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What is perhaps more interesting is that clients may not know themselves if they are ready for spirituality and transformation! This knowledge comes out only after they start intensively practicing yoga themselves. And either the client allows the new experiences to take them forward, reaping the positive effects, or they resist and hold on to the safety of the “known.” Here is the account of a 45-year-old female, an executive in a big financial firm in the US, with whom I worked over a few years:

I had a few different physical symptoms that were causing me unrest (vertigo, forgetfulness, anxiety, to name a few). Since modern medication wasn’t providing me with the relief and the best of doctors were unable to give me diagnoses, I decided to try a different path. At the end of 2012 I spent three weeks at Kaivalyadhama in Lonavala turning to yoga therapy.

I recall one of our early conversations and Lee asking me if the unrest in my body could be part of my spiritual journey to finding my peace. I was scared of the word “spirituality” and wanted to run from the conversation. To me it meant being religious, having blind faith, something to do with ghosts and after-life, general voodoo, and not taking things in my own control. I think in logic and purpose, and there was no room for something called spirituality.