Photo of the Week: Rocking Out Tittibhasana in Jacmel
Each week, we pluck a favorite pic from our past and present albums to highlight. Here, one of our Global Seva participants, Lisa Rueff, rocks out tittibhasana with the kids of Jacmel, Haiti. In June, Lisa brought US yogis to Haiti to begin building the Jacmel Children’s Center, an orphanage which will become home to 80 children in the country. The center is one of our Global Seva Challenge partners. Money raised through our program will be directed toward building efforts, and in February, during our trip to Haiti, we’ll finalize the construction of the orphanage. In June, Lisa practiced yoga with [...]
Meet the Staff: Rebecca Rogers
Rebecca is the engine behind our international leadership and humanitarian program, Global Seva Challenge. When she’s not tirelessly supporting our Seva participants to raise necessary funds for on-the-ground orgs in Haiti, she’s teaching yoga, striking pigeon pose, or indulging in some panna cotta. And we just found out that when she was a wee one, she was the wee voice behind a lot of big companies. Watch her bust out the FAO Schwarz song right here. Off the Mat: Favorite pose? I know, it’s so cliché for a yoga org to ask this of our staff, but we had too. Right? [...]
My 9/11 Story: The Day That Shut Me Down and the Yoga That Woke Me Back Up
I did not grow up a yogi. If my life had played out like I planned it to, it would look like this: senior executive in marketing; married with three kids; living in the suburbs; with a beach house on the Jersey Shore; marathon runner on the weekends; ultimately, burnt-out and resentful superwoman. Of course there is nothing wrong with this life plan; it just wasn’t mine. As I reflect on the day that changed my life, it’s a mixed bag. There is the trauma of 9/11/01, the grief of a lost parent, the anger, the thoughts around what wasn’t [...]
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