Welcome Vanessa!

I’m sure you’ll have no problem at all finding yoga buddies; everyone I’ve talked to has been incredibly supportive and helpful.

Sounds like you have quite a few challenges but it’s awesome that you’re working to get your life balance set up so you can begin this practice. You might want to look up info on the 13 Obstacles of Yoga so you can prepare, I find myself personally plagued by Styana, Stanshaya, and Alasya but knowing that has allowed me to prepare for them and fight them off.

My own situation while not exactly the same is quite similar, I have a lot of weight that needs to come off; the irony is that I was finally able to start yoga after I decided I wasn’t going to worry about it anymore and just do the things I wanted to do after I was “skinny” anyway.

My introduction to sunstone actually happened about a year and half ago and I did 11 classes over the course of a few months. I was lucky enough to have one of the sunstone instructors, Chris McGraw, in my economics class and he convinced me to give it a try. Unfortunately I never made any major commitments and just kinda let the yoga fizzle out as another project I kinda started but decided not to follow through with.

Over the past bit of time I’ve been able to develop a somewhat sane work/life/school balance and am desperately working to make yoga a set part of my life, towards that end I have my own personal goal. On July 18th I am going to be visiting my sister and it’s my goal to have made yoga into a good habit before I fly out so…it's popularly understood that a habit is formed by doing something everyday for 21 days...so I'm trying to attend 21 classes (since my return) before that day. I started this personal challenge when I returned on June 24th and have thus far attended 9 classes (dragging my Fiancee to 7 of them), I have 17 more opportunities in which to accomplish 12 classes which gives me a bit of wiggle room for the July 4th things.

I also practice in Plano so keep an eye out for a super large guy wearing an obnoxiously large blue shirt and superman shorts.

- Steve