It all started when I watched the movie with Madonna “The next best thing” where she was playing a yoga instructor. I thought to myself: “She is so self-confident, so self-sufficient and it makes her even more beautiful.”

As you see it started from my huge desire to be self-confident, self-sufficient and finally beautiful. I guess we all think about it at least once in our lifetime. But I never knew my thoughts will bring me to a yoga-studio. 

It’s high time to drop a few words about my linguistic education, about my job as an interpreter, about traveling, meeting new people – great, isn’t it? However, it didn’t make me feel complete. I wouldn’t say I got bored. No, I just realized that there are so many things in this world which I still don’t know. I’ve got only one life and do want to know as more as possible about this world. And not only that. I still had a great notion to become a self-confident and a beautiful Madonna.

So I made an appointment in a yoga-studio. The only question was how I am going to explain what I am looking for. Wouldn’t it sound stupid if I start speaking about my complexes? Honestly, I was about to leave when a red-haired woman came up to me. She was a yoga instructor. It’s unbelievable but it seems we talked about everything. We understood each other as if we were old friends.

It’s amazing how easy it is to open our hearts to people who we actually don’t know. At that moment I felt like I knew this person for ages. And I didn’t feel embarrassed to sound stupid or whatever else. I realized I appeared in the right place at the right time.

I wanted to find a self-confident and a beautiful Madonna in myself. But I found so much more: I found a friend; I found a place that helped me to find myself. A cozy place for old friends.

So if you ask me what yoga means to me, I’d rather say that it’s something unique that showed me what I really am.

I don’t want to be like Madonna. I’m self-confident enough to be myself.