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trauma yoga

Let go of yoga warfare and invite peace

I’ve spent years loving and pushing myself in power yoga and vinyasa yoga. I loved the physical benefits and feeling the growth and toning in my body. It took a while for me to notice that the voice in my head driving me was a drill sergeant, never satisfied, constantly competing and pushing. I suffer

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Belonging and recovery

Belong (intransitive verb) 1 a : to be suitable, appropriate, or advantageous b : to be in a proper situation 2 a : to be attached or bound by birth, allegiance, or dependency  3 : to be an attribute, part, adjunct, or function of a person or thing Belonging. It’s an integral part of our wellbeing. Our sense of

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Yoga refuge with the Refugee Development Center

It was a go-with-the flow kind of day. My only plan was to meet everyone who came where they were, and meet myself there too. I didn’t know the conceptions of yoga they would come with. I didn’t know the cultural predispositions or oppositions to yoga they would bring. I only knew they had all arrived in this country, this city, with a hope for a new life, likely with untold struggles and pain along the way.

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Just B Yoga stands with MSU

My heart is heavy and so are my legs. I’m not imagining it. I am sorrowful and my chest feels hollow – breath barely touching my insides. This is real. My body feels surges of electric heat, my anger taking up space. Evidence of the energy of yesterday’s terror still vibrating and rippling. It will

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Yoga for recovery

Our Happy Hour Recovery Yoga (donation-based) is a weekly class (Fridays 5:30 p.m. EST) designed to help navigate the emotions and cyclical behaviors that keep us stuck in negative patterns, build a healthier relationship with our physical bodies and shift how we relate to others.

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Namaste Wanda. I see you

Seeing beyond the surface and truly seeing a person is a blessing, but it also feels like a purpose in life. And no matter what, act and speak and intend kindness. 

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Joy and pain: a practice

I am at a loss with your losses.
All I have is my presence and willingness to feel the loss with you without getting lost.

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Truth of feeling

Yoga frees us from a life of “feeling bypass” to one of immersion and growth and balance.

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White yogis, do your work

All yoga teachers must be wary of ego as we step into daring to say we “teach” yoga. It’s a slippery boast to say we know this sacred practice of enlightenment and can help others navigate the path. For those of pale-skin European blood, saviorism is particularly insidious and to be called out in this

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When a sexual trauma survivor still feels like a victim

As I stirred my tea this morning I realized the rippling dreadful and defeating sensation I’ve been feeling lately.   I am participating in a daylong event that includes a trauma survivor workshop. I haven’t felt like a survivor that much lately although I teach yoga to survivors of sexual trauma and I give presentations

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Just B Yoga closed for #MeToo Tarana Burke event

Today, Just B Yoga will be participating in the first-ever #MeToo Teen Summit, with Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement. The summit is being sponsored by the Firecracker Foundation and is inviting teen survivors of sexual assault and supporters of those survivors.   According to Tashmica Torok, director of the Firecracker Foundation, “This is

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Just B Yoga founder, Belinda Thurston, to speak at social justice summit

Last year I had the pleasure of meeting Nancy Candea, director of Yoga Impact and the International Yoga Therapy Institute. She had heard of the work Just B Yoga does with accessibility and inclusion and wanted me to share the concept with her teacher trainees in New Jersey via web cam. (see video below) It

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