A Yoga Retreat in Catskills Mountains
Getting to know yourself better can tremendously ignite healing.
In December of 2018, I was selected for a retreat through the Honor Yoga Foundation. I was encouraged to apply by the founder of my collegiate yoga club when she shared it in our community group chat.
The retreat was designed to help people who suffer from anxiety and depression and who could use financial assistance to attend such a lavish four-day retreat.
You may be thinking, “how depressed could a twenty-something-year-old be?”
Truthfully, at the time I was still working on accepting my father’s new life and mind. He was basically sentenced to life in a nursing home due to his vascular dementia.
There were still remnants of resentfulness toward him for not taking his high blood pressure meds, which assisted in expediting his deteriorating mind. I also always had a difficult time accepting his completely unhealthy lifestyle through the years, against doctors’ orders.
It was an ongoing challenge to wrap my head around putting him away after lots of trying and adapting to avoid just that.
I thoughtfully completed the application and could not imagine what kind of life experience I was signing up for. A few months later…
