The Itsy Bitsy Yogini Climbed Up the Water Spout

I'm not an expert. No, not at all.

I started practicing yoga about six months ago, after a couple of years of doing Pilates.

What I found completely changed my life.

The practice of yoga teaches directly. It transforms the physical lessons into spiritual teachings without so much as a word. It is obviously my way forward.

So I'm not really a yogini, as yet. Hoping to get there someday. As of now I'm a yogista: someone who is passionately in favor of yoga and an avid practitioner thereof.

Let me make a few things clear:

1) I do not hold myself out as an example for anyone. These diaries are simply about my experience, not meant to be instructive or even entertaining. If you don't like it, just change the channel.

2) I don't believe that yoga is for everyone. I'm not trying to convert anyone. For many years I knew I wasn't in the right space to do yoga. If it's not for you, don't do it.

3) I don't think I'm good at it. Not at all. But I love it, and I learn more about myself and the world by doing it than I ever did from all the books I read in college.

So here I am... the Itsy Bitsy Yogini, climbing up the water spout.