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Yoga Chose Me at 50: A 9-Year Journey, My Rishikesh Rebirth, and Embracing a Second Life
You can practice yoga… until one day, yoga chooses you. At that moment, your entire life starts anew.
I didn’t fall in love with Yoga suddenly.
The truth is — Yoga had been calling me since 2017.
I would watch videos, read articles, save yoga quotes… and every time, a small voice inside me whispered:
“One day, you will go to Rishikesh. One day, you will learn this deeply.”
That “one day” kept getting postponed — by responsibilities, fears, money, family, excuses, timing, and life itself.
But destiny has its own calendar.
And in 2025, eight years later, at the age of 50…
I finally said YES.
I enrolled for a 500-hour (2-month) residential Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh — the Yoga Capital of the World.
I didn’t just pack my bags.
I packed my courage, my doubts, my pain, my past… and my hope.
Little did I know…
I wasn’t going there to learn Yoga.
I was going there to meet myself.
