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Mary Sims: Yoga Supports Self Advocacy
This is an interview with Mary Sims,…

Kyla Pearce: Traumatic Brain Injury Healing Through Yoga
This is an interview with Kyla Pearce, who has been teaching…

Ann Marie Johnston: One Yogi’s Attempt to Make Yoga Accessible to All
This is an interview with Ann Marie Johnston. When I first arranged…

Cody Founder Paul Javid: Building a Yoga Community Online
This is an interview with Paul Javid, former Microsoft product…

Doing the Work After Trump's Election: Beryl Bender Birch Issues a Call to Yogis
When times are difficult, fearful, uncertain, and encouraging…

Does Meditation Among Veterans Really Work?
By Pamela Stokes Eggleston, Meditation Teacher
for the Veterans…

Guided Meditations For Military Families
MILITARY FAMILIES: A POPULATION OFTEN OVERLOOKED
It's well-known…

Jodi Weiner: Showing Up For At-Risk Youth
This is an interview with Jodi Weiner, Executive Director for…

Christine Moore: Sharing Adaptive Yoga
This is an interview with Christine Moore, who attended…

YogaReach: Yoga For People Affected With Parkinson’s Disease
This is an interview with Char Grossman, a Therapeutic Yoga Movement…

Susan Lovett: Yoga for Those Living With Poverty & Trauma
This is an interview with Susan Lovett, a licensed social…

Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman: How We Serve Survivors of Sexual Assault
This is an interview with Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman, who’s…

Melissa Jhunja: Yoga for Healing, Recovery & Living
This is an interview with Melissa Jhunja who, as a social worker…

Julie Fernandez: How We Serve Those Suffering Domestic Violence
This is an interview with Julie Fernandez, who knew before…

Hannah Fazio: Empowering Women Who Have Experienced Trauma
This is an interview with Hannah Fazio, who has been…

Rebecca Bedford: Serving Immigrants In Prenatal Classes
This is an interview with Rebecca Bedford, whose first yoga…

"Untangle" podcast interview with Y12SR founder Nikki Myers
Gaiam's Untangle meditation podcast features real people…

Introducing our newest program: yoga4cancer
We are thrilled to announce that we have joined forces with a…

Tari Prinster: Cultivating Hope, Strength and Community For Those Touched By Cancer
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Tari Prinster is a cancer survivor and yoga teacher since 2003.…

Mindful Yoga Therapy 100-Hour Certification in Virginia Beach: Begins September 23, 2016
Mindful Yoga Therapy is an empirically informed, clinically…

Yoga and Trauma
By Rob Schware, Executive Director of the Give Back Yoga Foundation
Originally…

Lisa Gabriella Mehos: How We Serve Those in Homeless Shelters
This is an interview with Lisa Gabriella Mehos, a certified yoga…

Help Prison Yoga Project Earn a Matching Grant
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In the past…

"Untangle" podcast interview with Prison Yoga Project founder James Fox
Gaiam's Untangle meditation podcast features real people…

Memorial Day Campaign: Yoga For Our Military
Join us in bringing Yoga Readiness Kits to 10,000 service…

Josefin Wikstrom: Yoga And Dance Programs For Incarcerated Women And Refugees In Sweden
This is an interview with Josefin Wikstrom, who has been…