Yogi brings life lessons back home

In the late 1970s, a 17-year-old disillusioned with his family’s fundamentalist Christianity walked into a yoga class at Aiken Technical College. Thus began a journey that led Michael Carroll to Pennsylvania, the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, an Indian monastery, and, finally, back home, where he’s the highest-level yoga teacher in the Augusta [Georgia, USA] area. “I left a rebellious teenager, and now I’m a contributing member of society,” Mr. Carroll joked. The owner and operator of Radiant Well-being Yoga Studio in North Augusta, Mr. Carroll is a master-level yogi, registered with the national Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT500, the highest designation. There are only 34 instructors at that level in the Southeast and 991 nationwide. Read Article

By Johnny Edwards