Colleen Weber

Instructor

Brecksville Modern Yoga

I’m an RYT-200 certified yoga teacher. I started practicing yoga in 2009 when I had to quit competitive swimming due to a shoulder injury. I was told yoga would help stabilize my joints and it really ended up stabilizing my whole life. I didn’t realize how detached I was from my somatic experience until I found yoga. I think a lot of people detach from their bodies little by little through the stresses/traumas of life, and there aren’t a lot of places in western society that helps us fix that. We usually just try to find other ways to distract ourselves or numb it down.Yoga was the first place anyone had ever explicitly gave me permission to do what was good for me. It was the first place anyone explicitly asked for permission to be in my physical space. “I’m offering hands-on adjustments, if you don’t want that, you can let me know.” I heard those words and I knew I found home.Yoga is my home, and I teach because I want my students to find theirs.