Good-bye 2020
Tamara Jeffries, RYT-200
December 12, 2020
We are grateful you are gone. Paulo Coehlo retells a traditional Sufi story about a farmer whose horse ran away. His neighbors offered sympathy for
Yoga on the Mississippi
Jacqueline E. Oselen
September 26, 2020
Memphis, Tennessee—named after the ancient Egyptian capital on the Nile—is the largest city on the Mississippi River. When it was founded in the 1800s, it
Yoga is a Privilege
Shardé Salter
August 20, 2020
It shouldn’t be only for the privileged. When I was growing up in the 1990s, I noticed that there were differences between the races that
On the Journey to Enough
Beth Gibbs
July 16, 2020
“You are enough. You are so enough. It is unbelievable how enough you are.” — Quote from Mary Setrakian made famous by Sierra Boggess In
For the First Time, I Was Not the Only One
Nessie Johnson
June 15, 2020
Last Spring 2019, I was invited by a friend to join her for an “urban yoga” class and vegan brunch in Tampa, Florida. I was
Teaching Yoga to Christians
Brooke Brimm
April 18, 2020
While grocery shopping one day, I struck up a conversation with a woman who complained of back pain and spine compression. I invited her to
A Path to Something Greater
Dr. Gail Parker, Ph.D., C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP
March 6, 2020
By some quirk of fate, 50 years ago, I stumbled across a yoga class being offered at my local art museum. (There were no yoga
Floored | Finding Support in Surrender
Tamara Cress
February 8, 2020
A few years ago, a wave of events rippled into my life: A family member was diagnosed with a critical illness. Our home flooded. Our
The True Essence of Yoga
Stacee Johnson
November 20, 2019
When I began attending yoga classes in 1998 I, like so many others, did so as a way to relieve stress. My high stress levels
Yoga on the Yard
Santiba Campbell / Tamara Jeffries
September 20, 2019
When Paul Quinn College students arrived on campus in August 2019, one of the first things they did was meet with a counselor who assesses
Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda |
A Translinear Light
Tamara Jeffries, RYT-200
August 27, 2019
On August 27, jazz musician Alice Coltrane would have been 82 years old. She was a light in the music world but in the yoga
Creating the Spaces
We’ve Been Waiting For
Denise A. Alston, PhD, RYT-500
August 16, 2019
How many times have you been the only Black, male, older, rounder, physically limited, spiritually-focused, gay, trans, or otherwise ‘different’ student in a yoga class?