Tanya Chiu shares how she utilizes practices like meditation and yoga to manage MG, and how she’s adapted these practices to match her ability level.
Transcript
My career as a yoga instructor has been super helpful. There are a lot of tools I’ve returned to and made part of my life. I meditate daily, do breathwork daily, and have changed my yoga practice. I used to do more physically challenging yoga, but now I’m leaning into more restorative yoga and therapy.
I have a therapist, and there’s a lot of grief that comes along with having a chronic illness. I really struggled at the beginning because I was such a physical person, and now I have so many limitations. I’ve accepted it, but my meditation and yoga practice, along with breathwork, are what’s saving me.
