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Pune Dracker Interviewed by Sarah McElwain You manage the front desk at IYINY. What special skills and experience do you bring to this job? While I had never managed a customer service team, I did select and mentor a team of junior writers for a national nonprofit,...
Interviewed by Sarah McElwain You teach Kids Yoga for 7 to 11 year olds. What inspired you to teach this class? As yoga instructors, I see it as our goal to share yoga with as many people as possible. After teaching adult students and young adult college students for...
By Chandra/Jo Sgammato My discovery of Yoga and meditation when I was 18 and a college freshman began to change me from an angry and troubled teenager who hated phys ed to a balanced adult comfortable in my body. It took years, of course, for the practices to take...
By Swami Premananda At any moment, or stage of your life, take the pathway that feels the easiest and the most enjoyable. At one point, it might be the path of bhakti (devotion and surrender), which is all about sensing and feeling into the heart. At another...
by Krishna Karl Spicer Krishna Karl Spicer The first thing I love is that it’s something you can DO when everything else out there is falling apart. I know this has brought many people to Yoga. It’s a way to assert your own power and control over...
by Anitra (Amrita) Frazier Anitra (Amrita) Frazier At first I resisted Yoga. My friends kept urging me to go IYI when it was at 500 West End Avenue. I’d walk past the tasteful brass plaque everyday but I wouldn’t go in. I was depressed, smoking marijuana, unsatisfied...
Interviewed by Sarah McElwain Maria Alfaro What is TRE®? TRE stands for Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises. This simple set of exercises mildly fatigue and stretch the muscles in our legs to activate a natural tremoring response called Neurogenic Tremors. This...