Yoga is not for me. That was my first thought after my first yoga class. To a soldier with PTSD being in a room full of people I do not know, with limited exits, and then they ask me to close my eyes, not going to happen. To make it worse yogis are nice people, they want to “talk” to me, ask me how I am “feeling”. The nerve of these people.
PTSD was starting to take over my life. I was getting more and more angry each day. It was now negatively impacting my family, friends and work. My mind was always screaming, my body always in pain. I could no longer be active the way I wanted too. Therefore I gave yoga another try for the physical benefits.
Over time the physical benefits started to show themselves. I was stronger, could walk taller and in less pain. I was more active overall in my life. It was the mental benefits that I was not expecting. I learned to quiet my screaming mind. To let go and accept that which I cannot control. Yoga became my practice to bring strength, calmness and wisdom to my mind, body and soul. I practice for me.
My PTSD is still there, every second of every day. Some days are better than others. However each day I conquer it rather than succumb to it. These days you can find me teaching vinyasa yoga or falling out of some kind of arm balance, plank or Warrior 2 all over the seacoast of Maine and New Hampshire. However my home base will always be where I took my first yoga class at Yoga on York in York Maine.
PTSD was starting to take over my life. I was getting more and more angry each day. It was now negatively impacting my family, friends and work. My mind was always screaming, my body always in pain. I could no longer be active the way I wanted too. Therefore I gave yoga another try for the physical benefits.
Over time the physical benefits started to show themselves. I was stronger, could walk taller and in less pain. I was more active overall in my life. It was the mental benefits that I was not expecting. I learned to quiet my screaming mind. To let go and accept that which I cannot control. Yoga became my practice to bring strength, calmness and wisdom to my mind, body and soul. I practice for me.
My PTSD is still there, every second of every day. Some days are better than others. However each day I conquer it rather than succumb to it. These days you can find me teaching vinyasa yoga or falling out of some kind of arm balance, plank or Warrior 2 all over the seacoast of Maine and New Hampshire. However my home base will always be where I took my first yoga class at Yoga on York in York Maine.
David Glazebrook found yoga in 2009 to help cope with injuries and PTSD sustained from a 13 year Army career. A self described mountain man who teaches yoga, David focuses on having fun when he teaches class with jokes and music that you are more likely to hear on a classic rock station then in a Yoga Studio.
David is not your traditional yogi, but a yogi anyway. David completed his 500 RYT with training from Yoga on York in York Maine and from Yoga on the Hill in Kittery Maine.
David is not your traditional yogi, but a yogi anyway. David completed his 500 RYT with training from Yoga on York in York Maine and from Yoga on the Hill in Kittery Maine.
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