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February 7, 2018 Here I am approaching the last weekend of yoga teacher training (YTT) and I have not written another blog.  It was so important to me when I started this journey but that was when I was hitting a high no te, sigh… I will recap.  So after the second weekend of YTT, the Lyme/Bart began to take back over. I knew once I stopped the Rifampin it would come back but this time it crept in slowly and took me  off guard .  I could not focus at  all; meditation was out of the question. I could sit there for hours in perfect posture just listening to the monkey chatter in my head go on and on. The so called “ear worm” kept one line from a song repeating in my head over and over to the point where I would just talk to talk to cover it up. I felt like I was going crazy. I could not catch my breath but could not sit still either. In my head, everyone was out to get me.  I would be set on a roller coaster of  hateful  emotions from one sentence  being said o ver the  phone by my Mo
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Becoming Annie I began practicing yoga when my son Patch was in 4 th grade.  He has a bit of a hyperactive personality and was having trouble falling asleep at night. On the exercise channel on cable, I found a Sunset Salutation yoga video by Sara Ivanhoe.  We began doing it a few times a week at night before bed and it really made a difference.  He was calmer and could drop right off to sleep afterwards. I fell in love with Yoga. I began practicing every morning. For the first time in my married life, I took time for just me. This was so empowering. I felt centered. I joined the Y and my daughter Megi and I took a class once a week.  We even went on a Mother/Daughter retreat to an ashram downstate for a weekend back in 2010. I had a new goal, I wanted to become a certified yoga teacher. Just a few months later, I was bit by a tick while walking my dogs. I contracted Lyme Disease.  For numerous reasons, it went undetected for 8 months. Needless to say, I ended up very very sick
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