Jonathan Smith

My yoga journey began when my wife Erin talked me into going to a class by myself. She had been practicing yoga for about 10 years and I would always see her come home with a smile on her face. I was curious to see if the same would happen to me on my first class. Let’s just say that I came home humbled that first evening. I had no idea what I had done that first night to be so sore the next day, but I could not wait to go back and do it again. She went on to get her yoga teacher training certification and decided to fully commit to yoga being her full time gig. I saw her living out her dream of living the yoga life and life was good. In 2014, I was diagnosed with an extremely rare and aggressive form of cancer and my life was turned upside down. I turned to yoga to help with my rehab from surgery and all of the chemo and radiation treatments. It was during this time that I truly understood how yoga can change a person’s life. I credit yoga and the instructors at Flourish for helping me survive through the most challenging mental and physical turmoil I had ever been through. With this new found respect for what yoga did for me, I entered into the yoga teacher training at Flourish in the fall of 2016. I wanted to share with others the gift that yoga gave to me. I do enjoy all styles of asana, yin, gentle, warm, and hot yoga. But it is the practice of the other 7 limbs of yoga that brings everything together.