Teachers’ experience
MARYAM OVISSI, C-IAYT
CHARLOTTE NUESSLE, C-IAYT
TRACY WEBER, C-IAYT
ELLEN FEIN, C-IAYT
AMANDA GREEN, C-IAYT
Author: Rachel Lanzerotti,
MSW, E-RYT500, IAYT-Certified Yoga Therapist
Rachel is the Founder of Five Rivers Yoga Therapy and creator of The RE/ST Method for Pain Recovery™. She is a Body-Mind Yoga Therapist, meditation teacher, counselor, health educator, and specialist in back pain relief. She lives in San Fransisco, California.
Chronic lower back pain
DEMO: Case Studies with Rachel Lanzerotti
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Perhaps reading this first paragraph you’ll recognize, right away, why it might challenge a Yoga…
A new client contacts you about ongoing pain that bothers him most in the mornings…
I first heard the term “developmental practice,” and directly experienced this approach myself when starting…
A new client reaches out to you, saying they are suffering with back pain. It…
Yoga Research
Author: Mary Hilliker,
Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, E-RYT500, IAYT-Certified Yoga Therapist
Mary Hilliker has been mentoring yoga therapists for the last 8 years in their individual client work, development of therapeutic groups and workshops, personal practice, and professional transformation. Mary owns and operates River Flow Yoga Teacher Training School, a Yoga Alliance RYS-200 and RYS-300 in Wausau, Wisconsin.
Therapeutic groups for trauma
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The ability to hold the space for clients who have experienced trauma requires the ability…
Our connection with other human beings is essential to our health and happiness. Traumatic experiences…
The doorway into yoga for so many westerners is asana. In my last blog, I…
A painting is often a complex combination of the totality of it and the independent…
Human suffering is universal, but everyone’s experience of suffering is unique, even for those who…
Author: Maryam Ovissi,
Accredited Trauma-Informed Clinical Yoga Therapist and Yoga Teacher
Maryam’s personal mission as an educator is to provide an opportunity for her students to have access to tools that allow healing, empowerment, and self-realization. Maryam founded Beloved Yoga: A Sanctuary for All, located in Reston, VA, offering yoga therapy, trauma-informed yoga, and a range of accessible classes to share the indigenous teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda with reverence, integrity and accessibility for the community at large, locally and internationally. Maryam’s teachers are the Mohans, and she is honored to be a lead teacher in their Svastha Yoga Therapy Program.
Collective trauma
DEMO: Case Studies with Maryam Ovissi
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Recently, I picked up the book, “The Modern Trauma Tool Kit: Nurture Your Post-traumatic Growth…
“Being cut off from our own natural self-compassion is one of the greatest impairments we…
“Interoception is a way of monitoring ourselves so that we can ease the felt pain,…
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of…
“Collective trauma is a cataclysmic event that shatters the basic fabric of society.” Gilad Hirschberger…
Author: Charlotte Nuessle,
IAYT-Certified Yoga Therapist with BSc in gerontology
Charlotte had dedicated almost twenty years to service at Kripalu Center and had offered adaptive yoga/body-based & mindfulness practices in senior living communities. She specializes in working with students who are dealing with issues around age, illness, grief, and death. She’s informed by three wisdom approaches: yoga therapy, resilience, and understanding our human nervous system through polyvagal theory.
Using the Polyvagal Theory
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When I was first introduced to the polyvagal theory, my self-image was that I spent…
Shame protects vulnerability, a small voice of despair and hopelessness. Thirty years ago, I witnessed…
Clients come to us seeking a regulating presence. We need to be regulated to support…
As a yoga therapist, learning to listen to my nervous system’s signals for regulation, safety…
Author: Alison Wesley,
Faculty Franklin Method Educator and Registered Yoga Teacher/Therapist
Alison believes in making movement accessible, creative, enjoyable and functional. She started her company, Movement at Work, in 2008 as a way to bring movement where and when people work, in their offices and online. Alison coordinates and assists Franklin Method Teacher Trainings and co-wrote Understanding the Pelvis: A Functional Approach to Yoga with Eric Franklin.
Coping with anxiety
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Before I ever truly experienced anxiety, I studied it. I read about it. As a…
Last spring, we had ants. I really, really didn’t want to kill them, so we…
“Become the warrior version of yourself,” my teacher used to say. At the time, I…
When people think of the aspects of a great yoga teacher, they often conjure up…
Just try preparing for a test or think about giving a speech to a large…
More from yoga teachers and therapists
Author: Tracy Weber,
C-IAYT and yoga mystery books writer
Tracy Weber began teaching yoga in 2000 and has been a practicing yoga therapist for almost 15 years. Tracy holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration. She has a special interest in yoga practices for back pain, anxiety, depression, and building bone health. Tracy loves helping clients learn to use yoga tools to find greater health and emotional balance. In addition to teaching yoga, Tracy also writes the yoga and dog-inspired Downward Dog Mystery series.
Partner Yoga
Some time ago I wrote a blog article about partner yoga, or more accurately, everything…
I rarely blog about anything controversial. I try to keep my writing and teaching as…
Author: Ellen Fein,
LCSW, E-RYT 500, CYT Integrative Yoga Therapy, CYT American Viniyoga Institute
Ellen Fein was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, E-RYT500 and Certified Yoga Therapist. Her work was informed by her life experience and heart as much as her knowledge. She loved co-creating healing practices with individuals, facilitating groups and retreats, and teaching both for the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and The American Viniyoga Institute. She believed that each of us can be active in our health and well-being – we just need the right teacher and the appropriate tools.
Yoga for cancer care
Read Part 1 of this post > The health status of a person with cancer…
Before my own experience with my husband’s cancer, I would never have imagined that I…
Author: Amanda Green,
Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist
Amanda is a graduate of the YATNA yoga therapy program and an IAYT-certified yoga therapist. She offers individual yoga therapy to students in Austin, TX and online. Amanda is a mentor to yoga therapy students in YogaWell and Yoga Yoga programs, and offers lectures and classes in her local and online community. When Amanda isn’t teaching, you can find her hanging out with her awesome family, gardening, painting, or singing karaoke, usually out of tune.
Blogging about yoga
I started blogging in 2011 and in the heart-pounding, nerve-racking moment that I first clicked…
I’ve been a yoga blogger for over three years, which is pretty remarkable for a…