Ximena Pickett

Ximena was introduced to yoga when she was a teenager. At the time, yoga was just another fun activity to practice with her high school classmates. Ximena and her friends would laugh quietly while holding shoulder-stand and other poses. She drifted away from yoga after coming to the US to continue her college education. After several happy and stable years in the US, Ximena's life was shaken by a crisis. This event threaten many of her core believes, and it triggered her to reexamine many things in life. Today she is very thankful for that crisis because it made her look for and go back to yoga to reencounter her center. Since then yoga has become her daily practice, and it has given her back her passion for life. She is grateful for the many teachers from whom she learned and continuous to learn. Ximena is passionate about "gifting" yoga to whoever would take it, because she is sure everyone can benefit from this practice.