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Yoga. Meditation in Action with Seane Corn
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Yoga Stories

In anticipation of our broadcast of this program, we sent a call out for your yoga stories and experiences. A few of those stories are excerpted here, with more on this program's reflections page.

Didn't get a chance to send in your thoughts before the broadcast? We'd still like to hear from you.

Ara has very little abstract reasoning capability, and difficulties with expressive language, both articulation and the ability to formulate a coherent thought. But since he's been doing yoga, his ability to express how his body is feeling has improved dramatically— he has an abnormally high pain threshold, and has always had great trouble identifying and articulating physical sensations. Now, he will say things like, "I'm cold," or "My foot hurts." It seems a small thing, but it's momentous to us…

— Jeanne McMenemy, Walla Wall, WA (Click to Read More)

My students are more likely to be gang members than to ever be exposed to a downward dog, but I am amazed to have the honor of not only spending half my day practicing dance with my students but the other half is dedicated to yoga. Not only am I able to keep myself healthy, I also get to expose what I have found through yoga to the next generation.

— Hannah Harpole, Brooklyn, NY (Click to Read More)

In the beginning the first benefit was mountain pose, just standing balanced like a mountain, no matter the weather, wind, snow, heat the mountain is standing strong — I used this pose as I waited in line at the grocery store, instead of being anxious, in a hurry, upset at the person using all the coupons I could just be the mountain.

— Kim Speth, Sherman Oaks, CO (Click to Read More)

Many times, while I was trying to solve a problem I was having with a painting or something I was writing, or a life issue, the answer would come to me walking home from taking a yoga class. I've heard this same thing from many others as well. An answer pops up during or after a yoga practice. Yoga stimulates the unconscious and creativity.

— Carolyn Oberst, New York, NY (Click to Read More)

… but I did find a paperback book: Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation. I read it cover-to-cover, and began to practice asanas through study of photos and text descriptions. I loved the changes this new practice began in me, got rid of the pills and the stomach ulcer, and was hooked on this new possibility.

— Karen Stahlecker, Woodstock, IL (Click to Read More)