Naturally Aligned: How Yoga and Nature Lend Unity to the Soul Nature and the Relaxation Response Written by: Capucine Hoybach Shadows cast by the leaves of a tree. Traces in the sand left by an ocean’s waves. A rainbow illuminated by a spring shower. Nature. Despite its seemingly endless offerings to engage our senses, in a myriad of ways, some subtle others not, we might miss the opportunity by our very ‘nature’ to blaze ahead. To…
7th Annual Veterans Yoga Project Gratitude Week to feature Wellness Series in 2020 For the VYP team, planning this year’s Veterans Yoga Project Gratitude Week fundraiser, which takes place from November 6th-16th, felt like a ‘first-ever,’ rather than a ‘seventh-in-the-making.’ COVID-19 forced us to re-think and re-position everything. Studio closures and social-distancing measures set a mandate for us to transition to an online format. Much like that which we accomplished, this past March, with our daily,…
For The Lone Survivors: The Integral Role of Yoga in the Lone Survivor Foundation, and for the Military at Large THE LONE SURVIVOR: AN INTRODUCTION Thanks to a best-selling memoir and blockbuster movie, a lot of people know of Marcus Luttrell’s harrowing tale of survival in Afghanistan. How, during Operation Red Wing, the Taliban surrounded Luttrell and his team after an encounter with a group of shepherds. Luttrell would be the only soldier to survive the…
