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So what's my story? 


At 21, Infosys Mysore became my home and software skills training kicked in. It was an ordinary December 2015 afternoon, when me and my friends were having lunch during our break. I remember laughing on a joke one of my friends cracked over the lunch table. I was almost done with my lunch, so I stood up to leave. AND THAT'S WHEN IT HAPPENED!


A sharp string of pain rushed to my spine and what felt like a crack in my lower back made me fall on the ground. I was on my knees with everyone looking at me. The pain had broken me. Everything around me started fading away and all I could feel was pain. In a squeaky voice I started saying I can't stand, I can't feel my legs.


One of my friends called up an ambulance and took me to the clinic where our physiotherapist examined me and told me I had a spinal compression due to my sedentary lifestyle and constant sitting before the laptop. Those moments felt like I could never walk again. My tears forced me to ask the doctor if I could walk ever or not. If I could ever use my legs again. :'(


She asked me not to worry and work on some lifestyle habits, take complete bed rest and start working out. I was on bed, my friends would help me out to do my daily activities and I had to sleep thinking and feeling the pain. After a month of physiotherapy, I started getting better and started gym.


I had never been a person who was actively involved in sports, dance or any other form of movement related activity. But that had to change for good.


Just imagine something that naturally comes to you which you took it for granted all your life. In a fraction of a moment everything changes and you understand it was a luxury all along the way. Walking, running, sitting, staying in good health were my luxuries that I had taken for granted for a long long time when life showed me it's to be respected and treated well.


I have been in IT industry for 3.5 years now, both pre and post my MBA and it's a mission for me to see better workplaces and healthier beings without spinal problems. I mean why should we choose between better health and better salary? Why can't we get the best of both worlds?


This blog is an initiative to spread health, healing and happiness through the power of nature and yoga. I would love to connect with you and reply to your mails if you have any questions on how to start your journey with being a better version of you. Please subscribe to my blog where I will share simple tips and exercises to build a stronger you.


Just remember, the change has to start from you. So let's work together to bring that change in our habits, systems and processes. :)


- Love Swikruti.

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