My daughter Waleska died December 19th 2020- the day after her 28th birthday.

She left for us reflections, realizations, and aha moments written in her journals. 

She wanted to inspire others going through challenges like she was. She also wanted to write a book and was planning to start a blog for it.

I am sharing here a bit about her, and will be sharing her writings on upcoming posts.

Join me on a journey of finding strength, depth, challenge, flow, forgiveness, gratitude, and Infinite LOVE!

Meet Waleska

“My story is about illness and disease and overcoming but it is also about more than that

Its about finding myself and learning how to fix my own problems instead of relying on others

In the last 4 years I have gone through quite a transformation and I want to share my story to help people go through their own transformation without so much pain

An intro -

I was being worked up for kidney transplant when the doctors told me that I needed new lungs because I wasn’t passing my pulmonary function tests. After a slight panic, I started pondering what to do to heal myself. One thing led to another and I found myself in a yoga class. The only one that I had any chance of being able to do: a class for seniors at the community center.”

It opened this amazing world at a time when I was quite lost. I had not gone to college like the rest of my friends, I just ended up suspended in this weird limbo where my life was consumed by doctors, lab draws, dialysis and disease and I’d just about had it.

After the acute kidney failure turned chronic I was losing hope of my kidneys working again and my attention turned to transplant. But my body had other plans because it seemed that my lungs would not be able to handle the stress of going under anesthesia for 6 hours and I was informed that if I wanted a new kidney I would need a new set of lungs as well. Cleary there was not a quick fix solution to my problem.

When I went to my first yoga class it had been about three years since the severe decline of my health. After almost dying, multiple hospitalizations, 2 months in the ICU and almost total loss of muscle, my body was not exactly supple, flexible or strong, and regular classes were out of the question. 

After that first class I found a small studio and started private lessons doing some very gentle yoga and breathing exercises for my lungs. I was hooked, for the first time in over 3 years I didn’t feel uncomfortable in my own skin. It was like this warm tingly feeling was bringing life back into my body. Of course, it wasn’t easy, and at times it was painful because my body was so battered, but little by little I chipped away and little by little I felt better and better.

It started with just the physical poses and breathing techniques, but the most wonderful part was the philosophy, mindfulness and spirituality that helped me overcome the fear, depression and negativity associated with getting so sick so young. It inspired me in ways that I didn’t think possible in a time when it was hard to get up in the morning.

There are days when I feel wonderful and my practice is fantastic and there are days when I can barely get on the mat, standing is a chore and concentrating on breathing out of the question.

Yoga lit a fire inside of me and ignited a passion that I wanted to share with the world

In dealing with a disease I found that there are 3 important things in life that got me through it:

• A fantastic support system (family and friends!)

• A belief in something greater than myself.

• Something to look forward too.

When I found yoga I finally had something to look forward to. And if through this blog I can help or inspire even just one person it would bring me so much joy.

Follow me here for my insights on life’s little gems…and, well, poops. I invite you to go on a journey of inspiration with me; maybe something I say will spark a light that will motivate you. My mission is to spread the message that there is no need to reach the critical and usually awful point in life that forces us to change. Why do it tomorrow when you can do it today?”