Is it dramatic to say that yoga and meditation saved me?

You bet, as we say in Minnesota.

And yet it’s true. In the same year, I had cancer, chemo, and a divorce I didn’t want.

So trust me when I say—when life gets hard, it’s easy to fall back into old patterns, habits, ways of being that may no longer serve us.

But what about choosing to fall forward instead? Into our bodies? Into our breath?

You and me—let’s step bravely into a sacred space, otherwise known as Now, shall we? 

About Betsy

Betsy Johnson is a writer and professor, and she has been practicing yoga for over twenty years. She’s taught everywhere from a racquetball court to her dentist’s office. If you’d like to take a class from her in person, check out the amazing Shanti Yoga Center in St. Cloud, where Jessie Sandoval has created an incredible sangha (community) of teachers and students.

If Betsy were to play two truths and a lie?

• I cross lines with my left foot, because I am left-handed, and the world is too right-handed-centric.

• I taught Tony Romo, the Dallas Cowboys quarterback.

• I believe blue eggs are magical, and if you eat them, you get “powered up,” just like in a video game.

• (Hint: all of these are true.)