What’s your favorite part of your work in the world? We all need friendship and support to live a meaningful, happy life. To that end, I love helping to build community through my teaching, trainings, and retreats!  I love knowing that these students have made lasting friendships that feel like family.   I also feel […]

What’s your favorite part of your work? Each time I teach a class or co-lead a retreat, I feel immense gratitude that I get to spend so many of my days surrounded by people who have a genuine interest in seeing the heart and mind more clearly. What’s your least favorite part of your work? […]

What’s your favorite part of your work? A favorite part of my work, is that I am constantly offered the opportunity to slow down and connect with others and myself. I am regularly gifted moments of presence, spaciousness, and intimacy within myself and the honor of witnessing my students experiencing the same. What’s your least […]

What’s your favorite part of your work? Teaching and sharing what I love. Sharing tools that help people connect to their deeper selves. I love the art of teaching, of connecting with students and getting out of the way so that the information can come through me. What’s your least favorite part of your work? […]

What’s your favorite part of your work? I love when the teaching crystallizes for the student and she starts to understand the teaching more. I love to share Sanskrit and the beauty of the mantras and the deep layers of meaning encoded in the structure of the language. I love to show students how to […]

What’s your favorite part of your work? I love teaching Yoga, it shares so many aspects of honoring the self as a whole, through nutrition, diet, beauty and grace I get to watch people transform their lives and to me that is a MIRACLE! What’s your least favorite part of your work? Every part of […]

What’s your favorite part of your work? The humanness of it all. This line of “work” requires that we hold a long view, that we look back at the teachers and their teachers and see the flow of humanity through the times. It suggests an embracing of the rise and fall of our preferences being […]

Zeyneb Uras invited me to Istanbul – and although it was years before I managed to make the trip, it was immediately that I knew she and I would be dear friends one day. Her voice is pure, her love of the practice is true, and her respect of the work is infectious. Proud to […]

What’s your favorite part of your work? My favorite part of my work is that I get to share my passion for movement with people and empower them to make conscious choices in all aspects of their lives. What’s your least favorite part of your work? Owning and running a studio takes a lot of […]

What’s your favorite part of your work? Witnessing the transformation is a great joy. Watching my students evolving and making life choices that uplift themselves and the whole world. A favorite moment is always the closing ceremony in my Teacher Trainings where trainees are able to speak up and articulate in an emotional and intelligent […]

What’s your favorite part of your work? Hearing from clients that their lives got better since using the Neuroscupting® practices. If I know I have helped people live better lives then I feel like I have lived my mission. It’s the individual moments of hope in each student’s eyes that fuel me. WHAT’S YOUR LEAST […]

What’s your favorite part of your work? Helping students & teachers understand the why & how of the practice by overlaying it with an understating of anatomy & physiology. I love watching the light go on in their heads as they make sense of it and how to apply the practice in a meaningful way […]

What’s your favorite part of your work? Midwifing people to happiness and health. What’s your least favorite? Bookkeeping. I’ve progressed from terror to mild dislike. What still excites you and keeps you engaged? My daily practice. My work is an ever-changing mosaic with so many facets – private clients, teaching beginners, mentoring developing practitioners and […]

What’s your favorite part of your work? Cancer survivors come to my classes with high expectations. They come with fear, doubts and questions about both cancer and yoga. And they come with a desire to know how and why yoga will help them be healthy and stay cancer-free. They come to yoga as people wanting to feel […]

Since I began studying in LA in the late nineties, Max Strom has taught me only a handful of times, but his intelligence, humility and kindness have been a captivating example of teaching at its most simple and highly refined, all at once. What’s your favorite part of your work? My favorite part of the […]

Annie Carpenter made her first impression on me in a shuttle heading from the Reno airport to the first year at Wanderlust Tahoe. Her intelligence, kindness and forthrightness were so refreshing and comforting, and I adored her instantly. Her erudite Glo classes are beloved for her accurate cueing, potent present-moment reminders, which always lead me […]

Donna Farhi’s work has informed my teaching for over a decade. Her masterful descriptions of the space of practice have inspired my most subtle understandings. Her insightful interview is a concise reflection of her intelligent scholarship and commitment to practice. 1. What’s your favorite part of your work? The favorite part of my work is […]

When I first moved to NYC in 1993, my first class was at Yoga Zone on 56th Street. My second class was at Yoga Zone on 19th Street, with Yogiraj Alan Finger. I was simultaneously intimidated, thrilled, and amazed to have found the real thing right there in the Flatiron district of New York City. […]

First time I attended a Yoga Journal Conference, I was 27 and committed to vinyasa yoga as *the* path. I landed in Rod’s class on day one, and instantly realized when he began to speak that I was back to square one – time to slow down and locate my light in a very different […]

Hari Kaur Khalsa trained me to teach Kundalini Yoga. At the time, I was struggling with addiction, and she held space. I couldn’t really see myself, and she helped me soften my stance. She is a light for the practice in New York City, her generosity and wisdom will always influence my ways of seeing […]

Dr. Douglas Brooks was my first philosophy teacher, but he’s been so much more than that. He taught me about family, love, priorities and studentship. He led me to some of the highest teachings to which I’d ever been exposed, in the most accessible and humble ways. Studying with him starting in the late 1990s […]

Sally Kempton has been a quiet force in my life and studies since 2000. Her writing and online teachings have helped me understand the fullness of meditation, and the state of expanded, luminous Awareness at the heart of practice. Her tales of her own interior experience inform and expand my own, and I’m forever grateful […]

Donna Eden’s work has come rushing into my life in the past year as I’ve begun managing my compromised immune system. Through her student Lauren Walker’s Energy Medicine Yoga, and Donna’s books, I’m learning how to slow down, take breaks, take care of myself and honour the creativity and wisdom of my body to evolve […]

Abbie Galvin is a senior teacner of Katonah Yoga, with locations both in NYC and Bedford, NY. With Abbie, I’m learning refined alignment and its impact on organ function; understanding how my habits of movement dovetail with my patterns of thinking, and comprehending new ways to recreate myself, starting with my bones. Studying with Abbie […]