Teacher Profile: Phoebe Miller

Teacher Profile: Phoebe Miller Phoebe Miller is founder of nOMad always at OM, a community of yogis, wellness practitioners, healers, travelers and wanderers. She helped bring yoga to the United States Military Academy at West Point by offering the 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training curriculum to the cadet community, a movement that is expanding to active military. We recently spent time with her learning more about her journey. She also has a podcast called “nOMad’s The Space…

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Psychological Flexibility & Yoga

Psychological Flexibility & Yoga Written By: Timothy Avery, PsyD A new study has been published on psychological flexibility (PF) in the journal Psychological Trauma and I thought you might like to hear about it.  Psychological flexibility is the changing of one’s mental and behavioral repertoire in response to a given situation to live in accordance with one’s values (if you have been to the VYP Mindful Resilience Training you can probably hear Dr. Dan Libby in…

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What’s in a word!? Mantram Meditation Reduced PTS(D) for these Veterans

What's in a word!? Mantram Meditation Reduced PTS(D) for these Veterans Written By: Timothy Avery, PsyD Would you believe it if I told you PTSD symptoms could be reduced by repeating a word silently to yourself?  Well, a recent study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry supports that assertion under the specific conditions of the Mantram Repetition Protocol (MRP).  Dr. Jill Bormann and colleagues demonstrated mantram repetition can help Veterans with PTSD reduce their symptoms…

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