How Yoga Helped Me Love My Bigger Body
I remember vividly the moment my ballet teacher said, "Rachel, you have no grace." I was eight, embarrassed, but not surprised.
When I looked at my ballet classmates, I knew the painful truth: my body didn't look like theirs.
So with my less-graceful body, I went down the athletic road, diving into two seasons of soccer a year and basketball in the winter. Despite an active life, weight from an early age became my problem.