When a debilitating sports injury seemingly changed her life forever (read: she had to relearn how to walk), Sara Black recounts her remarkable [yoga] road to recovery to remind us all that where there’s a will, there’s a very determined human way. Interestingly, here’s what she learnt along the way. As told to Shauna Popple Williams:
I’ll back track a little bit so you can get a firmer grasp of where I’ve come from. In July 2016, while training for a triathlon, I flew off my bike and fractured my hip. It was a multiple hip fracture, and I had to learn how to walk again.
Coming from such an active lifestyle of marathon and triathlon training, the only physical activity I could do was yoga. How amazing that it has not only helped heal me, but helped me blossom to my fullest incarnation of a human being yet.
As I was steadily increasing in mobility after the hip fracture, I could then already see and feel how the practice of yoga was creating a very real calm and serenity in me. As I was growing in my practice, there was no other logical place to go but to learn more.
So, off I went to Rishikesh, India, the birthplace of yoga to dive into this practice that was giving me so much peace.
