Janna Delgado
"Janna’s enthusiasm is met with expertise and that combination is inspiring. She’s a delight to learn from." —Brian Henderson, YTT student 2018
Janna Delgado, E-RYT 1000, a graduate of the Kripalu Schools of Yoga and Ayurveda, is a seasoned facilitator with more than 20 years’ experience. A Lead Faculty at Kripalu, she creates curriculum and spearheads professional-development trainings for educators, law-enforcement professionals, and social service agencies. Her areas of expertise include teaching trauma-sensitivity, fostering stress-resilience, and offering yoga in public school settings.
Janna is known for her dynamic approach to teaching, infused with humor and heart. She is personally committed to making a difference in the lives of her students and clients by offering them empowering tools to optimize their vitality, resilience, and overall well-being. She is also a lead trainer for RISE™, Kripalu’s signature evidence-based program, and a curriculum developer for the Kripalu Yoga in the Schools program.
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Upcoming Programs
- July 28–August 13, 2023
Resources
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Get Inspired to Exercise at Home
Here are some tips to help you get—and keep you—all fired up to work out at home.
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Sun Breaths to Revitalize
Revitalize and illuminate from within with simple Sun Breaths.
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Meditation in Motion
Sometimes in our yoga practice we strive so hard to “get it right”—mastering our alignment, coordinating our breath, focusing our attention—that we stifle our inner energy.
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What Is Loving-Kindness (Metta) Meditation?
The Pali word metta is most often translated as "loving-kindness," and the practice of metta meditation helps open your heart to yourself and to others. Here's how to do it.
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Yoga Practice: Seated Backbends
Backbends enhance circulation, nourish the spine, increase lung capacity, and regulate the endocrine system.
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Healing Trauma with Yoga
An important principle of the Kripalu Yoga in the Schools program is creating a safe space in which students can explore their physical sensations, thoughts, and feelings.
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Get Grounded with Mountain Pose
How we stand, literally—with our feet on the ground—can have a huge impact on how we feel. Try Mountain pose any time you need to ground yourself to find inner strength and peace.
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The Revitalizing Energy of Goddess Pose
Goddess Pose, in combination with breathing from the hara, is a powerful way to revitalize and renew the body, mind, and spirit.
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Holiday Rituals from Our Faculty
We asked a few of our Kripalu Schools of Yoga and Ayurveda faculty to share their favorite rituals for the season of celebration.
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Favorite Quarantine Foods from Our Faculty
We asked our teachers what they’ve been whipping up in their home kitchens during isolation.
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Mindfulness in the (Online) Classroom: Appreciating Schoolteachers, Supporting Resilience
Kripalu Schools faculty and RISE Facilitator Janna Delgado discusses what teachers are up against, and how yoga and mindfulness can help them avoid burnout—now, and when they return to their on-site classrooms.
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Is Yoga Therapy Training Your Next Step?
Are you a yoga teacher wondering what’s next? Do you feel as if you’ve reached a plateau in your teaching career? Maybe it's time to consider the field of yoga therapy.
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8 Tips for Turning Mindless Swiping into Mindful Dating
Dating can be deflating and demoralizing. But mindfulness can bring more clarity, equanimity, and self-compassion to the process.
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Seven Tools to Help You Feel Less Stressed
Feeling stressed? You're not alone, especially if you live in the United States. More than half of Americans are stressed out on a daily basis. Kripalu Schools faculty Janna Delgado shares practices for enhancing your stress resilience.
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Seven Tips from Our Teachers for Simplifying Your Life
Here are a few practices from our faculty and presenters that can simplify your life by bringing you into the moment and clarifying what matters.
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How to Keep Your Teaching Fresh: Yoga Instructors Share Their Secrets
Keeping your yoga teaching fresh and inspired is not only great for your students, it’s essential for you.
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Turning Point Q&A with Janna Delgado
Janna Delgado, BFA, E-RYT 500, combines her training as a Kripalu Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist, and AFAA-certified fitness instructor with her...
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7 Random Acts of Kindness to Offer Yourself and Others
A commitment to kindness can be the thread that twines throughout our various successes, disappointments, delights, and traumas, giving us ballast in a world of change, says Sharon Salzberg.
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The Yoga of Showing Up
In this classroom, Kripalu Yoga became one of the activities both students and teachers most looked forward to each week.
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Yoga in the Schools: Helping Adolescents Become Compassionate Adults
Tired. Stressed. Bored. These are the words most commonly used by 22,000 high school students surveyed about their experiences in high school.
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Holding the Pose: A Q&A with Janna Delgado
Kripalu Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist, and senior faculty member Janna Delgado answers your questions about...
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Trusting the Wisdom of Yoga
There’s power in trusting that your body knows what’s best.
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