Aruni Nan Futuronsky
Legacy Faculty
Aruni Nan Futuronsky, a Kripalu Yoga teacher and life coach, has been teaching in a variety of venues for nearly 50 years, and has been on the Kripalu faculty for more than 30 of those. She is author of Recovering My Voice: A Memoir of Chaos, Spirituality, and Hope; Already Home: Stories of a Seeker; and Not Over Yet: Simple Strategies to Struggle Less and Savor More. Aruni developed the Kripalu coaching methodology based in presence and right action. Her experience is rooted in a long-term commitment to a Twelve-Step program and the practice of living yoga.
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Resources
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The Yoga of Politics While we can’t necessarily change others’ perspective, we can work for the causes we support—and then, whatever happens, accept the outcome.
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Say No to Good Vibes? The Dangers of Spiritual Bypass What should those of us in “wellness” communities do to act responsibly? How do we strike a crucial balance between self-care and community care? Writer Lara…
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Your Holiday Survival Guide: Five Self-Care Tips for the Season of Giving Tips for taking the stress out of celebration.
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What Is Karma Yoga? Five longtime Kripalu teachers share stories about what karma yoga—the practice of selfless service—means to them.
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On Being Gay at Kripalu: A Personal Recollection When Stephen Cope arrived at Kripalu in 1989, he had been out for 20 years. Here's what he discovered about being gay in a community founded on the principles…
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Simple Strategies to Struggle Less and Savor More Aruni Nan Futuronsky, longtime faculty member and life coach at Kripalu, says that the source of our suffering is our resistance to reality. We struggle…
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Life as a Mandala What if life is like a mandala, a circular adventure designed to invite alignment in a larger context and connect us back to center?
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How to Heal from the Loss of a Pet We conveniently forget that we will most likely outlive our pets as we develop deep bonds with these affectionate, innocent creatures.
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When to Trust the Still, Small Voice of Intuition How do we recognize the voice of intuition? The trick is discerning it from that of our calculating mind.
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Making Critical Conversations More Compassionate Wrapping messy but critical conversations in a compassionate approach makes them larger, and offers the opportunity for greater openness and impact.
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Finding Fellow Travelers on the Journey Your fellow travelers are often people you would never know in your actual life, but you meet them on the journey and form strong connections.
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Eight Tips for Self-Care During the Holiday Season Practicing self-care is particularly important during the holiday season so we can show up at our best.
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No Shame Acceptance and appreciation are much more powerful catalysts to making positive shifts than shame and guilt.
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Five Healthy Living Tips for Achieving Balance When it comes to healthy living, self-care is the first step, says Kripalu faculty Aruni Nan Futuronsky.
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Practicing Progress, Not Perfection The journey of healthy weight management is one of rebalancing and recommitting to what we’re really hungry for.
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Trusting in Moderation Having a self-connecting practice is essential to developing self-acceptance, which can help apply healthy moderation.
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Living in a Shame-Free Body This kind of mindful shift in perspective can be a powerful first step in the journey toward a healthy, shame-free body awareness.
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Observing Weight through Witness Consciousness Often, a client comes to me wanting to lose weight, plops down in my office, and says, “When I’m good, I eat this, and when I’m bad, I eat that.” This report...
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Five Steps for Taking Yoga Off the Mat If you’re human, you’ve probably had this experience: You leave the sanctity of yoga class, and life starts throwing you stressors.
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From Doing to Being Portland Helmich sets out to unplug for a few days at Kripalu and revel in quiet, self-care, and inner-world exploration.
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Yoga and Mindfulness for Healthy Weight Yoga and mindfulness are powerful tools for weight management, because they cultivate body awareness.
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Karma Yoga: What We Practice, We Become Strung together, acts of kindness, particularly selfless acts, can dramatically change us.
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The Truth About Weight Loss Weight loss isn’t just about what to eat and what not to eat. It’s about paying attention to how and why we make our choices.
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Stories of Yoga and Recovery Research shows that yoga, meditation, and mindfulness are powerful tools for recovery in healing from addiction.
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How to Get Unstuck and Get Back to Your Practice What’s the best way to maintain a new practice or jump-start an old one? “Both mindfulness and right action are essential,” says Kripalu faculty Aruni Nan…
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Why Failing Is Good for You Whether it’s falling out of a headstand in yoga class, or trying a new recipe that ends up in the garbage, failure is inevitable—and it’s how we learn.
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Tools for Taking Yoga Off the Mat In this Q&A, Aruni Nan Futuronsky, life coach and Kripalu Yoga teacher, answers questions about using yoga philosophy to address the challenges of everyday…
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Break the Cycle: How Yoga and Meditation Can Help Heal Addiction While there are a range of ways that people break the cycle of addiction, the complementary relationship between the Twelve Steps and yoga is a perfect…
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Resolution Recovery Consider reframing resolutions as a mindful experiment: gathering data about our commitments without any judgment of right or wrong, and making realistic…
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A Vision for the New Year New Year's is a time of transition, when we’re teetering on the verge of new opportunities and possibilities. Simultaneously, we’re experiencing the tail...
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Navigating the Darkness: Self-Care and Connection in the Wake of Tragedy How can we, as mindful people, make our way through senseless and unimaginable loss?
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Can Having Friends Help Ease Physical Pain? Research on the impact of friendship is a powerful reminder that during tough times, it’s important not to go it alone—even if you think you can.
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Organic—and Ornery A recent study conducted by researchers at Loyola University New Orleans looked at how food related to morality: how and...
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Stop and Smell the Roses In the age of over-busy, what does it mean to make every minute count? A recent op-ed in the New York Times entitled “The ‘Busy’ Trap”—in which writer Tim...
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What, Us Worry? Better than Anyone In his new memoir,Monkey Mind, Daniel Smith describes a life spent in near- constant panic. He’d have recurring nightmares about premature death. He’d...
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Riding the Waves BRFWA, a foundational technique of Kripalu Yoga, is a powerful way to ride the waves of life’s challenges.
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