Let me Introduce myself =)

Hiii!!

My name is Carrie. Born and raised in Mississippi, but moved to Texas years ago, and consider here home. I am 34 years old, somehow, and am happily married and have been for almost 10 years! (October 10th is our anniversary ) and together we have 4 kids!!! 3 boys and 1 girl. 1 boy is15 and is in High-school, 1 boy is 12 and is in middle-school and 1 boy that is 9 and is in elementary, and then my little baby that stays at home with us and she is 2 on August 8. Sooo.. i guess you can say....we STAY with busy lives! November 2019 is when i started yoga teacher training school. I graduated several tiring months later, and I am now a certified 200 hr yoga teacher. let me just say Fitness & Yoga has changed my life!

I always struggled with the way I saw myself. Ever since I could remember. I was totally uncomfortable in my own skin. ESPECIALLY after having 2 kids by this time. It spiraled out of control. After my first pregnancy, I remember looking at my belly and crying. My once smooth, flat belly was far from that now....i had stretch marks now, my skin was loose, but there was more...I suffered/suffer from psoriasis. I developed it all over body, because I was so stressed and post-partum depression was through the roof. This was always on my mind. 3 years later I was pregnant again, and at that time, I had just lost a little bit of the weight. But my mind wasn’t in the right place, and as soon as i found i was pregnant, I gained a lot of weight realllll fast, again. I developed Thyroid issues. I had morning sickness for 7 months straight, and nothing helped it. I lost hair and all i wanted to do was sleep. Then....after I have the baby. I look down and it hits me again...the look of my belly. It hurt; it was scary. I was never going have my body back.... is literally what I thought.

I remember the month and year so clearly though. It was MAY 2014. I had been 2 ½ years post-partum, with my last son, at that point and was so unhappy with myself. I had been scrolling through fitness and yoga Instagram accounts for months...I've NEVER been into fitness. The only physical thing I did, in my entire life, was play softball. I started playing at 9 and played all the way till i was 15, while I was in the beginning years of high school... and I'm pretty sure I quit cause I had to run! Ha! .I I I was so tired of feeling lost. feeling tired. not feeling good in my own skin....but then, its like something just clicked.

....an Instagram yogi sparked my interest. She was in her 40’s. She had kids, a husband. Lived on the beach, did KILLER handstands and had the best body (in my opinion at the time). She was confident, taught self-love and talked about her struggles....i followed her and still do till this day. I decided then, that i wanted to show THAT type of difference, especially in women just like me. I wanted to share my story, my journey like I see it. So, that afternoon, I got on the floor and threw myself up into a headstand. Against the wall of course.. Over and over and over.....and from then on out...it was every day, then every day, all day. My husband remembers me waking up in pain from the day before of practicing...it was like an addiction. Finally, I could challenge myself and i FELT strong!!! It was headstands first, then handstand, then allll kinds of balances. And while doing this. I lost over 50 lbs!!! I started posting my photos and videos and inspiring people...I felt myself becoming, or "molding" myself into the “Instagram yogi” that inspired me to start.

Around 6 months after I lost the weight, I started getting bored. I kept getting message after message from Beachbody fitness people, but not only beach body, but alottt of different MLM fitness/performance line companies. I turned them all down time and time until one time I said yes to beach body!!! (If you aren't familiar with this platform i suggest looking into it)

Fast forward (I will dig deeper throughout this journey later)

For the last 4 years I have dabbled in BEACHBODY coaching. I have seen results, I have gained so many friends, learned a lot a lot a lot about myself. I've lost weight, gained muscle. Quit and started more than twice. Shared this business with others and saw results in them too. I've learned what works for my body and what doesn’t and I've learned how to share it and help others in the process. Beach body also had given me something to look forward to. Something to keep me motivated and keeps me accountable to myself and real friends in this with me!!! I've seen so many successes. I have seen struggles, its always fun and constantly something new and exciting out!

I finally took the Leap.

After Graduating Yoga Teacher Training in November of 2019 I wanted to immediately start teaching everything I knew! I wanted to share it all. The only problem was I felt so overwhelmed. I had just learned so much. My mind felt flooded. Plus, I had everything else in the world on my mind. Directly out of yoga school, i started working for a studio. What a dream come true. but the only thing....again. I just couldn't make it work. I felt lost even with all the help I had. So, I became a hermit and I even just quit practicing yoga all together. I went a month or so just feeling so lost. I didn't feel like I fit in anywhere. When I would think about practicing it would scare me. Like, what would I do, what if its not being done right.. just a million things running in my mind. Then, it seemed, as soon as Covid-19 became worse, so did my want or need to do yoga or workout. I didn’t know quite what It was at this point that I wanted.. I knew I love yoga, It just always seemed like I was chasing nothing. 

Until I had a dream.

Call it what you want.

 But I was telling my husband that I truly felt yoga and fitness was my calling. That every time I thought about life and what I wanted or what my calling is, It all came back to helping people.  and also my love for fitness. Beachbody mostly, but i also taught HIIT workouts too and i loved that and how it helped me. I already knew I decided to start getting serious about Beachbody but still, there was my need to share my passion for yoga. 

We spoke it into the universe. My husband reassured me to just keep on trying. Keep pushing, keep speaking it....he's always supportive like this, but this time, i felt like I was on the right track.

The next morning as soon as I was waking, I was dreaming. I don’t ever dream, and if I do. I rarely remember. It was a bunny. It was running around with my cat in the room, bouncing all over. I remember it being so weird, and when I opened my eyes, I even looked around, rubbed my eyes, realizing, ok. That was a dream, silly. I thought nothing else of it.

That day, I was given a sign. It was a simple sign. Not much at all...but actually HUGE, you know?! This (my dream) is actually happening. I got back into contact with a person who I call "my guru". Its kinnnnddaaaa a joke, but not really. I fully believe she has been my person to be reassured and shown love & light. She showed up in my life and also helped show me some sort of direction. She assures me see that I can do it all. I realized that can share my love for fitness AND yoga in my own way!! Who says it has to be a certain way. This is My journey!

Educating & Inspiring others to transform their mind, body, & spirt, through fitness & gentle Yoga & Meditation.

To Be Continued.....

Never in my dreams would I think my 5-10 year Plan to run my own yoga studio would happen just weeks after I FINALLY found my direction. This is MY REALITY!!! Story on how I became "Yoga at the 'Ville". Coming soon!

LOTS OF LOVE

Carrie.