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The Whole Self Yoga Teacher Training
Directors: Rudy Peirce and Ed Harrold
Faculty: Amy Weintraub, Sat Bir Khalsa, Larissa Carlson

This training will give you the knowledge, skill and personal development to provide an environment of physical and emotional safety for your students.
This training provides the [...]

Gentle Yoga in Tuscany III, sweet as ever!

Just got back from Tuscany (Oct. 14). What a great time! We had a great group of folks once again on our third adventure to Tuscany, Italy’s land of all things beautiful, landscape, ancient villages, many-towered medieval hilltop fortress- cities, centuries-old cathedrals with audio-tours, religious art spanning the millenias, marble sculpture, alabaster sculpture, plaster and [...]

Whole Self YTT receives Yoga Alliance approval!

I am excited to announce that Gentleyogi and The ComfortZone Center for Whole Self Healing are collaborating on offering a 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training certification program!
And Yoga Alliance has just approved our application to be a Yoga Alliance registered Yoga School. So graduates of our training will become 200hr certified yoga teachers and also [...]

Echoes from Men’s Yoga Quest

This past week, 7 men joined Chuck Naughton, Ben Seidman, Shaun LaFramboise and I for the 5-day Men’s Yoga Quest at Kripalu Center, Lenox MA. This morning I feel great! Grateful, strong, content, thoughtful. I’ll share one nugget that reverberates into activities of daily life like an unexpected pebble dropped into the pond, guest at [...]

Want to boost fall class attendance?

I just got a great idea from Jennifra Norton while visiting her for a summer beach weekend in Harwich, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Jennifra was part of the talented YTT Kickasana tribe of November ‘06. While reminiscing, she mentioned that she had used my Gentle I CD to launch an attendance drive for her classes at [...]

GentleYogi road trip successes

I did not know exactly what to expect as I began my month-long road trip through the heartland of the U.S. on May 31st. I had set up stops at six studios in Ohio, Illinois, St. Louis and Iowa. In the middle of this trip was a 10-day family visit in Kansas, picking up my [...]

Prakriti and Purusha

In this next section of the introduction of Chip Hartranft’s The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, the yogic perspective on the nature of reality is laid out.  It’s punny to say this is heady stuff, because it actually refers to what we think of as being beyond heady, beyond intellectual thought. The Yogic perspective  suggests that [...]

Join in on an exploration of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali

Welcome to the beginning of an on-going exploration of the seminal teachings of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra.
Our reference will be the new Translation and Commentary, The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, by Chip Hartranft (2003 Shambala Classics). This commentary, written just a few years ago in 2003, reads clearly and as Stephen Cope comments, “combines intellectual precision [...]

Gentleyogi hits the road

ROAD TRIP! The Gentleyogi takes gentle yoga on the road this June while traveling to Kansas to visit his wife’s family.  We will be driving this time and fortunately, we have the luxury of time.  If you own a yoga studio or have a favorite yoga studio in the St. Louis or Kansas City area, [...]

Fan the Fire of Spring Vitality

Fanning the Fire is a brand new two-day Gentle Yoga program at Kripalu Center, Lenox, MA on the April 10 – 12 weekend.  The program still has space available for experienced Gentle Yogis. It is the perfect follow-up to the Gentle Yoga weekends that I have led at Kripalu for quite a while now.  You [...]