| Meet Our Instructors - Darcy |
 My story began when, as a three-year-old, I was found abandoned at a railroad station outside Seoul, Korea. I was taken to an orphanage in Chechon where eventually I was adopted by a Caucasian family in Washington state. Unable to express the emotions of losing my biological heritage and culture, I did not willingly accept my new family; my earliest memories of childhood were of unhappiness and sorrow. My teenage years were as normal as could be expected for a Korean adoptee trying to assimilate into Western society. I graduated from college and married soon thereafter. It was not until several years later I began to wonder why I didn't feel happy in the midst of a loving family, a good job, and all the material comforts I could ask for. It was apparent that something was holding me back from experiencing the fullness of life, joy, and happiness. I started yoga out of curiosity and for physical conditioning after childbirth, and have stuck with yoga after discovering its path of self realization. Through yoga, I have found the strength and courage to face the issues of adoption, bonding, loss of biological connection, and sense of lost identity that traditional counseling could not crack. The practice of yoga stills the mind long enough to bring subconscious thoughts to light, the things which bind and shape us in unknowing ways. Yoga can bring clarity to the source of pain. Yoga gives hope and transformative power of the soul to heal, forgive, and love. As I have experienced, yoga can help you to accept what life has brought and continues to bring. I encourage you to live with more awareness, feel the greater joy and happiness of life, and to live abundantly. Anyone,  regardless of race, gender, age, or profession, can practice yoga. We all enter the studio as equals because we are made of the same essential spirit. Let your spirit shine brilliantly. Know that you are not alone; you will always have a home and belong to the practice of yoga. I am deeply grateful to my adoptive family, my three boys, husband, and yoga teachers who continue to guide me and watch my journey unfold. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Jalal ad-Din Rumi quote |