Yoga Bodies by Lauren Lipton

Author:Lauren Lipton [Lipton, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2017-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

Adesuwa and Esosa

PARTNER BOAT POSE

Adesuwa: When we were younger we were not that close at all. She is a very old soul, and I was a very young soul. I was vengeful and held grudges. When I was angry, I used to almost kind of enjoy it.

Esosa: Talk about angsty teenagers. She was not an easy person to get along with. She thought everyone was against her, and our relationship really suffered. When she was fourteen and I was sixteen, we stopped talking to each other. Literally, we were under the same roof, and we didn’t say a word to each other for a year and a half. Then I left home for college.

Recently we were talking about those years, and I asked her, “Do you even remember why we were mad at each other?” She was like, “Nope.” I didn’t either.

Adesuwa: Around this same time, when I was about thirteen or fourteen, I started thinking, “I don’t think I’m the person I want to be.” I read biographies of Mother Teresa, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. They exhibited certain qualities I didn’t think I had yet. I decided that I needed to start seeing things from other people’s perspectives.

Esosa: I went away to school, and when I came home for break a few months later, she was like, “Hi.” I was surprised. I thought, “Oh, well, OK, hi.” I think at that moment, my sister chose to put things aside.

Adesuwa: Now I want everyone else to be happy. And our relationship has blossomed into something unique and powerful. We are each other’s closest friend and biggest supporter.

Esosa: She started yoga about two years ago. She got really excited about it, and it made me excited about it, so I recently started taking classes.

It’s a bit slow-paced for me. I still don’t quite get it. I truly want to get into yoga, though, because I love my sister, and she loves it.

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