How I went from a fit aspiring yoga teacher to not being able to walk or talk

Hi, my name is Jasmine Hayer (you can call me Jaz), and I’m one of the earliest, longest standing COVID-19 Long haulers in the UK (not a label that I thought I’d ever give to myself), but here we are.

You can find my story in Stylist Magazine.

The full and up to date version is below.

A fit, healthy aspiring Yoga Teacher

I’m a 31-year-old Life Coach, Ayurvedic Health Coach and the Head of Membership at Kindred,a Members Club in West London. I was an avid yogi, practiced daily meditation and had no existing illnesses.

I noticed that stress impacted me more physically and I was susceptible to the ‘London burn-out’, but hey, what busy millennial in the city wasn’t? I was used to practicing hours of intense…

We have entered another health crisis but the Government isn’t telling anyone

#1: To educate people about what Long Covid actually is

Long Covid is the long term effect of Covid-19 (12 weeks plus), yet ‘new symptoms’ emerge across multiple organs that people don’t even experience with Covid-19. Long Covid sufferers, known as ‘long haulers’ experience unexplainable new symptoms, relapses and the complete rewiring of our previously normal health.

You find yourself unable to do what you did before, sometimes there’s a diagnosis and sometimes there’s not, alongside extremely unexpected…