Bending and stretching by the Sauna? Does anyone else do sau..

Bending and stretching by the Sauna?
Does anyone else do sauna?
I started mid twenties in Austria. I met the town mayor and head of police all barefoot and naked in the sauna.
Still can’t recognize them with clothes haha 😂
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When I first started my movement journey I was only 9 months.  My brother kept tripping over me so I stood up and walked away. I have never stopped moving since. 

Between 1 and 10 I nearly drowned twice and had a fear of the water. At age 10 my brother's swimming coach asked my mum why I did not swim?  

Mum said what happened and the coach told me to get in the water and try to swim. So I swam about 25m and then I stopped. She said good job and I will start swimming with her now. So I did. 

I became a state swimmer through lots of hard work. We use to train about 4-5kms a session 3 to 5 days a week as well as teach swimming to those younger than us. In high school around year 7 or 8 I tried out for water polo. I loved it so much it became my main sport and I ended up playing nationally. I was a left handed which was advantageous as people did not expect it and I was fast because of my endurance and swimming background. 

However a few years late I quit because they kept judging me by my size instead of my skills. It was my first memory of where I realised the world doesn't see us by us or what we can actually do. The world and others see us by what they want to see or assume or untruths that have been told. In waterpolo they believed you had to be a bigger statued person to hold your own. However I shot many goals and always won the swim up to the ball and also kept up in the pool. It made me also understand life is unfair but I will not let that stop me. People will judge and assume but you do not have to own that judgment or their opinions. Live your life.  

In the background I had started running and practiced a lot. I used to run up to 80km a week and ended up competing internationally at the pan pacific games in 2000 in 3000m.  Sports to me have always been a wild ride as I've never been natural and always done the hard work.  When I finished school I had to go out into the real world so I quit running as I could not afford to do it and not work. It was a hard decision. I dreamed of becoming an olympic athlete or famous athlete but that is life we all have to make hard choices.

When I first started running in primary school I was pigeon toed, knock knee, always had the stitch and apparently my elbows swung out.   Being a natural does not determine if you will go places. For me it is the world you do when nobody is watching.

When I started yoga at 30 I had no gymnastic or dance background, I just had the ability to work.  Now 11 years later the skills I have are just because of 11 years of work. I am not someone special or exceptionally gifted. I have to work and raise a family like anyone else but I am determined and work for what I have. I think in a world of instant gratification people underestimate hard work. At 40 I see many people say I cant do this anymore because of my age. Or I hear I am getting old. I do not want this to be a limitation my age. I want it to be a gift to be here and work for what I have. I do not want to be defined I want to be a person who lives and makes things happen. I hope as I do I also inspire others to do the same. When I talk about doing the work I am not talking about the grind either. I am talking about how good it feels to do something the world or you didn't think you could.  How good it fees to be showing up and creating changes and making possibilities when we are limited as it is, so we can create our own freedom.

Honestly I never thought I would be here on social media sharing these skills. 11 years ago I could barely get out of bed. My mental health was so bad and splits and handstands were non existence. I did not think a little girl that could barely read or write would write a book and even with the continued spelling and grammar issues learn another language. But here I am. In a world that says now or nothing, instant or no patience, perfect or not good enough. Just do this.... be you and work for the life you deserve.

Now I look back and see how far I have come and the one piece of information I can give anyone who wants to achieve is this: There are a minimum number of failures you need to go through before you achieve any kind of success. It doesn't matter how much you learn or practice. If you aren't failing, trying again and building in the real world, you are delaying the process.

Failing is a gift and the more you fail the more you learn and develop skills.

Believe and achieve Rhy xo