2020 December I had Covid, I was lucky than many others that I did not have severe symptoms. However, after that, I keep having neck pain and back pain that did not go away even after 3 months seeing physiotherapy. 

2021 March I found it difficult to breathe during the day, sometimes I felt like there was a heavy object pressing on my upper back. Often it went away if I stopped working and focused on breathing. I went to see several doctors, they could not figure out why

Now that I look back, during that period I didn't even realise there was a problem. I did sports often and the pains did not seem to be anything serious. I kept my working schedule as usual and suffered the pains if it ever came. It did not even cross my mind the idea of finding a treatment until the pain come more often. This is what I regret the most because ignoring those probelm changed who I was. There were someday I could stop working, but some days I have no choice but continueing with my meetings and work task. As I suffered from my pain, I become aggressive toward my co-worker and my family.

2021 April, I decided to stop working and go to Nepal for 2.5 months to do yoga and trekking to Everest. It changed my life. I came to Nepal with a small injury in one leg due to rollerskating, I could not walk normally but I surprisingly I could do yoga 10 hours per day right from the first day arrived. The pain in my leg, my neck and upper back dissapeared after the first week and I felt my endurance improved significantly. Practising breathing technique also help me to take back the control of emotions.

Right after the yoga class, I started a trekking tour to mount Everest to 5400m height within 12 days. It was one of the toughest challenges in my life at both physical and mental level. As everyone ever on Everest knows, the most difficult part was thin oxygen due to high altitude. Practising breathing technique was one of the key factors that helped me reach Everest Base Camp.

Learning yoga in Nepal, one of the countries where yoga was started, I found out that the perception of yoga in the West and in the East are so different. While in Esten world, where yoga is considered a healthy lifestyle that everyone at any age and in any walk of life practises every day, in Western world, yoga is still considered a part of spa activities which mostly serve the upper class. While there are so many yoga studios in Luxembourg, I could not find one providing complete 8 steps of yoga practice. I want to change that as yoga is probably the cheapest and simplest way to stay balanced physically and mentally. I want to give anybody chances to try yoga and to taste the multiple benefits that it brings.

However, the story of me becoming a yoga teacher did not start there. I had never really thought about becoming a yoga teacher, until something happened. On the day14th of my yoga teacher training course, my Guru contracted with Covid-19. Unfortunately he passed away after a while. As one of his last students, I feel the responsibility to carry his knowledge and pass it to the others.

Since I came back to Luxembourg, I have been given yoga and meditation classes. Realising how beneficial it is to my students, I created MeBalance, to get together with people who wish for better lifestyle: whether you want to obtain the peace of mind out of your daily stress, or you have been suffering from physical pain or mental illness, or you want to take control of your emotion and your life, whether you have been contracted with Covid or other disease...

I also call for yoga and meditation teachers who want to help to improve public health, please join MeBalance and start our journey together.