Salut Salut beautiful community. I am Hannah, and I live in Swannanoa, NC, (down the road from Asheville, NC) in the triumphant Blue Ridge Mountains. Our community just experienced Hurricane Helene, and it is a tender wound we are all tending too. Originally from Louisiana, I am not a stranger to mother nature's Kali energy. I bow to it, and this time has now become a catalyst.

Before this, I had my own wounds, some self-induced, and others caused both intentionally and unintentionally by others. I felt as if I was already being buried alive, gasping for air. I threw my triple fire sign composition into overdoing at the gym, fawning over my children and partner, and leaving very little for my own self. I lost my yoga practice, but the night of the hurricane, the truth of the destruction hidden by the night and the slowly rising river, I found hope again.

I picked up Be Love Now by Ram Dass, I bought a new yoga mat and forced myself into spirit. I knew this was the only way to remind myself, not distract myself any further. Light began seeping back into my soul, and as much as I tried to shut it out (I can be a bit Bukowski like at time), it silently held my hand. Through community, through family, through my children, through my patients working as a registered nurse, through my partner. 

That is what brings me here today. Along with adoring Meghan since the Cody app back when I first really found yoga. This is the type of yoga that changes the world, the one that begins in self-prayer, no expectations, only explorations.

Thank you, thank you, I am so honored to be here with you all.