An interview with Nikki Myers by Street Yoga board member, Heather Hested. This article was originally featured on Seattle Yoga News on October 20, 2016 It’s hard to understand why or how people become addicted to drugs and alcohol. It’s a…
“THE ISSUES LIVE IN THE TISSUES” WITH NIKKI MYERS
On Thursday, November 10th, we spent a heartfelt evening with Nikki Myers (founder of Y12SR and CITIYOGA) during our “The Issues Live in the Tissues” workshop at Montlake Community Center. Much gratitude to Nikki Myers for sharing her passion for…
Q&A WITH CEDAR RAPIDS TRAINING GRADUATE
WRITTEN BY DAVID HOLLEY, CEDAR RAPIDS 2016 TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA TRAINING GRADUATE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF. HOW DID YOU COME TO START PRACTICING YOGA? I was a public school educator for 35 years, the last 31 in the Kirkwood, Missouri School…
Open Your Heart & Devote Yourself To Something Higher
This post originally appeared via one of our Teacher Training participant’s blog: Why I’m doing my Street Yoga training Posted: October 18, 2012 via www.alwaysoutyogaing.wordpress.com/ Yoga has changed my life many times over. The first time yoga changed my life it…
Adapting Asana for Trauma Sensitive Populations
Nearly all of the people we serve, the youth in shelters, for example, or the staff who work with them, have experienced or continue to experience some form of traumatic injury to their well-being –whether having been evicted from their…
Whispers of Change: A By-Product of Practice
Today I am honored to share a story from one of our dedicated volunteers. I remember the moment everything changed. There was a kid in my yoga class at the juvenile detention center that would get pulled out week after…
Yoga Service Conference Reflections by Chelsea Roff
Chelsea Roff is awesome. She shares her interview with Street Yoga founder, Mark Lilly via her article on the Intent Blog. Intent.com is a community where members can share their dreams and aspirations, and receive support from others. Intent.com is…
Forward Looking Approach: Resilience & Trauma
Recently, Jaime, Street Yoga’s Program Manager was asked the question, “Could you let me know a little bit more about your theoretical approach to this kind of work? What I’m hoping to find out is a bit more of the…
Manage Your Empathetic Engagement: Street Yoga Community Meeting May 22
On May 22nd, Cara will lead a community workshop on this topic with experiential exercises on grounding and separating trauma energy. She has graciously shared this article with us to include our world-wide community & share her very special offering….
Partner Profile: World YOGA Project – Philadelphia
Street Yoga returns to Philadelphia this June, and we are delighted to return to the amazing Sankhya Yoga studio space in Philadelphia. Our partners for this training are the Philadelphia based World Y.O.G.A. Project Learn more about WYP’s Mission and…