Tag: photojournalism
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It’s Okay to be Still: Allison McGuigan
“Ever since I was asked for this interview about how yoga played a role in my life, I’ve been pondering that question. I think yoga is evolutionary for me, in the sense that the role it plays is constantly changing. At this point in my life as a new mom, it’s playing a different role […]
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Reiki, Energy Healing and Angels. A Life of Pain Reveals her Life Purpose: Alison Pulito
From a really young age, I had a hip problem; a problem I didn’t know I had until I fell and was badly hurt while skiing. I was 24 years old and it was only then that I found out I had congenital dysplasia, which means your hips are “open”, so they’re easily dislocated -they […]
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Step Out in Faith: Julie Hruska
“I originally came to my mat nearly fifteen years ago when I was struggling with anxiety attacks. I had two little kids and quit my full time job to stay at home with them. I was convinced I was having a nervous breakdown. I couldn’t eat or sleep and was losing tons of weight. I […]
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Fire on the Mountain. Internal passions and holding space: Elise Sunday
“The name of my store here in Leadville, CO is Fire on the Mountain. I didn’t name it; I inherited the name, but I like it because the “fire” to me is passion; finding passion. Passion has everything to do with creativity, which is what this whole business is based around: my passions of providing […]
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Live Music, Yoga and Mindfulness: Rob Drabkin
“I’m a full-time singer-songwriter-guitarist. I write, record, and I perform my songs all over the world. My latest EP, Beautiful Day, is out now and a full-length album is on it’s way later this summer! So, that sums up my life right now. Mindfulness is a huge part of my career, especially in live shows, […]
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The Messy Beauty of YOU- Through Recovery & Clearing Space for Miracle Moments: Teri Benge
“I am in recovery from the disease of Alcoholism with 11 years remission/sobriety. It’s not just about getting the alcohol out of my system, it’s about starting the journey into discovering who I am, authentically. Before my sobriety, alcohol was the escape from myself; a chance to numb my mind from all the self-hate. When […]
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The Big Picture. Finding Your Confidence and Creativity: Angie Dornier
“I’m a big believer in creativity, and that’s why I love teaching photography and now, beginning to teach yoga. It provides me the opportunity to instill that creative spark in someone else; to provide a new way of looking at things. It gives me the opportunity to provide others something that they can have as […]
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There is Beauty in Motion; Embrace the Shake: Dawnelle Arthur
“My story might take the direction that at first you don’t embrace to tell you the honest truth. After college I moved to from Denver to Alaska to be a director of fitness for a lot of their major health clubs. When I experienced my first Alaskan winter, I thought I was dying. It was […]
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Being you IS a Choice: Raven Brown
“When you see yourself in a way that you never have before it’s transformative. My name is Raven and I see transformation as: the possibility that everything you thought to be true in your life, who you are, or what you believe in could very well be wrong. I’ve been living my life for 24 […]
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Yoga as a Means of Transformation: Megan Williams
“I started going to yoga as an access to free my mind from the extremely stressful and “below the line” life I was living. I actually thought it would be a good way to escape my own reality. My roommate at the time practiced regularly and really enjoyed it and this played a big role […]
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Boston Children’s Hospital- Patient Mother: Jaime MacDonald
“Anabelle has been a patient at Boston Children’s Hospital since she was a baby. She had multiple issues at birth with most of them revolving around a chromosome duplication that was extremely rare. There’s no one in the world who is known to have her chromosome abnormality, so she’s always been under a microscope and […]
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Boston Children’s Hospital – Yoga Reaches Out: Lauren Pecoraro
“Believe it or not, my first day working at Boston Children’s Hospital was at the Yoga Reaches Out event last year! I could instantly feel the high energy when I entered Gillette Stadium. Coming from someone who has done yoga enough times to count on one hand, the energy gave me an instinctive feeling to […]
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Boston Children’s Hospital- Yoga Reaches Out: Nanci Winterhalter
“This is where I’ve had the challenge and privilege of spending a lot of time in our son’s early life—at Boston Children’s Hospital. His journey began here with what appeared to be a small problem when he was six, which grew into something much bigger and very unusual. The quality of the care, and the […]
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Boston Children’s Hospital- Yoga Reaches Out: Dianne Cella
“For the past 41 years and counting, I’ve been working at Boston Children’s Hospital as a nurse in both inpatient and ambulatory. I’m also a reiki master and yoga instructor and for the past three years, I’ve had the opportunity to run the hospital’s Family Wellness Center, since its start in 2016. It began as […]
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Boston Children’s Hospital- Yoga Reaches Out: Mark ElBach
“My name is Mark ElBach, and I work on the Corporate Development and Special Events team at Boston Children’s Hospital. I’ve spent my career working on Brookline Avenue, and I feel lucky that I’ve had the opportunity to work for three world class organizations in Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Boston Red Sox, and Boston Children’s […]
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Grant Yourself Permission to Thrive: Holly Baier
“What I’m getting present to right now is community. I’m at a radically different place that I was in even a year ago- and that’s because of my community. I started yoga so long ago! I took my first teacher training about 12 years ago. My mom had just passed away and my world was […]
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Be Your own Warrior of Knowledge, Expression and Self: Tai Dorn
