Danni Pomplun – How Yoga saved my Life

Danni Pomplun is a San Francisco Based E-RYT 500 Vinyasa Yoga Teacher & Teacher Trainer whose style has been described as functional, down-to-earth and fun with an edge. Each offering will connect to power and flow, infused with light-hearted spirituality where youll find the inspiration to connect with your higher self.
Danni Pomplun Vroom Vroom Veer Stories

Danni is excited about a yoga and mediation retreat he has coming up in January for New Year's in Baja California, Mexico at Todos Santos
He grew up in and around the Echo Park area of East LA...it's kinda nice and hip now, but back that is was filled with gangs all day long
Growing Danni's father was absent and his mother was an addict and a felon, in and out of prison; Danni was working on surviving his environment every day
At age 16 and left home and started living on the street and doing what he had to do to survive; some days he sold drugs; other days he would steal to eat and stay warm
How Danni's childhood trauma left him without the emotional tool set to deal said trauma; so no knowing how to process those feelings he numbed himself with alcohol and drugs
He started working at bars and night clubs which only fed into the addiction and the numbing behavior
Everyone is addicted to something and that just means we don't have a healthy way to process painful thoughts and emotions; we need normalize this so we can feel connection instead of isolation
At age 25 a partner of his pasted away; he went on a rager into his addiction and trashed his apartment; his roommate at the time told him she could be around him anymore; this led to a suicide attempt
His roommate suggested that he go to a yoga class; the community allowed him to have a space to talk about what was he was dealing with
Going to yoga helped him drink less because he had something else in his life to commit to; it also helped him quit one of his bar jobs so he could move away from booze
After he quit the bar job, he didn't have enough money to pay for yoga classes; so the studio allowed him to scrub toilet for free yoga
The studio very gently nudged him to take a teacher training class just for free yoga; he resisted at first, but realized he need to accept their gift

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