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     From Burned Out To Blissful 

 A corporate gal who took to teaching yoga

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I was an overworked communications consultant servicing high-profile government clients in the UAE that frankly left me depleted on most days. My burnout wasn't sudden. It was a slow confluence of many factors - as it always is. Back then, I had no tools to mitigate its pervasive effects - let alone prevent them.  

 

I failed to recognise the signs of burnout early on. And it flared.

 

I got diagnosed with dermatographia aka a skin writing autoimmune disease often triggered by chronic stress. This was in 2019. Of course this shook me no end but I still didn't know how to make a sustainable change.  

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Out of sheer desperation, I turned to yoga. 

 

Growing up in India, yoga had always been around -  hidden in plain sight. But I never really thought of myself as 'yoga type'. 


I started small. Just 5 minutes a day. That's all I could manage. But the consistency made all the difference. With those few minutes, I got better at mindfulness, I learnt to harness the therapeutic qualities of movement and breath when doing asanas (yoga poses). and I experienced the yogic are of deep, restorative rest. 

 

Within just a few weeks, I noticed tangible shifts in my well-being.  
More presence, less overthinking.
More vitality, less fatigue.
More agency in my choices, guided by yogic principles like vairagya (detachment), santosha (contentment) and tapas (discipline).

Yoga’s holistic approach—the weaving together of body, mind, and spirit in a therapeutic rhythm—offered me something I desperately needed: a sustainable blueprint for wellbeing. 

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I was hooked.

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Overtime, my practice grew longer and stronger.​ And somewhere along the way, I became a regular practioner. As for my skin writing disease? It's long gone.

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My leap into teaching...

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It took a lot of deep self-enquiry to finally step into teaching. It's been seven years and counting. Wow. I can't even...

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My teaching journey—first as a full-time teacher, and now part-time—has taken me from corporate boardrooms to sandy beaches, from yoga studios in Abu Dhabi and Toronto to the quieter, more intimate setting of my private teaching space.

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This work is deeply rewarding.


In a world where burnout looms large, yoga offers a pathway to sustained wellbeing. And I am grateful to get to offer that path to others.

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To your reset,

Juzbi

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