“I started out as a dancer. I felt very fortunate because my whole life I always knew what I wanted to be. When I was young I would see ballet dancers on TV and it really spoke to me, so I dedicated my whole childhood; really my whole life to it. I found dance as […]
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Stop Waiting for Life to Begin, Make Sh*t Happen: Chelsea Williams
“When my family knew the end was near, I flew home to be with my mom for her last week before she passed away. It was in those moments at Hospice where I couldn’t do anything but sit and be with her. During this time, I had my first tangible experience with the power of […]
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Timing is Perfect in all Things: Abby Rosmarin
“My yoga journey did not have the most profound start in the world. I started doing yoga because I was a runner and had really tight hamstrings… I couldn’t physically touch my knees and so I’d start doing yoga to get a “good stretch”. I vaguely knew that there was a spiritual element to it, […]
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Uniting all in Yoga, Anywhere: Alexis Comardo
“A few months before I started my yoga practice, I had been studying abroad in Italy and Austria where I gained 20lbs. As someone who always identified with being athletic and had grown up playing basketball and running track, I felt like my identity was at stake. So, my yoga journey then began when my […]
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Disregard Fear, Keep Listening, and Trust Your Intuition: Aisha Jasper
“I started my yoga journey when I was in high school. At first, my practice was supplemental exercise to my classical dance training, which at the time was my entire world. By the time I was 16, I was already positive that I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. I spent my summers alone […]
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Strength Comes From Overcoming Things You Once Thought You Couldn’t: Rich Adams
“I was a reasonably active guy in my twenties, but became more sedentary as I got into my 30’s and time went on, naturally putting on some weight. Life happened! It really came at me during this time – I changed jobs and got married, and exercise wasn’t at the forefront of my mind. Jump […]
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Tap Into Your Power: Lo Myrick
“I wasn’t ever very comfortable in my own skin, so when I started yoga in college, I’d go in and compete with everyone because it was what I knew and what I was comfortable doing. I was stuck in a total athlete’s mindset. Michael Plasha was the first instructor who really got me excited about my […]
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Live in the Present. Time is Fleeting: Bret Pomeroy
“My mind wanders a lot. I’m always thinking about work – focusing on whatever happens there, and if not there, then in every other aspect of my life. I felt like here, in my first yoga class, I was finally in the moment. Yoga wasn’t something I would have typically tried in the past, but […]
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You Are Valuable; Who You Are is Enough: Brittany Bennett
“I was never very happy or confident in myself and had always struggled with being healthy overall. I’ve spent money on all these workouts and supplements over the years and nothing ever really stuck until I started doing yoga consistently. Once we hit the 40 Days to Personal Revolution (Baptiste Yoga program) and began doing […]
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Trust Your Intuition: Mary Williams
“My daughter got me into doing yoga 14 or 15 years ago. Before that, I never really trusted my intuition, and wasn’t confident in many aspects of my life. Those are a couple things that yoga helped a lot with: being more comfortable in my skin, and trusting my intuition. My husband noticed a change […]
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Step Into YOUR Authenticity: Jenn King
“My yoga journey started purely in the realm of the physical to get in shape and push myself to a different level. It was like that for the first two years of my practice, and then I began to see the shift to something more. I was in a high stress job and began […]
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Find Your Voice; Speak Your Truth: Ashley Mastronardi
“When I first started practicing at Yoga Body Shop, I remember I couldn’t focus in class. My eyes would be looking all around the room at the other people, or just, anything. It was during the time I was taking my hardest classes, I was stressed, didn’t know what the future held for me, and […]
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Be Patient With Others; be Patient With Yourself: Kyle Rogers
“The first week, you die in hot yoga…like, you actually die in those classes. You’re in the middle of the class and thinking, ‘why did I come back here?’ But then all of a sudden you realize that the pose isn’t that bad, and then you’re able to try another, and another. One day I […]
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Just Breathe: Heather Furman
“I started yoga when my twin boys were 6 months old. Everything was so chaotic. I remember I kept thinking that if I worked out I’d feel better. I knew I had to find something that gave me strength, but peace at the same time. I searched and found a Gwen Lawrence yoga video and […]
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You Are Good Enough: Anna Crandell
“I’ve been working really hard to try to value my body in a type of way that I haven’t before. I’m trying, and it’s hard – and I felt like I was making a lot of progress but I just always end up setting myself back. I’m at a point where I know what I’m […]
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You Are Not Alone. Discover Your Community: Scott Watson
“I thought yoga was just stretching and it’s NOT. The way I felt after class was just amazing. I couldn’t get over that feeling (whatever it was), so I immediately signed up for the first month of unlimited yoga. Right off the bat I knew something was there, and realized that it wasn’t the physical I […]
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Stand Strong. You Are Powerful: Chelsea Kuzmak
“I was introduced to a yoga teacher training and personal development program before I even started practicing consistently. I talked to one of the teachers at Yoga Body Shop, Jenn and had said, ‘I don’t know about this, it’s a huge commitment’ and she said, ‘Well, your life is a huge commitment, right?’ Man, it’s […]
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