Collective Trauma: Safety & Interoceptive Care (why, what, and how)
“Interoception is a way of monitoring ourselves so that we can ease the felt pain, expand the felt joy, and make sure that we get the resources needed in any[…]
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Collective Trauma: Belonging (why, what, and how)
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” Bell Hooks During the pandemic, educational institutions began conducting studies on factors that are[…]
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Understanding collective trauma and its impact on our life choices
“Collective trauma is a cataclysmic event that shatters the basic fabric of society.” Gilad Hirschberger On March 23, 2020, the Covid-19 Pandemic shutdown landed in our region. My world changed[…]
Six factors that contribute to your physical strength and how to include them in your yoga practice
Do you want to feel stronger and more stable? How do you get there? The answer might seem obvious – if you want a stronger body, strengthen your muscles. Lift[…]
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Harness Your Mind’s Power: Yoga for Inner Peace and Intentional Living
How many thoughts do you think you have per day? What percentage of those are useful thoughts? Scientists estimate that an average person has about 60,000 thoughts per day, and[…]
Why does your back hurt? Your body might tell you if you listen carefully
Oftentimes our bodies try to get our attention through physical pain and discomfort. The messages that the body is trying to send us range from simple “Quit lifting heavy things[…]
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Talking to the body and leading students on a self-exploration journey
Internal Family Systems (IFS) techniques can help yoga therapists accomplish two fundamental goals in their work with students: unblending (letting go of attachment, vairagya in yogic terms) and unburdening (minimizing[…]
Connecting to the vulnerable parts and releasing their burdens into the elements
In a recent yoga therapy session, a student of mine came to a realization that she would no longer be able to do certain yoga poses because of her recent[…]
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The six steps of IFS for working with our protective parts to discover what’s causing our physical and physiological issues
When we have a persistent pain or health problem that doesn’t seem to respond to usual measures, it helps to take a closer look and see what’s happening within our[…]
How do we know which parts of us need to be taken care of? Understanding psychological reasons for the physical symptoms
Every student who comes in seeking yoga therapy is a complex blend of structural and physiological peculiarities, genetics, past experiences, perceptions, ideas, habitual patterns of movement and behavior, and so[…]
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Why do our efforts to heal ourselves and help our students sometimes fail?
I recently watched a show called Fleishman is in Trouble, which unpacks the aftermath of a divorce. The story’s female protagonist, Rachel, played by Clare Danes, had a difficult childhood[…]
Our inner system of managers, firefighters, and exiles and the dynamics of their relationships
I have an early childhood memory of crying about something or rather and my father taking a camera off the shelf, taking a picture of me, and telling me with[…]
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CAN YOU HEAR ME?! How our conflicting inner parts try to get our attention through the body
For as long as I can remember, my students have talked about their body parts as if they have their own personalities and agendas. They would say things like, “My[…]
Your rowdy inner family and the lasting conflict it creates
My grandmother on my mom’s side had lost her mother early in life. When my grandmother was in elementary school, her mother was arrested by the Communist Party for some[…]
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Just Released: Redesigned and Reimagined Home Yoga Practice App
Last weekend, the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once won an Oscar. The film visually demonstrated how the choices we make in our lives could lead us toward entirely different[…]
Release tension in the hips and integrate your brain hemispheres
Your right and left brain hemispheres approach the tasks you do throughout your day a bit differently: the left one looks at things linearly, as a sequence, and the right[…]
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Changes are in the air! Here is what it will look like going forward
Even though February is still in full swing, signs of spring are already in the air. When I go for my afternoon walk, I can almost feel the trees getting[…]
How to do the Brain Huddle to find inner peace
How do you feel when you are at peace with yourself? Inner peace (or peace of mind), by definition, is an absence of conflict; it is a state of calm that[…]
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How our yoga students deal with illness and the four steps we can follow to help them through
As yoga teachers and yoga therapists, we often encounter students who have been recently diagnosed with some life-altering illness or haven’t figured out a way to effectively deal with their[…]
How the Four Characters view the body and what it means for your yoga students
Last week, I read an article about a 45-year-old Silicon Valley millionaire who is determined to reverse the aging process in each one of his organs and revert them to[…]
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