You Should Be Doing This

A Yoga Teachers Journey

Asana at Home’s yoga teacher, Risto Duggan didn’t always have a gentle approach to physical movement and well-being. As a semi-pro athlete, Risto had been no stranger to a succession of battered and broken bones, including a broken femur and a hip replacement. 

Risto’s yoga teachers journey began on his 40^th birthday. While learning the ropes of yoga, Risto was embarking on a series of surgeries to repair all the previous damage he had endured over the years as a semi-pro athlete. About two years after his first yoga class, Risto began officially teaching yoga.

Risto explained that there was a time before he had tried yoga that he thought maybe that yoga was something that he needed in his life. 

“I was bodybuilding. Quite a bit like I was in the gym five days a week. And I was just getting stiffer and stiffer and stiffer. And there was a yoga class, at the gym, in my studio,” Risto said. 

He knew that he needed to address these issues as he was getting stiffer and that the damage that his body had endured had not been dealt with. Risto decided to give yoga a try and see what the outcome was. 

Risto explained that the impact that yoga had on his body was dramatic and he decided to keep with it. Within three to four months later, Risto was practicing yoga regularly at home and at the gym he was a member of.