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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...
Interviewed by Sarah McElwain What is Aura-Soma energy work? Aura-Soma is a color care system created in England by Vicky Wall in 1983. After dedicating her life to the welfare of others as a surgical chiropodist, Vicky Wall retired due to clinical blindness....
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...
Tinuola Rose An interview with Kitchen Manager, Tinuola Rose Maybe it’s because I'm a first generation African Caribbean woman born in the U.K. that I consider myself somewhat of a trailblazer, a pioneer. I always seem to find my way to spaces that allow for...
By Laurie Stark A quarter of a billion people, globally, are classified as refugees or “forcibly displaced persons,” the highest level of displacement in history, forced from their homes and/or homelands due to war, natural disaster, persecution, violence,...
Interviewed by Sarah McElwain Francesca Biryukov How did you become an acupuncture practitioner? I started as a bodyworker and went to the Swedish Institute to learn massage. While I was there, I was exposed to various teachers and more Eastern studies. And then...
Interviewed by Sarah McElwain Peter Karow Of all the trainings and personal experience you've had with yoga, what led you to teach your Deep Relaxation class? Many years ago, I took other types of yoga but also just regular Integral Yoga Hatha classes. And I...
Leila Hegazy What I love about Integral Yoga My favorite thing about Integral Yoga is how holistic it is. It truly takes into account the whole person, and all the ways that we need to be nourished for maximum physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Each branch...
By Diana Dhāraṇī Díaz Asteya, or non-stealing, is the third of the five yamas. Growing up Catholic and attending parochial school, we had a monthly practice of the sacrament of Reconciliation, more commonly known as “Confession”. My younger self struggled with...