Zabie Yamasaki photo by Leanne Sargeant Intentionality and Empathy in Teaching: What it Means to Be A Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor “Never have I felt so safe without having to speak a single word about my assault.” I’ll never forget the day when a survivor shared these words with me after participating in an [...]
Tracee Stanley photo by Chloe Crespi. Fifteen + Steps to Get into the 24-Hour Householder's Flow 1. Let go of the idea that your practice needs to be 15, 30, or 90 minutes long to be meaningful or valid. 2. Instead of one long practice, try 2- to 3-minute mini practice portals that [...]
Your Heart: A Source of Healing in the World The heart is an instrument--the most powerful instrument there is. And like any other instrument, we need to learn how to use it in order to access our ability to be an agent of help and healing in the world. To live from the heart is [...]
Yoga: A Path of Building Mental Resilience while Having Fun! Similar to the roaring 1920s after the 1918 flu pandemic, many of us are eager to engage in more self-care, as well as more fun, to help us separate ourselves from the unpleasantness of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yoga, through movement and exercise, is an excellent [...]
Walking the Lifelong Path of Finding Self-Acceptance When I was a little girl, I remember the feeling of unfairness rising up in me often. It didn’t feel fair that my last name started with an S, which was towards the back of the alphabet, so I had to be called in attendance as one of [...]
When you have to BYOM, carry it with ease! How do we find the most efficient way to BYOM: Bring Your Own Mat? This is a question many of us have been trying to answer. It’s become something of a familiar story, a contemporary conundrum for the modern-day yoga practitioner. These days, we’re bringing our [...]
Journey to Rishikesh: Bridges, the Ganga, and Ashrams Rishikesh is laid out on two sides of the Ganges (correctly, Ganga) River, a bustling downtown on the western side and a quieter area on the eastern side. The southeastern quarter centers itself near Ram Jhula, a swinging footbridge named after Lord Rama, the divine hero of [...]
What does it mean to leave the past behind? The past is such an interesting concept to talk about. Is the past really in the past? So many of us think that the past is behind us; it is simply a memory. We must begin to understand that the past is alive, it lives inside [...]
Meditation Teachers Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine Meditation Teacher Training for the Modern Meditator When we consider meditation and how we can integrate this practice into our daily lives, we would benefit from considering the plight of the modern meditator. Teaching meditation is a sacred art form. A navigation of the highways of [...]
Intro: Remembering 911 I grew up in suburban New Jersey on the commuter line into New York City. I worked my way through school as a junior account executive for a brokerage firm on Wall Street during the dot com boom of the late '90s and early '00s. Back then, the streets of lower Manhattan seemed to [...]