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Pune Dracker Interviewed by Sarah McElwain You manage the front desk at IYINY. What special skills and experience do you bring to this job? While I had never managed a customer service team, I did select and mentor a team of junior writers for a national nonprofit,...

Holly (Lalita) Hoover

Holly (Lalita) Hoover

Interviewed by Sarah McElwain You teach Kids Yoga for 7 to 11 year olds. What inspired you to teach this class? As yoga instructors, I see it as our goal to share yoga with as many people as possible. After teaching adult students and young adult college students for...

Brahmi Bergamini

Interviewed by Sarah McElwain What is Aura-Soma energy work?  Aura-Soma is a color care system created in England by Vicky Wall in 1983. After dedicating her life to the welfare of others as a surgical chiropodist, Vicky Wall retired due to clinical blindness....

Can We Share Yoga with Those Who Resist It?

By Chandra/Jo Sgammato My discovery of Yoga and meditation when I was 18 and a college freshman began to change me from an angry and troubled teenager who hated phys ed to a balanced adult comfortable in my body. It took years, of course, for the practices to take...