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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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…

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