by Erik Flint | Jul 29, 2021 | Future of Yoga
If you’ve navigated here, congratulations! Taking an interest in Professional Qualification with Yoga Unify is your first step toward commiting to a more ethical and safe yoga community, while leveling-up the profession and preserving the tradition. Yoga Unify...
by Erik Flint | Jul 12, 2021 | Future of Yoga
We’re changing the paradigm of yoga education, and we are rolling out Qualification for our Founding Circle Members now! If you are a Founding Circle Member, you should have received an email to begin the process of Qualification. Public Qualification is opening soon...
by Erik Flint | Jun 14, 2021 | Future of Yoga
Yoga Unify is a participatory organization, and as such each year we will hold a Governing Council election to appoint community members to serve on open Council seats. All people in the Yoga Unify community — Qualified Professionals and students alike — are invited...
by Erik Flint | Jun 1, 2021 | Future of Yoga
by Lisette Cheresson Transformation Yoga Project (TYP) has, since 2013, been a community mainstay providing in-person trauma-sensitive yoga classes to persons impacted by trauma, substance use disorders, and incarceration throughout the Greater Philadelphia region....
by Erik Flint | May 18, 2021 | Future of Yoga
We trust our yoga instructors with a lot. As a philosophy with religious traditions, yoga is a complicated intellectual journey that asks us to understand deep and complex concepts. As a movement practice, asana can be physically demanding and lead to serious injury...
by Erik Flint | May 5, 2021 | Future of Yoga
One major part of Yoga Unify’s mission is to make yoga more accessible to all, and to steward the forward evolution of the industry toward more diversity and inclusion. We’re proud that our Founding Members are already working hard toward this aim. Honorary Qualified...
by Erik Flint | Apr 27, 2021 | Future of Yoga
by Allison Rissel If you had a yoga question, who would you ask? Google? A FB Group? Maybe other yoga teachers at your studio? Do you have access to a well-respected and knowledgable yoga teacher? Many teachers don’t feel like they belong to a community of other yoga...
by Erik Flint | Dec 29, 2020 | Future of Yoga
Jonathan “J” Miles is a member of the Yoga Unify Governing Council for Community Investment, founder of Maha Vira Yoga, and a social justice activist. We chatted with J about why he was interested in Yoga Unify, and what he hopes to accomplish with his work on the...
by Erik Flint | Dec 4, 2020 | Future of Yoga
Oneika Mays is a member of the Governing Council for Consequential Ethics. She teaches meditation full-time at Riker’s Island in New York City, and has been teaching yoga for over a decade. By Lisette Cheresson What makes yoga ethical? As our community faces the...
by Administrator | Nov 6, 2020 | Future of Yoga, YŪ Articles
Allison Rissel is a yoga teacher and founder of the Yoga Teacher Conference, a new event organization that provides space for yoga teachers to have tough conversations. Learn more about their upcoming May 2021 event in Denver here. by Allison Rissel I’ve long been fed...
by Erik Flint | Oct 26, 2020 | Future of Yoga, YŪ Articles
According to member Lea Kraemer the Council is helping to preserve the tradition of yoga and stewarding its forward evolution. Here’s how. Interview facilitated by Lisette Cheresson Lea Kraemer is a yoga teacher and founder of Prana Mandir Yoga. She’s a Yoga Unify...
by Erik Flint | Oct 26, 2020 | Future of Yoga, YŪ Articles
Ravi Singh is a celebrated Kundalini Teacher and the author (with life partner Ana Brett) of several Kundalini books, including: The Kundalini Yoga Book—Life in the Vast Lane. Ana and Ravi have also authored many best-selling DVD’s and streams. Ravi Singh is a...