Your Donation in Action
YOLO, Mom: A Kripalu Yoga Teacher Shares Her Story
Donor support for online Kripalu Yoga teacher training helps a dream come true.
Yoga Lights A Path From Doubt To Championships
Sherri Austin, a veteran physical education teacher in Saugatuck, Michigan, was skeptical when she learned that a community volunteer was going to teach yoga…
Dharma Manifests in Many Ways With Kripalu Yoga
A Kripalu Yoga teacher trainee was challenged to “consider her dharma.” A year later, she started a yoga ministry serving hundreds of students and raising…
Bringing Yoga to the Bronx During a Pandemic
As we have all learned, one consequence of living through COVID-19 is that individuals have been moved to help their local community.
Healing in the Wake of the Storm
Kripalu Yoga teacher Marion Fischer's generosity after Hurricane Maria has evolved into a lifelong commitment to helping the island heal, with the support of…
Cultivating Freedom Within
How Kripalu donors supported a yoga teacher training in a women's prison.
The Ayurveda Movement in the United States: A Conversation with NAMA President Margrit Mikulis
We’re on the cusp of an amazing opportunity to spread Ayurvedic medicine and help more people work toward optimal health, says Margrit, a graduate of the…
Teaching Yoga in Inner-City Schools
Kripalu Yoga teacher Debbie Cohen has two passions: yoga and teaching children.
Yoga4Change: A Kripalu Alumni Creates Transformation in Her Community
Kripalu Yoga teacher Chaucey Perreault understands that trauma comes in many shapes and forms.
“Dear Trusted Adult ...”
Supported by the Jonathan P. Schwartz Teaching for Diversity fund, Middle school teacher Leila Kubesch used yoga to address the trauma her middle school…
Yoga for Girls in South Africa
Kripalu Yoga teacher Alex Singer had the opportunity to bring yoga to a population that would otherwise have no way of learning the practice.
Sharing Yoga Wherever He Goes
Whether he’s teaching yoga to military veterans, leading a classes at Christian men’s retreats, or helping Girl Scouts earn their yoga patches, Stephen Redmon…
Rooted on the Earth: My Teacher Training Journey
M.Patricia Diaz came to Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training on her 30th anniversary of being cancer free.
Showing Up Just the Way We Are
What Rochelle Jewell has learned from teaching yoga to developmentally disabled students is that their abilities are greatly underestimated.
Yoga Everywhere: Building Community in a Circle of Chairs
Kripalu Yoga teacher Terri Young's favorite classes to teach are for students ages 65 to 85.
A Path to Freedom: An Unexpected Journey in the Kripalu School of Ayurveda
Daneen had been in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction for more than three years when she enrolled in the Ayurvedic Health Counselor training.
Teaching in the Reset Zone
When Kripalu Yoga teacher Heather Skoll took a break from classes for the summer, she knew her students would miss the yoga—a lot. That's when she came up with…
Planting Seeds of Self-Compassion
Growing up as a Deaf woman, Sara Dugas intuitively knew the importance of connecting to her inner self, but she didn’t know how.
A Kripalu Teacher Brings Yoga Back Home to Peru
Omar Ananías didn’t start practicing yoga because he liked it. It was the opposite—he hated it.
Building Strength for the Good Fight
Leila Sadat is using her yoga mat as a launching pad for creating a more peaceful world.
When the Road from Teacher Training Doesn’t End with Teaching
Kathleen Gibbons left yoga teacher training with the intention to transform her work and life as a yoga teacher. It didn't work out quite that way.
Love and Loss, On and Off the Mat
When Carol Shwidock's husband needed a liver transplant, she told him she'd do it—if he came to Kripalu with her.
Coming Back to Life with Ayurveda
Kerry Harling spent years being diagnosed with a myriad of diseases. And then she discovered Ayurveda.
Bringing Healing from Kripalu to Rwanda
On his first visit to the Rwandan capital—immediately after completing Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training—Steve Terrill brought people together to practice yoga and…
Down Dog, Up Dog
Stephanie Knox Cubbon took yoga teacher training because yoga transformed her life and she wanted to share the gifts—with both people and their pets.