Jillian Pransky
Jillian Pransky, E-RYT 500, is the author of Deep Listening: A Healing Practice to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind and Open Your Heart and an international presenter, mindfulness teacher, and certified yoga therapist. She is the director of Restorative Therapeutic Yoga teacher training for YogaWorks, creator and presenter of Yoga Journal's online course, Restorative 101, and is a featured yoga expert for Prevention Magazine. Her Calm Body, Clear Mind DVD and Relaxmore CD have garnered excellent reviews from Dr. Mehmet Oz, Yoga Journal, and many others. A student of Pema Chödrön’s work since 1998, Jillian infuses her yoga classes with mindfulness practices, compassion, and ease. Her seamless style of working simultaneously with the body, mind, and spirit, while attuning with nature and the environment, creates inspiring classes and an integrative healing experience.
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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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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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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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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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Yoga to Harmonize with the Season
by Jillian Pransky Winter is nature’s time of hibernation, retreat, and contraction. As winter’s cold, wet, dark, and heavy qualities increase around us,...
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What We Can Glean from Tonight’s 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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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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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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