Hands to Heart: A Yoga Service Interview with Susan Lovett At Yoga Service Council one of our core tenets is supporting and celebrating the work of great Yoga Service Organizations. One of our Board members of Yoga Service Council, Susanna Barkataki, sat down with Susan Lovett , the founder and director of Hands to Heart…
Editor’s note: Alexa Mergen, who teaches yoga in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, is passionate about bringing the practice to other small towns across the U.S. In Fall 2016, she joined the Yoga Service Council to connect with a like-minded community that would support her dream. Here, she reflects on what she learned from consulting with YSC Board member…
The Yoga Service Council is proud to share this inspiring poem by Sarah Plummer Taylor, a U.S. Marine veteran, author, wellness leader, and contributor to our forthcoming book, Best Practices for Yoga with Veterans. You can listen to Sarah read her poem by clicking here, and highly recommend that you do! SUN SALUTES Sun’s fingers reach around…
Black Yoga Teacher Alliance Conference at Kripalu, August 25 – 28, 2016. I just returned from a family reunion! Had no idea I was even going to one. I registered for the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance Conference at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, in Stockbridge, Mass. I have been to quite a few…
So many wonderful yogis have been born on the mats in the beautiful Linehan Chapel on the campus of Nazareth College. Students at Naz have the amazing opportunity to participate in yoga classes on campus six times per week. The yoga programs at Nazareth have earned national recognition in the world of higher education. But…
Melanie Klein, the Co-Founder of Yoga and Body Image coalition (Y.B.I.C.), sat down with Susanna Barkataki, a board member of Yoga Service Council, to discuss moving beyond “yogalebrity” to yoga community, past wins and future plans for Y.B.I.C., and the challenges of partnering with big yoga businesses while changing the face of modern yoga. Yoga…
This is the final post in a 3-part series exploring diversity (or the lack thereof) in Chicago’s yoga community. The author, Karla Velasco, wrote it as part of Natalie Tomlin’s “Explore Chicago” course at DePaul University in Winter 2016. This class took students to visit several Chicago yoga studios, and asked them to write about their experience. Karla chose to frame her reflections…
This post is the second in a 3-part series exploring diversity (or the lack thereof) in Chicago’s yoga community. The author, Karla Velasco, wrote it as part of Natalie Tomlin’s “Explore Chicago” course at DePaul University in Winter 2016. This class took students to visit several Chicago yoga studios, and asked them to write about their experience. Karla chose to frame her reflections…
This post is the first in a 3-part series exploring diversity (or the lack thereof) in Chicago’s yoga community. The author, Karla Velasco, wrote it as part of Natalie Tomlin’s “Explore Chicago” course at DePaul University in Winter 2016. This class took students to visit several Chicago yoga studios, and asked them to write about their experience. Karla chose to…
Operating within the juvenile justice system, The Art of Yoga Project provides yoga, mindfulness and creative arts programming for incarcerated and exploited teen girls. I had the opportunity to visit the center last week to participate in the weekly yoga practice and join forces on a visual storytelling project with the girls. After fingerprint tests…
