TEST OF FAITH

A year or so ago I have started my yoga teacher training to solidify my thirteen years of love of this beautiful craft, my friend Lyuba introduced me to in New York. Now I incorporate this magical practice of alignment, posture and energy breathing into my vocal training and share it with the world <3

Approximately six months ago I have started teaching yoga and was on my way to my new independent life. I have written back then: "Happiness is a choice". I was convinced that we choose our moods and states. And then... the test of that FAITH has visited me. I was thrown into unknown territory, and suddenly found myself slowly losing all my confidence in my own ability to control that - all over again. I had to fight the triggers I had no idea I had and face new challenges. 

This is when I knew that the choices that I make come with the price - the test of FAITH.

To secure my knowledge in yoga, which btw means unity between mind body & spirit - I had to go through that test of faith, otherwise it would have just been a theory with no practical experience behind it, isn't it? Faith, I argued, is based on something that you don't see exists and so I had to stand that test. Step by step I kept on believing in providence and followed my heart aligned with my soul and mind as much as I could at the time. It was not an easy road because the challenges I faced were daily every day struggles of domestic and professional nature. Details of which I will spare for now, but will say only this - that daily yoga practice, no matter rain or sunshine - has really helped me along the way to achieve the best results in my life I could have ever hoped for! 

This experience has shown me that for every revelation that we have, there will be a challenge, a test, and only if you believe in what you say - you will have a chance to stand it. Faith makes your reality. Fear - takes that reality away. To fight that fear I had to believe in impossible first, believe that it's possible to go through the darkness no matter how hard it is in order to see the light at the end of the tunnel.  

The truth is yours to choose, the happiness is your choice to make indeed, yet in order for you to get there, you really ought to show that you really really do mean it! 

The moral from this story for me was that no matter what, stand by your truth, providing it comes from the place of kindness, constructive energies and love - and you will get there. 

With love, yours Elena Dana

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