For many people in the yoga community, the medical system can feel both necessary and incomplete. It can be lifesaving in crisis, brilliant at diagnostics, and essential for certain conditions—yet it often isn’t built to address the lived experience of stress, meaning, embodiment, and spiritual resilience. Integrative healing begins when we stop treating these [...]
The famed and realized teacher who guides others toward liberation, named Sadhguru, calls it “the most dangerous form of yoga.” Others swear it transformed their entire lives. You have heard both sides, and now there is a tension inside you because you don’t know who to believe. Here is what twenty years of teaching [...]
Here you are, thinking about a yoga teacher training. You might feel called to teach or you might simply want a deeper practice, people feel called to do trainings for a variety of reasons. You have probably looked up the costs and found everything from $99 all the way to $11,000. The cost part [...]
Mastery of any teaching requires a level of expertise that can only be forged in steady dedication, practice, and time. Becoming a Reiki Master is no different. The system of Reiki is taught in three levels. Each level builds upon itself in order to support proper integration of the techniques. Upon completion of the [...]
There comes a moment when the surface is not enough. You want a deeper bond with your breath, mind and body. You may feel called to share yoga. Is yoga teacher training worth it? Training is not poses and a badge it is a season of lineage and philosophy, practice with feedback, anatomy for [...]
By Alexandra D. Crosswell, PhD Every student of yoga has felt it: you walk into a class where the energy feels calm and grounded, and your own body softens before you even roll out your mat. On the other hand, imagine if you were to step into a room where the teacher was running [...]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time that reminds us to take our health seriously and prioritize regular screenings, whether that means a mammogram or other early detection tests. As the granddaughter of a breast cancer survivor, I can still see the image of my grandmother riding away in the car, my mother [...]
Yoga Therapy is a 4,000 year old complementary healing modality that uses gentle body movement, breathing techniques and progressive relaxation practices to bring all the body systems into a synchronistic bio-rhythm that has been proven to engender healing. Science has recently taken a good hard look at the healing properties of yoga in regard [...]
As yoga teachers and therapists students often come to us and tell us they have digestive issues or hormonal imbalances, auto-immune disorders, or cancer. They’ve shown up because they’ve heard great things about yoga and they believe it may be able help them. If you’re nervous about how to help a student or client [...]
Reiki is a healing modality that was developed in 1922 by the Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui. Translating Japanese into English is more of an art than exact science. The Japanese language has many layers of meaning. Context is very important. As an example, “Rei” is commonly translated as “ghost” and “Ki” as vapor. This [...]
