We were lucky to catch up with Danielle Kelley recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Danielle, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear the backstory of how you established your own practice.
Get more training. Spend more time in the field learning about individual bodies and how they show up on the mat differently. It’s not just about teaching a class flow, you need to tune into learning how our bodies and our minds and just how beautiful and uniquely different they are.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
After smashing. Goals in the real estate world and trying to save my marriage I burned out with adrenal fatigue.
Yoga saved me! I immersed myself fully. Meditation began to shift my perceptions. I began noticing how certain foods affected my mood and body. I began to control my emotions in a healthy way, my hormones balanced and my intuition grew sharper. Yoga allowed me to re-discover so many amazing things about myself.
Opening a studio with all its many challenges ironically helped me navigate through the phases of my own healing. I love myself and I understand what it feels like to feel that love from others. Not easy but worth it they say, I know every sacrifice will come back to me times three.
I now get share this amazing gift with all of you through the practice of yoga. Private sessions, group classes and soul shifting events.
I’m eternally grateful for it all.
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
I’ve shed so many layers of old conditioning. I now eat what makes me feel alive instead of craving foods that only fed my imbalances. I no longer count calories and I’m the size nature intended bc I put into my body what it needs. Not only has yoga transformed my physical world it has turned my mental world into a garden of self love and healthier habits. I slowly began to notice the things that affected me negatively, behaviors and beliefs that didn’t serve me began to dissolve. Breaking these cycles didnt happpen all at once. Yoga was and still is a practice. I show up and do the work. I gave myself permission to let go of unhealthy expectations, own my own shit and set healthier boundaries.
If you could go back in time, do you think you would have chosen a different profession or specialty?
I feel not only guided but incredibly supported on this path. Not by humans but spirit/God/universe. Whatever you call it, it doesnt matter, the point is MY back is covered.
Trauma has been shaping our lives for centuries and I think we are the generation to change that! It’s time to take care of our mental health!!
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