My Story

The spiritual worlds always intrigued me, but I felt I had no access to them.
Just before my army enlistment, I came across an ad for a transcendental meditation course and went for it.
Four days that introduced an entirely new dimension into my life.
From there I came to yoga, and a whole world opened up for me.

After meaningful volunteer military service, I began to discover that people heal from chronic diseases.
I researched and read quite a lot, and yet I knew I wasn't ready myself.
But I understood that I had no intention of living dependent on pills and with an unbalanced body — my day to heal would come too.

I flew to Europe to work for a period and then traveled in the East for six months - each time with a bag carrying 550 pills! I remember putting the bag full of pills into my backpack and not believing it took up a third of my bag, and that I had to travel the world with that — I realized it was significantly limiting my freedom and it just felt simply illogical.
During the travels, as things unfolded, after long journeys I felt I needed rest and took a break.

I went to learn my first yoga teacher training in India — not because I thought I'd become a teacher, but as a gift to myself.

During the course the realization came - I understood that I wanted to take responsibility for my own health and treat myself in a way that lets the body work as it was designed to, without being dependent on pills for life.

I made the decision to change. I returned to Israel and began a deep process with a holistic therapist.
A deep cleanse based on nutrition, herbs and a specific lifestyle.

After two weeks I started reducing medications, and after a month and a half I stopped them completely.
There I saw and felt how much my body had been waiting for this. How strong I am and how I can handle everything. If I thought that living with illness required strength, healing from it made me discover other powers within me and the real strength required to live from choice and not from fear.

Everything I went through leads me to who I am today - living a healthy lifestyle from choice and gaining quality of life every day.

I flew to Bali alone to continue the journey, with the understanding that I needed a disconnected place to live the life I wanted and needed for healing.
This time I packed my backpack and refused to take the medications with me — I felt so good and walked with such strong faith in myself and in the path. I truly didn't need them.
I lived disconnected in nature, cooked myself fresh food every day from the local market, learned another yoga style and had very meaningful experiences.

After 4 months abroad in a style of travel completely different from before, I returned to Israel.
A total of 8 months of holistic cleansing, living without medication.
When I returned I thought I felt amazing — but I realized the journey had only just begun :)
It continues to this day.

Today

I am three and a half years without medication, healthy and honest:
Being healthy doesn't mean always feeling amazing.
It means being in listening, in awareness, knowing your body and knowing how to give it what it needs.
This journey never ends, and that's exactly what's beautiful about it.

I understand today that everything I went through was not for nothing.
Because of this path I am who I am today, leading myself and the people around me toward change and connection.
The illnesses ultimately taught me — and still teach me — what it means to live from choice.

Today I teach yoga, treat with reflexology and consult on healthy living.
In the last three years I've also studied yoga therapy and I'm about to complete my naturopathy studies.
Every world that opened up to me along the way is a tool I bring with me to treatments and teaching.

Yoga supported me throughout the entire journey, and without it I couldn't have done this process.
The deeper I went into yoga, the more I understood that it's an inseparable part of healing and health, because body and mind are one.
Everything is part of the same whole.
What happens on the mat I take into life — and that is the true practice of living with mindfulness.