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Dave Porter: Finding home, Building a Brand, and What to do if you’ve Plateaued in your Practice
If you are a member of the HEY (Higher Education in Yoga) group, the Alanna K. platform that includes the monthly live curriculum of daily classes, 12 guaranteed Yoga Alliance continuing education credits, discussions, and live workshops, then you have likely seen...
Five Ways to Stay Grounded through Chaotic Times
We are coexisting with a Global pandemic and have been in some state of quarantine for the last ten months. 2020 may have been the most protest-driven year across the world. From pro-democracy anti-government protests in Hong Kong to #ENDSARS protests in Nigeria to...
Mentor Jordyn talks “home,” listening to her Body & Spirit, and Shifting Perspectives from Illusionary to Extraordinary
Jordyn Bartenstein is a yoga therapist, plant lover, dog mom, and mentor with the Kaivalya Yoga Method Online Yoga Teacher Training. Jordyn uses her extensive background in yoga and related modalities to give others the tools that they need to remove the obstacles...
New Year, Mindful Me: Alanna Kaivalya’s Total Transformation Bootcamp for the Soul
I’ve personally declared that I’m not making any resolutions this year. I’m just not doing it. Surviving the year two thousand and twenty in one piece has been my greatest accomplishment to date. There’s nothing here to resolve. If you’re reading this,...
Lead Mystic Mentor, Meli: TKYM Journey, Dream Interpreting & Healing and Teaching during the Pandemic
If you’re looking for a sign to take a course from The Kaivalya Yoga Method®, this is it. I sat down recently with Melissa De Los Santos, better known as Meli, who serves as the lead Mystic Mentor across all of the courses in the Kaivalya Yoga Method,...
Join Alanna for Restorative Yoga in Celebration of the Winter Solstice benefiting the Ali Forney Center
When we practice Restorative Yoga, we are teaching our nervous system how to release contraction and to feel safe coming into deep states of rest that support repair, rejuvenation, and resilience. We are developing a nervous system with a buffer, while...
TKYM Graduate and Founder of The Happy Lemon Yoga Shala, Trish LeClair, tells her Story of Self-discovery & Community Building
“Yoga has helped me on that journey of discovering who I really am, outside all the labels. I have realized my truest nature is to mother, as I nurture my students and beautiful yoga community, I find myself feeling at home with myself again.”If you’ve...
Phoenix Rising Project: Creating Space for Underrepresented Identities in Wellness
The Phoenix Rising Project was one of the first initiatives I got involved with at The Kaivalya Yoga Method. July 2020 brought along social justice issues and aggressions often caught on a cell phone camera, as well as a heightened level of...
Thanksgiving: Holding space for both Gratitude and Grief
I’ve recently been thinking about and meditating on the different binaries that I find myself living. Good and bad. Lazy and active. Productive and unproductive… there are plenty of others. In my sitting, I’ve been challenging myself to qualify things...