About six years ago, I started following yoga videos on YouTube.

I was renting a room in Hollandsche Rading, Utrecht, and it was like a treehouse. I was spending my inheritance on rent while following Yoga With Tim videos, cooking nice meals, and suffering through my shopaholism. Divine balance, I suppose.

I admit, I never gave Yin yoga a chance back then. My ego was not having it. It seemed way too slow and “easy.” I wanted to feel like I was an advanced practitioner, proving to myself how “good” I was at yoga.

Now, ironically, here I am in the process of getting my Yin yoga teacher certification. I chose Yin because it is the gentlest of all the different branches. It speaks to the body on a deeper level, the emotional level.