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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Veteran & Teacher Profile: Why I Practice Yoga with a Community

Veteran & Teacher Profile: Why I Practice Yoga with a Community Nobody teaches you how to process your buddy’s suicide.  So I shoved all the emotions in. I buried them down. I just numbed it all. There is no time to come to grips. Continue mission. Just keep going as if these things never happened. With time, all things heal, right? Wrong.  Command made general announcements that chaplain services and mental health appointments were available. But…

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Veteran Profile: Darcie OIF II

Veteran Profile: Darcie OIF II My name is Darcie and I’m an OIF II vet. I’m 37 and have been a middle school English teacher for the past eleven years. This last year's teaching, however, was my most challenging. I’d never had a workload like this before and I allowed it to greatly affect my physical and mental health. As soon as the school year ended, I developed a pretty powerful bout of restless leg syndrome.…

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