever took. I had thought at the time, that all yoga is the same, a physical exercise. Although the class name was slightly different, Kirtan Vinyasa Yoga, I didn't think much of it. I thought it was a creative name for a yoga class, a branding thing. As long as the word yoga was there, I was in! 

My grandmother was married twice. My mother was married twice. I was married twice. So when I fled to the United States in 2006, I left all that turmoil back behind me in Yemen, but Yemen didn't leave me. I was still thinking the same deeply rooted fearful thoughts, and recreating the same generational results, just with different characters in my life. Of course I struggled with dating, relationships, men, sex, trust, giving and receiving love.

How I Went From Barely Touching My Toes to Becoming a Certified Yoga Instructor. One of the cohort graduates Tiffany Yau, shares her yoga teacher training experience with me, and explains it beautifully in this article.