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Serving Those Who Served: Veterans Yoga Project Offers Path to Relaxation, Resilience

Serving Those Who Served: Veterans Yoga Project Offers Path to Relaxation, Resilience Virginia S. Gilstrap | Kerrville Daily Times | August 6, 2026Unlike other yoga classes, this one starts with the Pledge of Allegiance and three enthusiastic “Oorahs!”The Veterans Yoga Project has been offered in Kerrville by yoga therapist Rick Trzcinski since 2017 to help area veterans release stress and improve their quality of life.In 2007, Trzcinski himself was walking with a cane due to neurological…

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…

A SAFE, PREDICTABLE, AND CONTROLLABLE ENVIRONMENT: CREATING SPACE FOR RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE

Published by permission from The International Association of Yoga Therapists. This article was originally published in Yoga Therapy Today. Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly. —Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart A…