How Best to Communicate as a Certified Level 2 Yoga Teacher
“What are you most looking forward to learning in this Level Two YogaFit training”? We were asked this at the beginning of the weekend. The vast majority all had the same response – how to successfully cue a yoga pose and communicate effectively with the students. I think we were also searching for comfortability in […]
Conquer Your Fear – Tried and True Steps for Crow Pose, by Master Trainer Jenn Tarrant
Crow Pose! This is one that so many people want to be able to do, but honestly think that they can’t. Well, I am here to tell you that in many cases the only real thing holding you back is…fear. It can be pretty scary to balance on your arms in a position that looks […]
YogaFit Earth Day Ideas 2024
Earth Day promotes clean living and a healthy, sustainable habitat for people and wildlife alike. Celebrating Earth Day serves as a conscious reminder of how fragile our planet is and how important it is to protect it. What can you do to promote the ideas of Earth Day? Here are a few suggestions to get you started: 1. Improve your personal ecosystem. Make […]
Suicide Is Tough to Write About…
…well it is if you’re talking from a first-person account like I’m about to. Deep breath and just start already Shaye! (That’s my version of a pep talk.) Ok, here it goes….So I wanted to kill myself once and like seriously drive off a bridge kill myself, and that’s how I had planned to do it […]
Yoga as Storytelling
USING YOGA TO RE-NARRATE OUR LIVES Lt Col Shaye Molendyke. Director YogaFit for Warriors. C-IAYT, ERYT 500, MA Counseling Good storytelling starts by setting the conditions for a new story to begin to unfold. At its best, yoga primes the brain to be a creative storyteller. However, it is ultimately through the body that a […]
Ways Meditation Can Improve Your Mood
Meditation has a long history of improving people’s moods. It was used thousands of years ago to help ancient practitioners achieve enlightenment and make their day-to-day lives better. This tradition of using meditation to improve mood continues in today’s hyper-distracted, social media-saturated world. A 2014 study found that mindfulness meditation reduced rates of participant anxiety, depression, stress, […]
Finding My Calling Through Working With Seniors
I first came to work with seniors and teach chair yoga while subbing for a six-week session. I had fortunately taken the “seniors” YogaFit training just two weeks before I had this opportunity and was able to say yes. I had never really thought of teaching seniors, and I took the training to learn modifications […]
Aging in Reverse is win-win for all!
On January 11, 2021, we embarked on our first Aging in Reverse 8 week series with 14 beautiful souls. Each person came to the program for a different reason, but all with the common thread of the desire to improve their health and find community. Monday through Friday, for the last 8 weeks, these ladies […]
DoTERRA Yoga Essential Oil Collection
The doTERRA Yoga essential oil collection is the perfect tool to share with others exploring their own practice. Through them, we hope you find your center, your grounding, and your own enlightenment. doTERRA Align Centering Blend Promotes feelings of self-acceptance, trust, and fluidity. Encourages harmony and calm progress. What’s in it? Ideal yoga poses: Warrior II, Triangle, and […]
Student Spotlight: Anjali Phukan
A YogaFit student, Anjali Phukan, is working on developing stress management solutions for public safety officers (police, fire fighters, EMS, military, correctional officers), which in turn leads to better stress management for all. Stress Management for public safety professionals is crucial, as they are needed to take care of emergency and difficult situations in society, […]
