ABOUT DAVE

It all began when I was floating.

When I was 25 years old I’d been going through an emotionally challenging few months. In fact, I was experiencing the stress of life to be so intense that I was having at least one panic attack a month.

The most significant attack happened as I was walking to work one day. Everything seemed fine until the “black cloud” happened. You remember the dark rain cloud that would come flying into old cartoon scenes and start raining on one of the characters? That happened!

What felt like a black cloud of rain suddenly hovered over me, dropping raindrops of fear, worry, and anxiety. I actually dropped to my knees for about 15 seconds before the cloud moved out of the scene and I was able to get up and muster the energy to keep moving forward.

This level of worry and fear continued on for months until I had enough. I made two choices to get better.

First, I walked into my doctor’s office and told them, and I quote, “I’ll take any pill. I don’t want to feel this way anymore. I don’t care about side effects. Just make me feel better.”

Second, I walked into my first yoga class. After fumbling through the postures for 55 minutes I was guided to lay down in “shavasana” which is the final 5-minute resting posture. As I closed my eyes I felt my body lovingly tingling. Then I felt so light and relaxed my body began to lift off the yoga mat. I felt like I was floating. Now, was my body actually lifting off the mat? I’ll let you decide for yourself. Either way, in that moment, I discovered the potential power in holistic healing. That little slice of healing peace that happened, as I was laying on that mat, was enough to open my eyes to another way. Ever since I’ve been on a self development quest.