I am not thin , but i am happy at heart.

I believe thousand of people out there will have an impression that those who practice yoga or teach yoga should be always thin and skinny.

I was once weight 84kg at the age of 17. I was called names like "fatso" , " Hippo " and my life was miserable by then. I start losing weight during college years by adding more physical activities to my daily schedule.It took me years to slowly loose the fat i was carrying till what i am today at 63kg.

Apart from hitting to the gym more often when i started working and could afford the amount of the club fee , i am adding in yoga as part of my life. When i first started yoga,i was so unfit and could never do forward bend with both legs straight back then. Today , i am training to be a world class yoga teacher. Fat or plus side is not the issue that stop u from practicing yoga. There is only one factor that someone could not perform an asana ( yoga posture ), which is the Bones. Your yoga teacher can help u to train your tight and weak muscle , and also open up your mind from fear ( eg, performing headstand is solely depending on your core muscle and strong arms, not anything else). Apart from that , flexibility can be train too as we practice consistently.

Although i am not as thin as what others is expecting from me , but i am proud of what i am today.I do get upset at times when i think i am still over weight and get comments on my not so skinny figure. I never stop practicing yoga and i do it because of passion and loosing weight is the secondary as consistent practice will then help me to loose the extra fats by it self.

Yoga has made me a wiser person and looking things at a different perspective. Size is not a matter , what matters is if our mind are as clam as water , as free as a bird , as kind as mother Teressa to share our love with the world , to love and be love , to be grateful on what we have today to have food and be able to breath in fresh air to live healthy and peacefully with our love ones.

From today , love yourself for who u are and not what others want u to be. Only u can make the changes for yourself, not others.