Why help?

In June I started on the path to becoming a Pilates teacher. With a generous donation from a life-long friend I started the pre-requisites for a local Pilates Certification Program.



Now...I need to finish.



I have been having trouble putting into words what finishing this training means to me because how do you tell people it will save your life without sounding melodramatic?



But itâ??s so true. Up until now I have been barely surviving, but I believe I can thrive.



I have so much to give and share and with just a little help-the help of vocational training so I can provide healthcare support and a decent living space g to give me enough stamina to meet the world, everyday. Much in the tradition of â??teach a man to fishâ??... I want to learn to fish so I can feed myself.



I do not have family or any source of support except myself, so I had to do find something that I could physically and emotionally do, that I enjoyed, that I was skilled enough to do to make good enough money to enable me to work around the illness.



Because I had spent my 20â??s and much of my 30â??s barely able to function, I had not developed â??marketable skillsâ?? and was not able to afford the medical care and support I needed in order to work.



The skills I had were in the area of performing and writing, neither of which I was sure I would ever be able to do again.



It was after years of searching for the right path that I saw an application for Pilates Teacher Training at a local studio. I did research and it fit the criteria. On top of it, it was therapeutic for me and fun!



Thanks to the generosity of my friend, Jennifer Kaiser, I was able to start the Immersion program and all summer I trained and completed the prerequisite. It was tough, but I did it.



Now I need help to finish the rest of the training.