Veteran & Teacher Profile: Laverne Glover

Veteran & Teacher Profile: Laverne Glover Written By: Capucine Hoybach Meet Laverne Glover, a US Airforce veteran and a proud recent graduate of Veteran Yoga Project’s Inaugural 200-hour Mindful Resilience Teacher Training program.  “I sort of fell into yoga a couple of years ago. I had been a fitness instructor since 1986,” Laverne describes, “but very soon after, I began taking classes at studios in my area.” This eventually led to a chance meeting with VYP’s…

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Our Why: A Veteran’s Story

Our Why: A Veteran's Story "Yoga is for women. It is not something I ever really put any thought into. It is for the soccer moms to get together once a week and “work out”. Not something for a Marine. Not anything I needed. The problem is that kind of thinking shows just how narrow-minded I had become. A year ago my life fell apart. I had been out of the Corps for several decades and…

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Veteran & Teacher Profile: Mark Ballinger

Veteran & Teacher Profile: Mark BallingerA Marine's Resilience after a Helo Crash Written By: Abby Rosmarin In 2011, everything in Mark’s life changed. A helicopter crash would affect him in profound and irreversible ways – but also get him on the path to yoga, both as a student and as a teacher. Before the crash – before he even enlisted as a Marine – Mark Ballinger was a child of the 60s, having full run of…

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