3 Things I Learned After Taking a Break from My Yoga Practice
Rather than feeling guilty for not rolling out her mat every day, one writer embraced her hiatus from yoga—and it transformed her practice forever.
Erika Prafder is a veteran writer for The New York Post and the author of a book on entrepreneurship. A long-time yoga enthusiast and Hatha yoga teacher, she edits, a news source for young yogis. She recently co-founded drawingboardshop.com, an e-commerce and content site celebrating life’s gifts and creative entrepreneurship. The working mother of three resides in a beach community in Long Island, New York.
Rather than feeling guilty for not rolling out her mat every day, one writer embraced her hiatus from yoga—and it transformed her practice forever.
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