Jillian Pransky
Presenter
Jillian Pransky is an international presenter and the author of Deep Listening: A Healing Practice to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind, and Open Your Heart. As a certified yoga therapist recognized by the International Association of Yoga Therapy, she leads retreats, yoga teacher trainings, and restorative workshops—both in person and online—for students all over the world. Jillian gave a TEDx Talk on metta meditation; created and leads Yoga Journal's online course Restorative Yoga 101; and is a featured yoga expert to magazines such as Prevention, Mindful, Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and more. She is a guest teacher at many renowned holistic learning centers including Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, 1440 Multiversity, the Omega Institute, Mohonk Mountain House, and Blue Spirit Retreat Center. Jillian infuses her yoga classes with mindfulness practices, compassion, and ease and inspires an integrative, holistic healing experience.
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Resources
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Resolutions vs. Intentions: A New Ritual For the New Year
In setting New Year's resolutions, we tend to disregard the essential wisdom that the journey of yoga is not one of “fixing” ourselves, but rather one of reconnecting with our inherently exquisite selves—our wholeness.
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Yoga to Harmonize with the Season
Winter demands that we move inward for rest and replenishment, just as the earth stops producing in order to build a new reserve for spring.
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From Tight to Tender: Expanding Into the Heart of Loss
February 14, 2011, was my most heart-opening Valentine’s Day to date. As the sun rose, my father passed on.
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Six Easy Ways to Add Restorative Yoga to Your Practice or Teaching
This healing practice is being offered everywhere from yoga studios to athletic trainings, from hospitals to corporate environments, and featured in popular magazines. Restorative yoga is the new power yoga, says Jillian Pransky.
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Meeting Our Deeper Knots: An Excerpt from 'Deep Listening'
For a long time, my yoga practice was all about getting stronger. I pushed myself to improve my headstands and perfect my Wheel pose.
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Two Practices for Creating More Space in Your Mind and Your Life
Instead of trying to “let things go,” yoga teacher Jillian Pransky invites students to “let things be,” creating an environment that allows us to simply loosen our grip. Jillian offers two practices to support that process.
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Deep Listening: How We Hold
Tension can be long-standing and result from something physical, like the way we try to protect ourselves from a past injury. Or it might accumulate as a result of an old hurt—the way we may slouch because we were made fun of in third grade.
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The Healing Power of Storytelling: A Q&A with Jillian Pransky
Narrative medicine is not about fully understanding our story of life, but rather that we remain an open channel for that story to continually ebb and flow through us.
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Is Storytelling the New Miracle Drug?
My reckoning with the power of storytelling came in 2014, after more than a decade of experience working with powerful voices as a book publicist.
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What We Can Glean from the Harvest Moon
We’ve had a spectacular year of celestial events (eclipses, meteor showers, Blue Moons, and Supermoons, to name just a few), but tonight’s Harvest Moon offers another good reason to stare up at the sky for a while.
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